Louis Vuitton unveils the new “VOLTA” Bag and New Summer 2015 Monogram Collections

Kidding aside, those snobbish “Louis Vuitton is a brand for secretaries” brouhaha that originated from China (the land of all things fake!) may now rest in peace. It’s now chic bites the dust, after all, the Kelly bag ran out of style before we could even mutter Birkin!

Louis Vuitton is back with a big bang! The brand announces on twitter and shared some snaps of its latest offering for Spring/Summer 2015 with the new Monogram collections inspired by the classic 1965 ads. The luxury company, under the baton of its creative director, Nicolas Ghesquiere, released a series of bags in two new prints. It includes the simple V in either pink or turquoise and Ramage print, which is a bright and swirling in shades of pink and orange.

Michelle Williams for Louis Vuitton S/S 2015 Campaign carrying the Volta Bag

inside of the Volta Bag

And what’s even more exciting is that Michelle Williams returns for its latest ad campaign. The actress was photographed by Peter Lindberg carrying its newest leather design, the Louis Vuitton Volta Bag. 

The bag comes in four colors in its single size and retails for $4,300.

Check out the bags from the new collections below.

Sandra Bullock named People Magazine’s 2015 “World’s Most Beautiful Woman”

courtesy: People

It takes a lot of guts, talent and a charming personality to be “America’s Sweetheart”. And Sandra Bullock is the sum of all things beautiful, having anointed by People Magazine as the most beautiful woman in the world for 2015.

The Oscar-winning actress (and the highest paid actress in Hollywood…and the world!) has joined the ranks of many actresses who claimed the title including last year’s cover girl and Oscar winner, Lupita Nyong’o, and Gwyneth Paltrow in 2013.

Bullock, at 50 years old, is the oldest to be named on the list and proves that age is nothing but a number. She was photographed on the cover  by Cliff Watts and dismiss the whole process of being named the most beautiful as “ridiculous” and that true beauty is unassuming.

“Real beauty is quiet. Especially in this town, it’s just so hard not to say, ‘Oh, I need to look like that,’ “ she told People. “No, be a good person; be a good mom; do a good job with the lunch; let someone cut in front of you who looks like they’re in a bigger hurry. The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren’t trying.”

Marion Cotillard goes futuristic chic for her latest Lady Dior Campaign!

Marion Cotillard stars in the 2015 advertising campaign for Lady Dior.

Marion Cotillard never had a bad fashion moment! The Academy-award winning actress reprises her role as the face of Lady Dior for the brand’s latest campaign for Spring 2015. The stunning photographs were captured by Peter Lindbergh and feature a futuristic theme as she models the brand’s new Lady Dior bag- showcasing a chic, structured design that features kitschy Dior hardware on the handle.

The French actress has been the face of Lady Dior handbags – a one-time favorite of Princess Diana – since 2008. Since becoming a brand ambassador, Marion’s been particularly faithful to Dior on the red carpet- wearing only the iconic house’s couture creations for the most high-profile events.

She has been the face of Lady Dior since 2008.

In a more exciting news, WWD reports that the star is partnering with Chopard on a collection of sustainable jewelry, which will be the first of its kind for the luxury jewelry brand.

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Jennifer Lawrence is naked, and loving the snake!!!

Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence…

Imagine Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lawrence butt-naked, (with the former showing off her vagina for the world to see) shamelessly trying to “break the internet”, while the latter just wanted the world to know that being naked does not invalidate her privacy (shame to you HACKERS!!). She happens to be the most-searched woman on the planet, the coolest Oscar-winner (like Meryl Streep in her 20’s), and she nonchalantly does nude with a little dignity! Oh, Jennifer Lawrence!

The  photo of the naked actress with a boa constrictor was shot last July, appears on Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, an homage to the 1981 Richard Avedon Vogue portrait of Nastassja Kinski.

“Jennifer has the perfect combination of strength, sexuality, and humor, and, above all, tomboy to pull this off,” says V.F. fashion and style director Jessica Diehl, who styled the shoot. And, we all swooned!

For more with #JenniferLawrence and Hollywood’s biggest stars, the issue is out now!

photographed by Patrick Demarchelier for Vanity Fair.

Oscars 2015: Full list of nominees; ‘Selma’ snubbed; ‘Birdman’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ lead with nine

The grand dame of the award season, The Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning (January 15, 2105) in Los Angeles.

Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel led this year’s class of Oscar films with nine nominations apiece, including nods for Best Picture and Best Director while the biggest snub was Selma, Ava DuVernay’s moving biopic about Martin Luther King Jr.. The Imitation Game had eight nominations. American Sniper, Clint Eastwood’s movie about Chris Kyle, tied with Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, the movie that took 12 years to make, with six nominations—and Bradley Cooper (surprise! surprise!) nabbed a Best Actor nod,edging out Selma‘s David Oyelowo and Nightcrawler‘s Jake Gyllenhaal (NO!!!).

Marion Cotillard was the biggest surprise for Best Actress category edging out Jennifer Aniston in her brilliant turn in “Cake”. Amy Adams was completely shut-out despite her win at Golden Globes. Julianne Moore is the early favorite with critics praising her flawless performance for “Still Alice”.

Meryl Streep nabbed her 19th nomination, the most nominated actress (and the greatest living actress) in history. With a surprise nomination for Laura Dern as Reese Witherspoon’s mother in “Wild”, Patricia Arquette remains to be the clear favorite to win the golden statue.

Best Picture

American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Best Director
Alexandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game

Best Actor
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, Two Days One Night
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Laura Dern, Wild
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman
Robert Yeoman, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski, Ida
Dick Pope, Mr. Turner
Roger Deakins, Unbroken

Best Foreign Language Film
Ida, Poland
Leviathan, Russia
Tangerines, Estonia
Timbuktu, Mauritania
Wild Tales, Argentina

Best Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper, Jason Hall
The Imitation Game, Graham Moore
Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson
The Theory of Everything, Anthony McCarten
Whiplash, Damien Chazelle

Best Original Screenplay
Birdman, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo
Boyhood, Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher, E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard, Foxcatcher
Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White, Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Original Score
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
The Theory of Everything

Best Original Song
“Everything Is Awesome” from The Lego Movie; Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
“Glory” from Selma; Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn
“Grateful” from Beyond the Lights; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me; Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
“Lost Stars” from Begin Again; Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

Best Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Best Documentary—Short
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper
White Earth

Best Film Editing
Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach, American Sniper
Sandra Adair, Boyhood
Barney Pilling, The Grand Budapest Hotel
William Goldenberg, The Imitation Game
Tom Cross, Whiplash

Best Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
The Imitation Game, Production Design: Maria Djurkovic; Set Decoration: Tatiana Macdonald
Interstellar, Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
Into the Woods, Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
Mr. Turner, Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Charlotte Watts

Best Animated Short
The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
Feast
Me and My Moulton
A Single Life

Best Live Action Short
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp
Parvaneh
The Phone Call

Best Sound Editing
American Sniper, Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Birdman, Martín Hernández and Aaron Glascock
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
Interstellar, Richard King
Unbroken, Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro

Best Sound Mixing
American Sniper, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
Birdman, Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
Interstellar, Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
Unbroken, Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee
Whiplash, Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

Best Visual Effects
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
Guardians of the Galaxy, Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
Interstellar, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
X-Men: Days of Future Past, Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer

Best Documentary — Feature
Citizenfour
Finding Vivien Maier
Last Days of Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga

Best Costume Design
Milena Canonero, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mark Bridges, Inherent Vice
Colleen Atwood, Into the Woods
Anna B. Sheppard and Jane Clive, Maleficent
Jacqueline Durran, Mr. Turner

The ceremony for the 87th Academy Awards will be held on Feb. 22, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris on ABC.

2015 BAFTA Awards Nominations

One of the biggest and most prestigious award giving bodies, the BAFTA, announced its line-up for the 2015 awards ceremony.

Bristish comedian Stephen Fry was joined by actor Sam Claflin to read out this year’s hopefuls on Friday morning, ahead of the BAFTA ceremony on February 8.

As expected, Wes Anderson’s stylised comedy film, The Grand Budapest Hotel leads the way at the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2015, with 11 nominations in total.

A pack of British talents are leading this year’s award race with impressive takes from A-listers such as Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne, and Felicity Jones. All of them have scored several nominations in every award giving bodies in Hollywood, and are expected to dominate this year’s Oscar.

EE British Academy Film Awards in 2015 

LEADING ACTOR

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The Imitation Game

EDDIE REDMAYNE The Theory of Everything

JAKE GYLLENHAAL Nightcrawler

MICHAEL KEATON Birdman

RALPH FIENNES The Grand Budapest Hotel

LEADING ACTRESS 

AMY ADAMS Big Eyes

FELICITY JONES The Theory of Everything

JULIANNE MOORE Still Alice

REESE WITHERSPOON Wild

ROSAMUND PIKE Gone Girl

BEST FILM

BIRDMAN Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, James W. Skotchdopole

BOYHOOD Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson

THE IMITATION GAME Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten

SUPPORTING ACTOR

EDWARD NORTON Birdman

ETHAN HAWKE Boyhood

J.K. SIMMONS Whiplash

MARK RUFFALO Foxcatcher

STEVE CARELL Foxcatcher

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

EMMA STONE Birdman

IMELDA STAUNTON Pride

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY The Imitation Game

PATRICIA ARQUETTE Boyhood

RENE RUSSO Nightcrawler

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM 

’71 Yann Demange, Angus Lamont, Robin Gutch, Gregory Burke

THE IMITATION GAME Morten Tyldum, Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman, Graham Moore

PADDINGTON Paul King, David Heyman

PRIDE Matthew Warchus, David Livingstone, Stephen Beresford

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING James Marsh, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten

UNDER THE SKIN Jonathan Glazer, James Wilson, Nick Wechsler, Walter CampbelL

 

DIRECTOR 

BIRDMAN Alejandro G. Iñárritu

BOYHOOD Richard Linklater

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Wes Anderson

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING James Marsh

WHIPLASH Damien Chazelle

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 

BIRDMAN Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Armando Bo

BOYHOOD Richard Linklater

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Wes Anderson

NIGHTCRAWLER Dan Gilroy

WHIPLASH Damien Chazelle

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

AMERICAN SNIPER Jason Hall

GONE GIRL Gillian Flynn

THE IMITATION GAME Graham Moore

PADDINGTON Paul King

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Anthony McCarten

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER 

ELAINE CONSTANTINE (Writer/Director) Northern Soul

GREGORY BURKE (Writer), YANN DEMANGE (Director) ’71

HONG KHAOU (Writer/Director) Lilting

PAUL KATIS (Director/Producer), ANDREW DE LOTBINIÈRE (Producer) Kajaki: The True Story

STEPHEN BERESFORD (Writer), DAVID LIVINGSTONE (Producer) Pride

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 

IDA Pawel Pawlikowski, Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol, Ewa Puszczynska

LEVIATHAN Andrey Zvyagintsev, Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov

THE LUNCHBOX Ritesh Batra, Arun Rangachari, Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga

TRASH Stephen Daldry, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Kris Thykier

TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd

DOCUMENTARY

20 FEET FROM STARDOM Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers, Gil Friesen

20,000 DAYS ON EARTH Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard

CITIZENFOUR Laura Poitras

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER John Maloof, Charlie Siskel

VIRUNGA Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara

ANIMATED FILM

BIG HERO 6 Don Hall, Chris Williams

THE BOXTROLLS Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable

THE LEGO MOVIE Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

ORIGINAL MUSIC

BIRDMAN Antonio Sanchez

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Alexandre Desplat

INTERSTELLAR Hans Zimmer

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Jóhann Jóhannsson

UNDER THE SKIN Mica Levi

CINEMATOGRAPHY

BIRDMAN Emmanuel Lubezki

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Robert Yeoman

IDA Lukasz Zal, Ryzsard Lenczewski

INTERSTELLAR Hoyte van Hoytema

MR. TURNER Dick Pope

EDITING 

Due to a tie in voting in this category, there are six nominations

BIRDMAN Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Barney Pilling

THE IMITATION GAME William Goldenberg NIGHTCRAWLER John Gilroy

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Jinx Godfrey

WHIPLASH Tom Cross

PRODUCTION DESIGN

BIG EYES Rick Heinrichs, Shane Vieau

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock

THE IMITATION GAME Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana MacDonald

INTERSTELLAR Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis

MR. TURNER Suzie Davies, Charlotte Watts

COSTUME DESIGN

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Milena Canonero

THE IMITATION GAME Sammy Sheldon Differ

INTO THE WOODS Colleen Atwood

MR. TURNER Jacqueline Durran

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Steven Noble

MAKE UP & HAIR 

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Frances Hannon

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, David White

INTO THE WOODS Peter Swords King, J. Roy Helland

MR. TURNER Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Jan Sewell

SOUND

AMERICAN SNIPER Walt Martin, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman

BIRDMAN Thomas Varga, Martin Hernández, Aaron Glascock, Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Wayne Lemmer, Christopher Scarabosio, Pawel Wdowczak

THE IMITATION GAME John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Stuart Hilliker, Martin Jensen

WHIPLASH Thomas Curley, Ben Wilkins, Craig Mann

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist, Daniel Barrett

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Stephane Ceretti, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner, Nicolas Aithadi

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White

INTERSTELLAR Paul Franklin, Scott Fisher, Andrew Lockley

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Tim Crosbie, Cameron Waldbauer

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION 

THE BIGGER PICTURE Chris Hees, Daisy Jacobs, Jennifer Majka

MONKEY LOVE EXPERIMENTS Ainslie Henderson, Cam Fraser, Will Anderson

MY DAD Marcus Armitage

BRITISH SHORT FILM 

BOOGALOO AND GRAHAM Brian J. Falconer, Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney

EMOTIONAL FUSEBOX Michael Berliner, Rachel Tunnard

THE KÁRMÁN LINE Campbell Beaton, Dawn King, Tiernan Hanby, Oscar Sharp

SLAP Islay Bell-Webb, Michelangelo Fano, Nick Rowland

THREE BROTHERS Aleem Khan, Matthieu de Braconier, Stephanie Paeplow

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)

GUGU MBATHA-RAW

JACK O’CONNELL

MARGOT ROBBIE

MILES TELLER

SHAILENE WOODLEY

Lupita Nyong’o is 2014’s red-carpet queen!

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In less than a year, Lupita Nyong’o has achieved what many Hollywood newcomers been dreaming about. She won an Oscar for best-supporting actress in “12 Years a Slave”, starred in a fashion campaign for Miu Miu, named world’s most beautiful person of 2014 by People magazine, and landed a major beauty contract with cosmetic giant, Lancome. A major fete for the Mexican-Kenyan actress, who once worked as a production assistant for many Hollywood films.

After graduating from Yale School of Drama in 2012, she auditioned for Steve Mcqueen’s historical drama, in a role that catapulted her to superstardom and became one of Hollywood’s hottest properties.

Her red-carpet appearances stunned everyone and she has become a style icon virtually overnight, earning a spot on just about every best dressed list on the planet. And we couldn’t agree more.

Sorry Kim Kardashian, breaking the internet is such a pathetic ambition. Style-wise, no one has done it like Lupita Nyong’o.

Take a peek at Lupita’sgreatest fashion moments:

Sienna Miller covers Vogue, and tells us Why She’ll Never Be on Twitter.

Sienna Miller is the former it-girl everyone loved to hate. She is the arch-nemesis of Kate Moss when it comes to setting new trends, and one of the world’s most copied style icons.

The British actress graces the January 2015 issue of American Vogue- she talks about the joys of motherhood, her strings of high-profile movies, how she found Instagram “addictive” and why she will never be on Twitter.

The fashion superstar adores being a mother to two-year-old Marlowe – her daughter with partner Tom Sturridge – and says she realised what was missing from her life when the little girl was born.

Sienna said: “I was overwhelmed by how normal it felt. It was like, ‘There you are — that’s what I have been missing.’ Like we’re both in on something only we know. An amazing sense of being complicit with a little being.”

Sienna Miller has been in a relationship with Tom, 29, for three years and the 32-year-old beauty loves the fact there is no “drama” in their lives.

She told Vogue: “Tom is a grounded, intelligent, kind, and intact person. That’s amazing to be around. That’s the father of my child. There’s no drama.”

On her short-lived affair with Instagram and why she won’t sign-up for Twitter: “It was the most addictive thing,” she says of Instagram. “Every morning I’d wake up and there would be a thousand more followers or whatever and there would be these amazing greetings like ‘Welcome! We love you!’ ” She laughs nervously. “I’d be inflated by this nonexistent, intangible love. I was like, ‘I need to get off this.’ But it only lasted for five days.

“Tweeting. I find it weird, that word. It just sounds babyish. There’s something so ridiculous.” she tells Vogue.

The actress appears on Bennett Miller’s wrestling drama Foxcatcher, in which she has a supporting role. American Sniper, a gripping real-life story of the late decorated U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, starring Bradley Cooper as Kyle and directed by the flinty American icon Clint Eastwood. Unfinished Business, a comedy with Vince Vaughn, and the Boston-mobster sagaBlack Mass, with Miller the moll to Johnny Depp’s Whitey Bulger.  Mississippi Grind, with indie auteurs Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, and High-Rise, a J. G. Ballard drama with Jeremy Irons. Miller is also signed on for the upcoming Amazon mystery The Lost City of Z, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Pattinson, and Live by Night, Ben Affleck’s much-anticipated follow-up to his Oscar-winning Argo. -Vogue

Check out more of Sienna‘s shoot here, and the January issue hits stands 17 December.

photos: Mario Testino/Vogue

Julia Roberts stars in Givenchy Spring 2015 campaign.

Photography by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

Fancy seeing you, Pretty Woman! Fashion world’s latest icon is no social media star, and she only appears on movie premiere, awards show, and press junket for her movies. But her “smile”, a smile that could put Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to shame, was prevented from making an appearance from the Givenchy shoot. Creative director, Ricardo Tisci told her, “Because your smile is so beautiful and everybody knows you for that, I think it should be no smile,”. Such is the power of Julia Roberts.

Read the full interview below:

Riccardo Tisci on collaborating with his latest muse Julia Roberts.

How did you decide you wanted to go out to Julia with the request?

I wanted it to be an honest collection, true to myself and true to Givenchy, of course, but more to myself. It was a very pure message. Very black and white. A powerful woman, with sex appeal but at the same time with masculinity, which is my style. And I wanted an honest campaign. Every house has a show—you sell that, of course, but you do have in the shop what are your icons. I always start from my icons. The world is so full of images, so full of everything, if you don’t have an identity, it’s very difficult to find the point of where you want to go. Soon it’s going to be 10 years [that I’m at Givenchy]; I really wanted to shoot my iconic pieces. The first time Julia contacted me to work with me was for the red carpet and she wanted my tuxedo. I thought it would be amazing [to get her] for the campaign. I respect her a lot as a beauty and as a woman. She’s a very intelligent girl. And a very funny girl. Super-funny. And very confident of herself, which is very much my woman, you know like Marina [Abramovic], Mariacarla [Boscono]. I thought it would be difficult because Julia really doesn’t do [campaigns], so I was surprised that she said yes.

What was the shoot like?

It was a very strong day for me. Mert and Marcus were shooting. They both turned around and said, ‘Wow, it’s Julia Roberts.” It was quite strong. She was very professional. Sometimes you shoot someone who’s so popular, you try to make it glam, but I really wanted her the way she arrived: black jacket, men’s shirt, jeans, which is really what we have in common. No hair, no makeup. I said to her, “Because your smile is so beautiful and everybody knows you for that, I think it should be no smile,” and she was really cool. She said we should go for it. We did it, and there we are, I’m very happy. It’s a powerful picture.

How did Julia feel about being makeup-less?

She’s very cool. Of course, she’s conscious of herself. When you’re a well-known designer, you’re paranoid about your looks, so imagine when you’re so well-loved by everybody. She saw the first picture and she liked it, she said because “I can see myself, my real self.” Which was the concept, not to try to make her glamorous. We wanted her more cool, more masculine, more real, more American, if I can say, more urban, more New Yorker. And it was so easy, so fast. The fastest shoot I’ve done in my life. It was a really nice mood on the set, you know, because we’re family, we’re friends. She felt at home—that I think really helped.

Today, celebrity has become so much [about] how many followers you have, how big you are on Facebook. For me, she represents a pure talent and a pure beauty. So many celebrities are celebrities today not because of their talent. That’s fine, it’s the moment today. But she’s an iconic actress.

She succeeded without social media.

It was a moment for me. And it’s strange, because I’m always working with a lot of celebrities. With her it was really special. It’s probably because I grew up with Pretty Woman. In Italy, when it came out, that movie was so big. She became an icon straightaway in Italy. She’s like a Miss America, even without doing so much press. Of course movie press, but not fashion press.

When you choose a celebrity for a campaign, are you thinking about the impact your choice will have globally, or is it more of a personal decision?

It’s more a personal decision. It needs to be very honest. Julia is a big star, but I’ve worked with celebrities who weren’t. Erykah [Badu] disappeared for so long. For me she’s a great artist and she’s going to come out with an album soon, but people had forgotten about her. I didn’t care, because I respect her so much, she’s such a beauty. I’m not into classic beauty. I need to fall in love with the person. People were shocked about Erykah. Isabelle Huppert is famous, but a lot of countries didn’t know her. I don’t mind about that. I really like strong women. And Julia is a strong woman. So it’s not about fame. If it was about fame, I could have friends of mine who I really love [do it]. It’s more about the [model’s] strength as a woman, strength as a man. It’s always very difficult to find a strong man. It’s much easier to find a strong woman.

Who are some strong men for you?

Who’s a strong man? Does it exist? Jay Z is a strong man. Kanye is a strong man. Brad Pitt is a beautiful man, but he’s not a strong man. Obama. I love Obama. Who else? Keanu Reeves is a strong man, even if he disappeared for a bit. There is another one I really like, but someone came before me. Willem Dafoe. I love him, but Prada came before. She was faster than me, Miuccia. When you talk to him, you fall in love.

Reporting from: style.com

Terminator: Genisys trailer

A sneak peek on the upcomingTerminator: Genisys, in case, you Geek might be interested.

The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke (yes, Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO series Game of Thrones), Australian actorJason Clarke (the hero in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes),  Jai Courtney (he is Eric of Divergent), English actor Matt Smith and the hunky Korean actor Lee Byung-hun (as the  T-1000).

The film will be released on July 01, 2015.

Check it out below.