Outtakes From Our Lana Del Rey Cover Shoot, For Her Birthday

 

It’s been months since we first dropped our Nadia Lee Cohen-lensed Lana Del Rey cover but for Lanita stans, the honeymoon isn’t over just yet. To celebrate the star’s 38th birthday, we’re publishing a collection of never-before-seen polaroids taken on the set of Del Rey’s March 2023 shoot, along with some iconic quotes from her conversation with Billie Eilish, which you can revisit here.

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“I don’t write well when I’m not happy, which is funny because there is a blue tone to [my] songs.”

 

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“For me, it’s about separating the wheat from the shaft. Tapping in with good people and letting that be your North Star.”

 

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“I’m not just watching someone else live their life, I’m living my life.”

 

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“I didn’t [use to] think anything could ever get elevated to the point where, for instance, Interview magazine would say, ‘You’re on the cover.'”

 

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“I didn’t move to New York until I was 18, and that was when I first heard anything other than Eminem, country, and NPR. All of a sudden, I got a fucking crash course in music.”

 

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“If anyone ever wants to learn how to get through a storm and know that all things pass, I can teach that class.”

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Hair: Evanie Frausto using Bumble and Bumble at Streeters

Makeup: Etienne Ortega using Givenchy Beauty at The Only Agency

Manicure: Yoko Sakakura using Opi at A-Frame Agency

Set Design: Brittany Porter

Production Direction: Alexandra Weiss and Paige Viti

Production: Carlota Ruiz De Velasco, Malcolm Duncan, And Fabien Colas

Creative Direction Consultant: Jack Vhay

Models: Alana Champion at Img NY, Dallas Sessoms at Next L.A. Men, Charlie Hill-Grant, Max Oppenheim, and Speedy

Casting:  Calvin Wilson at Establishment Casting

Styling (On Models): Alia Penner

Prop Production: Mara Weinstein

Tailor: M’lynn Hass

Photography Assistants: David Lopez and Andrew Goeser

Fashion Assistants: Charlie Burke, Hayley Francise, and Auguste Wong