The Vogue people just sent us the October cover photo shoot, with cover girl Carey Mulligan. The photos are lovely and evocative, albeit not as glam and high-fashion as you would expect. This seems more like a photo shoot for Interview Magazine, or even Elle. Although that puffy turquoise dress is something else – crazy and beautiful and strange, all at once. Carey is like a Meryl Streep or a Cate Blanchett, where she looks totally different from one photo to the next – her features seem to morph and mutate and smudge. It’s a quality that will help her as an actress, I think.

Anyway, Vogue hasn’t released their cover interview yet, but from what I’ve seen of Carey, it’s not like she says anything really controversial or noteworthy in interviews. She’s not Megan Fox, nor is she some actress known for giving great interviews. I would like to see if she has anything to say about her boyfriend Shia LaBeouf – especially since she seems to have the cover because she’s promoting Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the film where she and Shia met and fell in love. Vogue did release this behind-the-scenes video of her photo shoot though – it’s interesting.

Since we don’t have an interview to dissect, I’d like to talk about An Education. I finally saw it – and I really liked it. It was different than I thought it was going to be. I thought it would be really depressing, that’s why I put off seeing it, but it was much lighter than I expected. Carey is a dream in it – very Audrey Hepburn, if that doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch. She does have a very Audrey quality to her though – elfin beauty, a girlishness that isn’t a PR strategy. Plus, Emma Thompson wants her to play Eliza Doolittle – that should be interesting.

I think the red jacket is my favorite. And I love her hair like this!

Vogue photos by Peter Lindbergh, courtesy of Vogue.