Rachel Weisz: Drawn to Complexity
Vs Magazine October, 2010 (Cover Story)
Why can we not stop watching Rachel Weisz? Sure, her breathtaking beauty is easy on the eyes, but it’s the vulnerable, often broken characters she so effortlessly inhabits that keep us glued to the screen. Weisz has never chosen the easy golden-paved path that so many Hollywood starlets follow to fame and fortune. Instead, Weisz keeps us constantly guessing with roles as varied as Tennessee William’s Blanche DuBois and as Jackie Onassis in the upcoming biopic being directed by her husband, Darren Aronofsky. [Read more...]
In October, as part of the Kaleidoscope exhibit at the Ingrao gallery in New York City, Law’s eye-catching homages to the female form made their American debut. Working with high-gloss paint on aluminum, Law creates loving renditions of the body, from the indentations on the small of one model’s back to the subtle roundness of another’s belly. Fashionable props include stiletto heels, corsets, and knickers. “I find that as I draw, I fall in love with a different part of the body each time. There are endless perspectives one can take with the female form,” says Law, who is best known for her fashion illustration work and collaboration on prints and sets with the FrostFrench label from 2001 to 2003. 
Everybody’s eager to please Rachel McAdams. But, frankly, the royal treatment that’s customary for budding starlets gives this Toronto-born actress the creeps. As she says, “The more that’s given to you, the less you have to come up with yourself. And that’s not productive.” As if on cue, there’s a knock at the door. It’s the hotel staff, dropping in for the second time that day to see if McAdams has everything she needs. “She just asked me if I wanted fresh apples.” she says, embarrassed by all the attention. “And I haven’t even eaten the ones that are sitting here.” 
Fergie is tired. Frankly, she’s exhausted. For three years straight, her group, The Black Eyed Peas, has been touring the world, performing nearly every night and recording albums during the day —often following grueling, 10-hour transcontinental flights.
It may be a while until the official kick-off to summer, but you would have never guessed it on this sweltering 90 degree May afternoon in Soho, New York. Needless to say, the mugginess enveloping the city is not the ideal climate to run errands in – unless, of course, you’re sitting pretty in a chauffeured, air-conditioned town car cruising from one location to the next. That’s the mode of transportation you’d expect for 18-year-old actress Zoe Kravitz, but as she rushes her way into Starbucks, it’s obvious the daughter of rocker Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet is getting around on foot, and like the slew of patrons inside, she too could use some refuge from the sun. 
Shy of the spotlight and yet strong in her sense of self, Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Moreno is a new kind of it girl.
The influx of Stella McCartney-clad hipsters in Manhattan’s Alphabet City might have appeared, back in the neighborhood’s pre-affluent era in the 80s and 90s, like poorly cast extras on the set of The Warriors. A veritable ghost town, Alphabet City, referred back then as “the wild wild west,” was a place where drug dealers defiantly engaged in public sales, boarded up buildings were converted into crack sanctuaries and echoes of crowing roosters and growling pitbulls were the daily soundtrack. It seems near impossible to picture such a tableau today.