After 33 years in show business, Viola Davis knows who she is. “I know what’s good and what’s bad,” she says in our cover story. To reflect that sureness, stylist Elizabeth Stewart dressed the Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom actress in bold suits from Balmain, Gucci, and Kenneth Ize for our Pacific Palisades, Calif., shoot. Among Davis’s favorite looks was a houndstooth Wolk Morais ensemble, which she declared was “larger than life and audacious-rebellious.” Despite piling on heavy layers in the 100-degree heat, she danced nonstop to a Beyoncé playlist, especially when “Run the World (Girls)” blasted over the sound system. But the party came to a halt when, with two shots still to go, the electricity suddenly went out on set. “We had to finish before we lost the natural…
