Years later, seeing Lancôme's advertisement, Isabella Rossellini still remembers that afternoon 28 years ago.
In the 14th year of being a spokesperson, at the age of 43, she was suddenly dismissed by the high-level:
"You're too old, beauty ads are about dreams, not harsh realities. ”
Isabella just smiled wryly, walked out of the conference room, and threw down a sentence:
"Listen, it's not a woman's dream to stay young forever. ”
"Their dreams are to be independent, strong and free. ”
When talking about the past, Isabella was squatting in the vegetable patch catching chickens.
With short hair and a wrinkled face, she is now best at postpartum care for hens, and her best skill is wool softening and weaving.
Piercing is a peasant woman.
It's hard to imagine that she was once the queen of advertising who overwhelmed Hollywood and rivaled ball flowers.
He is the fairy predecessor of legendary director David Lynch and Oscar-winning winner Gary Oldman.
It is the ultimate form of the second generation of stars, and it is the most expensive model in the fashion circle.
"She is a witness to a love affair. ”
In Rome in 1952, Isabella was born, and the news wrote this sentence.
Her mother, Ingrid Bergman, is a three-time Oscar-winning actress, second only to Hepburn as a film legend.
It has been hailed as "Sweden's splendid gift to Hollywood".
Her father, Robert Rossellini, was one of the greatest directors of the Apennines.
The two cheated and eloped, the beads were secretly knotted, and Isabella was like Aphrodite and the Muse.
But when she was a child, she was known as the second generation of the most transstar.
She was born with scoliosis, which took 18 months of casting stretching to return to normal, and she also knocked on a lower leg bone for spinal surgery.
She had a mutilated tooth and was smashed in the face by her half-brother when she was 12 years old, and it has not been repaired.
She has no interest in acting, her only hobbies are teasing cats, walking dogs, and walking lions when she has time.
Isabella, who was a girl, has a very low materialistic desire and a strong heart.
"From the moment I was sensible, I understood that a woman must be financially independent. ”
She reads, studies, works as a trilingual translator, and conducts interviews in all directions.
If nothing happens, she will be a fierce news queen by the age of 30.
But there was still an accident -
With short hair, a photo, flowers blooming on her forehead, and a sunset on her eyebrows, Isabella is on Vogue.
She was 28 years old that year and was known as the oldest supermodel, but she became popular overnight.
Nowadays, there is a word on the Internet called "face genius", which refers to the unique appearance, then Isabella is "the richest man in face".
Because of this face, Lancôme offered a sky-high exclusive contract, making her the most expensive model at that time.
Some people wonder that Isabella is not recognizable enough compared to the current models.
But she is better than one sentence: moisturizing things silently.
It's a beauty that isn't aggressive, a beauty that is inclusive of all rivers and makes it able to control all makeup products,
It can be both elegant and charming.
There are both birds singing and daisies in the forest, literature and art.
There is also the gorgeous and wild nature of the charming body, Tibetan style, red lips, and glamorous lips.
You can see the drunken gold fans of old Hollywood, and you can feel the eccentricity of the creator.
You can see Shelley's sentence:
Only your brilliance is like the mist that spreads over the mountains, like the nocturne brought by the wind from the quiet world, like the moonlight shining on the stream.
For more than ten years, Isabella has taken over all of Lancôme's advertising campaigns, which makes celebrities and ladies fall in love.
Beauty has become a hard currency in her.
Unstoppable.
Untrained, she made a cameo in the film Blue Velvet, which won the 1986 Independent Spirit Award.
Not a professional class, she collaborated with Lynch on "Wild Heart", which won the 1990 Cannes Palme d'Or.
In 1992, "Flying Over Immortality", her interpretation of the ageless enchantress became a classic.
The soul snatching face, stringing jewels and stone clothes, and the swaying posture seems to have a whole body magic wind, I just remember that as soon as she appeared on the stage, my mother asked Curie to go back to the room to do homework.
But the irony is that in the movie, people drink potions to live forever for their youth, but Isabella off the screen is hit head-on because of the passage of time.
On the eve of her 43rd birthday, she was invited to a flower-filled conference room at Lancôme, where several male executives fired her.
"Your face will remind consumers of the horrors of aging and will shatter dreams. ”
Unload the mill and kill the donkey.
At the time, the newspapers shelled: "Isabella let Lancôme sell a cart of cosmetics, but after she turned 43 in June, the company abandoned her like a dry mascara." ”
It was also then that Isabella disappeared.
The endorsement was fired, the movie was not made, and the entertainment industry abandoned a top stream, and he didn't even say hello.
It wasn't until a few years later that Isabella sent out a picture: I graduated.
On that day, she wore a bachelor's gown and a diploma in her hand, and won a master's degree in animal behavior.
She has always been the child who loves animals, and the prosperity is just an episode in life.
Don't sing.
But Isabella's next operation made the world's jaws drop again:
When she was over half a hundred years old, she began to make.
Strictly speaking, it should be called "Green Porn".
It turned out that in the course of her further studies, Isabella discovered that the world knew very little about animal courtship and mating.
So, she put on a jumpsuit, put on a hood, checked information, wrote scripts, acted in comedy, regardless of her image, and made fun of popular science.
"I want adults and children to see the world from a different perspective and discover different beauty. ”
"Because if you look at nature, you see that there is no such thing as perfection. ”
In addition to filming popular science dramas, Isabella also used her savings to build a piece of land in Italy, named "Mama Organic Farm".
She hires local unemployed mothers, creates wealth with her hands, and uses experience to achieve a bumper harvest.
Isabella and her mothers work together every day to weed, collect eggs and catch chickens.
They planted flowers on the hillsides, the spring breeze blew, the dandelions turned into unmelted snow, and the sheep were dried into orange marshmallows under the sunset.
A birdsong was heard in the distance, the prologue of the night.
In the interview, Isabella said that if I could only do one career in my life, I would choose to be a farmer.
"People work quietly, the crops and flowers are fragrant, and the hearts are calm. ”
But God refused to "let go" her.
In 2016, the farm welcomed an uninvited guest, Françoise Lehmann, Lancôme's first female CEO.
"We made a mistake and I hope the story will be rewritten. ”
That year, Isabella was 63 years old and once again became the face of Lancôme.
She seemed to have expected this day, and held her head high and said:
"The men always thought that women were wearing makeup to please and seduce them. ”
"They don't understand that makeup is a game for women to please themselves. ”
Isabella laughs confidently in front of the camera, every wrinkle like a medal of victory.
"Youth will pass away, but freedom will live forever. ”
She said.
But Isabella, who won the endorsement, did not become a delicate lady, nor did she want to become an anti-aging celebrity.
She devotes her time and energy to one thing – protecting nature and animals.
She donated her endorsement money to the Foundation to protect the ancient oak trees that had been forced down due to urban development.
She did her best to breed guide dogs, so that those puppies that were almost abandoned could be put into the system and show the way for humans.
Last year, at the age of 70, she was on the cover of Vogue once.
If it were someone else, she might want to blow an ageless rainbow fart, but Isabella posted an ins overnight saying:
This hat is made of wool, my sheep!
Beauty is only a fleeting legend, but the countryside is the way home for my heart.
The honest earth, the warm sheep, the crops, the flowers, the sun and the wind always make her heart surging and full.
Today's Isabella sometimes makes a cameo appearance in a movie, plays a wrinkled old lady, and gets a Golden Globe nomination.
Sometimes I go to Disney to work part-time as a float parade commentator, sharing colorful dreams with children behind the microphone.
Sometimes I also participate in fashion parties and smile brightly in the midst of He Cong and other supermodels.
"For me, beauty is an expression of elegance. Elegance is an expression of thought. She concluded.
As the years go by, fewer and fewer people may recognize Isabella squatting in the ridges.
When a reporter asks "how do you want people to remember you?"
Isabella only smiled:
"I want to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?"
She raised her face, and the sunset had already set all over Nanshan.