| ANNA WINTOR Photo by Mario Testino |
Anna Wintour joins Mario Testino's 'Towel Series'
Post-shower hair wound up in a towel comes pretty low on our list of ideal photo opps – let’s be honest, it’s not the best look for most of us. Unless you’re a world-class supermodel or actress and your lensman is Mario Testino, that is.
The Peruvian photographer, who most recently captured the christening of Princess Charlotte, started a trend when he snapped his “muse” Kate Moss wearing nothing but a white waffle bathrobe and towel turban back in November 2013 and shared the off-the-cuff moment, taken on the set of Moss’s Stuart Weitzman campaign, on Instagram.
Kate Upton followed two weeks later in a similarly unpolished shot and so Testino’s ‘Towel Series’ was born, becoming more and more refined each time – no more grainy phone snaps, instead artful shots that wouldn’t look out of place on the cover of Vogue.
Tops models and actresses alike have participated – Gisele Bündchen, Keira Knightley, Cara Delevingne, Sienna Miller and Naomi Campbell are just a few – and now Anna Wintour herself has become a part of the series.
Of course, her infamous bob is left loose, making her the first participant to not actually wear a towel in the ‘Towel Series’ – but we doubt Testino was keen to labour the point too much...