Judging by the tweets and e-mails we’ve been getting, I may be in the minority here, but I kind of LOVE this cover.
And my affection is not just because Vogue resisted the temptation to slap an arbitrary number on its Must-have Fall Looks feature (finally they realize that I’m not going to pick up this issue just because it’s finally five-hundred-seventy-two things). No, I just think Emma looks fabulous. Some people have been taken aback by the strong eyebrows, but I think her face takes all that makeup beautifully and her skin is terrific — the whole thing is kind of a great blend of commercial and high-fashion. When I look at her I see a weird amalgam of Kate Beckinsale, Jamie Lee Curtis in that scene in True Lies where she ham-handedly seduces Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a Robert Palmer girl, and yet she’s all that without rendering herself unrecognizable as Emma Watson. Further, Miss Tyra would be moved to incoherence over the expressiveness in her eyes, and A.L.T. would be like, “It’s like a bon-bon at a literary salon on the French Riviera of my wildest dreams,” and Nigel would be like, “You’re FANTASTIC” and undress her with his eyes, and then all the other girls would decide she doesn’t want to be America’s Next Top Model enough for their liking and backstab her into quitting the show in tears. In other words, perfection. Like gum.
Also, seriously, how does one decide an island is “best-decorated”? Does that mean hot natives, or just a really great eye for decorative rocks and throw-pillows?
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it’s one of the more interesting covers in a while, but i’m not crazy about it. she’s pretty though, i’ll give her that.
I think this is a fantastic cover, but it just doesn’t look like Emma Watson. Maybe that’s the point, but I think she looks great, even though I like how she looks toned down too.
There was that time Christo wrapped the bay islands off the coast of Miami in pink plastic. They were really well-decorated.
But while I think Emma looks beautiful, I don’t think she looks like herself. Or more that the older she gets the more her prettiness seems generic. She doesn’t have a single, defining feature that sets her apart. She’s just a really beautiful girl, kind of like Beckinsale was at that age. It’s not a dig by any measure, just that as a “movie star” she’d probably do better to be a little memorable by being a little less pretty?
agreed–she looks fab! i’m also going to assume that they mean a kitchen island. that seems to make the most sense.
Emma always looks amazing, however I too did not recognize her! She was my outfit inspiration in a recent burberry ad pictured here, http://www.bravoerunway.com/2011/06/designer-inspiration-burberry.html
Enjoy!
Nice Chandler Bing reference
The look is very Patrick Nagel, very 1981, but I don’t really mind. She looks great and very discernibly *her*, which is great, and which also depends heavily on her distinctive eyebrows. (I have trouble recognizing her with her brows thinned out.) I kind of even like the silly orange plastic party dress because it’s so age appropriate and fun!
I agree that she looks completely amazing, and I love her showing her range.
Also, I am trapped in an ATM vestibule with JILL GOODACRE!
My breath actually whooshed out when I saw this. Dazzling! Love the slicked back hair and the glossy winged eyebrows.
That’s a beautiful cover but I did not recognise her at all and am not sure that is a good thing.
Love love love this cover. I think she looks beautiful and interesting and it most definitely looks like Emma Watson. The pictures inside are also tremendous.
I love this cover…. I saw it this morning and squealed… she looks FANTASTIC!
I love – LOVE – that lip gloss. LOVE IT. Emma Watson and I are nothing alike, skin-tone-wise, but I still need that gloss. I don’t get Vogue but I must get to a newsstand and see if it’s listed in there.
I also love her short hair in general – very refreshing amid a sea of extensions that her counterparts seem to favor (I felt the same way when I saw Hayden Panettiere’s hair).
That shade of lipstick of gorgeous! I must hsve it! (I’ll never be able to pull it off)
I don’t think it really looks like her but I also think it’s fabulous. Fashion is all about varied looks, right? I’m glad they’ve tried something new with her because that bone structure and those eyebrows can really pull it off.
Wow, she sure grew up nicely! It is a completely different look than her usual “girl-next-door” image, she looks beautiful. And also as if this was the intended look, rather than that she was attacked by clown-college-dropouts wielding make-up brushes, which is what so many of the covers look like. And a young woman her age should get to have fun playing dress-up when she feels like it. Wish somebody had done that to my face and hair when I was 21!
I like it! Has she not always had strong/natural/whatevertheycallthemthesedays eyebrows?
I’m with you; I saw this cover the other day and thought “DAMN, Hermione!!! Way to grow up!” Throw in the fact that I love the personality she shows in her interviews, and the fact that she, Dan and Rupert have NOT grown up to be Lohans, and I supposed I’d still adore her even if she were in Kabuki make-up wearing a gunny sack…
I think she looks AMAZING! It’s a beautiful, striking cover.
The whole thing is masterfully styled and she looks stunning.
Man, I want that shade of lipstick!
Very striking. I love it. Her eyes are beautifully expressive, her skin is perfect, and love the lip gloss. WIN!
I love it too. This is fabulous. It’s striking and different, yet beautiful and elegant. I heart Emma Watson. She’s delightful.
All I can think is the photo was toned too bright. I cannot see the end of her nose at all, it’s disappeared into her cheek. If they would go back and burn a bit of a shadow around her nose so that I know it exists, I’m good. I like the styling.
When I the part about True Lies I read it as “…Jamie Lee Curtis in that scene in True Lies where she ham-handedly seduces Arnold Schwarzenegger and a Robert Palmer girl..” And I was like “What? I saw that movie not that long ago and I don’t remember that…maybe it was a deleted scene or bonus feature. Maybe I need to get the extended version…”
Anyway, Emma looks good. I love her face but her hair is giving her an alien head.
I love it. LOVE. And I love how gracefully she’s grown-up in the spotlight, and how she’s embracing a more adult look while refraining from stumbling out of Lincoln town cars sans panties. Show ‘em how it’s DONE, Hermione!
I was reading the Daily Mail online yesterday and there was piece about Tom Ford being in his own ads for his makeup line. Among other things I learned (like Tom Ford is SERIOUSLY hot) he said the key to a youthful look is good skin and a strong eyebrow. And I’ll be damned if Emma isn’t rocking both of those things right now!
I loved this cover so much I shared it on Facebook last night. She looks great and it’s a fun new look for her!
I loved this, though I think the better photo is found inside. She’s wearing an AMAZING gold Tom Ford skirt. It’s beautiful.
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Stunning. I love her make-up.
I don’t love it. The makeup ages her. She should wait until she’s actually 30 to look 30.
I love the high fashion artsy-ness, the makeup, and enjoy the fun dress, but I really don’t care for her hair. Too product-y. That is what makes her barely recognizable to me.
Yee-haw, I’ve just re-subscribed to Vogue! Can’t wait for the first issue.
STAY AWAY, FALL! We haven’t even left nasty, cold rainy spring yet in Mass.
I think she looks stunning, but not like herself. (Which isn’t a dis… she’s just a different version of her beautiful self.)
To be fair, when is Tyra NOT moved to incoherence? But wow does Emma look great here.
Ooo, thank you for the link CH – that picture sold me on buying this magazine. SO kick ass and gorgeous, it makes me want to do silly things like cover my walls in tin foil and wear dark shiny lippy.
I love the pictures in the magazine but the cover isn’t my favorite – she looks so harsh – the lips, the brows, the slicked hair…its just too much.
From the neck up she’s one of the Robert Palmer girls….
I like it! and you completely nailed ALT XD
Count me in the “She looks amazing but I had no idea it was her” camp. It’s weird seeing Hermoine age!
This cover at least makes sense for Vogue. Recently, it’s seemed like they were confused and thought they were publishing Marie Claire or Life & Style. I LOVE how she looks here. Why can’t a young woman slap on some deep berry lip gloss and be seductive? She still seems like a nice girl and not whorish (Paz de la Huerta) or mean (Kristen Stewart). Go girl!
I’m in the minority with you-she looks so grown-up-but youthful at the same time, and it’s high-fashion but it’s accessible, and she’s not shoving a big grin in our faces like she’s trying to get us to buy Johnson’s new orange-scented tampons that feel as fresh as they smell, but it’s happy and it’s not moody-it’s controlled, classy and-yes, you said it-perfect.
Well said, Jess, well said.
She looks beautiful, simply beautiful. Great cover.
Jess and Jennifer’s camp: she looks stunning. but I do love her unconditionally and will probably forgive her for any atrocity (if she is even capable of committing one).
Wow – gorgeous! I had no idea this was Emma Watson. I thought it was Leighton Meester having a really GOOD make-up day. Love the lip color – I’m glad to see that dark berry is coming back into style. I never did like a pale lip unless it’s high summer.
I think too,she looks older,I don’t like it at all
I’m with CadiM above… I’m showing my age, but all I see is a Robert Palmer girl. I can’t get past that so I couldn’t tell you if it’s fab or not.
I love that lipstick on her. It looks totally impractical like it would just smear off on everything, but it’s also striking and awesome.
Gorgeous! Stunning! Magnificent cover! I’m so happy for Emma and quite proud to see that Vogue is finally starting to get it’s stride back. Emma’s cover and last month’s cover with Penelope Cruz have both been excellent! I hope they stay on the right track.
Oh my… I love Emma. She really does look stunning here, but I can’t help but to think it’s too heavily photoshopped :/ They blasted away all her features and her lips especially look over-sculpted. Maybe that’s why it looks so unlike her at first glance, but then again what magazine cover doesn’t receive this type of post-processing treatment? Anyway. The contrast of her makeup and skin are delicious, and I love her outfit!
Um, I kinda love it! I’ve been bitter for years, stewing over the fact that actresses have replaced models on the cover of fashion magazines but I’m okay with this one. I mean, I really should get over it anyway… So many actresses got their start as models – really good ones too like Angelica Huston – just as many models are trying their hand at acting – can’t think of any really good ones yet but it will come to me. So anyway, I am getting over it. But why is it Americans don’t buy fashion magazines unless there is a celebrity on the cover? Europeans don’t have that problem… Why are we so celebrity obsessed? I suppose I am celebrity interested, not obsessed. And I like fashion with fashion models. Anyhoo…
Back to Emily – I really love her lipstick. In this pic. I agree with Lina up there – very Patrick Nagel… love it!
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Gum IS perfection.
This to me is one of those covers where I wish they they would stop cluttering it up with junk text (it reminds me of Cosmo or, as someone else mentioned, Marie Claire, etc – a little downrent of what I think Vogue should be.) Because she looks gorgeous here – it actually reminded me of the 1930′s, a bit french, LOVE the darker lips (god have I missed actual lipcolor) and love that she’s rocking the brows. (These are the sorts of brows that they had to draw on Nicole Kidman in MR.)
@Angela – weirdly, I was thinking about the ubiquity of A-list actors the other day myself; they’re on adverts, they’re hawking Cover Girl makeup (seriously?), they’re dominating the Tony Awards (instead of, you know, “theater people”), they’re starring in televsions shows…etc, etc, etc. How famous and how much money do they need, and what happened to the models, theater actors, etc who used to be able to get those jobs? I want to tell them to “save a little for the rest of us”. And yes, Americans are celebrity obsessed – although our definition of “celebrity” has eroded to the point where anyone who makes a YouTube video gets to be one. Andy Warhol got it right.
Just not sure what they did to her hair… but thats details for an otherwise great photo!
Jill Goodacre for the win!
Stefanie, it should read….AS a Robert Palmer girl.
I can understand your confusion.
I just love that they put her on the cover! Not my favorite look, but I still think she looks great and am excited to buy this issue.
She looks good but her head looks GINORMOUS!!!
@Stephanie ….really? You don’t remember that funny/sexy striptease Jamie Lee did? It is like the most famous scene from True Lies, I’ve never even seen the movie but I’ve seen the scene on things like “I Love the 90′s” about a million times.
I think she looks good, this is Vogue it isn’t Seventeen. I’d rather see an actress I like dressed up and styled differently than usual in a high fashion magazine than see them on something like Cosmo where they try to make every single actress look like the same person.
Agree. This IS a nice cover.
she does not look good SHE LOOKS FANTASTIC and the whole spread is divine. She is BRING…ING…IT! Glam Glam HOT and GLAM!
@ yeahandalso … she meant she mistakenly read the sentence to include the Robert Palmer girl in the dance scene and was wondering how she had missed it
and I LOVE her eyebrows for some reason … she really pulls them off in a way i don’t think I could
I love that you keep using the “Gum would be perfection” reference. One of my favorite lines from that show ever!
She looks like Eddie Munster in drag.
I think she looks gorgeous! When I saw the cover, my mouth dropped. I like the look they gave her. It may be different, more fierce, but she’s still the Emma we grew up with. Besides, it’s a fashion magazine, it’s Vogue not Marie Claire; it’s suppose to be extravagant and high-fashioned.