Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2019 i Vogue

Ask Sam Cheow why he thinks essential oils are on everyone’s lips (OK, pulse points) these days, and he’ll tell you it has to do with two trends colliding: the desire to foster well-being from the inside out—facial calisthenics! Raw diets!—and a burgeoning curiosity about how nontraditional notions, and unconventional products, may help you sleep better, or cheer you up, or calm you down. “It is about self-care, self-love, self-respect, and self-worth,” says Cheow, the former L’Oréal exec behind Necessary Luxury, a seasonal collection of purposeful, limited-edition oil blends and so-called Mindset Mists. It’s just one of the aromatherapy lines wafting their way into the mainstream. If you need proof that these demi- or fully bespoke blends have reached a new level of respectability, you have only to visit two…

In Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut, Booksmart, overbearing Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and self-conscious Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) are two best friends living a highly regimented life, forgoing high school shenanigans for advanced-placement exams and rigorous extracurriculars. And it’s worked, kind of, earning them entry to Ivy League colleges—and a less-than-sparkling reputation among their peers. “I would make passionate sex to Molly Davidson,” a laid-back skater says to a couple of his friends. “I’d just put a bag over her personality.” Molly overhears and lets them have it, informing them that while they were messing around, she was grinding her way toward Yale. But here’s the twist: The three popular kids have elite futures, too—Yale, Stanford, and Google. And so begins Molly and Amy’s final high school hurrah. The subsequent romp through three…

This month, Nike celebrates the FIFA Women’s World Cup by teaming up with four visionary designers—Marine Serre, Yoon Ahn of Ambush, Christelle Kocher of Koché, and Erin Magee of MadeMe—to create couture versions of classic soccer uniforms. The collection’s release marks the start of the tournament (held this year in France from June 7 to July 7) as well as the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. women’s win at the 1999 World Cup, and will be available globally through NikeLab. Each designer injected her own signature vision into the kits: Ahn’s design for a jacket and Flyknit bra borrows from the silhouette of a traditional Japanese happi coat, while Magee, a former collegiate footballer, took inspiration from Nike’s namesake goddess of victory. Serre’s bodysuit and matching sports bra feature her…

FASHION Grace Coddington first registered Marc Jacobs’s Zeitgeisty work when he designed what she calls “a little white sequined dress that was like a towel wrapped round as you get out of the bath.” She has been a fan ever since. “I don’t think he’s ever done a collection that I didn’t like,” she says. “He has such a charm to his clothes—they change with his moods, but they are always true to himself.” And so, when Coddington was approached to illustrate her selection from each and every one of Marc Jacobs’s collections through nearly 30 years, she jumped at the opportunity. Those drawings have resulted in Marc Jacobs Illustrated (Phaidon), with text by Jacobs, an introduction by Jacobs’s muse Sofia Coppola, and whimsical art direction conceived by Coddington and…

“You’re a free man,” Angie Richardson tells her little brother, Kevin, in the first minutes of When They See Us, the latest drama from Ava DuVernay, which premieres on Netflix this month. Given the topic the four-part series addresses—the wrongful conviction of five teenagers in the infamous 1989 Central Park Jogger case—the comment has ominous overtones. But for the moment at least, the implication is benign: She’s picked him up from school on the last day before a weeklong vacation. He’s fourteen, a child liberated from trumpet practice and the daily grind. Kevin will soon become one of the five teens accused of the attack on and rape of 28-year-old Trisha Ellen Meili, who went for a run in the Manhattan park on an April evening in ’89 and was…

On the Tuesday when I am to meet Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the South Bend Tribune, his hometown paper, runs a headline with staggering news: An Emerson poll of likely Iowa Caucus voters has put the mayor third among Democratic prospects, ahead of everybody except the grizzled veterans of the race, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. The surge is just the latest in a series of ascents that began when Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of a small Rust Belt city, announced his exploratory committee for the presidency in January. Since then, his unlikely climb has energized a scattered race, and has come as a shock to no one more than to the candidate himself. “All these events that we set up as, basically, meet-and-greet events end up being rallies,” he tells…

For the ultimate perennial blooms, one word: plastics. Since 1979, Cec LePage has been sculpting acrylic into various artful objets. She started her career in fashion, creating funky plastic bangles and jagged polygon slivers for earrings. (Robin Wright memorably wore a pair of Cec LePage earrings in a story celebrating her breakout role in The Princess Bride, Vogue, January 1988.) In 1990 LePage swapped jewelry for decor, but ironically it was fashion that led her to artificial flowers, when Burberry commissioned 250 acrylic calla lilies and anthuriums to decorate a new store in Japan. Ever since, the Canadian-born LePage has carved her medium of choice into phyllo pastry–thin layers, molding them into fantastic florals in vibrant colors with coordinating vases. “I don’t really follow color trends; right now I’m crazy…

“You never wear plaid! You hate your legs! You love Valentino!” Rafael Ortiz laughs as he reveals the kinds of intimate fashion secrets that are at the heart of Project YX, his new high-end digital wardrobe service. Ortiz explains how it all began: A few years ago, while shopping in an expensive store—a place he patronized often—in Silicon Valley, he noticed another customer being offered all kinds of special services. “Can I have that, too?” he asked a salesperson. The answer was no—this pampering was available only to clients who forked over north of $100,000 a year. As it does with every entrepreneurial mind, a lightbulb went off. “I was very selfish—I wanted that kind of service for myself,” Ortiz says. So he got together with his friend Sara Hirsch—the…

The trio of sometimes-friends in Vogue contributor Lauren Mechling’s precise and of-the-moment How Could She (Viking) are wandering their way through adulthood. There’s Rachel, a part-time editor at a high-minded glossy who desperately wants to break through in the YA-novel scene; the congenitally lucky Sunny, who has married rich and deems herself “a proper artist”; and poor Geraldine, getting over a devastating breakup and floundering in her career. As successes ebb and flow and alliances strain and stretch, Mechling zooms in on the constrictor knot of adult female friendships, offering a delectably uncomfortable time capsule of our post-aughts selves and the honest struggles that lurk inside the hearts of women everywhere. Farther uptown, the titular Dr. Toby Fleishman in Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman Is in Trouble (Random House) is a middling…

At some point in the future, when people look back on the career of Himesh Patel, they will probably describe the role of Jack Malik, the unlikely hero at the center of Danny Boyle’s new rom-com Yesterday, as his breakthrough. Really, though, Patel’s debut came in 2001, when he was eleven and the lead of his school play, a parody titled This Is Your Life, Santa Claus. “In what was at the time quite a diverse piece of casting,” the 28-year-old recalls, “I played the host, Michael Aspel”—a 68-year-old white man—“and the teacher told my parents, ‘He’s actually quite good.’” Acting school ensued, and at sixteen, Patel landed a regular spot on EastEnders, the long-running BBC soap opera, playing the part of Tamwar Masood, the son of a postmaster and…

In college, Emily was the most popular female name in my incoming class, so to differentiate from “hippie Emily,” “pink-hair Emily,” and “nose-pierce Emily,” my classmates deemed me “long-hair Emily.” Luckily, the nickname didn’t stick. But my hair remains the same, nearly two decades later: dangling just near my waist, anchored by a heavy fringe. I’ve never thought about changing it—mostly because caring for it requires so little effort: Wash, dry, maybe a braid or a high ponytail. Nineties supermodel Liisa Winkler, who has had hip-grazing, beachy waves her entire life (minus a traumatic, Samsonesque chop for a 2001 cover of Italian Vogue, she recalls with a shudder), agrees that it’s the “ease of maintenance” that keeps her from going short. “My mom trims it once in a while; that’s…

Coiled phone cords; Mariano Fortuny’s Delphos dresses; Issey Miyake’s textured, techy separates; and Roberto Capucci’s lettuce-hemmed, rainbow-striped ball gowns: All of these things inspired Sies Marjan designer Sander Lak in the creation of this slick, lilac-colored look—featuring a light elastin that permits stretching and crinkling—worn superbly by Issa Rae. “It’s like an old T-shirt that you’ve worked so much,” Lak says, “that the neckline is all stretched out and wobbly.”…

From the private pools of Calabasas to the beaches of St. Barth’s, Solid & Striped’s color-blocked bikinis and maillots have been racking up the frequent-flier miles since the vacation-inspired brand launched six years ago. “We’re in the business of making products that can be packed into your duffel with a little bit of sand from your last trip,” says 33-year-old founder Isaac Ross, a social media–savvy William Morris alum who created the ubiquitous line after lusting over a discontinued men’s style from the iconic St.-Tropez beach bar and boutique Le Club 55. That duffel is about to get a little bit heavier as Solid & Striped branches out into beauty this month, with an on-brand suncare curation that debuts just as summer gets under way. “I wanted to connect beyond…

HURLEY WINDSKIN SPRINGSUIT With just .05 mm of superthin neoprene, this sleek wetsuit is light and wonderfully easy to move in but keeps you warm—and looks like Bond-girl leather; $120, hurley.com. MEGABABE THIGH RESCUE Wetsuits can rub against your skin and cause irritation. This soothing, multipurpose antifriction stick forms a protective seal; $14, megababebeauty.com. DAVID MALLETT’S MASK NO. 1: HYDRATION Smoothing and strengthening, this mask revives hair after hours in salt water; $75, materiae.com. SPEEDO USA WOMEN’S VANQUISHER 2.0 MIRRORED GOGGLE Favorites of open-water swim instructors, these antifog goggles offer precision fit, UV protection, and a glare-cutting mirrored design; $21.99, speedousa.com. SUPERGOOP! SHINE ON LIPSCREEN SPF 50 This clear sunscreen delivers SPF 50 protection to an often-neglected area—and it is water-resistant for up to 80 minutes; $22, supergoop.com.…

REALISTICALLY, I KNOW that Obé Fitness’s instructors exist in the actual world, not just inside the glowing white box on my laptop screen. I’m also acutely aware that this white box is a set in Brooklyn, and that the toned bodies that bop around inside of it, dressed in pastel-pink leggings, don’t just lead live back-to-back exercise classes on loop. They presumably go home on occasion to do laundry, drink Lambrusco, bicker, sleep. By which I mean: They’re actual human beings, not focus group–tested avatars created by a roomful of programmers or some user-generated algorithm. But as I maniacally hurl myself around my living room on the command of the small figure bouncing across the screen of my MacBook Air, my brain keeps reverting back to the idea that I…

Table of contents: 19: On Ceretti: Swimsuit ($1,100), skirt ($1,600), and hat ($1,200); select Chanel stores. Altuzarra earrings, price upon request; altuzarra.com. Oscar de la Renta necklace, $450; personalshopper@odlr.com for information. Sandals, $620; jacquemus.com. On Jenner: Top ($1,300), shorts ($1,150), and hat ($1,200); select Chanel stores. BJØRG earrings, $275; bjorgjewellery.com. Alighieri necklace, $275; alighieri.co.uk. Sandals, $684; jacquemus.com. Manicure, Tracy Clemens for Chanel Le Vernis. Tailor, Susie’s Custom Designs. Cover look: 28: Dress, $4,990; select Ralph Lauren stores. Editor’s letter: 30: Ermenegildo Zegna shirt ($515) and pants ($750); select Ermenegildo Zegna stores. V life: 46: Shirt, $350; ssense.com. The Elder Statesman T-shirt, $465; The Elder Statesman, West Hollywood. Pants, $655; similar styles at Stella McCartney, NYC. Stella McCartney sneakers, $570; Stella McCartney, NYC. PUT IT IN PRINT 82–83: Hat, $2,025; Valentino…