Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2020 i ELLE

Dancing Queen Nightlife may be an ephemeral world, but Studio 54 never gets old. We remain entranced by the iconic shots of a carefree, lamé-clad Pat Cleveland (left), or Bianca Jagger making her indelible entrance on horseback. Beginning March 13 at the Brooklyn Museum, Studio 54: Night Magic takes a deep dive into the social politics, and of course the glamour, of New York City’s most famous nightclub. If you’re inspired to plan your own night out on the town, Bushwick-based designer Kelsey Randall’s latest collection features all the dance floor–worthy rhinestones, chain mail, and fringe you could want. They’ve earned her such A-list music fans as Beyoncé, Kacey Musgraves, Lorde, and Lizzo. Word on the Street Long before Demna Gvasalia was turning out $800 hoodies at Balenciaga, designer Willi…

’60S The Trip STYLE NOTE Texture and pattern collide in the best of ’60s psychedelia, from Janis Joplin–worthy shearling coats to Marianne Faithfull–esque frocks. Ground the cacophony with a block-heeled loafer. WEAR IT WITH ’70S Boho A-Go-Go STYLE NOTE Luxe ’70s bohemian looks were made for midi lengths—the better to show off a tall, slouchy boot. Round out the romantic mood with a poet blouse and tapestry tote. WEAR IT WITH Louche Life STYLE NOTE Ruffled plackets, mile-wide lapels, and perma-pressed trousers: Disco-era suiting is all about outsize details. Make it modern with unexpected color combos. WEAR IT WITH ’80S The Bold and the Beautiful STYLE NOTE The bigger the shoulder, the bigger the diva. Embrace volume and channel your inner Alexis Carrington in bold cocktail numbers, topped off with…

MAKE UP Bold Lips “In one stroke, it covers my lips with vibrant color, and its melting texture is ultracomfortable,” says ELLE Quebec’s Théo Dupuis-Carbonneau of Chanel Rouge Coco Flash Hydrating Vibrant Shine Lip Colour ($38). The lipstick, which comes in 27 shades, won accolades for its balm-like texture and striking pigment payoff. “And there is nothing more chic than taking this out of your bag,” Dupuis-Carbonneau adds. Flawless Complexion This foundation “hits the jackpot” with its natural finish, says ELLE India’s Mamta Mody. Made with 97 percent naturally derived ingredients, Guerlain L’Essentiel Natural Glow Foundation ($60) has also been clinically shown to reduce skin imperfections with consistent use. Its 29 shades range from Porcelain Cool to Very Deep Warm. Extralong Lashes Size matters. And if the spiky silicone microbristles…

The search for Heures d’Absence, Louis Vuitton’s earliest fragrance, went on for more than three years, says the house’s master perfumer, Jacques Cavallier Belletrud. And still, the juice remained a mystery. “All the documents disappeared,” he says of the 1927 creation, which was discontinued in the ’30s. His team even tried to analyze dry residue from the empty antique bottles they were able to find, but they’d been rinsed clean long ago. So, as the fragrance’s centennial approached, the legendary nose started with a blank slate, completely reinventing the recipe for the Roaring Twenties—take two. Launching this month, the new Heures d’Absence (“Hours of Absence”) draws upon Louis Vuitton’s legacy of luxury travel. A bouquet of floral notes nods to both the longing of separation and the excitement of a…

Shortly before I interview Donatella Versace, I ask my colorist to bump up my already-straining-credulity blond by a shade. That’s the effect Versace has on you before you even meet her: Some people make you stand up straighter in their presence; she has a way of drawing out your inner Italian bombshell. In a world taken over by penitent Marie Kondo–style bloodletting of our gladdest glad rags, she is a beacon of maximalism, an old-school practitioner of Fashion with a capital F, a full-throated defender of glamour. And isn’t that refreshing? Today, when so much high fashion looks like what you’d wear at a particularly progressive convent, when we’re apparently expected to don outfits that resemble scaffolding on a Brutalist building, don’t you want to be a little sexier? Flashier?…

HAILEY BIEBER ADMITS she loves seasonal lattes even though “I know it’s so basic.” Lithe and glowing in white Cydnie Jordan New York sweats and a long Balenciaga camel coat with white Nike Air Force 1’s, she looks every bit the cool off-duty model as she orders her preferred drink, a cookie butter latte. And yet, with her effortless style—not to mention her recent marriage to one of the most famous singers on the planet—the daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin is anything but basic. The 23-year-old supermodel and her new hubby are the Gen Z equivalent of Bogart and Bacall, setting tongues wagging—and keyboards clicking—with every glamorous turn of their thoroughly modern (yet charmingly retro) love affair. The couple, who are both devout Christians, regularly attend the trendy, star-studded evangelical Hillsong…

In times of great uncertainty, fashion offers the ultimate escape into a world of fantasy. Nowhere was this more evident than on the spring 2020 runways. From Marc Jacobs’s dramatic floral swirls to Versace’s daring exotic prints, the season’s best looks had an exuberant spirit that felt both bold and optimistic. So this month, with our annual spring fashion issue, our gift to you is a tightly curated tour through the buzziest looks we saw—and gasped over—from New York to Milan. On page 210, supermodel Doutzen Kroes makes a case for a kind of psychedelic hyperfemininity featuring poufy sleeves, oversize ruffles, and ornamental bows (“Design for Living”). In “Portrait of a Lady” (page 232), ’90s icon Carolyn Murphy explores the subtle seduction of spring’s vintage-inspired pieces. And for all the…

Last spring, Lake Elsinore, a small town in California, was overrun with a crop of extremely photogenic poppies. You probably know how this story ends: with the blooms being trampled underfoot by Instagrammers eager to get the perfect shot. It was a potent reminder that when nature meets our brave new digital world, strange things can happen. The resulting heavily filtered images had an unreal quality, a kind of fetishization of unspoiled nature. So perhaps it wasn’t surprising that we saw similar motifs in the spring 2020 collections. Christopher Kane’s may have been the most literal interpretation. The designer, who has previously drawn inspiration from nature and from sexual fetishes, married the two with this season’s theme, “Ecosexual.” There was a psychedelic daisy backdrop and clothes printed with digitized, too-good-to-be-true…

This spring, a lacquered look is best left for your furniture—not your makeup. For skin that looks beautiful and fresh, skip the ultra-matte face beat or the dewy glow in favor of a healthy, natural look that lasts all day long without fading or flaking. We’re calling it the anti-finish, and it’s the simple way to create a modern look. “It takes effort to achieve a high-gloss finish or to be super matte, especially throughout the day,” says Sir John, L’Oréal Paris brand ambassador and celebrity makeup artist. “The anti-finish isn’t so much a trend; it’s traditional, natural looking skin. It’s the easiest, most comfortable fit for every woman around the world.” With enough coverage to hide redness and discoloration but a light, featherweight feel that lets your skin breathe,…

SAINT-GERMAIN-DES-PRÉS Notes: Neroli, petitgrain, white orris butter, heliotrope, vanilla. “This is my twenties in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. There I am, strolling along the rue de Verneuil and the rue de Lille. From one café terrace to another, I observe the students pouring out of the Sorbonne and grandes écoles in the neighborhood. On the bill at Le Champo, a film by Eric Rohmer, Conte de Printemps. Coming out of the movie house, on the corner of the rue Soufflot, I think about Marcel Carné’s film Les Tricheurs. The elegant, insolent, and fragile youth of Saint-Germain-des-Prés is eternal. The Jardin du Luxembourg should be made into a perfume.” BLACK TIE Notes: White orris butter, cedar, tree moss, vanilla, musk. “For myself, I wanted a nighttime perfume, a ritual with a…

Sixteen years and two kids after having her first breast augmentation, Natalie Gilbert* discovered that one of her breasts had started to harden around its implant. She could also feel the implant’s edge, and there were divots and irregularities on both breasts, indicative of a somewhat common complication called capsular contracture. “[The implants] were really a mess. I knew they had to be taken out or replaced,” says Gilbert, 35, a New York–based professor of English. To get the results she wanted—smaller, more natural-looking breasts, restored to their pre-baby perkiness—Gilbert’s plastic surgeon, Adam Kolker, MD, suggested something she didn’t even know was an option: a fat graft (aka fat transfer) into her breasts, along with new implants, to help create a softer look and feel. “The implants look so much…

High Fidelity (HULU, FEBRUARY 14) Zoë Kravitz channels the music-obsessed record-store owner Rob (played by John Cusack in the 2000 film), fixating on mistakes made in her earlier relationships vis-à-vis Top Five lists as she comes to grips with losing the love of her life. It’s all set to a glorious soundtrack (think David Bowie, Blondie, and early OutKast) curated by Questlove. Love Life (HBO MAX, MAY) Among the shows launching on HBO’s new streaming platform is this anthology series, led in the first season by Anna Kendrick, who co–executive-produces with Paul Feig, her director in A Simple Favor. Each season will follow a different protagonist as he or she navigates a variety of relationships, from platonic to romantic. Normal People (HULU, SPRING) A teen show with a bit more…

Blockbuster season gets a much-needed makeover as women lead the buzziest movies of the year, both in front of and behind the camera. On February 7, Margot Robbie reprises her role as Harley Quinn (with Cathy Yan in the director’s chair) in Birds of Prey, featuring a superhero girl gang that welcomes Ali Wong, Rosie Perez, and Jurnee Smollett-Bell into the DC Comics universe. In March, Disney gives Mulan the action-adventure treatment it deserves, eschewing princess gowns for a cinematic take on the mythical Chinese warrior Hua Mulan, with Niki Caro directing. The long-awaited Black Widow appears in May, directed by Cate Shortland and executiveproduced by Scarlett Johansson, who stars as the titular superhero still grappling with the fallout of the Avengers breakup in Captain America: Civil War. And June…

When Dee Rees met author Sarah M. Broom in 2012, they made a bet over who owned more books. Broom sent Rees a photo of a tall stack in her bathroom. “She had more books than me in [that] one room—it’s crazy,” Rees says. It was Broom who introduced the 43-year-old Oscar nominee to the work of Joan Didion. Rees started with Play It As It Lays, Didion’s 1970 novel about an actress experiencing a mental breakdown, adapted for the screen by Mommie Dearest director Frank Perry. Next came The Last Thing He Wanted, about which a New York Times critic wrote, “The story comes to us in fragments, out of sequence, full of mystery, littered with glances at the movie it might make—will make, if we are lucky.” Rees,…

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COVERS Newsstand Cover: Tank, $1,650, shorts, $1,925, by Hermès, 800-441-4488. Hoop earrings, $13,700, available by appointment only, ring, $6,450, by Cartier, 800-CARTIER. Subscriber Cover: Top by Prada, $2,980, prada.com Earrings by Bulgari, $2,850, bulgari.com. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 77: Jacket, shorts by Chanel, 800-550-0005. PAGE 84: Gown by Richard Quinn, richardquinn.london. EDITOR’S LETTER PAGE 96: Tank, jeans by Celine by Hedi Slimane, celine.com. Bracelet by Bulgari, bulgari.com. NEW ARRIVALS PAGE 102: Earrings by Cartier, available by appointment only, select Cartier boutiques nationwide. ACCESSORIES PAGE 116: Chokers by Bulgari, similar styles at 800-BVLGARI. PAGE 118: Ring by Van Cleef & Arpels, 877-VAN-CLEEF. PAGE 123: Necklace by Cartier, 800-CARTIER. PAGE 124: Earrings by Tiffany & Co., $245,000, tiffany.com. PAGE 126: Bracelet by Irene Neuwirth, $23,900, ireneneuwirth.com. PAGE 130: Handbag by Hermès, hermes.com…

THE BAG A tasteful top-handle achieves It Bag status when rendered in bold striped pony hair. Handbag, Tod’s, $3,345, tods.com. THE EARRINGS With a panther for a mascot, Cartier has always embraced the exotic. Case in point: these onyx, diamond, and emerald “zebra” hoops. Earrings, Cartier, 1-800-CARTIER. THE PUMP Nicolas Ghesquière elevates the humble loafer to new heights with a bold, scuba-inspired palette. Its towering, petal-shaped heel is a clever nod to an iconic house motif. Pump, Louis Vuitton, louisvuitton.com.…

I remember where I was standing. It was May 2006, and I was attending a book publishing convention when I felt the splash of hot coffee on my calves. And I remember what I was wearing: a Chloé prancing-horse skirt I’d purchased on a financially delusional whim five years prior. This was an item deeply of its time—low-slung, sheer, clingy. A book publishing convention is no place for a skirt of this caliber or style, which could explain the karmic coffee punishment. The spiller offered to pay for dry cleaning, but I knew the skirt’s best days were behind it. And yet here we are, 14 years later, and I can see it taking up precious closet space from where I type. There’s no way I’m chucking an item that’s…

“Dead for this hair,” wrote Bella Hadid when Kaia Gerber first revealed last June what she called the “drama cut” from legendary hairstylist Guido Palau (who’s also styled her mom, Cindy Crawford). Inspired by 1990s supermodels and Kurt Cobain, the edgy new cut has also been spotted on Kim Kardashian, January Jones, and Hadid herself. With another trim in December, Gerber went even shorter. “She isn’t overly bothered by her hair,” says Palau of the 18-year-old supermodel. “She likes it simple and a bit boyish.” Skinny Plaits MAXIMALIST PYER MOSS The gospel choir—a mainstay at Pyer Moss shows and epically named the Pyer Moss Tabernacle Drip Choir Drenched in the Blood—wasn’t the only powerful ensemble at this theatrical show. Several models wore long box braids embellished with beads, shells, and…

Ask several people their favorite Amanda Seyfried project. One might say the high school comedy Mean Girls; others might cite the musicals Les Misérables or Mamma Mia! “What about Big Love?” would be an expected response from a TV binger, while the cinema hipster in the group would probably bring up Jennifer’s Body. Factor in the upcoming drama A Mouthful of Air, two horror films, a David Fincher–directed biopic, and the animated Scoob!, and you’d have a decent argument for Seyfried having several clones, or at least a twin. “I’m fighting against the Hollywood pigeonholing effect,” she says. No kidding. There’s more: This year, Seyfried became Lancôme’s newest global ambassador. And as for her personal life? She just completed training to become a doula. And, as a scroll through her…

1895 Austrian-German Vincenz Czerny performs the first documented breast augmentation in Germany. He replaces a tumor on a woman’s left breast with a benign one from elsewhere on her body. 1915–1943 After years of trying paraffin injections in the breasts (resulting in serious complications, even death), doctors begin experimenting with unusual substances like glass balls, shellac, ox cartilage, and sponges. Chronic inflammation and infection ensue. 1962 Following the successful testing of an implant prototype on a dog, Texan Timmie Jean Lindsey becomes the first person to receive silicone breast implants. 1964 French company Laboratoires Arion develops and manufactures the first saline breast implant. Unlike silicone implants, they can be filled before or after implantation. 1999 Baywatch bombshell Pamela Anderson, who is credited with popularizing silicone implants, famously decides to remove…

During her lifetime, the visionary artist Agnes Pelton—who created paintings with the aim, she once wrote, of depicting “perfect consciousness”—remained relatively unknown. Not long after Pelton died in 1961, a friend spotted one of her paintings on the lawn of a Santa Barbara gallery, listed at $40; by the time she returned with cash, the price had been reduced to $15. But gradually, the luminary transcendence of Pelton’s work drew attention. After a mid-’90s survey traveled the U.S., the Whitney Museum of American Art acquired two paintings for its collection. “There were always substantial crowds gathered around them,” says Barbara Haskell, a curator at the museum. Many of her works are now included in Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist, a show that originated at the Phoenix Art Museum and opens at…

The City We Became, by N. K. Jemisin Fantasy writer N. K. Jemisin is the only person to have won a Hugo Award (science fiction’s most prestigious prize) three years in a row. This month, the author creates a new world for the first time since 2015. In The City We Became (March 24, Orbit), human avatars of New York’s five boroughs must battle a force of intergalactic evil called the Woman in White to save their city. Like 2018’s Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the novel leans into social commentary—the foe presents as a literal white woman whom some mistakenly deem harmless—without slowing the action sequences that drive the plot forward. The Power Notebooks, by Katie Roiphe “In my published writing, I took stands. I made arguments. But in…

Liz Tigelaar knows the way to an author’s heart. When I ask the showrunner what drew her to my book Little Fires Everywhere, her answer is immediate and enthusiastic: “Everything!” In the novel, which Tigelaar adapted for a series of the same name (March 18, Hulu), the immaculate suburban life of Elena Richardson (Reese Witherspoon) is turned inside out when single mom Mia Warren (Kerry Washington) arrives in picture-perfect Shaker Heights, Ohio. Their teenage children form unlikely friendships—and romances—but when a custody battle divides the town, things between the two mothers become…heated. “It’s a story of race and class and motherhood—the struggles of motherhood, how you covet other mothers’ lives,” Tigelaar says. “I’m a relatively new mom. I’m also an adopted child, and I struggled with infertility. It all resonated…

Diana (MARCH 31) One of the great ironies of our time is that as the British monarchy’s realworld potency has receded (thankfully, they no longer have the power to cry, “Off with her head!”), its cultural relevance has ballooned. The royal-loving masses can never seem to get enough, whether they’re bingeing The Crown or following Kate and Meghan’s every feud, foible, or fashion moment. And more than two decades after her untimely death, Princess Diana still captures the imagination of everyone from Virgil Abloh, who created an Off-White collection inspired by her, to Tory Burch, who drew on her classic ’80s style for spring 2020. Given this level of cultural saturation, is it any wonder Diana’s headed to Broadway next? Starring Jeanna de Waal of Kinky Boots and American Idiot…

When Sydney Sweeney was nine years old, her class took a field trip to the foothills of the Selkirk Mountains in eastern Washington. There, she and her fellow fourth graders measured the pH levels of the Little Spokane River. “We learned hands-on in the environment,” says the actress, who went on to graduate as high school valedictorian. “It made me love learning.” Over the past few years, Sweeney, now 22, has continued taking litmus tests, but of an altogether different ilk. In a slew of prestige projects, she’s plumbed the cultural waters, providing timely visualizations of authoritarian rule (Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale) and teenage drug use (HBO’s Euphoria). In the latter, she plays fan favorite Cassie Howard, whose pinup-girl pout often betrays the character’s quiet kindness. In the season one…

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“THIS PIECE IS NAMED AFTER YEMAYA, A QUEENLY AND BEAUTIFUL OCEAN GODDESS WHO IS THE MOTHER OF ALL WATERS IN THE YORUBA RELIGION OF AFRICA.”—JEWELER DANIELA VILLEGAS PISCES Feb 19–Mar 20 Birthday season reigns until March 19. Near the 9th’s full moon, you could cement a pivotal partnership, but the extroverted vibes won’t last forever. From March 21 to July 1, a Saturn cycle will shift your focus inward, allowing space to heal from past trauma—and turn that pain into art. Financial opportunities could emerge near the new moon on the 24th. Consider circulating your résumé or raising your rates. ARIES Mar 21–Apr 19 With your imagination on overdrive all month, you’ll be driven to disparate projects. Wait to commit to one path until Aries season begins on the 19th.…