According to Taylor, there is a very specific sort of girl who’s going to sign up for what’s become known to Twilight fans as Team Jacob. “If she likes having a really close friendship with a guy,” he begins, “being able to tell him anything, and then having that friendship slowly transform into something more….” The seventeen-year-old stops himself and laughs. “I find myself using the word transform a lot lately,” he explains, “because that’s what Jacob does.” It’s not exactly a spoiler to say that Taylor’s character in November’s New Moon is going through some intense changes. As everyone who’s seen the movie’s trailer or read the books knows, Jacob Black is now a werewolf. And the changes that Taylor himself underwent in order to keep the part—as he says, “hitting the gym, hiring a personal trainer, eating the right foods, and eating a lot of them”—were equally evident. When that first trailer premiered at the MTV Movie Awards, the live (and apparently largely female) audience responded to a two-second shot of Taylor, shirtless, by screaming like they were on a roller coaster. Not that he’s about to let all that adulation go to his head. “I think the fans would love anybody who played Jacob,” he says mildly, when the reception is mentioned. “I’m just lucky to be the one who got the chance.”

Uh, yeah, I’d say he’s a lucky duck. The role of Jacob Black puts him right up there in direct competition for all the lurve that Twilight fans heap upon the vampire character Edward Cullen (played by Robert Pattinson). Now fans have 2 boys to faun over — the skinny, pale, lanky dude or the muscly, tanned, beefy dude. Tough choice, eh? After the the jump, check out a whole slew of photos from Taylor’s Teen Vogue photospread and read a bit more from his magazine cover story …

Taylor got into acting via a somewhat circuitous path. As a kid growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he started competing in a sport called Xtreme Martial Arts—which he describes as “almost like gymnastics, in that you do a routine, but there’s a lot of kicks and punches and flips”—and he found that he was pretty good; by the time he retired, at thirteen, he was a four-time world champ. It was his Hollywood-based karate coach (a onetime blue Power Ranger) who suggested that Taylor give show business a chance. “At first,” he recalls, “I wasn’t interested, but he said I could stay at his house for a few weeks, meet with some agents, go on auditions. ” By the end of that month, Taylor says, “I liked it. Taking on roles that were the opposite of what I could be in real life? That’s still my favorite thing.” Now Taylor lives with his family an hour outside Los Angeles, although the distance does little to dissuade the paparazzi. “There are twelve cars that camp outside my house,” he marvels. “You can’t ever really get used to it, because it’s not normal to have people snapping pictures of everything you do. You just have to try not to let it affect you.” Tabloid attention and spurious rumors are the norm for the Twilight cast right now—Taylor and his costars are already hard at work on the third film, Eclipse. And he seems quite capable of taking it all in stride: Asked about his alleged early summer romance with Disney star Selena Gomez, he says, quite unperturbedly, “She’s a great girl.” Asked whether Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are indeed entangled in a torrid love triangle, he just laughs. “It’s crazy,” he admits, “but the fans help. They’re a big part of the motivation.” As if on cue, a pair of wide-eyed young sisters approach his table, looking ecstatic. “We’re all Team Jacob in our house,” their mother says. Taylor does have a point when he insists that people are reacting, in part, to the character he plays—these two are each clutching one of author Stephenie Meyer’s dictionary-size tomes for him to autograph—but he’s also being too humble. The girls are definitely old enough to understand that Taylor is a rising star, not a teen werewolf, and they still look pretty starstruck.

You gotta love the homegrown Michigan boy, yeah? I suspect this is only a taste of the media coverage that Taylor is set to enjoy as promotion gets into high gear for The Twilight Saga: New Moon this November. Not a bad start, I think … what do y’all think of the photos?

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She was just shy of ten years old when she took on the role of Hermione Granger, the bookish, bushy-haired sidekick to the titular hero of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. So feverishly anticipated was that first film—and so beloved were its four sequels (the fifth, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, hits theaters this month)—that Emma Watson, now nineteen, has been world-famous for more than half her life. That kind of renown has its downsides: Although the famously rabid British tabloids were (relatively) hands-off during the actress’s adolescence, they celebrated her eighteenth birthday by sending so many paparazzi to cover her London party that, she says, “I literally couldn’t get out the door at the end of the night.” (”The worst thing,” she adds, indignantly, “was that they laid down on the pavement and took pictures up my skirt. Now I’m going to wear cycling shorts whenever I get out of cars.”) Her year-long romance with financier Jay Barrymore is reportedly “on/off,” but Emma insists that they’ve actually been consistently together, and that “the only reason it’s ‘on/off’ is because the papers make up so much rubbish!” But observe the actress at her third Teen Vogue cover shoot—which takes place at a sprawling old English country manor that promises, in its brochure, both Norman castle ruins and “interesting shrubs”—and you’ll quickly see how Emma benefited from growing up inside a fishbowl. For one thing, she is enviably self-possessed. Even when the pair of miniature horses she’s been asked to lead picturesquely down a garden path become overexcited, she simply giggles and awaits her next direction. And even when dressed in impossibly high heels, wild patterned leggings, and a poufy mini, with her hair piled precariously atop her head and fastened with brightly colored netting, Emma’s poised enough to prevent the clothes from wearing her. Fashion, in fact, has long been of particular interest to Emma. She’s worn enough big-night Chanel to become friendly with Karl Lagerfeld, the line’s iconic designer—”It’s kind of my lucky brand,” she explains, “a fail-safe”—and lately she has been branching out, experimenting with Balenciaga, Burberry (for whom she’s a fall face), Miu Miu, Alice Temperley, and a little-known Englishman named William Tempest, whose designs she first spotted at an up-and-comers event called Fashion Fringe. When she’s not premiere-hopping, she says, “I live, really, in jeans from Topshop, blazers from Ralph Lauren or Reiss, and ballet flats.” “It’s very hard to describe your own style,” she admits. “And I’m young, so I’m still experimenting. But I think it’s quite British and very much about individuality.” Emma says she prefers to pull her own party dresses, but even when she’s short on time and must work with a stylist, she’s careful to make sure that the resulting outfits don’t look overdone. As she explains, “There’s nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you’re wearing to say something about you, about who you are” … It’s not uncommon for working actresses Emma’s age to apply to college, but she is quite unique in her determination to give it a serious go. Perhaps that’s because she’s still not 100 percent sure she even wants to be a movie star when she grows up. “There’s not, like, a burning passion in me,” she admits, “that I have to act and I don’t care what I do. Until something comes along that I feel as strongly about as I did Hermione—like, I felt that it was life or death—I don’t want to act again.” Instead she’ll study English Literature and art, though exactly where, she won’t say. (Cambridge, Brown, and Yale are all heavily favored by the Internet rumor mill, but given her insane popularity in the U.K. and the overly aggressive paparazzi, it’s likely she’ll end up in the States.) “I just want to keep it private for as long as I can,” she explains. “I probably sound like a paranoid nut, but I’m doing this because I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.” Emma even intends to live with a roommate in the freshman dorms, a decision which Dan Radcliffe told her was crazy. “But I want to do it properly, like everyone else. As long as I don’t walk in,” she adds jokingly, “and see, like, Harry Potter posters everywhere, I’ll be fine.”

I seriously love everything about Emma Watson … her attitude about things is so refreshing. I absolutely applaud her decision to go to college and hold off on an acting career until the next right part comes along. I have no doubt she will be a huge success in whatever endeavor she chooses next. Perhaps a career in fashion later on down the line? After the jump, check out a few photos from Emma’s Teen Vogue photospread …

Some of the clothes may look a bit ridic but they have a sweetness to them that I think works on Emma. She is really growing into an amazing young woman … I wish her nothing but continued success.

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Yeah, apparently Justin wasn’t really needed for anything other than a face down body for Kate Moss to lay on. Hmmm … doesn’t sound very glamorous, does it? You can’t even seen an arm. I sincerely hope, for Justin’s sake, there are more Cavalli ads to come cuz … if this is all he got, then he got robbed.

Additionally, Teen Vogue magazine managed to uncover an old modeling Polaroid photo of Justin Gaston back in his early modeling days. In fact, he looks about as young in the pic as the girlfriend he is reportedly romancing these days. After the jump, check it out …

Ladies! Please sit up and take notice of Justin Gaston. Hailing from Louisiana, I think he is one of the most delightful male models around today. At 18 years old, with a southern drawl, captivating brown eyes and incredible charm it is easy to see how he has worked his way onto the sets of some of the most esteemed photographers in the business. We first noticed his appeal when he came up to Teen Vogue for polaroids last summer and we immediately cast him for a shoot photographed by Raymond Meier (Nov 06 page 140). He has since gone on to work for Diesel, Gianfranco Ferre and Abercrombie and Fitch to name a few of his notable achievements. Keep your eyes peeled for more Justin because I think this is the beginning of a wonderful career.

Um, he’s lucky he got hotter cuz I don’t think Miley would’ve been interested in dating him these days if he still looked like this. And, funny enough, if you consider how old she was when he was actually this age … I think she was still teething.

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Kristen Stewart’s TEEN VOGUE cover shoot took place by the beach in sunny Malibu, California – a far cry from the dreary coastal city of Portland, Oregon, where most of the actress’s latest project, the dark thriller Twilight, was filmed. Kristen snagged the leading role after a four-hour audition with indie director Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown). And after almost a decade in the business – including a series of impressive roles in films such as Panic Room with Jodie Foster, Into the Wild the Emile Hirsch and the indie film In the Land of Women – she finally has a project that might just prove to be her first bona fide blockbuster. Twilight is the hotly anticipated adaptation of author Stephanie Meyer’s smash-hit debut novel – all four titles in the now-complete series continue to be best sellers – but before Kristen got the script she had never even heard of the books. “I guess I was just living under rocks and mountains,” she says cheerfully. “And though we were warned, I figured it would be a pretty exclusive fan base. I thought we were making a cult movie; I had no idea it was going to be this, like, phenomenon.” Despite having Kristen’s merits debated on Internet message boards before she had even shot a frame of film, she is almost improbably perfect to play the part of Bella Swan, a recently relocated high school junior who falls in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson. “Bella’s a very relatable girl,” says Kristen. “She inhabits qualities that most girls have, even if it’s not on the surface.” Physically, Kristen works: she is capable of being both slightly plain (as Bella feels) and impossibly beautiful (as Edward sees her). “What I love about the story and what puts it on a different level is that it’s ‘chemical’ … there’s nobody else for either of them. Period.” The romance, which Kristen describes as “unworldly but not fake,” was a big draw. She did, on occasion, draw from her own romantic life – she’s been with boyfriend Michael Angarano “forever” as she puts it. Kristen lived in an apartment on her own for the first time while shooting Twilight. “You are an insane person after you wrap a movie!”, she says. “Especially with Twilight. You spend three and a half months living the story. We all had one main goal, we were all equally invested and focused – it was just a very intertwined experience.” What about Kristen’s take on fashion? “If I’m just chilling out, then people can see me any which way, but it’s different when you’re putting yourself together to do something professionally,” she says. “You’re under a lot of scrutiny,” she admits. “It’s a bizarre thing, to me, to consider that what I wear or what I do with my hair, can affect my career.” But Kristen respects the process and takes it in stride. “I’m not the type of person who has a million things in my closet to put together, so I’ve begun to work with a stylist and we’ve started to figure out what I like. Simple, classically pretty things; I love Chanel.”

Truth be told, I’m not too crazy with this coverphoto but I do like the way she comes across in this Teen Vogue interview. I was unaware that I had previously seen Kristen in other movies (Panic Room, Into the Wild) and now have a better context to see her in. While reading the books, I never had a particular image of Bella Swan in my head but I suppose now that she has a face in Kristen Stewart, I can see how she might make a good Bella. I imagine there are many fans of the books that have a different image of Bella in their minds (mebbe an image that closely resembles what they look like) so we’ll have to see how those folks take to Kristen’s portrayal of Bella Swan when the movie opens on November 21. The interview gets a thumbs up from me … the coverphoto, not so much. Am I wrong … do any of y’all like the pic?

PS: Click HERE to watch a short video made by Teen Vogue that “introduces” the cast of Twilight to their readers.

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Click HERE to see a bunch of behind-the-scenes photos from Zac’s Teen Vogue photoshoot and click HERE to watch behind-the-scenes video. After the jump, check out a few pics of Zac which were shot by famed photographer Bruce Weber which, unlike many of Weber’s photographs, feature Zac fully-clothed in the hottest Fall looks …

Wholesome, good ol’ clean fun. Zac Efron is everywhere these days … it’s hard not to notice. Personally, I have yet to see him in any TV show or movie that seems of any merit (as opposed to, say, Daniel Radcliffe who is an exceptional actor) so I can’t really speak to his acting talents … but he styles nicely and takes a pretty picture. It’s easy to see how this kid is worth millions of bucks.

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