Indholdsfortegnelse for October 2023 i ELLE

I just didn’t expect it to change my world in the way that it did,” Phoebe Dynevor says of Bridger-ton, the Netflix hit that made all things Regency-era cool again. Now our cover star has another career-making role in her sights: a hedge fund employee in Chloe Domont’s film Fair Play, a taut thriller that raises some uncomfortable questions about sex and power. “This film was personal to me for a lot of reasons,” Dynevor tells Deputy Editor Kayla Webley Adler (they spoke before the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike, which was still ongoing at press time). “Every woman I know, it’s their experience in this world. And with any film with a message, you just really want it to start a conversation.” That means going to some occasionally uncomfortable…

1 SOMETHING BLUE Brighten up your in-flight routine with Tiffany’s signature robin’s-egg blue. The jewelry brand and hypebeast-beloved luggage company have teamed up for a range of travel goods that will have everyone at the gate doing double takes. Luggage, Rimowa x Tiffany & Co., from $2,250, rimowa.com. 2 MUSEUM PIECES Gucci’s future is as much about its past. The brand’s epic five-story archive at Florence’s Palazzo Settimanni, which opened two years ago and houses everything from porcelain to jewelry, served as the setting this summer for the house’s new Allegoria high jewelry collection. Set among refurbished frescoes and trompe l’oeil paintings, brand classics like the Gucci Bamboo 1947 bag (pictured here) are given new life and context. Here’s to the next 100 years of Italian craftsmanship. gucci.com. 3 HIDDEN…

When Bishme Cromartie returned to Project Runway for the show’s 20th season, the All Stars competition meant something different for him. Shortly before the show started filming, his sister, Chimere Faye Didley, had passed away. Cromartie was early in the grieving process when he arrived on set, dedicating one of his collections to Didley. “Once Project Runway contacted me, I told my sister that I was thinking about going, and I was nervous because I didn’t want to be away filming and then get bad news [about her]. She texted me and was just like, ‘You got this,’ ” he recalls. Looking back, Cromartie thinks participating in the show helped him channel his grief from a comfortable place. “I honestly didn’t care about winning,” he says. “I was just happy…

“This month’s It List features products (some new, some classic) from founders who are celebrating their Latin heritage. GABRIELA HEARST is one of them, with the release of her very first perfume set, created with Argentinian fragrance brand Fueguia ($415 each; gabrielahearst.com). The scent Paysandú features native ingredients never before used in perfumery, such as the medicinal plant marcela and herb carqueja, to conjure up a floral and smoky picture of rural Uruguay, where Hearst and Fueguia founder Julian Bedel both grew up. New York is a ‘big city’ scent, with notes of smoke and bourbon. Together, the fragrances create an aromatic synergy for the designer, who still runs her family’s ranch in Uruguay.” 1. NARCISO RODRIGUEZ ALL OF ME EAU DE PARFUM, $142, MACYS.COM “The original ‘quiet luxury’ designer…

ONE MILLION YEARS AGO, in 2009, the first image had yet to be posted on Instagram, “friend” was just starting its transformation into a verb, and the internet was still, by and large, considered a realm you could enter and leave at will. It was also the Great Recession, and jobs were scarce. Which is how Taylor Lorenz, then in her twenties, signed up with a temporary work agency and found gigs doing the types of administrative tasks that stretch time out like taffy. Until one day when her cubicle mate showed her a portal. “Oh, I just go on Tumblr all day,” the woman said. Lorenz spent the rest of the afternoon scrolling and exploring the blogging platform, which teemed with the open, hopeful energy of a new world.…

LIBRA SEPT 23–OCT 22 October’s solar eclipse in your sign is here to serve you access to two years of unprecedented growth. During this time, your entire identity could shift, so be flexible. New opportunities may also fly in at warp speed. Near the partial lunar eclipse on the 28th, this could involve an investment in something (or someone) long-term. SCORPIO OCT 23–NOV 21 Clinging too tightly to someone you adore? October’s transitional solar eclipse in Libra will loosen your grip and help you embrace more space. Absence might actually make your heart grow fonder…or it could reveal that you’ve been tethered to a toxic person. But if you’ve got a good thing going on, address the state of your union near the Taurus partial lunar eclipse on the 28th.…

My purses have always been extraordinarily small. For example, the purse I have now is really just a wallet with a string connected to it that doesn’t even totally fit my phone. I have never been able to close it, so it is insecure and ripe for thievery. And still I pay it an appalling loyalty. Fortunately, or unfortunately for me, there is a new trend this season—the “ludicrously capacious bag,” to quote Tom Wambsgans of Succession. At Loewe, models walked down the runway lugging the brand’s signature Puzzle-style sacks, roughly the circumference of mounted globes. Coach showed purses the size of luggage you’d take on an eight-day cruise to the U.S. Virgin Islands. “I liked how the oversize bag worked with our lean runway silhouettes. They just felt right…

MATERIAL WORLD More is more when luxe, textured layers meet shocks of silver. SHAPE SHIFTERS Shape and color come to the forefront with hourglass waists and tailored skirts. Up the office ante by adding sweet and sour shades.…

IN THE SUMMER OF 1988, when Julie Chavez Rodriguez was 10 years old, she vividly remembers her grandparents gathering the family together in their living room so her grandfather Cesar Chávez, the 61-year-old legendary cofounder of what eventually became the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union, could tell them about his plans to begin a water-only fast to protest the use of five pesticides on table grapes, which the union contended was causing cancer and other serious health problems in fieldworkers. Chávez would go on to fast for a grueling 36 days; it was the longest and last fast of his life (he died five years later). Chavez Rodriguez and her older sister were often responsible for keeping him hydrated. “We saw him grow very weak, and we saw the…

It was in 1903 that Louis Cartier visited Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs and took in an exhibition on Islamic art that would inspire a lifelong passion. A jeweler and the grandson of Cartier founder Louis-François Cartier, Louis was exposed to a world of knowledge at a young age from his family’s extensive libraries. Cultural influences and art practices, among them the geometric grandeur of Islamic art, the animal world, optical art, and Art Deco design, were critical inspirations for the iconic pieces he created for Cartier. In a nod to Louis Cartier’s storied exploration, the house has debuted Le Voyage Recommencé, a new 90-piece high jewelry collection that celebrates these unique and long-held inspirations. Jacqueline Karachi, director of high jewelry creation at Cartier, reinterpreted these core references with a…

As he walked to a Madrid flea market 20 years ago, Spanish interior designer Lorenzo Castillo stumbled upon the home he’d always dreamed of. He had wandered down an unfamiliar street in El Madrid de los Austrias, a historic district that was the city’s center during the Hapsburg era. The 18th-century house he would one day live in was one of the few on the street that had been preserved. “When I saw the facade, I immediately thought, This must be something. It was a huge gray neoclassical-style building, almost abandoned. But the granite neo-Palladian-style entrance door was the clue to imagine the hidden interiors,” he recalls. Castillo was able to purchase the first floor of the home from the current owner, a member of a noble Spanish family, and…

“I’M SO LUCKY.” I say this often, despite being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 38. I’m lucky because both my primary care physician and gynecologist recommended I get a mammogram in my midthirties since my paternal grand-mother died from the disease. I put off following their orders for over a year, convinced I was too young (and busy) to worry about breast cancer. I was annoyed that I had something else on my to-do list. The fact that my doctors pushed me to get an early mammogram saved my life. When the mammogram led to an ultrasound, which led to a biopsy, which led to the words “invasive lobular carcinoma,” I was shocked, but—believe it or not—I still felt lucky, because even with the delay, the malignant…

BY THE TIME THE MEDIUM KICKED OFF the online séance in late 2021, more than 120 people had signed on in hopes of making contact with the dead. One assumes that each had lost someone close to them—a parent, sibling, child—and there was a shared sense of pain. The medium told the group that if he succeeded in reaching their loved one, they should let him know in the chat. Some people would find a mass séance impersonal, even callous. But the attendees seemed hopeful that their loved one could make their voice heard through the spiritual noise. They asked for what any of us would want. “Did he suffer?” one mom asked of her son’s drowning. “Or was it quick?” It is difficult to describe what the loss of…

COVER PHOEBE DYNEVOR Louis Vuitton, louisvuitton.com. INSIDE COVER The Row, therow.com. Louis Vuitton, louisvuitton.com. De Beers, debeers.com. Tiffany & Co., tiffany.com. Watch, Omega, $24,600, omegawatches.com. Maison Margiela, maisonmargiela.com. NINA’S EDIT PAGE 22: Earrings, Margery Hirschey x Gemfields, $32,000, margeryhirschey.com. SHOP PAGE 66: Watch, Omega, $7,100, omegawatches.com. PHOEBE DYNEVOR IS IN HER FEARLESS ERA PAGES 90–101: Loewe, loewe.com. Vex Latex, vexclothing.com. Tiffany & Co., tiffany.com. Louis Vuitton, louisvuitton.com. Maison Margiela, maisonmargiela.com. De Beers, debeers.com. JW Anderson, jwanderson.com. Fernando Jorge, fernandojorge.co.uk. Wolford, shopwolford.com. Roger Vivier, rogervivier.com. Ferragamo, ferragamo.com. Earrings, Briony Raymond, $32,000, brionyraymond.com. Wing & Weft Gloves, wingweftgloves.com. Ring, David Webb, $58,000, davidwebb.com. Marc Jacobs, marcjacobs.com. Linda Farrow x The Attico, lindafarrow.com. Nikos Koulis, nikoskoulis.com. Christopher John Rogers, neimanmarcus.com. Necklaces, Seaman Schepps, $42,600 (for set), seamanschepps.com. Brooch, Verdura, from $41,500, verdura.com. Ring, Pomellato,…