Indholdsfortegnelse for May 2025 i ELLE

It all started with a few dance steps. Back in 2019, the cover star of this year’s Women in Music issue, Addison Rae, became a TikTok sensation for her moves when she was still an LSU student. Since then, she’s blossomed into a pop princess, collaborating with Charli XCX and, in classic icon fashion, becoming identifiable by just one name. “I feel like I’ve surpassed Addison Rae,” she tells writer Suzy Exposito. “It’s just Addison now.” For more, go to ELLE’s social channels to watch the singer take our Ask Me Anything challenge and see behind-the-scenes footage from the cover shoot. As Rae proves, the pop-star playbook has changed. While a major-label deal was once the one and only launchpad to success, this year’s Women in Music portfolio includes singers…

It all unfurled over the course of about a month. In August 2010, Lady Gaga became the most-followed person on the platform we then called Twitter. Not long after, she was beamed into the homes of 11.4 million MTV viewers during the VMAs, wearing 35 pounds of raw flank steak. Over the next couple of days, the app made a critical update: For the first time, photos and videos could be embedded in tweets, and new posts began to populate the feed via an addictive, slot machine–style feature, now known as the “infinite scroll.” It buoyed conversation about the meat dress, already one of the most provocative sartorial creations ever to infiltrate popular culture, and made Gaga a trending topic for over a week. Suddenly, every camera was a potential…

Writer Isabel Allende always starts her books on January 8. Audrey Hepburn favored the number 55 for her dressing room. Before big meetings, Francis Kurkdjian, perfume creation director of Christian Dior Parfums, keeps a sugar cube in his pocket. If you want a good-luck ritual of your own, Dior’s new fragrance, Bois Talisman (Bois Talisman Eau de Parfum by La Collection Privée Christian Dior, $220, dior.com), is aromatic and auspicious. The warm, creamy, vanilla-enhanced scent is an homage to the superstitious nature of Christian Dior himself, who was rumored to carry around talismans like a four-leaf clover and a sprig of lily of the valley. Paired with an haute couture leather cap and a trunk in the brand’s signature toile de Jouy (Esprits de Parfum Couture Fragrance Trunk by La…

A few weeks ago, I was toweling off after a yoga class and overheard a conversation between two friends. One was speaking about a product with such reverence that my ears perked up. “They’ve changed my life,” she said. “I feel 10 years younger.” The product in question? Vitamin patches. She invited her friend to a “patch party.” They left before I could ask for the address, but I exited the studio with wearable vitamins dancing in my head. We all know we need our vitamins. On the most basic level, they are among the essential nutrients that our bodies need in order to function. Yet even though we only require them in tiny amounts, many people are still deficient, whether it’s because they’re not eating a balanced diet or…

THE WORKING-CLASS GIRL who reinvents herself as a star is a classic, aspirational figure in the greater American mythos. After all, before Marilyn Monroe became the blonde bombshell who rocked the film industry, she was Norma Jeane Baker, a cute brunette working at a munitions factory in Van Nuys, California. Likewise, before there was Addison Rae, the Los Angeles–based TikTok dancer with 88.4 million followers, there was Addison Rae Easterling, a cheerleader from Shreveport, Louisiana, with big dreams. And after more than half a decade of dancing to other people’s songs, that Louisiana–turned–California girl is now ready to bet on herself again in a whole new way—by becoming a bona fide pop star. I meet the flaxen-haired 24-year-old on a Sunday morning in March, inside her manager’s Beverly Hills office,…

“I’ve literally been planning this party since I was five. Most girls are thinking about their wedding. I was like, ‘I don’t want to share the attention with anyone.’” ON HER FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, a young Lola Bute informed her headmaster that he should not, under any circumstances, refer to her as Lola. She preferred to be addressed as Cinderella. “I always wanted to be in character,” Bute says now, “because I think I wasn’t quite sure who I was, honestly, until recently.” Today, Bute remains a big fan of dressing up and getting into character. “I love an occasion,” she admits. Her 25th-birthday party last year, held on her family’s Scottish isle of Bute, drew guests like Sienna Miller and Princess Olympia of Greece. The event turned into…

The BAG Call it the best of both worlds: Celine’s new Camille bag combines the bohemian allure of a hobo silhouette with the ladylike charm of a classic turn-lock style. The WATCH The Cadenas watch, which doubles as a bracelet, has been a Van Cleef & Arpels staple since 1935. The newest edition combines diamonds and sapphires for a future heirloom you’re sure to cherish. The SHOE An eye-catching pebbled golden embellishment is the perfect finishing touch to Giuseppe Zanotti’s Mya mule.…

Paparazzi shots of Jeremy Allen White filming Deliver Me From Nowhere—clad in formfitting Levi’s and a beat-up leather jacket—broke the internet last year. Seeing The Bear star in costume as a rugged, early-’80s Bruce Springsteen only intensified excitement for the upcoming drama. “Springsteen is naturally the coolest of the cool. He was born with exquisite style,” says the movie’s costume designer, Kasia Walicka Maimone. “He effortlessly absorbed those seemingly simple, utilitarian pieces and created a style for generations.” Springsteen’s signature snug jeans won’t be the only legendary aesthetic to be interpreted for the big screen. Selena Gomez has been tapped to inhabit Linda Ronstadt’s ’70s California cool, while Shailene Woodley will embody Janis Joplin’s free-spirited ’60s rocker vibes. Director Sam Mendes has four separate movies planned for each Beatle, with…

Microdosing—or taking a tiny portion of psychedelic drugs—has become a trendy (if not always strictly legal) way of consuming hallucinogens among tech bros and frazzled moms alike. Now microdosing is entering aesthetics. Doctors are administering facial injectables, GLP-1 shots, and even acne pills in small amounts, aiming to deliver some of the benefits of full doses with fewer side effects. A LITTLE BIT OF BOTOX A full vial of Botox might smooth out your face, but it could also fully relax your muscles, leaving you with a limited range of movement. Instead of making your forehead look like a placid pool with around 20 units of toxin, Anetta Reszko, MD, a dermatologist in New York, opts to keep it at low tide with 8 units. Fewer units will soften wrinkles…

The tradwives log on to the private video group call from all across the country. One folds herself into a corner of her bathroom, claiming a few solitary moments. Another is barely visible, sitting outside a bedroom door in a darkened hallway, waiting out a child who refuses to sleep. They are spread across time zones—as one woman cooks dinner, her phone propped on the counter, earbuds in, multiple kids skittering through the kitchen, another nurses an infant who has just woken up from a nap. Others go on walks to get out of their husband’s earshot. Many hop on while running errands, using the confines of their car as a sanctuary. One woman’s video is always off; she says she is hiding in the laundry room. Here there’s none…

There’s a saying in the music industry: “You have your whole life to make your first record and then two days in between tour dates to make your second.” As she quotes this to me, Kelsea Ballerini is on tour herself. Backstage, she’s wrapped up in a gray tour hoodie, a rack of clothes and a white guitar behind her. It’s Valentine’s Day, and after polishing off a pink-sprinkled doughnut, she takes a break to talk to me on the anniversary of the day that changed her career. Exactly two years before, she had released Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, a spiky six-song EP that chronicled her divorce from fellow country singer Morgan Evans in unsparing detail. For Ballerini, who grew up religious in Tennessee, the idea of divorce felt…

TAURUS APR 20–MAY 20 Big shifts are ahead. With Pluto retrograde in your ambition house, reassess your career path. Are you chasing goals that match your values? Take stock now, knowing you’ll gain more clarity by fall. GEMINI MAY 21–JUNE 21 Broaden your horizons, Gemini. Pluto retrograde stokes your ninth house of learning and exploration. Reflect on the knowledge you’ve gained and where you want to grow. Revisit a dream to study or travel—but do plenty of research first. CANCER JUNE 22–JULY 22 Pluto retrograde activates your eighth house of intimacy and shared resources. Release emotional baggage, and explore joint ventures. Think about what you need for true emotional and financial security. You’ll feel more empowered as the months go on. LEO JULY 23–AUG 22 Relationship rehab? With Pluto retrograde…

TIMELY REFRESH Chanel’s J12 watch has only come in two hues since its launch in 2000—black and white. Now the iconic timepiece debuts in a blue matte version. SHINE BRIGHT The American Museum of Natural History offers Cosmic Splendor: Jewelry From the Collections of Van Cleef & Arpels, a survey of the brand’s most celestial work, with about 70 archival and newer pieces. Through January 4, 2026, amnh.org. ROARING ’20s Designer Athena Calderone worked closely with John Hardy creative chairman Reed Krakoff on a new jewelry collaboration inspired by 1930s decor and 1920s pewter mirrors. The 27 pieces merge Calderone’s refined style with John Hardy’s timeless legacy. Diamond and silver cuff, John Hardy. SOFA, SO GOOD Grace Atkinson, the acclaimed New Zealand textile designer, brings her dazzling talent to the…

Villa Beatrice sits perched on a cliff, with a 180-degree view of one of the most stunning, secluded settings imaginable. Turn to the right, and you see the Bay of Portofino. Look left, and it’s the Bay of Paraggi. The restored former palazzo, which is set within a national park and has private access to the sea, will be available to rent beginning this July for the first time in its 112-year history. It’s the only accommodation of its kind for the hospitality group Belmond, which specializes in resorts, trains, river cruises, and safari lodges that recapture the glamour of an earlier era of travel. Belmond, which was acquired by LVMH in 2019, got its start in 1976 when James Sherwood, the company’s original owner, purchased the Hotel Cipriani in…

If the Inuit are said to have 50 words for snow, then there are just about as many words and phrases for the pursuit of youth in beauty: Antiaging, dewy, glowy, tight, bouncy, smoothing, firming, volume, lifting, filling, collagen, anti-wrinkle, texturizing, poreless, softening, rejuvenating, elasticity. But lately, a somewhat surprising word has reemerged: Fat. There have been some clues that a certain type of soft fullness, especially in the face, is having a moment. Blush was the top-selling beauty product of 2024 on Amazon, all the better to achieve plump, rosy cheeks like Sabrina Carpenter’s. A popular blush stick from Westman Atelier is named Baby Cheeks, and Hailey Bieber declared “baby cheek flush” to be last summer’s biggest trend. “We used to just chase away wrinkles,” says New York plastic…

Several months ago, after internet trolls dragged the actress Sydney Sweeney and her bulked-up new physique for the upcoming biopic of legendary boxer Christy Martin—bemoaning that they found her “chunky” and less attractive—Sweeney clapped back with a video compilation of the insults (and their authors) and a training montage of herself rolling truck tires, weight lifting, and sparring in the ring. No caption—she let her biceps do the talking. Sweeney, who has dealt with bodyshaming for much of her career—the irony being that until recently it has been based on the hypersexualized assumption that, as she put it, “I have big boobs, I’m blonde, and that’s all I have”—is the latest star to join the Hollywood gun show, a lineup that includes Ryan Destiny transforming herself to play two-time Olympic…

ELLE: You’ve worked with some incredible women. Which female artist has given you the most wisdom? benny blanco: Most recently, it became Selena. When you’re recording someone, it’s like a therapy session. You say, “Hey, how you doing?” They say, “Oh, I’m doing great.” And you say, “No, how you really doing?” They go, “No, I’m doing good!” And then you say, “How you really doing?” And then they’re like, “I hate this! I want to do this. I want to do that.” You get deep with someone, and you never know how it’s going to go. I learned from Selena that when you have patience and love for another person, it makes everything so much easier. ELLE: Flip side: Who’s a female artist you haven’t worked with yet…