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We can only hope that we're as vivacious as Vivienne Westwood when we're 70-years-old. The queen of punk fashion recently headed to Nairobi, Kenya to employ 7,000 local women to help make handbags for her Ethical Fashion Africa collection. The project is in partnership with e-tailer Yoox and the International Trade Center, a United Nations Agency. And she didn't travel alone; her longtime friend and collaborator, photographer Juergen Teller, came along to shoot the collection.

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Concept fashion, art, and photography blog Contributing Editor recently brought to light an interview Jeurgen Teller did in the early '90s on MTV Europe's The Pulse. Unaware of the prolific career that his future held as Marc Jacobs' campaign photographer, it's fun watching then-young Teller candidly chat about his shy encounters with supermodels like Linda Evangelista ("the first two hours I could hardly speak to her") and Claudia Schiffer ("she has very beautiful feet").

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On December 3, fashion fanatic and apparent Kanye West fan Anna Dello Russo is set to launch her debut fragrance called "The Scent of Anna Dello Russo." Not camera shy in the slightest, the editor-at-large and creative consultant for Vogue Japan has also taken it upon herself to generate buzz around the launch by leaking a video of her scent, which features her dress-dancing in a dramatic Alan Journo headpiece and Emilio Pucci gown to the sound of Kanye's hit "Runaway." She's also debuted the promotional portrait, shot by none other than famed photographer and longtime Marc Jacobs collaborator Juergen Teller.

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We tapped four visionaries -- Juergen Teller, The Raveonettes, Jennifer Lynch, and James Jean -- for their takes on surveillance. The works of art they created are, well, out of sight.

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He's shot everyone from Charlotte Rampling and Thurston Moore to Victoria Beckham. Yet Juergen Teller seems to prefer life behind the scenes. The German photographer rarely gives interviews, but in light of a soon-to-be released Steidl tome documenting the photog's last 20 years of ads for Marc Jacobs, Teller is speaking out. The Independent sat down with the iconic artist and fashion photographer to talk the past two decades of MJ advertising photos. Some of the best moments from the piece are after the jump.

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