Photos: From the Archives: Italian Glam Slam
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, September 20021/14Alba Clemente, Chiara Clemente, and Nina Clemente
An artist’s muse, Alba Clemente has been captured on canvas and film by greats including Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, and her husband, Francesco. Like their mother, Chiara and Nina are becoming fixtures on New York’s downtown scene.
Photographed by Joseph Leombruno and Jack Bodi, Vogue, January 15, 19642/14Benedetta Barzini
She started at the top: Vogue editor Diana Vreeland offered this well-heeled Italian her first modeling job. A face of the sixties, she played it cool on the pages of the magazine; off-camera she swung with the Warhol’s Factory set.
Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, September 19933/14Carla Bruni
France’s former (half French, half Italian) First Lady (and a surprisingly talented musician) was born in Turin. Her beauty is recognized worldwide.
Photographed by Bert Stern, Vogue, March 15, 19624/14Claudia Cardinale
Whatever her role, the Tunis-born, Claudia Cardinale—who played an exotic princess in The Pink Panther, and was cast as the “ideal woman” in Federico Fellini’s 8½,—comes across as 100 percent Italian.
Photographed by Norman Jean Roy, Vogue, August 20125/14Ginevra Elkann
Descended from a storied line of beauties (she called Marella Agnelli grandmother), Ginevra Elkann, with her “pre-Raphaelite looks,” has been described as “a quiet powerhouse.”
