It’s that time again, yep, the Vanity Fair annual Hollywood Issue, just in time for the Oscars; and here’s the usual multi-panel cover affair (above), which the magazine says was inspired by 1930s Shanghai (you know, the 1930s Shanghai that mainly had just white people).
There’s Olivia Wilde ridin’ side tittay with a dress that says “sneeze and my Tron nipple pops out”, Rashida Jones randomly bottle feeding a baby tiger while leaning on the soon-to-be spandex-clad thigh of new ‘Spidey’ Andrew Garfield; Anne Hathaway missing a right leg due to extreme p-shopping, Mila Kunis providing the “spread” in Jesse Eisenberg and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s sandwich (although Levitt has turned his back on her, don’t tell me she’s out of date) - Robert Duvall looking like the senile grandpapa who just wandered in off the street (seriously, where does he fit in this cover exactly?) and Jake Gyllenhaal, James Franco and Ryan Reynolds, all with their little dickies out (bows that is, obv). And with an emphasis on the “fair”, there’s even a token black person – Anthony Mackie (looking like the pimp and his bitches – yeah Vanity Fair, we get it, yo down wit ‘people of colour’). There’s also Jennifer Lawrence (doing a mean Ivana Trump impression), Garrett GimmeHedlund (who?) and Noomi Rapace – but no Ryan Gosling?!! (I would replace Rashida, the lion and the bottle with Ryan and breast feed him instead, ARF).
A video behind-the-scenes thing of the cover shoot has also been released (watch it below), so you can see what the stars “really” look like before the lipgloss and lies (and that’s just the boys); with interviews by Krista Smith (who pulls a good “I’m really not listening to you AT ALL” face).
In summary, this cover is all kinds of ‘ish’, as in okay ‘ish’, but if they really wanted ‘inspiration’, they should have just consulted this image of Madge and Sean in 1930s Shanghai, wearing 1986′s costumes. Awesome, just AWESOME! (oh, and I banned the use of that word in 2010).
Kate Lawson – Fashion Editor, Showbiz-i
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I’m with you on the ‘ish’. It all looks kind of awkward-ish, although the dresses are fab and the guys look hot. But Anne Hathaway as sexy? I’m bored of her now. She’s just not. She’s lanky, bug eyed and has big ears.