Description
Cologne: Taschen, 2012
A signed limited Collector’s Edition, one of only 1,500 numbered copies produced. An enormous bilingual English and Chinese publication, illustrated throughout with Mario Testino’s celebrated fashion, celebrity and royal portraiture.
Bound in the publisher’s cloth with a striking lenticular cover portrait of Lady Gaga and housed in the original injection-moulded plastic presentation case. This copy remains completely unopened, still sealed in the publisher’s original cellophane and retaining the protective plastic covering around the presentation case. Approximately 300 pages; book measuring 45.7 × 34.3 cm, with the complete packaging measuring approximately 68.3 × 57 cm.
Published to accompany Testino’s first exhibition in China, the collection brings together both carefully staged photographs and revealing informal portraits. Among its subjects are Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince William, Prince Harry, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez and Lady Gaga. With contributions by Graydon Carter, Karl Lagerfeld, Jennifer Allen and Patrick Kinmonth.
An exceptional, entirely unopened example of this monumental photographic production, preserved exactly as issued by the publisher.
