Beyonce To InStyle: I'm Ready For Kids

             

InStyle couldn't have done a better job when selecting its September cover star. After all, Beyonce is the shiniest, glammest star out there and she certainly upped the "wow" factor in a gilt Dolce & Gabanna minidress on the cover.

But for all the energy Bey's giving on the front, inside the magazine she sounds calm as can be -- calm enough to talk babies. The Queen of R&B told InStyle:

"I have no regrets because my job kept me focused. When you're young --18 or 19 -- you have the energy and drive. That's the time to work as hard as you can. Now I'm a woman, and because I gave it my all, I can focus on my marriage. I can decide I want to have kids. I can be the mother I want to be and dedicate myself to my children."

Could it be -- are Beyonce and Jay-Z gearing up to make some little hip-hop superstars of their own?

If that's the case we couldn't be more excited, and not only because the Carter-Knowles children will be so talented musically. We also hope they inherit Beyonce's impressive fashion know-how, from her ability to pull off any hair style -- even the Kate Gosselin half-pixie-- to her speed shopping skills ($14,000 in 90 minutes!)

On second thought, we hope she doesn't pass along the Kate Gosselin hair 'do to the next generation. That should stay put right where it is.

Beyonce Goes Parisian Luxe For Harper's BAZAAR September 2011 Issue

    

Pix from  "Party" Vid With Kelly ...

The girls danced it up on the set in a big yellow fur and purple sparkling leg-baring outfit for Kelly.

      

    

And pics of Bey and Solange arriving to the set with the ever-present Julius:

Beyoncé - Year of 4 Album Fashions

The couture creations were fashioned by 36-year-old Jan Taminiau, a lesser know yet still spectacularly skilled Dutch designer, tapped by Beyonce’s stylists Jenke-Ahmed Tailly and Ty Hunter.

For her 4 album, Beyonce’s spectacular styling team mixed known designers with underground faces like Leah Rae, the FIT student who designed Beyonce’s lemon yellow ruffle adorned halter dress…

…young French designer Julien Fournié, who created Bey’s short shorts…

…and couture master Alexandre Vauthier, who was the creative mind behind the crystal speckled fox fur stole she wore on the cover:

Tailly, who styled Beyonce for her controversial L’Officiel shoot, said, “It was important to Beyoncé that the choice of clothing not be about the brand but about the quality of the work. Each song really has a different personality so we decided to do the cover like an editorial for a magazine, with each song having its own style.” 

From working with the largely unknown Tofo Tofo dancers to wearing creations from smaller designers, Beyonce used her celebrity to help others make a name for themselves. Very cool.

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If you haven’t seen the mini documentary on the making of 4, watch it below:

Beyonce for Complex Magazine

 

I’ve been fortunate to accomplish things that the younger generation of queens dream of accomplishing. I have no desire for anyone else’s throne.

 

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Beyonce Covers ‘Cleo’ July 2011

Beyoncé Talks Fashion

THE ARTIST COMMENTS ON THE SEVEN LOOKS THAT SHAPED HER CAREER.

            

“CRAZY IN LOVE” (2003)

“I had just turned 21, and this was my first solo video. I wanted to be a female version of James Dean and wear an iconic white T-shirt and jean shorts. I always think about wearing something a fan could buy and make her own; as a young girl I remember seeing so many artists, and then I’d try to dress like them. I sewed zippers on my jackets to be like Michael Jackson.

I’m wearing red pumps in the video. As a child I trained myself to dance in very high heels. At 13, in Destiny’s Child, we were told to wear heels, but at first we couldn’t walk in them. We couldn’t keep our knees straight. But we learned, and that became the image of Destiny’s Child: so young and so glamorous. Now I have a rule that my dancers have to wear their heels when I’m wearing my heels. They say, ‘Please take your shoes off, Beyoncé.’ At home, I’m always barefoot. And I have a heavy walk without heels. When they hear me thumping through the house, they say, ‘Oh—Beyoncé’s up!’”

           

“DEJA VU” (2006)

“We shot this in New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina, and the choreography was almost tribal in my mind. There’s something spiritual about Louisiana, where my family is from, and I thought of Josephine Baker. She had a way of dancing that was almost possessed. I used her as a reference and combined her with Brigitte Bardot. My hair, the bustier: It’s very Bardot. I love to mix things that you wouldn’t put together—like Baker and Bardot. They both had that French influence, which is really strong in Louisiana.”

          

SASHA FIERCE ALBUM ART (2008)

“I’m wearing a gold-plate breastplate by José Barrera. It was difficult to put my arms down, which is why they are up in the picture. The gold handpiece was made for me—it’s kind of like my futuristic Michael Jackson glove.

Sasha Fierce was born during the ‘Crazy in Love’ video. I’m naturally a shy person, and I was used to performing in a group, where it’s about female camaraderie—we were all going through the same things at the same time. As Sasha Fierce, I was on my own. It was about letting go, about showing my sensuality in a new way: I became Sasha Fierce.”

          

“SINGLE LADIES (PUT A RING ON IT)” (2008)

“My mom made the one-shouldered bodysuits the night before the video. Again, I wanted to wear something that any fan could wear. I’m obsessed with Bob Fosse, and I always saw the look of this video as very simple, very Fosse-inspired. It was one of the hottest days on record in New York, and we didn’t know it at the time, but we were shooting in an old porn studio. I began to get suspicious because every dressing room had a theme. I was in the jungle room, and I realized they had made a porno in there. There was no air-conditioning in the studio and that added to the drama—we were shiny and sweaty.”

           

“TELEPHONE” (WITH LADY GAGA) (2010)

“Gaga is my girl! I’m her biggest fan. When I first saw her perform, I actually called her and said, ‘You are great!’ That was before her popularity hit, and we had a natural connection. Later, she asked me to do her video, and I said, ‘I trust you, Gaga. I’ll do whatever you want me to do.’ I played a bad, bad girl. When I put on the Bettie Page wig, I got into the character. I started researching Bettie Page and tried to channel her pinups and poses. The video ended up being very much like Quentin Tarantino’s movies. He gave us his blessing, even loaned us the car with pussy wagon written on the side from Kill Bill. My mom said, ‘Do you have to use that car?’”

                                     

“TELEPHONE” (WITH LADY GAGA) (2010)

“Gaga is my girl! I’m her biggest fan. When I first saw her perform, I actually called her and said, ‘You are great!’ That was before her popularity hit, and we had a natural connection. Later, she asked me to do her video, and I said, ‘I trust you, Gaga. I’ll do whatever you want me to do.’ I played a bad, bad girl. When I put on the Bettie Page wig, I got into the character. I started researching Bettie Page and tried to channel her pinups and poses. The video ended up being very much like Quentin Tarantino’s movies. He gave us his blessing, even loaned us the car with pussy wagon written on the side from Kill Bill. My mom said, ‘Do you have to use that car?’”

                                   

“RUN THE WORLD (GIRLS)” (2011)

“This is the power stand, the next chapter of my life. I do this job because it makes me high and inspires people. In the video, most of all I wanted to show that I’m proud to be a woman. I had read about powerful African men who have hyenas as pets, and I wanted to create a world where women run the world, so in the video I have these hyenas as pets. I’m wearing a Givenchy Couture gown and I’m holding these crazy hyenas. There’s dirt on the dress, but I’m still pure and regal. I wanted to push the theatrics to make a point: Women rule.”