Wertmuller, short hair and white glasses: the charms and virtues of the lady of the cinema

Lina Wertmuller with short hair, or rather very short in the garconne style, square white glasses, behind a clear and mocking gaze. The only glamorous traits, the only quirk, a distinctive and highly personal sign signed by Ottica Vasari in the mid-1980s. Never an excess of clothing for the great director who died today in Rome at the age of 93, rather sober in her dresses, solid color high neck pullovers and long semiprecious stone necklaces. And he had confessed to an Italian newspaper for his 90th birthday: “Love for love for white glasses was love at first sight. Sun glasses, bathing suits, immediately give a festive atmosphere. They are part of my personal furniture. I ordered 5 thousand pairs in one factory. It was the minimum order, but I paid them in installments. ” And ‘Behind the white glasses’ is also the documentary that Valerio Ruiz, his assistant director and close collaborator, presented for the 90th birthday of the first woman nominated for an Oscar in 1977 for the direction of ‘Pasqualino Settebellezze’. for the glasses worn by Lina Wertmuller he speaks of the ‘image-mask’ behind which, at times, hidden aspects of her personality are discovered. Glasses as a metaphor for life to hide, conceal, but also “to look at a world that was perhaps only in his heart”, as Anna Fendi recalled.