After the show I went with the boys from Qvest to a book launch by none other than Veruschka (her real name is Vera Grafin von Lehndorff-Steinort, she changed it to sound more exotic, it worked as it was then that she started getting more bookings )
I like the text on the page she is holding up for me, she asked me to take her picture with this photo in her book, explaining that she was the first black president :-)
" It is often forgotten that a great fashion photograph has to be largely attributed to the stylist, the makeup artist. It is these creative forces who often remain in the shadow. Without the talents of Mathu Andersen, Jose Silva, Francois Nars, and Orlando Pita , for example, I could never have succeeded in being transformed into different characters like the first African American president, or a dog or Marilyn Monroe for the 'Veruschka Self-Portraits' series photographed by Andreas Hubertus Ilse." Vera Lehndorff

An admirer.
Interesting fact , Richard from Qvest told me, and I fact checked this, as there is more to her, she came from a wealthy family, born in 1939, her parents were counts, and dad was Army reserve officer who joined the German resistance after seeing Jewish children being beaten and killed, and later was part of the conspiracy to kill Hitler and consequently executed, ( now in the cinemas, Valkyrie ) so she and the rest of the family got to spend the rest of the war in a concentration camp