Marion Cotillard is on the cover of the Fall issue of TIME Style & Design looking strikingly elegant. Order it here. There’s also a really interesting story behind the photo shoot:

To prepare for his cover sitting with Marion Cotillard for TIME Style&Design’s fall issue, photographer Peter Hapak hit the archives, collecting pictures of Paris and Parisian fashion during the 1930s, including the work of famed French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue. Studying images of women in restaurants, chatting with friends or simply roaming the streets of the city, Hapak easily understood why Paris has long been considered a fashion capital of the world. “All of the women looked like they had walked out of a fashion magazine,” he says. “Fashion is such a big part of the culture there, and you can even feel that history when walking through the city today.”

On set in Paris this August, Hapak tried to evoke this era, capturing Cotillard in designs by French fashion houses Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, along with other designers like Andrew Gn and Dries Van Noten. “She’s the representation of the French woman for me—elegant, but not too stylized,” says Hapak of Cotillard, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 for her portrayal of French singer Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. “With the cover look, it felt like she was pulling a dress out of her own closet. It went so well with her style, and she felt really confident in it, that you would have never known she was dressing up for a shoot.”

And here’s the interview:
• Marion Cotillard: La Vie en Rose

Gallery:
001 Portraits > Sessions from 2012 > TIME Style & Design

The goodies just keep coming. More pictures as well as a ton of behind the scenes photographs from the shoot previously used for L’Express Styles and Paris Match have surfaced as Marion Cotillard graces the cover of tomorrow’s French magazine Madame Figaro. As with the British Marie Claire there are 2 versions of the cover.

I myself have internet problems and will be away so I will not be able to post on here again before August. But Jess & Luise will keep you updated.

• Marion Cotillard, star made in France, Madame Figaro, July 6 (read with Google Translator)

Gallery:
002 Scans from 2012 > Madame Figaro (France) – July 6
003 Sessions from 2012 > L’Express Styles
019 Behind the Scenes > 2012 – L’Express Styles, Paris Match & Madame Figaro

Over the past few weeks I’ve added quite a number of scans, outtakes and articles from 2012 publications. Expect many more in the coming weeks as ‘De rouille et d’os‘ premieres at Cannes and ‘The Dark Knight Rises‘ opens in theatres in July.

• The Many Faces of Marion Cotillard, The Hollywood Reporter (US), May 18
• De Rouille et d’os: la play-list de Marion Cotillard, L’Express (France), May 9
• “Le film d’Audiard, un film volé au temps”, Obsession (France), April 26
• Gray anatomie, Libération (France), April 24

Gallery
004 Scans from 2012 > Libération (France) – April 25, first stills from James Gray movie
006 Scans from 2012 > TGV Magazine (France ) – May
006 Scans from 2012 > La Parisienne (France) – May 5, 2012
001 Scans from 2012 > The Hollywood Reporter (US) – May 18
003 Sessions from 2012 > Obsession
002 Sessions from 2012 > L’Express Styles
005 Sessions from 2012 > The Hollywood Reporter
015 Behind the Scenes > 2012 The Hollywood Reporter

Marion is in the November 4 issue of Madame Figaro talking about Contagion, Dior, motherhood and her upcoming projects.

Source: Madame Figaro

004 Sessions from 2011 > Madame Figaro

UK’s The Guardian quoted great photographers on how they found new ways to shoot some of the world’s most photographed stars.

“We shot Marion ­Cotillard in Montauk, New York. She was up for an Oscar for La Vie En Rose. An assistant was holding my legs – I was hanging off a cliff. Looking at the ­photograph, you feel like you’re there. You can taste the wind and smell the ocean. You can see in her eyes how windy it was. All the elements of nature are in this, plus her sincerity and beauty.” – Ryan McGinley

This picture together with over 250 other photographs is featured in the book (448 pages) The New York Times ­Magazine Photographs, released last Friday.

Marion is featured in the latest Madame Figaro magazine  (27 August, 2011).  Quoi de neuf? (What’s New?) portfolio focuses on upcoming French cinema, plays and restaurants.

Picture will be added to the gallery shortly. The photographer of the portrait is Denis Rouvre, who Marion has worked with in the past.

[edit:] Thanks Mariana for the digital scan from the magazine.

Source: Madame Figaro

001 Scans from 2011 > Madame Figaro (France) – August 27
002 Sessions from 2011 > Madame Figaro

Nadine and I have been busy today re-adding portrait sessions to the gallery. You may recognize many from our magazine scans section but there are also a few new ones among the new additions. We completed the years 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009 & 2010! The remaining years will be added soon. Enjoy!

322 Portraits

Marion Cotillard graces the cover of the French Elle magazine on newsstands today. In the interview, she reportedly confides about love, motherhood and cinema. I can’t wait for the interview. Most exciting is the gorgeous vacation-themed 17-page photospread.

015 Portraits > Sessions from 2011 > Elle

Just ahead of the opening of the Cannes Film Festival – and the world premiere of ‘Midnight in Paris‘ – next Wednesday French magazine Madame Figaro‘s special Cannes issue is hitting newsstands this Saturday. Guess who’s gracing the cover: Marion Cotillard! The beautiful photoshoot is none other than the one we’ve been anticipating to see more of.

According to a preview of the article – courtesy of PurePeople (view via Google Translator) – the birth of her child is expected before the opening of the festival and she is not for a second contemplating marching the steps for the opening of her new movie – even if it’s the first time she’d have had the opportunity of doing so for one of her own movies en sélection and directed by Woody Allen no less. During the interview she opens up about life in recent months: apparently, being pregnant as well as being home in Paris and seeing more of her friends and family has left her being really Zen – even about being photographed by paparazzi (despite still not liking it). And she calls her part in ‘The Dark Knight Rises‘ a small one. I can’t wait for the full interview!

[edit May 6] The full interview has been put online:

• Marion Cotillard : “J’aimerais mener une double vie”, Madame Figaro, May 7

001 Scans from 2011 > Madame Figaro (France) – May 7
005 Sessions from 2011 > Madame Figaro

Added some pictures of a new portrait session – possibly taken in January for a French magazine. I can’t wait to find out more and to see it an actual magazine.

006 Sessions from 2011 > Set 001