Vanity Fair March 2012 : The Hollywood Issue by Mario Testino

[tarsha]

In the first-ever Hollywood Issue cover shoot from Vanity Fair contributing photographer Mario Testino, a bevy of Hollywood’s most precocious beauties lounge across a three-panel foldout—including two new Oscar nominees. The Art Deco set was designed to evoke the all-white, Jazz Age interiors of English decorator Syrie Maugham, whose clients included Bunny Mellon, Elsa Schiaparelli, and the Duchess of Windsor; V.F.’s fashion and style director, Jessica Diehl, put the 11 cover starlets in pastel satin dresses and frothy feathers to lend a 20s and 30s boudoir feel. Across the panels are actresses Rooney Mara, Mia Wasikowska, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Elizabeth Olsen, Adepero Oduye, Shailene Woodley, Paula Patton, Felicity Jones, Lily Collins, and Brit Marling. Mara and Chastain—both featured on the front panel—were nominated for Academy Awards in January, Mara for her portrayal of cyberpunk hacker Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Chastain for her supporting role in Tate Taylor’s Oscar heavyweight, The Help. (The Julliard grad also had starring roles in Take Shelter, The Tree of Life, and Coriolanus in 2011.)

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[visualoptimism]

rooney mara looks seriously odd with that kind of styling! i don't like mia's make-up or her styling either. jennifer lawrence looks pretty good actually and jessica chastain too! elizabeth olsen looks more and more like her sisters with every picture i see of her!

thanks for posting tarsha.

[MulletProof]

I love that Rooney Mara is like the Lady Gaga of Hollywood ...

So over Jessica Chastain. Mia and Jennifer look good, I wish Felicity Jones was in the cover with them (in replacement of the other two).

[cottonmouth13]

This is so VF. I think I actually like it. Reminds me of the March 2008 one. Although I'm a little distracted with Shailene's pose especially her facial expression. It looks like she's gonna throw up or something. Shame cause I like her.

[MON]

I love it! I love the light touch! Very summery! I love the boudoir effect it gives. All the girls look prety but damn Rooney Mara is on her own league! She`s just effortlessly posing but her lips, glare and hair is amazing! I love it!

[whysper]

It feels redundant with their young Hollywood issue. It's always the classic glamour from the 50s.

[Srdjan]

I don't know any of these (or I can't recognize them)

[ForChicSake]

jennifer, rooney, mia and felicity

[honeycombchild]

I usually look forward to seeing this issue but I have to say, I think this my least favourite Hollywood cover. The colours are all too sickly muted, I get what they were going for I'm just really not a fan at all.

[pixiedust1603]

I really love it. It helps that I like everyone featured on the cover. I think Mia looks flawless.

[Kite]

It reminds me of a cheaper version of Annie's


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The posing is even quite similar. Having said that....I do like it. Its pretty. Rooney looks Zombified and Mia's boobs look saggy. And I wish they had swapped that Jennifer Lawrence girl for Amber Heard, or even one of the other girls to give it a little (Dare I Say it) "Diversity"

[Miss Dalloway]

Easily their best Hollywood cover they have done in years, they all look stunning.

[Label Basher]

OMG what did they do to Mia. Jennifer looks good BUT has been airbrushed to hell. Jessica is the only one who looks decent. I hate the hair with the palet.

Not a fan at all. This has to be one of the worst especially after last years sexy/glam cover.

[rox_yr_sox]

Not too bad at all. I like the 'Golden Age of Hollywood' style they're going for. But I can't help thinking it would be pulled off a bit bit better by some grown women at the height of career strength and talent, not a bunch of little women (not trying to denigrate the cover stars here, just their relative youth and inexperience). Nice to get fresh blood in the form of a new photographer after so much Leibovitz, though I suppose I can't expect any thing really exciting from the interior shots given it is Testino.

[Flashbang]

Someone over VF must really hate Lizzy Olsen.