Isabella Rossellini: If I started now, I would be a director, something unthinkable in my youth'

"At 73 years old, Isabella Rossellini traverses the world as a curious mix of wild and cosmopolitan woman, a 21st century farmer-performer and heir to a classic charm from another era. The daughter of two legends of cinema history, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, she has been familiar with scandal since she was young, when her mother suffered the consequences of having left her previous husband for the famous director."

"After moving around Europe with her family, Isabella began establishing her own career in 1970s New York. She became a fashion and film icon during the 80s and 90s, was David Lynch's muse, the most beautiful face of Lancome, and modeled for Richard Avedon and Steven Meisel for Madonna's book Sex. But with the turn of the new century, the offers dried up as she hit a certain age, a period of professional adversity that she nonetheless managed to turn into opportunity."

"When the telephone stopped ringing around her 40th birthday, Rossellini reinvented herself through the study of animals and their behavior. The best decision she ever made, she says. Cotton shirt with satin shirtfront by Ami Paris and Serpenti Pallini necklace in rose gold with onyx and diamond pave by Bvlgari.Nico Bustos The actress, model and farmer now lives on her Mama Farm, surrounded by dogs, sheep and chicken."

Isabella Rossellini, 73, blends wild and cosmopolitan traits as a 21st-century farmer-performer who carries a classic charm. Daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, she experienced early scandal after her mother left a previous husband for a director. After moving around Europe, she established a career in 1970s New York and became a fashion and film icon in the 1980s and 1990s, working with David Lynch, Lancôme, Richard Avedon and Steven Meisel. Offers declined around her 40th birthday, prompting reinvention through the study of animals and farm life on Mama Farm. A decision against plastic surgery, influenced by lifelong back problems, accompanied a later career resurgence.

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