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Bellissima Has stock in Germany the image houses the mixedBeautifulfor whom? Through Carla Rossis lens, beauty is not a fixed idea but a performance, shaped, repeated, and refined in response to the gaze of others. In Bellissima, Rossi photographs Rebecca, a young contestant she met during the Miss Italia selections, tracing her journey from casting calls to national auditions and uncovering a system driven by spectacle, competition, and the tireless pursuit of a narrowly defined ideal of femininity. The