In Honor of Tom Ford’s Sold-Out Drake Lipstick, 12 Vogue Editors Imagine Their Dream Man–Inspired Shade Inline

  • mad max
    Expand
    Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
    1/12

    Zoë Taubman, Vogue.com Associate Social Media Editor

    “In an ideal world, a lipstick inspired by English actor Tom Hardy (the only celebrity I’ve ever taken a liking to) would pay tribute to his recent role in Mad Max—a shimmering nude with pale orange undertones.”

  • alan delon
    Expand
    Photo: Photofest
    2/12

    Emma Elwick-Bates, Vogue Fashion News Editor

    “Alain Delon. La Piscine is one of my favorite films, set in the languid sun-bleached ’60s Côte d’Azur. This thriller is dramatic enough, so the shade would be a highly kissable natural pink (with SPF!), which would be equally becoming on Romy Schneider or Jane Birkin.”

  • Dickie Greenleaf
    Expand
    Photo: Photofest
    3/12

    Mackenzie Wagoner, Vogue.com Beauty Editor

    “Dickie Greenleaf, after Patricia Highsmith’s rendition of my dream man in The Talented Mr. Ripley. It would be a tawny pink, the color of lightly sunburned lips, that plays equally well for our life of seaside days and jazz-club nights.”

  • colin firth
    Expand
    Photo: Courtesy of Focus Features
    4/12

    Steff Yotka, Vogue.com Fashion News Writer

    “I’d queue up for a Colin Firth lipstick without question. The hue would be the color my cheeks turned the time Colin’s and my eyes met oh-so-briefly at last year’s Met Gala—deep, deep scarlet.”

  • James Bond
    Expand
    Photo: Photofest
    5/12

    Helena Suric, Vogue Bookings Director

    “Bond, James Bond. The perfect, universally flattering blood red. James did not discriminate when it came to beautiful women, nor should the perfect classic color!”

  • Childish Gambino
    Expand
    Photo: Getty Images
    6/12

    Lucie Zhang, Replica Handbag Store Runway Social Media Manager

    “Childish Gambino, so that the shade could be called ‘Childish.’ It would be an orange-red—a shade that doesn’t fit squarely in a category and is underestimated but surprisingly bold.”

  • Walter Matthau
    Expand
    Photo: Photofest
    7/12

    Arden Fanning, Vogue Beauty Assistant

    “Walter Matthau in A New Leaf is comedy gold almost half a century later. The lipstick would be classic Ferrari red, in honor of the scene where he drives around 1970s New York in a 275 GTB/4, announcing, ‘I’m poor.’”

  • notorious big
    Expand
    Photo: Getty Images
    8/12

    Brooke Danielson, Vogue.com Accessories Editor

    “[My lipstick would be] a perfect tint of deep red for the winter. I would name him Notorious BIG.”

  • Prince
    Expand
    Photo: Alamy
    9/12

    Chioma Nnadi, Vogue.com Fashion News Director

    “Prince! A purple lipstick for the Purple One.”

  • JeanPaul Belmondo
    Expand
    Photo: Getty Images
    10/12

    Lauren Mechling, Vogue Senior Editor

    “Jean-Paul Belmondo, a nude that is safe for spur-of-the-moment kissing. Because have you seen those lips?”

  • Paul newman
    Expand
    Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    11/12

    Catherine Piercy, Vogue.com Beauty Director

    "My shade would be named Paul—as in Newman. It would be brooding yet sensitive. The man’s man of lipsticks—which I guess would translate into a natural, outdoorsy, not-trying-too-hard, flesh-toned hue.”

  • game of thrones
    Expand
    Photo: Courtesy of HBO
    12/12

    Marjon Carlos, Vogue.com Senior Fashion Writer

    “I’ve been crushing on the actor that plays Grey Worm in Game of Thrones! How fun would it be to have a steely metallic lipstick to honor his steel-proof strength?”