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Mario Testino Biography

Mario Eduardo Testino Silva OBE (born 30 October 1954) is a Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer. His work has featured internationally in magazines such as Vogue, V Magazine, Vanity Fair and GQ. He has also created images for brands such as Gucci, Burberry, Versace, Michael Kors, Chanel, Stuart Weitzman, Carolina Herrera and Estée Lauder.

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Chic is nothing but the right nothing.

Chic, Nothing, Right

A man today has to live with the reality of today. He can no longer live with the reality of 100 years ago. The world's changing so fast. Unless you are prepared to adapt every day, then you have a problem, because the world's not stopping.

100, Changing, Men, Reality, Stopping, Years

I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

Children, Humility, Kindness, Realised, Though, World

I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.

Effort, Exist, Looks, Trying, Usually

There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very open, human, and kind, and this is what I have tried to capture in the pictures I have taken of them as well as in my pictures of Prince William and Catherine.

British, Family, Real, Royal, Taken

The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that.

Beautiful, Enhancing, Matter, Photograph, Transformation

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

Choice, Choices, Different, Sorts, Two

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

Curiosity, Doors, Opportunity, Possibilities, Thinking, Words

I waited a long time, an hour or two, to make that picture perfect. But I wasn't totally satisfied. Then, when I'd finished the shoot, they were about to leave and they suddenly hugged in front of a radiator. I took my camera and that was the picture that ran everywhere - it was spontaneous emotion you could see they were completely in love.

Long, Perfect, Picture, Shoot, Time, Two

I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. There’s a particular style that is very Peru that you don’t see anywhere else; it’s got so many different imprints. When you mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting.

Appreciate, Baroque, Different, Interesting, Spanish, Style

The liberation of women has brought a lot of equality to the man, in the emancipation of the man as a bulldog; we can also be soft. It's interesting, because sometimes I maybe push the men a little bit more than the women, because it's a little bit less expected.

Bulldog, Bulldogs, Interesting, Men, Women

No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.

Emotional, Lips, Magic, Noses, Nothing

As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is whether this vocabulary is limited, like our own vocabulary that goes from A to Zed, or whether this vocabulary can carry on growing. And to me, I hope that it carries on growing.

Carry, Growing, Identity, Question, Vocabulary, Voice

I like getting my ideas from the things of now. I am very conscious of the moment, of images that belong to this moment instead of another period. Fashion is really a reflection of our lives. You see women today and they don't do their hair up; they all wear their hair undone. So you have to reflect that in your photography.

Fashion, Instead, Photography, Reflection

The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a man's personal style, changing attitudes to the male face and body.

Attitude, Changed, Fashion, Personal, Photography

I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

Dressing Up, Earrings, Fashion, Hair, Look, Photo

In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people to be whatever they want.

Angeles, Big, Bubbles, Individuality, People, Want

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.

Curiosity, Curious, Opportunity, Possibilities, Words