Mario Testino: &quot; Todo o Nada,&quot; a voyage from haute couture to nudity

Altaroma opens the July 2011 fashion week with the exhibition Mario Testino, Todo o Nada, in collaboration with Fendi, Gucci and Valentino. First shown in 2010 at the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza in Madrid, this exhibit now takes place at the Fondazione Memmo in the historic Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome, and brings together 54 photographs that reveal the two opposing concepts to be found in Testino's work, fashion and the nude.

For the Peruvian photographer, the essence of the exhibition lies in contemplating the process and implication involved in the act of removing one's clothes to become naked: a voyage from haute couture to nudity, including the intermediary process that implies baring the form.

From the glamour of top models, either nude or wearing haute couture and photographed with a touch of irony and a sense of humor, to the beauty of friends and anonymous individuals, Todo o Nada is a tribute to " Testino's woman," an iconic image of woman that he has defined and redefined over the course of his career, a woman who moves at totally opposing poles.