Actor Olivia Wilde is living her best life, styled by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson in cinematic images by Annie Leibovitz [IG] for the January 2021 issue of American Vogue. The star wears Balenciaga Couture, Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Michael Kors Collection, Rodarte and more. Alexandra Schwartz conducts the interview. / Hair by Edward Lampley; makeup by Grace Ahn

Wilde appears with Matthew Libatique, the Filipino-American cinematographer behind Taylor Swift’s new music video ‘I Bet You Think About Me’. Libatique received two Oscar nominations for Black Swan in 2010 and then ‘A Star Is Born’ eight years later. He’s the cinematographer on Wilde’s second directing venture ‘Don’t Worry Darling’.

Wilde is camped out in Los Angeles with her two children Otis, seven, and Daisy, five, whom she shares with her ex-fiancé, Jason Sudeikis. On the day Vogue drops into her life, her new love Harry Styles is circling the globe on his Love On Tour concerts.

Variety reports that the tour has grossed “just shy of $95 million” and raised over $1 million for his non-profit partners. Attendance records were broken all over America, with strict COVID controls and no reports of any post-concert medical outbreaks.

Olivia Wilde has just finished shooting ‘Don’t Worry Darling’, “a psychological thriller starring Florence Pugh and Styles as Alice and Jack, a young couple who join a utopian community in the 1950s California desert.”

Wilde became a filmmaker in 2019, releasing her first feature ‘Booksmart’. “I’ll never forget the moment at South by Southwest when we premiered it, and I was shaking backstage thinking, I’ve never felt more exposed,” Wilde tells Schwartz. “Then people started coming up to me saying that they loved it. The relief was incredible.” She goes on, “You know, Tarantino always says, ‘Make the movie only you can make.’ So I knew that with my first opportunity, I had to make something that just had my DNA all over it.”

Wilde describes the DNA behind ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ as ‘The Feminine Mystique’ on acid. Shortly after Trump’s election, Wilde met Gloria Steinem at a small New York City gathering.

Wilde was despondent; she asked Steinem what she could do. Stop paying taxes, Steinem told her. Wilde was aghast. “I said, ‘What?’ I own property. I have kids. I don’t think I can do that.”

Then it hit her: “This is why nothing will change. That was the beginning of Don’t Worry Darling. I was like, Who’s that person who’s actually willing to destroy the structure that is built entirely for their comfort? That’s a selflessness on a level that I admire but admit is far from the way I live my life.”

Does the interview speak to Wilde’s relationship with Styles? Yes, but in a very nuanced way. Read on at Vogue’s January cover story. ‘Olivia Wilde Is Living Her Best Life’.