Benedetta Barzini

Benedetta Barzini ( born September 22, 1943 in Porto Santo Stefano, Italy) is an Italian model who belonged mainly in the 1960s, the most famous fashion models.

Life

Barzini was born in 1943 as the daughter of writer Luigi Barzini Jr. and his first wife Gianna Lisa Gianzana Feltrinelli. She is the stepsister of the publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, her stepbrother of the second marriage of her father is the film director Andrea Barzini.

After her education at a Swiss private school, she was discovered in 1963 by the Vogue editor Consuelo Crespi on the road and received her first offer for a model shoot with Irving Penn from the editor in chief of American Vogue issue, Diana Vreeland. Although she wanted to travel for only ten days after New York City, she remained four years. During this time, she was often in Andy Warhol's The Factory as a guest. Warhol assistant Gerard Malanga, with the Barzini was at times also romantically involved, published 1967 volume of poetry, Poems for Benedetta Barzini 3.

Barzini worked until 1969 as a model, where she worked with photographers such as Richard Avedon, Bert Stern Ugo Mulas or. In November 1965, she was the cover model first Italian Vogue edition, known what she was doing to her hometown. 1966 Harper's Bazaar named her as one of " 100 Great Beauties of the World".

In the late 1960s she moved back to Italy. There she met the director Roberto Faenza know. The couple married in 1969. Faenza left Barzini, however, on the day of birth of the common twin children. Later she had two other children from another relationship.

In 1973 she retired from modeling and turned to Marxism and radical feminism. As a Professor of Fashion Design she teaches, among other things, at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano ( NABA ), at the Milan Polytechnic and the University of Urbino.