Paris Fall 2012 Couture Street Style

Often during collections, the over-the-top looks on view outside the shows distract from what's happening on the runway. But during a season like couture, that's pretty hard to do considering the extravagance and glamour that designers put on display (even when it's restrained, as in the manner of Raf Simons at Christian Dior, it's still spectacular). So stylish showgoers like Caroline Issa, Hanneli Mustaparta, and Vanessa Traina stand out in the streets of Paris for their simple, streamlined pieces like Mustaparta's blue Acne button-down or Traina's tulip-esque skirt with a cocoon-shaped jacket. And for anyone who thought print-on-print was fading with the summer sun, just look at Caroline Brasch Nielsen's effortless cool in an animal print top and skirt.

Emma Stone Makes Her Vogue Cover Debut in the July Issue

by Nathan Heller | photographed by Mario Testin

This summer finds 23-year-old Emma Stone dangling from the rooftops in her blockbuster breakout as Peter Parker’s brainy blonde girlfriend in The Amazing Spider-Man—and gracing her first-ever cover of Vogue. With photos shot by Mario Testino, Stone cultivates a persona all her own, an innate, antic glamour that’s inspired as much by Diane Keaton’sAnnie Hall style as Lanvin and Giambattista Valli. And in July’s profile, Nathan Hellerencounters the actress at the cusp of a pivotal transformation in her young career, after earning her reputation as Hollywood’s go-to girl for strong, spunky characters bridging unreconciled worlds, going brunette for her Superbad audition and making her move from comedy to The Help. “Working with Emma was like diving into a thrilling, twisting river and never holding on to the sides,” says her Spider-Man costar Andrew Garfield. “From the start. To the end. Spontaneous. In the moment. Present. Terrifying. Vital. The only way acting with someone should be.” In our cover story, Stone recounts what it’s like to see her childhood dreams come true (appearing at the Oscars in February, hosting Saturday Night Live); confesses to a history of panic attacks and how she learned, growing up in Arizona, to channel that anxiety into laughter (“Comedy was my sport”); and reveals how she launched into acting at the age of fourteen (to convince her parents to let her move to L.A. to pursue her dream, she made a PowerPoint presentation). That may have been her first major performance—now, as Spider-Man leaps into theaters, we’ll see her hanging from the precipice, perfectly poised for her next big moment. 
 
To read the full story, head to newsstands now to buy the July issue of Vogue.