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BIANCA AND COCO BRANDOLINI D’ADDA
“There are eight years between us, so it’s almost like we’re different generations,” says Coco Brandolini d’Adda (right), 32, of her sister Bianca (left), 24. “We didn’t have many childhood moments together.” The daughters of Count Ruy and Countess Georgina Brandolini d’Adda, who worked for Valentino for 20 years, the sisters were steeped in style from their earliest days. Not only did they accompany their mother to Valentino’s shows—“She always worked and traveled,” says Coco. “She wasn’t someone who stayed at home and cooked for us”—but their paternal grandmother, Cristiana, the sister of the late Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli, was a client of Chanel, Grès, and Balenciaga. At 20, Coco moved from their native Paris to New York to work for Oscar de la Renta. Six years later, when she returned, “my sister was this beautiful girl, 18 and so grown-up and much more confident than I was at her age,” she remembers. “It was like we were meeting each other again, and we got really close.”