Marcelina Sowa for Harpers Bazaar Mexico

In this crazy desert heat (115F/46C today)

you want to live your life in white.

Crisp, cool, summer white.

Harpers Bazaar Mexico took a trip to Vietnam

for their July 2012 issue

to an exotic local with a pseudo desert feel, called Mui Ne.

Photographer Kevin Sinclair captured images of model

Marcelina Sowa at the "Fairy Stream"

in a series of whites, styled by Andrew Holden.

Fashions from Alexander McQueen, Etro, Louis Vuitton, Giambattista Valli,

Hermes, Chanel, Kenzo and Moschino amongst others,

transpose a simple white theme to an otherwordly white magic,

made more ethereal by the stick straight hair Dennis Fei created,

and a brow-less, at times demonic looking 

completely fabulous makeup

by Nam Vo.

Shakes things up a bit don't you think?

En el paso de las hadas

Anne Vyalitsyna for Vogue Mexico

In this fabulous pop art inspired shoot

for Vogue Mexico July 2012

stylist Sarah Gore Reeves dresses

Russian model Anne Vyalitsyna

in bold, graphic prints from Gucci,

Vionnet, Hermes and Celine.

Dennis Gots styles her hair super straight

and makeup artist Brigitte Reiss-Andersen

gives her sexy, smokey eyes.

Shot by David Roemer

its sleek and modern with its use of 

bold geometric shapes.

Fantastic.

Una Super Star

Lily Donaldson for Vogue Russia July 2012

For the July 2012 issue of Vogue Russia

model Lily Donaldson wears stark, bright

ultra structured white.

Photographed by Richard Bush

Donaldson wears designers including Haider Ackermann,

Jil Sander and Lanvin

as styled by Sarah Richardson.

Her look is completed 

with slicked back hair by Rita Marmor 

and very understated, lean makeup 

offset by a very structured brow

courtesy of Frederik Stambro.

Cameron Russell for Vogue Germany

In the July 2012 issue of Vogue Germany

model Cameron Russell

gets her beauty on for Michelangelo di Battista's camera.

After a slew of very thematic editorials

it's refreshing to see a story

that is just about beautiful hair,

beautiful makeup and some intensely embellished wardrobe.

Styled by fashion editor Lynn Schmidt in designers including

Dolce and Gabbana, Versace, Elie Saab and Balmain,

with soft curls by Teddy Charles 

and a perfect complexion courtesy of

makeup artist Dottie,

Cameron Russell takes the spotlight.

Spotlight

Olympic Style ~ Regina Feoktistova for ELLE Vietnam

With the 2012 Olympic Games just days away

ELLE Vietnam is showing a little Olympic Inspiration

in an editorial shot by Stockton Johnson.

Stylist Anna Katsanis dresses model Regina Feoktistova  

in somewhat functional (well, maybe..)

yet sexy sportswear from designers including

Gucci, Puma, Tommy Hilfiger,

Michael Kors, Mara Hoffman, Adidas by Stella McCartney

and Karla Colletto.

Makeup by Nam Vo

Hair by Yoichi Tomizawa.

Kristen Stewart for Vanity Fair June 2012

Kristen Stewart 

covers the July 2012 issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

I so enjoy her.

She is frank, she is blunt.

She calls it as she sees it, 

and apologizes to no one.

She stands out in Hollywood-land for separating herself

 from the all encompassing PR machine 

that churns out endless drivel, 

endless canned and rehearsed media quips,

instead speaking her own truth, in her own special way:

“I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph.

I get some serious shit about it. I’m not embarrassed about it. I’m proud of it.

 If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, What an actress! What a faker!

 That thought embarrasses me so much that I look like shit in half my photos, and I don’t give a fuck.

What matters to me is that the people in the room leave and say, 

‘She was cool. She had a good time. She was honest.’ 

I don’t care about the voracious, starving shit eaters who want to turn truth into shit.” 

Take that voracious, starving shit eaters!!

It doesn't hurt that she earned more than any other

 Hollywood actress this past year.

So stunning in editorials, she is more beautiful than ever

in this shoot, in the hands of makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury.

She is so totally refreshing.

And for that, I love her.

 

check out the behind the scenes video of

 Kristen Stewart's Vanity Fair photoshoot with Mario Testino below: