Writers for Vogue US

Vogue.com have just released photos from 'The Custom of the Country', a fashion spread in which Russian model/actress Natalia Vodianova is photographed as the legendary author Edith Wharton. The photos also feature some of the most prominent writers in the US. You can read interviews with many of the subjects, also from the world of film and art here. All the following images are taken from the article, and were shot by Annie Leibovitz. 

Far left: The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot author Jeffrey Eugenides, as Henry James: 

“I’ve read so many of James’s novels, as well as Colm Tóibín’s The Master [a novel based on the life of James] and Leon Edel’s biography. I don’t feel like I resemble Henry exactly, but I understand the man.” 

Third from left: Pulitzer winning writer of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot  Díaz as lawyer Walter Van Rensselaer Berry.

Second from right: Everything is Illuminated writer Jonathan Safran Foer as architect Ogden Codman, Jr.

Are you a fan of this shoot? Does fashion and literature mix well? Do you also slightly fancy Jonathan Safran Foer? (despite Extremely Loud and Incredibly Boring?)