Francesco Vezzoli: Greed

Borrowing the strategy of a commercial perfume launch, Francesco Vezzoli (born 1971) created a signature perfume called “Greed” and commissioned Roman Polanski to direct a 60-second commercial starring Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams. A series of needlework portraits of women in art history—Tamara de Lempicka, Eva Hesse, Leonor Fini—presented them as endorsers of the perfume.