Elisa Sednaoui

Prisma · April 21, 2015

Vogue Poland. May 2015.

According to zzo-image.com, the same editorial made for Vogue Russia will be released on Vogue Poland next month. The pics seem to belong to the Russian issue (look at the letters) but I'll post them, anyway (bigger size/better quality).

Teò · April 22, 2015

Tory Burch cocktail and dinner in Milan (boutique opening) - April 20th 2015

Prisma · April 22, 2015

Thanks for posting, Teò! Flower%20for%20you.gif Nice to see somebody else in this lonely thread... :wave:

Just a couple more (not big deal, in terms of quality).

And a short video of the party (Elisa appears briefly).

http://www.vogue.it/en/people-are-talking-about/parties-events/2015/04/tory-burch-dinner-coktail-vogue-italia

Prisma · April 24, 2015

Buccellati. Ad Campaign. Preview.

Photo: Peter Lindbergh.

This is the first of five images.

wwd.com

Buccellati Taps Peter Lindbergh for New Ads

April 23, 2015

Buccellati has tapped Peter Lindbergh to shoot its new advertising campaign.

The German photographer portrayed model-actress Elisa Sednaoui in Milan, the city where the jewelry brand was founded in 1919. This campaign, the first in 20 years to present the brand’s products on a model rather than with still life images, is a further step in the re-positioning of Buccellati to appeal to a younger and more fashionable segment of the luxury jewelry market.

The first picture, which will debut in the May issue of W Magazine, is a black and white shot of Sednaoui carrying her bicycle in the street and sporting Buccellati’s Hawaii collection, a range first introduced in 1930 and which includes pieces made forging little circles from a gold thread.

Four additional images, all featuring Sednaoui caught in different moments of an imaginary everyday life in Milan, will be released later and will appear on a range of fashion publications, especially in the U.K., Italy, France and the U.S.
Source: http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/buccellati-peter-lindbergh-elisa-sednaoui-10116450/

Prisma · April 26, 2015

Vogue Turkey.

From vogue.com.tr

Photos: Ekin ÖzbiÇer.

Backstage video.

http://vogue.com.tr/video/bohemyaya-yolculuk

Interview (in case you can read Turkish).

http://vogue.com.tr/moda-haber-detay/bohemyaya-yolculuk

Buccellati HQ/Advert.

Prisma · April 27, 2015

Venice Film Festival 2015.

Elisa will be the hostess ("la madrina") of the festival this year. That means she's gonna be the hostess at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 72 edition of the film festival which will take place from 2 to 12 September.

http://www.vanityfair.it/show/cinema/15/04/27/elisa-sednaoui-madrina-72a-mostra-cinema-venezia-foto

"I am so incredibly honoured and grateful for the opportunity that it is to host the Venice Film Festival on its 72nd edition! It is beyond my imagination to be chosen to represent such an institution and #Italy. Soooo excited to see you in #Venice!!"

By the way, I was reading the article she's holding in the picture where she reveals her new tv project. It's a new RAI serie called "Non uccidere" ("You shall not kill") directed by Giuseppe Gagliardi. She's filming in Torino.

According to what I read, the serie has a 7.800.000 Euro budget and it could last 3 years, at least. The title could change (it was going to be "Delitti in famiglia" before). It will be starred by Miriam Leone. The serie will be aired from September, 12.

Prisma · May 1, 2015

Buccellati Backstage.

With Peter Lindbergh for the campaign "A Day With Elisa".

Prisma · May 9, 2015

Model Style by Fashion Channel Milano.

May 1. "Writing as baby sleeps and before husband arrives". According to her, she was writing her first blog post for an online newspaper...

And this is the result, published a week later on Huffington Post Italy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.it/elisa-sednaoui-dellal/dove-mi-vedo-tra-dieci-anni-dove-adesso_b_7223842.html

The English translation will be available soon.

"Thank you @HuffPostItalia for giving me this opportunity. Stay tuned for the English translation which will come up soon in the International @HuffingtonPost edition in the occasion of their 10 years anniversary!!!".

Not sure if it's gonna be a permanent collaboration...

toryburch.de

Mother’s Day: Elisa Sednaoui Dellal on Motherhood Lessons & Fitness Tips
Fri, May 8, 2015
The model and founder of the nonprofit Elisa Sednaoui Foundation, which promotes creative learning projects for children, opens up about what it’s like to be a mother — from the practical stuff to fitness and style tips to the more inspiring moments of motherhood.

My Mother’s Day traditions now…
Having celebrated it only twice there no traditions yet besides a beautiful bouquet of flowers from my son and husband and what I most covet, a drawing by my son.
And when I was growing up…
Weirdly, I have no specific memory attached to Mother’s Day. But my mother and I always had a very tight, emotional and “Italian” relationship.
Best Mother’s Day gift I’ve given…
Perhaps the one I’m about to give?
And received…
My son’s drawings.
Best lesson learned from my mom…
It’s fundamental to create a relationship in which a child feels comfortable sharing anything and is not afraid of being judged or too upset. And also to try and look for the positive side of everything that happens on the journey.
And one lesson I’ve learned from being a mom…
Many. He is teaching me selflessness. Putting someone’s else needs in front of yours and enjoying it. Being less hard on yourself, more tolerant, hopefully more patient. Rediscovering the world through my son’s eyes is fascinating. It helps re-proportion priorities and really focus on what is most meaningful to you. You need to make sure everything you take on really fits in the bigger plan of the family. You need to work harder in a shorter amount of time and be extremely organized. Before it seemed impossible to plan, but now I really enjoy the feeling! Being a parent makes you more confident and overall stronger. There is nothing like my son’s laughter or the joy of observing him learning something new. It still seems incredible at times that he was created in my belly!
My style pre- and post-motherhood…
I think my style has remained the same — versatile, playful. Playing with masculinity and femininity. Never locking yourself in one style so that you move around. I like to wear a suit, or jeans with a t-shirt and cashmere jumper, and the next day a flowy, floral-patterned long dress. Maybe I’ve become more daring with time. Like in this picture, I started to like combining things which apparently are not meant to be worn together, like a faux fur and trainers. Since I had my child, however, I generally do enjoy seeing myself more feminine, with heels and showing more of my figure. Something to note, for sure, is that the time I manage to keep my clothing clean is definitely reduced; since Jack was born, I try to remember not to put the shirt I want to wear to go out before I give him his food.
One post-pregnancy secret to get back into shape…
Allowing your body to guide you. It was very hard for me to start exercising again after the baby because it seemed that I just couldn’t find the time. I also initially felt guilty taking that time for myself. Then luckily I came to my senses. Yoga and Pilates helped me get back on track because they awaken the core muscles (which frankly I had a little lost hope in after the birth) and the flexibility. The whole point is listening to your body and, in this case, tuning into it again. I will never forget the first yoga lesson after six weeks from the labor. I felt like my body was a disconnected member and that I was completely and mystically rediscovering it; I was reconnecting with it. I must say having a baby has been the best thing for the arms — I have muscles now that I never had before!
And another…
What truly helped me stimulate the body to get rid of the excess water retention was lymph-draining massage done in the very special technique Italian Roberto Bhoga created. He currently works mainly in Milan, Rome and St. Moritz, but is planning to open up in London soon. He is a magician — everyone must try it!
And a post-pregnancy wellness tip…
One remedy I discovered recently thanks to my mom is turmeric for inflammation. I found that since I am a mom I am more prone to nerve and tendon inflammations. Last week, as I was working in Egypt on a musical and graffiti workshop for kids organized by the foundation I direct, I was on my feet all day. Bending and picking up my son became suddenly very painful. My sciatic nerve was killing me. The only time I had felt it before was briefly during the end of pregnancy. So my mom recommended I take one teaspoon of turmeric powder with four glasses of warm water. I couldn’t believe it was so effective that even after the first time I couldn’t feel the pain anymore. Nature always surprises me!
One thing I wish someone told me about being pregnant…
This is especially for the first pregnancy: Even though from the moment you become pregnant your body is at the service of someone else and you’re already all mind and body turned toward the arrival of your little one, try and use these months to really enjoy the lack of timetables, schedules and “responsibility”. Spoil yourself and be as lazy as you like! Don’t rush! Don’t put alarm clocks! Be spontaneous!
And about motherhood…
A very practical thing: That the milk doesn’t necessarily come as soon as your child is in your arms. It took me two or three days to get milk, which happened after managing to get some rest after the labor and drinking lots of water and eating lots of fish soup and food that is meant to help with lactation. Reflexology also helped. It was such a relief when it arrived, as I was afraid I was not going to be able make it! Also, beware of all the people around you giving plenty of discrepant advice. Other than that, frankly I am happy to be discovering as we go, without necessarily having been fully prepared. You never are. And in any case there is a fundamental difference between discussing things theoretically and when they are actually happening to you.
Source: http://www.toryburch.de/blog-post/blog-post.html?bpurl=/2015/05/mothers-day-elisa-sednaoui-dellal-on-motherhood-lessons-fitness-tips/

Edited: This is the English translation from the article she wrote for Huffington Post Italy.

huffingtonpost.com

Where I See Myself in Ten Years, Where I See Myself Today

By Elisa Sednaoui Dellal. Model, actress and director. Godmother of Venice Film Festival 2015. Elisa Sednaoui Foundation.

05/19/2015

"Where do you see yourself in ten years?" is a question we hear a lot.

It’s a question I personally used to find difficult to provide a concrete, eloquent answer for. My reaction was always the same: at first a moment of discomfort, a sense of being caught off-guard. I always extricated myself by focusing on a more romantic angle; let's call it "living in a hacienda in Latin America with my husband and a tribe of kids."

But today I enjoy the challenge of that question. At least I like to try.

Maybe it's because I'm no longer afraid of giving the wrong answer. I don't feel the need to run anymore. Maybe it's because I've accepted that there's always been more than just the plan. There are feelings.

My personal difficulty also came from the fact that I started working when I was really young and felt like I had in some ways stumbled into experiences that "happened to me" (like the chance to work in fashion and cinema). I was still getting to know myself and understand what truly makes me happy.

And everything was made that much more bitter by a nagging desire to be accepted and appreciated, to be part of the group, or to fit in well with the position that I was predestined to fill.

But that's not the issue.

What I would like to reflect on today is the almost mechanical mania that we seem to have to try and plan everything. It's a mentality that drives us to make irrevocable decisions upon which we base all our "being" and "doing." This is the plan that seems the most desirable to me, these are the steps they tell me I have to follow in order to get there, and now I'm going to work hard to do it.

People also told me that in order to be happy I have to be successful, I have to be famous (Andy Warhol and his famous prophecies...), I have to own at least one "holiday home," better yet two, a beautiful car, a sexy partner who knows how to roll up his sleeves, and I have to post on Instagram pictures of all the beautiful presents he gives me and show what a beautiful couple we are. I have to have a plan.

The plan, in and of itself, has been analyzed through and through, and furthermore has become a wellspring for a booming business -- from self-help books to modern gurus and life coaches.

Focus on the voyage, once the goal is clear, you'll arrive where you want to go. Especially if you do these many exercises every day.

Personally, I appreciate and would like to hear more about "be mindful of your intentions," "do unto others as you'd have others do unto you," "Karma is a boomerang."

In order to avoid misunderstandings, I'd like to emphasize that when I'm talking about an "exaggerated," "morbid" plan, I'm not referring to setting up a precise strategy and planning each step toward the thing you want to obtain. Trying to avoid wasting time and stimulate everyone to organize and work well together.

Another thing I should make clear: we're not talking about organization either.

I imagine that those of you who are, like me, parents, share the same appreciation for a well-planned vacation, or for the ability to organize everything in the time available and not stress about it too much.

That's not my point.

I've always wondered how we can possibly include in this decades-long plan all the changes in perception and direction that are inherent in our own personalities, growth, in the human experience. How can we include that evolution? How can we include that morning you wake up and, after a long period of uncertainty, you finally accept that this thing you thought you wanted so much isn't really what makes you happy?

A moment that made me pause to consider, and that scared me, took place recently when my sister Emma, who lives in Paris and is 16, told me that the French scholastic system requires you to decide what professional direction you want your education to take when you're 14, and from that moment forward all your decisions must be made with that choice in mind.

Listening to her talk, I became increasingly anxious, and finally I asked her not to definitively exclude any possibilities right now, please; to leave her interior door open. Life might just decide to show you something else you'll be interested in.

That's a lot of pressure to put on an adolescent, to force him or her to make choices that, as they say, will "influence your life forever"!
Fortunately, when she was five my father told her it didn't really matter if they failed a year at school. Together with her mother we spent a lot of time trying to get that stubborn girl to understand that in any case it was important to work hard, do your best and, as far as possible, try not to waste too much time during the early years of your education.

I just hope that all these plans don't castrate us.

Most of all, I don't want to find we're busy chasing a false promise of happiness. The saying, "Achieve of all these successes, own all of these things and you'll see that you're happy," frightens me.

One interpretation that has always comforted me in this sense, and to which I return whenever it feels most like we've truly built a world that seems more and more like a farce, made up of dogmas and prejudice and expectations, is the book of Ecclesiastes, by the legendary King Solomon. My father recommended it to me.

"For there is a proper time and procedure for every delight, though a man's trouble is heavy upon him. If no one knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?" (Ecclesiastes 8:7-8).

Here's a question I'm particularly interested in: Hasn't the journey surprised you too?

Isn't it possible that by planning everything, by constantly evaluating these plans and balances, in the image that we're trying to represent, that we nurture everyday through, for example, what we decided to post on social networks; isn't it possible that right as we're in the middle of all this overload of information we lose sight of the "present moment," because our gaze is always aimed at that which has yet to arrive? Don't we worry too much about the way we're perceived? About when we'll "make it"? About this cursed thing called "reputation"?
Aren't we becoming too calculating, too cynical, too wedded to our goals? Forever too critical of others as well? Too dedicated to analyzing every move others make and draw conclusions from them?

Something doesn't add up in this theory of sacrifice, of the "I'll work all my life like a pack mule so that I can enjoy it when I retire." Of course there are seasons in life that require an investment in time and energy. But I'm wondering if we shouldn't pay more attention now, when we're making decisions that allow us to create a life for ourselves that provides enough time to feel serene and inspired on a daily level? A life less exposed to the pressures of what we feel we have to demonstrate, both to ourselves and to others. A judgment of self that is less determined by what we do, but by whom we truly are.

I'm not an utopist, nor a hippie, nor even really nostalgic.

We live in a world in which we accept the fact that economic profit is worth more than a human life. People who can't afford a given cure, die.

One year ago, in May 2014, I lost a friend: Mohammad Asab, a 58-year-old Egyptian who lived in Luxor, and who died of Hepatitis C.
Egypt has the world's highest rate of Hepatitis C. Even today, eight out of ten cases of infection take place in the hospitals themselves, because doctors and nurses often use the same syringes (or other single-use instruments) on more than one patient. The virus kills 40,000 people per year; one out of ten people aged 15 to 59 will contract it. The disease appears to still be spreading, at a rate of roughly 165,000 new infections every year. A treatment that has proven to save lives and doesn't have too many collateral effects exists, and has been produced in the United States. It costs 100,000 dollars.

On July 15th, 2014 Egypt announced that it reached a deal to obtain this treatment at what they defined a "significantly reduced" price. Reuters reported it would cost roughly 900 dollars for a 12-week treatment.

At the risk of coming across as too sentimental, I still have to ask the question: Do you think that Mohammad's five children and his wife imagined, in their own personal "10 year plan," that this would happen to them? That Mohammad would have ignored the illness for years in order to keep from being prescribed medicine that he couldn't afford, to the point where he had to spend the last money the family had set aside to pay for two nights at a hospital in Cairo?

In a world like the one we live in, I can't help but place my hopes in my own generation. I wonder what we'll do over the next 10 years to make this world a little more the way we'd like it to be for ourselves, for others, for our children.

What would happen if, rather than focusing all our energies on such sophisticated plans, we listened a little more to our hearts?

This piece was originally published on HuffPost Italy and was translated into English.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elisa-sednaoui-dellal/where-i-see-myself-in-ten-years_b_7322028.html

Prisma · June 3, 2015

Gala Germany. June 2015.

Elisa on her favourite holiday destinations.

Vanity Fair Spain. June 2015.

Photos: Papo Waisman.

Prisma · June 4, 2015

Elisa on Madame Figaro this month.

wwd.com

Diane von Furstenberg to Guest-Edit Figaro Madame
June 4, 2015. By Miles Soche.

PARIS MATCH: Diane von Furstenberg has been tapped as guest editor of the June 19 issue of Figaro Madame. “We’ve been working on it for months,” said the New York-based designer over the line from Brussels — in town to attend the opening of “The Belgians: An Unexpected Fashion Story” exhibition.
Von Furstenberg posed for the cover, shot by Terry Richardson, and corralled three stylish women — Natalia Vodianova, Elisa Sednaoui and Marie-Ange Casta — for a fashion shoot she directed showcasing iconic looks from brands including Dior, Chanel, Eres, Christian Louboutin and Hermès.
Anchor pieces include an interview with comedian and actor Gad Elmaleh, aka the boyfriend of Charlotte Casiraghi, whom she got to know last winter when the two were stuck for 25 hours at a New York airport during a snowstorm.
Sources:
http://wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/diane-von-furstenberg-figaro-madame-10140904/
https://fashionweekdaily.com/diane-von-furstenberg-will-guest-edit-figaro-madame/

Prisma · June 9, 2015

June, 8. Shooting in Paris (no idea about the magazine or brand).

"When you work with #LeilaSmara you know you'll look your best and especially you'll have a real blast i love you Leila thank you for all the laughters. You are one of the most talented stylists in the world (and very talented photographer) #selfie".