Italian type of woman. Beauty in Italian: the most beautiful Italian women in history

Italian women are famous for their elegance and ability to dress stylishly.

However, their style of dress is completely different from the style of our Russian women.

To understand this Italian feature, you need to immerse yourself in their culture, which we will try to do.

You rarely see an Italian dressed in tight-fitting clothes, high heels and evening make-up.

Most likely, the lady just gathered for a celebration or is a TV star. IN ordinary life Italians prefer comfortable, but at the same time fashionable things.

Russian women, in everyday life, look like Italian women on a holiday. Our ladies are always in high heels and impeccably made up.

This fashionable behavior can be justified, perhaps, only by the fact that Italian women have always lived well and their taste has been formed over decades.

While our ladies began to make their first, and therefore inept fashion steps after the collapse of the USSR. We are all trying to catch up and catch up with the Western one, which, unfortunately, often fails.

If we take a simple example of a Milan-Moscow flight, then immediately at the airport you can notice the cardinal differences between us and Italians. They will get off the plane comfortable shoes on flat running, jeans, with a stylish and expensive bag in hand, with a minimum of make-up on the face and glasses. Our women even travel in heels, lipstick and skinny jeans. It remains only to wonder, is it really convenient?

This situation is well described by one popular Italian proverb. Dressed heavily in wedding celebration, you can say: “we put on everything we could for this wedding ... even the chest of drawers!”. In Russian, the phrase would sound like “putting on all the best at once,” which seems to be what our women are trying to do every day.

Let's take a look, in turn, at an ordinary working Italian who, after work, also runs to kindergarten or school to pick up her children and at the same time manages to drop into the grocery store.

1) The average resident of Italy in casual clothes extremely simple - jeans straight cut or a knee-length skirt, comfortable and elegant.

Flat shoes that provide comfort of movement, because there is so much to do! At the same time, the Italian woman will have a very discreet make-up on her face, but she will proudly carry an expensive and stylish hand in hand. bag from Louis Vuitton will be combined not with gold, stones or even silver, but with modest jewelry in a minimalist style.

2) In make-up, Italians try to emphasize the beauty of the eyes, preferring smoky eyes.

Lips in Italy are painted extremely rarely, mainly for going out. red lipstick sometimes even counts in bad taste and you can only see it in older Italian women.

They even try to look like queens in their old age, putting on suits, bags, shoes and painting lips.

However, even an elderly Italian woman will not allow herself to wear gold and diamonds in the middle of the day, as this is considered bad manners.

Italian women are happy to give preference to simple jewelry, bracelets and massive watches in men's style. Young fashionistas choose Tiffany brooches, while older girls can afford a small, thin necklace.

During the summer months, Italian women dot their wrists with a variety of textured bangles. I skillfully combine them with each other.

3) Accessories - shoes and bags, that's the real weakness of Italian fashionistas.

They believe that these wardrobe items should always be of high quality and luxurious. Italian women line up during sales fashion collections and some even pass on their exclusive Louis Vuitton handbags.

Sometimes, women save up for several months to afford the coveted expensive bag.

Well, you should not blame them, because nothing makes a woman look better than high-quality designer shoes and a handbag.

4) By the way, many Italian women are very skeptical about high boots, especially with heels.

They do not understand how you can wear such shoes, because the Italian climate is very mild even in winter. They could not feel our winters, then they would definitely have bought a pair of other boots for themselves.

However, many Italian women still wear these shoes, though mostly on flats and prefer oversized boots rather than boots.

5) But the most important thing to learn from Italians is the ability to combine colors.

Sometimes, they combine seemingly incompatible colors with each other - red, scarlet, yellow, blue, green.

The women of this southern country just adore bright colors in clothes. They can wear even the simplest things, but because of the riot of color duo, their look will be amazing!

You can easily admire the Italian in dark blue pantsuit, decorated with cognac-brown accessories - the height of elegance.

6) Everything looks good on Italian women, no matter what they wear, and all because they are tanned!

We go pale-skinned all year long, waiting for the holidays to finally soak up the sun and tan a little bit. Italians bathe in sunshine as the thermometer exceeds 20 degrees. They bare their legs, put on glasses and take on the Italians!

7) Due to the abundance of the sun, glasses accompany fashionistas throughout the year, so they are used to them.

Some do not take them off in transport and even indoors. Also, many Italian women want to be so original that they choose the glasses of the most different forms, with rhinestones and sequins, just like some of our women.

So, you can learn a lot from Italians.

8) But main lesson, which these southern women can teach us, that everything is good in moderation.

Let's save high stilettos, short skirts, tight and uncomfortable leggings, make-up and false nails for rare, evening outings.

Russian girls are already very beautiful and attractive, and the abundance of rhinestones, heels and cosmetics on the face only sets off our natural beauty.

Giorgio Armani's quote "To be elegant does not mean to be conspicuous, it means to be remembered" will be appropriate here.

Italian women dress comfortably, in ordinary things, but at the same time they are incredibly elegant and luxurious! To learn how to be elegant, try the Italian beauty recipe.

And although, as the editor-in-chief of the Italian edition of Vogue correctly notes, the legendary Franca Sozzani, not all Italians dress the same, all the same, other Europeans consider the inhabitants of the Apennines to be almost the standard of beauty and elegance.

What is it that distinguishes the wardrobe of Italian women?

1. Color palette

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Classic combination black and white. Model Emily Didonato in an advertising company

Italians prefer light colors and natural shades, black and white . Perhaps this is due to the large amount of sun: here, and so nature plays with all the colors of the rainbow - so dressing up in bright and colorful is simply unnecessary. So Italian women choose clothes or accessories in restrained tones. Attention: pastel shades are allowed only in summer, but beige, gray, cream and white are out of season and are appropriate all year round.

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Italians generally prefer black. Actress Monica Bellucci and model Emily Didonato

The favorite color of Italians is black, which is both stylish and conservative. According to the famous Italian Monica Bellucci(Monica Bellucci), filmed in 2000 in Sicily in the film "Malena", where "many women still dress in black and cover themselves from head to toe." They know that black - The best way unobtrusively emphasize the natural grace and bellezza mediterranea (the Mediterranean beauty of the inhabitants of Bel Paese).

2. Classic silhouette

If you're not sure how to dress, opt for a formal style. High-quality materials, impeccable cut, adjusted proportions often accompany timeless classics than changeable fashion.

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Pencil skirt - timeless classic

Jeans, by the way, can look great in a formal setting, as long as they fit perfectly on you and are not pretentious.

And, no matter how paradoxical it may sound, such typical Italian brands as Versace and Dolce & Gabbana are by no means the most favorite brands of Italians, who prefer their catchy, baroque beauty to more restrained and calm classics associated with the style of, say, Giorgio Armani.

And finally three more important advice regarding accessories:

1. C special attention consider the choice of shoes for each image. And, most importantly, remember that
a) no socks with open shoes / sandals / sandals;
b) slippers have a place either on the beach or in a shoe closet - there is no third way;
c) white socks are allowed only with sports sneakers exclusively for sports. Italian secret: socks to match the shoes or trousers visually lengthen the legs.

2. Save dizzying heels for going out, and during the day give preference to a more comfortable and small heel - and you can also be quite on top of it!

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Bag - important accessory. Shot from the film "Malena"

3. The bag is an important accessory and an indispensable companion. modern women. And therefore, make sure that your bag is a match for you - both in proportions, and in functionality, and in status. Older Italians were instructed by their grandmothers that a real lady should have three bags: black, dark blue and medium brown - and certainly of a rigid shape.

And finally, remember that real “elegance is not to be evident, but to sink into memory” (L "eleganza non è farsi notare, ma farsi ricordare), as the master of Italian fashion Giorgio Armani said!

Italians. What are they? Italian girls, Italian women ... Of course they are different, generations differ from each other, as well as social circles, everyday life from fun Friday parties and special occasions. So what are they?

Cloth

Let's start with clothes. Italians are terrible “rag-pickers”, they cannot live without shopping, just like without a morning cup of espresso. Sales were invented especially for them, I am sure that no other people are waiting for seasonal discounts as much as the inhabitants of the Apennines. There are also outlets - entire towns consisting of shops, restaurants and cafes. This whole science and the Italians are quite good at it.

Mandatory wardrobe items are black trousers, black dress And beautiful coat. Everything else just adds up! Italian women are very feminine, they are in new year's eve, despite the frost, they put on shoes and flirty boas. They were the first to wear drop-shoulder T-shirts. Such is the strength of the local mentality, but here they like to be sexy. All this is a little exaggerated, a little exaggerated, a little too much, but do not forget that we are in the south! That's why the edges are slightly blurred, because there are lurex and sequins everywhere.

They love the so-called layering in clothes, so that one shoulder straps, the second ones on them, then a tunic, and a light cardigan on top, and all this is selected according to color, texture, and is complemented by an elegant matching scarf. A simple cut is not very popular here, they prefer complex, asymmetric things. As well as complex color combinations, one tonality is preferred. In everyday life, the most ordinary casual reigns, this is normal, practical and convenient.

The most spectacular - women aged 50 to 65 years, these are the same "old school" who grew up on Fellini's films. Their ideal has always been the incomparable Sophia Loren. Cigarette trousers, simple but very high-quality pumps and an elegantly draped mink coat ... styled hair and a diamond constellation of Dogs on the fingers. It's not uncommon, it's a reality.

Shoes

Every self-respecting Italian woman a whole closet of shoes. For every day she is casual - ballet flats, sneakers and, lo and behold! even uggs. Well, in the evening hairpins reign here. You can see open sandals with thin heels on Italians at any time of the year, regardless of the weather. Because it's bellissimo, and beauty requires sacrifice. Perhaps that is why most of the famous Shoe Houses come from Italy.

Personal care. Appearance

Actress Bianca Brandolini

Everything is not so optimistic here. Let's start with the fact that the age of the average Italian compared to the average Russian should be taken into account based on the fact that in Italy, everything seems to be ten years younger. I explain. If a girl is 30, then she dresses and looks 20 years old, if she is 40, then we subtract ten years again and get a 30-year-old coquette and so on until old age. Indeed, Italian women look much younger than other European women, maybe pasta plays an important role here, maybe the climate, but most likely all of this together, plus a cheerful temperament and lifestyle.

The only BUT, skin care should still be started early, a rare thirty-year-old girl uses anti-aging creams, to say nothing of twenty-year-olds. So, expensive “age” creams are mainly used by seniors already over fifty, which is not always correct. As the Italian proverb says - it is better to prevent than to fight, but alas, this opinion does not apply to skin care.

But the Italians have one remarkable and very important advantage. It's their hair! Shiny, well-groomed and well-cut, falling in heavy waves over fragile shoulders.

Hair is taken care of a lot, almost every week a self-respecting Italian woman goes to her master for styling. At southern women hair is much thicker, grows faster and we, Russian women, will never achieve such luxury.

Accessories

Everything here is exactly as we imagine. A lot of jewelry, big, bright, for each outfit there is something of its own, but all this is only in the evening. During the day, discreet rings or a small diamond around the neck, that's all!

And I completely forgot to mention such an important accessory as Sunglasses! It's just a must for all Italians, they wear it often ( weather!), with pleasure, and have at least three or four pairs. Thank God, the fashion for ugly narrow glasses with diopters has passed, five or six years ago they “decorated” the faces of every second inhabitant of Italy and it was not always beautiful, but often just ugly. And of course, endless bags, handbags and clutches, and scarves, scarves ... a lot of scarves!

Italians are one of the largest peoples in Europe. Only in Italy there are about 56 million ethnic Italians, almost 2 million Italians live in France. In Latin and North America, about 80 million people have Italian roots. Argentina is the most Italian country in the New World. Italians began to move en masse to Argentina at the end of the 19th century, and now 55% of the population of Argentina are of Italian origin (among them are such worldwide famous people like the current Pope Francis or soccer player Lionel Messi). In Brazil, 23 million people have Italian roots, in the USA - more than 17 million.
The most beautiful, in my opinion, ethnic Italians from Italy and other countries are included in this rating.

38th place: (born February 19, 1979, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina) - Argentine TV presenter with Italian roots, wife of former Real Madrid footballer Guti.

37th place. Violante Placido / Violante Placido(born May 1, 1976, Rome, Italy) is an Italian actress and singer, daughter of Italian actors Michele Placido and Simonetta Stefanelli.

36th place. Lorella de Luca / Lorella De Luca(September 17, 1940, Florence - January 9, 2014) - Italian actress. One of the most famous ingenue (image naive girl) in Italian cinema.

35th place. Laura Morante / Laura Morante(born August 21, 1956, Santa Fiora, Italy) is an Italian actress and director.

34th place: Marina Berti / Marina Berti(September 29, 1924, London, England - October 29, 2002) - Italian actress, popular in the 50s and 60s. Her real name is Elena Morin Bertolini. The height of the actress is 170 cm, the parameters of the figure are 86-61-91.5.

33rd place. Chiara Mastroianni / Chiara Mastroianni(born May 28, 1972, Paris, France) is a French actress and singer. Her father is Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni and her mother is French actress Catherine Deneuve.

32nd place. Vanessa Marano / Vanessa Marano(born October 31, 1992, Los Angeles, USA) - American actress. Her father is Italian. Vanessa Marano, in addition to English, also speaks Italian. Younger sister Vanessa - actress Laura Marano.

31st place: Tammy di Calafiori / Tammy Di Calafiori(b. March 10, 1989, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Brazilian actress, model and TV presenter. Known for the TV series "Stone Market".

30th place: Rafaela Zanella / Rafaela Zanella(born August 9, Santa Maria, Brazil) - Miss Brazil 2006. Height 183 cm.

29th place. Laura Marano / Laura Marano(born November 29, 1995, Los Angeles, USA) is an American actress and singer. Her father is Italian. Elder sister Laura - actress Vanessa Marano.

28th place. Silvana Pampanini / Silvana Pampanini(September 25, 1925, Rome - January 6, 2016) - Italian actress, popular in the 50s, including in the USSR, where she was known for the film "A Husband for Anna Zaccheo" (1953).

27th place. Anna Maria Ferrero(born February 18, 1934, Rome) is an Italian actress who acted in films in the 50s and 60s. Her real name is Guerro.

26th place. Rosanna Schiaffino / Rosanna Schiaffino(November 25, 1939, Genoa, Italy - October 17, 2009) - Italian actress, popular in the 1960s. Soviet moviegoers are known mainly for her role as Countess Jeanne de Beauvais in the film "Secrets of the Burgundy Court" (1961).

25th place: Manuela Arcuri(born January 8, 1977, Anagni, Italy) - Italian actress and fashion model. Manuela's height is 174 cm, the parameters of the figure are 94-63-96.

24th place. Simona Cavallari(born April 5, 1971, Rome) is a modern Italian actress, acting in films and TV shows.

23rd place: Carla Bruni / Carla Bruni- French fashion model and singer. Born December 23, 1967 in Turin (Italy) in rich family. Due to the threat of kidnapping by the Red Brigades (an underground radical left organization), the family moved to France when Carla was 5 years old. However, Bruni, despite growing up and living in France to this day, had only Italian citizenship until 2008, when she married French President Nicolas Sarkozy and became First Lady of the French Republic. The height of Carla Bruni is 176 cm, the parameters of the figure are 86-61-89.

22nd place: Linda Cristal / Linda Cristal- American actress. She was born in Argentina on February 23, 1934. Her real name - Marta Victoria Moya Burges. In the 50s, she began acting in American cinema, at first not knowing in English, despite the fact that she was fluent in three languages: Spanish, Italian (her father is Argentinean Italian) and French (mother is Argentinean).

21st place. Alyssa Milano / Alyssa Milano(b. December 19, 1972, New York, USA) is an American actress and singer, best known for her roles as Samantha Micelli in the sitcom Who's the Boss? (1984-1992), Phoebe Halliwell in Charmed (1998-2006) and Savannah Davis in Mistresses (2013-2014). Alyssa's parents are American Italians.

20th place: Caterina Murino / Caterina Murino(born September 15, 1977, Cagliari, Italy) - Italian actress originally from the island of Sardinia. Gained worldwide fame after playing the role of Solange Dimitrios in the film from the Jace Bond series "Casino Royale" (2006).

19th place: Ornella Muti / Ornella Muti(born March 9, 1955, Rome) - Italian film actress. Russian audience Ornella Muti is best known for the film "The Taming of the Shrew" (1980). The real name of the actress is Francesca Romana Rivelli. Her father is Neapolitan, her mother is Russian. Ornella Muti's height is 168 cm, figure parameters 89-61-89.

17th place: Stefania Sandrelli / Stefania Sandrelli(born June 5, 1946, Viareggio, Italy) is an Italian actress who became famous at the age of 15 after the film "Italian Divorce" (1961). Figure parameters 98-67-101 (at the age of 39).

16th place. Rossana Podesta / Rossana Podestà(June 20, 1934 - December 10, 2013) - Italian actress. Rossana was born in Tripoli, Libya (an Italian colony at the time). After World War II, she moved to Rome with her parents. In film, she is best known for her role as Helen of Troy in the 1956 film of the same name.

15th place. Daniela Bianchi / Daniela Bianchi(born January 31, 1942, Rome) is an Italian model and actress, best known for the Bond film From Russia with Love (1963), where she played Tatiana Romanova. In 1960, she represented Italy at the Miss Universe pageant, where she took second place and won the Miss Photogenic category.

14th place. Giovanna Ralli / Giovanna Ralli(born January 2, 1935, Rome) - Italian film actress, popular in the 60s.

13th place. Scilla (Scilla) Gabel / Scilla Gabel(born January 4, 1938, Rimini, Italy) is an Italian film actress. Real name - Gianfranca Gabellini. Her acting career began as an understudy for Sophia Loren. , in honor of which the actress took a pseudonym, she never played, but she played in the 1968 television adaptation of The Odyssey.

12th place. Margaret Madé(born June 22, 1982, Paterno, Sicily) is an Italian actress and model. Height 177 cm, figure parameters 83-60-88.

11th place: Anna Maria Alberghetti / Anna Maria Alberghetti- Singer and actress. Anna Maria was born in Pesaro (Italy) on May 15, 1936. Second World War forced the family to move to the United States, where Alberghetti became famous. Anna Maria Alberghetti's height is 164 cm.

10th place: Gia Carangi / Gia Carangi(January 29, 1960, Philadelphia, USA - November 18, 1986) - one of the first supermodels in the world. Her father is an American Italian, her mother has Irish and Welsh roots. Gia Karanji suffered from drug addiction and died of AIDS at the age of 26. About her life was filmed the film "Gia" (1998), where the main role was played by Angelina Jolie.

8th place. Gigliola Cinquetti / Gigliola Cinquetti(born December 20, 1947, Verona, Italy) - Italian singer, actress and TV presenter. In 1964, she represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, where she won with the song "Non ho l'étà" and gained international recognition. In 1974, she participated in the Eurovision Song Contest for the second time with the song "Si" and took second place, losing only to the quartet. She starred in 10 films.

7th place. Lina Cavalieri(December 25, 1874, Onano, Italy - February 7, 1944) - Italian opera singer (soprano). Her real name is Natalina. Cavalieri became famous not so much for her vocal skills as for her beauty. Contemporaries called her the most beautiful woman in the world, she was one of the most photographed women of her era. Huge commercial success had cards (postcards) with her image. One of the St. Petersburg sellers in the early 1900s claimed to have sold about a million Cavalieri postcards. In 1955, the film "The Most beautiful woman in the world" starring Gina Lollobrigida.

6th place: Isabella Rossellini- Italian actress and fashion model. She was born on June 18, 1952 in the family of the famous Swedish actress and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini. Isabella's height is 173 cm, figure parameters are 90-73.5-91.5 (at the age of 42).

5th place: Pier Angeli / Pier Angeli(June 19, 1932, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy - September 10, 1971) - Italian and American actress.

Italian times: without make-up and embellishment.
About Italian ideal beauty

Only there isn't one! By at least, monotonous-uniform. The canons of beauty in Italy are like delicacies - each locality has its own. For example, in the south, fullness is a sign of prosperity, so the beach is full of local donuts, donuts and Rubens beauties. Who all his adult life struggles with overweight and recovering from an apple core will understand how useful it is for self-esteem to relax in the south of Italy! Closer to the north, on the contrary, fashion magazines strongly recommend to have a toned ass and a trained figure. Therefore, beautiful Milanese bravely go to the gym at lunchtime. I wonder if they have lunch? Panino buy?

We figured out the figure, consider ways to upgrade your appearance: manicure-pedicure (m / n), hair and makeup.

Manicure in the vast majority is absent as such. Apparently, the emancipated Italians considered that manicure is a relic of demonic times, when a woman was interesting to a man as an accessory. Therefore, among contemporaries we observe peeling varnish, as a rule, life-affirming red or fatal plum colors. And for many, the nails are completely bitten right down to the very meat, however, mostly young girls sin with this. It is extremely rare to come across ladies with fresh manicure And long nails. At the wedding, almost everyone without exception makes you a jacket. I have not seen extended nails in any of the times that I live in Milan. In general, for every day, the natives prefer short, unpainted nails, curtsying towards naturalness.

Many people have a pedicure in the summer, but not everyone has well-groomed feet. A similar alignment led me to the idea that they simply did not accept manicures and pedicures; in Moscow, for example, even the most unprepossessing barbershop has its own m / p master, but in Milan you still have to look, and the pleasure is not cheap.

But here the number of hairdressers is amazing. female soul population. And for good reason: the hair of Italians is chic and gives room for imagination. However, this latter categorically refuses to fly. Unlike Japanese women, Italian women do not strive to become blondes at all costs, preferring more shady methods like highlighting or coloring. many wear long hair, but few people do styling every day. Only old women, sorry, elderly respectable gentlemen (yes, you can’t call them old women and your tongue doesn’t turn) flaunt neat gray-haired bukols. They also boldly use bright lipstick, as opposed to young girls and women, or who do not resort to war paint at all, or who prefer to focus on their eyes.

Slavs paint more, better and more carefully, while in Italy, and throughout Europe, they prefer a healthy look and naturalness. The latter is also manifested in the fact that some do not bother with epilation ... and do not abuse deodorants. And the noble local knights do not at all reproach their ladies with such omissions, attributing everything to mother nature.

And now I use such connivance with impunity and have not painted my fingernails for a long time - a lot of free time has appeared. But I'm not ready for the rest.

Italian girl two: earrings in the ears - two balls!
About the love of decorating...

Now I will quickly sketch out three pictures for you: twenty-year-old Italians prefer baubles or earrings with pendants, thirty-year-olds willingly wear a Tiffany bracelet with a heart and a massive watch, and older ladies lovingly adorn themselves with massive gold items. Maybe they adopted this manner from Muslim immigrant women: if the husband decides to get a divorce, then the wife should leave as is, so they stock up? Such a crisis...

But jokes aside. In fact, Italians love accessories and skillfully use them. Whether it's a silk scarf, an elegant brooch or a tiered necklace, it's always a pleasure to look at. Sometimes you even want to stop and study everything properly. Does this happen to anyone or am I the only quiet one in the world? Although sometimes, however, they go too far in my opinion, for example, wearing jewelry from both white and yellow gold at the same time.

Italian women are especially in awe of shoes. Still, it's in their DNA, apparently. And what did you want from the country in the form of a boot with a heel? And the inability to buy a coveted pair of shoes is a sacrifice that you can make for the sake of, say, love for your child. No, you heard right: once in the subway I met a very wealthy married couple with two small children, and we started talking about nurseries, nannies and kindergartens. That's how I found out that the signora would never give her crumbs to kindergarten and prefers to deny themselves an extra pair of shoes every month, but pay full-time for their babysitter. What is called, compare the incomparable ....

On high heels they walk little (and sometimes clumsily), preferring practical shoes with small heels or ballet flats to the ball. Moreover, the latter are especially in use: they are worn even with winter down jacket. And I swear, sometimes it looks good! In general, Italian women are masters of making up an image, unless, of course, they give themselves the trouble ..

By the way, if the motto "support the domestic manufacturer" applies to shoes, then in the bag business the Italians have long lost the palm to their sworn friends and the main competitors in terms of chic-brilliance-beauty, namely, the French with their enduring Louis Vuiton. Subway, trams, trains, cafes and restaurants are full of branded and not very brown handbags. This is a corporate occupation!

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