Indholdsfortegnelse for August 2022 i ELLE

1 FLYING SOUTH Ready to experience all the sights and sounds of Colombia for yourself after reading about Maria Claudia “Cloclo” Echavarría’s wedding (page 62)? Escape to the beach in Barú at Sofitel Barú Calablanca, a favorite of ELLE editor-in-chief (and native Colombian) Nina Garcia. Just in time for summer, the hotel is opening a beachside food truck featuring local favorites, as well as workshops and dance classes with local artists and artisans. sofitelbarucalablanca.com. 2 KEEPING UP “It is work,” new skin care entrepreneur (and no stranger to hard work) Kim Kardashian says about her routine. For the launch of SKKN by Kim, Kardashian collaborated with her longtime aesthetician, Joanna Czech, to create a nine-piece collection that includes hardworking ingredients like hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, and exfoliators. The hand-tooled stone…

THE BODY DIVERSITY PIONEERS ESTER MANAS “IN 2018, it was not so cool,” says Ester Manas of body inclusivity in fashion. That was the year she and her label’s codesigner and cofounder, Balthazar Delepierre, both alums of visual arts school La Cambre in Brussels, presented a collection titled Big Again at the Hyères fashion festival. It grew out of a magazine, Big, that Manas created for her La Cambre entrance exam to call out fashion’s valorization of thinness. The two, who have interned at major Paris houses, felt that high fashion often leaves out curvier women. So, inspired by an IKEA extendable table, they included flexible, one-sizefits-all looks that accommodate every size, from XS to 3XL. For their fall 2022 collection, titled Come As You Are, the two presented their…

IF YOU’VE NOTICED STORIES predicting nebulous trends like “indie sleaze,” “night luxe,” or something called “2014 Tumblr girl aesthetic,” you have TikTok trend forecasters to thank. A number of young creators are making a name for themselves by producing content that predicts oddly specific aesthetics like “Parisian ballet” and “coastal grandmother” as the next big thing. It seems that the only thing hotter than the trends is predicting them. The phenomenon can be traced back to Mandy Lee (@oldloserinbrooklyn), whose October 2021 TikTok predicting a return of “indie sleaze” set off a media firestorm, speeding up the timeline of Lee’s prophecy. Ironically, by making their trend predictions public instead of private, these forecasters now appear to be driving trends rather than foreseeing them. Historically, trend forecasting has been an opaque business:…

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“OH, LET’S MAKE YOU LOOK DIFFERENT!” says Haze Khadra. Perched on a marble counter, the Palestinian DJ/beauty entrepreneur/street-style star is using my face as a makeup-tester palette. Three small chess piece–like lipsticks are in her hands; she moves them strategically across my lips. Her eyes glint between green and yellow, like a cat’s. “We try to keep our bubble very close,” says her identical twin, Simi, a few weeks later. She’s calling me from Beverly Hills, her voice hoarse from a weekend at Coachella. “There’s public and there’s private.… When the lines blur between the two, that’s when people start to have anxiety.… [Before fame], I never had any issues.” “Before” begins on March 31, 1993, when Sama and Haya Abu Khadra were born in Saudi Arabia. (Simi and Haze…

When Freeform green-lighted my half-hour comedy Everything’s Trash, which is inspired by my life as a formerly broke thirtysomething cocoa Khalessi trying to make it in NYC, I was overjoyed, floating even, like when Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw skips while crossing the street for no reason. Imagining myself on set skip-walking to wardrobe to slap on some nipple covers? Don’t mind if I do. Skip-walking to craft services to eat Cheez-Its even though I’m lactose intolerant? To be expected. Skip-walking to the wrap party once shooting is over and dancing and partying with the cast and crew? Duh! Never mind that a bitch (I’m said bitch) can barely walk after balancing precariously on what essentially amounts to toothpicks for 13 hours a day, five days a week for…

Ten years ago, when Morgan Hellquist, a married art teacher with two kids, was having some issues with her period and needed a T new gynecologist, Morris Wortman, MD, seemed like the obvious choice. Wortman ran a Rochester, New York, clinic treating menstrual disorders, and posted YouTube videos in which he would opine on treating endometrial ablation failures while dressed in royal-blue scrubs, his bald head reflecting the overhead lighting. As now outlined in a civil lawsuit, Wortman wasn’t just admired in the broader community; he was also worshiped in Hellquist’s home. Since she was eight years old, Hellquist’s parents had told her about the “miracle worker” doctor who helped them overcome her father’s paralysis so they could have a baby using anonymous donor sperm. “He was very much part…

For actress Ana de Armas, finding a place to call home has been a lifelong quest. This month’s cover star has now happily settled F on the East Coast, away from the Hollywood fishbowl. (She calls L.A. “a city that keeps you anxious.”) Coming from Cuba, where she grew up with food rationing and power blackouts, de Armas has never fully considered herself an insider. As an immigrant myself, I can relate to this feeling of displacement and wistful longing for the country of your birth. “I assumed—and I say this with real embarrassment—because she had come from Cuba, that she had just arrived,” says her Knives Out costar Jamie Lee Curtis. “I made an assumption that she was an inexperienced, unsophisticated young woman.” She would quickly learn that de…

THE AI-DESIGNED LABEL THAT TOOK ON NYFW Two years after Hanifa designer Anifa Mvuemba shook up fashion month with her 3D digital runway show, designers continue to seek new ways to push boundaries, not only in terms of how they present their work, but also in their creative processes. Enter Younhee Park of the Korean label Greedilous, who teamed up with Tilda—a virtual human and AI artist created by LG to specialize in pattern design—for her fall 2022 show at New York Fashion Week. There was no overflowing moodboard, simply two words: flower and Venus. From there, Tilda created hundreds of patterns, which informed the collection’s bold prints and have since sparked interest from Miley Cyrus. Park offered another nod to her collaborator, giving her models brightly-colored bobbed wigs that…

FOR 164 YEARS, haute couture has been the pinnacle of fashion, melding world-class savoir faire with glamorous notions of dressing. At the other end of the spectrum are mass-market collections churned out at a pace many designers can’t keep up with. An emerging vanguard of designers is splitting the difference between the ease of ready-to-wear and the strictures of haute couture, putting aside trend cycles in favor of sustainably made, artful garments, released when they’re ready. This midpoint of slow(er) fashion has been christened demi-couture. Dutch couturier Ronald van der Kemp creates collections called Wardrobes made from repurposed scraps of fabric from overstock, vintage collections, and factory waste. For him, upcycling comes naturally. “I’m not going to talk about sustainability [constantly],” he says. “I just want to make clothes.” German-born,…

This otherworldly take on the chignon, created for Schiaparelli by legendary hairstylist Guido Palau, was inspired by the aerodynamic helmets worn by cyclists. “It feels traditional and classic because it’s very polished,” Palau says, but “it has a foot in the future because of the elongated shape of the back, which gives it an alien-y feeling.” Model Iman Kaumann’s of-the-moment copper hair color and septum piercing also root it firmly in the present. Palau used a sculpted pad for shape, but you can try an easier technique by using an old-school hair secret, recently rediscovered by the TikTok set (watch @the_minimal_hair for the perfect how-to). Create a sleek updo with a simple twist, securing the hair with a U-shaped pin that offers more texture and volume than a regular elastic…

I can’t believe that I am talking publicly about my facelift and that millions of people now know how vain I am. But since I don’t believe in gatekeeping, and this was not a decision I took lightly, I’m embracing the power of transparency and sharing information. Having been in the beauty industry for many years as a makeup artist, beauty expert, author, and brand founder, by the time I hit my late forties, I’d already tried it all: Botox, fillers, lasers, radio frequency, platelet-rich plasma (PRP), LED, microneedling, and microcurrent therapy. Many of those procedures were effective, if not miraculous, and they did help smooth, tighten, and lift. But as I rounded the corner into my fifties, I found these treatments were less and less effective, and I was…

Cartagena CHIQUI DE ECHAVARRÍA CREATED A TROPICAL PARADISE IN HER HOME’S COURTYARD (LEFT), ADDING A MURAL OF VINES AND FRESH ORCHIDS (COLOMBIA HAS OVER 4,000 SPECIES). IRACA PALM PLACE MATS, NAPKIN RINGS, AND BREAD BASKETS MADE BY LOCAL ARTISANS (BELOW) CAME FROM HER BOUTIQUE, CASA CHIQUI, WHILE THE FAMILY PLATES WERE HAND-PAINTED IN MEDELLÍN. Maria Claudia “Cloclo” Echavarría has always known the treasures that her native Colombia holds. Though she was educated M in Switzerland, has lived in London, and now resides in Milan, Cartagena has remained her family’s base. So when the announcement of Echavarría’s engagement to Prince Josef-Emanuel of Liechtenstein was made last July, there was little doubt that a very Colombian wedding would be in store. The bride, cofounder of former talent incubator/fashion consultancy Sí Collective, has…

Ana de Armas is relieved the past couple of years are behind her. “It was weird,” she says. Her father was sick with a non-COVID illness and she wanted to go back to Cuba, where she’s from, but the island was closed for travel during the pandemic. “And then at the same time, I was working a lot, and I felt very lucky.” She shot The Gray Man, the summer action movie directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and costarring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans, reportedly the biggest-budget film Netflix has ever made. Well, and there was a lot of attention focused on her for a widely photographed and gossiped-about relationship with Ben Affeck. How was that, I had to ask. “Horrible,” she says, nodding and opening her big, round…

COVER ANA DE ARMAS Polo shirt, hoop earrings, $715, by Louis Vuitton, 866-VUITTON. Rings by Marie-Hélène de Taillac, from $850, mariehelenedetaillacus.com. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 20: Michael Kors Collection, michaelkors.com. Bulgari High Jewelry Serpenti, 800-BVLGARI. EDITOR’S LETTER PAGE 24: Celine by Hedi Slimane, celine.com. Marie-Hélène de Taillac, mariehelenedetaillacus.com. Falke, falke.com. ACCESSORIES PAGE 43: Bracelet by Wempe, $23,775, wempe.com. SHOP PAGE 48: Earring by Almasika, $3,300 (for pair), twistonline.com. MIKAELA SHIFFRIN IS STILL THE BEST SKIER IN THE WORLD PAGES 66–67: Marni, Bergdorf Goodman (NYC). PAGE 69: Jonathan Simkhai, jonathansimkhai.com. ANA’S GETAWAY PAGE 75: Gabriela Hearst, gabrielahearst.com. Fleur du Mal, fleurdumal.com. Negative Underwear, negativeunderwear.com. Marie-Hélène de Taillac, mariehelenedetaillacus.com. Louis Vuitton, louisvuitton.com. PAGES 76–77: Louis Vuitton, 866-VUITTON. PAGES 78–79: Flora and Henri, florahenri.com. Falke, falke.com. Celine by Hedi Slimane, celine.com. PAGES 80–81:…

“The exhibit reveals how the Maison migrates and manifests these styles over time.”—Sarah Schleuning, co-curator Be it gravity-defying hair or gobstopper-sized baubles, Texans do everything on a grand scale. And the latest exhibition to grace the host to Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity, a window into founder Louis-François Cartier’s son Louis J.’s extensive travels and fervent collecting, and the influence the Arab world, India, and Persia had on his work. Expanding on the initial exhibit at Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs (also the site of major Islamic art exhibitions in 1903 and 1912, which Louis J. Cartier himself attended), the show pulls together over 400 objects from Cartier, the DMA, and the Louvre, to name a few. Diller Scofidio + Renfro of The High Line fame worked its…

Walk to your freezer and take out an ice cube. And there you have summer’s hottest beauty secret, which just happens to be ice cold. By simply rolling the ice cube across your face, you can see instant benefits: glowy skin, reduced inflammation, and decreased redness. Ice has been an insider secret for ages (recall Joan Crawford’s morning ice bath ritual, portrayed by Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest), but is now making a big comeback: Irina Shayk, Jasmine Tookes, and Tracee Ellis Ross have all used ice rolling tools in their beauty routines on social media. Makeup artist Isamaya Ffrench posted an Instagram video of Bella Hadid channeling the ice bath scene from Mommie Dearest. And Google searches for ice rollers have jumped nearly 58 percent since last year, according…

On a video call earlier this year, Erin Parsons, Maybelline’s global makeup artist and Gigi Hadid’s go-to beauty guru, is showing me her massive collection of vintage beauty products. “I am literally spending my life savings on this collection; it’s so out of hand. I have probably over 2,000 pieces,” says Parsons, gesturing at powder compacts promoting Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidential campaign, Maybelline’s first mascara from 1917, and Revlon lipsticks from the 1960s designed to look like dolls in fur coats. The popularity of vintage clothing is well-documented, but vintage beauty is fast amassing a fan club of its own. In addition to enthusiastic product collectors like Parsons, there are dozens of nostalgic, beauty-focused Instagram accounts, such as @discontinuedmakeup, an ode to ’80s-and ’90s-era cosmetics. TikTok videos with the hashtag…

Mikaela Shiffrin is used to steering through twists and turns. But nothing could have prepared the champion Alpine skier for the last two years: the sudden death of her father, a debilitating back injury, and a positive COVID-19 test that forced her to miss some World Cup races. Then, in one of the most shocking sequences in the sport’s history, Shiffrin was disqualified from not one, not two, but three races at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. After stumbling through the slalom, her signature event, she veered off to the side of the course, took her skis off, and bowed her head as cameras zoomed in. “Everybody experiences the hard days when it’s diffcult to keep a positive attitude, and you just kind of need to sit down and cry,”…

“THE STRENGTH CARD IN A TAROT DECK IS ASSOCIATED WITH LEO. IT SHOWS TRUE STRENGTH WHEN WE ACT FROM COMPASSION INSTEAD OF FORCE.”—NICOLE CAROSELLA, CODESIGNER, SORELLINA LEO JULY 23–AUG 22 Your squad is about to learn just how high you can turn up your enthusiasm. As Mars invigorates your collaborative eleventh house, fill your dance card. Your festival plus-one doesn’t have to be your workout buddy. An open approach takes the pressure off relationships that are too close. VIRGO AUG 23–SEPT 22 Wherever your loyalties lie, expect to become a lot more public about your beliefs. As Mars rises to the top of your chart, it hands you the leadership mantle. Where do you want to direct people’s attention? Allies will show up to support the causes you’re backing. Remember…