the natural

NATALIE PORTMAN.

elle UK Feb 2010.

beautiful

intelligent

poised

natural

style and substance. just what i love

Shes on a roll this year with her movie Black Swan, then "Your Highness" with James Franco, and No Strings attached with Ashton Kutcher coming out.

girl crush

 US VOGUE JAN 2011

On being in favor of vulgar: “There’s a difference between being in a bra and underpants as an object on a men’s-magazine cover and playing yourself—a woman with desires and needs who loves and laughs with her friends—in a bra and underpants. You become an object if you simply put it out there. Most movies are made by men, it’s totally natural that they’re going to present their worldview, so we’re trying to find more women who are writers and directors who are expressing their worldview. Did you see Tiny Furniture? Lena Dunham wrote, directed, and starred in it; she’s 23, and it is just amazing. She walks around in her underwear for the whole movie; it’s harsh. She’s the subject, she’s not the object, and it’s beautiful—that’s the kind of thing we need more of.”

If you've seen the movie, which I did just yesterday, you know that Mila Kunis plays Lily, "the more passionate and worldly of the two." Interestingly enough, at the NY movie premiere in the beginning of December, Kunis looked angelic in a pale rose Elie Saab gown, with pink makeup, while Portman, who in the movie plays the sheltered, troubled ballerina Nina, opted for a sultry off the shoulder Dior gown complete with red lips. She even carried an Olympia Le Tan book clutch of the novel Lolita, about the notorious teenage temptress.