Düsseldorf, 2 October 2022: I Love You is Mario Testino's photographic homage to weddings and all that they symbolize. A declaration of love to weddings with insights into the bride's preparations, customs and rites among friends, and debauched parties. 

The book features Testino's best-known wedding photographs as well as previously unknown moments from his private and family life. Among them are shots of storied weddings, such as those of Kate Moss and Liz Hurley. Along with contributions from fashion designer Carolina Herrera and party expert Riccardo Lanza. Also available in an Art Edition featuring the signed photography of Chiara Slewett, a wedding that took place in Rio de Janeiro in 2005.

Peruvian-born Mario Testino has been considered one of the most influential fashion, portrait and lifestyle photographers for four decades. His past and present muses include HRH Princess Diana, Madonna and Kate Moss

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Düsseldorf, 2 Oktober 2022: I Love You ist Mario Testinos fotografische Hommage an die Hochzeit und all das, was sie symbolisiert. Eine Liebeserklärung an Hochzeiten mit Einblicken in die Vorbereitungen der Braut, in Gebräuche und Riten unter Freunden sowie ausschweifende Partys. 

Das Buch zeigt Testinos bekannteste Hochzeitsaufnahmen sowie bisher unbekannte Momente aus seinem privaten und familiären Umfeld. Darunter Aufnahmen von sagenumwobenen Hochzeiten, wie z.B. von Kate Moss und Liz Hurley. Zusammen mit Beiträgen der Modeschöpferin Carolina Herrera und dem Partyexperten Riccardo Lanza. Auch erhältlich in einer Art Edition mit der signierten Fotografie von Chiara Slewett, einer Hochzeit die 2005 in Rio de Janeiro stattfand.

Der gebürtige Peruaner Mario Testino gilt seit vier Jahrzehnten als einer der einflussreichsten Mode-, Porträt- und Lifestyle-Fotografen. Zu seinen ehemaligen und gegenwärtigen Musen zählen S.K.H. Prinzessin Diana, Madonna und Kate Moss

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24 November Daily Mail 1927 - Mercedes Gleitze ©Rolex

Fashion & Jewelry, September 28, 2022

Mercedes Gleitze, first Rolex brand ambassador and a little story about visionary Hans Wilsdorf. Mercedes Gleitze was a British swimmer who in 1927 became the first Englishwoman to swim the English Channel and set several swimming records. She was fitted with the waterproof Oyster watch by Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf. She thus became the brand's first testimonial, to be followed by other collaborations with pioneers.

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Salma Hayek marries François-Henri Pinault in a Balenciaga gown, designed by Nicolas Ghesquière, Theatro La Fenice, Venice, 2009  ©Mario Testino /Taschen

ART CALENDAR 2022

©Patricia Dominguez - Matrix Vegetal, 2021/22 at Eden Project

Environment / Art Calendar, September 25, 2022

Eden Project News - Super Natural art exhibition. The millennium project with the world famous Biomes shows the relationships between people and plants with works by Ai Weiwei and others. The exhibition aims to celebrate the power of imagination to reconnect us to the natural world. September 24, 2022 through February 26, 2023, Core Gallery Eden Cornwall.

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Liz Hurley at her wedding with Arun Nayar, 2007 ©Mario Testino /Tasche

FASHION NEWS

Radschläger Concept store owners Heile and Malte Kappes ©Radschläger.com

Art / Fashion / Dusseldorf, 11. September 2022

Big news from the Radschläger concept store. The Radschläger pop-up store will open on October 1, 2022 in the Schadow-Arkaden. The Radschläger is likeable and iconic in design and can in the future be a sympathizer of the city of Düsseldorf and beyond. All about Heike and Malte Kappes' plans and photos of the collection.

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Addiction Rights by Leon Löwentraut

Art Calendar, 24 September 2022

"Addiction" is the title of Leon Löwentraut's new exhibition at his Austrian gallery owner Gerald Hartinger in Vienna. 30 September to 29 October 2022, Leon Löwentraut chose the title because he says he has been addicted to art since early childhood. All the works were created this year, some of them in his second home country, Portugal. 

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BrosTRäume - ©Brost Foundation

Art Calendar, September 29, 2022

BrosTRäume - Brost Foundation opens digital museum - opening with Dieter Nuhr.Are you also a fan of Dieter Nuhr and would you have liked to be there when the TV star and artist opened his exhibition at the Bibliothek Nazionale in Venice's Market Square? Too far, too expensive? From now on, no problem, because the in Brost Foundation is opening its own digital museum for everyone who had to stay home. S

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Wertgigant HA Schult ©Ansgar Van Treeck

Art Calendar / Environment, 21 September 2022

The Wertgigant by HA Schult will make a stop in Vienna at Karlsplatz from 27.9. 2022. 

The sculpture, which weighs over 1 tonne, is a projection screen that symbolises the electronic waste that German households produce in 72 seconds. Thus, theoretically, an army of 1,000 Wertgigants is created each time within 20 hours - comparable to the 1,000 Trash People by HA Schult.

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Virgil Abloh as DJ - © Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Image 

Fashion - 15 September 2022

Posthumous coffee table book of Virgil Abloh's visionary work for Louis Vuitton and the most beautiful photographs. When Virgil Abloh made his first collections for Louis Vuitton in June 2018, fashion changed forever. This is the first ever coffee table book about the visionary designer, who died on 28 November 2021. The illustrated book also includes the complete catalogue of Louis Vuitton sneakers.

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Environment / Art / Interview, 29 September 2022

Nicola Green's interview on your art globe The World in a Water Lily, Amazonica. 

In the UK wide art project The World Reimagined, over 100 art globe sculptures were created to show the UK artists' exploration of the consequences of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans. Alethea Magazine received an exclusive interview from internationally renowned artist and social critic Nicola Green. Her globe, depicting the Guyana jungle and golden angels above a lotus-shaped map, references the intersection of climate justice and racial justice.

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Otto Waalkes at his Vernissage with Josef Liefers @Walentowski

Art Calendar, 14 September 2022

Holladihiti! Biggest Otto Waalkes exhibition ever. Until 24 September, lovers of the art of comedy legend Otto Waalkes still have the opportunity to see the largest exhibition of his works to date.The Walentowski Gallery is a family business with 16 locations, even a floating one on the TUI Cruises Mein Schiff Herz.

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Dieter Nuhr in front of his paintings in Venice @Dieter Nuhr

Art, Düsseldorf, 4 September 2022

Dieter Nuhr: Exhibition in Venice - Circondato di Lontano - first exclusive exhibition pictures. Dieter Nuhr's travelling exhibition has stopped in Venice and will be exhibited in the Sale Monumentali of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana parallel to the Film Festival and the 59th La Biennale di Venezia until 02 October 2022. The pictures have been set in direct dialogue with world-famous Renaissance artists Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese.

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©︎Ishiuchi Miyako,ひろしま/hiroshima #104 Courtesy of Third Gallery Aya

Art Calendar / Art, 26 July 2022

Ishiuchi Miyako, rare exhibition in Edinburgh. Stills Centre for Photography presents rare solo exhibition of Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako, including Testimonies from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Mother's, Japanese entry at the Venice Biennale 2005 and Frida Kahlo possessions from the Frida Kahlo Museum.

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