Indholdsfortegnelse for August 2021 i Harper's Bazaar

I remember coming to New York in the early ’90s to visit my brother and seeing Savion Glover perform with Gregory Hines at the Joyce Theater. I left feeling like I’d been to church and seen God. That performance moved me so profoundly that it has stayed with me to this day. I never fully grasped the magnitude of what the performing arts contribute to our culture until this past year when, due to the pandemic, every theater went dark. Dance, music, drama, comedy, and all of the other wondrously diverse forms of live performance we create and experience are the ultimate expression and reflection of our collective humanity. To herald the return of the stage, we decided to dedicate this issue to performance. We wanted to celebrate performers who,…

COLLIER SCHORR PHOTOGRAPHER “The Inner Gigi” Page 64 “Lady Gaga orchestrating her arrival at a party with me on her arm.” DURGA CHEW-BOSE WRITER “The Inner Gigi” Page 64 “Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mike Nichols’s 2012 revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Hoffman’s portrayal of Willy Loman was devastating, impossible to experience without somehow fearing it, loving it, feeling defenseless toward it.” LUDIVINE POIBLANC STYLIST “The Inner Gigi” Page 64 “When I saw Shakespeare’s play The Tempest in Paris, directed by Peter Brook.” SIOBHAN BURKE WRITER “Leaps & Bounds” Page 74 “Riverdance at Radio City Music Hall in 1996. I grew up doing competitive Irish dance, and for my nine-yearold self, that show was everything. I actually saw it again at Radio City on March 11, 2020. That…

MAKE THIS YOUR MOST STYLISH SUMMER yet with our new roundup of handmade exclusives. We collaborated with our favorite brands to create the most coveted edit of warm-weather essentials. Straw hats, basket bags, floral dresses—only the best will do. Milliner GIGI BURRIS strikes a balance between forward style and ample sun protection with this handmade, vintage-inspired design. From its versatile size to the choice of leather trim, this basket bag from AMANDA LINDROTH is perfect in every way and the ultimate must-have. Thanks to its hand-drawn print and feminine silhouette, you’ll reach for this COCO SHOP dress for every summer event, whether it be a daytime picnic or evening cocktails. One hundred percent vegan with adjustable straps that mold to every curve of your feet, these DANIELLA SHEVEL sandals are…

“It just TAKES NOTHING for me TO PERFORM. I don’t have to FLIP a SWITCH to talk to folks on a STAGE. I know BEYONCÉ will talk about how she has Sasha Fierce. I just have LOUDER AMANDA.” AMANDA SEALES IS A CHAMELEON. Throughout her career, she’s navigated the spaces of academia (she has a master’s in African-American studies from Columbia), television (where she currently plays the role of Tiffany on HBO’s Insecure), and stand-up (her comedy special “I Be Knowin’” debuted on HBO in 2019). All of these spaces require wildly different vernaculars, but Seales is fluent in each, and she has a keen understanding of what it means to perform. During lockdown last year, she began producing a homespun virtual version of her popular touring variety/game show “Smart…

ROCKSTUD ALCOVE BAG Valentino’s new double-handle carryall boasts a studded logo and two twist-lock closures and comes in medium and micro sizes. BIRKENSTOCK X JIL SANDER+ Featuring a nappa ankle strap, the Velan sandal from Jil Sander creative directors Lucie and Luke Meier is the essence of polished comfort. “CHERRY BLOSSOMS,” DAMIEN HIRST’S NEW SHOW OF PAINTINGS AT THE FONDATION CARTIER IN PARIS, marks the British artist’s return to a theme he has explored throughout his illustrious career: the ephemerality of life. Like a psychedelic cherry orchard, the 30 large-format canvases feature densely layered abstract blooms and are drawn from a series of 107 that Hirst completed during lockdown last year. Combining thick brushstrokes with elements of pointillism and gestural painting, the works were hand-painted over a span of three…

IF YOU’RE AN EXTROVERT, you know exactly why you wear perfume: to get the party started. In commercials, it often looks like this: Perfumed Woman is so sparkly that she has her own personal light source. Bored and ignored at a fancy cocktail party, she kicks off her heels and jumps in the fountain. Whatever could have inspired her? Lancôme La Vie Est Belle, of course, which might possibly contain extract of disco ball. Scintillatingly, pinkly perfect, it broadcasts simple messages: Look at me! Like me! Ask me out! If you’re an introvert, though, you may be hard-pressed to explain why you’re wearing perfume at home with your cat. Psychologist Carl Jung first popularized the terms “introvert” and “extrovert” to describe inner-directed people, as opposed to those of whom Barbra…

NOW THAT YOU HAVE OUR AUGUST ISSUE, GET READY TO SHOP IT. Look for the icon next to an item in HARPER’S BAZAAR: It means the item is available to buy on ShopBAZAAR.com—the online store brought to you by our editors. We’ve partnered with the best specialty boutiques, most coveted designers, and prestige beauty brands to present the must-have fashion and beauty edit of the season, in a shopping destination that’s open around the clock and around the world. = BUY ON SHOPBAZAAR.COM What makes a great live PERFORMANCE so captivating? Maybe it’s because of how bearing WITNESS to EXTRAORDINARY feats of music, theater, dance, or comedy can be so LIFE-AFFIRMING, a reason to congregate, commune, and feel more CONNECTED to the world—something that’s been missing during the PANDEMIC. Maybe…

I remember thinking that nakedness was more punishment than clothes. Like most things in the Bible, to my young self, the bad thing always seemed to be more pleasurable and more practical. Why should Adam or Eve have been relegated to a life of witnessing the brilliant shifts in the fur of a velvet-horned deer or the wild plumage of a bird-ofparadise adorned only in their nakedness? Sitting in a garden and taking in the ways in which the peacock could perform his dance of feathers or a snail outgrow its shell before slipping into a new one would have inspired enough envy in me to destroy the garden too. If the punishment was clothes, the chance to protect oneself from the world outside of the garden, the womb, then…

FEATURED TRACKS 1. “I STILL LOVE YOU” Bishop Briggs 2. “GOOD NEWS” Mac Miller 3. “MYSTERY OF LOVE” Sufjan Stevens 4. “I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU” Dolly Parton 5. “LOST” Frank Ocean FULL PLAYLIST Briggs wrapped up the tour behind her second studio album, Champion, at the end of 2019, right before the pandemic hit. Ahead of her first show back—she’ll be supporting Dermot Kennedy at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater on August 5—she curated a playlist around this issue’s theme of performance. “There were a few things that came to mind when diving into the concept—the visual aspect, how it makes you feel, vocal performance, and escapism,” Briggs explains. “This playlist is a mix of all of those elements.” Kicking it off is one of Briggs’s own songs, a soulful…

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LIKE A SCENE STRAIGHT OUT OF THE 1957 musical comedy Funny Face, in which a Diana Vreelandish fashion editor exhorts women to “Think pink!” as an antidote to everything down, dreary, dull, depressing, dismal, and deadly, the Fall 2021 digital runways were awash in rosy color. Take your medicine in the form of a Pepto Bismol pink power suit from Thebe Magugu, a bubblegum puffed-sleeve dress from Carolina Herrera, or a cerise maraboutrimmed jacket from Gucci. “Color is life, joy, fun!” says Donatella Versace, who sent out a trio of A-line minis paired with tone-on-tone monogrammed tights in fuchsia, lemon, and coral. “I wanted the three looks to go out together to make a statement. We’re looking at the future with a new sense of positivity. As we slowly get…

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Maybe she’ll write a children’s book one day. A story about a visit to the aquarium or a pastoral adventure set on her family farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, among the miniature goats, the horses, and her mother’s lavender garden. It seems like a plausible turn for Gigi Hadid, the model and mother to 10-month-old Khai, who has been spending much of the pandemic squirreled away at her mother’s rural 32-acre property. For the majority of our time together, she clutched a small bouquet of colorful felt-tip pens, her elbows firmly resting on the table. One gets the sense that crafting materials are never far and that she’d sooner reach for an activity like that—tactile, with little pressure to perform and instead make, as she says, “the shittiest pot ever”—than…

1 HANG OUT WITH THE OBAMAS “The Obama Portraits Tour,” showcasing the paintings of President Barack Obama (by Kehinde Wiley) and First Lady Michelle Obama (by Amy Sherald) commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, opens August 27 at the Brooklyn Museum, with stops in L.A., Atlanta, and Houston to follow. 2 TEST-DRIVE A TATTOO Scared to commit to body art? Ephemeral tattoo studio—located in Brooklyn and, come fall, L.A.—has developed an ink that fades within 15 months so you can try out your dream design without making a forever pledge. 3 DANCE DANCE, DANCE From July 30 to August 9, Colorado’s Vail Dance Festival will feature performances by this year’s artist-in-residence, American Ballet Theatre principal Calvin Royal III, and company-in-residence, the Philadelphia contemporary company BalletX. Other highlights will include an evening…

“I’m definitely a type-A workaholic,” says Morgan Jerkins, who released two books during the pandemic while holding down a full-time job. “I justify going overboard because I love what I do.” In August of last year, Jerkins, currently a senior editor at ESPN’s sports and culture Web site the Undefeated, published her second nonfiction book, Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots, in which she retraces her ancestors’ journeys across America as she explores her own Black identity. Her debut novel, Caul Baby, which came out in April, “hits on Black motherhood, survival, gentrification, capitalism, and the tension between self-autonomy and familial obligations,” says Jerkins, who has been working on it since she settled in Harlem, where the novel is set, after grad school.…

THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC ON THE ARTS was immediate and far-reaching—its toll, as well as the work it inspires, will be felt for decades to come. But for artists who live on stage, in front of live audiences, the past year has been uniquely and creatively devastating. The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and actor Tracy Letts and his wife, actress Carrie Coon, experienced this acutely. In a March 2021 New York Times article surveying the effects of the pandemic on 75 artists and their output, Letts’s honesty stood out: “I’ve made nothing,” he said. “From a creative standpoint, this year for me has been a dust storm.” His latest play, The Minutes, was supposed to open on Broadway just three days after everything shut down. (The play is now scheduled…

THOMASIN McKENZIE IS ONLY 21 YEARS OLD, but lately she’s been thinking a lot about the passing of time. “I think I’m someone who really struggles to be in the moment,” says the actress, who stars in Old, the new M. Night Shyamalan thriller. Recently, at her father’s urging, McKenzie took up meditation. (Sam Harris’s Waking Up is her favorite guided app.) Working on Old, the story of a family whose tropical island vacation turns terrifying when everyone suddenly begins to age rapidly (their life spans each reduced to a single day), helped put things in perspective too. “It made me think a lot about being present and taking each thing as it comes.” For McKenzie, time is a recurring theme right now. In Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho,…

COLOR THEORY It’s happening: More Americans are vaccinated, Covid case numbers are declining, and mask requirements are loosening. And with that, people are trading in their lip balm for a swipe of mood-boosting lipstick. “I put it on, and I’m awake,” says makeup artist Romy Soleimani. It doesn’t matter if it’s poppy red or even a your-lips-but-better neutral, Soleimani says. A hit of lip color is just the thing to invigorate you after what feels like an eternity under masks. The data backs it up. Recently, market-research firm IRI reported that monthly lipstick sales hit $34.2 million in mid-April—an 80 percent spike from one year ago. (Soleimani is also betting big on lips. She’s curating a lipstick pop-up shop at designer Rachel Comey’s stores later this fall.) No matter which…

LEO JULY 24–AUGUST 23 Play down any bickering with a relative or friend, and accept responsibility for your mistakes. That means listening to criticism when you know you’ve been wrong. By vigorously defending yourself, you’ll only prolong the agony. LUCKY DAY: THE 23RD. Everyone gains by clearing the air and starting again. VIRGO AUGUST 24–SEPTEMBER 23 Out of the blue, you’ll be invited to take part in a trip or get-together. Any decisions should be made by the third week of August; otherwise you may discover that those involved are unreliable. LUCKY DAY: THE 1ST. A tense situation is seen as a challenge, not a chore. LIBRA SEPTEMBER 24–OCTOBER 23 Heed your instincts when they alert you to unusual changes regarding your financial affairs. Without accusing anyone of behaving fraudulently,…

“We CANNOT GO BACK to HOW IT WAS.” At the Guggenheim Museum one night in April, house music pulsed through the building. For the first time in more than 14 months, Tatiana Desardouin was performing live in public, with five other members of Passion Fruit Dance Company, the street and club dance ensemble she founded in 2016. When Desardouin looks back on that evening, she still feels elated, remembering the dancers’ outpouring of joy and the thrill of sharing physical space with an audience—even an audience positioned at a safe distance, up along the museum’s distinctive spiraling ramp—after such an extended hiatus. “We were like, ‘Wow, we will never take that for granted ever again,’” she says. “It gave us energy for days after and still now when I think…