Stoppi

Isa. She was a photographic model in the 1960s who was discovered and launched by Giampaolo Barbieri. She is married (“1968 was an important year for everyone”) with two children and has retired, but occasionally agrees to do a fashion show. She is nicknamed “the Italian Monroe” because of her blonde hair and blue eyes, but her face is very sculpted, very Italian. Because of a brief love affair with the playboy Gigi Rizzi (former Mr Bardot), she is cited in Giangiacomo Schiavi’s book Ho ammazzato Gigi Rizzi (I Killed Gigi Rizzi). She is preparing a book on Ragazze degli anni 60 (Girls from the 1960s) (e.g., Mirella Petteni, Benedetta Barzini, Marina Schiano, and Elsa Martinelli) who in that era took an image of the Italy of the economic boom to the US.