Photos: The Best Redheads: Jessica Chastain, Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, and More
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, August 20141/8Gene Genies
Though Julianne Moore has famously forsaken her crimson-colored hair on multiple occasions—most recently donning a silver wig to play Alma Coin in the latest Hunger Games installment—her daughter, Liv Freundlich, has never been quite OK with the changes. “It’s so weird,” she quips with an eye roll.
Moore wears an Oscar de la Renta silk-velvet dress; Oscar de la Renta boutiques. Freundlich wears a Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane wool sweater ($790), sequined tartan skirt, and tights; Saint Laurent, NYC.
Fashion Editor: Grace Coddington
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, August 20142/8Natural Resources
“I’ve never dyed my hair,” Jessica Chastain says. The Sacramento native has been known to brandish photos of herself as a child—freckled, ginger, with Pippi Longstocking–like tresses—to support her assertion. For her first Vogue cover last December, Chastain—who stars in the upcoming Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby—channeled Flaming June, the 1895 painting by Sir Frederic Leighton, along with six other characters from the history of art reimagined by Leibovitz and Coddington.
Hermès oversize wool coat, $4,300; Hermès boutiques.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, August 20143/8Ginger Man
Best known for his shoulder-length locks throughout the Harry Potter films, the Dublin-born Domhnall Gleeson has since been experimenting with a clean-cut look (in last year’s About Time), floppy curls (in Frank, with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Michael Fassbender, out this month); he’s even gone blond (as an American POW in the Angelina Jolie–directed Unbroken, which opens on Christmas Day). No word yet on the hairdo for his most anticipated job, in **J. J. Abrams’**s Star Wars: Episode VII. “It’s all I want to talk about, of course, but literally I’m only allowed to say how excited I am.”
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, August 20144/8Against Nature
Though Amy Adams calls her unadorned hair color “golden retriever,” “I absolutely identify as a redhead,” she says. Her upcoming feature, Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, required the actress to take on a peroxide-blonde bouffant, but she was quick to return to her adopted hue. “Redheads have a get out of jail free card when it comes to their temper and their sense of humor,” she says. “That suits my personality.”
Michael Kors paisley-print silk-twill shirtdress, $1,650; michaelkors.com
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, August 20145/8Beauty and the Bold
“I’ve always been red, but I make it brighter,” Karen Elson admits. “I became bolder when I was eighteen, when I met Grace.” Coddington chose the young Elson for a 1997 Steven Meisel shoot for Vogue in which she wore short skirts and big furs below a burned-orange bob with bangs—and Elson never second-guessed her hair color again. “It fits the skin I’m in,” she says.
Calvin Klein Collection sequined dress; Calvin Klein Collection, NYC. Manolo Blahnik heels.
Beauty Note:
Redheads have famously beautiful complexions. Clé de Peau’s La Crème illuminates skin with rose extract and wild ginger.
