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PHOTOGRAPH: JASON SCHMIDT

In 2009 Tatler chose Elettra Wiedemann to model couture in Paris, in a

shoot inspired by the Audrey Hepburn film Funny Face. The daughter of

Italian actress Isabella Rossellini and her second husband Jon Wiedemann,

Harvard graduate and Calvin Klein model, was a high-fashion bride in

embroidered silk Dior. Modelling for the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Annie

Leibovitz and Arthur Elgort from 2002 to 2013, she became the face of

Lancôme (like her mother before her) in 2006, and at the time of this shoot

was also studying for an MSc in Biomedicine at LSE. A combination of

aesthetic necessity (fitting into sample sizes) and scientific enquiry (researching

sustainable agriculture) fed a love of food that led to her blog, Impatient Foodie,

but clearly she’s still in thrall to fashion’s siren call: last autumn she walked for

Dolce & Gabbana with her mother and her young son, Ronin, by her side.

She’s electric

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throwback

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2009

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