Indholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2025 i ELLE

When it comes to our love of Lindsay Lohan, the limit does not exist. For this month’s cover story, Saturday Night Live star Chloe Fineman sits down with the actress to talk about her upcoming Freaky Friday sequel, her role in the Hulu series Count My Lies, and her plans for entering the beauty world. Check out our new video series, Tiny Talks, to see 12-year-old influencer Taylen Biggs interview Lohan. This issue also features our annual Hollywood Rising portfolio, starring a host of up-and-coming acting talent. Go to ELLE.com to watch the whole cast’s Ask Me Anything video and ELLE’s social channels to see our Screen Test series, where the actors put their own spin on famous movie and TV lines. Our sixth annual Future of Fashion package…

WOMEN-LED LABELS to know Whether they’re crafting unruly officewear or ethereal gowns, these emerging brands are putting their own stamp on style. MERUERT TOLEGEN The Kazakh-born designer Meruert Tolegen was working as a scientific researcher when her career took a hard pivot. With no formal training in fashion, she founded her own brand, which has now been named a semifinalist for the 2025 LVMH Prize. The career change was “very accidental,” Tolegen says. After giving birth to her daughter, she started an online children’s store. “It was just a creative outlet for me,” she says. She started to incorporate her own designs, and it wasn’t long before they developed a cult following. Many of the mothers shopping for their children asked for pieces they could wear themselves, and the rest…

If you were to shrink yourself down to smaller than a sugar crystal and travel into someone’s veins like Ms. Frizzle and her Magic School Bus, you’d see that blood isn’t the free-flowing river depicted in your childhood storybooks. Rather, you’d find an intricate ecosystem suspended in plasma: disc-like red blood cells carrying oxygen through the body; bumpy white blood cells warding off infection; and tiny platelets with octopus-like tentacles directing healing. Rich in growth factors, platelets are often considered the gold standard for regenerative medicine. In platelet-rich plasma treatments, or PRP, doctors spin a patient’s blood in a centrifuge to single out the platelets and the plasma, creating a healing elixir that can be added back into a patient’s body. PRP has long been used for promoting hair growth,…

I want to write everything,” says R. F. Kuang, who, at 29, has already published five novels. “I just have too many ideas, and I can only get to them one by one.” Her sixth novel, Katabasis, out in August, is a return to fantasy—the genre in which she made her 2018 debut with The Poppy War, the first of a trilogy. The Georgetown, Cambridge, and Oxford graduate—who is pursuing a PhD at Yale—critiqued the schools she loves with 2022’s Babel, set in a fictionalized version of Oxford. Then she aimed a satirical eye at the publishing industry with 2023’s Yellowface. Now she’s back on campus with Katabasis. Set in the 1980s at Cambridge University, it follows two students of magic as they descend to hell to rescue their professor.…

The NECKLACE Dezso designer Sara Beltrán’s Ocean Maharana necklace deftly combines diamonds, Mediterranean red coral, and 18K rose gold for a showpiece worthy of a royal. The BAG This summer promises to be all about the “fisherman” aesthetic. Get in on the trend with Prada’s winsome suede bag, complete with a recycled-nylon rope overlay. The SHOE Chronic overpackers can breathe a sigh of relief. The Dioriviera collection has everything you need to build a capsule vacation wardrobe, including these charm-bedecked sandals.…

Even when I think my schedule is chill, it usually isn’t,” stylist Jared Ellner says from his home base of Los Angeles, where he’s just returned after a stint in Europe. For the past few weeks, he’s been juggling a slate of overlapping international projects, including the wardrobe for Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet tour and the Oscars after-parties, which five of his clients attended. Right now, Ellner might be one of the busiest people in fashion. “But that’s the beauty of this,” the 28-year-old says. “I’m very grateful to ride this wave.” A new class of young creatives is driving entertainment forward: YouTube wunderkind–turned–entrepreneur Emma Chamberlain, pop power-house Carpenter, and Hollywood multi-hyphenates like Molly Gordon and Rachel Sennott, who write and star in today’s buzziest indie films. Along with…

There’s a new face in town, and it’s gotten lifted, toned, and plumped in all the right places. The modern-day facelift is expensive yet subtle, with shorter healing times, and results that have people wondering, “What did they get done?” Not to mention where: There is an upper echelon of surgeons with special tools, tricks, and techniques. Below, some of the most hard-to-get appointments. TIMOTHY MARTEN, MD The discreet doctor with no social media Wait list: 12 months. Special amenities: Erbium lasers; a makeup artist who custom-blends a mineral foundation to help hide healing scars. Akin to a restaurant without its name on the door, the San Francisco clinic of Timothy Marten, MD, is hidden in a historic landmark building. Marten doesn’t use social media or even show before-and-after photos…

ATMOSPHERE: A LOVE STORY Ballantine Books, June 3 Taylor Jenkins Reid’s latest heroine is going to space. In 1980, astrophysics professor Joan’s unexpected selection for NASA’s Space Shuttle program puts her in line to be one of the first female astronauts. Atmosphere tells Joan’s gripping, sensitive, and romantic story of finding love in a career where disaster is a constant threat. MAGGIE; OR, A MAN AND A WOMAN WALK INTO A BAR Summit Books, July 22 The titular walk into a bar ends badly. The unnamed narrator’s husband is leaving her for a woman named Maggie. Only weeks later, she gets a diagnosis of breast cancer. The two heartbreaks are so linked that she names her tumor Maggie. Katie Yee’s debut is filled with eerily real accounts of the crazy…

ELLE: Let’s start with the most important person in your life: your mother. What has she taught you? THE KID LAROI: You can do whatever you want to do, as long as you put your mind to it. It sounds clichéd, but I really do believe that. Me believing that as a kid, even if it was semi-delusional, helped me do this. It’s pretty crazy as a kid to believe, “I’m gonna be a big musician one day!” That’s a bit of a delusional thought. But there’s something about that thought, when you really believe that and come into it, and it was instilled in me by my mum 100 percent. ELLE: You’ve worked with some incredible women in music. Is there one who has imparted wisdom to you? TKL:…

While precious, each Alhambra jewel is made to be worn; a timeless creation that elevates the everyday, the result of painstaking collaborative work by jewelers, stone-setters, lapidaries, and polishers. It’s a small treasure with a big history: Van Cleef & Arpels created the original Alhambra motif in 1968. By then, symbols of luck and refined sentiment had long been a hallmark of the jewelry Maison established in 1906, with a boutique at 22 Place Vendôme. Early creations included the Touch Wood collection, with jewelry carved from wood and set with gemstones, naturally. Over the years, golden zodiac medallions, ladybird motifs, and brooches in the shape of benevolent winged fairies followed. The very first Alhambra design was a long necklace: a gold chain with 20 motifs shaped like four-leaf clovers. Searched…

UPON REFLECTION During Paris couture week, Repossi partnered with collectible design online gallery Invisible Collection on its Jewels for the Home capsule. Four designers presented an exquisite grouping that includes jewelry-inspired items for the home, like this delicate mirror with a neck that mimics stacked bangles. theinvisiblecollection.com. TANTALIZING TABLESCAPES For her debut collaboration with home goods designer LES Collection, artist Justine Menard set out to craft jewelry for the dinner table. Her whimsical Selene set includes two handblown wineglasses and a stunningly delicate decanter inspired by the female form. lescollection.com. DAYDREAMS AWAIT This summer, step inside the wondrous world of French post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne. The Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence will be staging a comprehensive exhibition showcasing over 130 pieces that depict the painter’s life in the south of…

Boho BEACH Hippie maximalism makes waves with wild patterns, bold colors, and natural textures. Yacht ROCK Channel Euro sophistication with metallic accents and graphic black-and-white silhouettes. Into the JUNGLE Rich earth tones and shades of green set the scene for a leafy retreat.…

It’s 1983, and a disembodied voice is crooning: “In St. Tropez, almost all they wear is the deep, dark color of Bain de Soleil,” while Brooke Shields wraps a record cover in tinfoil to reflect the sun’s rays. In 2025, we know better than to tan, right? Wrong. In recent years, tanning lost some of its luster. But like low-rise jeans, tanning is back (or maybe it never really left). To many, it is a guilty pleasure. It’s a cheeky cigarette after two stiff martinis. It’s a shatteringly crisp McDonald’s French fry. It’s a 2 a.m. text message that you know you shouldn’t send. “I’m basically a solar panel, don’t tell the others,” one beauty editor said. “I’m very naughty and tan all the time—but not my face,” one celebrity…

WHEN A STARRY-EYED OLGA TSVYK immigrated to the United States from Ukraine in January 2014, she was 33 years old and ready for something different. She had a university degree, a job in Kyiv at a travel agency, and a tight-knit family she was reluctant to leave behind, but she wanted to try living in America. However, the reality of Tsvyk’s life in the U.S. didn’t exactly live up to her fantasy. She got a job as a babysitter in a bland town in upstate New York. The exurban milieu left her wanting, and she hated the cold, despite (or perhaps because of) growing up in Ukraine. Soon, a Russian-speaking friend she met on Facebook named Marina encouraged her to move to New York City. There was a lot more…

WITHOUT GIVING TOO MUCH AWAY, there’s a scene in Freakier Friday, out August 8, where Lindsay Lohan, as her character Anna Coleman, rocks out onstage with her band, Pink Slip. Seeing Lohan nail her guitar solo (yes, that’s actually her singing and playing), in a red lip, her signature-hued hair looking luscious and head-bang-worthy, her skin glowing as much as her sequined minidress, happiness washed over me. “She’s so back,” I thought, and thank God for that. There isn’t much else that feels the same as it did 22 years ago, when Freaky Friday came out, but Lindsay Lohan has returned to the big screen, and it feels really good. Lohan was just 12 years old when she made her film debut in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. Five…