Isabella Rossellini Is The New Face Of Bulgari, At 60

Italian Stunner Isabella Rossellini will be the face for Bulgari's advertising campaign for this upcoming fall and spring seasons.

The photographs which were recently released were taken by famed photographer to the stars, Annie Leibovitz, and were modeled after the works of British painter Meredith Frampton, recognized for his neorealist and slightly surrealist portraits and still lifes.

The 60-year-old is featured seated on a black capitonné sofa wearing a little black dress in which one strap hangs seductively from her shoulder. Planted on her lap is a red calf-leather tote with a red enamel closure and a rock crystal twist lock, she grips its straps while flashing an elegant pinky ring. Her classic look was accented with matching red pumps.

We applaud Bulgari for choosing a mature woman to represent their brand. In an age where aging is practically sinful, older actresses/models, like Rossellini, are hard pressed to find work in Hollywood because they often have to compete with their more youthful counterparts.

Rossellini shared an interesting theory with Index magazine about her younger competitors, and the toils they face in Hollywood.

"They become mythical. But then nobody gives them a job." She explained back in 1999. "Linda isn't working. And Claudia I haven't seen much. So they become mythical and their names still go around, but they don't really work. And that happens to a lot of actors. I remember working with Dennis Hopper on Blue Velvet. He had been in rehab, and that's why he hadn't worked for a long time before that film. I had such an admiration for him in every sense, for Easy Rider, for the fact that he had gone to hell and come back and was still such a cool guy. And when I asked him about not working, he said, "It's terrible to be a myth. It's awful. I can't get a job. I'm just looked at at parties like I'm already dead."