Search

STARRING ALANA, DANIELLE, AND ESTE HAIM FEATURING THE BALBOA LADIES SOCIETY DIRECTED AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON AT A HOUSE IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, Paul Thomas Anderson, the [...]

STARRING PENELOPE CRUZ DIRECTED AND PHOTOGRAPHE BY PEDRO ALMODOVAR On a sunny afternoon in Madrid, around 1992, a girl in her late teens had just washed her long, dark hair. [...]

In 2021, movies, many of which had been shot during the pandemic, seemed to celebrate family. There were all kinds of relationships: corrosive and complicated, as in The Power of [...]

'I had never read Archie,' said Lili Reinhart, who became famous playing Betty, the iconic good girl in Riverdale, the hugely popular television show inspired by the comic book series. [...]

in Watchmen, the Emmy Award-winning HBO adaptation of the complex graphic novel, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II appeared completely naked. He played both Cal Abar, a supportive husband (in clothes), and the [...]

Margaret Qualley as Pussycat Mikey Madison as Sadie Madisen Beaty as Katie James Landry Hebert as Clem Harley Quinn Smith as Froggie Rainsford as Starling Adonis Bosso as Fred Ebonee [...]

In his film Parasite, the director Bong Joon Ho depicts the parallel universes of two families of four--one rich, one poor--who infiltrate each other's lives. When the son of the [...]

Five years ago, the revolution at Gucci, which jump-started a revolution in fashion, began with what appeared to be a classic loafer. Its front was made of soft black leather, [...]

The movies of 2019 were unusually reflective, almost melancholic. When the neon lights go on near the end of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, an ode [...]

Sandy Powell uses the power of clothes to bring to life some of Hollywood's most unforgettable roles. Her own sense of style is just as memorable. Photographed by Tim Walker [...]

What don't we know about how the women of Fox News took down the network's founder, Roger Ailes? Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, and Nicole Kidman, the stars of the movie [...]

When the flamenco-influenced singer Rosalia was growing up in Barcelona, she would imagine entire worlds full of intrigue and excitement for her dolls. 'I had big dreams for my Barbies,' [...]

IF YOU WANT TO FIND THE FURIOUSLY BEATING HEART OF CULTURE TODAY, THE WORLD OF TELEVISION IS THE PLACE TO BEGIN YOUR SEARCH. THAT'S WHERE CINEMATIC GENRES CONTINUE TO BE [...]

A year ago, YALITZA APARICIO was preparing to start her life as a preschool teacher in Oaxaca, Mexico. Today, the Oscar--nominated star of Roma is dismantling stereotypes and making it [...]

Suburban life can make anyone barking mad. Just ask EMMA STONE. On a bright winter afternoon in Burbank, California, a woman named Phyllis was on her front lawn, trying to [...]

At the movies, 2018 was truly the year of the woman. In the past, that claim has been made optimistically, but this time around weighty female-centric films abounded. Actresses have, [...]

Before he cast her in his thrilling and resonant version of A Star Is Born, the fourth incarnation of the classic cinematic tale of doomed romance, Bradley Cooper was only [...]

At the Cannes Film Festival this year, 82 women, all of whom have starred in, directed, written, or otherwise worked on movies, including many that have been shown over the [...]

Nearly two years ago, at the British Academy of Film and relevision Arts tea in Los Angeles, Millie Bobby Brown, who was then only 12, was the sensation of the [...]

In the television show Pose> which is about the transgender community in New York during the 1980s, Ryan Murphy has created a world full of glory, heartbreak, and sky-high heels [...]

This past year was as strange as it was unsettling. From the inauguration of Donald Trump to the horrifying revelations about Harvey Weinstein and other alleged sexual predators, Hollywood, like [...]

Around two years ago, as part of his preparation to play the couturier Reynolds Woodcock in Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, Phantom Thread, Daniel Day-Lewis re-created a Balenciaga dress. At [...]

Margot Robbie's latest role--as ice queen Tonya Harding--is not pretty. And that's a good thing. When Margot Robbie read the script for I, Tonya, a biopic of the notorious ice [...]

Brilliant. Talented. Funny. Determined. Charming. Alluring. Inventive. The women and men on these pages are all that and then some, and they rose to the top of their fields by [...]

Call Me by Your Name, which opens in theaters in November, is a film about first love: specifically, an affair between a 17-year-old boy and a 24-year-old doctoral student working [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On May 22, halfway through the W cover shoot with Katy Perry, the BBC reported that 22 people had been killed and [...]

The search for the next James Bond is over--Charlize Theron is perfect for the role. Proof positive: In Atomic Blonde, in theaters July 28, Theron displays her suave spy talents [...]

As movies increasingly play to a global audience with an endless stream of superhero blockbusters, the television landscape is becoming more varied--and more compelling. This year, for our third annual [...]

Sofia Coppola shares the inspirations behind her latest projects, including her new feature film, The Beguiled. Sofia Coppola's new film, The Beguiled, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On June 2, Gal Gadot, a former Miss Israel, will become the first woman to headline a superhero film in more than a decade when she [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] David Lynch loves women. They are at the center of nearly all his films--from Blue Velvet to Mulholland Drive--and his groundbreaking TV series, Twin [...]

Historically in America, during tough times people go to the movies. They look for a romantic distraction or a place to cry or for characters who speak to their struggles. [...]

The night before W was scheduled to photograph the legendary Barbra Streisand ('Soft S--sand on the beach,' she reminded me) for the cover, I dropped in on a fitting at [...]

Florence Foster Jenkins, which is based on the true story of a wealthy American socialite who had huge artistic ambitions and absolutely no talent, stars Meryl Streep in the title [...]

At W, we don't believe that royalty is a birthright. Rather, it is about creativity, greatness, and originality. The men on the following pages have certainly earned the title. They [...]

Eva Green, who has the pale complexion, black hair, and haunted eyes of a goth princess, would prefer not to be thought of as a supernatural creature with evil powers [...]

When Cara Delevingne was a child, she dreamed of being Spider-Man. 'It was the sense of dressing up and feeling really tough,' Delevingne said on a beautiful spring day in [...]

On a springlike day in early March, Jennifer Lopez walked into the greenroom at the Today show. It was 7:30 a.m., and she mentioned that she was tired--as well she [...]

High fashion, a low-key attitude--and three young women who embody them both brilliantly Zendaya Zendaya Coleman, 19, who goes by her first name (pronounced Zen-DAY-a), is known to tweens everywhere [...]

In 2015, the world was in turmoil, and Hollywood was looking for a happy ending. Whether the topic was sexual identity (Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett in the midcentury lesbian [...]

'I LOVE AN EVENT, 'TARA SUBKOFF SAID AS SHE STOOD IN A CORNER OF Gagosian Gallery, in Beverly Hills, on a cool night in early fall. Although this particular event--the [...]

CATE BLANCHETT INSISTS SHE IS NOT THE EMBODIMENT OF PEREECTIOS. WE BEG TO DIFFER. Comme des Garcons dress, shoulder pads, and shoes; Falke socks. In the fourth gallery of 'Picasso [...]

On the last Friday of summer, at 10:30 in the morning, Jessica Chastain was waiting on the steps outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. She was wearing [...]

In the world of W, being royal is about accomplishment, creativity, and a certain flair. It is an earned title rather than an accident of birth; a pedigree born of [...]

'I had a strange idea, 'Miuccia Prada told me, calling from her office in Milan in July, a few days before her Miu Miu show was to take place in [...]

When the director, producer, and provocateur Lee Daniels asked Taraji P. Henson if she was interested in playing Cookie Lyon, the outrageous, captivating, and highly theatrical ex-wife of the hip-hop [...]

Sex symbol, Oscar winning actress, fitness queen, and now, at age 77, TV star. Behold the unstoppable Jane Fonda. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I think it's a hoot [...]

LYNN HIRSCHBERG: You star in Mad Max: Fury Road, which is a new chapter of the director George Miller's Mad Max films. Did you watch the first Mad Max as [...]

MIA GOTH When Mia Goth auditioned for Lars von Trier's films Nymphomaniac Volume I and II, she knew she would have to read in the nude for the director. 'I [...]

The Swedish actress Alicia Vikander appeared seemingly out of thin air to shine in no less than six major roles this year. Here, she leads the stellar cast of W's [...]