To feel like Marisa Berenson, even just for a day: The House of Marisa, the collection created in collaboration with Zara, blending fashion and interiors, is an invitation to step into the wardrobe of one of the most iconic muses of the 1970s—and to transform your home into a sophisticated, cinematic set.
Marisa Berenson launches a capsule collection for Zara, to be worn and lived in
Marisa Berenson is a woman who has, quite likely, always exerted such a magnetic presence that she naturally became the focus of admiration and attention. With her striking face, her expressive eyes, and her unmistakable physique du rôle, it was almost inevitable that the American supermodel and actress would walk the runways for Halston, Saint Laurent, and Valentino, appear in films by Luchino Visconti, be photographed by Irving Penn and Andy Warhol, spend time at Maharishi’s ashram alongside The Beatles, and remain etched in the sophisticated imagination of the international Seventies as a Studio 54 icon—alongside Liza Minnelli and Bianca Jagger.
Born in 1947 to Robert L. Berenson and Countess Maria Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, and granddaughter of Elsa Schiaparelli, she was a muse of an era in which glamour still meant mystery, theatricality, and presence. She worked as a model, becoming a constant presence on the covers of international magazines and on haute couture runways, and was considered one of the great muses of the jet set.
She later became an actress, working with major directors of both art-house and international American and European cinema. In the years that followed, she continued to evolve as a style icon and reference figure in fashion, collaborating with brands and lifestyle projects—including her own beauty line.
Today, Berenson signs The House of Marisa for Zara: a collection that reads as both an aesthetic autobiography and a richly visual, decorative narrative.
When Fashion Meets Design
The project comprises 45 pieces, including beachwear, dresses, jackets, and trousers, alongside a Home Collection that goes beyond simply bringing fashion into the home, instead constructing an entire visual universe. It is a highly curated interior—almost cinematic in its sensibility—built on layers, memories, controlled excess, and deliberately theatrical details.
There are gilded mirrors entwined with red serpents, coral lacquered side tables, decorative bookcases, embroidered textiles featuring zodiac symbols, sequin cushions with long black tassels, folding screens adorned with butterflies, and cutlery with coral-shaped handles. Objects that seem as though they belong to the suite of a grand Parisian hôtel particulier, or to the Mediterranean villa of a woman who, in the 1970s, hosted artists, directors, and cosmopolitan aristocrats until dawn.
In essence, these are all impressions drawn from the homes—and the many lives—of Marisa Berenson herself.
A Collection Inspired by the Life of Marisa Berenson
Golden serpents, embroidery, rich colors, and exotic references run throughout the collection like a continuous narrative thread, evoking the sophisticated, surrealist universe that Berenson inevitably absorbed while growing up in the orbit of Schiaparelli and within the most glamorous social circles.
Yet there is also something deeply personal at play: an almost emotional sensibility for décor, for layered, richly “lived-in” homes that reveal their inhabitants through countless keepsakes, talismans, symbols, and objects collected during travels.
Living Like a Seventies Muse
What makes this collection particularly compelling is the way fashion and interior design are no longer treated as separate worlds, but as part of a single, unified imagination. There are no clothes on one side and home objects on the other: garments, like our living spaces, become extensions of identity—they tell us who we are.
Here, the same atmosphere inhabits both wardrobe and rooms: a cosmopolitan, cinematic glamour, slightly decadent, looking back at past eras and reinterpreting them through a contemporary lens. An international style icon and muse to directors such as Stanley Kubrick and Bob Fosse, Marisa Berenson translates the allure of her personal history into a very particular, timeless collection—one that feels built more on memories than on trends. And thankfully so, one might say.
The House of Marisa will be available online and in selected stores from June 5th.
