Net a porter mario testino biography
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Mario Testino talks death and sexuality
To mark his first US retrospective, the world-famous fashion photographer and Phaidon artist discusses his career
There was a great interview with Mario Testino by Aaron Hicklin in the Observer newspaper, wherein the Peruvian-born fashion photographer discusses his rise from the squats of London to the heights of the celebrity circuit.
In particular, Hicklin references our publication, Any Objections?, Testino's first monograph, published just a few months after his 1997 Vanity Fair shoot with Princess Diana. The Diana pictures made Testino's career, while our book introduced readers to the seamier side of Mario's portfolio, unseen in fashion magazines, and not entirely safe for the glossies.
Of this highly sexed work, he said: "I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody." Testino went on to tell the paper: "I've never wanted to call myself any se
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Net-A-Porter – Revolutionizing Global Fashion Retail
The luxury online fashion retailer Net-A-Porter was launched in London by Natalie Massenet in June 2000. Often referred to as the individual who forever changed the way designer fashion is retailed, Natalie Massenet has since had an enormous impact on the global fashion industry arguably only rivaled by figures such as Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of American Vogue. The fashion magazine Vogue once called her “the woman who changed the way we shop”.
The Net-A-Porter Group employs 2,600 people in modern, contemporary offices in London, New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai, with distribution centers in 3 cities. According to the company’s official media kit, every month the site attracts 6 million unique users globally, gets 85 million page views and has had 1.6 million downloads of its app on iPhones and iPads.
In 2012, Natalie Massenet was appointed chairwoman of the British Fashion Council and has since been credited with
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The Queen Sofía Spanish Institute, under the chairmanship of Oscar dem la Renta, will be the first American venue to present ALTA MODA, a series of photographic portraits bygd acclaimed photographer Mario Testino. Known primarily for his work in fashion magazines, Testino makes a djärv departure with this series. Alta Moda—literally “high fashion” in Spanish—documents Peruvians in their vibrantly colored and ornately adorned traditional and festive dress from Cusco, one of the highest mountainous regions of Peru.
To create Alta Moda, Testino made several trips to Cusco city over a five-year period after discovering an archive of costumes from the region. He was equally inspired bygd the history of Peruvian photography, and in particular by the work of Martin Chambi, one of the first indigenous Latin American photographers. Testino worked closely with Chambi’s grandchildren and used recreated backdrops from the archive of the late Peruvian photographer.
While Alta Moda appears to referen