Indholdsfortegnelse for February 2021 i ELLE

1. MAKEUP FOR ALL Gender-fluid fashion designer Harris Reed is expanding their vision into your makeup bag. “I hope people use makeup to explore a side of themselves they didn’t know they could inhabit, even if just for a second,” they say of their new limited-edition collection with M.A.C, which includes lipsticks, eye shadows, and multi-use creams, plus one highly covetable glimmery gold eyeliner. M.A.C x Harris Reed Collection, starts at $20, maccosmetics.com. 2. MATCH POINT Tennis has triumphed as the socially distant sport of choice during quarantine. Looking to make your own splash on the court? Saint Laurent has partnered with Wilson on the chicest of gear, from a black-and-white-checked racket with a matching cover to white tennis balls. The collection is available exclusively at the French house’s Rive…

When it comes to clothes, familiarity doesn’t necessarily breed contempt. While winter has always been high season for warmth, comfort, and outfit repetition, the pandemic’s homebody mandate has rendered our attachment to our comfort clothes even fiercer. And though you couldn’t pry me out of my house shoes and softest seal-gray half-zip right now, I could be convinced to consider a surface-level upgrade. Even supermodels agree: Bella Hadid and Hailey Bieber have stepped out in fleeces from MM6 Maison Margiela’s collaboration with The North Face, and Emily Ratajkowski has taken to padding around her NoHo sidewalk in slipper-like booties. Given the fraught times we are living in, is it any wonder that sartorial ideals like comfort, nostalgia, and ordinariness have been injected with a strong dose of fashion cred lately?…

A couple of weeks into quarantine, Carey, a 42-year-old New Jersey mother of three, decided she wanted to lose the extra 15 pounds she’d been carrying since her youngest child was born in 2017. “Experts were saying that diabetes, which runs in my family, and being overweight were risk factors for contracting COVID-19. I [thought], ‘I need to be healthier. Why not use this time to work on myself?’” Through exercise, she shed the weight in three months, but she still had skin hanging over her C-section scar that bothered her. No matter how many virtual Pilates classes she took, however, “I knew my tummy was never going to look the way I wanted it to.” So when her surgeon’s office reopened, she decided to get a tummy tuck. Sarah,*…

LOVE HURTS, but falling off the bed in a corset and thigh-highs hurts more. That’s what I’m learning at Bedography, a virtual “women’s empowerment class through dance,” according to Julia Sokol, CEO and founder of SassClass, the dance studio that produces the series. The Instagram tutorial combines the moves of a rookie stripper with the vibes of Kris Jenner’s mantra: “You’re doing amazing, sweetie!” Bedography’s premise is pretty simple—bounce on a mattress in lingerie or comfy pajamas, pose, flash some skin, repeat—but in practice, it’s kind of a commitment. To maximize my potential for success, I’ve got to find an outfit that’s flirty and flexible, angle my whole body so it’s visible onscreen, adjust the lighting on my laptop, and whip my hair back and forth with the vitality of…

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Jennifer Lopez is 51 years old. This is important to note right away, because you are likely looking at the photographs that accompany this profile and thinking to yourself, Wait, how old is JLo again? Because it’s not that Lopez “looks good for her age,” it’s that she somehow looks even better than she did when she was in her twenties and thirties, when she originally hit the scene and became part of the first wave of pop music’s Latin explosion. She looks even better now than when she rocked that famous Versace jungle-print dress, which led to the invention of Google Images, for God’s sake—defying, in the process, all the rules of Hollywood, of celebrity, and possibly of the concept of time itself. Now we are in the midst…

THE SKY behind Maluma is a swirl of dense, gray clouds swabbing the rounded peaks of the Andes mountains like balls of wet cotton. But the Colombian singer-songwriter, seated on a balcony with views of lush foliage and downtown Medellín in the distance, is unfazed and committed to his look—which, aside from all-black Nike Air Force 1s, an Audemars Piguet watch, and a black denim jacket, features large, ski-goggle-like Kenzo shades. After a few seconds of tinkering with the Zoom technology, he unmutes himself and offers a cheery “Wassup, wassup!” It’s an appropriately megawatt getup (and greeting)—despite a somewhat ominous backdrop—for the 27-year-old artist, whose seductive blend of reggaeton and Latin trap has suddenly found a massive worldwide audience in the midst of a global pandemic. When we speak in mid-November,…

1 The BAG Giorgio Armani’s retro-chic shearling shoulder bag channels the glamour of ski destination Cortina d’Ampezzo in the ’60s. 2 The WATCH The tried-and-true navy blue Calatrava Pilot from Patek Philippe gets an update, thanks to a colored dial and a slimmed-down size. 3 The SHOE The house that gave birth to the fur-lined-sandal craze ups the ante with the softest slides yet.…

The past year has left no schedule undisrupted, with forgone family vacations and postponed weddings strewn in its wake. The pandemic upended pretty much everything, including fashion—ushering in our brave new uniform of “Zoom tops” worn with secret sweatpants and the wide world of mask accessories. But one thing it hasn’t put a damper on, it seems, is jewelry. If it’s a classic Cartier Love bangle you’ve had your eye on, expect to wait. “Now more than ever, we’re seeing memorable moments celebrated with a jewelry purchase,” says Mercedes Abramo, president and CEO of Cartier North America, who notes that many women are buying the pieces for themselves. Ditto for Van Cleef & Arpels’s iconic Alhambra collection—especially since the launch of six new designs in the house’s signature Moorish-inspired style.…

It’s become a sartorial point of pride to don denim over the last year, a triumph over the slippery slope of the elastic waistband for those working from home. “I never say goodbye to any of my old 501s,” says Levi Strauss & Co.’s senior vice president and chief product officer, Karyn Hillman. “Denim is so versatile, comfortable, and easy—it’s the perfect foundation.” Since its founding nearly a century and a half ago, the brand that first introduced jeans to the world has evolved from essential workwear to the height of fashion, without ever losing sight of its roots. Part of that appeal, says Hillman, is that “denim is truly democratic, and yet so personal at the same time—anyone can make it their own. The history of jeans makes them…

“DID YOU SAY THINGS LIKE YOU LOVE ELIZABETH CLARK?” “Yes. She was my wife. Of course I would have said that at the time.” “Okay. And did she say she loved you back?” “Yeah, I’m sure.” “And did you love her at the time?” “No.” “You’re saying you didn’t love your wife.” “No.” “You just said you loved her?” “Yes.” That was the first time that Elizabeth Clark was in the same room as her ex-husband, Adam, and his new partner, Kimberly Barrett, the woman he’d cheated with. Though Adam and Elizabeth had been sharing custody of their two children since they separated, she hadn’t really seen Kimberly “face-to-face,” just brief flashes through car windows and the like, not “in the flesh.” But now here was Kimberly, seated to Elizabeth’s…

More than a hundred citizens have gathered to hear Kendra Parris speak at a restaurant, so she decides to wear her sparkly new shoes. This is unusual for her—typically she only dresses up for court. “I’m of the firm belief that if I can’t do a cartwheel in it, I don’t want to wear it,” she says. But a friend sent her a link to this particular pair: purple, pointed-toe heels with sequins. She wants people to pay attention and listen, after all. That’s why she does so many of these talks—today’s, held last February, pre-pandemic, is to the Republican Club of Ormond Beach Area. There is so much to explain—so much about Florida’s gun control law that is not as simple as it sounds. Parris is not a Republican…

You know that saying about how anything Fred Astaire did, Ginger Rogers did backward and in high heels? It comes to mind as Jodie Turner-Smith recounts filming the action movie Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse while in her second trimester of pregnancy—something her costars Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell were quite assuredly not dealing with. “The men think they’re hard-core,” the actress says, cracking up, “but they could never do what they do while also making a baby. They just couldn’t.” For Turner-Smith, the fight scenes took a back seat to the humanity of the story. “True strength is not found in force and brutality, but in vulnerability,” she says. “I would love to do more action, and action where I’m allowed to be a woman,” she adds, citing Sigourney…

NOT ONE, BUT TWO, LATIN SUPERSTARS grace our covers this month: Jennifer Lopez and our first-ever solo male cover subject, Maluma, Lopez’s musical collaborator and costar in the upcoming romantic comedy Marry Me. Latin artists are shaping the future of music, and they owe JLo a debt of gratitude for helping pave the way. As she tells Laia Garcia-Furtado in our cover story, “Spanish music [is] becoming American music, becoming global music.” Maluma, who calls Lopez “someone I admire…someone I’ve followed since I was a little kid,” happens to be from my home country, Colombia, and is breaking out with his distinctive sound—working with everyone from The Weeknd to Shakira—and headed for worldwide fame himself. Lopez is the ultimate Latina who can do it all: sing, dance, act, and be…

If you want to know who’s in line to be the next fashion superstar, it helps to ask a current one. Christopher John Rogers, the CFDA’s 2020 American Emerging Designer of the Year, has his money on Edvin Thompson, whom Rogers calls “undoubtedly one of New York’s most promising stars.” Thompson landed the cover of Women’s Wear Daily right before showing the spring 2021 collection for his line, Theophilio. He paid tribute to his home country of Jamaica via button-down shirts with corset ties at the back, sheer slipdress-es, and mesh tops. And his work has already found fans in Gabrielle Union, Tinashe, and model Alton Mason, thanks to what Rogers calls his “uniquely pointed aesthetic—one that’s rooted in, and informed by, his specificities and idiosyncrasies, and doesn’t look to…

IN HER MEMOIR My Life So Far, actress and activist Jane Fonda referred to her mullet, forever immortalized in her 1970 mug shot, as “my first deep hair epiphany.” More than 50 years and a global pandemic later, we’re all chasing that feeling. According to research firm Spate, search traffic on the haircut went up nearly 61 percent last year, perhaps partially inspired by Fonda’s most recent arrests for protesting climate change in Washington, DC. Whether it’s a full forehead of bangs paired with shaggy sides, like the look sported by Dutch model Marjan Jonkman at Tom Ford spring 2021; Miley Cyrus’s inherited appreciation of the style her father donned during his “Achy Breaky Heart” era; or Rihanna’s totally punk interpretation, which both appeared on her Instagram and on the heads…

“I WANT BLACK HAIR TO BE REPRESENTED IN THE ROOMS WHERE BLACK HAIR WOULDN’T NECESSARILY BE SEEN.”—SHELBY SWAIN Exactly one week before the 2020 presidential election, Lizzo wanted everyone to know that the last time we were on such a precipice, in 2016, a good portion of America’s eligible voting population did not cast a ballot. The message was particularly clear because the statistic sat atop her head: the numeral 40 and a percent symbol, sculpted with wire and hair. “How can this country be 100% that bitch if we’re missing 40% of our eligible voters?!?” the musician asked in an all-caps caption below the Instagram image. Record turnout (with at least some credit to the post) followed. Lizzo’s call-to-action coiffure, created by her longtime hair-stylist Shelby Swain, was far…

COVER JENNIFER LOPEZ Knit top by Prada, $1,120, select Prada boutiques nationwide. Leggings by Wolford, $260, Wolford boutiques nationwide. Bodysuit, $630, gloves, $350, by Fendi, fendi.com. MALUMA Shirt, ring by Dior Men, dior.com. Necklace by Tiffany & Co., $105,000, tiffany.com. HOROSCOPE PAGE 25: Ring by AnaKatarina, $15,445, anakatarina.com. EDITOR’S LETTER PAGE 26: Bodysuit, gloves by Fendi, fendi.com. Robe, Dolce & Gabbana, select Dolce & Gabbana boutiques nationwide. Ring by David Yurman, davidyurman.com. NEW ARRIVALS PAGE 30: Watch by Patek Philippe, $48,500, patek.com. FRONT ROW PAGE 39: Necklace by Anita Ko, $15,550, anitako.com. Earrings by Maja DuBrul Jewelry, $22,800, majadubrul.com. ACCESSORIES PAGE 41: Clutch by Louis Vuitton, louisvuitton.com. Baguette by Fendi, fendi.com. Phone case bag by Chloé, similar styles at Chloé boutiques nationwide. Handbag by Dolce & Gabbana, select Dolce &…