Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2015 i ELLE

THE MONTH IN CULTURE! From gravelly-voiced Bea Miller, X Factor contender turned newly minted pop star, comes the freshman album Not an Apology. Miller is 16 years old, could pass for 12, and the video for her single “Young Blood” already has 5 million hits on YouTube. July 24 “ July 1 With Terminator Genisys, the franchise is BACK, this time with Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor. July 5 Christian Marclay’s phenomenon The Clock, a 24-hour-long video montage, opens at L.A. County’s Museum of Art. Contemplate time while standing in the likely significant line. “ July 7 The prolific capabilities of portraitist Al Hirschfeld are commemorated in The Hirschfeld Century, a new book out today. THE FESTIVAL REPORT July 6-11 At the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, Common…

At ELLE, we work overtime to celebrate women for their work, their ideas, and their contributions, independent of whom they love or marry. But (you knew there was a “but”) if you’ve just married one of the biggest movie stars in the world—whose net worth is estimated to be close to $400 million (not that we judge people by what they’re paid) and who has twice been named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive—it’s normal for readers to be curious about your relationship, and sometimes, depending on how long they’ve loved Johnny Depp, who recently married our cover girl, Amber Heard, to be slightly obsessed with the topic. So let’s just get that out of the way. Yes, we’re curious about the couple’s story, but we fell for Amber long ago.…

When Eddie Borgo decided to create handbags, the New York–based jewelry designer knew one element he wouldn’t incorporate: conical studs. It may come as a surprise that Borgo, who has specialized in edgy chic since founding his eponymous line seven years ago, isn’t giving his customers bags to match their pavé cone bracelets—at this point, practically a wardrobe requirement for creative-industry types. But avoiding the obvious was Borgo’s goal. “I didn’t just want to cover them in cones and call it a day,” he says. For Borgo, who studied art history at New York City’s Hunter College, inspiration comes from street culture and the ideology of the postpunk movement as well as modern sculpture. For his new category debut, Borgo turned his attention to his grandmother’s pocketbooks and the minimal…

1 CROSS-BODY 2 CARRYALL 3 BACKPACK The Street-Style Savant Award SHIONA TURINI @shionat / 45.6K followers The fashion editor–turned–style consultant’s feed is expertly accessorized—and she absolutely crushes the crop-top game.…

READERS’ PRIZE 15 ELLE readers choose their favorite among three promising new books—this month, novels about finding oneself 1 EIGHT HUNDRED GRAPES LAURA DAVE (SIMON & SCHUSTER) After discovering her fiancé in a compromising position, the story’s fallible heroine, georgia, flees her former life for the expected stability of her family—only to find that they’re dealing with emerging secrets of their own. Set in the vineyard-lush hills of contemporary Sonoma county, california, dave’s tightly woven family drama is best enjoyed with a glass of wine (or two); readers found this one impossible to put down. 2 THE SUNLIT NIGHT REBECCA DINERSTEIN (BLOOMSBURY) When Manhattanborn frances and russian (by way of Brooklyn) Yasha find themselves one summer on a tiny norwegian island where the sun almost never goes down, 95 miles…

Mary-Beth Hughes’s body of work casts a dreamy, hypnotic effect, even while slyly exposing the risks and rewards of love and its devastations among the upper class. Edith Wharton and Henry James own the mansion housing this slant of prose, all style and substance, and Hughes moves ever closer to such mastery with her second novel, The Loved Ones (Atlantic Monthly Press). Set in New York, London, and at the New Jersey shore in the late ’60s/early ’70s, The Loved Ones homes in on the Devlins in the aftermath of the family’s loss of its young son. The world they inhabit is a cornucopia of private schools, members-only clubs, ocean-liner crossings, multiple homes, and chauffeurs, none of which can shield them—winsome Jean and debonair Nick; their teenage daughter, Lily; Jean’s…

THE NEXT EYE BRIGHTENER The new (supereasy) statement eye for summer: a sweep of bright turquoise along the lower lash line. Makeup artist Grace Lee, who created the look below, promises that even a Day-Glo blue works “on every skin tone and eye color.” She used an angled brush to blend Maybelline Color Tattoo gel shadow in Tenacious Teal (another ELLE favorite is Sephora’s Summer Cruise), then kept “the rest of the face soft and natural.” THE NEXT SIGNATURE SCENT Gucci’s latest eau, Bamboo, which was inspired by the idea of femininity balanced with power—and by the strong-as-steel resilience of its namesake—starts off soft and grows in intensity, from a fruity opening to a spicy floral heart to a sandalwood dry-down. Fittingly, the brand enlisted Israeli actor Gal Gadot—Wonder Woman…

Just because Weber and Big Green Egg still exclusively feature men in their tutorial videos, there’s no reason women shouldn’t barbecue. Remember Samantha in Sex and the City grilling on a rooftop, midriff bare, asking her neighbors, “Who wants a wiener?” North Carolina–based Andrea Reusing, New Yorker Alex Raij, and Texas transplant Laura Sawicki are three chefs who love to ’cue. Here they share their stories, as well as their tried-andtrue grilling recipes. LAURA SAWICKI Launderette; Austin, Texas “As an Argentinian and a chef, grilling is a critical part of me,” says Sawicki, the co-owner of Launderette in Austin. “And it’s also central to Texan cuisine.” At Launderette, a casual Mediterranean restaurant housed in a former washateria, Sawicki’s wood grill is small and simple: “A modest Aztec grill, but it’s…

CLASS CONSCIOUS DEAR E. JEAN: I’m a physician—ethnic, well traveled, and the daughter of Berkeley intellectuals. Unlike a lot of the pretentious NYC types I’ve dated in the past, my new boyfriend is a little bit hillbilly, with a goofy sense of humor, a simple vocabulary, and even simpler tastes. He’s Midwestern, has great values, an excellent career in finance, and I’ve jumped on board with the country music and the football. But our last fight happened because I was incredulous over his love of wrestling on WWE. I absolutely panicked! I can’t imagine the father of my children watching WrestleMania. I know this is snobbery. He’s good to me, and I wish I could be a simpler girl who doesn’t love obscure references and librarian glasses—it would have made…

COVERS Coated wool jacket by Ralph Lauren Collection, $5,890, at select Ralph Lauren stores nationwide, visit ralphlauren.com. One-piece maillot by Thapelo Paris, $250, visit thapelo-paris.com. Silver-plated gold, blue enamel, and diamond rings by Fred Leighton, prices on request, at Fred Leighton (NYC). Her own earrings. Embroidered silk dress by Altuzarra, $15,000, collection at Neiman Marcus stores nationwide. Aquamarine, ceramic, and rose gold earrings by James de Givenchy for Taffin, price on request, visit taffin.com. Silverplated gold, enamel, and diamond rings by Fred Leighton, prices on request, at Fred Leighton (NYC). POWER OF TEN PAGE 24: Julia Hartz wears: Cellophane top, $425, neoprene skirt, $515, by Jonathan Simkhai, visit jonathansimkhai.com. Ruthenium bracelet by Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co., $425, visit tiffany.com. Leather pumps by Manolo Blahnik, $785, collection at nordstrom.com.…

“I can’t go to a dinner party and tell people what I do,” Janet Kennedy, PhD, says. She’s a specialist in the world’s most popular in-bed activity: sleep. And with more than 60 million Americans suffering from a lack of rest, “everyone has a sleep story.” The St. Louis–born Kennedy, who earned her PhD in clinical psychology from New York University, became interested in sleep disorders while completing her clinical degree at the Manhattan Veterans’ Affairs hospital, where she took a full-time position after graduating in 2002. Once on staff, she developed a cognitive behavioral therapy sleep program based on a treatment manual by Charles Morin, PhD. Almost instantly, insomniacs who followed her program became less dependent on medication—the rapid change a pleasant rarity in the slow-results world of clinical…

Our May cover star, Chelsea Clinton, has been in the public eye since the age of 12, simultaneously one of the most recognized and least known people in the world. When our cover launched online just two days before her mother, Hillary Clinton, declared her presidential bid, we witnessed the world’s fascination firsthand—within a week, our online post of the cover amassed a thousand comments and more than fifty thousand shares at press time: “Growing up, I never was into politics. Now, being in my twenties and female, I am more than ever passionate about equal rights for women. It blew my mind that there are only a few nations that have laws prohibiting discrimination on pay. I admire Clinton for becoming an activist. I, too, want to do whatever…

Catalyst, a nonprofit group that does research on women in business, recently released a study of women and men with MBAs working in techintensive fields that yielded some very revealing—and disturbing—statistics solutions to ReveRse the talent dRain the WoMen Who stick it out face significant BaRRieRs to advanceMent START IN AN ENTRY-LEVEL POSITION: 55% 39% THE WOMEN WHO STICK IT OUT FACE SIGNIFICANT BARRIERS TO ADVANCEMENT 1. LACK OF ROLE MODELS 18% 7% 2. FEELING LIKE AN OUTSIDER 73% 17% 3. UNCLEAR EVALUATION CRITERIA 58% 45% SOLUTIONS TO REVERSE THE TALENT DRAIN 1 ENGAGE AND EMPOWER SENIOR MALE EXECUTIVES TO SPONSOR UP-ANDCOMING WOMEN 2 MAKE SURE MEN AND WOMEN WITH EQUIVALENT CREDENTIALS START OUT AT EQUAL LEVELS AND ARE PAID EQUALLY AND AT A COMPETITIVE RATE WITH OTHERS IN THE…

“I hope the restaurant’s close because he’s taking his bike,” Taylor Kitsch’s manager says to me. A bike-bike or a motorcycle-bike? I want to ask. But before I have a chance to, she hangs up. An hour later, I’m sitting at a table on the outside patio of the Hungry Cat, located between John Wayne’s star and Jack Benny’s on Vine Street in Hollywood, and exactly .9 miles—close, but is it close enough?—from Milk Studios, where Kitsch has just completed his ELLE photo shoot. I’m scanning the sidewalk traffic. I’m hypervigilant because the Hungry Cat is nestled up against a larger building, and I’m worried he’ll pass it. Only, suddenly, there he is, turning down the little alleyway. That Taylor Kitsch shouldn’t need an introduction at this point in his…

Good luck finding a more immersive and engrossing documentary about a historical figure than Liz Garbus’s deep dive into the life of Nina Simone. A big reason What Happened, Miss Simone? connects with us so directly is that much of it is narrated by Simone herself, via generous helpings of interview tape that this sometimes self-consciously selfmythologizing artist generated over the years. “That was our most exciting find,” Garbus says, “to be able to get her telling her life story.” We get plenty more of it from Simone’s impressively level-headed daughter, Lisa Simone Kelly, herself a recording artist who starred in the Broadway production Aida in 2002. And what a story it is—about a black girl named Eunice Waymon from a tiny North Carolina hamlet whose talent at the piano…

Five distinct sensibilities animate Louisa Hall’s audacious second novel, Speak (Ecco), about the ways in which the traditional triumphs and limits of human communication connect to our growing interaction with and reliance on artificial intelligence. In alternating chapters spanning the 1600s to the midtwenty-first century, Hall conjures her yearningly intelligent characters, some of whom are inspired by their real-life counterparts, such as World War II code-breaker, mathematician, and hero of The Imitation Game Alan Turing; an imprisoned former Silicon Valley hotshot, sprung from the imaginings of Furby creator Caleb Chung; and a refugee computer scientist with a broken marriage, based on the experiences of programing innovator Joseph Weizenbaum. There also is a young English Puritan bride, Mary Bradford,shipbound for America with a husband she does not want, and Gaby White,…

Eunsun Kim is a famished 11-yearold, alone, scrawling her will in her last notebook, when her gripping memoir, A Thousand Miles to Freedom (St. Martin’s), opens. From a “privileged” family, she, her sister, and their mother embark on a nine-year ordeal to escape North Korea during the famine of the mid-’90s after her father starves to death. They cross the frozen Tumen River into China only to be enslaved, arrested, and sent back—but slivers of luck get them, eventually, to Seoul, South Korea. Kim first shared her story with her coauthor, Le Figaro’s Seoul correspondent Sébastien Falletti, in 2011, when they met at the NGO where she works to combat complacency about the 25 million North Koreans suffering across a border 40 kilometers away. Blaming their fate on an “absurd…

GET STRONGER GET SMOOTH GO BIGGER What makes a Green Star? Our panel of the country’s top hairstylists, makeup artists, and dermatologists tested the products you see here at photo shoots, on the red carpet, at runway shows, and on their derm-office patients. Each Green Star must be powered by natural ingredients, such as antioxidants and retinol derived from botanical sources; free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates; and sustainable (avoiding non-responsibly-sourced palm oil and petrochemicals). Makeup artists: Kristen Arnett, Taylor Chang-Babaian, Katey Denno, Suzy Gerstein, Nico Guilis, Marcie Lakin, Lottie, Gabbi Pascua, Fiona Stiles, Anna Webber. Hairstylists: Jen Atkin, Bethany Brill, Aaron Grenia, Chase Kusero, Dhiran Mistry, James Pecis, Aviva Perea, Amoy Pitters, Vanessa Price, Allison Woodruff. Dermatologists: Leslie Baumann, MD; Annie Chiu, MD; Doris Day, MD; Jeanine Downie, MD;…

Sure, given her obvious attributes, Amber Heard has no trouble commanding attention. But there’s an authenticity beyond the actress’s surface value that stands out in the crowd of highly styled celebs who seem ever more conscious of their “brand.” The magnetic Mrs. Depp’s personal style (a Victoriana–meets–Carly Simon mix of floppy hats, maxidresses, and oversize outerwear) rivals that of her husband, Hollywood’s perennial pirate, but the result is less eccentric, more free-spirited throwback. Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters of Creatures of the Wind—and wouldn’t that be an apt title for Heard herself?—have also found a way to keep their natural quirkiness intact, endearing themselves to fashion’s cool kids (and earning industry accolades) with a just-oddenough aesthetic that proves a woman’s allure can take many forms. As we demonstrate in these…

THIS MONTH FOR CANCER: (JUNE 22–JULY 22) It’s birthday time, and with Mars now in Cancer until August 8th, you’re raring to put plans in place and get moving. You’ll start a two-year cycle that’s sure to add a new twist or level of sophistication to an ongoing venture or relationship. For the latter, a full moon in Capricorn will bring added emphasis to a partner, perhaps in business or love. Either way, Pluto will be in conjunction with this moon, giving you confidence in whatever direction you choose to take a collaboration. Be mindful of Saturn, however: The teacher planet— still in Scorpio until mid-September—could put up romance roadblocks in the form of obligations for work or study. You’ll find yet another test at July 15th’s new moon, this time…

JULY 6 Quick Change Let Kennedy reorient your sleep expectations. Mind this post and you’ll have the best zzz’s in town JULY 13 Thought Racer Can’t shut your brain off at night? Check out this lesson in behavioral strategies to right that wrong. JULY 20 Tune-Up Fixes for five common sleep mistakes, including bedtime routines that will have you sleeping like a baby (who’s been trained by Kennedy). JULY 27 Nap Time sometimes your brain and body need a recharge. Here, Kennedy lists the dos and don’ts for daytime dozing.…

2015 WOMEN IN TECH Julia Hartz Cofounder, Eventbrite “We had a million reasons we shouldn’t have done it,” says Hartz, cofounder of Eventbrite, a company that lets anyone sell tickets for a live event. (Think Ticketmaster, democratized.) But to Hartz, 35, who trained as a ballerina and considered herself a lifelong rule follower, moving from Los Angeles to the Bay Area to start a company with her then fancé, Kevin Hartz, seemed like insanity. Still, she moved out of her 42nd-foor windowed offce in Century City—where she was a TV executive developing shows like The Shield, Rescue Me, and Nip/Tuck for FX—and set up shop in a windowless room in Potrero Hill, San Francisco. The idea was to use online payment processing (Kevin had been an early investor in PayPal)…

MEDIA OVERLORDS Role model: Kara Swisher, tech reporter and cofounder, Re/code Signature look: black Converse, leather jacket, Spire clip-on stress tracker Ride: Lyfit, Sidecar—anything but Uber Accessory: Ray-Ban aviators, indoors and out Natural habitat: the Mission district, to catch new-money tech babies misbehaving Off duty: blogging from home while listening to NPR, speed-reading three (print) newspapers, and compulsively refreshing Twitter Guilty pleasures: industry gossip blog Valleywag, getting five-plus hours of sleep, mocking billionaires (See: Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel) Collects: wealthy enemies, anonymous tips See also: Sarah Lacy of PandoDaily Nitasha Tiku of The Verge BIOTECH TRAILBLAZERS Role model: Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO, Theranos Signature look: black turtleneck Ride: elliptical bike Accessory: Fitbit Surge Natural habitat: Palo Alto, to lure brilliant Stanford dropouts Off duty: yoga, chased with cold-pressed green juice…

When A.P.C. founder Jean Touitou invited his friend, designer Vanessa Seward, to create a capsule collection for the French chain in 2012, she started with a simple objective: to make the pieces that were missing from her closet. For this ineffably chic Parisian, that meant denim. Seward had spent more than a decade designing accessories at Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent and had just left her post as creative director of the eveningwear powerhouse Azzaro following the birth of her daughter. “I had worn cocktail dresses from morning till evening,” she says. “Now that I wasn’t going into a couture atelier every day, I thought there could be a sophisticated way of wearing jeans.” The collaboration, which was intended as a one-off, sold out almost immediately. Touitou asked Seward to…

Leave it to Victoire de Castellane, who has reigned over the whimsical world of Dior Joaillerie for the last 17 years, to add a playful pep to even the most ladylike classic. Her rendition of the house’s La Mini D watch features a black mother-of-pearl dial, a pavé diamond bezel, and rainbow-inspired patent leather ombré straps. The pint-size timepiece also comes with a plain black strap, but as Monsieur Dior famously said, “Black and white might well suffice, but why deprive oneself of color?” The Wizard Behind the “Curtain Dresses” Award ROSIE ASSOULIN @rosie_assoulin / 46.4K followers A keyhole into all that inspires the New York–based designer, beloved by Lily Aldridge and Jemima Kirke…

LOS ANGELES NeueHouse, the Manhattan members-only shared workspace, is going bicoastal. Its new outpost is in the historic CBS Columbia Square building on Sunset Boulevard, once home to creative types of another era: some of the best-known comedy acts of radio’s golden age, such as Gracie Allen and George Burns. neuehouse.com SEOUL Paparazzi beware: Korean eyewear brand Gentle Monster—which counts Miranda Kerr and Jessica Alba among its fans—created supersize shades for Tome’s New York Fashion Week show. gentlemonster.com NEW YORK Piamita’s beach capsule collection, which includes sarongs, tunic blouses, and loosefitting halterdresses, offers more of the sophisticated twist on off-duty style that fans of the loungewear label have come to love. This shibori-print racer-back top is sure to stand out in the sun. piamita.com NEW YORK Paul Andrew is the…

I’m here to remind you Of the mess you left when you went away It’s not fair to deny me Of the cross I bear that you gave to me You, you, you oughta know On July 7, 1995, Alanis Morissette’s inimitable howl of rage hit America’s airwaves, where “You Oughta Know” instantly became that summer’s fist-pumping anthem—especially for the legions of young women who embraced it as a declaration of independence from sugar and spice and always having to be nice, even when they were filled to choking with ugly, not-nice feelings (often stirred up by the miserable behavior of the men in their lives). The sound of Morissette’s voice slashing through the guitar and bass of The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Dave Navarro and Flea broke like thunder…

BACK TO BAKER STREET Ian McKellen reunites with director Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters) to make the quirky, clever Mr. Holmes—a character study of our Sherlock as a nonagenarian after World War II who is struggling, against his faltering memory, to decipher what went wrong in his last case decades earlier. McKellen embodies Holmes as earthily as if he were a great, old oak tree. THE DARKNESS WITHIN In The Stanford Prison Experiment, Billy Crudup plays the psych prof who conducted the now-infamous guardsand-prisoners role-playing exercise. A roster of rising stars, including Thomas Mann and Ezra Miller, act out the psychology of the kind of systematic dehumanization and subjugation that has repeatedly shocked our consciences—Abu Ghraib and Gitmo being the two most recent examples. BODY BY JAKE Southpaw, directed by…

“I had known that a wolf pack is a family,” writes ecologist Carl Safina in Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (Henry Holt). “What I had not imagined was the politics involved, the personalities, the vendettas and coalitions, the family turmoil following tragedy, the loyalties and disloyalties.” Beyond Words is an unprecedented exploration of animals and their shadowy inner lives, an area of study writers have shied away from for fear of anthropomorphizing— blasphemy in the world of behavioral science. Yet Safina sees this as limiting and self-centered: “Denying the possibility that any other animals have any thoughts or feelings reinforced what we all most want to hear: We are special.” The Brooklyn-born Safina, a PhD in ecology and the recipient of a 2000 MacArthur “genius” grant, makes intimate…

FUNNY GIRL Somebody had fun composing the memoir–slash–cognitive practicum Let’s Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties (riverhead), and her name is Patricia Marx, a former SNL writer now at the New Yorker. Smarten up with Marx’s quizzes, brainteasers, anecdotes, and self-help guides while giving your funny bone a witty workout. COLLECTIVE GENIUS Top-shelf contemporary tales of all stripes— from neorealism to sophisticated horror to metaphysical hijinks— by Zadie Smith, Mary gaitskill, yiyun li, Anthony Doerr, and 28 other scribes seduce us, and then some, in the New American Stories anthology (vintage). Writes editor Ben Marcus, “When i want to be ambushed, captured, thrust into a strange and vivid world… i read short stories”—like this stellar selection. ISLAND-HOPPING Naomi Jackson’s The Star Side of Bird Hill (Penguin)…

What a difference a week makes: Early in her career, Mara Roszak went from giving $5 beauty-school haircuts to styling Sarah Michelle Gellar’s hair for a premiere, thanks to an intro from a friend. “I’d never done anybody’s hair except my friends and family and beauty-school customers,” Roszak says. “After the premiere, Sarah hired me for her entire press tour. ” Thirteen years later, Roszak, now L’Oréal Paris’s celebrity hairstylist, creates breezy waves on celeb fans such as Emma Stone, Emily Blunt, Kate Mara, and Zoe Saldana. “I never want to put a hairstyle on someone,” she says. “I like the person to show through.” You’ve taken some clients gradually shorter over the past year. Is the slow shift strategic? If you start with a longer bob, just below the…

Amber Heard is pawing through the record bin at Other Music in NoHo, green eyes narrowed in concentration, shuffling through the stack until—aha!—she finds what she is looking for. “Blind Willie McTell!” she says, holding up the record. “That’s my favorite. If you really want to go into blues,” she instructs, “you go to the Blinds: Blind Willie McTell. Blind Boy Fuller. Blind Snooks Eaglin. Blind Joe Hill. Blind Willie Johnson. They are all blind. I’m not kidding. There’s a million of them.” Heard catches her Texas accent peeking through and covers her mouth. “It happens when I get excited,” she whispers. Then she’s off, swishing in her white palazzo pants down the aisles, the stack of records under her skinny arm growing as she flips diligently through the racks…

For eight years on Saturday Night Live, Bill Hader made his name not only doing spot-on impressions of Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood, and James Carville but also creating a host of indelible characters like Stefon, Herb Welch, and many more. Now he’s taking on his most demanding role yet: leading man in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck. Hader, 37, stars as a celebrated sports doctor pursuing Amy Schumer, and the film refreshingly flips the script on the romantic-comedy tropes. He wants to settle down; she’s a mess who doesn’t believe in monogamy. The movie plays like a primer on modern dating, which is something Hader admits to knowing very little about. “The last date I went on,” he says, “texting wasn’t a thing.” Further: In the sixth grade in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he…