All products featured on Vanity Fair are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.says, speaking on a recent evening from her home in London. She zooms out, as if taking in the astronaut view: “It’s like, the earth is called Mother Earth.” Kirby certainly can relate on a cinematic level. In the 2020 filmshe plays a first-time mother whose home birth takes a calamitous turn.
installment. Here, Kirby talks about the jungle as the ultimate theater set, her next royal engagement, and the importance of messy female protagonists.: An early La Panthère jewel—a gold and enamel panther brooch from 1948—was created for the Duchess of Windsor. Do you see a connection between the panther essence and the more spirited members of the royal circle?I feel like I always draw comparisons to Princess Margaret, because she was such an inspiration to me.
The design of theater, that’s the place where I was most interested in how to use space and how to make it real. The authenticity of a place or a story. This is why it felt so amazing to shoot the [Cartier] campaign in a jungle. We were shooting in July in Mauritius, in this huge area of rainforest, getting up at 3:00 a.m. and traveling two hours to the deepest part of the jungle. There were so many insects and mosquitoes and everything else. It was so alive and it felt so primal.