Read moreI have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
Read moreI’ve always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but it was intensified by my sister, Elena, who is one year older than me. I used to hang out with her all the time, and whenever I travelled, I used to buy her clothes and style her.
Read moreAt one moment, I thought that if I didn’t do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn’t a ‘Mario Testino Picture.’ And I’ve realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do.
Read moreA lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases – but bland girls don’t influence me. I don’t like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.
Read moreSome people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.
Read moreI’m really in no one city more than two months during the year. I’m constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.