ELLE May 2015

May 1 All five members of O.G. boy band New Kids on the Block kick off their summer reunion tour in Las Vegas, aiming to prove they've still got…the right stuff. May 1 The Whitney Museum inaugurates its new, cruise-ship-size headquarters in downtown New York with a show featuring the work of almost 400 artists. May 4 HBO's Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the first fully authorized documentary about Nirvana's front man, plumbs unprecedented access to personal archives (Frances Bean Cobain executive produced) to offer a candid look at the tortured star. May 8 Hollywood legends Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda show Tinseltown how it's done in the Netflix comedy Grace and Frankie, playing longtime rivals forced to contend with each other after their husbands fall in love. May 14…

THE MONTH IN FASHION! Friday, May 1 Somewhere in Los Angeles, Katy Perry is turning cartwheels. Moschino's first flagship store —all 3,500 square feet of it—is now open on Beverly Boulevard. The white modernist structure, designed by the brand's creative director, Jeremy Scott, will serve as the perfect backdrop for the designer's absurdist work. Life-size pink plastic "Barbie" shoes, anyone? Tuesday, May 12 Fashion journalist and Francophile Kate Betts recounts her formative years in the City of Light as a young reporter in My Paris Dream, out today from HarperCollins. The multitasking Ms. Betts also whips up a mean chicken curry in this spring's The Bergdorf Goodman Cookbook (Harper Design), alongside such fashion luminaries as Joseph Altuzarra (nutty granola) and Charlotte Olympia Dellal (Persian celery stew). Also included: favorite recipes…

Your foolproof packing list for that perfect long-weekend getaway, curated by the editors of ELLE.com THE BAG A perforated Loeffler Randall bucket fits all of your beachtime essentials. Loeffler Randall Industry Bag, $295, loefflerrandall.com THE SUIT This is the summer of clean lines and pop art hues à la this colorblock Zimmermann bikini. Zimmermann Essence Tri Bikini, $230, zimmermannwear.com THE BOOK Soak up the rays and a dose of workplace wisdom at once, courtesy of the original social branding guru, Aliza Licht, aka @dknyprgirl. For a candid interview with the Leave Your Mark author, visit ELLE.com/Aliza. THE SANDAL Invest in a pair of sophisticated Ellery slides to seamlessly transition from Summer Fridays to Surf Lodge Saturdays. ASKA Ellery Sandal, $150, askacollection.com THE GUY No jaunt is complete with-out the perfect…

The first time I heard Chelsea Clinton speak publicly, at the Lower Eastside Girls' Club in Manhattan, I saw a glimpse of the same thing that impressed me the first time I heard her mother speak to a small gathering: a big brain so deeply engaged in the subject that she could answer questions in full paragraphs, seemingly effortlessly flipping through the files in her cerebral cortex to find the perfect report or statistic to make her complex, nuanced point. Her mother was beside her, answering questions too, posed by select press, a handful of guests, and the staff and the teenage members of the girls' club. The second time I saw Chelsea speak, her mother was also beside her, at a conference announcing Data 2X, an initiative to improve…

You've undoubtedly heard of the wage gap—that, more than 50 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act, U.S. women still, on average, earn 82 cents to every man's dollar. And you may have heard, too, of the "motherhood penalty"—that moms not only earn less than dads (who actually get a "fatherhood bonus" of more than 6 percent when they procreate) but earn less than nonmothers as well. But what you probably haven't heard about is that for a small subpopulation of American women—well-off women—the motherhood penalty simply doesn't exist. And for the very best-off women there's actually a pay premium for becoming a mom. Just as there is for dads. Multiple studies show it. Most recently, Michelle J. Budig, PhD, a sociologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,…

For our March cover story, the gloriously unfiltered Katy Perry was every inch the bombshell in Giambattista Valli and Chanel; her striking shoot and candid interview thrilled ELLE readers: "I like Katy's honesty. So many celebrities don't tell the truth, but Katy says what she knows is the truth." —Lynda Richmond Fuller, Popcrush.com "In love with what she's wearing. Not to mention the sexy nose pin." —Anonymous, Theffjournal.com "The struggle of there being two different ELLE magazine covers ugh I want both" —@thinkin_of_katy, Twitter "The unstoppable Miss Perry proves that she can both master commercial looks and transition to sophisticated high fashion all in one breath. Golf claps all round." —Lisa Hamilton of MTV.com.au "Not sold on the chosen fashion, but those are some pretty great earrings. Her makeup is…