The New Queen of Comedy - Lena Dunham x Vogue US

Oh my! I can't control my excitement right now, like seriously Lena Dunhan got American Vogue cover --- this early, wow!! Now, that's how to launch BIG!

I'm really short of words *as I write this, am flipping between the editorial photos and my thoughts* it's just a brilliant and drastic move no one saw coming...well, except Anna Wintour. Who else sees beyond now..and the future?

Photographed by renowned Annie Leibovitz, Lena shows off her 'funny' side both on the cover and through the inside editorials featuring co-star Adam Driver.

Lena Dunham wears several designer pieces including, Dolce & Gabbana, Rochas, Alexander McQueen, Prada, Celine, etc all through the editorial...and yeah, she looks beautiful even for a non-size zero (kudos to the weight loss).

More photos below while I go off to read her full interview HERE

Marking a Mark – Marks & Spenser ‘Wining Woman’ Campaign

I love Marks & Spenser’s idea of using inspiring/influential women to promote the Autumn/Winter collection

The campaign shot by Annie Leibovitz features U.S Vogue creative director Grace Coddington, Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren, former ballerina Darcey Bussell and artist Tracey Emim wearing clothes from the new range.

This is a brilliant approach for a brand that has been out of the scene for a while; I’m sure the whole ‘women of power’ shoot will do a fantastic trick to sales.

The collection itself is beautiful, appropriate and very functional for the hardworking-stylish woman. 

"Secret Garden"

Dior's new campaign 'Secret Garden' starring Dior favorite Daria Strokous as well as several models.  Photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, the campaign features models lounging around, dancing and showing off their Dior handbags and outfits in a misty forest near Petit Trianon.

Inspired by Édouard Manet’s famous painting “The Luncheon on the Grass” (the first image) but forum members also pointed out stylistic similarities with the photography of Annie Leibovitz. Not exactly my type of campaign but I'd give it to the photography; it's creative and describes the Dior fantasy.

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Stand out in Stripes

Spot Liu Wen and Karlie Kloss in Michael Kors cashmere sweater shatung skirt and

Marc Jacobs double-face wool top + skirt (all stripes) respectively for US Vogue fashion

shoot in honour of hurricane sandy.

Photographed by Annie Leibovitz

Team USA! Serena Williams, Ryan Lochte and Hope Solo go Shirtless for US Vogue June 2012

I am absolutely loving this cover - it's the Olympics y'all!

Okay, trying to keep calm now, but the cover looks amazing - It features soccer star Hope Solo, swimmer Ryan Lochte, and tennis champ Serena Williams. Oh and the Karlie Kloss fashion editorial is fantastic! Pictured inside is track and field star Ashton Eaton and another shirtless pic of Ryan with model Karlie Kloss for the Annie Leibovitz-shot fashion spread

Not to say too much, I'll go get a copy - say in few days when it arrives here - then return to more opinion. Till then, Love, Kisses and Chanel

Annie Leibovitz's Odyssey

Excerpts and photographs from Pilgrimage by Annie Leibovitz, Copyright © 2011 A.L. Archive LLC.

A couple of years ago, seeking solace during what she describes as “financial difficulties that were distracting in the extreme,” Annie Leibovitz took time out from her professional assignments to embark on an evolving, open-ended photographic journey that led her from coast to coast and to England and back, exploring places that intrigued her and the vestiges of lives gone by—a project that gradually took shape as a book. From the dauntingly resilient American architecture of geysers, mountains, and waterfalls to the homes of a panoply of historical figures from Emerson to Elvis Presley, Leibovitz sinks her teeth into a sizable chunk of our cultural heritage, taking us ever deeper inside the experience. The view from the window of the greenhouse where Virginia Woolf wrote her novels, Thomas Jefferson’s vegetable garden at Monticello, an etching copied onto the walls of the Alcott family home in Massachusetts by May Alcott (the inspiration for Amy in Little Women) scale down our perception of these large personalities to intensely human dimensions and draw us into the intimate texture of their lives. And when Leibovitz focuses her lens even more tightly on objects—the chaise longue, found upended in a closet, that Freud died on; Emily Dickinson’s only surviving dress; the worn and broken pastels Georgia O’Keeffe worked with—the results are almost shockingly disarming.