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V148: ANNE HATHAWAY IS ENTERING MOTHER STATUS

Ahead of the premiere of The Idea of You’, actor and all around sweetheart Anne Hathaway caught up with her college friend Derek Blasberg to chat about their fashion obsessions, the fact that Hathaway once did a chemistry test that required her to kiss 10 guys, and the possibility of ‘Princess Diaries 3’

Anne Hathaway is standing in my kitchen perusing my selection of herbal teas. This wasn’t the plan. We spent several days debating if we should meet for this interview at a fancy uptown sushi restaurant, a cheap diner, or the lobby of an elegant hotel. But, when today rolled around, she said she’d rather come over, play with my kids, and chat in the comfort of my kitchen. Hathaway has a habit of landing on the path of least resistance, which I’ve long admired. Keep it calma, one might say. And honestly, why pay $85 for a California roll when you can play peekaboo with two of the cutest kids in New York City?

We met in the early 2000s. I was an NYU student and she was fresh off her star-making turn as Mia Thermopolis in 2001’s The Princess Diaries, a role scored when the Brooklyn-born, New Jersey-raised fledgling actress was 17 years old. Our fateful first meeting on a chilly afternoon in the winter of 2002, walking into brunch with mutual friends outside the Mercer Hotel, will be engraved in my brain forever. “Call me Annie,” she chirped, pushing her long, thick brunette locks off her bright, porcelain skin and showing off a brilliant megawatt smile.

Now, at 41, Annie has been in more than 50 films ranging from low-budget indies to major motion pictures. She’s been nominated for every performance award in existence, won an Oscar (for 2012’s Les Miserables), and even hosted the Oscars in 2011 (“badly,” she adds). At 29, she married Adam Shulman (the bride wore a dress by her dear friend Valentino, of course), and they have two sons. And, she looks divine. The current face of Versace, Bulgari, and Shiseido, she has become a beloved fashion figure who’s as familiar in the front rows of New York and Milan fashion weeks as a certain well-known Devil-ish fashion editrix.

When we settle in at the kitchen table and flip on the recorder, Annie observes how much has changed in the last two decades. Gone are our days as eager teens brunching at downtown hotspots. They’re replaced by two parents cuddled in uptown apartments wondering if it’s too late to drink tea with caffeine. (After much debate, we decided on a pot of caffeine-free Korean moonwalk tea.) But, one topic that we’ll never get bored of: Fashion.

Like the rest of the style world, Annie was mesmerized by John Galliano’s epic, sweeping, haunting couture collection for Maison Margiela, which debuted in January in Paris, and is what she wears on one of the covers of this very issue of V. “I thought it was extraordinary. I got really into the leather work, the way it created a porcelain effect, the craft of it. The production value of the show, the way they combined dancers and models, the movement, it was so beautiful—the broken umbrella!” she says. When conceptualizing the shoot with Stephen Gan, V’s founder, and the creative director, “I mentioned how much I love menswear and how I am drawn to the visual language of masculine/feminine. And the shoot sort of grew out from there.”

We could talk about fashion for hours–“the makeup is snatched,” the shoot was “fashion but make it fashion”–so it’s a little surprising when Annie reveals she doesn’t truly identify as a fashion person. “I really don’t,” she insists. “I view myself more as a guest.” Conjuring Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada, I sip tea dramatically while giving her a quizzical look. “I think it’d be an insult to someone whose education revolved around it, whose life revolves around it, who has done a full fashion cycle in multiple cities as opposed to just, like, getting invited to a show and an after-party. I think there’s a degree of stamina and schlepping involved in being a proper fashion person. I’m very grateful to be a guest. I mean, I’ve studied it, but it’s informal. I’m aware of the history. I love fashion photography. And I’ve been welcomed for a long time and been shown great kindness and generosity by people whose lives it is. But I’m an actress first.”

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