Penelope Cruz Covers ELLE Spain April 2024 in Very Best Images by Xavi Gordo
/Penélope Cruz covers the April 2024 issue of ELLE Spain, working with photographer Xavi Gordo [IG] to deliver some of the most precious images of the actor I remember. Cruz turns 50 on April 28, and Gordo has captures her inner spirit, as well as her physicality in these simple but so revealing images. He and Penelope have quite a dance going on.
Penelope Discovers Women’s World
Cruz’s mother was a hairdresser and she and her sister spent a great deal of time in a salon after school. It was there that Penelope observed the women carefully, understanding not only their desire to be pretty in their lives, but practicing rituals thousands of years old. The young daughter Penelope developed insights that would fuel her future success as an actor, after she first paid her way and contributed to the family finances as a model.
Read MorePenelope Cruz Talks Laura Ferrari in ELLE US February 2024 by Zoey Grossman
/Actor Penélope Cruz covers the February 2024 issue of ELLE US [IG]. Alex White styles the Spanish superstar in ‘The Compassion of Penelope Cruz. Yes, Cruz has been a Chanel ambassador for more than a decade, and the story is heavy on Chanel in images by Zoey Grossman [IG].
Sloane Crosley meets Penélope Cruz at her production company, about 30 minutes north of Madrid. The writer’s enviable worthsmithing skills are on display by the third paragraph.
Penélope Cruz’s latest role — coming in December — is that of Laura Ferrari in Michael Mann’s “breakneck biopic” Ferrari. Unlike playing her friend Donatella Versace in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, Cruz will introduce Laura Ferrari to the general public for the first time.
Read MoreMet Gala 2023 Host Penelope Cruz Sizzled in Vogue España's ‘Revolución Penélope’
/Photographer Ned Rogers [IG] captured Penelope Cruz in this sizzling fashion story ‘Revolución Penélope’.
Cruz will join Dua Lipa, Michaela Coel and Roger Federer to co-chair the 2023 Met Gala on May 1.
This year’s event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute will celebrate the opening of “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.”
Read MoreA Racy Penélope Cruz Puts Her Foot on the Gas,by Nico Bustos for Elle España December 2021
/Actor Penélope Cruz covers the December 2021 issue of ELLE España styled by Sylvia Montoliù in black lace dressed woman driving red convertible. You get the drift. Nico Bustos captures Cruz, who is winning rave reviews for her role in ‘Parallel Mothers’, with her great collaborator Pedro Almodóvar.
“Parallel Mothers” debuted to rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival, where Cruz captured the best actress prize, and then resonated with audiences and critics again when it screened on the closing night of the New York Film Festival, writes Variety Magazine.
The BBC writes that the film received a nine-minute standing ovation in Venice.
Nico Bustos [IG] photographs Cruz for ELLE Espana and also for an excellent interview in Variety. We looked forever for an online ELLE Spain editorial for translation.