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t the pinnacle of Kate Winslet’s career, photographer Steven Meisel captured her ethereal physical assets for Vanity Fair’s December 2008 cover. The life and look of another great actress—Catherine Deneuve—was the inspiration for this session, in which Winslet (often depicted on screen in the altogether) channels Deneuve’s character from the 1967 film Belle de Jour in a sophisticated white trench coat by Yves Saint Laurent. “Kate and Steven immediately fell into a director-and-actor dialogue with each other,” Jessica Dichl, Vanity Fair’s senior style editor, recalled of the shoot. “Both were excited by the other’s dedication, curiosity, and confidence. One truly couldn’t ask for better chemistry on a shoot.” On the eve of winning a much-deserved Academy Award for her role in The Reader, the actress’s frustration is revealed in a coverline that reads, “Do I want an Oscar? You bet your @#*%ing ass I do!”