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Soul Sisters
As the saying goes, You can fool the world but not your sister. Photographer Max Vadukul documents 23 famous siblings, and Lynn Hirschberg explains the dynamics of one of the most intimate—and complicated—relationships. Click here to read the article.
December 2011
Bianca And Coco Brandolini D’adda
“There are eight years between us, so it’s almost like
we’re different generations,” says Coco Brandolini
d’Adda (right), 32, of her sister Bianca (left), 24. “We
didn’t have many childhood moments together.” The daughters
of Count Ruy and Countess Georgina Brandolini d’Adda, who worked
for Valentino for 20 years, the sisters were steeped in style from their
earliest days. Not only did they accompany their mother to
Valentino’s shows—“She always worked and
traveled,” says Coco. “She wasn’t someone who stayed
at home and cooked for us”—but their paternal grandmother,
Cristiana, the sister of the late Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli, was a
client of Chanel, Grès, and Balenciaga. At 20, Coco moved from
their native Paris to New York to work for Oscar de la Renta. Six years
later, when she returned, “my sister was this beautiful girl, 18
and so grown-up and much more confident than I was at her age,”
she remembers. “It was like we were meeting each other again, and
we got really close.”
December 2011
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