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Lavazza calendar 2010: Daisy Lowe, Georgia Frost and Lydia Hearst shot by Miles Aldridge

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The Italian coffee company Lavazza has unveiled the 18th edition of its collectible calendar, shot by influential British photographer, Miles Aldridge Picture: LAVAZZA
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The 2010 calendar features six of the world's most famous models, in photos that take inspiration from six well-known Italian songs. Daisy Lowe features in the calendar's tribute to the song Con Te Partiro Picture: LAVAZZA
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The songs are brought to life by top models from the world of fashion and celebrity, all pictured enjoying an espresso in a setting inspired by Italy's most loved songs Va' Pensiero (Alek Alexeyeva) Picture: LAVAZZA
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Aldridge is a regular contributor to Italian Vogue. His images are narrative scenarios, often featuring troubled or bored women, secretly dissatisfied with their lives, but always ghostly pale and hauntingly beautiful Guarda Che Luna (Alexandra Tomlinson) Picture: LAVAZZA
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Aldridge is unusual in his profession in that he hasn't succumbed to digital, preferring to shoot on film. Although he is known as a great colourist, he achieves most of his extraordinary colour and lighting effects in the studio Baciami Piccina (Lydia Hearst) Picture: LAVAZZA
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Early colour film was a great inspiration to Aldridge: "I love the way Technicolor broke everything down into blocks of pure colour and gave a bright blue to the shadows" 'O Sole Mio (Bianca Balti) Picture: LAVAZZA
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To bring to life the songs Lavazza also commissioned Antony Hegarty (of Antony and The Johnsons) to perform Nessun Dorma at the launch event in Turin Nessun Dorma (Georgia Frost) Picture: LAVAZZA
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It was important to Aldridge that the female protagonists in these images were heroines, full of character. "I didn't just want six ravishing beauties. I wanted six women that were larger than life in their different ways," Aldridge explains Picture: LAVAZZA
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Only a limited number of calendars are produced each year and are sent to a carefully controlled list of loyal recipients. Every year the calendar is shot by a highly-respected photographer: Annie Leibovitz in 2009... Picture: LAVAZZA
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...Finlay Mackay in 2008... Picture: LAVAZZA
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...Eugenio Recuenco in 2007... Picture: LAVAZZA
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...Ellen Von Unwerth in 2006... Picture: LAVAZZA
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...Erwin Olaf in 2005... Picture: LAVAZZA
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..and Jean-Baptiste Mondino in 2003. For more information, visit www.lavazza2010.com Picture: LAVAZZA http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkpicturegalleries/6388536/...