You’ve already seen the gorgeous ad campaign for Balenciaga’s Florabotanica featuring Kristen Stewart and what creative director, Nicolas Ghesquiére had to say about the actress. Now you can go behind-the-scenes of the Florabotanica photoshoot with Kristen and see what was going on in her head while it was all taking place. Check out the video below:

Kristen is such a gorgeous girl, she makes the perfect model for a perfume with a strong statement like Florabotanica. I’m so curious as to what it smells like. I know I’d like to go check it out just to see what it’s all about. It’s pretty cool that those at Balenciaga were so intent on having Kristen represent the ad campaign!

What did you think of this behind-the-scenes video from the Florabotanica photoshoot with Kristen?

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The Moodie Report has a nice little article where Balenciaga creative director ,Nicolas Ghesquiére, describes the brand’s new fragrance, what it represents, and exactly why Kristen Stewart was the perfect person to be the face of the new scent. Read more below:

The edp scent is said to combine the fantastical and ultra-contemporary aspects of the Balenciaga brand. “There is a real duality in Balenciaga, between classicism and experimentation,” noted Creative Director Nicolas Ghesquière. “For this new fragrance, I wanted to explore this paradox between the pure and the enigmatic further. A few years ago, I designed this ‘floral collection’. The dresses were covered with flowers, but these flowers were neither charming nor romantic. They structured the whole silhouette. I wanted the flowers in this perfume to express the same idea.”

The name Florabotanica references the 18th century botanical gardens in which the most exotic and rarest plant species were displayed. “It is a secret garden where you find surprising flowers that surpass the imagination,” Ghesquière explained. “They are beautiful but are they really that harmless? Flowers can be cruel, carnivorous or venomous, contain poisons. What would a perfume that contained the charm and mystery of flowers be like? This is the story that we wanted to tell with Florabotanica.”

The juice, composed by Olivier Polge and Jean-Christophe Hérault, features two key accords. The vetiver, amber and caladium leaf accord aims to evoke a resonance of mossy and mysterious dark wood, according to the brand. The rose, carnation and mint accord delivers exhilaration and a juvenile freshness. The rose in question is a hybrid, experimental rose, with its origins in Turkey, to which a formula of “psychosensory plants” has been added.

The fragrance face is actress Kristen Stewart, best known for her role in the blockbuster Twilight saga. Balanciaga chose her for her tetchy youthfulness and rebellious femininity.

“Kristen Stewart has a real personality,” noted Ghesquière. “She captivated me when we met a few years ago. I had not forgotten her. She is the perfect embodiment of a certain idea of Balenciaga: that beauty that is both pure and uncontrollable. We met again for Florabotanica. She is totally this graceful and mysterious figure that symbolises this strange botanical garden.”

The fragrance flacon features graphic black and white stripes, as favoured by Cristóbal Balenciaga. An oversized tube plunges into the middle of the bottle in the style of a laboratory test tube.

Read more at the Moodie Report here.

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Just last week Canada’s Fashion Magazine was in Paris to interview the always gorgeous Kristen Stewart about her new role as the face of Balenciaga’s new Florabotanica perfume. Here the magazine jokes about Kristen’s strong language and then gets into the type of flowers that Kristen would prefer to get. Read more below:

She drops a lot of F-bombs
We counted six in our interview and heard a few more at dinner the night before.

She hates getting real flowers
“I would much rather keep them in the garden. Things need to move. I just feel like flowers are dead. They smell great, but I’m not a huge fan,” she told us. Note to Robert Pattinson: if you want to make Kristen your real-life bride, send her a bouquet made of twisted metal flowers modelled after the wild and dangerous-looking blooms seen in Florabotanica’s fragrance ad campaign. “Imagine getting this big metal [arrangement]… that would be awesome. I would marry whoever sent me that.”

Read the full story here.

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Women’s Wear Daily has the latest on Kristen Stewart and her new fragrance for Balenciaga Paris. The actress is now the face of Balenciaga Paris’ new scent, Florabotanica, a fragrance for women, which will be available this September. Read more below:

“On a base level, the reason you want to wear a fragrance is because you want to smell attractive,” said Stewart, sitting in a suite of Le Bristol hotel here, wearing a Balenciaga T-shirt, shorts and heels. “That in itself is a pretty mature idea, especially considering the teenager I was. I was never the one wearing my mom’s perfume and trying to be sexy. I was like hanging out with my brothers and doing the opposite of that.

“I’m very lucky that I like the fragrance, because I would have done anything with [Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquière],” continued the 22-year-old. “And I’m a terrible liar.”

Stewart said she was relieved the first time she smelled Florabotanica.

“There is something natural about it,” explained Stewart. “It’s very alive. I think that as a young person wearing it — considering that I’ve never worn a scent — it kind of puts you on this level of, like, ‘Whoa, check me out.’ ”

Teaming with Ghesquière was like “kismet,” she said.

Read the whole article at WWD here.

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The famous PopSugar 100 has been released for 2012, and this year Kristen Stewart made the list all the way up at #3, while Robert Pattinson came in close behind at #5. Read on below for more:

3. Kristen Stewart

Kristen Stewart hasn’t slowed down. Her Summer in 2011 was all about training for her fairy-tale role in Snow White and the Huntsman and talking up Breaking Dawn Part 1 with Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner at Comic-Con. Kristen’s many projects put her in the spotlight over the next few months with covers on W magazine, GQ, and Glamour. In the Fall, Kristen juggled promotions for the Twilight installment, which came to a head at her Hollywood handprint ceremony. Breaking Dawn Part 1 finally hit the big screen with huge success, helping Kristen wrap up an awesome year.

The fun didn’t stop for the star, though, as she traveled to Paris in the New Year to shoot a Vanity Fair spread with Karl Lagerfeld. Kristen kept up the overseas excitement with a visit to Fashion Week, where she checked out the Balenciaga show and the new Louis Vuitton exhibit. In March, Kristen was on the go with Charlize Theron for SWATH before meeting up with Rob at Coachella in April. Her major red carpet moment came when she hit the Met Gala in Balenciaga, a brand she’s representing. Her gorgeous appearances continued at Cannes with her On the Road cast. In June, SWATH rocked the box office, rounding out an awesome year for Kristen.

5. Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson was busy on the Toronto set of Cosmopolis for much of last Summer, though he did break to do Twilight press at Comic-Con and the Teen Choice Awards. In the Fall, Rob traveled between Canada, LA, and London, where he visited girlfriend Kristen Stewart on the set of Snow White and the Huntsman. Rob hit the road with Ashley Greene to promote Breaking Dawn Part 1 and was honored with a Hollywood handprint ceremony before the film’s big premiere and November release.

Rob rang in 2012 in LA, where he made his first public appearance of the year at the People’s Choice Awards. Next, he was on to red carpet stops for Bel Ami before landing back on the West Coast to celebrate the Oscars with Kristen Stewart. In March, the couple spent a romantic weekend in Paris before Rob showed off his shirtless body while surfing in Malibu at the beginning of April. In May, Rob celebrated his 26th birthday and stepped out on the red carpet at Cannes for Cosmopolis.

See the full list at PopSugar here.

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Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Ashley Greene were all out in glamourous style at the ‘Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations’ 2012 Costume Institute Gala Met Ball in New York City Monday night. This year’s Met gala was to celebrate the exhibition of ‘Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations’, which explored “the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two Italian designers from different eras”. The three Twilight Saga ladies were all dressed in exquisite designer dresses as they walked the red carpet, check them all out below:

Kristen Stewart wore a gorgeous Balenciaga gown

Dakota Fanning wore a springtime stylish Louis Vuitton gown

Ashley Greene wore a white hot Donna Karan design

Go see more pictures of Kristen here, Dakota here and Ashley here.

I love Kristen’s shoes!

Which dress if your favorite?

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It seems like the ultra talented Kristen Stewart has been running at full steam for years at this point. The actress just seems to seamlessly jump from one movie to the next with hardly a breather in-between, if she takes one at all. Here WWD catches up with Kristen in Paris, where Balenciaga staged their fall-winter fashion show. Kristen tells WWD that her “horizon is very clear” and she’s looking forward to taking a break after wrapping several films in a row. Check out more below:

THE OFFICE: Foggy weather muddled the view from the 27th floor of a Paris office tower, where Balenciaga staged its fall-winter fashion show. But “Twilight” actress Kristen Stewart — among the VIP guests — shrugged it off. “My horizon is very clear,” she enthused, noting she’s taking a break from shooting after wrapping several films, including Walter Salles’ “On the Road.” “I have five days off,” she said. “I know a lot of people here now. I’m probably going to hang out with my boys from ‘On the Road.’”

Read the full story at WWD here.

Thanks Noor!

Are you glad Kristen might have a little break to look forward to?

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