Peruvian soft-core porn photographer Mario Testino held a party at the Bowery Hotel in NYC on September 13th to celebrate the release of his photography book (published on September 1st) called Lima Peru. The party had the usual hot mess of people that you would expect from such an event (Courtney Love, Demi Moore, and Lady Bunny were all there). But why a book about Lima? Testino weighed in on Amazon:

I wanted to capture Lima’s positive chaos…I wanted to find a book which conveyed this—the way Lima’s artists and photographers have captured their city’s color and complexity, its art, its people and its buildings, its street life and its interiors. But no such book existed, and so I decided to edit one myself.

The best thing about the party (we weren’t invited as Peruvians and Guanabee go way back) was the hot guys running around half naked. When it comes to buying books, we’re fools for a nice package.

Photography [JD Ferguson/V Magazine]
Lima Peru: Edited by Mario Testino [Amazon]