Michelle Williams Does Marilyn Justice!

Michelle Williams portrays Marilyn Monroe, the legendary and perhaps most iconic face in Cinema history in the new pages of Vogue magazines October 2011 cover edition.

On not being as guarded during interviews... “I feel like something has changed for me, but it’s a new change, so it’s going to be hard for me to describe. Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don’t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don’t feel scared to have an idea and express it. I feel giddy about it because it’s a complete transformation. It’s like I’ve found my voice.”

Michelle cites a story that Monroe used to tell about walking down the beach in a bikini as a teenager and suddenly feeling the whole world open up to her... “Any messages that I got as a child about what it is to have a woman’s body or to be sexual were all negative—that people wouldn’t take you seriously or that they would take advantage of you. So I couldn’t relate to that at all. The expectation to be beautiful always makes me feel ugly because I feel like I can’t live up to it. But I do remember one moment of being all suited up as Marilyn and walking from my dressing room onto the soundstage practicing my wiggle. There were three or four men gathered around a truck, and I remember seeing that they were watching me come and feeling that they were watching me go—and for the very first time I glimpsed some idea of the pleasure I could take in that kind of attention; not their pleasure but my pleasure. And I thought, Oh, maybe Marilyn felt that when she walked down the beach.”

On how daunting playing such an iconic figure was... “As soon as I finished the script [for My Week with Marilyn], I knew that I wanted to do it, and then I spent six months trying to talk myself out of it. But I always knew that I never really had a choice. I’ve started to believe that you get the piece of material that you were ready for.”

On gaining weight to approximate Marilyn’s curves... “Unfortunately, it went right to my face (puffs up cheeks to illustrate). So at some point it became a question of, Do I want my face to look like Marilyn Monroe’s or my hips?” (She opted for the former and filled out the latter with foam padding.)

For the rest of the article, scoot over to Vogue.com!





Michelle on portraying Marilyn.

Kate is: Fashion's Elite Speak On Her Presence

Vogue.com interwiews Fashion's elite for a special look at what Super Model Kate Moss is to them. From Designer Marc Jacobs to Photographer Mario Testino they speak on the recently married Moss and the life and energy she emits.

Kate Moss Covers Vogue September Issue

The undeniable Kate Moss graces the cover of the ever important Vogue magazine September issue in a deep purple gown by Alexander McQueen and photographed by Peruvian fashion photographer Mario Testino. The now 37 year old " heroin chic" beauty is interviewed by Vogue on her recent marriage to The Kills frontman Jamie Hince and some generous words she was given bu Mario Testino when her big modeling gig for John Galliano’s first Paris show didn't go as planned.

[O]ff-camera nerves are fragile. The groom-to-be “is terrified,” says Kate. His prospective bride is in denial. “Let’s put it this way,” she says. “If I didn’t have my friends. . . . I don’t know how people do it. I’ve had big birthday parties, and I’ve thrown parties for other people, but this is a completely different thing. It’s the Met Ball! Because you have to look at every piece of cutlery; the details are intense. And then you wake up thinking about the ballet shoes for the girls; is the satin ribbon right? I’ve gone mental. Jamie thinks I’m mad, asking, ‘Are you gonna be all right? After the wedding, I’m hoping you’ll get back to normal!’ ”

Mario has known her since she was a fragile sixteen-year-old, crying her eyes out backstage at John Galliano’s first Paris show. In that dim, distant past, when a model’s success was judged by the number of changes she had in a show, Kate had been given only one outfit and was feeling unloved. Mario comforted her. “You know, in life there’s perfume and there’s cologne,” he told her. “Cologne, you have to spray every fifteen minutes. Perfume, you put a drop and it lasts a week. You’re perfume.”

Vogue's September issue is on news stands now for your viewing pleasure.

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Uh-Oh, Never Silence The Truth Kiddas

According to one of our favorite fashion writer's, Leah Chernikoff, "

Back in February, Vogue took a lot of crap for publishing a puffy swoony profile of Syria’s first lady, Asma al-Assad. And rightly so–the gushy piece by Joan Juliet Buck, “Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert,” which ran in Vogue‘s March issue, ignored Syria’s abysmal human rights record and that al-Assad’s husband, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, is, to quote the Atlantic‘s Max Fisher, “an anti-American autocrat.”

Shortly after the piece was published, Fisher got in touch with Vogue senior editor Chris Knutsen, the story’s editor, to get his rationale for the profile that painted Syria in such a glowing light. (Buck described Asma al-Assad as “glamorous, young, and very chic–the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies,” and said of her husband that he is “a precise man who takes photographs and talks lovingly about his first computer.”) At the time, Knutsen stood by Buck’s story and Vogue‘s decision to publish it, saying “We felt that a personal interview with Syria’s first lady would hold strong interest for our readers…The piece was not meant in any way to be a referendum on the al-Assad regime. It was a profile of the first lady.”

But good luck trying to find that story on Vogue.com today (you get this lovely image and error message instead). Gawker noticed that the fashion bible’s site has “disappeared” the controversial piece, which would seem to imply that the mag had second thoughts about the story after all. Gawker continues, “since Vogue published an exquisitely timed fawning profile of the…first lady of Syria Asma al-Assad in February, her husband has presided over the murder of more than 300 demonstrators and jailed more than 10,000 political prisoners in a bloody crackdown. Now Asma has fled to England and Vogue has tossed the profile down the memory hole.” And if you thought that the article’s disappearance was just standard turnover for the site, other pieces from that same issue are still live."

Tsk Tsk Tsk Vogue magazine! You should've investigated and done a better with your research on this one. If you ever have an article that is in danger of being taken down (that is there's a difference between having a voice to be heard, and having a voice to hurt), that means you've hit the bullseye because your being thought provoking but yet you've vanished and scurried along with the once published story as well. Stand behind everything you preach and write a follow-up if need be. Never back down.

Uh-Oh, Never Silence The Truth Kiddas

According to one of our favorite fashion writer's, Leah Chernikoff, "

Back in February, Vogue took a lot of crap for publishing a puffy swoony profile of Syria’s first lady, Asma al-Assad. And rightly so–the gushy piece by Joan Juliet Buck, “Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert,” which ran in Vogue‘s March issue, ignored Syria’s abysmal human rights record and that al-Assad’s husband, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, is, to quote the Atlantic‘s Max Fisher, “an anti-American autocrat.”

Shortly after the piece was published, Fisher got in touch with Vogue senior editor Chris Knutsen, the story’s editor, to get his rationale for the profile that painted Syria in such a glowing light. (Buck described Asma al-Assad as “glamorous, young, and very chic–the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies,” and said of her husband that he is “a precise man who takes photographs and talks lovingly about his first computer.”) At the time, Knutsen stood by Buck’s story and Vogue‘s decision to publish it, saying “We felt that a personal interview with Syria’s first lady would hold strong interest for our readers…The piece was not meant in any way to be a referendum on the al-Assad regime. It was a profile of the first lady.”

But good luck trying to find that story on Vogue.com today (you get this lovely image and error message instead). Gawker noticed that the fashion bible’s site has “disappeared” the controversial piece, which would seem to imply that the mag had second thoughts about the story after all. Gawker continues, “since Vogue published an exquisitely timed fawning profile of the…first lady of Syria Asma al-Assad in February, her husband has presided over the murder of more than 300 demonstrators and jailed more than 10,000 political prisoners in a bloody crackdown. Now Asma has fled to England and Vogue has tossed the profile down the memory hole.” And if you thought that the article’s disappearance was just standard turnover for the site, other pieces from that same issue are still live."

Tsk Tsk Tsk Vogue magazine! You should've investigated and done a better with your research on this one. If you ever have an article that is in danger of being taken down (that is there's a difference between having a voice to be heard, and having a voice to hurt), that means you've hit the bullseye because your being thought provoking but yet you've vanished and scurried along with the once published story as well. Stand behind everything you preach and write a follow-up if need be. Never back down.