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Byline: Hamish Bowles
With the heavy-browed looks of a young Elizabeth Taylor, actress Camilla Belle (who Bruce Weber photographed for Teen Vogue in an homage to National Velvet) was a natural choice to embody campaigns for Vera Wang and Miu Miu. Her Brazilian mother was a designer in So Paulo, but, remembers Belle, "fashion wasn't really anything I thought about."
That all changed when, at nineteen, she went to Paris for the Chanel and Dior shows. Today she cites Coco Chanel, Katharine Hepburn, and particularly Dolores del Rio as her fashion icons. Del Rio, another Latin beauty, "loved to mix native jewelry from Mexico with diamonds," says ...