Vanity Fair February 2013 : Jennifer Lawrence by Ellen von Unwerth

[fluxxx]

The cover looks so great! It's perfect not orrly done with comtast just like any other EVO's work. She looks lovely. Loveher heartwarming smile and it's probably VF cover that I love in a long time

 

[Nymphaea]

Beautiful, very natural!

 

[Melancholybaby]

I love the natural, sunny feel of the cover. And she looks absolutely smashing in the bw shot.

But I hate, absolutely hate that tagline. I get that Jennifer is a very beautiful/sexy/stunning women but really... is that tagline totally necessary? Why don't we talk about her accomplishments instead of how "one million men" see her.

I hate it as well. Jennifer is such an accomplished young woman, and yet the only thing worth mentioning is how attractive she is to the opposite sex?

 

[iluvjeisa]

OK. 2013 is the year of the 90s.

 

[Northern Star]

^Hmmm, hope so.
Anyhow lovely cover. Can almost feel the warmth radiating from it on this fresh january afternoon.

 

[tigerrouge]

When someone appears in a mens magazine list as the sexiest celebrity, it's usually something their PR team has negotiated with the publication. And if that claim keeps being cited in the media, it's the outcome they wanted.

To me, just because an up-and-coming actress has talent doesn't mean she's going to change how Hollywood works, and how it portrays and sells the idea of women. Or that she has any practical interest in messing with a system currently willing to pay her millions, despite whatever platitudes a person might roll out for their interviews.
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[saann]

She looks like Bar Rafaeli on the cover.. not bad but not really like herself..

and I'm so tired of taglines like that, here's a chick who is well on her way towards her second Oscar nomination and has headlined one of the biggest female driven franchises this year (all at a very young age) and yet all they can say about her is that one million men find her desirable..

 

[Nepenthes]

and I'm so tired of taglines like that, here's a chick who is well on her way towards her second Oscar nomination and has headlined one of the biggest female driven franchises this year (all at a very young age) and yet all they can say about her is that one million men find her desirable..

This is so true.

 

[versustito]

beautiful cover !!

 

[fee de foret]

oh i hate this magazine. women are almost never, ever portrayed as anything but sex playthings for all the manly men out there. you can bet your last dollar that if this was an upcoming actor on the cover they wouldn't dream of using a tagline like that. googling for the robert pattinson cover back from december 2009, a breakout actor who has many more outspoken opposite sex fans then jennifer does, he got the much more vague cover line "can 100 hundred million screaming twilight fans be wrong?" also he gets to be fully clothed.

source:thinkingofrob.com

 

[jal718]

Sex playthings are good and so is this cover

 

[Deleted member 1957]

nice cover and ed

 

[YoninahAliza]

After seeing the Robert Pattinson cover from 2009 that fee de foret posted and reading many other comments I've been thinking a little bit about who the magazine is geared towards. Personally, I've always thought it was written in mind for a female audience (at least in recent years), with all the celebrity gossip and such, but the way they portray many female celebrities on the covers sort of says another thing. Sexy magazine covers and editorials are nothing new, they've been around for ages, but sometimes it feels like Vanity Fair goes to extreme lengths to make covers sexy.

I went back and looked at all the VF covers from this year and there were only four which featured men on the cover. But three out of the four also featured a women looking sexy. The only cover that didn't have a women on the cover was one with Daniel Craig (who was featured again on the magazine several months later. This time accompanied by nude women), Matt Damon, and George Clooney. And while not all the women featured on the cover were dressed provocatively quite a large percentage of the tag-lines were in reference to how they looked, not about their career and accomplishments. So I'm not saying that Vanity Fair is the worst of the lot but I do think that they have some issues with how they portray many of the people featured on their cover. And to me, this Jennifer Lawrence cover is just a prime example of how awful they can make the tag-lines sound. She is a successful, smart, funny, beautiful women why do we need to reduce her to what men think of her? She can still look sexy on a cover without having gross tag-lines like this featured on it.

 

[pixiedust1603]

That tagline is disappointing for the reasons that many have already mentioned in this thread. She's on her way to a second best actress Oscar nomination at only 22 and is one of the front runners for the win and on top of that she is the driving force behind one of the few female driven franchises.

It's a shame because this is one of her better covers.
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[tigerrouge]

She is a successful, smart, funny, beautiful women why do we need to reduce her to what men think of her? She can still look sexy on a cover without having gross tag-lines like this featured on it.

As I said on the other page, from what I see of her media decisions, this is how her PR is being played. There are plenty of actresses who don't go down the 'buy me, I'm nubile' route because they decide that definitely isn't what they're after, and they are very careful about it. For those who are fine with it, they'll work with major magazines to get portrayed in the way they want, such as this cover feature.

Because if you can keep people thinking you're achieving something great, while making others want to see you naked, then you're playing a blinder in Hollywood, you're covering every base.

So to me, it's less about the world reducing her to something, and more a canny media strategy that's deliberately being rolled out on her behalf. And actresses often seem to be happy with this approach for as long as it lasts, until the gloss has worn off and other girls are getting the parts, and then it becomes time to complain about objectification, because you've got 'perspective'.

 

[pixiedust1603]

I agree with what you're saying and I don't doubt that this is a deliberate decision by Jennifer and her team as there was a similar reasoning behind the Esquire shoot she did. She did admit in an interview that she needed to be considered "sexy" in the industry in order to get more variety in the roles she was getting. I think it says a lot about the mindset of Hollywood to be honest and it is a shame.
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Lagerfeld’s Highland Fling
Vanity Fair (USA) - February 2013
PH: Jason Bell

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[jmrmartinho]

^Beautiful photo.

 

[JessicaKarina]

Ahh I hated that collection but Kinga looks sooooo good. I feel like she stands out so much!

 

[Nepenthes]

Lagerfeld's Highland Fling is stunning!