Supermodel Gisele Bündchen channels legendary Italian singer Mina Mazzini, styled by Patti Wilson in Dior for the cover of Vogue Italia October 2018. Mina was a staple of television variety shows and a figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s. Her loud, syncopated singing earned her the nickname ‘Queen of Screamers’ and the public labeled her the ‘Tiger of Cremona’ for her gestures and body shakes. Mina was banned from TV and radio in 1963 because her pregnancy and relationship with a married actor did not accord with Italy’s dominant Catholic and bourgeois morals.

Strikingly, Gisele’s images by Luigi & Iango do not capture in any way Mina’s wildly animated nature, as described in stories about her. Not being familiar with Mina, I read commentary by self-proclaimed fashion experts and somehow got the impression that Mina was a transvestite. LOL. Oh well. The times we live in. Enjoy Gisele.