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...know the Zeitgeist is shifting when Nicole Kidman can don a pencil-thin suit from menswear designer du jour Hedi Slimane - or David Beckham can step out in a sarong. "Men are much more receptive to the idea of looking fashionable," says retailer Seper. "There was previously a misunderstanding that if you took an interest in yourself, your masculinity was diminished somehow, whereas now (male grooming) is accepted, in fact it's sought after...
These days Kidman has so many awards and accolades, it's getting boring. But she isn't. She has the ability, like a glass bullet, to carry fragility and force, to be beautiful and a little unnerving. While her work reeks of an almost clinical precision, Kidman's approach is fallible and inexact. "I just feel my way through," she says. "If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what...
...movies have not been big hits, her new willingness to experiment is being noticed. She gets labeled an ice queen but is more daring than any of her contemporaries of similar box-office clout. Can you see Julia Roberts making a movie as limited in its appeal as Dogville? Kidman is not the first star to play down her beauty for a role, but her bold choices have set a new bar for Hollywood actresses. And now as a producer (In the Cut), she's creating juicy roles for more of them...
...helped redeem a country too. Sometimes, in a world shared with Rupert Murdoch, the Crocodile Hunter and the Wiggles, it's hard to be Australian--as if the country is full of curios and barbarians. Kidman is Australia's best evidence of passion and sophistication, though she doesn't see it. "Really?" she says. "Oh, I'd like to think I have a sliver of vulgarity." --By Belinda Luscombe
...more sacred to the French than the 35-hour workweek, the French press saw it as a sign of the nation's cultural decline. But Galliano persevered, teaching the Dior ateliers, where clothes are made by hand, to cut everything closer to the body. Soon Princess Diana and Nicole Kidman were calling. By the end of the 1990s, Galliano's sexy, spaghetti-strapped silhouette had become the uniform for all red-carpet-bound celebrities. With the introduction of handbag collections, remodeled stores and multimillion-dollar ad campaigns, Galliano has reinvented Dior, transforming it from a dowdy duty-free label into...