Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2017 i ELLE

DECEMBER 9 In Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts exhibit (Un)expected Families, more than 75 images from American photographers—ranging from Nan Goldin to Carrie Mae Weems— depict both the families we’re born into and the ones we choose. DECEMBER 1 U2’s (count ’em!) fourteenth studio album, Songs of Experience, is a reaction to the colossal conflagration that was Brexit and the 2016 U.S. election. Bono, help us see the light. DECEMBER 5 Ever met the unflappable gaze of your favorite weatherperson and wondered, “Who is she, really?” ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee’s Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I Am One. gives the inside scoop on what’s going on—from romances to struggles with depression—behind the green screen. DECEMBER 8 No one said ruling is easy: The second season of Netflix’s sumptuous…

Danie Gomez-Ortigoza WRITER AND ACTIVIST @journeyofabraid “It’s more than a hairdo; it’s my feminist manifesto,” Danie Gomez- Ortigoza says of the signature Frida-esque scarf-and-braid combo that’s even inspired the name of her website, Journey of a Braid, which unites her love of fashion and Latin America with a passion for women’s issues. Not unlike the famous family of peacocks that also call her Coconut Grove neighborhood home, Gomez- Ortigoza cuts a colorful figure around town, often sporting the creations of fashion talents such as local Carolina K or Pompi García—both of whom adorn modern silhouettes with traditional Oaxacan embroidery— and the sleek, sculptural jewelry of Miami-based Soledad Lowe. Come Art Basel, you’ll find Gomez- Ortigoza perusing Primary Projects, a discovery zone for emerging contemporary artists, or sampling the grilled octopus…

THE ALL-CLEAR From PVC to rock crystal, accessories lighten up with transparent detailing HOOP DREAMS With a heaping helping of precious stones, the classic shape goes all-out glam GET IN LINE Bold stripes lend graphic punch to boots, 3 bags, and rings…

When Margot Robbie appeared onscreen in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) as the sprightly sweetheart of sleazeball pennystock king Jordan Belfort (Leo DiCaprio), roughly a zillion moviegoers had the same thought simultaneously: Wow, here’s a glamorous new Hollywood movie star. This month, in the rowdy, anarchic, and disturbingly funny biopic I, Tonya, there will come a moment when similar legions of viewers behold Robbie (also a producer on the film) and simultaneously think: Wait a minute—here’s a damn serious Hollywood movie star. The Tonya Harding saga is one of those great American true stories about a nobody who comes out of nowhere to do something no one could have imagined. A selfproclaimed redneck from Portland, Oregon, Harding became a preeminent figure skater in the late 1980s and won the…

Midway through writer and film producer Galt Niederhoffer’s twisty, juicy domestic thriller, Poison (St. Martin’s Press), whipsmart journalism professor, adoring wife, and devoted mom Cassandra Connor tells her doctor, after he suggests that anxiety and stress—and not poison—are at the root of her recent erratic behavior: “Frankly, I find the reflex to ascribe a woman’s symptoms to stress—to psychosomatic symptoms or the imagination—to be, at best, a medical error and, at worst, a sexist compulsion.” Niederhoffer, whose 30-plus producing credits include the indie film The Romantics, based on her second novel, is no stranger to such a scenario. Her own relationship imploded a few years ago after she appeared to suffer symptoms of systemic poisoning, which she alleged was at the hands of her partner, who tried to prove that…

Imagine: You sniff a lemon, and suddenly— ping!—you see a flash of orange. You catch a whiff of a blooming rose, and see a blast of blue. You’re at a concert, or in a forest—anyplace where a symphony of distinct aromas might swirl around you—and full-spectrum auroras dance before your eyes. If you happen to be one of the roughly 4 percent of people on the planet who experience synesthesia, which is a sort of serendipitous neurological cross-circuit in which two senses are sparked at once, this could be your norm. The word is derived from the Greek words for “sensation” and “together,” and the phenomenon can manifest itself in many different ways; someone might see pink when reading the letter A, taste chocolate when listening to Beethoven, or hear…

My husband and I were having sex just over halfway through my pregnancy when I became aware of his flat stomach meeting the hill of my swollen belly with a cringe-inducing smack. I opened my mouth to let out a defensive laugh but bit my lip instead. I didn’t want to ruin the moment— though I couldn’t imagine it wasn’t already lost. He was oblivious to the sound, it turned out, but I couldn’t get it out of my head. No matter how much he reassured me, it seemed impossible that my husband could desire a body that was so distorted, so inflated—one that deviated completely from the mainstream ideal. As a feminist, I knew I shouldn’t feel this way, but I did. I’m also a journalist, however, who covers…

Whitney Wolfe is perched on a chaise longue in a suite at Austin’s South Congress Hotel, a sleek, boutique-y outfit that epitomizes the city’s hipster renaissance, straining to remember the slang used in China to refer to single women over 30. “A girl in China just told us about it, and I found it fascinating,” she says. “It’s like ‘left on a shelf’ or something,” offers Wolfe’s coworker Louise, a stylish twentysomething with a British accent and a glittery ear cuff. “Leftovers?” Wolfe asks. No, no, that’s not it. Finally: “Expired? Expired!” This is the type of anecdote Wolfe lives for. In late 2014, she founded Bumble, known as the “feminist dating app” for its requirement that women message men first and for its kicky, you-go-girl interface (female users are…

THE MONTH IN FASHION DECEMBER 1 The perfect cure for the winter blues? Marimekko’s optimistic prints, of course. The Finnish brand’s Tokyo exhibit, on view now at the Ginza Graphic Gallery, features designer Maija Louekari’s location-appropriate print, “The Rain of Cherry Blossom.” DECEMBER 6 Buzzy Milanese dressmaker Marta Ferri—you may have seen her custom vintage-fabric frocks on muse/sisterin- law Beatrice Borromeo— has created five holiday-ready brocade styles (2) for fashion journalist J. J. Martin’s e-boutique, La DoubleJ. Shop fast: There are only 21 in existence! DECEMBER 8 Hot on the heels of her runaway-hit day-of-theweek sweaters, Alberta Ferretti is rolling out a capsule collection of equally photo-friendly faux-fur bomber jackets in fluorescent hues (3), available at Saks. DECEMBER 12 Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip, now through April 1…

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Amanda Seyfried, Dec. 3 SAGITTARIUS NOV 22–DEC 21 Struggles aside, you’ll end 2017 stronger, savvier, and ready for epic success once celestial drill sergeant Saturn completes a grueling three-year journey through your sign on the 19th. Next up: economic stability, as the taskmaster planet enters your finance house until March 2020. Enchanting Venus spends the entire month in Sag, making you a mistletoe darling. A relationship could become IG official (or otherwise evolved) near the full moon on the 3rd. But with Mercury retrograde in your sign from the 3rd to the 22nd, hold off on any big announcements until Christmas, when the reception will be warmest. CAPRICORN (DEC 22–JAN 19) Let your inner sparkle pony roam free until the 19th; it will be your last hurrah for a while.…

1 TRACK STAR In emerald satin, Valentino’s new evening “suit” goes the distance—all the way to cocktail hour 2 GO, SPEED RACER Motocross detailing and brazen logos give a Formula 1 edge to crisp separates 3 SPORTIF SPICE Sheer accordion pleats temper the statement-making bomber 4 THE RIGHT STRIPES Re-envisioned, the classic rugby stripe packs a graphic punch on skirts and blouses 5 SWEAT EQUITY Paired with a hoodie, classic suiting is now cooler—and cozier—than ever 6 KICK IT UP A NOTCH Black-tie invites send you into a tizzy? You’re in luck: High-sparkle sneakers eradicate the need to teeter in heels TRY THESE! LAKE EFFECT From the picturesque shores of Lago Maggiore comes winter’s most covetable coat A hefty, survival-weight puffer coat is all well and good when you’re chilling…

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If technology is your idea of the divine, check out Jaron Lanier’s cool Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality (Henry Holt). Lanier, a tech prodigy and musician whose company created the first commercial VR products—including avatars—reflects on his life as a cultural adventurer and science pioneer, beginning with his childhood spent in New Mexico’s high-desert UFO belt: “Kids would bring bits of fallen alien spacecraft to school for show-and-tell and no one questioned their authenticity, certainly not the teachers.” If you don’t know Jenny Diski’s impressive body of work—six travel memoirs and two volumes of essays—read the British writer’s brilliant posthumous collection, The Vanishing Princess (Ecco). She turns fairy tales upside down in “Bath Time” and explores her bouts with mental illness in “Short Circuit.”…

For the red-hot MICHAEL KORS Sexy Ruby, perfumer Negrin captures the charged jewel tone, which he considers “the ultimate color of sensuality,” with raspberry, jasmine, and vanilla. The Les Tamaris candle by FRANCIS KURKDJIAN radiates the “yellow” scent of the acacia and immortelle flowers that bloom near the perfumer’s holiday home in southwest France. Goldworm says the 12.29 Fireside Memories room spray conjures the experience of “sitting in front of a fireplace with a cashmere blanket and a glass of whiskey. So it’s brown, red, and black, with a bit of yellow.” Perfumer Thierry Wasser says he used a synesthesialike process of tapping into unconscious associations for GUERLAIN Mon Guerlain, “a portrait of a woman” rendered in “truthful” lavender, jasmine, and “resilient” sandalwood. Moltz used primarily synthetic notes to craft…

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When I was an adolescent, my mother used to try to catch me masturbating. She would scold me, “What should I do with you? Should I beat you? Should I take you to the police?” I still remember the shock of this. Going out into the driveway on sunny summer evenings to meet my father as he pulled in from work. Him looking at me with dismay as I told him what I’d done. Done yet again. All this is comic, except the feelings were awful. Standing by his car and confessing. Feeling detached from myself, that my face was made of rubber. My marriage ended badly, as marriages often do. Afterward, I wanted nothing to do with sex. Not long after I separated from my wife, I was walking…

THE WATCH-THIS-SPACE COLLABORATORS Toyin Ojih Odutola and Rujeko Hockley When Toyin Ojih Odutola told her parents she’d be having a solo show at Manhattan’s Whitney Museum this fall, her mother cried. Her father said, “Whitney Houston has a museum?” Says the artist: “That’s what I love about my dad. You need that reality.” Born in Nigeria, Ojih Odutola immigrated to the U.S. with her family at age five, eventually settling in the college town of Huntsville, Alabama (her father is a chemistry professor). After receiving her MFA from San Francisco’s California College of the Arts in 2012, she made a name for herself using markers and ballpoint pens to draw figures with skin so alive and fluid, it’s been described as resembling a weaving, or a galaxy. “At first, I…

COVER Polyamide and elastane swimsuit by Solid & Striped, $158, solidandstriped.com. Sterling silver earrings, $475, sterling silver and black jade necklace, $1,750, sterling silver cuff, $1,200, by Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co., call 800-843-3269 or visit tiffany.com. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 37: Dress by Mugler, collection at Neiman Marcus stores nationwide, net-a-porter.com. STYLE ACROSS AMERICA: MIAMI PAGE 76: On Gomez-Ortigoza: Trench coat, $1,970, dress, $790, by JW Anderson, collection at Dover Street Market New York, net-a-porter.com. Earrings by Soledad Lowe Jewelry, $540, soledadlowe.com, collection at Dreams On Air (NYC), Babalu (Miami), harveynichols.com. Ankle boots by Sies Marjan, $890, siesmarjan.com. PAGE 78: On Weiner: Trench coat by Junya Watanabe, $2,480, collection at Saks Fifth Avenue boutiques nationwide. T-shirt by Hanes, $5, hanes.com. Track pants by Marc Jacobs, $495, collection at…

In 2010, newly graduated from the University of Michigan and armed with a hotoff- the-press BFA in painting, Los Angeles native Chelsea Neman Nassib planned to become a full-time career artist. “But the path isn’t quite…sustainable,” she says. “Once you have a couple of shows, and your friends come, and your parents’ friends come, you tap out your own network. How are you going to get new people to see your work? Who’s going to buy your work next?” These questions were fresh in her mind when, later that year, Nassib took a job as a project manager for an interior designer and started selling her own artwork to the firm’s clients. “At the time,” she says, “it was difficult to find original work that was unique and at an…

For all her mega successes, we’d argue that onscreen, Octavia Spencer really hasn’t gotten a fair shake, sartorially speaking: She’s donned a midcentury maid’s uniform (The Help), dystopian hippie garb (The Divergent Series: Allegiant), and mousy secretarial layers (last year’s NASA heartwarmer, Hidden Figures). This month, Spencer, 47, returns to the big screen in The Shape of Water (1), Guillermo del Toro’s twisted Cold War fairy tale. Her look? Drab janitorial dresses. And in next month’s pulp thriller Small Town Crime, she’s again stuck in dowdy cardigans. Maybe that’s why in real life, the effervescent Oscar winner is all about leopard prints, spa days, and lookat- me lashes. What’s your greatest skill? I’m a real armchair detective. I’ve always loved mystery novels. John Douglas at the FBI [a former unit…

BROAD STROKES Mona Lisa was just the tip of the iceberg. For the second round of his collab with Louis Vuitton, Jeff Koons plucks timeless works—Gauguin’s Delightful Land, Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur L’Herbe—off museum walls to splash across bags, wallets, and more. LENS FLAIR Fans of Keizo Kitajima or Carrie Mae Weems will soon find their photos more accessible than ever, thanks to Helmut Lang. Furthering the brand’s legacy of artist collaborations, its new “editor-in-residence,” Isabella Burley (who is also editor in chief of Dazed & Confused), has selected 12 artists’ work to be screened onto tees, posters, and objets and released monthly— December marks Kitajima’s debut. Fifteen percent of profits go to a charity of the featured artist’s choosing. BUNDLE UP Who knew camel hair was such a hot…

LIGHTEN UP Black leather and sandy-hued canvas forge an unlikely alliance for resort PRESENTED BY KENNETH COLE ELLE Gift Picks: FOR THE GIRL ON THE GO Her Instagram feed reads like a globe-trotter’s guide and she’s always plotting her next adventure. How to wow your favorite frequent flyer? Choose well-designed, travel-friendly pieces that are sophisticated enough for big-city stints and practical enough for long layovers. Think chic sneaks, timeless shades, a wear-and-repeat leather jacket, and a new spin on the wheelie bag. Mules are having a major moment—a flat, black pointed-toe pair is easy to pack and will update an outfit faster than she can say, “Wheels up!” Harper’s BAZAAR Gift Picks: FOR THE LIFE OF THE PARTY It’s not a celebration until she arrives. For the girl who is used…

It’s impossible to overstate just how much Broadway’s Hamilton changed Daveed Diggs’s life. The Oakland, California, native’s experimental rap trio, Clipping, had definitely enjoyed a niche following, but thanks to his Tony-winning dual turn as Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette, Diggs was suddenly backstage with Beyoncé, performing at the White House, and meeting his childhood idol, MC Hammer (“We occasionally text,” Diggs says proudly). That might be enough for many actors—especially one who, after running track at Brown, struggled to find acting work in New York and sometimes slept on the subway—but Diggs is taking his Hamilton hype straight to Hollywood: Beyond serving as executive producer (and music supervisor, of course) on the ABC comedy The Mayor (about a young rapper who unexpectedly becomes the mayor of his…

America has become a nation of behind-thescenes viewers. A generation ago, we watched movies to relate to the characters and to fantasize about their plotlines; now we imagine ourselves as the performers. The ascendancy of improvisation as a central element of comedy—and drama—is perfectly tailored to let us play along in our imaginations, to keep score at home. The fourth wall that separates crowd and artist has been pulled down for good; in every corner, democracy has become a more immediate participation sport, for a country of immediate responders. Instead of heckling politicians in our living rooms, we now heckle them on Twitter. If only more people had learned to spell! Into this country of performers in search of an audience, and with impeccable timing, comes Sam Wasson’s new book,…

SHOW PONIES The ponytails spotted on the catwalk at couture were, well, befitting of couture—elegant, intricate, and like nothing you’d find at the gym. At Chanel, Sam McKnight added extensions, then gave each tail a “double twist” before covering it in a fine net, “almost like a snood.” At Dior, Guido Palau used two different curling irons—one a half-inch wide, one an inchand- a-half—to craft romantic, windswept waves that he then secured at the nape. MAKING WAVES Texture was a major trend at couture—though stylists achieved it in a wide variety of ways. The tight, tiny coils at Miu Miu were crafted by Palau via an old-school “tissue set”: After raking Redken Guts 10 Volume Spray through hair and rough-drying, he wrapped small half-inch pieces around twisted paper towels, clamped…

For a decade, accessories whiz Clare Vivier has created the kind of simple, cool, flawlessly executed leather bags, wardrobe staples, and home accents for her label, Clare V., that have inspired fans to flock to her seven standalone stores in hopes that a little of her L.A.-meets-Paris vibe might rub off on them. (See: the label’s beloved “Masculin Féminin” statement tees; the immediately back-ordered weekender designed in collaboration with Beastie Boy Mike D.) Next up: conquering the beauty world, as Vivier debuts her first fragrance, Angie—a “little present” to her late father, who called her by that nickname (short for her middle name, Angela). How did you want Angie to smell? I’m very inspired by my surroundings, and it’s a very personal scent. We started with the greenery of California,…

It was the summer before the election. As I watched Trump speak at the Republican convention while eating pepperoni pizza on my couch, I realized that at some point over the past few months, the world had stopped making any kind of sense to me. I felt weary, confused. I hadn’t had sex in a year but was too depressed and wary— after too many boring, awkward, or just bad first dates—to meet guys online. That’s when I decided to stop trying to do things the old, normal way—i.e., Tinder. Paying for sex had always seemed thrilling in a sexual-bucket-list kind of way, an intriguing but purely theoretical fantasy. I had no idea how to go about finding a straight guy who sold sex...until a friend of a friend found…

Melissa and I found ourselves alone together at her apartment for the first time last December, during that eerie limbo between the presidential election and inauguration. Until I worked up the nerve to kiss her, near dawn, it hadn’t been clear that we’d been on a date that night, or what exactly we’d been doing over the previous few months. It’s only in hindsight that our texting and sporadic happy-hour cocktails seem to have been leading somewhere in particular. That evening, I’d invited Melissa to see Jackie because, in my despair about the fate of the country, I’d become fascinated by the trailer, by the close-ups of Natalie Portman’s grieving face. Melissa was the only other person I knew—besides the younger sister of my ex-wife—who’d read all four volumes of…

“She reminds me of an Arabian horse. One of a kind. The way she walks. The way her hair falls perfectly down her back. The way she handles herself.” —Criminal director Ariel Vromen FROM A MERE MORTAL’S PERSPECTIVE, IT looks like the best gig in a gig economy: superpowers, supergadgets, and a supersecret lifestyle. Caught up in all the sexy superlatives, it’s easy to overlook the downsides of the job: constant death threats, battling evil 24/7…and the dress code? A onesie in latex or stretch polyester, which means zero carbs. And unless your superpower is bladder control— hey, have fun going to the bathroom. These are the burdens the Justice League must bear, and with them comes an array of mental health issues, ranging from PTSD (Batman) to depression (Superman)…

A SURREALIST BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGE OF A woman wearing a crown of iguanas was what first snagged on Maria Grazia Chiuri’s consciousness. When she saw it, “I was fascinated,” she remembers, and she immediately wanted to know more about its photographer, Graciela Iturbide. That curiosity ultimately resulted in the Dior artistic director heading from her Paris home base to Iturbide’s native Mexico—her first cruise collection in tow—for this shoot in Oaxaca. Mexico City–based Iturbide, 75, is known for her images of strong, somewhat feral women in nature—notably her portraits of the Juchitán people, a matriarchal tribe in Oaxaca (indeed, Nuestra Señora de Las Iguanas—“ Our Lady of the Iguanas”—came from that series). Her female-centric oeuvre also includes a photo series set in Frida Kahlo’s bathtub, where the painter has often depicted…

Zac Efron and Zendaya run away with the circus in this month’s The Greatest Showman—a movie musical about P. T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) and the birth of show business. Efron, 30, is Barnum’s reluctant protégé; Zendaya, 21, plays a trapeze artist and Efron’s love interest. The pairing makes delicious sense, and not just because of the heat they generate onscreen (and, for the record, it’s very hot). Both actors grew up in California, were raised by supportive parents whose marriages ultimately went south, and got their starts on the Disney Channel. At 18, Efron became the singing, dancing, basketball- dribbling Troy in High School Musical, which made him famous and then infamous, his face slapped on everything from toothbrushes to TMZ. Zendaya—also a singer who released an eponymous album in…