RYAN GOSLING FOR GQ RUSSIA NOVEMBER 2011 PHOTOGRAPHED BY MARIO TESTINO

I love Ryan Gosling... I love his looks, I love everything about him. I would definitely call him my favorite actor... Here's an editorial from GQ Magazine Russia November 2011 issue:

EMMA WATSOON for Lancôme's "Trésor Midnight Rose" fragrance photographed by MARIO TESTINO

Photographed by Mario Testino, Emma Watson is the face of Lancôme's "Trésor Midnight Rose" fragrance.The breakdown of the fragrance is:

• Top notes: raspberry rose absolute
• Heart: jasmine, peony, currant buds, pink pepper
• Base: Virginian cedar, musk and vanilla

Kate Winslet for V Magazine # 73 by Mario Testino.

Magazine: V Magazine #73
Cover model: Kate Winslet
Photographer: Mario Testino

 I deeply connect to the head covering idea... its soooo very ME!

Kate Winlet for V Magazine #73 Fall 2011 by Mario Testino

The delectable Miss Kate Winslet:

Rosie Huntington for Burberry's newest fragrance: "BODY"

Photographed by Mario Testino, Model and actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has been chosen to front Burberry's newest fragrance, Body. The first image for the campain shows Huntington-Whiteley wearing nothing but a satin trench by the iconic British brand.The Transformers 3 bombshell told WWD, "To be asked to be the first 'Burberry Body' is an amazing compliment."
The fragrance will debut on September 1st.

Karmen Pedaru is the face of Michael Kors Fragrance Fall/Winter 2011.

Photographed by Mario Testino, 21 year old Estonian model Karmen Pedaru is the face of Michael Kors Fragrance Fall/Winter 2011.Dewy freesia and Moroccan incense mingle seductively with blue orris, white peony and the intense carnality of tuberose to amplify but a single message in subwoofer pitch: "I am woman, hear me roar!" The tactile Cashmere woods, the musk and the Haitian vetiver at the base only serve to mollify it enough to allow men to flirt with you shamelessly.

           

Abbey Lee Kershaw as the face of Versace's Yellow Diamond fragrance by Mario Testino

Photographed by Mario Testino in Paris, here is 24 year old Australian model Abbey Lee Kershaw as the face of Versace's Yellow Diamond fragrance.Yellow Diamond is crafted as a pure, transparent and airy floral fragrance, as sparkling and intense as the yellow color, while being luxurious and feminine like a diamond. Its composition opens with the luminous freshness of lemon, bergamot, neroli and pear sorbet. The heart features airy orange blossom, freesia, mimosa and water lily. The base is made of amber, precious musk and guaiac wood. The bottle is shaped like the previous editions of the collection, colored in yellow, while its box is decorated with baroque ornaments.

           

Charlotte Casiraghi for Vogue Paris September 2011 Cover by Mario Testino

And here’s the long awaited September 2011 Vogue Paris issue. And who do we have on the cover? Is it a plane? Noooooo! Is it an actress? Noooooo! Is it a model? Noooooo! It’s Royalty!
Vogue Paris is aligning the fashion issue September 2011 cover to the Royal sympathy wave going strong worldwide with Charlotte Casiraghi as photographed by Mario Testino. Testino has two Vogue September covers! Impressive! Even more impressive than Charlotte’s distant, cold (almost royal) cover look. More images right after the jump, click here for the gallery. Take a look and say if the inside pictorial is more Vogue September worthy than the cover!

Freja Beha Erichsen for Vogue UK September 2011 Editorial by Mario Testino

Magazine: Vogue UK September 2011
Title: Master Class
Cover model: Freja Beha Erichsen
Photographer: Mario Testino
Stylist: Lucinda Chambers

Seems like Vogue UK is trying to relive the long gone tradition of becoming a nun (I deliberately put 'long gone' because I feel that the tradition of becoming a nun has not come down to us as something that is IN)... or should I put it they seem to try and make a wake-up call through Fashion and art or vice versa. That may not be their intention but, I see this editorial as something that is in connection to the Catholicism and Protestantism.

"Kate Moss: Kiss me, Kate"

"I saw her (Kate Moss) across a crowded room at a fashion party in Notting Hill, and I was stopped dead in my tracks by her laughing beauty and preternatural elegance." - Hamish Bowles. (VOGUE)

Rodarte paillette coat and beaded lace dress. On Hince: Lanvin velvet. Kiss Me, Kate - Vogue by Mario Testino, September 2011

 Vogue's Hamish Bowles' words have yet created an excitement in my heart once again as I read his article on Kate Moss's wedding details. I love how he constructed his words and lines.
“I wanted it to be kind of dreamy and 1920s, when everything is soft-focus,” says Kate. “The Great Gatsby. The code name was GG for a while. That light and that kind of fun decadence. It’s rock-’n’-roll Great Gatsby!”
The photographer, Mario Testino, has known her since she was a fragile sixteen-year-old, crying her eyes out backstage at John Galliano’s first Paris show. In that dim, distant past, when a model’s success was judged by the number of changes she had in a show, Kate had been given only one outfit and was feeling unloved. Mario comforted her. “You know, in life there’s perfume and there’s cologne,” he told her. “Cologne, you have to spray every fifteen minutes. Perfume, you put a drop and it lasts a week. You’re perfume.” - Hamish Bowles.

Kate Moss & her bridesmaids: Kiss Me, Kate - Vogue by Mario Testino, September 2011

Father of the bride Peter Moss with Kate and her daughter, Lila Grace. Kiss Me, Kate - Vogue by Mario Testino, September 2011

When Kate appears in her Galliano finery, with her flotilla of bridesmaids and flower girls in their Bonpoint dresses, there are wolf whistles and applause in the church. “It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” says Bella Freud, “like she just walked through some fairy garden and came out clad in that. It’s exquisite.”                               (From "Kate Moss: Kiss me, Kate by Hamish Bowles for VOGUE")

She wanted “a classic Galliano, those chiffon thirties kind. I’ve lived in his dresses for years, and they just make me feel so comfortable. But it’s so much more couture, couture, couture. Oh, my God, the work that’s going into the dress!” They discussed everything on the phone, and then, when John was out of rehab for the first of four marathon fittings, he brought her “bags full of bits, and pulled tulle and sequins and veils and flowers out. And then we just kind of pinned things together, like the old days, you know?”
“She was very professional and very demanding,” says Galliano, who was inspired by Jazz Age photographs of Zelda Fitzgerald. He had sent a friend to a beloved vintage fair (“because I couldn’t go”), who returned with “a beautiful rosary, which I thought must have been from a fallen angel.” For John it evoked his late partner-in-design Stephen Robinson. “So Stephen is watching,” he says, “nestled in the back of the bow.”
The dress is spangled with tiny golden paillettes (Jude Law will ask him how on earth they are sewn on); in Galliano’s narrative it is as though the scullery maid had picked up milady’s fallen sequins to spangle her own dress. The skirts are symbolically licked with the beaded plumes of a mythical phoenix, “delicate and defiant, like Kate.
“She dared me to be John Galliano again,” the designer tells me. “I couldn’t pick up a pencil. It’s been my creative rehab.” - HAMISH BOWLES

Pictures via http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/kate-moss-kiss-me-kate/#/magazine-gallery/kate-moss-wedding/6

Kate Moss for US VOgue September 2011

VOGUE US has done it again!!! Putting Kate Moss on the cover for their September Issue, the supermodel gracefully wears a dress by Alexander Mcqueen. Mario Testino is worthy of much praises for shooting this beautiful cover.

Jennifer Lopez for Vanity Fair US September 2011 Cover by Mario Testino

Freja Beha for Vogue UK September 2011 by Mario Testino.

The Dress comes from Dolce & Gabanna's Fall/Winter 2011 collection. This cover is so not my favorite for a September Issue and that too, coming from UK. It's not one of the WOW factors.

Anna Wintour Covers WSJ Magazine on April 2011 by Mario Testino.

How Could I have missed this. Oh living in a tribal zone... and that too in India... I'm sorry Anna!!! I love you ANNA WINTOUR!!!!

Sarah Jessica Parker Poses on the cover of Vogue US August 2011, by Mario Testino.

The Age Issue of US Vogue has got on its cover, a stunning Sarah Jessica Parker in Burberry (from Burberry Prorsum Fall 2011 Collection.) The wardrobe includes big BIG names from the Fashion Industry: Chanel Resort, Proenza Schouler, Marc Jacobs, and Oscar De La Renta.

Photographed through the lens of Mario Testino. the family spread features SJP with hubby Matthew Broderick and children James Wilkie and twins Marion and Tabitha.

“I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution. Not to sound too Pollyanna about it, but I really didn’t imagine when I was a little girl that I would be there to see it all myself.” - SJP.

She is looking elegant in a photo with her two-year-old twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha, from the picture below:

Sarah talks about her 'Sex and the City' character, where her priorities lie, and what her life would be like if she didn’t have kids:
“Bradshaw’s life is nothing – nothing – like mine. I loved playing her, and it changed my life in lots of wonderful ways, but I’m not a crazy shoe lady, I don’t think about fashion all day long, although I have a great respect for the industry. Every choice we’ve made has been different, but with Kate I really understood the attempt at a life.”

“We don’t have any live-in help. We’re pretty hands-on parents. That’s something that’s important to both of us, and we don’t shirk it, because what’s the point in having a family if you’re not going to really participate in it, you know?” - SJP.