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APRIL 1 After a four-year break, the sometimes psychedelic, often harmonic, and always danceable band Yeasayer—suddenly, somehow, nine-year veterans of the Brooklyn indie rock scene—drops its fourth album, Amen & Goodbye. APRIL 1 Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones play a couple running from heartless mobsters in the Munichbased thriller Collide, which is basically one elaborate Autobahn chase scene. APRIL 3 The immersive work of Megacities Asia at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts—like an Ai Weiwei sculpture composed of 42 bicycles—explores the enormity of Asia’s urban centers. APRIL 8 In The Boss, Melissa McCarthy is an ex-con tycoon trying to rebuild her empire via a Girl Scout– like troop of brownie sellers. Sample advice: “Buy my brownies, or I’ll kill you.” APRIL 10 Riley Keough—warlord wife in Mad Max: Fury Road,…

In February, ELLE’s sixth annual Women in TV issue, we featured five actresses making big waves on your HD screens: Priyanka Chopra, Viola Davis, Olivia Wilde, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and freshly minted Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson. The covers exploded in the Twittersphere, including consummate funnywoman Louis-Dreyfus’s own comment: “Thanks @ELLEmagazine. Can’t believe u used this shot of me getting out of the shower but thanks anyway. #ELLEWITV.” Slay seemed to be the operative word from readers (as in, “The @violadavis slayage on this #ellemagazine cover is real!”), and in so many ways, through so many mediums, countless others shared the sentiment: MISSED AN ISSUE? Download the digital edition, now on the Apple Newsstand! “For its annual ‘Women in TV’ issue, ELLE [published] five stand-alone covers featuring everyone’s favorite A-list…

I REMEMBER THE first time I saw her, this young woman who would come to symbolize everything I once coveted and the superficial part of myself that I later grew to despise. It was early 1995, the spring of my freshman year at Harvard. I was sitting in an economics discussion section. She barged in with all the insouciance and entitlement of the cosseted 19-yearold she was, and, oblivious to the other students sitting there, began talking to our graduate-student instructor about a makeup test. I remember my surprise at the blithe, confident way she owned all the space and time in the room. But it was her clothing, casual yet unmistakably expensive, that transfixed me. I was a financial aid student from suburban Illinois; in 19 years of avid…

“Breaking the Internet” and smashing gender barriers often go hand in hand. See Hollywood scion/male model Jaden Smith wearing a skirt in Louis Vuitton’s spring women’s campaign, or Marc Jacobs casting a range of genderbending creatives in his spring ads. But British menswear designer Grace Wales Bonner prefers a quieter approach to boundary pushing. “I think it’s a sensitive subject and [stunt casting is] a problematic approach,” explains the soft-spoken Wales Bonner. In addition to referencing her own heritage (she’s half Jamaican, half British) in her spring collection, the 2014 Central Saint Martins design graduate, 25, was drawn to the story of Malik Ambar—an Ethiopian slave who became a regent in sixteenth-century India—which she came across at a 2013 exhibition at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research…

MINIMALISTS GONE WILD Here’s how fashion’s mostrestrained designers do an unexpected pop of color.…

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WHO: Alex Gilbert (42) and Jennifer Noyes (33) PROVENANCE: New York City and Seoul CURRICULA VITAE: Gilbert is a third-generation garmento: Her grandparents, Martin and Minna, for whom M. Martin is named, ran a small atelier in New York’s Garment District, and her father founded Mudd Jeans. But neither Gilbert nor her M. Martin cofounder, Noyes, went to fashion school. Both pursued a liberal arts education: Gilbert majored in classics at Columbia University, and Noyes studied art history at the University of Chicago. RUNWAY TO REALITY: After college, Gilbert cofounded the premium-denim brand Paper Denim & Cloth, leading the early-aughts craze for $200-plus jeans. Noyes got her start on the opposite end of the fashion spectrum working in sales for Prada, a job that required her to be perpetually dressed…

Where Richard Linklater’s 1993 breakout Dazed and Confused left off—with the star football player and motley crew of Texas high schoolers on the last day of junior year in 1976—his next film, Everybody Wants Some, picks up. Kind of. It’s a different decade (the ’80s), a different school (Southeast Texas University), a different sport (baseball), and a different, if still familiar, moment in young adult life (the last summer weekend before a new fall semester). It’s also a different rookie: Twenty-three-year-old Blake Jenner plays Jake, the freshman pitcher on a nationally ranked, hard-partying, girl-chasing team that’s based, in part, on Linklater’s own experience playing ball at Sam Houston State. “Some might say Jake is a stand-in for Rick,” says Jenner of his character, who oozes squarejawed, easygoing guyness as he…

“I am promising that I’ll work as hard as I’ve ever worked on anything to try and make good,” middle-aged Leo Plumb entreats his brother, Jack, and sisters, Beatrice and Melody. “I’m asking you to trust me.” Given that the charismatic Leo has recently jeopardized the family’s soon-tobe-disbursed trust fund—pet-named “The Nest” by the quartet of siblings— through a drug-and-alcoholinduced car accident, his family feels less than confident about his ability to rectify the situation. Melody, an anxious mother of twin girls; Jack, an antiques dealer concealing debt from his longtime partner, Walker; and Beatrice, a failed novelist, have all been living beyond their means, literally banking on their hotly anticipated lump sums. It’s rare to find a novel as guiltily entertaining as it is profound, but The Nest (Ecco),…

THEY CAME IN THROUGH THE BATHROOM WINDOW Christine Reilly’s debut novel, Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday (Touchstone), is a sharply observed and bittersweet family romance with a rock ’n’ roll heart, set in New York City from the 1990s to today. Three very unalike sisters, Natasha, Lucy, and Carly, struggle to grow up with, and alongside, their ex-hippie parents, musicstore owners who had fallen in love “easily, and perhaps this was a result of keenness, greenness, a furious thirst.” Reilly’s dreamy, slipstream style dazzles. CALLING DAVID CASSIDY Jodi Picoult, James Franco, and Stephen King are among the starry-eyed standouts in Crush: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing, and the Lasting Power of Their First Celebrity Crush (William Morrow). In “Start Me Up,” journalist Hanna Rosin recounts how she fell hard…

For the past 10 years, I’ve been trying to figure out why Eat Pray Love became a phenomenon. Why? I’ve never really known. When I’ve been asked, my usual answer has been along the lines of “Your guess is as good as mine, pal!” But all the while I was shrugging off the question, I was running into people who wanted to tell me stories about how my book had inspired or influenced them, or changed their lives—stories, in other words, about what Eat Pray Love made them do. Some of those stories were delightful; some were strange; some were deeply moving. Two, in particular, have stayed with me. One day, at a book-signing event in Atlanta, I met an African American woman in her early thirties who seemed positively…

“disappoint me so I know it’s real” “be in love with my low self-esteem” so sad today... insecurity is forever” “do you like my trust issues?” “if you’re doing well don’t tell me” “in my phone your name is NO” “ceo of insomnia” “she died as she lived, escaping herself” “horoscope: he’s lying” “everything bad is about me” “Oh, I just thought of a tweet!” It’s New Year’s Day, and Melissa Broder—Twitter’s reigning queen of angst, insecurity, sexual obsession, and existential terror via her alter ego @sosadtoday—has just had a stroke of under-140-characters genius. But it’ll have to wait: We’re at Natura Spa in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, where for the third year in a row Broder has soaked off the prior year’s psychic remnants, and her iPhone is stashed in…

PROFILE OF A P&P FAN: AGES 20 TO 89 55% HAVE READ THE BOOK 3 TIMES OR LESS 24% HAVE READ IT BETWEEN 5 AND 20 TIMES .02% HAVE READ IT 35 TIMES WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOU FIRST READ IT? “In my uncle’s cabin in Coeur d’Alene National Forest, Idaho. I had just started my period, and I lay around for two days, sulking about puberty and the vastness of the universe. Pride and Prejudice was my inaugural period companion, and it was a sublime reading experience. I was convinced that under my string-bean body and braces, I was Elizabeth Bennet.” “It was my senior year of high school in Boxborough, Massachusetts; I was writing a comparison between it and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Paris Grosse Pointe,…

On paper, the idea for the Starz series Outlander—returning for season two this month—is a little nuts: A World War II–era nurse is magically transported back to 1743 Scotland, where she falls for a rebel Highlander. What’s more, the rebel, played by reallife Scot Sam Heughan, 35, is a grown man who looks as if he’s been chiseled out of stone—but is somehow still a virgin. Heughan’s brute masculinity tempered by that sensitive innocence not only has garnered him a cult of rabid followers—the Heughligans, naturally— but has also helped make Outlander (which is based on the wildly popular fantasy book series by Diana Gabaldon) a breakout hit. Heughan’s own backstory is itself fantastical: Raised by an artist mother and a gardener father, he grew up on the property of…

APRIL 1 Switzerland-based jewelry designer Harumi Klossowska de Rola has a serious thing for cats: The Chopard alum’s new namesake line of hand-carved, ivory-and-ebony feline bijoux (1) was inspired by a taxidermy mountain lion that watches over her studio. APRIL 15 In a nod to his previous life, designer-turnedartist Helmut Lang is bringing sculpted towers of shredded textiles to the Dallas Contemporary museum. APRIL 16 From tortuous Edwardian corsetry to cotton Calvins, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum strips down for Undressed: 350 Years of Underwear in Fashion (2). APRIL 18 Coachella-bound, take note! Fringed suede is so 2015. This year’s most stylish spectators will be noodling in Alice + Olivia designer Stacey Bendet’s Grateful Dead–themed capsule (we love the Vans-style sneakers!), inspired by a documentary about the legendary California rockers…

APRIL 4 NO BUYER’S REMORSE So you’re ready to acquire your first (or second, or third) piece—where to start? Salmastrelli offers tips on how to set a budget, where to look, and what to look for. APRIL 11 VISUAL ARTS 101 Get the lowdown on various mediums— from oil paint to photography to digital media—a quickand-dirty history of each genre and its appeal, plus names to know. APRIL 18 ON THE RADAR Salmastrelli presents some of this year’s most exciting artists, including Parisian collage artist Paula Broadway, and breaks down why pieces at every price point cost what they do. APRIL 25 LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! Inject your art installation with a little feng shui. While beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Salmastrelli explains the psychological reasons why, for…

ARIES MAR 21–APR 19 The 7th’s new moon in your sign could bring a surprise professional development; a week later, on the 14th, Jupiter beams Mercury, heralding the perfect moment to get your ideas approved. Romantically, Venus in Aries, from the 5th to the 29th, will add to your charisma, while your standout day for love arrives on the 12th, when Venus and Mars make fireworks. Speaking of Mars, the planet retrogrades from the 17th to June 29th, turning your attention to a past pursuit or interest— or perhaps an old friend. Socialize on the 21st; the full moon guarantees a glittery evening. TAURUS (APR 20–MAY 20) Venus, your ruler, and a host of other planets will be in your twelfth house of privacy, suggesting you’re not quite ready to…

AGE: 24 HOMETOWN GLORY: Born in Belgrade, Serbia, during the Yugoslav wars, Mangafic moved with her family to Munich, Germany, at six months old, where she was discovered at 21 by a local model manager. BONA FIDES: Since making her runway debut in Christopher Kane’s and Jil Sander’s fall 2013 shows, Mangafic is now a familiar face (she walks up to 60 shows per season!), with credits such as Dior, Céline, Versace, and Saint Laurent. SIGNATURE STYLE: Showcasing unique textures and wild patterns, our fashion shoot “No Glitz, No Glory” (page 300) was right up her alley: “I like to wear what I want and what I feel good in, even if somebody thinks I show too much skin or wear crazy fabrics.” SECRET WEAPON: Though she prefers to go…

To anyone growing up in the U.S. in the 1960s, Cuba represented an ideology as threatening as it was exotic. On the one hand, we had the specter of the communist revolution, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, and the constant threat of being nuked by the Russians that had kindergartners scrambling under their desks during air-raid drills. On the other, there were glamorous tales of vacationing mobsters and molls swilling daiquiris at the Tropicana. In addition to the role that Cuba, writ large, played in boomer mythology, for me it also had a personal connection. My uncle was a Catholic monsignor who in 1952 founded St. Vincent Home for Children in Lansing, Michigan, a residential facility for kids in need of temporary assistance. From ’59 till ’65, many Cuban…

“I’m quite geeky,” says Hong Kong– born, London-based designer Charlotte Hockin, explaining how, as a teenager, she discovered what would become the idée fixe for her deconstruction-done-differently line, Hockin. “I randomly saw an advert for pattern-cutting tools, and I thought, I’m about to start at Central Saint Martins, I’d better go buy some rulers!” The young designer found her way to the twentieth floor of a commercial building, where a man named Mr. So, who made production patterns for Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein Jeans, offered to tutor her in the old-school craft of drafting templates from scratch using mathematical formulas. During the past decade, the 34-year-old has obsessed over the details of how garments are cut and sewn together, plying her trade at luxury labels such as Salvatore Ferragamo…

MAP QUEST For those who believe in true love—or suspect they’re looking for it in all the wrong places— Gucci maestro Alessandro Michele has crafted a chic solution: a dress printed with the Carte de Tendre, a map navigating the path toward your heart’s desire, created by seventeenth-century French writer Madeleine de Scudéry. This truly is fashion worth falling for.…

ARTISANAL SANDAL Business on top, party on the bottom. That about sums up Tomas Maier’s easy attitude to suiting at Bottega Veneta. Tread lightly, though; we’re not suggesting you pair a double-breasted number with flip-flops. The season’s most covetable sandals are heavy on decorative details. HIGH-RISE PUMP Toe cleavage is so passé. Spring’s most ladylike looks, courtesy of Alber Elbaz at Lanvin, gave way to an ultrademure, jolie laide pump. PRIM PLATFORM The platform is undoubtedly back, but forget what you know about its previous incarnations. This time around, pair with sophisticated mixed prints and midi hemlines. SUPERSQUARE SLIPPER Nothing quite counters a clingy silhouette à la Céline like a square-toe flat. And shimmering silver napa leather gives this one a futuristic appeal. Consider it a blunt declaration in a…

When your day job is scouting new talent and forecasting trends for Saks Fifth Avenue’s 45 global locations and you run your own creative-consulting firm, downtime is nonnegotiable. Post– fashion month, Roopal Patel will likely be heading to her latest surf destination—“I choose a different spot I’m curious about every holiday”—this time to Nicaragua’s Maderas Beach (9), armed with a Lisa Marie Fernandez maillot, Tata Harper’s Hydrating Floral Essence (3), and a surfboard by West Coast brand Almond (7). “They’re just so sculptural and chic,” Patel says. Sculptural, she says, is also the keyword for spring jewelry, “like art you can wear”; get the look with Elsa Peretti’s Wave necklace for Tiffany & Co. (4). Her runway picks: Saint Laurent’s black leather moto jacket (1) and the latest collector’s items…

1 EVERYDAY SEXISM LAURA BATES (Thomas Dunne) An analog manifestation of Bates’s fouryears-and-counting social media project, which has garnered 250,000 followers and encouraged thousands of women in 25 countries to write in with their alarming first-person anecdotes, Everyday Sexism offers, as one reader puts it, “a perturbing glimpse of how sexism remains a social and cultural reality—and how both sexes can raise awareness.” Readers agree: This is an important, eye-opening addition to the feminist canon. 2 GIRLS & SEX PEGGY ORENSTEIN (Harper) Using her interviews with more than 70 women between the ages of 15 and 20, Orenstein presents an intimate view of the sex lives of young women in the United States. While revealing disturbing common threads—a lack of sex education, a reliance on conventional gender roles, internal and…

1 THE EYE-OPENER: SABRINA RINALDI TORONTO Va-va-voom is all in a day’s work for Sabrina Rinaldi, the woman Sasha Pivovarova and Lake Bell seek out for ultraopulent eye makeup. Rinaldi’s editorial signatures include sculpted splotches of color and colossally smudgy, clumpy-lashed smoky eyes. “Even if I’m doing a really artsy story, I still want the model to have a sexiness to her,” she says. “I always want my work to have a high-end feel, not too raw or pop.” Secret weapon To draw the crispest of cat-eyes, Rinaldi relies on drugstore medical tape, which is gentler than Scotch tape and less likely to irritate. “Stick the tape down so it aligns with your bottom lash line, and trace along the top edge of the tape to get a razor-sharp flick,”…

DARLING BUDS Cheery coral nails (try Jin Soon lacquer in Sinopia, shown) are as sure a sign of early spring as tulips blooming in the window box. JURASSIC WORLD We love Dinoplatz lip balms by hot Korean import Too Cool for School (shown here in Rabbit Food and Pinky Pie)—and not just because of their cheeky name: They’re megamoisturizing and impart a wash of color. INSIDER TIP According to Dior, using its new pearltipped Double-Rotative Open-Eye Applicator to massage in Dior Prestige Le Concentré Yeux boosts the efficacy of its key ingredient, a rare rose—now 40 times more potent. CLEOPATRAAPPROVED Shiffa Gold Body Oil blends ultrahydrating jasmine, lemon, orange, and argan oils with 23-karat flecks—believed by ancient Egyptians to have rejuvenating, antiaging, and spirithealing powers. HOLLABACK GIRL How to make…

“I put a lot of effort into making sure that the food at a party is really good, and that it feels beautiful and relaxed, like a haven you come to after a really busy day.” At 6 A.M. Mo Clancy got out of bed in her 1920s townhouse, which is wedged into a steep hill in San Francisco’s tony Pacific Heights neighborhood, to answer the door for a flower-wielding delivery man who’d arrived several hours too early with blooms for her dinner party. It’s the kind of off-script event that might send a novice hostess into a tailspin. But Clancy, owner of the city’s wildly popular clean (i.e., plant-based, non-GMO, organic) eatery, Seed + Salt, has learned to welcome the unexpected. Which is why she agreed to whip up…

@elleusa @elleusa @elleusa ELLE Magazine (US) The word obsession has gone through some curious growing pains of late, hasn’t it? The noun that once meant a helpless fixation has somehow evolved into a proclamation of approval, as easily applicable to a perfect stranger’s Instagram account as to a difficult-to-snag lip kit. At ELLE.com/Obsession, we’re examining what it means to be all-consumed in the digital age: the celebs who first sparked in us the fire of unrequited passion (right), the items without which our beauty routines would surely suffer, the social media behaviors that keep us awake at night, and much more. OBSESSED WITH HIM For the girl of a certain era, relationships meant only one thing: attaining Mr. Unattainable Whether we were inserting ourselves into the Felicity love triangle or…

It’s day four of Fashion Week in New York as I write this, so we’re just getting started, but I can say that so far Yeezy’s show for Adidas at Madison Square Garden was the biggest and the loudest. (My 13-yearold son and I loved the new album but couldn’t wait in the hour-long lines to buy product on our way out.) Joseph Altuzarra’s and Gabriela Hearst’s collections had the clothes you want right this second: gorgeous coats, sharp tailored pants, perfectly cut dresses, and beautiful peasant blouses. And Hood By Air was the most interesting—Hamilton meets Comme des Garçons meets Cats; I can honestly say it’s the first time I’ve seen men wear patent leather stilettos and bodysuits without looking like they were in drag. For all the talk…

LORETTA LYNCH U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL During Loretta Lynch’s lengthy, politically contentious confirmation period to become attorney general, she personally met with every member of the Senate judiciary committee, plus more than half of the rest of the senators, including those who vociferously objected to her nomination. “I felt they should get to know me and make their vote based on an informed discussion about the issues,” she says. Republicans initially opposed her because they disliked her predecessor and worried she’d be, as one group put it, “Eric Holder in a skirt.” (During her congressional hearing she was actually asked if she was Eric Holder, and she evenly assured everyone, on the record, that she was Loretta Lynch. Further, she says now, she wears skirts and pants.) The daughter of a…

Over the course of her 35-year career in fashion, Cynthia Rowley has designed dresses and handbags, obviously, but also wet suits, office supplies, and even beds (her recent collection with Hooker Furniture includes 167 pieces that range from a pink velvet couch to a blue wooden credenza). Travel and adventure are so baked into her brand’s DNA that when we spoke, her team was considering shooting the fall 2016 lookbook in the salt flats of Bolivia. Rowley herself heads to new locales whenever she has the opportunity; last Thanksgiving, she traveled to Iceland—or, as she puts it, “Niceland”— for four days with her husband, Bill Powers, a gallerist, and daughters Gigi, 11, and Kit, 16. “The food is delicious, the people are lovely, there’s lots to see,” Rowley says. “And…

“She came in with Christopher Kane, and my team all went, ‘Oh, who’s that cool girl in furry Céline shoes and slouchy trousers?’ ” says Matchesfashion.com cofounder Ruth Chapman of first spotting Rachael Proud—then Kane’s design director, and now the architect of Matchesfashion.com’s in-house line, Raey. “We had a bit of a girl crush on her!” That knack for talent spotting has kept Chapman— who cofounded the influential London boutique chain Matches Fashion with her husband, Tom, in 1987—one step ahead of the game. The Chapmans’ empire has been online since 2007, but it didn’t truly skyrocket until two years ago, an uptick she attributes to both techie innovation—now the site automatically scales to fit petite screens, and customers receive e-mails when a product they’ve favorited is in stock—and, interestingly,…

STYLIST’S TIP: A wider crop is the perfect showcase for a bright white boot.…

Without a doubt the sandal of the year, this slinky shape is beloved by everyone from Gigi Hadid to Beyoncé for its versatility—it’s equally chic with an evening gown or peeking out from the cuffed hem of your boyfriend jeans. Now Stuart Weitzman is kicking things up a notch with the limited-edition Pavé collection, comprised of 64 solid-color, Swarovski crystal–covered options, as well as a trio of patterns to choose from: polka dots, chevron, and camo. Spoiled for choice? Custom designs are available; these blackand-white beauties were created exclusively for ELLE but are available to order should you take a shine to them.…

ME DECADE Cool-girl fave (and cool girl herself) Jennifer Fisher, famed for her gold-anddiamond initial necklaces and Beyoncé-beloved body jewels, fetes 10 years in business with enamel pendants, charms, and rings (above) bearing personal talismans such as snakes and celestial motifs. In festive shades including denim blue, olive green, and charcoal gray, they arrive at her flagship store in New York’s Flatiron nabe this month. THE GRADUATE Kari Sigerson—cofounder of Sigerson Morrison, the shoe label that officially made sky-high architectural platforms a thing in the ’90s—is jumping back into the footwear scene. With her new partner (and former design employee) Eliza Axelson-Chidsey, she debuts Alumnae, a somewhat more subtle range—featuring calf-hair smoking slippers and hand-knotted leather sandals inspired by modelmuse Edie Campbell—that promises to help paparazzi bait keep their feet…

Thanks to her trademark blend of tasteful American classics (a nod to her Main Line Philadelphia upbringing) and worldly details inspired by far-flung travels, Tory Burch has built an empire with an instantly recognizable signature. I worked with Tory for years, styling her collections, and always admired her genius for mixing and layering accessories. So for our first accessories issue, I knew exactly whom to talk to. SAMIRA NASR: What are your three must-have accessories for spring? TORY BURCH: Classic espadrilles, a sculptural necklace that works well with an open neckline, and our half-moon bag, which is both structured and soft. SN: Any advice on how to layer accessories? TB: I love mixing accessories that don’t necessarily go together, like a modern and clean piece of jewelry and a pair…

Not long after Lorene Scafaria’s father died in 2009, her mother, Gail, moved from New Jersey to be near Lorene in Los Angeles— and things got complicated fast. But screenwriter and director Scafaria (Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World) quickly saw story potential: “We were grieving so differently,” she says. “I found her way to be much more beautiful and impressive than mine—I just went straight to depression and anger, while she was weirdly in both denial and acceptance. She wasn’t going to fight it. She was going to appreciate the time she has left and felt really lucky—but also incredibly lonely in this new city.” Thus was hatched the basic rippedfromreallife story line of Scafaria’s The Meddler, a deft, buoyant character…

Plants make excellent metaphors. Seeds can wait years for the right sprouting conditions; saplings strive for light; trees form symbiotic relationships with other organisms and struggle to reproduce. In her deeply affecting memoir, Lab Girl (Knopf), the pioneering geobiologist Hope Jahren exploits her study subjects, which range from fossil seeds to conifer forests, to limn her journey as an insecure young scientist through anxiety to full-blown, head-banging mania—and then meds, medals, and professional and personal fulfillment. Raised in a cold and silent Scandinavian household “under too much shade,” Jahren recognized as an undergrad that science would be her true home—a place of safety, warmth, and light. In science, she could be part of something larger than herself. A belletrist in the mold of Oliver Sacks, she is terrific at showing…

Krista Tippett, the Peabody Award–winning host of public radio’s pioneering program On Being, calls her revered, far-reaching interviews over the last 15 years with a who’s who of illuminati in theology, science, and the arts—the Dalai Lama, the poet Mary Oliver, and the physicist Brian Greene among them—“listening for a living.” In her new book, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into the Mystery and Art of Living (Penguin Press), Tippett, who grew up Christian in tiny Shawnee, Oklahoma, reflects on the evolving interplay between spirituality, technology, and what it means to be human. She writes, “We tried to retire mystery in the West in the last few hundred years and enshrined reality’s sharp edges instead—solutions and plans and ideologies; communism and fascism and colonialism. In our somewhat chastened age, we’re circling…

In his two-star review of New York’s Dirty French, New York Times critic Pete Wells described modelcum-sommelier Lelañea Fulton as “dressed like one of Charlie’s Angels working undercover.” In the world of wine, it’s rare to see someone like Fulton: Sommeliers typically dress like corporate consultants, but Fulton, a 35-year-old West Virginia native (who has since left Dirty French and is now working on forthcoming Hollywood restaurant Soul), favors vintage Gunne Sax dresses that are ultrafeminine and bohemian. If anything, her unorthodox outfit choices—combined with her mission to make wine something that’s playful and easy to discuss—have given her a competitive edge. ELLE: I would imagine, to customers, you seem more approachable because you’re not so buttoned-up. LELAÑEA FULTON: Yes. I’ve found that sommeliers pretty much have a mono culture:…

In 1991, the year Anita Hill, a 35-year-old law professor from the University of Oklahoma, appeared at the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Kerry Washington was just 14 years old. But like everyone else, she was transfixed by the two days that followed, in which Hill calmly recounted in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee the sexual harassment she claimed to have experienced while working for Thomas a decade prior at the Equal Opportunity Commission. “It was a big deal in our house,” recalls Washington, who watched the televised hearings with her parents in their apartment in the Bronx, New York. It wasn’t just the salacious nature of the allegations or how weird and incongruous the words “Long Dong Silver” sounded coming from Hill, a demure Midwesterner…

COVER Cotton sweatshirt by Shinola, $180, visit shinola.com. Diamond, onyx, and white gold earrings; emerald, onyx, diamond, and white gold bracelet by Cartier, prices on request, available by appointment, call 800-CARTIER or visit cartier.us. Gold bracelets, $4,700 each, diamond and white gold bracelet, $33,200, by Van Cleef & Arpels, at Van Cleef & Arpels (NYC), visit vancleefarpels.com. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 52: Hoodie, shorts, ankle boots, by Vetements, collection at nordstrom.com. Ring by Nikos Koulis, $9,585, collection at Bergdorf Goodman (NYC), visit bergdorfgoodman.com. THE BIG TEN PAGE 100: Lynch wears: Jacket by Giorgio Armani, at Giorgio Armani boutiques nationwide. Earring by Kimberly McDonald, $10,025 (for pair), collection at Neiman Marcus stores nationwide. PAGE 102: Murguía wears: Dress by Boss, visit hugoboss.com. Earrings by Roberto Coin, visit robertocoin.com. Giffords wears: Jacket,…