Indholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2025 i Harper's Bazaar

“I was already DEEP on FEELINGS, but becoming a MOTHER has taken that UP like seven notches,” says KALI UCHIS. “That as an ARTIST allows you to DIG deeper.” The Colombian American singer, songwriter, and producer gave birth to her first child, a son, in early 2024, a period that was also marked by heartbreaking loss with the death of her own mother. The duality of these experiences unlocked new emotional and creative realms for Uchis. Following the success of last year’s Orquídeas, a dancey Latin-pop album, her latest effort, Sincerely, mines new territory through soulful, introspective tracks that explore motherhood, grief, love, and the importance of living life to its fullest. “It’s the most personal and vulnerable body of work I’ve ever made,” says Uchis, who will head out…

WHY DON’T YOU…? PLAY it COOL with a pair of blue or green DROP EARRINGS.…

It’s a sunny spring day at Sky High Farm, a 40-acre spread east of Rhinebeck in New York’s Hudson Valley. Its proprietor, artist Dan Colen, is giving me a tour. “Every day, you witness things sprouting out of the ground. You see animals giving birth,” says Colen, 45, who is six foot six inches tall and ruggedly handsome. We pass by baby cows and new chicks. “The cycles of the seasons and the processes that exist between the sun and the soil and the rain…” He tugs on his thick, scruffy beard. “It’s all happening up here on the farm!” It’s both surreal and heartwarming to see Colen in his Farmer Era, as well as in his New Dad Era: He and his partner, the writer and baker Lexie Smith,…

SCAN THE CODE TO SHOP THESE PICKS AND MORE ON SHOPBAZAAR.COM The perfect summer day might go something like this: a few hours laying out by the pool or on the beach with a book or a podcast, in a classic printed Pucci bikini. Then for lunch alfresco with pals, throw on the cropped, striped TWP button-down and sandy-hued Johanna Ortiz wide-leg pants you’ve got rolled up in your mesh Chloé tote. Take a nap. End the night dancing in a showstopping Diotima sculptural knit dress with sparkly fringe. The accessories don’t change. A delicate pearl choker from Deux Lions and embellished cowrie-shell earrings from Brinker + Eliza work with every look, as do simple slides from Jude. Shades are key, of course, and this subtly statement-making pair from Jacques…

The term “nervous breakdown” is no longer used—“mental-health crisis” is the nomenclature du jour—but I think I had one two years ago. My journey into the psychological night was precipitated by a propensity for clinical depression and catalyzed by the death of my father, the loss of two friends to suicide, and my husband’s transition into a wheelchair after years of chronic illness. I don’t believe that sound therapy cured me. I gradually escaped the darkness through medical intervention from a brilliant Russian psychiatrist who was well worth his exorbitant fee. But throughout my odyssey, I relied on sound-healing tools for comfort. I regularly attended in-person sound baths with a Los Angeles sound-bowl practitioner, Devon Cunningham, which helped me return to the world by lying on a mat in public,…

We were closing this issue while I was in Como, Italy, for the Chanel Cruise show. I stayed at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo, immortalized in the 1932 film Grand Hotel, starring Greta Garbo, which showcases breathtaking views of the lake (and a glass elevator to enhance them). I thought about how much I’d like to return, to explore the area, to know where to find the perfect bowl of risotto, to go on the hike with the best vistas. When you travel to a new destination, you want the list—that email or Google Maps link forwarded from a friend of a friend who knows exactly where to stay and eat and shop. For our first-ever Discovery issue, we tapped our network of well-traveled friends and collaborators to give us their…

IF YOU WEREN’T staring closely at Vaquera’s latest runway show in Paris, you could have glanced at look 34 and seen a model wearing a giant white silk sash trailing down over tailored gray trousers. But if you fixed your eyes more closely, you noticed that the sash had giant cups, adjustable straps, and a hook-and-eye closure. A poofy-hipped skirt in the finale look, upon further inspection, was actually the padded cups of a giant brassiere. A week later, bras were on display again, this time with pointed precision, as Miuccia Prada revived the 1950s bullet-bra silhouette on the Miu Miu runway. They were styled under tight little sweaters and worn by models who looked like they were playing dress-up as retro secretaries whose sharp wit (and pointy chests) could…

I’m not sure what I was expecting from comedian Nikki Glaser’s opening monologue at a recent show at New York’s Beacon Theatre, but it wasn’t a paean to fake tanning. In lieu of raunchy jokes, Glaser talked about the spray tan she had gotten the day before and how it made her feel invincible. It was like “job security,” she said, making her feel like she had her life together. I stared at my arms, slathered with self-tanner, and nodded in agreement. But just a few days later, I came across a viral TikTok video posted by Kylei Halbakken, who has been documenting her withdrawal from fake-tanning to the tune of half a million views. “After I quit, I felt relieved,” Halbakken tells me. “I didn’t dread my Thursday-night self-tan…

WHY DON’T YOU…EMBARK on an otherworldly adventure. No Blue Origin or SpaceX ticket required. It’s more about getting out of your comfort zone. Sure, lounging in the sun and people-watching at Il Pellicano is great, but why not learn about the great migration on safari? (I suggest Singita lodges.) Or evolution in the Galapagos? Learn a new skill by using your scant vacation days to study pottery at the Selva Terra resort in Panama, try still-life drawing in Athens, or learn the ancient art of ikebana flower arranging in Kyoto. Extra kudos if you go alone; you’ll talk to strangers, make more friends, and learn faster. WHY DON’T YOU…VACATION in your hometown. Thanks to the ongoing mess of tariffs being applied and rescinded (who knows where they’ll be when you are reading…

ROSE CHALALAI SINGH’S TBILISI The Paris-based chef and restaurateur has become so captivated by the Georgian capital that she’s opening a new venue in the Telegraph Hotel there later this year. I had always heard about Georgia and had wanted to go, but it seemed so far away. It’s only four and a half hours from Paris, though. Tbilisi is a city with an underground music and nightclub scene that is kind of like Berlin. Two of the coolest venues are Mutant Radio, located within a former power station, and Left Bank (3), a nightclub run by artists and DJs. There is a creative energy that is electric. There are two hotels in the world that take care of me so well: the Sukhothai in Bangkok and the Telegraph Hotel in…

NOW THAT YOU HAVE SEEN OUR COLLABORATION, GET READY TO SHOP IT. We partnered with jewelry designer Joie DiGiovanni to make a dreamy capsule collection, just in time for summer dressing. There are more bracelets, lariat necklaces, and anklets designed with our editors and exclusively available to buy on ShopBAZAAR.com in a special pop-up shop. “They’re not just accessories, they’re a statement—sophisticated yet luxurious,” says DiGiovanni. Don’t be afraid to wear them on the beach and even in the water. Per DiGiovanni, “These anklets are a celebration of the bohemian spirit and designed to be waterproof!” BUY ON SHOPBAZAAR.COM…

Had it been up to Jenna Ortega, she would have spent the summer after Wednesday’s debut season chilling on an Icelandic farm—learning to fish, making dinner, helping care for the spring lambs. She hatched this pastoral escape plan online, on a rural work-exchange site, soon after the show became a global hit in late 2022. “I was so stunned that I didn’t really process it,” Ortega says of her overnight megafame. “I still haven’t.” She’d been acting for a decade, but this was a new level. It was so overwhelming, it felt like it was happening to someone else and so unnatural that it was something human beings weren’t designed to go through. “We used to live in villages and meet maybe 300 people in our lifetimes, and now we…

“A NEW CONCEPT IN THE ART OF WELL-BEING.” That was how Harper’s Bazaar, in the magazine’s July 1962 issue, described the yoga wheel: an at-home workout device that consisted of a flat board affxed to a hinged wheel mounted on a stationary base, which allowed users to rotate themselves vertically using the force of their own weight. The benefits? Well, gravity, it was surmised, was responsible for many of the physical changes we experience due to aging, with various things sagging and atrophying as we bide our time on earth. Turning oneself upside down was an act of defiance—a way of refuting gravity’s pull in order to put things back where they once were. “We thus reverse our customary position in the world,” Bazaar explained. “The inverted flow of circulation…