'Don't Look Up' Star Jennifer Lawrence by Lachlan Bailey for Vanity Fair Magazine

Actor Jennifer Lawrence covered the December 2021 issue of Vanity Fair, wearing Dior on the cover and Balenciaga Haute Couture, Celine by Hedi Slimane, Courrèges, Hermes, N°21, Tom Ford, Valentino Haute Couture and more in her fashion story. George Cortina styles Lawrence in images by Lachlan Bailey [IG].

All the buzz in the Lawrence interview centered on her time out from on-screen dominance, being pregnant with her first child with husband, art dealer Cooke Maroney, the ongoing challenge of managing her fame and ongoing internal psychological fallout from the infamous leaks of her private photos. We learned about what could have been an early-death plane crash for the star.

As for her career, Lawrence professed nervousness about walking back into the spotlight.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, the 31-year-old star said: "I'm so nervous... I haven't spoken to the world in forever. And to come back now, when I have all of these new accessories added to my life that I obviously want to protect."

"Every instinct in my body wants to protect their privacy for the rest of their lives, as much as I can. I don't want anyone to feel welcome into their existence. And I feel like that just starts with not including them in this part of my work," Lawrence explained to Vanity Fair’s Karen Valby.

Speaking about movies like ‘Passengers,’ ‘Mother!’, and ‘Red Sparrow’, Lawrence was eager to self-critique. "I was not pumping out the quality that I should have," she said. "I just think everybody had gotten sick of me. I'd gotten sick of me."

What Jennifer Lawrence didn’t know at the time of her Vanity Fair interview is that her new movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ is beyond blockbuster. It tallied a record-breaking number of hours viewed in a single week, according to Netflix.

Even more impressive, the satirical film described by its director Adam McKay, as aimed to be “a kick in the pants” that prompts urgent action on climate change, already sits at Netflix’s second biggest film ever.

In ‘Don’t Look Up’, a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth is a metaphor for the global climate crisis. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play distraught scientists scrambling to get politicians to act, and the public to believe them. This includes Meryl Streep, who represents US President, an uber-narcissistic President Orlean. Ahem. And Streep is back to being a babe. . . in red glasses and red suits.

We share a trailer of the film ‘Don’t Look Up’.

The film ‘Don’t Look Up’ has created tremendous joyous discussion and disagreement among scientists and activists, but also consensus that the film could be a jump-starter in the culture’s comparative inaction around climate science. Read more about the film in these articles.

Don’t Just Watch: Team Behind ‘Don’t Look Up’ Urges Climate Action New York Times

Don’t Look Up Is a Climate-Change Comedy That Hates Having to Entertain Vulture

Don’t Look Up: four climate experts on the polarising disaster film The Guardian

Official Site ‘Don’t Look Up’ Netflix

Margot Robbie Delights in Lachlan Bailey Flamingo Estate LA Fashion Shoot

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Margot Robbie Delights in Lachlan Bailey Flamingo Estate LA Fashion Shoot AOC Fashion

The real magic of British Vogue’s August 2021 cover story with actor Margot Robbie is that it was a gathering of Australians. Flying to Los Angeles when so many fashion shoots are now virtual, Australian stylist and art director Clare Richardson felt inspired and downright joyous.

Few fashion stories and interviews are a joy to read, especially for a serious person like myself. Yet, Robbie’s feature is a true getaway— perhaps because she talks unapologetically a lot about her work and excitement over her success. It was a quick read with no angst that AOC truly enjoyed.

In today’s world, any interview that leaves one smiling and appreciative of the moment, is a success. That’s probably due to Margot Robbie, who Richardson describes as “down-to-earth, professional and polite (on set, you always notice the person who says hello to everyone). There was no fuss; she is warm, kind and grounded, yet extremely smart and astute.”

Normal fashion chatter like fellow Aussie, photographer Lachlan Bailey, sharing amused delight over Robbie’s new haircut — a French-girl fringe and golden highlights — made me smile.

Shooting in the gardens of the Flamingo Estate immediately got my attention, primarily because we added another Australian Richard Christiansen to the friendly California fashion crew salad. The Flaming Estate brand is another story worth pursuing after one look at the website.

So now you have the entire mood and cast of characters that produced the British Vogue August 2021 cover fashion story. As the Flamingo Estate website says “It’s time to feel good again.”

That message isn’t escapism, anxiety and stress over climate change, women in Afghanistan, Black Lives Matter, the fifth iteration of COVID, American going to war over face masks, and the rise of white nationalism.

It’s about simple delights California style, which means that the bar of Flamingo Estate soap is $25 but it truly is medicine from the garden — beautiful, fragrant, and the work of mother nature — “our doctor, therapist and friend. Take care of her and she’ll take care of you.” That’s food for thought, and yes, you can shop the pantry.

Eva Wiseman shares the Robbie interview, which just rolls on in a survey of the star’s career and successes. In a story I already knew — and adore: “The description of the character she read for in Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ was “the hottest blonde ever”; she went off-script and slapped Leonardo DiCaprio hard across the face, launching her into the humid air of movie stardom.” [Every woman needs a story like this one!”]

Robbie’s a friendly feminist to the core, naming her 2014 production company with husband Tom Ackerley and two other creative friends ‘Lucky Chap’. Its aim was to tell women’s stories on-screen, and to support female creators behind the scenes – a plan grounded in business as much as politics. An early production was “I Tonya”, the biopic of skater Tonya Harding that garnered Robbie’s first Oscar nomination.

You must read the entire interview. Robbie returns now to her role of Harley Quinn in an all new film ‘The Suicide Squad’. - Rebellion’.

Rianne Van Rompaey in Night Opulence by Lachlan Bailey for Vogue Paris June-July 2021

Rianne Van Rompaey in Night Opulence by Lachlan Bailey for Vogue Paris June-July 2021

Rianne Van Rompaey and Andrés Velencoso Segura pose as the dazzling Parisian couple in ‘Joyaux de Nuit’’. Emmanuelle Alt chooses a high-society, luxury brand lineup including Alexandre Vauthier, Chanel, Dior, Falke, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, Society Room, Victoria Beckham and more,

Photographer Lachlan Bailey captures the couple for Vogue Paris June/July 2021 issue./ Hair by Damien Boissinot; makeup by Christelle Coquet