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I agree, she's not a bad model at all but she's more natural and interesting as "herself" rather than promoting a brand, or editorial work.
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Does anyone know if Elisa's father is Stéphane Sednaoui? Cause' if so, then she's the daughter of a man who has probably made some of the most notorious music videos of the 90's. I'm not a huge fan of music videos, but the stuff he's done have been amazing! Is he her father?
What I meant was she's his cousin.
Big news!!!! She's gonna be in the next H&M campaign!!!!!
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Elisa Sednaoui is this summer’s It Girl in the fashion world’s It Gal capital, Paris.
She’s the gal Karl Lagerfeld kept on his arm at the house’s mega resort collection in St Tropez in May, the “goddaughter” of Christian Louboutin, the star of France’s spring cult movie and a beautiful face that sends the paparazzi into overdrive on red carpets. Not bad for a 22 year old.
Though she’s been studying acting for several years, and modeling for even longer, Sednaoui has more or less exploded onto the scene – with the critical acclaim of her debut film, ‘Bus Palladium.’
However, Sednaoui made her first “fashion film” this spring when she starred in “Remember Now,” a Lagerfeld directed short that premiered in St Tropez. The film stars veteran French actor, Pascal Gregory, as an elderly dandy returning to St Tropez after a three-decade absence and being offended at the new generation’s lack of knowledge of its past. Cruising around St Tropez in Karl’s Bentley convertible, Gregory points out the house of Colette, France’s most famous female novelist, to his date – Sednaoui – who responds: “Is she a famous singer?”
The willowy Egyptian-Italian Sednaoui looks stunning in the film, but when asked about the scene she bursts out laughing: “Karl wanted me to drive, but I don’t have a driving license!”
Lagerfeld adds: “The title of the movie is ‘Remember Now’, which means don’t think about the past. The playboy thinks St Tropez should still be about Colette, Brigitte Bardot and ‘God Created Women’ and all that. But it’s not really that any more. It’s just a beautiful and particular place, where people can feel, and, be very free. And I think Elisa looks particularly beautiful in the film.”
Sednaoui, who speaks French, Italian, Arabic and English; the latter with a charmingly Continental accent, grew up in Italy after her parents separated when she was a child. Twenty years later, they are still not divorced, and she frequently visits her father, an architect who designed Louboutin’s famous mud-walled home in the bluffs near Luxor, Egypt.
“Christian, the shoemaker. I have known him since I was nine. He introduces me as his “goddaughter,” but it’s more a mentor/spiritual thing,” she explains over a salad in a Bastille bistro, before showing me images of her father’s remarkable house on her iTouch.
“I use the iTouch because I love the pictures. But I hate the iPhone. I’m more a Blackberry person, it’s faster – tatatatatata!” she squeals imitating a machine gun, a habit she indulges in three times over lunch.
“Bus Palladium” has made her a mega star in France. In the movie, she plays Laura, who manages to have affairs with two different members of the same group – leading one to threaten to commit suicide by jumping off a roof. But she’s such a talented actress, she manages to make a character who could come across as a sexual predator into a smart, cool girl, trying to find herself and experience life in her own independent way.
“I love that actresses can inspire so much emotion in people; the way a film can force you to react, and feel and think differently. And I wanted my character in ‘Bus Palladium’ not to be a nasty b*tch, but someone who was just very honest,” she explains.
Sednaoui had actually made her first starring role in ‘Indigène d'Eurasie,’ by Lithuania’s Sharunas Bartas, though the film only came out until this year.
Since, their releases, she has become an instant attraction for celebrity magazines in France. When she showed up at the opening of Ralph Lauren’s opulently massive flagship in a 16th century limestone mansion in St Germain in April, the paparazzi went into a piranha-like feeding frenzy. On the flash bulb meter, she easily beat any of Lauren’s other VIP guests Anouk Aimee, Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds), Gerard Depardieu, Michelle Yeoh, Marisa Berenson, Isabelle Huppert and Kevin Spacey.
She clearly loves the newfound attention, as was evident when she reminisced about being invited to a festival of French Cinema in Tokyo this spring.
“It was incredible. I was there when ‘Sex and the City’ was doing their premiere, and it was so incredible, all the secrecy in the hotel! And you know how fanatic Japanese fans can be. They wait all day at the hotel, and they come and take a picture. Then they go and print it and come back and want you to sign it. And the best things is, they bring you presents – candy, books, love letters. One poor boy, came to my agency and dropped off a four page letter in English,” she smiles.
Putting on a mock serious young Japanese boy voice, she continues: “Really forgive me for my letter in English, but I really want to say that I saw you and I was so moved by your acting – between parenthesis, ‘of course there is always room for improvement’ – I loved that! I kept it. It was amazing. ‘Room for improvement!‘” she laughs so loud heads turn in the bistro.
Besides acting, Elisa is keeping extremely busy on the modeling front. In September, V magazine will carry a story photographed by Diane Von Furstenberg, for whom she has been a runway model.
“Diane and I became friends, good friends, I see her when I go to New York all the time. She’s another inspiration I have to say. Terry Richardson shot me for her campaign, which is going to come out for the winter collection, and she shot me for V,” she laughs.
Modeling has certainly helped hone the sense of style and taste of Elisa, who confesses that her favorite designer is Haider Ackermann.
“We know each other personally, I love Haider as a person, his clothes are not really made for my kind of body, it’s a question of length. But anyway, I wore him in Berlin, I love him, I like his work as an artist, and I love to go to his shows. But I also love Chanel, because you can mix it with other things and it helps balance,” adds Sednaoui, mentioning Chloe, Alexander Wang and Burberry as other favorites.
This fall, Sednaoui has two major campaigns coming out, though she will only reveal one. H&M will feature her in a campaign timed, wait for it, to coincide with the opening of their next huge store.
It’s on the Champs Elysees.
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a motivation to visit H&M more often
a motivation to visit H&M more often
Elisa in the short file La Baie du Renard by Gregeoire Colin.
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2879/La-Baie-du-Renard
Elisa has appeared in two other movies Bus Palladium, which is out on DVD next month, and Indigene d'Eurasie (Eastern Drift).
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2879/La-Baie-du-Renard
Elisa has appeared in two other movies Bus Palladium, which is out on DVD next month, and Indigene d'Eurasie (Eastern Drift).
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my capture from ELLE
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^^Oh, Fantastic! I can't wait to see them.
