Acting icon Meryl Streep can now add another title to her already impressive resume... cover girl. The 62-year-old actress appears on the January 2012 cover of Vogue magazine for the first time ever, becoming the oldest woman to appear on the cover of the fashion bible.
Shot by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, Meryl looks regal and refined wearing a steel coloured Carolina Herrera shirt-dress sitting by the water. Inside the issue, the actress talks about how she believed that her career was over more than 20 years ago.
The 16-time Oscar nominee once played the editor of the fictional Vogue-like magazine Runway in the movie The Devil Wears Prada. Meryl's character Miranda Priestley was supposedly based on Vogue's Anna Wintour.
The January 2012 issue of Vogue magazine hits newsstands on December 20th.
Angelina Jolie's first ad for Louis Vuitton's "Core Values" campaign was released today, confirming previous reports that the actress would pose for the luxury brand.
The ad was shot by Annie Leibovitz and features Angelina on a boat in Cambodia's Siem Reap province wearing her own clothes with little makeup. Sitting beside her... her own years-old monogrammed Alto bag. BTW... Louis Vuitton's Alto bag, is a discontinued style but Vuitton's executive vice president Pietro Beccari told WWD, "We are considering to re-edit it."
The "Core Values" advertisments are set to run for the next 18 months and will feature Angelina and other celeb-humanitarians such as Bono.
It's almost time for Rihanna's long-rumoured Vogue cover to hit the newsstands. Once upon a time the pop singer lost out on the chance to pose for the famed fashion mag when nude photos of her surfaced. But that was 2009 and Anna Wintour is apparently back on the Rihanna bandwagon.
Annie Leibovitz shot the Barbados-born beauty for the cover of the April 2011 issue of Vogue magazine wearing a sheer, floral-appliqued Chanel dress from the 2011 pre-fall collection. She looks stunning and inside the mag's annual "Shape Issue" Rihanna talks about how much she appreciates her own body these days.
Here's a behind the scenes look at the Rihanna's Vogue photoshoot with the amazing Annie Leibovitz.
Diddy (A.K.A. Sean Combs, Puffy, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy) has a new album hitting stores on Tuesday December 14th and there are a ton of fashionable cameos featured on it. Last Train To Paris was inspired by Diddy's addiction to style and the fashion world... more specifically the fashion-themed album was inspired by his February Vogue spread with Natalia Vodianova, which takes place on a train... going to Paris.
Before each track on Last Train To Paris some of the biggest names in fashion have spoken-word pieces. Andre Leon Talley starts things off reading from author James Baldwin and Anna Wintour intros the second track saying, “This is Anna Wintour from Vogue magazine. You are now listening to the Last Train to Paris.” Other fashionable voices featured on Diddy's album include: Tommy Hilfiger, Marc Jacobs, Isaac Mizrahi and Zac Posen. Seriously.
U2 frontman Bono (aka Paul Hewson) and his wife, Ali Hewson are the latest models for Louis Vuitton. The interesting thing about this ad is it is the first time that Bono has appeared in an ad without his U2 bandmates... it's also the first time that a label other than LV is getting a fashion credit in a Louis Vuitton ad. Both Bono and Ali are wearing pieces from their own clothing line, Edun, a line of ethical fashion.
Here's a look at the new Louis Vuitton ad that was shot by Annie Leibovitz and carries the the tagline "Every journey began in Africa."
In the ad, Ali carries a new handbag that was a joint project between Edun and Louis Vuitton... all proceeds will go to charity.
In 2007, Louis Vuitton attempted to highlight the heritage of their luxury brand with a campaign dubbed “The Art Of Travel”. Photographer Annie Leibovitz shot Andre Agassi, Catherine Deneuve and the last president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev for a series of ads that appeared in magazines around the globe. Gorbachev’s ad was haunting and beautiful, showing the anxious man sitting in the back of his car as it passed a remaining part of the Berlin Wall, an open Louis Vuitton bag beside him.
It’s a new year... it's a new decade... and it’s also time for Vanity Fair’s annual “Hollywood Issue”! The magazine’s Hollywood Issue is now in its 16th year, and for this year's issue the mag has decided to highlight "bright ingenues" for the popular March issue. Photographer Annie Leibovitz grabbed her camera and has captured 9 of Vanity Fair's hottest young actresses.
From left to right the nine starlets who grace the cover are: Abbie Cornish, Kristen Stewart and Carey Mulligan make the actual cover. Then unfold to see Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Hall, Mia Wasikowska, Emma Stone, Evan Rachel Wood, and Anna Kendrick.
The cover is a little bland don’t you think? Inside we will get a little more glamour with some pretty dresses. Here’s a look at one of the inside shots.
From left: Carey Mulligan (dress by J. Mendel), Kristen Stewart (dress by Blumarine), Abbie Cornish (dress by Dior), Mia Wasikowska (dress by Luisa Beccaria), Amanda Seyfried (dress by Chado Ralph Rucci), Rebecca Hall (dress by Dior), Emma Stone (dress by J. Mendel), Evan Rachel Wood (dress by Dior), and Anna Kendrick (dress by J. Mendel).
What do you think of the cover? Are you bored with the idea? Are they missing any of your fave young actresses?
Vaniety Fair’s Hollywood issue hits newsstands on Tuesday February 9th.
First let me just say that Annie Leibovitz is amazing. The woman has been behind the camera for countless iconic photographs throughout the years and now in a genius move... Louis Vuitton has convinced the famed photographer to let herself end up in front of the camera. Yes, Louis Vuitton finally convinced Annie to pose and be apart of the LV "core values" ad campaigns. She agreed on the condition that she would be photographed with someone else... and the person she selected was the legendary Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Here is the result:
The amazing picture of Annie posing next to her own three-year-old Louis Vuitton monogram Neverfull bag gazing up at the barefoot ballet legend was captured in Annie’s own New York studio. The tag line along the bottom reads "The journey of a star, captured in a flash". I absolutely love it but what do you think?
Louis Vuitton communication director Antoine Arnault had this to say about Annie "She’s a real, pure, 100 percent artist... We’ve always been very committed to her, to her talent". Arnault also said the photograph shows the "moment of quiet and calm" that Leibovitz is able to achieve with her subjects. "She just gets in their souls".
The Annie spots will begin appearing in newspapers and magazines beginning February 1st.
