Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2022 i ELLE

1 SNAKE CHARMER Aquazzura’s Edgardo Osorio didn’t have to travel far to find the starting point for his spring collection. The jet-setting Florence-based designer looked to the allure of the Mediterranean, creating an imaginary itinerary among the Aeolian islands. In addition to Osorio’s faux coral–embellished sandals, his costume jewelry is a standout, with showstopping snake earrings and sinuous bracelets befitting a modern-day goddess. Earring, Aquazzura, $2,700 (for pair), Aquazzura stores nationwide. 2 THE KID IS ALRIGHT Public School codesigner Maxwell Osborne is seeing green. His new sustainable label, anOnlyChild, draws upon the resourcefulness and creativity that growing up as the only child of Jamaican immigrants afforded him. Many of the garments are inspired by Osborne’s hand-me-downs and his family photos from the ’70s, while the palette channels the reddish hue of Jamaica’s…

SCROLLING THROUGH the Instagram account @starter packsofnyc feels like flipping through a pack of trading cards, except instead of stats, each archetype comes with outfits and drink orders. Resist all you want, but you’ll likely identify with one of the curated personalities on the feed. There I was in the binder, I realized: shearling-wearing, whole milk–drinking, Balthazar-dining, Lana Del Rey–listening, cozy-inclined woman. But it’s not shade. The account isn’t mocking the circles that it spoofs. The comments don’t suggest offense so much as delighted acknowledgment by fellow “teammates.” Why, in an era that places so much emphasis on unfettered self-expression, do we find such contrarian joy in looking like others? “People are happy to feel seen and be part of a cultural conversation, even if it’s not an entirely flattering…

Diana Rigg, as Emma Peel, wore one. So did Britney Spears and nearly every Catwoman from Julie Newmar to Zoë Kravitz. By turns fetishistic and innocent, futuristic and throw-back-worthy, the modern-day catsuit came into being when designer John Sutcliffe introduced the style for bikers in the ’50s. It went from fun, liberatory garment to slick Barbarella accoutrement fast, and its contradictions have been fascinating fashion ever since. This season has brought us a full-on catsuit resurgence, both on the runway and in celebrity wardrobes. It feels like the perfect marriage of the body-conscious fashion that has ruled recent years and the more covered-up, unfussy options we reached for in lockdown. “Designers have fully embraced this new wave of sexy dressing, through everything from cutout dresses to flashing midriffs and crop…

ENAIDURA CAMP Kenya Enaidura Camp’s location on the banks of the Talek River offers a prime spot for watching the Great Migration—the movement of over 2 million wildebeests, gazelles, and zebras, who sweep across the savanna in search of food and water. Some call watching it the most exciting wildlife event on earth. enaiduracamp.com. WILDWATERS LODGE Uganda Perched on Kalagala, an enchanting private island situated in the middle of the River Nile, Wildwaters Lodge’s 10 stand-alone, elevated suites boast stunning river views perfect for bird-watching and chance wildlife encounters. lemalacamps.com. NYAMATUSI CAMP Zimbabwe Looking for an alternative to game drives? Nyamatusi Camp, located in Mana Pools National Park on the banks of the Zambezi River, offers canoeing safaris, where you may glide past elephants drinking at the river’s edge. africanbushcamps.com.…

ON A SANDY, WINDSWEPT STRETCH of California’s Southern Mojave Desert in Wonder Valley, past tumbleweeds and flower-dotted creosote shrubs, sits a 24-foot sculpture of a nude female figure perched atop a shipping container. German artist Paloma Varga Weisz created the larger-than-life character as an ode to the region’s quirky roadside attractions, whose architecture mimics the fare inside—like a lunch stand in the shape of a frankfurter. In keeping with that theme, a vendor sells vegan hot dogs from the shipping container to visitors and passersby. The monumental installation was organized by High Desert Test Sites, an arts nonprofit that supports experimental, site-specific projects. And it’s just one of nine works installed throughout Pioneertown, Yucca Valley, Wonder Valley, and Joshua Tree as part of The Searchers, on view through May 22…

THE IMMORTAL KING RAO BY VAUHINI VARA (W.W. Norton & Company, May 3) Vara’s debut follows a Steve Jobs–like figure who creates a world-changing product that sparks his reign as a global leader. She brilliantly describes a world that isn’t real but feels like it soon could be.—AG REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES BY SHELBY VAN PELT (Ecco, May 3) Infused with heartfelt humor, Van Pelt’s elegant portrait of a widowed woman who finds understanding and connection with a clever octopus is refreshingly, if surprisingly, relatable. Despite the unorthodox relationship at its core, the debut novel offers a wholly original meditation on grief and the bonds that keep us afloat.—AG THE GARDEN OF BROKEN THINGS BY FRANCESCA MOMPLAISIR (Alfred A. Knopf, May 10) After a horrific earthquake hits Port-au-Prince, Haiti, one family…

PRAMILA JAYAPAL “Our culture has made this a shameful act, instead of a self-empowering, self-preserving act of choice.” CORI BUSH “I remember pulling up [to the clinic], and people surrounding the car, yelling, calling me a baby murderer. I was afraid to walk in. It was tough.” BARBARA LEE “I survived. But I knew what was happening to women who had these back-alley abortions. I thanked God I survived, because I knew so many women hadn’t.” JACKIE SPEIER “We’ve allowed shame to be associated with a safe health procedure, and it’s misogynistic and it’s racist. We have to dispel the myths and the stigma.” GARY PETERS “I was surprised by how many men came up to me and said, ‘I went through this as well with my wife.’ We don’t…

Simone Ashley is waiting for me, perched serenely near the window of a Greek grocery shop just off the main drag of London’s Broadway Market. I’m not late, so that makes her early. Dressed in athleisure and tennies, she greets me with a relaxed hug like we’re old pals—surprising, since hugging strangers is not particularly English. I melt awkwardly into it like the American expat I am, thawing out after having avoided physical contact with other people for two years during the pandemic. It all makes more sense when she tells me that, despite being British, she’s a California girl at heart, having moved to Los Angeles as a teenager to pursue acting, which kicked off a decade of living between L.A. and London. “I love the ocean so much,”…

SCHIAPARELLI’S GILDED “opera gloves.” Loewe’s armorlike body sculpting. Marine Serre’s head-to-toe catsuits. The new mode of dressing takes inspiration from bracing for the apocalypse, but with a stronger, sexier MO than your typical Blade Runner fare. It’s glamorous, dripping in gold and rife with baroque patterns. Perhaps the rise of this aesthetic stems from our obsession with dystopian series like Station Eleven. Or maybe it’s the idea that we’re literally shielding ourselves in a new way, after years of collective suffering caused by the pandemic and the climate crisis. The concept also owes a debt to TikTok, where the #avant-apocalypse tag has over 500K views. Participants are deconstructing, cutting, repurposing, and upcycling pieces they already have in their wardrobes, putting an emphasis on the body with skin-revealing cutouts and curve-hugging…

“SUNSCREEN FOR YOUR LIPS OFTEN GETS OVERLOOKED, BUT THIS CARAMELLY BALM MAKES COVERING THEM UP SO ENJOYABLE, YOU WON’T FORGET.”—Margaux Anbouba, Beauty Editor VACATION LIP TRIPS: DESSERTS IN BANANAS FOSTER SPF 30, $5, VACATION.INC “Sunscreen for your lips often gets overlooked, but this caramelly balm makes covering them up so enjoyable, you won’t forget. It shields delicate lip skin with SPF 30 and keeps it feeling smooth and hydrated. Plus, the vintage branding is the coolest.”—Margaux Anbouba, Beauty Editor SHISEIDO URBAN ENVIRONMENT OIL-FREE SUNSCREEN SPF 42, $35, SHISEIDO.COM “I wear sunscreen daily, but I don’t always love how heavy it feels under my makeup. This skin care–SPF combo is the answer: It’s refreshing (thanks to hyaluronic acid), dries quickly, and is so featherlight it can double as your primer.”—Sara Austin,…

MOST OF US HAVE several fragrances on rotation, adding a new scent every year or so. But super collectors—those who acquire dozens or even hundreds of blends—take their love of fragrance to another level. The incentive to amass that many scents often stems from the desire to “relive that first moment when you fell in love with a perfume,” says Dawn Goldworm, an olfactory expert who has helped develop scents for Valentino. Not unlike dating, each new fragrance represents the possibility of a new, more fulfilling relationship. And as tastes evolve over time, so do your choices, which means “you continually grow your collection,” Goldworm adds. We asked four collectors to share what sustains their personal eau obsessions. The INDEPENDENT WOMAN AIMEE MAJOROS Founder of Aimee Is Beauty, a beauty…

Visitors to the Kyambura Gorge often liken the prehistoric-feeling rain forest to Jurassic Park. The lush habitat, carved deep into the vast savanna of Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park, feels otherworldly, with a mist-shrouded river running through the center, drawing hippos and elephants to its edge, while overhead, lions lounge in the trees. The gorge’s story—a family of stranded chimpanzees, a majestic sunken forest, and a battle to save a habitat—offers a compelling look at the role mindful tourism can play in conserving these rapidly disappearing, crucially important ecosystems. Queen Elizabeth National Park is situated in the heart of the Albertine Rift, a biodiverse valley of forests, savannas, and waterways on the central-western edge of the country. It was once home to a robust population of big game animals, but…

She first assumed the persona of comedian Fanny Brice at her third birthday party, wearing a leopard-print outfit made by her mother. Now Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein is reprising the role for a much larger audience in the revival of Funny Girl—back on Broadway for the first time in 58 years, with a revised book by Harvey Fierstein and directed by Michael Mayer. Channeling the iconic figure—“on Broadway and not in my family’s backyard,” Feldstein has said—has been a lifelong dream come true. Jane Lynch, who portrays Brice’s strong-willed mother, Rosie, in the run (which opened April 24), is another childhood Funny Girl aficionado. The original cast recording is the first music she remembers listening to as a kid. Back then, she recalls, “I played every character. I actually knew…

AN OMINOUS HEARTBEAT-LIKE THRUM pulses through two new limited series, both about political turmoil—one based on true events, the other on fiction that feels ripped from the headlines. Gaslit, which premiered April 24 on Starz, boasts an A-list cast, including Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Betty Gilpin, and Dan Stevens, playing two couples involved in the Watergate case. Across the pond, Netflix’s Anatomy of a Scandal (April 15) follows Sophie Whitehouse (sharply portrayed by Sienna Miller), the wife of an ambitious junior minister whose seemingly standard-issue extramarital affair escalates quickly, rocking the couple’s once-idyllic home life and inciting mayhem in the press and Parliament. Meanwhile, Claire Foy and Paul Bettany star in A Very British Scandal, a miniseries centered on the notorious 1960s divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll…

Rachel Zegler is a modern movie star. She exploded onto the scene with a stunning performance in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and a fairy tale of a Hollywood origin story—unknown New Jersey schoolgirl beats out 30,000 with self-taped audition! Before the movie was released, she had filmed the superhero sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods alongside Helen Mirren and had been cast in a live-action adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. As befitting a celebrity tale of today, though, she has also walked headfirst into a fame machine where glamour and accolades are undercut by trolling and online attacks. The spotlight on her has led to an intense scrutiny of everything from her looks and personality to her ethnicity “I got cast as Maria in West Side…

COVER RACHEL ZEGLER Dress by Dior, at Dior boutiques nationwide. Beret, $790, veil, $695, by Stephen Jones Millinery, Dover Street Market London. Bikini by Salvatore Ferragamo, $930, ferragamo.com. Earrings by Linda Bee Vintage, Linda Bee (London). Dress by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, $3,590, Saint Laurent (NYC). Beret by Lola Hats, lolahats.com. 2022 Tiffany Blue Book Collection earrings by Tiffany & Co., tiffany.com. Gloves by Maison Margiela, $1,250, maisonmargiela.com. ALISON OLIVER Sweater, $750, earring (worn on beret), $1,950, by Ralph Lauren Collection, ralphlauren.com. SIMONE ASHLEY Dress by Emporio Armani, similar styles at armani.com. EDITOR’S LETTER PAGE 32: Giambattista Valli, giambattistavalli.com. Jean Schlumberger necklace by Tiffany & Co., $95,000, tiffany.com. Simone Rocha, Simone Rocha, NYC. NINA’S EDIT PAGE 35: Cuff by Jenna Blake, $19,600, jennablake.com. SHOP PAGE 62: Handbag by Roger…

“It’s almost like a play,” Simone Rocha says of putting together a fashion collection. “There’s a beginning, middle, and end. A narrative.” Rocha has had narratives on her mind lately—beginnings and middles, though certainly not ends. She’s looking back on slightly over 10 years of shows, an eternity for an independent fashion brand. Sitting in the lobby of a celebrity-frequented downtown New York hotel, she nurses a cup of tea, unmistakable in ruffled, voluminous all-black and chunky jewelry, and remembers the beginning. It was 2011, and the “tough girl” ruled fashion. It Bags practically came standard-issue with studs, and sludge-eyelinered models were the street-style flavor du jour. Rocha’s first solo show at London Fashion Week struck me, then a baby ELLE writer, as a breath of rose petal–scented fresh air.…

I’ve been a champion hair shedder for as long as I can remember. A small girl with a disproportionately large mop of hair, I recall repeatedly breaking my mom’s fine-tooth combs and meekly asking my dad if he could snake the drain. Again. And while stylists would often tell me how lucky I was to have such thick hair, I felt anything but. My shedding only seemed to intensify when I became an adult. It is now constant and incessant. Whenever I brush my hair or blow it dry with my Dyson Supersonic, I’m greeted with a fistful of my own tresses. Countless roommates—and a few significant others—have been moved to comment on my abundance of strays, impossible to miss as they’re strewn across the bathroom floor. There’s a reason…

The great poet Sylvia Plath once wrote, “My face I know not. One day ugly as a frog the mirror blurts it back.” I feel you, girl. While many people channeled their anxiety into canning and puzzles during the pandemic, I took it out on my face. Some call it facial dysmorphia, but I call it FaceHate. Instead of dealing with the extreme isolation I felt as a single woman who moved across the country to a new city a few months before COVID shutdowns, I obsessively picked apart my reflection. In Zoom after Zoom, I found myself confronting a litany of internal critiques: The right side of my mouth is slightly downturned. The family jowls have finally caught up with me. When did my right eyelid get so droopy?…

“THE GORILLAS ARE ALLOWING us to be here,” whispers Emmanuel Harerimana, my machete-wielding guide. “They’ll let us know if we’re not welcome.” We had just finished trekking up the steep rise of Mount Sabyinyo, one of eight main summits that make up the Virunga Mountains, a chain of dormant volcanoes in East-Central Africa and home to Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. I’ve come here to visit one of four remaining mountain gorilla habitats in the world. As their name suggests, these critically endangered great apes, a subspecies of the eastern gorilla, live at an altitude between 8,000 and 13,000 feet. After bushwhacking through the thick rain forest, dodging fire ants and stinging nettles as we climbed, we made it up to where the Agashya mountain gorilla family was having breakfast. We…

MOVIES A HUNK OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL ROYALTY Austin Butler is a fiery revelation in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. “A REVEREND once told me, ‘When things are too dangerous to say, sing,’ ” says Austin Butler in the trailer for Elvis, out June 24 from director Baz Luhrmann. And in Butler’s portrayal of the music legend, audiences will certainly hear (and see) a side of Elvis that so many tried to censor, especially from the waist down. “He was punk before punk existed,” Butler says. “He was rolling on the stage, spitting. We got to show what you don’t get to see in the [archival] footage.” The film, which also stars Tom Hanks as Elvis’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, and Olivia DeJonge as Priscilla Presley, explores the singer and actor’s life…

Alittle over a decade after winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 1999 short story collection Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri relocated to Rome. Her goal: to fully immerse herself in the Italian language. Since then, the London-born, Rhode Island–raised author has embraced both writing in Italian (In Other Words; Whereabouts) and translating Italian works (sometimes her own) into English. This month, she releases Translating Myself and Others, a series of essays that explores this pursuit. “It’s what inspires me,” she says. “It’s what I do. It’s not my job.” Why was Italian the language you chose to learn and then write in? It really does feel like a calling, like something rather mysterious in nature at the end of the day. I don’t know the answer. I have asked it…

Perhaps Alison Oliver and Joe Alwyn don’t look like they would be lovers. In early marketing materials for Conversations With Friends, the upcoming Hulu series adapted from literary wunderkind Sally Rooney’s debut novel, Alwyn, 31, seems almost to loom over Oliver, 24, as she slouches on a rocky precipice along the Croatian shore. Alwyn, suntanned and blue-eyed with the precisely tousled hair of a Hellenistic sculpture, has the movie-star aura, as well as the burgeoning repertoire: You might recognize him from his turn in the Oscar-winning period piece The Favourite, or perhaps as the lead from the military drama Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Meanwhile, Oliver is a Hollywood newcomer, having recently graduated from Ireland’s Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College (where Paul Mescal, star of the…