Innehållsförteckning för February 2015 från ELLE

Cue the hordes: The Fifty Shades of Grey movie is upon us, and it's just as racy as the book. "I don't have any problem doing anything," says Dakota Johnson (right), who stars opposite Jamie Dornan (see page 68). "The secret is I have no shame." Saturday, February 14 February 1 Super Bowl XLIX—fingers crossed it's nothing like last year's. February 3 From the author of About a Boy, Nick Hornby, comes Funny Girl, a novel about an aspiring comedienne. But who will Hugh Grant play? February 5 Biography Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumours is the story of how the original rock 'n' roll chanteuse learned to go her own way. Bring on the chiffon! February 6 The Matrix goes galactic in Jupiter Ascending, the latest from the Wachowski…

We couldn't imagine a more fitting star to cap off 2014 than our four-time cover girl, Rihanna. Styled by ELLE Fashion Editor-at-Large Lori Goldstein and photographed by Paola Kudacki, the CFDA Fashion Icon shone in luxe couture and little makeup, and charmed us all with her characteristically unfiltered responses. Far be it from us to surmise a correlation between the timing of her triumphant return to Instagram and her appearance in ELLE's December issue, but the day after @badgalriri posted her first selfie in six months, she dropped every photo from her ELLE shoot, garnering more than three and a half million "likes." Clothed or naked, on camera or off, as the saying goes: When she's good, she's very good, but when she's bad…. Oh Rihanna, please keep doing you.…

My heart is pounding. My legs are pure jelly. I'm a quivering mess. Christian Grey is sitting across from me. He's so good-looking, it's unnerving. His hair is tousled. His gaze is steely, like molten gray fire. Oh my. I swallow my Diet Coke convulsively. What's happening? What's he going to do now? His long-fingered hands reach for the cheese plate. I gasp and flush scarlet as he piles Manchego and chorizo on crusty bread. "Mmmm," he says. He looks up at me, his eyes full of some unfathomable question. Holy cow. Could this be more erotic? "Is this whole-grain mustard?" he asks. My heart pounds faster. The blood thrums in my ears. I go into cardiac arrest. Okay, so it's not really Christian Grey. It's Jamie Dornan, the 32-year-old…

With its signature slick red soles—a onetime status symbol among the French aristocracy—and often vertigo-inducing heights, the Christian Louboutin shoe has become the sexiest of stilettos. Continuing that tradition, the famed cobbler has introduced the Dalida pump, which boasts a staggering 120-mm, serpentine Mirage heel. Aquarium-hued python—exclusive to ELLE—rounds out the reptilian theme for a shoe fit for a sexy, modern-day Medusa. FASHION ELLE Exclusive "The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way."—Christian Louboutin Python pump, CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN, $1,645, at Christian Louboutin, NYC…

Alexis Bittar has always existed a bit outside of the fashion industry: The jeans- and New Balance–wearing jewelry designer looks more like a painter who gets his hands dirty than, well, a fashion maven. Perhaps that's appropriate for someone who straddles both worlds. His signature candy-colored, hand-carved, hand-painted Lucite bangles, now celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary, are sold at art museums such as New York's Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as at Bittar's own 12 retail stores and Barneys New York. His designs have graced everyone from Madonna to Michelle Obama, yet Bittar is showing his collection during New York Fashion Week for the first time this month. To mark the occasion, he's designed a limited-edition range of five statement necklaces and exaggerated cuffs, each individually painted…

SWEET GIRL GOES SEXY At left: The good-girl evening essentials At right: The transformation Suede vest, HILFIGER COLLECTION, $850, at Tommy Hilfiger, NYC. Silk blouse, SEE BY CHLOé, $380, collection at Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide. Perspex and brass clutch, CHARLOTTE OLYMPIA, $2,495, visit charlotteolympia.com Above: Gold and diamond earring, JACQUIE AICHE, $2,750, visit jacquieaiche.com. Right: Stretch-lambskin pants, DIESEL, $998, visit diesel.com PARTY LINE As seen at Saint Laurent SEXY GIRL GOES SWEET At left: Leather and metal for days At right: Soften up your fetishes A PRIM WHIM Python-printed lambskin handbag, CARVEN, $990, collection at goop.com SHOW YOUR SKIN LIKE A LADY Calfskin sandal, BALLY, $650, visit bally.com SHEER GENIUS Front-tie blouse, MARCIANO, $98, visit marciano.com THE LEG SHOW BOOTIE Glitter ankle boot, ALDO, $120, visit aldoshoes.com SUPER-MINI, SUPER…

Michele Ganeless President, Comedy Central Having helmed Comedy Central for nearly a decade, she's injected the network with modern, millennial hits like Broad City, Key and Peele, and Inside Amy Schumer. Jenni Konner Producer Lena Dunham's right arm and "emotional bodyguard" on the Emmy-winning Girls, Konner—a Writers Guild Award Winner and two-time Emmy nominee herself—recently started a production company with Dunham, A Casual Romance, comprised entirely of women. Mindy Kaling Actress, Writer, Producer This Hollywood darling is the everywoman behind FOX's The Mindy Project, and she's currently at work on her second book of essays, Why Not Me? ESSENTIAL TV FOR WOMEN: "The Golden Girls." TV DREAM JOB: "I would love to be a costume designer. I rewind episodes of Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire just to look at their…

Reflections on honesty, restraint, and deceit in relationships By Louisa Kamps The provocative claim of Clancy Martin's Love and Lies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is that love is not only forged on whopping lies but requires truth-shading to thrive. We're taught to believe "love depends on absolute truthfulness"; yet Martin, a University of Missouri philosophy professor—while refreshingly clear-eyed about the harm he caused in his first two marriages by cheating amid "a flurry" of lies—encourages us to shake the oddly limiting, often destructive notion that intimacy requires complete transparency. Drawing on psychology, bio logy, and his own life, Martin (now devoted to his third wife) illuminates common lovers' tricks: Fish and flowers falsify their body shapes to ensnare mates, and humans likewise BS shamelessly in the lead-up to sex. Martin,…

Whether smudging her mascara just so or leaving her forehead slightly shiny, Cate Blanchett uses cosmetic signals to help craft her on-screen personae: "We really fine-tune those details," Blanchett says. "The audience takes a cue from the visual before the characters even open their mouths." Here, the two-time Oscar winner (and longtime ambassador for SK-II skin care) gives us a master class on the art of transformation. How much does a character's hair and makeup affect the psychology behind your performance? It matters greatly. Personally, I prefer to play against the look: If a character appears particularly unhinged, with makeup running down her face, I like to play her as if she has it together. I think that juxtaposition makes it so much more interesting. Have you ever played a…

It's happened to all of us: the inadvertent raging sunburn incurred on one especially fun day at the beach; the slapdash SPF application that resulted in a weird handprint or a spray of new freckles; the moment of looking in the mirror and wondering how many fewer lines we'd see if we'd never set foot outdoors without sunscreen. Now imagine this: a substance that, when smoothed over sun-damaged skin, reverses the effects of UV exposure, potentially preventing the development of skin cancer as well as nixing the signs of UV-related aging (brown spots, wrinkles, sagginess) before they even begin. It sounds like science fiction—but it might actually already be in the algae-based serum or vitamin-B cream in your bathroom cabinet. Meet the new must-know skin rejuvenator: DNA repair enzymes. Picture…

Chef Kristen Essig of Meauxbar, the New Orleans restaurant she reopened last year. For more on Essig and Meauxbar, go to page 176. ONE WOMAN'S BEEF That boys' club mentality in the restaurant business? Not on the menu tonight. By Gabrielle Hamilton When I was a twentysomething cook, I was assigned the meat course at a large wedding. It was a significant achievement, to be plucked from the ghetto of cold appetizers, where female cooks were started—and stowed—for decades. I was not the only girl on the kitchen crew—among the eight dudes, there was one other woman, and she was fanning out poached shrimp on silver trays during cocktail hour and was distinctly not friendly. I had the makeshift catering ovens cranking with 200 portions of beef tenderloin, and as…

WARMING HIS ENGINE DEAR E. JEAN: I feel wretched and ungrateful writing this letter about a man who is responsible, dependable, and a great cook, but I've continually begged, pled, and shed tears, asking for just a little more foreplay! A little more warmth! Do most men just want to have such quick sex? Or are there a few good men who actually like to take their time? —I Want to Pack Up and Leave NOW! NOW, NOW, MY LITTLE NOUGAT: Last week I sent you a note (with several vivid suggestions that are best kept entre nous) advising you to pack his bags. Bah! I muffed it. I missed the clue marinating in the opening line of your letter—and it just might solve your problem. Your dude is a…

Wool knit cardigan, maxmara, $2,495, at MaxMara, NYC. Denim pants, tom ford, $2,990. Brass necklace, a.p.c., $120. Bronze cuff, $138, silver rings, $194–$205 each, all, Wwake. Metal bracelet, chanel, $600. Engraved gold ring, marco bicego, $2,400. Eel-skin ankle boots, louis vuitton, $1,390. Her own earring. Stylist's own belt, sunglasses, rings, and guitar. For details, see Shopping Guide. Printed velvet jacket, pants, metal and resin earring, prices on request, eel-skin ankle boots, $1,390, all, louis vuitton, at select Louis Vuitton stores nationwide. Engraved gold ring, marco bicego, $2,400. Silver ring, WWAKE, $205. Her own earrings. Stylist's own ring. For details, see Shopping Guide. Silk jacket, emporio armani, $1,795, at Emporio Armani boutiques nationwide. Printed silk skirt, maxmarA, $1,050. Gold-plated brass, horn, and enamel earring, a peace treaty, $196 (for pair). Vintage…

Far left: Leather skirt, ANTHONY VACCARELLO, $3,685, collection at Just One Eye, L.A. Mesh tank, LANVIN, $580. (Rings, from left) White gold, diamond, and black quartz ring, DE GRISOGONO. White gold, diamond, and onyx rings, both, CHANEL FINE JEWELRY. Ceramic, diamond, and white gold ring; leather and diamond bracelet, both, DE GRISOGONO. Left: Jersey bodysuit, $2,990, leather trousers, $3,310, both, GIVENCHY BY RICCARDO TISCI, at Givenchy, Miami. (Rings, from top) Madeira citrine, chrome tourmaline, and gold ring, VERDURA. Gold, diamond, emerald, and cabochon sapphire ring, JILL HELLER JEWELRY. Lavender amethyst, pink tourmaline, and gold ring, VERDURA. Gold, platinum, cabochon sapphire, emerald, and diamond ring, DAVID WEBB. Gold, platinum, diamond, cabochon ruby, and enamel bracelet; gold, platinum, cabochon sapphire, and diamond bracelet; gold, platinum, cabochon emerald, and diamond bracelet, all, DAVID…

The 3rd's dazzling full moon will strike a sensational tone, and in spite of Mercury's retrograde, all signs will feel the beneficence of Jupiter, the excitement of Uranus, and the stability of Saturn—not to mention the spicy pairing of cosmic lovers Mars and Venus AQUARIUS THIS MONTH FOR AQUARIUS: (JAN 20–FEB 18) It's hard to imagine a more sumptuous full moon than the 3rd's, in your opposite sign of Leo and conjuncting Jupiter. This moon can turn your dream of commitment, even an engagement, into reality. But keep your talks quiet until Mercury goes direct on the 11th. In the meantime, assess your expectations—that's the key to any union's success. The same tactics apply if your goals concern business: The 26th, when Uranus, your ruler, and Jupiter will be sweetly…

Yves Saint Laurent is also credited with popularizing the peacoat, having shown it on his runway in 1962. 7 Saturday, February 7 Victoria Beckham's unique brand of minimal yet whimsical staples now sit in the designer's first brick-and-mortar on London's Dover Street alongside a repertoire of small leather goods—including the chicest notebook ever—exclusively sold in-store and at Victoriabeckham.com. 14 Saturday, February 14 Fans of Giuseppe Zanotti's supersexy stompers, rejoice: The Italian shoe label leaves its mark on a sky-high wedge—6.2 inches, to be exact—carved and gold-trimmed to emulate the brand's signature G. 21 Saturday, February 21 Celebrate the eighty-eighth birthday of Hubert de Givenchy: One of the last living twentieth-century French couturiers looks back on his extraordinary career with a self-titled volume (Artbook/D.A.P.) coinciding with his first major retrospective, at…

In episode 10 of Girls season three, Lena Dunham dons a platinum wig and what looks to be an S&M teddy as imagined by Alexander McQueen. She is role-playing a '40s-inspired femme fatale with her boyfriend, Adam (Adam Driver, for whom the English language has not yet invented the words to accurately describe the primal force of his appeal). Dunham raises the joke to farce by wearing her granny panties under what is meant to be the ultimate in erotic fantasy lingerie, but what she's really doing is acting: playing the hyper-self-aware Hannah Horvath playing the sex kitten in an attempt to incite a little excitement in her relationship. In the millions of column inches that have been devoted to Dunham's impact on the culture—her eight Emmy nominations for her…

Museum-worthy expression just got a lot more accessible 1 Hand-painted leather tote, FURLA, $598, at Furla boutiques nationwide 2 Leather tote, COACH, $795, at select Coach stores nationwide 3 Snakeskin handbag, REED KRAKOFF, $2,990, exclusively at net-a-porter.com 4 Snakeskin handbag, REED KRAKOFF, $2,990, exclusively at net-a-porter.com 5 Leather box clutch, MARK CROSS, $1,895, collection at Forty Five Ten, Dallas 6 Leather cross-body bag, TORY BURCH, $395, visit toryburch.com 1. FURLA: A paint-splattered tote calls to mind Jackson Pollock—and is guaranteed to turn heads. 2. COACH: Creative director Stuart Vevers enlisted L.A.-based artist Gary Baseman to cook up the playfully dark characters—such as blindfolded bunny Emmanuel Hare Ray—that dominate the brand's spring range of totes. 3. REED KRAKOFF: The fervent collector-designer's influences seldom stray from gallery walls. Case in point: this…

NEW YORK The '60s-style Plexiglas top handles that peppered Tanya Taylor's spring presentation are a perfect way to lighten up your spring wardrobe. tanyataylor.com NEW YORK Colorblock wet suits from die-hard surfer chick Cynthia Rowley have garnered a cult following. Now the designer is expanding her sporty offerings to include a full range of activewear for dry land. cynthiarowley.com NEW YORK Nigel Barker, television's favorite fashion photographer and a former model himself, examines the It Factor that helped 50 of the world's most recognizable faces reset the course of fashion in his latest book, Models of Influence (HarperCollins). harpercollins.com NEW YORK King of collabs Jason Wu teamed with SoHo-based Modo Eyewear for a three-piece capsule collection that marries the firm's cutting-edge materials with Wu's knack for updating…

Cotton top, $775, stretch-cotton pants, $890, pearl string belt, price on request, all, ALTUZARRA, collection at Bergdorf Goodman, NYC. Embroidered tulle bra, MORGAN LANE, $168, visit morgan-lane.com. Gold and pink sapphire charm on gold chain, SYDNEY EVAN, $1,145, visit sydneyevan.com. For details, see Shopping Guide. If there were ever a perfect time for style self-exploration, it's now. The biggest trend that jumped off the spring runways was a mixture of sweet and sexy, good girl and bad girl, vividly exemplified by Joseph Altuzarra's gingham-clad, cleavage-exposing wonder woman, shown here. The young designer is issuing a clarion call to break down your own barriers, to be playful and curious about the clothes you wear and how they represent different facets of yourself. This month, we continue the conversation by deconstructing the…

SWEET GIRL GOES SEXY At left: The makings of perfectly preppy brunch At right: The extras that will make them double take Linen blazer, GERARD DAREL, $570, collection at Bloomingdale's, NYC THINK YOU'RE TOUGH, STUD? Nickel earrings, GIVENCHY BY RICCARDO TISCI, $640, at Givenchy, Las Vegas STRIP TEASE Lambskin wallets, both, CéLINE, $620 each, at Céline boutiques nationwide Stretch-poplin and cotton shirt, REDVALENTINO, $695, visit redvalentino.com Jacquard shorts, ANNA SUI, $277, at Anna Sui, NYC WALK FOR MILES, LOOK MILES LONG Leather ankle boot, RAG & BONE, $495, at Rag & Bone stores nationwide SEXY GIRL GOES SWEET At left: Streetwise accessories At right: Light-as-air separates with flair Gold-plated brass choker, ANNELISE MICHELSON, $1,120, visit annelisemichelson.com Paper straw cap, ALDO, $70, visit aldoshoes.com Leather convertible bag, RAG & BONE, $596,…

GILLIAN JACOBS JUDD APATOW'S NEW PROTéGé For five seasons on NBC's Community, Jacobs has given it all she's got as Britta Perry, the college coed whom you just can't like, even though she desperately wants you to. And despite the show's is-it-or-isn't-it-canceled history (for the record: The sixth season will air on Yahoo! Screen this year), Jacobs, 32, is still in the ring. "I'm making no predictions about Community," she says. "We've been counted out so many times, but we're making a show that we believe in, and with not a lot of support or awareness." That might sound unsettling, except if you're Jacobs and you've got a five-episode arc on this season of Girls (as a multimedia artist and potential Hannah nemesis), which opened that heavy, golden door to…

"I honestly do not think it had ever occurred…to any of us…that what we did was unimportant," writes the titular narrator in Priya Parmar's extensively researched, diaristic new novel, Vanessa and Her Sister (Ballantine). Va nes sa is Vanessa Bell, née Stephen; her little sister is razor-sharp Virginia Woolf; and the "us" is the young, notoriously gifted Bloomsbury Set, comprising the Stephen sisters, their brothers, and a handful of close friends (writers Lytton Strachey and E. M. Forster among them). We're introduced to them here as twenty somethings in 1905, the even-keeled painter Vanessa and the cripplingly jealous, unstable writer Virginia locked in a toxic, dependent relationship; love affairs take center stage and elicit questions of whether art should be sacrificed for life; and the group members instruct one another…

FANTASY PARTY GUEST LIST: "Elvis would be my hot date. Spongebob because he's party rocking at all times. Constantly turnt up. Snoop because he'll smoke us out. John Lennon because he's epic. Kathleen Hanna can come. That's a fun party. Intimate! I'm, like, a little picky about my parties." ON MAKEUP: "I think it's fun; it's self-expressive. Like, why not, if it makes you feel good and it makes you feel sexy? I think less is definitely better, but that's the fun thing about doing a lipstick. If you have on a lipstick, you don't have to do anything else." DREA M RIDE: "I live on Laurel Canyon, so I'm trying to figure out—'cause I'm always at Soho House—how to get a zip line to go across." SKIN ESSENTIALS: "Cetaphil.…

Soft Focus Guerlain Météorites powder pearls, a best-seller since 1987, goes mobile in a new pressed powder that delivers the same radiant finish as the cult classic. Balancing Act Inspired by Winston Churchill, La Parfumerie Moderne No Sport combines soft rose with cigar notes for a uniquely spicy floral scent. California Dreaming The fresh neroli and citrus scent of Régime des Fleurs Nitesurf evokes the crashing waves on Venice Beach at night. Candy Coated Givenchy Le Vernis polishes in bubble-gum-pink Rose Évocation and crayon-box-yellow Jaune Expression add a spring-ready touch to nails. Slick Trick Moisture meets color in Yves Saint Laurent Beauté Volupté Tint-in-Oil, a silky, nourishing gloss-balm that delivers the rich color of a lip stain (shown in Crush Me Orange). Time Traveler La Prairie Cellular Swiss Ice Crystal…

People often ask Transparent creator Jill Soloway if she saw it coming: the moment when her parent, formerly known as her father, came out as transgender in 2011 at age 75. She didn't. And when it did happen, it wasn't as dramatic as one might expect. There was no "before-and-after moment of the big reveal, like a reality show," she says. Instead, she and her older sister, Faith, who is now a writer on Transparent, each got a phone call and were left to begin the process of re-getting to know the person who'd raised them, just as that person was for the first time getting to know herself as a woman. The instinct to turn the family happenings into art dawned on Soloway "pretty much like three seconds later,"…

Gone are the days when an actress needed top billing in a major motion picture to make a name for herself. For ELLE's fifth annual Women in TV issue, we turned our attention to the small screen's most buzzed-about leading ladies, plus a stellar cast of up-and-comers, who have all carved out memorable, complicated characters. Our cover girl, Lena Dunham, who made Girls a veritable TV revolution, is redefining her fame as well, adding "activist" to her already lengthy résumé. We also head to Paris for a "behind-the-scenes" look through the lens of renowned photographer Jean-Paul Goude at the luxe-bourgeois wardrobe that Louis Vuitton artistic director of women's wear Nicolas Ghesquière is building for the modern woman—embodied here by model Freja Beha Erichsen. Topping it all off: some of spring's…

Spandex-blend top, $2,295, high-waisted pants, $695, both, alexander wang, at Alexander Wang, NYC. White gold and diamond earrings, $3,950, double ring, price on request, both, hearts on fire. LIZZY CAPLAN MASTERS OF SEX Lizzy Caplan anticipated having to do a lot of explaining about Masters of Sex, Showtime's bio series about the pioneering midcentury sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson, after she landed the role of the latter. When filming began on the streets of Manhattan, she recalls, "We told people we were shooting a toothpaste commercial, because we didn't want to have to explain that it wasn't porn." What it was—and remains—is a richly textured look into the lives of the tortured, taciturn obstetrician Masters (played by Michael Sheen) and his research partner, Caplan's Johnson, a powder keg…

The setting may have been the spaceshiplike Fondation Louis Vuitton, the newly unveiled museum designed by Frank Gehry in Paris' Bois de Boulogne, but the lighting was straight out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. "The Sounds of Silence" came courtesy of Simon and Garfunkel. Huge screens projected young faces reciting modified lines from David Lynch's Dune as a procession of models walked the runway—a mazed mirror installation by Olafur Eliasson—in A-line eel-skin shifts, cropped tapestried-velvet pants, and elaborately sequined minidresses more sporty than disco. The wizard behind the spectacle was Vuitton's recently appointed artistic director of women's wear, Nicolas Ghesquière, whose spring 2015 show proved his genius at hyperlinking exquisite design, advanced technology, and cultural iconography. He's the Steve Jobs of fashion. Since his debut collection in March…

Scandal is one of the most-tweeted-about television shows ever. And most of those 140-character messages, it seems, concern Tony Goldwyn's philandering President Fitzgerald "Fitz" Grant and how good he looks having sex in the Oval Office. Or in an electrical closet. Or in the shower. (Even Rihanna has taken notice, recently Instagramming a photo of herself outside the White House with the caption: "Fitz, darling…") Goldwyn, the grandson of legendary Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn, is enjoying the attention, but that's where the similarities end. The 54-year-old actor, who first became a household face playing the villainous Carl Bruner in Ghost, has been married since 1987 to production designer Jane Muskey, with whom he raised two daughters in Connecticut. ELLE: Would you share an embarrassing story from your childhood involving a…

A recent Hollywood Reporter profile of Julie Goler estimates that a quarter of the members of the book clubs she emcees work in Hollywood. And though the 46-year-old, who also works as an English teacher at Beverly Hills High School, admits to catering to "a lot of movers and shakers," all of her clients—stay-at-home mothers and businesswomen alike—are "looking to get back into some intellectual engagement with reading." A Goler-led meeting isn't just a gab session thinly veiled as a Gone Girl recap, after all. Her 10-plus groups, some of which have been convening for more than a decade, partake in weekly, 75-minute salons on titles carefully selected to promote both an emotional journey and intellectual conversation. Joan Didion's fiercely honest 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, for example,…

Ask any seven-year-old this question and she'll have an answer at the ready, having worked and reworked her list since the moment she first became aware that nickels, quarters, and dollars enable their holder to acquire a whole range of things not available to someone with just a Barbie doll or a pillowcase full of Halloween candy to trade. The answer is bandied about in games with friends and alone, pondering cloud formations on a lazy day in the backyard. It's edited and reedited as the years pass, as ideas about what's valuable and important and beautiful evolve and are shaped by real life. It's an answer that in some simple way defines who we are: What would you do if you had all the money in the world? Melinda…

From classic gold-link numbers to diamond-encrusted beauties, these watches will have you happily counting the hours STATELY Rose gold watch on alligator strap, HERMèS, price on request, at Hermès boutiques nationwide Rose gold watch on alligator strap, LONGINES, price on request, visit longines.com Stainless steel watch on embossed-leather strap, TAG HEUER, $3,500, visit tagheuer.com White gold and diamond watch on satin strap, DIOR TIMEPIECES, price on request, visit dior.com Plasma and ceramic watch on embossed-leather strap, RADO, $2,500, visit rado.com GOLD Gold watch, OMEGA, price on request, at Omega boutiques nationwide Gold-plated stainless steel, sapphire crystal, and diamond watch, MOVADO, $2,495, visit movado.com Gold-plated stainless steel watch, BULOVA, $275, collection at Macy's stores nationwide Quartz and crystal watch, NIXON, $250, visit nixon.com White gold and diamond watch on satin strap,…

A STAR AND STRIPES Belgian-born, New York City–based designer Tim Coppens has had something of a charmed run. In the past 12 months the RLX and Adidas veteran was short-listed for the inaugural LVMH Young Fashion Designer Prize, nabbed the CFDA emerging talent honors with the Swarovski Award for Menswear, and won a discerning fan in Jay Z, who has worn his casual menswear silhouettes, including parkas and sweatshirts infused with a smart-techno performancewear sensibility. For spring/summer 2015, Coppens, who graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1998, also somehow found time to debut his first women's wear collection: 12 perfectly edited looks—snapped up by retailers including Louis in Boston and Barneys—that make use of pleating and layering to reinterpret his classic shapes. Can an Instagram…

Cotton-blend trench coat, SIMONE ROCHA, $2,310, collection at Ikram, Chicago CREAM OF THE CROP As seen at Miu Miu Gold, ruby, sapphire, and garnet charm on gold chain, SYDNEY EVAN, $950, visit sydneyevan.com CUTOUTS UNVEIL THE SHOWGIRL Bonded satin dress, CYNTHIA ROWLEY, $298, collection at Lord & Taylor stores nationwide Cotton cardigan, MARC BY MARC JACOBS, $298, collection at Nordstrom stores nationwide SWEET GIRL GOES SEXY Left: The good girl's demure uniform Right: A plus-one will sex up your look CLASSIC STILETTO TIED UP WITH A BOW Patent leather pump, NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD, $895, at Nicholas Kirkwood, NYC FEMME BAG GOES HARD(WARE) Leather and rose gold handbag, DELVAUX, price on request, exclusively at Barneys New York Viscose-blend skirt, ALICE + OLIVIA BY STACEY BENDET, $220, visit aliceandolivia.com. Patent leather belt, DEBORAH…

Of all the recent TV series trying to capture the experience of being a smart, somewhat confused, and struggling but ambitious young woman in the big city (Girls, 2 Broke Girls, New Girl), Comedy Central's Broad City feels the most like the real thing. As sexually provocative as Girls, as neurotic and cerebral as Curb Your Enthusiasm, and as warped as Sarah Silverman's stand-up, Broad City, with its DIY punkish spirit, is at once innocent and subversive. It's a show about friendship and perseverance in the face of adulthood, about the joy and relief of finding the one person who sees the world the way you do. "Thank God we have each other," says cocreator Ilana Glazer, 27, of her producing/writing/on-screen partner, Abbi Jacobson, 31. "Otherwise I'd just be laughing…

It is strange indeed that a feature film about Martin Luther King Jr. has never been made—until now, that is, and it's a doozy. Selma isn't a biopic, though; it's an intricate and ferociously focused depiction of less than a year in King's life: It opens in Oslo, Norway, with him receiving the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his leadership in securing the Civil Rights Act that year banning segregation; it closes with King's triumphant "How Long, Not Long" speech in front of the statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama, after President Lyndon Johnson has set on course the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law that would finally empower Southern blacks to register to vote in significant numbers. Selma depicts the voting-rights struggle in the titular Alabama town with both…

"Over the years, women's eyebrows have changed along with fashion," says Giorgio Armani Beauty international makeup artist Linda Cantello. "You can often tell what period a photograph is from just by looking [at the model's brows]." Indeed, from big and bushy to barely there, those little strips above our eyes are as much a marker of the zeitgeist as are hairstyles, makeup, and hemlines. Ancient Greeks considered the monobrow so beautiful that the follicularly challenged glued on strips of goat hair to fill in the gaps; Elizabethans removed their brows altogether. Thankfully, we live in a less extreme age: The modern look is "a straighter, fuller, less arched brow" than in decades past, Cantello says. "You still want to clean them up, but it's about embracing what your natural brows…

The first time someone commented on the density of my hair, I was 24, getting a haircut. "It's so thin!" the stylist exclaimed. "I know," I said, shrugging as if this weren't a big deal, even as it prompted a feeling akin to terror. According to the American Academy of Dermatol ogy, 40 percent of American women experience some hair thinning by 40, but most of us don't like to talk about it. Instead, we quietly spend $1.4 billion a year on treatments —many of which don't work—meant to make our strands less sparse. The stylist suggested I buy an expensive shampoo, but I didn't. How, I wondered, could a shampoo change my scalp? The second time someone said something was a few weeks before I got married, at age…

I never cry. When my 16-year-old bulldog died this year, I didn't cry. Nor when I was stood up on a Tinder date, nor when someone else was offered a job I wanted, nor during a screening of The Fault in Our Stars. When my dad told me he was getting an MRI for some health issues that could be major, I said, "I love you." But I didn't even choke up. To be sure, I've had some memorable cries: sneaking off to a storage room during a particularly ego-destroying magazine job my first year in New York; watching the guy I was dating leave to go visit a friend in Philadelphia the morning I had to take Plan B; the time Katy Thiermann had a better Halloween costume than…

It was barely a year since Aja Brown had been elected mayor of the city of Compton, and her wake-up call that June morning came from the L.A. County Sheriff. The previous evening, just before 10 P.M., an officer shot a young African-American man during a routine traffic stop. The shooting took place at the corner of East Palmer Street and North Poinsettia Avenue, not far from Piru Street, where the Bloods street gang originated in the 1970s and waged war against the Crips from South Central, turning the city into a merciless battleground. The message Brown got from the sheriff's office contained little information, but the details were bleak. Antoine D. Hunter was 24 years old. He was returning home from a friend's vigil. He died at the scene.…

Angora top, gucci, $990, at select Gucci stores nationwide. Ruby and lacquer earring, solange azagury-partridge, price on request. Platinum and diamond pendant necklace, tiffany & co., price on request. White gold and diamond ring, melissa kaye jewelry, $1,100. Gold and diamond ring, graziela gems, $710. For details, see Shopping Guide. "Question," Lena Dunham says. "Do I need to cover up my nipples?" She points to her breasts, which are standing at attention beneath her white turtleneck, and looks expectantly at the group gathered in a small conference room in the Austin office of Planned Parenthood. There's a pause as the room considers the question. In most people's minds, Lena Dunham would be the last person to care about anyone seeing the outline of her areolas. In three seasons of Girls,…

Aja Naomi King, 30, is buttoned-up and all business on ABC's hit How to Get Away With Murder as overachieving, no-nonsense law student Michaela Pratt. Yet, underneath that striver exterior is enough survival-of-the-fittest moxie to get her through the on-campus murder cover-up in which she and three peers have found themselves. Karen David, 35, sings, dances, swings a sword, and delivers one heck of a punch line as Isabella, princess of the exotic kingdom of Valencia, who's been sent to rally a new hero for her struggling people in the current ABC musical comedy Galavant. Alison Sudol, 30, drops her singer-songwriter stage name, A Fine Frenzy, but loses none of her provocative allure in the USA event series Dig as an American archeology student stationed in Jerusalem who ends up…

COVERS Women's classic black leather jacket, $5,290, silk dress, $3,590, by Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane, at Saint Laurent (NYC), collection at Bergdorf Goodman (NYC). Gold and ruby ear cuff by Phyne by Paige Novick, $750, collection at Fivestory (NYC), visit fivestoryny.com. Ruby and lacquer earrings by Solange Azagury-Partridge, at Solange Azagury-Partridge (NYC). Platinum and diamond necklace by Tiffany & Co., $9,200, visit tiffany.com. Gold and diamond ring by Graziela Gems, $710, visit grazielagems.com. Cotton T-shirt by Michael Stars, $54, visit michaelstars.com. Black rhodium and pavé diamond earring by Sydney Evan, $330, visit sydneyevan.com. Diamond and platinum necklace by Tiffany & Co., $9,200, visit tiffany.com. Gold and diamond ring by Graziela Gems, $710, visit grazielagems.com. HOT CONTENTS PAGE 48: Cuff by Isabel Marant, at Isabel Marant (NYC). Poncho by Michael…