The actor, returning soon for a third season as Catherine the Great, pays homage to classic screen stars in the campaign for Paco Rabanne’s latest perfume, Fame.

It has been nearly six decades since Truman Capote invited 540 pals to the Plaza Hotel for the Black and White Ball—a swanning crowd that included Frank Sinatra, Babe Paley, Gordon Parks, Andy Warhol, and the Italian princess Luciana Pignatelli gleaming in a 60-carat diamond (a Harry Winston loaner). But on a recent afternoon at the hotel, Elle Fanning is seemingly ready for a redux, wearing a high-necked white Paco Rabanne dress studded with tiny diamantés. Fanning, a student of history, summons another canonical reference: “Eloise at the Plaza!” she says, perched on a sofa in a high-floor suite. The 24-year-old actor has regal bearings in spades, as proved by her Emmy-nominated turn as the Russian empress Catherine II in Hulu’s The Great. But there’s an ebullient quality too, a through line from her earliest work onscreen—as a three-year-old in I Am Sam, playing the younger version of her sister Dakota’s character.

A woman so long in the spotlight is a fitting match for the latest Paco Rabanne fragrance, Fame. The bottle conveys the flashbulb sense of the word, styled with cat-eye sunglasses, au courant pierced ears, and the house’s signature chainmail. Fanning herself, having studied ballet through her teen years, also brings a performing-arts-kid magnetism to the role. If David Bowie’s “Fame” inspired the name of the 1980 cult movie, the song also soundtracks the Paco Rabanne campaign. In it, Fanning turns up at the brand’s Avenue Montaigne flagship, where the perfume sparks a series of understated homages to ’60s screen stars, including Audrey Hepburn (Two for the Road), Brigitte Bardot (Le Mépris), and Jane Fonda (Barbarella). It’s a familiar move for Fanning, slipping in and out of guises onscreen and on the red carpet, where she and her longtime stylist Samantha McMillen often showcase rare treasures pulled from Cherie Balch’s Shrimpton Couture. Here, the actor shares a few treasured looks, the makeup product she wishes she’d invented, and Catherine the Great’s approach to power dressing.

Vanity Fair: With fame in mind, what do you guard as private in your life and what parts do you relish being less precious about, whether TikTok or karaoke?
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Hello everyone!

I am so happy because this site is going to celebrate 11 years online in a few days. I can’t believe all the good times that I am having here and want to thank all the visitors for the support.

Well, in 11 years a lot of things changed. Elle was a child when I opened the site and she is growing to be a great woman. Her career is growing and now I have a lot of great feelings for her. I really admire Elle and her career so, I am going to try my best with the site.

Also, I was growing with the site and my mind changed a lot. When I opened the site, I didn’t have a lot of experience with sites and also, my sources changed too. So, I am going to make some big changes here.

First, would like to make changes with the gallery. The most important, I am going to delete the candids and just post in this section photos of Elle arriving premieres, promoting, on set… I am so sorry for this decision but I need to reduce the size of the site. It is too big and need space to add a lot of photoshoots, scans, appearances and more stuff that I have. Well, thinking on it, I don’t feel so fine with candids and they are a big amount so, it is better for me and the site to delete these ones. Also, I would like to organize the gallery (the old and early appearances) because I missed a lot of events, got new and great photos with a better quality, have some duplicate photos…so, you can see that I am going to add and reorganize some albums, events, magazines, photoshoots…You can go to the gallery to take a look and enjoy the past things. It is going to take me a lot of time because you can’t imagine all the folders and stuff that have to check.

And…I really want to work on sections here so, I am going to add a great career section, information…If you have suggestions or comments, everything will be welcome.

Last, as you can know, this site is no longer under free hosting, so if you want to help to keep the site alive and online, please consider giving a donation. Any amount, no matter how small, will be more than appreciated. All donations will go to domain renewals, monthly hosting bills, HQ photos for the gallery…

Well, I just finished with the 2013 photos (appearances, magazines, photoshoots…) so, you can go to the gallery and enjoy thenew things!

Thanks to everyone for the support

Anne

Elle Fanning attends the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on January 15, 2023 in Los Angeles. You can go to the gallery to take a look to the photos and enjoy!

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Oh my God, it’s four in the morning?” marie claire’s October cover star, Elle Fanning gasps. “That’s insane. Surely we can pick a better time to talk?”

“It’s fine,” I assure her. “Australian journalists are used to waking up at the crack of dawn for interviews with international stars.”

“Oh no, I’m so sorry. We need to make this quick! You have to get back to bed,” she insists. Even in our line of work, it’s not every day a Hollywood A-lister concerns themselves with your sleep schedule. However, Elle’s manners show the telltale signs of a Southern upbringing, even if her sunny Californian accent has no hint of a Southern drawl.

The actor and latest ambassador for Paco Rabanne’s new fragrance ‘Fame’ is chatting to marie claire from London, where she’s currently filming the third season of her hit television series The Great. It’s 9pm for her after a long day on set, her Chinese takeaway is waiting on the table until she completes our interview, and yet Elle is beaming.

I can’t actually see her—we’ve gone old school with a phone call rather than the “new normal” Zoom interview—but she’s one of those people who talks with such excitement and joy, you can hear her ear-to-ear smile as she speaks. And rightly so. The 24-year-old actor has plenty to smile about.

It’s been quite the year for Elle, who gained widespread critical acclaim for her surprising turn playing an uncharacteristically dark role in The Girl from Plainville, while also picking up an Emmy nomination for The Great.

News of the nomination came to her via her co-star Nicholas Hoult, who also received a nod for his work as Peter.
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