Indholdsfortegnelse for February 2025 i ELLE

For Lady Gaga, making music has always been a form of catharsis. And on her eagerly awaited new album Mayhem, she found a way to process the mental health struggles she has opened up about over the years. “I think through making this album, I was able to really love myself,” our February cover star tells Lotte Jeffs. “Confronting the music was a way of confronting some of the things I’ve been through and saying, ‘It’s okay that’s who you are.’ And celebrating that about myself, instead of trying to pretend it’s not real.” For more, go to ELLE.com to see the star answer our burning questions as part of our Ask Me Anything franchise. Spring 2025 was a fashion version of “Choose your own adventure.” That’s reflected in the…

LOUVRE IT OR LEAVE IT Olivier Gabet, director of the Department of Decorative Arts at the Louvre, weaves together objects and fashion in Louvre Couture. Objets d’art, objets de mode. The 71 looks and about 30 accessories complement the historical pieces in the exhibition, with works that range from the Byzantine to the Second Empire. While the focus remains on the objects, the intention is to show that art and clothing are uniquely connected. Through July 21, louvre.fr. CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS Moroccan artist and photographer Hassan Hajjaj is unveiling a set of photographs at New York’s Hannah Traore Gallery. The exhibition includes portraits of individuals Hajjaj has met, all taken in 2007 and framed by multicolored floor mats. To accentuate the imagery, Hajjaj also re-created his personal Marrakech tearoom.…

How elevated athleisure became spring’s most surprising trend. By Juliana Ukiomogbe If you’ve picked up on a buzzing synergy between high fashion and sports lately, you’re not mistaken. At the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, French luxury group LVMH was a first-time premium sponsor of the Games—supplying everything from medals to custom Louis Vuitton trunks. Elsewhere on the fashion front, rising WNBA stars like Angel Reese are quickly becoming some of our most stylish athletes. Now further evidence of this budding relationship has landed on the runway, with designers putting their own spin on elevated sporty motifs. This luxe athleisure is very different from what we saw in the 2010s, the decade the term was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Back then, “casual” was the name of the game, whether that…

There’s something different about how we look these days. Faces used to practically have logos: Forehead by Botox, lips by Juvederm, and cheeks by Restylane. Now you can’t exactly figure out what treatments people are getting. If work is being done, it’s subtle, sotto voce. It’s the Undetectable Era. “It’s demure,” observes celebrity makeup artist Daniel Martin when I ask for his thoughts on this new paradigm. It’s mindful. As the reigning no-makeup-makeup artist, Martin’s long been an expert at understated beauty. Now he jokes about the new “no-filler-filler cheek,” saying, “the technology and the work now are definitely different. It’s undetectable.” The “Undetectable Era” is a phrase mentioned in a viral TikTok by Prem Tripathi, MD, a plastic surgeon in the Bay Area, who had noticed the rise of…

REBECCA YARROS IS GOING TO take some time off. Really. When we speak, the best-selling author is planning a getaway with her husband. “I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself,” she admits. Yarros is the epitome of a cool millennial mom, her blonde hair tinged with fuchsia streaks. She has also gotten to the level of busyness where you don’t even remember what free time feels like. Ever since her first New York Times bestseller, Fourth Wing—the initial installment of her Empyrean series, which centers on cadets in military training, set in a fantasy world complete with dragons—broke out in 2023, she’s become a success story in an industry where those are fewer and farther between. The latest book in the series, Onyx Storm, came out in…

ELLE: Your work with Dior Homme made me wonder how acute your sense of smell is. ROBERT PATTINSON: I can weirdly turn on and off my sense of smell. I think I have a scent dyslexia, where I think something smells like something that no one else thinks it does. ELLE: Do you have any vivid memories attached to a particular scent? RP: Since I had a kid, I’ve definitely become more attuned to that. I remember my mom always saying, “Oh, the smell of babies!” And I’d be like, I don’t know, they all smell like genetically modified piglets. But then you have your own kid, and it’s “Oh, this is the best smell I’ve ever smelled.” Another one that comes to mind was the smell of the mask…

The BAG Fringe was everywhere on the spring runways, and it wasn’t confined to clothing. Look no further than the bohemian revamp that Fendi has given its new Peekaboo Soft styles. The CUFF Inspired by a city skyline, Chopard’s Ice Cube high jewelry bracelet melds ethical 18K rose gold with diamonds that glint like the sunset off a skyscraper. The SHOE Anthony Vaccarello set off his spring 2025 paean to Saint Laurent’s history with pieces like these slick heels—a nod to the house founder’s love of jewelry as well as one of his muses, Loulou de la Falaise.…

I’m disarmed by the way Willy Chavarria’s name shows up in my email: bookended by red heart emojis. It’s how his publicist has saved him in her phone, and soon I’m struck by how accurately it captures the iconoclastic designer. Chavarria, 57, is one of the biggest talents in fashion right now, but he’s also warm, dreamy, and wise. He is grounded in the real world and all its beauty and discontents. “I think what’s different about my approach to fashion,” he tells me in a deep, gentle voice I want to explain everything to me, “is that it’s still very much connected to reality. I want to acknowledge the reality we live in and point out the beautiful aspects of it in a romantic way.” Chavarria’s spring 2025 collection,…

The first time Heather’s doctor suggested she try Ozempic, she was less than enthusiastic. “I thought, ‘I’m not that sick,’” says the 41-year-old Florida behavioral analyst. “Giving myself a weekly injection sounded so serious.” Less than two years later, she’s more than 35 pounds lighter and no longer prediabetic. Friends and family are supportive—and also a little jealous. People often ask her, “How did you get it? How did you qualify?” Heather says. “I guess they think I somehow cheated the system.” Despite huge demand for the diabetes treatment–turned–weight-loss wonder drug, getting a prescription for Ozempic has been harder than scoring Eras Tour tickets. As word spread about its success rate, celebs and the rich and well-connected started using it, fueling a supply shortage that has lasted for years. Drugmakers…

ere’s the thing: Lady Gaga doesn’t want to talk about herself. She will, because that’s what’s been asked of her throughout a 20-year-long career spanning music (13 Grammys), film (four Oscar nominations, one win), television (four Emmy nominations), fashion (where to start!), and her very own beauty range (Haus Labs). And she’ll answer my questions with a disarming vulnerability and level of self-reflection. But, she admits toward the end of our afternoon together at her record label in London, “I can’t tell you how much I wanted to ask you questions, too, this whole time. You have no idea how unnatural it is to meet someone and not be able to ask them about themselves.” And it’s this that I find so surprising about meeting the icon, the idea, the…

The Ice Cube Collection plays with light. Every piece is guaranteed to brighten your day, as each stackable creation is crafted in ethical 18k white, rose or yellow gold—some sparkling with diamonds. Caroline Scheufele, the creative soul of Chopard, brought her dreams of this new collection to life—drawing on inspiration from the geometrical design and natural brilliance of ice itself. AN “ALL ROAD” FASHION STATEMENT Bold and versatile, the bracelets, rings, pendants, and earrings of Chopard’s Ice Cube Collection go with everything—whether worn during the day or all night long. In fact, you’ll never want to take them off. We even added the Maison’s Alpine Eagle watch. Whether worn with a sexy-chic black turtleneck à la Bella Hadid, in casual mode with jeans and sneakers, or with a designer suit,…

Saturday Night Live star Chloe Fineman recently took to her front-facing camera for what she jokingly described as a PSA. “There is no such thing as a capsule wardrobe,” she said. “You’re not capsuling, curating…you’re just buying.” Fineman’s tone may have been arch, but she was tapping into a collective frustration with prescriptive personal style—if the 1.2 million views she racked up are anything to go by. The past few seasons have centered around the idea of less: sedate, elevated basics; staid minimalism; and buttoned-up trends like “quiet luxury” and “old money,” or the even more austere underconsumption-core and de-influencing. We’ve been barraged with listicles about the ideal capsule wardrobe, scores of “investment pieces,” and Wirecutter-style coverage of “the only X you’ll ever need,” dutifully collecting sensible loafers and offce-appropriate…

HAIR Beauty editors know that with the right products in hand, every day can be a good hair day. Start with the basics: ELLE Denmark’s editor-in-chief, Cecilie Ingdal, says that the Kérastase Première Bain Décalcifiant Réparateur shampoo ($42, kerastase-usa.com) “gives body to my fine Scandinavian hair.” Scalp health has never been a hotter topic, and ELLE Luxembourg’s editor-inchief, Marie-Adélaïde Leclercq-Olhagaray, reaches for Leonor Greyl Sérum Énergisant ($120, leonorgreyl-usa.com) to help calm scalp irritation and reduce hair thinning. For the ultimate hair tool, ELLE India’s beauty editor, Kannagi Desai, praises the GHD Duet Blowdry Hair Dryer Brush ($399, ghdhair.com). “The bristles detangle while the heat smooths and adds volume, all in one easy step.” GREEN It’s possible to care for the planet while caring for your hair and skin. Amelia Bell,…

It began as so many things do: with an inescapable urge to doomscroll. Not long after I got engaged in April 2020, I found my pandemic-isolated brain in a panicked state that couldn’t be soothed by obsessively reading celebrity blind items. As a woman over 30 on the cusp of marriage, I was confronted (or more aptly, tortured) by an overwhelming sense of uncertainty over whether or not I wanted to have kids. If you’d asked me when I was a teenager how I saw my life turning out, I would have predicted that by age 30, I’d be married with kids. In my twenties, the idea of having kids shifted to a very malleable “maybe”—I didn’t want anyone to tell me I couldn’t have them, but I also didn’t…