Indholdsfortegnelse for January 2018 i ELLE

JANUARY 10 More than 100 galleries from 18 countries will be represented at the LA Art Show, alongside mustsee partner programs by such heavyweights as LACMA and the Museum of Latin American Art. JANUARY 9 Search no further for your inaugural 2018 book club pick: Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists follows four siblings as they come to terms with a psychic’s prophecy. No fantasy here—just a dash of magic. JANUARY 12 The Commuter—raucous love child of The Girl on the Train and Murder on the Orient Express—finds Liam Neeson starring as a work-bound salesman embroiled in a crime conspiracy. And you thought your daily slog to the office was bad. JANUARY 18 It’s the eighth and final season of Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen’s iconic Portlandia. Come for the deadpan hipster…

Gifts? We like gifts. And festively sprinkled cookies? Why not. And chestnuts roasting on an open fire and all that? Sure, fine. But what really revs our engines this time of year is that ’tis the season for parties— throwing them, attending them, and, perhaps most essentially, dressing up for them. And that’s what this issue is all about. For the aspiring hosts among you, we offer a tailor-made guide full of smart, easy-to-execute, why-didn’t-I-think-of-that entertaining tips from fashion-industry insiders. (For example, Casa Lever wine director Carrie Lyn Strong imparted this kernel of wisdom: To ensure your guests’ bubbly stays, well, bubbly, serve your bottle of choice in a wineglass rather than a traditional flute—the shape of the former is more conducive to maintaining effervescence.) And if looking the part…

Christina Chen MARKETING DIRECTOR, SHINOLA @christinatchen1 “I eventually caved,” Christina Chen says of her 2015 move from New York to Detroit to be with her Michigan-born (now) husband after a 10-year long-distance relationship. Having grown up in industrial Pittsburgh, she instantly felt at home in the city: “There’s an energy I can’t explain.” Despite having carved out a fashion career working at Alexander Wang and Yves Saint Laurent, Chen insists she’s a casual dresser and favors “drapey dresses and menswear-inspired looks,” frequently paired with Nikes (and sometimes a vintage YSL heel). Off duty, she takes the city’s rich music history seriously, hitting up Detroit’s oldest blues bar, Raven Lounge; the Motown Museum, formerly Hitsville U.S.A.; or buzzy farm-to-table restaurant Lady of the House. Roslyn Karamoko FOUNDER, DÉTROIT IS THE NEW…

Sitting beneath the lights of a sparkling Eiffel Tower, it’s hard not to surrender to your most romantic impulses. And everyone at Saint Laurent’s show this season at the Fontaine du Trocadéro— with direct sight lines to the ultimate Paris monument—did just that, turning into unabashed tourists raptly taking photos of the sight just as the lights went down. Days earlier, a similar hush had fallen over a room of fashionjaded insiders when a quintet of supermodels who need only first-name identification—Cindy! Naomi! Claudia! Helena! Carla!—closed the Versace show in Milan with a Grecian goddess– like tableau. It was, to use a well-worn fashionism, a moment. Over the past few seasons, there’s been a lot of hand-wringing about the relevance and necessity of the fashion show itself. Should that lavish,…

SHEER AUDACITY Peekaboo fabrics bring boudoir dressing back with a bang SOFT ROCK Dainty drops and pastel stones round out the light-as-air look LADY AND THE TRACK Victorian whites and sporty staples: the new power couple HIGH JUMP Athletic details to put a spring in your step DOMINO EFFECT Denim? Shorts? The timeless tuxedo gets two up-to-the-minute makeovers GET SHORTY Hot pants—the better to let satin-and-crystal booties shine JEAN GENIE In supersaturated black, denim works overtime…

Charged with erotic energy and an almost mystical yearning, Jamie Quatro’s debut novel, Fire Sermon (Grove Atlantic), is a tour de force exploration of lust, marriage, longing, and love. Quatro, who lives in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and who wrote the rapturously received 2013 short-story collection I Want to Show You More, moves even deeper into the brave territory she exposed in those lavishly praised stories, exploring the tensions that play out when heightened sexual desire, intellectual frisson, and having one’s beliefs tested meet the quotidian routines and rewards of work, family, and faith. In the novel, Maggie is a Brooklynbased emerging writer, a graduate student in postcolonial theory at Princeton, and a married mother of two whose modest, steadfast husband, Thomas, works for an architectural firm. On their June wedding…

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Last year, Andrea, 37, and her husband decided to end their marriage. It wasn’t easy. They’d been together for 17 years and had two small children. But over time, a collection of grievances and resentments had piled up under their marriage like tinder. Add to that the pressure of living in New York City: “Two working parents, no family nearby,” Andrea points out. “Things were bound to blow up.” For at least a year, the couple tried to reconcile their differences. They read books and articles, and logged countless hours on the tear-sodden couches of various therapists. But nothing worked, and finally, they were tired. As agonizing as making the decision was, it was also a relief to agree on something; when I spoke to Andrea a few months later,…

Zoë Kravitz has the kind of magnetism that practically shouts, “This woman is a star!” She’s distractingly, otherworldly beautiful. She’s the spawn of two of the coolest people on the planet, Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz. This is a girl who knows how to milk a step-andrepeat in a slinky white Calvin Klein number and a voluminous ROYGBIV Dior gown with equal aplomb. And she’s a damn talented actress. Which is why, looking back, it’s amazing to consider that for the better part of the last decade, she hovered in a kind of Hollywood up-and-comer limbo, playing supporting roles in blockbusters like the Divergent movies, X-Men: First Class, and Mad Max: Fury Road (a prebreakout part of sorts—she certainly held her own in scenes with the also-so-beautiful-it’s-unfair Rosie Huntington- Whiteley).…

“I never thought women needed a different [investing] environment than men did; I thought the idea was patronizing and sexist,” says Sallie Krawcheck, chair of the Ellevate Network and cofounder of Ellevest—career and investing platforms that are, indeed, geared toward women. Because as Krawcheck began to do a little digging, she was hit with startling disparities: While we’re all aware of the gender pay gap (about 80 cents on the dollar, at last count), over the course of a career, the lesser-known gender investing gap can also cost women thousands—even millions—of dollars. Women retire, on average, with two-thirds of the money that men do. This, Krawcheck says, “tells me something is not working for women.” “It was seared into my brain at an early age that money equals freedom equals…

JULIE SCHOTT, BEAUTY DIRECTOR Buchinger Wilhelmi, Marbella “I’m skipping New Year’s resolutions and treating myself to a stay at Buchinger Wilhelmi in Marbella, Spain. Equal parts fancy beach spa and healing hotel, it’s a retreat where I can both get pampered and do some physical, mental, and digital detoxing.” buchinger-wilhelmi.com SETH PLATTNER, SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR Plum wine appliance “Cold weather is wine weather, and the Plum countertop wine dispenser holds any two 750 ml bottles, chills them to their label-recommended temperatures, dispenses custom pour sizes, and—the best part—keeps bottles fresh for weeks.” plum.wine ESTELLE TANG, CULTURE EDITOR Sandy Liang Mingo coat “New year, new coat! Come January, I’m usually ready for a fresh cocoon. This Sandy Liang dream is classic camel in the front, diva-esque Miss Piggy in the back.…

CAPRICORN DEC 22–JAN 19 January is radical reinvention month for Capricorns, as a breathtaking seven heavenly bodies cruise through your sign. With a wide-open field in which to reimagine your life, what path will you choose? The Capricorn new moon on the 16th brings early clues, while Mars inspires you to incorporate technology and innovation into the plan. This month packs in two full moons: one on the 1st, and another—a lunar eclipse—on the 31st. Since both fall in your relationship houses, you could lock down a selfsufficient partner who is also willing to stand behind your dreams. AQUARIUS (JAN 20–FEB 18) Wellness resolutions top your 2018 agenda, thanks to a salubrious full moon on the 1st. Buzzwordiness aside, it’s time to detox—from Nutella crepes to compulsive Facebooking. Begin mornings…

LIFE OF THE PARTY ’Tis the season to shake things up—starting with Vuitton’s sequin dress bedecked with a Kansai Yamamoto design OFF THE WALL Rich interior-worthy florals are begging to be arranged according to your botanical whims THE MORE THE MERRIER How to concoct the cocktail look of the moment? Try a slinky dress-over-pants silhouette STYLIST’S TIP To show a little skin while still covering up, opt for lace in surprising shapes. SHE’S GOT PLUCK Take low-key denim to greater heights with feather-festooned accents…

A few years ago, Milan-based style blogger Candela Novembre was rushing from a fashion show—in which she’d walked—to the city’s annual star-every-square-foot amfAR gala. So she threw on a bubble-shaped, brushstrokeprint Vionnet raincoat: “It was short and full of color. Completely unexpected. Everyone was like, ‘You went to amfAR in a raincoat?’” Consider that just one of the leaves in Novembre’s prodigious stylebook. She’s also worn a completely transparent lace skirt—over tap pants—with a sweater that Marian the Librarian might reject as too conservative, and attended a black-tie gala at La Scala in a pink gown by the label Vivetta that looked, with its candypink color and oversize bow, plucked from the wardrobe of a very chic fashion clown. Novembre mingles the bright-color–loving style of her homeland, Argentina, with the…

“Everyone relates to the heroes— that’s why they’re the heroes,” says actor Charlie Plummer. “But I’ve realized there are just more layers to characters who have been through something dark.” That doesn’t mean Plummer is going the villain route. At 18, he’s rendering performances as emotionally rich as they are gritty and complex. After a breakout role leading 2016’s King Jack, about a small-town teen who is being bullied, this season Plummer—the son of actress Maia Guest and writer-producer John Christian Plummer—is pulling double duty as young men on opposite ends of the coming-ofage spectrum: In Lean on Pete, his performance as Charley, a high schooler who befriends a racehorse and embarks on the road to self-discovery, earned Plummer the 2017 Venice Film Festival award for best young actor. And…

FINAL ACT In the fact-based drama Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, Annette Bening shines as the forgotten Oscar-winning silver-screen star Gloria Grahame, who by the late 1970s was trying her luck in English regional theater; Jamie Bell plays the earnest young actor who falls under her spell in this May-December romance, backed by Vanessa Redgrave and a uniformly strong supporting cast. FUNEREAL HOME A cavalcade of stars—Christina Hendricks, Julian Sands, Gillian Anderson, and Glenn Close, for starters—carry on with highmannered good humor in Crooked House, yet another Agatha Christie whodunit, this one adapted by Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park, Downton Abbey). Max Irons stars as a 1940s PI puzzling out the demise of an eccentric clan’s patriarch in the family’s country manor. TANGLED UP IN BLUE The inimitably scruffy John…

If you’re game for a slim, stylish novel set in New York City’s risky demimonde— to which a kick-ass feminist fatale has just returned after a decade abroad (“I left in Dubai a closet of beautiful dresses”)—read Katherine Faw’s fearless Ultraluminous (MCD). Similarly captivating is British writer Hermione Hoby’s debut novel, Neon in Daylight (Catapult), about an offbeat, smartly observant heroine newly arrived in New York City during the sultry summer before Hurricane Sandy; Ann Patchett calls Hoby “a marvel.” If you need a double dose of sage advice, this month two wise women have your back: “Poet Laureate of the Ordinary” Kelly Corrigan’s Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say (Random House) includes chapters on how to say no— because “no makes room for…

In this age of unbridled braggadocio and deep anxiety, it’s easy to wonder who we really are. But that’s why Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself (Penguin Press), by the psychiatrist and author Mark Epstein, MD, a longtime scholar of Buddhism and author of the best-seller Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, feels like a godsend. Weaving insights from psychology together with Buddhist philosophy, Epstein shows us in this warm and riveting book how following the Eightfold Path—eight clear steps of meditative practice designed to deepen selfreflection, behavior, and action—can reduce stress; reboot our natural human empathy; and help curb our egos’ gnawing desire to make ourselves “bigger, better, smarter, stronger.” ELLE: You write that our human egos can be very tricky and persistent, making us feel…

Things change very slowly, and then all at once. In the course of this yearlong series on five women who voted for Donald Trump, I thought I’d find the reaches beyond which Trump’s voters wouldn’t go. That even the people who simply hated Hillary Clinton would eventually, mostly, come to realize that she’d have been a better choice. Right? That hasn’t happened, at least not with the women we’ve been following. As I type this, Trump’s approval ratings are at record lows, and his administration is still mired in chaos. Yet many of Trump’s voters are sticking by him; all of our women are, though most of them aren’t overjoyed with the job he’s doing. Some of it is the sunk-cost fallacy: You’ve made a bad bet and you know…

PLANNING AHEAD JANUARY 1 This week, Krawcheck sets out guidelines for the most important financial milestones—from knocking out student debt to opening a 401(k)—with researchbacked tips on when, and how, to hit them. INVESTING 101 JANUARY 8 Is it better to invest in stocks or bonds? How should you diversify your investment portfolio? Whether you’re looking into investing for the first time or just hoping to glean new insights, Krawcheck has the answers for you. CH-CH-CH-CHANGES JANUARY 15 If you’ve been waiting to make a career leap, wait no more. Krawcheck will help you navigate a job pivot with ease—and you won’t even need a maternity leave to do it. ASK FOR IT JANUARY 22 Negotiating pay raises and new-job salaries is essential. And that voice in your ear telling…

For the heartbroken: “‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want,’ by the Rolling Stones. Pretend you’re over the moping and you’ve moved on to defiance. Jagger has wisdom: ‘But if you try sometimes, well you might find/You get what you need.’” For the furious: “‘Positively 4th Street,’ by Bob Dylan. Ditch the anger, and drop the bitterness! Let yourself listen to the 12 perfect, bile-filled verses of this Dylan ditty, relate, and then move on.” For the worrisome: “‘Everything’s Alright,’ from Jesus Christ Superstar. It’s got to be the 1973 film version, with Yvonne Elliman. Her voice is a salve. Sometimes I try singing this to my wife when things are a little tense, but you have to be really charming to pull it off!” Witness more playlist wisdom at…

WINGED BEAUTY With feather accents, the evening sandal soars to dramatic new heights AUTO FOCUS Merge into the fast lane with hot rod–inspired extras SPOT TREATMENT Filtered through Raf Simons’s lens, a calf-hair bag is more haute than honky-tonk WEST WORLD Southwestern-inspired turquoise is the stone—and shade—of the moment…

This month, thousands of new products and technologies will premiere at Las Vegas’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the convention that has seen the debuts of everything from the personal camcorder (1981) to a smart hairbrush (2017)—and that, increasingly, has become the tech world’s version of Fashion Week. We asked CES producer Robin Raskin, founder of event production company Living in Digital Times, for a peek at the advances she’s betting will be updating fashion’s operating system in 2018. Visit ELLE.com January 9–12 for exclusive, on-theground coverage come showtime. EASY BEING GREEN Fashion-tech matchmaking is fueling the rise of sustainable fashion. “The new e-textiles and biotextiles are functional but also beautiful,” Raskin says. Cases in point: cutting-edge, plantbased odor-control treatments developed by Mint Materials that will replace harmful chemicals in fabrics,…

Like a nuclear device stealthily deployed in the final moments of this year’s Oscar-nomination wars, Phantom Thread was quietly targeted for release on Christmas Day; its detonation will long be remembered among movie geeks. For one thing, it’s apparently the valedictory performance of Daniel Day-Lewis, who announced his retirement from the silver screen last summer. He already stands alone as the winner of three Oscars for Best Actor; we’ll leave it to the oddsmakers to handicap his chances of finishing his storied career by adding a fourth statuette from the Academy for the plum role of the ultrafastidious, tightly wound Reynolds Woodcock, 1950s women’s fashion designer to British royalty and high society. But I, for one, won’t be betting against him. Day- Lewis—whose father served as poet laureate of the…

In an era when predatory male sexual behavior has finally become a topic of urgent national discourse—I personally consider it a public-health issue!—Erica Garza’s Getting Off: One Woman’s Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction (Simon & Schuster) makes for a wild, timely read. In the prelude to her raw, sometimes almost pornographic memoir, Garza, who’s in her midthirties, writes that her dual addictions fed “an elaborate mix of shame and sexual excitement I had come to depend on since I was twelve years old. And my methods of getting this only became darker and more intense so that it wreaked havoc on all aspects of my life until I became a shell of a person, isolated, on a path to certain destruction.” Garza grew up in a middle-class household in…

VIOLET FEMME What better setting to debut an experimental beauty look than at a party? It’s the perfect test kitchen for taking the kind of risk—say, a lavender lip—that can make us feel unstoppable. Makeup artist Kajsa Svanberg suggests contrasting an unexpected, heavily pigmented lip with a “subtle golden wash” across the eyelids to keep it from looking costumey. DISCO INFERNO Sandy Linter, makeup artist to Studio 54–era It Girls, literally wrote the book (1979’s Disco Beauty) on bedazzling: “The rest of the face has to be perfectly made up,” Linter says, with sparkle added selectively —to the Cupid’s bow, for instance— to achieve the desired impact. These days, glitter comes in many forms, from biodegradable paillettes to selfadhering, microfine sparkles. But beware: Use only cosmetic-grade glitter on the eye…

TAKE THAT, ELITIST BOYFRIEND DEAR E. JEAN: My boyfriend is shocked when I don’t know a seventeenth-century historical event or an eighteenth-century philosopher. He sometimes belittles my taste in books and movies. Other times he simply outshines me. We both took standardized tests for law school, for example, and he scored far better. He also landed a more lucrative job than I did upon graduating. We’ve been dating for a year. Since we met in college and moved to New York—the occasions I mentioned excepted—our relationship has been wonderful, respectful, and loving. Yet I’m feeling a lack of confidence in my intelligence and accomplishments. Is it rational to feel this insecure? Or is my behavior petty? —Who Is Spinoza, Again? Spinoza, My Sublime Woman: Of course your “behavior” is “petty.” My…

Edgar Ramirez romanced Jennifer Lawrence in Joy and spooked Emily Blunt in The Girl on the Train, but the 40-year-old’s best stories are his own. He grew up all over Venezuela, where his father worked as a military attaché. Ramirez speaks five languages, curses in German, and studied to be a journalist before taking a sharp turn toward acting at 25. He stormed Cannes in 2010 with Carlos, a careerdefining, six-hour miniseries in which Ramirez played Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal, from his days as a young playboy admiring his own junk in a hotel-room mirror to his eventual capture some 20 years later. This month, in the second season of FX’s American Crime Story, Ramirez becomes another iconic rebel, the titular legendary fashion designer in The Assassination of Gianni…