Marisa berenson photos - Marisa Berenson

Elsa Schiaparelli was her maternal grandmother.

Diana Vreeland jump-started her modeling career.

On the cover of Vogue in a pink silk bonnet.

Berenson inhabited the role of Lady Lyndon, an ambulant Gainsborough beauty who glided, preened, and primal-screamed through some of the stateliest rooms and most ravishing landscapes in Britain.

Whether this collection of particulars constitutes anything close to an accurate portrait of Berenson as a model, actress, and general cultural icon is up for debate.

And Berenson has a slew of film projects, about which she remains coy, on the horizon.