Kristen Stewart for UK GQ

She is totally working it, especially in those last three shots.

The last one is lovely.  I like them, even if it’s not her style.

You’re right that she doesn’t look like herself, but give the girl points for trying something new.

She’s done up nicely, but you can tell all she wants is an old tee shirt, dirty jeans, and shit-kicker boots.  

She’s waaay too thin for this kind of a shoot. This styling is best saved for a curvier woman who has a more mature affect. I think KStew is actually quite pretty, but this is NOT her best set of looks.

I don’t think the problem is that she can’t pull off old hollywood. It’s that she’s too young looking for the more mature old hollywood look. Those pieces were meant for Ava Gardner at 34, not some youthful looking girl like Kristen who’s biggest strengths are that she looks 18 still and is all limbs.

Now if you want retro, put her in a pinup girl garb. Kristen in some of those pinup shorts with high heels showing off those legs with that smile in the last picture? Would be hot, cause her legs take up about 75% of her body. It would be similar hair and makeup, but a more youthful, flirty take that would work in her favor body and youth wise. Cause she really is beautiful.

She looks the most comfortable – and lovely (dare I use such a word for Kristen Stewart?!?!) – in the second to last shot.  Natural and happy.  

The rest of them?  An emaciated, vampire-bitten pin-up (note: not a compliment).  No matter what she does, she will always be Bella.  

I’m not a fan of hers normally, but idk I’m really feeling these!

I think with all the dark eye makeup and red lips and extra pale skin they’re trying to work the “Bella becomes a vampire in the next movie, you guys!” thing.

I suppose there are other ways of making her look “vampy” but short of making her up all gothic, I’m not sure how else it would work. Hence: old glamour movie star, when dark eyes and red red lips and hasn’t seen the sun in months skin looks its best.

That last picture looks effing amazing.

She’s beautiful of course, but she reminds me of my best friend’s sister– she NEVER wore makeup, except on her wedding day when she tried to wear lipstick. She was afraid to move her face and make normal expressions, and so she had this odd, frozen face look in all the pictures that Kristen is sporting in all of these. Not a great look for her.

I’ve always thought she just doesn’t do typical Hollywood glamour well. When she puts on a couture gown, she looks like she borrowed it (which I’m sure she did). It’s not her thing.
I think she’d look a gazillion times better in a fabulous pants suit;
e.g., as Edi mentioned upthread, Katherine Hepburn’s style would work well on her.

She looks really beautiful here, but these looks don’t suit her. Leave it to a cheesy (formerly good) men’s magazine to go with a cliche because they don’t have a clue what to do with her.

Also, the make-up in that last photo is so stunning that it’s almost bringing tears of jealousy to my eyes. The lipstick is beyond fantastic.

She’s almost making an expression in that last one, so good work there.

The last shot is great; largely because she DOESN’T look like herself. Not that she’s ugly, she’s just so rarely shows any emotion. Like a pod person…

Shes a side of meat plopped in a pool.

I think she looks fabulous. And maybe she’s not a girlie-girl, so the appeal is playing her against type.

If memory serves, you loved her in that fierce Proenza Schoeler spread.

I blame the lame styling more than Kristen for the end product. After the W magazine cover, I think the girl can pull off va-va-voom if you work with what her mama gave her.

But the styling here is lame. The hair looks like it’s only halfway done. The makeup is overwhelming on her face, and the wardrobe didn’t take Kristen’s body shape into account at all. The red dress is something for her nana, and a high waisted bikini with a chest flattening top for a girl who is that short and petite? Ridiculous. And why is she sitting, hiding her killer legs? Or standing, yet her legs are cut off? Girlfriend should have been standing in mile high heels showing off the gams.

I LIKE that she doesn’t look like herself though. Don’t get me wrong; she’s very pretty, but most of the time when she’s photographed, she looks incredibly uncomfortable, and a little stoned, too. Here she looks like she isn’t saying, “Duh, where’s the pretzels?” as soon as the shoot ends.

The whole thing makes me think of “men-ups”: http://jezebel.com/5846916/men+ups-are-so-much-more-than-just-men-posing-like-pin+ups

Let’s get Ryan Gosling to pose like this and see if we like better!

man she is a gorgeous creature.

Bless her, she’s so obviously uncomfortable here, she’s better off in that sort of late 50s Marilyn big woolie jumper and tights look, non? That flick eyeliner REALLY suits her eyes tho, sometimes people wear the flick ahem (Ginnifer Goodwin) and it really doesn’t work on their eye, but on Kirsten it looks like a lovely continuation of the lashes

I agree that these shots aren’t the best, if only because she is definitely not the “pin-up” kind of gal.  I do find Kristen quite pretty when she’s dressed in jeans, tees and sneakers, because that’s clearly the uniform that makes her most comfortable.  What  I don’t get are the comments about her weight.  Someone even referred to her as “emaciated?”  She’s anything but!  I don’t get how women who don’t have large breasts and rear ends are automatically considered too thin.  Kristen looks like a healthy 21 year old woman – just wait, she’ll have kids one day and the curves will appear then.