Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2021 i ELLE

1 GREY GARDENS When we saw the gray-toned nail polish in Chanel’s fall makeup collection, we asked ourselves, “Is this the return of greige?” Earthy gray nails boomed about 10 years ago as the ultimate manicure choice, a bridge between city-slicker black and ladylike nude. Chanel’s newest offering, complete with easy-to-use gunmetal liquid eye shadow to match, lends a welcome simplicity—a neutral territory between our pared-down postpandemic routines and a chic new future. Chanel Le Vernis Longwear Nail Colour in Beige Cendré, $28, and Ombre Première Laque Longwear Liquid Eyeshadow in Lamé Acier, $36, chanel.com. 2 MOUNTAIN HIGH Moncler has linked up with Richard Quinn, Simone Rocha, and Jonathan Anderson. Its latest collaborator: designer Veronica Leoni, whose newest collection for 2 Moncler 1952 has all the sleek sophistication you’d expect…

If you described your car as a smart device, everyone but Elon Musk might look at you askance. But the modern car really is one, points out Ivan Poupyrev: “It has internet, a map, artificial intelligence, and people you can talk to.” Poupyrev, Google’s director of Engineering, Advanced Technology and Products and the mastermind behind its Jacquard project, is shooting for the same seamless integration with the wearable devices he’s helping to make a reality. The aptly named initiative weaves technology into everyday fashion items, aiming not to manufacture an ostentatious “wearable tech” device but “to make technology disappear, so that people live their normal lives, [with] technology becoming something in the background.” Poupyrev was inspired to create Jacquard after thinking about how stashing your smartphone in your jacket pocket…

On a hot tennis court one afternoon in Houston, former magazine editor Francine Ballard found herself the center of her friends’ attention, though not for her racket skills. In her hand was a Lucite cube containing a QR code, which itself contained an original work of digital art that corresponded to a gold ring of Ballard’s design. “They thought it was crazy, but they loved it,” Ballard says. “After COVID, and as I get older, my purchasing decisions have become more value-based. I could actually melt this ring down, and the gold would be worth something. I could also sell the digital art.” Welcome to the world of NFTs, which Ballard has made the essential element of her fine jewelry company, METAgolden—and which the fashion industry at large has embraced…

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Raoúl Alejandre is known for his work with celebs like Alexa Demie, Willow Smith, Joan Smalls, and Lil Nas X, creating intricate, dramatic looks like crystal-embellished cat-eyes and electric-blue glossy eyelids. He was also recently named global makeup artist for Valentino Beauty. While clothing is a constant inspiration (see: the curvy red liner he did on Rosalía, inspired by her Iris Van Herpen dress at the 2020 British Fashion Council Awards), he also dreams big thanks to his Mexican American heritage. “[My parents] came into this country to give me the opportunity to do things they previously could only imagine,” Alejandre says. Here, a few of his signature techniques. CREATE A BLUEPRINT “I sketch out eye shapes with eyebrow pens first. That way I can easily [correct] instead of having…

Here’s how the EGOT-winning legend Rita Moreno describes Gloria Calderón Kellett, the first-generation Cuban American showrunner of the critically acclaimed One Day at a Time reboot that ran for four seasons (starring Moreno): “Gloria is one of those stubborn, strong, opinionated women who has decided if she has to do it on her own, then she will do it on her own. For that she has my deepest affection and admiration.” Calderón Kellett has also earned the admiration of thousands of followers on Twitter, where she offers—as her “Tia Glo” persona—late-night advice and pep talks to creators on the come-up. It’s also where she holds the powers-that-be in the industry accountable for the lack of inclusive representation. “I always try to conduct myself with honesty and kindness, and I’m not…

This year, Jessica Alba joined rare air—as a woman, and especially as a Latina—when she took her nine-year-old consumer goods business, The Honest Company, public with an IPO that reportedly raised $412.8 million for a valuation of $1.44 billion. The idea to create a company around reducing toxicity in household, beauty, and baby products is more commonplace now than it was 13 years ago, when the actress first considered it. Back then, “there was nothing but hurdles,” says Alba, 40, reflecting on her company’s origins just a few hours after ringing the NASDAQ bell in New York City. “The difference between entrepreneurs and everyone else is that you always find another way—a door closes, so you slam through a wall.” On this particular day, however, there weren’t any walls that…

“PEOPLE THINK I’M AN ACTOR turned producer/director, but I’ve always been a producer/director who fell into acting,” says Eva Longoria. Before too long, that ambiguity will be gone with the release of Flamin’ Hot, the Searchlight Pictures biopic of Frito-Lay executive Richard Montañez, and Longoria’s first feature-film director credit. After that, Longoria will produce, direct, and costar in the Kerry Washington–led comedy 24-7 and the action comedy film Spa Day. Throughout her career, Longoria has been active in immigration advocacy and Latinx causes. This past winter, she helped deliver meals and water during the disastrous winter storm in Texas. “Careerwise, directing, producing, and acting, that’s what I do, but who I am is more important,” she says. “Affordable housing and health care, access to quality education—those things are a little…

WHEN PADMA LAKSHMI’S DAUGHTER, Krishna, was very young, the Top Chef and Taste the Nation host told her stories of food bringing families and cultures together. A version of those stories has evolved into Tomatoes for Neela, Lakshmi’s debut children’s book, out August 31 via Viking Books for Young Readers. Krishna is 11 now, “but books for kids take a long time!” Lakshmi says with a laugh. “In our fast-paced lives, one of the things we’ve lost—which I hope we’ve regained a little bit [in quarantine]—is the art of just spending time together, and passing down skills and knowledge and all of those family stories.” Another story involving family and food that Lakshmi and her daughter bond over is Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. “We love Tiana because she’s…

COVER SELENA GOMEZ: T-shirt, $5,150, skirt, $4,100, jacket (on bed), $10,600, choker, $975, and belt, $8,750, by Chanel, 800-550-0005. Necklace, rings by Cartier, by appointment only at select Cartier boutiques nationwide. Fishnets by Falke, $35, falke.com. Mules by Giuseppe Zanotti, $895, giuseppezanotti.com. Mules (on floor) by Amina Muaddi, $955, aminamuaddi.com. INSIDE COVER Sweater, $3,250, choker, $975, by Chanel, select Chanel boutiques nationwide. Earring by Cartier, $19,200, cartier.com. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 69: Jacket, dress, hat by Miu Miu, miumiu.com. PAGE 78: Jacket, skirt, earrings, necklace, bracelet, handbag, luggage, boots by Chanel, similar styles at Chanel boutiques nationwide. EDITOR’S LETTER PAGE 86: Dress by Gucci, gucci.com. Earring by Cartier, by appointment only at select Cartier boutiques nationwide. Necklace, Mikimoto x Comme des Garçons, mikimotoamerica.com. NINA’S EDIT PAGE 88: Earrings by Daniella…

Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin PHOTOGRAPHERS Provenance: Amsterdam Now: New York City This month: Photographed “Selena 2.0” (page 193). Bona fides: Both studied fashion design at Amsterdam’s Fashion Academy before Van Lamsweerde received a master’s degree in photography from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, while Matadin founded a fashion line. The duo has worked together since 1986, shooting campaigns for everyone from Chanel to Louis Vuitton. Inspiration: “’80s New Wave imagery and music.” Currently reading: Max Strom’s A Life Worth Breathing. Dream subject: David Hockney. If they weren’t photographers: “We would design a hotel and spa.” Lesson learned: “Let go of your ego, and a beautiful image will always emerge.” New venture: “We recently launched our social impact platform, Double Dutch! It combines unique digital artist-curated cards with charitable giving…

People are shopping like nobody’s business,” marvels Sherri McMullen. As the owner of McMullen, the buzzy Oakland, California, boutique, she would know. Her clients, she says, “are redoing their entire wardrobes.” Refrains she’s heard lately: “‘I don’t want anything in my closet’; ‘I want to redo everything’; ‘Everything’s too dark.’” (Bright colors and prints, she notes, are stepping in to fill the void.) “Whatever they were experiencing last year,” she says of her customers, “they want to feel the opposite way. Comfort dressing isn’t a big part of it.” Can you blame them? Lockdown has driven a spate of “revenge shopping,” a phenomenon that was first observed in China following the end of quarantine and has now spread across a world reeling from the losses of the pandemic. Customers are…

Gabriela Hearst could hardly have picked a more glamorous venue for her Chloé debut than Paris institution Brasserie Lipp, where Apollinaire and Hemingway once held court. But while the locale might have appealed to the literary brain, the collection itself aimed straight for the heart. Hearst used her august Parisian platform to shed light on an issue that the pandemic and economic uncertainty have only intensified: homelessness. In what feels like a new philanthropic model for fashion, she partnered with Sheltersuit, a nonprofit that creates protective (and potentially lifesaving) products for unhoused people, to craft backpacks made out of repurposed material from the Chloé archives. For each backpack sold, the house will fund the production of two Sheltersuits, which are jackets that come with duffel bags and optional sleeping bags—serving…

PRESENTED BY CHANTECAILLE We may be returning to pre-pandemic life, but not everything has to go back to the way it was before WFH. Case in point: Who feels like putting on heavy foundation again? No one. But we all want a radiant, even-toned complexion, which is where Chantecaille Just Skin Tinted Moisturizer SPF 15 enters the picture. Its lightweight, you’ll-barely-feel-it formula hydrates, protects (from the sun, from pollution, from life, in general), and—most importantly—reduces the appearance of redness and discoloration. It’s like having photo-filtered skin, but IRL. PRESENTED BY 302 FINE JEWELRY Happiness is a journey, not a destination, as the saying goes. Show you’re on the right path with the Diamond Compass and Happy Charms from 302 Fine Jewelry. Its new Charm School Collection offers a multitude of…

“FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, MY MOM HAS TAUGHT ME THE BEST BEAUTY TIPS AND TRICKS. SHE’S MY FOREVER MUSE.” WORDS OF WISDOM As a young girl, Dylana didn’t always speak her mind for fear of being judged. “My mom has always been my biggest supporter, encouraging me to stand up and speak my truth. I owe my success to her. The confidence she instilled in me helps me every day.” KEEP IT FRESH Dylana learned her way around the kitchen from her Chinese-Malaysian mom. “My mom cooks with lots of flavors, natural spices and plenty of vegetables, but I love her curry and lemongrass basil chicken recipes best. She taught me to use healthy ingredients, like ginger, lemongrass, curry leaves, onions and fresh herbs because they’re all…

Doreen* had been bullied since middle school because of her looks. People called her fat and ugly, at what felt like a ceaseless pace. She didn’t feel sexually or romantically desired. Boys didn’t treat her the way they did her more attractive friends. Having a sex-positive attitude was even tougher growing up in a religious West African immigrant family, where she was taught that sex was a sin outside of marriage. Neither her sister—the “pretty one”—nor her mom understood what she was going through. “I didn’t have any type of self-esteem or confidence,” she recalls. The world “taught me that my worth and my value as a female, as a young lady, was connected directly to what I looked like.” In her senior year of high school, Doreen tried to…

Like her genre-bending music—from rap to ballads, in Spanish and English—singer-songwriter and performer Elena Rose is an unapologetic style shapeshifter. In the video for “Fenomenal,” she channels Marilyn Monroe with platinum waves and arched brows; in “No Voy a Cambiar,” she pays homage to Bad Bunny in vibrant prints and androgynous silhouettes. It’s rare for any artist to occupy multiple musical genres, but Rose, who cowrites and releases her own songs while co-producing and co-songwriting for others, knows no other way. “If I am breaking any barriers, it’s because I’m being myself,” says the 26-year-old. “That’s the hardest thing to do in this industry, because everybody wants to tell you what to be and what to do.” It’s paid off for the Miami-born artist, who grew up in Puerto Rico…

“I FEEL ABOUT EL PASO the same way I feel about the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island,” says Representative Veronica Escobar, a third-generation Mexican American and the first woman elected to represent Texas’s Sixteenth Congressional District. “El Paso is one of the most American, patriotic spaces in our country. We are a community of love, and we lead with love,” says Escobar, 52, who took office in 2019, after winning the seat vacated by Beto O’Rourke. She was the first of two Latinas from Texas to be elected to Congress. For more than 25 years, Escobar has served El Paso as an educator, volunteer, and public servant, with a focus on equitable health care, gun violence prevention, and compassionate immigration. She now advocates for those same issues in Congress,…

BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU BY SALLY ROONEY (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 7) Rooney fans have been desperately awaiting her third novel. This enthralling story of female best friends who struggle to maintain their deep connection despite wildly diverging paths won’t disappoint. ROAR BY MICHAEL CLINTON (Atria Books/Beyond Words, September 7) With so many of us emerging from a global pandemic questioning our careers, our relationships, and our lives, Clinton’s case study–filled exploration of how to pivot, transition, and grab control of your life to try to find true fulfillment couldn’t come at a better time. YOU GOT ANYTHING STRONGER? BY GABRIELLE UNION (Dey Street Books, September 14) Union’s 2017 We’re Going to Need More Wine was celebrated for its frank and funny look at Hollywood, and Union’s personal…

MISTY COPELAND IS BACK in the studio. After more than a year of training remotely, the American Ballet Theatre principal—and perhaps the biggest name in American dance—is hard at work on Flower, a short dance film and “love letter” to Oakland, California, which addresses the city’s history of redlining and gentrification. “This time has been a beautiful transitional learning process for me,” says the Armani Crossroads ambassador of the pause in her grueling schedule. Copeland, who became part of the Disney family when she starred in the 2018 film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, says that Disney films were her first introduction to dance as a child. In conversation (and while performing), the creative powerhouse embodies the grace and warmth of Frozen’s Elsa, but growing up, Copeland felt a strong…

In the fall of 2015 and spring of 2016, Sarah Delashmit, a thirtyish woman from Illinois, attended Camp Summit in Dallas, Texas, which since 1947 has served children and adults (“ages 6–99”) with disabilities. Delashmit had muscular dystrophy, and was paralyzed from the neck down. She had a sophisticated power wheelchair and breathing machine, but still needed help with basic tasks, like showering, getting dressed, eating, going to the bathroom, and changing her menstrual products. Camp Summit exists to accommodate just such needs. Activities like archery, swimming, and arts and crafts are adapted so that all campers can participate. “It’s amazing to see someone who’s 75 years old with cerebral palsy get to ride a horse for the first time ever,” says Sam Ryan, a former staff member. In 2015,…

“SAPPHIRES ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE STONES—YOU CAN NEVER GO WRONG WITH A SPARKLY SAPPHIRE RAINBOW.” —Brent Neale Winston VIRGO AUG 23–SEPT 22 With Virgo season jamming until the 22nd, you’re in the hot seat, attracting love and attention from every angle. But where do you want things to flow? Direct relationships to suit your desires. Your persistence (and certainty!) lead to a thrilling collab under the full moon on the 20th. Ready to spring free from an outgrown attachment? The year’s only Virgo new moon provides an easy jailbreak on the 6th. LIBRA SEPT 23–OCT 22 Beachy vibes blow through until your birthday season begins on the 22nd. Your ruler, ardent Venus, is in your sign until the 10th, making you a magnet for attractive influencers. When go-getter Mars…

When I was climbing the ladder in this industry, I had a colleague who, at the height of the drug war in my home country of Colombia, used to jokingly introduce me as the daughter of Pablo Escobar. It definitely wasn’t a joke to me; it was upsetting and disturbing, and clearly meant to undermine me. Looking back, I know that being Latina, I often experienced bias about my heritage—I was patronized and questioned, and I certainly encountered my share of discrimination. While I always had the attitude of “ignore it and move forward,” I felt like, as a minority, I had to work harder and longer than my peers. I know this country has made big strides when it comes to representation, but even so, we are so far…

When it comes to sustainable jewelry, diamonds tend to get the bulk of the attention, with the last few years having seen the arrival of eco-friendly and ethical lab-created stones from Diamond Foundry and DeBeers’ Lightbox. Gold, however, is now poised for its green moment. John Hardy, who built his brand on sustainable silver jewelry (and whose Balinese HQ is housed in a sustainably-built bamboo structure), is embracing 100 percent reclaimed gold through the Reticulated collection, named for the metalsmithing technique that heats the interior to its molten state and results in a rippled pattern that calls to mind Bali’s volcanic landscape. Giants in the field like Tiffany & Co. and Bulgari have also begun embracing reclaimed gold in their collections, while smaller brands such as Monica Vinader and Emefa…

Every ’90s kid with even a passing interest in fashion remembers where they were when Cher’s digital closet in Clueless made its onscreen cameo. Like a hoverboard for the Nordstrom Brass Plum set, this technological leap implanted fever dreams in all of us—of an ever-rotating, constantly trackable wardrobe, something a number of ill-fated apps have since attempted to replicate. While we might not all have our own closet in the cloud these days, the Clueless generation has adapted to a hybrid of rental, resale, and fast fashion. Call it reshuffling: The aspiring Cher Horowitz might buy a bag that strikes her fancy from a site like Rebag, tire of it, trade it in for credit, and lather, rinse, repeat. All the variety of an ever-evolving carousel of choices; less of…

One of the most certifiably stunning women in the world has graciously agreed to beam her radiant, white-clad self from sunny Monaco into a Zoom room with me, a poorly-lit writer bobbing helplessly against a starry stock background intended to approximate the grandeur of a lunar eclipse. “I like your astral projection,” she says warmly. But we’re not here to discuss the cosmos. You see, the woman in white is Joan Smalls, who was set on a decidedly stellar trajectory just over a decade ago, when Riccardo Tisci handpicked her to walk in Givenchy’s couture show during Paris Fashion Week. Not unlike other extremely successful models, she’s since walked for luxury houses from Fendi to Chanel. Unlike other extremely successful models, Smalls was one of the first Afro-Latinas to walk…

Along with its silks, its Birkins, and its French ateliers that can custom-make nearly anything, the house of Hermès is famous for its enamel accessories. So it’s only logical that the next chapter in its beauty playbook, following the cult lipstick and blush launches of last year, would be a rich nail enamel. The house brings the same attention to detail to its polishes as it does to everything else it creates: Each of the 24 shades contains ultrafine, biosourced pigments and needs only one coat. The collection also includes a base and top coat, plus hand care and tools like nail brushes that nod to the brand’s equestrian heritage. “For Hermès, the hands are like the face, because everything [in our métiers] is handmade,” says Agnès de Villers, the…

For Colombian American Rachel Zegler, landing the role of Maria in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is a tale for the ages, but more precisely, one for this tech-saturated moment. Four years ago, when Zegler was 16, she learned via Twitter about an open casting call for the leads of the film, which comes out this December. “Musical theater has always meant expression to me. It makes me sit back in my seat and say, ‘How did they put all of that into words?’” says the 20-year-old singer and multi-instrumentalist (piano, sax, guitar, and ukulele), whose self-written, recorded, and produced first single, “Let Me Try,” dropped this spring. Zegler was invited to audition IRL—her tape of herself singing “I Feel Pretty” and “Tonight” stood out among 30,000 submissions. It’s a…

HANGING ON THE WALL where the New York–and Amsterdam-based artist Yelaine Rodriguez sits for her Zoom calls is a cream-colored crochet tapestry. “See that? My great-great-grandmother, who was born in 1901, made that,” she says. “I’d watch her crochet for hours. It was her way of doing art.” Rodriguez, 30, grew up between the Dominican Republic and the Bronx; an older sister would take her to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “I loved the larger-than-life statues in the Greek and Roman galleries, even though I didn’t see my people in them,” she says. Today, Rodriguez’s sought-after work—wearable art, video installations, performance, and photography—has been featured at the American Museum of Natural History and in the first national largescale survey of Latinx contemporary art at New York’s El Museo del Barrio.…

“IT DIDN’T MATTER that I married the game / or slept with a ball under my arm, Mom said / Girls don’t hoop, they wear hoops.” That is the first line in Puerto Rican–Jewish poet Denice Frohman’s poem “Lady Jordan,” which recounts her experiences playing basketball as a child on New York City’s pickup courts. (She was so good she earned the poem’s title as a nickname from her street-ball peers and later played professionally in Puerto Rico.) “Poetry found me at a time when I was questioning my sexuality and pushing back against really narrow notions of womanhood and cultural identity,” says Frohman, 35, a 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, who has performed on some of the biggest stages, including the Obama White House, the Apollo…

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AMANDA NGUYEN JUST PASSED A LAW. Her thirty-seventh, in fact. After being raped in college, Nguyen started the organization Rise, which put together the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights, designed to make the reporting process more streamlined. It’s been passed federally and in 30 states, as well as Washington, DC. “It’s absolutely possible to create change,” she says. This year, in the face of an epidemic of racist violence, Rise pivoted to include work on advocacy for the AAPI community. Nguyen, who grew up loving Mulan, appreciates how Disney princesses and queens show that bravery doesn’t have to stick to only a masculine presentation, “that you can be brave while being vulnerable, that courage doesn’t mean lack of fear,” she says. “I think Disney princesses and queens are such…

GABRIELA HEARST “I always like the saying that you can take the girl out of the country, but not the country out of the girl,” says Uruguayan-born designer Gabriela Hearst. Her heritage is “so much part of who I am and how I deem what is important or not and my value system. It is everything.” She and her fellow Latinx designers “always have a way of expressing our culture that resonates in a very beautiful way in fashion. I would say we bring some attitude.” Now at the helm of Chloé as well as her namesake brand, the CFDA member cites Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta as early inspirations, and she is doing her part to mentor those coming up behind her by offering “whatever I can…