Mario Testino is a Peruvian fashion photographer. He study economics at Universidad del Pacifico (Pacific University) in Lima, Peru. Then, he went to London to study photography. Meanwhile living in a hospital in London he worked as a waiter and sold portfolios to wannabe models. After Testino was chosen to photograph Princess Diana for the Vanity fair issue of 1997, his career skyrocket and he was employed by the royal family ever since. He has also done spreads for Vogue, Gucci, Michael Kors, Dolce and Gabbana, V just to name a few. The celebrities he has shot fashion stories are Lady Dian, Prince William and Kate Middleton, Madonna, Kate Moss, Giselle Bundchen Elizabeth Hurley and many more.
His campaigns are highly exotic, bright and polish which have made of him an exquisite and well know photographer of the fashion industry. The popularity he has with designers and fashion editors in the couture scene, it has helped him to portrayed Kate Moss in a Peru-tiful shooting campaign for this year April’s Vogue Paris. He has also done charitable work including the Elton John AIDS foundation, Save the children and he will soon open a nonprofit organization to show Peruvian art. Hopefully his polish taste and beautiful pictures will help him explore and show the Peruvian fashion market not only with European models but with Peruvian models of exotic looks.
Cecilia Morales
References: http://www.mariotestino.com, http://www.fashiongonerogue.com, http://www.dailymail.com.uk
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