Franco Rubartelli and Veruschka on location in Brazil. Veruschka was very tall—her size was not commercial for the fashionable photos at that time—so we got to thinking about doing something different, and we came up with the idea of body painting. No one had been doing this. It sometimes felt as if she were not happy in her body, that her personality wanted to evade its physical dimension to become other beings.
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Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site. After his death the remaining family members were interred in labor camps until the end of World War II: Veruschka later studied art in Hamburg and was discovered by the photographer Ugo Mulas at age 20, after which she became a full-time model. In she did her first shoot wearing body paint, and it became a lifelong artistic pursuit. Most of the time she did her own make-up, hair and styling. We cut up the clothes even, if it looked better.
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