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ELLE is the magazine for which Oliviero Toscani has worked the most, and in turn he himself is the photographer with the most presence in the magazine's history. There are many monographic issues entirely made by Toscani and this photograph comes from one of them, dedicated to the theme of luxury.

In photography, with the union of black and white you can create all colors.

During the Salone del Mobile in Milan, Oliviero Toscani creates the first photograph that represents Made in Italy, where he combines design and fashion. This photograph will open up a new language of communication.

This photograph is part of a series exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 1993. Submerged by the banal vulgarity of calendars that proliferate like mushrooms, this image is misunderstood, and accused of apologia for the thought that sees women as object. Nothing could be more wrong. This photograph is finally an ode, on a grand scale, to the ease and authenticity of women. And the aesthetic affinity that most reminds this image of its meaning is not to be found in the history of art (Gustave Courbet's “L'origine du Monde”), but in the front pages of newspapers that showed, in the 1970s, endless parades of women joining the index finger and thumb of their right hand with those of their left hand and raising, exultant, their arms to the sky.

Oliviero Toscani collaborated with Prenatal for a long time. This is one of the most iconic photographs of the brand that has become a reference point for mothers all over the world.

Oliviero Toscani often plays on the overturning of stereotypes and then a lamb becomes black and a wolf becomes white.

Since his debut in the world of fashion, Oliviero Toscani's models are cheerful, carefree, running and jumping expressing joy and happiness. This photo is for an Elle Italy feature dedicated to luxury.

One of Oliviero Toscani's most iconic photographs used as a United Colors of Benetton campaign, this image shows once again that it is not equality but difference that unites.

The exaltation of differences in twins for the French magazine WAD.

One of the first photographs with Monica Bellucci as a model, who was brought by Oliviero Toscani to Paris for ELLE magazine, and from there began her dazzling career.

Makeup is often the first of women's enemies and Oliviero Toscani has introduced a real revolution in fashion photography, photographing natural and spontaneous girls. And if it really must be used, there are new frontiers to cross.

Photography is the most powerful contemporary medium and can do anything, even play with one of history's most pronounced contrasts, binding Jews and Arabs who, united, can finally conquer a world of peace and hope.

Oliviero Toscani is called to interpret the new millennium and chooses Livorno as his City: in this photograph the oldest and the youngest person of the time, together.

It was the time in which Peter Sellers played Inspector Clouseau in the successful film series that opened with The Pink Panther a few years earlier. This photograph was taken in London in the studios of Vogue UK, the magazine that had commissioned the portrait to Oliviero Toscani.

Oliviero Toscani has been the art director of Inter Football Club for many years and in 2008, on the occasion of the Centenary, he decided to take a sensational photograph of San Siro Stadium, putting together the management, the team, the youth, the warehousemen, the staff and the fans.

In 1963 Oliviero Toscani, still a student, went to New York for the first time, invited by Pan Am for which he won a photo contest. He is captured by the cultural ferment and liveliness of the city, where he will spend a long period of his professional life. This photo is part of a reportage on New York, published by the weekly l'Europeo, and accompanied by a text written by John Steinbeck.