Transition of Selena Gomez from cute to cool

How the starlet has matured, moving from Disney to Louis Vuitton and Vogue

Once a Disney teen icon Selena Gomez is now well on her way to power fashion It girl status. The stylish rise and rise of Gomez was confirmed with her appearance on the cover of the latest issue of Vogue Brasil posing alongside Louis Vuitton creative director Nicolas Ghesquiere who was preparing to show his Resort collection in Rio last weekend. Gomez has admirably avoided taking the route of her former tween colleagues, eschewing the temptation to rebel with a radical haircut or by posing naked. Instead she's executed an elegant transition from cute to cool via lunches with Anna Wintour, enlisting the services of the most sought after stylist in Hollywood and forming an alliance with Ghesqui ère at Louis Vuitton.

On the June cover of Vogue Brazil Gomez wears a draped black and white Louis Vuitton look and has her arms wrapped around Ghesqui ère who wears a leather biker jacket in keeping with the tough-futuristic mood of his recent collections. The cover line describes Selena as his "muse" - a fitting label given she has become a fixture on the Vuitton front row and has worn custom Louis Vuitton for a number of key red carpet events, including the Met Gala and the Oscars. With her 80.5 million followers on Instagram - the highest follower count on the platform - Gomez is a smart choice of brand ambassador.