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Testino Takes Wintour’s Passport Photo; Gaultier and Aeffe SpA Break Up

Photo: Harper’s Bazaar Spain

Jean Paul Gaultier and Aeffe SpA ended their seventeen-year-long licensing partnership. [WWD]

• Joanna Lumley will auction off a number of the outfits she wore as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous for charity. [Telegraph UK]

• Eugenia Volodina gets kaleidoscopic for the new cover of Spanish Harper’s Bazaar. [Fashion Gone Rogue]

• Chrissy Teigen will wear a Vera Wang gown for her wedding: “There’s nothing like putting on a Vera. The difference is so amazing. You feel like a princess.” [Us]

• On at least one occasion, Anna Wintour had Mario Testino take her passport photo, because why not? [Guardian UK]

• See the full editorial to match Iris Apfel’s new Dazed & Confused cover. [Fashion Copious]

• Rent the Runway’s move toward user-submitted images (as opposed to posed model shots) makes high-end labels a little uncomfortable — real people in their clothes! [NYT]

• Miuccia Prada is one of ArtReview magazine’s 100 most important figures in the contemporary art world — but not because of this season’s Prada shoes, obviously. [Elle UK]

• Sergio Rossi designed a collection of knee-high boots made out of rice paper in a new collaboration with a Chinese artist. [Vogue UK]

• Here’s what the invite to this year’s Victoria’s Secret show looks like. [Bryanboycom/Instagram]

Testino Takes Wintour’s Passport Photo