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Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence has been a household name since her 2010 turn in Winter’s Bone earned her an Oscar nomination, but it was her performance as Katniss Everdeen, the Amazonian protagonist of the Hunger Games series, that all but assured the 22-year-old actress’s rise to superstardom. The Kentucky-born Santa Monica local is a natural in breezy frocks and flaxen hair worn wavy, but 2012 has seen Lawrence push herself in Prabal Gurung, Viktor & Rolf, and most recently Raf Simons’s creations for Dior—she is, after all, the brand’s newest face. With a bold, new brunette look, Lawrence shows no signs of playing it safe in her future red-carpet appearances, of which there will be no shortage, with two further blockbusting Hunger Games installments on the horizon.

 
Photographed by Norman Jean Roy 

Azealia Banks

In her Mickey Mouse sweater, denim cutoffs, and long, swinging pigtails, 21-year-old Azealia Banks became an overnight pop sensation with the lip-smacking video for her hit single “212” last year. She’s since proved that her talent and style are anything but child’s play—Alexander Wang enlisted the Harlem-born rapper as the star of his latest video campaign, as well as his date to the 2012 Met ball, and she was recently invited to Paris for a private performance chez Karl Lagerfeld. Just as her voice recalls the provocative energy of 1990s house-music divas, her fashion sensibility takes the strongest, boldest looks of the decade a step forward: graphic-print body-con dresses and cheeky bustier tops to rival a “Vogue”-era Madonna.

 
Photographed by Hannah Thomson 

Elizabeth Olsen

There is good reason Elizabeth Olsen, 23, has fast been labeled one to watch: Her breakout role in the Sundance hit Martha Marcy May Marlene put her on everyone’s radar, including that of Karl Lagerfeld, who personally invited her to Chanel’s couture show. Her affinity for the type of insouciant, mannish tailoring that skews “Faye Dunaway in Network and Diane Keaton as Annie Hall . . . or anything she did with Woody Allen in those clothes!” is a nostalgic reminder of how effortless dressing can be. From a sleek velvet carmine pantsuit by her sisters’ line The Row to a floor-skimming, tiered scarlet dress by Valentino, this Olsen pulls off a modern take on seventies glamour in a way that is both covetable and accessible.

 
Photographed by Boo George 

Shailene Woodley

I’m not a black-dress girl,” says actress Shailene Woodley. “But I’m not that superloud, get-everybody-staring girl, either.” Where the Southern California native, 21, finds equilibrium is with classic silhouettes in feminine hues and graphic prints. Whether she’s zipped into Proenza Schouler’s tropical floral sheath (for the Vanity Fair Oscar party) or even Dolce & Gabbana’s whimsical, floor-sweeping dress (at the BAFTA Awards earlier this year), her look never suggests that she’s trying hard to impress. Indeed, much like her seamless, captivating performances, namely her Golden Globe–nominated turn alongside George Clooney in The Descendants, Woodley radiates a sophistication and grace that belie her years. “I’ll never be the girl in tons of jewelry or makeup,” she says. “I like things that are simple and make a statement.”

 
Photographed by Boo George 

St. Vincent

The serendipitous beauty of missing the mark—that’s kind of always what I’m doing,” says Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, of her musical stylings, and that description easily applies to the curly-headed crooner’s fashion sense, too. Clark’s look is always artfully unexpected; she’ll be in an elegant sweetheart-neck dress onstage one night and jamming in leather mini shorts the next. And even when she steps away from the mic, her range is impressive. This June at the CFDA Awards, the 30-year-old posed at ease in a poppy-print dress, then later in the summer attended Vena Cava’s L.A. fall presentation in a nailhead-studded black tuxedo. Missing the mark may be serendipitous, but Clark’s fashion picks are consistently on-target.

 
Photographed by Kai Z Feng 

Sloane Stephens

When you have confidence, you can do anything,” nineteen-year-old Sloane Stephens told Vogue earlier this year, after a French Open debut in which she surprised the tennis world by being one of two Americans to reach the fourth round. Indeed, with confidence, you can go on to give the number-twelve seed, Ana Ivanovic, a run for her money at the U.S. Open and become a crowd favorite. And it’s with that same confidence that you can rock a deep-cut raspberry Thakoon dress for a Vogue shoot as naturally as you wield a racket. Like the Williams sisters (whom she counts as close friends) and Maria Sharapova before her, Stephens, with her irrepressible smile, sleekly muscled physique, and flawless skin, is poised to be not only America’s next tennis superstar but the next female athlete to approach the fashion world with the same kind of swagger for which she’s known on the court.

 
Photographed by Alastair Strong 

Lana Del Rey

With a glamour that is equal parts sixties retro, seventies D.I.Y., eighties vamp, and nineties hip-hop, Lana Del Rey has fascinated audiences deeply enough to outlast the critical squabble that accompanied her 2011 debut single, “Video Games.” This past year has seen the Born to Die songstress prove not only her resilience but also an ability to edit her wistful image and find a stylistic solidity that has made real impact on the red carpet. Her Altuzarra cape at the Met gala and floor-length Alberta Ferretti at the Cannes Film Festival coincided with collaborative projects with Mulberry and H&M, both stamps of approval that will carry
the 26-year-old well into the new year.

 
Photo: Joe Schildhorn/BFANYC.com 

Sophie Auster

Chanteuse Sophie Auster inherited a flair for literature from her parents, authors Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt, infusing her songs with poetic verse. A subtle lyricism is at work in her wardrobe, too; the 25-year-old has a knack for spiking ultrafeminine looks with a masculine note, often wearing delicate Chanel dresses, tough biker boots, and a jaunty rock-’n’-roll fedora. Auster, who releases her new EP Red Weather this fall, cites Jane Birkin as a role model (she set her father’s English translations of Surrealist French poetry to music on her first album) and no doubt possesses the je ne sais quoi of Birkin’s whimsical style as well.

 
Photographed by Craig McDean 

Cody Horn

“I was obsessed with my first leather jacket,” Cody Horn says. “It was the first thing I bought with my savings from modeling when I was fifteen, and I actually still have it.” The former Bruce Weber model and breakout talent of both Steven Soderbergh’s summer smoke show Magic Mike and the Jake Gyllenhaal–led cop thriller End of Watch, Horn still favors industrially inspired pieces. Whether off-the-clock in motorcycle boots or at work on the red carpet in a crocodile-embossed black leather dress from Jason Wu’s spring 2013 collection, the 24-year-old actress maintains an edgy, tomboy chic that complements her recently shorn honey-blonde hair. Her horizons, however, are expanding. “I’ve been introduced to a lot of new designers lately,” Horn says. “And I’m learning that I don’t have to wear Balmain every day to look how I want.”

 
Photographed by Sebastian Kim 

Kendra Spears

With a distinguishing mole resting above her wide, easy smile, Kendra Spears has often drawn comparisons to nineties American beauty Cindy Crawford. However, it’s the Seattle native’s girl-next-door familiarity and breezy, approachable air that’s setting this model up as a major player today. When she isn’t clocking runway miles walking for houses such as Givenchy Haute Couture, Prada, Chanel, or Calvin Klein, the University of Washington graduate gives her own off-duty ensembles a military-meets-collegiate twist—worn-in parkas, heeled combat boots, and chunky scarves wrapped twice around her dainty throat. Indeed, it’s when she’s au naturel and snapped on the street that this rising star appears most luminous.

 
Photographed by Mariano Vivanco 

Nina Arianda

You might be forgiven if the word range doesn’t initially spring to mind when one considers 28-year-old actress Nina Arianda’s fashion prowess. After all, the Manhattan native spent the majority of her Tony-winning performance in Broadway’s Venus in Fur in a black lace corset and up-to-there patent leather boots. Offstage, Arianda’s looks are a bit more demure, though no less memorable; she favors formfitting sheath dresses like the Michael Kors one she wore to judge karaoke on Fashion’s Night Out or the Oscar de la Renta pleated gold column she donned for the 2012 Met ball. And with a turn as blues legend Janis Joplin in Sean Durkin’s hotly anticipated biopic next on the docket, Arianda’s costume changes will no doubt herald standing ovations for years to come.

 
Photographed by Norman Jean Roy 

 

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence has been a household name since her 2010 turn in Winter’s Bone earned her an Oscar nomination, but it was her performance as Katniss Everdeen, the Amazonian protagonist of the Hunger Games series, that all but assured the 22-year-old actress’s rise to superstardom. The Kentucky-born Santa Monica local is a natural in breezy frocks and flaxen hair worn wavy, but 2012 has seen Lawrence push herself in Prabal Gurung, Viktor & Rolf, and most recently Raf Simons’s creations for Dior—she is, after all, the brand’s newest face. With a bold, new brunette look, Lawrence shows no signs of playing it safe in her future red-carpet appearances, of which there will be no shortage, with two further blockbusting Hunger Games installments on the horizon.

 
Photographed by Norman Jean Roy 

Azealia Banks

In her Mickey Mouse sweater, denim cutoffs, and long, swinging pigtails, 21-year-old Azealia Banks became an overnight pop sensation with the lip-smacking video for her hit single “212” last year. She’s since proved that her talent and style are anything but child’s play—Alexander Wang enlisted the Harlem-born rapper as the star of his latest video campaign, as well as his date to the 2012 Met ball, and she was recently invited to Paris for a private performance chez Karl Lagerfeld. Just as her voice recalls the provocative energy of 1990s house-music divas, her fashion sensibility takes the strongest, boldest looks of the decade a step forward: graphic-print body-con dresses and cheeky bustier tops to rival a “Vogue”-era Madonna.

 
Photographed by Hannah Thomson 

Elizabeth Olsen

There is good reason Elizabeth Olsen, 23, has fast been labeled one to watch: Her breakout role in the Sundance hit Martha Marcy May Marlene put her on everyone’s radar, including that of Karl Lagerfeld, who personally invited her to Chanel’s couture show. Her affinity for the type of insouciant, mannish tailoring that skews “Faye Dunaway in Network and Diane Keaton as Annie Hall . . . or anything she did with Woody Allen in those clothes!” is a nostalgic reminder of how effortless dressing can be. From a sleek velvet carmine pantsuit by her sisters’ line The Row to a floor-skimming, tiered scarlet dress by Valentino, this Olsen pulls off a modern take on seventies glamour in a way that is both covetable and accessible.

 
Photographed by Boo George 

Shailene Woodley

I’m not a black-dress girl,” says actress Shailene Woodley. “But I’m not that superloud, get-everybody-staring girl, either.” Where the Southern California native, 21, finds equilibrium is with classic silhouettes in feminine hues and graphic prints. Whether she’s zipped into Proenza Schouler’s tropical floral sheath (for the Vanity Fair Oscar party) or even Dolce & Gabbana’s whimsical, floor-sweeping dress (at the BAFTA Awards earlier this year), her look never suggests that she’s trying hard to impress. Indeed, much like her seamless, captivating performances, namely her Golden Globe–nominated turn alongside George Clooney in The Descendants, Woodley radiates a sophistication and grace that belie her years. “I’ll never be the girl in tons of jewelry or makeup,” she says. “I like things that are simple and make a statement.”

 
Photographed by Boo George 

St. Vincent

The serendipitous beauty of missing the mark—that’s kind of always what I’m doing,” says Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, of her musical stylings, and that description easily applies to the curly-headed crooner’s fashion sense, too. Clark’s look is always artfully unexpected; she’ll be in an elegant sweetheart-neck dress onstage one night and jamming in leather mini shorts the next. And even when she steps away from the mic, her range is impressive. This June at the CFDA Awards, the 30-year-old posed at ease in a poppy-print dress, then later in the summer attended Vena Cava’s L.A. fall presentation in a nailhead-studded black tuxedo. Missing the mark may be serendipitous, but Clark’s fashion picks are consistently on-target.

 
Photographed by Kai Z Feng 

Sloane Stephens

When you have confidence, you can do anything,” nineteen-year-old Sloane Stephens told Vogue earlier this year, after a French Open debut in which she surprised the tennis world by being one of two Americans to reach the fourth round. Indeed, with confidence, you can go on to give the number-twelve seed, Ana Ivanovic, a run for her money at the U.S. Open and become a crowd favorite. And it’s with that same confidence that you can rock a deep-cut raspberry Thakoon dress for a Vogue shoot as naturally as you wield a racket. Like the Williams sisters (whom she counts as close friends) and Maria Sharapova before her, Stephens, with her irrepressible smile, sleekly muscled physique, and flawless skin, is poised to be not only America’s next tennis superstar but the next female athlete to approach the fashion world with the same kind of swagger for which she’s known on the court.

 
Photographed by Alastair Strong 

Lana Del Rey

With a glamour that is equal parts sixties retro, seventies D.I.Y., eighties vamp, and nineties hip-hop, Lana Del Rey has fascinated audiences deeply enough to outlast the critical squabble that accompanied her 2011 debut single, “Video Games.” This past year has seen the Born to Die songstress prove not only her resilience but also an ability to edit her wistful image and find a stylistic solidity that has made real impact on the red carpet. Her Altuzarra cape at the Met gala and floor-length Alberta Ferretti at the Cannes Film Festival coincided with collaborative projects with Mulberry and H&M, both stamps of approval that will carry
the 26-year-old well into the new year.

 
Photo: Joe Schildhorn/BFANYC.com 

Sophie Auster

Chanteuse Sophie Auster inherited a flair for literature from her parents, authors Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt, infusing her songs with poetic verse. A subtle lyricism is at work in her wardrobe, too; the 25-year-old has a knack for spiking ultrafeminine looks with a masculine note, often wearing delicate Chanel dresses, tough biker boots, and a jaunty rock-’n’-roll fedora. Auster, who releases her new EP Red Weather this fall, cites Jane Birkin as a role model (she set her father’s English translations of Surrealist French poetry to music on her first album) and no doubt possesses the je ne sais quoi of Birkin’s whimsical style as well.

 
Photographed by Craig McDean 

Cody Horn

“I was obsessed with my first leather jacket,” Cody Horn says. “It was the first thing I bought with my savings from modeling when I was fifteen, and I actually still have it.” The former Bruce Weber model and breakout talent of both Steven Soderbergh’s summer smoke show Magic Mike and the Jake Gyllenhaal–led cop thriller End of Watch, Horn still favors industrially inspired pieces. Whether off-the-clock in motorcycle boots or at work on the red carpet in a crocodile-embossed black leather dress from Jason Wu’s spring 2013 collection, the 24-year-old actress maintains an edgy, tomboy chic that complements her recently shorn honey-blonde hair. Her horizons, however, are expanding. “I’ve been introduced to a lot of new designers lately,” Horn says. “And I’m learning that I don’t have to wear Balmain every day to look how I want.”

 
Photographed by Sebastian Kim 

Kendra Spears

With a distinguishing mole resting above her wide, easy smile, Kendra Spears has often drawn comparisons to nineties American beauty Cindy Crawford. However, it’s the Seattle native’s girl-next-door familiarity and breezy, approachable air that’s setting this model up as a major player today. When she isn’t clocking runway miles walking for houses such as Givenchy Haute Couture, Prada, Chanel, or Calvin Klein, the University of Washington graduate gives her own off-duty ensembles a military-meets-collegiate twist—worn-in parkas, heeled combat boots, and chunky scarves wrapped twice around her dainty throat. Indeed, it’s when she’s au naturel and snapped on the street that this rising star appears most luminous.

 
Photographed by Mariano Vivanco 

Nina Arianda

You might be forgiven if the word range doesn’t initially spring to mind when one considers 28-year-old actress Nina Arianda’s fashion prowess. After all, the Manhattan native spent the majority of her Tony-winning performance in Broadway’s Venus in Fur in a black lace corset and up-to-there patent leather boots. Offstage, Arianda’s looks are a bit more demure, though no less memorable; she favors formfitting sheath dresses like the Michael Kors one she wore to judge karaoke on Fashion’s Night Out or the Oscar de la Renta pleated gold column she donned for the 2012 Met ball. And with a turn as blues legend Janis Joplin in Sean Durkin’s hotly anticipated biopic next on the docket, Arianda’s costume changes will no doubt herald standing ovations for years to come.

 
Photographed by Norman Jean Roy 

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This year’s brightest national stars are earning their stripes across the board, from music venues to tennis courts to the runway and the silver screen.

Vogue Best Dressed 2012 is available on newsstands tomorrow in New York and L.A. and nationally on November 20.

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