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KRISTEN STEWART

Hair ADIR ABERGEL

Makeup JILLIAN DEMPSEY

Stylist TARA SWENNEN

ON KRISTEN:

RTA jacket and shorts

ELLIATT white button-up

Stylist’s own socks

Thom Browne shoes

CLEA DUVALL

Hair RICHARD MARIN

Makeup GEORGIE EISDELL

Stylist MARY INACIO

ON CLEA:

Bella Freud suit

Stella Luna boots

DuVall’s own necklace

MACKENZIE DAVIS

Hair BOBBY ELIOT

Makeup MÉLANIE INGLESSIS

Stylist KARLA WELCH

ON MACKENZIE:

Celine suit

x karla T-shirt

Anita Ko collar necklace and bracelet

Davis’s own gold chain necklace

Stuart Weitzman shoes

Holiday and movie magic converge on a below-freezing February evening in a Pittsburgh suburb. Film crew members bustle on the grounds of the Fox Chapel Golf Club, where earlier that day, they’d made snow to emulate a white Christmas. Meanwhile, in a moment of pure serendipity, Mother Nature lays down a few inches of the actual wintry stuff.

Inside the venue’s storied clubhouse, extras playing party guests mingle in fine holiday threads. The hall is decked with twinkling lights, and the decorations are punctuated by a magnificent Christmas tree. It’s day 18 of a 29-day shoot for Clea DuVall’s second feature film as a writer-director, Happiest Season, the first-ever studio-backed holiday rom-com that’s centered around a queer love story. Although it’s late in the day and the cast and crew have been at it for hours, the room buzzes with energy.

Happiest Season stars Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis as a

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