Kristen Stewart Talks Karl Lagerfeld & Juliette Binoche, Lensed By Sebastian Kim For Harper's Bazaar UK June 2015

Actor Kristen Stewart wears a lot of Chanel, styled by Miranda Almond in simple, feminine luxury with no twists. Sebastian Kim snaps the former ‘Twilight’ star for Harper’s Bazaar UK June 2015.

Speaking candidly about the fashion industry Stewart reflects “I felt quite out of place and you remember meeting some of the worst people you could possibly imagine. Just soul-sucking, cut-throat fashion people, the full-on ‘Devil Wears Prada’.

And then I also met some others who were so respectful and natural and creative and involving. Everyone I ever met from Chanel was wonderful, and working with them has been amazing.’ So Chanel couture is her armour? ‘Definitely.’ Karl Lagerfeld is, for her, ‘a well’ of knowledge about everything. ‘As an outsider, I thought, ‘He’s probably insanely pretentious”; but he’s the opposite of what you’d assume. He’s funny and quick and can talk to you about anything, from film stock to Roman fountains, or completely nail a photographer or break down a situation quite candidly.’

Stewart’s relationship with Chanel deepened during the filming of ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’, a movie gem that opened in the US mid-April to critical reviews.

Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is an actress at the peak of her international career who is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years earlier. Back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young woman who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant (Kristen Stewart) to rehearse in Sils Maria, a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal (Chloë Grace Moretz) is to take on the role of Sigrid, and Maria finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an ambiguously charming woman who is, in essence, an unsettling reflection of herself. (C) Sundance Selects

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‘I was intimidated, in all honesty,’ says Stewart of the experience. ‘I was not only out of my element culturally but working with one of the most renowned French actresses of all time. So it was a quick process of proving myself to her and to myself, too, I guess. Within the first meeting, you either share that spark or you don’t. And we loved each other.’

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