The Top 10 Most Stylish Frequent Flyers of 2014: First Class Airport Style from Victoria Beckham, Amal Clooney, and More

Alessandra Ambrosio in a For Love & Lemons jumpsuit, Isabel Marant x Oliver Peoples sunglasses, Brevity necklace, and Gucci bag

The Brazilian bombshell took to the skies the same way she does the runway: with conviction and a style all her own. While we’ve come to love Ambrosio's easy tank-and-jeans look, we appreciate when she goes first class with a sophisticated jumpsuit.

Amal Clooney in Ray-Ban sunglasses, Miu Miu bag, and Prada shoes

The latest addition to the international best-dressed jet set list, this accomplished attorney holds her own against any seasoned celebrity, even she’s traveling without without her ultra-famous husband. Clooney kept things practical while traveling, favoring dresses by Oscar de la Renta and Dolce & Gabbana; however, she showed her more rebellious side in Prada brogues, colorful Ray-Bans, and a smattering of oversize, asymmetric cardigans and jackets.

Katie Holmes

The actress might have moved from the Big Apple back to Los Angeles, but that doesn't mean she left her city sensibilities behind. Always equipped with a trusty Valentino tote, Holmes’s approach to airport dressing is practical yet elegant. Lest we forget, she’s got a fashionable tweenager to impress.

Kendall Jenner with a Marc Jacobs bag

She’s currently the model of the moment, but that which sets Kendall Jenner apart from her peers is her keen fashion sensibility. Known for imbuing her SoCal roots with a touch of Parisian flair (no doubt picked up while walking the Chanel show), this newcomer to the scene is already making the sidewalk her runway.

Miranda Kerr in a Chanel jacket, MiH jeans, Céline sunglasses, Michael Kors bag, and Valentino shoes

It seems like we saw the model mom in transit more often than note this year. And Kerr certainly showed that a simple uniform of a jacket and jeans is a winning look at the airport, especially when the jacket is by Chanel.

Rihanna in a Mulberry x Cara Delevingne backpack, Jennifer Fisher jewelry, and Eddie Borgo jewerly

The pop star has been a champion of street chic, and this year saw Rihanna really own the look at the airport with throwback moments including clog boots, bucket hats, the anorak, and here, the cropped sweat suit. With a new tour set for next year, we cannot wait to see her sartorial mash-ups at the arrivals lounge.

Rita Ora in Tommy Hilfiger shoes

The singer and actress took risks with her looks this year, most notably bringing a sense of 1970s glamour back to air travel, with colorful ensembles, punchy accessories, and festive bags. With a role in next year’s Fifty Shades of Grey, we can only imagine the bold looks she'll wear to crisscross the globe.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in a Paige top and jeans, Tom Ford sunglasses, Anita Ko jewelry, Givenchy bag, and Manolo Blahnik shoes

Another member of the fashionable frequent flyer club, Huntington-Whiteley showed off her toned physique in a slew of outfits this year. However, it was her clever accessorizing that made her look a head-turner in the TSA lines.

Suki Waterhouse

She’s the modern-day Chelsea girl—an actress, model, collaborator of design (check out her collection with Superga)—but Suki Waterhouse brings her modish look to the airport with au courant panache.

Victoria Beckham in a Céline jacket, R13 jeans, Victoria Beckham sunglasses, and Azzedine Alaïa boots

Mrs. Beckham jetted all around the globe this year, promoting her eponymous fashion label and carrying out her new duties as a UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador. Her penchant for clean lines, demure colors, and precision tailoring are as admirable as her philanthropic endeavors.

Reese Witherspoon and Jessica Biel Layer for Winter the West Coast Way

While the East Coast and the Midwest face frosty weather conditions, the West Coast, for the most part, experiences winter sans shearling coat and snow boots. So what is one to wear when the temperature takes an unexpected dip in Los Angeles? A slim puffer vest, leggings, and mirrored shades has emerged as the winning ensemble. Here, Reese Witherspoon cuts a lean figure in a forest green vest with brightly colored Oakley Frogskins shades and Asics trainers. Contrasting this is Jessica Biel, whose monochromatic approach lends a sense of minimal glam to her workout look. The added bonus? It’s the ideal look to jump-start a New Year’s fitness regime.

Jennifer Lawrence Slings the Suede Fringe Bag

Spotted on the runways at Proenza Schouler, Giambattista Valli, and Giorgio Armani for spring 2015, the fringe trend that restarted a couple of seasons ago shows no signs of slowing down. Also reviving the seventies fringed handbag is actress Jennifer Lawrence, who toted one on the streets of New York earlier today. While this isn’t the first time the actress has toyed with looks from that decade—remember the plunging necklines and fabulous furs from American Hustle?—she put a modern spin on the idea with a double-breasted gray Dior coat, skinny black trousers, and buckle booties. Her moss green bag adds a verdant touch to winter dressing, and will look just as relevant come spring’s thaw.

The 10 Best Fashion Instagram Moments of the Week: Poppy Delevingne, Constance Jablonski, Imaan Hammam, and More

The Christmas trees may be trimmed, the menorahs lit, and the holiday jingles playing on repeat in every place of business here in New York, but the fashion pack has taken flight, popping up across the globe: Here, Kiko Mizuhara strikes a pose in Tokyo for the presentation of Dior’s pre-fall collection, there, Poppy Delevingne, and Leigh Lezark lay supine against a marble stair in Milan, and in Mexico, Constance Jablonski cozied up to a quadruped: not to mentionRihanna’s black tie Diamond ball charity gala in Beverly Hills. (Hey, an Instagram video counts, right?) Those who hung around town took in the glamour of a one-off haute couture show in New York put on by Valentino, or in the case of Imaan Hammam, struck an enviable pose in just the sort of utilitarian flight Asuit we’d like to wear the rest of the season long.

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Photo: Courtesy of Kiko Mizuhara

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Photo: Courtesy of Genevieve Jones

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Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson Bring Nick Payne’s MesmerizingConstellations to Broadway

Jake Gyllenhaal wears a Rag & Bone suit and a Gap T-shirt; Ruth Wilson, a Narciso Rodriguez sheath dress.

In 2009, the playwright Nick Payne, then just 25, won the admiration of English critics and audiences, along with the prestigious George Devine Award, for his remarkably self-assured debut, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet. A year or so later, he made a series of choices that led to the play that confirmed him as one of the most dazzlingly gifted dramatists of a new generation—sharp, funny, wise, humane.

First, he chose to watch a documentary about the declining honeybee population and decided to write a play about an artisanal beekeeper, only to abandon it because, he says, “I wasn’t quite sure how you do bees live onstage.” Not long after this he happened to watch The Elegant Universe, hosted by the physicist Brian Greene, who explained the multiverse theory, which says that there exist a vast number of parallel universes in which we’re living out different versions of our lives based on our having made different choices, large and small, along the way. Payne then decided to write a play about a physicist, but he couldn’t quite shake the beekeeper—and so, he says, “I just took these two characters from different worlds and smashed them together in the same story.”

The result of that collision is the gorgeous, deceptively simple two-character drama Constellations, a smash at London’s Royal Court Theatre and later in the West End, which comes to Broadway’s Manhattan Theatre Club this month starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Roland, a beekeeper who makes artisanal honey, and Ruth Wilson as Marianne, a physicist specializing in theoretical cosmology. The episodic 70-minute play follows the course of their relationship, but its brilliant conceit is that it embodies the multiverse theory in its very structure, showing us five or six snapshot variations of each encounter, each with a slightly different outcome. “I thought this could give the play a shape and a rhythm and a musicality,” Payne says. “Part of Constellations is also me declaring to an actor right at the start that this requires a level of invention, interrogation, and playfulness that is inherent in any rehearsal room anyway—so why not make it explicit in the form of the show?”

During a lunch break in a midtown rehearsal room I meet the pair of actors charged with finding those qualities, both of whom saw and fell in love with the play in London. Though Gyllenhaal has four films in the can, he has been increasingly drawn to the stage, most recently playing a drifter with boundary issues in If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet. Wilson, an off-kilter beauty, first made a splash as a young governess in the 2006 BBC miniseries of Jane Eyre and has since become a star in the U.S. as the mysterious Montauk waitress on Showtime’s The Affair—though she is a stage veteran with two Olivier awards. “I’d just done five months with a camera in my face and was quite keen to get back onstage and back into my body,” Wilson says. “But I wanted something that challenged me in a different way.”

“I think the thing that makes it challenging, and ultimately why I wanted to do it,” Gyllenhall adds, “is that it feels as if underneath the words is—forgive the pun—a universe of choices. And there will never be a night when those choices will be the same. Even in the past two days, we’ve interpreted certain scenes at least five ways.”

“That’s the genius of it,” says Wilson. “It’s a huge, universal theme, but told through a love story. It makes your mind spin with ideas and thoughts about all the options available to you, but also about how fate plays a role—maybe you don’t actually have any free will at all. Nick has a huge heart, along with an amazing intellect, and he combines the two in a really beautiful, simple way.”

“And the type of work we know we have to do,” Gyllenhaal adds quickly, “is a little terrifying for both of us—or maybe I should just speak for myself.”

“No, no,” Wilson says with a nervous laugh. “You can speak for me.”

The costars have been mitigating their terror through preparation: Gyllenhaal has been studying books on beekeeping, while Wilson has been watching documentaries about cosmology and spending time at a planetarium. Their job, of course, is to bring to life the vivid particulars of the relationship between their characters—one of whom sees life through the microcosm of the beehive while the other looks toward the vastness of space.

“It makes me think of all the permutations of relationships,” Gyllenhaal says. “Times when I’ve approached somebody and they haven’t been interested, or someone’s approached me and I haven’t been interested, or maybe things felt really, really right but it still didn’t work out—every incarnation possible. We’ve all had those moments.”

Much of the play’s poignance comes from the juxtaposition of the limitlessness of the universe and the finite nature of human existence. “It’s like that moment when you find yourself out in nature and just feel so tiny and insignificant and unimportant,” Wilson says. “We’re really not much in all of that vastness—but we’re all we’ve got.”

“The beauty of the play, what’s really astonishing,” Gyllenhaal adds, “is that it’s not just a conceit. Ultimately it’s written from a really unconscious place, which is where I think all the most beautiful work is done—that larger part of our mind that we have yet to explore.”

Payne would have to agree that his unconscious mind—and the specter of mortality—played a large part in the writing of Constellations. Though he wasn’t aware of it at the time, he has since conducted what he calls “a sort of sub-Freudian analysis looking back on it all” and realized that his obsession with infinite universes filled with infinite possibilities was a way of coping with the recent death of his father. “I quite romantically loved the idea that there might be another universe where my father’s still alive and we’re both perfectly fine and really happy,” Payne says. “The concept of a multiverse is a wondrous thing, but it’s also weirdly cruel because I’ll never get to experience those other universes, will I? I’m stuck in this universe—without him.”

Hair: Edward Lampley for Bumble and Bumble; Makeup: Mariel Barrera for Chanel Beauté; Grooming: Losi; Set design: Viki Rutsch for Exposure NY