VIOLET CRUSH

Tom Ford presents a stunning new scent for a new era of feminine glamour. Tom Ford Violet Blonde is an opulent and dressed-up fragrance that reveals a stunning new facet of violet: ravishing, intriguing elegance. Made with some of the most precious ingredients in the world, it is crafted accordingly to the finest traditions of European perfumery.

Model: Lara Stone
Photographer: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott

FOXY HAIR

PUMP IT UP – Beautiful, flirty hair in no time! Fox and Jane Salon, an east village salon, have a passion for great hair. The professionals make this one of the premier hair salons in NYC. Stylists are usually all about the hair—but my stylist here was all about the face, too. She scrutinized my features from every angle to determine my most becoming style. She sliced off a few inches to accentuate my cheekbones and long neck, then added a handful of layers for substantial lift. To finish, she gave me a perfect blowout, revealing a face-flattering cut that didn’t skimp on body, either.

FIERCE, FEARLESS, FEMALE

Beyoncé
Magazine: W Magazine, July 2011
Photographer: Patrick Demarchelier

TRUE LOVE

Happy 25th Anniversary, True Blue!

Released on June 30, 1986. Top selling album of 1986 and reached Number 1 in 28 countries – an unprecedented achievement at the time. It has become one of the best selling albums in history, selling 24 million copies worldwide. Five singles were released from the album: “Live to Tell”, “Papa Don’t Preach”, “Open Your Heart”, which went on to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart as well as “True Blue” and “La Isla Bonita”, which reached the top-five.

The summer album of not only 1986 but 1987, as well.

THE BRIDE

STELLA

VIVA VERSACE

In 1995 Gianni Versace asked Madonna to appear in a series of portraits wearing his winter couture collection. Madonna was the first major star to specify Testino as her photographer of choice and this was to be the first set of his fashion photographs to cross the frontier into portraiture of an established icon.

Known as an artist who constantly re-invents herself the Madonna commission proved to be a new kind of challenge. “I could not just walk in and tell her what I wanted to do. She had always controlled her own image. But I thought that if she had asked for me she wanted my way of seeing her. This gave me the confidence to convince her that she should appear very naturally. I had got to the point in my work where I could only really like a photograph of someone if I could feel that the image had an intense reality; that you actually sense the real life of the person. The first time I met Madonna I was struck by how beautiful she was in herself, not relying on the theatricality of her stage persona. It has been the longest collaboration that I have had with an artist of her standing. I was told that it would change my life to photograph Madonna. I did not realize to what extent.”

It made quite an impact. “I was a no one. Who is this Testino? Until then the only photographers known only by their surnames were Newton, Avedon and Bailey. It did change the way people saw me. I became a brand.”

Versace headlined the pictures. Versace presents Madonna by Testino. Until that point Testino’s work had only been recognized within the fashion world. The Madonna pictures changed that overnight.

LONDON TOWN

Burberry Spring/Summer 2011
Photographer: Mario Testino
Models: Cara Delevingne, Jacob Young, Jourdan Dunn and Sacha M’Baye

GET READY

“Crystal” is a song by New Order, released as the first single from their album Get Ready. The song entered the UK charts at number 8. Released in August 2001 by London Records, this was the group’s first album in eight years, following 1993’s Republic. Peter Hook said of the album’s title, “The title of the album is ‘Get Ready’ so it could mean anything or nothing. I thought it was just nice, New Order, ‘Get Ready’, ‘cos we are, we’re getting ready for the next phase of our musical lives both physically and mentally so it’s quite a simple thing but it’s very pertinent.”

The music video featured a drum set with the words “The Killers” on it, which was the inspiration for the name of the band The Killers.

SWIM

SO ELECTRIC

“Slow” is an electropop song written by Kylie Minogue, from Minogue’s ninth studio album, Body Language (2003). The song was released as the album’s lead single in late 2003 and reached number one in Australia, Denmark, Romania and the United Kingdom, where it became Minogue’s seventh number-one single. In the United States, “Slow” was released to success on the Billboard dance charts, reaching the top position on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. Additionally, the song earned Minogue her third consecutive Grammy Award nomination in the Best Dance Recording category, but lost out to “Toxic” by Britney Spears.

The single’s music video, directed by Baillie Walsh, was shot over a three-day period in the Spanish city of Barcelona, at the Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc. The first two days of shooting were postponed due to heavy rain, but the video was completed by the end of the third day. The video opens with a man diving into a swimming pool from a diving board from where the skyscrapers of Barcelona can be clearly seen. After the man gets out the pool, the rest of the video focuses on Minogue, who is amongst a crowded poolside of swimwear-clad men and women. There are various side-views and bird’s-eye views of Minogue as she sings the song.

BELLE DE JOUR

GET CARRIED AWAY

LA CICCONE

Madonna
Magazine: Vanity Fair, January 1997
Photographer: Herb Ritts

THIRSTY

Noah Mills
Magazine: V Magazine, Summer 2009
Photographer: Mario Testino

MY FAVORITE DRUG

“Rehab” is a song by Rihanna, released as the final single from her third studio album Good Girl Gone Bad. The track was produced by Timbaland and co-produced by Hannon Lane. The song was inspired by the forgetting of a bruised break-up that Justin Timberlake wrote for Rihanna in his head while touring with Timbaland in 2007.

Rihanna filmed the music video for “Rehab” with Justin Timberlake at Vasquez Rocks Park, outside of Los Angeles, California on October 22, 2008. Timberlake described the experience of shooting the video: “I got there and I was like really? I’m the guy in the video. The guy in the video, so I had to give them all insecurities about that. But yeah we had a great time, we goofed around at the shoot most of the time.” It began impacting music television stations in the United States on November 10, 2008.

SHINE YOUR LIGHT NOW

“Hollywood” is a song written and performed by Madonna. It was the second single release from her 2003 studio album American Life on July 3, 2003. Madonna performed the song on the 2003 American Life Promo Tour and it was later used as a dancers interlude on the 2004 Re-Invention World Tour using a variation of the Jacques Lu Cont remix. The song was later included on the 2009 greatest hits album, Celebration.

The music video for “Hollywood” was filmed on June 2 and 3, 2003 at Universal Studios in Universal City, California and directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, who worked with Madonna in her videos for “Open Your Heart”, “Justify My Love”, “Human Nature”, “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore” and “Don’t Tell Me”.

OH GISELE

Gisele Bundchen
Magazine: Vanity Fair Germany, February 2007
Photographer: Mario Testino

BELOVED OPRAH

Oprah Winfrey
Magazine: Vogue US, October 1998
Photographer: Steven Meisel

NAUGHTY GIRL

“Crazy in Love” is a song by Beyoncé, featuring Jay-Z. Knowles, Jay-Z, and producer Rich Harrison wrote the song for Knowles’ debut solo album, Dangerously in Love. After having been added to US radios on May 18, 2003, the song was released as the album’s lead single on May 20, 2003. The song was ranked as the 118th greatest song of all time on Rolling Stone’s updated 2010 list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. The song won Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 46th Grammy Awards.

In MTV Making of the Video in 2003, Beyoncé described the videos’s conception: The video celebrates the evolution of a woman. It is about a girl who is at the point of a relationship. She realizes that she is in love, she is doing stuff she would not normally do but she does not care. It does not matter she is just crazy in love.”