Portrait of Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday directed by William Wyler, 1953 via
Portrait of Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday directed by William Wyler, 1953 via
Louis Armstrong and wife Lucille Brown on a scooter in Rome by Slim Aarons in 1948 via
La Dolce Vita is a 1960 Italian comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. The film follows Marcello Rubini, a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through the “sweet life” of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness. La Dolce Vita won the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Costumes, and remains one of the most critically acclaimed films of all time.
The famous scene in the Trevi Fountain was shot over a week in winter: in March according to the BBC, in late January according to Anita Ekberg. Fellini claimed that Ekberg stood in the cold water in her dress for hours without any trouble while Mastroianni had to wear a wetsuit beneath his clothes – to no avail. It was only after the actor “polished off a bottle of vodka” and “was completely pissed” that Fellini could shoot the scene.
Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita directed by Federico Fellini, 1960 via
Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita directed by Federico Fellini, 1960 via
Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita directed by Federico Fellini, 1960 via
Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita directed by Federico Fellini, 1960 via
Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita directed by Federico Fellini, 1960 via
Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita directed by Federico Fellini, 1960 via
Frank Horvat was born in Opatija in 1928, that was then Italy and is now Croatia. He studied art in Milan; a meeting in 1951 with photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson decided his fate as a photojournalist. Today he is best known for his fashion photography, published between the mid 1950s and the end of the 1980s.
Untitled by Frank Horvat, 1962 via
Judy Dent, Yorkshire, for Vogue UK, by Frank Horvat, 1961 via
Françoise Sagan, writer, Paris by Frank Horvat, 1959 via
Fashion in Streets by Frank Horvat via
Deborah Dixon & Marcello Mastroianni, Rome, by Frank Horvat for Harper´s Bazar, 1962 via
Paris, for Élegance, Judy Dent by Frank Horvat, 1961 via
Marisa Berenson was born in New York City in 1947. Her maternal grandmother was the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli. Berenson had risen to prominence in the early 1960s and would later appear on the cover of the July 1970 issue of Vogue and in numerous fashion layouts for the magazine. Yves Saint Laurent once dubbed her “the girl of the Seventies”.
Eventually she was cast in several prominent film roles amongst others the Jewish department store heiress Natalia Landauer in the 1972 film Cabaret, for which she received some acclaim (including two Golden Globe nominations, a BAFTAnomination and an award from the National Board of Review).
American actress and model Marisa Berenson wearing a white organdy Valentino dress photographed by Vogue photographer Henry Clarke, in Cy Twombly’s Rome apartment in 1968 via
American actress and model Marisa Berenson wearing a white organdy Valentino dress photographed by Vogue photographer Henry Clarke, in Cy Twombly’s Rome apartment in 1968 via
American actress and model Marisa Berenson wearing a white organdy Valentino dress photographed by Vogue photographer Henry Clarke, in Cy Twombly’s Rome apartment in 1968 via
London St. pouls by aerial in 1927
Horse carriages and monuments in Rome, Italy
Amsterdam by Bernard Eilers, 1920
Paris by Pierre-Yves Petit, 1920
The Gran Vía in Madrid, 1920s