Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

Hemingway's Great-Granddaughter Named the New Face of Gianfranco Ferré

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Willowy blonde model Dree Hemingway, 22, daughter of Mariel and great-granddaughter of famous author Ernest Hemingway, has been chosen to star in the latest ad campaign for Italian fashion house Gianfranco Ferré. The firm's creative directors Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi say they chose Hemingway to portray "the free and fearless nature of an utterly feminine woman" which the collection demanded. Dutch photography duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin shot the images for the Spring / Summer 2010 campaign. Dree has previously appeared in ad campaigns for Abercrombie & Fitch and DKNY and was featured on the runway of Givenchy's Fall / Winter 2009-10 fashion show.

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Cavalli Brings Back Kate Moss for Fall

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Last month we reported that Italian designer Roberto Cavalli had picked not one but four beautiful models to replace Kate Moss in the ad campaign for his signature collection, which will be modeled on the classic movie Il Gattopardo. He's not quite over Kate, however. She is now starring in ads for one of his diffusion lines, Just Cavalli, which is targeted to a younger audience. The ads, shot by fashion photog duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, mirror real life somewhat, portraying Kate partying with a bunch of rock star dudes (no controlled substances are visible). After finally breaking with messed up Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty, the eternally gorgeous Brit beauty took up with another, more presentable rocker, James Hince of The Kills, though on her recent party jaunt to Sardinia he was conspicuously absent.

Gallery: Cavalli Campaigns

Another image from the new Just Cavalli campaign

Isabeli Fontana, star of Cavalli's new campaign

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Cavalli Picks Four Beauties to Replace Kate Moss

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Italian designer Roberto Cavalli has chosen four top models to replace Kate Moss (right) in his new Fall/Winter 2008-09 ad campaign. The campaign, to be shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, is inspired by one of our favorite movies, Luchino Visconti's 1963 Il Gattopardo ("The Leopard), based on the book by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa.

The movie, set in Sicily in the 1860s, stars Burt Lancaster as an Italian prince struggling to maintain a dying aristocracy, Alain Delon as his dashing nephew, and the beautiful Claudia Cardinale as Angelica, daughter of a rich former peasant who represents the new social order. Cavalli has chosen models Isabeli Fontana, Angela Lindvall, Raquel Zimmerman and Frankie Rayder to play the parts of Cardinale and the movie's other beauties in the ads.

"I've always been aesthetically fascinated by this film," Cavalli tells Women's Wear Daily. "I also find Il Gattopardo, a story that's based on the idea that 'the more it changes, the more it stays the same,' a good metaphor for fashion. In the campaign, the heroine - a sort of new Angelica - dances in the wilderness while a fire rages in the background; she represents the force of everything that is new, yet in the end she dresses like a romantic debutante." We think Fontana for one is perfectly cast as she bears an uncanny resemblance to Cardinale.

Gallery: Cavalli's Gattopardo Girls