The upcoming Harry Potter spin-off ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them‘ is getting ready to cast the two leading women in the movie to star alongside Eddie Redmayne. One of the names, according to sources, is Kate Upton.

According to multiple sources, Saoirse Ronan, Dakota Fanning, Lili Simmons, and Alison Sudol are up for Tina while Kate Upton, Katherine Waterston, and Elizabeth Debicki are testing for Queenie.

Maybe all of those Game of War commercials inspired casting directors to pick Kate Upton for a leading role in the movie titanfall pc?

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A bun, or a pompadour? If you opt for a style like Kate Upton's you don't have to choose! Last night at the Los Angeles premiere of The Other Woman, Upton seamlessly blended the two trends into one gorgeous updo thanks to some creativity from her hairstylist Peter Butler. Starting with freshly-washed strands, Butler applied three large dollops of Leonor Greyl's Mousse Volumatrice, placed one at her crown, split another onto both sides of her head, and worked the last into the back section. He ran the product from her roots to her ends before blowing out her strands with a paddle brush, spritzing the Leonor Greyl Spray Structure Naturlle onto sections during the process to add volume. Once finished, Butler created extra movement by using a small amount of the Eclat Naturel in conjunction with a large-barrel curling iron.

"The product gave her hair an almost wet look and nice separation for when I combed it out," he says. To create the pompadour at the front, Butler used a smaller curling iron to add a soft wave, then used his hands and a bit of the Eclat Naturel to shape it before moving on to the bun. He swept Upton's strands into a ponytail, using an elastic band with hooks to anchor the base. "This helps keep the ponytail in place so the hair doesn't slide and get loose afterwards," Butler adds. He then wrapped the length of Upton's hair around the base to form the bun, used four pins to secure it, and finished with a veil of the Leonor Greyl Lacque Souple for extra insurance.

There are things you don’t want out there, even if they make you a star.

A video posted of Kate Upton doing the “Cat Daddy” dance may have helped launch her career, but that doesn’t mean the model was happy to see it go public.

“That was disrespectful, you could have told me!” the 21-year-old said she told photographer Terry Richardson, who posted the clip in 2012, after it went viral.

The former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue cover model told Vogue UK in a new interview that she was horrified to see the minute-long video of herself dancing while wearing an extremely small bikini go viral, in part because she thought it had just been filmed for fun and wouldn’t be seen by anyone who wasn’t at the photoshoot.

But whether or not she wanted the video to be released, it was an immediate hit and has garnered more than 21 million views in the last three years, which might be why Upton’s opinion of it has softened slightly.

“Now, obviously, it’s fine,” she said.

For his part, the controversial Richardson doesn’t feel the video, as popular as it proved to be, played much of a part in the model’s success.

“No,” he told the magazine, “Kate was born a star.”

Graydon Carter brings together heavyweight writers and photographers, and creates online 'anniversary hub'

 

Kate Upton graces the October 2013 cover of Vanity Fair, out on Friday, 6 September. VF.com. Photograph: Annie Leibovitz/Conde Nast

Vanity Fair is celebrating its 100th-year anniversary with its October front cover featuring actor and model Kate Upton in poses harking back to its first edition in 1913.

In a series of portraits taken by the renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz, Upton is pictured lounging on the moon in a pose that mimicks the original cover of Dress & Vanity Fair from 1 October 1913.

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter − who began editing the title in 1992, the same year that Upton was born − writes in the latest edition: "In an age when nothing seems to last − not convictions, not even cities − a centennial, like the one Vanity Fair celebrates this year, makes me marvel at the simple fact of longevity."

To mark the centenary, the magazine asked 10 heavyweight writers − including the Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes − to produce essays on the essence of each of the past 10 decades. It has also collected a series of the magazine's most recognisable images, including portraits by Leibovitz, Mario Testino, Bruce Weber and Edward Steichen.

In his editor's letter, Carter writes: "Magazines have 'bones' − the unchanging elements that give structure to creativity − as surely as gardens and houses do. Today's magazine is different in countless ways from yesterday's − as even the briefest excursion through this issue will show. But I like to think that if [Vanity Fair's first editor] Frank Crowninshield … could see the modern Vanity Fair, stripped of its logo and other identifying marks, he'd know in an instant what he held in his hands."

Alongside the print tribute to Vanity Fair's history − available from Wednesday in New York and Los Angeles and elsewhere from 10 September − the magazine has launched an online "anniversary hub" with more than 200 pieces of archive and original content, featuring interactive features and Spotify playlists.

The Sports Illustrated model now appears on Vogue covers too. But fashion's appreciation of her curvy body may just be a brief flirtation

 

Vogue's June 2014 UK edition.

Now that Kate Upton has been on the covers of both US and UK Vogue, does this mean breasts are now officially in fashion?

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If only it were so simple, Name Withheld, if only it were. As you beadily note, Kate Upton – a beautiful and well-upholstered model who was previously best known for wearing near-non-existent bikinis on the cover of Sports Illustrated's deeply sporty annual swimsuit issue – was recently on the cover of US Vogue and is currently on the cover of the UK version, having previously appeared on it in January 2013. This, you might well think, must surely represent the final breaking down of the hardened wall – pretty much a Berlin wall, really – between the heretofore very separate worlds of models favoured by women's magazines and those favoured by men's magazines, worlds generally delineated by the size of the bosoms of the models.

To paraphrase one of Kanye West's few sensible utterances, when he spoke about the former President Bush, women's fashion magazines don't care about bosoms. Which is odd, if you think about it, seeing as the vast, vast majority of their readers, as well as their writers and editors, have bosoms. Nonetheless, bosoms are seen as cheap, embarrassing, even – gasp! – unfashionable, and are treated with an attitude close to distaste by many in the women's fashion business. Only the flat-chested can be elevated to the lofty status of "fashion icon" – those with anything larger than a B cup are dismissed as simply not trying hard enough. The widely disseminated excuse for this is that clothes "don't hang well" on well-busted ladies, and there is something in this. The most fashionable kinds of clothes – say, the classic YSL tuxedo or the Chanel tweed jacket – tend to look less than perfect on us bigger busted ladies. But the fault here lies not with the bust but with the clothes themselves, as to say an item of women's clothing doesn't work with bosoms is like saying an item of a human's clothing can't possibly hang well with all those pesky shoulders and arms getting in the way. Victoria Beckham might have been able to gain acceptance into the fashion world by having her breast implants removed, but for those of us who are naturally over a size C cup, that is simply not an option. Different women are differently sized, of course, but to dismiss a fairly basic part of a woman's anatomy as inconvenient suggests that too many people who work in women's fashion simply don't quite understand women.

Some fashion critics like to make the ridiculous and frankly homophobic argument that fashion's distaste for bosoms is because so many designers are gay and therefore they want women to look like men and they all secretly hate women and something, something, blah blah. Leaving aside the absurd insinuation that all gay men hate women, this ridiculous contention is disproved by the briefest of looks at the models used by the straight men who design womenswear (Roberto Cavalli, Paul Smith and Ralph Lauren, off the top of my head), and those used by female designers (Stella McCartney, Céline's Phoebe Philo, Miuccia Prada), as they, funnily enough, happen to be the very same small-busted models used by gay designers. So to say fashion's anti-bosom stance is about misogyny is simply too sweeping. What it's really about is skinniness: breasts are seen as a sign of fatness. This is not misogyny, exactly, but rather part of the fashion world's insanity about body size, which sometimes elides into misogyny, but in this case is really just about shallowness and idiocy.

So when Ms Upton and her bounteous bosom started appearing in fashion magazines, I was cheered, not just to see a different body shape being appreciated, but to see fashion editors attempting to work with it and dress it in clothes a well-bosomed woman might actually wish to wear. Upton's shoot in Vogue last year was a case in point, in which the talented stylist Francesca Burns put her in elegant, simple clothes, neither ignoring her body shape nor making a big deal of it.

But a change has been happening of late. With an almost tic-like inevitability, Upton's shoots in fashion magazines are increasingly becoming indistinguishable from the ones she has done in men's magazines and Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues. No, she hasn't yet been photographed in Vogue in a tiny bikini and sucking a phallic lolly, as she once was in fellow Condé Nast magazine GQ (stay classy, GQ!). But rather than wearing elegant dresses and whatnot, she is instead wearing bikini tops that bust open for no reason and one-piece swimming costumes that split apart. Instead of fashion magazines taking advantage of this extraordinary moment, when a curvaceous model is popular and showing readers that one can be fashionable and curvy, fashion magazines are instead, well, just taking advantage of the model's curves.

Look, it's not easy being a big-busted fan of fashion. We have to put up with vintage shop owners telling us our "tits don't work with vintage, sorry love" (actual quote) and we have to accept that we will never, ever be able to wear a tuxedo (not actually such a hardship, to be honest). But the one thing we could always rely on with the fashion world was that it wouldn't catcall us like a bunch of bored builders on a lunchbreak. But it turns out that even fashion people can only think of two things to do with a big-busted woman and once you've done one (put her in a high-necked dress) you're just left with the other (get her tits out). And that is not a strategy with longevity, suggesting that this current fascination with women's breasts is really just a brief flirtation rather than a new relationship.

There’s nothing unusual about Kate Upton’s rapid rise to fame. Before she even had her first acting role (The Other Woman comes out today) she’d already taken her place in sexual fantasies and online forums across the globe, thanks to the memorable Cat Daddy video where she danced in a bikini to the direction of “fashion’s favorite pervert” Terry Richardson. Upton isn’t necessarily doing anything wildly different from what many women in Hollywood have done to get their names in the headlines and their boobs on the big screen.

She’s complying.

In a recent Salon article titled “Kate Upton, “Cool Girl”: how the supermodel conquered Hollywood,” Daniel D’Addario claims that Upton has replaced Jennifer Lawrence as Hollywood’s new “cool girl” primarily because of her “amiable willingness to do whatever it takes.”

He writes, “where Lawrence’s “cool” is an attitude of general disregard for the fripperies of showbiz, Upton’s is an eager willingness to go along with whatever’s demanded of her. Want her to strip near-naked in Antarctica, for some reason? Sure! Want her to boogie in a bikini on camera? Sounds fun! Want her to appear in a movie that casts her as a vapid young lady who inspires ire in two older and more accomplished actresses? Why not? She isn’t necessarily rebelling against Hollywood’s standards; she’s fully, happily owning them.”

There’s so much wrong with this line of thinking that it’s difficult to even know for sure if D’Addario is being sarcastic or if he could really, honestly be saying to us: A cool woman is an obedient woman.

First of all, this whole notion of the “cool girl” label/template is troublesome. As fellow Luna Luna writer Cee Martinez pointed out to me, “Women’s personalities are so varied that the label, no matter whom it is bestowed on, basically tells any woman who isn’t of that template that she’s inadequate.”

Agreed. In a place like Hollywood, “cool” changes by the day, maybe even by the minute. What was apparently seen as “cool” in Jennifer Lawrence was her supposed “disregard” for Hollywood’s demands, but I’m not sure I 100% agree with that.

After this year’s Oscars, I wrote a piece for Luna Luna about Lawrence’s expected red carpet fall. I wondered if she was merely playing into the label of a clumsy, funny, pitied girl because her fans adored it and Hollywood rewarded the act.

But I do agree with D’Addario’s claim that unlike Upton, Lawrence “has somehow mostly avoided being sexualized — her hit “Hunger Games” franchise is about how able and strong she is, and her performances for David O. Russell have arguably been more about baring over-the-top emotion than her body.”

And that’s enough to keep Lawrence “cool” or maybe even “admirable” or “honorable” in my book for far longer than Hollywood would deem appropriate.

Actors—female and male—will continue making questionable choices to get their names in the headlines. Upton is merely following a trusted Hollywood formula, but, for me, it just feels like a giant step back.

Maybe it’s time to redefine what is and isn’t “cool” anymore.

Kate Upton is often labeled as a modern-day Marilyn Monroe, thanks to her enviable curves, bouncy blonde locks and classically beautiful features. 

And now, the 23-year-old actress is once again channeling her inner Marilyn as she stars in a stunning calendar-style shoot for the first ever issue of former Vogue Editor Carine Roitfeld's newest project, CR Men's Book. 

'Kate has always been everything I love,' Carine, 60, explained on the CR Fashion Book website. 

Pin-up: Kate Upton stars in this calendar-style shoot for the first ever issue of CR Men's Book

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The combination of Kate Upton and Carine Roitfeld is a match made in fashion heaven!

The editor of CR Men's Book has hailed the model as the Marilyn Monroe of today, and she's definitely got that blonde bombshell thing going on here. We love her layered look of a lace-trimmed camisole and two shirts. One just wasn't enough!

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'She is the opposite of me - a Marilyn of today. For my new CR Men's Book, she represents different types of beauty and the sexual fantasies of all men.'

An article posted on the CR Men's Book website about Kate's shoot further explains why the actress and model was chosen to star in the debut publication, describing the blonde bombshell as a 'strong woman' whose looks and personality, Carine believes, will resonate with all of the magazine's readers.  

'For more than one reason, it's only fitting for supermodel Kate Upton to be cast for the first issue of our CR Men's Book,' the article reads. 

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Natural beauty: According to editor Carine Roitfeld, the 23-year-old model and actress was chosen to appear in the spread because she is 'beloved by most modern men in her own right'

History in the making: Kate starred in the first issue of the newly-relaunched CR Fashion Book in 2012

'For nostalgia's sake alone, she was the first-ever cover star of CR Fashion Book's rebirth issue in 2012. Perhaps the more obvious reason is the way men and women alike have responded to her since.

'The first issue of CR Men’s Book is centered around Carine’s archetypes of masculinity - men who have both embodied and challenged the norm by blurring the boundaries of gender, sexuality, and style in their respective times. 

'But just as important as these men were the strong women in their lives - the subjects of their intimacies, confidences, fantasies and friendships. Inspired by the idea of traditional [pin-up] calendars, she cast Kate Upton (beloved by most modern men in her own right) to play the lovers, friends and partners of these leading men - evoking a medley of iconic styles that pays homage to a group of talented women ranging from Patti Smith and Winona Ryder to Courtney Love.'

Blonde bombshell: The model is often labeled as a modern-day Marilyn Monroe because of her enviable curves and voluminous blonde locks

Red carpet queen: Kate, pictured in April 2014, has been praised by fashion critics the world over for her glamorous sense of style

It is not the first time that Kate has taken on the Marilyn persona for a shoot; in 2013, she appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair's 100th issue 

On the cover, the then-21-year-old supermodel, who was named 2013's Model of the Year, donned siren red lipstick, cascading blonde curls and a gold bodysuit, holding a cake lit with a candle in one hand.

Shot by famous photographer Annie Leibovitz, the stunning image marked just how far Kate had come since appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 2011, a campaign which many have claimed signaled the launch of her successful career.