Indholdsfortegnelse for July 2017 i ELLE

JULY 21 Space out on the special effects, the glorious variety of aliens, and Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne as intergalactic special agents (plus Rihanna as a showgirl!) in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, a sci-fiepic set in 2740 as a dark force threatens the universe (some things never change). JULY 4 In Tampa author Alissa Nutting’s slightly absurd and very funny follow-up, Made for Love, a woman leaves her tech-mogul husband and moves into a trailer park with her dad and his alarmingly realistic sex doll. JULY 5 Summer gets haute during Couture Week at Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs, where more than 300 Dior gowns are now on display for the house’s seventieth anniversary. JULY 7 For her fourth album, Bad Baby, folk singer Sarah…

According to the mission statement on the invite for Section 8’s New York Fashion Week debut this past February, the show was intended “to occupy your mind’s real estate with a wearable fusion of underclass aesthetics and absolute privilege.” Translation: In a Chinatown art gallery, models were dressed in a distorted take on “corporate”— button-downs cut away to expose midriffs or shoulders; pencil skirts skewed on the diagonal—peppered with street references, e.g., a FUBU sweater refashioned as a mini. But it was the, er, accessories protruding from a number of the models’ mouths—actual koi—that proved the talking point. Section 8 is named for the federal low-income housing assistance program; the fish, usually associated with the decorative ponds of more affluent zip codes, were intended to symbolize, rather literally, fish out…

TRY THESE! EDITOR’S NOTE The Givenchy atelier has released an all-red homage to departed creative director Riccardo Tisci: 27 reissued looks from his 12-year oeuvre, including this Bambi sweatshirt from fall 2013.…

TELLING IT LIKE IT IS For 12 years, Tiffany Haddish has killed in everything from TV (NBC’s The Carmichael Show) to movies (Key and Peele’s Keanu) to stand-up (her special She Ready! From the Hood to Hollywood hits Showtime in August). And now there’s Girls Trip: As one of four best friends (rounded out by Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Regina Hall) on a wild weekend in New Orleans, Haddish steals the movie with her in-your-face delivery of one did-she-just-say-that line after another. Here, the South Central L.A. native—a former foster child who, at 15, found salvation behind the mic at the Laugh Factory Comedy Camp—talks comedy success. On auditions: “My strategy is: They need me more than I need them. I go in that room with four alternate…

She may clock in at just 4'11", but Comedy Central queen Natasha Leggero—whether taking no prisoners in her hour-long special (2015’s Live at Bimbo’s), ripping into the likes of James Franco and Justin Bieber at their now-infamous roasts, or playing the fame-seeking loudmouth Lillian on Another Period (which follows a fictional early-1900s version of the Kardashians, which Leggero created and executive produces)—packs a punch. Where’d she muster all that moxie? The stand-up stage, of course: “Another Period is pretty full-time: You write, then you’re in preproduction, then you’re shooting, then editing, then doing press while writing for the next season. I’ve been doing that for three years! So I need to get back onstage—that’s where everything stems from for me. My persona informs everything. “When I get onstage, people are…

The actress (MTV’s Girl Code), author (2016’s Weddiculous, an Emily-Post-meets-Joan-Rivers guide for brides-to-be), and stand-up (she’s appeared on Conan and The Late Late Show With James Corden) gives a crash course on success at open-mic night. STEP ONE: TELL THE TRUTH In stand-up, you notice your time line doesn’t make sense. In one joke, you’re like, “I just went through a breakup!” And then in another, you’re like, “I just got married!” So you’re like, “Which one is it?” That’s a problem with not telling the truth: It starts to not make sense in your act. STEP TWO: MINE YOUR PERSONAL LIFE FOR MATERIAL, LIKE PLANNING YOUR WEDDING We found this “dream venue”—an outdoor botanical garden—and the big selling point was that they had these white peacocks. The groundkeeper even…

With the weather heating up this month, we’re looking for cool ways to celebrate the everyday. Lucky for us, British fashion blogger Karen Blanchard of Wheredidugetthat.com has the most incredible backyard space (rare in NYC!) and loves gathering with close friends and a few bottles of La Marca Prosecco for impromptu summer soirées. Here she shares her tips for throwing a spontaneous poolside party, and why La Marca Prosecco is the perfect way to add a little sparkle to her—and your—everyday. I always have a few bottles of La Marca Prosecco in various sizes so I’m always prepared for a spontaneous celebration! “When it comes to BBQing, I prefer to whip up lighter fare for summer, like shrimp and veggie skewers and grilled corn.” “Summer essentials include: chic sandals, bright…

IT’S A WILD, WEIRD, divided world we’re living in, but here’s one thing we can all agree on: We need more women in charge—stat. Herewith, ELLE presents a bipartisan campaign, We Nominate, to get women politically involved: (1) Nominate a woman in your life who would make a great leader (colleague, neighbor, local entrepreneur, boss, mom—or you?). (2) Tell us why she deserves to hold office—local, state, or national—via social media (just tag it #wenominate). (3) ELLE editors, plus a few politically plugged-in friends, will select two women to send to candidate school (yes, that’s an actual thing). In a perfect world, comedian, newly minted documentarian, and politically engaged Netflix talk-show host Chelsea Handler would love to send comedic luminary Lily Tomlin to Washington. “She’s educated, and she’s edified,” Handler…

This month, Tina Fey interviews the funniest woman to have come along since, well, Tina Fey: SNL revelation Kate McKinnon—whose rapier wit, generous heart, and chic, laid-back personal style reveal her to be the very model of the modern ELLE woman. Maybe your idea of cool is more magpie-quirky with a ’70s twist? (Check out Elsa Hosk, page 122.) Meet a pair of fashion scions (including your new favorite Jagger), take a style detour to Miami, and, in the spirit of our Women in Comedy Issue, try not to take things too seriously. It’s only fashion, after all.…

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THE VERSATILE VISIONARY GIVES CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE We’ve long been fans of Issa Rae’s charmingly offbeat Web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, but when her half-hour comedy Insecure landed on HBO last year, it was a revelation. Not only were its plotlines hilarious and its social commentary incisive, but the range of talented women it showcased was off the charts. One standout is Melina Matsoukas—who, in addition to being an Insecure executive producer and director, is also a visionary music-video director (Beyoncé’s “Formation,” Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance”) and a full-on entertainmentindustry power player. We tapped Matsoukas to share an honor roll of the behind-the-scenes Hollywood women she’s got her highly trained eye on. To hear her thoughts on Hannah Beachler, the production designer who worked on Moonlight…

Even as a little boy, my son was curious about what girls might find attractive. I wanted to say valor and kindness—and no, looks aren’t important, at all!—but I hate lying to him. So I told him what my mother told me: Funny should be at the top of the list. With “funny” you get a twofer—you can’t be funny if you’re not smart (though you can be smart and not funny). Not to mention that people who are funny can, at least occasionally, tap pockets of joy, making them the best kind of people to spend time with. One thing that struck me about the pack of very smart, very funny women we feature in this, our second annual Women in Comedy Issue, is the generosity they show toward…

Roxane Gay is many things—critic, social media firebrand, college English professor, self-described “love child” of Beyoncé and Ina Garten, bisexual Haitian American PhD, and romance-novel fan. She is both utterly without shame when it comes to exposing the most raw parts of her psyche and, she says, painfully shy. But one thing she is not: coy. So in her new book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (Harper), she strips away all niceties to reveal her most painful truth: “This is the reality of living in my body: I am trapped in a cage. The frustrating thing about cages is that you’re trapped but you can see exactly what you want. You can reach out from the cage, but only so far.” When we meet at her apartment in Lafayette,…

TWILIGHT ZONE Twinkle, twinkle, little crystal: Pavé details put a brilliant spin on footwear and shades alike LADIES OF THE CANYON As hippie-chic staples undergo haute updates, the flower child is all grown up…

ALT-ROCKER Marianne Faithfull meets ’90s grunge. The lesson here: Just add leather MINIMALIST Print-phobic? Experiment instead with artsy shapes and textured add-ons PREPSTER The country-club set has always loved a top that says “gap year in Istanbul” MAXIMALIST Fur! Gems! Feathers! More is more, and capital-L luxe layers are key LADY With sexy peekaboo knits, even pearls and cardigans prove far from prim RARE BIRD What would Auntie Mame do? Rock not one, not two, but three boudoir staples!…

Canadian-born, London-based standup Katherine Ryan— who became only the second UK comedian to score a global Netflix special with last spring’s In Trouble— unpacks the art of the takedown: STEP 1: You can’t do a lazy roast. You can’t just show up and be like, “Oh, Jim is kind of a loser.” You have to have an encyclopedic knowledge of their life—Google them obsessively, go through their social media, and know these people better than you know your mother. STEP 2: Pick stuff that’s broad enough so the audience knows what you’re talking about, but also things that will provide a thrill of surprise. Start obvious—like, how short he is. Then make a reference to any burglary arrests. STEP 3: Treat the routine like a song, with a beginning, middle,…

The man with the orange hair is making a scene. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times, stops midsentence to stare at his back as he gesticulates broadly and shouts at his dinner companions over the already considerable din at BLT Steak in Washington, DC, downstairs from the offices of the Times’ bureau. Haberman has what can only be described as a wildly expressive poker face: her slender, Clara Bow–ish eyebrows lifting, her tired eyes widening behind her smudged glasses, a tiny pinpoint of a mole on her upper lip emphasizing the thin line she’s pressed her mouth into, the dimple in her chin appearing and disappearing as her jaw muscles shift. Intense is one of the words friends and colleagues most often use to describe…

Teresa Buchanan had something of a reputation among the young women—and her students were always women—enrolled in Louisiana State University’s pre-K through third grade education program. She used the f-word in class, overshared about her personal life, and could be brutally candid in her critiques of the student teachers under her tutelage. One of those professors you could never forget, the pretty, diminutive 54-year-old with the long, straight brown hair inspired many of the future grammar-school teachers. But others couldn’t stand her—and in December 2013, senior Rachel Ginn decided Buchanan had gone too far. What most disturbed her, Ginn said when she lodged a complaint with the university at the end of the fall semester, was a comment Buchanan had made during Ginn’s assessment team meeting, a sort of oral…

In six seasons on Saturday Night Live, Kate McKinnon has established herself as a once-in-a-generation comedic force: an Emmy-winning, character-creating powerhouse who instills every Hillary, RBG, Ellen, Justin—and even Kellyanne—with both hilarity and heart. A year after her wonderfully wacky performance in Ghostbusters, the Long Island native and Columbia grad is solidifying her movie-star stripes opposite Scarlett Johansson (and Zoë Kravitz! And Ilana Glazer! And Jillian Bell!) in this summer’s insanely funny bachelorette-party comedy, Rough Night. On the occasion of her second ELLE cover, McKinnon, 33, spoke with SNL superalum Tina Fey about career idols, Leslie Jones, and the j-word (okay, fine, we’ll tell you: It’s joy). Tina Fey: Hello? Kate McKinnon: Fey? TF: Hey, who is this? KM: I don’t know anymore. I can’t keep track. TF: It’s Tuesday,…

For nine seasons at Comedy Central, Stephen Colbert made his name playing a fictional blowhard mocking Washington with a wink and a wry smile. But now it’s personal. As the host of The Late Show on CBS, he’s dropped his act and picked up a machete, gleefully hacking away at the White House and refusing to apologize for it. Now that he’s been in the seat for almost two years, his take-no-prisoners approach to late night is doing the impossible: finally challenging Jimmy Fallon’s impressive run in the ratings. On weeks that Colbert’s show wins in viewership, the 53-year-old host treats his staff to pizza. “I have the best job,” he says. And he means it. The guy is as happy debating the existence of God with Ricky Gervais from…

In 2014, comedy goddess and Broad City cocreator/star Abbi Jacobson sent an e-mail to a blogger named Samantha Irby. “I want to talk to you about an idea,” she wrote. “If you’re ever in New York, hit me up.” She’d just read Irby’s debut book, she explained—an indie-published essay collection called Meaty, in which Irby describes her life in ultrapersonal detail, from her parents’ deaths, six months apart, when Irby was just 18, to her dating life as a thirtysomething woman with Crohn’s disease. In case you’re unfamiliar with Irby’s writing, the book is as hilarious as it is moving. When she got Jacobson’s e-mail, Irby was working full-time as a receptionist at Bramer Animal Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, and spending her off-hours writing for her blog, Bitches Gotta Eat,…

CANCER JUNE 22–JULY 22 Three peripatetic planets (Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus) set you off near the 6th (a family vacay?) and 18th (business travel?), while romance gets “put a ring on it” real near the 9th’s Capricorn full moon. You could also turn a solo venture into a profitable partnership. Fresh income flow starts at the 23rd’s Leo new moon—the first in this summer’s consecutive, cash-positive pair—on the heels of the booster pack of the Sun and go-getter Mars in your sign, which have been reinvigorating stalled plans all month. Curate your schedule carefully so VIP relationships don’t suffer during this self-focused groove. LEO (JULY 23–AUG 22) July feels like a long, midsummer night’s dream as planets ping your 12th house of fantasy until the 22nd. Channel your imagination into a…

CODE BLEU For fall, fashion takes denim to new heights. Plus: Extraterrestrially beautiful accents, and the new (old) power hue First up: Is it any surprise that Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior’s first female creative director, declared superchic, superpractical jeans the starting point of our new uniform? THOUGHT LEADERS From tulle-sheathed jeans to simulated-denim wool jackets, designers teach an old fabric new tricks SPACE ODDITY The motif du jour? Out of this world…

London-raised, Rome-educated Bella Freud hails from one of Europe’s more colorful and creative dynasties. Her great-grandfather was the godfather of psychoanalysis, Sigmund; her father, the legendary figurative painter Lucian Freud, who was renowned for the psychic intensity of his work. But the 56-year-old designer’s aesthetic has always skewed a tad more playful: In 2014, she referenced her lineage with an intarsia wool sweater emblazoned with the word “Psychoanalysis,” part of a collection that was spotted on gal pals Kate Moss and Alexa Chung. More recently, she’s turned out covetable cashmere knits, candles, and fragrances bearing cheeky phrases such as “Ginsberg Is God” and “Good Times” that meld her tomboyish sensibilities with an enduring love of all things ’70s. After a late-’80s stint as a design assistant at Vivienne Westwood, Bella…

In casting the lead for this month’s Dunkirk— about the evacuation of nearly 340,000 British, French, and Belgian soldiers who were surrounded by German forces on France’s Dunkirk beach during World War II—director Christopher Nolan needed an actor as green as the real-life infantrymen at the center of this storied chapter in British military history. “We send 18-year-olds to fight our wars,” Nolan says, “so I didn’t want a 30-year-old playing a kid.” Enter Fionn Whitehead, 20. The London native had just started filming his first onscreen role in a UK miniseries, ITV’s Him, when he underwent the three-month audition for Dunkirk. “With Fionn, you immediately got the sense that you weren’t going to have to guide him,” Nolan says. “He instinctively had the point of view of the character.”…

COLD DISCOMFORT The face of 21-year-old newcomer Florence Pugh compels our attention like a black hole of charismatic inscrutability in Lady Macbeth, which relocates a Russian short story to rural England in the 1800s. Sold into a loveless marriage by her father, Pugh’s Katherine is imprisoned on a spare, cold country estate, filmed here with stark lyricism, which she contrives to conquer in a most ruthless way. BAD BLOOD Veteran director (Notting Hill, Changing Lanes) and first-time scriptwriter Roger Michell works up a gorgeous gothic froth in his pulse-pounding adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s novel My Cousin Rachel. Sam Claflin is a rakish English country gentleman seduced against his better instincts by the widow (a witchy, wily Rachel Weisz) whom he suspects of murdering his benefactor.—…

A trio of joke-aminute specials to keep your eye on this fall The comic: The Daily Show With Trevor Noah correspondent Michelle Wolf The special: A yet-tobe- titled hour for HBO The shtick: Anatomical musings and dry selfdeprecation, delivered with a sweet-girl grin The comic: MADtv alum Anjelah Johnson The special: EPIX’s Mahalo & Goodnight (September 29) The shtick: The accent-adept former Oakland Raiders cheerleader’s deep dive into her Mexican roots and her husband’s Christian rap music The comics: Web series The Filling Is Mutual’s Jenny Zigrino; The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon scribe Jo Firestone; Oxygen’s Funny Girls star Yamaneika Saunders The special: The new season of Comedy Central’s Stand-Up Presents (September) The shtick: A buffet of female-driven laughs…

Comedy is a grind. Just ask Iliza Shlesinger, the 2008 winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing who performs virtually every night, has three Netflix specials under her belt, and wrapped up her 5-month, 19-city national theater tour earlier this year before entering the late-night game with her new Freeform talk show, Truth & Iliza. Here, she talks the hard facts of her abundant ambitions: “In entertainment, you’re always pitching yourself. I’ve written a couple of screenplays— I just got one optioned by Lionsgate. I have a meeting about another one tomorrow. Some of the big movies or TV shows you’ve seen—I’ve read for those. It’s really a lightning-in-a-bottle, you-gotthe- gig-because-you-were-there game of luck. That and skill. People don’t see what you do in the dark; they only see the projects…

It’s one thing to be born into the graduate program of Beauty as Business, but Aerin Lauder, granddaughter of Estée and now doyenne of her own namesake brand, has succeeded with flying colors. After a lifetime of being asked what was in her makeup bag, Lauder founded Aerin in 2012 based on her own simple, admittedly luxe tastes: scents inspired by her garden and capped with faux semiprecious stones; creams dreamed up after a trip to Morocco; gold seashells reminiscent of a Hamptons beach. As Lauder is fond of noting, “Beauty is my heritage,” and her grandmother’s influence is found in her natural palettes and simple scents: “I always think things that are good last forever.” Her latest launch, the fragrances Tuberose Le Jour and Tuberose Le Soir, offers two…