Indholdsfortegnelse for November 2016 i ELLE

NOVEMBER 12 The Rolling Stones open their private vault for Exhibitionism, a show at NYC’s Industria that features sequined coats, Telecasters, and everything in between. NOVEMBER 4 Tumblr prince Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Marvel’s Doctor Strange as a neurosurgeon turned reality-bending mystic-arts master. NOVEMBER 15 Megyn Kelly, Fox News’s The Kelly File host, releases her candid memoir, Settle for More, which reveals neverbefore- heard details about that controversial Republican debate. NOVEMBER 15 Moving between London and West Africa, Zadie Smith’s novel Swing Time traces a friendship between two girls through its abrupt end in their twenties. NOVEMBER 20 Dominic West and Ruth Wilson star in Showtime’s The Affair, about the fallout from an extramarital relationship (and a murder). The show continues to live up to the steamy, soapy drama its…

“I’m nerding out way hard to ashwagandha farmers right now,” says Amanda Chantal Bacon, which sounds perfectly rational coming, as it does, from the mind (and muscle) behind Moon Juice, the L.A. cold-press mecca, and the author of hot-off-the-press The Moon Juice Cookbook: Cosmic Alchemy for a Thriving Body, Beauty, and Consciousness. “Now it’s, ‘You have a juice bar. Of course. Fabulous,’ ” Bacon says. But seven years ago, when she told friends about her plans for a store that sold “moon milks,” as she calls them, “It was like, ‘Girl, you’re crazy.’ ” Bacon’s devotion to ashwagandha and its ilk (for the record, it’s a plant commonly used in Ayurvedic medicine to treat everything from inflammation to fertility trouble) stems from her own health issues, including severe childhood respiratory…

BY THE ASTROTWINS, Tali and Ophira Edut SCORPIO OCT 23–NOV 21 Flex those influencer skills. November is Scorpio season, which means people will readily march to the beat of your drum. Your tenacity will be celebrated as profits roll in during the month’s final quarter. Warrior Mars camps out in your domestic sector on the 8th, making “Give me shelter!” your battle cry. Turn your home into an oasis, reconfiguring rooms (or roommates) if need be. The 14th’s full moon brings a milestone moment for love. Then Venus merges with your ruler, Pluto, on the 25th—another key day in 2016 for locking a relationship into a steady groove. SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22–DEC 21) As November dawns, you’ve reached max capacity. Schedule spa treatments or start a daily meditation practice. Cosmic creatrix…

IN 1976, A VERY BRONZED and svelte-again Elizabeth Taylor strode down the onstage staircase at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to close the forty-eighth annual Academy Awards with a sincerely loopy salute to our nation’s Bicentennial that ended with her beseeching the bewildered audience to join her in a sing-along of “America the Beautiful.” All that saved this bizarre finale from ranking as an All-Time Awkward Oscar Moment—right up there with Rob Lowe’s legendary 1989 duet with Snow White to the tune of “Proud Mary”—was that Taylor looked sensational. Her brilliant poppy-red strapless gown, designed by her new best friend, Halston, showcased the streamlined allure of the 1970s’ most influential, and perhaps revolutionary, American designer. Burned as it was into my brain for decades, the gown would have been a prime…

As one of the quirkier trends for fall, the kilt is having quite a moment. To what do we owe this Scottish staple’s resurgence? Well, the BBC kicked things off in January by declaring an end to “Scottish Cringe,” the postindustrial sense of inferiority that had long plagued the northern half of the United Kingdom. Those negative feelings were most eloquently summed up by Ewan McGregor’s character in the 1996 cult classic Trainspotting: “It’s shite being Scottish.” At the time, the outlook was pretty bleak; unemployment was high, and expressions of cultural identity were often met with embarrassment. Two decades later, Scots are once again embracing their national identity, both at the polls (hello, independence referendum!) and on the runway. The renewed sense of pride and far-reaching influence are particularly…

First up: The chicest way to slouch, starring Jimmy Choo’s clip-on shoe embellishments, maxing out the ultimate lady heel MIXED MESSAGES Leather and lace, the ultimate hard/soft duo, re-upped for the season in chiaroscuro hues STYLIST’S TIP A wide belt gives this hiplength leather jacket a nipped silhouette. WEAR IT WITH An easygoing moto you can throw on like a sweater Leather and wool jacket, REBECCA MINKOFF, $498, at Rebecca Minkoff stores nationwide A two-tone lace pencil skirt begging to be taken out of good-girl context Lace skirt, MARCIANO, $168, visit marciano.com A streamlined biker that’s just tough enough Calfskin ankle boot, THE FRYE COMPANY, $348, visit thefryecompany.com HIGH CAMP Basic-training dressing goes haute with luxe artisanal details STYLIST’S TIP Add a refined brooch for a touch of sparkle that’s…

CRAFT SERVICES Who do both Alber Elbaz and Jessica Biel call to keep their fetes fabulous? Fashion’s most in-demand party-accoutrement maker, Confetti System, led by Nicolas Andersen and Julie Ho. Crafting everything from customized paper blooms to oversize cat-head piÑatas, the talented duo is taking papiermâché to new heights. MOVING IMAGE The stars of art and cinema align at the sixth annual Gucci-sponsored LACMA Art + Film Gala on October 29—this year honoring Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow and 87-year-old Light and Space movement pioneer Robert Irwin, who recently completed his magnum opus, an illuminative rebuild of an abandoned 1921 army hospital near Marfa, Texas. PRECIOUS METAL To celebrate the fifth anniversary of gallery-esque Hollywood boutique Just One Eye, Paco Rabanne designer Julien Dossena launches a capsule collection this month. Among…

RITZ PACKER To celebrate its grand reopening after a $450 million, four-year reno, THE RITZ PARIS tapped Dubreuil to curate the ultimate suitcase, featuring exclusive ready-to-wear and accessories from more than 10 different brands. In the mix: printed pajamas from F.R.S For Restless Sleepers and a MARK CROSS Tri Color Grace Box bag “meant to mimic the Art Deco facade of our South Beach location.” Calfskin handbag, MARK CROSS, $2,495, exclusively for The Webster at the Ritz Hotel in Paris WHAT’S OLD IS NEW “I’ve been a fan of Radiohead since OK Computer, but lately I’ve been in an ELVIS phase. ‘Don’t Be Cruel,’ ‘Blue Suede Shoes’—so retro, but very cool.” Now reading: Chef Eric Ripert’s memoir 32 YOLKS. “I love to cook, and as an entrepreneur, it’s inspiring to…

TOYE LO ALBUM: Lady Wood GENRE: Angstridden dance-pop SOUND: Slurry crooning atop tropical house (alongside Wiz Khalifa in “Influence”) ’90s-era R&B (“Cool Girl”), and brass-knuckled alt-rock (“Flashes”). FOR FANS OF: Dancing in sweaty, sexualized warehouse raves— albeit with bottle-service trappings. BEST SONG: The spare “Don’t Talk About It,” on which Tove Lo’s voice is front and center, refreshingly free of excessive production. JOJO ALBUM: Mad Love GENRE: Brash Top- 40 pop SOUND: Sultry, high-powered vocals; sweeping 808 beats; minor-key melodrama à la Bieber and the Weeknd’s recent output. WE LOVE: The onetime teenybopper’s new nothing-to-lose attitude: “Try not to get confused /Cause honestly this time I don’t care,” JoJo sings on the slow-strutting single “F*** Apologies.” BONUS: Alessia Cara steals the spotlight on “I Can Only.” SAD13 ALBUM: Slugger GENRE:…

If you are among those who like to dip into two books at the same time, try this pair of very different but equally edgy debut works of fiction: April Ayers Lawson’s sexually complex, unnerving Southern-set Virgin and Other Stories (FSG) and Kelly Luce’s Pull Me Under (FSG), a revelatory family mystery set in the United States and Japan, will more than satisfy that habit. If you dug How to Be a Woman; trust Lena Dunham’s recommendations on literature; and are intrigued by chapters titled, variously, “David Bowie—England’s Beautiful Boys,” “BACON!,” and “The Exact Amount of Famous I Am: 35 Percent,” Caitlin Moran’s latest, Moranifesto (Harper Perennial), is for you. If you suspect that history is full of mothers of invention who rarely get credit in books, you can look…

BREAKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF HEALTH AND FITNESS This past spring, Raphael Doub, former champion pole vaulter and current French It Girl trainer— Bond babe Léa Seydoux and singer Soko are clients—teamed up with trainee Sarah Andelman (creative director of Parisian überboutique Colette) to bring skate culture to the gym. During Colette Skate Gym classes, Doub uses short 22-inch plastic cruisers, aka Penny boards, to take clients through sessions that meld “figure skating, rowing, and cross-country skiing.” Doub says intrepid skaters can start honing flexibility and balance with a board at home: Starting on hands and knees, place both palms on the board in front of you; push it as far forward as possible, keeping knees grounded. Pull the board back to starting position, engaging the back and arm…

AS THE SUN MELTS behind the hills in Los Angeles, Inara George and Greg Kurstin, who make up the soulful pop duo The Bird and the Bee, serenade a dinner party gathered to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Tiffany Tuttle’s shoe label, LD Tuttle. The guests, including art-punk goddess Kim Gordon, stylist Jessica de Ruiter, and actress Busy Philipps, are transfixed. George, rooted near Kurstin’s backyard pool next to her collaborator on the keyboard, hypnotizes with the airiest high notes for their breakup song, “I’m a Broken Heart.” Even with wounded lines like “My love is bleeding,” her playful singing and Kurstin’s soft keys bring the song closer to joy than agony. Most of the partygoers are outfitted in Tuttle’s black leather creations—some with chunky heels and some with bows…

For seven seasons, Jon Hamm starred as Mad Men’s Don Draper, the hard-drinking, womanizing king of Madison Avenue. And while the actor and the character were certainly very different people, the two shared an emotional connection: Both lost their parents at a young age. Hamm grew up in St. Louis, where his mother died of cancer when he was just 10 years old; his father, who ran a trucking company, passed away a decade later. After college, Hamm moved to L.A. with $150 in his pocket, waiting tables as he waited for Hollywood to take notice. If stardom came late, it also came on strong: His Emmywinning stint on Mad Men made him a household name (and a paparazzi target); Tina Fey once said that Hamm was so handsome she…

NOVEMBER 5 We all know Gigi Hadid is a knockout. Now watch her throw her best punch in a James Franco–directed short spotlighting the Gigi— a croc-embossed leather combat bootie that the supe created with Stuart Weitzman—shot at Brooklyn’s iconic Gleason’s Gym, once home to prizefighters Roberto Duran and Jake LaMotta. Somehow, we think they’d approve. NOVEMBER 1 In a true test of your partygoing stamina, Red Bull Sound Select presents 30 Days in L.A., a monthlong music fest with performances from more than 40 artists, including Haim, Charli XCX, and AlunaGeorge. Our pick: psychedelic rock trio Sunflower Bean, fronted by Hedi Slimane muse Julia Cumming (6). NOVEMBER 2 Heidi Klum pours her learnings from countless teeny-bikini beach shoots into a new swimwear collection (4), launching tonight with a shopping…

Long before Jonathan Lipnicki stole everyone’s hearts in Jerry Maguire as the whiz kid who was a font of endless random facts and questions (“Jerry, Jerry...do you know that the human head weighs eight pounds?”), there was my little brother, Adam, who as a precocious six-year-old followed us around with the Guinness Book of World Records and various encyclopedias: “Did you know the world’s largest diamond was discovered in 1905?” (A record that still stands, btw.) “Did you know that a guy named Roy Sullivan survived being struck by lightning seven different times? Did you know that the world’s longest fashion show was 24 hours and 28 seconds long?” He grew up to get his master’s degree in history and become a newspaper reporter; I grew up equally fascinated by…

Since Michelle Ochs, 32, and Carly Cushnie founded Cushnie et Ochs in 2008, the two Parsonseducated designers have taken their clean, chic silhouettes all the way to the White House. (In 2011, Michelle Obama donned a green crepe Cushnie et Ochs evening dress for a “Christmas in Washington” television special.) In July 2015, Ochs married attorney Matthew Kopko atop a floating pool deck overlooking Jamaica’s Montego Bay, and this past summer the couple celebrated their first anniversary with equal aplomb: glamping across Tanzania. The 10- day trip led them to national parks, a coffee plantation, and the Machweo Wellness Retreat, ending with three glorious Zanzibar beach days. VISIT: The world’s largest unflooded volcanic caldera, the 115-square-mile Ngorongoro Crater sits less than three hours west of Arusha by car. “It was…

Frank Spadafora, founder of NYC-based social media networking firm D’Marie Analytics, is in the business of translating Instagram posts into dollar signs. “We rank who’s the most beneficial for a brand,” says Spadafora, based on “their reach, their engagement, their click-through capabilities”—24 variables that add up, he says, to an influencer’s “ad value.” That’s “not necessarily how much they get paid” to post a picture of themselves brandishing specific wares, but it does give a sense of how much free (or #sponsored) advertising a brand gets from each post. D’Marie can even discern that Kim’s optimal posting time is 7:00–7:30 p.m. and that Margot gets more likes in red than in blue. Spadafora won’t divulge the ad value of specific celebs, but he will drop this nugget: A single post…

This past August, I was in a state of euphoria from the publication of my first novel, An Innocent Fashion, when a text message from a friend jolted me back to reality. “Stop what you’re doing. Google your name.” I did, and my hand flew to my mouth. My book is the drama of a small-town boy of modest means, not unlike me, who struggles to make it at a prestigious fashion magazine. I’d been buoyed by initial reviews, which cited its “poetic precision” and generously compared it to the coming-of-age tales of Salinger, Plath, and Fitzgerald. Yet now I was discovering that a notorious New York gossip column had received a tip that a former fashion “minion” had written a sensational fashion-industry takedown à la The Devil Wears Prada.…

UNITED KINGDOM For Gucci’s latest explosion of eccentric chic, Alessandro Michele mined Union Jacks and natty plaids. Where better to debut his collection than London’s millennium-old Westminster Abbey? CUBA Valentino’s Maria Grazia Chiuri (now helming Dior) and Pierpaolo Piccioli whisked us away— mentally, at least—to the Pearl of the Antilles with washed pastels and island textures. BRAZIL Nicolas Ghesquière’s Louis Vuitton sport-infused collection—showcased at Oscar Niemeyer’s Niterói Contemporary Art Museum—keeps Rio fever burning bright.…

On occasion, CFDA award–winning jewelry designer Pamela Love daydreams about packing up and moving to the red-dust town of Coober Pedy, Australia (pop. 3,500), famed for its subterranean dugout homes—handy in the 100-degree average summer heat—and, since 1915, for its white opals. “It’s really hard for me not to work with opals,” says Love. “I often fantasize about moving there and becoming an expert.” Love’s favorite piece from her new fine-jewelry collection for Detroit-based brand Shinola is a deceptively simple, 14-karat yellow gold signet ring with the mystical, color-filled stone front and center. “You would not believe the hours spent perfecting that ring,” says the designer of the meticulously balanced heirloom-to-be. Bringing a brand that specializes in handmade leather footballs, road bikes, space pens, and, of course, clean, classic timepieces…

THE NO-BRAINER The tuxedo jacket is back—but did it ever go away? Not in my closet. I love to wear mine with jeans for day; for night, it’s great over a dress. It’s that versatile piece that kicks everything up a notch, whether it’s a classic number from Pallas or Armani’s metallic lapel-less version that’s giving me red-carpet visions. ABOUT FACE Allow me to introduce Jennifer Fisher’s new Samira hoops—yes, she named them after me! Thrilling. The other new addition I’m showcasing here? My crazy brows. A few months ago I went on strike from waxing and tweezing. Who has the time? Glossier’s lightly tinted Boy Brow keeps them just a bit unruly. I feel like Groucho Marx half the time, but I’m loving it. LINEAR THINKING A nice way…

HE HATED IT: A black-masked intruder assaults Michèle, a well-to-do Parisienne, in her home, rapes her, and flees the house. When she comes to after a few seconds, she casts a world-weary gaze out the window, gets up, locks the front door, sweeps up broken crockery, and orders some Chinese takeout. If you’ve ever been violently assaulted and faced the immediate prospect of being murdered (as I have)—the way its terror stabs to your very core, the uncontrollable trembling you struggle to master, the unbounded and unreasoning fear of death that lingers long after—you will recognize that this scenario doesn’t remotely get at the kind of trauma that it purports to portray. It’s a cartoon. Action movies regularly depict absurdly nontraumatic reactions to horrendous experiences. But this is an art…

The dexterous men and women in charge of putting on a celebrity’s game face—i.e., their favorite makeup artists—are such crucial allies and constant companions that they often transcend the line between glam-squad captain and full-time best friend. Which is why Dior’s eighth annual luncheon benefiting international medical charity Operation Smile (each makeup artist brings a famous client as a date; for every couple, Dior donates one surgery for a child born with a facial deformity in a developing country) is such a well-attended event. This year, on the flower-festooned penthouse terrace of the London West Hollywood hotel, the chummy duos divulged time-tested how-tos, from undetectable daytime foundation to secrets for dark complexions to the case for ’80s-level blush. ACTRESS RACHEL McADAMS & KAYLEEN McADAMS RACHEL: My beauty inspiration day-to-day is…

You bought the heart-rate tracking “wearable.” Maybe you even sent off a DNA sample in the mail. So where are we headed with all of this quantification— with every little byte of bodily data gauged, recorded, and (somewhere...) studied? From the “big data” big picture to a swab test that dare not speak its name, we investigate where tech meets health meets you. SURVIVAL OF THE ELLE-EST We’ve always known that you, dear reader, are busy. But now we know just how much you’re working out, stretching out, and not sleeping: ELLE teamed up with the activity-tracking techies at Fitbit to find out how our woman stacks up.*…

Twenty-six-year-old actress Makenzie Leigh has a personal mandate about parts she hopes to steer clear of—that is, “sexist depictions of women,” she says. And yet her breakout role in Ang Lee’s newest drama, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, is not only as the war hero Billy’s love interest but also a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. The point being that her character, Faison—and, of course, women in general—can be “a bundle of contradictions.” In depicting a devout young woman who intensely—and unexpectedly— falls for Billy, fresh from the latest Iraq war, at the Cowboys stadium during a stop on his squadron’s so-called victory tour, Leigh drew from her own upbringing in the Dallas suburbs (where she’d trained seriously as a ballerina until an injury at age 15). “Growing up in Texas, you…

KRISTEN STEWART ON CELEBRITY CULTURE: “The romanticized approach to viewing celebrities has been perforated. Now we’re all super real, not on this weird pedestal. It’s better that we’re not pretending people are anything more than human.” AMY ADAMS ON CHOOSING ROLES: “For me, it all comes down to the character. Have I played a character like that before? Is there something I can communicate through this person? I always want to try to do something that I haven’t done before.” ANNA KENDRICK ON GETTING A SCENE RIGHT: “I don’t mean to be unnecessarily crass, but it’s a little like sex. You couldn’t explain to someone what makes it good and what makes it bad, but you know it when it’s happening.” AJA NAOMI KING ON PREPARING FOR A ROLE: “I…

AU CONTRAIRE Assuming you don’t live in a swing state,* consider the following: • If you vote, the victor—even if not your pick—is more likely to serve your needs. “It’s not just about who wins,” says John Aldrich, a professor at Duke and an expert on voter turnout. “If [a politician] knows there are a bunch of people on the other side, they’ll respond to that when in office.” Why? They want to get reelected. • Which could be great for millennials, who will outnumber boomers for the first time in a presidential election. “If millennial women turned out at the same rate as their older counterparts, politicians would have no choice but to listen to them,” says Denise Feriozzi of EMILY’s List. • Voting is a habit. There’s a…

When I look back at photos from my Midwestern childhood, I can tell the year by the color of my Lands’ End Squall jacket. In fourth grade, I had this thing for cherry red. The next year, it was all about deep blue. Although the color of my jacket may have changed, my loyalty to that particular piece of fleece-lined nylon outerwear—with its rib-knit cuffs and hem and signature navy label with white block lettering adorning the left chest—was unvarying. Which is exactly how a lot of Americans feel about the mail-order purveyor known for its casual basics, sturdy outerwear, and unconditional return policy (“If you’re not satisfied with any item‚ simply return it to us at any time for an exchange or refund of its purchase price. Guaranteed. Period.”).…

BLOOMING LOVELY Fendi’s floral-embroidered top-handle offers an instant wardrobe update—no green thumb required RUBBER SOUL The latest überbasic to benefit from a serious fashion makeover: the desert boot, now elevated with of-themoment platforms EXIT STRATEGY Leave them wanting more in the season’s party-in-the-back stilettos BACK IN THE SADDLE Ralph Lauren channels the best of the West in boots and bags fit for the free-spirited city slicker GOODNIGHT MOON The latest constellation of lunar-inspired watches twinkle like the night sky IT TAKES TWO Take your wardrobe to the next level with towering flatforms and the season’s must-have conversation piece: the intricate patchwork bag WALK TALL STYLIST’S TIP The sturdy silhouette lends tomboy charm to even the frilliest of frocks. ELLE EXCLUSIVE: ALL IN THE WRIST Hermès has a long history of…

First up: The ’80s strike back with Marc Jacobs’s Material Girl in bold hues and blown-up proportions 1950s Be the picture of elegance in romantic circle skirts, like the one true Hollywood royal, Grace Kelly 1960s Thanks to Rosemary Woodhouse, saccharine hues and naïve shapes will always have a whiff of subversion 1970s Nothing says streetwise bohemian like statement boots, a spot of leopard, and a mini almost as micro as Jane Fonda’s in Klute 1980s Live life to the fullest à la Madonna’s hard-partying Desperately Seeking Susan in a fearless mix of optic checks and blinged-out leather 1990s Find an outlet for youthful angst in distressed denim and twisted florals, like Winona’s conflicted cool-girl-forever in Reality Bites REBEL,REBEL From The Breakfast Club to The Outsiders, no cinematic bad boy…

Director Jeff Nichols’s lovely Loving; Marina Abramoviæ’s long-awaited memoir “I have a lot more bravery than common sense,” says British actress Annabelle Wallis. “That’s where Tom Cruise and I are two peas in a pod.” If this sounds like wishful thinking, the 31-year-old—who grew up in Portugal and moved to London at 18 to pursue acting (“I thought, Why bloody not?”)—is speaking from the set of The Mummy, the 2017 reboot of the adventure franchise in which she’ll costar with Cruise himself. Minutes before our call, in fact, the two had been filming underwater sequences, and, yes, she’s doing her own stunts. That particular brand of fearlessness has served Wallis well. In 2013, when she auditioned for the BBC gangster series Peaky Blinders, “they asked if I could sing, and…

“The very existence of this book feels to me like an assurance that while we may think we have done our archival work and unearthed all the treasures of black thinking women, there is always something more to find,” the poet Elizabeth Alexander writes in her foreword to Kathleen Collins’s rescued gem of a pioneering short-story collection, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? (Ecco Press). “Now, this is a literary voice that I can never unhear.” It’s true! The stories cast a lively, emotionally penetrating eye on the lives of the urban black middle class in the 1970s and ’80s. They make you ache with the powerfully felt sense of real people who value racial parity and collaboration, the aims of art and the necessity of commerce, fearless conversation and creative…

MIDAS TOUCH How to make makeup feel as riche as a lavishly spangled Alberta Ferretti dress? Go for gold From lids to manes to limbs, everything beauty pros touched backstage turned to gold. At J. Mendel, where the collection’s geometric patterns and metallic motif looked Gustav Klimt–inspired, Romy Soleimani strobed lids with “spontaneous” strokes of a mixture of gilded pigment and ultrashiny clear lip gloss, then sprinkled the streaks with glitter. “Gilles [Mendel] treated some of the furs in the collection with real gold,” the makeup artist says. “I wanted to continue the theme.” Seeking a subtler effect? Take your cue from Tom Pecheux, who gave classic black cat-eyes a “lift” at Elie Saab with flicks of glinty gel liner. Or from hairstylist Guido Palau, who secured center-parted strands at…

Blame silent screen–era director D. W. Griffith for the cult of perfection in Hollywood (and the rest of the world): His pioneering close-ups arguably led to generations of actors (supposedly everyone from Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo to Burt Lancaster and John Wayne) becoming plastic surgery guinea pigs, ready to try everything from cheek-plumping paraffin shots, precursors to today’s fillers, to painful hairline electrolysis. To help the most crinkled faces, early cinematographers started “Vaselensing,” coating the camera lens with Vaseline—a practice that seems both quaint and kind in this era of HD cameras capable of discerning every pore and all but the most undetectable dermatological interventions. “People think that the true beauties of the world don’t do anything,” says Danny Holbus, founder of the beloved Los Angeles medi-spa DMH Aesthetics.…

Paco Rabanne’s first advertising campaign under Artistic Director Julien Dossena, launched last spring, featured metallic minidresses strewn about uninhabited, minimalist rooms, evoking a pastel post-apocalypse, complete with retro-meets-twenty-second-century silver soda cans and milk cartons branded with the updated Paco Rabanne logo. For the fall campaign, similarly prosaic household items appeared in the hands of models traversing barren seascapes in protective gear, like a white “duvet” skirt or a long camel coat sprouting shearling trim. Cryptic and artistic, the images reflect the epic vision of the house’s namesake founder, who kicked things off in 1966 with an exhibition called “12 Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials.” A peer of André Courrèges and Pierre Cardin, Rabanne designed the futuristic costumes for cult films such as Roger Vadim’s Barbarella, starring the director’s then-wife Jane…