I have one word for you: VERUSHKA! Yes, the iconic ’60s supermodel joined WOW’s Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, artist Edward Mapplethorpe, legendary avant-garde director/playwright Robert Wilson, producer Katharina Otto-Bernstein, her mother Maren Otto, composer David Steinberg, producer Mona Card, singer Merlin Dietrich, and many others at the Berlin Film Festival’s premiere of Robert Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures.
Look at the pictures from the dinner, premiere, and after-party below!
Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey and Wieland Speck, Curator of Panaroma section of Berlin Film Festival
Legendary director and playwright Robert Wilson toasts the Mapplethorpe film at the Post Premiere dinner party
Producer Katharina Otto-Bernstein and her brothers with her mother, Maren Otto
Fenton, Randy and Edward Mapplethorpe in theatre moments before premiere with Kathrerina Otto Bernstein and family. (Also: WOW MCN partner Merlin Dietrich two rows back!)
Randy, Katherina and Fenton on the steps of the Ritz Carlton in Berlin
Verushka at the Berlin Premiere
Randy and Fenton onstage
Fenton, Edward Mapplethorpe, Katharina Otto-Bernsteain and her son Nicholas, Producer Mona Card, Associate Producer Katherin Lohmann
Tabletop detail from the dinner
Suzanne Moore from The Guardian and Janet Lee
Arriving at Premiere After Party
Verushka arrives at the After Party
Co-Editor Francy Kachler and husband Tim at the premiere After Party
Composer David Steinberg and Producer Mona Card
After the film….Edward Mapplethorpe, Fenton, Randy, Robert Wilson, Wieland Speck, Katharina Otto Bernstein, Nicholas Otto-Bernstein, Art dealer Nathan A. Bernstein
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures premieres April 4th on HBO. (That’s a WEEK FROM TOMORROW!)
It will also have its East Coast premiere at the Miami Film Festival, Saturday March 5th and Saturday March 12th. For tickets and showtimes go HERE.