Purple Magazine
— The Island Issue #35 S/S 2021

cover #12 ami s/s 2021

ISABELLE ADJANI photography and interview by OLIVIER ZAHM art direction by VINCENT DARRÉ style by YASMINE ESLAMI the most secretive and charismatic icon of french cinema looks in a mirror made of images of herself from across her stellar career— at designer vincent darré’s apartment in the heart of paris, an island of color and eccentricity. OLIVIER ZAHM — What is your favorite island? Memory of an island? An island where you’d happily spend the rest of your life? ISABELLE ADJANI — It’s a peninsula: Comporta in Portugal. The possibility of an insular, insolent life linked to the continent. Formentera, Mediterranean confetti scattered between Spain and Algeria. An eco-island in the Maldives, as long as it’s not underwater. Marlon Brando’s island, where I refused to follow him aged 19, which I still don’t know. More modestly, close to my dreams, the islands of Connemara. The Île Saint-Louis, that ultimate urban…

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