Gisele opens up the door of her house for the February issue of Vogue Italia
February 6th marks the release of the new February issue of Vogue Italia starring Brazilian top model Gisele Bündchen in an intimate portrait lensed by photography's rising star Jamie Hawkesworth.
The video shot by Kevin Tekinel – and edited by Milos Bogojevic – offers a taste of the atmosphere on set.
The appointment was set for 6am on a Sunday morning outside the gates of Chestnut Hill villa, in Boston, where Gisele Bündchen lives with her two children and her husband, American football legend Tom Brady, quarter back for the New England Patriots, set to compete in the Super Bowl final in just a few days.
The Brazilian top model, whose 2017 income of $17.5 million (a year in which she reduced her commitments handing over the top spot to Kendall Jenner) earned her the second place in Forbes' annual list of the world's highest-paid models, agreed – for the first time – to open the door of her house to Vogue Italia photographer Hawkesworth, whom she allowed to portray her son Benjamin and was even entrusted with a series of images from her personal albums.
However, this is not the only 'first time' making this cover story of the Condé Nast monthly publication so special: posing in her kitchen, Gisele is portrayed in a pair of Looney Tunes slippers – an intimate and personal image that is miles away from the typically glamorous version of the top model we are used to seeing.
But, most of all, this is the first time in the history of Vogue Italia that a model appears on the cover make-up free and without a stylist deciding on the look: the garments (including the Gucci looks wore on the two covers) were selected and styled by Gisele herself.
Jamie Hawkesworth chose to employ a reportage style, without artificial lighting and shooting on film in order to preserve the intimacy and spontaneity of the shoot.
Penning the interview is South African author Richard Mason, who in his latest book Who killed Piet Barol? reveals, just like the model, a strong environmentalist conscience. A strong advocate for the preservation of our planet, last September, the model won Vogue Italia's Green Carpet Fashion Award presented to her during a ceremony at Milan's La Scala theatre.