Lena Dunham's Vogue Cover is Finally Out!
After months of rumors and predictions, it's finally confirmed -- Lena Dunham is on the cover of Vogue!
The creator of Girls is on the cover of Vogue's February issue, where she was dubbed as the "New Queen of Comedy." Her photos for the magazine was shot by Annie Leibovitz, the same photographer behind the famed Disney Dream Portraits.
Lena was shown in the cover photo wearing a white shirt with large red polka dots, her eyes in a subtle smokey makeup highlighting her lashes, and her signature pixie brushed to the side.
In the story photo which also features co-star Adam Driver, Lena is wearing a dress which was sequined on the top part and had the drawing of a woman on the bottom part. She was lying down the bed, nearing its edge, while Adam is by the headboard and her dog perched along with them.
Various sources had varied opinions on Lena's photos for Vogue. Lexi Nisita of Refinery29 approached the photos with caution, bearing in mind that these were retouched for vanity's sake. Despite that, she was impressed with the outcome of the entire thing.
Huffington Post, on the other hand, thinks that Lena deserves the Vogue cover "and long overdue."
"Scoring a cover is a huge moment for Dunham, as both a relatively edgy young star (the "Girls" demographic isn't quite identical to Vogue's, obviously) and a woman whose very normal body shape is a refreshing departure from the skinny magazine standard," HuffPost writes.
For the cover story, Lena defended one episode of Girls wherein her character Hannah had sex with a much older man.
"Critics said, 'That guy wouldn't date that girl!'" she recalled. "It's like, 'Have you been out on the street lately?' Everyone dates everyone, for lots of reasons we can't understand.
"It's a complicated thing. I want people ultimately, even if they're disturbed by certain moments, to feel bolstered and normalized by the sex that's on the show," Lena said further.
Lena also talks about her apartment which she shares with her boyfriend Jack Antonoff of indie band fun, her family of artists and how she still feels like a Hollywood outsider after attending a posh affair at 'a really famous person's house.'
"I remember thinking, I don't feel at home here, and no matter how long this is my job, I will never feel at home here," Lena says. "And if I do start to feel at home here... someone should really worry about me."