Indholdsfortegnelse for December 2016 i ELLE

DECEMBER 21 Putting long car trips into proper perspective, the sci-fi/thriller/romance Passengers stars Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence as space travelers whose sleep pods open 90 years early. DECEMBER 6 Journalist Michael Lewis, a master of turning potentially dull stories into bestselling books (that become blockbuster movies like The Big Short), publishes The Undoing Project, about two psychologists who upended the study of human decision-making. DECEMBER 7 What happens when a magician gets convinced by his own tricks? Find out in Hulu’s bingeable drama, Shut Eye, about a storefront psychic who starts believing he truly does have a sixth sense. DECEMBER 7 The latest musical to corral a bevy of stars on TV is Hairspray Live! on NBC, which features Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Rosie O’Donnell, and more. DECEMBER 16…

@Robbiemyers @Robbie_Elle On September 27, Savion Glover, who’s been called the greatest tap dancer ever, performed for nine and a half minutes on a small stage erected on the corner of Eighth Avenue and 57th Street. Part of a launch party for HearstLive—a 24/7 media installation showcasing the work of ELLE and our parent corporation’s hundreds of other brands—the performance was a thing of beauty. There were no introductions, no self-congratulatory speeches, just the sound of Glover’s explosive tapping before a crowd of about 1,000, making you feel like this was the only place to be in New York City at that moment. Afterward, I introduced myself to Glover and told him that I’d seen him 20 years earlier in the seminal Broadway production Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in…

Few people light up about exercising like Georgia Fowler does. The 24-year-old New Zealander, who stars in our fashion spectacular “Haute Pursuit” (page 252), took early cues from her father, professional golfer and Australian Open winner Peter Fowler. “He got me into sports from a young age,” says Fowler, who dabbled in tennis, basketball, water polo, soccer, swimming (the list goes on). The Surrey-born, Auckland-raised model, who spent her early years hopping around Europe on Dad’s golf tours, officially moved to New Zealand at age five. “I was quite a tomboy at school, always hanging out with the boys. I put my hand up for everything,” she says. The sports junkie got her modeling start at age 12, when she accompanied older sister Kate to a casting. Roughly eight years…

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Rachel Brosnahan may have leavened the corrupt world of House of Cards—and garnered an Outstanding Guest Actress Emmy nod—by playing the hopeful, humane, politically manipulated prostitute Rachel Posner, but now the 25-yearold actress insists, “no matter how great the script, if a role is introduced having sex, I won’t do it. It’s really hard to look beyond that in a character, regardless of what a director is trying to say.” Brosnahan—a Highland Park, Illinois, native and 2012 graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts—is making good on that promise. In Woody Allen’s recent Amazon comedy Crisis in Six Scenes, she played Ellie, a wholesome, intelligent collegian and perhaps the most unshakable presence in Allen’s screwy take on the Vietnam War era; now she’s set to appear first off-Broadway (opposite…

This month, two books, alike in dignity (and indignation), examine how women have succeeded in the arts and sciences, often through channels men weren’t interested in taking. The first, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (Viking), by best-selling science writer Dava Sobel, is the little-known story of a group of remarkable female “computers” (their roles began as simple math-oriented clerking; many were relatives of male scientists) employed by the Harvard College Observatory beginning in the 1870s. An early scene from the book provides so perfect a metaphor for Sobel’s narrative that it reads almost like fiction: In 1878, amateur astronomers Henry Draper and his wife, Anna, traveled to the Wyoming Territory from their home in upstate New York to witness…

1889. The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated, its 984 feet of wroughtiron latticework making it the tallest structure in the world. Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler were born, Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night, and American journalist Nellie Bly circumnavigated the world in a record 72 days, picking up a pet monkey along the way. Change was in the air, literally: The year also marked the debut of Guerlain’s Jicky, the first perfume to combine both synthetic and natural notes to create an abstract olfactory effect that was simultaneously spicy, strange, and striking. Before this, if you had pressed your nose to a woman’s wrist or a man’s lapel, you would have smelled only flowers. Jicky contained two relatively inexpensive and versatile synthetics—coumarin, a substance found in tonka beans…

SATURDAY AFTERNOON in the kitchen with Anastasia Koutsioukis, who’s prepping meze for the alfresco dinner party she’s hosting that evening, is every bit as lush as the world she portrays on Instagram under the handle @MrsMandolin. The catchy moniker is derived from Mandolin Aegean Bistro, the Miami Design District hot spot she co-owns with her husband, Ahmet Erkaya. Cooling on the counter of her 1940s bungalow in Miami’s historic Buena Vista neighborhood is a tray of tiropitakia—stuffed phyllo dough triangles topped with sesame seeds, honey, and thyme—in a perfect shade of golden brown. There’s an autumnal array of dips, too, including a roasted pepper, cumin, and walnut spread and a butternut squash hummus, with homemade pita bread, olives, and radishes. The 41-year-old Koutsioukis, a vision in a red-and-white hand-embroidered linen…

There are girls who play by fashion’s rules and there are those who create them. Jersey girl Caitlyn Warakomski of the blog How Do You Wear That is one of those said trendsetters. She mixes vintage and designer with an enviable air of effortlessness, and makes even the simplest ensembles look chic. Here, we go inside her gorgeous loft to uncover the essentials she cannot live without this winter. “The holidays are a time when I get to elevate my look and be extra daring with my style.” 1. LANEIGE BB CUSHION, $34.00, Target.com 2. SEPHORA COLLECTION CREAM LIP STAIN, $14.00, Sephora.com SEPHORA COLLECTION FINE LINE: WATERPROOF 24 HR FINE LINER, $14.00, Sephora.com 3. RADO WATCHES, assorted styles and prices, Rado.com 4. SHISEIDO ULTIMUNE POWER INFUSING CONCENTRATE, $67.00, Shiseido.com VISIT…

@elleusa @elleusa @elleusa ELLE Magazine (US) THE SOUND OF UNSPEAKABLE LOSS Artist Taryn Simon breaks with her usual form Photographer and multidisciplinary artist Taryn Simon studies not only the way that photography “threatens fantasy,” as she put it in her 2009 TED talk, but also the way that photography confirms it—photos used to convict innocent men, for example. Much of her work explores this gap between the image and its “true” meaning; she creates images whose beauty or oddity almost distract you from their content. A woman about to undergo a hymenoplasty is bathed in a warm light more suited to an upscale spa; a pile of food confiscated at JFK airport resembles a sixteenth-century still life. This fall, Simon applied her distinctive sensibility to her first-ever performance work,…

Akris’s creative director, Albert Kriemler, makes the rounds of every art fair and museum opening his schedule permits—Frieze, Documenta, Art Basel, the Venice Biennale. So of course he visited New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art shortly after its new Renzo Piano–designed home opened in April 2015. In the museum’s inaugural exhibit, America Is Hard to See, which showcased many never-before-seen holdings, one painting in particular caught his eye. It was Blanco y Verde, a circa-1959 minimalist white canvas bisected by a verdant green sliver of a triangle, by the Cuba-born, New York–based abstract expressionist Carmen Herrera. Kriemler’s appreciation for the arts has long been one of his hallmarks. He’s made costumes for Hamburg’s renowned choreographer John Neumeier. And for Akris, the Swiss label his grandmother launched in 1922, he’s…

BUCKLE UP! A little bit Victorian, a little bit Western, and a whole lotta punk— multistrap boots do the talking SWING TIME Sentimental lockets are perfectly sweet, but the ultimate pendants to have and behold are sculptural, diamondencrusted marvels BOW DOWN The latest after-hours extras are fit to be tied EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED Watch faces prove the perfect portable canvas for (diamond-bedecked) miniature works of art GET PERSONAL The season’s freshest bags boast a retro ’80s DIY touch PARTY DOWN The slipper goes from house to haute in a riot of pattern, color, and jewels…

In a video titled Wine Is Healthy—Isn’t It? It Is—No? from his Atlantic Web series, If Our Bodies Could Talk, the host, James Hamblin, MD, is asked by a peeved-sounding off-camera producer, “Why can’t we just know if it’s good or if it’s bad?” Hamblin, a baby-faced 33-year-old former radiologist turned journalist and Internet phenom, lets her have it: “Because nothing in the world is wholly good or wholly bad. You have to live with some ambiguities in your life. I get questions all the time: Jim, should I be drinking wine? Give it to me straight. Should I be taking a multivitamin? Do I need to see my doctor every year? Is CrossFit destroying my back? Are people who do CrossFit a little bit weird? Why do the same…

I AM 16 YEARS OLD, dancing on top of a bar at a Manhattan nightclub. It is 3 a.m. Next to me, my best friends gyrate as the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy,” spliced with Britney Spears’s “I’m a Slave 4 U”—an earworm of a remix, let me tell you—booms across the room. I laugh a lot because it’s pure silliness to dance wildly atop a bar. It’s also the opposite of being desk-shackled at school, penning an essay on the defenestration of Prague. I close my eyes, but even through my lids, I can see the lights that striate the place, transforming it into a luminescent pleasure dome—a place where SAT angst and schoolgirl concerns do not exist. I can also feel eyes on me. Not because I’m such a…

DECEMBER 5 Kidrobot creative director Frank Kozik (also the visionary behind posters for Nirvana and the Red Hot Chili Peppers) proves it’s never too early to begin an art education— or a collection—with the brand’s limited-edition line of Warholian figurines (1). DECEMBER 10 Seeking a fashionable addition to your current coffee-table spread? Rizzoli’s Barneys New York takes a deep dive into the history of the iconic retailer, revisiting groundbreaking collabs with such influencers as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Bruce Weber (see his 2016 “Our Town” ad campaign) (5). DECEMBER 15 Take flight in stylist Leith Clark’s winged sunglasses (3), part of an exclusive holiday collaboration with Warby Parker filled with kicky cat-eyes and exaggerated, Studio 54– worthy gold frames. DECEMBER 1 Topping our packing list for a midwinter getaway: Belgian designer…

SAGITTARIUS NOV 22–DEC 21 You’re 100 percent alpha this December, and when masterful Saturn syncs with the Sun on the 10th, your hard work in 2016 could draw public praise. But thanks to your sense of noblesse oblige, it won’t be lonely at the top. Cosmic conspirators Mars and Venus are crewing your friendship sector, adding more (and more) eclectic faces to the squad. One person’s partnership potential becomes obvious—and official— during the 13th’s full moon. Warning: Agitator Mars and retrograde Mercury will stir family drama near the holidays. Limit your fetes to conflict-free guest lists. CAPRICORN (DEC 22–JAN 19) The Sun joins your ruler, Saturn, in your dreamy twelfth house until the 21st, stalling productivity, so slip off for a brief winter’s disco nap. Party invitations won’t slow, however;…

Martien Mulder PHOTOGRAPHER, BROOKLYN, NY; THIS MONTH: WOMEN IN ART (PAGE 262) “It’s funny, but Y Tu Mamá También is still on top of my list of favorite films. No other has topped the amount of joy. I also can’t stop watching Transparent. I love the series for its groundbreaking take on contemporary life, and I’m truly moved by Maura as a character.” Cristina Nehring WRITER, PARIS; THIS MONTH: “THE BALD TRUTH” (PAGE 224); BONA FIDES: WORK HAS APPEARED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, HARPER’S, THE ATLANTIC, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; AUTHOR OF A VINDICATION OF LOVE: RECLAIMING ROMANCE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY “My dream getaway is not a vacation, it’s a life change: living in a new place for enough time to become a local, have your favored cafés,…

SHARON COPLAN HUROWITZ MUSEUM QUALITY Sharon Coplan Hurowitz has plenty of classically elegant clothes—she’s a full-on Chanel fan, and lately she’s fallen for Irish designer Simone Rocha’s romantic, slightly deconstructed party dresses. But it is creative collaborations between visual artists and fashion houses that truly light up the independent art adviser and curator’s wry fashion eye. Her most prized pieces include a saucy strapless Stella McCartney dress from spring 2006 printed with a close-up from Jeff Koons’s 2000 oil painting, Lips; a witty, wordy fall 2010 Balenciaga dress decorated with images and words from photographer (and longtime Balenciaga lover) Cindy Sherman—“I didn’t want to make ‘high art,’ ” reads part of the front panel, quoting an interview Sherman once gave—and two vibrant fall 2016 dresses by Jeremy Scott for Moschino,…

TUXEDO JUNCTION Pair a sleek tux with a sporty logo tee for a dressed-down approach to dressing up THE ALL-NIGHTER Timeless. Easy. Supremely flattering. The LBD gives all other party frocks the cold shoulder SPIN CYCLE The ’80s called: Glitzed-up bike shorts are back, and they’re not just for the gym CRIMSON AND CLOVER With rock ’n’ roll footwear, the floral day dress is party ready and Instagram friendly COMFORT ZONE Skip the holiday sweater. The trusty T-shirt is gloriously bedazzled— and casually festive SPACE COWGIRL Dial down cocktail-party shimmer. The Wild West look works 9 to 5, but it’s even better after dark ELLE EXCLUSIVE LINER NOTES Step confidently into fall’s boudoir-dressing trend with a dress designed to show off as much of your assets as you care to…

“You don’t need to stick your boobs out,” my dance instructor tells me, correcting my posture. I’m standing in front of a mirror next to Dancing With the Stars’ Peta Murgatroyd at the midtown Manhattan location of Dance With Me, a studio co-owned by her fiancé and costar, Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Murgatroyd and my dance partner, Ivan Paulovich, are giving me a quick brushup on my hustle and cha-cha for the disco takeover I plan to execute at a rave—yes, a rave—I’ve been invited to the following night. I’ve been craving the return of disco for years. It started around the time I had children, gave up wearing heels, and noticed that instead of lullabies, I was singing my kids to sleep with Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love,” Thelma Houston’s “Don’t…

MASTERPIECE CLASSICS Embrace time-tested staples without neglecting the now VELVET REBELLION Polished downtown essentials that buff the rough edges right off rocker chic NOVEL IDEAS Well-versed in every sense of the word, the brilliant bookworm knows that smart girls dig fashion, too INTO THE WILD A bit of this, a bit of that—arm your favorite eclecticist with a head-turning style remix RARE BIRD As with design, legendary tastemaker Iris Apfel’s gifting strategy is all about instinct GIVE AND RECEIVE: “I’m an old bag, so I’ve gotten some very special gifts over the last 95 years, but the greatest by far is love. My husband, Carl, and I were happily married for 68 wonderful years.” GO FOR THE SPARKLE: “Jewelry’s wonderful. Sometimes you have to pay through the nose, and sometimes…

Idolized in Japan for her string of bestselling, dreamily surreal, slyly satirical novels, award-winning writer Banana Yoshimoto broke big in America in 1993 with Kitchen, an edgy, sexy domestic caper that’s been published in more than 20 countries. A writer who inspires superlatives in the West from literary critics and a cultish following among readers, the 52-year-old Yoshimoto deploys a magically Japanese light touch to emotionally and existentially tough subject matter: domestic disarray, loneliness, identity issues, lovesickness. She hits them all in her latest novel, Moshi Moshi (Counterpoint). A sensation when published in Japan in 2010, the book is a coming-of-age/ghost story about a devoted daughter, Yocchan, who is perplexed, and haunted by, the loss of her musician father in a murder-suicide pact carried out by his mistress, a distant…

We’ve all heard the tired stereotype about the musician with a penchant for dating models. But what of the model who is a musician? And a good one? This coming March, the British-born, Nashville-based, preternaturally cool crooner/supermodel Karen Elson will serve up a long-awaited follow-up to her well-received 2010 debut album of folk-inspired ballads, The Ghost Who Walks (produced by her now-ex Jack White). Elson may have played muse to everyone from the late Alexander McQueen to Zac Posen, but don’t expect an over-the-top stage look to promote the new album, Double Roses. “In this age of excess, the more unexpected thing is to look understated,” Elson says. “That might be more poetic.” Fashion’s favorite chameleon has also become a little more discerning in her makeup and skincare experimentation. “After…

It was at the annual National Book Awards ceremony, at a star-studded dinner in a swank Manhattan hotel. As I raised my glass for a toast, my skin began to crawl, my neck to sweat, and my head, apparently, to implode. I gulped my wine and excused myself to the bathroom. And there it was in the mirror: a vision of myself-cum-leopard, mottled head to foot, covered in deep, dark, purplish splotches. They adorned my face, my chest, my arms, my legs, and—I pulled up my shirt—my stomach. I knew what was going on. I slipped my fingers under the hard rim on the nape of my neck and—pop!—flicked off the thin, rigid plastic helmet that was causing me to break out. I placed the blond contraption on the bathroom…

A sudden monsoon descends upon New York minutes before I arrive at the spacious TriBeCa loft of Haley Bennett. Though we’ve never met before, it takes her no time to glance at my flats and say, “Want to borrow my boots so you don’t ruin your shoes?” She pulls out brightyellow Wellies (she’s wearing gray ones), scurries into the bedroom, and returns with what she assures me are “perfectly clean socks.” This is not movie-star behavior. And at the moment Bennett is not quite a movie star, a situation about to change in a flash. Exactly one week after I borrowed her boots, she sparkled in Christian Dior couture at the Toronto Film Festival, where Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven—a remake of the classic 1960 western in which she’s the…

SHARP OBJECTS CHLOE WISE Two years ago, actress India Menuez went to a Chanel dinner carrying a bag that looked like a bagel, complete with cream cheese and the house’s interlocking Cs. Her picture buzzed around the fashion world—Karl’s new baked-goods collab?!—until, finally, multimedia artist Chloe Wise announced, “Psych! It’s a sculpture,” Wise says. “That magazines were so quick to pick up the story completed my critique that the fashion world can be this arbitrary machine.” Wise has since appeared in almost 20 exhibitions and been picked up by Division Gallery in her native Montreal and Galerie Sébastien Bertrand in Geneva. As gallerist Jeffrey Deitch wrote in Wise’s 2016 self-titled book, copublished by both galleries, “Chloe’s art breaks down the traditional hierarchies between media and high art and popular culture.…

COVERS Silk satin gown with sequin-embellished velvet belt, $8,800, gold-finished metal and glass pearl hand jewelry, $1,150, by Gucci, at select Gucci stores nationwide, visit gucci.com. Stretch-mesh and crepe bra by Morgan Lane, $178, visit morgan-lane.com, collection at Jill Stuart (NYC). South sea pearl and gold earrings by Hirotaka, $650, collection at Barneys New York, visit barneys.com. Opal and diamond choker pendant by Irene Neuwirth, price on request, at Irene Neuwirth (West Hollywood, CA), visit ireneneuwirth.com. FIRST LOOK PAGE 103: Watch by Bulgari, $49,700, at Bulgari boutiques nationwide, call 800-BULGARI or visit bulgari.com. Bracelet by Chopard, at Chopard boutiques nationwide, call 800-CHOPARD or visit chopard.com. Ankle boots by Rihanna x Manolo Blahnik, visit manoloblahnik.com. TRENDS AND ACCESSORIES PAGE 104: Jacket by Marc Jacobs, at Marc Jacobs stores nationwide. On model:…

Legend may not be his real name, but damn if he isn’t living up to the moniker. John Legend (born John Rogers Stephens) is a 10-time Grammy winner who added a Best Original Song Oscar to his fireplace mantel last year for “Glory,” the rousing anthem he cowrote with Common for 2014’s Selma. Legend’s wife—TV host, model, and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen— meanwhile won the Internet equivalent of an Oscar for her “cry face,” which became an instant-classic meme. The two married in 2013 in Lake Como, Italy, and welcomed a baby girl, Luna, earlier this year. Theirs is a modern love story chronicled on Instagram: After they announced they were pregnant, no less than Kim and Kanye took them shopping for the essentials. (Actually, Kanye fell asleep in a…