Elisa Sednaoui

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Elisa Sednaoui at Chanel Cruise.

Chanel Cruise in Dubai. With her sister in law, Alice Dellal.

At the pool in the Chanel Cruise. Total look by Chanel. Gorgeous!

Interview at Chanel Cruise (1:50).

 

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Elisa has designed a collection called "Little-a-like" which was released by yoox.com. Wardrobe for mothers and babies. The profits will be donated to Elisa Sednaoui Foundation. For more info, here you are a link.

http://www.yoox.com/project/littlealike

 

Some pics of the collection and the making of.

Video interview about her collaboration with yoox.com.

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A short flashback. But it's worth. From March to May, Elisa was the face of "El Corte Inglés", one of the biggest stores in Spain. She starred the campaign called "Ya es primavera" (something like "It's spring").

The spot was filmed in Benidorm and even the soundtrack is great ("Jungle Drum" by Emiliana Torrini). If you haven't watched it yet, here is the ad.

 

 

And the making of.

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Last March. Launch of "El Corte Inglés" spring campaign at the Casino Gran Via (Madrid). Outfit by Tintoretto and shoes by Gloria Ortiz.

Her legs deserve a place here...

More pics of this event.

Unfortunately, the official pictures of the campaign weren't as good as the TV advert (in my humble opinion, at least). I'm afraid that tons of photoshop spoiled her image. I wish I could put thumbnails in order to use less space but I don't know how to do it. Anyway, as I said before, I don't think the pictures are big deal. But if you want to take a look at them, just tell me and I'll upload them.

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I felt in love with this outfit that Elisa wore last April during the Italian Fashion Exhibition in London. Dress by Pucci and jewellery by Bvlgari (Serpenti necklace).

Her hair looks amazing, especially in these two pictures with Poppy Delevigne and Peter Dundas.

"The sandwich. A blonde (@poppydelevingne) and a brunette #PeterDundas #Pucci #GlamourItalianFashion #London #V&A".

"Loved meeting the charming #PeterDundas my date along with miss @poppydelevingne at the #gala for the #GlamourItalianFashion #VA #London".

Bigger size.

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One more pic of the backstage of her collection for yoox.com.

I've found a few gorgeous pics in black and white...

Elisa by Eric Guillemain in her own house in London.

By Nico Bustos.

By the way, yesterday (May, 31) her son Jack turned 1 year old. Images of family joy...

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The official pics of the campaign of "El Corte Ingles" (I guess I found the way to upload them in a brief space). As I said before, I don't like them. Photoshop seems to be too much in several pics. In fact, in some of them I hardly recognize it was Elisa.

Backstage pictures.

Edited: I added more pics of the campaign and a set of pics of the backstage.

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Harper's Bazaar Brazil (March or maybe April 2014. I can't remember, to be honest).

 

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Elisa Sednaoui by Eric Guillemain.

Full shoot. May 2014.

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More backstage of the photo shooting for yoox.com. I've read the children portrayed are the sons and daughters of some of her close friends. Curiously, her son Jack didn't take part in the photoshoot.

And a little interview about her collection "Little-a-like" published by Glamour Italy.

http://www.glamour.it/moda-e-bellezza/get-inspired/2014/06/elisa-sednaoui-per-yoox.aspx

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June, 3. Elisa attended World Oceans Day in New York. The event was organized by La Mer, Derek Blasberg and Shala Monroque at Mondrian, Soho.

 

Giovanna Battaglia, Elisa Sednaoui and Lisa Marie Fernandez.

A little note about Fernandez. Apart from being a close friend of Elisa, she's an amazing beachwear designer. I highly recommend her designs.

 

Sorry for the watermarks. I know they are annoying but it's all what I could get for the moment.

With Derek Blasberg.

With the Italian dancer Roberto Bolle, principal dancer at La Scala and ABT.

More pics...

 

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Last June 5 th, Charlotte Olympia Dellal (Elisa's sister in law and a well known shoe designer) turned 33. Apparently, Charlotte organized her birthday beach party in Burgh Island (South Devon, England). Elisa attended the celebration which was inspired by the beachwear of the 30's. In fact, the tag of the pictures they uploaded was "partylikeits1933".

Elisa getting ready.

The party.

I guess Elisa was wearing the gorgeous swimsuit she wore at Chanel Cruise (posted before). I think that only the hat is different.

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Charlotte Dellal's birthday party continued at night and the topic seemed to be the same: the 30's.

I wish I could appreciate the outfit in a better way but it's the only picture I got.

EDIT: I was wondering who designed her outfit but according to her, many pieces she wore at the party belonged to her paternal great grandmother Giovanna Sednaoui, a Neapolitan Countess (I don't know if she was talking about the dress). I've read that Elisa inherited several "fashion treasures" from this woman. In fact, some pieces are part of the collection of Le Musée de la Mode in Paris (at least it's what I read sometime).

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One more pic of the party.

Finally, the dress wasn't part of her grandma treasures. It was a Cavalli design and she wore it during amfAR New York Gala in 2012. Take a look to a full color pic of that event.

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Lisa Marie Fernandez launched her activewear collection. Elisa is the model of the brand. If I'm not wrong, it's not the first time she works for her friend Lisa Marie.

These are the only two pics I could get for the moment.

And the article about the new collection.

http://www.style.com/stylefile/2014/06/exclusive-lisa-marie-fernandez-launches-activewear-good-might-go-gym/

I guess we'll see more pictures soon. In the meantime, you can check out the official page of the designer which contains several slides with Elisa's pictures of previous collections of the brand.

http://lisamariefernandez.com/

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"Libertador" (or "The Liberator") was released in the USA during LA Film Festival yesterday. It's a biographical movie about Venezuelan hero Simón Bolívar. Starring Edgar Ramírez (as Bolívar) and directed by Alberto Arvelo. The film was released in other film festivals previously during 2013 with very good critics.

Elisa plays Fanny du Villars who was Bolívar's distant cousin (and according to some stories, his lover too). It's her first film in Spanish. Backstage pictures of her look for the film.

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Elisa Sednaoui attends The Weinstein Company's 'Yves Saint Laurent' premiere hosted by Yves Saint Laurent Couture Palette & The Cinema Society at Museum of Modern Art on June 16, 2014 in New York City.

HQ. Dress by Jeminola NYC.

 

As "bonus track"...

Elisa at Fendi Store Launch Party last May.

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Great photo session shooted in Malta 10 days ago.

 

The Edit. June 19, 2014.

Editorial: Carnival Queen.
Model: Elisa Sednaoui Dellal.
Photographer: Koray Birand.
Styling: Tracy Taylor.

I love this editorial. She looks stunning mainly with that kind of attire that stands out her Arabic roots.

 

The Interview.

A nomadic childhood and an international modeling career has given ELISA SEDNAOUI DELLAL an open, intelligent view of the world. She talks to HERMIONE EYRE about family, democracy and philanthropic endeavors.

 

"I have amazing memories of my first carnival in Rio,” enthuses Elisa Sednaoui Dellal, her gesticulating hands moving ever faster. “My costume was a pineapple! It was so ugly. I went with Christian [Louboutin, a family friend] and we took part: first we marched, then we joined the samba and sang. We are not so strong in Portuguese, so we sang “Cat, dog, cat, dog,” in case the carnival jury was watching. I had only just got together with Alexander [Dellal, now her husband], so I wasn’t altogether happy for him to be seeing me as a singing, dancing pineapple...”

 

The emerald of Sednaoui Dellal’s engagement ring, almost the size of a penny, flashes with every hand wave. A modern multi-hyphenate, she is a model, mother, muse and more: the former face of Armani and Roberto Cavalli, she is also a European film actress of some note, having starred opposite Vincent Gallo in 2012’s The Legend of Kaspar Hauser. She is a filmmaker, currently editing her own documentary – working title Tomorrow, God Willing – about love and marriage in Luxor, Egypt; and she is mother to Jack, one. In May this year she married his father, Alexander Dellal, the British-Brazilian gallery owner, joining the fashionable Dellal clan, which includes shoe designer Charlotte and fellow model Alice.

 

“They’re forces of nature, the whole family – full of energy and temperament and jokes,” says Sednaoui Dellal. I imagine she fits in perfectly. Driven and voluble (in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Arabic), she talks at speed in a captivating half-Arabic, half-European accent, her authority making her seem much older than her 26 years. Her father is half-Egyptian, half-French; her Italian mother was a model who became a fashion editor. “A long while back, my family were textile merchants. The ‘-oui’ means ‘from’, so we’re [originally] from Saidnaya, a monastery in Syria near Damascus,” she explains. Owners of the eponymous department store, the Sednaouis were prominent in Egypt until Gamal Abdel Nasser came to power in 1952, nationalizing industry and sending the family into exile. Her father trained as an architect in London, but was drawn inexorably back to Egypt, specifically Luxor, where he builds elegant, traditional homes – including one for Christian Louboutin, which is how the shoe designer came to be Sednaoui Dellal’s “spiritual godfather”.

 

Sednaoui Dellal has a glamorous ‘gypset’ quality that identifies her as an utterly free spirit; equally at home interviewing the head of the Muslim Brotherhood (a scene in her documentary) as she is visiting the Louvre with Karl Lagerfeld. The hallmark of any gypsetter, she often wears kaftans – her favorites “are designed by Moja Majka, a mother-and-daughter team”. She feels as instinctively about fashion as she does about love: “I met my husband at a dinner a friend organized. I don’t know if we were set up, but we’ve never left each other since.”

 

In London, she and Dellal live in Hampstead (“A little bit like the countryside. You can hear owls at night”), a far cry from her childhood home in Egypt. “I was in Egypt for the first six years of my life; [i went to] an Irish nursery in Cairo until my parents separated,” she says. “My mother and I went to live in Milan, then from the age of eight to 18, I lived in Piedmont in a quiet town perched like a castle on top of a hill. Good food, good wine, grounded and simple. My husband couldn’t believe how quiet it was when he came to visit. He calls me a hill girl. I love that life, I need nature around me.”

 

This hill girl has been crafting a top-flight modeling career since the age of 14, though always in a carefully measured way. “I’ve always been very selective about the modeling and acting work I’ve done,” she says. Her favorite experiences have been with Peter Lindbergh, Magnus Unnar and Karl Lagerfeld, who shot her for the 2011 Pirelli calendar: “Karl’s taken some of the best pictures of me. He always shoots me exactly as I arrive, with barely any makeup or hair [styling].”

 

The model’s own aesthetic is a glorious melting pot. “I like to alternate between masculine and feminine: one day I’m wearing a long flowing gown and the next a tuxedo suit with brogues and a shirt. Or I like to wear my classic emerald studs with jeans. I love the game, the contrast,” she says. Her go-to pieces? “I wear my Saint Laurent biker jacket on top of everything, always. Classic Chanel ballerinas are my weakness and biker boots – my favorites are by Haider Ackermann.”

 

Growing up, Sednaoui Dellal “never dreamed” she would become a model or actress. “I was a bit of a geek at school,” she says, smiling. “I thought I was going to have a diplomatic career.” She may not be in government yet, but she has set up The Elisa Sednaoui Foundation, which aims to create after-school spaces for children to engage in creative play, starting in Luxor and looking to expand globally. “[somewhere for] boys and girls to dream, sing, perform, express themselves,” explains Sednaoui Dellal. “These are children who have never been guided in [creative activities]. In schools in Egypt, it’s one teacher for every 30 children. In the big schools, it’s one teacher to 100.”

 

Aside from education, Sednaoui Dellal takes a long view on Egypt’s political instability: “It’s going to take a long time and a lot of things need to change – women’s rights, for example – before Egypt is a democracy. And even then, it has to be Egypt’s own democracy, not a vision imposed by the West…”

 

She’s strong, this one: a Bianca Jagger in the making. We talk for far longer than required, about history, clothes, politics, the lack of tourists in Egypt (“Luxor is suffering. You can see the great temples practically on your own, like an 18th-century traveler”) and the pitfalls of “charity”. “I hate this English word!” she exclaims. “The idea of my foundation is that it’s not only for the disadvantaged, it’s for everyone. All children need to play.” Intelligence, influence and courage of conviction – there’s a lot to like about Elisa Sednaoui Dellal.
Find out more at elisasednaoui.org

 

Source: http://www.net-a-porter.com/

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