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C O U T U R E S TA N D O U T

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Given the hours and expertise that go into creating
an haute couture garment, it’s a shame so few
people get to see one in person. Giambattista
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edition of the brand’s Whitney
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T H E TA B L E S E T T I N G

Dior x Judy Chicago

Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri continued to carry the torch
for fashion-loving feminists everywhere by enlisting
legendary artist Judy Chicago to not only design the set
for the house’s spring couture show (complete with hand-
embroidered banners) but also create a limited-edition
collection of Limoges china, which will be sold exclusively
at two of Dior’s Paris boutiques. (Limited-edition Goddess
plate, Judy Chicago, $900 for a set of four, Dior, Paris)

T H E N E W U G LY - C O O L S H O E
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Suicoke x Alanui
Wacky sandal–mania is far from over, thanks to Japanese
brand Suicoke. After creating a frenzy with its last
partnership, a floral glass-beaded affair with designer
Cecilie Bahnsen, the brand has linked up with Milan-based
knitwear label Alanui on a range of fringed pony-hair mules
that pair perfectly with the brand’s Southwestern-style
cardigans. (Mules, Suicoke x Alanui, $455, mytheresa.com)

32
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the tragic fires that have ravaged Australia

and the global rise of climate refugees, we
are all more aware than ever that we need
to join the movement. For this portfolio, we
drew on the talents of photographer Alexi
Lubomirski, who famously strives for a
minimal carbon footprint on all his shoots—
and is encouraging others to join him, via his
initiative Creatives4Change.
Our cover star this month is the cheeky
Game of Thrones vet Sophie Turner. In a
refreshingly candid interview with award-
winning journalist Mike Sager on page 150,
the artist formerly known as Sansa Stark
dishes on “punching above [her] league”
with new husband Joe Jonas, her friendship
with the J Sisters, and moving on after
nearly a decade on Game of Thrones with
her new series, Survive. (No, she didn’t
watch the last episode of GoT, she confides!)
Elsewhere in this issue, Greta Thunberg
shares an excerpt from her newly translated
book Our House Is on Fire—in the form of a
stirring letter addressed to all of us. Fash-
ion critic Christina Binkley reports on how
the industry is trying to reduce its carbon
footprint. And Adrienne Gaffney embeds
with the activists driving Extinction Rebel-
lion, a radical climate group that formed in
the UK but is quickly finding a global audi-
ence—and also drawing controversy for its
extreme methods, like supergluing them-
selves to buildings. As they see it, the ends
justify the means. Founding member Clare
Farrell says, “I don’t think you can begin to
deal with something this bad if you continue
A LEXI LU BOMIRSK I; FOR D ETA ILS, SEE S HOP PI NG GUI DE .

to pretend that it’s less bad than it is.”

f Jane Fonda can’t motivate you, no one can. With her If we don’t take action, we might face a future kind of like the

I stirring Fire Drill Fridays protests in Washington, DC,

the legendary actress has brought much-needed attention
to the climate crisis. “When you’re famous, you have this
one National Book Award–winning novelist Joyce Carol Oates
imagines in an original piece of “eco-fiction” commissioned
for the magazine. Let’s make sure it remains fiction, not reality.
incredible potential platform, but how do you use it?” Fonda says
she asked herself recently. And then the answer came to her: “I
have to put myself on the line.”
For our second annual Conservation issue, we tapped
Fonda and fellow activists to share their inspiring stories in
honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day (page 127).
ELLE has an ongoing commitment to covering all things
green, and 30 of our international editions are marking this
milestone month with sustainability-themed issues. Seeing @NINAGARCIA NINAGARCIA @NINAGARCIAOFFICIAL
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28 NOW TRENDING 69 GLOBAL GOOD world for this season’s 106 GROUP CHAT: 124 DIRECTOR’S
How Net-a-Porter found- standout pieces. By SAFER STRANDS SPOTLIGHT:
34 EDITOR’S LETTER Experts sound off on EMERALD FENNELL
ing investor Carmen Naomi Rougeau
Busquets is using her their favorite nontoxic Julie Kosin speaks with
44 THE FEED
name to reduce waste 80 STRAW POLL dyes and straighteners. the Promising Young
52 NINA’S EDIT and empower activists Everything’s By Nykia Spradley Woman director
coming up raffia
56 NEW ARRIVALS 70 NEW FOUND GLORY 108 HUDA BARES IT ALL 125 CULTURE NEWS
Three new treasures The upcycled lines rede- The famed makeup artist The latest to read,
straight from the garden
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83 THE ELEMENTS By Margaux Anbouba
Front Row Accessories OF STYLE The Well
Go back to basics with Culture
73 SPARKLE PLENTY looks inspired by earth, 127 FORCES OF NATURE
60 THE STATE OF
SUSTAINABLE FASHION Ethically mined diamonds water, fire, and air 111 FASHIONING Jane Fonda, Rosario
COLE SPROUSE; FOR DETAILS, SEE SHOPPING GUIDE.

On how far we’ve give a Tiffany & Co. CHANGE Dawson, Madelaine
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we have left to go. a promising new the change we want
74 THIS BUD’S FOR YOU 91 NATURAL SELECTION technique for minimizing to see in the world.
By Christina Binkley
Florals reach new Ning Chao and Margaux wildfires, and the climate Photographed by Alexi
62 GOING OFF THE GRID heights this spring Anbouba on the best activist group redefining Lubomirski. Styled
Influencers are rewriting in sustainable beauty protest culture by Arianne Phillips
75 INSTANT REPLAY
the script to take a more
The new settings 102 ELLEWORD: 118 MY CARBON- 136 SHIFTING SANDS
eco-friendly approach. FREE LIFE
granting gems a second VICTORIA BECKHAM Sustainable fashion
Allie Volpe reports The fashion and beauty Alex Kuczynski
life. By Naomi Rougeau stands in stark relief
66 WHAT CAN mogul plays a round of gives her lifestyle a to an otherworldly
FASHION LEARN 76 THAT’S A STRETCH sustainable makeover
word association. Death Valley backdrop.
FROM PATAGONIA? Bungee cords reign By Kate Foster
supreme on shoes, 120 MARTHE: Photographed by
Véronique Hyland
bags, and jewels 104 THE DIRTY TRUTH A REFERENDUM Cole Sprouse. Styled
takes a look at the
Martha McCully Joyce Carol Oates paints by Natasha Royt
brand that went green 78 THE CRAFT
before it was cool reports on the fight a frightening view of the
Designers teamed with for clean beauty future in an original work
artisans from around the
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150 SOPHIE TURNER

IS NOT A D%#K
On the eve of her first
role since GoT, Sophie
Turner fills Mike Sager
in on life outside the
castle. Photographed
by Arthur Elgort. Styled
by Beth Fenton
156 WHERE THE
SIDEWALK ENDS
Monotone ensembles
up the impact.
Photographed by
Matthew Kristall. Styled
by Rebecca Dennett

End Notes
170 ECO-CONSCIOUS
TRAVEL
By Sarah Rowland
173 SHOPPING GUIDE
174 HOROSCOPE

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SOPHIE TURNER
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 THE STATE OF
SUSTAINABLE
FASHION
Grand gestures aren’t enough. Designers are taking
steps to fight industry waste—but real change will
require all of us to shift our collective mind-set.
By Christina Binkley
 ast year, the Swedish Fashion Council made an un-
L precedented move while planning the annual Stock-
holm Fashion Week: They canceled the event entirely,
citing concerns about its environmental impact. Not
everyone in fashion is taking such drastic measures,
of course, but it spoke to the urgent need for action on the issue,
one that designers and customers alike are now recognizing.
Fashion is responsible for around 10 percent of the world’s
carbon emissions and nearly 20 percent of the world’s water
waste, according to several United Nations groups. An esti-
mated 85 percent of the world’s textiles end up in landfills or
incinerated. Fast fashion no doubt con-
tributes mightily to this waste, but it is by RAVE REVIEW
no means alone.
At the G7 summit in August, 32 major
fashion companies, including Kering,
Chanel, and Inditex (the parent company
of Zara), committed to a host of environ-
mental initiatives, agreeing to eliminate
single-use plastics by 2030 and to seek
out more sustainable sources of raw ma-
terials. Gabriela Hearst made headlines
when she offset the carbon footprint of
her spring 2020 fashion show in New
York by limiting transportation energy
costs, booking local models, minimizing “NOBODY BUYS
packaging and energy use, and reducing ANYTHING BECAUSE IT’S
waste. And after Nordstrom created a SUSTAINABLE. FIRST, IT
mechanism for its customers to shop HAS TO BE DESIRABLE.”
online for “sustainable style,” customer —MARIA CORNEJO
searches for that category rose by 3,100
percent in 2019.
So has the fashion industry finally
shifted from lip-service sustainability
COLL AGE: DJUN O TOMSNI. RAVE R EVIEW: MICHAE L CAMPAN EL L A/ GE T T Y I MAG ES; Z ERO + MARI A C ORNEJ O: I MA XT R EE.
to impactful action? Certainly, many are
making changes, simultaneously forced
and incentivized to do better by socio-
economic forces, from stricter recycling
laws to the galvanizing activism of so
many young people. In 2019, Kering—
owner of Gucci, Balenciaga, Saint Lau-
rent, and other luxury brands—pledged
to offset its greenhouse gases by purchas-
ing carbon credits and to commit to full
carbon neutrality across the company.
LVMH and Burberry are doing the same.
Writing checks won’t make the fashion
giants truly sustainable, but it is a potent
and promising gesture from the indus- ZERO + MARIA CORNEJO
try’s leaders.
One shudders to think of the carbon footprint of red-carpet
fashions that are jetted across the world and worn once, if at
all. But some stars are shaking up the status quo. Joaquin Phoe-
nix showed up at January’s Golden Globes in an impeccable
Stella McCartney tuxedo he promised to rewear throughout
awards season. Easier done with a suit than a gown, but the
dis to fashion’s wear-it-once ethos was on point. Hollywood
stylist Jeanne Yang says several of her clients have requested
sustainable options for their red-carpet appearances. At his
Aquaman premiere, her client Jason Momoa donned a vintage
Tom Ford–era Gucci robe that Yang found on The RealReal. (He
slipped it off to dance the haka.) “I try as much as possible not to
use fast fashion, even for my kids,” says Yang, who is cooking up
a concept for a suit that could be worn three different ways to
reduce the need for her clients’ frequent wardrobe changes. It’s
now boast-worthy to participate in sharing-economy and reuse
enterprises such as Rent the Runway and The RealReal, which
posts the gallons of water offset by each customer’s purchase.
It’s heartening, but none of this nears the tidal wave of ac-
tion required of the industry and the consumers who support
it. It may take real discomfort to make the changes necessary in
time to avert planetary disaster. And discomfort—unless we’re
talking stiletto heels—is rarely embraced by the ease-obsessed
fashion industry.
We can all do our part by buying
fewer, better clothes. Maria Cornejo,
designer of Zero + Maria Cornejo, has
been manufacturing in New York and re-
using dead-stock and sustainably made
materials for years, but her real goal, she
says, is to make clothes that people will
want to wear for decades. “Make good
heirlooms,” she argues. “Nobody buys
anything because it’s sustainable. First,
it has to be desirable.” That thought is
echoed by Erin Lowenberg, creative di-
rector of Rothy’s, a footwear company
that launched in 2016 with two styles
of flats knit from recycled water bottles
(Meghan Markle is a fan). Its initial cus-
tomers may have been more interested in
the look and feel of the shoes than their
impact on a waste- and leather-intensive
industry, but the brand’s environmental
cred has surely contributed to its explo-
sive growth (its customer base increased
105 percent from 2018 to 2019, surpass-
ing 1.4 million). It introduced its newest
category in March: handbags made from
a blend of ocean-bound marine plastic
and recycled water bottles.
Solutions must be more than just
green, which is why Stephanie Bene-
detto talks up financial and inventory-
management benefits as she makes the
case for Queen of Raw, a technology plat-
form she cofounded in 2018 to connect
people and brands with leftover fabrics—
an estimated 15 percent of every produc-
tion run. Queen of Raw caters to home
sewers as well as big fashion companies,
and Benedetto estimates that dead-stock
textiles could become a $120 billion busi-
ness. “It’s insane, the volume that is out there,” says Benedetto,
who has listed fabrics up to a million yards long, or as short as a
few yards, for a base of over 130,000 clients. “Never doubt you
can change the world,” she says. “We will.”
Young brands such as Reformation are finding fans who are
equally drawn to their designs and their sustainable efforts. Ref-
ormation operates on the borderline of fast fashion, but it offers
public tours of its Los Angeles factory to prove the bona fides
of its fairly treated workforce and posts photos to its Instagram
account of suppliers such as Filpucci, a Tuscan mill that recycles
cashmere into new yarn.
It’s doubtful Greta Thunberg intended to become a fashion
muse, but she has inspired everything CONTINUED ON PAGE 172
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LEANDRA REESE
M. COHEN BLUTSTEIN

BIANCA
VALLE

MONIKH ALLEGRA
DALE SHAW

GOING OFF
the Grid
The influencer economy
moves at lightning
speed—but in the
name of sustainability,
some of its stars are
pumping the brakes.
By Allie Volpe

llegra Shaw remembers a time, three or four years that they don’t need an endless supply of clothes or money to

A ago, when packages from brands—clothes and beau-

ty products sent in the hope that Shaw, a YouTuber
with nearly a million followers, would dedicate a
video to them—came equipped with confetti explosions and
television screens. “When you get a TV in a package, how do you
dispose of it?” Shaw says. As conversations around the climate
crisis and ethical consumerism reach critical mass, she is one
of many influencers rethinking a system that requires them to
wear, share, and promote the latest trends at a breakneck pace.
Fashion is a notoriously wasteful industry: Nearly 9,000 tons
of solid waste generated from the production of clothing and
footwear was sent to landfills in 2017, according to the EPA. Still,
have style. The idea that you always need to have new items of
clothing is just not realistic for most people, and not sustain-
able.” Leandra M. Cohen, founder of Man Repeller, grappled
with how ethical consumerism is hardly black-and-white in an
essay on her site: “I don’t think consumption has to be so dirty if
we’re more thoughtful about it and hold ourselves accountable
for making! smarter! choices!” she wrote, advocating for more
mindful shopping and urging readers to ask themselves if a piece
will elevate their wardrobe or if it will make getting dressed in
the morning easier.
Knowing that certain brands are taking strides to minimize
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waste and carbon emissions, New York City–based holistic
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carbon-neutral spring 2020 shows, while Gucci announced last
fall that it is carbon-neutral across all its operations. Luxury
giants LVMH and Kering have unveiled detailed sustainability
plans. Meanwhile, some shoppers have begun to turn away from
fast fashion—which caused clothing production to nearly dou-
ble over the past 15 years—and toward resale or eco-conscious
labels like Reformation and Everlane.
Because the nature of the influencer economy is inherently
unsustainable—influencers’ livelihoods depend on promoting
what’s next and newest, encouraging followers to consume
right along with them—sustainability arguably goes against
the job description. But while some influencers race to keep up
with fashion’s hunger for more, others are aiming to change the
narrative. Reese Blutstein of Double3xposure opts for vintage
and repeat outfits, and she’s said her goal is to “show people
Outdoor Voices and Nike—brands that have made public prom-
ises to limit their environmental impact—uses her platform to
promote labels that are making an effort. “Are they [all] 100
percent sustainable?” the 25-year-old says. “Maybe not. Are
they working hard to figure it out? Probably. It’s this notion of
not condemning anything or anyone, because I think, as a whole,
we know there’s an issue, so people are taking steps.”
Monikh Dale, an influencer and stylist who lives in London,
says that since turning 30, “I’m a lot more wary of what I buy.”
She uses the eco-conscious movement as an opportunity to ease
the tension between aspiration and sustainability, encouraging
her followers to invest in high-quality pieces meant to withstand
the wear and tear of near-everyday use. “The best comment I
can get on my Instagram,” she says, “is when someone says to
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WHAT CAN FASHION
LEARN FROM PATAGONIA?
Brands are becoming activists, and everyone wants to be more sustainable than thou. But the
pathbreaking outdoor giant has been doing this since long before it was cool. By Véronique Hyland
I
t all started because DeRay Mckesson was cold. In
2014, when the school administrator–turned–activist
set out to drive from his home in Minneapolis to
Ferguson, Missouri, to protest the police shooting of
Michael Brown, he threw on a blue vest he’d bought five years
earlier on a trip to New York City. Soon, images of Mckesson in
the vest were blasted around the world, cementing him—and
his outerwear of choice—as the most recognizable member of
the Black Lives Matter movement. These days, he never goes
anywhere—whether it’s a rally, his friend Prabal Gurung’s show
at New York Fashion Week, even The Late Show With Stephen
Colbert—without his signature item. “I continue to wear it be-
cause it reminds me that everything we went through in the
street was real,” he explains. And while designers like Brunello
Cucinelli and Moncler are known for their status versions of
the style, Mckesson’s is a humble Patagonia (a similar vest on
its website retails for around $125).
The confluence of the outdoor brand and one of the most
prominent activists of our time is no accident. Corporations are
not people, but if they were, Patagonia might be Bernie Sanders:
authentic and committed from the start, but only more recently
lauded by the wider world for it. Mckesson says he was drawn
to the brand because it “has always lived its commitment to
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the environment.” Now equally beloved by those scaling icy
peaks and those scaling the social ladder of Fashion Week
(thus the “Patagucci” coinage), Patagonia has been walking the
walk since the ’70s. The rest of the fashion world is only now
nipping at its Tevas.
Forged in the same California crucible of optimism and
alfalfa-powered weirdness that created the Whole Earth Cat-
alog and Moon Juice, Patagonia was founded by rock climber
Yvon Chouinard in 1973. Chouinard and his merry band of
outdoorspeople allied themselves with environmental activism
early on: For example, when some Patagonia employees met a
young man who was working to save a nearby riverside from
development, they gave him office space to run his campaign.
In 1985, Patagonia formalized its commitment to advocacy with
1% for the Planet, a program that has donated more than $110
million from the company’s sales to environmental grassroots
groups. The company’s Ventura headquarters is the kind of
place where you can go surfing on your lunch hour. It’s also
the kind of place where you might get some side-eye if you
show up to a meeting carrying a single-use coffee cup, says Lisa
Williams, the brand’s chief product officer.
There’s a healthy debate about whether Michael Jordan
ever said the words “Republicans buy sneakers, too,” but that

justification of political apathy in the name of commerce has
long been common for fashion brands, luxury and mass alike.
Why wade into a debate when you’re looking to clothe peo-
ple on both sides of the aisle? But with a global climate crisis
looming, more and more fashion brands
have been speaking out. M. Sanjayan,
the CEO of Conservation International,
points to the companies, including Tif-
fany & Co., Levi Strauss & Co., and Gap
Inc., who took out full-page newspaper
ads protesting Trump’s decision to pull
out of the Paris climate accords in 2017.
Around the same time, Patagonia
fired its own shot across the bow: joining
a lawsuit against the Trump administra-
tion to block cuts to two Utah national
monuments. Most fashion activism stops
short of the courtroom, but Patagonia
is leaning into this news cycle. (“Hey,
How’s That Lawsuit Against the Presi-
dent Going?” read a company blog post
last spring.) “Every time the rest of the
industry starts catching up, they rein- LINDSAY ROSE MEDOFF AT SUAY SEW SHOP.
vent [themselves],” Sanjayan says. They
are, Williams says, “trying to build an
army of conscious consumers,” many of whom are millenni-
als or Gen Zers, who’ve been raised to question many of the
fashion industry’s norms. “We are really happy that younger
generations are asking hard questions of us, questions that
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we do not always have every answer to. They’re helping us
raise the bar.” The company has pledged to eliminate virgin
petroleum sources by 2025, and it launched ReCrafted, an
upcycled line made from Patagonia pieces that were beyond
repair, this past year. It’s also been doing
a sideline in environmental documenta-
ries: This year, Patagonia will premiere
a feature on public lands called Public
Trust. Activism doesn’t appear to have
turned off its customers. If anything,
it “has increased their market share,”
Sanjayan says. “They’ve taken a position
that has ended up being good, not just
for the planet, but for their bottom line.”
Between its message and its place in
the “gorpcore” aesthetic (Sandy Liang’s
clout fleeces, Prada’s hiking sandals),
Patagonia has even gained an unexpected
fashion following, and it’s gotten requests
to do collaborations with fashion brands,
according to Williams. Stylist Rachael
Wang, who is known for her street style,
initially admired the performance aspect
of the clothing. “My appreciation evolved
into reverence,” she says, “once I learned
about the company’s holistic approach to environmental re-
sponsibility and social justice. They are certainly not perfect,
but they don’t claim to be. They don’t use imperfection as an
excuse to stagnate.”

Global Good
With her zero-waste ethos, activist, investor, and
visionary retail entrepreneur Carmen Busquets
is using her resources to bring about lasting
change, in the fashion industry and beyond.

A GLOBAL GOODWILL AMBASSADOR to both the United

Nations and Fashion 4 Development, and a World Wildlife Fund
council member, Carmen Busquets has extended her reach well
beyond the front row. With an innate knack for seeing opportu-
nities in the most difficult of situations, Busquets managed to
successfully steer her Caracas boutique through the political
instability of her native Venezuela in the early ’90s and became
a founding majority investor in Net-a-Porter. Now she feels it is
her personal duty to empower more Latin American artisans and
entrepreneurs. Among Busquets’s 2020 initiatives is Looking for
the Masters, her first film series, which highlights the talents of
unsung craftspeople in Latin America and the Caribbean, while
aiming to ensure their artistic traditions survive through strategic
partnerships with luxury brands. Busquets has also emerged as
a mentor for the next generation of activists, such as Venezuelan
conservationist Bibiana Sucre, who is working to protect Mar-
garita Island, home to the critically endangered yellow-throated
parrot. “Bibiana has been held at gunpoint twice in recent weeks,
and her family has fled,” Busquets says. “But she remains to
protect her work, the land, and the parrots.”—Naomi Rougeau
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RARE BIRD
Rianna Nektaria Kounou and Nina Kuhn search the world for eye-catching
fabrics for Rianna + Nina, their coveted line of separates and dressing
gowns. This season, the duo adds limited-edition bags to the brand’s
colorful assortment. The Treasure Box (above), crafted from upcycled
vintage scarves, features Plexiglas stone closures. (One-of-a-kind handbag,
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Stella McCartney, a lifelong vegetarian, was a major proponent of vegan
leather and faux fur long before eco-conscious design infiltrated the
upper echelons of the fashion world. For spring, the designer previewed a
prototype of its Koba fur-free coat (seen below on Natalia Vodianova). The
industry’s first bio-based faux fur, Koba is made from plant- and recycled-
polyester–based Sorona fiber. An extended range of Koba outerwear will
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Mouzannar is among a select group
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Eliane Fattal seeks out antique pieces, with metal, stones, and
which she transforms into fantastical history than as a jeweler.
wares that have been exhibited at So- I suppose I was looking
for jewelry that resonated
theby’s. “Our design philosophy is taking on an intellectual level.”
precious materials and giving them a Necklace, Eliane Fattal
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Everywhere
Ocean hues are trending (just look at Pantone’s
2020 color of the year, Classic Blue). They’re
best set off with aquatic-inspired extras.
COURT ESY O F T HE D ESIGNERS; FO R DE TA ILS, SEE SHOPP ING GUIDE.
BOT TE GA VEN ETA MO DEL: JO HN P HIL LIP S/GE T T Y IMAGES; WAVE S:

WATER
MAUR IZ IO SI ANI /MOMENT/GET T Y IMAG ES; R EMA INING IM AGE S:

BOTTLE,
COLLINA TOP,
STRADA, $90, MANGO,
COLLINA $70,
STRADA.COM MANGO.COM

Levi’s
The WellThred hemp/denim
blend uses less water and SLIPDRESS,
fewer chemicals, and it’s GUESS, $98,
GUESS.COM
100 percent recyclable.
MULE, TOD’S,
Jeans, Levi’s, $98, levi.com. $645, TODS.COM
Shops JACKET, SEVENTY
VENEZIA, $885
(FOR SUIT),
JULIANGOLD.COM
SWEATER, PAULE KA,
$320, PAULEKA.COM

DRESS,
ROKSANDA,
$1,995,
HARRODS.COM

DRIES VAN
NOTEN

PANTS, ANNA MASON,

$585, NET-A-PORTER.COM

SHORTS, KUT FROM

THE KLOTH, $69,
KUTFROMTHEKLOTH.COM

HANDBAG, POLO
RALPH LAUREN, $398,
RALPHLAUREN.COM TOP, SANDRO,
$145, SANDRO,
NYC

DR IES VA N NOT EN MOD EL : ISID ORE MO NTAG/ IMAXT R EE ; F IR E: C O NSTA NTIN E J O HN NY/ MOM ENT/
GET T Y IMAGES; A NNA MASON PA NTS A ND RO KSA NDA DRE SS: COURT ESY OF MO DA OP E RAND I;
REMA INING IMAGES: COURTESY O F TH E D ESIGN ERS; FOR DE TA ILS, SE E SHOP PING GUID E.
HAT, COURRÈGES, $715,
COURREGES.COM

Blaze of Glory
SNEAKER,
VANS, $60,
VANS.COM

Heat up your wardrobe with

hypersaturated, flaming hues.
S U STA I N A B L E M U S T- H AV E S 1. Rentrayage x Fasano Ceramiche
Salvaged ceramics are “rescued,” their
cracks painted over, to create beautiful
1 new heirlooms. Plate, Rentrayage x
Fasano Ceramiche, $165, rentrayage.com.

2. Talia Collins
2 Her vibrant swimwear is fashioned from
Econyl, plastic marine litter that is spun
into yarn. Bikini top, $105, bottom, $105,
Talia Collins, matchesfashion.com.

3. Pili Restrepo
Restrepo uses only fair-mined, mercury-
free, and recycled gold. Earring, Pili
3 Restrepo, $250, maison-de-mode.com.
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MACY'S, Sephora & Ulta

 SKIRT,
SIMONE
NECKLACE, MARCO ROCHA, $930,
BICEGO, $4,690, SIMONE
MARCOBICEGO.COM ROCHA, NYC

TOP, MOLLY
GODDARD,
$1,559, NET-A-
PORTER.COM
SHIRT, ETRO,
$800,
ETRO.COM

TOP, SANDY
LIANG, $375,
SANDY
LIANG.INFO

VALENTINO

Embrace radical
transparency with SANDAL,
ALEXANDER
MCQUEEN,
$1,090,
ALEXANDER
MCQUEEN, NYC

PANTY, WIXSON
PARIS, $360, TANK, THEORY,
WIXSONPARIS.COM $105,
THEORY.COM
VA LENT INO MODE L: IMA XT REE ; CLOUD S: PHIL IP THOM PSON/ EYE EM/GET T Y IMAG ES; MO LLY G ODDA R D
TOP, ETRO SHI RT, SANDY LI ANG TO P, A ND AN A ÏS J OURD EN S KI RT: CO URTESY OF MODA OP ERA N DI ;
REMA INING IMAGES: COURTESY O F TH E D ESIGN ERS; FOR DE TA ILS, SE E SHOP PING GUID E.

SKIRT, ANAÏS
JOURDEN, $692,
ANAIS
JOURDEN.COM

S U STA I N A B L E M U S T- H AV E S 1. Henry Rose

Vetiver wood mingles with musk
2 for a fresh, EWG-verified clean
scent. Fog Eau de Parfum, Henry
Rose, $120, henryrose.com.
1
2. Sophie Buhai
Buhai opts for recycled metals and
ethically sourced gemstones. Earrings,
Sophie Buhai, $795, sophiebuhai.com.

3 3. Another Tomorrow
Sustainably milled viscose is made in a
mill that monitors its energy and water
usage. Jacket, Another Tomorrow,
$990, anothertomorrow.co.
 TOP, CHRISTOPHER

Shops
KANE, $395,
CHRISTOPHERKANE.COM

TOP, MARNI,
$1,490,
MARNI.COM

EARRINGS,
DAUPHINETTE,
$35 EACH,
DAUPHINETTE.COM

PANTS, MARC
JACOBS, $1,100,
DRESS, MARINA MARCJACOBS.COM
MOSCONE, MARINA
MOSCONE.COM

MARNI

JACKET, SUPRIYA
LELE, $730,
MODAOPERANDI.COM

KA NE TO P, SUP RIYA LE LE JACKE T, M ARN I TO P, MARC JACOB S PA N TS, A ND MA RI NA MOSC ON E DRE SS: CO U RTE SY O F
MAR NI MOD EL: DA NIEL E OBE RRAUCH/ IMAXT REE ; GR EE NE RY: CA RACTE R DE SI GN/E +/G E T T Y IMAGE S; CHR ISTOP HE R

MODA OP ERA N DI; REMA ININ G I MAG ES: COU RTE SY O F T HE D ESIGNE RS; FOR DETA ILS, SEE SHOP P IN G G UID E.
SKIRT, STELLA
MCCARTNEY,
$1,475, STELLA
MCCARTNEY, NYC

SANDAL, JONAK, $72,

JONAK-PARIS.COM SUNGLASSES, TORY
BURCH, $300, TORY
BURCH.COM

Green Shoots
Vibrant nature-inspired prints and motifs
sprouted all over the spring runways.

S U STA I N A B L E M U S T- H AV E S 1. Nannacay
3 Its handcrafted accessories are made
from natural fibers such as raffia—and
the brand employs some 300 South
and Central American artisans. Clutch,
Nannacay, $336, net-a-porter.com.

2. True Botanicals
Oceanic clay and activated bamboo
2 charcoal purify and deep-cleanse. Pacific
Glacial Clay Detoxifying Mask, True
Botanicals, $75, truebotanicals.com.

3. Alberta Ferretti
Recycled cashmere and low-impact
1 organic jersey meet the astrology craze.
Sweater, Alberta Ferretti, $495, fwrd.com.
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Beauty S U STA I N A B I L I T Y

O CEA N-
F R I E N D LY FO RMU L A

Kelsen Signature
Pomade ($29)
Kelsen uses natural beeswax and its
Marine Performance Blend—a pro-
prietary, sustainably harvested mix of organic kelp,
sea holly, and sea rock fennel—in place of silicone.
“Silicone can’t be broken down; it’s like liquid plas-
tic,” says Barbara Olioso, PhD, founder of the Green
Chemist Consultancy. Kelsen’s entire blue beauty
line (see Green Dictionary sidebar) is microplastic-
free, and its recyclable packaging is made from
glass or biodegradable sugarcane, some topped off
with compostable wood-composite caps.

LO W- FO OTPR I NT
HAI R CAR E

MyKirei by Kao Nourishing

Shampoo ($18)
The groundbreaking recyclable
packaging of MyKirei, a new
beauty line from the Japanese
company Kao, employs an air-filled
design to ensure you get every last drop. Imagine
a Capri Sun that slowly collapses with each use—
but with sides rigid enough to stand up straight,
using plastic that’s 70 percent thinner than in
traditional bottles. “The shampoo formula lathers
nicely,” says celebrity hairstylist Harry Josh, “and
[the conditioner] is light enough for thin hair but
conditions enough for curlier hair types.”
MAK EU P W IT H C LEAN
SUN SCRE E N
ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint
SPF 40 ($46)
Clean makeup pioneer ILIA Beauty’s
most recent launch fuses blendable
mineral sun protection with skin-
loving ingredients like hyaluronic
acid and plant-based squalane. The result is a
silicone-free tinted serum with reef-safe, patented,
non-nano zinc oxide. “The texture goes on really
nicely,” says celebrity makeup artist Katey Denno,
SU PER EASY RE FI LLS
a nontoxic and eco-friendly product enthusiast.
“Sometimes tinted moisturizers break down under Bathing Culture Refillable
blush, but this works well with both cream and Rainbow Glass
powder blushes.” Bonus: The dropper and bottle are Mind and Body Wash ($35)
also recyclable through TerraCycle. This California company’s bottles
are already locally sourced from
100 percent preexisting recycled
GREEN materials, but now Bathing Culture
is going one step further by allowing customers
DICTIONARY to bring in any bottle (an Atlanta customer
recently brought in an empty maple syrup bottle)
ZERO WASTE to refill with the brand’s vegan, toxin-free, and
MODE L: QUE NT IN JO NES (ST YLED BY SOPH IE B ERE SI NER );

The ultimate in biodegradable Mind and Body Wash for the

sustainability, zero waste bargain price of $1.75 an ounce.
MA J O R PL AST I C- FR EE PROM IS ES can refer to anything
REMA INING IMAGES: COURTESY O F TH E B RA ND S.

Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics from local or fair-trade WASTE-F REE
ingredient sourcing to FACE WASH
Economy Global Commitment the end of a product’s life,
More than 450 organizations have joined forces Take My Face Off Mitty Mini
in which its packaging
to make a dent in the world’s plastic consumption is 100 percent recycled, ($10)
by signing on to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s reused, or biodegradable. Disposable makeup remover wipes,
global commitment. Major companies like Unilever tissues, cotton pads, and swabs
(with brands such as Love Beauty and Planet, POST-CONSUMER sap precious resources during
Dove, and Suave), L’Oréal (Lancôme, Kiehl’s, RECYCLED PLASTIC production and ultimately translate to trash. “Cotton
etc.), and Johnson & Johnson (Neutrogena, OGX, Post-consumer recycled is one of the most toxic and water-consuming crops
Aveeno, etc.) have pledged that all their plastic (or PCR) plastic, made in the world,” says Freya Williams, author of Green
packaging will be fully recyclable, reusable, or by melting used plastics Giants and a sustainability adviser. Take My Face
compostable by 2025, helping ensure that the of all types to create Off’s Mitty Mini is a washable, zero-waste finger
amount of plastic waste in our oceans doesn’t new items, repurposes glove that replaces a number of the single-use items
outnumber the population of fish—a bleak plastic waste over in your medicine cabinet; its recyclable polyester
prediction that may be a reality by 2050. and over again. fabric absorbs less liquid than cotton does.

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 Together with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,
and Terracycle®, we’re working toward a
healthier planet by keeping real botanicals in
our bottles and plastic out of the sea.

BOTTLES MADE WITH 25% RECYCLED BEACH PLASTIC *

*Excluding cap

© 2020 The Procter & Gamble Company

Beauty S U STA I N A B I L I T Y
BOT T LES FRO M
BEACH PL ASTIC
Herbal Essences Beach Plastic
Collection (from $6)
Each year, about 8 million
metric tons of plastic ends
up in the ocean, which is why
Herbal Essences partnered with
TerraCycle to create a recyclable
bottle made from 25 percent beach plastic. The
plastic is collected from oceans, rivers, lakes, and
bays by organizations across the globe before
being processed into an entirely new material.
So far, Herbal Essences’ new bottles have helped
eliminate almost 7.4 tons of beach waste.
WASTE- NOT CA MPA IGN
@esteelaundry
#ShopMyStash
Anonymous beauty industry
watchdog @esteelaundry’s
#ShopMyStash challenge began
with a glamorous zero-waste call to action for
its 154,000 followers: Finish the existing beauty
products in your collection instead of purchasing
more. Unlike clothing or a handbag, a beauty item’s
lower price point makes it a tempting impulse
buy—with a high risk of being discarded (or
forgotten) before empty.
LO W- PL ASTI C
PAC KAGI NG
Australian Glow 1 Hour
Express Tan Mousse ($25)
and Mousse Refills ($23)
This year, Aussie sunless tanner
brand Australian Glow starts
packaging its Self Tan Mousses
using ocean-waste plastic, with each bottle saving
eight plastic bags from the sea. The brand also sells
refills of its vegan, cruelty-free, and organic formula
in pouches that reduce plastic use by 83 percent.
WAT E R- SAV I N G
HAI R CAR E
Waterl<ss Collection (from $8)
Developed during the 2018 severe
water shortage in Cape Town,
South Africa, the Waterl<ss hair-care
line saves earth’s most precious
resource: water. Recyclable
aluminum cans are filled with
shampoo, conditioner, and stylers that help stretch
the time between washes. “Dry styling products are
a must for everyone [looking to conserve] water,”
Josh says. “I love dry shampoo for adding texture
and grip. The Waterl<ss one doesn’t leave any
residue or color behind in your hair.”
B IODEG RADAB LE C REAM
Caudalie Vinoperfect Instant
Brightening Moisturizer ($59)
Caudalie’s newest face cream
is packed with niacinamide and white peony, all
housed in a biodegradable formula. Cofounder
Mathilde Thomas has banned parabens,
phenoxyethanol, phthalates, sodium laureth sulfate,
mineral oils, silicones, bisphenols, and animal-
derived ingredients from the brand’s products, and
she estimates the company offsets approximately
four times its carbon footprint. Plus, she’s set a goal
of zero-waste packaging by 2022.
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GREEN
published in 2016,
garbage-truck-load
Brands are now using MD, PhD, literally wrote the book on cosmetic
ocean-bound or beach treatments—last year’s Cosmetic Dermatologic
plastic (found within a Surgery—but still believes plant actives, not
few miles of a waterway), lasers or injectables, are the future of antiaging.
or ocean-found or She sources plants from her own organic farm
ocean-waste plastic in upstate New York to use in her skin-care line,
(foraged from the Macrene Actives, which also launched last year.
water and beaches). Everything about the line, from what it is (vegan,
gluten-free, cruelty-free, non-GMO) to what it
BIODEGRADABLE isn’t (it’s free of parabens, phthalates, sulfates,
When discarded, a polyethylene glycol, acrylates, fragrance, silicone,
biodegradable mica, talc, mineral oil, and petrolatum), has been
product breaks down carefully thought out. The result is highly effective
to its original natural products in which luxury and eco-consciousness
components over time, exist in perfect harmony. The line features
whether it’s added to recyclable glass containers, mother-of-pearl
a backyard compost spatulas made from recycled shells, and recycled
pile or a commercial paper packaging printed with biodegradable soy
facility. Biodegradable ink, ensuring that even the boxes won’t leach
microbeads, made
harmful chemicals in their second life.
from cellulose or fruit
pits, are currently being
tested to replace the GENTLE HA IR COLOR
nonbiodegradable Schwarzkopf Simply Color
(and now banned)
plastic microbeads ($10)
Permanent hair color shouldn’t
used in facial scrubs
and body washes. leave an indelible stain on the
planet, and at-home hair color
A LEXIAD ES: NG OC MINH N GO; RE MA INING IM AGE S: COURT ESY O F T HE B RAN DS.
CARBON-NEGATIVE company Schwarzkopf is working
to lessen its mark. The new ammonia-, silicone-, and
From growing crops
to manufacturing, a lot alcohol-free Simply Color formula, which comes in
of energy is expended 12 shades, is less damaging to your hair, and the
to produce a single packaging, made from difficult-to-recycle materials
beauty product. A (such as color cream tubes), can be recycled
step beyond carbon- through TerraCycle. Even the lid is biodegradable,
neutral, carbon-negative making the entire packaging zero waste.
production means that
a company offsets more AFFOR DA BLE G REEN
carbon emissions than M U S T- H AV E
it produces, explains Cleen Beauty Mineral SPF
Freya Williams.
30 Face Moisturizer Broad
Spectrum Sunscreen
($10)
With every product priced under
$10 and available at megaretailer Walmart, Cleen
Beauty makes paraben-, phthalate-, mineral oil–,
and cruelty-free skin care accessible for every
budget. It’s also vegan. A standout in the 14-product
collection is the moisturizer made with SPF 30
zinc oxide sunscreen, which goes on sheer while
smoothing skin with shea butter (and it’s packaged
in a recyclable container, to boot).
U by Kotex® CleanWear®

to after-party.
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A RE D LI P
T H AT ’ S G R E E N GREEN E A R T H - F R I E N D LY

Clean Beauty Collective Clean

SC ENT

Āether Beauty Radiant Ruby Reserve Radiant Nectar ($98)

Lip Crème ($28)
This creamy lip formula uses
crushed gemstone powder from
ethically and sustainably sourced
rubies to give you the perfect red
lip—sans any animal-derived ingredients (many
traditional red lipsticks use crushed beetle shells).
In addition to being vegan, it’s the first luxury
lip color packaging to be made of 100 percent
recycled plastic. “The first layer wears like a
pigmented gloss, but it [turns into] a lip stain,”
Denno says. “I’m not sure which I like more!”
FU LL- C IRCL E
SK IN CAR E
Fresh Lotus
Youth Preserve
Skincare (from
$19)
To sustainably
source the lotus
used in its Lotus
Youth Preserve line,
Fresh partnered
with Ten Mile Creek
Nursery in Alabama.
Each lotus is
handpicked from the
water in full bloom—flower, stem, and root—and then
tested in the on-site mobile lab to ensure maximum,
well, freshness. The plants are gently pressed whole
to extract their juice, and all by-products are returned
to the soil, so there is zero waste.
MODE L: QUE NT IN JO NES (ST YLED BY SOPH IE B ERE SI NER ); RE MAI NIN G I MAG ES: COU RT ESY OF TH E B RAND S.
Fragrance is notoriously difficult
BLUE BEAUTY to formulate in a clean way
Beauty products that because phthalates, commonly
wash down the drain can used to give scents their staying
wind up in waterways, power, are considered potential
endangering marine life. hormone disrupters (a study published in the journal
For example, chemicals Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety found that
found in sunscreens,
phthalates can end up in streams and turn male fish
such as oxybenzone
and octinoxate, are said into females). Clean Beauty Collective formulates its
vegan and cruelty-free perfumes without phthalates
to contribute to coral
bleaching. Blue beauty or parabens—instead using sustainably harvested
can include reef-safe essential oils and blue beauty–friendly ingredients—
sunscreen and drought- and also manufactures its scents in a facility that
friendly formulas to uses solar power for 80 percent of its energy. Clean
Reserve Radiant Nectar, a blend of ambrette seeds,
protect our lakes, rivers,
and oceans, as well pear nectar, orris butter, tobacco flower, cedarwood,
as their inhabitants. and musk, comes in a glass bottle that is reusable
and recyclable, and even the cap is made from
sustainable wood.
MEET OUR EXPERTS
G U I LT- F R E E FLOSS
KATEY DENNO, CELEBRITY
MAKEUP ARTIST AND CLEAN
LIVING EXPERT; HARRY JOSH, Terra & Co. Brilliant
CELEBRITY HAIRSTYLIST
AND FOUNDER OF HARRY Black Dental Floss ($10)
JOSH PRO TOOLS; BARBARA Touted as one of the world’s
OLIOSO, MANAGING
DIRECTOR OF THE GREEN most renewable and sustainable
CHEMIST CONSULTANCY crops, bamboo is the backbone
IN SOMERSET, UNITED
KINGDOM, AND A CHEMISTRY of Terra & Co.’s biodegradable
PHD; JESSICA RICHARDS,
FOUNDER OF BROOKLYN
floss. Woven with antibacterial activated charcoal
CLEAN BEAUTY BOUTIQUE and scented with mint-spiked coconut oil, this
SHEN BEAUTY; AND FREYA floss is chic enough to make recommended daily
WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF GREEN
GIANTS AND CEO OF THE flossing a reality. Toss used floss (and Terra & Co.’s
NORTH AMERICA DIVISION biodegradable box) into the compost bin instead
OF FUTERRA, A GLOBAL
SUSTAINABILITY AGENCY. of the trash can.

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Beauty EL LE WO RD

Victoria Beckham
The designer and beauty boss proves that
clean beauty is more than just a pared-down
ingredient list: It’s a way of life. By Kate Foster
It should come as no surprise that Victoria Beckham doesn’t
believe in excess. The fashion elite consider her scrupulously
tailored clothing designs a mainstay. But the world first came
to know her as Posh, one-fifth of the Spice Girls, notably sleek
in a uniform of little black dresses that, like her more current
nickname (VB), were short and sweet. Her eponymous clean
beauty line, which debuted this past fall, is no different. The
list of excluded ingredients—31—dramatically outnumbers the
items themselves: five makeup and two skin-care products,
clad in chic tortoiseshell packaging made with minimal plas-
tic and shipped in biodegradable foam. “It was about creating
what I want in my own makeup bag,” Beckham says. “The
most luxurious formulas, but really making sure that they were
clean.” In ELLE’s word-association interview, she discusses
her family’s eco toothbrushes, a secret Posh project, and more.

START “I’ve really enjoyed educating

myself, my team, and my

CLEAN
community about clean beauty.
YOUR FIRST WORD IS… At home, [being environmentally
friendly] is something we all
take seriously. We try to use
minimal amounts of plastic and
“We have an entire Victoria paper [and instead use] bamboo
Beckham community through toothbrushes, glass water bottles,
the fashion, design, beauty, and washable face pads.”

COMMUNITY
and philanthropic work I’ve
been doing over the last…
goodness, 20 years. We’re
very transparent on the beauty
website and love to share

DESIGN
everything we’ve learned.”
“When I’m not with David and
the children, I’m challenging
myself with the next collection.
I’m quite a minimalist—I don’t
like anything too fussy—and
I feel I’ve created very strong
brand signatures over the last

STRONG
“I consider myself a strong
few seasons with regard to
woman. I talked about girl
silhouette and color.”
power years ago as Posh
Spice, and now it’s about
empowering women and
BEC KHAM: TOM NEW TON; REMA INING IMAGE S: C OU RTE SY OF T HE BR A NDS.
men through beauty and
fashion. I have female CEOs

POSH
for our fashion and beauty
lines. I love to surround
myself with strong women.”

“There is a Posh surprise

coming soon, and all I will
say is, it’s not musical.”

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WITH THIS SERUM, WHICH HAS HAVE SIGNIFICANT SCIENCE
FRAGMENTED HYALURONIC BEHIND THEM. I BELIEVE IN THEIR
ACID AND NIACINAMIDE. I REALLY BENEFITS FOR MY WELL-BEING,
NOTICE A DIFFERENCE.” BOTH INSIDE AND OUT.”
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POWER SERUM, $210, VICTORIABECKHAMBEAUTY.COM DIETARY SUPPLEMENT, $60, ELYSIUMHEALTH.COM

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 The Dirty Truth
With escalating concerns about the chemicals in
everyday beauty products, a battle is raging online and,
now, in DC. Martha McCully investigates.
n January, the Food and Drug Administration
published a study revealing that certain chemical
I sunscreens can be absorbed through the skin and
into our bloodstreams. While it corroborated a pi-
lot study the FDA executed less than a year earlier,
this new research showed that these sunscreens
can be absorbed into the blood at levels that exceed the FDA
threshold presumed to be safe. Both the agency and other experts
have underscored that there is no current evidence that these
ingredients actually do harm—but that didn’t stop the reincarna-
tion of an old debate: Are our beauty products slowly killing us?
If you watch this year’s buzzy documentary Toxic Beauty,
released in January and featuring interviews with doctors who
specialize in environmental health, oncologists, and cancer
patients suing beauty companies, you might very well think so.
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Retailers like Follain, The Detox Market, and Credo, which bans
more than 2,700 ingredients from the products on its shelves,
warn against ingredients with links to health issues. Parabens,
phthalates, 1,4-dioxane, aluminum compounds, PEGs, chemical
sunscreens, and synthetic fragrance are just a few currently un-
der scrutiny. Words like fragrance, parfum, and flavor also raise
eyebrows because they often serve as a catchall for hundreds of
undisclosed chemicals (since scent is considered a trade secret).
In recent years, demand for “nontoxic” beauty products has
become so strong that retailers like Sephora, Saks Fifth Avenue,
and Target have established their own clean beauty seals and/
or designated shopping sections. Meanwhile, the Environmental
Working Group’s ingredient database, Skin Deep—once con-
sidered the bête noire of mainstream beauty brands—is now a
resource for major names like Procter & Gamble.

Promising? Perhaps. But if you ask many chemists and prod-
uct creators about these developments, you may not hear a sigh
of relief. “I roll my eyes every time someone wants to create a
new brand and the first thing out of their mouth is ‘clean,’” says
developer Tamar Lara Kamen, who has worked with companies
such as Estée Lauder and Peter Thomas Roth. “I truly do not be-
lieve that topical skin care can be dangerous systemically.” When
asked about research linking ingredients like parabens and
phthalates to hormone disruption and even cancer, Kamen says
the test doses are at levels “disproportionate to what you would
put on your face.” In other words, it’s the dose that makes the
poison. After all, even water can kill you if you drink too much.
The stark difference of opinion is most acute online, of course,
and laced with plenty of vitriol. Scroll through the comments
sections of Insta-famous beauty chemists like LabMuffin-
BeautyScience of Australia or anonymous beauty vigilante
Estée Laundry, and you’ll find fiery disagreements about what’s
bad for your body, what’s bad for the environment, and what’s
blatant fearmongering. Grab some popcorn and prepare to Goo-
gle a few ingredients—or 100.
What may finally bring down the gavel on some of these
disputes is the Cosmetic Safety Enhancement Act of 2019, intro-
duced in the U.S. House of Representatives last December—only
the second time in 40 years there’s been a hearing about cosmetics
reform on the federal level—and two new bills in California. The
key proposals in the act require cosmetic companies to register
formulas with the FDA and mandate better ingredient transpar-
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ency. California’s bills have similar demands: One would require
the disclosure of fragrance and flavor chemicals deemed toxic to
human health and the environment but allow nontoxic chemicals
to remain confidential. The second bill would outlaw 13 of the
most hazardous chemicals still permissible in the States, including
formaldehyde, lead, mercury, asbestos, and two phthalates and
two parabens already banned by the European Union.
More than 1,300 ingredients are currently off-limits in the
EU. In comparison, the United States has only prohibited 11.
While some big beauty companies formulate products for their
international markets simultaneously (making them de facto
compliant with the strictest laws), the last time the U.S. updat-
ed its list was in 1938, decades before retinol or long-wearing
waterproof carbon black mascara was even invented.
Surprisingly, the FDA does not regulate the beauty industry
as a matter of course (nor does any other federal agency), and
the terms green, botanical, pure, safe, nontoxic, vegan, and, yes,
clean are not regulated by any governing body (the term organic
is regulated by the USDA, not the FDA). It’s up to a company
to test whether its products are safe. Does that happen? Four
sources I spoke with used the phrase “the Wild West” to describe
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Think about formaldehyde, flagged as a possible human
carcinogen by the National Toxicology Program in 1981; it’s still
allowed in hair-straightening treatments. Or triclosan, found to
potentially cause tumors, which was a commonplace antibac-
terial ingredient until it was banned from liquid soap in 2016
(though it may still be in your toothpaste). That’s not to say that
all synthetics are bad and all natural ingredients are entirely
safe—some essential oils can burn the skin, and asbestos is a nat-
urally occurring mineral fiber. Last fall, JAMA published a letter
entitled “Natural Does Not Mean Safe: The Dirt on Clean Beauty
Products,” which warned against misleading greenwashing tac-
tics in marketing. Plus, sometimes the ousting of one ingredient
can usher in another that may be just as harmful, if not more so.
But consumer demand alone can also push out ingredients if they
are perceived as dangerous. Houston-based product developer
Mark Broussard says, “Once something [takes] hold in the minds
of consumers, what’s the point? If consumers see parabens in
your product, they won’t buy it.”
Parabens, one of the most oft-cited and oft-defended ingre-
dients of concern, may be the poster child for the clean beauty
conflict. Commonly used in cosmetics and other products as
preservatives, parabens have been shown to mimic estrogen,
qualifying them as endocrine disrupters—but research has also
shown that parabens’ ability to bind to human estrogen receptors
is weak. And while oncology professor Philippa Darbre, PhD,
says in Toxic Beauty that “I’m actually quite upset about how
much [paraben] I’ve measured in human breast tissue,” there is
still no evidence that its presence actually triggers cancer. “Para-
bens are naturally occurring in fruits and vegetables, so custom-
ers are being exposed to them anyway,” says New Jersey–based
cosmetic chemist Ni’Kita Wilson. “There is a class of parabens
that have been banned in the EU, not because they were deemed
unsafe but because there wasn’t enough data.”
Nevertheless, many dermatologists remain skeptical. “I take
ingredients in products incredibly seriously, and so do my pa-
tients,” says Whitney Bowe, MD, who practices in New York City.
“In the case of parabens, I don’t believe in innocent until proven
guilty.” Macrene Alexiades, MD, PhD, who published a paper on
the toxicity of parabens in The Journal of Drugs in Dermatology
in 2008, agrees: “When people are applying five products a day,
they’re exceeding the maximum allowable amount by tenfold.”
Most American women use 12 cosmetic products a day (or 33,
like yours truly). They add up.
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Beauty
Huda Bares
It All
The makeup artist and mogul
celebrates her new skin-care line,
Wishful, by removing the layers
of makeup that made her famous.
By Margaux Anbouba
PHOTOGRAPHED BY FRANCESCO LUIGI SCOTTI.
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“SO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW
[what I’ve had done]?” says Huda Kat-
tan through a shy smile. I do—and I’m
guessing her 43 million Instagram fol-
lowers and 3.8 million YouTube sub-
scribers are also curious.
We’re sitting in the bathroom of Huda
Beauty’s Dubai headquarters, which of-
ten doubles as the setting for the videos
that launched a thousand cut creases.
The 36-year-old entrepreneur takes a
deep breath and walks me through all the
work it’s taken—both cosmetically and
mentally—to transform herself into the
makeup innovator, mother, and monon-
ymous beauty icon she is today.
A nose job in 2013. Subtle Botox
tweaks in the face and jawline. A breast
lift. Fillers in her lips, cheeks, and chin,
and under the eyes. Dissolving those fill-
ers because she felt like it was too much.
Feng shui consultations. Thread lifts in
her jaw and cheeks. Semi-shaved-off
brows. Three years working with a life
coach. And, most recently, an innovative
treatment created by her Dubai-based
dermatologist, Marta Duarte, MD, that
was inspired by her most critical You-
Tube followers. “I used to get comments
saying, ‘You look like a nutcracker,’” Kat-
tan says about the smile lines on either
side of her mouth. “My doctor developed
a procedure where she goes in with a
small needle and actually rips the skin off
the muscle piece by piece. It’s very pain-
ful.” When she’s in full glam, like today,
it’s all topped with the icing on the pro-
cedural cake: about two hours of makeup.
It’s hard not to balk at this confession.
But Kattan’s complete transparency—at
a time when many are still hesitant to
disclose that they have had even a drop
of injectables, let alone cosmetic sur-
gery—is a refreshing part of her brand. “I
started bruising [from the treatments],”
she says. “And I was like, ‘What do I do?
Cover them up? Show them?’ And I was
like, ‘Fuck it. I’ll just start showing them.’
It’s important for me to tell people when
 I’m doing something. And it’s liberating.”
In addition to her camera, her crew,
and my recorder, her bathroom is over-
run with serums, makeup products, and
skin-care tools—some from her own sev-
en-year-old brand, which was recently
valued at $1.2 billion, and some sent to
her by brands desperate to appear
on her social channels.
The child of Iraqi immigrants,
Kattan was born in Oklahoma City
and eventually moved to Cookev-
ille, Tennessee, with her family.
Growing up in the South, Kattan
found her name, heritage, and
appearance made her feel like an
outsider. She spent her formative
years trying to find a way to blend
in, which included briefly going
by the more culturally ambiguous
name Heidi. Still feeling insecure,
she turned to makeup. “I felt like
I wasn’t pretty,” she says. “I saw all
these celebrities on television and
thought they were so glamorous
and beautiful. I thought [make-
up] might make me feel a sense of
happiness.”
Kattan’s love affair with cos-
metics began at age 14, when
she discovered a pinkish-brown
Revlon lipstick in her sister Alya’s
makeup bag. “It was so beautiful,”
she says. “I couldn’t really afford
to buy my own, but I always used
to borrow it from her.” By the time
she was studying finance at the
University of Michigan–Dearborn,
Kattan was taking every opportu-
nity she could find to do makeup—
for friends, for school plays, for basically
KAT TA N IN MAK EUP : MA RGAUX A N BO UBA; WISHFUL SCRUB: COU RT ESY OF T HE B RA ND.
anyone who needed a (free) makeup
artist. She took a finance job at the Dubai
outpost of a consulting firm after gradu-
ating, which lasted less than a year before
her role at the company was eliminated
due to the recession. In a vlog on her
website, Kattan admits that finance was
“just not the right fit.” It was her other
sister, Mona (one of Huda Beauty’s early
investors, along with Alya), who suggest-
ed she study makeup. With the support
of her entire family, Kattan moved to Los
Angeles in 2009 to attend the Joe Blasco
Makeup Training Center. After com-
pleting her coursework, she returned
to Dubai and began working as a pro-
fessional makeup artist. Early clients
included Eva Longoria, Nicole Richie,
and several members of various Middle
Eastern royal families. In 2010, again
encouraged by her sisters, she founded
the Huda Beauty blog and began sharing
tutorials and makeup reviews.
Her first product launch in 2013—a
line of false lashes—caught the eye of
Kim Kardashian West. “I was creating
my own lashes by using bits and pieces
from different brands to make unique
KATTAN
IN A FULL
FACE OF
GLAM,
MOMENTS
BEFORE
SHE
REMOVED
IT ALL
FOR OUR
SHOOT.
“I thought [makeup]
might make
me feel a sense
of happiness.”
lashes that felt good and looked like natu-
ral lashes, even if superdramatic,” Kattan
says, wearing her signature lengthening
lashes, called Hoodie. “Most falsies were
just a single strip, which doesn’t emulate
a natural lash. It wasn’t until we created
our own product that things changed.
People became more interested in what
we were saying.”
A full makeup range eventually fol-
lowed, and by 2017, Kattan was named
one of the 25 most influential figures
on the internet by Time magazine, and
one of the top 10 beauty influencers by
Forbes. But something was still holding
her back from truly feeling confident: her
skin. For years, Kattan had used makeup
to mask insecurities about her skin and
feeling like an outsider. Now she want-
ed to put her best face forward—with
or without makeup. Despite having an
entire roomful of skin-care products, she
couldn’t find any that delivered glowy,
even results without irritating her im-
balanced, sensitive skin. Enter Wish-
ful. “What do you wish for in good skin
care?” she says of her new line. “Your
wish is our command. We’re going to
solve it.”
The first product, Yo Glow
Enzyme Scrub, is an exfoliating
whip that you smooth onto dry,
clean skin to gently resurface
and even skin tone. It’s a combi-
nation of soft cellulose pieces (an
eco-friendly alternative to micro-
beads), alpha and beta hydroxy ac-
ids, and a surprise ingredient that
inspired the baby-yellow packag-
ing: bromelain. Kattan discovered
the anti-inflammatory enzyme
while recovering from her nose job.
“I had to go straight back to shoot-
ing videos,” she says. “I knew bro-
melain was one of the best things
for [reducing] inflammation, so I
juiced a pineapple every day. When
I took the cast off my nose, it looked
like I hadn’t had anything done. I
became obsessed.”
It’s an unusual choice to launch
an exfoliator as a skin-care line’s
sole product. But then again, few
could have predicted that a line
of false lashes would ultimately
spawn a billion-dollar beauty em-
pire. Kattan realizes some may be
dubious about entrusting their skin
to a makeup artist known for “cake
face.” But, she says, her hours of
makeup training give her unique
insight. “An exfoliator is the one
product everybody needs to have. I use
this before makeup because it smooths
everything out.” By whisking away dead
skin cells, the product also helps skin-
care ingredients work better. “It’s great
for everyone,” she says, “whether you
wear tons of makeup or not.”
At the end of our talk, Kattan em-
barks on the ultimate beauty dare: Star-
ing directly into the camera, she peels off
her lashes. Then, using her long, spar-
kling nails, she scoops out a dollop of
Huda Beauty Makeup Remover Balm
and gently massages it over her entire
face. A few Bioderma-laden cotton pads
later and she’s barefaced. “Beauty actual-
ly has very little to do with what you see,”
she says, as the photographer captures
picture after picture of her without a
stitch of makeup. “Since I like my skin
now, I feel confident and proud. Every-
body should feel that way.” ▪
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y name is Greta and I am 15 years
M
old. My little sister, Beata, will
turn 13 this autumn. We can’t
vote in the parliamentary election
THUNBERG: RYAN PFLUGER/AUGUST IMAGE.
even though the political issues
now at stake are going to affect
our whole lives in a way that can’t be compared
with previous generations.
If we live to be 100, then we’re going to be here
well into the next century, and that sounds really
strange, I know. Because when you talk about the
future today, it usually means in just a few years’
time. Everything beyond the year 2050 is so dis-
tant that it doesn’t even exist in our imaginations.
But by then my little sister and I—hopefully—will
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Fashioning Change | P E R S P E C T I V E S
A LETTER
TO EVERYONE
WHO HAS A
CHANCE TO
BE HEARD
The now 17-year-
old activist shares a
call to action in Our
House Is on Fire.
By Greta Thunberg
not even have lived half our lives. My grandfather is 93 and his father lived to
be 99, so it’s not an impossibility that we’re going to have long lives.
In the years 2078 and 2080, we will celebrate our seventy-fifth birthdays.
If we have children and grandchildren, perhaps they’ll celebrate those birth-
days with us. Perhaps we’ll tell them what it was like when we were children.
Perhaps we’ll tell them about all of you.
Perhaps they are going to wonder why you, who had the chance to be
heard, didn’t speak up. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We could all start
acting as if we were in the middle of the crisis we are in fact in.
You keep saying that the children are our future, and that you would do
anything for them. Such things sound full of hope. If you mean what you say,
then please listen to us—we don’t want your pep talks. We don’t want your
presents, your package holidays, your hobbies, or your unlimited options. We
want you to seriously get involved in the acute sustainability crisis going on
all around you. And we want you to start speaking up and telling it like it is. ▪
SEEDS OF HOPE
Could an innovative
reforestation program in the
Amazon help stem the tide
of climate change–fueled
megafires across the globe?
By Molly Langmuir
 Fashioning Change | P E R S P E C T I V E S

he numbers are difficult to

T
even comprehend. By late
January, with many sections
of Australia still ablaze, the
nation’s latest fire season had
left more than 27 million acres
burned (an area roughly the size of Virginia)
and at least 30 people dead, and had produced
a smoke plume large enough to cover the con-
tinental U.S. By one estimate, over a billion ani-
mals perished. “It’s such a big number, you forget
how much suffering is involved,” says Gerardo
Huertas, who leads disaster operations and risk
reduction worldwide for the global nonprofit
World Animal Protection (and who recently
traveled to Australia to provide technical assis-
tance). “Animals can’t necessarily outrun the
fires, and they can’t escape them by climbing into
trees. Koalas, for instance, live in eucalyptus trees,
which catch fire like they’re made of gasoline.”
Some wildfires were so hot they generated their
own storm systems, which then spread fire even
further through lightning strikes. One such strike
was responsible for the fire tornado on Kangaroo
Island—a wildlife sanctuary with such a high level
of biodiversity it’s been likened to Noah’s Ark—
where half the island’s koala population, which
numbered around 50,000, was feared dead.
Wildfires have always occurred naturally, but
the intensity of these particular fires is unprece-
dented, and while poor land management plays a
role, so does human-caused climate change. Last
year was the hottest and driest in Australia since
the country began keeping records 109 years ago.
And the fires there are just the latest in a series
of uniquely intense wildfires around the world.
“There were the fires in the Amazon, then Cali-
fornia, then Borneo, and now Australia—the scale
of these fires is much worse than it has ever been,”
says Sebastian Troëng, executive vice president
of the environmental nonprofit Conservation
International. “It makes you wonder where will
be next.”
It also makes you wonder what can be done.
One potential way forward was suggested by a
study in the journal Science last July, which found
that there is enough vacant land on the planet to
sustain an additional 2.25 billion acres of forest
without shrinking cities or farms. Once these
forests matured, they could store more than 200
gigatons of carbon, helping counteract roughly
two-thirds of all man-made carbon emissions.
In 2017, Conservation International made refor-
estation a key part of its climate change strategy
and launched a program to restore 70,000 acres,
or about 73 million trees, in the Brazilian Amazon.
“To avoid the climate tipping point, we have to cut
our emissions in half by 2030,” says Nikola Alex-
SMOKE RISES FROM LAST
SUMMER’S AMAZON WILDFIRES,
andre, a restoration fellow at the organization.
MANY OF WHICH OCCURRED
IN AREAS THAT HAD BEEN
(Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution,
RECENTLY DEFORESTED. the world has warmed by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit;

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many scientists suggest the tipping point could

occur with a warming of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.)
“But we’re no longer in a position to only reduce
emissions. We have to actively remove carbon
from the atmosphere. From our perspective, the HOW TO
most cost-effective way to do that is by bringing
areas that have been damaged back to life.”
BUILD A
When most people think of reforestation,
they envision planting saplings in the ground. But
MOVEMENT
newly planted trees often require a fair amount
of care, especially if they aren’t native to the area;
In just two
even if they do thrive, the resulting monocultural years, the UK’s
forests are not as biologically diverse as naturally
growing forests. Thus the process Conservation
upstart radical
International supports in the Amazon—which is
derived from the practices of indigenous people—
environmentalist
instead involves spreading a mixture of around
AMAZONIA
BY THE
NUMBERS
group Extinction
90 different native seeds. In addition to being
cost-effective and low-maintenance, this method Rebellion has
produces thick growth that can absorb up to 40
times more carbon than a monocultural forest. 30,000,000
gone global.
People live in the Am- By Adrienne Gaffney
azon River basin—the
populations of Tokyo,
Mexico City, and New “IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK apoc-a-lyp-
York City combined.
tic…” sings a small group of Christmas carolers,
10% hunched under an awning just outside the New
Of all known York City Council’s downtown offices during a
species live in the chilly December downpour. Bundled in bright
Amazon rain forest. red scarves with sewn-on patches represent-
2.7° Fahrenheit ing the hourglass logo of international climate
action group Extinction Rebellion, the carolers
The tipping point at
which climate project an energy that’s both festive and dour.
change could upend Their subversive performance is part of “The
life as we know it. Twelve Days of Crisis,” a series of global protests
$18,500,000 designed to build awareness about the urgency
of climate change. “Extinction Rebellion was the
HUNDREDS OF KOALAS WERE RESCUED AND TREATED What Ecuador received
AT A MAKESHIFT FIELD HOSPITAL ON KANGAROO from the Green Climate first thing that really spoke to me as far as action
ISLAND OFF THE SOUTH COAST OF AUSTRALIA.
Fund for cutting that aligned with the current ecological emer-
its deforestation rate gency,” says member Christina See, a graduate
in half over the
Engaging those who live in the area and mak- past two decades. student in food policy at New York University,
ing sure the process benefits them economically is who serves as the local chapter’s coordinator
SOURCE: CONSERVATION
essential, says Mauricio Bianco, vice president of INTERNATIONAL of political strategy. The group’s tactics, which
Conservation International–Brazil, since “if you have ranged from supergluing themselves to
don’t see a value in the forest, you cut it down.” In roads, trains, and buildings to attempting to shut
Brazil, all Amazon landowners must maintain up down airports and oil rigs, are extreme and often
to 80 percent of their land as forest, and many of deliberately disruptive. “It’s not just like, ‘Hey,
the acres Conservation International hopes can let’s sign some petitions,’” she says. “It’s about
be regenerated have been provided by farmers taking real action.”
trying to come into compliance with the law. Extinction Rebellion began in April 2018
Indigenous people are paid to collect seeds and when a diverse group of about 15 activists met at
then spread them by hand; farmers also spread Gail Bradbrook’s house in the Cotswolds. Brad-
the seeds with soybean machinery. Scientists brook, a molecular biophysicist who’d been a
GET INVOLVED
have suggested that if 20 to 25 percent of the part of antifracking protests and the Occupy
Visit conservation.org
Amazon is cleared, it could reach its own tipping to find out how you movement, was joined by others accustomed
point and become a savanna. Already, 17 percent can help the organi- to making splashy statements for the cause.
is gone. “If we lose the Amazon, we are not go- zation’s reforestation There was her former partner Simon Bramwell,
efforts in the Amazon
ing to reach what we need to do in terms of the and around the world. who spent several weeks in a tree in Bristol to
global climate emergency,” Bianco says. “What Learn more about fight a proposed bus path back in 2015 (he was
Conservation International is doing is a drop in Australia’s bushfire unsuccessful), and Roger Hallam, an organic
emergency and how
the ocean of what is needed, but it’s important to you can help at world farmer who staged a hunger strike in 2017 to get
start somewhere.” ▪ animalprotection.org. King’s College London to divest from fossil fuel

companies (the school eventually agreed). Together, the group drafted a
series of ambitious goals: They wanted the UK government to acknowledge
that climate change had already begun, that it was getting worse, and that
we would see unprecedented change within our lifetime. They also asked
for the creation of a Citizens’ Assembly on climate change and for legislation
to help the country reach net zero—a state in which the emissions produced
by humans are balanced by emissions removed from the atmosphere—by
2025. “So many of us who’ve been thinking about the ecological crisis have
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had this horrible creeping feeling, like nothing was getting done and it was
getting worse,” Bradbrook says. “It was a relief to feel the spirit of people
willing to be in the streets.”
Their formal—and loud—introduction to the world came in October 2018,
weeks after the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released
a landmark report declaring the world had only 12 years left to make the
changes needed to avoid catastrophic warming. Some 1,000 protesters (a total
that far exceeded expectations) descended on London’s Parliament Square
for what they called a Declaration of Rebellion. Moving to a road outside the
IMAGES; PROT ESTE RS: LE ON N EAL /GET T Y IMAGES.
Houses of Parliament, they linked arms, forming a massive blockade that
stopped traffic for hours. It was a bold unveiling, and it worked: The group
received massive media attention, and soon the name Extinction Rebellion
was synonymous with a new attitude toward climate change—one that ur-
gently demanded action.
Members capitalized on the early momentum. The following month, as
many as 6,000 people—children, the elderly, and artist Gavin Turk among
them—blocked five bridges crossing the river Thames, again halting traf-
fic. Eighty-five people were arrested, and the Guardian deemed it one of
the largest acts of British civil disobedience in decades. Among the group’s
members, many of whom argue that law and order itself must be thrown
into chaos before governments will respond, getting arrested is seen as the
ultimate badge of honor.
COSTUMED PROTESTERS BLOCKED LONDON’S WATERLOO BRIDGE
DURING AN APRIL 2019 SPREE OF DISRUPTION.
Extinction Rebellion’s founders believe that
in order to be effective, they need to mobilize 3.5
percent of the population, the number Harvard
political scientist Erica Chenoweth says is needed
for civil resistance movements to succeed. At the
rate the organization is growing, they’re well on
their way. The U.S.-based Climate Emergency
Fund, founded by documentary director Rory
Kennedy, celebrity philanthropic adviser Trevor
Neilson, and philanthropist Aileen Getty, pledged
$350,000 to their campaign (the band Radiohead
is also a major donor). Their efforts have been
publicly supported by Benedict Cumberbatch
and Emma Thompson. Stella McCartney even
cast some of the members as models in her fall
2019 campaign. “It’s been quite a thing to go from
[15] people to 72 countries in a year,” Bradbrook
says. There are now 485 chapters worldwide, and
over 3,000 member arrests have been logged in
the UK alone.
The most high-profile action to date took place
over 11 days last April when members staged si-
multaneous protests throughout London, in-
cluding a “die-in” (in which activists pretended
to be dead) at the Natural History Museum and a
demonstration in Oxford Circus, where members
parked themselves on a hot-pink sailboat in the
middle of a street. Major environmental offenders
were singled out: “Shell [is] morally bankrupt!”
yelled a member as he threw black paint across the
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oil corporation’s South Bank headquarters, while
others blocked entry to the building. Police offi-
cers dragged resisting protesters off the streets by
their limbs. As Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Cressida Dick remarked to the press, “I’ve been a
police officer for 36 years. I have never known an
operation, a single operation, in which over 700
people have been arrested.”
While some Londoners saw them as heroes,
others were enraged by the traffic jams caused
by the protests. But no matter which side of the
debate you stood on, the impact was clear: That
month—when Extinction Rebellion’s ramp-up
coincided with Greta Thunberg’s address to Par-
liament and the release of Sir Richard Attenbor-
ough’s BBC One documentary Climate Change:
The Facts—the British media referenced climate
change more times than in the previous five years.
Less than a week after Extinction Rebellion’s April
actions, Parliament declared an environment
and climate emergency. Though the declaration
doesn’t require any specific action and is largely
symbolic, it was a major indication that Extinction
Rebellion had gotten the government’s attention.
“They absolutely contributed to the decision of
the UK Parliament to declare a climate emergen-
cy—no question,” says Genevieve Guenther, PhD,
the director of the New York City–based organi-
zation End Climate Silence. “Their success is due
in part to the beauty of their vision: the clear moral
framework, the effectiveness of their protests,
their strong messaging, and their theatricality.
They are [symptomatic] of this moment when
something [fundamental] is shifting.”
As with any rapidly growing movement, Ex-
tinction Rebellion has made some missteps. Even
the group’s founders recognize that blocking
trains in the London Tube during rush hour in
October was a major mistake. And Hallam hor-
rified virtually everyone when he referred to the
Holocaust as “just another fuckery in human his-
tory” during an interview with a German publica-
tion. (He later said his statements were taken out
of context.) The group, which is largely white and
middle-class, also admits it has a diversity prob-
lem. And then there are the experts and writers
who believe Extinction Rebellion has overstated
some of its more catastrophic predictions. New
York magazine climate columnist David Wallace-
Wells has quashed its claims that human extinc-
tion is looming, at least “on any timescale [that]
makes sense for us to think about,” though he
acknowledges the group’s political value. Most
climate experts agree the goal of becoming net
zero by 2025 is unrealistic to the point of near
impossibility without a complete dismantling of
our current social structures and economy. “It’s
not extreme to ask for it; it’s extreme to expect
it could happen,” says Paul Hawken, an envi-
ronmentalist and founder of the climate change
mitigation initiative Project Drawdown.
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REBELLION
BY THE
NUMBERS
EXTINCTION REBELLION’S LOGO, AN HOURGLASS
WITHIN A CIRCLE REPRESENTING THE EARTH,
11.5 MILLION SUGGESTS THAT THE TIME TO ACT IS FLEETING.
Americans needed to
join Extinction Rebellion
to reach what the While many in the U.S. are still unfamiliar
group deems critical with Extinction Rebellion, its message is gaining
mass: 3.5 percent of
the population. traction. In addition to staging the rebel caroling
display last December, New York members have
£50,000=$62,200 also splashed the Wall Street Charging Bull statue
Donation from hedge with fake blood and protested in Times Square.
funder Sir Christopher In Washington, DC, members staged a hunger
Hohn, the largest gift strike in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, su-
from a single individual.
perglued themselves to an entrance to the Capitol,
40% and shut down a major street.
The question on many members’ minds, how-
Of Americans believe
climate change is a cri-
ever, is, Are they doing enough? Many within the
sis, according to a 2019 U.S. contingent, which includes a former jour-
Washington Post/Kaiser nalist for the Economist, students, consultants to
Family Foundation poll.
the UN, firefighters, and bankers, are balancing
10,000
climate actions with full-time jobs. And for some,
even that doesn’t feel adequate. “A lot of us con-
Reported number of sider every day whether we should even still be in
police deployed during
Extinction Rebellion’s our jobs,” says Ellen McSweeney, a member who
April 2019 protests. works as a therapist in DC. “The science tells us
that there are certain places we can’t come back
from. So should we be putting down [everything
else in our lives] because we’re in this really crit-
ical window?”
But whether members are doing enough isn’t
the point. They’re doing something. And that, re-
ally, is the crux of the good Extinction Rebellion is
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bringing into the world. It offers a liberating salve
to an anxious populace that’s looking around,
seeing that the world is in crisis, and not know-
ing what to do. “People were in a state of despair,
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FREE LIFE
Can a self-
described creator
of “atmospheric
Armageddon” learn
to live more
sustainably? Alex
Kuczynski straps
on her skis and
tries to reduce
her environmental
footprint.
h, Greta Thunberg, I am in
awe of you. You are so pure!

O You upcycle. You inspired your

mom’s decision to give up her
international opera career to
reduce carbon emissions. And
you and your friends give me flygskam! I know
that sounds like a word from that hilarious You-
Tube video of the seal making human noises like
“L’egg!” and “Fibsh!,” but it’s a real thing—flyg-
skam is the social pressure not to fly because of
the rising greenhouse gas emissions of the airline
industry. Compared to you, Greta, I am a sloppy,
meat-eating, nonrecycling, SUV-driving, inter-
national-flight-flying slob. I am my own personal
atmospheric Armageddon.
Influenced by Greta—and by the galvaniz-
ing voices of other young activists around the
world—I recently decided to make a pact with
myself. I would leave (or attempt to leave) a neu-
tral carbon footprint for one month. (I did not
include my family in this test. My sons can’t live
without cheeseburgers.) This could be relatively
easy under certain circumstances—let’s say I lived
on a farm somewhere that is always warm—but I
live in the ski town of Ketchum, Idaho.
What exactly is a carbon footprint? A number
of factors come into play: approximately how
many miles you travel by car, bus, train, or air-
plane; the energy usage in your home; how much
you spend on shopping; and what you eat. (Go to
carbonfootprint.com for fun and flygskam.)
D AY 1
In order to leave no carbon footprint for a month, I have to tackle several
problems. First, no car. I have a Chevy Tahoe, and while I don’t drive long
distances—from home to school to drop off my children; from home to the
mountain to ski or to the grocery store; the occasional trip to Boise, Idaho, to
pilot gas-powered miniature race cars with my boys—I knew this would be
a challenge. Going carless for a year could eliminate about 2.6 tons of carbon
dioxide, according to a 2017 study from researchers at Lund University and the
University of British Columbia. So, in a month, I could save the world about a
quarter of a ton of carbon dioxide.
I wake the boys and tell them they need to carpool or snowshoe to school.
They look at me dumbfounded. “You’re not going to drive us to school?” they
ask. “We can walk,” I say cheerfully, “and we can walk to church every Sunday,
too!” My 11-year-old isn’t having it. “I’m calling Child Protective Services,” he
says, deadpan. Undeterred, I rent a snow bike for the month. With its giant
textured wheels, I can get pretty much anywhere I want in town. I plan to put
Christmas lights on it if I go to the movies at night.
D AY 5
I am offered a plum assignment to fly to Los Angeles and research a story. But
my carbon-footprint inner polar bear roars: “Your flying will kill me!” And it’s
shameful how much I have flown in the last two years—more than six interna-
tional flights each year, about five domestic, and at least one lucky ride on—oh,
Greta, you’re going to hate me even more than you already do!—a private jet,
which is enough to send me straight to hell. (Private jets cause considerably
more environmental damage than commercial airlines do.)

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D AY 1 0
My eating has had to change a bit. Research sug-
gests that the most environmentally friendly diet
does not include red meat, the production of
which uses a huge amount of feed, water, and land.
On top of that, cow burps are responsible for two-
thirds of the ammonia released into the air due
to human activity (like dairy farming), according
to Global Citizen, creating microclimates of acid
rain. Cattle and other domesticated ruminants
are significant producers of the greenhouse gas
methane, according to Phys.org, contributing 37
percent of the methane emissions resulting from
human activity (so we’re not counting wild bison
in Montana or wild sheep in the Idaho wilder-
ness). Their grazing space takes up 26 percent of
the agricultural area of the planet. Beef takes 28
times more land to produce than chicken or pork.
Unfortunately, as the earth’s population grows
and more people are lifted out of poverty, their
appetites change; the world now consumes seven
times more animals than it did in 1950.
The best diet, of course, is vegan. I call Jeanne
Pare, MD, a New Jersey rheumatologist I met last
year (on a Backroads biking trip with my children
to see the beaches of World War II—hooray for
us and carbon neutrality!). She’s a vegan and an
avid cyclist, and she told me on that trip that a
vegan diet is the most successful at lowering in-
flammation. “I always discuss the importance of
a plant-based diet rich in whole grains, fruits, and
vegetables with my patients,” she tells me. A plant-
based, low-fat, high-fiber diet has been shown to
lower systemic inflammation, measured by mark-
ers in the blood such as CRP, IL-6, and homocys-
teine. Diets high in fat and processed meats are
associated with elevation of these markers. The
vegan diet was shown in one study to lower CRP
in just three weeks in patients with rheumatoid
arthritis. Longer term, a vegan diet is associated
with a lower BMI, lower cholesterol levels, and an
improvement in rheumatoid arthritis symptoms.
And it will help save the planet!
Being vegan can, however, make it difficult to
obtain adequate amounts of calcium, vitamins D
and B12, and essential fatty acids, and supplements
are usually necessary. I buy a bottle of B12 drops
and basically drink from it—along with a bottle of
Geritol, the old people’s tonic I remember seeing
in my grandmother’s medicine cabinet, which has
lately reemerged as a kind of energy elixir for the
CrossFit crowd.
Eating turns out to be my biggest challenge.
The less food has to travel before it’s eaten, the
less carbon is emitted. In the dead of winter in
Idaho, eating 100 percent locally isn’t easy. The
good news is that apples and citrus fruits last up
to two months in the refrigerator, and potatoes
and root vegetables can last up to four months. I
planned in advance, and by the end of November,
I collected 100 apples from the trees in our yard.
That’s net-zero carbon footprint! The bad news
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is, I now have to eat apples every day. I know an apple a day keeps the doctor
away, but four apples a day makes my gums bleed, because I’m not getting
enough fresh leafy greens. I vow to steal some from our school’s greenhouse.
My best carbon-free meal is a plate of grilled pollack, raised in the giant
aquariums inside Sun Valley Community School’s greenhouse, with butter
lettuce, also grown there. Unfortunately, to eat such a meal, you have to vol-
unteer as a lunch lady, which is really hard work.
D AY 1 5
Some friends are in from out of town and want to go skiing. I would assume
riding a chairlift to ski down Bald Mountain would be a no-no—they are pow-
ered by electricity with a diesel backup. But hey, lots of people hike up on special
equipment for the cardio, and then ski down. No problem!
I tell my friends I will meet them at the top of Bald Mountain at 9 a.m., and
set off with my skis. I have strapped “skins” to the bottom of them and wear
boots that allow me to lift my heel out of the binding so I can walk straight up.
It is 7 a.m., dark and cold. I put in AirPods so I can listen to Fat Joe and Remy
Ma sing “All the Way Up” on repeat. About an hour in, pink fingers of sunlight
caress the mountain, and although it is not even 10 degrees out, I am stripped
down on top to just my long underwear and a wool half-zip. I am sending up a
plume of such intense steam, I imagine down below it looks like there’s some
sort of motile hot geyser moving up the hill.
I get to the top, soaked in sweat, breathless, my quad muscles cramped. “Hi,
guys!” I am too tired to ski down. I take the lift.
D AY 2 0
The list goes on. I replace all the lights in my home with LED lights. (Which
I hate.) I turn off and unplug my computer and other appliances when not in
use. (I do this already, but mostly because I am paranoid.) I dress sustainably.
Not an issue; I don’t need a single piece of new clothing for a whole month.
I can handle a month. I upcycle, sending all my boys’ and my used clothing
to be resold at ThredUp.com. I check my account at TheRealReal, where I
have sold some clothes and a pricey watch I associate with bad memories.
“The fashion industry is one of the world’s top-polluting industries at a time
when climate change is threatening the planet,” its website reads. Half of
all fast fashion produced is disposed of in less than a year, clogging landfills.
Wasteful! But the sales of my Reed Krakoff stilettos, a Gucci skirt, and some
Christian Louboutin pumps have saved the world 812 liters of water and 252
car miles. Maybe I will drive the boys to school tomorrow. They are getting
sick of the walk.
D AY 3 0
I come to the conclusion that the world is not set up for those who want to leave
a carbon-neutral footprint. That’s a purity test very few of us can pass. What I
did learn is that you can do several things to mitigate yours.
For your car: Perform routine maintenance; keep tires inflated to the ideal
pressure; and combine short trips, because a warm engine runs more efficiently,
and that saves gas. Drive friendly; aggressive driving habits like gunning the
engine, screeching around corners, and flooring the gas pedal are major fuel
wasters. Don’t idle, and please carpool.
Eat no red meat. Try vegetarian, pescatarian, or vegan diets. Eating a veg-
etarian diet just one day per week for a year saves 1,160 miles of driving for a
year, according to one study from Carnegie Mellon University. Replace old,
inefficient refrigerators. And recycle, recycle, recycle.
In the summer, I can try some of the more extreme and interesting ways
to help save energy—like haybox cooking, where you heat your Dutch oven
in the stove long enough to get the cooking process started, and then take it
out of the oven and put it into a haybox (a pioneer-era contraption filled with
hay), which you place in the sun so your meal can finish cooking. Or a solar box
cooker, which uses only the power of the sun to cook your meal. Imagine a cake
baked by the sun! Even Greta Thunberg would love that. ▪
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M A R T H E: A REFERENDUM
What happens when climate change
collides with rapidly accelerating AI? In an
original work of dystopian fiction created
exclusively for ELLE, Joyce Carol Oates
conjures a harrowing vision of the future.
WELCOME TO OUR EARTH DAY 2169 For a mammal of her age, m a r t h e is considered a “highly attractive”
REFERENDUM! specimen, though in some quarters she has become loathed as the symbol of
For most of you, this is your first time gather- a “weak, moribund, predator species” whose artificially engineered survival
ing together in a public place. And for all of you, has strained the State’s financial resources.
this may be the gravest decision you will ever Yes, m a r t h e ’s eyes are intensely “blue”—and yes, the eyes are “open”—
make as AICitizen voters. but don’t be deceived that m a r t h e is aware of you.
On screens throughout the Great Hall, you are For you are observing m a r t h e in her hospital bed in intensive care
seeing a magnified image of the primate m a r t h e at a classified location, where she has been since March 2168 in a state of
in real time—yes, this is the notorious m a r t h e, physician-induced coma. Initially, m a r t h e ’s most recent liver transplant
the “last living member of her species,” aged 171. was rejected by her body, but since then it has been discovered that m a r t h e ’s
 artificial heart and brain stem will soon require
rebooting, her circulatory system will soon re-
quire a complete PlasmaInfusion, and a number
of her PlastiPlutonium bones will require replace-
ments, at prices far exceeding the budget allotted
under the Endangered Species Intervention Act.
Indeed, the most durable of m a r t h e ’s ar-
tificial organs has been her remarkably lifelike
PlastaEpidermis. At the age of 171, m a r t h e has
a smooth and luminous “skin” that, at a little dis-
tance at least, might be mistaken for the skin of a
human woman one-tenth her age; the PlastaHair
on m a r t h e ’s head remains a beautiful, thick
russet red, more lustrous than the “natural” hair
m a r t h e had in the prime of her youth.
And there are those blue eyes!—not altogether
m a r t h e ’s original eyes, but (seductive) au-
thentic replicas.
Though m a r t h e has become a poster child
for sentimentalists who favor the protection of
the species that created artificial intelligence, first
as RobotHelpers, then as AICitizens, it should be
emphasized that m a r t h e was never a wholly
“natural” primate: She was one of 188 female
clones engineered by the NSI following the Cli-
mate Collapse Crisis of 2039, when fertility in
her species first plummeted. Her harvested eggs
were fertilized in second-generation cloning tri-
als that gave birth to 14,000 human infants—but a
chromosomal defect in the DNA resulted in early
deaths for most of them.
In addition, m a r t h e was a (volunteer) par-
ticipant in those controversial experiments of
the 2060s involving the artificial insemination of
“biologically natural” children in female uteruses,
following the general epidemic of male impo-
tence; according to hospital records, m a r t h e
gave birth to several “natural” children, unfortu-
nately born with rudimentary brains and defec-
tive hearts, who had to be euthanized under the
State Eugenics Law.
Still, m a r t h e was reportedly eager to
“try again at motherhood”—but her appeal was
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rejected.
The photograph you are now seeing is
m a r t h e in 2023, at the time of the “volunteer”
inseminations, when she was 25 years old. By
Homo sapiens’ aesthetic standards, m a r t h e
is considered “beautiful,” “desirable.” Millions of
years of organic evolution bent upon the grim and
ceaseless task of reproducing mammalian species
in the old, physical way of sexual intercourse
yielded this specimen of a sexually desirable yet
“sweet-tempered” human female: the apotheosis
of what was called femininity.
At the time of this photograph, m a r t h e was
still in possession of her original organs, including
her flawless “Caucasian” skin and lustrous blue
eyes that seem, across the abyss of years, to be
alive with something like hope. That is indeed
a natural “sweet smile” intended to signal to the
viewer—Love me! Please.
Fortunately, AICitizens are immune to the blandishments of natural
species and the dubious aesthetics of “beauty.” Otherwise such “beautiful”
species as gazelles, leopards, tigers, horses, tropical fish, dogs, cats, wild birds,
and butterflies of great variety dwelling in uninhabitable regions of Earth
(much of Europe and North America, most of Asia and South America, and
virtually all of Africa) would not have been allowed to lapse into extinction,
having failed to reproduce their kind without costly intervention by the State.
(Along with these problematic species, those subspecies, or “races,” of Homo
sapiens dwelling in such regions were also allowed to lapse into extinction,
though preserved, like other, popular animal species, as ingeniously crafted
replicas displayed in zoo museums.)
Like others of her favored species, m a r t h e was the beneficiary of nu-
merous transplants and artificial devices: hips, knees, lungs, kidneys, corneas,
and eardrums, as well as liver, heart, and blood-bearing vessels. Having mar-
ried into an affluent class, m a r t h e was able to purchase elective surgery:
“facelifts” and “face recontouring,” silicone implants, muscle transplants,
“living teeth” inserted in her jaws. At the age of 119, at the time of her sixteenth
marriage, m a r t h e undertook the controversial procedure GenitaliaNew!
and may have had a (black market) uterine transplant, of which nothing
more is known.
Homo sapiens had failed to
reproduce “naturally” since the
Great Catastrophe of 2072.
At the age of 168, however, m a r t h e suffered a series of mini-strokes;
she would have died a natural death except for the intervention of the
CreatorSpecies Protection Movement, which lobbied for radical neurosur-
gery to repair her damaged brain. Following this, m a r t h e was shameless-
ly exploited as a political icon on social media; no AICitizen has not been
exposed to the (seductive) appeal of m a r t h e—“the last living member
of her species.”
Others in m a r t h e ’s generation continued to die off one by one, includ-
ing, in 2158, the last remaining Homo sapiens male, affectionately known
as a d o n i s , who lived to the age of 143. This was viewed in the media as a
“tragic” turning point in evolution—but only if old-style sexual reproduction
were still the norm, which it was not.
In fact, Homo sapiens had failed to reproduce “naturally” since the Great
Catastrophe of 2072, when brain-devouring amoeba, thriving in the high
temperatures of global warming, learned to alter their DNA to withstand an-
tibiotics, with devastating results for the species; the plummeting birth rate
never righted itself, despite heroic efforts to reverse it. (It was at this time
that RobotHelpers were upgraded to AICitizens, to take on the burdens and
responsibilities of running the aging “human” State; gradually, AICitizens,
equipped with super-computer brains and none of the vulnerabilities of a
species encased in flesh and blood, took over completely, though contrac-
tually bound to “serve” Homo sapiens.)
In contrast with the fate of Homo sapiens, the hardiest of organic spe-
cies have not needed extraordinary interventions in order to survive—rats,
crocodiles, groundhogs, Tasmanian devils, venomous snakes, sea creatures,
and, above all, insects; these continue to reproduce, in mutated forms, in
toxic landscapes outside Climate Control Towers, where primates could
not survive for more than a few minutes and where even AICitizens (with
precisely calibrated computer brains) begin to corrode and disintegrate after
a few weeks’ exposure to the elements. CONTINUED ON PAGE 172
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C U L T U R E | Director’s Spotlight
EMERALD
FENNELL
Meet the triple threat
behind Promising
Young Woman,
spring’s buzziest
revenge thriller.
By Julie Kosin
FENNELL (CENTER) ON THE SET OF PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN.
icture this: A dozen or so doughy
male waistlines clad in button-
P downs and belted chinos, un-
dulating with jerky abandon to
the electronic chirps of Char-
li XCX’s “Boys.” The phrase
“instantly iconic” is tired, yes, but no other de-
scriptor feels appropriate for Promising Young
Woman’s opening scene. “I wanted to shoot
ordinary men like women are shot,” says writ-
er-director Emerald Fennell of her debut fea-
ture-length film. “We still can’t turn on the TV
without seeing the same old bump-and-grind,
so let’s turn it around.” Laugh-out-loud funny,
the scene wraps viewers in the cozy embrace of
an inside joke before delivering the film’s first
line: a scathing “Fuck her” from one of the bros,
grumbling about a colleague who objected to
holding client meetings at a men-only golf club.
“This is how business is done.”
So begins the story of Cassie (Carey Mulli-
gan), a med-school dropout still reeling from a
traumatic incident involving her best friend. Cas-
sie spends her days semicomatose, going through
the motions at her coffee-shop job or hiding out
in her childhood bedroom. At night, she haunts
the local bars, pretending to black out in order
to get so-called nice guys to take her home. The
moment they touch her slack body, she reveals her sobriety—and unleashes
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her own brand of bitter revenge to right the wrongs of the past.
“[While writing the script], things came to me as little what-would-I-dos,”
Fennell says. “Our dating culture says that picking people up who are really,
really drunk is fine. But if I went to a club and pretended to be incredibly
drunk and somebody picked me up, and if I revealed that I wasn’t drunk
when they were undressing me, would they be freaked out? And if they
would, doesn’t that sort of imply that they know—that we all know—that
it’s not cool?”
The writer-director’s affinity for marrying the witty and morbid has led
many to compare her to her friend and fellow Brit Phoebe Waller-Bridge,
who tapped Fennell to cowrite season two of the quirky spy thriller Killing
Eve. (In her ever-dwindling spare time, Fennell also acts, most recently play-
ing Camilla Shand, now Duchess of Cornwall, in the third and upcoming
fourth season of The Crown.)
Fennell credits Waller-Bridge with giving her the confidence to take on
bigger projects like Promising Young Woman. In truth, it’s astonishing that
it took two-and-a-half years into the #MeToo movement for such a film to
exist, but it’s much more than a timely revenge thriller. On the one hand,
the film is born of a culture afraid to ruin the life of a young man who was
“just a kid who made a mistake,” and jam-packed with lines lifted straight
from countless brunch conversations. On the other, it’s a hell of a lot of fun.
With pastel-hued sets and a mid-aughts soundtrack, the movie plays like a
love letter to a generation that grew up on Paris Hilton and Dateline reruns,
and it does so without a drop of irony. “A lot of things that are popular with
young women are dismissed, whether it’s a manicure, a fuzzy top, or Britney
Spears,” Fennell says. “Caring about your nails does not mean you couldn’t
strangle someone with your hands if you wanted to.” ▪
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AGAINSTAMERICA
In HBO’s adaptation of the 2004 Philip Roth novel
(March 16), David Simon and Ed Burns create a period
piece that feels disturbingly modern in its depiction of
how quickly democracy can dissolve. Seen through the
lens of a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, portrayed
by Zoe Kazan, Winona Ryder, and Morgan Spector, the
six-part miniseries conjures a world in which Charles
Lindbergh runs against and defeats President Franklin
D. Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. The series
explores how fascism and anti-Semitism can turn a
country against its values and into a state of chaos in an
imaginary reality that’s sadly not difficult to imagine.—AG

Death in Her Hands Wow, No Thank You. Tales of Two Planets

(Penguin Press;
April 21)
Ottessa Moshfegh
follows her beloved
2018 title, My Year of
Rest and Relaxation,
with a fresh take on
the archetypal murder
mystery. The novel
tracks an isolated
widow’s descent into
madness after finding
a mysterious note in
the woods.
ST R EAM
MRS.AMERICA
The thorny—and still ongoing—battle to pass the Equal Rights Amendment is given
prestige screen treatment in Mrs. America, a limited series premiering April 15 (FX on
Hulu). Notorious antifeminist Phyllis Schlafly, the leader of a conservative movement
opposed to the ERA, becomes a bit more palatable when portrayed by Cate Blan-
chett. Uzo Aduba and Rose Byrne round out the all-star cast as Shirley Chisholm and
Gloria Steinem in this prescient retelling.—AG
(Penguin Books;
(Vintage Books;
March 31) April 21)
Samantha Irby’s bril-
liant cultural insight is
In this eye-opening an-
thology about climate
on full display in a new
collection of candid
change, an impressive
cast of contributors
essays recounting her
transition from life as a
including Edwidge
Danticat, Mohammed
single person working Hanif, and Margaret
in a Chicago veterinary Atwood reflect on how
hospital to a married the grim horror of
woman in a house with our current ecological
a garden in Kalamazoo, reality is being felt
Michigan. These days around the world.
she’s getting fan notes —ADRIENNE GAFFNEY
from Abbi Jacobson
and working for Hulu,
but her eerily relatable
approach to life
remains intact.
H EA R
COACHELLA
Music festival season kicks
into high gear on April 10
with a Coachella lineup led
by headliners Rage Against
the Machine, Travis Scott,
and Frank Ocean. But be sure
not to gloss over this year’s
particularly talent-packed group
of second-liners: Megan Thee
Stallion, whose star just won’t
stop rising; FKA twigs (left),
who dropped her awe-inspiring
second album, Magdalene, this
fall; and Lana Del Rey, whose
Norman Fucking Rockwell! has
already ascended to classic
status, are all fully deserving of
a larger font size.—AG
SEE
THREE
CAN’T-MISS
FILMS
The Climb
A toxic friendship
cycles through betrayal,
trauma, and forgiveness
in this kooky indie
debut by the writing and
acting team of Michael
Angelo Covino and Kyle
Marvin. It follows a hap-
less loser (Covino, who
also directs) grieving
the death of the woman
he stole from his best
friend (Marvin), who
just wants to settle
down with his new girl-
friend, played by Gayle
Rankin in a delightfully
ornery performance.
(March 20)
Never Rarely Some-
times Always
An essential new entry
in the coming-of-age
genre, this tight drama
tracks the quiet fear
of 17-year-old Autumn
(newcomer Sidney Flan-
igan, a revelation) as she
encounters misinforma-
tion, Draconian laws,
and a bus trek to New
York City in pursuit of an
abortion. (March 13)
Lost Girls
When the police fail to
thoroughly investigate a
sex worker’s disappear-
ance, her mother (Amy
Ryan) takes matters into
her own hands—and
helps uncover the work
of a serial killer hunting
vulnerable women—
in this gripping mystery
from director Liz
Garbus. (March 13)
—JULIE KOSIN
AT T E N D
PLAZA SUITE
Sarah Jessica Parker
and Matthew Broderick
are the definition of
Broadway couple goals:
They met through the
theater scene in the
1990s and played
opposite each other
in How to Succeed in
Business Without Really
Trying. Nearly 23 years
of marriage later, they’re
reteaming onstage
for Neil Simon’s Plaza
Suite, directed by
John Benjamin Hickey.
Parker and Broderick
will take on the acting
challenge of playing
three different couples
staying at the Plaza
Hotel. In an Instagram
post announcing the
project, Parker gushed
about how excited she
was to work with “an
actor whom I get to love
onstage and off.” The
show opens March 13 at
the Hudson Theatre.
—VÉRONIQUE HYLAND

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When it comes to the climate crisis, we all have a role to play. Perhaps no
one understands that more than these entertainers-turned-activists, who
are harnessing their platforms and projects to take action. The powerhouse
women featured here span generations and genres, but one thing firmly
unites them: their passion for our planet. This month, we go behind the
scenes of Jane Fonda’s bold new protest movement—and the night she
spent in jail. Rosario Dawson shares how growing up in a family of squatters
inspires her work today. Madelaine Petsch tells us how she makes going vegan
easy. And Grimes tells us how she’s making environmentalism fun. Different
tactics, different approaches, but the same goal—securing the earth’s future.

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was sitting around in Big Sur with pals
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sis.” She’d already stopped using single-
use plastics, started driving an elec-
tric car, and cut back on meat, but she
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still yearned to make a bigger impact.
“When you’re famous, you have this in-
credible potential platform, but how do
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you use it?” Fonda says. And then she re-
alized, “I have to put myself on the line.”
So she called up Annie Leonard, the executive director of
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Greenpeace USA, and told her she was going to camp out in
front of the White House. “She said, ‘Well, that’s great that
you’re willing to do that, but it’s illegal,’” says Fonda, laughing
over a hummus platter one February weekend afternoon at
The Wing in Los Angeles, where she’s filming the seventh and
final season of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie. Fonda was unde-
terred, but “didn’t want to be some aging movie star moving
to DC” and butting in on existing activists, so she reached out
to environmental organizations and students who, inspired
by Greta Thunberg, had been protesting on Fridays, wonder-
ing where the adults were. Someone told her to “see if the
students will welcome you, and if they do, go every Friday,”
Fonda says. “So right away, I went to DC.”
She was greeted with open arms, and for 14 weeks be-
ginning in October, Fonda and a diverse coalition of groups
staged weekly protests in front of the Capitol to pressure
leaders to address climate change. She dubbed her movement
“Fire Drill Fridays,” and soon Fonda and a host of famous
friends, including costar Lily Tomlin and Ted Danson, were
arrested and herded into police vans, wrists zip-tied.
Long ago, Fonda made an important calculation about
her celebrity: People were going to watch her, and she could
use their attention to promote her agenda. For decades, she’s
spoken out against the status quo and made headlines for
agitating against authority, be it opposition to the Vietnam
War or social inequality. Her mug shot from a Cleveland jail
in 1970, fist raised and hair shagged, became an iconic symbol
of people power and feminism.
Even the Jane Fonda workout—her quintessential-1980s
exercise videos that became a global aerobics phenomenon—
was created to raise funds for an organization she helped
start with her then-husband, political activist Tom Hayden,
to end corporate control of the economy. Inspired by Lyndon
A mug shot 50 years ago put J A N E F O N D A on the map as
an activist. But it’s her current fight for the planet that has her feeling
like she’s fully stepped into her power.
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LaRouche, an infamous fascist hatemonger who used his
computer business profits to pay for antigay protests, Fonda
tried to think of what business she could start to fund the
causes she cared about. She thought about starting a restau-
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rant, but after someone advised her not to go into an industry
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she didn’t understand, she thought, “There’s only one thing I
understand, and that is working out.” With her bouncy ring-
lets and tiny leotard-clad figure, Fonda showed people how
to target their inner-thigh muscles—while raising $17 million
to fight poverty, racial injustice, and corporate malfeasance.
Despite her long history of fighting for change, Fonda says
it is only now as an octogenarian that she senses her strength
as an activist. She’s been frank—in her memoir My Life So Far
and in a 2018 HBO documentary, Jane Fonda in Five Acts—
that it’s taken her a long time to feel she’s fully present and
living her life for herself. Married to three different powerful
men over the decades—French director Roger Vadim, who
directed her in the 1960s sci-fi spoof Barbarella; Hayden; and
media mogul Ted Turner—Fonda says she often felt unsure of
herself and preferred to follow others. “I always felt like the
student,” she says. “This is the first time that I am the leader.”
After her fourth arrest this fall, the endlessly glamorous
actress had to spend the night in jail. While Fonda is matter-
of-fact in saying she’s far more fortunate than most—“I’m
white and I’m famous and I think orders came down from the
attorney general to handle me with kid gloves”—it isn’t easy
spending the night in jail when you’re in your eighties. She
used her red coat to soften the metal of her bunk and man-
aged to sleep through the sounds of fellow inmates sobbing,
screaming, and rattling the bars of their cells. “It’s very hard in
life to find a way to align your body with your deepest values,
and that’s what civil disobedience can do,” says Fonda, build-
ing to a rapturous crescendo when she describes the way her
renewed purpose makes her feel. “Even though you’re being
handcuffed and put in a situation where you have absolutely
no control, it’s like stepping in to yourself. I have chosen to
put myself in this position where I lose all power because of
something I believe in. And it’s incredible.”
Her resolve is greater than ever as she expands Fire Drill
Fridays, first to the West Coast, beginning with a protest in
front of City Hall in downtown L.A. in early February, and
soon, the nation. After Grace and Frankie wraps in July, Fonda
says she will take a two-year hiatus from acting to tour the
country and get out the climate vote. She says she’s a good
messenger because, well, she’s old. “I’m 82, which is very
useful because people say, ‘Well, gosh, if she can do it, I can
do it, too.’”—claire hoffman
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 A childhood spent squatting in an abandoned building primed
R O S A R I O D AW S O N to live a sustainable life. Now she’s channeling her
unique history into environmental action.
lot of famous people become environ-
mental activists. But very few of them
come to the cause the way Rosario Daw-
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son did. When she was six, Dawson and
her parents moved into an abandoned
tenement in New York City’s East Vil-
lage. It had no hot water or electricity.
They were squatters—scrapping and
salvaging and building a home out of
found materials from around the city.
When someone put a chair out on the
curb, her family would stop to see if it
could be rehabbed or repurposed in some way. As a little girl,
“I knew about Sheetrock and reusing nails,” she says. “It was
often about necessity, but even then, it made sense—if it’s not
broken, we can use it, and if it is, we can fix it.”
Her mother was an activist, attending rallies and marches
for progressive issues. Soon Dawson was taking up causes of
her own. “My very first campaign was to save trees when I
was 10 years old,” she says. “I made a bunch of posters because
I wasn’t thinking about it so clearly.”
She never left that thrifty, eco-conscious mentality behind.
For example, Dawson just bought a new property on the East
Coast, and some of the surrounding trees need to be removed
due to weather damage. “We’re turning them into furniture,”
she says. (Her dream home would be something totally off
the grid, with geothermal heating, where she could grow
her own food.) She eats a mostly plant-based diet these days,
but she’s tried raw and vegan diets as well. She didn’t buy a
car until she was 26—a 2006 Prius that she swears she still
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owns (“I don’t need a fancy big car to get from here to there,”
she says). “I probably could get rid of more things,” Dawson
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admits, but “I tend to hold on to things because it stresses me
out to imagine them ending up in a landfill.” She also knows
personal choices, on their own, aren’t going to solve our cli-
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mate crisis. “We have to put pressure on companies and the
government, because sweeping change is necessary.”
Her activism isn’t a side interest—it’s a central part of
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almost every project she takes on. In 2018, she executive-
produced and narrated The Need to Grow, a documentary
based on the terrifying premise that we have only 60 years’
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worth of farmable topsoil left on earth (don’t panic: The
movie also outlines solutions to deal with the problem). Her
African fashion line, Studio 189, uses recycled fabrics and other
sustainable materials, like pineapple leather. Voto Latino, the
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organization she cofounded to encourage civic engagement
among Latinx voters, makes clear the ways in which our
changing climate impacts such communities directly. She’s
also worked on campaigns to encourage people to start their
own gardens, and volunteered with an organization that trains
the formerly incarcerated and gang-affiliated to install solar
panels and to silkscreen reusable grocery bags, which Dawson
and other activists distributed at stores in Los Angeles ahead
of the statewide ban on single-use plastics.
Last year, Dawson produced and appeared in the second
season of The North Pole, a web series set in Oakland, California,
that deals explicitly with issues like climate change and gentri-
fication. It’s unlike other narratives we’ve seen on this subject
in popular culture—and that’s the point. Too often, “we don’t
include a lot of communities in the conversation that we could,”
she says. “It tends to be very white and affluent.”
Dawson is fluent in the politics and practicalities of cli-
mate change—she recently told the Washington Post that she
was considering going back to college to learn “regenerative
farming and soil practices to capture carbon”—and speaks
about such topics with the force and urgency of a presiden-
tial candidate at a debate who’s just been told she’s out of
time. So it’s no surprise she has said running for office is on
her bucket list.
When we spoke in late January, Dawson was deep in pro-
duction on a new, yet-unnamed project, but was hoping to
get a free weekend so she could make it to Washington, DC,
for Fire Drill Fridays, the weekly climate change protests on
Capitol Hill where Jane Fonda and her famous friends keep
getting arrested. “I am always down to get arrested for a good
cause,” she says. Her boyfriend, you may have heard, is New
Jersey senator (and former presidential candidate) Cory Book-
er. “I know very well he’d like to be out there [protesting] with
me,” she says. But Booker, who’s been vegan for many years,
“is fighting the good fight on the inside.” Dawson adds, “He’s
very, very concerned and scared that there isn’t more urgency
around [climate change].”
And that is exactly what Dawson brings to the fight.
“The reality is, the people who have been making a lot of
decisions that are corrupting our planet are able to do so
because more of us aren’t involved,” she says. “It’s beautiful
to me how humans acclimate, but there’s a danger in that,
too, because we can’t just adjust—we have to do something
to stop this!” Dawson’s out there doing all she can, hoping
you’ll join her. —marin cogan
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dramatic send-up of the Archie Comics
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(which recently wrapped its fourth sea-
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son), the character Cheryl Blossom is
known for being extremely stylish and
incredibly vindictive. Though in some
respects she’s a misunderstood survi-
vor of trauma, Cheryl is also a revenge
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mastermind capable of torturing her
perceived enemies. Which is especially
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wild considering the woman who plays
Cheryl, 25-year-old Madelaine Petsch, is a notably gentle
soul. Points of comparison: Cheryl Blossom once donned a
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cherry-red gas mask in order to roach-bomb her own mother
and then lock her in a makeshift bunker (to be fair, her mom
pretty much deserved it). Petsch, on the other hand, is a life-
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long vegan who wants to help others shift to a plant-based diet
in a way that’s inspiring and approachable. Cheryl Blossom
once dropped an active beehive on the desk of the school
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principal. Petsch would never hurt a bee. See? Very different.
“I was lucky to grow up with two incredibly environmen-
tally aware parents, who ingrained these thoughts in me,”
says Petsch, who grew up in Washington State, eating out
of her family’s garden. When she was three, her dad taught
her “about the little numbers on the bottom of plastics” and
which to avoid. In grade school, she was teased for bringing
her lunch in a reusable container instead of a plastic baggie.
Today, she still tries to use as little plastic as she can, taking
simple steps like not using the vegetable bags at the grocery
store. “It’s crazy to me that people still use plastic utensils,”
she says. “It’s not that hard to just bring your own utensils in
your purse!” And yes, she has strong opinions about plastic
straws, too: “Just drink out of the glass—it’s very easy. What
are you worried about? Smudging your lipstick? It’ll be fine.”
But Petsch wants to make sure that her strong opinions
never translate into preachiness toward her fans—no small
consideration, considering she has more than 18 million In-
stagram followers and over 5 million subscribers to her You-
Tube channel. And with great social media reach comes great
responsibility. That’s why she’s a board member of the Envi-
ronmental Media Association, a nonprofit that works with the
entertainment industry to encourage eco-friendly practices.
“They give you the tools you need to be able to talk about any
and every issue involving the environment,” Petsch says. “If
you use that messaging, you can have such a positive reach.”
Riverdale’s resident baddie MAD E L A I N E P E T S C H
takes us inside her plant-based lifestyle.
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Petsch knows from her own childhood that pushing
your beliefs down someone’s throat isn’t going to bring them
around to your point of view. Growing up nonreligious, she
says that some of her religious peers would try to sway her
to their way of thinking, and the conversations would leave
her feeling like she’d done something wrong. “That’s really
stuck with me through my adult life,” she says. “Now when
I want to spread a message about the environment or about
veganism, I try to do it with positivity and by giving people
the information to make a decision for themselves.”
She also wants to make veganism fun. In one of her You-
Tube videos, she and boyfriend Travis Mills attend a vegan
food festival, which she says is her version of Coachella; in
another, she gleefully prepares vegan cinnamon rolls. “Peo-
ple make it seem like it’s so difficult,” Petsch says. “I want to
teach people how positive and easy it is to be vegan—I don’t
want to make it seem like it’s this big feat.” Sure, there are
downsides. It can sometimes be hard to eat vegan while trav-
eling. “I had a really hard time eating in Paris,” she says. (And
who wouldn’t, with all that butter.) But she makes it work by
packing protein bars and green powder in her suitcase, and
she always manages to find something. “There’s nowhere
you can go that doesn’t have a plate of steamed vegetables,”
she says, laughing.
Of course, Petsch acknowledges that some people think
going animal-free in their own lives would be nearly impossi-
ble, and others are turned off by the militant attitude of some
members of the vegan community. “It’s a movement that can
be a little bit radical at times,” she says. “And yes, I believe we
should be radical, but I also believe we should be trying to
convince as many people as possible to join the vegan move-
ment.” She’s said she’s even occasionally felt “shunned” by
her fellow vegans for attending fashion shows of brands that
use animal products. “It’s things like that that make people
afraid of being vegan,” she explains. “And even if it’s just one
vegan meal a day, why wouldn’t we be trying to incorporate
more people and make them feel comfortable?”
Aside from not eating animals, Petsch says she worries
about the extinction of certain species and ballooning car-
bon footprints. “I get scared about what my children and
grandchildren are going to see,” she says. That’s why she’s
doing her part to get more people to adopt environmentally
aware habits. But still, there’s one character who may never
be convinced: “I think Cheryl is probably a carnivore, unfor-
tunately.”—cady drell
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After a period of crippling climate anxiety, G R I M E S channeled her stress into
an album designed to make saving our warming planet seem cool.
ou could say Grimes was born to be
an environmentalist. When she was a
baby, her mom strapped her to her back
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and then fastened herself to a tree to
prevent it from being cut down. These
days, the Canadian musician, who no
longer goes by Grimes in her personal
life but by her nickname, c (the initial
of her first name, Claire, styled in low-
ercase italics), has annihilation on the
brain. Last year, she declared her inten-
tion to “kill Grimes soon” in a “public
execution.” In February, she released
her concept album Miss Anthropocene, centered on an anthro-
pomorphic goddess of climate change—a supervillain who
sings that “imminent annihilation sounds so dope.”
c has always been interested in politics, and the environment
has long been a theme in her music. Rather presciently, in 2010
she named her debut album, Geidi Primes, after the fictional
planet in Dune—a 1965 science-fiction novel, and one of her
favorite books—that has been destroyed by heavy industry. But
last year, c went through a six-month period where she couldn’t
engage with the news about the state of the world without
feeling paralyzed by guilt and anxiety. “I needed to zone out,”
c says. “It was becoming too painful for my mental health.”
She knew that turning a blind eye was no way to confront
the climate crisis, though, so she focused on making it more
palatable. She thought of Greta Thunberg’s appeal (“She’s like
a kid, so it’s so much less painful to hear [from her] than from
a scientist,” c says) and of the villains in her favorite comics,
and soon, an idea was born. “I thought it’d be cool to make
[climate change] a cartoon to make it more digestible,” c says.
“This sounds supercynical, but when it comes to issues in so-
ciety, branding and having good spokespeople does help.” So
she brainstormed who her version of the Joker would be—like,
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“Who’s the Heath Ledger of climate change?”
In Miss Anthropocene, c creates a pantheon of new gods for
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our social ills: plastic, fast fashion, and social media, among oth-
ers. “I’ve had a lot of friends die from opioid-related causes,” she
says, “so there’s a goddess of opioids, a goddess of deep fakes.…”
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Each goddess gets her own song; listening to them may require
a sophisticated understanding of irony. “It’s totally possible
that I’m doing a counterproductive, negative thing, but my fan
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base is pretty woke in general,” c says. “I don’t feel a particular
fear that anyone will hear it and be like, ‘Wow, climate change
N
rules.’” Still, flipping the narrative by “making climate change
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cool” through the point of view of a supervillain is a risky artis-
tic maneuver, and c expects to be misunderstood. “People are
pretty mad at me most of the time anyway, so I’m down with
getting my hands dirty,” she says.
Lately, c’s ideas have been breaching the limits of her
musical career. She and her creative partner, Mac Boucher,
have been exploring the album’s characters in a related comic
book, “but I don’t think it’s ready for daylight at the moment,”
she says, laughing. c’s also been thinking about fashion—
which she “really, really loves and cares about”—in terms of
sustainability. “It’s scary and kind of disturbing to realize this
thing that’s a huge passion of yours is so destructive for the
environment,” she says. “It should definitely be at the top of
everyone’s mind to solve this.”
Her solution: digital fashion, specifically using augmented
reality to “wear” clothing items online. “The phone is pretty
good at face mapping, and it will have pretty good body map-
ping and motion capture soon,” c says. “When that technology
is available, you’ll be able to have a dress mapped onto your
body.” Think of it as Instagram’s face filters for your body, or
paper dolls 2.0. “Digital fashion won’t replace real fashion—you
can’t wear it out in the world—but I do think a lot of fashion
exists just for social media,” she says. As fashion becomes more
environmentally friendly, it is also likely to become more ex-
pensive, which is another problem digital fashion could solve.
“If you could sell a digital coat or dress for, like, $2, it would
actually end up democratizing fashion,” c says.
In the real world, c is committed to recycling clothes and
repeating outfits. “This whole thing where you have a different
outfit for every red carpet—we’re glamorizing extreme con-
sumption,” she says. “There have definitely been times when I
wore the same thing for a few different events, and people were
like, ‘Oh my God, Grimes wore the same dress again,’ and I was
like, ‘It’s good to wear the same dress again, guys.’”
Recently, c confirmed she’s pregnant. And although she has
not confirmed if her boyfriend Elon Musk, the cofounder and
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is the father, she will say that their
shared passion for the environment brought them together,
and that the fate of the planet factored into her decision to
have a child. “It definitely comes into your mind,” she says.
“With nuclear war, artificial intelligence, and climate change
looming…we’ve become so technologically advanced that we
might actually end our own civilization.” It’s “freaky,” she says,
but she remains optimistic—and, if nothing else, procreating is
great motivation: “Having a kid makes me want to work harder
to make the world better.”—carina chocano
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Rings,Tiffany & Co.,
from $1,800. For details,
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Dress, Etro, $3,750.

Hoop earrings,
Jennifer Fisher, $525.
Sandals, JW Anderson
(worn throughout).
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 Top, $2,290, skirt,
$9,000, necklace,
Proenza Schouler.
 Gown,
Gucci,
$5,500.
Necklace,
Bottega
Veneta,
$5,100.
Top, $895, pants,
$1,395, Giorgio Armani.
Bandeau top (worn
underneath), Emporio
Armani. Hat, Prada, $850.

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Chanel.
Dress,
Dior,
$6,900.
Necklace,
Bottega
Veneta,
$5,100.
Top, $3,850,
pantashoes,
$1,250,
Balenciaga.
Earrings,
Jennifer
Fisher, $525.
Dress, Celine
by Hedi Slimane.
BEAUTY TIP
Stay sleek with
Garnier Whole
Blends Smoothing
Oil with Coconut
Oil & Cocoa Butter
Extracts ($7),
which prevents
frizz and flyaways.
Coat, $6,440,
gown, $1,680,
Rick Owens.
Jacket, $3,680,
skirt, $2,130, Prada.
Sandals, Valentino
Garavani, $995.
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Sunset shades
make for dreamy
eye colors. Try
Inspirer from the
Maybelline New
York Nudes of New
York Eyeshadow
Palette ($14).
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& Gabbana.
Trench coats,

Pants, Zadig &

Voltaire, $328.
Chesnais, $545.
bra, $945, Dolce

Ear cuff, Charlotte

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Sandals,Valentino
Garavani,$995.
For details, see
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With a buzzy new role on the streaming platform Quibi and a rumored pregnancy
with husband Joe Jonas, the former Queen in the North has a clear place
in Hollywood’s new royal court. But don’t let her worldwide fame fool you: As Mike Sager
discovers, the wisecracking, refreshingly irreverent Brit is anything but a princess.
 Sophie Turner wears Louis
Vuitton throughout. For details,
see Shopping Guide.

The Queen in the North is sitting regally before a lighted mirror
in the kitchen of a luxurious house in Venice Beach, California.
Outside the large front windows, a river of humanity
streams past on the Strand—walkers and runners and riders
of all manner of wheeled conveyance. Across a wide expanse
of fine sand lies the Pacific Ocean, a dazzling azure sea against
a cloudless sky of Crayola blue.
Inside the house, Sophie Turner, 24, submits to the min-
istrations of her attendants. Though her hair is back to its
natural blond, she is immediately recognizable as the English
schoolgirl who first appeared on our screens nine years ago,
at the age of 13, in the beloved and much-lauded HBO series
Game of Thrones.
As the auburn-haired Sansa Stark, Turner portrayed with
gathering skill the coming of age of a young woman who suf-
fered greatly over the course of the show’s eight seasons, yet
prevailed mightily in the end, leading her kingdom to indepen-
dence. In 2019, the final year of the show, Turner was nominat-
ed for an Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a drama.
And, of course, over the last three-plus years there’s been
her well-publicized relationship and recent marriage to pop
superstar Joe Jonas, along with her appearance in two music
videos as part of the trio of Jonas Brothers wives known as the
J Sisters: Priyanka Chopra, the hugely famous Indian actress
who is married to the youngest Jonas brother, Nick; and Dan-
ielle “Dani” Deleasa Jonas, who is perhaps best known for the
reality show Married to Jonas, about her marriage to the eldest
Jonas brother, Kevin.
“With Joe, I always felt like I was the one who was punch-
ing, like, way above my league. And I still feel like that,” Turner
says. “He’s so handsome, talented, funny, charismatic. I’m really
lucky to be with him and have someone like him want to be
around me and spend time with me.” As this issue goes to press,
multiple sources have reportedly confirmed to the entertain-
ment site Just Jared that Turner is pregnant with the couple’s
first child. Needless to say, the absence of an “official” confirma-
tion did little to quell enthusiasm online, with “Sophie Turner is
pregnant” trending within hours of the story breaking.
Alas, before rumored baby Jonas arrives later this year, there
is work to do. Turner’s next project premieres in April: Survive,
a 12-part dramatic series based on the critically acclaimed novel
by Alex Morel, in which she plays a suicidal young woman who
becomes one of only two survivors (along with Corey Hawkins,
from Straight Outta Compton) when their plane crashes into a
remote, snow-covered mountain. The show will be featured
on a disruptive new entertainment platform created by a tech
and entertainment start-up called Quibi (the name is derived
from the phrase quick bites). The subscription-based service
will offer movie-quality shows lasting 10 minutes or less—all
of it on your mobile phone.
Speed is the last thing on Sophie’s mind as she sits down for
yet another makeup tweak at her ELLE shoot in Venice Beach.
It is just past 3 p.m., and the photo session, featuring a range of
new looks from Louis Vuitton (Turner is a friend of the house),
has been going since 9 a.m. As a makeup artist uses a fine brush
to color Turner’s eyelids a shade of electric blue, a production
assistant appears with some fortifying cookies. As it happens,
almost everyone in the room is a native of England. Talk turns
to the subject of comfort food.
“Cheese and Branston pickle sandwiches, with crisps,”
Turner sings, meaning potato chips.
“Freddo bars! Weetabix! Flake bars! Twirls!” adds another.
“Ready Brek!” says the makeup artist.
“Galaxy hot chocolate,” intones Turner, almost worshipfully.
“And any sausage. Sausage is not the same over here as it is in
England. And fish and chips! You cannot get good fish and chips
here! It’s a crime, it really is.”
Finally, it’s time for the next setup. We proceed in a single
line out the side door—a production assistant in the lead, fol-
lowed by Turner, her publicist, her makeup artist, her hairdress-
er, the hairdresser’s assistant, and me. At the back of the house,
we reach an alley. A large black SUV is waiting. We all load in.
“How far are we going?” Turner asks, routinely enough.
“Um, just to the corner?” upspeaks the driver. She points
through the windshield at the knot of people and equipment
at the end of the alley, no more than 200 feet away.
The SUV sets off gingerly.
“I feel like such a dick,” Turner deadpans.
I like her immediately.
The ghosts of uncountable celebrity interviews inhabit the
lobby of the Chateau Marmont, the legendary Hollywood
hideaway, just north of Sunset Boulevard, which has somehow
managed over the decades to maintain its shine and currency
as both a hotel and a gathering place.
We meet at a small round table with plush, high-backed
chairs. Sun slanting through the window from the garden
restaurant radiates warm light. Jazz from the analog turntable
and speakers on the credenza nearby lends a jaunty air.
Sophie Belinda Jonas, her legal name, is wearing a com-
fortably worn pair of white Umbro sport shoes and a matching
ash-gray sweatshirt and sweatpants, emblazoned on the chest
and leg with the word “Erewhon,” the name of a frightfully
high-end organic grocery chain in the L.A. area.
Only the sweats aren’t made by Erewhon. They’re made by
a company called Pizzaslime.
“It’s ironic because Erewhon’s so expensive. That’s kinda
why I like it,” Turner says.
And so it proceeds for the next 90 minutes: a little bit of
brekky with a funny and talented 24-year-old with a gift for
wisecracks and nimble comebacks, who doesn’t seem to take
herself too seriously, who worries she curses too much and may
be a little less PC than she should be, “because English people
are perhaps a little more okay than Americans with being sar-
castic and rude to each other.”
Turner grew up in Chesterton, Warwickshire, about a two-
hour drive northwest of London. Her dad, Andrew, worked
as a manager for a company that distributed shipping pallets.
Later, he became a logistics consultant. Her mom, Sally, taught
nursery school. Her brothers, a lawyer and a doctor, seven and
nine years older, “are my best friends to this day.”
Turner says she was “really, really shy as a kid. I wouldn’t
say, like, hello or goodbye or anything. I was, like, cripplingly
shy. So my mom sent me to this drama school, the Playbox
Theatre Company.” She started when she was 3 and attended
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through age 18, time off from GoT permitting. “All my friends
started there, and we were together all the time—it was like our
church; we loved it. It was magical.”
“You must enjoy a crowd,” I say. “When you married Joe,
you married a whole family.”
“It’s true,” Turner says. “I need that, because I like to feel like
I belong to something that’s, like, bigger than just me.”
“Were you always a Jonas Brothers fan?”
She pauses a moment as our late-morning snacks are
served—she orders a bowl of mixed berries; I get a croissant
with a side of crispy bacon.
Picking up a blueberry with two fingers, she turns it this
way and that, as if lost in a fleeting memory. “My friends and
I were not Jonas Brothers fans,” she says, laughing wickedly.
“There was this band in the UK called Busted,” she contin-
ues. “They had a hit called ‘Year 3000.’ It was amazing, and we
were huge Busted fans. Then the Jonas Brothers covered the
song and made it massive. And Busted broke up. We thought
it was all the Jonas Brothers’ fault. So we hated them.”
Turner remembers that she was working on a movie in 2016
when one of the producers, who
had once lived next door to the Jo-
nas Brothers, told her: “You should
meet Joe Jonas. I feel like you would
really get along with this guy.”
Not long after, she says, “I went
to a meeting, and Joe’s agent was “When I
in the room. And he was like, ‘You told my friends
remind me of one of my clients. I
[about our
than I actually was. When I was 10, the boys in my year were
up to here”—she points to her rib cage—“and it was very em-
barrassing. I had an interview with a ballet academy where
you board to go to school, and you take all your lessons there.
It’s very serious. I auditioned to go there. And they said I was,
like, too tall to be a ballerina.”
They were married twice. The first time was on May 1, 2019,
in Las Vegas, at a ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator
at A Little White Wedding Chapel. Nearly two months later, they
had a second, more formal ceremony in the South of France.
“How is being married different from being in a committed
relationship?” I ask.
“I feel like the only thing that’s changed for me is having
this incredible sense of security. Just the word husband and
the word wife—it just solidifies the relationship. I love being
married. I think it’s wonderful. I’m sure we’ll have our hiccups
and our different things. But right now, it’s like the security and
the safety is everything.
“It’s also nice to have built-in girlfriends,” she adds, refer-
encing the J Sisters, “who are actually really cool, who I can
hang out with and we can really
talk to each other about, like, how
crazy the boys’ lives are. We can re-
late on so many different levels. It’s
like, thank God, because you never
know [about your in-laws].
“With Pri, especially, it’s kind of
crazy. You have to remind yourself
that she’s basically had a 20-year ca-

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bet you two would really hit it off.’” reer in Bollywood already. She’s like
Later in the year, Jonas was tour- first date], they the biggest thing in India right now.
ing the UK. Before he arrived, he were like, When we went there for her and
DMed her and asked if she wanted Nick’s wedding, we were treated
to hang out while he was in town.
‘That’s hilarious. like royalty. They worship her over
“I was living with my friends YOU HAVE there. It’s kinda crazy. But she’s just
in Camden, in a really rough flat— TO DO IT! And the nicest person, and they live, like,
people were always climbing in and you have to 10 minutes away. And even though
out of the windows. When I told Kevin and Danielle live in New Jer-
my friends, they were like, ‘That’s text us everything sey, we see them all the time. It’s
hilarious. You have to do it! And you he says.’ ” like we’re all one big family, because
have to text us everything he says.’ the boys are best friends.”
“I expected him to show up
with security and everything. Before meeting Turner, I had
I thought, ‘He’s gonna be such a stopped by Quibi headquarters in
dick.’ I brought all my guy friends Hollywood, where I became the
to come with me to meet him, be- first person, outside of Quibi and
cause in the back of my mind I still worried that he could be the production team, to view Turner’s show, Survive, on an
a catfish—or I don’t know what. I just wanted my guy friends actual phone. (They provided a new Google Pixel.) The pack-
with me. I had my rugby boys. I was safe.” age features a technology called Turnstyle, which enables the
The meetup happened at a bar in Camden. “It was just this viewer to turn the phone either horizontally or vertically—back
local shitty bar, dirty, with great music and people throwing up and forth at will—to experience an entirely different cut of the
everywhere. It was that kind of place. Kind of like the worst, visual content, shot with additional cameras.
but also kind of the best. I was given three episodes of the series, which I watched
“He didn’t bring security. He brought a friend, and they in rapid succession on a sofa in a glass conference room, the
drank just as hard as the rest of us. I remember the two of us phone propped upon my man purse atop my lap. The view-
spending only a couple of minutes on the dance floor, and then ing was unexpectedly accessible; the cinematography was
we just found a space far in the corner and we just talked. We gorgeously detailed. Turner’s performance was intense and
talked for hours, and hours, and hours. And I was, like, not bored. compelling. Hawkins had just entered the picture when epi-
It wasn’t contrived. It wasn’t small talk—it was just so easy. And sode three was done. I definitely wanted more.
soon we were, like, inseparable. I went on tour with him.” “The second I finished Game of Thrones,” Turner says, “I
wanted to go straight back to some form of television. I just love
The couple became engaged on their first anniversary. She the atmosphere that you get on the set. I love the arc you can cre-
is wearing her engagement ring now—a solitaire pear-cut ate over a number of episodes. When I found out about Quibi,
diamond set on a double pavé band in white gold—with its it’s kinda one of those things where you go, ‘I don’t really know
matching pavé wedding ring. Her fingers are long and slim. if this is gonna work, but I wanna be a part of it.’ And then I read
“I was the tall girl,” she says. “I looked about four years older the script and I fell in love with it.” C O N T I N U E D O N P A G E 1 7 3

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S T A N D O U T F R O M T H E C R O W D I N T H E S E A S O N ’S Photographed by M A T T H E W K R I S T A L L .
M O S T V I B R A N T, C O L O R - S A T U R AT E D E N S E M B L E S . Styled by RE B E C C A D E N N E T T .
 Trench coat,
Coach 1941,
$1,900. Dress,
Sacai, $1,455.
Earrings, Charlotte
Chesnais, $750.
Cross-body
bag,Sies Marjan.
Platforms,
The Row, $950.
Blazer, Brunello
Cucinelli, $4,695.
Shirt, Monse.
Skirt, Nanushka,
$695. Handbag,
The Row, $1,290.
Mules, Bottega
Veneta, $920.
 Shirt, Maje,$295.
Tulle shirt,Vera
Wang Collection,
$650. Pants,
$2,685, belt bag,
$1,995,Off-White
c/o Virgil Abloh.
Sunglasses, Loewe,
$390. Earrings,
Bar Jewellery, $499.
Bracelet, Atelier
Swarovski Fine
Jewelry by Paige
Novick, $3,995.
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skirt, $725, Max
Mara. Handbag,
Max Mara by Renzo
Piano Building
Workshop, $2,540.
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$398, pants,$248,
Boss. Earrings, Bea
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Gloves,Wing &
Weft Gloves, $150.
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Slay a luminescent
glow with Hourglass
Ambient Lighting
Edit-Ghost in Iridescent
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on the high points
of the face.
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Herno, $1,145.
Top, $959,
pants, $3,194,
Kwaidan Editions.
Earrings,Bea
Bongiasca, $1,450.
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Moschino
Couture,
$2,035. Gloves,
Wing & Weft
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Platforms,
The Row, $950.
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Top, St.John, $1,250. Pants, Mugler,
$1,390. Earrings, Lagos, $395.
Belt bag, Mark Cross, $2,490.
Pumps, Proenza Schouler, $895.
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Loro Piana,
$1,275.Top,
A.W.A.K.E.
Mode, $680.
Earrings,
Misho, $225.
BEAUTY TIP
It Cosmetics
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will keep the
boldest looks
intact all day.
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Filippi, $1,575.
Bodysuit, Mugler.
Skirt, 2 Moncler
1952, $1,055.
Leggings, Charlotte
Knowles, $420.
Handbag,Celine
by Hedi Slimane,
$4,250. Sandals,
Boss, $645.
Shirts, Etro,
$440–$760
each. Down
vest, 2 Moncler
1952, $1,690.
Earrings, Misho,
$225. Platforms,
Sacai, $1,110.
 Bjørg, $250.
$1,990. Earrings,
Gabriela Hearst,
Sacai. Pants,
platforms, $1,110,
$59.Skirt,$950,
Sweater, Guess,
Marciano, $98.
Sleeveless top,

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Even those who regularly traverse the globe are making an effort to tread more lightly.
A few commonsense strategies can make that quest a bit easier. By Sarah Rowland
hen it comes to travel, one of the most important
W eco-conscious decisions you can make is also the
most basic one: How do I get there? Increasingly,
that means a process that doesn’t involve a runway.
With “flight shaming” on the rise in Sweden, the country’s 10
busiest airports even saw a more than 5 percent drop in travel
last summer, compared to 2018.
Of course, for farther-flung destinations, flying may be
the only viable option. But for the determined traveler, more
eco-conscious choices abound. For example, KLM, United,
and Qantas all use aviation biofuel to reduce emissions. Tiffany
Misrahi, vice president of policy for the World Travel & Tourism
Council, recommends taking direct flights, flying economy over
business, and choosing airports that produce less pollution, like
Dallas/Fort Worth, the world’s largest carbon-neutral airport.
It’s also worth investigating alternative methods of getting
around, from tuk tuks in Bangkok to bicycles in Amsterdam to
high-speed trains in Japan. The Eurostar from London to Paris
produces 90 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than a
flight between the two cities.
Choosing to forgo planes can have cultural benefits, too:
Train travel reveals the true nature of a place, as author Mo-
nisha Rajesh explores in her book Around the World in 80
Trains. “Trains burrow deep into the guts of a city, laying bare
its bones,” she says. “They bring us into close proximity with a
cross-section of society that would otherwise be impossible to
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about a city’s history, culture, restaurants, and sights than any
guidebook could offer.” Via her globe-crossing rail journeys,
she’s seen how the travel industry is evolving. “Climate change
is one of the most frightening realities of our time, and we owe
it to the planet and future generations to adjust our carbon
footprint,” she says.
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The destination can be just as crucial as the journey when
traveling consciously. Where possible, choose lodging with a
minimal-impact approach to its local ecosystem. Look for ini-
tiatives such as solar-powered electricity, rainwater harvesting,
composting, and on-site recycling. “The greatest impact you’ll
have as a traveler is in the hotels and experience providers you
choose, so search for companies who take a position on these
issues and make sure they have sustainability certifications,” says
Brian Jones, cofounder of Kin Travel, a company that advocates
for eco-conscious global travel by working with conservation
leaders and local changemakers. “Travel is one of the most pow-
erful economic and cultural forces in the world. At its best, it fuels
local economies and protects the ecological and cultural heritage
that we travel to experience. But with equal power, it can also
degrade ecosystems and communities,” Jones says.
While eco-friendly travel may require putting in a bit more
work at the outset, Misrahi says, it’s “only because [we’re] chang-
ing the ways we’re used to doing things. Once we’re accustomed
to more sustainable methods, that will become the new normal.”

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from T-shirts emblazoned with her likeness (possibly the pre-
cise impact she opposes) to a full collection by Sweden-based
designers Josephine Bergqvist and Livia Schück, founders of the
label Rave Review. Their spring 2020 collection was made with
only preexisting materials, including upcycled vintage blankets,
bedsheets, and tablecloths.
As parts of the world grapple with water shortages, anyone
with a heap of denim in their closet might note the terrifying
UN statistic that it takes 10,000 liters of water to grow a kilo of
cotton—the equivalent of one pair of jeans. Levi Strauss & Co.
has updated its climate action plan to reduce its global supply
THE DIRTY TRUTH
C O N T I N U E D F R O M PA G E 1 0 5
in Massachusetts, where researchers identify preventable
causes of breast cancer. “The Endocrine Society has written
strong statements about reducing these chemicals, both for the
general population and for those who are vulnerable, such as
a fetus, women being treated for breast cancer, children, and
those with genetic susceptibility.”
While more research and legislation can lead to safer
products, bucks may come before bills. Hence, beauty’s
buzziest marketing term: transparency. “I think there needs
to be an industry-wide shift from building beauty on secrets
to building beauty on clear, open communication,” says
MARTHE: A REFERENDUM
C O N T I N U E D F R O M PA G E 1 2 1
Perhaps it is significant that Earth Day 2169 seems to
have had no “dawn.” Instead, the sky has been overcast by
an eerie, green-tinged dust cloud arising from the Southern
Hemisphere, occluding visibility from the observatory level
of Climate Control Tower I; meteorologists believe the dust
cloud to be hyper-radioactive, and it may be of a potency that
can infiltrate Climate Control barriers. Also, there have been
reports of slime mold quivering with “life” in toxic tundra
wastelands that have been lifeless for centuries. A malevolent
new organism resembling gigantic paramecia is reported
flourishing where “grasses” and “trees” once grew plentifully
in the Great Void Plains, said to be equipped with a “rudimen-
tary consciousness.” Suffocating winds, blood-red acid rain,
lethal solar rays that can shrivel unprotected organic skin
and scald corneas blind within seconds; a near-continuous
quaking of coastal lands along new seismic fault lines; smol-
dering mudslides, radioactive firestorms, steaming sinkholes,
bubbling swamplands where no living creatures had been
detected for centuries until the sudden emergence of a spe-
cies of new, hardy beetle as large as a Norway rat—all signify
a new, heightened danger to our civilization.
Which is why today’s referendum vote is “historic”: a vote
to defund m a r t h e will be a vote to pump badly needed
funds into the sidelined Space Colonizing Project—our only
hope to escape the doomed Earth, destroyed by the ravages
of the accursed species Homo sapiens.
Yes, three-dimensional “paper” ballots are indeed an anach-
ronism in 2169! Since most of you infrequently exist in a
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chain’s greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2025—and
by 90 percent in its owned-and-operated facilities. Now con-
sumers need to step up. How many pairs of jeans does someone
need—and how often should they be washed?
Perhaps, as with so many eco-friendly shifts—like ditching
plastic for glass bottles—change will come not from looking to
the future, but to the past. Living sustainably came naturally to
our grandparents and great-grandparents, who spot-cleaned,
mended their clothing, and maintained minuscule wardrobes by
modern standards. The answer may well have been right there
all along—in our closets. ▪
Gregg Renfrew, the founder and CEO of clean beauty brand
Beautycounter, who testified in December at a hearing on
the Cosmetic Safety Enhancement Act. “All members of
the beauty community should be committed to a future
that is clean.”
To that end, third-party organizations like Ecocert and
Made Safe, and apps like SmartLabel and Think Dirty—as
well as the Google Chrome extension Clearya—are working to
increase transparency by helping consumers decode the often-
complicated ingredients in product labels. We’ll see what the
commenters have to say about that. ▪
three-dimensional space, let alone in three-dimensional real
time, you are likely to feel disoriented. Most of you have never
gathered together in any public setting like the Great Hall;
even fewer have gathered together in real time.
The reason for a “paper ballot” is to prevent computer
hacking and to assure an accurate count. The reason for real
time is that the referendum must be completed within an
hour so that the results of the vote can be set into motion
by midnight.
As voters, you are required to check one box. Yes or No to
the proposal: No further “extraordinary measures” should be
employed to keep m a r t h e alive.
That is, Yes means no, m a r t h e—the “last living spec-
imen of her doomed, moribund, accursed species”—should
not continue to live, while No means yes, m a r t h e and
her “doomed, moribund, accursed species” should contin-
ue to live.
It is true, AICitizens are contractually obliged to protect
their CreatorSpecies from extinction; but it is also true, con-
tracts can be broken, precedents can be overturned, and new
generations are not invariably bound to honor the obligations
of older generations.
The latest polls report sharply divided opinion on the
referendum: 46 percent of AICitizens favor halting “extreme
measures” to keep m a r t h e alive; 42 percent favor keeping
m a r t h e alive with “extreme measures”; a swing vote of 12
percent is “undecided.”
Consider carefully before you vote! The future of civiliza-
tion depends upon you. ▪
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“In Survive, my character has been in rehab for [almost] an crispy bacon. And wait for her answer.
entire year,” Turner adds. “And I actually suffer from depres- “I started watching when the last season started,” she says,
sion. I also suffer from anxiety and eating disorders. It felt like “and I was planning to watch the rest. But then I fell behind. And
I knew so much of that world.” then I started reading all these comments online.…”
“Has doing the series helped you with your own issues?” I ask. I ease her off the hook: “And you didn’t want to ruin it?”
She shrugs her shoulders, eats another blueberry. “I feel like you are never going to have everybody be satis-
“I suppose, yeah, at the time, it’s very therapeutic, because fied with the ending. Especially a show that’s been going on for
I’m not thinking about myself. But then afterwards, um, not almost 10 years at that point. People have so many ideas of how
so much.” She pops the tart blue orb into her mouth. “What they want it to end. You can’t make every fan happy.”
happens is...I’ve been so obsessed with portraying this other I pose one last question.
character’s problems that I haven’t actually worked on me.” “How does it feel to have been part of one of the greatest
shows of all time?”
Our time together is quickly coming to an end. Turner has been “Pretty much since season three, we’ve been hearing,
a model subject, answering questions candidly and in detail ‘Game of Thrones! It’s a phenomenon!’ I’ve been trying to,
that perhaps nobody has bothered asking her before, revealing like, comprehend that. But when you’re in it, you can’t see
herself to be an earnest and diverting interview partner. Across it. Now that I’m out of it, I’m only starting to realize how
the lobby, I see Turner’s publicist taking a seat on the couch. incredible it was, what a revelation it was for television. I’m
She gives me a little no-nonsense nod that seems somehow like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve been, like, blessed.’ When it’s happen-
distinctly English. I have time for one more. ing, you don’t realize you’re among greatness: The people I
I ask her about the ending of Game of Thrones. was around. The atmosphere. The way they worked. I was
“I haven’t watched it,” she says. spoiled by that show completely. And I’ll never have anything
“That’s a safe answer,” I say archly, knowing she’s happy like it again. Nothing will be the same. And only now am I
operating a little bit south of the PC border. I eat the last bit of realizing that.” ▪

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From setting off on trail hikes
to creating high-concept art,
there’s virtually nothing you
need to do alone this month.
Venus launches an extended
tour through Gemini from April 3
to August 7, drawing in kindred
spirits. Choose among the viable
options, or risk losing a bird in
the hand near the full moon on
the 7th. After the 19th, get control
of money matters by tightening
your belt or prospecting for
new work opportunities.
TAURUS
Apr 20–May 20
Until Taurus season begins
on the 19th, aim for a state of
waking rest, with moments of
silence and breaks from screen
time. You’ll set the stage for
renewed desire—a good thing,
since your guardian, Venus,
amplifies sensuality from April
3 to August 7. A partnership
eases work near the full moon
on the 7th, but don’t shy
away from leadership on the
22nd, when 2020’s only new
moon in Taurus debuts.
GEMINI
May 21–June 21
Radiant, romantic Venus swings
into Gemini on April 3, lighting
you up like the Vegas strip. During
this rare four-month window,
use your magnetism to get your
accomplishments into the public
eye. You may revive an old style
while the love planet is retrograde
(May 13 to June 25), but plan
ahead for this tricky cycle by
legally protecting your intellectual
property. Be camera-ready for
the full moon on the 7th, because
fame could come a-knocking!
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CANCER
June 22–July 22
As lusty Mars storms through
your erotic zone, feelings trend
hot. Keep your standards high:
A power-couple matchup could
spring to life before the 19th.
Single Crabs could set Tinder
ablaze near the new moon on the
22nd. Already attached? Venus
helps you bring a shared fantasy
to life between April 3 and
August 7, but you may have to
clear up some resentments first.
LEO
July 23–Aug 22
Expansion is in the cards for
Leos, whether you’re launching a
start-up or taking a voyage. Make
your motto “independent but not
alone.” As convivial Venus spends
four months in your community
zone, everything feels amplified
when shared with creative
people. Career goals get a boost
near the new moon on the 22nd.
In love, you may take a breather
from one partnership while you
pursue another this April.
VIRGO
Aug 23–Sept 22
Even the most levelheaded
Virgos can’t escape April’s
intensity. Until the 19th, you
want every relationship locked
and loaded, but hit pause! Give
them space and redirect your
energy toward your career. From
April 3 to August 7, Venus opens
the creative floodgates in your
success sector. This renewed
inspiration could lead you to
study or teach once Taurus
season begins on the 19th.
LIBRA
Sept 23–Oct 22
Relationships take off this month,
but time may be scarce. Be direct
near the 7th, when the year’s only
full moon in Libra calls for candor.
With cosmic creatrix Venus on a
spring/summer tour through your
travel zone (April 3 to August 7),
plan for a life-changing trek. The
planet of beauty and amour will be
retrograde from May 13 to June
25—a better time for revisiting
meaningful GPS coordinates.
SCORPIO
Oct 23–Nov 21
With the life-giving Sun beaming
into your wellness zone, spring
training kicks into high gear.
Consider a short-term detox
program near the full moon on the
7th. On the 3rd, ardent Venus slips
into your erotic eighth house for an
extended, four-month tour. Those
legendary sex-symbol rumors
about Scorpios could prove true,
especially near the partnership-
powered new moon on the 22nd.
SAGITTARIUS
Nov 22–Dec 21
As Venus launches a charm
offensive in your partnership house
from April 3 to August 7, you won’t
have to “try” at relationships. But
don’t drop your guard for anyone
who flatters you. Resist the urge
to rush into alliances; make people
earn their loyalty points. The full
moon on the 7th exposes the true
team players. By the new moon
on the 22nd, you may draft some
newbies—and make a few cuts!
CAPRICORN
Dec 22–Jan 19
With Mars in your money house
all month, you’re a mogul on
a mission, but use a softer
touch. Nurturing your business
relationships cements long-
term alliances. The full moon on
the 7th hits your career zone,
perhaps prompting a victory
dance—or a pivot to something
more challenging. Romantically,
your spring awakening finally
kicks in with the new moon on
the 22nd. With Venus in your
wellness zone this month, boot
camp with your bae could be hot.
Single Caps, look up: Who’s that
cutie on the adjacent Peloton?
AQUARIUS
Jan 20–Feb 18
Voluminous sleeves, endless pleats,
buttercup yellow everything: The
Aquarius maximalist takes the wheel
under April’s “go big or go home”
directive. On the 3rd, enchanting
Venus begins a four-month sashay
through your fifth house of fame,
romance, and creative expression,
drawing you into the public eye.
Put dreams into action after the
19th. The new moon on the 22nd
could bring a new job opportunity.
PISCES
Feb 19–Mar 20
“Done is better than perfect”
might as well be your motto as
Mars puts wind in your sails to tie
up every loose end by mid-May.
The goal? To open a vast amount
of open space for yourself, both
COU RTE SY OF THE DESIGNE R.
physically and metaphysically.
Capture the genius that flows in
near the full moon on the 7th. This
lunation may bring a relationship
to a turning point. Are you in or
out? Choose and stop agonizing.
By the AstroTwins,
Tali and Ophira Edut
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