“She seems at once to be from the past and from the future,” says Nicolas Ghesquière in Vogue’s January issue, speaking about cover girl Alicia Vikander. Slender, golden-skinned, and saucer-eyed, the Swedish actress’ surprising mutability is what has made her an overnight international sensation (see her recent Golden Globe nomination for The Danish Girl)—keeping directors calling and capturing the attention of Ghesquière, who made her one of Louis Vuitton’s Fall 2015 muses. For all of her acting prowess and steely determination (most often credited to her decade of training as a ballerina), there’s something to be said for her shape-shifting features and compact frame, which allow her to disappear into a spectrum of period-specific character roles that show her versatility and range.
Starting with the 18th century, Vikander tackled the revolutionary role of Great Britain’s Caroline Mathilde in 2012’s A Royal Affair—her strict updos large enough to hold a kingdom’s worth of secrets, while the flush of her cheeks telegraphed a woman in love. Fast-forward 100 years to the Russian princess Kitty in Anna Karenina, and Vikander’s flaxen waves have loosened up—simple, haphazardly twisted designs well suited for a pastoral romance.
By the 1920s, things take a more glamorous turn in The Danish Girl, as Vikander transitions from scene to scene in various lip stains and pins her voluminous waves into a feminist faux bob. It’s a stylish echo of how willing her character, Gerda Wegener is to embrace change—namely the sex reassignment of her husband, Einar.
The mod ’60s get their due via Vikander’s lash-skimming bangs and seemingly longer faux lashes in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which suit her as surprisingly well as her pore-less complexion and metallic mesh body do in the sci-fi thriller Ex Machina, set in the near future. At this rate, there’s really nothing the actress can’t realize. Above, a look at seven reasons why Vikander is the ultimate on-screen beauty chameleon.
Watch Alicia Vikander and Anna Wintour’s late-night run-in at the magic diner:
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