Sophia Loren’s Most Stylish Moments – Both On And Off Screen
At this point, it’s practically redundant to call Sophia Loren a bombshell. From the moment she landed a five-movie contract with Paramount in 1958, the eventual Oscar-winner became synonymous with Italian glamour, whether she was dominating the red carpet as a 21-year-old at Cannes or playing a lingerie-draped siren opposite leading men such as Cary Grant and Marlon Brando.
She made her Vogue debut in 1955. Three years later she was back in the magazine’s pages again, with one caption reading: “Loren, famous as a torrent of movie sex, looks offstage like a dip of coffee ice cream, cool, beautiful, and soothing.”
As she celebrates her 87th birthday on 20 September, look back at the eternal symbol of la dolce vita’s greatest style moments from the Golden Age of Hollywood – featuring belted Pierre Balmain dresses and custom Dior suits by Marc Bohan.