Barzini

Benedetta Barzini (1943) was a top model and cover girl. The daughter of Luigi Barzini, Jr., the famous correspondent of Corriere della Sera, and Giannalisa Feltrinelli, she made her début as a model in 1963 in Rome for Vogue America and was photographed by Leonbruno/Body wearing a necklace by Buccellati. She was discovered by Consuelo Crespi, at the time a fashion editor, who noticed her in the street without knowing that she was the daughter of family friends. She was 20 years old. After that photograph, Diana Vreeland, the director of Vogue, sent a telegram inviting her to New York to work with Irving Penn. She was supposed to be in New York for ten days but stayed for five years. Five years in which, in front of the cameras of Bert Stern, Sokolowsky, and Avedon, her lined, aged face became the sophisticated interpreter of that exotic Mediterranean look that Americans liked so much. When she returned to Italy, she was one of the favorite models of Ugo Mulas. Today she is a journalist and teaches a course on the history of clothing for the School of Fashion Designers at the University of Urbino.
Publication of her book written with Samuele Mazza, Aldo Coppola: Talking Heads, dedicated to the art of the famous hairdresser.
She returned to the Milan runway, for the Autumn-Winter Collection of Stephan Janson.
Viafarini of Milan hosts an exhibit on the German artist Tobias Rehberger, who creates installations using the clothing of personalities in fashion, music and theater who have had an influence on the collective imagination. Next to items worn by Barzini were others worn by Caterina Caselli, Francesco Moser, Rita Pavone, and Paolo Rossi.
Very much in demand, she divides her time between Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana and Gattinoni.