Indholdsfortegnelse for October 2021 i Harper's Bazaar

HOW DOES ONE FIND PURPOSE? It’s an idea we explore throughout this issue. Certainly, fashion serves a purpose—or many purposes. It can be a vehicle for self-expression and imagination, a source of joy or optimism. But purpose itself is an elastic word. It can connote drive, intention, ambition. It can involve goals and dreams we hatch for ourselves. It can be borne of experience—of things we try, do, survive, or endure. It can be a product of courage or fear. Sometimes the sense of purpose we embrace is immediate: to fix something, to help someone, to go or leave somewhere. Others, it’s more profound: to transform systems, to move hearts and minds, to correct historical injustices. Purpose can be the difference between a job and a cause, an activity and…

THE LIGHT At the start of every romance, there are invariably fireworks. They may be literal or figurative, but regardless, any good origin story involves sparks. After all, love is many things, including a beacon of light. Harry Winston has captured that pure optimism in a jewelry suite made from glittering white and yellow diamonds, pink sapphires, spessartites, and rubies, using gem-setting expertise that results in pieces as fluid as fabric. THE OBSESSION Does love exist without passion? Certainly, but that doesn’t mean it’s ideal. Passion excites the senses—there’s a reason desire is typically described as “burning.” That white-hot intensity is evoked in an ultramodern cascade of diamonds and gemstones with colors matching the layers of a flame itself—red, yellow, orange, and purple—for a truly obsession-worthy effect. THE VOW Now,…

The night before I was to speak at my first conference, I spent two hours picking at my eyebrows, which is something I do when I’m trying to focus but know I’m getting nowhere. I was working on putting together an outfit that would convey a relatable professionalism for a crowd in pursuit of business advice but also illustrate what brought me there to start with: a contrarian and often uniquely informal approach to getting dressed. This time of year always brings the task of creating a professional spin on my personal style. Summer has ended, the sandals are put away, and this sort of formality, a seasonal protocol, begins to possess our wardrobes. But after more than a year free from the guardrails of work’s dress codes, both stated…

In 1991, Anita Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the sexual harassment she’d endured while working as an aide to then–Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. At the time, she was doubted, dismissed, and relentlessly ridiculed in the press; Thomas was later confirmed, and he sits on the court to this day. Since then, Hill has dedicated her life to making sure no voice is ever silenced again. Her new book, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence (Viking), serves as an urgent call to arms and details her ongoing efforts to effect real change as a legal scholar, professor, and advocate. Here, she talks to Harper’s Bazaar senior features editor Ariana Marsh about how that cause has advanced over the past…

4KINSHIP New Mexico–based Diné designer Amy Denet Deal’s line of hand-dyed upcycled vintage pieces helps support mutual-aid projects on the Navajo Nation as well as intertribal initiatives. She is also leading fundraising efforts to build a safe and inclusive public skate park for Diné youth. CLOSED X LEANDRA MEDINE COHEN Each of the six considered pieces in this denim-heavy capsule wardrobe features surprising touches like pearl buttons, glass beads, and velvet embellishments. OLIVER PEOPLES X BRUNELLO CUCINELLI Melding Italian elegance and California ease, the five eyewear styles in Brunello Cucinelli’s first-ever collaboration include refined details like horninlayed frames and discreetly engraved logos on the temple tips. ROAR!: A COLLECTION OF MIGHTY WOMEN, BY ASHLEY LONGSHORE The artist’s vibrant new book collects portraits of 60 culturally significant women, such as Anita…

In the summer of 1993, I was 13 years old. I was rail thin, had a flat chest and acne. In my mind, I had enough to deal with. Then came a new complex via an unsolicited assessment from my older sister’s friend at the dinner table one night: “You both have extra skin under your chin. It’s not, like, tight,” she told us. My sister and I locked eyes, knowing what she said was true. We were skinny teenagers, and we each had a visible double chin. Nearly 30 years later, this “friend” is out of the picture, but her remark has stuck with me, just like that little pocket under my chin. I still fixate over it. So does my sister. Our issue is genetic; no amount of…

GLORIA STEINEM When Gloria Steinem sat down to write an essay for Louis 200, the feminist activist, organizer, and author began where she always has throughout her six-decade career: with a yellow legal pad. “I start that way, and then once I’ve written a certain amount, I usually transfer it to what was the typewriter and now is a computer,” she says. “There’s something about the physical connection of your hand and the page that to me is still more personal than passing your words through a word processor.” This time, Steinem got to skip the transcription phase after the Louis Vuitton team suggested using her lined sheet of paper to wrap a scaled-down trunk. In her essay, which begins, “I’ve learned that baggage is biography,” Steinem recounts how a…

IT’S A CLICHÉ TO SAY that certain fashion images transcend fashion. But Hiro, who passed away on August 15 at the age of 90, had no time for clichés. From the late 1950s through the mid-1970s, his vivid, colorful compositions, still lifes, and portraits, produced with great technical precision, were a defining feature of Harper’s Bazaar. His pictures could be dreamlike, ethereal, and occasionally even surreal, like the disembodied hand adorned with a Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet pictured here. (The hand belonged to Diana Vreeland’s assistant.) Born Yasuhiro Wakabayashi in 1930 to Japanese parents in Shanghai, Hiro spent his early years in China before his family was repatriated to Japan after the end of World War II. In 1954, he came to New York and got a job assisting…

In contemplating my own purpose, I could easily fall into an existential crisis. I think I have many purposes: to be a good mother, to love and live fully. I also recognize that I am my ancestors’ wildest dream—that my reason for being is to actualize my full potential in their honor. I’m always awed by people who seem to have a strong sense of purpose, a conviction about who they are and what they want to achieve. But I also cling to the firm belief that each of our lives has immeasurable value and intrinsic purpose, whether we recognize it or not. For most of us, finding a sense of purpose is a process of experience and discovery—one that evolves as we do. This issue celebrates a range of…

“I REALLY FELT LIKE I WAS RUNNING,” Rep. Cori Bush says. She’s speaking to me from her home in St. Louis, long braids coiling down past her shoulders, her signature thick lashes framing her eyes as they widen while she sets the scene. She’s describing the moment this past summer when, as a sitting member of Congress, she decided to sleep on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. The House had just gone on recess despite the looming July 31 deadline of the eviction moratorium that had been put in place to help the estimated 11 million households that have been unable to make rent due to the pandemic. Legislators were leaving the Capitol, and the administration hadn’t signaled if it would extend the moratorium. Right-wing pundits were arguing that…

THE PARK OF BEAUTY, Brunello Cucinelli’s Edenic 250-acre redevelopment project in the valley surrounding his Solomeo, Italy, headquarters, features a youth soccer stadium, hiking trails, lush vineyards, golden wheat fields, and silvery expanses of alfalfa leading to a travertine exedra with the inscription “Tribute to Human Dignity.” And this April, it also came to host a vaccination site that has doled out more than 30,000 Pfizer courses. “It’s in difficult moments that you need to be creative,” Cucinelli says. When northern Italy became a Covid-19 epicenter in February 2020, he was uniquely positioned to help his local community. Cucinelli, whose 100-year-old father, Umberto, labored as a farmer and later as a cement-plant worker, has spent the past four decades transforming the Umbrian hamlet two hours north of Rome into a…

MULTITASKING BEAUTY If you’ve pared down your beauty routine since the pandemic, you’re not alone. Seventy-one percent of American women reported wearing less makeup due to Covid-19 lifestyle changes, according to a 2020 report by market-research firm NPD Group. “After being at home for so long, people are looking for a minimalist yet multitasking approach, not a 17-step routine,” says Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye, founder of beauty brand Ami Colé, which launched this past spring. As a result, makeup and skin care are starting to blur together, and the result is more comfortable color. Every product here, from the new lightweight serum foundations (also known as “skin tints”) to creamy nourishing lip colors (that double as blush), can be applied in a flash.…

LIBRA SEPTEMBER 24–OCTOBER 23 Rivals who assume they have the upper hand are about to be set straight, but try not to appear patronizing as you pull ahead and overcome recent setbacks. Show how decent and fair you really are. LUCKY DAY: THE 23RD. Friends enable you to pursue something that suits all. SCORPIO OCTOBER 24–NOVEMBER 22 Upheavals at home or in your private life should be short-lived. To ensure that, find ways to prevent one or two particular people from disrupting an arrangement that means a lot to you. LUCKY DAY: THE 19TH. Time spent on others yields unexpected rewards. SAGITTARIUS NOVEMBER 23–DECEMBER 21 While you may have found it difficult to be involved in group activities and gettogethers, October 8 heralds a positive turning point. Let yourself see…

“I knew MUSIC WAS MY CALLING very early on, but recently it’s become A PLATFORM for me to HELP PEOPLE in other ways.” FEATURED TRACKS FULL PLAYLIST Jazmine Sullivan created her most recent EP, Heaux Tales, to uplift women, interspersing her stripped-down songs with raw monologues from female figures in her life. “It centers on their stories so others could hear them, identify with them, and feel seen,” explains the 34-year-old R&B singer. This summer, inspired by her mother’s 2019 breast-cancer diagnosis, she joined a campaign to encourage Black women to get mammograms. “So much of my life has been about myself,” she says. “When my mom got sick, it became about easing somebody else’s pain.” For this issue, Sullivan curated a playlist focused on the theme of purpose, which,…

STELLA GREENSPAN STYLIST: “The Golden Age of Nicole Kidman,” page 109 “I look for purpose in my friends and in giving back. I look for purpose in community.” NANCY JO SALES WRITER: “Radical Giving,” page 142 “The stories that mean the most to me are the ones where suffering or injustice is exposed. I find purpose in writing about ways to make the world a better place. That’s why it was exciting for me to interview the women in my piece who are working to democratize wealth.” COLLIER SCHORR PHOTOGRAPHER: “The Golden Age of Nicole Kidman,” page 109 “My purpose was always linked to my photographic and writing practice. In some ways, the thought that I could pass on representation to people who felt invisible was enough. Now my purpose…

The Wrap Coat The Turquoise Pendant The Beaded Bracelets The Denim Jacket The Leather Joggers The Caged Heel The Multistone Ring The Quilted Bag The Patterned Crewneck…

I GOT MARRIED IN THE SUMMER OF 2019, and my husband and I saved all year for a honeymoon the following summer that would take us to Morocco, Portugal, and Spain. We would see the desert and drink lots of wine. I would buy too many swimsuits, giant scarves to wear as pareos, and at least one absolutely ridiculous bucket hat. We would also try to get pregnant. We thought it would be funny because that’s what you’re supposed to do! It didn’t take long before we realized the honeymoon was not going to happen, so then we decided to try to make a quarantine baby. Trying to get pregnant is believing every month you may be pregnant. Suddenly my daily trawling through TheRealReal became slightly complicated: Should I buy…

“There’s so much MUSIC in my HEAD ALL the time, it’s quite HARD to TURN it OFF.” JACOB COLLIER’S RISE TO FAME is a very modern tale, which is to say the internet had a lot to do with it. In 2013, at 19 years old, he arranged and performed a cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry’Bout a Thing” and uploaded it to YouTube. Instead of collaborating with other musicians, Collier sang the lead, bass, baritone, tenor, alto, and soprano vocals, layering them on top of one another, harmonizing with himself. (“Chords were really like my first crush,” he says.) He also played 16 instruments on the track, including piano, double bass, and drums. The result has been viewed more than five million times. Since then, the British-born Collier…

This year, when the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) surveyed over 2,000 American adults on their sleep patterns, more than half reported sleep disturbances, or what the AASM is calling “Covid-somnia.” The eyes tell the story: People are tired of looking tired, says Chaneve Jeanniton, an oculofacial plastic surgeon and founder of Brooklyn Face & Eye in New York. “They don’t want to look like they’ve gotten work done. They just want a pick-me-up.” During 2020, according to the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 56 percent of surgeons said more patients wanted eyelid procedures in order to look less tired. The good news: There’s a multitude of ways to refresh your eyes. Here, we lay out the options. UNDERSTAND THE ANATOMY The truth is, the skin…

In the past few years, Nicole Kidman has become nearly synonymous with the kind of prestige television drama that unfolds in a rarefied milieu of almost indecent affluence and privilege. In Big Little Lies, her character, Celeste Wright, a soft-spoken former attorney in an abusive relationship with her husband (Alexander Skarsgård), circulates among the wealthy elementary-school parents of Monterey, California. In The Undoing, Grace Fraser, a renowned therapist ensnared in her cheating husband’s (Hugh Grant) web of lies, is a creature of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. And in producer David E. Kelley’s latest rich-person show, Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers, Masha Dmitrichenko, a vaguely sinister Russian-American wellness guru, floats alongside the glittering pools and sugar-free smoothies of her rather creepy health spa, Tranquillum House, where she pushes her troubled, well-off clients…

It is late July in New York City’s East Village, and the streets teem with sensory abundance. To observe people strutting down the sidewalks near Tompkins Square Park is to wonder if bucket hats and crop tops are the only available attire in the entire metropolitan area. Trey Songz’s late-aughts anthem “Say Aah” booms over neon drinks and revelers spilling out of Miss Lily’s 7A café. Dogs and skin and bikes are out. An afternoon breeze sets in. It is finally summer, finally not the thick of a pandemic (a glorious pre-Delta period that just weeks later will engender nostalgia). It is an ideal place to be if you are 26 years old, as Margaret Qualley is, and in love with New York, as she has been since she moved…

When Casey Llewellyn was a teenager in Boston, her mother came to her with some startling news: “She said our family had money and I would never have to work in my life if I didn’t want to. That was extremely terrifying.” Llewellyn, a 37-year-old playwright, says she’d always known her family was well-off—but not like that. “Of course I knew we had money,” she tells me. “We went on vacations to Europe and ski trips. But my politics at that time were like, ‘Fuck the man.’ And then, suddenly, it was like, ‘Oh, my God, I’m the man.’” Llewellyn’s mother, Amelie Ratliff, a longtime philanthropist, had actually been trying to start a conversation with her daughter about redistributing wealth—something Ratliff herself has been passionate about since she was young.…