an interview with Alice and Alba Rohrwacher

It’s an unseasonably hot day at the Hotel Locarno in Rome. Sisters Alice and Alba Rohrwacher are perched on stools in the bathroom, having their make-up retouched in between shrugging and shimmying in and out of Prada, JW Anderson and Etro for HTSI’s shoot. A hairdryer whines; the stylist’s steamer exhales a hot fug; the air conditioning is grievously overtaxed.

Alba, 45, an actress, is compact and slender, with Pre-Raphaelite hair and alabaster skin. Alice, 42, a film director, is tall…