'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

Gigi Hadid Is Airborne in V#134, Mario Sorrenti's Fearless Gigi Sequel for V Magazine

Fearless Gigi Is Airborne in V#134, Mario Sorrenti's Part Two of Hadid for V Magazine AOC Fashion

Supermodel Gigi Hadid extends her special Contributing Editor relationship with V Magazine, soaring onto the cover of issue V134 Spring 2022. V brings together the original team behind Fearless Gigi Part One in V 114 [2018], with Hadid herself suggesting that they take a true ‘Leap of Faith’ by shooting the story flying-trapeze style on a rooftop near Manhattan’s West Side Highway.

AOC notes that Serena Williams interviewed Gigi in the first V114 Fearless Gigi story.

Related: First Look: Gigi Hadid By Mario Sorrenti For V Magazine #114 w/Interview By Serena Williams AOC Fashion

Back to the flying trapeze proposal, master photographer Mario Sorrenti [IG] was game, as was stylist George Cortina. Hairstylist Bob Recine was onboard, along with IMG’s Luiz Mattos. Diane Kendal was on makeup and Mathias Rosenweig edits the text, based on Hadid’s interview of the ORIGINAL players: Sorrenti, Cortina, Recine and Mattos.

The result is a high-bar fashion story with Gigi wearing clothes from Balenciaga, Burberry by Riccardo Tisci, Coperni, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and more.

Let’s not forget the Balenciaga heels Cortina choose to elevate the already impressive badass persona Hadid had embraced in suggesting the aerial fashion flight in the first place.

AOC imagines that multiple creatives working in New York can relate to Gigi’s own breakout desire to go aerial and original in the fashion shoot.

It’s not often that the model in a photo shoot interviews the remaining members of the ensemble. But Gigi Hadid has always been focused on being the center of a larger storytelling narrative. In her own words:

I wanted to interview everyone who was a part of this team so that the people reading it who want to be a part of the photo process, but not necessarily a model, get some perspective. When you do a shoot like this, what kind of expectations do you have, and then how have you learned to let loose and go with the flow? Because on a shoot like this, we’re at a trapeze-training facility on top of a building on the West Side Highway and you have to get the shot in. I went up there less than 10 times and you had, at most, under a minute.

When asked about his initial reaction to Hadid’s flying trapeze idea, Mario Sorrenti responded: “Well, you know me. I was like, “Oh my God, can she do it? It’s so dangerous.” I’m always worried about your safety first. And then I thought, “Well, she’s pretty badass, and she killed it when we did the jet ski, so let’s try it.”

AOC believes that Sorrenti actually quietly checked his insurance policy next, but let’s keep that part under wraps. What’s with that standard “reckless endangerment” clause, Mario?

Read on at V Magazine, clearly in breakout mode to start 2022. Goddess knows we need the adrenalin jumpstart, so thanks for this creative New Years gift.

Lachlan Bailey Captures Calvin Klein FW 2020 | Linh Peters New CMO

Lachlan Bailey Captures Calvin Klein FW 2020 | Linh Peters New CMO

Top models Kendall Jenner, Mayowa Nicholas and Rebecca Leigh Longendyke bring Calvin Klein’s Fall 2020 campaign to downtown LA. Lachlan Bailey captures the trio, styled by George Cortina in Calvin Klein’s at ease, yet sophisticated modern woman dressing. / Hair by Shay Ashua; makeup by Carrasquillo

Linh Peters New Calvin Klein CMO

The $9 billion Calvin Klein brand announced today that former Starbucks vice president Linh Peters will become global chief marketing officer for Calvin Klein, effective Nov. 2.

Peters will lead all aspects of Calvin Klein’s consumer organization with a focus on developing the Calvin Klein brand experience, product marketing and data-driven innovation, reports WWD. In addition to her extensive career at Starbucks, Linh Peters held senior positions at Ultra Beauty and Target.