The 22-year old actress and fashion icon Kristen Stewart graces the cover of V magazine’s  issue No. 81, as shot by Inez & Vioodh. In the interview Kristen talks not only about her new film On The Road, but also about her thoughts about the future and how lately she is feeling stronger. Read the full interview over at V magazine and see on all the images from the shoot on the next page.

Not long before the much anticipated second season of HBO Girls, the series’ protagonist, Lena Dunham, appears in a V magazine spread as shot by Terry Richardson. The pictures show the talented actress, author and director with a brand new pixie haircut, and do a nice job of capturing Lena’s irreverent sense of humour and style. No question–this girl is adorable!

See all pics on the jump.

V magazine’s “Jock Jams” editorial hones in on active fashion themes, brought to life by momement for a thoroughly joyful editorial.Click on the image to see the action!

Kreayshawn looking adorable for V magazine, photographed by Terry Richardson.

In an issue dedicated to celebrating the intersection of music and fashion, V magazine’s editorial “The Queen Of Hip Hop” includes a top, skirt and shoes by none other than Kanye West. Looks fab, still adoring the shoes.

Other designers shown in this super fun shoot include Patricia Field, Prada, Reed Krakoff, Billionaire Boys Club, Versace, Manolo Blahnik, Calvin Klein and House of Dereon. Via Thecut via Models.

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It’s Lara Stone for V Magazine’s “Heroes” issue, worked on by Mario Testino and Carine Roitfeld, who used Elizabeth Taylor as the inspiration for a 72-page editorial. The images here and the ones of Stone on the next page really are lovely. The eyebrows are fantastic of course but so is her faded ginger hair, which matches her lipstick oh so perfectly, plus the diamonds and the lighting, and so on and so forth. Via Stylist.

Lady Gaga’s column for V magazine (above is the cover) debuted today. Thecut provides the link to the entire missive. Here is one excerpt from the column, which this month is titled “Piet Mondrian & Libary Cards”:

“Any writer or anyone for that matter, who doesn’t understand the last two sentences of this column should NEVER be writing or critiquing fashion or artists in publication. As someone who references and annotates her work vigilantly, I’m putting all of you on notice. I’ve done my homework, have you? Where are your library cards. Did they expire?”

Below are some of the early fashion writer responses to the column–folks are not happy.

“The New York Times has seen Lady Gaga’s debut fashion column for V magazine’s summer issue, and as it so happens, she’s is a veritable expert on…everything.” –Blackbook

“Gaga’s column for the high fashion glossy also debuted today. It’s really long. And defensive. And kinda pretentious.” –Fashionista

“Dare: Read Lady Gaga’s Entire V Column Without Rolling Your Eyes” –Headline from Thecut

As of late, Gaga has come off as very defensive about her music choices and now she expands that posture to her take on fashion. Granted, the level of criticism hurled daily at this woman is over the top, but someone should let her know that no one is insisting she be a music or fashion Einstein at the age of 25. She can have good instincts combined with a lusty intellectual curiosity and that’s enough.

Given her elite educational background (tuition per year at Sacred Heart High School where she attended is $35,600/year), it’s hard not to wonder if her I’m-better-informed-than-you-are attitude wasn’t fostered during her teens, when academic competition was no doubt super fierce with an abundance of “tracked students” vying for a very limited number of seats in Ivy colleges. If that’s the case, we can probably look forward to being schooled/scolded by Gaga on a monthly basis–can’t wait!

Lady Gaga is on the cover of an upcoming V Magazine, which will be Asian-themed…..except apparently for the image that fronts the issue. She’s photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin and style by, you guessed it, Nicola Formichetti.

See another V Magazine cover image of Lady Gaga, this time ”Bollywood”-themed, on the next page.

Lady Gaga is set to begin a monthly column for V magazine, and as part of the deal she requested that it be accomanpanied by an illustration of her as drawn by the winner of a contest, held for each edition. For the first issue, the deadline is April 3rd. Art should be sent to drawnthisway@vmagazine.com. Of course we encourage you to try–good luck if you do!

She’s never been your average chick and because of (rather than in spite of) her highly documented ups and down, not to mention an enviable catalog of inonic pop greats, Britney Spears occupies a unique place in pop culture. Via TFS, we have some blurry screen captures from a recent episode of E News, which featured a sneak peek of her upcoming cover for V magazine’s issue No. 80, shot by Mario Testino. More images on the next page, including the cover, shot in multiple colors.