Jennifer Lawrence Is 'J Law' In Peter Lindbergh Images For Vanity Fair Holiday 2016-17

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Jennifer Lawrence Is 'J Law' In Peter Lindbergh Images For Vanity Fair Holiday 2016-17

This fall, Lawrence flew to Africa to shadow photojournalist Lynsey Addario as she documented South Sudanese refugees crossing into Uganda. Although the experience offered her a rare veil of anonymity (when introducing herself to a U.N. worker as Jennifer, he replied, “Ahhh, like Jennifer Lopez”), she was haunted by her uselessness. “The worst feeling about being there was that I wasn’t helping anybody,” she says of the humanitarian crisis. “I was doing a character study.” (Lawrence is also a producer on It’s What I Do, the Spielberg film based on Addario’s memoir.) Lawrence, who has donated generously to a number of charities (including $2 million to a children’s hospital in her hometown this year), said she found solace in vowing to visit again in a more active role.

This photo was shared by Lynsey Addario with Jennifer Lawrence on her Instagram page, with the message: "Look who I dragged to Uganda/South Sudan.

While the bulk of my own work in Sudan has been in Khartoum, AOC has been covering the South Sudan refugee crisis. Read on: Nykhor Paul's 'We Are Nilotic' T-shirts Zero In On South Sudan's Fragile Beauty.

Doutzen Kroes: An Angel For Elephants By Ruven Afanador For Bloomberg Pursuits

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Doutzen Kroes: An Angel For Elephants By Ruven Afanador For Bloomberg Pursuits

Doutzen Kroes has been a voice for elephants and steps up again to lead the Knot On My Planet campaign. Kroes is deadly serious about the need to put an end to the ivory crisis and elephant extinction -- a passion burning inside her since she first visited Samburu, Kenya. 

Doutzen Kroes Leads Knot On My Planet, Igniting Fashion Industry For Elephant Conservation

Stella McCartney Delivers 2016 Kering Talk On Deforestation & Sustainable Viscose

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Salma Hayek supported good friend Stella McCartney's 2016 Kering Talk Monday evening at the London College of Fashion. Her nature-inspired print dress came from McCartney's vegetarian fashion collection. Hayek's husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, the Kering CEO, attended as well.

The focus of Stella's talk was the issue of deforestation and sustainable sourcing of viscose, one of the most used fabrics in the global fashion industry. 

The Stella McCartney lifestyle brand was launched in partnership with Kering in 2001. Fifteen years later, the designer is the luxury industry's most consistent voice for animal and environmental welfare and sustainable design. Materials like organic cotton and recycled cashmere are fundamental to the brand. 

When McCartney first launched her label she was “ridiculed” for banning leather and fur from her collections. “I was told definitely I would not have a business, I wouldn’t have an accessories business…by people I worked with, that I looked up to." But as luxury consumers have become more conscious of the impact of their consumption decisions on the planet's health, Stella McCartney sales have risen annually in the "double digits . . . for a while now."

“Fashion is one of the most harmful industries on the planet, and I think people are a little more aware of that now,” Stella said in her Kering Talk. While she says she doesn't want to preach, McCartney didn't hesitate to call out her parent company. “I’m sure [Kering] will give up python farms very soon,” she said wishfully. She was especially adamant that fashion companies trade out real fur for faux: “You really can’t tell the difference. There’s no reason to kill 15 million innocent creatures.”

Nicole Kidman Is Full Throttle Sumptuous In Yu Tsai Images For Flaunt Magazine

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Nicole Kidman Is Full Throttle Sumptuous In Yu Tsai Images For Flaunt Magazine

Kidman is currently starring in 'Lion', a true story inspired by Sue Brierly, who adopted Saroo Brierly., living in an Indian orphanage. 

As an adult, Saroo Brierley, now an Australian citizen uses Google Earth to find the family that he was separated from in India. Sunny Pawar commands the screen for much of the film’s first hour, playing Saroo as a 5-year-old lost on the streets of Calcutta. It marks his first screen role, one that’s already earned him raves. Variety critic Peter Debruge wrote that Pawar is “so adorable he could set off an Indian adoption craze.”

Priyanka Bose and Dev Patel join Kidman and Pawar in the cast.