US Harper's Bazaar October 2013 : Miley Cyrus by Terry Richardson

[FrenchDelicacy]

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[Bobby153]

You know what, that's really not a bad cover at all.
She looks good...

 

[Miss Dalloway]

She does, gorgeous actually!

Still have zero interest in seeing her on the covers!

 

[Cosmic Voices]

She actually looks really good. Anything to do with Miley I cringe at, but the pose, styling and hair is appropriate. I was getting sick of seeing her either in sl*tty punk or couture eds. I wish her hair was like that on the sides, I hate the shaved look

 

[gossiping]

nice cover, but a shame it's her

 

[fluxxx]

Wow, this is thousand times better than what I expected. I was expecting a mega mess, close up shot with the boring white background but this is nice! She looks nice

 

[justaguy]

Not a bad cover but Bazaar sure does love their gold backdrops!

 

[jeffandtheworld]

She looks good but it kinda looks like a party candid

 

[TheoG]

This is nice to see her made up and looking more mature, I was expecting her in underwear and a bra lol.

 

[rougevalentino]

Shot by Terry Richardson.
Better quality cover:

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Editorial preview:

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[GlamorousBoy]

so US Bazaar is retruning back right into the times when its covers looked like created in 5 minutes, shooting counted...

 

[pixiedust1603]

This is surprisingly a good cover considering it's Miley.

 

[Bertrando3]

so US Bazaar is retruning back right into the times when its covers looked like created in 5 minutes, shooting counted...

my thoughts exactly this is tragic to see such a magazine turn into this when back in the old old olllld days Bazaar used to be cool and supermodels everywhere and creative as well, that we have this... ya...

 

[beedonaldson]

Her interview by Derek Blasberg. I've bolded the most eye-roll worthy parts. She's so up herself.

Miley Cyrus is wearing an oversize sweatshirt and nothing else, curled up in an enormous trailer parked outside Soundstage 24 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. She's just unpacked her "kit," which is what the 20-year-old pop star calls the gym bag full of over-the-top, blingy, fabulous accessories that she brings everywhere. There are Chanel logo suspenders and belts, Versace Medusa necklaces and brooches, spiked stilettos, hats, and miles of shiny gold chains. "I never know when I'm going to be like, 'Photo shoot!' And need some weird stuff to whip out." What if there's a sudden swarm of paparazzi? Or worse: "What if I get to a photo shoot and the stylist just sucks? So I bring my own ****." Cyrus, whose fourth album, Bangerz, is out this month, today is filming an MTV promotion—and, sure enough, when she's dressed in a tight white crop top and tiny black shorts, she dips into her kit to layer on gold necklaces and a low-slung vintage Chanel chain belt.

It's been a year since "I started trying to take over the world," she says, unknowingly paraphrasing a comment that Madonna made on American Bandstand nearly three decades ago, when she herself was an over-accessorized twentysomething. (In 1984, asked by Dick Clark what her future plans were, Madonna responded, "To rule the world.") It all began when the fresh-faced Disney star shaved the sides and back of her head, leaving a shock of platinum on top. "It changed everyone else's life more than it changed mine," Cyrus says with a laugh about her new 'do. But she's not kidding: Since wrapping the Hannah Montana series in 2011, the little girl who led a double life on a top-rated kids' TV show has reemerged in the public sphere as a provocative pop sensation.

The new look apparently had been brewing for some time. Cyrus released the album Can't Be Tamed during her final year as Hannah Montana. When the series wrapped, she semiretired. "I took off and I just wanted to party. I worked so hard, and I wanted to buy a house and just chill." She moved out of the house she shared with her parents, the Southern crooner Billy Ray (he of "Achy Breaky Heart" fame) and Tish Cyrus, and in with her fiancé, Liam Hemsworth. "I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid," she says. There are times when I'm sitting in my big ole house and I'm like, 'I can't believe I'm allowed to be here alone.' " (She and Hemsworth have been reportedly on and off and back on, but she declines to talk about their relationship. She will, however, say that she still plans on getting married. Eventually. "I definitely don't have time to deal with a wedding right now. But I will at some point.") She bought a car, a white Maserati with a Ferrari engine, and built a skate ramp in her backyard because she was too famous to go to the skate parks in her neighborhood. "I want my house to be the party house!" she says, flashing a big smile lined in bright-red lipstick.

On the point of partying, Cyrus brings up Justin Bieber, whose teenage rebellion is in full stride (as evidenced by the monkey incident and naked YouTube serenades). She wants to elaborate on the advice she recently gave him: "I'm not saying you need to take a break because you're crazy. I'm saying you need to take a break so you can be crazy, and people aren't going to judge you. You're going to do dumb stuff from here on out. But do it in your own time. Do it safely. You can afford to protect yourself and still have fun." She likens it to celebrities who get arrested for drunk driving. "Why don't they just get a driver?"

Blinged out, blindingly platinum, and with that banging body on display, it's clear that Cyrus is in the driver's seat of her new image. Take the much buzzed-about music video for her hit "We Can't Stop," which shows her cavorting erotically with life-size plushy toys. "We're in a world of selfies," she says of the unconventional glamour shots in the video. "I told my label: 'This is the first time I'm showing you what I'm bringing to the table as an artist. If this goes wrong, you never have to trust me again. I'll be your little puppet. But if I'm right, then you know I'm on to something.'" In fact, she was on to something—the video racked up almost 11 million views on its first day on Vevo.com.

Her ability to twerk, a slang term for hip-hop's brand of booty popping, debuted in the video too. Cyrus says she learned to twerk when she'd travel to Atlanta from her native Nashville and go to parking-lot dance-offs with girlfriends. They'd listen to music at tailgate parties and practice gyrating their bottom halves. "Not the country girls who are wearing the little frilled skirts and cowboy boots," she adds. Suffice it to say, she's not trying to tread on Taylor Swift's turf. What's Cyrus's country niche? "There is no girl out there speaking on behalf of the country girls who are turnt up."

While Cyrus is bristling with attitude, she's kept her feet on the ground paved by her famous father. "My parents always had money, and I've always been around this industry, so I didn't have my mind blown or become obsessed with being famous," she explains. Before moving, at the age of 13, with her entire family to L.A. to film Hannah Montana, she lived on a 500-acre farm where the children could do whatever they wanted. Her new California life wasn't that different. "When I was growing up, I didn't even notice that I started making all this money. There's something about new money that makes people change. But I never did not have [money]. So when I got it, I didn't become obsessed with having it."

She trusts her instincts, and runs with a discreet crowd. "The other day I saw that Lindsay Lohan was getting rid of, like, 80 of her friends because she wants to cut out the toxic people. I'm like, 'Honey, you're going to have to move out of this universe because everywhere you go there are toxic people.'?" Her best friend is her makeup artist, and most of her friends aren't famous—and are boys. She likes when they ask to drive her Maserati, and she lets them.

Her makeover mentor and album coproducer is Pharrell Williams, who had two hits of his own this summer. (You'd have to be living under a rock to have missed his "Blurred Lines" with Robin Thicke and "Get Lucky" with Daft Punk.) "His philosophy is that it's not what you're wearing, it's the way you wear it. It's not about the music you're making, it's how you're making it." She says he encouraged her styling in the "We Can't Stop" video too. "I feel like every girl is trying to have a beauty shot and prove that they're 'fashion.' But I can be in white leggings and a white sports bra and I'm on a whole other level of **** that those girls don't even get yet because they don't know how to do it." Cyrus calls Williams her "rock," the one man she can trust with her music.

He is equally effusive about Cyrus, who left a lasting impression on their first meeting. "I remember saying she was different," Williams recalls. "She was very clear as to what she likes. I kept thinking, 'She's got something.'?" What was it like to work together on the new album? "She has a crazy range like you wouldn't believe. And I really like that she is expressing herself." He's not worried about her falling off the deep end either, like so many other child stars. "It has a lot to do with her parents and the way she was raised," says Williams. "There's a thing Southern people understand that's hard to put into words." Maybe it's just that: Even though Miley's a second-generation performer, the Cyruses still aren't showbiz people.

To that end, she's put acting on the back burner for now. "I don't really care to do anything acting-wise," she says. "I want to make all of my music videos so epic that it feels like I'm still involved with acting." Hannah Montana may have burned her out. "I had to have [the producers] put sun lamps inside because I was getting depressed from a lack of vitamin D," she says of the show's last two seasons, after the franchise expanded into films and world concert tours.

Miley has dabbled in fashion too, but she wasn't completely fulfilled. She inked a deal with Walmart in 2009, then became disillusioned when the line didn't turn out as she'd hoped. "I went in there and saw, like, a puppy on a T-shirt. I was like, 'This is not what I wanted.' I wanted skinny jeans, I wanted to bless Walmart with jeggings!" (Walmart discontinued the line in 2012.) She says she loves jewelry and would consider doing that, when she has time: "Making real stuff with high quality. Not quantity. But not until I know I can give it 120 percent. I don't want to just slap my name on something."

All that's left is Miley and her music. Which turns out to be the one thing in her life that's not stressing her out. (In addition to her own reportedly rocky relationship, her parents separated and then reconciled this summer—another topic she'd rather not discuss.) "I'm someone who cares about the real things in life. There are things that are personal that stress me out, but my career? That doesn't affect me. I know I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing." She lifts her fingers, which are tipped with long dagger nails and stacked in gold rings, and pushes her platinum bangs out of her face. "I'm not scared of anything."

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[KKnardi]

Very nice cover!

 

[visualoptimism]

not sure bad after all!

 

[MON]

I actually like it!! Makes me wonder if the US Vogue rumor was done to publicize this cover? Hmm just a thought! Anyway, I still love this!

 

[versustito]

Linda Forever The legendary super model on life, love, and that notorious reputation. Plus, see her exclusive fashion shoot in our October issue.

Linda does not do social media." The Linda in question, the one talking about herself in the third person, is Linda Evangelista, the monumental '90s supermodel and fashion-industry rabble-rouser. It's a rainy day and we're sipping coffee in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, a few blocks from the penthouse apartment she bought more than a decade ago, debating the pros and cons of the Internet. The pros? "You know when an airline loses your luggage? That's when I wish I had Twitter," she says, flashing that high-fashion smile.
The cons, of course, involve things that come up when one Googles oneself. "If I'm ever feeling real good about myself, all I have to do is go online and read a blog or two, and it brings me right back." Indeed, the life of Linda Evangelista provides colorful search results. She was a small-town Canadian girl who moved to New York in the '80s and, along with cohorts Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington, became one of the world's most sought-after supermodels. She filled fashion magazines with glamour and tabloids with drama. She was a diva. She changed her hair color 17 times in five years. She married Gérald Marie, the head of her Paris agency, at the age of 22, then left him for (and almost married) the actor Kyle MacLachlan. In 2006, she had a son, Augustin James, but refused to name the father. (It was later revealed to be the French businessman François-Henri Pinault.) Most recently, she dated Hard Rock Cafe cofounder Peter Morton before splitting with him this past spring.
Evangelista, 48, became known for being the industry's best in front of the camera and the industry's worst away from it. In 2001, she was sued by her former agency Wilhelmina for defrauding it of commissions before the agency dropped the case. Not that bad press mattered. She was still booked solid. That's what led to the infamous quote that pops up with any Internet search of her name: "We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day," a reference to her fellow supes, and one that she hasn't been able to live down since. And last year, when she took Pinault to Family Court in Manhattan to sue him for child support, the media (myself included) reviewed her court ensembles as if it were a fashion show.
What Evangelista finds most appealing about social media is the idea of speaking directly to those fashion fans who grew up idolizing her. "Maybe I should start a blog," she says. "You control it. You can correct things that are said about you. That's the first thing I'd do." Like, for instance, the details that were reported in her child-support case—that she allegedly sued Pinault for $46,000 a month, though her lawyer insisted she was not seeking a specific amount of money, and she eventually settled for an undisclosed sum. Evangelista says she was surprised at all the attention, since the headline-making behavior recalled a former version of herself. "Motherhood is my whole life now," she explains. "It's the best. I am so fulfilled." The week before we met, she spent a month vacationing with her family in Canada, at a house she rented in Muskoka Lakes. "This place was the furthest you can be from five-star. It was basically one step up from camping."
The notion of Evangelista as a mother hen on float trips is hard to reconcile with her haute couture alter ego, a dichotomy she readily acknowledges. "There are lots of things you don't know about me," she says. "I do needlepoint, I do crochet, I cake-decorate." She says she's a proficient chef and a barista, and can play a mean accordion, a skill she acquired growing up in St. Catharines, Ontario. ("I have two in my apartment, but they have dust on them. It's more of a winter thing.")
When she's not working, days that used to be spent shopping, sleeping, and on the beach at her house in St.-Tropez are now filled with crafting, specifically macramé, and playdates. And while Evangelista refuses to speak about her son, whom she calls Augie, a few bons mots slip out. "Let's just say I have a child who doesn't like fashion. He wants jerseys. We watch sports and go to games. I do boy things now." As for dating, since splitting with Morton, she's single, not dating, and happy about it. "I look at it this way: I have been so lucky in love," she says, adding with a cryptic smile, "Except for two times."
Yet even with her various hiatuses from the spotlight, Evangelista is as super as ever. She was featured on the cover of Italian Vogue's "25 Years of Fashion" special issue this past summer, and recently starred in campaigns for Chanel Eyewear, Hogan, and Talbots. And the supermodel's appreciation for her three-decade-and-counting career has grown over time. The images she created with photographers like Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh, and Norman Parkinson (not to mention her iconic Bazaar covers) have become part of fashion history. "I knew they were legendary, but I didn't know how relevant their work would become. Now I'm like, 'Linda, you ****ing idiot!' I didn't appreciate it at the time, and I regret that." Francesco Scavullo was another master, and one of the few who got her to undress in front of the camera. "He said I had to do a nude with him, and I finally said, 'Fine, but you're cropping it. You can't go past my chest, and I'm turning my back.' That was my nude. It's beautiful." She remembers when makeup artists and hair stylists didn't have teams of assistants, when the backstage cabine was the size of an airplane bathroom, and admits to being nostalgic for that era. "It was more personal. It had more energy."
Evangelista says that in pre-digital-camera days, she felt she was creating art with photographers, which isn't always the case now: "These young whippersnappers have brilliant eyes and ideas, but they're not old-school enough for me." She misses the great technicians who didn't rely on computer wizardry. "When we were satisfied with how our Polaroids looked and we moved to film, those pictures did not need retouching. Now everything is [done in postproduction]. Sometimes I look in the mirror and see wrinkles in the clothes or streaks in my makeup or a glob of mascara on my eyelashes, and it pisses me off!"
Talk about intimidating: Can you imagine doing Linda Evangelista's makeup? It would be like playing the piano for Mozart. "Sometimes I just say to a makeup artist, 'Listen, I don't know what you've heard about me, but you're doing my makeup and it's going to be all right.' Sometimes they do things like, when they get to my mouth, they hand me the lip pencil. And I say, 'Oh, no, you do it. Just give it a shot.' "
Evangelista is quick to crack a joke, which raises the question: Could the model the industry loved to paint as bitchy and cynical actually be playful with a killer sense of humor? "I don't know," she says. "I'm just too honest. I say what other people wouldn't. I like to be tongue-in-cheek." Her nasal, winging voice, immortalized in Isaac Mizrahi's 1995 documentary, Unzipped, when she moaned backstage at a fashion show about always being stuck with flat shoes while Naomi got the heels, now lets loose with punch lines and double entendres. I tell her that Karl Lagerfeld calls her "the best." "The best what?" she snaps back. "The best complainer?" And she's not afraid to poke fun at herself. "Want to know what I'm doing when I'm not working? Therapy—individual, group, all of it."
Still, few can boast the kind of fiercely loyal cadre of friends that Evangelista has built for herself. Famed photographer Steven Meisel is one of her closest confidants. So is Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, the French stylist who Evangelista says "acts like a mom to me. She is very protective, caring, nurturing. And she yells at me!" And the hairstylist Garren, who was largely responsible for her colorful crops and fluorescent bobs through the 1990s, Evangelista calls a big brother.
Earlier this year, too, it was revealed that she was the only one of John Galliano's famous friends who visited the designer in rehab following his 2011 dismissal from Dior. "I hadn't seen him in a long time, and I suspected he wasn't well," she recalls. "When I was brought up-to-date on the situation, I asked, 'So, who's going to see him?' and they said no one. I booked a ticket and spent the day with him, and then went right back to the airport. I didn't want him to be alone." She didn't tell anyone; Galliano was the one who spilled the beans. "I've always been there," she adds. "If you speak to people in this business who've known me for 30 years, they'll tell you. All the stuff that is said about my ways and my personality is far more interesting than the truth."
Her friendship with Galliano aside, Evan gelista refuses to be pinned down when asked to pick a favorite designer, even when I point out that she's wearing head-to-toe Céline. "No! It's like asking a mother to pick her favorite child!" She does say that she's adamant about supporting American labels. And she reveals a recent go-to: the Row, the line by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Evangelista says she was at Barneys and a sales associate was pushing a leather skirt on her, and she asked who the designer was. "I said, 'Those two little girls? I'm not trying it on.' But she put it in my dressing room and I put it on, and it became my favorite skirt." She calls the Row a reliable label now. "I think those girls were put on this planet to be designers, not actresses. I really respect them now. I didn't want to, but I do."
To hear Evangelista talk about fashion is to listen to a woman describe her first true love. "I still crave fashion. I still love fashion. I mean, I've traveled the world to work in studios. Nobody put me in bathing suits on a beach." She wasn't the sexpot; she was the supermodel we wanted to dress up and project our fashion fantasies on. But when I mention the S-word, she says, "I don't even know what that means anymore. Is that era over? Who is a supermodel now? Is everyone? Is no one?" She squints her eyes and smiles. "You can call me whatever you want to call me. All I know is this: I'm still here."


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[Tony Fersen]

Ah ah !

Very interesting by the way. Thank you.

 

[rougevalentino]

Her interview by Derek Blasberg. I've bolded the most eye-roll worthy parts. She's so up herself.

"What if I get to a photo shoot and the stylist just sucks? So I bring my own ****."

Wow she sounds like a great client to work with
Bold words from someone who has probably had a stylist since they were 13.