Mario Testino

90 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm550L Lexile; 550L Lexile

True story of a plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains with 45 persons on board, only 16 survived!! The few who survived for 70 days did so by means of cannibalism !!! Very graphic, but an extremely good read to find out what us humans will do to survive !! God puts these young people to the extreme test!!

"Mario Testino came to London from Peru in the late 1970s and made his name in British, American, French and Italian Vogue and Vanity Fair. In his previous books - Any Objections, Front Row Back Stage and Alive - Testino captured moments of his life at the epicentre of fashion. This book assembles his work as a portrait photographer and image-maker for the first time, and by doing so reveals his penetrating ability to turn a face into a legend."--BOOK JACKET.

The book "High fashion" comprises extraordinary color photographs of costumes of the imperial city of Cusco with explanatory texts, taken by fashion photographer Mario Testino between 2007 and 2011, a time in which he began to develop his photographic work as result of his encounter with a collection of costumes of all provinces in the region. Testino depicts in his plates the colorful dresses and clothing accessories of the provinces of Cusco, Calca, Chumbivilcas, Paucartambo and Espinar, among others, this last place better known for its problems with mining and not for its great cultural contributions. These costumes are still worn by women and men from Cusco, and are either their traditional clothes or the ones used as dance dresses. The edition includes an introduction by Testino, a note from the editor of Vogue America, Hamish Bowles, as well as two articles: one in charge of Peruvian researchers Soledad Mujica and Fedora Martínez and another text by Jennifer Allen, the Berlin-based contemporary art critic.