Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2015 i ELLE

NOW HE’S HERE After a bold disappearing act, Christopher Abbott just might be the bigscreen antihero we’ve been waiting for “I really didn’t try to do a rebellious thing,” says Girls expat Christopher Abbott, who famously abandoned the role of Allison Williams’s puppy-dog boyfriend Charlie after two seasons on the HBO hit. “Sometimes you just get full up on something,” he says. “It’s like, you play a part, and you’re done. There’s a lot of stuff in the press about this battle, but it wasn’t like that at all. It was a very adult conversation.” Though snarky blogs suggested that the 28-year-old theater vet foolishly ditched a starmaking turn, Abbott has somehow managed to work in this town again. And again. Among his many upcoming projects: this month’s James White,…

I met Shonda Rhimes last January at the annual dinner ELLE throws to celebrate those featured in our February Women in TV issue. There’s very little programming to the evening—it’s just me giving a toast to welcome everyone and thanking our honorees for their involvement. After I sat down, Rhimes made a most interesting observation: As I spoke each amazing, high-achieving woman’s name, she said, every one of them looked down and pulled herself in a bit, as if made uncomfortable by the fleeting attention. Could you imagine, she asked me, a room full of men doing that? How women see themselves, and how the world sees women—particularly women of color—is, at her core, what motivates one of the most powerful people in television. And though she currently oversees a…

“A beautiful expression of an experience (or experiences) that many people go through every day. Written with style!” —Shivani Krishan, ELLE.com Novelist Taiye Selasi’s switch from high-maintenance hair to all-natural curls (“I Am Not My Hair,” August 2015)—and her examination of the emotion and politics embedded in the decision—struck a chord with ELLE readers: “As an immigrant (Jamaica), I have worn my hair natural for more than 80 percent of my life. I did experiment with relaxing but always resorted to what was authentically me: short, natural, cropped hair—my signature look since I was 13 years old. Everyone could discern who I was from behind in a ETQYFGF TQQO /[ EQPƂdence and sense of self were highlighted—I was supercool then. Nothing was ever about my hair in the ’80s and…

THE PERSONAL STYLE ISSUE! TRUE TAL ES OF LOVE, DISCOVERY, AND WHAT WE WORE 1. THE JACKET: A BLACK PLEATHER HOMAGE TO SINÉAD BY ALINA SIMONE Hope is a woman who lives in my head. A mysterious woman who strides through a room without once adjusting herself, her clothes a perfect armor for her soul. In her wake, she leaves admiring whispers, like a motorboat cutting through a perfect summer wave. When I was a teenager, that woman walked into my life in the form of a rock singer. Remember the ’80s? No? Let me recap for you. We did not, in fact, peacock around in colorful Mohawks. We did not swan about in mesh and lace. Or men’s ties. Mostly we dressed in loafers, khakis, and regulation Gap shirts,…

Bulgari introduced its first serpent-inspired collection of watches in the 1940s. Over the years, the storied Italian jewelry house has applied the seductive, ancient symbol of wisdom and vitality to everything from belts to sunglasses. But its latest addition, this pink gold, pavé diamond, and turquoise High Jewelry Serpenti necklace, with an estimated price tag of €204,000, deserves a closer look.—Naomi Rougeau TO SCALE A true work of art, the Serpenti is also a feat of engineering. Hundreds of rose gold “scales” are joined via cleverly hidden hinges, endowing the piece with the fluid motility of a real snake and ensuring it’s as comfortable to wear as it is elegant. Intricate filigree patterns on the reverse of each segment both lighten the load and add extra shimmer, allowing light to…

It should come as no surprise that employees at Net-a-Porter’s London headquarters needn’t look far for fashion inspiration. “We were seeing culottes around the office before they were on anyone’s radar,” says 30-yearold creative director of social commerce Alexandra Hoffnung of the workplace fashion parade. “Seeing trends like that is a sort of validation that it’s a good look—or at least gives you more confidence to try it,” adds 34-year-old vice president of social commerce Sarah Watson. With that idea in mind—that some of the best style suggestions come from those around you—Hoffnung and Watson conceived of the Net Set, the latest offering from the brand launched by Natalie Massenet in 2000. The app, which debuted in May and boasts more than 80,000 downloads to date, aims to enhance shoppers’…

Gone are the days when getting party-ready meant navigating such dictums as “a fool would know that with tweeds or other daytime clothes one wears gold, and that with evening clothes one wears platinum.” (Thank you, Wallis Simpson!) While we relish our modern sartorial freedoms, sometimes we can’t help but wonder: Wouldn’t it be nice to have some kind of rule book in this anything-goes era? This fall, French contemporary fave Sandro makes after-dark dressing easy with this play on le smoking crossed with a tracksuit, in eveningappropriate black velvet. In this hot little number (seen here exclusively, and sold at Bloomingdale’s), you can sip champagne and dance the night away in total athleisure comfort. Whether to pair it with platinum or gold? We’ll leave that up to you.…

Okay, maybe you’ve heard this one before, but here goes: The Martian is just the movie America needs right now. A marvelously constructed, flawlessly paced drama about a NASA mission to Mars that goes disastrously awry, the film’s animating spirit is a mix of can-do-ism and stick-to-itiveness that carries familiar echoes from sunnier times in our national narrative—albeit leavened with a fashionable frisson of mutinous, antibureaucratic irreverence. When the explorers are engulfed in a dust storm and must evacuate from Mars, one astronaut becomes separated from the rest as they make their way to the launch module. The group’s commander (Jessica Chastain, looking magnificently haunted) opts to save her crew (played by Michael Peña, Kate Mara, and Sebastian Stan) and blast off instead of trying to retrieve their presumably dead…

Is it possible to be too moral? ThaL's the question at the center of New Yorker staff writer Larissa Mac Farquhar's book Strangers Drouming (Penguin Press), which focuses on those who could be described as extreme dogooders. MacFarqu-har writes about a couple who've adopted 20 children, many of them troubled or disabled; a midwife who moves to Nicaragua to open a women's health clinic; a man who establishes a leper colony; and others—and intersperses their stories with chapters that put our perceptions about "moral extremists" into historical and philosophical context. Just a few pages in, we're wondering what drives these people and why we don't grapple with our own morality more often. Why did you pick extreme altruists and not just people who help the elderly across intersections? Everybody already…

Rupert Thomson has said of his novels that they have "an interest in damage and recovery...almost as if the last page of a novel of mine will be the first page of the rest of that character's life." Katherine Carlyle (Other Press), his slim, evocative tenth novel, is in keeping with his literary theme and will not disappoint his devoted following. When the book opens, the 19-year-old eponymous narrator describes her origins as an I VF baby whose embryo was frozen for eight years, during which other sibling embryos were selected and implanted in her mother's womb—but failed to come to term. Finally hers has its turn, and she is the only child to be born to her parents. After her beloved mother's early death, Kit, as she's called, is haunted…

RISE AND SHINE Morning skin care’s mission: protection. Broad-spectrum SPF inhibits UV damage, but “an antioxidant along with sunscreen is the best defense,” says New York derm Whitney Bowe, MD, who recommends vitamins C and E to scavenge free radicals and reduce inflammation. Another A.M. hero, salicylic acid, does more than fight acne. New York derm Patricia Wexler, MD, applies a salicylic acid lotion after cleansing (before moisturizer and sunscreen), as its exfoliating properties smooth pores and give skin a glow. L.A. derm Annie Chiu, MD, says sal acid “quiets the sebaceous glands,” which, triggered by circadian rhythms, are most prolific during the day. Calming ingredients such as aloe and chamomile are also best used in the morning, before skin becomes irritated by pollution and sun exposure. “You want to…

NIKISHA BRUNSON This Texas-based cofounder of lifestyle blog Pineapple.life grew up hating the texture of her voluminous, tightly curled hair. “But today, people say, ‘I wish I had hair like yours!’ And that’s wild.” MY GOOD HAIR DAY: “Honestly, the bigger the better! If your spirit is huge, your hair can be huge!” WEEKEND ESSENTIAL: Every other week, Brunson uses Elucence clarifying shampoo, then smooths in Shea Moisture Jamaican Black Castor Oil leavein conditioner. (She’s also currently developing her own product line, Folie.) Then she airdries: “No blow-dryers.” MORNING NEWS: “I’ll fluff out my hair with my fingers to help the curls separate. Then I use a little bit of argan oil on ends. This seals the cuticle and prevents breakage. It’s the most important thing I do with my…

When Ilyse Hogue got the offer to lead NARAL Pro-Choice America nearly three years ago, she consulted her cabinet: the handful of colleagues who’d guided her from the beginning of her swift ascent in the lefty political world, from an organizer turned program director at Rainforest Action Network to a macher for moveon.org. Not all of them were encouraging, to put it mildly. “You’re not going to take it, are you?” asked one of her primary mentors, a man Hogue describes as a “sixty something stalwart in the progressive movement.” He went on: “Why would you relegate yourself to that?” It wasn’t just abortion that put him off, but the whole pink ghetto of so-called women’s issues. “MoveOn was a guy’s game—technology and politics,” says 44-year-old Hogue. “He was like,…

My mom absolutely influenced my style. My favorite pictures of her are the ones from the '70s—the crazy bell-bottoms and suede dresses and huge sunglasses." LAURA JAMES, 26 MODEL I started wearing my head scarf when I was 12 years old. I don't feel like it limits me—it's a big part of who I am. I wouldn't change it for anything." SHEMA HOTAKY, 22 PSYCHOLOGY STUDENT, YORK COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK " I love experimenting. I love Anna Dello Russo and Isabella Blow. I saw these Miu Miu boots and was like, 'Those are to die for!' LAMEKA FOX, 17 MODEL My parents are Somali immigrants living in Holland. In high school, I’d watch Gossip Girl; my style icon was Serena. I’d see New York, the characters walking…

Clinical psychologist Wendy Walsh wants to fix your relationship woes, and the best prescription, she says, is to be needier. Really. "Right now there's this misunderstanding in our culture that we have to work very hard to not appear needy," Walsh says—the "we" being women. But "people want to be needed," she says, and the most fulfilling relationships are "an exchange of care." Which means being a little less cool-girl, a little more human. Walsh, who has a degree in journalism from Toronto's Ryerson University and a PhD in clinical psychology from the California Graduate Institute, has been fascinated by the science be-hind romantic relationships for over two decades and has written three books on the subject, including, most recently, The 30-Day Love Detox (Rodale, 2013). Fed up with Canada's…

SHEAR MADNESS THE MODEL: Aline Weber, 26 THE STORY: “Desert Moon,” (page 390) showcasing fall’s multitextured outerwear and set in Morocco’s Jbilet Hill Desert, a backdrop chosen for its resemblance to a moonscape ALINE’S TAKE: Weber braved 107-degree heat in head-to-toe shearling without complaint. “It was my first shoot for ELLE U.S. and my first time to Morocco!” HOMETOWN: Seara, Brazil, population 16,900. “It’s very small, almost like the countryside.” DISCOVERED: At age 14 for a fashion show in Brazil. “I had to practice a lot with high heels because I’d never worn them before—I was so young!” BIG BREAK: Opened the fall/winter 2008 Balenciaga show wearing a structured, high-slit black dress and a crystal choker FACE OF: Tom Ford Lips HOME BASE: Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “I just bought my place…

Just as a small gust of wind kicks up the dead leaves in the gutter, sending them dancing across the cobblestone street, Michael Fassbender breezes into the Crosby Bar, tightly dressed in black jeans, a black Vneck tee, and the deepest blue suede jacket, moving pantherlike through the preserve of oblivious SoHo hipsters, texting, talking, teething on their iPhones. Placing a light hand on your shoulder, smiling widely, sorry to be late, the actor settles at the back-corner table, easy and understated, so wildly attractive and absurdly appealing, you just know he gets away with everything all the time. Late or not, this cat gets the cream. “You’re already up on me—I was the tardy one,” Fassbender says in a smooth Irish brogue, his platinum- gray eyes shimmering across a…

From pumps with wickedly curved heels to platforms resting on a strand of pearls, British shoe designer Nicholas Kirkwood has made a habit of cleverly subverting classic silhouettes in such a way that they become instantly iconic. So when it came time to create a tenth-anniversary capsule collection, Kirkwood didn’t just want to replay his greatest hits. “I looked to what inspired me when I was about to turn 10,” the London-raised 35-year-old says with a boyish grin. Each of the 10 resulting styles— which include glow-in-the-dark lace-ups and block-heeled Pac-Man sandals studded with 226 custom-dyed yellow crystals—will be individually numbered and encased in the window-box-style packaging used for limited –edition action figures. The Arcade, pictured here, is the collection’s aptly named pièce de résistance: a bricolage masterpiece composed from…

NAMES: Daniel Pallas and Véronique Bousquet AGES: 55 and 56 PROVENANCE: Toulouse, France, and Montpellier, France CURRICULA VITAE: Daniel Pallas, heir to Pallas—a women’s suiting atelier founded in 1961 that is the go-to for Parisian luxury labels such as Balenciaga and Céline for specialty tailoring—and his wife and business partner, Véronique Bousquet, both studied at the French fashion school ESMOD in the ’80s. He concentrated in fashion design and she, patternmaking. “We met on the catwalk at our end-of-year show,” Pallas says. WEARING THE PANTS: “The challenge when you follow in your father’s footsteps is to show you are able to do as well as he did,” Pallas says. “But it came time for Véronique and me to do something of our own.” In 2013, the couple added a new…

This fall, don’t get stuck in dullsville with outerwear that keeps you warm but leaves you cold on style. The first crisp days of October serve as a reminder— now’s the time to invest in a topper that reflects your personality. From classic to quirky, and fur to suede to blanket-print wool, the ones we’ve rounded up on these pages (including Dior’s shamrockgreen tweed beauty, seen here) offer the best insurance against seasonal affective disorder we can think of. Plus, in honor of our annual Personal Style issue, we’ve quizzed three ELLE editors on their fall dressing must-haves: foolproof T-shirts, wear-anywhere bags, and—yes—truly happy-making coats.…

It was 2004 when singer-songwriter Jojo first snarled “Get out!/Leave!/Right now/It’s the end of you and me” over an R&B beat and that small but memorable guitar lick on her first Billboard hit, the you-done-me-wrong anthem “Leave (Get Out).” She was 13. Her vocals—textured, riff-ready, and seriously powerful—were shockingly mature for her age. And for a moment, the pop-music world felt primed for its next takeover, from a kid who wasn’t even in high school yet. Despite another platinum charttopper, “Too Little Too Late,” two years later (and a few sporadic acting stints, most notably in the Robin Williams–led family comedy RV), Jojo all but vanished from radio. “Of course, it hurts you as a human being to hear people say things like, ‘Did she die?’” says Jojo, 24, reflecting…

“Johnny Depp is one of the bravest, most talented, and diverse actors we have. He takes risks that a lot are afraid to because they like to stay within a certain range. He’s a remarkable performer, and it’s a mesmerizing performance.” Director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) isn’t gilding the lily in describing Depp’s portrayal in Cooper’s third feature, Black Mass, of the legendary Whitey Bulger—a gangster who both terrorized South Boston in the ’70s and ’80s and collaborated with the FBI in taking down the local mafia, then disappeared into thin air. It’s a stone-cold tour de force that will radically rejuvenate the artistic reputation of Depp, whose stock has plunged perilously in recent years as his career choices have led him to don piratical attire, zany headgear, wigs, fake…

Upon the advent of Sloane Crosleys debut essay collection, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, ELLE's Carlene Bauer praised her "sharp, fizzily old-fashioned sense of the madcap" and wondered, "now that she's updated the role of ingénue by concocting a bracing cocktail of credulity and crankiness, what she might be able to do with a novel." Seven years later, Crosley allays our curiosity with The Clasp (FSG), a rollicking story of three friends—Kezia, the right-hand woman to a mercurial Manhattan jewelry-design mogul; the recently fired, soon-to-be-robbed Victor; and LA.-based Nathaniel, the group's resident Casanova—hurtling to the end of their twenties with all the grace of charging baby elephants under the influence of Everclear. Crosley's a pundit of the absurd, and in a delicious concatenation of events (a faulty jewelry clasp,…

Leave it to Chanel to build the world’s chicest skin-care lab. Everything about the company’s research and technology facility, located in an otherwise nondescript suburb of Paris, telegraphs simplicity and efficiency, from its glasswalled rooms to the coats (crisp, white, cut just so) worn by its scientists. And though Kaiser Karl’s runways proffer parades of embellishment, and the brand’s star skin-care offerings tend to contain luxuriant recipes of high-tech antiagers, there is a certain degree of elegance-is-refusal at the heart of the house that Coco built. This airy space, then, couldn’t be a more appropriate setting for the unveiling of Chanel’s newest breakthrough: a cream created under a strict minimalist directive and containing only 10 ingredients. The product, La Solution 10 de Chanel, is the brainchild of Amy Wechsler, MD,…

On a recent afternoon, the oldest home in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles presents a storybook version of chaos. Two small pigs roam the lawn, prompting constant cries of distress (“Hazel, no!”), tailed by a meek but enormous dog. Dozens of mostly barefoot people rush in and out of the farmhouse-like kitchen—everything the chicest bit worn— helping with dinner or grabbing snacks. Outside, across from a meditating Buddha by a rectangular pool—a small oasis of calm—is a tree with brightly colored bras dangling from the branches. The extreme level of activity is at least partly due to a 10-person dinner party Phoebe Dahl, 26, is hosting in just a few hours. The granddaughter of one of the most wildly imaginative writers of the twentieth century, Roald Dahl, who…

You are not bad, the guy holding the blue binder promises me, and you are not weak. That is music to my bad, weak ears. He looks at me the way a televangelist looks into a camera; the way a human-resources director at a company about to fire half its workers looks at those workers. Trust me, the unblinking, putatively sincere eyes say, while the mouth makes noises I am fairly certain are lies. He tells me that I'm not a wrongdoer trying to do right, merely a sick person trying to get better. That sounds good, actually. Maybe I'm too suspicious. What if I'm not a dick? I'm beginning to like the man holding the blue binder. I need to work on my trust issues. Where have they gotten…

It sounds like a teenage boy’s fantasy: Selena Gomez emerges from the wild, her face flushed and damp, her torn, heather-gray tank riding up to reveal a bare midriff as she wipes a few beads of sweat from her forehead. And it’s exactly what a dozen teenage boys encounter on the first days of their summer vacation, as Gomez exits Malibu Creek State Park after a long hike. “Is that...Selena Gomez?” one shouts, making the pack turn instantly. Mouths agape, they blink in her direction. Lamely, one calls out: “Selena! You’re hot!” Gomez laughs but keeps her eyes to the ground as she walks swiftly toward her car. Catcalling must be a daily event in the life of a tween dream–turned–sex symbol, but somehow Gomez still has the modesty to…

COVERS Ciré dress by Miu Miu, $1,490, at select Miu Miu boutiques nationwide, visit miumiu.com. Embroidered jacket, shorts, leather boots by Louis Vuitton, prices on request, at select Louis Vuitton stores nationwide, call 866-VUITTON or visit louisvuitton.com. Rose gold, mother-ofpearl, and diamond ring, $3,500, gold and diamond ring, $7,150, by Bulgari, at Bulgari stores nationwide, call 800-BULGARI or visit bulgari.com. Glitter plastic and stone embroidered Lurex dress by Marc Jacobs, at Marc Jacobs stores nationwide, visit marcjacobs.com. HOT CONTENTS PAGE 80: Ring by Pasquale Bruni, $8,590, collection at Neiman Marcus (White Plains, NY). THE ELLE AGENDA: THE CREATOR PAGE 106: Dress by Donna Karan New York, at Saks Fifth Avenue (Beverly Hills), visit saksfifthavenue.com. Earrings by Kimberly McDonald, $36,025, at Kimberly McDonald (L.A.). Cuff by John Hardy, $3,900, visit johnhardy.com.…

When I was 16 and co-captain of my high school swim team, I never, ever, ever missed practice. If you missed practice, you didn't get to compete, and, honestly, diving practice at the In- ternational Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale was some kind of heaven. Traveling to and from the aquatic center on the beach in my best friend's top-down Jeep was so much more fun than, say, going home. But one day, for no particular reason, I decided not to go to practice. My friends asked if was sick; was something wrong? I said I was fine; I just want- ed to go home. As I walked into the house, I heard...nothing. Which was weird, because I had two little sisters, a five-year- old and a one-year-old.…

Shopping advice is just the tip of the iceberg in Fashion Insiders’ Guide: Paris (Abrams), a highly specific guidebook designed as a kind of Fashion Week survival manual. French fashion correspondent Carole Sabas devotes entire sections to water fitness, ballet classes, restaurants that serve “sexy vegetable dishes” on the Left Bank, and where to spot fashion cognoscenti like Kate Moss or the designers of Rodarte. And should you need a last-minute flower delivery or high-heel repair, she covers that, too. French fashion writers Isabelle Thomas and Frédérique Veysset playfully decode the easy elegance of Parisian women in Paris Street Style: A Guide to Effortless Chic (Abrams). Tucked behind 185 pages of sartorial advice is a travel guide—helpfully organized by Métro station stops—directing fashionobsessed Francophiles to offthe-beaten-path places to score vintage…

Liz Collins PROVENANCE: Birmingham, UK NOW: London PROFESSION: Photographer THIS MONTH: “Face Time” (page 370). “Samira [Nasr, ELLE’s Fashion Director] wanted to do a story that represented all the beauty that we see when we walk down the street in New York, original individuals who don’t necessarily get represented in magazines. We did a street casting, and everyone was really beautiful and surprising. I’ve been taking portraits of real women for a long time now, and you can tell when someone is putting effort in or not, and they all really let me go there.” READING: “I’m rereading Helmut Newton’s [2002] autobiography. I bought an inexpensive copy off of eBay and realized it’s signed! Now I’m nervous to carry it in my bag. It seems wrong to bang it around.”…

THE 2015 PERSONAL STYLE AWARDS ! MODERN MINIMALISTS Forget the glitz but not the glamour: This year, Olivia Munn and Zoe Saldana have stood out as two of Hollywood's most polished stars. Saldana keeps it modern in Tanya Taylor colorblocking, while Munn reaches , for high-waisted, wide-leg trousers—a far cooler way to accentuate her killer curves than standard skinnyjeans. NEXT GEN With the combined genetics of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, how could Lily-Rose Depp be anything other than broodingly chic? After a front-row appearance at Chanel couture, the 16-year-old actress announced her role as the newest face for the French house (following in Mom's footsteps). Meanwhile, 21-year-old Imogen "Immy" Waterhouse has been coordinating outfits with big sis and Burberry face Suki Waterhouse of late and looking every bit the…

So much handiwork goes into the creation of a watch that it seems downright criminal to cover it all up. Brilliantly, the creators of Vacheron Constantin’s Traditionnelle, Omega’s Skeleton Central Tourbillon Co-Axial Platinum Limited Edition, and Piaget’s Altiplano (left to right) have each given a facelift to their respective classics with special “skeleton” editions. The process of creating such a timepiece, known as “openworking” in the watch world, is painstakingly intricate; it involves starting with a fully formed model and slowly carving away at its existing face and movement caliber so as not to cause damage to the thousands of delicate, borderline microscopic mechanisms beneath. (Work on a single caliber can take up to a week.) And iPhone-is-enough types, let’s be honest: A microchip wouldn’t be much to look at.…

In one of the hottest silhouettes of the season, Tod's petite Flower bucket bag (seen exclusively in ELLE) draws on the brand's Italian heritage while remaining perfectly on trend. The graphic pattern of in laid leather was inspired by the millefiori glassmaking technique, which has its origins in eighth-century Rome. In this practice, translated to "a thousand flowers," artisans fuse together multicolored glass beads with kaleidoscopic results. Not only beautiful, the Flower is practical, too: Its interior is equally colorful, so finding your iPhone just got a lot easier.…

In 1954, two unknowns stepped onstage in Paris as winners of the International Woolmark Prize: 18-year-old Yves Saint Laurent and 21-year-old Karl Lagerfeld. It’s a long way from the City of Light to the teak-paneled JE Mansion in Beijing, this year’s venue for the womenswear finals of the historic design competition that the Woolmark Company—an association representing wool growers in Australia, where 90 percent of fineapparel wool is produced—revived three years ago to encourage textile innovation and support rising talents. But for Woolmark managing director Stuart McCullough, it was an obvious decision. “With globalization, the fashion capitals stand among a new world order, and China is now the biggest importer of merino wool,” he says. “Plus, with this being the Year of the Sheep in the Chinese zodiac, the synergy…

BANANA REPUBLIC THE LAYERED EFFECT Structured silhouettes and cozy textures out-chic cold temperatures.…

Though more widely known for her role as Roseanne's prickly sister, Jackie, on the long-running sitcom Roseanne, actress Laurie Metcalf has found equal success—and respect—onstage. An original member of Chicago's storied Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the 60-year-old has appeared in works by everyone from Eugene O'Neill to Neil Simon, and is a two-time Tony nominee (for Sharr White's The Other Place and David Mamet's November). This October, she returns to Broadway opposite Bruce Willis in Misery, adapted for the stage from the big-screen version of Stephen King's novel about a woman who rescues her favorite author from a car crash, only to end up holding him hostage. ELLE: What drew you to Misery? LAURIE METCALF: Well, first of all, I love doing theater. So I'm terribly interested in any part that…

It’s a funny thing to be called “extrasensitive” (an accusation leveled at me at least once by everyone close to me). After all, feelings are, by definition, sensations unique to one’s personal experience—I can’t feel someone else’s feelings to know if mine are more intense. I’ll admit this, though: I see the irony in telling a hypersensitive person she’s too sensitive. Like many weaknesses, however, this capacity is the flip side of one of my strengths: I can be deeply attuned to the needs of others (when I’m not smarting from perceived slights). There may be a way to manage my “tenderheartedness” (my editor’s artful term for my disposition) without having to numb out, at least according to Sarah and Michael Bennett, MD, the authors of F*ck Feelings, just out…

[BOOKS] TRUST US MODERN FAMILY Marian Thurm’s Today Is Not Your Day (SixOneSeven Books) is an urbane collection from this close observer of domestic arrangements and derangements. “Not to pat myself on the back or anything,” confides the wry narrator of “What Went On,” “but the fact is that when my ex-husband’s hot young wife fell ill recently, I went over there the day Miranda was released from the hospital and cooked them an excellent dinner.” WILL 2.0 Powered by jealousy, abandon¬ment, forgiveness, and time's elusiveness, The Gap of Time is Jeanette Winterson's electrifying version of The Winter's Tale—the first In a series of Shakespearean feworkings to be issued by Hogarth. The foundling Perdita is discovered in storm-tossed New Bohemia, Louisi¬ana, and nothing is lost on her except tar her…

A century ago, the thought that a single cream could protect against burns, wrinkles, and cancer would have sounded absurd. But in the late 1920s, early prototypes of such a product began to appear at certain drugstores. It was neither magical potion nor snake oil. They called it sunscreen. These days, as beauty products become ever more sophisticated— and as we become more and more accustomed to once-radical concepts, such as using wrinkle-blasting lasers in the comfort of our own homes—it takes unbridled creativity and serious technology for brands to keep up. It also takes a big idea. Very big. Enter a new class of ultra-ambitious multitaskers—for example, the new 37 Actives High Performance Anti-Aging Treatment Foundation from dermatologist Macrene Alexiades, MD, PhD, which packs a full antiaging arsenal, including…

Alicia Keys, a woman with a long string of accomplishments—35 million albums sold, for a start—greets me in her Paris hotel room barefoot, with golden light streaming through the windows. Later at a dinner celebrating the new eau de toilette version of Givenchy’s Dahlia Divin, of which Keys is the radiant face, the singer makes her way around a table of more than 100 guests, carving out time for every single one. “Humility is a beautiful beauty secret; so is kindness and personality,” she says, clearly a living case in point. “When you meet people who are warm and engaging, they just draw you to them. What’s on the inside comes out and shines in a way that far supersedes anything physical.” Do you remember the first fragrance you ever…

RING DECODER DEAR E. JEAN: After two years of living together, my boyfriend (finally!) decided we should marry, and he proposed. I was thrilled! Then, he casually mentioned that he would be spending no more than $1,000 on my ring. He also said that if I wanted "something more,"I could "make up the difference." I'm insulted. This man makes well over six figures. He's never had aproblem spending money. I was so shocked, I didn't even speak! What should I do? -Tongue-Tied TIED, MY YOUNG PRUNE: Here are your Four Rules for a Proper Proposal: 1. A chap proposing with a toy ring out of a CrackerJack box is better than a chump proposing with no ring. 2. A chap who's unsure his girl will say "yes" is better than…

Adriana Lima is not the kind of woman who tends to be kept waiting. Particularly when she’s wearing a mere whisper of sheer black net and 27.26 carats of Chopard diamonds, her eyes half closed, her feline form arched in what looks like ecstasy, just waiting for the arrival of her paramour, who is...here! Yes. There he is! With the glossed hair of Rudolph Valentino and the post-bender professionalism of Don Draper (suit crisp, jaw unshorn, mood...stormy), Marc Jacobs steps onto set, sidles behind his new muse, glances at the camera, and—click!—he’s done. And on to the next thing. This is how America’s most famous fashion designer operates these days. In the two years since Jacobs left the helm of Louis Vuitton, he has been hyperfocused on his own company,…

LIBRA THIS MONTH FOR LIBRA: (SEPT 23–OCT 22) October 12th’s new moon will continue to test the stability of a relationship, and with the Sun in Libra opposing tricky Uranus, you’d do well to brace for the unexpected. If you are unattached, don’t get involved with a new paramour too hastily. Rather, go slow, get to know them, and yield to the universe’s truth-bearing mission, which may have you considering whether to leave a partnership or open up a soul-searching dialogue. In finances and property, you’ll likely make a killing around the 10th or 11th. More fiscal dealings will surface shortly before the 27th’s full moon, but your favorite day of the month will be the 25th, when your ruler, Venus, cuddles up to Jupiter. Such a pairing only occurs…

Since taking over The Tonight Show in 2014, Jimmy Fallon has reimagined the talk show as an awesome parade of stars acting silly. He’s played beer pong with Margot Robbie and performed “The Evolution of Mom Dancing” with Michelle Obama—and his celebrity lip-sync battles were so popular, they got their own spinoff show. His appeal is one part charm, two parts boyish naïveté. In one of the show’s most talked-about moments, Nicole Kidman admitted she’d had a massive crush on Fallon during his SNL days and even went to his apartment to meet him—only to be ignored while Fallon played video games. (The clip, entitled “Jimmy Fallon Blew a Chance to Date Nicole Kidman,” has more than 30 million views on YouTube.) Fallon, 41, comes by that aw-shucks charisma naturally.…