Happy New Year! I hope you guys had a great Eve, and that 2018 started with a bang! We’re kind of back to our regular activities now, starting with candid updates. Dakota was seen with her sister Elle Fanning and her boyfriend a couple of times in the past few days, and our gallery has been updated with the images.

And another year comes to an end! This one marked Lovely Dakota‘s 15th anniversary and some major changes, as I’m sure you noticed if you’ve been visiting us for long. It’s review time!

The year of 2017 started for Lovely Dakota when I adopted it in March (x), after nearly two years without updates. The first thing I did was change the layouts and get the gallery up and running again, with the help of Isabella, from (the now gone) Dakota Fanning Brasil. Since then, 48 posts with news and various additions were made to the site.

Dakota’s first campaign for the brand Jimmy Choo – for their SS17 collection – was launched earlier in the year, and it resulted in one of her most beautiful photoshoots to date. In other fashion-related news, she posed for Miu Miu toward the end of the year, and is featured on their Holidays 2017 campaign called “Whispers” (x) along with her sister Elle Fanning.

Dakota’s latest short film “Zygote” was released in July (x), and “Brimstone” got some spread out release dates around the world through pretty much the first semester of the year. “Please Stand By” premiered at the Rome Film Festival (x), but doesn’t have confirmed release dates for other places at this point.

Dakota spent several months filming The Alienist in Budapest, Hungary, and we’ve gotten a few trailers (x) for it since then. This is the first television show she’s featured in since her cameo in “Friends” in 2004. It will be premiering on TNT on January 29, 2018, and is most definitely the project I’ve been anticipating the most. Dakota stars with actors Luke Evans and Daniel Bruhl.

With new projects soon-to-be released, Dakota has slowly started promoting. Several interviews and a few magazine covers have marked the beginning of it for “The Alienist”, and she’ll probably start doing press for “Please Stand By” too very soon. Besides those two projects, “Ocean’s 8” is also set to premiere in 2018 (x), and Dakota’s cameo has already been confirmed.

I hope we get to see more of Dakota next year, and I’m sure we will! We can also hope “Viena and the Fantomes” (x) gets released eventually, as we’ve been waiting for it for so long. The struggle is real, guys.

I hope you enjoyed our updates in 2017! Thanks for sticking by Lovely Dakota through all this years, and for not giving up on it when things slowed down for a while. It’s only been online for this long because of you, and, as someone who’s visited it for years before adopting it, I’m thankful it has.

May your new year be filled with love, happiness and new achievements! We’ll see you all in 2018!

Dakota was sighted in Los Angeles yesterday, along with her boyfriend, her sister Elle Fanning and her mother Heather. Our gallery has been updated with the images.

The first trailer for Ocean’s 8 has been released by Warner Bros. Pictures! You can watch it below.

Dakota was sighted by the paparazzi twice yesterday, at first while she was out and about in New York City, then upon her arrival at LAX Aiport at night. Our gallery has been updated with both sets of candids.

Entertainment Weekly has released the very first trailer for Dakota’s upcoming movie Please Stand By! It is a very comprehensive trailer, mind you. Their website is a pain to get embed codes from and impossible to get screen captures, so we got the video from a Youtube channel instead. We’ve added screen captures from it to our gallery, as well as the first official poster.

PAPER has shared a video of Miu Miu’s holiday campaign, Miu Miu Whispers, starred by Dakota Fanning, Chloë Sevigny, Elle Fanning, Julia Garner and Sadie Sink.

Dakota and her bff Alessandra Garcia Lorido are featured in the December 2017 issue of Glamour US! Our gallery has been updated with the scans and the photoshoot, which Dakota shared on her official Instagram account.

The promotion for The Alienist seems to have started! Dakota is on the cover of the January 2018 issue of Marie Claire UK, which features a brand new photoshoot by David Roemer. Our gallery has been updated with the images, and you can read the article by Martha Hayes below.

From Hollywood child star to modern ingenue, Dakota Fanning’s rise to success has been seamless and without scandal. She tells Martha Hayes where it all went right.

Dakota Fanning has an eye roll is so spectacular, it deserves its own meme.

Becoming famous at the age of seven, followed by 16 years of being asked the same questions repeatedly, has given her ample practice.

The worst offenders allude to how much she’s ‘grown up’ since making her Hollywood debut in I Am Sam (2001) (becoming the youngest actress in history 
to be nominated, at eight, for a Screen Actors Guild Award); what it was like ‘working with Tom Cruise’ 
in War Of The Worlds (2005) 12 years ago; and finally, isn’t it a miracle that she didn’t ‘go off the rails’ like so many other child stars. Ugh.

And so it becomes my mission when meeting the now 23-year-old in London for our cover shoot to not give 
her any opportunity to roll her eyes.

Settled on a big 
sofa in the middle of a bustling studio on a balmy Sunday afternoon, I tell her I’m assuming she probably has gone off the rails in secret and ask her what’s the wildest thing she’s ever done. ‘It would absolutely not be printable,’ she says laughing, clapping her hands. Definitely no eye roll here.

‘It always cracks me up when people talk about how I haven’t gone off the rails − which I have not, by any means − but you know, I’m a normal person. I love a party and I love having people over for any occasion since I’ve had my own apartment in New York. I’m always like, “You can stay with me!” I don’t cook, but I make cocktails. I make a good margarita.’

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Dakota was sighted in Los Angeles yesterday! Our gallery has been updated with the images.