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Mario testino photo5/24/2023 “I am obsessed with people and how to make them look their best,” says the photographer, who turns 57 this month, and feels that “it is like a present from life” that he had six magazine covers across the world for the autumn issues. For that historic occasion, he was not only behind the lens to create an iconic image of a cuddly “Wills and Kate” before the event, but was also highlighted on camera at Westminster Abbey for his fame as a household name. In 30 years of fashion photography, he has captured in images the hectic glamour of beach life in Rio de Janeiro or the disciplined enthusiasm of the Horse Guards for the royal wedding last April. Testino loves crowds, especially caught at a party in what he calls “the freedom of people, the freedom of bodies, the joy, the energy.” “YOU are my A-list,” he told the entire audience. Speaking in his distinctive treacly voice, drawing out the words “amazing” and “incredible,” the photographer looked across the ballroom, decorated like a 1930s Copacabana. LONDON - Mario Testino, a mountain of Champagne glasses behind him and a red rose on his lapel, greeted at an awards ceremony last month the friends he had made since arriving in England from Peru as a fashion-mad teenager in a lilac terrycloth jumpsuit 35 years ago.
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