Marc Jacobs and Mario Testino talk about Kate Moss and her wedding

I love this video of Marc Jacobs, Candy Pratts Price, Mario Sorrenti, Camilla Nickerson and Mario Testino talking about Kate Moss, or rather, praising her. Marc talks about how "very, very rare, if not totally unique" she is, while Testino talks about how "she's a perfume, not a cologne" (of course...) and Nickerson says that Kate's wedding "was one of the best nights of [her] life."

The clips from their wedding are adorable. She and Jamie look SO CUTE together! It almost makes me want to barf how in love they seem to be though. Then again, if there's one day when you're allowed to be disgustingly happy and rub it in everyone's faces I guess that would be on your wedding day.

But the best part of the video is obviously Marc Jacobs. SO HOT! If there were ever a reason I'd want to be a guy, it would be so I could date him. And oooh, his voice. I love his voice. Such a perfect human being.

Video courtesy of Vogue

September issues

It's always exciting to see which people are chosen for the most important covers of  the year, namely the September issue covers. Here are some of the celebs who were given the honor of being on the prestigious covers this year: 

Sarah Jessica Parker covers Marie Claire

Gwyneth Paltrow covers Elle US. In the interview she talks
about creating a solo album, among other things.

Kate Moss covers Vogue US. There's a spread in the magazine featuring
her wedding with Jamie Hince, photographed by Mario Testino.

On the cover of Vogue China are veteran models Fei Fei Sun,
Du Juan, Sui He, Ming Xi, Liu Wen and Shu Pei Qin. They're
wearing chiffon gowns from Gucci's Fall 2011 collection.

Kristen Stewart's on the cover of W magazine. She's not really
looking herself, is she? Some say it's makeup, some say photoshop.
Whatever it is, it works. I really like this cover. What do you think?

Jennifer Lopez covers Vanity Fair.

Beyoncé covers Haper's Bazaar UK.

Review: Kate Moss by Mario Testino

I ordered Kate Moss by Mario Testino a while ago and I finally got it today. The photos are so beautiful. I had seen many of them before, but to actually have them (in a very large size I might add - the book was like three times larger than I thought it would be) feels great. I can literally sit and stare at those photos for hours; the beauty of Kate Moss amazes me and nobody portrays it better than Testino.

There was a section called "Mario Testino on Kate Moss" as well as one called "Kate Moss on Mario Testino" where they talked about each other and I loved reading that. It was clear how much love and respect they have for one another and there was no mistaken how deeply fascinated Testino was by Kate when he first met her, and still is. They had such beautiful things to say about each other and it all seemed very genuine. I would have loved for there to be more text though. But I guess quality beats quantity.


Highlights

Mario Testino quotes: 

"I met [Kate] very early on but the moment we really bonded was after an early John Galliano show. I went backstage afterwards and I was amazed to see Kate standing there with tears in her eyes. She explained she was sad because she had only been given one outfit to wear. Maybe she felt a bit insecure, maybe she felt she didn’t fit in, but I tried to explain to her that her “difference” was all part of her charm. “Look Kate, let’s be realistic”, I said to cheer her up, “take it as a compliment. In life and fashion there are colognes and perfumes. Colognes fade quickly and are soon gone forever but a single drop of a great perfume stays with you all day long. You are a perfume so stop crying – this is only the beginning. You will last a very long time.” Little did I know how true that would turn out to be… and that I’d made a friend for life! She laughed… the beginning of years of endless laughter."

 ”She lives more fully than anyone else I know”

“I guess back when we met I did not realize she would become an icon of the ‘now’ for so many people. All I could see or feel was an attraction to someone a lot younger than me.”

 “If you watch your life unfold the things that don’t happen – that make you feel outraged and frustrated – can be as important to your success as the things that go the way you believe they should. That belief has been central to my life and hers. It’s not all been great at every moment but it’s ended up being so great overall that we always say, “never explain, never complain.” Everything happens for a reason.”

Kate Moss quotes:

"I thought it was on a shoot for French Glamour [that Mario and I first met], but he always says it was when I did a John Galliano show and I was crying on the steps or something." 

"I have never laughed so much in my whole life as with Mario on shoots. Sometimes we know we have to stop but we just can’t, we can’t even look at each other."

“… and I like the pictures [in this book] of me and Lila too. At the time they were taken, she was really young, and I didn’t want the press intruding on her, they were too private… but now the pictures are nostalgic for me.” 

“In the press people say “oh, there she is… she’s out again”, and they don’t see me getting up and going to work every day. They just print pictures of me coming out of a party or whatever… I’ve worked hard for 20 years and I’m still working now! The book has a really good balance of work and play and shows that the fashion industry is not the completely vicious place it is so often made out to be. I don’t think it is at all.” 

Pictures from the book:

SJP in American Vogue

Sara Jessica Parker is on the cover of American Vogue this month. She and her family were photographed by Mario Testino and as usual his photos are, in a word: incredible. See the photos of SJP, her husband Matthew Broderick (can't these two just get a divorce already?), their eight-year-old son James Wilkie and their two-year-old twins, Tabitha and Loretta, below.

SJP wearing a Bottega Venetta dress. Matthew
Broderick wearing Ralph Lauren.

SJP wearing an Oscar de la Renta dress

SJP wearing Marc Jacobs

SJP wearing a Chanel suit and Manolo Blahnik pumps

SJP wearing Michael Kors

SJP wearing a Proenza Schouler dress and Manolo Blahnik suede
pumps. The kids are her son James Wilkie (right) and his friends

I recommend you to buy the magazine and read the long interview with SJP, which focuses mainly on how she juggles work, home and sanity. Otherwise, here are the interview highlights: 

“I tried to make myself look more presentable today, but the odds of not being, when I leave the house in the morning, are pretty high.” She says  “Bradshaw’s life is nothing—nothing—like mine. I loved playing her, and it changed my life in lots of wonderful ways, but I’m not a crazy shoe lady, I don’t think about fashion all day long, although I have a great respect for the industry”

“We don’t have any live-in help. We’re pretty hands-on parents. That’s something that’s important to both of us, and we don’t shirk it, because what’s the point in having a family if you’re not going to really participate in it, you know?”

“The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.” (Yes! That’s one of the many reasons why I want to live there).

"If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life,"

“My father used to tell me not to stare all the time, because I was always staring at everyone, and he would say, ‘You’re making a spectacle.’ But I couldn’t help myself.”

“I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution. Not to sound too Pollyanna about it, but I really didn’t imagine when I was a little girl that I would be there to see it all myself.”

“I’m a bitter-ender. It’s potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.”

"I’m like that two weeks into every movie. But the beauty of nerves is that you can always find a comrade in it. When Pierce [Brosnan] came, he was a nervous wreck! Of course, by then I was really relaxed, but I was so comforted by it.”

“I don’t know how to even telescope the future, except to say that I like to be an actor and I like to be a working actor and I don’t know how long I’ll be doing that, but it seems to stretch itself out in front of me more than I thought.”

“Oh, my God, it’s 11:59. I’m going to run home and change clothes because I have to be at a business meeting at 12:00.”

Wow, I can really relate to a lot of what she says, except the kids-parts – I’m not exactly a kids-person... I love Sarah Jessica Paker. I love her look - she's so beautiful, I love her style, I love her work. I love everything about her - except maybe her taste in men.

Don't forget to check out her new movie I Don't Know How She Does It. It comes out in September, and not only is SJP in it, but so is Jessica Szohr, Pierce Brosnan, Busy Philipps, Olivia Munn and Christina Hendricks.

Images from www.vogue.com

Sneak peek at Emma Watson's Lancôme campaign

At last! Ever since I heard that my absolute favorite fashion photographer Mario Testino was shooting a campaign with Emma Watson in Paris I have been aching to see the results. The man is french actor Cyril Descours and the campaign is for Lancôme's new fragrance Trésor Midnight Rose.

Perfection.

Images from styleite.com/beauty/emma-watson-lancome-ads/