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  • Collection: Sylvia in the Fountain: Creating The Look

In this iconic scene from La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960), the American actress Sylvia Rank, played by Anita Ekberg, wades in the Trevi Fountain in the middle of the night. She beckons reporter Marcello Rubino (Marcello Mastroianni) to join her. As…

Take a look at the dress, on display here in the hall dedicated to Fellini at Cinecitta Studios in Rome. Indeed it is void, mute, maybe even parched and cold after its giddy week in 1960 of being soaked and penetrated.

This piece, in honor of the ultimate water nymphs, is inspired by Fellini's description of Ekberg: "She possessed incredible beauty. I had never seen anyone like her. The luminous colour of her skin, her clear ice-blue eyes, golden hair, exuberance,…
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