RECENT COLLECTION ACQUISITIONS
For an overview of my previous collection acquisitions since February 2005, see: 'Collection Acquisitions: The Archives.'
November 8, 2008
The 21 photos of Vanessa-Mae depicted below were recently acquired for our
collection. The photos are shown in chronological order. A brief description of
the photos, the settings and timeframe are given below the table.
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Photos 1 and 2
Vanessa-Mae photographed during her open air free concert performance on
November 23, 1997 for the opening of the new boutique of David Tang, Shanghai
Tang on Madison Avenue NY. Noticeable, Vanessa-Mae's lips are painted in the
same Crimson red colour as her long coat that was designed by David Tang. These
2 photos are not part of any gallery yet.
Photo 3
Vanessa-Mae in close-up at her press conference on April 30, 1998, when she
arrived at Moscow Airport to do her Kremlin concert for the Storm On World Tour
in Russia on May 1. The photos is part of gallery
19.
Photos 3 and 4
Vanessa-Mae pictured during her visit to a F1 workstation at the Melbourne
circuit on March 4, 1999 a few days ahead of the F1 race in Australia.
Vanessa-Mae's invitation to visit the first F1 race of the new season came from
her collaboration with Mika Hakinnen for the Siemens 'Get Inspired'
campaign to promote the new mobile phone during the autumn of 1998, for which
she visited a F1 race track for the first time. Probable, Vanessa-Mae's
excitement for fast cars started to develop from here. A few days earlier,
Vanessa-Mae performed at a party in Melbourne for the opening of the new F1
season. Photo 4 shows Vanessa-Mae attentively listening to the explanation of a
few mechanics. Her mother Pamela remains in the background. On photo 5,
Vanessa-Mae eagerly tries out the seating in a F1 car. Obviously, she is
impressed and very interested. Vanessa-Mae wears a nice long cotton dress with
horizontal striped pattern in alternating light and dark coloured lines. These 2
photos are not part of a gallery yet.
Photo 5
This photo was made in 2001 for the promotion of Vanessa-Mae's soon to be
released new album Subject To Change. The photo
holds Vanessa-Mae's signature. The setting portrays Vanessa-Mae wearing in a
light coloured dress of satin fibre while one person to her left is putting the
white belt around her waist right, and one other on her right is doing the
finishing touch with a powdering her face with a brush to complete the very
heavy make-up that covers Vanessa-Mae for her face wear: do notice the thick
layer foundation crème to create Vanessa-Mae's perfectly smooth complexion, the
light pink lipstick and bright blue shadow that fills up half way the space from
her lids to the brows, bordered by dark liner extending below the eyes.
Vanessa-Mae's hair is waxed and pulled very tight away form her face, finished
into a bun to the right side of her head. Obviously for this promotion shot,
Vanessa-Mae is portrayed as a glamour woman with intentionally heavily made-up
looks. The photo is part of gallery 28 with
other official promotion photos.
Photo 7 shows Vanessa-Mae during a performance in Hyde Park on July 17, 2001 during the Picnic with Pavarotti festival. This photo is not part of any gallery yet.
Photo 8 portrays Vanessa-Mae together with Sarah Ferguson during a gala on November 23, 2002. Vanessa-Mae wears a wonderful multi-coloured satin dress. Her face looks perfectly made up, fully covered with a light toned crème. This photo can be found in gallery 23.
Photo 9 is also part of gallery 23 and shows Vanessa-Mae arriving at a fashion show of Julien McDonald held on February 19, 2002 in London.
Photos 10-12 were made at the nomination launch ceremony for the 2004 Classical Brit Awards held in the London Regent Hotel on April 24 of 2004, where Vanessa-Mae acted in a short performance playing Bach Street Prelude on solo acoustic violin. Photo 10 portrays Vanessa-Mae at her arrival wearing a black suit. She looked already quite made up at that moment, but the close-ups of photos 11 and 12 mark that she added considerable to her face for her performance wearing a sophisticated purple shirt revealing her belly button because of a shine through under part of the top ,a black pair of trousers and a striking and a colourful flower wreath as descriptive necklace. The two close-ups show in detail Vanessa-Mae's heavily made up visage. These 3 nice photos are part of gallery 11 that contains a large series photos showing Vanessa-Mae at the various Brit Awards and Classical Brit Awards events that she attended over the years during her career.
Photos 13 and 14 show Vanessa-Mae at the launch re-opening of the fashion Asprey store on May 18, 2004. Vanessa-Mae had a daring outfit consisting of of a very short dress of white netting design with coloured buttons inserted to hide the private parts of her body. Vanessa-Mae was almost without additional styling wearing her long black hair hanging freely on her back and her face done with only a very minimum amount of make-up. These photos are part of gallery 33.
Photo 15 is a close-up of Vanessa-Mae is full concentration at her performance in the Royal Festival Hall on October 22 of 2004 when she presented music of her new album Choreography live to her fans for the first time. The close-up shows that Vanessa-Mae had very heavy make-up and looked absolutely adoring that evening. The photo is not part of any gallery, but an extensive concert review with our own photos can be found at Royal Festival Hall concert.
Photo 16 was made when Vanessa-Mae visited Bangkok on April 4 and 5 of 2005 to do a charity concert to support fund raising for the tsunami relief benefit. The photo is not yet part of any photo gallery.
Photos 17-19 were made when Vanessa-Mae visited the Cartier International Polo day in Windsor on June 27 of 2007. That day, Vanessa-Mae showed up wearing a very fine silk dress in Chinese style, highly closed upfront with frog buttons with blue flowery design by David Tang of the Shanghai Tang fashion boutiques. Vanessa-Mae wonderful long black hair is hanging in free style, framing her face that is obviously made up, though not too distinctive-looking. Vanessa-Mae has a small leather shoulder bag that probable contained some make-up attributes like a lipstick and powder compact to do some rework on her face from time to time. Photos 17 and 18 are close-ups showing details of the flowery silk dress and Vanessa-Mae's immaculate complexion. Photo 19 portrays Vanessa-Mae sitting on the public gallery together with friend Lionel, drinking a cup of tea with her made up visage hidden behind large sunglasses. These 3 photos are part of gallery 51.
Also part of gallery 51 are the final 2 photos 20 and 21 that were also shot at the Cartier International Polo day in Windsor, one year later on June 27 in 2008. This time, Vanessa-Mae was dressed in a long white skirts and a beige shirt with long sleeves in which she looked quite casual, also because her make-up was only very light with pink coloured lipstick. Initially gallery 51 only contained photos of this event in 2007, but it has now been extended to Vanessa-Mae's presence there in 2008 too.
October 4, 2008
Below are scans of the official press statement by Angel Records, that was
issued to promote the release of Vanessa-Mae's new album The
Original Four Seasons in the USA and Canada, end 1998. We recently acquired
this press kit for our collection. The press kit contains a photo that was made
in 1995-1996 for the Classical Album 1 promotion series, and 5 pages of texts
that describe Vanessa-Mae, her career and achievements and the new album.
Finally, there is a copy of an article that appeared in the USA Today of July
20, 1995. The press kit is placed in Our collection of
promotional material and the photo is also catalogued in
gallery 28 of
Collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae.
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Do visit our Recent Collection Acquisitions section to see what other items we acquired the past period.
September 20, 2008
The following 12 photos of Vanessa-Mae were recently acquired for our collection.
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Photo 1 was made during a concert in the Red Hot Tour in the UK in the summer of 1995. This photo is part of gallery 37.
Photo 2 shows Vanessa-Mae cutting the cake for her 20th birthday party that was organised by Siemens to credit her contributions in the 'Get Inspired' campaign to introduce their new mobile phone in 1998. Vanessa-Mae was dressed that evening in a fine Versace dress made of blue silk. This colour blue of the dress was also obviously present in the bright shadow that filled up from Vanessa-Mae's eyes all to her brows as part of her very heavy overall covering make-up that was applied as decorative face wear. This photo was added to gallery 5 that has more photos of Vanessa-Mae's 20th birthday party.
Photo 3 was possible made during Vanessa-Mae's performance at the Michael Jackson and Friends concert in Munich on July 27, 1999. On the photo, Vanessa-Mae wears a strapless pink top and she looks quite heavily made up too. The photo has not been categorised in any gallery yet, but might probable be part of a new gallery devoted to the Michael Jackson event soon. We have some photos of this event that are not yet shown at VMSPOS.
Photo 4 shows Vanessa-Mae at the FHM 'sexiest women' of the year gala in 2001 on May 15. Vanessa-Mae' gold coloured satin sleeveless shirt is definitely superb. Photo 5 portrays Vanessa-Mae at an event in 2001 that might be the Formula 1 race at Silverstone. Vanessa-Mae wears a pass around her neck that obviously looks like a permit for guests for the event. She looks very nice, natural and casual. Photo 6 was made made at the premiere of the Lord Of The Rings movie in London on November 12, 2002. Vanessa-Mae wears a bleu top, purple pair of trouser and a white spotted black coat. Her hair in long in free style. Photos 4 to 6 are all part of gallery 17.
Photos 7 and 8 were shot at the movie premiere in London on October 1 of 2003. Vanessa-Mae looks particularly nice in a fantastic white sleeveless T-shirt with V-neck and a funny white cap. These two photos were placed in gallery 23 that includes more very nice photos of Vanessa-Mae at this event.
Photos 9 and 10 show Vanessa-Mae at the launch party for the Audi TT couple on May 9, 2006. Vanessa-Mae is dressed informal in blue jeans and a fantastic short leather jacket of light brown suede with high collar and wide cuffs. The jacket is of half upper body length and is closed with beautiful white square press buttons with a blue rim and a fine red Chinese figure with a blue tilde on top and the number 1 designed in gold in the upper left corner. It is really a superb jacket and Vanessa-Mae looks fantastic with her belly button exposed by the short jacket the bright and the bright white T-shirt that shows from underneath the jacket. Vanessa-Mae's sober make-up is in nice agreement with her informal dress style. She is covered with only a minimum of light toned foundation crème to provide a perfectly smooth complexion, little eye liner, some black mascara, little dark shadow on her upper lid, and only the bright red lipstick serves as eye catcher in Vanessa-Mae's face wear. Vanessa-Mae's long black hair hangs freely over her shoulders and on her back. These photos can be found in gallery 40.
Photo 11 is also part of gallery 40 and shows Vanessa-Mae during a photo session for the Audi Magazine of December 2004.
Finally photo 12 presents Vanessa-Mae carrying the Olympic Torch as her contribution for the relay to bring the flame through London. The complete team, including Vanessa-Mae, for this relay was dressed in a white sports outfit. Apparently, Vanessa-Mae wanted to keep up her image for being perfectly styled at her public appearances always as she has obviously used some around her eyes and her lips were painted briefly. This photo is not part of any gallery yet.
September 6, 2008
The following 10 photos were recently acquired for our collection.
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Photo 1 portrays Vanessa-Mae at her arrival at the FHM 'sexiest women' of the year gala. Vanessa-Mae wears blue jeans and s satin gold coloured sleeveless top that together with her smoothly complexioned visage forms a nicely balanced quite natural presentation. Photo 2 is a close-up of Vanessa-Mae made at the premiere of the Lord Of The Rings movie in London on November 12, 2002. Both photos 1 and 2 are part of gallery 17.
Photos 2 to 5 were made when Vanessa-Mae attended a movie premiere in London on October 1 of 2003. Vanessa-Mae looks particularly nice in a fantastic white sleeveless T-shirt with V-neck and a funny white cap. She looks natural with only the bright red lipstick as eye catching mark in her face wear. The long white coat is very appropriate and classy too. These photos are placed in gallery 23 that includes some more shots of this event.
Photo 6 shows Vanessa-Mae when she received the World Music award for Best Selling Classical Artist in 1997. The ceremony took place on April 17, 1997, in Monaco. The photo portrays Vanessa-Mae wearing a nice short blue dress and very heavy make-up holding her award with the show host by her side. This photo is part of gallery 41 that holds more shots of Vanessa-Mae at various events around the ceremony.
Photos 7 and 8 are part of Gallery 48 and show Vanessa-Mae when she attended the preview for VIP's of the summer exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts on June 6 of 2007. Vanessa-Mae looked fantastic that event wearing a beautiful Chinese style short silk dress in a multi coloured design varying from rose, pink to light blue and red lines along the high neck and short sleeves. The dress had frog buttons in a vertical bright Bordeaux red band in the middle over her chest. Vanessa-Mae was beautifully made up with smooth complexioned crème, black mascara, eye liner, and the red lipstick in matching the bright Bordeaux red in her dress looked fantastic.
Photo 9 is part of the new Gallery 50 showing photos of Vanessa-Mae when she received a gold disc award for record sales in the Czech Republic of her album Storm. Photo 9 shows Vanessa-Mae proudly posing with the award.
Photo 10 is also part of a new gallery 51. Photo 10 was made when Vanessa-Mae visited the International Rock Cartier Polo day in Windsor, England, on June 29, 2007. On this photo, Vanessa-Mae clearly reacts to photographer's call for attention by turning her perfect visage towards
July 12, 2008
Recently, we obtained the following 10 photos for our collection of
Vanessa-Mae material - click the thumbnails to view full sized images!
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Photo 1 looks more like a snapshot than like an orchestrated portrait. The setting of this photo is unknown, but Vanessa-Mae was probable caught being prepared for some kind of formal occasion. She wears a very fine bright yellow satin silk cheongsam with Chinese figures. Obviously, Vanessa-Mae's face looks heavily made up - notice specially her eyes that are defined with dark shadow under strongly accentuated brows, and bright red lipstick. The photo probable dates from end 1997. This photo is available in gallery 13.
Photo 2 is available in gallery 5 and shows Vanessa-Mae at her 20th birthday party that was organised for her by EMI and Siemens to credit her artistic achievements and role in the promotion campaign for the new Siemens mobile phone. Notice the excessive blue in Vanessa-Mae's eye make-up that so brilliantly matches the colour of her fine silk Versace dress.
Photo 3 is a close-up of Vanessa-Mae that was made during the presentation in 1999 of a gold disc for her album Storm. Notice Vanessa-Mae's natural looks and complexion as she wears hardly any make-up at all. The photo is not part of any gallery yet, but we expect another photo of this event soon. A new gallery will be started then.
Photo 4 dates from 2000 and shows Vanessa-Mae cherishing her Guadagnini violin affectionately. The photo is part of gallery 38 that has promotion for the Classical Collection part 1 as theme, although we are not completely sure that this particular shot was used as such. Since this photo 4 was shot in the same period, we place it in this gallery 38 for the time being. Vanessa-Mae wears a fine light long sleeve blouse with multi-coloured fantasy design. Her hair starting to grow long again in 2000, and her face looks beautifully made up, absolutely perfect in every detail.
Photos 5 to 7 were made during a photo session for the Audi Magazine of December 2004. Ever since 2004, Vanessa-Mae endorses Audi as she owns several herself together with Lionel. Vanessa-Mae is portrayed comfortable sitting on the roof of her own car and leaning relaxed against it. Vanessa-Mae wears a fine knee long dress in pale lilac colour and knee high purple boots with spike heels. Vanessa-Mae's make-up is fantastic and it looks beautiful on her this way, as it keeps quite natural looks as well on top of a made up appearance. From this series of photos, a close-up of Vanessa-Mae that shows her magnificent face wear in all the details about how she was made up was used as cover for the December 2004 issue of the Audi Magazine - see picture below!
We hope to obtain a high resolution print of the original cover photo sometime in the future; that would make a great addition to this series. These 3 photos are part of gallery 40.
Finally, photos 8 to 10 are of very recent date. On June 4, 2008, Vanessa-Mae and Lionel visited the annual preview for VIP's of the Royal Academy of Arts summer exhibition. The 3 photos were made at Vanessa-Mae's arrival when she walked the red carpet. Vanessa-Mae looked quite casual as she was dressed in a simple sleeveless top with V-neck of some light shining fibre like silk or satin, and with jeans over open shoes that exposed her pink painted toe nails - not visible on these photos but see Vanessa-Mae Actual News for that particular photos, though with watermarks. The close-up of photo 8 is particular nice as it shows Vanessa-Mae's visage beautifully covered with fine foundation crème - see the make-up bordered perfectly against her hairline indicating meticulous care when it was applied - with soft red lipstick and the discrete definition of her eyes and eyebrows. Vanessa-Mae's large ear rings with green precious stones look nice as well in her presentation. These 3 photos are part of gallery 48.
June 28,
2008
With an unfortunate delay of 2 weeks, we received the following 10
photos of Vanessa-Mae for our Collection of
photos of Vanessa-Mae, that now holds more than 500 items
thematically organised in 49 galleries.
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Photo 1 shows Vanessa-Mae during her concert for the Red Hot tour in Cambridge on July 6 of 1995. She was dressed is a fine short black dress with white stars print. The photo can be seen in gallery 37 with others of the same concert.
Photos 2 and 3 are not part of any gallery yet. these photos portray Vanessa-Mae during her performance at the Picnic with Pavarotti music festival in Hyde Park, London, on July 17 of 2001.
Photo 4 shows Vanessa-Mae at her arrival at the Regent Hotel on April 21 of 2004 for the nomination ceremony of Classical Brit Awards where she would perform a few pieces. At her arrival, Vanessa-Mae was dressed in a fine black suit. Notice in this close-up Vanessa-Mae's make-up, especially the covering light toned crème, purple lipstick and black accentuation of her eyes and eye brows became very present because of the incidence of the outdoors light. The next photo 5 then shows Vanessa-Mae at her performance of Bach Street Prelude in the Regent Hotel lounge, wearing a fine purple top with sparkling beads incorporated in the sophisticated garment. For her performance, Vanessa-Mae had added considerable to her face wear to obtain really heavily made up looks. These two photos are part of gallery 11.
Photos 6 nd 7 are part of gallery 24 and were made at Vanessa-Mae's concert for the Choreography tour in the Royal Albert Hall on May 12, 2005. These two photos were made before the break when she was dressed in jeans and a flimsy green top.
Photos 8 and 9 were made when Vanessa-Mae joined in a fund raising event for 'An Elephant Durbar' organised by the 'Elephant Family' on June 27th 2006 in Richmond, UK. The photos show Vanessa-Mae at her arrival for the evening diner wearing a fine long evening red dress with high heeled shoes. Vanessa-Mae's wonderful make-up with smooth complexion, red lipstick and eyes accentuated with little black liner and some mascara renders her face a natural expression that is completed by her beautiful long black hanging freely on her back. These photos are available in gallery 39.
Finally, photo 10 shows Vanessa-Mae at the launch party for a new Audi sports car on October 26, 2006 in London. Vanessa-Mae wears an elegant knee long black dress and black open shoes with high heels. Vanessa-Mae has discrete make-up with crème to emphasize her fine smooth complexion and with fine black liner, mascara and the usual red lipstick. Photo 10 is part of gallery 40.
May 17, 2008
The 10 photos shown below were recently acquired for our collection
of Vanessa-Mae material. A description follows below the images - do
click the thumbnails to open larger scale images!
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Photo 1 was made during Vanessa-Mae's Choreography tour concert in the Royal Albert Hall in London on May 12 in 2005. Obviously, Vanessa-Mae was very heavily made up for the occasion of this concert, notice the visible contours of powder that was richly used to finish the make-up; do see also the shadows of her lashes, that are highlighted with large amounts of black mascara, that are visible underneath her eyes, allow counting the individual hairs. This photo is available with others of this concert in gallery 24.
Photo 2 is part of a new gallery 49 and was made during a session for Womens Weekly Magazine that had an article on and interview with Vanessa-Mae in their October 19, 2004 issue. For the shoot, Vanessa-Mae was dressed in blue jeans with a dark purple sleeveless top with light purple trimmings around shoulders and V-neck. Her face was perfectly made up with covering foundation crème, light toned red lipstick, discreetly blushed cheeks, with black accentuated brows and defined eyes that had excessive mascara on the lashes.
Photos 3-5 are part of gallery 23, together with others made in 2002 and 2003. Photo 3 is an unknown session and photos 4 and 5 were made at film premieres in London on October 1 and November 16 in 2003, respectively.
Photos 6 and 7 were made during Vanessa-Mae's performance of Sabre Dance at the Classical Brit Awards gala evening in the Royal Albert Hall on May 26 in 2005. The photos are part of gallery 11.
Photo 8 was made on November 19, 2000, for the promotion of re-release of Vanessa-Mae's early albums as the 3cd box 'The Classical Collection part 1.' Together with others of this promotion session, this photo is available in gallery 38.
Photo 9 was made at an unknown event and place. Judging the expression of Vanessa-Mae's face and her hair, these photos were made in 1998, probable during the Storm On World Tour. The setting looks like sight seeing in some kind of ancient temple of archaeological site. Vanessa-Mae looks quite casual during holidays or having some days off form tour. She is dressed in a fine multi-coloured top with a wonderful half-long skirts, and her face looks very natural with not too much make-up. she looks very nice and beautiful. The photo is part of gallery 13 where 3 other shots of this sight seeing session can be viewed as well, among several other pictures of Vanessa-Mae made in 1997 and 1998.
Finally, photo 10 was made in Baden-Baden in November 1998 when Vanessa-Mae visited Germany to do promotion for the animated Disney movie Mulan for which she created a special arrangement of the Wilder classic song Reflection. This photo is available in gallery 26.
April 19, 2008
The 11 photos shown below were recently acquired for our collection
of Vanessa-Mae material. A description follows below the images - do
click the thumbnails to open larger scale images!
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Photo 1 was taken at Vanessa-Mae's performance at the opening of the new Shanghai Tang boutique on Madison Avenue, NY. on November 23 1997. The photo is not part of a gallery yet.
Photo 2 shows Vanessa-Mae walking on Heathrow Airport early January of 2000 in preparation of a flight. She is casually dressed in a nice T-shirt and pants, and wears a funny cap too. The photo is particularly nice because Vanessa-Mae's face is completely devoid of any of the usual make-up she has on as face wear, and it shows well what a beautiful girl she really is. The photo can be seen in gallery 2 that holds other photos of Vanessa-Mae in casual poses and settings where she is without make-up too.
Photos 3 and 4 show Vanessa-Mae on October 1, 2003 when she attended the premiere of a movie in London. These photos have been added to gallery 23 that holds more photos of this event. Vanessa-Mae looks fantastic in the black pants and fine bright white sleeveless T-shirt with V-neck that so nicely contrasts with the pants, her wonderful long black hair in free style that frames her perfectly complexioned visage in which the red lipstick and black defined eyes are striking.
Photo 5 is part of gallery 46 and shows Vanessa-Mae at the premiere of a Jules Verne movie in London on June 22, 2004. The blue short jacket looks fantastic, as does the short cotton sweater with circular pads embroidered to it. Her face is made up to a smooth flawless complexion with her lips excessively painted in deep red. Both the short jacket and sweater leave Vanessa-Mae's belly button exposed.
Photo 6 was made at a performance of Vanessa-Mae in the Sunday Night Classics on German television, the ZDF channel 2, broadcasted on September 19 of 2004, where she performed Sabre Dance of her forthcoming album Choreography. Vanessa-Mae is dressed in a fabulous multi-colour long silk dress. The photo is part of gallery 47.
Photos 7 and photo 8 are both not part of any gallery yet. Photo 7 shows Vanessa-Mae performing on German television charity fund raising show 'Musik fur Millionen' broadcasted on November 21, 2004. Vanessa-Mae wears a sophisticated short small strapped dress with many decorative embroideries over a pale yellow garment and open spike heeled shoes that reveal her red painted toe nails. Notice that Vanessa-Mae is very heavily made up with greenish shadow, pink lipstick, lots of mascara and liner in a with firm crème flawless complexioned visage. Photo 8 shows Vanessa-Mae in a very fine long midnight blue dress at an ballet evening in the Royal Opera House that was sponsored by Audi Cars. This event took place on May 12 of 2007.
Photos 9 and 10 are close-ups of Vanessa-Mae, made on June 6 of 2007 when she attended the preview for VIP's of the Royal Academy of Arts summer Exhibition. These 2 photos are part of gallery 48 that holds more photos of Vanessa-Mae at this event. Vanessa-Mae wears a knee long silk dress in Chinese style with mandarin collar and frog buttons in the front upper part. The off white garment is a sophisticated design of red to brown and black fine lines and it has light red lapels in front, tied with frog buttons, connected with waist belt in matching red. Vanessa-Mae is made up with a light toned foundation crème, lipstick in matching red to the dress, and eye definition of some black liner and mascara on her lashes.
Photo 11 is also not part of any gallery yet. This photo was made at the Cartier International Polo day on July 7, 2007. Vanessa-Mae wears a silk purple flowered dress designed by Shanghai Tang.
March 8, 2008
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Photos 1-3 were made at an unknown event and place. Judging the expression of Vanessa-Mae's face and her hair, these photos were made in 1998, probable during the Storm On World Tour. The setting looks like sight seeing in some kind of ancient temple of archaeological site. Vanessa-Mae looks quite casual as during holidays or as having some days off form tour. She is dressed in a fine multi-coloured top with a wonderful half-long skirts, and her face looks very natural with not too much make-up. these photos are in gallery 13.
Photo 4 is a fantastic and spectacular shot of Vanessa-Mae at her performance during the launch ceremony to promote the new Rado watch model 'Ovation,' a campaign in Basel on March 7, 2000, where Vanessa-Mae was credited for her role with the first Ovation watch. Vanessa-Mae was dressed in a fantastic outfit with a flimsy pink shine-through blouse over a small top in the same colour and a pair of fine trousers. Vanessa-Mae's face was in In line with he modern cosmopolitan outfit, heavily made up with a flawless and smooth covering foundation crème, a little line of dark eye shadow and matching pink lipstick that did not deviated too much from her complexion. This photo is available in gallery 6.
Photo 5 was probable made for promotional purposes in 1996. We already have this photo in a black and white version, but this coloured version adds something extra, namely that it shows Vanessa-Mae's face with very heavy make-up in well defined and spectacular details. Definitely spectacular are the extended lashes of which the outer hairs are white, a detail that is not so clear in photo 12 because of the effect of the spotlights. Also is clear that Vanessa-Mae's eye brows are perfectly shaped and accentuated with a lot of black, and this effect is even reinforced by the bright light coloured line that was applied immediately underneath her brows; excessive red lipstick completes Vanessa-Mae's spectacular face wear. This photo is available in gallery 28.
Photo 6 was made on September 11 of 2000 at a session that took place in a London hotel room for the promotion of the collection 3cd-box 'The Classical Collection part 2,' the re-release of her early recordings - the so-called Kiddy albums. The close-up is very nice. Notice the naughty expression on Vanessa-Mae's face when she smilingly turns her left side a bit to the camera to proudly show the well defined blush on her cheeks as to indicate how perfectly her make-up was done. This fine portrait is available in gallery 38.
The settings and occasions of photos 7-10 are unknown. All were probable made around 2003 and are therefore placed in this gallery for now. Photo 8-10 are clearly and orchestrated session with Vanessa-Mae posing for the camera sitting on a coach (photo 8) and a chair holding her electric violin (photo 9). She is dressed in a beige toned long sleeved shirt of some fine light material, dark trousers and black suede shoes. She looks with a quite natural expression, not wearing too much make-up. Photo 11 shows Vanessa-Mae at quite an informal setting, almost a snap-shot made perhaps as she was caught on holidays or so. The expression on Vanessa-Mae's face suggests a bit of a surprise. She is dressed in a white sleeveless T-shirt with V-neck, a very short frayed denim mini-skirts and a pair of tights. On the other hand, Vanessa-Mae is obviously made up, so this indicates that the setting was of such nature that caused her to wear make-up - do notice the bright red lipstick that makes her mouth look very wide and brings out her wonderful strong white teeth. These photos are available in gallery 23.
February 23, 2008
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The 6 photos of Vanessa-Mae shown above were recently acquired for our collection. Photo 1 is available in gallery 9 and shows Vanessa-Mae posing for the photographers after her surprise impromptu concert on Trafalgar Square to promote her new album Subject To Change in May 2001. Photo 2 was made during Vanessa-Mae's concert at the Henley-On-Thames music festival when she performed there on July 7, 2005. It is a spectacular photo on Vanessa-Mae in full concentration and action. She was dressed in blue jeans and a silk black sleeveless top wrapped around her upper body; Vanessa-Mae's face was heavily made up - notice the sharp contrast of the bright blue shadow that filled up all the space above her eyes and the black accentuation used on lashes lashes and brows, the soft red blush against her cheek bones, all against a skin covering foundation crème with a slightly pink undertone and lipstick in matching salmon pink. This wonderful photo 2 is part of gallery 27. Photo 3 was made in Moscow during her visit for the Choreography Tour in 2005 and can be seen in gallery 19. Photo 4 till 6 are part of gallery 40 and show Vanessa-Mae during two launch parties for the new models of Audi TT and Audi Sports cars in May and October of 2006. Vanessa-Mae possesses several Audi's herself together with Lionel and lends her name to endorse these automobiles.
January 26, 2008
Recently, we
acquired a copy of the South-African magazine Fairlady, the July issue
of 2003. The magazine had an article dealing with Vanessa-Mae because of
her performance in Cape Town at the official opening of the new
International Convention Centre on June 28, 2003 - a brief notice
on Vanessa-Mae's performance can be found at
Vanessa-Mae at the CTICC (Cape town
International Convention Centre). The scans of the article are shown
below.
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The article and interview are very interesting. Vanessa-Mae openly tells about her relationship with her demanding and ambitious mother, her youth full of discipline and harsh exercising schedules, and the impact that this all had on her. As an example, she mentions the corrective slaps she sometimes received when playing not well enough or for sometimes being out of tune. Click the thumbnails shown above to see large seized scans. A pdf file of the article is available to facilitate readability - send us a request for pdf via this link.
January 12, 2008
Two items were recently acquired for our collection, see the scans
above. The photo 1 above was taken when Vanessa-Mae delivered her hand
palm for the wall of hands in the Rock Circus located on on Piccadilly
Circus in London on June 9, 1995. This photo is available in
gallery 35 of the collection of photos
of Vanessa-Mae. The second item acquired is the French release of the cd
single titled Le Trille Diable - in English The Devil's Trill. Shown
above are scans of the front cover, the back side and the disc. The item
has been added to the discography of
Vanessa-Mae and is also listed in My
collection of singles.
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December 1, 2007
Recently, the 10 photos shown below were acquired for our
collection. Brief descriptions of the photos as well as of the
respective time frame settings of the shoots are given below.
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Photos 1-3 were made in the early stages of Vanessa-Mae's career in 1995 or early 1996 during session to promote her debut pop album 'The Violin Player.' These 3 nice pictures are part of gallery 45 that has a main theme early posing sessions. The photos 1-3, as well as all others in gallery 45, underline that Vanessa-Mae present herself as a modern cosmopolitan young woman, wearing fine fashionable clothes that indicated her own personal style and taste and her face made up in a way obviously intended to be noticed, instead of opting to preserve the natural looks of the young girl she actually was. This deliberate choice she made thus, no doubt, appeared fuel for critics that were decided to hate her no matter what. Photo 4 shows a nice close-up of Vanessa-Mae with a cap and black jacket with red scarf, an outfit in which she appeared in the 'Storm On World Tour' movie too - see captures provided at the link given! The photo is part of gallery 26. Photo 5 shows Vanessa-Mae at her entry at the premiere of the animated Disney movie Mulan in London on October 9, 1998, a movie for which she contributed with her rendition of the song Reflection. Photo 5 is available in gallery 32. Notice the exceptional decorations in Vanessa-Mae's very heavy face wear. All is more visible in the other photos of gallery 32. Photo 6 is a demure close-up portrait of Vanessa-Mae in the London Eye during her promotion of the re-release of her early albums in The Classical Collection 3cd box. The nice photo shows Vanessa-Mae in a quite natural fashion with much make-up consisting of only little foundation and brief definition of her eyes with liner and mascara and her brows accentuated and perfectly shaped with a black pencil and non descriptive lipstick. This fine portrait is part of gallery 15. Photos 7 and 8 were shot at Vanessa-Mae's arrival at the nomination ceremony of the 2004 Classical Brit Awards held in the London Regents Hotel on April 21, and are part of gallery 11. Obviously on this photo, as was reinforced by the incidence of the day light at the moment of the shooting, the covering foundation crème on Vanessa-Mae's face is very visible, as is also the purple red lipstick against her rather pale complexion. Vanessa-Mae's eyes are well defined with black liner and mascara. Obviously, Vanessa-Mae was heavily made up for this occasion were she would perform on solo violin the Bach Street Prelude after the nominations for the award evening were announced. Photo 9 was made when Vanessa-Mae visited the world premiere of a Jules Verne movie in London on November 12, 2001. This photo is not part of any gallery yet. Finally, photo 10 shows Vanessa-Mae in the a German television studio after she participated in a show program to raise money to support the struggle against cancer on November 21, 2004. Vanessa-Mae played Sabre Dance from her album Choreography that was just released at that time. Vanessa-Mae had a short fine yellow dress with silver decorations embroiled all over the garment with small light yellow straps. Her hair was in free style hanging on her back, hold backwards with hairpins from her face that had lively and vibrant expression as a result of the use of red blush on her cheeks, the light purple lipstick and olive green shadow that lined above and below the eyes as highlights in her perfectly complexioned visage. Vanessa-Mae had a spectacular performance in that superb dress and her face looking really magnificently made up. Photo 10 is not part of gallery yet.
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