Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2022 i ELLE

1 CHANGE AGENT Cape Town–based designer Sindiso Khumalo was named an LVMH Prize finalist in 2020 thanks in part to her passion for sustainability and African history. A former architecture student who worked for Sir David Adjaye, Khumalo pursued her interest in textiles at Central Saint Martins and now partners with NGOs and artisan workshops in South Africa to tell stories of female empowerment through her designs. You can find her work at Net-A-Porter, where she was selected as a member of the retailer’s Vanguard program. net-a-porter.com. 2 CULTURE STUDY For more than 100 years, Japan has been at the forefront of pearl cultivation, having devised innovative farming methods early in the 20th century. Tokyo designer Yuta Ishihara subtly upended tradition when he launched Yutai, daring to splice the precious…

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If the mere mention of “Mommy and me” dressing elicits painful flashbacks of frilly dresses with large lace collars, take a deep breath and envision a pair of black I cashmere crewnecks from The Row instead. The luxe line from Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen is one of a handful of fashion-insider labels catering to a new generation of discerning parents: those who want to dress their kids as they do themselves. Big fashion houses, including Burberry and Ralph Lauren, primed shoppers to pay a pretty penny for pint-size designer pieces. Now smaller, cult-favorite brands are offering a new aesthetic, a noticeable departure from traditional kids’ styles. More minimal and casual designs, often in neutral or subdued hues, eschew gender categorization and offer greater flexibility. Think fewer itchy, smocked floral dresses;…

STYLING TIP: BRING GODDESS DRESSING DOWN TO EARTH Grecian-style dresses come off their pedestals when rendered in day-appropriate pastels and teamed with lug-soled or low-heeled shoes, a practical topper, and a playful bag.…

STYLING TIP: REBOOT A HIP TROUSER The early-aughts staple is back, be it a satin stovepipe or a cargo version. Pair with sleek sandals, a chain belt, and a must-have bucket hat (for extra sun protection when cruising on your scooter).…

Weaves, wigs, braids, and hair products are big business in the Black community. No matter their age W or income, many Black women consider their hair their crowning glory and prioritize investing in it. So when a number of celebs, including Tiffany Haddish, Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Yvonne Orji, recently removed their “crowns,” it caused a bit of a stir. Why would they remove something so valuable? “Hair carries a lot of power and energy,” says Carla Gentry, Pinkett Smith’s longtime stylist. “Sometimes cutting it off offers a new start, and you might need that.” Pinkett Smith herself seemed to support Gentry’s take, saying on an episode of Red Table Talk last fall that she “was ready for this kind of expression and release,” and that once the…

To this day, I find it hard to tell the story of how I got sick. All I can say is that in my twenties and thirties, I got very ill very slowly. When I was 21, I began to experience strange neurological sensations, including vertigo when I walked up and down stairs. I had daily hives for a year. Then I began suffering from drenching night sweats. My doctors were reassuring. When I asked if something might be wrong with me, they reminded me that my labs looked mostly fine, even if I was always a little anemic, or had a few strange results here and there. Still, everyone had anomalies. I did work a lot. Maybe it was stress. No one believed I was ill—not even I did,…

In the summer of 2016, I started to see a predominant shade bubbling up on everything that was marketed to me. Rather than being some dictated-from-on-high runway “color of the season,” this was something aimed at the masses, backgrounding subway ads and filling the windows of high-end boutiques. It was a variation on the pink shade I’d always associated with girlhood, not necessarily my girlhood, but the concept at large. But instead of being the saccharine Barbie pink that brings to mind a disembodied squeal of “Accessories sold separately!,” it was a weirdly desaturated hue that seemed stripped of all associations with bubble gum and Sweet Valley High book spines. I saw it on tubes of Glossier makeup, on the walls of the newly sprouted women’s club The Wing, and…

ROCHELLE RITCHIE, 40 Communications strategist and political analyst in Chicago “I can’t live my life stressed out about a job that doesn’t give a shit about me.” JORDAN TREADAWAY, 33 Office coordinator at a skin care start-up in Asheville, North Carolina “I found myself going for walks during my touch-bases with my direct reports so that I could see some sunlight and get outside.” SONIA BYUN, 32 Cofounder of a women’s health start-up in New York “Everything I do is for me right now. It’s my time. I should be able to give 150 percent, 200 percent.” ARDEN MCLAUGHLIN, 43 Publicity and marketing entrepreneur in Charlotte, North Carolina “I just stopped paying attention to me, and I put everyone else’s needs above my own.” CARRIE THORNBRUGH, 37 Marketing director at…

MY FELLOW FASHION LOVERS who grew up with a dog-eared copy of D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths and idle daydreams of walking among deities, our time is now. For spring 2022, echoes of antiquity breathed new-old life into the runway, from the dreamy gathered gowns at Loewe and statuary-inspired trompe l’oeil triumphs at Thom Browne to looks fit for Aphrodite herself at Alaïa, Proenza Schouler, Rick Owens, Schiaparelli, and Dries Van Noten. Dior’s cruise 2022 collection was shown at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, each model’s silhouette casting a long, elegant shadow on the weathered marble of the Olympic site. Exquisite drapery, fluid lines, and feminine grace will never truly go out of style, but the new designs put a fresh spin on the Greco-Roman chitons and togas of the…

I’m hovering on a red carpet outside London’s Royal Albert Hall. Cameras explode with flashes. Haute hub-bub envelops me. I’m posing hard, sporting the sharp white tuxedo I picked out for the British Fashion Council’s annual Fashion Awards ceremony, my fluffy pink tail peeking out from the Bianca Jagger–inspired look. Yes, you read that correctly: my tail. In a surreal touch, I am attending a simulacrum of the ceremony in the metaverse, the social-meets-gaming virtual landscape where so much in fashion seems to be happening nowadays: from Balenciaga’s excursion into Fortnite to a virtual Gucci Garden experience. And the guise I’ve chosen is that of a pink squirrel-like creature with, I discover, a squirrel’s propensity for clambering onto every object it comes into contact with. As I rove around inside…

STYLING TIP: BALANCE SEXY WITH SPORTY Skater style has never been more chic. Pair a body-con base layer with stiletto sandals and a futuristic riff on classic aviators. Drawstring shorts (elevated with perforated leather) take you seamlessly from the half-pipe to the bar.…

DISCO QUEEN To create Precious Lee’s smoky metallic eyes for the Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 3, makeup artist Priscilla Ono used the limited-edition silvery Fenty Beauty Killawat Freestyle Highlighter CLF Edition ($38; fentybeauty.com). For maximum impact, Ono says, keep the rest of your makeup neutral. GOLDEN GIRL To complement the luxe logomania at the Fendace show (a partnership between Fendi and Versace), makeup artist Pat McGrath gave Paloma Elsesser a gilded glow using gold highlighter and coordinating eye shadow. Try Pat McGrath Labs Skin Fetish: Highlighter + Balm Duo ($48; sephora.com) on the brow and cheekbones, and Kosas 10-Second Eye in Blaze ($15; kosas.com) on the eyelids. BRIGHT-EYED At Prabal Gurung’s spring runway show, the eyes were adorned with powerful pops of vivid pink, goldenrod, or cerulean shadow, strategically…

When the OG scrubs (aka physical exfoliators) arrived in the ’80s and ’90s, they were wildly popular. Remember St. Ives Apricot Scrub? Sure, some felt like sandpaper, but the results were instant and addictive: A single sloughing session could leave skin noticeably softer, smoother, and more radiant. The problem was that radiance could morph into chronic redness and irritation. “Formulas that contained pointy, uneven nuts or shells abraded the skin and caused tiny tears,” says Diane Berson, MD, a New York City dermatologist. And formulas that were less irritating, thanks to the use of smooth plastic microbeads, were found to be harmful in their own way, as they didn’t break down and found their way into waterways, fish—and humans. In 2015, Congress banned their use in all cosmetic rinse-off products.…

Almost a decade ago, Marta Ferri gave her husband an ultimatum: “Either we find a house that stimulates us, that makes us feel in love with the city again, or we leave,” the designer recalls telling him while house-hunting in her native Milan shortly after their wedding. Ferri had become accustomed to globe-trotting with her father, photographer Fabrizio Ferri, while her husband, Carlo Borromeo, a creative director who specializes in automobile and product design, spent his childhood immersed in nature on his father’s dairy and rice farm just outside the city. What the couple stumbled upon turned out to be the perfect solution: a loft-like space near a 13th-century palazzo that makes the surrounding area feel more Venice than Milan, with ample room for the two creatives and their three…

MORE THAN A DECADE after Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad—winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award—comes sibling novel The Candy House, out April 5. Characters from the former populate the latter, including Bix Bouton, now a tech entrepreneur with a revolutionary yet controversial idea on downloading and sharing human memories. It is the sixth novel for the Chicago-born, San Francisco–raised, Brooklyn-based Egan, who’s also the author of Manhattan Beach (winner of the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction), about a female diver in WWII-era Brooklyn. Dip into her book picks below. THE BOOK THAT… Kept me up way too late: Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White. It’s one of the best thrillers I’ve ever read, a Gothic novel that…

DISNEY MOVIES PLAYED a huge role in gymnast Sunisa Lee’s childhood. “I just loved Mulan—she was super powerful and knew what she wanted,” Lee says. “I could relate, because I always knew that I wanted to go to the Olympics.” Lee, who was raised in Saint Paul, Minnesota, as part of a tight-knit Hmong American community, saw her goal come to fruition last summer—a year later than expected. “[The postponement] was really stressful because it was something I’d worked my whole life for,” says Lee, who lost an aunt and uncle to COVID. “I didn’t know if I really wanted to do it anymore. I had a lot of self-doubt. But once I got back into the gym, I worked even harder, and it made me want to go even…

TIME TO SHINE “Dior Addict has grown up,” says Dior’s Peter Philips about the brand’s new lipstick collection, which launches this month with 39 fresh shades and four covetable cases. The line’s 90 percent natural lip formula contains a blend of botanicals, including jasmine wax (from Christian Dior’s favorite flower) and plum oil, and imparts a glossy finish. The new packaging includes four reusable cases designed to hold refillable lip color bullets. With the initial purchase of any Dior Addict lipstick, you receive the lip color in a sleek black case with the Dior logo. But you may also opt to buy one of three empty fashion cases ($28 each) and add a refillable lip color bullet ($32): Metallic Silver has a mirrorlike finish; Indigo Denim evokes textured blue jeans;…

COVER Catsuit by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, $3,290, Saint Laurent (NYC). INSIDE COVER Cape, $1,950, briefs, $690, by Loewe, loewe.com. Headpiece by Ellen Christine Couture, $650, made to order, ellenchristinecouture.com. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 71: Sarah Hendler, 800-511-7005. PAGE 74: Etro, etro.com. Jean Schlumberger, Tiffany & Co., tiffany.com. Christian Louboutin, christianlouboutin.com. NINA’S EDIT PAGE 82: Earrings by W.Rosado, $84,000, justoneeye.com. Handbag by Hermès, $12,800, hermes.com. SHOP PAGE 118: Coat by Loro Piana, $3,695, loropiana.com. Rings by Pili Restrepo, $2,950, fashionkind.com. PAGE 121: Shorts by Brunello Cucinelli, $3,195, Brunello Cucinelli (NYC). PAGE 123: Pants by Tom Ford, $2,150, tomford.com. Pants by Balmain, $2,095, balmain.com. BEAUTY IT LIST PAGE 130: Tamara Comolli Fine Jewelry, tamaracomolli.com. Gabriel & Co., 212-519-1400. MODERN HEROINES PAGE 154: Michael Kors Collection, michaelkors.com. ZOË NOW PAGE 157:…

Our Spring Fashion issue is brimming with famous faces, from cover star Zoë Kravitz to Morbius actress Adria Arjona and supermodels Anna Ewers and Arizona O Muse. Kravitz happens to be an ELLE girl from way back: An early-career photo shoot we did with her, in 2007, billed the actress as “one fashionable act to follow.” These days, she’s taking the lead: She’s strapping on the legendary skintight Catwoman suit for her role in The Batman and prepping to direct Channing Tatum in the feature Pussy Island, which she also cowrote. Though Kravitz is the daughter of both Hollywood and rock royalty, her motivation has come from “wanting to prove not only to the world, but to myself, that I deserve to take up space in the industry,” as she…

OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, the notion that the four traditionally accepted fashion capitals were the final word on what defines style has thankfully gone the way of skinny jeans. Tbilisi, Lagos, and Copenhagen have all shifted the spotlight from New York, London, Milan, and Paris, and last fall, Doha, Qatar, found itself front and center for the third edition of its groundbreaking talent incubator, Fashion Trust Arabia’s award ceremony. Inspired by the success of the British Fashion Council’s Fashion Trust in the UK, the nonprofit FTA provides a high-profile platform and funding to the most promising young design talent from the Middle East and North Africa. It’s led by philanthropist Tania Fares (a native of Lebanon and cochair of the charitable arm of the British Fashion Trust), with Her…

STYLING TIP: MAXIMIZE YOUR MINI Long sleeves and demure kitten heels offset sky-high hemlines, while an organza anorak, a slim ’90s bag, and sporty shades straddle the line between ladylike and cool.…

FRAGRANCE La Collection Privée Christian Dior Eden-Roc ($250; dior.com) An homage to Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, the famed luxury hotel in the French Riviera, this woody-floral fragrance was created to evoke a seaside vacation. ELLE Italy’s Michela Motta calls it “a summer day in a bottle,” while ELLE Taiwan’s Yvonne Yang says it reminds her of “diving into the Mediterranean Sea.” MAKEUP MASCARA Lancôme Lash Idôle Mascara ($26; lancome-usa.com) “The curved wand mimics the shape of the eyelid, which makes it the perfect tool to curl and coat lashes,” says ELLE USA’s Margaux Anbouba. The lengthening and volumizing gel also goes on “super-dark in a single coat,” says Anbouba, for a lash look that’s both dramatic and enduring—yet easy to remove at day’s end. FOUNDATION Clé de Peau Beauté Radiant Cream…

I DIDN’T ANTICIPATE Zoë Kravitz would be so open about her family this early into our conversation. Especially considering she is in her own lane and this is 100 percent her moment. But I quickly realize this is a woman possessing an acute level of self-awareness. It’s nearly impossible to think of a scenario in which the daughter of iconic rock star Lenny Kravitz and actress and eternal beauty Lisa Bonet wouldn’t keep it real—particularly when it comes to owning who she is. When she was in her early twenties, “There was a little bit of embarrassment around what came with my last name,” reveals Kravitz, who is now 33, shortly after we meet at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel. “People would always assume that if I…