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Chic is nothing but the right nothing.
Some things happen by accident - embrace them.
I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.
My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.
Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring
Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.
My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.
I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'
I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.
I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.
Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.
I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.
I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.
My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.
Work is your life, it’s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days.
Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.
When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.
I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.
A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you do that.
England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.
The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that.
It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.
Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.
Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.
I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.
Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.
Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best.
A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.
Oh my God, the graduate shows in London are so important! I still remember going to see John Galliano's graduate collection - that was an event I'll never forget.
I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.
My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.
In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people to be whatever they want.
No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.
I don't like a tormented photograph. Something attracts you in them, but the attraction isn't because she has a pot on her head or tonnes of make-up and weird clothes and weird everything.
I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody is aware of those, but Lima is something that people should discover - especially our food.
You have to be you. You can't be anybody else. If you speak loudly, and people tell you to speak quietly, you can do it for a little bit, but loud people are loud, and people who are not, are not.
England gave me a chance. It's a very individual country where people have a personal style; they don't all follow a trend. The subtlety and wit of England is incredible, and they are very creative.
South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different - my tastes, my point of view - were a bit weird, and I found in Britain a sense of calm, that I could just be.
There's a particular style that is very Peru that you don't see anywhere else; it's got so many different imprints. When you mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting.
I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I do understand that you have to make somebody feel completely comfortable in order to bring that out.
I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.
I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore.
A man today has to live with the reality of today. He can no longer live with the reality of 100 years ago. The world's changing so fast. Unless you are prepared to adapt every day, then you have a problem, because the world's not stopping.
A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can't reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, 'The Balenciaga.' And I go to the shows. I feel like it's my business.
Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony of Spain.
The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a man's personal style, changing attitudes to the male face and body.
The liberation of women has brought a lot of equality to the man, in the emancipation of the man as a bulldog; we can also be soft. It's interesting, because sometimes I maybe push the men a little bit more than the women, because it's a little bit less expected.