"What is a femme fatale?" asks Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Emmanuelle  Alt in her March 2014 editorial. "Is she a miracle of nature? A vamp? A  master of sartorial enhancement? She's a fantasy figure, sure, but so  complexly drawn that try to name just one or two of these women and  you'll realize that they are all very different."
To answer the question, we called on not just one, but four generations  of muses. Fashion superstar Lara Stone lays bare a troubling beauty in  deep black and magnetic red for Mert & Marcus on the cover and from  the flaming-hot figure of the model launched by Vogue Paris back in 2007  as she raises the temperature in tuxedos, to Jane Birkin's essentials  and the magnetism of Betty Catroux, via the disturbing innocence of  Marine Vacht, the muse takes shape inside the magazine. But she's not  just one woman, the femme fatale is more an iconic, astounding allure  that breaks all the rules. This same refusal of classic codes also runs  through editorials featuring some of the biggest girls of the moment,  including Natasha Poly, Edie Campbell and Karlie Kloss,  who readily play with their femininity as they explore what the term  really means. And no-one more so than Toni Garrn, who sacrificed her  honey blonde locks live for the magazine, in favor of an assertive bob  in this issue. Stunning Amazonian women have always been at home in the  magazine, evidenced in this month's supplement of beautiful vintage  images from Coming into Fashion, a Century of Photography at Condé Nast,  a new exhibition at Paris' Palais Galliera March 1 - May 25.
Vogue Paris n°945, on newsstands February 21