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headpieces that feature feathers and ac-
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ribbons, dyed using Colorado wildflowers—

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SETTING THE STAGE
Alexandre de Betak’s immersive sets—such
as an elaborate mirrored cave for Dior and
a Blade Runner–esque Chinatown for Raf
Simons—have earned him the nickname
“Fellini of Fashion.” In honor of the recently
published Betak: Fashion Show Revolution
(Phaidon), the man himself shares his
creative process at London’s Victoria and
Albert Museum on March 19.

Clockwise from top left: Gretchen Röehrs (3); Adrien Dirand; Josh Stringer/NBC; Graham
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franchise that propelled Angelina
Jolie to superstardom. In this
humanizing, stunt-packed origin

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story, we meet Lara as she searches
for her missing father and becomes
the crime-fighting archaeologist
we know and love.

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BATTLE ROYALE Christina Hendricks, Retta, and Mae
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(later known as Roxanne Shanté) record- who’ve gotten tired of playing nice in
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Revenge,” starting a full-fledged rap war. ary 26). When each finds herself in dire
Chanté Adams, Nia Long, and Mahershala need of some extra cash (and for good
Ali star in the Netflix biopic based on reason, like a kidney transplant for a sick
her story, Roxanne Roxanne, premiering daughter), the solution, of course, is a
this month. supermarket robbery.

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Straight from Fashion Week:
Cotton Codinha reports on
glittered lids, Woodstock
waves, and new blues

386 Should She Run?

In a meeting of the minds,
humanitarian Angelina
Jolie sits down with former
secretary of state John Kerry.
Photographed by Andres
Kudacki. Styled by
Samira Nasr

Fashion
165 Morning Rush
Star Trek: Discovery’s Sonequa
Martin-Green on the rituals
that kick-start her day.
By Brianna Kovan

166 Voyager
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CONTENTS
170 New Arrivals
Four colorful statement pieces
that epitomize the season
197 ELLE Trends
Tracking seasonal motifs, like
beachside chic and the return of
the sailor stripe
204 Fear & Clothing
Véronique Hyland investigates
the fashion world’s horror-flick
obsession
209 ELLE Accessories
Woven bags, boots, and heels
seize the spotlight
240 The Winner Takes It All
Ring in the Winter Olympics
with MVP stones and jewels
253 ELLE Style
Burberry’s early-aughts trench
coat gets a decidedly cool
streetwear twist
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240
256 The Secret
Fashion Week regular—
and trans activist—Teddy
Quinlivan sounds off on the
state of the runway
422
262 House Proud
Bottega Veneta creative
director Tomas Maier returns
to New York with Upper East
Side aplomb. Naomi Rougeau
reports
266 The New Romantics
Usher in warmer temps with
ultrafemme details and tailor-
ing, courtesy of five breakout
brands. By Naomi Rougeau
272 Key Players
An all-female task force re-
imagines Nike’s much-hyped
court shoes. By Véronique
Hyland
275 ELLE Shops
Heartfelt punk, voluminous
military green, and leather 366 Mercury Rising
jackets for the country club Spring’s intricate textures meet
Clockwise from top left: Thomas Lagrange; the Metropolitan Museum of Art/David Hockney; Julien Boudet; Raymond Meier
their match in Moroccan sun
350 Mise-en-Scène and sand. Photographed by
Choose your own adventure, Azim Haidaryan. Styled by
or, in this case, mystery thriller. David Vandewal
Photographed by Raymond
Meier. Styled by Elissa Santisi 378 Pale Fire
Hailey Baldwin dons a fresh
350
palette of pastels. Photographed
by Mariano Vivanco. Styled by
Anna Trevelyan
394 Rhinestone Cowgirl
Brazilian model Isabeli Fontana
goes Vegas glam. By Katie
Connor. Photographed by Paola
Kudacki. Styled by Samira Nasr
404 Neutral Ground
Earth tones find their natural
habitat. Photographed by Hans
Feurer. Styled by Laura Ferrara
412 Phantom Thread
Swooning, romantic fabrics
meet menswear staples.
Photographed by Marc de
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289
422 Small Wonder
Introducing seven-year-old
Tokyo style star Coco Pink
Princess. By Véronique Hyland.
Photographed by Julien Boudet
Features
318 The Hero We Need
Black Panther’s Chadwick Bose-
man talks with Mickey Rapkin
about high stakes, supersuits,
and political representation
327
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320 Lady Killers
While Hollywood navigates a
post-Weinstein fallout, on-
screen heroines take revenge
into their own hands.
By Emily Yoshida
322 She Contains
Multitudes
In her latest essay collection,
celebrated novelist Zadie Smith
dives once again into the murky
gray areas for which she’s
known. By Keziah Weir
326 Turn It Up
Five addictive musical acts to
add to your queue. By Brianna
Kovan
327 Women in Hollywood
Director Ava DuVernay shares
her life and career milestones in
anticipation of this month’s
A Wrinkle in Time
326
328 Art & Design
COS teams up with abstract
artist Dorothea Rockburne.
Mattie Kahn reports
332 Art News
This month: life-size portraits,
a Singaporean furniture fair,
Maori-inspired fashion, and
more. By David Graver
334 Louise Linton
Is Super-Duper Sorry
Writer Carrie Battan sits down
with the Marie Antoinette of 300 Social Studies
modern America—or so she’s Hair guru Justine Marjan
been labeled shares the scalp oils and styling
tricks for an Instagram-ready,
340 The Fixer 360-degree look. By Cotton
Stitch Fix’s Katrina Lake is Codinha
revolutionizing the shopping
industry, one data point at a 306 Liquid Assets
time. Jessica Pressler reports Temperamental skin? April
Long breaks down the best
430 ELLE Travel
serums for acne, winter air, and
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respite? Set your sights on
Spain’s Canary Islands. 312 Crowning Glory
By Brianna Kovan After decades of lackluster
locks, Aleksandra Crapanzano
432 Ask E. Jean outfits her cabinet with a brand-
Relationship hell? E. Jean new hair-care arsenal
Carroll to the rescue!
314 It List
437 Tech News
Clockwise from top left: Matteo Scarpellini/Imaxtree.com; Brian Ziff/Lickerish/CPI Syndication;
ELLE’s Jenna Blaha investigates 316 ELLEness
the future of AI Healing sound waves, anti-
inflammatory honey, and more
Beauty
Ben Goldstein/Studio D; Richard Majchrzak/Studio D; Atsushi Nishijima/Disney
In Every Issue
289 (Re)think Pink
Test-drive a makeup palette of 66 Calendar
seasonal tones. By April Long 150 The Feed
158 Editor’s Letter
160 Nina’s Edit
168 Behind the Cover
195 The Talent
436 Horoscope
438 Shopping Guide
442 End Note
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EDITOR'S LETTER
elcome
to Our March Issue
There’s a very specific feeling to a first time, whether it’s a first kiss or
first day at a new job. It’s a combination of exhilaration and fear. And
although I’ve worked in fashion magazines for most of my career, the
preparation for this issue has had the flavor of my very first outing.
A decade ago, I was ELLE’s fashion director. Over the course of
13 years, I gave my all to uncovering new talent, creating fashion
pages that couldn’t be found in any other magazine, and launching
new sections, including ELLE Shops. Eventually, I found myself on
television as a judge on Project Runway. I was extremely proud to
be part of a publication that took risks and dared to print thought-
provoking features and rule-breaking fashion. Then I was fired.
I don’t presume to know the exact motivations for my dismissal, but
it happened at a critical moment of change in the industry. People were
abandoning their BlackBerries for iPhones. And Project Runway, aided
by social media, had become a huge success. Suddenly, my name
went far beyond the pages of ELLE. I’ll admit, the shift was scary at
first—I never sought fame. But I leaned into the opportunity and fully
embraced the new platforms on which I could share my passions and
engage in important conversations. I am pleased to report that when
the series begins production on its seventeenth season this summer, it
will once again be in partnership with ELLE.
As devastating as my firing felt, it taught me to be persistent
and unapologetic about my creative vision. (For someone who
exemplifies this resilience, get to know the unstoppable Stitch Fix
158    
founder and CEO Katrina Lake on page 340.) It also taught me
that you can’t let someone else dim your light simply because it’s
shining in their eyes. (See Angelina Jolie, who, for all the complicated
feelings people may have about her, actually is making the world
safer for women.) And most importantly, it taught me that life is best
lived in forward motion, not in reverse.
When I was approached with the chance to return to ELLE
as editor-in-chief, I thought about the seismic changes afoot in
our world, especially as women demand greater agency both
professionally and politically. And I thought about how fashion, at its
essence, is about change, rebirth, and reinvention. It is the language
that we use to communicate who we are. But it is also a dialogue,
and I look forward to reconnecting with you, the ELLE reader, and
hearing what inspires and infuriates you. Our roles are ever-evolving.
And as a woman, immigrant, mother, and wife, I am—as we all are—a
work in progress. The following pages are just the beginning of what I
hope will be a thrilling ongoing conversation, about both fashion and
our entire culture, for years to come.
@ninagarcia @ninagarciaofficial
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STARTING POINTS Opal, pearl, and gold
pendant necklace,
OPHIUCHUS JEWELS,
ophiuchusjewels.com

Radiance-Plus
Golden Glow
Booster for Face,
CLARINS, $32,
at clarinsusa.com

Suede espadrille, PIERRE HARDY,

$495, pierrehardy.com

Viscose and cotton top,

MARNI, $2,460,
at Marni boutiques
nationwide

Sheer mesh
handbag,
FENDI,
$2,050,
fendi.com

David Hockney,
A Bigger Splash, 1967

Bronzing Gel, TOM FORD,

$49, at tomford.com
FENDI

Runway: Imaxtree.com; A Bigger Splash: courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum

of Art/David Hockney; stills: courtesy of the designers

Silk scarf, TEMPS

DES RĚVES, $195,
tempsdesreves.com

Sun Protection Lip

Treatment SPF 35, Lanyard bag charm and key
SHISEIDO, $24, at holder, LOUIS VUITTON, $480,
shiseido.com louisvuitton.com
Sunglasses, FENDI,
$500, fendi.com
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S
onequa Martin-Green
has a knack for plac-
ing herself in bizarre
situations. Last year,
after five seasons on AMC’s
The Walking Dead, the actress
swapped postapocalyptic
zombie shelters for something
equally otherworldly. In CBS’s
Star Trek: Discovery, she stars as
First Officer Michael Burnham.
“They were adamant about find-
ing a black woman to lead the
show,” says the Alabama native,
32. When she’s not racing be-
tween galaxies, Martin-Green’s
dashing through her L.A. home
in leopard-print Michael Kors
slippers with her husband (Walk-
ing Dead actor Kenric Green)
and their three-year-old son,
Kenric Justin, aka K2. Tag along!
RISE AND SHINE: “I’m woken
up by the iPhone’s Apex alarm
at 6:30 A.M. I snooze twice in
five-minute increments. My
husband’s snoozing, too.
I can hear his alarm, and he
hears mine. We’re delaying
the inevitable.”
ON THE MOVE: “I take K2 to
day care around 8:30 in my low-
Clockwise from top: Williams + Hirakawa/August Image;
top, white Kenneth Cole slip-on
courtesy of the brands (5); Jan Thijs/CBS Interactive
sneakers. They’re understated
but still fly. I’ll carry a fully
stocked Dune London
leather satchel—and I
would not be Sonequa if
I didn’t forget my phone.”
judge! I use a Philips
Sonicare toothbrush
and a Waterpik flosser.
It shoots out a water
stream, so you don’t have
Suede cross-body bag, DUNE to worry about microtears
LONDON, $99, dunelondon
.com. Calf-hair slide, MICHAEL in your gums from flossing. Then
MICHAEL KORS, $130, I use a metal tongue scraper and
michaelkors.com an alkaline mouthwash.”
QUICK RINSE: “I prefer quick
showers—in and out!—around
four minutes. If I shave my legs
in the morning, it’s a sacrifice,
because I have to double my
STARTING POINTS
shower time. [Laughs] I always
shave with coconut oil or grape-
seed oil. It makes your skin so
soft. You’ll never go back.”
HAIR CARE: “If I’m wearing
a curly ’fro, I’ll put it up into a
‘pineapple’ at night, which is
piling it on top of my head and
wrapping it in a silk scarf. [For
the shower] I’ll just put on a
shower cap, and when I come
out, I tease it down and scrunch
it with warm water.”
Glow Kit in Sun Dipped, ANASTASIA
BEVERLY HILLS, $40,
anastasiabeverlyhills.com. Touche
Éclat, YVES SAINT LAURENT BEAUTÉ,
$42, yslbeautyus.com. Goof Proof Brow
Pencil, BENEFIT COSMETICS, $24,
benefitcosmetics.com
FACE FIRST: “I wash my face
in the shower with Dermalog-
ica’s Dermal Clay Cleanser,
and when I get out, I spritz it
with their Antioxidant Hydra-
mist and a mix of their Oil Free
Matte SPF 30 sunscreen and
Active Moist moisturizer. Then
I have a three-minute face I’ve
perfected: I love the Benefit
Goof Proof Brow Pencil, Sisley
Paris mascara, and a spot of
Yves Saint Laurent Touche Éclat
concealer under my eyes. I use a
little bit of the Anastasia Beverly
Hills Glow Kit to highlight my
cheekbones and the bridge and
tip of my nose, and then I’ll use
a bold Ofra liquid lipstick.”
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STARTING POINTS

Clockwise from left: La

Jolla; Solana Beach’s
Cedros Design District;
a poolside studio at
Rancho Valencia hotel;
Café Gratitude’s
Activated Charcoal Latte

Voyager
French designer Julie de Libran of Sonia Rykiel
revisits the seaside California towns that inspire
her enviable style. By Brianna Kovan

H
ow, exactly, do you fuse
Parisian chic with SoCal
sportif? Enter Julie de
Libran, the artistic director of
Sonia Rykiel. When she was eight
years old, de Libran’s family relo-
cated to San Diego. Now based in
Paris, the designer pays homage new definitions to French words
to her 10 years on the West Coast (see below). But first, she heads

Clockwise from top left: Ivo Roospold/Alamy; Phil Wills/Alamy; courtesy of Rancho Valencia;
such as Golden Goose Deluxe
Brand sneakers and shearling
easygoing, practical vibe.” coats from Yves Salomon.

courtesy of Café Gratitude; courtesy of the brands (3); Zoe Ghertner

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“I try to detox on
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shorts, $720, both, who combats the
SONIA RYKIEL, at
Sonia Rykiel, NYC 12-hour flight’s dry
air with Précieux
Cérat ointment—a moisturiz-
ing blend of rose, apricot, and
passion-fruit oils from the Pari-
sian biochemist-turned-facialist
Joëlle Ciocco. “It’s a really thick
De Libran oil, and I put it on a couple of
times during the flight.”

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TOM FORD
SAINT LAURENT
Silk and silver
smoking
bag, SAINT
LAURENT BY
ANTHONY
VACCARELLO,
$1,190, at Saint
Laurent, NYC

Behind

Mon Guerlain
Florale Eau de
Parfum spray,
GUERLAIN, Painted-satin pump, TOM
$124, at bergdorf FORD, $1,290, tomford.com
goodman.com

Clockwise from top left: Mariano Vivanco; courtesy of the brands (6); Gilles Tapie;
Strass-embellished
satin pump, SAINT
LAURENT BY ANTHONY
VACCARELLO, $1,295, at
Saint Laurent, NYC.
Cotton blazer, ESCADA,
Style of Jolie: Zahara $1,250, at Escada, NYC
Line pink sapphire
courtesy of the brands (2)

and rose gold anklet,

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JEWELS, collection
at select Saks Fifth
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SEE the GLOW.
Body washes that draw out impurities and
draw in hydration for naturally glowing skin.

A cleanser’s just a cleanser. Unless, it’s Olay.

 SMOOTH
ATTITUDE
Water gels, cloud creams, jelly lotions, cooling waters, sorbets, frappés, mousses, and
whips: Welcome to the new generation of luscious, lightweight, and delectable-
sounding moisturizers. But can today’s innovative textures deliver the serious benefits of
yesterday’s rich salves? Gina Way reports on skincare’s dreamy new normal
Edited by EMILY DOUGHERTY, ERIN FLAHERTY & LEAH WYAR Photographs by NICOLAS MOORE
 What happens right after
you open a brand-new
skincare product? If it’s a moisturizer, you touch it, smell it, and experience the texture before slathering it on.
Is it balmy and thick? Creamy like pudding? A milky lotion? And how does it feel on your face?
Is it sticky, goopy, heavy, or greasy? Obviously, our sense of touch provides an essential, reflexive
connection between our skin and the brain—a way of delivering important information like
Ouch, that’s hot! or Yuck, did I just smear lard on my face?
This sensual, tactile experience is much more than a pickiness issue: The feel-good factor can
determine how much of a product you’ll put on, or if you’ll even use enough to reap the ben-
efits. It’s part of the reason so many women skip heavier sunscreen formulas: “People will put a
product on their hand first. If they hate how it feels, they won’t use it,” says Dr. Ellen Marmur,
New York dermatologist and associate clinical professor at The Mount Sinai Hospital. “That
sensory input is the secret to compliance in using a medication or any skincare product and a
huge part of efficacy in treating skin conditions such as acne and rosacea. An elegant formula
improves the patient’s experience so she’ll actually use it.” Applying a product that you love
increases its skincare benefits, simply because you’re putting on enough of it every night.
This fact alone explains why skincare giants from Shiseido to Olay are scrutinizing the latest
studies on touch and its neurophysiological effects, employing neuroscientists in their labs, and
even crowdsourcing data to help develop new product textures meant to enhance the user
experience. Sensory research has suggested that we form confident impressions of products
simply by touching them. Shiseido’s behavioral scientists discovered that when people physically
touch and smell a beauty product, blood flows to the brain and stimulates brain activity. Even
the design of a package can influence our perception of what’s inside. In one study, people said
that water seemed to taste better when it was in a firm bottle, as opposed to a flimsy one. The

PRODUCTS PHOTOGRAPHER: JEFFREY WESTBROOK. STILL LIFE STYLIST: SARAH GUIDO-LAAKSO FOR HALLEY RESOURCES
packaging of Shiseido’s new Essential Energy line was inspired by traditional Japanese raku
pottery—as well as some extensive psychological metrics. The brand’s researchers found that the
unique shape of objects that fit comfortably in your hand, like a handcrafted teabowl, for
instance, brings a feeling of warmth and comfort. And who wouldn’t want what’s inside that jar?
Those associative emotional links between the skin (and the thousands of touch receptors in our
hands) and the brain pack quite a punch.
Consumer research has also gone high-tech. Olay’s online Skin Advisor tool uses technology
rooted in artificial intelligence to analyze your skin. After you’ve uploaded a selfie, your face is
compared to a database of more than 50,000 other faces. An algorithm estimates your skin’s
perceived age, and then the site provides appropriate product recommendations. Skin Advisor also
collects consumer data from more than 2 million people to help drive the invention of game-
changing new formulations. For instance, analysts found that 64 percent of the users preferred a
FROM TOP: OLAY Eyes lightly hydrated skin feel from their moisturizer, as opposed to that of a richer consistency.
Ultimate Eye Cream, Two other important influences driving these trending textures: Millennials and K-beauty. “A lot
$27; DIOR Dior
Prestige La Micro-Huile of Asian moisturizing products tend to be water thin or fluffy light,” says Toronto-based cosmetic
de Rose, $260; OLE chemist Stephen Alain Ko, “perhaps because it can get so humid in South Korea, or because you
HENRIKSEN Nurture
Me Moisturizing can layer more of these on your face in a multiple-step routine. In America, we’re starting to
Crème, $40; PIXI
Skintreats Rose Caviar
become open to more of these innovative moisturizers.” New York–based dermatologist Dr. Joshua
Essence, $24; ERNO Zeichner thinks the under-30 crowd is at the forefront of the movement: “Younger women are
LASZLO Hydra-
Therapy Memory aware of antiaging and want to prevent future wrinkles, but they’re more concerned about clogging
Sleep Mask, $90. For their pores and breaking out with some heavy cream or a sticky sunscreen.” With scales tipping so
information on where
to buy, see Shopping far in the direction of lighter textures, it’s not surprising that suddenly there seems to be no dearth
Directory. of new skincare products that hit a lighter note: Dior has a “sorbet” cream, Julep has a “pressed”
serum, Olay’s new moisturizer is “whipped,” and Tula’s new hydrator is even described as “kefir.”
the WEIGHT is OVER
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7
9
6

Maybe it’s because names like these remind women of another
attractive texture: silk. “We asked multiple focus groups of women in
different countries how they would want their faces to feel after putting
on moisturizer, and the majority chose a particular type of smooth silk
fabric,” explains Frauke Neuser, Ph.D., principal scientist at Olay’s labs in
Cincinnati. They then used a futuristic biosensor device called a Syn-
Touch (which looks and acts like a human fingertip) to evaluate the
tactile properties of the fabric, and, in true Blade Runner fashion,
PRODUCTS PHOTOGRAPHER: JEFFREY WESTBROOK. STILL LIFE STYLIST: SARAH GUIDO-LAAKSO FOR HALLEY RESOURCES
applied their findings in order to help develop the product texture of the
new Olay Whip collection, a line of six gossamer-light moisturizers that
give you that gold standard silky feel and provide serious skincare
benefits at the same time.
That said, this new wave of weightless textures—everything from
bouncy jellies to mousse-y whips—may be light as air, but can they really
be as hydrating and effective as traditionally heavier creams? For years,
we’ve been taught that only a thick cream or ointment can occlude the

1. ERBORIAN Yuza Double Lotion, $36. 2. J.ONE Hana Cream, $50. 3. PAI Rosehip BioRegenerate Oil, $46. 4. HERBIVORE Lapis Balancing Facial Oil, $72. 5. FROM LEFT: OLAY Whips in Luminous, Total
Effects, and Regenerist, $29 each. 6. ALGENIST Genius Liquid Collagen, $115. 7. FROM TOP: ILIA Cucumber Water Stick, $42; MILK MAKEUP Hydrating Oil Stick, $24; MILK MAKEUP Cooling Water
Stick, $24; JULEP Pressed Serum Daily Moisturizer Stick, $36. 8. GIVENCHY Le Soin Noir & Blanc Masque, $300. 9. PETER THOMAS ROTH Water Drench Hyaluronic Cloud Hydra-Gel Eye Patches, $48.
10. FROM TOP: MAY LINDSTROM The Blue Cocoon Beauty Balm Concentrate, $180; TULA Kefir Moisture Repair Pressed Serum, $65; DIOR Hydra Life Fresh Hydration Sorbet Crème, $69.
 SEE what we’ve
WHIPPED UP next...
Shine On
New skincare product
textures have never
been more exciting: This
metallic pearl and
diamond powder mask
is super selfie-ready,
and it leaves your
complexion looking
kirakira+ bright.
I DEW CARE Disco Kitten
Illuminating Diamond
Peel-Off Mask, $23.
 NEW

feel a LIGHT AS AIR

finish in a FLASH
Delightfully whipped for instant absorption.
skin in order to lock in moisture—basically
creating another barrier over the surface with
thick emollients like lanolin or petrolatum. “As
technology and chemistry have evolved, we’re
flipping this concept on its head by developing
formulas that can enhance absorption without
the bulky vehicle,” explains New York–based
dermatologist Dr. Kavita Mariwalla. Ko agrees:
“Breakthrough formulations, like nano- and
microemulsions of retinoids, can break down the
particle sizes of ingredients and use encapsula-
tion techniques that can work even better than a
traditional ointment.” Beauty brands are follow-
ing suit, developing ultralightweight moisturizers
that work as well as an occlusive cream. Instead
of heavy emollients, Peter Thomas Roth Water
Drench Hyaluronic Cloud Cream uses multiple
molecular sizes of hyaluronic acid to better
penetrate the top layers of the skin, as opposed to
sitting on top of it like a raincoat. Tatcha The
Water Cream and Shiseido’s new Essential Energy
Moisturizing Gel Cream encapsulate moisturizing
ingredients in micro-size water balloons that
burst open upon application, flooding the skin
with hydration. Olay used another unique
delivery system to create its airy Whips: Starch-
based polymers act like microscopic sponges in
the emulsion to soak up moisturizing ingredients
like water, niacinamide, and glycerin. When the
mesh-like formula touches your skin, it interacts
with the natural salts on top to release the
encapsulated hydrators. Not to mention that
three out of six of Olay’s Whip moisturizers have
broad-spectrum SPF 25, so now you have no
excuse not to slather it on.
Mission accomplished. The marriage of
science and beauty provides myriad moistur-
izer options that truly deliver the goods, but
lest you think these groundbreaking advances
are making traditional creams a thing of the
past, think again: “Creams aren’t going any-
where,” says Marmur, “because they work so
well, and many women love them. It’s just that
now we have many other sophisticated textures
to choose from—and they’re just as effective.”
Amid such a thrilling array of new and
delicious-sounding airy whips and mousses,
there’s always room for a classic pot de crème.
Just do what feels right.
 Glow
Getters
A light-as-air liquid
moisturizer drenches
skin in a glassy layer
one minute, then
dries to a smooth, velvety
finish the next.
SHISEIDO Waso Fresh
Jelly Lotion, $30.
Dew It
Thanks to the plethora
of skincare updates,
your hydration needs
should be covered
morning and night. And
in between? A face
spray can reinject some
midday moisture.
GLOSSIER Soothing Face Mist
Rosewater Spray, $18.
 NEW

whips in wrinkle-fighting power

WITHOUT HEAVINESS
 1
OLAY Eyes Ultimate
Eye Cream, $27.

SISLEY PARIS Sisleÿa

L’Integral Anti-Age Eye and
Lip Contour Cream, $210.

3
OLAY Eyes Deep Hydrating
Eye Gel, $27.

4
SHIVA ROSE Blue Crystal
Eye Cream, $95.

Visual Aids
Life hack: Discover an eye

PRODUCTS PHOTOGRAPHER: JEFFREY WESTBROOK. STILL LIFE STYLIST: SARAH GUIDO-LAAKSO FOR HALLEY RESOURCES
cream so dreamy you’ll never
forget to apply. Take it to
the next level and use a tool,
like the one above, for
5
a mini nightly massage. SK-II LXP Ultimate Revival
Eye Cream, $195.

Defense Zone
In 2010, I had an experience that changed my life—or, at least, the life
of my skin. I was invited to Canfield Scientific, a state-of-the-art research
facility in New Jersey, to peer into my future via a VISIA-CR device
dubbed the Advanced Aging Simulation Machine, which, using software
based on P&G data, could preview how my skin would age. I was expect-
ing that this high-tech crystal ball would foresee jowls, and cheeks beset
by blotches of hyperpigmentation—essentially a template of how women
in my family tend to manifest signs of advancing years. Instead, to my
surprise and alarm, it was my eyes that showed the most predicted wear
and tear: There was a distinct sag to my lids, and a road map of crinkles
radiated out onto my cheeks—smile lines that were nothing to smile
about. Having never anticipated that crow’s-feet might be a problem, I
hadn’t done much to prevent them. I used moisturizer elsewhere but
didn’t even own an eye cream. Turns out, that wasn’t the wisest move.
Studies have shown that the skin under the eyes loses significantly more
water than other areas of the face. Additionally, having dry skin more
than doubles the rate at which lines will develop, meaning that a 28-year-
old with dry skin will have a 52 percent increase in wrinkles by the time
she’s 36, whereas a woman of the same age with a well-hydrated dermis
will show only a 22 percent increase. From the moment I left Canfield, I
became an eye cream devotee, and I’m happy to report that eight years
later I’m still crow’s-feet-free. My go-to eye serum is as essential as a
morning cup of coffee, and as nonnegotiable at bedtime as having a
pillow. For me, being forewarned meant being forearmed, and, thank-
fully, it wasn’t too late to change my wrinkle destiny—but I’m still not
taking any chances. —April Long
©2018 P&G

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WITHOUT THE WEIGHT
 Power Powder
GENTLE EXFOLIANTS—NO
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EVEN FOR EVERYDAY USE.
FROM TOP: ODACITÉ Green Ceremony
Cleanser, $55; TATCHA Indigo Soothing Rice
Enzyme Powder, $65; RODIN Facial
Cleansing Powder, $45.

Gel-ohh
Clean Sweep
Moisturizing formulas aren’t the only innovations
upping the skincare ante. A slew of new cleansing options—
THIS FACE WASH
TRANSFORMS FROM
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TO A DECADENT OIL
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Fashion Editor:
Daniel Edley.
Hair: Rita
Marmor/See
Management.
Makeup: Frankie
Boyd for Chanel
Les Beiges/
Streeters.
Manicure: Elisa
Ferri for Chanel
Le Vernis/See
Management.
Prop Stylist:
Todd Wiggins.
Models:
Shaughnessy
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Models; Chey
Carty/New York
Models.

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Wash
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whips in lasting radiance

WITHOUT THE SHINE

From “Mise-en-Scène,”
photographed by Meier
and styled by Santisi
The Talent
Meet four intrepid industry veterans behind this issue’s
conceptual shoots and deeply probing pieces.
Thomas Lagrange
Provenance: Périgueux, France. Now: Paris.
Profession: Photographer. This month: Shot
“The Winner Takes It All” (page 240).
Bona fides: Fashion campaigns for Louis
Vuitton and Miu Miu, as well as fragrances
Clockwise from top: Raymond Meier; courtesy of the subjects (2)
for Chloé, Chanel, and Prada. Inspiration:
Mid-twentieth-century French cinema.
Battan
Lagrange
STARTING POINTS
Currently reading: The Delights of Fire: Man,
Hot and Cold in Modern Times, by Olivier
Jandot. Off duty: Baking cakes. Fantasy alt
career: Architect or painter. Dream dinner
guest: Novelist Marcel Proust.
Carrie Battan
Provenance: West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Now: Brooklyn. Profession: Writer. This
month: Penned “Louise Linton Is Super-
Duper Sorry” (page 334). Alma mater:
Tufts University. Bona fides: Newyorker
.com (contributing writer), GQ, Bloomberg
Businessweek, and the New York Times. Early
training: Waitressing at a local Mexican
restaurant in Pennsylvania. Collects: Patent
leather everything. Currently reading:
Careers for Women: A Novel, by Joanna Scott.
Off duty: Boxing at Muhammad Ali’s former
Brooklyn stamping ground, Gleason’s Gym.
Raymond Meier
Provenance: Switzerland. Now: New York.
Profession: Photographer. This month: Shot
“Mise-en-Scène” (page 350) with longtime
collaborator Elissa Santisi (below). Alma
mater: Zurich Art School. Bona fides: Harp-
er’s Bazaar, T: The New York Times Style
Magazine, the New Yorker, and W Magazine.
Inspirations: Abstraction and architecture.
(Check out Meier’s first photography book,
2004’s Louis Kahn Dhaka, which captures
a modernist complex in Bangladesh’s
capital city.) Childhood dream: To become
an astronaut. Breakthrough moment: At 18,
photographing pedestrians in crisp black-
and-white film from a passing motorcycle,
via a mounted camera.
Elissa Santisi
Provenance: Philadelphia. Now: Brooklyn.
Profession: Stylist. This month: Styled
“Mise-en-Scène” (page 350). Bona fides:
Former fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar
and style director at Vogue; and freelance
work for Marc Jacobs, Tiffany & Co.,
and Bottega Veneta. Nickname: “Elise
Navidad,” as per her collegiate daughter.
Winter escape: Harbour Island, Bahamas.
A-plus mentee: Her former assistant Emily
Weiss turned her hit blog Into the Gloss
(which she wrote before work) into the cult
skin-care and makeup line Glossier.
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Hair by Alessandro Rebecchi for Oribe; makeup by Lloyd Simmonds at Agence Carole; casting by Paul Brickman at Zan Casting; model: Blanca

PRESENT
Padilla at Next Models; produced by Marie Fioriti at Onirim and Ale Diaz at Shoot Canarias; fashion assistants: Lotte Elisa and Cris Leon

PERFECT
Clothes may come and go,
but certain looks are forever.
This season, designers like
Michael Kors reboot sporty,
nautical, and boho classics
for a spring aesthetic that’s
both nostalgic and now.
Photographed by Hans Feurer
Styled by Laura Ferrara
Edited by Kyle Anderson

Poplin jacket, MICHAEL

MICHAEL KORS, $225,
michaelkors.com. Nylon
and elastane bodysuit,
VOLCOM, $86. Polyamide
belt bag, EASTPAK, $25.
Sneakers, REEBOK, $85. For
details, see Shopping Guide.

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 Silk shirt,
DSQUARED2, $595,
dsquared2.com

Calfskin handbag, HERMÈS, $13,200,

at Hermès stores nationwide Luggage tag,
MAISON
MARGIELA,
Cotton $195, at Maison
pants, MARC Margiela Leather and nylon
JACOBS, $295, boutiques charm, FENDI, $600,
marcjacobs.com nationwide fendi.com

Resin handbag,
BALENCIAGA,
$5,900, similar
styles at Dover
Street Market
New York

Runway: Imaxtree.com; stills: courtesy of the brands; for details, see Shopping Guide
Polyamide
elastane
Mohair sweater, swimsuit,
SAINT LAURENT & OTHER
BY ANTHONY STORIES, $55,
VACCARELLO, stories.com
$990, at Saint Neoprene whale
Laurent, NYC cosmetic case, TORY
SPORT, $98, at Tory
Sport boutiques
nationwide

Latex, brass, and

acrylic necklace,
ISABEL MARANT,
$1,095, similar
styles at
modaoperandi.com

Sunglasses,
Cotton and leather sandal, ISABEL MONCLER,
MARANT, $750, isabelmarant.com $325, collection at
mrporter.com

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New York
Boston
Dallas
Bal Harbour Shops
Palm Beach
Atlanta
Houston

877 700 1922

Explore the
Akris Boutique at
www.akris.ch
 Cotton top,
NAUTICA, $65,
nautica.com

White gold and diamond

ring, DIOR FINE JEWELRY,
$970, 800-929-DIOR

Brass clutch,
BALENCIAGA, $1,690,
collection at Dover Street
Market New York

Denim culottes, Cotton canvas and leather

MARC JACOBS, handbag, SONIA RYKIEL, $720,
$295, at Marc at Sonia Rykiel, NYC
Jacobs stores
nationwide

Runway: Imaxtree.com; stills: courtesy of the brands; for details, see Shopping Guide
Cotton-blend
peacoat,
Beaded handbag, HERNO, $895,
MARCO DE Steel watch, ROLEX,
at Herno, NYC $18,750, rolex.com
VINCENZO, $1,480,
marcodevincenzo.com
DIOR

Herringbone hat,
RALPH LAUREN
COLLECTION,
$125, ralphlauren.com

Satin sneakers,
ROGER VIVIER,
$775, at Roger
Denim loafer, TOD’S, $595, tods.com Vivier, NYC

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 Body
TRENDS
Opal, tanzanite,
diamond, and gold
pendant necklace,
OPHIUCHUS JEWELS,
ophiuchusjewels.com

Eclectic
Tap into mysticism with

CHLOÉ
Eau de Parfum
Calfskin handbag,
Blanche, 100 ml,
CHLOÉ, $1,650,
ALAÏA PARIS, $150,
collection at Saks
net-a-porter.com
Fifth Avenue stores
nationwide

Cotton crop
top, ZADIG &
VOLTAIRE,
zadig-et-
voltaire.com

Mink vest, YVES

SALOMON, $14,030, at
Yves Salomon, NYC

Suede boot,
SAINT LAURENT
BY ANTHONY
VACCARELLO,
$2,695, at Saint
Laurent, NYC

Runway: Imaxtree.com; stills: courtesy of the brands; for details, see Shopping Guide
Multistone
earrings,
GRAINNE
MORTON, $750,
grainne
morton.co.uk Crystal-
embellished
metal clutch,
JIMMY CHOO,
$3,995,
jimmychoo.com

Leather coat, COACH 1941,

$1,800, coach.com

Tsavorite, sapphire, diamond,

sea urchin fossil, and gold
bracelet, DANIELA VILLEGAS,
202     $7,800, modaoperandi.com
TRENDS

UNDERCOVER
Beaded handbag, MARCO
DE VINCENZO, $1,480,
marcodevincenzo.com

Runway: Imaxtree.com (4); Rosemary’s Baby and Carrie posters: Photofest; remaining
IN CONTEXT
GUCCI

images: courtesy of the designers

This season, horror-movie

CALVIN KLEIN
inspirations stalked the runways
like the villain in a slasher flick.

LOUIS VUITTON
Véronique Hyland plumbs the
depths of the trend.
What was that hanging from the ceiling at
Calvin Klein? A cheerleader’s pom-pom, the
ultimate symbol of American optimism and
pep; dangling alongside it, an ax. Turns out
the Lizzie McGuire–meets–Lizzie Borden de-
cor was part of artist Sterling Ruby’s collab-
oration with designer Raf Simons. It served
as a slightly ominous backdrop to his spring
2018 collection, which, according to his
show notes, was ripped from “the dream fac-

THE CROWN
Carrie might not
have unleashed all
that telekinetic rage
if she’d had an

designed tiara.
Crystal-embellished
metal crown,
GUCCI, $4,000,
gucci.com

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TRENDS

KWAIDAN EDITIONS
MASK OFF
There was even an
echo of supervillain
Jason’s famous
mask on heels at
Calvin Klein.
THRILL
SEEKERS
Watching The Shining on your

Calvin Klein: Imaxtree.com (2); Kwaidan Editions: courtesy of the designer (2); Kwaidan poster: Photofest; Friday the 13th illustration: Mark Welser
first date is quite the way to kick
off a relationship. But that’s what
Léa Dickely and Hung La did.
No surprise that the two went on
to (a) get married and (b) start a
fashion line, Kwaidan Editions,
named after the ’60s Japanese
horror movie Kwaidan. While
their line isn’t explicitly horror-
driven, the Balenciaga alums
have imbued a kind of subtle
menace into their two-seasons-
old label, showing looks like
oil-slick trench coats and dark
wallpaper prints for spring.

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E S C A D A . CO M
fabianafilippi.com
 ACCESSORIES
Set design by Megan Caponetto; for details, see Shopping Guide

DREAM WEAVERS
Caught in the crosshairs between love and lust: Intricately
woven leather looks—from bags to boots—all expertly
braided, twisted, and fringed for maximum impact.
Photographed by Mitchell Feinberg Edited by Kyle Anderson

Python and leather handbag, TOD’S, $2,145, tods.com

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210
Calfskin handbag,
BOTTEGA VENETA,
$5,500, call 800-845-6790
Set design by Megan Caponetto; for details, see Shopping Guide
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Set design by Megan Caponetto; for details, see Shopping Guide

Snakeskin and raffia

fringe handbag, FENDI,
$3,300, fendi.com
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Leather sandal,

nationwide
at Hermès stores
HERMÈS, $2,475,
Set design by Megan Caponetto; for details, see Shopping Guide
ACCESSORIES

Set design by Megan Caponetto; for details, see Shopping Guide

Woven-leather ankle boot,

SALVATORE FERRAGAMO,
at Salvatore Ferragamo
boutiques nationwide

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Tradition since 1774.
birkenstock.com
ACCESSORIES

Set design by Megan Caponetto; for details, see Shopping Guide

Woven-leather and brass

handbag, LOEWE, $4,750,
collection at Barneys New York

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 Fastest digital motor.
Designed for fast drying.
dyson.com/hairdryer
 Leather boot, CHLOÉ,
ACCESSORIES
$2,500, collection
at Neiman Marcus
stores nationwide

Set design by Megan Caponetto; for details, see Shopping Guide

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Set design by Megan Caponetto; for details, see Shopping Guide

Woven-leather bucket
bag, MICHAEL KORS
COLLECTION, $990,
at select Michael Kors
stores nationwide

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ACCESSORIES

THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL

With the Winter Olympics upon us, we turn our attention to the ice—
as in megawatt diamond cuffs and cocktail rings, dazzling collar necklaces,
and sporty-luxe watches. Gold is great; platinum, even better.
Photographed by Thomas Lagrange
Jewelry styled by Emily Minchella Wardrobe styled by Jeanne Créhange

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KARLIE KLOSS
JASON WU

ATELIERSWAROVSKI.COM
ACCESSORIES

Previous page: Diamond necklace, MESSIKA PARIS. From top left: Diamond bracelets (on both arms), both, HARRY WINSTON.
Ceramic watch, HUBLOT. Diamond bangle, CHOPARD. Pink diamond ring, REPOSSI. Ring, DJULA. Ring, HRH JEWELS.
From top right: Arm cuff, NUUN. Diamond and steel watch, AUDEMARS PIGUET. Diamond ring, sapphire ring, both, CARTIER.
Jacket, FENTY PUMA BY RIHANNA. Bodysuit, HILFIGER COLLECTION.

This page: Ruby and diamond necklace, DE GRISOGONO. From top right: Bangles, both, ELSA PERETTI FOR TIFFANY & CO.
Diamond bracelet, VAN CLEEF & ARPELS. Watch, JACOB & CO. Rings, both, POMELLATO. Jacket, NIKE. Cap, BAYSIDE.

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Diamond and onyx necklace, tourmaline bracelet (bottom wrist), both, LOUIS VUITTON. From top left:
Diamond bracelet, HERMÈS. Rings, both, VHERNIER. From top right: Yellow and orange diamond bracelet,
DIOR FINE JEWELRY. Watch, ROLEX. Jumpsuit, visor, both, DIOR.

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ACCESSORIES

Diamond necklace, DE BEERS. From top left: Darkened-silver and pink sapphire bracelet, DIOR FINE JEWELRY. Steel and gold watch,
PATEK PHILIPPE. Chain bracelet, DAVID YURMAN. Diamond ring, PIAGET. Dumbbell, CHANEL. From top right: Diamonde bracelet,
BUCCELLATI. Diamond rings, both, DJULA. Swimsuit, ARAKS. Shorts, JUICY COUTURE. Stylist’s own wristband.

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These five pages: Makeup by Constance Haond; manicure by Typhaine Kersual at Artistunit; model: Deila at Girl Mgmt; set design by Claude Neron
at Rose Paris; produced by TotalWorld; special thanks to Maison Leconte Paris for trophies; for details, see Shopping Guide

Diamond necklace, BULGARI. From top left: Diamond bracelet, HRH JEWELS. Diamond and white gold watch, RICHARD MILLE.
Diamond rings, both, VHERNIER. From top right: Diamond bracelet, VAN CLEEF & ARPELS. Diamond bracelet, MESSIKA PARIS.
Tanzanite and rubellite ring, CHOPARD. Emerald ring, DAVID MORRIS. Jacket, leggings, both, CHANEL.

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THE FLIP SIDE

Turned inside out on the
hypertrendy streets of Tokyo,
the preppy classic Burberry trench
reaches peak streetwear status.

Photographed by Julien Boudet

Styled by Vanille Verloës

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ELLE STYLE

F
rench fashion photographer Julien
Boudet was walking through
Tokyo when a store display of
Burberry coats styled inside out caught
his eye. With their tartan lining exposed,
the conservative classics became bold
streetwear pieces. On impulse, he bought
the outerwear to shoot on an array of his
friends and acquaintances, seen here. It’s
a look that’s in keeping with spring’s logo
mania. The iconic check is the calling
card of the storied British luxury house,
and its resurgence a natural response
to fashion tribes eager to telegraph
their brand loyalty. “People born in
the ’00s are just discovering it,” Boudet
says of the famous pattern, noting that
what makes it cool is that the coats are
worn incorrectly: proof that in style,
sometimes the wrong way is just right.

Models: Yoko Lee, Cumuli Nakada, Minori Nakada, Satsuki, and Ura

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FASHION NEWS

HOUSE
PROUD
Photographed by  Adrian Gaut
Styled by  Samira Nasr

Four decades after Bottega

Veneta opened its first
international outpost
on Madison Avenue
(attracting such boldface
names as Andy Warhol
and Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis), creative director
Tomas Maier stages a
triumphant return with a
highly anticipated show
at New York Fashion
Week and a molto-chic
megaboutique—the
brand’s largest in the
world. By Naomi Rougeau

Left: Dress, $5,300,

earrings, $750,
handbag, $14,000,
pumps, $990.
Center: Dress,
earrings, $750,
handbag, $7,900,
pumps, $1,200.
Right: Jacket, $3,300,
top, $1,290, skirt,
$2,600, necklace,
$4,600, pumps,
$1,250. All, BOTTEGA
VENETA, call 800-845-
6790. For details, see
Shopping Guide.

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FASHION NEWS
Left: Belted dress,
$6,200, necklace,
$3,950, handbag,
$3,500, pumps, $990.
Right: Jacket, $2,700,
skirt, $3,900, earrings,
$750, belt, $3,000.
Below: “Icons of
NY” Knot clutch,
$2,800. All, BOTTEGA
VENETA, call 800-
845-6790. For details,
see Shopping Guide.

I
’ve always been a New York addict, in a way,” Tomas Maier
says by phone from his Manhattan office. “In New York, you are
literally in architecture. Right now I’m looking at the IBM building by
Edward Larrabee Barnes—how it reflects the clouds. It’s fascinating.”
The German-born designer owes much of his success to his exacting
eye for detail. (He famously dropped the h in his first name to achieve
better symmetry.) As creative director of Bottega Veneta—the Italian
label known for its high-end intrecciato leather goods—he painstak-
ingly oversees everything from the brand’s signature Cabat totes,
handwoven by two artisans over a 40-hour period, to a line of subtly
luxe furniture and home accessories. His latest endeavor: merging
three landmarked nineteenth-century townhomes on New York’s
Upper East Side that will showcase the complete range of Bottega
Veneta products.
Set to open this month, the 15,000-square-foot, five-floor space
at 740 Madison Avenue took nearly five years to complete. Maier,
who first visited New York in 1979, maintains a pied-à-terre not far
from the new Maison, as it’s being billed (his primary residence is in
Palm Beach). “Because they were landmarked, all three townhouses
had to be taken down from the inside. We kept the exterior facades,
which meant we had to maintain the window openings as they
were. That was tricky. For retail, you need daylight. Most stores have
glass fronts.” He says the team found new ways to flood the space
with natural light. Intensifying its brightness will be steel walls and
shimmering silver chain curtains. Maier is particularly proud of the
fourth floor. “I refer to it as ‘the apartment.’ It’s furnished as if it were
manicure by Mei Kawajiri at the Society Management; casting by Paul Brickman at Zan Casting; models: Nikita at Ford Models, Giedre Seks at IMG
On these three pages: Hair by Brian Buenaventura at Management + Artists for Cutler; makeup by Asami Matsuda at Artlist New York for La Prairie;
Models, and Katrin Zakharova at the Society Management; produced by Una Simone Harris; fashion assistant: Yashua Simmons
a private home, all in Bottega furniture. I was inspired by the boats
surrounding Manhattan, so you have those grays and creams—a
palette I’ve never used before.”
Also unique to the Maison: a 33-piece, Big Apple–centric capsule
collection of bags and small leather goods called “Icons of NY.”
A woven pouch accented with an abstract subway map begs the
question, Does Maier actually take mass transit? “It’s the fastest way
downtown,” he asserts, though he admits he prefers walking. “In a
car, I don’t see anything. It’s important to see people and buildings,
to experience the cobblestones under your feet.” After 16 years with
the brand, it’s how the 60-year-old stays inspired. He says that the
reflective embellishments in his spring collection (photographed
here in the unfinished flagship) are a nod to NYC’s skyscrapers. Fall
2018 will presumably be even more of a love letter to the city, when,
for the first time ever, Bottega Veneta decamps from Milan to stage
its runway show at New York Fashion Week. While details are still un-
der wraps, the event is sure to be one of the most sought-after tickets.
And for good reason. “Obviously, I am going to knock myself out to
make it special,” Maier says. “It’s something that’s never been done.”
Start spreading the news.

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Left: Coat, $11,300, earrings,
$750, belt, $950, handbag,
$5,500, pumps, $990.
Center: Dress, $11,400,
handbag, $5,500, pumps, $1,250.
Right: Top, $890, skirt, $3,900,
necklace, $4,600, handbag,
$4,800, pumps, $1,200. All,
BOTTEGA VENETA, call 800-
845-6790. For details, see
Shopping Guide.
FASHION NEWS

PRISCAVERA
Designer: Prisca Vera
Franchetti
Hails from: Rome
The backstory: Upon grad-
uating from Barcelona’s
Instituto Europeo di Design, Franchetti
moved to New York, where she landed a gig
as creative director on a series of short films
by Isabella Rossellini. She later worked at
Zac Posen. The look: Relaxed yet elegant sep-
arates in ultrabright (think chartreuse and
tangerine) colorways; ’90s party girl–inspired
slipdresses reminiscent of Kate Moss during
the Johnny Depp years. Find it at: Maryam
Nassir Zadeh and priscavera.com.

Priscavera

Rojas

The New
Romantics
Get to know the designers imbuing spring fashion with
effortless, unabashed femininity. By Naomi Rougeau

Priscavera portrait: Getty Images; remaining images: courtesy of the designers

Rojas ALEJANDRA
ALONSO ROJAS
Designer: Alejandra
Alonso Rojas
Hails from: Madrid
The backstory: Alonso
Rojas first picked up knitting at the age of
four. Last year, she tied with Claudia Li for
Fashion Group International’s Rising Star
Award for womenswear. The look: Cashmere
knits for day, silk teadresses, and flamenco
fringe and ornate embroidery that nod
to her Spanish heritage. Find it at: Moda
Operandi and alejandraalonsorojas.com.
For an inside look at how Alejandra
preps for New York Fashion Week,
see the following page.

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Style
Movement
PRESENTED BY TRESEMMÉ

Fashion designer Alejandra Alonso Rojas lives her

life like most modern women—in a state of perpetual
motion. For Alejandra, designing each collection
requires her to always be on-the-go, especially
during New York Fashion Week. That’s what it takes
to bring her ultra-feminine designs—and fashion
show—to life.

See how she keeps it all in place with help from

TRESemme® styling products, including the
revolutionary NEW Compressed Micro-Mist –
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 Fashion Week, Moment by Moment
Alejandra brings us behind-the-scenes as she takes on New York Fashion Week.

MORNING STRETCH
“It’s key to keep a clear mind during Fashion
Week. As a student of both yoga and Pilates,
I make sure to start off every morning with a
bit of self-care. With my non-stop schedule,
hair that is both soft and flexible is a must.”

Pulled-back braids are perfect for an A.M.

workout. They keep your hair out of your
face, look cute, and set you up with subtle
waves for the rest of the day.

HAIR IN MOTION: Prep damp hair with

TRESemmé Extra Hold Mousse (applying
from root to tip) and blow dry hair. Center-
part your hair and gather it just behind your
ears to make a low pony. Make a french braid
with the hair on each side of the center part,
stopping just above the low pony tail.
Continue with a traditional braid until you
have reached the ends and secure with an
elastic. Wrap the braid around the base of
the low pony and pin in place. Then, use
New Compressed Micro-Mist Hold Level 4
for a perfect finish.

TIP: Smooth flyaways with a touch of

TRESemmé Ultra Firm Gel.
–TRESemmé Stylist, Tyler Laswell

“Flowers are such a crucial component of

my Fashion Week presentations. Of the
millions of tasks to do, I absolutely love
making my own floral arrangements. I am
always out and about, sourcing flowers
from all over the city. I even gift small
bouquets to friends as tokens of gratitude
for their endless support.”

IT’S ALL IN THE DETAILS

“Amidst the non-stop motion of Fashion Week,
the one thing that cannot be overlooked are the
details. Last minute fittings allow me to fine-
tune each piece and perfect the nuances.”

A half-up, half-down style is ideal for moments

when you need to roll up your sleeves but still
want to look chic.

HAIR IN MOTION: Freshen up your roots with

TRESemmé Fresh Start Dry Shampoo. Then,
starting from the crown begin a fishtail braid
making sure to incorporate all of the hair above
your ears and secure with an elastic; creating a
half up half down style. To up the romance, use
a curling iron to touch up your loose waves and
spray with New Compressed Micro-Mist Hold
Level 1.

TIP: For perfectly undone waves, set your

curling iron’s temperature to medium. Cooler
temps mean looser curls. –TRESemmé Stylist,
Tyler Laswell
 NIGHT OUT
“New York Fashion Week is known for its legendary
celebrations. Every evening, there’s a dinner, a party, or
a can’t-miss event and it’s important to look your best.
Photographers are everywhere and you never know who
you’ll run into.”

Like a red lip, a deep side part adds instant drama and
has a night out written all over it.

HAIR IN MOTION: Freshen up your roots with

TRESemmé Fresh Start Dry Shampoo and use a curling
iron to touch up your waves. Then, create a deep side
part sweeping the less-voluminous side behind your ear
and secure with a small gold hair accessory. (Make sure
it’s snug!) Finish it off with New Compressed Micro-
Mist Hold Level 2 to keep the hair in place.

TIP: For natural-looking waves, alternate the way you

wrap your hair around the curling iron. Wrap one
section frontward, the next section backward.
–TRESemmé Stylist, Tyler Laswell

AFTERNOON OFF SITE

“Getting out of my studio is essential for inspiration.
I’m all about taking meetings with my PR and
production teams at neighborhood cafes and
restaurants. Plus, the city is always buzzing and full
of energy during Fashion Week.”

This Spring, fashion is luxe and feminine and lush

waves are the perfect complement.

HAIR IN MOTION: To keep waves looking polished,

apply TRESemmé Extra Hold Mousse to damp hair
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Smooth Shine Serum and mist with New Compressed
Micro-Mist Hold Level 3 for a glam finish.

TIP: To help protect your hair from the stresses of

styling, use TRESemmé Repair & Protect 7 Pre-
Styling Mist. –TRESemmé Stylist, Tyler Laswell

For hair that moves with you, try NEW Compressed

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FASHION WEEK HAIRSTYLES.

Brock Collection
CAROLINE CONSTAS
Brock Collection portrait: Getty Images; remaining
Designer: Caroline Constas
Hails from: Montreal
The backstory: Constas
images: courtesy of the designers
majored in psychology at
Northeastern before aban-
doning the premed track for fashion design at
Parsons. The look: Easy-to-wear, off-the-
shoulder poplin blouses; tiered mididresses;
and a new line of swimwear inspired by her
childhood summers in Greece. Find it at:
Bergdorf Goodman and carolineconstas.com.
FASHION NEWS
BROCK COLLECTION
Designers: Laura Vassar and
Kristopher Brock
Hail from: Newport Beach,
California; and Corpus
Christi, Texas
The backstory: Partners not only in design but
in life, Vassar and Brock met at Parsons and
tied the knot in 2014. They now live in
Newport Beach. The look: Expertly tailored ro-
mantic dresses and separates, from a covetable
chintz corsetdress (as seen on Margot Robbie) to
high-waisted jeans (on Miranda Kerr). Find it at:
Barneys New York and brock-collection.com.
Markarian
MARKARIAN
Designer: Alexandra
O’Neill
Hails from: Denver
Constas The backstory: O’Neill
eschewed design school,
having learned all the sewing skills she
needed from her grandmother when she
was a child. A lover of NASA, she named
her label after the term for a particularly
bright class of galaxies. The look: Glamorous
yet relaxed evening dresses with forgiving
silhouettes. Think billowy, hand-beaded
(and Emily Ratajkowski–approved) gowns
featuring bows and cutouts. Find it at: Moda
Operandi and markarian-nyc.com.
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FASHION NEWS
Key Players
Nike unveils a capsule sneaker collection just for
women—created by a cadre of all-female designers.
By Véronique Hyland
T
he desire for a cool pair of kicks isn’t gender exclusive, contrary
to what male-dominated sneaker culture might lead you to
believe. Yet female sneakerheads traditionally haven’t had as
many options as men do. Nike is on a mission to change all that:
Last year, the brand tapped the International Girl Crew—a group
of designers and influencers that includes model Paloma Elsesser
and WAH Nails founder Sharmadean Reid—to reenvision the com-
pany’s retro Cortez style. The shoe went on sale in August and was
available in three color options.
Now an all-female team of 14 designers, hailing from nine differ-
ent countries, has created the 1 Reimagined lineup. The collection—
10 variations on Nike’s classic Air Force 1 and Air Jordan silhouettes—
features high-fashion details, like corset lacing and velvet lining.
All 10 come in a proprietary off-white shade to emphasize the design
elements. For Julie Igarashi, vice president and creative director of
Nike Women, the question was “How do you take these icons within
sneaker culture and reimagine them for a style chameleon?” She pic-
tures the customer as a Fashion Week denizen, though the styles work
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From left: Nike design team members Chiyo
Takahashi, Kara Nykreim, Mags Disington,
Jackie Schoeffel, Shamees Aden, Maria Vu,
Georgina James, Melusine Dieudonné, Louisa
Page, Jesi Small, and Marie Crow; foreground:
WNBA player Kelsey Plum. The 1 Reimagined
collection is available at nike.com.
just as well for WNBA star Kelsey Plum (seen here with some of the
designers). “We obsess over the performance needs of the athlete,”
Igarashi says, “whether that’s someone playing on the NBA court or
somebody who is on her feet for 10 hours on end.”
Ailsa Hopper Court; produced by Kristin Loye at Resin Projects)
Curtis Buchanan (styled by Tasha Green; hair and makeup by
Choosing London as their HQ, the women had five short weeks
to complete the project. “We bonded pretty quickly,” says Georgina
James, Nike’s senior creative director of women’s footwear. “We
created a set of rules to work by: ‘Stay chill; be honest; leave your egos
at the door; have fun.’ ” (Solid tenets for any workplace.) Though the
process was lightning fast, James notes, “That didn’t mean working
24/7.” They people-watched for inspiration, explored the city’s gal-
leries, and bonded over dinner, wine, and pedicures in their off-hours.
The crew has been in an ongoing group text ever since.
True to their on-court origins, the shoes are even better in motion,
says Nike’s materials design director, Marie Crow. She points to the
backless Lover AF1 style as an example: “Underneath the perfora-
tion, there’s a metallic layer. And when you move, you see a spark.”
Jumpman? More like Jumpwoman.
 SHOPS
Courtesy of the designer; for details, see Shopping Guide

Strong-Arm Tactics
Spring dressing is off to a powerful start. Leading the charge:
a not-so-sweet take on romance, updated army fatigues,
and a statement bag that refuses to be ignored.
Edited by Kyle Anderson

Leather handbag, DOLCE & GABBANA, $1,195, at select Dolce & Gabbana boutiques nationwide

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SHOPS
Viscose and silk
blouse, ALICE +
Polyurethane OLIVIA BY STACEY
and rubber pump, BENDET, $295,
ALDO, $100, aliceandolivia.com
aldoshoes.com

Leather handbag, PINKO,

$465, pinko.com

Belted leather shorts,

Silk top, JOHANNA PHILOSOPHY DI
ORTIZ, $1,150, LORENZO SERAFINI,
collection at $650, collection at
Bergdorf Goodman, Leather skirt, Barneys New York
NYC MAJE, $375,
maje.com
Crystal-embellished
leather sandal,
SERGIO ROSSI, $1,195,

Tough sergiorossi.com

Sheer turtleneck, ANOUKI,

$305, similar styles at
modaoperandi.com
Love Silver and black
pearl ring, OFFICINA
BERNARDI, $145,
officinabernardi.com

match made in punk heaven.

Leather handbag, MIU MIU, Viscose-blend shirt,

$1,230, miumiu.com H&M STUDIO, $50,
hm.com

Black diamond
earrings, EFFY
JEWELRY, $630,
effyjewelry.com

Lace-up shorts, GUESS,

$79, guess.com

Courtesy of the designers; for details, see Shopping Guide

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Wool skirt, THE

KOOPLES, $250, at The
Kooples, NYC

Embellished
pendant, ELÉ
KARELA,
elekarela.com Crystal bead–
GIVENCHY

embroidered handbag,
Leather ankle boot, MUA MUA DOLLS,
CHLOÉ, $1,390, $435, similar styles at
chloe.com modaoperandi.com

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’n
Whiff

No parabens.
No gluten.
No dyes.
No mineral oil.

Yes to an
addictive scent.
LET LIFE IN.

©2018 P&G
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LOEWE
Ceramic and
gold fish charm
necklace, MONICA
RICH KOSANN,
$1,450, monicarich
kosann.com

Diamond and
gold watch,
MICHELE
WATCHES,
$1,595,
michele.com

Gold and
diamond ring,
HEARTS ON FIRE, Nylon twill
heartsonfire.com trench coat,
KENNETH
COLE, $179, at
Kenneth Cole,
NYC
Gabardine clutch,
SAINT LAURENT
BY ANTHONY
Stretch-silk dress, VACCARELLO, $550, at
MILLY, $595, milly.com Saint Laurent, NYC

Diamond and
gold earrings,
FOREVERMARK
X JADE TRAU,
$2,100,
forevermark.com
Leather handbag,
Leather ankle FURLA, $448, furla.com
boot, BALLY, $750,
at Bally, NYC
Billowing fits and soft fabrics
put a distinctly off-duty spin
on military-grade greens.
Cotton-blend
jacket, SIMPLY
Gold and VERA VERA
onyx earrings, WANG, $98,
BUCCELLATI, collection at
buccellati.com Leather mule, NINE WEST,
kohls.com $109, ninewest.com

Milly dress: Richard Majchrzak/Studio D (styled by Anita Salerno for R.J. Bennett Represents);
Cotton pants,
RAG & BONE, $450,

remaining images: courtesy of the designers; for details, see Shopping Guide
rag-bone.com
SAINT LAURENT

Gold and diamond

bangle, SIMON G.
JEWELRY, $1,540,
simongjewelry.com
Leather handbag,
MCM, $1,125,
mcmworldwide.com
VALENTINO

Leather slide, STUART WEITZMAN, $455,

stuartweitzman.com

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BELL-SLEEVE
TOP, Orig. $40;
JACQUARD
ANKLE PANT,
Orig. $44.
Opposite page:
FIT & FLARE
MIDI DRESS,
Orig. $60.
Styles may vary
by store.

Shop the ELLE™

Contemporary
Collection at
Kohls.com/ELLE
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SHOPS

LOUIS VUITTON
Jeans, LUCKY BRAND,
$99, luckybrand.com
Jeans, AG, $188,
agjeans.com

Stud-embellished
stretch-cotton jacket,
VERSACE, versace.com
Leather jacket,
LONGCHAMP,
$1,640, at Longchamp
boutiques nationwide

Calfskin sneaker, SANTONI,

Leather sneaker, GOLDEN $540, santonishoes.com
GOOSE DELUXE BRAND, $495,
goldengoosedeluxebrand.com

Jeans,
SANDRO,
$250, at
Sandro, NYC

Embellished jeans,
MARCIANO, $168,
Embellished-leather Lambskin jacket, marciano.com
jacket, ELIE SAAB, KATE SPADE
similar styles at NEW YORK, $998,
modaoperandi.com katespade.com

Good Sport
Leather sneaker, MARC FISHER LTD,
Tough black leather shows its softer side when

Courtesy of the designers; for details, see Shopping Guide

Leather sneaker, ADIDAS BY RAF
$140, marcfisherfootwear.com
paired with preppy whites and sneakers. SIMONS, $390, adidasx.com

WEAR IT WITH
Gold-embellished
Leather bucket suede clutch, GIUSEPPE
bag, MICHAEL ZANOTTI, $1,195,
MICHAEL giuseppezanotti.com
KORS, $398,
michaelkors.com

Gold pendant
Diamond and white necklace, ELSA
Gold, silver, and yellow gold PERETTI FOR
diamond, and onyx hoop earrings, TIFFANY & CO.,
ring, ELIE TOP, ROBERTO $2,850, tiffany.com
$3,200, collection at COIN, $2,400,
Dover Street Market robertocoin.com
New York

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SHOPS
Linen- and cotton- Pink gold and
blend trench diamond earrings,
coat, ALENA MESSIKA PARIS,
AKHMADULLINA, $1,850, messika.com
$1,515, similar styles at
modaoperandi.com

Rose gold and

pavé diamond
Leather pants, pendant
MARISSA WEBB, necklace,
$700, similar styles at TACORI, $1,290,
modaoperandi.com tacori.com

Mother-of-pearl,
diamond, steel, and
rose gold watch,
BULGARI, bulgari.com

Large snakeskin book

clutch, small leather
book clutch, $2,050,
book strap, $270,

CÉLINE
all, JIL SANDER,
jilsander.com

Cotton trench coat,

ELLERY, $1,995,
Cotton trench coat,
BURBERRY, $2,195,
burberry.com
Dig the
Trench
ellery.com

Choose from two sides of the

Leather oxford, FABIANA FILIPPI,
$830, fabianafilippi.com

Viscose trench coat,

DALOOD, $925,
similar styles at
Gabardine trench modaoperandi.com
coat, HUISHAN
ZHANG, $1,920,
similar styles at
modaoperandi.com

Leather handbag, LOUIS

VUITTON, at select Louis
Vuitton stores nationwide

Leather ankle

Courtesy of the designers; for details, see Shopping Guide

boot, STUART
WEITZMAN,
$655, stuart
weitzman.com

Pink gold, quartz,

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

and diamond
ring, DIOR FINE
JEWELRY, call
800-929-DIOR

Linen trench coat,

MARCH11, $1,400,
Silk and linen dress,
march11.us
ZIMMERMANN, $2,350,
zimmermannwear.com

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 BEAUTY

Backstage at
Byblos spring 2018,
where makeup
artist Terry Barber
applied neon pink
to lids in paint-
brush-like strokes

(RE)THINK PINK
…and lavender and mint green and powder blue. The season’s most
Imaxtree.com

arresting makeup comes in a confectionery-worthy spectrum of pastel

shades. But this time, there’s nothing sweet about it. By April Long
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B
lame mermaid hair, unicorn lattes,
the ubiquity of millennial pink, or
maybe just the fact that we’re all
ready for a kaleidoscopic blast of
spring, but there’s something undeniably
now about a pastel makeup palette—espe-
cially when punched up to primary-color
intensity. From robin’s-egg-blue lids at
Missoni to lilac liner flicks at Oscar de la
Renta to shimmery, peony-hued cheeks
at Valentino, the season’s runways pulsed
with Easter-candy shades that read more
punk rock than Disney princess. “We’ve
been inundated on Instagram with dark,
smoky eyes and structured eyebrows for
so long that pastel makeup now feels really
fresh and optimistic,” says Dior makeup
artist Daniel Martin. “Pairing an opaque,
monochromatic pastel eye with radiant,
Missoni Anteprima
dewy skin just looks so cool.” A far cry from
the sheer blues and greens of the disco era
and the garish matte purples and pinks of
the 1980s, new-school pastel pigments are
both easier to work with and more flatter-
ing. “There was a time when a lot of people
felt like they couldn’t use pastel makeup
because their skin was too dark or it looked
too ashy or flat, but thanks to new technolo-
gies, the shades have a lot more dimension,”
Martin says. “Salmon pink is beautiful on a
lot of skin tones, because it’s not too orange
and not too pink. Yellow can be surprisingly

Clockwise from bottom left: Greg Kessler/KesslerStudio; GoRunway.com; Matteo Scarpellini/Imaxtree.com

forgiving. And blue—as long as it’s not cold,
but more of a Tiffany blue—is gorgeous on
almost everyone.”

Valentino
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STILA Shimmer & Glow Liquid
Eye Shadow in Freedom (1),
$24, imparts a glitter-free
pearlescence to lids. To offset
colorful eye makeup, try hydrating
DIOR Addict Lip Glow in Ultra-Pink
(2), $34, a subtle flush that adjusts
FORD Cream Color for Eyes in
Siren Blue (3), $46, can be swept
on lightly for a sheer wash of color
or layered for maximum metallic
impact. Unbudgeable MAKE UP
FOR EVER Aqua XL Eye Pencil in
Matte Pastel Purple (4), $21, glides
on like a gel. Apply the shimmery
shades in the NARS Danger
Control Eyeshadow Palette (5),
$49, dry for a soft, velvety finish,
or paint them on with a wet brush
for an intense holographic effect.

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Bottega
Veneta

Best in Show
From the perfect red lip to the wildest Ziggy Stardust
Balmain

eye, the spring 2018 runways offer inspiration

both tried-and-true and experimentally intrepid.

Clockwise from top: Jason Lloyd-Evans; GoRunway.com; Jason Lloyd-Evans

By Cotton Codinha

EASY RIDER Elie

Judging by the parade of long, loose styles Saab
at Elie Saab, Bottega Veneta, Oscar de la
Renta, and Simone Rocha, overcomplicated
hair is over. The aesthetic: soft, high-shine
’70s glamour. To achieve the deep side-
parted, effortless effect at Balmain (far
right), Sam McKnight targeted strands
with a dryer and round, soft-bristled brush.
He added waves with a 1.25-inch wand,
then combed through with a spritz of hair
spray for what he calls “the ultimate
healthy look.”

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ULTRA MARINE
From a shaggy cobalt ’do at Gucci to
Smurf-y side bangs at Fendi, blue an-
nounced itself as the hair hue du jour,
while sleek styling and layered cuts
gave the rebel shade a sophisticated
feel. To duplicate the petrol-inspired
teal McKnight dreamed up for Fendi
(below), he suggests cutting neon-green
Helmut Lang
and blue dye with a touch of gray or black
(just a few drops in water) to tone down
brightness. Perhaps more important than
getting the color just so? Swagger.

While the models

at Fendi sported
tinted hairpieces,
temporary L’Oréal
Paris Colorista
Spray ($10)
provides a quick
fix for anyone
eager to test-drive
a new shade.
Ready to commit?
Paramore rocker
Hayley Williams’s
company Good-
DYEYoung offers
a spectrum of
semipermanent
options (shown in
Narwhal, $14). Max Mara

CARDINAL RULES
Fendi The ubiquity of crimson mouths has
established red as a new neutral, but
backstage ingenuity also deserves some
credit. When the perfect red wasn’t
available in a single tube, makeup art-
ists mixed and layered unique combi-
nations to flatter every skin tone—from
blood-orange tints at Max Mara to
brilliant vermilion at Blumarine. gradient effect.

ALL Rochas

TIED UP
At Rochas, Anthony Turner
humbled anyone with
a topknot habit with his
elevated take on a messy
bun. The stylist prepped hair
with a dusting of L’Oréal
Professionnel Tecni.Art True
Grip powder ($20), then
gathered a ponytail at the
nape and looped it into an
S shape, “like a squashed
little bow,” before tying
it in the center with ornate wisps, treat hair with a heat
protectant (try Kérastase
strips of embroidered L’Incroyable Blowdry, $40)
fabric. To finish, he tucked and smooth with a round
bobby pins underneath boar-bristle brush, like
for extra security. R+Co’s ($80).

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Philipp Plein Jour/Né Jeremy Scott

FLASH FORWARD
From a singular rhinestone beauty mark at Givenchy to a full-blown
sparkly disco handprint across a model’s face at Vivienne West-
wood, glitter ran the gamut between coy restraint and enthusiastic
abandon. Going minimalist for Jeremy Scott (two words not
frequently linked), makeup artist Kabuki affixed three crystals of
ascending size (the smallest in the inner corner, the largest at the far
lash) in complementary colors to the models’ skin tone. At Philipp have good old masking tape on hand to pick up the fallout.”

MOONAGE DAYDREAM
For a vibrant alternative to the typical
SUPERSIZE ME smoky eye, meet the opaque color-blocked
lid. At Marni, Pat McGrath layered navy
cream shadow with matching glitter
powder from her eponymous collection.
For House of Holland, Ciara O’Shea drew
lid-sweeping wings with pleasantly greasy
sherbet-colored liner pens.

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The next step up from a killer lipstick? To re-create Romero

Face jewelry. To keep makeup from Jennings’s zigzag of with glitter (try M.A.C
competing with a strong accessory game, like color at Talbot Runhof, 3D Silver, $22), then
dip a brush in bright concentrate mascara
the naths and chains seen at Naeem Khan,
cyan pigment, like (we love Maybelline
Maybelline New York’s Erin Parsons suggests Nars Eye Paint in Great Lash, $6) in
strong, classic makeup “to complement rather Solomon Islands ($26), the center of the bot-
than overpower” and prevent the eye from and draw three lines tom lashes “for a doll- Talbot Runhof
staying locked on the bling. of ascending length like effect.”

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Social Studies
Justine Marjan, the woman behind the
most popular Instagram hair, spills her glam
checklist. By Cotton Codinha
W
hat says modern
“La-La Land” more
than the cascading
mane of a Kardashian? Which
is why stylist Justine Marjan,
coiffeur to the famous sisters,
finds herself at the epicenter of
a cultural hair moment. After
training under Ouai founder
Jen Atkin, Marjan soon added
influencer mainstays like Olivia
Culpo, Ashley Graham, and
Jasmine Sanders (aka Golden
Barbie) to her roster—and picked
up indispensable social media
tips along the way. “Instagram
is the new portfolio,” says the
Los Angeles–based stylist. And
her photogenic clientele benefits
from her diligence. “There’s a lot
to think about when hair is being
filmed or photographed at an
event,” Marjan says. “For film,
you need to make sure the hair
looks good from every angle. In
a photo, you want to see more
shine and reflection. I know how
to take the perfect Boomerang.”
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pet peeves? THE ESSENTIALS
JUSTINE MARJAN:
it, I’m like, Who let her go out
like that?
ELLE: Do you consider yourself
a trendsetter?
JM: There’s never a first person to
do anything, but people catch
on to something and then it
becomes a trend. One of the
first times that I worked with
Fifth Harmony, I had just done
2 3
a wet look on Khloé’s hair, and
they were like, I want Khloé’s
wet look! It was so cute. Same
with when Kim did braids; I did
a ton of braids after that.
ELLE: You’ve taken appointments
in Dubai. What do women 4
request there versus in L.A.?
JM: Because of social media, a lot
of the celebrity inspiration is
actually the same. Women in
the Middle East and India use
more oils. It’s funny; everyone
[in the U.S.] is so good about
5
skin care, but they don’t put the
To get a mermaid-worthy wet
same effort into hair. I recently look, Marjan says the key is to
started doing an oil treatment remember that slickness comes
before I shampoo, and I’ve no- from oil, not water. Before heat-
styling, spritz with TRESemmé
ticed such a difference. It’s so Repair & Protect 7 Pre-Styling
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easy: Apply an oil to dry hair, Spray (2), $5, which “adds
massage it into your scalp, and hydration to the ends,” she says.
Next, use a GHD Platinum flatiron
let it sit for 20 minutes before (1), $249, to create waves in
you wash. Then, glossy hair! alternate directions, then rake
through hair with a wide-tooth
comb. Add Fatboy Tough Guy
Water Wax (4), $21, at the
roots, which Marjan says “looks
wet and directs hold.” Finally,
top with a generous amount
of oil and seal with hair spray.
For those who prefer a more
arid aesthetic, Marjan suggests
a volume booster that doesn’t
sacrifice movement: Bumble and
bumble Dryspun Finish spray
(3), $31, on dry hair. The stylist
has homework for sleeping hours,
On location in
too: “I make everyone switch
Morocco with to silk pillowcases (5),” Marjan
Graham (above); says. “It keeps moisture in your
behind the scenes hair, tames frizz, and can make
with Culpo (right) a blow-dry last longer.”
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Liquid Assets
Your skin changes every day, so why shouldn’t your skin care?
April Long explores how tweaking one key part of your regimen can nip
breakouts in the bud, banish redness, and bestow glow on demand.

I
f there were an MVP of beauty—the
single most powerful, complexion-
changing, versatile product in any skin-
care arsenal—it would be the serum.
By virtue of its liquidy (usually water- or
oil-based) formulation, a serum can deliver
extremely small molecules of concentrated
active ingredients much more deeply into
skin than any moisturizer can. “I get all my
patients started on a serum if they’re not
already on one,” says Manhattan derma-
tologist Whitney Bowe, MD. “Some people
think it sounds complicated, but a serum
only takes seconds to use, and it’s the one
step I say to never skip, because it makes
the most meaningful changes in the skin.”
While most of us, barring the odd K-beauty
enthusiast, probably own only one of these
watery wonders, amplified benefits can be
derived from a broader selection—that is,
a sort of serum wardrobe, with options to
rotate in and out depending on what your
skin needs on any given day.
“The skin is very responsive to lifestyle
changes, as well as to what’s happening
in the body,” says dermatologist Misbah
Khan, MD. “Stress hormones, fluctua-
tions in weather, or the amount of alcohol
or red meat we consume can all show up
on our faces, either immediately or over

1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3

THE ZIT ZAPPERS THE SKIN SOOTHERS THE HYDRATORS

Nixing a breakout
doesn’t mean drying out
your whole face. The
most effective serums
nourish the skin’s barrier
while also eradicating
clogged pores and
blackheads. CLINIQUE
Acne Solutions + Line
Correcting Serum (1),
$45, was created for
adults looking to prevent
not just acne but also
production, as well as
meadowsweet extract to
quell irritation. Created
by a holistic facialist and
a natural skin-care guru,
respectively, KRISTINA
HOLEY + MARIE
VERONIQUE Barrier
Restore Serum (3), $110,
combats eruptions with
a synergistic blend
of anti-inflammatory
and lightly exfoliating
Any number of offenders
can cause sensitive skin
to act up—allergies,
lack of sleep, cosmetic
procedures—but
thankfully, soothing
serums are some of
the fastest-working in
the category. TAMMY
FENDER Quintessential
Serum (1), $175—with
skin-barrier–protecting
avocado oil and anti-
that tight feeling of To give thirsty skin— Serum (1), $195,
stressed skin with culprits include airplane endows skin with a
moisturizing, elasticity- travel, cold weather, dewy sheen via the
fostering glycolipids, and boozy nights—a brand’s signature
nourishing lecithin, and deep drink, seek out fermented algae
chill-out ingredients serums containing brew. The HA in
such as chamomile and the gold-standard, NEUTROGENA Hydro
arnica. DIOR has created moisture-locking Boost Multivitamin
a set of five serums, ingredient hyaluronic serum (2), $19, is
targeting everything acid (HA). But take suspended in a
from dehydration to note: Because HA supremely absorbable
overactive oil production, molecules draw water gel. CAUDALIE Premier
that are meant to be from the environment, Cru The Serum (3),
Richard Majchrzak/Studio D

fine lines, combining
light hydrators with
salicylic acid in a gentle,
fragrance-free formula.
BAREMINERALS Blemish
Remedy Acne Clearing
Treatment Serum (2),
$42, contains zinc
to combat excess oil
ingredients. “Use it
two nights a week” to
prevent breakouts, Holey
says. “Or if you have
a problematic T-zone,
apply it every third
night on the nose.
You can also pair it
with a retinoid.”
inflammatory extracts
of rose, chamomile,
and frankincense—is
a longtime ELLE editor
favorite for calming
virtually any complexion
freak-out. MURAD
Sensitive Skin Soothing
Serum (2), $57, fights
mixed and matched as these products should $150, delivers a dose
needed. The brand’s be applied to damp of polyphenol-dense
Capture Youth Redness skin and followed with resveratrol, along with
Soother Serum (3), $95, moisturizer to provide two types of HA: One
is formulated with cotton lasting hydration. (Most plumps fine lines on
peptides to alleviate can also be layered the surface; the other
irritation and protect on top of another helps skin cells deep
against environmental serum.) LA MER The in the dermis retain
aggressors. Revitalizing Hydrating moisture over time.

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time. You might wake up with redness

or puffiness after a salty meal or too
many glasses of wine the night before,
or your pores might appear a little bigger
at certain times of the month. Using a
targeted serum can help you address, or
even prevent, these changes.” So if you
know you’re prone to breakouts a few days
before your period, for example, you can
strategically switch to an acne-battling se-
rum; or if you’re traveling to a dry climate,
you might introduce a hydrating serum to
help keep your skin from manifesting any
ill (flaky, dull) effects.
Now that serums are increasingly
being formulated to tackle specific issues
rather than just universal signs-of-aging
woes, building an à la carte menu has
“A serum is the step I say to
never skip, because it makes the most
meaningful changes in the skin,”
says Whitney Bowe, MD.
never been easier. And there’s no need to
make adjustments anywhere else in your
routine. “A cleanser is in contact with your
face for only moments,” Bowe says, “and
moisturizers just sit on the surface rather
than really diving into skin, so you can
get targeted results just by tweaking your
serum—which is the real workhorse—and
leaving everything else alone.” Should you
be tempted to cut corners, though, know
that a serum alone does not an effective
skin-care regimen make. “Cleansing is
key, because if you don’t have a clean face,
nothing you put on afterward is going to
penetrate,” says London-based facialist
and Instagram sensation Caroline Hirons.
“And you need to top everything off with a
moisturizer for best results. Your serum is
your underwear and outfit, but your mois-
turizer is the coat. It seals the deal.”

LOVE
STORY
Veteran beauty editor
and serum aficionado
Emily Dougherty has
tried them all. Here,
she shares how she
found The One.
I love a handmade
potion—all the good-
ness and care that each
creator puts into every
bottle. But I also love a
clinically proven skin
1 2 3 superhero made under 1 2 3

the direction of scien-

tist brainiacs who know what really
THE GLOW-T0S THE HEAVY LIFTERS
works, and have the data to prove it.
According to Pinterest treatments. With two “Firming is the hardest on the skin’s surface.
stats, searches for separate formulas Now, thanks to biochemist Jur- thing to achieve once The 37 ACTIVES High
luminosity-boosting designed to combine in gen Klein, PhD, the OG green skin- you’ve gone slack,” Performance Anti-Aging
“vitamin C serum” every pump, CLARINS care genius who founded Jurlique Hirons says. But don’t & Firming Serum (3),
increased by 3,379 Double Serum (3), $122, abandon hope: The $175, packed with
percent in 2017. But brings together 21 in 1984, I can have the best of both latest high-tech serums plant extracts (green
there are many more skin-loving plant extracts, worlds. At the lab he built on Oahu’s provide serious lift. tea, red algae, coffee
ways to glow: L’ORÉAL including of-the-moment JUICE BEAUTY Signal seed) that protect
PARIS Age Perfect Cell turmeric, to amplify
North Shore, Klein mixes his in- Peptides Firming Serum against pollution
Renewal Golden Serum that coveted lit-from- sanely effective, greener-than-green (1), $110, harnesses and glycation, can
(1), $25, stimulates within effect. “If you’re JK7 line. After I used his neroli-and- the power of all-natural do double duty as a
surface skin cell renewal worried about tackling sunflower-derived spot treatment over
to keep the complexion dullness that comes
jasmine Rejuvenating Serum, lipids, rice peptides, makeup on areas like
$1,800, for just one night, my skin
Richard Majchrzak/Studio D

soft and reflective. from pigmentation, look and linseed extract to crow’s-feet. For a fast
SKINCEUTICALS for products containing looked like I’d taken a weeklong redefine facial contours. fix, Hirons suggests “a
C E Ferulic (2), niacinamide,” Hirons CLÉ DE PEAU BEAUTÉ good cleanse and a
$165, is beloved by says. And for a preparty Hawaiian vacation. And after seven Firming Serum Supreme light acid peel, followed
dermatologists for its (or postflight) SOS to days on the serum, my face is (al- (2), $300, increases by an oil. Oil-based
ability to even out enliven drab skin, “just most) as smooth, soft, and glowy as long-term suppleness serums tend to give a
skin tone and speed get a serum/oil hybrid with potent botanicals more immediate firming
healing and collagen and massage the my two-year-old’s. This stuff works. while also providing an effect than water-based
production after laser bejesus out of your face.” Mahalo, Dr. Klein. instant tightening effect serums do.”

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I ’m not having a bad hair day; I’m hav-

ing a bad hair year,” I say, nervously
fidgeting under the expert strand-
examining fingers of Manhattan der-
matologist Macrene Alexiades-Armenakas,
MD, PhD. My fortysomething hair has been
looking dull and stringy for longer than I
care to remember. While my friends may
bemoan the advent of wrinkles, I yearn for
the lush mane of my youth, and the way it
bounced with natural vitality when I sprint-
ed to hail a cab or twirled on the dance floor.
I’m not alone. Alexiades-Armenakas has
seen a recent spike in the number of female
patients who’ve come in because their hair
has lost its luster and their scalp has become
itchy and sensitive. In my case, one of the
culprits turns out to be my frequent use of
dry shampoo to prolong blow-outs and
increase volume. Dry shampoo is meant to
be brushed out minutes after application,
but much of the fine powder settles on the
scalp, where it remains until being washed
away. “It clogs the follicles,” Alexiades-
Armenakas explains. “Yeast [which can
thrive on an unclean scalp] feeds on keratin
and causes inflammation. It’s probably
short-term. But if you have a predisposition
to hair loss, you could permanently damage
your follicles. Keep it clean!” It sounds too
simple, but a glance at Alexiades-Armen-
akas’s cascade of thick, shiny hair tells me
she’s onto something. She also suggests I
take a daily spoonful of flaxseed oil: “All
my patients who are on it get regrowth and
a phenomenal quality of hair.” Flaxseeds
are high in alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3
fatty acid known for its formidable anti-
inflammatory properties. And inflammation,
it seems, is at the literal root of my problem.
“Assaults on our system—environmen-
tal toxins, chemicals that are inside things
we put in and on our body, UV exposure,
pollution, smoking, stress—all lead to in-
flammation,” says dermatologist Bradley S.

Crowning Glory
Bloom, MD. “It might not be dramatic, but
it can be chronic—and down the line, it
can cause cells to become dysfunctional,
eventually leading to disrupted hair growth.”
He suggests I add Nutrafol—a nutraceu-
Viktoria Stutz/Trunk Archive

tical formulated to boost hair health with

Aleksandra Crapanzano sets out to transform her
lackluster strands into a silky, voluminous mane,
and finds that the secret to healthy hair lies in borrowing
from the skin-care rulebook.
medical-grade curcumin, extracted from
turmeric root, plus ashwagandha, a plant
used in Ayurvedic medicine to combat the
effects of stress on the endocrine system—
to my new flaxseed regimen.

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 Within a month, my hair no longer looks
like it’s been electrocuted. But the battle
isn’t over: Bloom reminds me that strands SUPERMANE RETURNS
can last up to eight years, so I’d better take The latest scalp and strand saviors restore shine, density,
care of them. Extreme heat from blow- and strength to even the most damaged hair.
dryers and flatirons, chemicals, and tight
ponytails must be the rare exception, not the
norm. Essentially, I need to treat my scalp
with the same care I devote to my face.
“I have patients who spend thousands of
dollars a month on facial serums, creams,
and lasers, only to treat their scalp with
neglect—or, even worse, overly aggressive
products that strip away essential oils,”
Bloom says. And then there are the ravages
of time: “Oil glands and hair follicles get
tired and age, just like all cells in our body.”
That’s the bad news. The good news is
that our long-ignored and tortured scalps
finally have the attention of skin-care com-
panies known for their antiaging prowess.
Sisley’s new Hair Rituel, for example, is
Hair Rituel by SISLEY Precious ($79) boosts scalp circulation
a line of hair and scalp products meant Hair Care Oil ($100) smooths with caffeine, clary sage, and harnesses shower steam to
the cuticle and adds shine while ginkgo. NEXXUS Keraphix nourish parched strands. Used
Extreme heat, protecting against heat damage.
From the founder of Royal Fern
Reconstructing Treatment ($15)
contains a potent blend of
once a week, KÉRASTASE Fusio-
Dose Booster Reconstruction ($98
skin care, DR. TIMM GOLUEKE keratin, collagen, and elastin. for an eight-item kit) will fortify
chemicals, and tight Hair Growth Stimulating Solution L’ORÉAL PARIS EverPure Deep hair against breakage.

ponytails must even transfers shampoo into a plastic bottle

be the exception,
not the norm.
to—you guessed it—reduce inflammation
and increase cellular renewal. The products
contain an array of essential oils, formulat-
ed, via a newly patented delivery system,
to travel directly into the follicle to provide
proteins and nutrients where they’re most
needed. Hinoki and mimosa offer a lovely
lingering note of aromatherapy; I soon find
myself dabbing the Precious Hair Care Oil
on my wrists instead of using perfume and
shampooing every chance I get.
When Bloom tactfully asks how I’m
using Sisley’s ultraluxurious shampoo, I
mimic the gesture of dumping a glob onto
the top of my head. “That’s a bit like taking
an expensive eye cream and putting it on
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with a pointed nozzle for precise application.
“Do this,” he tells me, “and you will only
use half as much shampoo and get double
the benefits.” With the nonchalance of a
true Parisian, he adds: “It makes the price
of the Sisley a bit more palatable, yes?” I nod
weakly, suddenly aware that I’ve already
used up half my $75 bottle.
Thankfully, there are also more dem-
ocratic options. Nexxus’s new Keraphix
Damage Healing line of shampoo, con-
ditioner, and treatment works its magic
with the help of black rice, which is rich in
glutamic acid—an amino acid that’s often
depleted by hot styling tools. I also discov-
er that good old Head & Shoulders now
contains zinc to reduce oxidative stress
to the scalp. And now that my scalp is less
sensitive, I put my Mason Pearson brush
back in use, intending to follow the old-
school advice to do 100 strokes a day—until
aigrette, Nutrafol supplements, hair masks,
and daily applications of Sisley’s Revitalizing
Fortifying Serum, I’m able to air-dry my
hair and not hide it under a hat. I’ve tossed
my bottles of dry shampoo in the trash and
deleted the number to my local blow-dry bar
from my phone—why subject my hair (and
scalp) to any more heat than necessary? In
fact, the thought of going to a salon doesn’t
cross my mind until I happen to walk by the
new Fusio-Dose Hair Lab at New York’s
Kérastase Salon. A wall of brightly hued vials
catches my eye through the window. I retrace
my steps. There’s a golden elixir promising
Density, a pink concoction offering Radi-
ance, and a green potion for Reparation.
It’s too tempting to pass up. Inside, I choose
Discipline (a pale peach) for its antifrizz
properties, and Nutrition (a deep apricot) for
its inclusion of antioxidant-rich royal iris.
The receptionist asks if I’d like the treatment
applied in the salon, followed by a blow-out,

your ear,” he says. “You want to shampoo
your scalp, and to do that, you need to
part the hair in sections and apply product
directly onto the skin. Otherwise you’re just
cleaning your hair.” Yves Durif, at his epon-
ymous salon at New York’s Carlyle hotel,
dermatologist Robert Anolik, MD, tells me
that zealous brushing won’t endow my hair
with added shine. Far more critical, he says,
is the use of a strand-protecting sunscreen
spray with a minimum SPF of 30.
After a second month of flaxseed vin-
or if I’d prefer to take a kit home for later use.
The question doesn’t merit a second thought.
It’s a beautiful day, and I walk down the
street with a swing to my step, my colorful
new potions tucked away in my purse, and
the faint suggestion of a bounce to my hair.

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THE HERO WE NEED

With his groundbreaking role in Marvel’s Black Panther,
Chadwick Boseman morphs from dynamic leading man
into genuine superstar. By Mickey Rapkin

T
his month, Chadwick
Boseman—who has
memorably played Jackie
Robinson, Thurgood Marshall,
and James Brown—makes history instead
of interpreting it, starring as Black Panther,
Marvel’s first black superhero. Creed’s
Ryan Coogler directs; Oscar winner Lupita
Nyong’o appears as a fierce double agent.
Boseman, 41, tells ELLE he never expected
to see his face on a billboard. He grew up in
South Carolina, the son of an upholsterer
and a nurse, and spent much of his twenties
kicking around New York, directing theater
for no money. Over salads at a Hollywood
hotel bar, he tells his own origin story.
ELLE: Black Panther is Marvel’s first black
superhero. Do you worry if it’s not a hit,
studios will be reluctant to make more
like it?
CHADWICK BOSEMAN: There’s a lot riding
on it, for sure. That was a conversation
that Ryan [Coogler] and I had. If it’s a
hit, you would think it would have an
impact and make studios go, “Okay,
maybe we can put money behind
something bigger than an independent
film.” When it’s a black lead and it’s not
Denzel, there is sort of a cap.
ELLE: Right. The common refrain in
Hollywood is, the movie won’t work
overseas with a black lead.…
CB: Exactly. We wanted to get it right. But
I think you have to let that pressure go
when you start doing it.
ELLE: You had very specific thoughts
about Black Panther’s accent. Because
Wakanda, the African nation where
he’s from, had never been colonized, he
Opposite page: Art Streiber/August Image. This page: Marvel Studios
shouldn’t sound European.
CB: Well, we are making a superhero movie.
But you’re also coming into Wakanda.
You have to believe in the legacy of
something. It has to have a spirituality
and roots. We didn’t want it to feel like
a fantasy, because that’s comedic. And
you’d be making fun of African culture,
as opposed to pulling from it.
ELLE: You majored in theater at Howard
University. How did you get into drama?
CB: I wasn’t that guy. The only reason it
became a thing for me to actually do
this…when I was in high school, I played
AAU basketball. And one of my friends
on that team was shot and killed.
“You have to believe
in the legacy of
something. It has to
have a spirituality
and roots.”
ELLE: What were the circumstances?
CB: Just random. I don’t want to talk
about it that much. My emotional
response was to start writing. So I
wrote—essentially it was a play. I was
just writing about how the community
allowed this to happen. I got my friends
together; we performed it. I had never
done anything quite like that before. It
wasn’t like I’d been doing Oliver Twist.
This wasn’t something that I foresaw as
a direction for my life.
ELLE: One of your brothers danced with
Alvin Ailey. Your other brother is a
minister. Do you talk spirituality
with him?
CB: All the time.
ELLE: What does he think about
Hollywood?
CB: When I was refusing to do Get On Up—
ELLE: I didn’t know you refused. Was the
idea of playing James Brown just too big?
CB: I was just like, How do you do that?
Physically, mentally—it’s very hard to pin
down who he is.
ELLE: Did your brother advise you not to
do it?
CB: That’s what most people would think,
because my brother is a minister. I knew
him better than that. He listened to
everything I had to say. Then he said,
“I don’t know, man. I figure, James
Brown was one of the baddest people
on the planet. If you can pull that off,
you’ll be one of the baddest people on the
planet.” It made me realize I was being
closed-minded about it.
ELLE: What would you tell Donald Trump
if you met him?
CB: Oh, Jesus. [Laughs] First of all, “Do
I want to meet him?” is the question.
It’s useless for me to say this, but what
I want him to do is think about people.
What does the everyday American have
to deal with? That’s what’s criminal
about what we’re seeing. They’re taking
away people’s health care. People have
fought wars over taxation without
representation. That’s essentially what
we’re experiencing.
ELLE: Men are often asked what they
learned from their fathers. What great
lesson did you learn from your mother?
CB: Calm under pressure. She was a nurse.
There were times when I was young, and
I would go to her office after school and
do my homework. I remember seeing
emergencies happen and just looking
at how calm she would be in those
situations. It was otherworldly to see
chaos happening and have her know what
order to do things in and who to talk to,
and having the right voice to deal with the
situation. It’s not to say I’m always like
that under pressure. But I evoke her. 
ELLE: On a lighter note, Black Panther’s
uniform is supertight. Did fitting into
the costume give you an appreciation of
what women go through?
CB: [Laughs] I would say that. The first time
I put it on, it was too tight. I couldn’t
breathe. One of the female dressers said,
“Beauty is painful.”
ELLE: What’s the trick to getting the suit
on? Do they grease you up?
CB: Baby powder. No grease, please.
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CULTURE
Lady Killers
What the new wave of female vigilante films says about
the #MeToo movement. By Emily Yoshida
I
t’s been almost 15 years since a katana-
wielding Uma Thurman roared across
the big screen as the Bride in Quentin
Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1, produced
by then still-ascendant Harvey Weinstein.
What a difference a decade and a half
makes: On Thanksgiving Day of 2017, Thur-
man wished Weinstein a happy holiday on
Instagram by remarking that the disgraced
mogul “doesn’t deserve a bullet.”
And so it seems fitting, if coincidental, that
at a time when innumerable sexual harass-
ment and assault allegations have tarnished
Weinstein’s legacy, female vigilantes are back
on the big screen with a literal vengeance.
Last summer, Charlize Theron (noth-
ing but respect for my president Imperator
Furiosa) warmed up the genre in David
Leitch’s hyperviolent Atomic Blonde. Proud
Mary kicked off 2018 in a hail of bullets, with
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Taraji P. Henson as an underworld assassin
who selects her lipstick as carefully as her
.45. And this month, Jennifer Lawrence stars
in the spy thriller Red Sparrow, in which she
plays a prima ballerina forced to be an opera-
tive for the Russian government. But not just
any 007: Lawrence’s character, Dominika,
is trained as a “sparrow,” one of the young,
attractive agents rigorously proficient in
seduction and information extraction.
Plenty of female assassins have used
the “soft power” of sex as a weapon—there
was no going back after the world saw The
Avengers’ Emma Peel and her saucy catsuit in
the ’60s. But if Red Sparrow sounds like frothy
fun on the order of Charlie’s Angels, be warned
that it’s pretty harrowing stuff. Dominika
is the subject of leers, invasive comments,
and touches—from her bosses and targets
alike—as well as two attempted assaults. Her
training, at the hands of a pitiless grande
dame played by Charlotte Rampling, feels
like a kind of extended rape scene.
With its extensive nudity and violence,
Red Sparrow is the kind of movie that used
to be called an “erotic thriller,” shelved
alongside over-the-top potboilers like Basic
Instinct and Fatal Attraction. But it’s hard to
find much to get turned on by, especially in
this climate. Sure, Dominika kicks her share
of ass, but the humiliations she endures seem
less like the stuff of an espionage fantasy
and more like a ripped-from-the-headlines
reenactment. Director Francis Lawrence de-
serves some credit for refusing to make those
scenes anything less than stomach-turning;
the film has no illusions about the sexual
violence its heroine encounters.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement,
Hollywood has a real opportunity to put some
change into effect, even when it comes to
popcorn movies about sexy assassins. Which
is why the slated remake of the 1973 blaxploi-
tation classic Cleopatra Jones, green-lighted
two months after the Weinstein story broke,
feels like it could be a hell of a lot of fun. The
original starred the impossibly glamorous
Tamara Dobson as a supermodel by day and
special agent by night, who jets around the
world taking down drug traffickers while
wearing impeccable ’70s couture.
The remake will be helmed by Under-
ground producer and writer Misha Green, and
there are plenty of still-relevant themes in
the cult classic for her to expand upon (not to
mention some serious platform shoes to fill).
Of course, a few gun-toting female
vigilantes aren’t going to solve the problems
of the film industry. And it’s hard to escape
the fact that the Hollywood action genre is a
product of the male-dominated culture that
now finds itself under so much scrutiny. But
there’s always room for escapist fare that
punches up—and there’s an awful lot that
the women of Hollywood have to punch up
at, whether they work in front of the camera
Artwork by Bess NYC
or behind it. While we’re still assessing the
irreparable damage that’s been done for de-
cades, I’m more than willing to watch a few
righteously angry women roar and rampage
their way across the screen.
CULTURE

She
Contains
Multitudes
With her new essay collection,
Feel Free, author Zadie Smith
solidifies her status as an
essential chronicler of American
life. By Keziah Weir

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Z adie Smith has an almost unset-
tling lack of pretense. As she sits
down across from me at Lafay-
ette restaurant in Manhattan’s
NoHo—her choice; she lives nearby—there’s
no attempt at small talk, no forced laughter to
fill space. She’s reserved. Blunt, even. We’re
here to discuss her new essay collection, Feel
Free (Penguin Press), but about doing inter-
views, she says, “No offense—I don’t think
anybody relishes it.”
What’s disconcerting about this situation
for me, as a fan, is that to read Smith’s writing
is not only to feel as though you know her,
but also as though she knows you. She doesn’t
use social media, yet Instagram abounds
with more than 18,000 posts hashtagged
#zadiesmith by her ardent admirers: reposts
of glamorous photo shoots; shots of her nov-
els nestled beside mugs of coffee. Mention
Smith’s name in a group conversation, and
at least one person—often young, usually
female—will reverently breathe a variation
of “Oh, I love her.”
Feel Free is Smith’s seventh book since she
burst onto the literary scene at the age of 24.
Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), set in
the racially diverse North London in which
she grew up, sold an unheard-of 42,000
copies in its first print run. Her subsequent
novels—The Autograph Man (2002), On Beau-
ty (2005), NW (2012), and Swing Time (2016),
plus a novella and an essay collection—won
awards including the Orange Prize and the
Women’s Prize for Fiction.
For the past 10 years, Smith has been
living in New York as a self-described
“immigrant with a green card,” and in her
essays, published in the likes of Harper’s,
the New York Review of Books, and the New
Yorker, she’s become an invaluable investi-
gator of American culture. In particular, “a
busy. She’s on a yearlong sabbatical from
her teaching job at NYU, but she still has
books to read and write—not to mention an
eight-year-old daughter and a five-year-old
son, who, this week, have given her a case of
pinkeye. Friends, among them Chimaman-
da Ngozi Adichie and Lena Dunham. Fam-
lot of my subjects are black artists,” she says. ily in London. “I really am such a greedy
“It’s about inserting myself and feeling this person for life,” she says. “I haven’t got any
commonality in the black artistic communi- time to waste pretending to be alive.” And
ty in America.” The day before we meet, she as far as being an object of worship goes, “I
is awarded the 2017 Langston Hughes Medal can’t take seriously any relationship apart
from the City College of New York, whose from the personal. All love of strangers is
illustrious past recipients include Maya not real to me.”
Angelou and James Baldwin. Born Sadie Smith in 1975 (she switched to
As suggested by the new collection’s title, “Zadie” at age 14), she grew up in the public
the essays of Feel Free are deliciously unham-
pered and far-reaching. A profile of comedy
duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele
(“Brother From Another Mother”) abuts mus-
ON HER
ings on Joni Mitchell and questions of taste
(“Some Notes on Attunement”); there is the
BOOKSHELF
Smith is a self-described
“Elegy for a Country’s Seasons” and a piece “vampire” for books by new
called “On Optimism and Despair.” “Meet authors. “I love debuts where you
Justin Bieber!” turns out to be about identity, just can’t believe that it was a
Socrates, a German Jewish philosopher—and, debut.” Here are three first-timers
yes, Biebs himself, as he’s never been consid- who’ve caught her eye.
ered before. Blending the so-called high and
low, Smith renders lofty subjects accessible In Nicole Dennis-
and elevates pop culture to the divine. She is Benn’s Here Comes
the Sun (2016),
equally comfortable employing personal nar- the determined,
rative, literary and artistic criticism, thought- complex Margot—
ful interrogations on race and class, and, very courtesan,
protective older
often, real laugh-aloud humor: She writes of sister—attempts to
skim-reading Lady Chatterley’s Lover, “leap- escape poverty
in postcolonial
ing over paragraphs in search of genitals.” Jamaica.
When we meet, Smith—a veritable style
icon—is wearing a long gray Acne coat and
a gray turtleneck. Her hair is swathed in a Yaa Gyasi’s
multigenerational
signature turban (red, like her lipstick); she epic, Homegoing
drops a pair of sunglasses on the table (red, (2016), follows a
too). She knows that her straightforward family line from half
sisters enmeshed in
nature can be jarring, she says. It got her into the West African
trouble during the first writing workshop slave trade to
their descendants
she taught at New York University, back in
in Harlem and
2010. When she was told that students would California.
submit work and she would critique it, she
figured it would be most informative to do so
Smith: Sebastian Kim/August Image
in front of the entire class. One student cried.
And yet, she’s certainly not cold. As our
talk continues, she cracks droll jokes and
even makes offhand, unnervingly spot-on
observations about my own psyche. Her
reticent demeanor doesn’t inhibit her from
being engaged and engaging, but she simply
hasn’t the bandwidth to put on an act. She’s
housing complex Athelstan Gardens with
her Jamaican-born mother, Yvonne Bailey;
her British father, Harvey Smith; and her
two younger brothers, Luke and Ben. The
local library provided an escape from her
parents’ arguing (they divorced when Smith
was a teen), as did her public grade school,
which Smith describes as “a third black,
a third South Asian,” plus the offspring of
middle-class “socialist white people.” In Feel
Free, Smith includes an appeal for this appar-
ently bygone era of embracing difference in
“Fences: A Brexit Diary.” The week after we
speak, England’s Prince Harry announces his
engagement to the biracial American actress
Meghan Markle, which is far more remark-
able than it should be in 2017.
Smith studied literature at King’s College,
Cambridge—in those days, attendance was
free. While there, she wrote a few music
reviews and a little short fiction, but it
wasn’t until the end of her final year that she
began writing what would become White
Teeth. When she graduated, a publisher and
Cambridge alum called, asking what she was
working on. Smith handed over the unfin-
ished manuscript and landed a two-book
deal for a rumored £250,000.
It was also at Cambridge that Smith met
her husband, the Northern Irish poet Nick
Laird. Smith says they were just “best friends”
at the time, but she did slip a mention of him
into White Teeth. “I guess,” she says, “I was
trying to flirt with him a bit, even then.” Now
the pair is working on adapting Swing Time for
television. Her dream cast includes Ruth Neg-
ga and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, but “every novelist
in New York has a TV show,” she says. “I’m not
going to get excited.”
In an era pervaded by Twitter wars, Smith
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“I am such a
greedy person for
life. I haven’t
got any time to
waste pretending
to be alive.”
rarely toes the party line when it comes to
the outrage du jour. She is not irritated, for
example, by questions about her children or
marriage, though she was at one time. “I in-
ternalized all things female as being in some
way passive or lesser. You only have to have
children to realize that’s the biggest con the
world has ever projected.”
Smith’s insistence on examining gray
areas is what makes her essays so thought-
provoking and, at times, controversial. In her
essay “Getting In and Out,” Smith argues
against a viral open letter calling for the
removal and destruction of the white artist
Dana Schutz’s painting Open Casket, which
depicts the famous 1955 funeral photograph
of 14-year-old Emmett Till and was shown
at the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Smith writes,
“I realized I resent the implication that
black pain is so raw and so unprocessed—
and black art practice so vulnerable and
invisible—that a single painting by a white
woman can radically influence it one way or
another.” The best treatment for what she
calls “an abstraction without much intensi-
ty” is not to give it more attention but rather
to look toward something worthier. Perhaps
the work of photographer Deana Lawson or
painter Henry Taylor, both of whom Smith is
writing about when we meet.
For Smith, writing essays is a way of work-
ing through big questions, but writing fiction
is a kind of creative voyeurism. “I get to be a
young, handsome black man—climb into his
skin and walk around,” she says. “It’s very
freeing.” She’s been a Jewish Chinese Lon-
doner (The Autograph Man); a biracial British
assistant to a white American pop star (Swing
Time); an adulterous Muslim Bangladeshi
father and an adulterous white American
father (White Teeth, On Beauty). Now she’s
working on a novel about a real-life British
highwayman in the late 1800s.
Smith has said before that she doesn’t
particularly like the process of writing, that
she is often disappointed by the result. And
yet she persists. Before I can ask her why,
Smith answers the question herself with
the same circuitous eloquence she employs
in her essays. “There is a feeling in many
people of transcendence,” she says. Before
she met me, for example, she went for a run
by the Hudson River, the sun in her eyes and
Kanye West’s gospel song “Ultralight Beam”
in her ears. That, she says, is one kind of tran-
scendence. There’s also organized religion:
Islam, Christianity, Judaism. Smith has read
the texts of all three faiths and thinks of them
as compelling philosophies of life. “I suppose
if I thought of a metaphysical element,” she
says, “ ‘The Good’ to me is basically what
people mean by God: the existence of, the
idea of, good. I think of these philosophies
as an enormous lake feeding into this thing
called The Good. Literature is also a tribu-
tary, a smaller one, in this lake. To participate
in it is to be close to God.”
Maggie
I Am, I Am, I
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Turn It Up
Chart-topping artists Wiz Khalifa and Camila Cabello on
their eagerly awaited winter albums—plus three playlist-
ready breakout acts. By Brianna Kovan
ELLE: How long does it take you
to write a song?
WK: Two verses and a chorus
is about 45 minutes. I listen to
them throughout the week—
that’s how I find out what sticks,
and then I strengthen those
points. That [part] could take
from a week to three years.
ELLE: Your Khalifa Kush strand ready ode to friendships lost and
of weed is almost two years old. found, which features last sum-
How has weed culture changed? mer’s multiweek-chart-topping
WK: Edibles, oils, and tinctures track “Havana.” “Hanging out
are becoming more popular. with the wrong people makes
You can rub CBDs on your you feel more alone than if you
joints, legs, and arms. Those are were by yourself,” says the multi-
less scary than smoking a joint. platinum artist, whose 2017 sin-
gles (like “OMG” and “Crying
GONE SOLO in the Club”) have earned her 41
A year after splitting from the million–plus monthly Spotify lis-
all-girl band Fifth Harmony, Cu- teners. “People change and grow
ban American singer-songwriter apart—that’s a constant part of
Camila Cabello, 21, is out with life. Being with the right people
her debut album, Camila, a radio- just makes you way happier.”

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THE WIZ
Multiplatinum Pittsburgh rapper
Wiz Khalifa returns this month
with his fourth Atlantic studio
album, featuring August’s R&B
radio hit “Something New.”
ELLE: Which song on the album
means the most to you?
WIZ KHALIFA: “Be Okay.” I’d
been working on it for three
years, and [last] year, my sister
passed away. That’s when I was
able to tie everything together.
ELLE: Right before 2014’s
Blacc Hollywood, you had a son,
Sebastian. Has he changed your
approach to music?
WK: Absolutely. He’s four, and
he’s going to listen to my music.
I want him to be able to repeat
it, and for parents to be proud
when their kids play with him.
ELLE: What role did music play
in your early life?
nected to people.
KIM PETRAS AMY SHARK DARLINGSIDE
HQ: Los Angeles HQ: Gold Coast, HQ: Cambridge,
by way of Germany Australia Massachusetts
The sound: The sound: Wandering The sound: Harmony-
Bubblegum-pop indie pop laden folk
anthems The pitch: The Aussie The pitch: The four-
The pitch: After her artist—whose 2016 track person string band,
August debut single, “Adore” has tallied 28 whose 2015 album,
“I Don’t Want It At million Spotify streams— Birds Say, debuted
All,” topped Spotify’s kicked off her first North at number eight on
Global 50 chart in just American headlining tour Billboard’s Northeast
four days and racked last month. It features her Heatseekers chart, just
up one million Spotify 2017 debut EP, Night launched its second
streams in two weeks, Thinker, which entered nationally released
Petras—who underwent Australia’s charts at album, Extralife. It pairs
number two and earned the band’s four-part
harmonies with guitar,
violin, bass, kick drum,

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 INTERNS AT CBS DOES FILM PR FOUNDS PUBLICITY FIRM
EVENING NEWS 1996 THE DUVERNAY AGENCY
1994 “I loved the strategy. 1999
“I was working on the To be able to think “My father asked me, ‘Why are
O. J. Simpson case—a about the ways in you working for other people if
turning point in the way which you can intro- you’re doing all the work?’ And
hard news integrated duce various aspects I said, ‘Well, Pop, they bring in
celebrity news. I wasn’t of the story, the cast, the movies to the agency, and
interested in that. It’s the craft, and the I work the movies.’ He said,
valuable to have those themes to audiences ‘I thought that you brought in MAKES I WILL
early experiences to learn bit by bit—through those clients.’ And I said, ‘I FOLLOW
what you don’t want.” magazine coverage, did.’ He said, ‘How much are 2010
events, television you being paid?’ I told him, “I made that film
appearances, reviews. and he said, ‘How much is the having never
It really feels like a movie paying your agency?’ gone to film
puzzle. And in the And I told him, and he just school. One of the
end, the audience will went, ‘Oh, okay,’ and walked biggest lessons
decide whether it was away. I was like, ‘Damn. I learned is to
Whoa. Why am I doing this?’ curate the people
successful or not.”
WOMEN IN HOLLY WOOD

Ava DuVernay
So I opened my own agency.” around you.”

The award-winning director looks back at the career

moments that define her (so far). By Keziah Weir
1993 1998 2003 2008 2013 2018

WRITES AND DIRECTS PASSES ON DIRECTING

MIDDLE OF NOWHERE BLACK PANTHER
2012 2015
“I kept my publicity job while mak- “These projects are marriages. Newt
Gingrich
ing my first three films. I knew that They are all-encompassing of your and
as a black woman in this industry, emotions for two years. I don’t take DuVernay
I wouldn’t have people knocking that lightly. If it’s not something I in 13th
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down my door to give me money
for my projects, so I was happy
to make them on the side while
working my day job.”
DOES THE CALL-IN
PODCAST
2013
“For people of color and
women filmmakers, so often
the questions we get asked
are about being a woman or a
Netflix; Atsushi Nishijima/Disney; courtesy of the subject
feel like I can keep myself motivated
for, or I don’t feel it with my whole MAKES DOC13TH
heart, then it’s not worth doing for 2016
any check or notoriety.” “What I didn’t know before
making 13th is the depth to which
people don’t know things that I
think are basic. That has given me
an empathy that has been useful,
especially around issues of race,
culture, and identity.”
DuVernay at

person of color. So The Call-In the Academy

was a space where we could
just talk about craft.”
CBS PILOT FOR JUSTICE
ISN’T PICKED UP
2015
“I was a director for hire. I
enjoyed making it, so for me, it
was still successful. And I got
great relationships from it—it’s
how I met the producer
of my Central Park Five project
[forthcoming from Netflix].”
WORDS OF WISDOM
“As artists, we get the
experience of making
something and the
experience of sharing it.
Sometimes people don’t
like it, but you can’t
control that. The part
you can control is how
you feel making it.”
Awards, 2017
“On a big-budget production,
it’s hard to interview every
person working on the film, but
I make sure that department
heads understand what I expect.
DuVernay works If you hire people who are great,
with Storm and those people hire 20 more
Reid (Meg) on
the Wrinkle in people who are great, then you
Time set just get great.”

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 ART&DESIGN

MINIMALISM IN MOTION
Trailblazing artist Dorothea Rockburne
returns to her roots with an exhibition at
Dia:Beacon. By Mattie Kahn

D orothea Rockburne leans forward on her

couch and pauses to think. She’s in her
studio, a SoHo sprawl that looks less colossal
Rockburne, 85, remembers stories in suc-
cession—childhood adventures in Montreal;
sexism at Black Mountain College; parsing
Courtesy of Dorothea Rockburne Studio

than it is with all she’s crammed inside it
over the last four decades: books, cans of
paint thinner, papers, teacups, shelves piled
with folders, tables, framed prints, a comput-
er, a cat. (“I live in the corner,” she says.
“Just put me wherever the art doesn’t fit.”)
mathematical theorems; dancing for Judson
Dance Theater; motherhood; the tables
she waited; the pieces she made. But for a
moment, she’s silent, thinking back on her
past. For decades, she’s been the rare woman
who found her voice in a universe ruled by

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ART & DESIGN
Rockburne
produces art
that’s “almost
unraveled.”

Clockwise from left:

Rockburne (right) with
Morgan; performing in
Carolee Schneemann’s
Meat Joy in 1964;
installing Intersection in
1971 at Italy’s Spoleto
Festival; a look from the
COS inspiration board
for spring 2018

men. Painters, sculptors, gallerists, dealers,
critics, even her friends—all men. And she’s
thrived. How? Rockburne smiles.
“Sheer guts,” she says. “That’s how I
did it—sheer guts.”
This month, Dia Art Foundation will
mount an exhibition of some of Rockburne’s
most monumental pieces from the late
1960s and early 1970s at Dia:Beacon in
Beacon, New York. The large-scale installa-
tions feature white paper that’s been torn,
folded, and reassembled, then slicked with
de Gunzburg director of Dia Art Founda-
tion. “It’s impossible to look at a piece and
not see its relation to bodies,” says Morgan,
a champion of, as she puts it, “artists who
are women,” the classification she prefers to
the dreaded “women artists.”
The exhibit is sponsored by the fashion
brand COS, whose creative director, Karin
Gustafsson, has been a Rockburne fan since
she encountered the artist at her solo MoMA
show in 2013. “Straightaway, I was inspired
by Dorothea’s approach to industrial mate- “I wanted to see how you could wear it,”

courtesy of Dorothea Rockburne; Ealan Wingate/courtesy

oil, tar, and grease. The pieces are heavily rials and paper, the treatments she does, her Gustafsson says. “We take so much inspira-

Clockwise from top left: courtesy of Dia Art Foundation;

influenced by her experiences in both math minimalism,” Gustafsson says. “When we tion from art. We want to give a little back.”
(she studied under German mathematician heard Dia planned to have a Rockburne ex- Ever since Dia approached Rockburne

of Dorothea Rockburne Studio; courtesy of COS

Max Dehn in college) and dance—leaps of
minds and bodies. The effect leaves its view-
er breathless, a feat given the
less-than-lascivious themes
of geometry, ratios, and
equations that have animated
Rockburne’s lifelong work.
“But that’s just it,” she says. “I
think all that’s kind of sexy.”
Rockburne produces art
that’s “almost unraveled,” says
Jessica Morgan, the Nathalie
hibition, we knew we wanted to be involved.
She’s close to our heart.”
COS has drawn on ele-
ments from Rockburne’s work
for its spring 2018 collection,
cutting clothes from cotton
that’s been treated with a salt
wash for a paperlike feel. The
company has also developed
technical fabrics that drape
and flow like one of Rock-
burne’s folded masterpieces:
about the show, she has also been fixated on
how to pay it forward to a new generation
of artists who are women. “When I was
young, there were no mentors,” she says. Of
course, there are countless female creators
now. But Rockburne believes that newer
voices need more than examples—they need
evidence of success. At Dia, Rockburne
wants to be their proof of concept. “It’s like,
‘Well, if she did it, I can do it, too,’ ” Rock-
burne says. “ ‘I can make the work, and it
will be seen.’ ”

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INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE
FAIR SINGAPORE
The International Furniture Fair
Singapore runs in conjunction with the
ASEAN Furniture Show and NOOK
Asia, spotlighting furnishings, interior
design, and decoration. The insight
drawn from regional designers and
Opens design firms is substantial. This also
happens to be one of the most diverse
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Louise Linton Is
Super-Duper Sorry
The wife of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and
self-described “regular girl” knows what you think of her.
But that doesn’t mean she’s about to disappear. In an exclusive
interview and photo shoot with ELLE, Linton discusses her political
marriage, the Trump family, and the Instagram moment
that will haunt her forever. By Carrie Battan
Photographed by Marc Hom

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L ouise Linton has accomplished
the near-impossible task of
locating an ordinary meeting
place in the most moneyed stretch of the
Upper East Side, where she and her hus-
band, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven
Mnuchin, own an apartment. In this part
of town, there is hardly a store in sight that
doesn’t sell sweaters that cost more than
most Americans’ mortgage payments.
Prada, Tom Ford, Céline, Roland Mouret,
Valentino—many of which Linton made the
regrettable decision to tag in that fateful,
now-deleted Instagram post—they’re all
here. But for our meeting, she has selected
the humble Three Guys restaurant, a bus-
tling family diner and an oasis of normalcy
in a land of excess. I will meet Louise Lin-
ton, the 37-year-old woman most frequently
described as the Marie Antoinette of our
current era, at a place that serves mozzarella
sticks and chicken fingers.
There are many other things Linton
insists make her a regular person. She loves
SoulCycle, for one. “That’s temple for me,”
she says, dressed in a SoulCycle beanie
and leggings. “This is my uniform. I wear
SoulCycle stuff every single day of my life.”
She’s fond of the expression super-duper.
She is “super-duper” sorry for all of the mis-
steps in her self-presentation. She finds the
idea of doing a reality TV show, which many
people have floated to her in recent months,
to be “super-duper” scary.
Other ordinary-girl things: Linton loves
calligraphy and big-band jazz. She enjoys
taking cute selfies with Mnuchin using the
Snapchat filters that make people look like
puppies and piglets. Against her husband’s
wishes, she shows them to me. (“I didn’t
even know she had Snapchat,” her press rep
says, faintly concerned.) She is obsessed
with dogs, especially sick ones. So much so
that she once made friends with a home-
less man named Richard in a park in Los
Angeles because she was concerned about
the health of his dog. She wound up paying
the vet bill. (Richard, over the phone, tells
me that he knows Linton is a good person
because his dog loves her. “You can’t fool
an animal. Dogs read people,” he says.) She
believes that everyone should go to therapy.
“It’s like going to the dentist,” she says. Like
any average person, Linton uses Amazon
religiously and orders delivery meals on
Postmates, on evenings when she’s not
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The Mnuchins
at the Bureau
of Engraving
and Printing.
“My husband
showed me one
meme or tweet
or whatever that
said, ‘Who did
it better? Louise
Linton or Darth
Vader?’ ”
“I look at amazing fashion icons like Jackie O
and I’m like, Why can’t I wear gloves?”
making her husband a big ratatouille with
leftover groceries. And when she’s feeling
worn down from all the negativity in the
world, she’ll turn off her television and her
phone, light some candles, and blast Duke
Ellington so loud that it reaches every nook
and cranny of her $12.6 million Massachu-
setts Avenue Heights home.
f course, nobody really needs
convincing that Linton, in at least
some regard, is a real person. It
was a real person who, holed up in that DC
mansion one day in August, spent a little
too much time scrolling through Instagram.
She’d just returned from a government trip
to Kentucky with Mnuchin, and, as had
become her habit, had posted a photograph
of herself descending the steps of a gov-
ernment jet in her #hermesscarf, #tomford
sunnies, and #valentino. One commenter,
seizing upon the strange and unsavory jux-
taposition of the government signage and
the luxury brands, wrote, “Glad we could
pay for your little getaway. #deplorable.”
For Linton, this was the last straw. She’d
experienced what she felt to be an unjust
torrent of scrutiny since she’d arrived
in Washington. She’d mostly been able
to ignore the noise. But this time she
snapped. “Aw!!! Did you think this was a
personal trip?! Adorable!” she wrote back
to the commenter. “Do you think the US
govt paid for our honeymoon or personal
travel?! Lololol,” she added. “Have you giv-
en more to the economy than me and my
husband? Either as an individual earner in
taxes OR in self sacrifice to your country?”
She continued for a total of 165 words and
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four emojis, the equivalent of one full
meltdown. The comment went viral, and
all eyes turned toward Linton, a character
seemingly drawn straight from a Lauren
Henao for Estée Lauder. This page: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Greenfield coffee-table book or a season
of The Real Housewives.
That Instagram comment has been
playing on repeat in Linton’s mind for the
last six months. “I think after being kicked
and slapped on social media a billion times,
I had this one time. This lady said I was a
deplorable human being, and that hurt,”
Linton says, her voice trembling in sincere
horror and self-pity. Her hands are shak-
ing. “So I had this knee-jerk reaction and
I was like…blarghhhh. I was feeling like a
regular person. And regular people, when
someone says something mean to you on
social media, regular people are allowed to
respond.” It’s clear that she identifies much
more strongly with a battered dalmatian
puppy than Cruella de Vil. “I felt like the kid
on the playground that has been so bullied,
and finally you punch back.”
But even Shona Hampel, a model, the
daughter of a British diplomat, and Linton’s
best friend of two decades, was aghast at the
behavior. “I can’t believe she didn’t know
that you don’t react to internet trolls. Don’t
engage!” she tells me. “I had my face in my
hands, and I was like, No no no.”
All of Linton’s self-pity does not come
without a sizable dose of self-hatred and
self-doubt, I would learn over the tearful
two hours that followed. “I was so stupid,”
Linton says so forcefully in her Scottish
accent that I half expect she will lean over
and begin banging her head on the table
next to the last remaining chicken finger.
She gathers herself and sums up that day,
the day when an absent-minded Instagram
post set off a seismic shift in her life: “I wish
I could take it back.”
“I wasn’t thinking about who I am,” Lin-
ton continues. “I wasn’t thinking, I am the
wife of this person and thus I should act like
the wife of this person.”
A
nd yet…it’s important to understand
that it was Linton’s fantastical idea
of what a political wife should act
like that got her into this mess to begin
with. Like so many dozens of people circling
the president of the United States, Linton
is a show-person who’s constructed her
understanding of political behavior from
a Hollywood fantasy. “When I look at the
photograph of her stepping off the govern-
ment plane, that image definitely looks like
something out of a movie. It looks like a set
piece,” says Robin Givhan, longtime fashion
critic and writer at the Washington Post. “For
a lot of people coming into Washington,
their understanding of this world is based
on Hollywood and television, and that’s the
only touchstone they have.”
Linton’s performative streak devel-
oped early. Lest you suspect she married
Mnuchin for his money, she grew up almost
comically well-off in the suburbs of the
Scottish capital, Edinburgh, where her
father was a property developer. She was
raised in a small castle. The youngest in
a family of three children, she sought the
limelight from an early age, performing
impressions of British politicians she saw
on television. Every year, students from the
drama department at Pepperdine Univer-
sity traveled to Scotland to partake in the
Edinburgh Festival, and some were housed
in her father’s buildings. Young Linton
observed these Pepperdine students with
awe. Their energy, their pure American
confidence, was electrifying. She wanted to
be like them when she grew up.
“So I had this knee-
jerk reaction and I was
like…blarghhhh. I was
feeling like a regular
person. And regular
people, when someone
says something mean
to you on social media,
regular people are
allowed to respond.”
One day Linton, then eight years old,
looked at her father and said: “Daddy, I
am going to go to Pepperdine and be an
actress.” She held onto this dream for the
next decade, and in 2000, she flew to Los
Angeles to make good on her promise. But
not before taking a gap year doing volun-
teer work in Zambia, trying to follow in the
altruistic footsteps of her mother, who died
of breast cancer when she was 14. When
she got to Pepperdine, she studied acting
and journalism. (“Lot of good it did me,”
she says sarcastically about her journalism
classes.) After graduation, she earned a
law degree at the University of West Los
Angeles and married the criminal defense
lawyer Ronald Richards, a union that lasted
for three years. During this period, she also
launched an acting career that could gener-
ously be classified as D-list, scoring a string
of small roles in minor films and TV series.
She had her first harrowing brush with noto-
riety for a memoir she published about her
time in Zambia (titled In Congo’s Shadow:
One Girl’s Perilous Journey to the Heart of
Africa), in which she painted herself as a
Mother Teresa figure bravely navigating the
all-encompassing threats of Mother Africa.
She wrote of being frightened of rebels
targeting her, the “skinny white muzungu
with long angel hair,” and of her “special
comfort in my bond” with an orphan, a
“smiling gap-toothed child with HIV whose
greatest joy was to sit on my lap and drink
from a bottle of Coca-Cola.” The book—the
type of thing that would have gone wholly
unnoticed if it weren’t such a stark example
of white upper-class privilege—was received
so poorly that Linton took it out of print and
issued a public apology. It also sparked a
Twitter hashtag, #LintonLies, detailing its
myriad inaccuracies (the Daily Telegraph,
which had run an excerpt, eventually with-
drew the article from its site and issued an
apology). “My greatest sorrow is that the
effect of my book was the exact opposite of
what my intention was,” Linton says now.
Hampel kindly explains away the book’s
tone-deafness by saying: “Louise was
blessed and fortunate enough to be raised
in a Scottish castle, and to not understand
the reality of some human beings with a
different background.”
It wasn’t until 2013 that Linton met
Mnuchin at the wedding reception of a mu-
tual friend. The son of a successful Goldman
Sachs partner and an art gallerist, Mnuchin
worked at Goldman for 17 years—long
enough to rack up a reported $46 million in
company stock. He eventually settled in Los
Angeles, taking a chunk of his hard-earned
Wall Street money and pouring it into the
film business, backing the X-Men franchise
and Avatar, among other big-budget hits.
Linton didn’t think much of Mnuchin—
who’s 18 years her senior—at first, but she
did mention to him in their initial conversa-
tion that she was hosting a fundraiser for a
dog welfare organization called Mutt Match
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LA. To her surprise, he showed up at the
fundraiser, and the two struck up a casual
friendship. Seven months later, they went
on two consecutive dates. Since they’d both
been married before (Mnuchin twice—he
has three children with his second wife),
they eased into an engagement, after two
years of dating, in 2015. “We’re so, so dif-
ferent,” Linton says. “He’s ice and I’m fire.
I like to try everything, taste everything. I
love to explore, and he is much more habit-
ual. He likes what he likes. We balance each
other out nicely.”
Linton’s sometimes treacherous lack of
filter is only matched by Mnuchin’s extreme
caution—he keeps one of the lowest profiles
of any top-ranking Trump official, and
generally finds himself in the spotlight only
because of his wife. If he is impacted by the
vitriol aimed at his family and his col-
leagues—he and Linton received a package
of horse feces two days before Christmas,
sent by “The American People”—he doesn’t
show it. Nor does he seem to express any
concern that his wife’s snafus will damage
his own reputation. When asked about his
wife’s turn in the spotlight over email, just
a few days after the horse poop incident,
he wrote: “I think social media has made
her misunderstood and she is not at all the
person that has been portrayed. She has
a huge heart, is sensitive, deeply compas-
sionate, and kind. She has humility and
gentleness. She’s also funny and makes
people laugh.… She loves gadgets and has a
bird feeder in the backyard. She reads John
Stuart Mill and writes notes in the margins
of her books. She’s an incredibly warm and
loving person.”
And Linton says she’s able to draw
some silliness out of her husband. He likes
to do impressions of her and will call her
“Laaaady Linton” in the privacy of their
home. The two classify themselves as movie
buffs. (When I ask what their favorite film
of the year is, Linton mentions that they
recently watched and adored Crazy, Stupid,
Love.) Mnuchin is an avid cyclist, and in a
classic marital compromise, he and Linton
trade off weekend trips to SoulCycle with
journeys into the wilderness on real bikes.
Unlike Linton’s first husband, Mnuchin
makes an effort to bring her friends into
their lives. He’s invited Hampel and her
family to stay with them multiple times.
“She can fall asleep anywhere. She’ll fall
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asleep on the sofa in front of a film and
he’ll carry her up to sleep. And then she’ll
fall asleep in the bathroom,” Hampel says.
“Their dog, Beersie, needs quite a lot of
extra care, and Steven is right on it.”
Besides some contributions to a few Dem-
ocratic political campaigns, Mnuchin and
Linton didn’t consider themselves political
people in the early stages of their relation-
ship. But when the Trump campaign came
knocking—first, to offer Mnuchin a role lead-
ing campaign financing—they felt powerless
not to heed the call of American citizens.
It’s easy to imagine that a couple, finan-
cially secure and happily working in the film
industry in Los Angeles, would want to stay
“Louise was blessed
and fortunate enough
to be raised in a
Scottish castle, and
to not understand the
reality of some human
beings with a different
background.”
far away from the chaos of such a turbulent
political operation. But Linton remembers
it as a no-brainer. “It wasn’t a long delib-
eration because I think he felt incredibly
honored to have the opportunity to serve
the country. And I felt good because I know
him so well, and I feel safe, knowing that the
economy is in his hands.” And so the two
left Los Angeles behind, moving into a hotel
in Washington until they could find a home
that would be suitable for, fingers crossed,
the next eight years of their lives.
If Linton is maddening to the general
public, she can do no wrong in the eyes of
her husband. He reacted empathetically
to her when she snapped at the Instagram
commenter, she remembers. “He’ll say,
‘Okay, honey, maybe we don’t do this,’ ” she
says. “But he’s never harsh or critical, and
he sees the humanity in me.
“He is the most decent, moral, sweet
person I have ever met. He’s brilliant, and he
understands the economy,” Linton says of
her husband. She has a tendency to classify
all the people she’s met in the administration
using long, breathless lists of adjectives. As
bumbling as she can be when talking about
herself, she is deft at fielding political ques-
tions in the most uncontroversial way possi-
ble. The people of Washington are “decent,
wonderful, nice people.” The vice president
is “the most gentle, lovely, wonderful, smart,
kind” person she has met. Maguy Maccario
Doyle, an ambassador of Monaco to the U.S.
and Canada and a real inspiration to Linton,
is “graceful, wise, elegant, smart, thoughtful,
and caring.” The president himself is “nice,
and so charming.” His daughter Ivanka is
“incredibly bright, brilliant, gifted, thought-
ful, kind, generous, and very, very elegant.”
She’s recently started wearing Ivanka
Trump’s brand of shoes, which you can buy
for $69 on Amazon. “They’re incredible,”
she says. And alongside Lara Trump, she’s
been collaborating with the Humane Society
to push for animal welfare within the current
administration, a cause not typically associ-
ated with the GOP.
I ask Linton if she’s interested in politics.
“Oh God, no. I am not in politics. I have
nothing to do with politics.”
Linton remembers the first few months
in Washington as lonely, friendless, and
confusing. The absence of her dogs was
particularly painful for her. “When you get
off the plane in Washington, nobody says,
‘Here’s a handbook of dos and don’ts now
that you’re in this position,’ ” she says. “I
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wish they did.” She remembers planning her
wedding to Mnuchin—which was officiated
by Vice President Mike Pence and attended
by President Trump—and fumbling through
the invitation process. “We had various
people from government and some ambas-
sadors at the wedding, and I didn’t know
proper protocol and how to address the
honorable this and that,” she remembers.
“There’s a whole different set of rules.”
Instead of just receding into the back-
ground and living a quiet, peaceful life in
her house with her dogs, Linton stepped into
her position as though she had been cast in a
new role in a film.
“I was tagging things [on Instagram] be-
cause I thought I had seen other actresses do-
ing that, and I was like, I should do that, too.
I should be more fashionable. I need to play
that role; I need to be more elegant; I need to
be more stylish,” Linton says breathlessly. “I
look at amazing fashion icons like Jackie O
and I’m like, Why can’t I wear gloves?”

And so she did—elbow-length black leath-
er gloves, to be exact—in November, when
she was photographed beside her husband
holding up a fresh printing of dollar bills at
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing with a
wicked glint in her eyes. “I just didn’t bother
taking the gloves off because it was kind of
cold in the bureau . And I didn’t expect that
I would be pulled into a picture!” Linton
protests. By this point, she’d learned to avoid
reading about herself at all costs, but that day
she quickly got a fresh stream of concerned
correspondence. “My husband showed me
one meme or tweet or whatever that said,
‘Who did it better? Louise Linton or Darth
Vader?’ ” With these kinds of snafus, the
wife of the secretary of the Treasury—typi-
cally a person far removed from the political
limelight—became the center of a blizzard
of media fascination and scorn. Here was
the perfect avatar for the warped lavish-
ness and general disregard for Washington
protocol that has characterized the Trump
administration.
“Louise’s life has been a roller coaster,”
Hampel admits. “I’m never going to fall
off my chair because she is in a newspaper.
There’s always something dramatic or enter-
taining or newsworthy going on in her life.”
In between the drama, she’s embracing
her role as a stepmother. Mnuchin’s three
teenagers spent Thanksgiving with the cou-
ple in DC. “We saw A Bad Moms Christmas.
Uh, whoops. I’ve already done it. Louise
Linton, dreadful stepmother, takes children
to see an R-rated movie!” And, she says, the
turbulence of the last year has solidified her
decision to start her own family. “I think
motherhood is an incredible thing that I
now feel that I would like.... There can be
all this noise out there, but at the end of the
day, you’ve got your family, and a roof over
your head, and food.”
After the Instagram scandal, Linton
tried to take her image into her own hands.
She reached out to wives of cabinet mem-
bers for advice, one of whom referred her to
a Washington protocol expert. She is now
learning a lot. “It’s actually really a fascinat-
ing world. The world of political etiquette.
For example, gift giving. You’re not allowed
to give gifts, and people aren’t allowed to
give us gifts. Undue influence. Obviously
we both are ethical and good people and we
don’t want to mess up. When I went to the
Middle East, they helped me: What is the
appropriate thing to wear in Jerusalem? In
Saudi Arabia? What’s the appropriate way to
greet a gentleman in Saudi? What’s the ap-
propriate way to greet sheiks or whomever?”
She returns to a common refrain: “I’m
trying and I’m learning,” she says.
The elephant in the room is the great, if
not overwhelming, likelihood that she will
not have any long-term use for this etiquette
training, given the volatility of the Trump
administration. One would imagine this
possibility is a relief for Linton. And yet she
hates to think about it. “Especially because I
just finished decorating my house, and I just
started making friends in DC,” she sighs.
“I’m just a regular girl, and I’m not
perfect, but I’m trying my best,” she says.
“Maybe I should wear that on a T-shirt and
Instagram that. And then on the back it
should say…‘I’m so sorry.’ ”
Linton thinks ruefully about the long
leather gloves and the black skirt, which are
currently hanging, unloved and radioactive,
in her closet. “I really hope someday I can
wear that outfit again,” she says. “Because I
really liked it.”
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PERSPECTIVES
Viscose-blend bodysuit,
DAVID KOMA, $670.
Jacquard skirt,
ALTUZARRA, $1,195.
Leather pumps, MANOLO
BLAHNIK, $625.

The Fixer
For years, she was underestimated by Silicon Valley’s dude
establishment. Now Katrina Lake, CEO of online fashion
juggernaut Stitch Fix, is getting what’s hers. By Jessica Pressler
340     Photographed by Jake Stangel
 Photographed by Tyler Joe

always on
PERSPECTIVES
Early one morning last November, Katrina
Lake stepped up to the podium at the Nas-
daq MarketSite in Times Square, where her
tech retail start-up, Stitch Fix, was about
to go public. The now 35-year-old CEO was
dressed in a burgundy shift and heels. On
her hip was an accessory not often seen on
Wall Street: her 14-month-old son, holding a
large stuffed cat. “Our dreams for Stitch Fix
are big and bold,” Lake declared. “And we’re
just getting started.” When the baby began
to squall, Lake calmly inserted a bagel into
his mouth.
Twitter went wild. “When a photo says it
all: Katrina Lake, holding her toddler to IPO
@stitchfix as a CEO, as the youngest female
founder to take a company public, and as a
mother!” gushed one user. “It’s so perfectly
a ‘yes, we are ladies in charge’ moment,”
said another.
Sitting in a glass conference room in
Stitch Fix’s downtown San Francisco head-
quarters two weeks later, she holds up her
iPhone to show me the @ replies she’s still
receiving. “It wasn’t planned,” Lake says of
her decision to carry her son. “But the photo
really resonated with people.” She doesn’t
say this in a braggy way, like “Look at my
genius PR move” (though the publicist next
to her, formerly of Uber, beams like someone
reassigned to heaven after a stint in hell).
Lake, who is small, 5'2" in her jeans and loaf-
ers, is simply making a point: People may not
have known it, but this was something that
needed to be seen.
Over the past seven years, Lake has taken
2.
1.
An algorithm
compares the
customer’s
preferences to Stitch
Fix’s inventory of
nearly 700 brands
(plus the company’s
18 exclusive labels)
Users fill out a 10- to and generates a list
15-minute online or in-app of items she’d be
Style Profile, indicating most likely to keep.
their fashion sensibilities,
sizes, and budget.
342    
Wool- and
cashmere-
blend sweater,
ROSETTA GETTY,
$690. Pencil
skirt, DVF, $228.
“I’m not somebody Pumps, MANOLO
BLAHNIK, $625.
that people looked
at and said, ‘Oh,
she’s going to be a
CEO someday.’ ”
Stitch Fix from a business-school project—
the idea: a customized one-stop-shop box
of clothes sent directly to your door—to
a Silicon Valley unicorn valued at more
than $2 billion, with 5,800 employees and
multiple distribution centers. Lake, too, has
transformed from a slightly soft student to
a toned, highlighted power player, the kind
of businessperson that people mention in
the same breath as Sheryl Sandberg—only
to correct themselves and say they actually
meant Mark Zuckerberg. She’s an “Entre-
preneur to Watch,” according to Forbes, and
a two-time honoree on Fortune’s “40 Under
40” list. She’s “like an icon,” says Emily
Weiss, the founder and CEO of Glossier, who
has called Lake “my hero.”
Though her success looks easy, “I have way.” This was particularly true just days be-
not had the easiest path,” Lake says. Con- fore Stitch Fix’s debut on the stock exchange,
vincing mostly male venture capitalists that when the company was forced to reduce the
Stitch Fix was a service women actually size of its offering. Investors were skittish
wanted—no, really, look at the numbers— after the June IPO of Blue Apron—a fellow
was difficult. “They were like, ‘You want $2 stuff-in-a-box purveyor whose plummeting
million to buy dresses?’ ” And the company stock prices were followed by the resignation
has paid, indirectly, for other start-ups’ mis- of its founder and CEO.
takes: “It’s been a struggle every step of the By the end of the first trading day, Stitch
For a $20 styling
fee (to be applied
A note about
how to style or
accessorize the
looks is included.
4.
reviews each piece online, keeps what
is wanted, and returns the rest. This data
is logged on both the customer’s profile
and the item, helping to better tailor
future boxes to her taste.
 Fix’s share price dropped to $15.15 from its
opening price of $16.90. The next day, it
dipped even lower. “It’s a fear factor,” said
one commentator on CNBC. “Investors say,
‘I don’t trust what’s going on here. I don’t
know what the future looks like.’ ” But Lake
doesn’t appear concerned. “We’ve been
underestimated before,” she says, baring her
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teeth in an almost-smile.
Unlike many of her high-powered,
entrepreneurial friends, she doesn’t have
any “cute stories about running a lemonade
stand. That wasn’t me,” she says, joking that
she was “master of the A-minus. I’m not
somebody that people looked at and said,
‘Oh, she’s going to be a CEO someday.’ ”
She refers to strong female role models
as inspiration. Like her paternal great-
grandmother, who, faced with the untimely
death of her husband, set up house with
her sister, also a widow. One supported
their combined five children during World
War II making airplane parts at a factory.
The other raised the kids.
When Lake got into Stanford (not early
admission, she asserts), she enrolled in a
premed program. Her father was a doctor,
and she assumed she’d follow in his foot-
steps. But she was drawn more to economics
than the lab. “Academically, medicine was
interesting, but I didn’t really love being
around gross stuff and I couldn’t imagine
wearing a lab coat and scrubs every day.”
“Kat was always a bit chicer than the
rest of us,” says Chelsea Kohler, one of her
roommates at Stanford. Lake used to text
her sister, a fashion buyer in New York, for
clothing advice—a real time-saver, she told
her friends. She was interested, she told
them, in the intersection of fashion and
technology, at one point pondering aloud
the idea of starting a Netflix for designer
handbags. “Years later, I saw that company
Bag Borrow or Steal,” Kohler says. “I was
like, ‘That was your idea!’ ”
After graduation, Lake joined a consult-
ing firm focusing on retail and hospitality,
industries that had yet to embrace the
digital revolution. She says that despite
the fact that many people wanted to buy
clothes online, they were finding it diffi-
cult to sift through the millions of options
available and pinpoint what exactly would
work. The challenge, she realized, was,
“How can we marry the ease of shopping
online with what people want in clothes,
which is really about fit and style?”
When she couldn’t find any companies
addressing the issue the way that she envi-
sioned it, she joined a venture capital firm,
with the idea that one would cross her path.
“I was thinking, ‘I’ll treat this like a long
search process. I’ll meet an entrepreneur
“When you are doing
something no one
else is doing, you are
either the smartest
person in the room,
or the dumbest.
For years, I didn’t
know which I was.”
Lake flanked by her husband and son
at Stitch Fix’s IPO in November.
and join their company.’ ” Two years passed,
and no such figure materialized. (Though
she did meet her future husband, investment
professional John Clifford. The two married
in 2014.) Eventually, she says, “it occurred
to me, ‘Maybe I can create it.’ ”
She went to Harvard Business School,
where she came up with the idea for a com-
pany that would combine personal shopping
advice—like the tips she’d received from
her sister—with a Netflix-style e-commerce
model. It was inspired in part by the boxes
of Community Supported Agriculture
(CSA) fresh produce she received at her
Cambridge apartment. (Lake is, according
to friends, an accomplished cook, known for
her annual Thanksgiving feasts.) The prem-
ise: For a small fee, customers would receive
semiregular shipments of clothing based
on their size, tastes, and information culled
from social media accounts like Instagram
and Pinterest. What they wanted to keep,
they’d be charged for. What they didn’t,
they could return.
Her professors at Harvard weren’t exactly
wowed. “Nobody ever said, ‘This is a horri-
ble idea,’ ” Lake says. But they came close,
as in, “This is an inventory nightmare.” She
found support in Erin Morrison Flynn, the
wife of one of her classmates and a former
merchandiser at J.Crew, who agreed to
become her business partner. At first, they
called their new company “Rack Habit,” but
later renamed it the catchier “Stitch Fix.”
And Lake maintained that the idea was
good, at least most of the time. “When you
are doing something no one else is doing,
you are either the smartest person in the
room or the dumbest,” she says. “For years,
I didn’t know which one I was.”
After school, Lake and Flynn relocated
the company to San Francisco, where they
moved into an office building full of other
start-ups, all vying to be the Next Big Thing.
It was there that Lake made one of her first
big hires: Mike Smith, who’d spent nine
years running operations at Walmart.com
and was looking for a smaller, scrappier
company. “She was really clear on her
vision,” he says, of using data to better serve
customers. “And that vision spoke to me,
because I had come from a place where they
had a lot of data but didn’t know how to use
it effectively.”
Eric Colson was running analytics at
Netflix when Lake convinced him to join the
company as an adviser. “Katrina tried to tell
me, ‘We’re going to change the way people
shop,’ ” he says. He thought she was being
overly aspirational. But he was soon fasci-
nated by the company’s data, which was so
much more “pristine” than at Netflix, where
people might quit a show after five minutes
but never explain why. He’d eventually leave
Netflix to join the company full-time.
Lake would also go on to hire Margo
Wheeler, who’d been in charge of corporate
culture at Lululemon Athletica. Wheeler
was sold on joining the start-up after helping
style a “Fix” for a woman in Chico, Califor-
nia, during the interview process. “A lot of
fashion is about, ‘We’re going to make you
look like the bougie person or whatever.’ At
Stitch Fix, it’s about, ‘You’re awesome.’ ”
PERSPECTIVES

They began raising money for a Series A

round to expand the business further. But
at the venture capital firms they visited,
their “song and dance routine,” as Lake puts
it, was met with indifference or confusion
by the mostly male executives. She now
blames herself for not speaking to them in
their native tongue. “It’s my fault for not
pitching it as a data company—not saying,
‘Most of our board meetings, we don’t look
at dresses.’ ” Smith, now Stitch Fix’s chief
operating officer, isn’t so sure that would
have mattered: “Some of it was youth. Some
of it was Katrina being a woman. But a lot
was not understanding the demographic and
how disruptive this model could be.”
Of the people who did invest in the
company, at least one may have done so for
the wrong reasons. In 2013, Lake report-
edly asked Lightspeed Venture Partners to
remove one of its principals, Justin Cald-
beck—who has since been the subject of
Silk georgette dress,
numerous sexual harassment complaints— ULLA JOHNSON, $595.
from his role as a Stitch Fix board observer
due to his behavior. Lightspeed agreed,
according to multiple reports, but it also
asked Lake to sign a nondisparagement
“I should be able to “There was one point where I felt I should
be [called] a tech CEO and not a woman
agreement. Both Lake and Lightspeed
declined to comment on the matter to
occupy a space of CEO,” she says. “There’s still part of me
that feels like I should be able to occupy a
ELLE, although Lightspeed had previously
released a statement on Twitter acknowl-
success regardless space of success regardless of my gender.”
But Lake, who worked tirelessly through-
edging they’d received a complaint about
Caldbeck from “a portfolio company” and
of my gender.” out her pregnancy, has grown comfortable
playing the role of CEO and mother—and
saying they “should have done more.” wife, and sister, and friend.
There were other difficulties, like a assistant to Bill Gurley, a general partner “The thing is, we need it,” she contin-
schism between Lake and Erin Morrison at the venture capital firm Benchmark. ues. “We need more founder CEOs who
Flynn over Flynn’s stake in the company “She was like, ‘I think you should know the are successful women to be in the public
(Flynn eventually sued, claiming Lake had staff is spending a lot of money with this eye. We need diversity on boards and

pushed her out in order to distribute her shares
to new hires; Lake denied the allegations,
and they settled for an undisclosed sum). As
Lake’s Harvard professors predicted, keeping
a vast clothing inventory was indeed a peren-
nial issue. And try as they might to cultivate
a welcoming, professional atmosphere, more
than one Glassdoor reviewer referred to the
company culture as a “mean-girls club.”
company,’ ” Gurley recalls. He set up a
meeting with Lake, and although he was
skeptical at first, having worked with Nord-
strom.com and experienced the pitfalls of
e-tail, he was “blown away” by the compa-
ny’s financials.
An investment from Benchmark meant
the company could at least consider going
public. It would be a risky move, especially
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management teams, in decision makers
and venture investors. All of those things
have to change in order to create an envi-
ronment where diversity and inclusion are
celebrated.”
Ten days after its market debut, Stitch
Fix’s stock price rose almost 54 percent.
“An astonishing feat,” TechCrunch
called it. About three weeks after that, it
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But there was also an army of women
propping them up. “Even when things were
hard, the clients were always there,” Lake
says. “So if I lacked confidence from what
people were saying, our financials were
good. It was easy to believe in Stitch Fix,
even when others didn’t.”
One of those loyal clients was Amie
Fineberg, who happened to be the executive
in the current environment. Smith recalls
the meeting the senior executives had to
discuss it. “That was a critical point,” he
says. “We said [Katrina] is such an amaz-
ing leader. She deserves the platform of
being a founder-led CEO who happens to
be a woman.”
The “female CEO” label is something
Lake initially had mixed feelings about.
dropped again after the company posted
its earnings, even though they were in
line with analysts’ expectations. As a
woman, Katrina Lake is used to weathering
these ups and downs. “We’ve been here
before,” she says evenly. “We’re more
comfortable operating from a place of
‘We’re underestimated and we’re excited to
prove ourselves.’ We’re good with that.”

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 Far left: Polyurethane
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 Left: Mohair cardigan, $1,050,
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 Wool gabardine jacket,
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 Far left: Silk pants, leather
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 Suede dress, BOTTEGA VENETA, $11,900, call 800-845-6790. Tassel and shell arm pieces,
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 Pale
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Photographed by Mariano Vivanco Styled by Anna Trevelyan

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For details, see Shopping Guide.

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 Above: Cotton-blend top, $830, shorts, $690, both, MISSONI, at Missoni, NYC. Gold and pavé hoop
earrings, PAIGE NOVICK, $2,300. White, pink, and yellow gold ring, BULGARI, $1,950. Nylon socks,
WE LOVE COLORS, $5. Patent leather sandals, CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN, $795.
Right: Silk blazer, $2,650, shorts, $875, cotton knit top, $675, metal bobby pins, $150 each, earrings,
$300, leather belt, $550, pumps, $995, all, VERSACE, versace.com. Sheer socks,
WE LOVE COLORS, $4. For details, see Shopping Guide.

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 Above: Wool jacket, HERMÈS, $5,850, hermes.com. Diamond and white gold hoop earrings, ROBERTO COIN, $8,500.
Turquoise enamel and gold chain bracelet, DAVID YURMAN, $11,000. Her own small hoop earrings.
Right: Wool sweater, $690, poplin shirt, $640, drill denim shorts, $840, all, PRADA, at select Prada boutiques
nationwide. Gold and turquoise hoop earrings, DAVID YURMAN, $1,950. For details, see Shopping Guide.

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 Left: Tweed jacket, $6,850,
toile dress, $4,000, resin
and strass earrings, $1,025,
polyurethane and grosgrain
boots, $1,350, all, CHANEL,
at select Chanel boutiques
nationwide. Microfiber socks,
WE LOVE COLORS, $7.
Right: Viscose top, $5,895, silk-
blend shorts, $1,295, handbag,
$2,695, all, GIORGIO ARMANI,
armani.com. Gold and pavé hoop
earrings, PAIGE NOVICK, $2,030.
Rose gold and coral bracelet,
VHERNIER, $21,300. For details,
see Shopping Guide.
Hair by Joey George at Streeters for AG
Hair; makeup by Niki M’Nray at the Wall
Group for Kat Von D Beauty; manicure
by Mar y Soul for Chanel; casting by Paul
Brickman at Zan Casting; model: Hailey
Baldwin at IMG; produced by Nathalie
Akiya at Kranky Produktions; set
design by Gille Mills; fashion assistant:
Kristtian Chévere
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 Should
She Run?
In honor of International Women’s Day,
Angelina Jolie sits down with former
secretary of state John Kerry to discuss
what it means to be an American today and
how to enact positive change. Could she be
campaigning for her biggest role yet?
Crazier things have happened.

Photographed by Andres Kudacki Styled by Samira Nasr

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 Cotton broadcloth robe,
BROOKS BROTHERS,
$118, brooksbrothers.com.
Diamond and gold stud
earrings, VAN CLEEF &
ARPELS, $11,900. Gold
and diamond bracelet,
TIFFANY & CO., $3,200.
Pink gold, rubellite, and
diamond watch on leather
strap, BULGARI, $9,700.
Her own rings, worn
throughout. For details,
see Shopping Guide.

Jolie with her daughters Vivienne, 9,

and Shiloh Jolie-Pitt,11, at New York’s
Ritz-Carlton Central Park.
In conversation with former
secretary of state John Kerry.

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A
ngelina Jolie does not
have a project to pro-
mote. She’s neither
starring in, nor directing,
a March film. Bucking the standard reasons
for doing press, the Academy Award–winning
megastar is on this month’s cover of ELLE
to draw attention to an occasion that doesn’t
come with a red carpet: International Wom-
en’s Day (March 8).
For the better part of the last decade, the
42-year-old has devoted herself to shedding
light on women’s rights, or lack thereof,
across the globe. Serving as a goodwill
ambassador and special envoy to the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
she’s completed nearly 60 field missions,
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Shiloh (left) and Vivienne joined Jolie after ice skating in Central Park.
including visits to Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq.
As cofounder of the British government’s
Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, she’s
met with rape survivors in Rwanda and Bos-
nia and Herzegovina. Days before her ELLE
shoot, the Guardian published Jolie’s call to
action against gender-based violence, coau-
thored with NATO Secretary General Jens
Stoltenberg. Despite all her advocacy, Jolie
confesses she’s always been reticent when it
comes to politics. Her choice of interviewer,
however, suggests a shift.
Jolie met John Kerry five years ago at the
London G8 Summit. A Vietnam veteran,
presidential candidate, and, most recently,
U.S. secretary of state, Kerry would make
a choice mentor for anyone with budding
political ambitions. And during the making
of this story, Jolie expressed utter awe for the
74-year-old statesman.
It’s a frigid December morning when the
two reconnect at the Ritz-Carlton in New
York. Kerry, who unexpectedly bumped into
his daughter Vanessa on the street, brought
her along for a brief hello. The four young-
est of Jolie’s six children will arrive later.
Jolie is in town to accept the Global Citizen
of the Year award from the United Nations
Correspondents Association and to do some
Christmas shopping. They’re both looking
forward to 2018, when Jolie will speak to
students at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global
Affairs, where the former secretary oversees
the Kerry Initiative. Kerry, in turn, has agreed
 Above and left: Crepe blouse, ZAC POSEN, $850, similar styles at Barneys New York. Double-faced
wool skirt, AKRIS, $895. Cotton trench coat (on bed), KHAITE, $1,690. Diamond and gold stud earrings,
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, $11,900. Gold and diamond bracelet, TIFFANY & CO., $3,200. Pink gold, rubellite, and
diamond watch on leather strap, BULGARI, $9,700. For details, see Shopping Guide.
Hair by Adam Campbell at the Wall Group; makeup by Matin; manicure by Mar y Soul;
grooming by Susan Phear; set design by Bette Adams for MHS Artists; produced by
Nathalie Akiya for Kranky Produktions; fashion assistant: Yashua Simmons
to speak at the London School of Economics,
where Jolie is a visiting professor.
Perhaps not wanting to spoil their upcom-
ing presentations, they requested that their
conversation be held without any reporters
present. The following is what they submit-
ted for ELLE to share. Whether or not they
were hatching a bigger plan—one that might
involve Jolie inching toward public office—is
anyone’s guess. These days, nothing would
surprise us.
ANGELINA JOLIE: Thank you for speaking
with me for International Women’s Day.
JOHN KERRY: My pleasure. How’s your
family?
AJ: All right. The kids will be here soon. You
have grandkids now?
JK: I am having the best time being a grand-
dad. They’re so smart, it’s scary.
AJ: They really are, just their clarity....
JK: I’ve just come back from a climate sum-
mit in Paris. I know this is something you
feel strongly about, why we need to be
engaged globally.
AJ: That’s one of the things I’d love to talk to
you about. There is this question of, can
you be a citizen of the world and still be a
patriot? It shouldn’t even be a question.
JK: It’s something we need to talk more
about. What it means to be an American.
We need to do a better job of explaining
why all Americans should feel proud of
the things that we have done in countries
around the world.
AJ: I’m very patriotic, as I know you are. For
me, it goes hand in hand with being proud
of what America stands for. For instance,
I’m the only person in my house who was
born in America.
JK: I wasn’t aware of that.
AJ: It’s only because we are a country based
on people of different backgrounds and
faiths coming together that I can have this
family. My daughters have the freedoms
they have because of being American.
And we are at our best when we are
fighting for others to have the same rights.
Particularly other women.
JK: The challenge is describing how a
conflict in North Africa or wherever
else relates to all of us. How it impacts
migration, terrorism, the economy.
AJ: The way I see it, even if you are a person
who doesn’t want to have to care about
international issues, you are still affected.
Stepping back is dangerous.
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JK: Last year, we had a discussion at the
Jackson Institute at Yale on climate
change. When you say “Save the planet”
to most people, their eyes glaze over. But
again, it’s about how it impacts all of us—
especially jobs. What if you are a farmer
and things won’t grow in certain places?
What does it mean to have more frequent
and destructive superstorms? [As U.S.
secretary of state, Kerry negotiated and
signed the Paris climate accord in 2016.
“I tell my daughters,
‘Anyone can put
on a dress and
makeup. It’s your
mind that will
define you.’ ”
Last June, Trump announced that the U.S.
intends pull out in 2020.]
AJ: It must be a frustrating time, with America
withdrawing from the climate agreement.
JK: The truth is, more than 90 cities, includ-
ing New York, Miami, and Los Angeles,
are 100 percent committed to live by the
Paris agreement. The American people
have not pulled out. Climate change nega-
tively affects all the issues you’re working
on—violence against women, refugees.
AJ: There are already more people displaced
by climate change than by war. Was the
environment what drew you into politics?
JK: When I came back from Vietnam, I didn’t
immediately protest the war. I was still
processing it. But I did become part of
the first Earth Day, in 1970. We got 20
million people to come out, and from
that came the Clean Air Act, the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act, and the
EPA. Guess who signed the EPA into law?
Richard Nixon. Why? Because it was a
voting issue. Then, in the election of 1974,
we targeted 12 members of Congress,
labeling them the “dirty dozen.” Seven
of them lost their seats. Boom. Everybody
was shocked.
AJ: I was quite anti-politics when I was
young. I started working on human-rights
issues and meeting refugees and survi-
vors mostly because I wanted to learn. I
also had this romantic idea that I would
get my boots on and be a humanitarian.
But at a certain point, you realize that’s
not enough. You have to find the root of
the problem. And that, so often, brings
you back to the law and politics. For in-
stance, I kept meeting refugees who were
survivors of systematic rape—rape used
as a weapon. Yet there were virtually no
convictions. It fired me up to start working
with governments and lawmakers. When
it comes down to it, we still treat violence
against women as a lesser crime.
JK: It’s shameful.
AJ: You have to identify what will make that
change. Find the people in politics you
can work with, and hold them to their
promises.
JK: That’s democracy: It’s about accountabil-
ity. You have to fight and keep pushing.
Do you feel like you’ve been effective?
AJ: In some countries, sexual violence is less
of a taboo discussion. It’s something more
people expect their leaders to act on. Over
150 countries have signed a commitment
to end impunity for war-zone rape. There
are new teams in place to gather evidence
and support prosecutions. I was in Kenya
last summer as UN peacekeeping troops
received new training, since peacekeep-
ers have been part of the problem. We’re
working with NATO on training, pro-
tection, and getting more women in the
military. But there is so far to go.
JK: When I was a young prosecutor, a lot of
people didn’t believe that violence against
women was a crime. We tried to chip away
at that old thinking by expanding counsel-
ing programs for rape victims and hiring
and promoting more women prosecutors.
AJ: That’s exactly it: changing thinking as
well as laws. I think of how hard women
fought to get us to where we are today.
Everything counts, from the way you hold
yourself in your daily life and educate
yourself on your own rights, to solidarity
with other women around the world.
JK: I hope readers understand how important
their individual voices are.
AJ: And that they feel their voices are being
heard. I tell my daughters, “What sets
you apart is what you are willing to do for
others. Anyone can put on a dress and
makeup. It’s your mind that will define
you. Find out who you are, what you
think, and what you stand for. And fight
for others to have those same freedoms. A
life of service is worth living.”
Jolie accepting the Global Citizen
of the Year award in New York at
Cipriani Wall Street.
Sequin-embroidered silk georgette
dress, GUCCI, $12,900, gucci.com.
Brass and glass earring, DRIES
VAN NOTEN, $635. For details, see
Shopping Guide.
 Self-described rule breaker
Isabeli Fontana hits the jackpot
in Vegas-worthy sequins and
glam western finery.

Photographed by Paola Kudacki   Styled by Samira Nasr

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Above: Embroidered dress, BALMAIN, balmain.com. Wool felt cowboy hat, STETSON,
$140. Amethyst, ruby, and rhodolite earrings, VERDURA.
Right: Sequin and crystal jumpsuit, DOLCE & GABBANA, at select Dolce & Gabbana
boutiques nationwide. Velour hat, ERIC JAVITS, $2,500. Satin and strass pumps,
SAINT LAURENT BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO, $1,295. For details, see Shopping Guide.
I
sabeli Fontana was just 13 when she
started modeling in São Paulo, Brazil;
16 when she first posed for Victoria’s
Secret; and 19 when she became
pregnant with her first son. Now 34, with a
résumé that spans the fashion alphabet from
Armani to Zac Posen, the mother of two
says she feels like she’s 45. “The business
can really kill your ego,” she explains on the
set of her ELLE shoot. “You’re never good
enough. Between 14 and 15 is when you
become your own person. I didn’t have that;
it came much later.”
Rebel is the word she returns to most
often in describing her youth. “I did what-
ever I wanted to do. I started loving tattoos
and rock ’n’ roll. If people tried to demand
something, I’d go, ‘Are you kidding me? I do
whatever I want.’ ” Her teenage pregnancy
was a huge shock, to her mother in particu-
lar. “But I had so much power at that age. I
had my own place, my own money. My fam-
ily didn’t support me anymore, so I was like,
‘Why are you trying to say how I’m supposed
to live my life?’ ”
At work, Fontana’s stubbornness served
as a form of protection. “If a photographer
told me, ‘Do a picture licking ice cream,’
I said no. That’s too sexy. It wasn’t just
photographers. One time a stylist wanted
me to show my breasts. I said no because I
didn’t feel comfortable. She was mad, but
if people confront me, I confront back. I’ve
always been that way.”
Fontana, who’s been married twice
and was briefly engaged to Rohan Marley
(Bob’s son), says she’s finally found her zen
with singer Diego Ferrero. The two met on
a Brazilian talk show and married in 2016.
“Just before I met my husband, I felt really
sad,” she says. “I had my kids, my house,
everything was going great, but I was not
balanced.” She says they stabilize each
other. “It’s a beautiful, spiritual, constructive
relationship. For so long, I always followed
my heart. But hearts can be distracting.
You have to go inside yourself, meditate,
and listen to your essence to feel more
secure in life.”—Katie L. Connor

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 Left: Embroidered-lambskin coat, cotton shirt, $620, sheer wool trousers, $1,050, all, CÉLINE, collection at
Hirshleifers, Manhasset, NY. Western collar tips, WESTERN SPIRIT. Turquoise, pearl, jet, coral, and leather bolo tie,
BOW&ARROW, $120. Vintage silver and turquoise rings, both, JILL HELLER, $950 each. Leather boots,
CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC, $1,495.
Beauty Secret: Amp up hair’s sheen with TRESEMMÉ Keratin Smooth Shine Serum.
Above: Printed–fringe mesh top, $7,890, skirt, $10,050, both, PACO RABANNE, collection at justoneeye.com. Brown
pearl, diamond, titanium, and white gold earrings, JACOB & CO, $21,000. Leather boots, $1,495, printed small
bandanna, $140, all, CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC. For details, see Shopping Guide.
 Above: Leather jacket, $9,725, skirt, $2,195, silk shirt, $1,475, cowboy hat, fringe belt bag, $795, all, VERSACE,
versace.com. Amethyst, ruby, and rhodolite earrings, VERDURA. Rhinestone-embellished leather belt, SHYANNE, $35.
Right: Leather shirt, $3,345, pants, $2,845, both, TOD’S, tods.com. Cotton bandanna, LEVI’S, $14.
Onyx, emerald, diamond, and white gold brooch, BULGARI. Bolo tie, WESTERN SPIRIT. Leather boots, $1,495,
printed small bandanna, $140, all, CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC. For details, see Shopping Guide.
Beauty Secret: For sleek and defined brows, try BOBBI BROWN Brown Brow Pencil in Brunette.
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 Left: Embroidered-tulle jumpsuit, skirt, both, DIOR, at Dior boutiques nationwide. Rhinestone-embellished
leather belt, SHYANNE, $35. Leather boots, MAISON MARGIELA, $1,390.
Above: Embroidered-leather jacket, silk blouse, pants, all, LOUIS VUITTON, at select Louis Vuitton stores
nationwide. Bolo tie, WESTERN SPIRIT. Suede boots, MAISON MARGIELA, $1,760. For details, see Shopping Guide.
Hair by Kevin Ryan for Unite; makeup by Sil Bruinsma at Streeters for Dior; manicure by Casey Herman at the Wall Group for Dior;
casting by Paul Brickman at Zan Casting; model: Isabeli Fontana at Women Management; fashion assistant: Yashua Simmons
 NEUTRAL
GROUND
A host of earthy hues and utilitarian
silhouettes invoke a spirit of adventure
amid the rolling dunes and rocky cliffs
of Spain’s Canary Islands.

Photographed by Hans Feurer Styled by Laura Ferrara

404    
Left: Knit tank, $695,
belted cotton pants,
$1,595, both, CHLOÉ,
chloe.com. Beret,
EMPORIO ARMANI, $295.
Sunglasses, GARRETT
LEIGHT CALIFORNIA
OPTICAL, $365.
Grommet cross-body
belt, AMERICAN EAGLE
OUTFITTERS, $30. Silver
and leather bracelets,
both, CHRISTOFLE, $275
each. Woven bracelet,
ATELIERPOLIANA, $90.
Leather and neoprene
boots, FENTY PUMA BY
RIHANNA, $390.
This page: Cotton jacket,
CARVEN, $450, carven.fr.
Studded top, ALEXANDER
WANG, $2,900. Suede
jacket (worn at waist),
$4,990, shorts, $1,990,
both, AKRIS. Nylon
spandex bikini bottom,
L*SPACE, $70. Resin
and carbon watch,
CASIO G-SHOCK, $800.
Linen-blend necktie
(worn on wrist), DONNI,
$44. For details, see
Shopping Guide.
 Nylon spandex swimsuit,
NORMA KAMALI,
$115, normakamali
.com. Coated-linen vest,
AREA, $795. Leather
trousers, BRUNELLO
CUCINELLI, $3,875.
Head scarf, ECHO, $29.
Sunglasses, GARRETT
LEIGHT CALIFORNIA
OPTICAL, $120 (clip), $335
(frame). Arm cuff, CHLOÉ.
Brass bangle, ARIANA
BOUSSARD-REIFEL, $175.
 Nylon jacket, $1,575, Lycra
swimsuit, $395, both, ALBERTA
FERRETTI, collection at
Barneys New York. Aviators,
CARRERA, $249. Silk socks,
FALKE, $58. Suede boots,
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN,
$1,395. For details, see
Shopping Guide.

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 Water-repellent calfskin
jacket, CÉLINE, $8,200, at
Céline, NYC. Polyamide
elastane swimsuit, ISABEL
MARANT, $225. Baseball
cap, KAUFMAN’S ARMY
& NAVY. Linen-blend
necktie (worn on arm),
DONNI, $44.
Cotton blouse, $2,890,
leather shorts, $2,790,
brass smoking-box
bag, $1,690, all, SAINT
LAURENT BY ANTHONY
VACCARELLO, at Saint
Laurent, NYC. Nylon
Lycra bikini top, JADE
SWIM, $90. Leather
belt, LINEA PELLE
VINTAGE, $120. Nylon
belts, both, MISSION
BELT, $35 each. Leather
belt bag, SALVATORE
FERRAGAMO. For details,
see Shopping Guide.

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Viscose ribbed dress,
MAX MARA, $755, at Max
Mara, NYC. Cotton mesh
dress, MIKOH, $148.
Woven arm bracelet,
ATELIERPOLIANA, $90.
Silver and leather bracelets,
both, CHRISTOFLE, $275
each. Silver bangle, ARIANA
BOUSSARD-REIFEL, $175.
Scarf cross-body bag,
CÉLINE. Knit sweater (in
bag), ALBERTA FERRETTI,
$765. Satin messenger
bag, ELIZABETH AND
JAMES, $345.
Nylon jacket, ALBERTA
FERRETTI, $1,575,
collection at Barneys New
York. Aviators, CARRERA,
$249. Backpack, LOUIS
VUITTON. For details, see
Shopping Guide.
Beauty Secret: For sun
protection from head to toe,
try CLARINS Sun Care Oil
Spray SPF 30.
Hair by Alessandro Rebecchi for
Oribe; makeup by Lloyd Simmonds
at Agence Carole; casting by Paul
Brickman at Zan Casting; model:
Amilna Estevão at the Society
Management; produced by Marie
Fioriti for Onirim, and Ale Diaz at
Shoot Canarias; fashion assistants:
Lotte Elisa and Cris Leon

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 Photographed by Marc de Groot
Styled by Katie Mossman

412    
Tulle gown, VALENTINO,
$17,500, valentino.com.
Jeans, MOUSSY, $350. Gold
hoop earring, IPPOLITA,
$3,295 (for pair). Suede
pumps with fishnet socks,
ALEXANDER WANG. For
details, see Shopping Guide.
 Right: Tulle gown,
OSCAR DE LA RENTA,
$6,990, oscardelarenta
.com. Cotton jacket,
ALEXANDER WANG,
$1,695. Gold hoop earring,
IPPOLITA, $4,295 (for
pair). Gold and enamel
earring, FOX & BOND,
$990 (for pair). Satin
pumps, CHRISTOPHER
KANE, $895.
Far right: Silk cape, $2,990,
polka-dot blouse, $5,500,
embroidered-velvet shorts,
$10,000, brass and lava
stone earrings, $1,195,
leather belt, $475, all, SAINT
LAURENT BY ANTHONY
VACCARELLO, at Saint
Laurent, NYC. For details,
see Shopping Guide.

414    
 Cotton dress, FENDI, $4,600, fendi.com. Gold and enamel earring, FOX & BOND, $990 (for pair).
Gold-plated brass earring, ROBERT LEE MORRIS, $200. Leather belt, SAINT LAURENT BY
ANTHONY VACCARELLO, $375. Viscose fringe tassel belt, DEBORAH DRATTELL, $195.

416    
Embellished–silk jacquard
jacket, black sapphire, jade,
and gold earring, $1,950
(for pair), both, DOLCE &
GABBANA, at select Dolce
& Gabbana boutiques
nationwide. Jeans, KSUBI,
$215. Boxer shorts, THOM
BROWNE, $125. Gold hoop
earring, IPPOLITA, $4,295
(for pair). For details, see
Shopping Guide.
Beauty Secret: To keep
bleached hair bright, try
L’ORÉAL PARIS EverPure
Cleansing Balm.
Left: Embellished–silk overlay top, $1,025, wool blazer, $1,350, pants, $705, all, DRIES VAN NOTEN, collection
at Bergdorf Goodman, NYC. Gold-plated brass earrings, both, ROBERT LEE MORRIS, $150–$200 each.
Above: Velvet jacket, ETRO, $5,380, at Etro boutiques nationwide. Gold hoop earrings, DAVID YURMAN,
$2,500. Amber, puka shell, and rose gold necklace, DEZSO BY SARA BELTRÁN, $2,695. Hematite necklace,
$500, garnet necklace, $550, gold and black gold necklace, $2,300, all, LAGOS. For details, see Shopping Guide.
Beauty Secret: Complete the perfect manicure with SALLY HANSEN Cuticle Massage Cream.

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Left: Silk bustier, BROCK
COLLECTION, $2,990, similar
styles at modaoperandi.com.
Herringbone jumpsuit, RALPH
LAUREN COLLECTION, $1,890.
Opal, diamond, and black shark
tooth earring, JACQUIE AICHE,
$1,165. Gold coin pendant
necklace, GURHAN, $3,250.
Right: Embroidered top, wool
silk trousers, $1,045, earrings,
$1,595, charm necklace, $3,295,
beaded necklace, $1,095, brass
ring, $495, leather ankle boots,
all, ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, at
Alexander McQueen, NYC. For
details, see Shopping Guide.

Hair by Rutger at Streeters for

Oribe; makeup by Serge Hodonou
at Frank Reps for Dior Beauty;
manicure by Natalie Pavloski at
Bridge for Chanel Beauty; casting
by Paul Brickman at Zan Casting;
models: Dominique Babineaux
at Heroes, Ebonee Davis at the
Lions, and Wallette Watson at Q
Models; fashion assistant: Megan
McDearman
WONDER
SMALL
MEET TOKYO’S
COCO PINK
PRINCESS,
THE SEVEN-
YEAR-OLD
STREETWEAR Photographed by Julien Boudet
STAR WHOSE
EPIC SENSE OF
STYLE—AND
INSTAGRAM
FOLLOWING—
GOES WELL
BEYOND
HER YEARS.
Sunglasses, LOUIS VUITTON,
louisvuitton.com. Sport belt
bag, MARC JACOBS, $295.
Her own vintage jacket, top,
and shorts, Supreme hat, and
Tommy Hilfiger sneakers. For
details, see Shopping Guide.

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 he goes by Coco. To her 432,000 followers and
counting, she’s Coco Pink Princess, style icon. She’s
also only seven years old. For all the hand-wringing that
parents do when it comes to kids and social media, it
must be noted just how familiar Coco’s origin story is:
Child plays dress-up; adoring mom and dad snap pics;
Mom posts the photos on Mom’s Instagram account.
What sets this pint-size tastemaker apart, however,
is that instead of taking her fashion cues from Disney
princesses, she prefers an off-kilter, colorful look that’s
more influencer than infantile. This is partially due to
the fact that her parents own Funktique, a vintage store
in the heart of Tokyo’s vibrant Harajuku district. The
couple set up shop in the area—famous for its outré
and even cartoonish street style—after fleeing the
2011 earthquake in Fukushima. “We opened the store
when she was two years old,” explains Coco’s mother,
Misato. “She wasn’t in day care at the time, so she was
always with us. Everyone is dressed very fashionably
in Harajuku, from top to toe. She has been seeing this
since she was a baby, so it was very natural that she’d be
interested in fashion.”
But the world’s fascination with Coco was more
surprising. Misato started the Coco-dedicated
Instagram account (@coco_pinkprincess) only after
she was flooded with requests. Part of the appeal is
the incongruity—a cute kid in hypebeast’s clothing
(Supreme beanies, Helmut Lang tees). Part of it is the
current obsession with all things tiny. (See: tiny houses,
tiny food, and toddlers in tiny versions of Oscar gowns.)
According to Mom, Coco is very much in charge of
her image. She selects from multiple options before a
photo is posted and adjusts color balances to her liking.
For ELLE’s shoot, she and her father laid out choices
for each look, complete with accessories. “Some people
think [she’s] too young,” Misato allows, referring to
Coco’s exposure, “but we don’t force her or anything.
It is a way of educating her to face the world.” She
recalls fondly a floral vintage dress that excited Coco
when she was still in diapers. Now she (like pretty
much everyone) is obsessed with one label: Gucci.
“Her favorite right now is the backless Princetown
slippers,” Misato says. The kid’s got great taste. And
come whatever version of #tbt exists in 2030, she’ll
have the choicest throwback shots to share.
—Véronique Hyland

Right: Sunglasses, DIOR, at select

Dior boutiques nationwide. PVC and
lambskin handbag, CHANEL, $2,600.
Her own vintage shirt, pants, hat,
and belt, and Dr. Martens shoes. For
details, see Shopping Guide.

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 Left: PVC and grosgrain hat, $1,150, metal, resin, and strass brooch, $525, both,
CHANEL, at select Chanel boutiques nationwide. Sunglasses, MOSCHINO, $300. Her own vintage
shirt and pants, Leni and June jacket, Gosha Rubchinskiy belt, and Dr. Martens sandals.
Above: Sunglasses, LOUIS VUITTON, at select Louis Vuitton stores nationwide.
For details, see Shopping Guide.

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Right: Veiled cotton cap,
DIOR, at select Dior boutiques
nationwide. Glasses, GUCCI,
$305. Calfskin handbag,
BALENCIAGA, $2,590. Her
own vintage jacket, skirt, belt,
and boots, and Gucci socks.
Far right: Sunglasses, DIOR,
800-929-DIOR. For details,
see Shopping Guide.

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ETERNAL
SUMMER
The Canary Islands, Spain’s
offshore tropical outpost,
offer geographic wonders,
chic shops and hotels, and the
promise of never-ending sun.
By Brianna Kovan

Tenerife island’s
Ritz-Carlton,
Abama, resort
 S
ixty miles off the southwest coast
of Morocco, the Canary Islands
treat their 15 million annual visitors
to freshly caught seafood, black-
sand beaches, and, perhaps most important-
ly, a reliably sunny forecast. “That’s why
half of northern Europe is there all winter,”
jokes ELLE Spain’s head graphics editor,
Reyes González-Río. Colonized by Spain
in the fifteenth century, the seven-island
volcanic archipelago—the birthplace of shoe
designer Manolo Blahnik—draws devoted
beachgoers and astronomers alike, the
latter of whom study the stars atop a snow-
capped mountain in Teide National Park, a
UNESCO World Heritage Site on the largest
Opposite page: courtesy of the venue. This page, clockwise from top right: Getty Images; National Geographic Creative/Alamy Stock Photo; JTB Photo/UIG via Getty Images;
island, Tenerife. Here, the must-stop sites
on three of the buzziest islands.
TENERIFE
In the port city Santa Cruz, stroll alongside
colorful storefronts, like The Concept Bou-
tique & Coffee (a café-cum-showroom), and
local designers’ shops, like those of jeweler
Nerea GMurillo and statement-tee maker
Milena Rodher. Or, for a do-not-disturb
respite, plant yourself on the southwest
coast and its string of luxury hotels, like the
Ritz-Carlton, Abama, which boasts envi-
able Moorish architecture and two on-site
Michelin-starred restaurants.
courtesy of the venue; courtesy of the designer; Geography Photos/UIG via Getty Images; courtesy of the venue
GRAN CANARIA
Roughly the size of greater London, Gran
Canaria—the backdrop of our feature
“Neutral Ground” (page 404)—boasts both
Sahara-rivaling southern sand dunes and a
cosmopolitan northern capital, Las Palmas.
In the latter, dine beachside on paella and
fresh fish at La Marinera, or sample Vene-
Tenerife’s
coastal town
San Andrés
zuelan tamales at La Bikina, a cozy coastal
joint with an Asian- and Latin-influenced LAND OF PLENTY
menu. For archeology buffs, plan an outing
to Cueva Pintada Museum’s live excava-
tion site to see pre-Hispanic cave paintings.
LANZAROTE
The easternmost island is home to Timan-
faya National Park, 19 square miles of
untamed, Martian-looking terrain. Local
artists, like the late architect César Man-
rique, built their homes into and around
lava tunnels; check out his Casa Museo
before heading southwest to the Princesa
Yaiza resort, a six-pool property overlook- A Vineyard
in Lanzarote
ing the white sands of Playa Dorada beach.
A series of eighteenth-century volcanic
eruptions blanketed much of Lanzarote in ash
and hardened lava, creating an unusual soil
composition that, combined with the island’s
humid climate, is surprisingly suitable for
vineyards. For wind protection, farmers dig
individualized craters for each plant.
Lanzarote’s
Playa La Laja
beach; lobster
at La Marinera
Stargazing atop (below)
Mount Teide
Timanfaya National Park
Patent leather mule,
MANOLO BLAHNIK,
$895, similar styles
at Nordstrom stores
nationwide
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ADVICE
E. Jean
This month, we learn about the hazards of dating a social media star and what
happens when men—yes, men!—are the target of unwanted and creepy advances.
Love in the Age
of Influencers
Dear E. Jean: My man has become a pub-
lic figure in the world of social media. He has
strangers kissing his ass all day and women from
all over the world propositioning him, which has
inflated his ego to the point where I feel he doesn’t
appreciate what he has (and he’s extremely lucky
to have snagged a woman like me).
I held out for love until I was 34. I wanted the
kind of man who saw the best in me, and this was
the man. We met last year and married secretly;
he became famous, and my fairy tale has now
turned into a nightmare.
On top of everything, he started an emotion-
al affair with another woman, and I’m heart-
broken. I don’t know what to do! If I leave him,
I risk the possibility of not meeting someone else
before it’s too late to have children.
But I don’t want to leave him—I love him! So
how do I forgive him when he’s starting to despise
me because I haven’t recovered from his affair?
432    
He ignores me and escapes to the alternate uni-
verse of Instagram, where he’s perfect and loved
by one and all. He doesn’t accept responsibili-
ty for the role he’s playing, which is destroying
me—and us. I don’t want to give up on him and
the future we collectively imagined, but I don’t
know where we go from here. How do I compete
with his fame and this other world he inhabits?
—Unspecial in His Eyes
Eyes, Dear Love: First off, freeze your eggs.
You can’t make a decision about staying with a
“public figure” who’s “destroying” you if you’re
compelled to keep one eye peeled on your own
uterus.
Now, my darling, advice columnists work
as detectives. Each letter is a mystery, and we
must comb through line by line, ignoring the
red herrings (“he’s perfect and loved by one and
all”) and rooting out the chumps, the glamour
pusses, and the dingbats (his followers on In-
stagram)—and then zero in on the culprit and
solve the problem. In short, I was admiring your
Instagram when a trail of cryptic hashtags led
me to the bloke you’re wedded to: an artist with
22,000 followers; a fantastically talented, hand-
some, ornery lad, I must say! So now that I have
the facts, I’ve gone back and reread your letter,
and I don’t want to go nuts here, but you can’t
“compete” with him. Why? You’ve already won.
Your big-time law career, your extravagant beau-
ty, the evidence that you’re much richer than he
is (make sure the house is in your name), and, on
top of it all, your selfless work with your charity
reveal that you are the one who holds the cards,
Eyes. Not him.
I could leave it at that, but a second crime
appears in your letter. There are 30,000 peo-
ple in your marriage: you, him, and your com-
bined Instagram followers. The love between
two personal brands constantly looking for
“likes” will quickly turn to BS if you don’t lim-
it the fairy dust and start seeing each other as
human beings with flaws. He had an “emo-
tional affair.” It hurts. But it’s not the end of
the world. You can’t crowdsource forgive-
ness. So why don’t you end your secret mar-
riage and try a second one with him for real?
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ADVICE
The #HimToo
Moment
E. Jean: I’m a man. I am “assaulted” sexually
every day by women. I’m trying to figure out how
this is okay in the #MeToo era. How is there still a
stigma against men speaking up? I’m a 26-year-
old independent wine consultant representing
world-class wineries in Northern California.
At the tastings I conduct, I’ve learned to expect
women to make sexy comments about the wine
and progress to making sexy comments about
me. I’m cool with it. I’m no longer bothered
when 50-year-old women give me their phone
numbers, when members of a “Girls’ Night Out”
party run their hands up and down my arm, or
when married women press their breasts against
me for photos. Usually it’s their husbands taking
the pictures.
But I do mind when women grab my ass. I
do mind when they try to kiss me on the mouth,
or put their tongues in my ear and their hands
down my pants. This is my career. Why is it that
men aren’t speaking up, too?
—Why Is This Normal?
Mr. Why: In the name of all women, I apolo-
gize. In my own name, I apologize. I suspect
that many ELLE readers, some of whom
have suffered horrendous sexual harass-
ment themselves, are shocked to hear of
the widespread lecherous conduct by their
fellow women. My Lord! I understand after
speaking with you on the phone (Reader, I
called him soon after I saw his question) that
the wineries you represent wouldn’t be hap-
py if you began shouting at a lady in the mid-
dle of an elegant tasting. So, alas, my advice
won’t stop the harassment entirely, but it’s
a start.
Next time a woman makes a lewd remark
or puts a hand on you, frown and say: “Who
are you? The female Harvey Weinstein?”
It’s such an ugly visual, it will jangle her
self-image right down to the core of her
spleen. And shut it down. So women: If you’re
uncertain whether or not you are about to
cross the line, take what I call the “Matt Lauer
Test.” Ask yourself, “If Matt Lauer said to a
woman what I’m about to say to this person,
would Matt Lauer be guilty of sexual harass-
ment?” If the answer is yes, back off.
The writer of the next letter might do well
to take that test.
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Q&A
lenging his authority, and getting teary-eyed when
he gives me the cold shoulder. (In my defense, he
acted like a jerk and became rude after I suggested
to him that he could be a “better communicator.”)
I admit he’s under stress. But he takes it out on
I’ve been with my me by being dismissive of my projects, ignoring my
boyfriend for four years, emails, and being surly when he chooses to respond
the happiest of my life. to me. I’m constantly pulled between being resentful
that he’s in the privileged position of not having to
But when he started care about my feelings, and being attracted to him
talking about buying because of it!
How do I keep talking to him? I’m afraid I’ll
engagement rings, I end up provoking him and making things worse.
excused myself, stepped How do I learn how to bow and scrape like all the
outside, called my old other grad students? Better yet, how can I make
emotionally unavailable male authority figures
love, flew to his city, and less attractive to me?
spent five days in bed —Rebel Without a Degree
with him! Now both men Rebel, My Rutabaga: Please. If I could tell
want to marry me! people how to make “male authority figures”
Whom do I choose? less attractive, the U.S. Congress would be
composed of 97 percent women. But I can
—Am I Totally Insane? tell you this, Rebel, honey: Stop! Pestering!
Why pick immediately? Your! Adviser! You’re in the middle of the
semester. I get it. Your nerves are shot; you
Let them fight for you. doubtless haven’t slept for days; your projects
And enjoy them both as seem teetering on the brink of disaster—but
really. Come on.
you make up your mind. At a time when women are risking their ca-
(It may turn out to be reers to alert the world that they’re being hound-
ed, grabbed, cornered, and humiliated at their
neither chap.) jobs, you are this close to harassing this guy.
—Ravishing Regards, E. Jean Or perhaps “harassing” is not the word.
“Bedeviling” is probably more like it. Whatev-
E. Jean! I was feeling er you mean by “acting out,” it’s not wise and
panicked to decide at it’s not going to advance your career. Practice
being strong, Rebel. Exercise self-reliance. A
once. Thank you for superbrilliant PhD candidate should be non-
reminding me—giving conformist, yes, but keep it professional, and
leave him alone.
me permission—to take Now, if I’ve misread your letter, and if you’re
my time! Sheesh! not as “teary-eyed” as you let on, but, rather,
respectful and droll when you challenge him,
—Gratefully and Hopefully Less Insane
and if the man is regularly a “rude,” “surly”
“jerk” who’s not only “dismissive of” but also
Check Yourself obstructs your projects, then that is a different
matter, and you should report him to the dean.
Before You Ask a question! E.Jean@AskEJean.com or Twitter
Wreck Yourself
Dear E. Jean: I find myself insanely attracted to
.com/ejeancarroll or Instagram.com/ejeancarroll1.
Read past columns at ELLE.com/life-love/ask-e-
jean. You can watch videos, write with anonym-
men in authority. In short, I’m crushing very hard ity, and exchange genius tips on Advice Vixens at
on my PhD adviser. I’ve also been acting out, chal- AskEJean.com. And if you’d like a date: Tawkify.
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NOT SO PERFECT
AFTER ALL love my friend and can’t imagine my day without
her though. Do you think it’s ok if I invite her,
dating app and our first date was nearly perfect— but not her husband? I have been together for 2 years, and yet...he’s

an Ivy League school after all, like his dating app

profile says. He only went to community college! preventing us from becoming closer and moving

I know that there are worse things to fib about,

and he probably only says he went to an Ivy
League on his profile to impress women. But it’s
still a lie! I had such a great time on our first date
and we already made plans to see each other again.
I SPY A BIG PROBLEM
Do I call him out? Or do I let it slide for now and

I recently started
dating a man who is really wild in bed—I love how
ravenous he is, and I’ve never been more satisfied.
I just can’t stop. It’s really throwing a wrench in
However, the last time we had a romp, we broke
my dating life.
my bed frame! I don’t have the cash to buy a new
one, and because we both did the breaking, I sug-
gested we split the costs, and he refuses. He says it’s
my apartment, and I should pay for it. What do I

next fall, and my fiance and I are putting the

married to a loud, rude man who can’t control how

much he drinks. At another friend’s wedding last
spring, he drunkenly fell into a champagne tower!
I’m nervous about him attending our wedding
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HOROSCOPE
Taurus
Apr 20–May 20 Thanks to a romance-
revving full moon on the 1st, March starts off
as a total lovefest. Single? A short-circuited
affair could be rekindled, but be careful not
to reopen old wounds after Mercury turns
retrograde on the 22nd. The new moon on
the 17th is perfect for launching creative col-
laborations, when motivator Mars fires up
your enterprising engines for two months.
Gemini
May 21–June 21 With the convivial Pisces
Sun warming your career zone until the
20th, success hinges upon relationships. Slip
a blazer over your eveningwear and mingle
with influencers. The 17th’s new moon yields
a top-notch opportunity—and when Mercury
pivots retrograde on the 22nd, reviving a past
work collab could bring a sequel smash.
Cancer
June 22–July 22 A raging case of wanderlust
strikes, but board your flight before Mercury
flips retrograde on the 22nd. Beachside boot
camp or a cycling tour could be the ideal
getaway. Is it time to rebrand? On the 8th,
broad-reaching Jupiter goes retro in your
house of fame and fashion until July 10. Dial
up a stylist or start a website—this is an opti-
mal window for finessing your public image.
Leo
July 23–Aug 22 The Sun simmers in your
erotically charged eighth house until the
20th. For kicks, you might visit a lover in
a far-flung port or slip off for a spicy bae-
cation with your SO. Keep an eye on domes-
tic matters after the 8th, when Jupiter goes
retro: A relative might need extra TLC, or
you may have to spring for household repairs.
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Aries Mar 21–Apr 19
Venus rolls into Aries on the
6th, making March high season
for amour, and the 31st’s full
moon will reward you with a ro-
mantic milestone. On the 17th,
make-it-happen Mars launches
a momentous two-month cycle
for your career—and with Aries
season beginning on the 20th,
you’ll keep trending upward.
Reviving a project from the
archives could bring
a huge win.
By the AstroTwins, Tali and Ophira Edut
Virgo
Aug 23–Sept 22 As Mars cruises into your
fame zone on the 17th, you could ascend to
a public throne. The new moon, also on the
17th, opens up a fresh chapter in your love
life, which could mean taking a serious next
step. A past love may earn a second chance
(or at least some makeup sex) when Mercury
turns retrograde on the 22nd.
Libra
Sept 23–Oct 22 Searching for a better gig?
Have your résumé ready by the new moon on
the 17th. With Venus sashaying into your re-
lationship corner on the 6th, you’re Cupid’s
darling—but Mercury’s backspin on the 22nd
may provoke a lovers’ quarrel.
Scorpio
Oct 23–Nov 21 March’s maximalist star map
makes you a Tinder favorite—by the 17th’s
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& GABBANA, $720,
dolcegabbana.com
new moon, you could be “officially dating.”
Enterprising Jupiter turns retrograde in your
sign from the 8th until July 10. With person-
al projects stalling, use this time to beef up
your knowledge base and work with a pro.
Sagittarius
Nov 22–Dec 21 Enlist a mentor after the
8th, when sage Jupiter turns retrograde in
your house of wise guides. When you’re not
hustling, hibernate—deeply—until the 20th.
After that, the Sun moves on to Aries and
joins glamorous Venus in your fame and ro-
mance zones.
Capricorn
Dec 22–Jan 19 With romantic Venus in your
domestic zone all month, stay in and enjoy a
sultry affaire de coeur. (Keys for two, Cap-
ricorn—or at least a dedicated drawer and a
few hangers?) If you’re single, reserve your
final rose for the hottie-next-door type.
Aquarius
Jan 20–Feb 18 Your social-butterfly wings
get a workout under March’s vibrant star
map. On the 11th, an electrifying mash-up of
Mars and your ruler, Uranus, connects you
to kindred spirits. Amour may arrive via the
introduction of a mutual friend or a dating
app after the 6th.
Pisces
Feb 19–Mar 20 Go-getter Mars is firing up
your career corner until the 17th. Push ahead
Courtesy of the designer
on that ambitious mission, and you’ll launch
your next year of life like a boss. The Pisces
new moon also falls on the 17th, inspiring a
bold move, such as traveling (or relocating!)
to a new city or returning to school.

Our
Artificial
Future
From autonomous grocery delivery
to personalized news briefings, we’re
already experiencing the advantages of
artificial intelligence. But how will this
technology work for us in the future?
Jenna Blaha investigates.
Y
ou may already be familiar
with some of the ways
that artificial intelligence
(AI) affects our lives, thanks to
now-ubiquitous voice-controlled
Top left: Gareth Pugh made-to-order gold corset
assistants, like Amazon’s Alexa,
that can read you the news every
morning. But did you know
that our own brains operate in a
strikingly similar way to AI? In
December, the global technol-
ogy company Huawei launched
a study exploring the parallels
between AI and the human brain
and found that we are not aware
of 99.74 percent of our daily
decision-making. Conclusion:
Just as human intelligence oper-
ates silently in the background to
increase efficiency, so too does AI.
Regardless of how this sim-
ilarity makes you feel—excited
or anxious—about the future,
it certainly suggests we’ve just
scratched the surface of AI’s abil-
ity to streamline our lives. With
much more AI landscape to ex-
plore, developers, engineers, and
designers are fast at work creating
the next wave of products and
features that will further unlock
its potential. Here’s how.
THE SMARTPHONE
Up until recently, phones and
data systems weren’t designed
for AI. But now tech companies
are investing in new computing
architecture that will revolu-
tionize the way we interact with
our devices. “Machine learning
and AI make smartphones
quick, intelligent, and adaptive,
as well as able to understand
and respond to real-world
situations instantaneously,”
explains Steve Lai, senior direc-
tor of product marketing for
Huawei Consumer Business
Group. Their most recent series
of phones come equipped with
the first-ever Kirin AI proces-
sors, which will do things like
translate text (even offline) and
extend battery life by automat-
ically closing applications that
are not frequently used.
Huawei Mate 10 Pro phone,
$799, amazon.com
THE SMART HOME
Amazon’s Alexa is about to
get even more personal. “We
realized many customers have
a routine in the morning as they
head off to work, or at night
when they get home,” explains
Heather Zorn, director of Alexa
engagement at Amazon. Thus
the recently launched “Rou-
TECH NEWS
Echo Spot device for Alexa,
$130, amazon.com
tines” feature sets off a series
of actions: For instance, your
morning alarm triggers the
blinds to open. Simply saying,
“I’m awake,” prompts your cof-
fee machine to start brewing.
AI can also allow home
appliances to predict and
alter settings automatically.
Over time, sensors get better
at tracking and interpreting
wellness factors like sleep, nu-
trition, and stress, and in turn
make adjustments to the en-
vironment to optimize health.
What does this mean? Jo Ait-
ken, founder of Atelier Aitken,
a research studio dedicated
to future designs, imagines a
kitchen that concocts the per-
fect meal or smoothie based
on a daily health or mood scan,
and a bed that offers aroma-
therapy, hydrotherapy, or even
a massage as needed.
THE FASHION FRONT
We’ve seen AI significantly
improve the shopping experi-
ence on platforms like Stitch
Fix (see page 340). But soon
AI will play a role in the actual
development of products.
According to researchers at the
University of California, San
Diego, who’ve been working
in partnership with Adobe
Research, we’re entering a
time when AI will not only help
customers find what they’re
looking for, but generate new
designs in real time.
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strap by Rolex, $24,950, rolex.com. Knit jumpsuit, visor by
Dior, at Dior boutiques nationwide. PAGE 246: Diamond and
white gold necklace by De Beers, debeers.com. White gold,
darkened silver, diamond, and pink sapphire bracelet by Dior
Fine Jewelry, at select Dior boutiques nationwide. Stainless
steel watch by Patek Philippe, $24,836, at Patek Philippe
(NYC). Enamel bracelet by David Yurman, $1,200,
davidyurman.com. Diamond and white gold ring by Piaget,
$12,300, at select Piaget boutiques nationwide. Dumbbell by
Chanel, call 800-550-0005. Diamond and white gold bracelet
by Buccellati, at Buccellati (NYC). Diamond and gold rings by
Djula, $11,245–$37,375 each, at Djula (Miami, NYC). Swimsuit
by Araks, $325, araks.com. Swarovski crystal–embellished
shorts by Juicy Couture, $3,600, juicycouture.com. PAGE 248:
White gold and diamond necklace by Bulgari, $86,000,
rag-bone.com. PAGE 284: Jacket by Longchamp, at Longchamp
boutiques nationwide. Jeans by Sandro, us.sandro-paris.com.
Jacket by Elie Saab, $6,800, similar styles at modaoperandi
.com. Jacket by Versace, $7,750, similar styles at modaoperandi
.com. Sneaker by Santoni, at Santoni (NYC). Ring by Elie Top,
collection at Maxfield (L.A.), matchesfashion.com. Bucket
bag by Michael Michael Kors, 866-709-KORS. Necklace by Elsa
Peretti for Tiffany & Co., tiffany.com. Clutch by Giuseppe
Zanotti, at Giuseppe Zanotti boutiques nationwide. PAGE 286:
Trench coat by Burberry, at Burberry stores nationwide.
Earrings by Messika Paris, at select Saks Fifth Avenue stores
nationwide. Watch by Bulgari, $8,650, at Bulgari boutiques
nationwide. Large book clutch by Jil Sander, $3,700, at Jil
Sander (NYC, Chicago). Handbag by Louis Vuitton,
louisvuitton.com. Ring by Dior Fine Jewelry, $4,600, at select

350
COVER
Satin and velvet dress by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello,
$13,000, at Saint Laurent (NYC).
ELLE TRENDS
PAGE 197: Jacket by Michael Michael Kors, at select Michael
Kors stores nationwide. Rash guard by Volcom, volcom.com.
Belt bag by Eastpak, similar styles at urbanoutfitters.com.
Sneakers by Reebok, reebok.com. PAGE 198: Handbag by
Hermès, hermes.com. Pants by Marc Jacobs, at Marc Jacobs
stores nationwide. Cosmetic case by Tory Sport, torysport
.com. Sandal by Isabel Marant, at Isabel Marant stores
nationwide. Shirt by Dsquared2, at Dsquared2 stores
nationwide. PAGE 200: Ring by Dior Fine Jewelry, at select
Dior boutiques nationwide. Culottes by Marc Jacobs,
marcjacobs.com. Hat by Ralph Lauren Collection, at select
Ralph Lauren stores nationwide. Sneakers by Roger Vivier, at
Roger Vivier (NYC; Costa Mesa, CA). PAGE 202: Crop top by
Zadig & Voltaire, at Zadig & Voltaire (NYC). Clutch by Jimmy
Choo, at select Jimmy Choo stores nationwide. Jacket by Coach
1941, at select Coach stores nationwide. PAGE 230: Sandal by
Hermès, hermes.com. PAGE 232: Ankle boot by Salvatore
Ferragamo, call 866-337-7242. PAGE 234: Handbag by Loewe,
collection at Neapolitan (Winnetka, IL), The Kingdom
(Calabasas, CA). PAGE 238: Bucket bag by Michael Kors
Collection, michaelkors.com. PAGE 240: Necklace by Messika
Paris, messika.com, collection at select Saks Fifth Avenue
stores nationwide. Diamond and platinum bracelets by Harry
Winston, harrywinston.com. Ceramic and diamond watch by
Hublot, $19,900, hublot.com. Diamond and white gold bangle
by Chopard, 800-CHOPARD. Pink diamond and white gold
ring by Repossi, repossi.com. Diamond and gold ring by Djula,
$23,395, djula.fr. White gold and diamond ring by HRH Jewels,
Pavillons de Monte-Carlo (Monaco). Black gold and diamond
cuff by Nuun, nuunjewels.com. Diamond and steel watch by
Audemars Piguet, $28,600, audemarspiguet.com. Diamond
and platinum ring; sapphire, emerald, onyx, and diamond ring
bulgari.com. White gold and diamond bracelet by HRH Jewels,
Pavillons de Monte-Carlo (Monaco). Diamond and white gold
watch on rubber strap by Richard Mille, $183,500,
richardmille.com. Diamond and white gold rings by Vhernier,
$12,200–$16,750 each, at Vhernier (Beverly Hills, Miami,
NYC). Diamond and white gold bracelet by Van Cleef & Arpels,
vancleefarpels.com. Diamond and white gold bracelet by
Messika Paris, messika.com. Tanzanite, rubellite, diamond,
and white gold ring by Chopard, chopard.com. Emerald,
diamond, and white gold ring by David Morris, davidmorris
.com. Polyamide toile and silk jacket, $2,650, leggings, $700,
by Chanel, 800-550-0005.
HOUSE PROUD
PAGE 262: Dress by Bottega Veneta, $16,400, call 800-845-
6790.
ELLE SHOPS
PAGE 276: Handbag by Miu Miu, at select Miu Miu boutiques
nationwide. Handbag by Pinko, at Pinko (NYC). Blouse by
Alice + Olivia by Stacey Bendet, at select Alice + Olivia by Stacey
Bendet boutiques nationwide. Ring by Officina Bernardi, call
212-273-0797. Shirt by H&M Studio, at select H&M stores
nationwide. Earrings by Effy Jewelry, call 877-ASK-EFFY. Skirt
by The Kooples, at The Kooples (NYC). PAGE 280: Ring by
Hearts On Fire, $19,000, call 877-PERFECT. Earrings by
Buccellati, $4,700, buccellati.com. Pants by Rag & Bone,
Dior boutiques nationwide.
THE FIXER
PAGE 340: Bodysuit by David Koma, at Pia (San Francisco).
Skirt by Altuzarra, collection at Barneys New York. Pumps by
Manolo Blahnik, at Manolo Blahnik (NYC). PAGE 342: Sweater
by Rosetta Getty, heroshopsf.com. Skirt by DVF, stitchfix.com.
Pumps by Manolo Blahnik, at Manolo Blahnik (NYC). PAGE
344: Dress by Ulla Johnson, ullajohnson.com.
C'MON, GET HAPPY
PAGE 349: Dress, drawstring bag by Calvin Klein 205W39NYC,
at Calvin Klein (NYC).
MISE-EN-SCÈNE
PAGES 350–351: Blazer, shirt, bodysuit, sport bag, sandals by
Marc Jacobs, at Marc Jacobs stores nationwide. Headpiece by
Stephen Jones for Marc Jacobs, marcjacobs.com. Hoop earring
(throughout) by Ippolita, ippolita.com. PAGE 352: Boots by
Chanel, call 800-550-0005. PAGE 353: Sunglasses by Chloé,
chloe.com. Hat by Chanel, at select Chanel boutiques
nationwide. PAGE 355: Boots by Calvin Klein 205W39NYC, at
Calvin Klein (NYC). PAGE 356: Belted jumpsuit, cross-body
bag, tote, loafers by Gucci, at select Gucci stores nationwide.
PAGES 358–359: Skirt by Céline, collection at The Webster
Miami. PAGE 360: Pants, sneakers by Louis Vuitton, at select
Louis Vuitton stores nationwide. PAGE 361: Handbag by

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by Cartier, call 800-CARTIER. Neoprene jacket by Fenty
Puma by Rihanna, $140, similar styles at puma.com.
Polyamide elastane bodysuit by Hilfiger Collection, $160,
tommy.com. PAGE 242: Diamond and ruby necklace by de
Grisogono, degrisogono.com. Lacquer bangles by Elsa Peretti
for Tiffany & Co., $465 each, tiffany.com. Diamond and white
gold bracelet by Van Cleef & Arpels, call 877-VAN-CLEEF.
Titanium and ceramic watch by Jacob & Co., $21,000, at Jacob
& Co. (NYC). Cacholong and rose gold ring, $7,300, jet ring,
Opposite page: Paola Kudacki

$6,900, by Pomellato, call 800-254-6020. Nylon jacket by

Nike, $130, nike.com. Baseball cap by Bayside, usabayside
.com. PAGE 245: Diamond, onyx, and white gold necklace;
tourmaline and diamond bracelet by Louis Vuitton,

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louisvuitton.com. Silver and diamond bracelet by Hermès,
hermes.com. White gold and diamond rings by Vhernier,
$27,900–$62,400 each, at Vhernier (Beverly Hills, Miami,
NYC). Multicolor gold and diamond bracelet by Dior Fine
Jewelry, call 800-929-DIOR. Rose gold watch on Oysterflex

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Hermès, hermes.com. One-of-a-kind ring by Irene Neuwirth,
ireneneuwirth.com. Glasses by Cutler and Gross, cutlerand
gross.com. Sheet set by D. Porthault, dporthaultparis.com.
MERCURY RISING
PAGES 366–367: Earring (throughout) by Julie Cohn Design,
collection at stanleykorshak.com. Earring (throughout) by
Mizuki, collection at Bergdorf Goodman (NYC). Earring
(throughout) by Chloé, similar styles at chloe.com. Bracelets
by Venessa Arizaga, venessaarizaga.com. Bracelets by Roxanne
Assoulin, roxanneassoulin.com. Sandals (throughout) by
Carven, carven.fr. PAGE 368: Arm cuff by Chloé, similar styles
at Chloé boutiques nationwide. Earring (throughout) by
Pascale Monvoisin, collection at twistonline.com. Charms,
chain necklace (throughout) by Dezso by Sara Beltrán,
dezsosara.com, collection at shopsunroom.com. Ring
(throughout) by Elizabeth and James, collection at Crush
Boutique (Boston). Feather piece (throughout) by Ann
Demeulemeester, anndemeulemeester.com. PAGE 369: Arm
pieces by Anna Kosturova, annakosturova.com. Sandals
(throughout) by Birkenstock, birkenstock.com. PAGES
370–371: Top, skirt by Proenza Schouler, at Proenza Schouler
(NYC). Bracelets by Julie Cohn Design, collection at Stanley
Korshak (Dallas). Earring (throughout) by Erin Considine,
erinconsidine.com. PAGE 372: Jeans by Denim x Alexander
Wang, alexanderwang.com. PAGE 373: Top by Giorgio Armani,
at Giorgio Armani boutiques nationwide. Jeans by Armani
Exchange, at Armani Exchange stores nationwide. Necklace
by Renee Garvey Jewelry, collection at Twist (Portland, OR).
Necklace by Dubini, collection at 1stdibs.com, swoonery.com.
Necklace by Pippa Small, pippasmall.com. Bracelet by
TenThousandThings, tenthousandthingsnyc.com. PAGE 374:
Top, skirt by Salvatore Ferragamo, at Salvatore Ferragamo
boutiques nationwide. Bracelets (worn as choker) by Hermès,
at Hermès stores nationwide. PAGE 375: Top, necklace by
Chloé, chloe.com. Hoop earring by Rebecca de Ravenel,
rebeccaderavenel.com. PAGE 376: Jacket, vest, crop top by
Louis Vuitton, call 866-VUITTON. Jeans by Levi’s, levi.com.
Earring by TenThousandThings, tenthousandthings.com.
Sandals by Figue, figue.com. PAGE 377: Bikini top by She Made
Me, collection at Barneys New York. Skirt by Grlfrnd Denim,
collection at revolve.com. Jeans by Guess, guess.com. Bangles
by Pascale Monvoisin, collection at shopvelvetcoat.com,
net-a-porter.com.
PALE FIRE
PAGE 379: Hoop earrings by Roberto Coin, robertocoin.com.
Socks (throughout) by We Love Colors, welovecolors.com.
Mules by Gianvito Rossi, gianvitorossi.com. PAGE 380: Top,
shorts by Missoni, missoni.com. Hoop earrings by Paige
Novick, paigenovick.com. Ring by Bulgari, bulgari.com.
Sandals by Christian Louboutin, christianlouboutin.com.
PAGE 382: Jacket by Hermès, call 800-441-4488. Hoop
earrings by Roberto Coin, robertocoin.com. Bracelet by David
Yurman, davidyurman.com. PAGE 383: Hoop earrings by
David Yurman, at David Yurman (NYC). PAGE 384: Jacket,
dress, earrings, boots by Chanel, call 800-550-0005. PAGE
385: Top by Giorgio Armani, at Giorgio Armani boutiques
nationwide. Hoop earrings by Paige Novick, paigenovick.com.
Bracelet by Vhernier, at Vhernier (Beverly Hills, Miami, NYC).
SHOULD SHE RUN?
PAGE 387: Robe by Brooks Brothers, at Brooks Brothers stores
nationwide. Stud earrings by Van Cleef & Arpels, vancleef
& Arpels, 877-VAN-CLEEF. Bracelet by Tiffany & Co., by Fox & Bond, foxandbond.com. Pumps by Christopher Kane,
800-843-3269. Watch by Bulgari, 800-BULGARI. christopherkane.com. PAGE 416: Earring by Robert Lee
Morris, robertleemorris.com. Belt by Deborah Drattell,
RHINESTONE COWGIRL deborahdrattell.com, collection at Bergdorf Goodman
PAGE 394: Dress by Gucci, at select Gucci stores nationwide. (NYC), Neiman Marcus stores nationwide. Belt by Saint
Earring by Dries Van Noten, collection at Bergdorf Goodman Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, at Saint Laurent (NYC). PAGE
(NYC). PAGE 396: Dress by Balmain, $26,440, balmain.com. 417: Jacket, earring by Dolce & Gabbana, at select Dolce &
Cowboy hat by Stetson, stetson.com. Earrings by Verdura, Gabbana boutiques nationwide. Jeans by Ksubi, at Ksubi
$41,500, at Verdura (NYC). PAGE 397: Hat by Eric Javits, (NYC). Boxer shorts by Thom Browne, thombrowne.com.
ericjavits.com. Pumps by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, PAGE 418: Earrings by Robert Lee Morris, robertleemorris
at Saint Laurent (NYC). PAGE 398: Bolo tie by Bow&Arrow, .com. PAGE 419: Hoop earrings by David Yurman,
bowandarrownyc.com. Collar tips by Western Spirit, at davidyurman.com. Necklace by Dezso by Sara Beltrán,
Western Spirit (NYC). Rings by Jill Heller, jillhellerjewelry dezsosara.com, collection at Barneys New York. Necklaces by
.com. Boots (throughout) by Calvin Klein 205W39NYC, at Lagos, lagos.com. PAGE 420: Jumpsuit by Ralph Lauren
Calvin Klein (NYC). PAGE 399: Earrings by Jacob & Co., Collection, ralphlauren.com. Earring by Jacquie Aiche,
jacobandco.com. Printed small bandanna (printed artwork: jacquieaiche.com, collection at Elyse Walker (Newport Beach,
Andy Warhol, Tunafish Disaster, 1963 © The Andy Warhol CA). Necklace by Gurhan, gurhan.com.
Foundation; throughout) by Calvin Klein 205W39NYC,
calvinklein.com. PAGE 400: Earrings by Verdura, $41,500, SMALL WONDER
verdura.com. Belt by Shyanne, bootbarn.com. PAGE 401: PAGES 422–423: Sunglasses by Louis Vuitton, call
Bandanna by Levi’s, levi.com. Bolo tie (throughout) by Western 866-VUITTON. Belt bag by Marc Jacobs, marcjacobs.com.
Spirit, at Western Spirit (NYC). Brooch by Bulgari, call Mules by Gianvito Rossi, gianvitorossi.com. PAGE 425:
800-BULGARI. PAGE 402: Bodysuit, skirt by Dior, call Sunglasses by Dior, call 800-929-DIOR. Handbag by Chanel,
800-929-DIOR. Belt by Shyanne, at Boot Barn stores at select Chanel boutiques nationwide. PAGE 426: Hat, brooch
nationwide, collection at sheplers.com, countryoutfitter.com. by Chanel, call 800-550-0005. Sunglasses by Moschino, at
Boots by Maison Margiela, at Maison Margiela boutiques Solstice Sunglasses boutiques nationwide. PAGE 427:
nationwide. PAGE 403: Cowboy boots by Maison Margiela, Sunglasses by Louis Vuitton, louisvuitton.com. PAGE 428: Cap
exclusively at Barneys New York. by Dior, call 800-929-DIOR. Glasses by Gucci, gucci.com.
Handbag by Balenciaga, at Balenciaga (NYC). PAGE 429:
NEUTRAL GROUND Sunglasses by Dior, at Dior boutiques nationwide.
PAGE 404: Beret by Emporio Armani, armani.com.
Sunglasses by Garrett Leight California Optical, garrettleight Prices are approximate. ELLE recommends that merchandise
.com. Cross-body belt by American Eagle Outfitters, ae.com. availability be checked with local stores.
Bracelets by Christofle, christofle.com. Bracelet by
Atelierpoliana, collection at Abigail Rose & Lily Too
(Piermont, NY). Boots by Fenty Puma by Rihanna, puma.com.
PAGE 405: Top by Alexander Wang, alexanderwang.com.
Jacket, shorts by Akris, akris.ch. Bikini bottom by L*Space,
lspace.com. Watch by Casio G-Shock, gshock.com. Necktie by
Donni, shopdonni.com. PAGE 406: Vest by Area, similar styles
at Barneys New York. Trousers by Brunello Cucinelli,
brunellocucinelli.com. Sunglasses, clip by Garrett Leight
California Optical, at Garrett Leight California Optical (NYC).
Armband by Chloé, chloe.com. Bangle by Ariana Boussard-
Reifel, collection at marteau.co. PAGE 407: Aviators by
Carrera, collection at solsticesunglasses.com. Socks by Falke,
falke.com. Boots by Christian Louboutin, christianlouboutin
.com. PAGE 408: Swimsuit by Isabel Marant, isabelmarant
.com. Baseball cap by Kaufman’s Army Navy, at Kaufman’s
Army Navy (NYC). Necktie by Donni, 877-30CHARM. PAGE
409: Bikini top by Jade Swim, jadeswim.com. Belts by Mission
Belt, missionbelt.com. Belt bag by Salvatore Ferragamo, call
866-337-7242. PAGE 410: Dress by Mikoh, mikoh.com.
Bracelet by Atelierpoliana, collection at Sawkille (Rhinebeck,
NY). Bracelets by Christofle, at Christofle boutiques
nationwide. Bangle by Ariana Boussard-Reifel, collection at
Marteau (NYC). Cross-body bag by Céline, similar styles at
Céline (NYC). Sweater by Alberta Ferretti, collection at
Barneys New York. Messenger bag by Elizabeth and James,
collection at net-a-porter.com. PAGE 411: Aviators by Carrera,
collection at nordstrom.com. Backpack by Louis Vuitton,
louisvuitton.com.
PHANTOM THREAD

arpels.com. Bracelet by Tiffany & Co., tiffany.com. Watch by
Bulgari, at Bulgari boutiques nationwide. PAGES 390–391:
Blouse by Zac Posen, similar styles at Neiman Marcus stores
nationwide. Skirt by Akris, at Akris boutiques nationwide.
Trench coat by Khaite, khaite.com. Stud earrings by Van Cleef
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PAGE 413: Gown by Valentino, $17,500, valentino.com. Jeans
by Moussy, moussy-global.com. Hoop earring (throughout) by
Ippolita, ippolita.com. PAGE 414: Gown by Oscar de la Renta,
at Oscar de la Renta boutiques nationwide. Jacket by
Alexander Wang, alexanderwang.com. Earring (throughout)

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