Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2018 i ELLE

1 SHOP The grown-up’s answer to a plastic pumpkin bucket: Bally’s, er, handbag. For his latest collaboration with the design house, rapper/producer (and Mr. Alicia Keys) Swizz Beatz emblazoned totes, backpacks, and fanny packs with spooky skeletal X-ray motifs by artist SHOK-1…just in time for Halloween. Leather tote, Bally Collective, curated by Swizz Beatz, $975, bally.com. 2 READ Two knockout collections of short stories, both debuts, illuminate unsettling truths about the world. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black (out October 23) explores the absurdity and inequality faced by black Americans, while Laura Adamczyk’s Hardly Children (November 20) focuses on young people waking up to the dangers of the adult world. 3 SEE In American Son, which premieres on Broadway on October 6, an estranged couple (Steven Pasquale and Kerry Washington, above)…

Designer Patricia Chang @patriciachang is also a mother of two boys (Chase, 4 and Hugo,18 months old), which means she’s an expert at balancing style while constantly on the move. Naturally, she leans on Peyton & Parker, exclusively available at JCPenney, to offer her versatile yet timeless pieces for her whole family and home. 8AM When motherhood gets too tiring, I ironically seek out my kids. When they give that adorable smile, the stress melts away and it gives me energy to start the day! 10AM If the kids are too quiet, they’re probably up to something naughty. Depending on what it is, I may let them be so I can catch a break! 11:30AM The best part of living in the city is exploring it! We’ll pick a part…

THE BAG Karl Lagerfeld brought the cruise season to the Grand Palais, quite literally, with a life-size passenger ship as the backdrop for Chanel’s runway show. An abstract wave print, seen here on the house’s coveted Boy bag, conjures the Art Deco glamour of a first-class voyage on the high seas. Printed-calfskin handbag, Chanel, $5,600, at select Chanel boutiques nationwide. THE SHOE Raf Simons’s exploration of Americana continues with a whimsical riff on the country’s national pastime. Sure, a white stiletto may not exactly be at home in the dugout, but it’s certain to make any look a home run. Leather pump, Calvin Klein 205W39NYC, $990, calvinklein.com. THE BRACELET For its latest high jewelry collection, Wild Pop, Bulgari puts a vibrant twist on its Roman heritage, encircling an antique coin…

Taylor Hill struts through a light-flooded photo studio, wearing a patchwork minidress with a ruffle that hits high on the thigh—very Annie Oakley goes to St. Tropez—while Nicky Zimmermann sits, watching approvingly. The Sydney-based designer cops to being a bit jet-lagged as she preps for her New York Fashion Week show, but she’s very much at home on this side of the globe. Though she’s been in business since 1991, when she and her sister Simone founded the brand, Nicky’s designs have recently found favor with starlets on the big and small screen. Zimmermann doesn’t see herself as a typical Hollywood designer making redcarpet fare. But she is, nevertheless, filling a film-industry void: the carefully curated off-duty outfit. In the Old Hollywood studio days, we might see a single, carefully…

There’s something electrifying about a collision of icons. Case in point: Louis Vuitton’s most recognizable motifs—the monogram flower and the letter V—cross paths for the first time in a high jewelry collection. Together they form a subtle, albeit luminous, coat of arms on the necklaces, chokers, earrings, rings, and bracelets of the house’s elegant new Conquêtes Regalia line. Vuitton debuted the opulent baubles last June at a private dinner at Rome’s Casa dei Cavalieri di Rodi (House of the Knights of Rhodes). The location, overlooking the Forum of Augustus, was chosen for its evocation of imperial history. Jewelry was one of the only commodities ancient Roman women could own separately from their husbands—and they were free to sell or trade it as they pleased. Drawing upon that legacy of empowerment,…

SHANI DARDEN Shani Darden Skin Care Shanidarden.com; 310-745-3150 STAR CLIENTS: Emily Ratajkowski, Jessica Alba SPECIAL TECHNIQUE: Darden uses a variety of devices, such as microcurrent, ultrasound, and LED, along with a light peel. STANDOUT PRODUCT: Resurface by Shani Darden Retinol Reform. “Retinol boosts collagen and decreases fine lines.” VANESSA HERNANDEZ Vanessa Hernandez Skincare Vhskincare.com; 310-849-4452 STAR CLIENTS: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jenna Dewan SPECIAL TECHNIQUE: Hernandez does everything from micro-dermabrasion to microneedling. STANDOUT PRODUCT: M-61 PowerGlow Peel ($28 for 10). “Salicylic and glycolic acids and antioxidants keep skin glowing.” MILA MOURSI Mila Moursi Skin Care Institute & Day Spa Milamoursi.com; 310-274-1602 STAR CLIENTS: Charlize Theron, Jennifer Aniston SPECIAL TECHNIQUE: Moursi offers nanocurrent and radio frequency combined with massage and lymphatic drainage. STANDOUT PRODUCT: Mila Moursi Refining Lotion. “The glycolic acid cleans the…

“At the Golden Globes, I painted Allison Janney’s nails with my Fade to Black ($20). It was more fun than beige.”—Deborah Lippmann “For Saoirse Ronan at the Oscars, I did sheer pink Essie Minimally Modest ($10). With soft pink, any nail length or shape works.”—Michelle Saunders “I used OPI’s dark red Malaga Wine ($11) on Selena Gomez. It works great on a supershort nail, as well as on a longer nail.”—Tom Bachik “For Kristen Stewart at Cannes, I used Chanel Arancio Vibrante ($28), a bright, poppy orange–y red.”—Ashlie Johnson…

With everything that Donald Trump and Co. have been accused of, from shady business dealings to colluding with Russia, it feels satisfyingly fitting that a porn star has managed to deliver the first strike. “How ya like me now?!” tweeted Stormy Daniels after Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty in mid-August to paying Daniels $130,000—at Trump’s direction—to keep her quiet about her alleged sexual relationship with the then presidential candidate. Daniels has since been called both a feminist icon and an opportunist. Frankly, a case can be made for both. She’s remained steadfast in standing up for her legal rights amid a storm of national criticism, and at the same time, she’s monetized her newfound fame with “Make America Horny Again” strip-club appearances and—her latest…

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Amandla Stenberg, 20, has already played a number of memorable roles—from Rue in The Hunger Games to Leyna, a biracial teen in Nazi Germany, in Where Hands Touch—but none have suited the actress more than Starr Carter, the character at the heart of The Hate U Give (October 19). Stenberg carries every scene of the Black Lives Matter–inspired movie, directed by George Tillman Jr. and based on last year’s YA novel of the same name. “Angie Thomas, the book’s author, told me that when she was writing, she’d seen my video about cultural appropriation and said, ‘Oh my God, that’s Starr,’” Stenberg says. “So from the jump it was very synchronistic and organic.” The video in question, “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” was a school project that went viral and…

You have to enter through a doughnut to arrive at the place where Crazy Ex-Girlfriend gets made. From the parking lot, the enormous frosted, rainbow-sprinkled entrance to the outdoor coffee-shop set looks like a magical portal separating real life (or a particularly grim section of North Hollywood, anyway) from the fantasy world of the show. Crossing the doughnut threshold feels especially symbolic now that the series is about to enter its fourth and final season. It makes me think of crazy dreams come true, girly powerhouses, the miracle of (creative) birth, and other things that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend would craft into songs at once filthy and ingenuous. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which airs on the CW, is the inspired, serendipitous love child of Aline Brosh McKenna and Rachel Bloom, the Golden Globe–winning actress…

DEAR E. JEAN: I have a crush on my best friend’s man. I’ve tried to behave myself, but one night the three of us got drunk at a posh charity event, and my friend’s boyfriend absolutely insisted I stay the night with them. Not only did we all sleep in the same bed, he initiated some “handcraft,” which I stupidly followed. Did I mention my best friend was in the same bed? This situation has been repeated many times, and I don’t know how to stop it! How do I redirect my relationship with him before it’s too late? I am aware he is a complete asshole. With love, —Blond Ambition Miss Blond: For 25 years, Auntie Eeee has been filling the very air with a hurricane of tenderhearted, godlike mercy.…

CHARLIZE THERON HAS NEVER BEEN interested in playing the ingenue. In 2003, during the height of the rom-com, Theron took on Monster’s hooker–turned–serial killer, Aileen Wuornos, a role for which she gained 30 pounds and ultimately won an Academy Award. That same year, the film’s debut director, Patty Jenkins, told ELLE about Theron, “I might not be as experienced as some other great director, but I do know badass girls. I know who’s strong.” (Fittingly, Jenkins went on to direct 2017’s Wonder Woman, the highest-grossing live-action film from a female director.) Fifteen years ago, Theron founded Denver and Delilah Productions (named for the 43-year-old actress’s dogs), in part to champion messy, complicated women, like Atomic Blonde’s ruthless, violent Lorraine Broughton and Tully’s Marlo, the profoundly tired postpartum mother of three.…

YARA SHAHIDI TALKS ABOUT ACTING (she calls it her “hobby”) the way most 18-year-olds talk about club basketball. It’s given her friends and role models; it doesn’t define her. Four years ago, the Minneapolis native joined Black-ish, ABC’s Peabody-winning sitcom about the Johnson family. As the comedy developed—addressing racism, child-rearing, and national politics—so did the actress, who now fronts the show’s spin-off series, Grown-ish. (Season two premieres in January.) Over four seasons of Black-ish, Shahidi developed an erudite political consciousness. She waxes poetic about civic engagement and refugee policy; she hosted a voter-registration party to celebrate her eighteenth birthday. When she appeared on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah last January, the late-night host, a professional conversationalist, was stunned. “You lyrically flow through your ideas with a level of panache…

SINCE WINNING AN EMMY IN 2016 for her iconic portrayal of Marcia Clark in Ryan Murphy’s The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Sarah Paulson has quietly turned Hollywood on its head—and hit a midcareer surge. It isn’t simply that she’s prolific; Paulson, 43, brings measured layers of grace and diligence to every role. The projects she’s chosen of late run the gamut: from light action fare like this summer’s Ocean’s 8, where Paulson joined a band of unlikely female heist artists including Rihanna and Cate Blanchett; to the apocalypse-themed American Horror Story, season eight (an episode of which she directed); to Netflix’s dystopian thriller Bird Box (out in December), in which Paulson once again shares screen time with friend and Ocean’s 8 castmate Sandra Bullock. Though she…

Full disclosure: Women in Hollywood hasn’t always been a cornerstone of ELLE. The series actually originated in the pages of Premiere magazine. When the entertainment publication closed in 2007, ELLE felt it was imperative to continue recognizing female luminaries in the industry. Since then, we’ve spotlighted then-emerging stars like Jessica Chastain, Amy Adams, and Tessa Thompson and honored legends like Fonda, Tyson, and Streisand. But most importantly, we’ve seen women take charge of their representation, both onscreen and off. Here’s to 25 more years of continuing the conversation—and action.…

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NATALIE MORALES Provenance: “I’m an air force brat, born in Taiwan. I lived in seven or eight countries by [age] 18.” Now: Los Angeles Profession: Journalist Bona fides: BA, journalism and Latin American studies, Rutgers University; currently the West Coast anchor of NBC’s Today and host of Access This month: Interviewed Charlize Theron, Shonda Rhimes, and Sarah Paulson (starting on page 187) First job: Worked with military personnel in Spain, “at the equivalent of the embassy or consulate. It paid me $2.90 an hour.” On motherhood: “I feel everything much more deeply—joy, fear, sadness, and especially guilt. I never feel like I’m good enough as a parent.” Dream dinner guest: Oprah Winfrey KATJA RAHLWES Provenance: Frankfurt Now: Paris Profession: Photographer Bona fides: Has shot campaigns for Céline, Gucci, and Miu…

In the traffic rotary of a small city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy stands a towering statue of a block of cheese. What might seem like a wacky attraction is actually a tribute to one of the region’s best-known exports: Parmigiano-Reggiano. Along with Parma ham and balsamic vinegar—not to mention Ducatis and Ferraris—the delicacy is one of the area’s beloved treasures. Add to that list Max Mara, the Italian label founded in 1951 by Achille Maramotti. It’s in these sleepy environs that he launched the house whose name would become synonymous with the quintessential camel coat, and it’s here that the brand is now unveiling a resort collection inspired by the national ideal of la bella figura, which loosely means “being well put-together.” “The ethos of this part…

1. PATRICK McDOWELL “Just because you use fabric that someone else has thrown away, it doesn’t mean you can do shit designs,” McDowell has said. Indeed, the recent Central Saint Martins grad’s sporty, directional looks crafted from discarded textiles (some donated by Burberry) have excited the industry and attracted fans like M.I.A. and Rita Ora. Sustainability started early for the fashion darling: At 13, he made a satchel from an old pair of jeans. (@patrick_mcdowell) 2. OCCHII For his debut collection, Moscow native Leonid Batekhin utilized discarded printed Russian scarves (the type often found in souvenir shops). The designer, who’s based in New York and worked for Narciso Rodriguez and Matthew Adams Dolan, sourced the remnants from a factory three hours outside his hometown. The unisex pieces, among them voluminous…

MAKEUP BEYONCÉ MAKEUP PRO: Sir John In the past year alone, L’Oréal Paris celebrity makeup artist Sir John has created Beyoncé’s looks for her On the Run II tour, the Grammys, and Coachella (at right), where he was inspired by the show’s marching band to make his client “the coolest girl on campus.” No matter the occasion, “we always do brows,” he says. “But that doesn’t mean an Instagram brow—I want them to look super natural.” The trick: filling them in with a thin pencil, like L’Oréal Paris Brow Stylist Definer, then setting them with gel, such as Glossier Boy Brow ($16). But before he starts anything else, Sir John treats Beyoncé to a facial massage: “I tap the skin to wake up the complexion and increase circulation,” he says,…

1/Exfoliate first using an oil-free scrub. “What you don’t want to do is put a film on the skin,” he says. “The oils in regular scrubs keep the skin hydrated for up to 48 hours. For me, that’s a nightmare because that’s 48 hours the tanner can’t get through.” 2/Start with self-tanning mousse and a Beautyblender ($20) to contour your cheekbones and jawline. Wait four hours, shower, then apply full-body tanning water all over. 3/Set your work with translucent powder. “The inside of the elbows and décolletage tend to sweat,” he warns.…

Lancer employs the Venus Legacy radio-frequency device when “an outfit change dictates a need for treatment,” he says. A 30- to 40-minute session can firm and lift areas such as the arms or breasts. Colbert’s Runway Legs treatment, which includes a chemical peel and laser toning, is also popular. “It optimizes the shape of your legs,” he says. For allover radiance, A-listers book “The Rub” with Vargas. The 60-minute service incorporates full-body microdermabrasion, followed by a massage with hydrating shredded coconut.…

Keep It TIGHT “Ponytails are longer and fiercer than ever, but they still feel feminine and wearable,” says L.A. hairstylist Chris Appleton, who tends to Ariana Grande, patron saint of the dramatic pony. The most fashion-forward styles are high and sleek. To ensure proper placement, “always follow the cheekbones,” he says. L.A.-based stylist Justine Marjan, a favorite of Hailey Baldwin, recommends a two-step process for crafting your pony: First, create a half-up style with the top layers of your hair, and gather into a ponytail with an elastic. (“It’s easier to control and polish,” she says.) Blax Snag-Free Hair Elastics ($4 for eight) work well. Then use a paddle brush to pull the bottom layers toward the first ponytail, and secure all the hair with another elastic. If your hair…

When Hollywood high season takes style influencer Erin Sackman (@stylebythepeople) to everything from movie premieres to awards shows to, Tinseltown’s hottest parties, she knows she has to stand out among the A-list. That starts with a gleaming smile thanks to Crest 3D White Radiant Mint toothpaste, which not only removes up to 80% of surface stains but also protects against future staining. Here, she lets us in on what else it takes to get red-carpet ready. “I WANT MY STYLE TO TELL THE WORLD WHO I AM, AND I FEEL FEARLESS ON THE RED CARPET WHEN MY HEAD-TO-TOE LOOK SAYS ME, BUT MEGA-WATT.” STYLE INSIDER: ERIN SACKMAN WHAT’S YOUR FIRST STEP IN GETTING READY FOR A BIG EVENT? Prep starts bright and early. The first thing on my list? A…

In his highly anticipated memoir, Heavy (October 16), essayist Kiese Laymon sifts through his childhood memories from Jackson, Mississippi, and pens a staggering opus on growing up as a husky black boy in the 1980s South. Much of the book pays homage to his complicated mother, a brilliant academic who disciplined with physical violence. It is a heartbreaking narrative on black bodies: how we hurt them, protect them, and try to heal them. Laymon writes, “America seems filled with violent people who like causing people pain but hate when those people tell them that pain hurts.” Art imitates life in Idra Novey’s sophomore novel, Those Who Knew (November 6)—at least for readers familiar with former New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman’s fall from grace. Novey’s protagonist, a liberal arts professor,…

There’s an Eleanor Roosevelt quote that’s of special significance to Anita Hill: “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face,” it begins. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” In 1991, Hill faced the fearsome ordeal of testifying, on TV, before the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee at Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. She accused him of sexually harassing her 10 years earlier, when she’d worked as his assistant at the U.S. Department of Education and then at the EEOC. After the hearings were over—the committee having all but ignored her testimony—Hill’s distinguished legal career took a back seat to the national symbol she’d become: a woman degraded. Meanwhile, Thomas would be confirmed for his…

TO SAY THERE’S BEEN A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE entertainment industry since ELLE’s last Women in Hollywood issue would be an understatement. “Change is hard for everyone,” says Sarah Paulson, regarding the gradual progress made in the wake of #MeToo, Time’s Up, and the movement to get more female storytellers behind and in front of the camera. This theme emerges again and again in the pages that follow, from our Black Panther cast spotlight featuring Lupita Nyong’o—who went from penning a powerful New York Times op-ed about a disturbing encounter with Harvey Weinstein to storming the box office alongside fellow Wakanda women Angela Bassett and Danai Gurira—to a poignant sit-down with Mia Farrow, who has faced as many indignities at the hands of men as hard-fought triumphs, and whose son…

In 1968, Mia Farrow traveled to the foothills of the Himalayas with her sister Prudence to meditate with the guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. She was trying to evade the tabloid superstorm that had erupted around her marriage, at 21, to Frank Sinatra, then 50, and continued through their breakup, almost two years later—Farrow received the divorce papers, with no advance notice, on the set of the movie she was filming at the time, Rosemary’s Baby. “I loved him truly,” she writes about Sinatra in her elegant 1997 memoir, What Falls Away. “But this is also true: it was a bit like an adoption that I had somehow messed up and it was awful when I was returned to the void.” Spirituality had also long been a focusing principle in her…

WHILE FILMING THE NOW-BELOVED 2003 rom-com Love Actually, Keira Knightley, then an up-and-coming British actress whose winning turn in Bend It Like Beckham helped make it a smash hit, told the director her next project was “some pirate thing—probably a disaster.” Instead, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl went on to gross over $650 million. By 2008, after appearing in the next two installments, Knightley was a household name, and the second-highest-paid actress in Hollywood. But it wasn’t until recently that she began to ask about her pay in relation to that of her male costars. “It didn’t even occur to me,” says Knightley, who lives in London with her husband, musician James Righton, and their three-year-old daughter. “It felt like something you couldn’t question. But…

SASHA LANE The Texas actress joins Stranger Things’ David Harbour in Hellboy, the January reboot of Guillermo del Toro’s 2004 superhero film. “She’s a badass chick, this ragged little London girl on the streets talking to dead people,” she says of her character, Alice. For Lane, 23, Hellboy follows a slate of indie flicks exploring youth culture: American Honey, Hearts Beat Loud, and the gay-conversion-therapy drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post. “Oldass males are writing scripts,” says Lane, seen here with her brother, Sergio Darcy. “But kids these days are at parties, hitting the joint, going ‘Yo, bro. How do we fix the world?’” LAURA HARRIER “Every film is the director’s view of the world,” says the 28-year-old actress, who plays Colorado student activist Patrice Dumas in BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee’s…

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at the Brooklyn Museum This knockout retrospective, up through February 3, offers the chance to view 150 pieces—paintings, prints, sculptures, and performances—created by 60 black artists between 1963 and 1983, a period of vibrant innovation, resistance, and awakening. Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings at the Getty Some of the 110 images in this traveling exhibit by Mann (right, in 1998) present her family, as always, and some probe the violent racial history of the South. All are arresting, gorgeous, and essential. It opens November 16 at this L.A. museum. The Salon Art + Design This New York–based fair takes over the Park Avenue Armory between November 8 and 12, featuring over 50 booths from galleries around the world, with…

LADY GAGA Photographed by Ruth Hogben and Andrea Gelardin Gaga wears Marc Jacobs and necklace by Hearts On Fire. For her makeup look, try Infallible 24 HR Eye Shadow in Amber Rush, Infallible Lacquer Liner 24H in Blackest Black, Voluminous Original Mascara in Blackest Black, and Colour Riche Shine Lipstick in Glossy Fawn. All, L’Oréal Paris. (Styled by Nicola Formichetti, Tom Eerebout, and Sandra Amador; hair by Frederic Aspiras; makeup by Sarah Tanno; manicure by Miho Okawara; produced by Gabe Hill at GE Projects.) SARAH PAULSON Photographed by Zoey Grossman Paulson wears Valentino Haute Couture and earrings by Ana Khouri. For her makeup look, try Brow Stylist Shape & Fill Mechanical Pencil in Brunette, Infallible Pro-Last Waterproof Pencil Eyeliner in Black, Voluminous Lash Paradise Mascara in Blackest Black, and Colour…

Sexy. California. Glamour. Those three words, which greet visitors to Mary Alice Haney’s e-commerce site, have become a calling card for one of Tinseltown’s most trusted names in fashion. They’re also the foundation of an aesthetic for which Haney is unapologetic. When the subject is broached of the Time’s Up–fueled black dresses at last January’s Golden Globes, Haney is quick to shut down the notion that the evening signaled a shift to more demure red-carpet dressing: “It would be a sad state of affairs if women felt that that’s what this was about.” Having spent 15 years as a fashion editor and the go-to stylist for everyone from Jane Fonda to Reese Witherspoon, Haney knows better than most what women want to wear. Five years ago, she launched her eponymous…

Since his arrival at Tiffany & Co. nearly two years ago, Reed Krakoff has made quite the splash, whether it’s selling $1,000 sterling silver soup cans or flower-bombing New York City bodegas with bouquets of paper flowers in Tiffany blue. As it happens, the brand has a long-running history with another, lesser-known, blue hue. When a unique azure mineral was discovered in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro in the late 1960s, Tiffany named the stone tanzanite and immediately introduced it into the brand’s lineup. For the Color Theory collection, Krakoff celebrates the full spectrum of this rare gem, custom-cutting each stone to amplify the gradation from light to dark. The overall effect is equal parts sci-fi (think Amazon Alexa’s blue halo) and pure science.…

Facialist Joanna Vargas, whose clients include Julianne Moore and Maggie Gyllenhaal, offers 30-minute sessions in her RevitaLight LED bed (at left) in her spas. Its collagen-boosting, inflammation-reducing powers have proven so popular with celebs, some have purchased machines for at-home use ($75,000). And that’s not the only device they’re making space for. After hearing her A-list clients rave about their OxyHealth Vitaeris 320 hyperbaric chambers ($21,900), Shani Darden, who works with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Chrissy Teigen, considered getting one herself. “It’s supposed to speed up healing and keep you young forever,” she says. “It helps with everything—stress and maintaining glowing skin.”…

“We’re doing a lot of earlobes,” says NYC-based dermatologist David Colbert, MD, who’s tended to Naomi Watts and Robin Wright and has a satellite office in Beverly Hills he visits every three to four months. Plumping deflated lobes with hyaluronic acid filler, like Restylane, helps earrings hang better. According to Colbert, injecting “forgotten” parts of the face is also big news. “It used to be that people would just inject Botox around the crow’s-feet. And I’ll do that, but I’ll also inject a very fine little thread going right up to the eye, so it’s not just doing the undereye area, but really perfecting it.” Beverly Hills dermatologist Harold Lancer, MD—whose waiting area has hosted Brie Larson and Margot Robbie—uses neuromodulators (Dysport and Botox, for example) to erase lines on…

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RAMI MALEK RELIED ON AN UNEXPECTED PROSTHETIC TO get into character as Freddie Mercury in the long-awaited biopic Bohemian Rhapsody—specifically, “having some slightly larger chompers in my mouth,” he says. “If you ever watch him being interviewed, you can see how often he’s trying to cover up his teeth.” For years, Mercury, who was born Farrokh Bulsara to Indian parents, “was called Bucky by the other schoolkids. It tells you a lot.” Imagining an insecure version of the flamboyant Queen front man is almost as hard as visualizing Mr. Robot’s hoodie-clad Elliot Alderson—the role that earned Malek an Emmy—in Mercury’s bone-tight leather pants. Malek, too, is introverted, making the 37-year-old perhaps a less obvious candidate than, say, the scenery-gobbling Sacha Baron Cohen, who was originally cast in the role. But…

Dolly Parton’s 1968 classic “Just Because I’m a Woman” decries double standards with the lyric “My mistakes are no worse than yours just because I’m a woman.” Loretta Lynn’s controversial 1975 hit “The Pill” extols a woman’s joy upon gaining the freedom to control her contraception with the birth control pill, which was only then coming into widespread use. The Dixie Chicks go Top 20 in 2000 with “Goodbye Earl,” in which BFFs avenge domestic violence—and Earl’s goodbye is, uh, permanent. See also: Martina McBride’s “Independence Day” (1994) and Miranda Lambert’s “Gunpowder & Lead” (2007). Rhiannon Giddens’s 2015 LP Tomorrow Is My Turn pays tribute to the women in Americana and country who came before her and includes covers of songs by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Elizabeth Cotten. Kacey Musgraves’s…

Lara Trump loves to tell a story about Donald Trump and ice cream. Years ago, her then boyfriend, Eric Trump, had taken her to the US Open but hadn’t told her that his dad and his dad’s wife, Melania, would be there as well. She was feeling insecure and unprepared—and annoyed at Eric—when Donald, then a big-time TV star, got up and offered to get her a cone. “He was like, ‘I’m getting ice cream. What do you want? What kind do you like?’ And I was like, Oh, this is so normal. I don’t know why it made me feel so much more comfortable, but it did.” We’re talking over breakfast at Jean-Georges in New York’s Trump International Hotel & Tower, and Lara, 36, whose appearance has a slightly…

TELEVISION IS TURNING OUT THE most creative, inclusive storytelling today, and writer/producer Shonda Rhimes deserves a good chunk of the credit. When Scandal debuted in 2012, its glamorous, if polemical, fixer Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) was the first black woman to lead a network drama since 1974. In the years following, ABC launched How to Get Away With Murder, Quantico, Fresh Off the Boat, Black-ish, and its spin-off, Grown-ish—all of which center on people of color. For almost half a decade, ABC’s Thursday nights—from Grey’s Anatomy to Scandal (now replaced by Station 19, also executive-produced by Rhimes) to How to Get Away With Murder—have been reserved for Rhimes, a creative force whose headstrong heroines have drawn an average of 8.6 million viewers each week (and helped the megaproducer net two…

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