Innehållsförteckning för March 2017 från ELLE

MARCH 3 Georgia O’Keeffe (she of the floral vulvas, southwestern landscapes, and Manhattan skyscrapers) occupies the Brooklyn Museum in Living Modern, which displays the pioneering artist’s paintings alongside artifacts from her life. MARCH 3 Sun Structures, the first album from groovy English band Temples, operated like a time machine that dropped you off in 1960s Liverpool. Appropriately enough, the band’s second effort, Volcano, goes 1970s psychedelic glam. MARCH 10 Twenty-seven-year-old British folk singer Laura Marling’s wondrous voice reaches new heights on her sixth album, Semper Femina. MARCH 10 Kong: Skull Island finds Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Goodman stranded on a Pacific island occupied by enormous beasts, including, you guessed it, a very, very big ape. MARCH 14 At once a ghost story, a murder mystery,…

“We’re often busy, and sometimes we’re lazy,” Rachel Hoffman writes in Unf*ck Your Habitat: You’re Better Than Your Mess (St. Martin’s Griffin), her recent organizational book aimed at helping us busy-lazies unclutter our homes. As the book’s title suggests, Hoffman’s approach to tidying up is blunt, utilitarian, and (it must be said) in many ways the antithesis of KonMari— ultraminimalist Marie Kondo’s viral 2014 housekeeping concept that encourages followers of the movement to make cleaning a special event rather than a regular chore, and to decide whether to chuck items based on whether they “spark joy.” If the KonMari system is a strict raw-vegan overhaul, Hoffman’s is the epitome of a moderation diet: Do what you can, when you can, and stop beating yourself up about it. A self-described reformed…

@Robbiemyers @Robbie_Elle The film La La Land is about to sweep the Oscars, and everyone who’s seen it has certainly spun backward through the time machine more than once, reimagining all of those what-ifs and why-didn’t-I’s and, as David Byrne would ask, How did I get here? Is it nurture/nature? Good luck/bad luck? Sun sign? The work of a higher power? Or maybe it’s all about birth order. I moved around a lot as a kid, as did my mother, so it’s almost implausible that we both attended the same grade school, but we did, as did my uncle, my older sister, and my little brother: Flynn Park, in University City, a college town just west of St. Louis. I was the middle child, so everyone in the family but…

Salamishah Tillet ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND AFRICANA STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA; COFOUNDER, A LONG WALK HOME THIS MONTH: “THE MESSENGER” (PAGE 368) “I cofounded A Long Walk Home in 2003 with my sister, Scheherazade. Our focus is to use art to empower young people and to end violence against girls and women.” Listening to: “I like ‘Weary’ and I really, really like ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’ from A Seat at the Table—I’m fascinated by Solange as an artist and a political figure.” Monica Corcoran Harel WRITER THIS MONTH: “HARDER, BETTER, FASTER” (PAGE 190) AND “FAIR TRADE” (PAGE 250) “I LOVE THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND WHAT WE WEAR AND HOW IT MAKES US FEEL. IT’S SORT OF COMMON LOGIC THAT WHEN YOU FEEL GOOD AND YOU LOOK GOOD, YOU MIGHT PERFORM…

I never got the whole collision of fashion and fitness. Why this effort to look chic, when a strenuous workout turns my coarse hair into an eagle’s nest and makes my face flush with rosacea like a checkerboard? Yet with the line between sportswear and streetwear increasingly blurred—not only at street-savvy brands like Vetements and Off-White, but also at legacy labels like Versace and Dior— I’m now realizing I was looking at the phenomenon back-to-front. Sure, of-the-moment trends that co-opt ’80s workout gear—tailored sweat pants, full-body hoodies, even Reeboks—possess an obvious cool quotient. But the mash-up of athleisure and ready-to-wear signals a tidal shift for the rest of us, who actually crave comfort-and-efficiency benefits from our wardrobe. Just as male tech moguls have made the hoodie their boys’-club brassbutton blazer,…

LEGGINGS ARE PANTS Supersleek = superchic ACID WASH THE ’80s STRIKE BACK IN BLEACH-BATTERED DENIM OF ALL SHADES TUCKED BLAZERS Style them just like a shirt—sans shirt—for a one-and-done effect STYLIST’S TIP Take the look out of the yoga studio with an elegant silk blouse.…

Right around the corner from the Louvre, designer Christophe Lemaire oversees his 15-person team in a stripped-down office with spare industrial fixtures and long wooden worktables. It is a philosophically ideal space in which to create Uniqlo U, a smart, sharp collection of sportswear for Japan’s largest apparel retailer. In 2015, Lemaire, like fellow creatives Jil Sander and Inès de la Fressange, collaborated with the Japanese megaretailer on a capsule collection. It flew off shelves so fast that Tadashi Yanai, the chairman, president, and CEO of parent company Fast Retailing, appointed Lemaire the brand’s first high-fashion artistic director. Asked what he wants to accomplish with Uniqlo U, Lemaire says, “I’m interested in something that fits your everyday life—timeless, essential. I’m obsessed with doing the right thing.” Throughout his previous gigs…

First up: Proenza Schouler’s loved-up knits UNLIKELY ALLIES Designers upend the color wheel, combining odd shades and remixing variations of a single hue STYLIST’S TIP Mixing pink and purple? Dial down princess vibes with clean lines and strong, true shades. A DIFFERENT STRIPE From sweetly classic to eye-poppingly graphic, there’s one for everyone STYLIST’S TIP Oversize stripes tend to work best on simple, sophisticated shapes. MARCHING ORDERS Printed piping? Leather patch pockets? These army jackets are anything but standard-issue STYLIST’S TIP A bold belt adds feminine curves to the boxy classic. STYLIST’S TIP Add a cropped Hawaiian blouse and gingham pedal pushers to create a retro-fab ’50s silhouette. MODERN PATCHWORK Forget the grid system. When pieced together, prints loosen up STYLIST’S TIP The shorter the skirt, the lower the heel.…

Typecasting may be a dirty word, but J. Mallory McCree proves that a little character continuity can be a very good thing. In the sixth season of Showtime’s Homeland, he’s currently playing Sekou, a devout young Muslim facing terrorism charges after voicing opposition to how the U.S. treats people of his religion. And in this month’s From Nowhere, a powerful indie about three secretly undocumented Bronx teenagers trying to secure political asylum papers, his tender but tightly wound Moussa—a Muslim from the Republic of Guinea—powerfully illustrates the all-too-real anxieties of a rarely told side of the immigrant experience. “These are stories that aren’t a part of our everyday lives,” says McCree, a Detroit native and Rutgers University grad. “Even for me, as a black man in this country, characters like…

In the same way that second-day hair can be as appealing as a salon-fresh blow-out, a subtle burnish—like the soft-focus look at Erdem’s spring 2017 show—can be just as stunning as, say, a kohl-rimmed eye and smoldering-cherry lip situation. Makeup artist Val Garland conjured the flushed sheen by employing a single lipstick, Nars Kiss Me Stupid, lightly tracing it over models’ mouths to bestow a barely-there tint, tamping it gingerly on cheekbones (she used a brush to disperse the pigment, conveying a windblown ruddiness), and blending it onto lids until the earthy rouge petered out to a “tea-stained, romantic eye,” she says. What’s more, Garland used— and loved—the lipstick on every model: “It looks good on different skin tones because it’s a shade that naturally appears in skin.” PINK LADIES…

I’ve always had straight hair, and lots of it. Even the most shellacked barrel curls would fall out of my superfine lengths, and I have the bridesmaid photos to prove it. From a styling perspective, my hair, which until recently had never even seen a heat tool, was almost too healthy. Then came an experiment to find my perfect color last spring, and a subsequent gauntlet of dyeing and bleaching. Oh, the bleaching. Five times in under two months—which meant a new color almost every other week. My colorist, a man who’s ushered supermodels from dark to platinum and back in three days, begged me to take a break, with faint assurances that I could contemplate bleach again in six months or so. My formerly virgin hair was now trash.…

Over the past couple of decades, with little fanfare, psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett has built up one of the world’s largest research facilities in her field—Boston’s Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory, which she codirects with psychobiologist Karen Quigley. It occupies quarters at both Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital, has an operating bud get of several million dollars per year, and employs around 20 full-time researchers. In other words, Barrett is a big brain in the study of the bigness of our brains. Now, in her first nonacademic book, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), out this month—which has garnered praise from eminent psychologists such as Daniel Gilbert, Barbara Fredrickson, and Paul Bloom— Barrett makes clear that she sees her lab’s work, which ranges…

The first time I made any money of my own, I took it straight to the beauty counter and bought myself a lemon-scented cleanser and a skin-scrubbing brush. I was a 13-year-old babysitting machine, and I was on a mission. A few years later, I moved on to Clinique’s efficient three-step system, which in my mind is skin care’s gateway drug.1 From there, it was Erno Laszlo black sea-mud soap and Mario Badescu facials, upping the ante with each new treatment and each new paycheck. Hello, my name is Linda, and I am a skin-care addict. While makeup is getting all the millennial love in beauty today—with contouring creams, highlighting compacts, eye-shadow palettes, and lip kits selling like mad—I’m here on the other side of the divide to celebrate skin…

By the time Ashley Biden was born, Joe Biden had been a senator for eight years. This brought with it certain perks, but Ashley and her two older brothers, Beau and Hunter, did grumble every holiday season about having to pose for the family portrait that would be sent out to supporters and constituents. But last December, on the rainy day that Biden, with just 45 days left as vice president of the United States, walked into a midtown Manhattan hotel accompanied by his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, and a small fleet of dark-suited Secret Service agents and charming, energetic staffers, roles were reversed. The father was on hand to pose in support of his daughter’s latest mission, which he did in true Biden style, warmly wrapping his arms around…

In this spring’s slick, Guy Ritchie–directed King Arthur: Legend of the Sword reboot, Charlie Hunnam stars as a scheming street rat whose circumstances are upended when he pulls a medieval sword from a stone. The film may be yet another fantastical retelling of the classic legend, but the story resonates with Hunnam, 36, who was raised in rough-andtumble Newcastle upon Tyne, England, where his father was in the scrap-metal business and his mother, once an aspiring ballet dancer, ran a gift shop. His parents split when he was young, and Hunnam, after being discovered one night in a shoe store, came to the States at 18, married a woman he met on an audition for Dawson’s Creek, struggled to find work, got divorced, and then found fame in an unlikely…

MARCH 5 In addition to fashioning both costumes and red-carpet gowns for stars like Mae West and Ella Fitzgerald, designer Zelda Wynn Valdes created the official uniform of Hef ’s Playboy Bunnies (8). Explore Valdes’s work, along with that of Stephen Burrows, Grace Wales Bonner, and more, at FIT’s Black Fashion Designers exhibit, through May 16. MARCH 6 Up-and-coming Chinese artist Xu Zhen added a little extra glitz to Art Basel Miami Beach with his enormous mirror graffitied with hip-hop– esque gold chains. Now Preciously Paris, the intricate bag line beloved by Queen Bey herself (each handembroidered bag takes 30 hours to create), has released a wearable homage (1). MARCH 7 Paris Fashion Week is in full swing, and the buzz surrounding hot-ticket shows like Nicolas Ghesquière (4) at Louis…

@elleusa @elleusa @elleusa ELLE Magazine (US) YOUR FRONT-ROW SEAT ELLE.com puts Fashion Month at your fingertips What happens when a comedian, an HBO star, and a novelist walk into a fashion show? No, that’s not a joke! It’s a preview of our seasonal “Front Row Virgins” series, in which we send a spate of Fashion Week novices to take in the runway and the surrounding scene. This season, we’re dispatching comedian Maeve Higgins, Insecure actress Yvonne Orji, and American Housewife author Helen Ellis to waltz in—and report back to us at ELLE.com/ front-row-virgins. Meanwhile, our own veteran crew will also be on the ground, bringing you news, analysis, and street-style photos from the fall 2017 runway, backstage, and beyond. Catch it all as it unfolds at ELLE.com/ fashion-week. CONTRIBOTOR SPOTLIGHT…

First up: Illustrator Julie Verhoeven’s exuberant thigh-high boots for Marc Jacobs tower atop six-inch platforms WINNER'S CIRCLE Athletic gear has officially crossed over into the everyday TRY IT WITH STYLIST’S TIP For a sleek underpinning to light-as-air trousers, slip on a swimsuit or bodysuit. GLOBAL EXPANSION Mix prints, knits, and plaids for piled-on, boho extravagance TRY IT WITH STYLIST’S TIP Pair homespun knits with tougher accessories— anything that skews punk. THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri delivers an office-appropriate slogan tee that’s hard to argue with TRY IT WITH STYLIST’S TIP A minimalist tee is the perfect counterpoint to serious suiting. FEATHERED FRIENDS Op Art prints and marabou fluff? The new sophisticate masters the art of bricolage TRY IT WITH STYLIST’S TIP Yes, you can add cheetah-print pumps…

SHORE FOOTED On-trend flatforms elevate seaside staples to fashion’s higher ground YOU’VE GOT MAIL Loewe gives new meaning to the messenger bag THE TIES THAT BIND Lush ribbon accents make for the flirtiest bags and shoes around RIPE FOR THE PICKING Cherry season arrives early in lightheartedly sweet shoes and bags THE ALL-CLEAR Black-tie standards get a retro/modern reboot with transparent detailing FOWL PLAY Whimsy takes flight in fluffy, feathered bags and heels AQUA FRESH Surrounded by dazzling diamonds and precious cabochons, turquoise steps way off the ranch CHARACTER STUDIES Ensure that time is always on your side, or at least perfectly in sync with your personal style THE MAXIMALIST With faces like these, who needs numerals? THE LADY Pint-size beauties that pack a punch THE POWER PLAYER Timeless, oversize…

FASTER FAST FASHION! Since 2013, H&M has sought to bring us high design at low prices via its biannual, limitededition Studio collections of directional pieces made in more upscale fabrications. For spring 2017, Studio will be “see now, buy now” for the first time. Translation: At the very moment on March 1 that the collection is presented to hundreds of celebs and editors during its exceedingly well attended Paris Fashion Week show, shoppers at home can buy the clothes online. H&M design and creative director Pernilla Wohlfahrt says spring 2017’s softly tailored, mostly striped sportswear (modeled here by lookbook star/Polish model and actress Malgosia Bela) “is a collection about love, a positive message of hope and optimism.” And upon closer examination, some patterns actually spell out “l-o-v-e,” ticker tape–style. Couldn’t…

Itry on four outfits before my meeting with Solange Knowles, untwist my hair, and end up missing my last-minute appointment with a local manicurist. I thought I’d packed the perfect thing—a sky-blue suede dress that reminded me of the bell-shaped frocks that I’d seen the singer and fashion visionary wear and that are for sale on her Saint Heron website. Solange is the epitome of effortless cool, while I’m what you might call a supernerd, an English and Africana Studies professor at the University of Pennsylvania who’s far more at home parsing the words of Frederick Douglass than the semiotics of Fashion Week. And a humid, 70-degree morning in New Orleans is no match for my winter wardrobe, not to mention my spiral curls. I finally settle on a slightly…

FEB 19–MAR 20 Your ruler, Neptune, syncs up with the Pisces Sun on the 2nd, allowing you to dream big without cynics raining on your idealistic parade. You can make miracles happen with your wide-eyed charm and unwavering dedication, but with Venus retrograde from the 4th until April 12th, financial discernment is a must. Save up for luxury instead of settling for second best. Romantically, a liberated Jupiter-Uranus opposition could give you cold feet near the 3rd. But the 12th’s relationship-oriented full moon will override commitment phobia, while the new moon on the 27th helps you settle down without settling. ARIES (MAR 21–APR 19) As fantasy and reality blur beguilingly in March, remain the unapologetic rebel. With six heavenly bodies pinging Aries this month, including the 27th’s new moon, you…

Nicole Richie rolls up to the Sunset Tower in West Hollywood at 9 a.m., wearing the same T-shirt she slept in. “I had a wild morning,” she says, peering into the mirror and smoothing out the shirt, a soft vintage number featuring reggae musician Peter Tosh, which she’s accessorized with a leather jacket, skinny jeans, Chuck Taylors, and so many chunky gold earrings that she’d have to have passed out hard not to notice them digging into the side of her head. “First, I woke up late,” she tells me, meaning, like, 6 a.m., as opposed to her normal 5:30 a.m. Then she took a spin around her vegetable garden. (“I have a gardening stage name,” she tells me. “My name is Nicki Fresh, and the s is a dollar…

6 SPORTS TO TAKE UP THIS SPRING ATHLEISURE ENTERS THE BIG LEAGUES WITH RUNWAY-WORTHY UNIFORMS 98 CUTOUTS in Olivier Rousteing’s supersexy show, revealing all sorts of new erogenous zones 7 COLORS of haute Crocs we can’t wait to choose from: In its first runway collab, the chef-and-gardener fave proved a shockingly chic match for Christopher Kane’s tenth anniversary collection 7 SHADES OF GOLD FROM CHARTREUSE TO ROSE—NOT TO MENTION GOOD OLD 24K—MAKE AU THE METAL DU JOUR 3 PYTHON MUST-HAVES We’re cuckoo for all things (natural-hued) ophidian 2 MEGA-PEARLS Gorgeous, glittering orbs to channel your inner Vermeer muse…

Stars—they’re just like us! Over the past nine months, glamorously low-key options from new New York–based label Cinq à Sept have been popping up on the talk show and premiere circuit, worn by the sort of A-listers who typically dress in designer exclusives. There was Jennifer Lawrence at the Seoul premiere of Passengers in a sporty crop top paired with a floaty pink skirt; Jessica Chastain on Ellen in a sheath dress, its straps preslipped to hang just so on the arm; Bella Hadid at the couture shows in Paris in a pair of the brand’s super-wide-leg trousers. The truly radical thing: None of those pieces costs more than $500, and each is available to mere mortals at a store where, chances are, you already shop. Cinq à Sept (French…

When I was about eight, I had a book about optical illusions. The one that must have most intrigued me—because it’s the only one I can clearly remember—was of a young maiden whose delicate jaw and chin became, when you looked at it the right way, the nose of an old hag. Sometimes that’s what my life feels like. Taken from one view, my life is full. I have more friends than I have time to see, an apartment with good natural light and a cute dog living in it, and a job that sometimes entails being paid to go to spas. But if you keep looking, you’ll see that I don’t own my apartment and I struggle to pay my ever-increasing rent, and in what are probably the twilight…

UP AND AT ’EM: I wake up, realize I actually have some time for once, and go back to sleep. Eventually, I get up and brush my teeth. I wash my hair once a week, so maybe today’s the day. I don’t use shampoo, just conditioner—one from Tresemmé—since my hair gets dried out backstage. I usually wash my face with water and Aveeno cleansing pads. I use both sides to get all the dirt off, then I’ll put on some moisturizer from Aveeno. I’ve used those forever, and my skin is pretty clear. No makeup—I wear so much for work—just some Burt’s Bees on my lips. I have a breakfast bagel with eggs, bacon, and avocado, and I could do some Swiss cheese on that. I want most of the…

“When I first started losing weight,” Maressa Pyle says, “people would ask, ‘What are you doing?’ In some ways I almost felt like I was cheating—‘I’m taking this pill that’s helping me do this thing that I couldn’t do on my own.’ ” Pyle, now 33, had yo-yoed for years on diet and exercise programs. At 5'4" and 168 pounds, she was close to the government’s definition of obese: a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above. More than a third of American women fall into this category. When her ob-gyn suggested that she lose weight if she was serious about getting pregnant, Pyle decided to add the appetitesuppressant drug Contrave to bolster her renewed resolve to work out at the gym and cut excess carbs from her diet.…

It’s a little before midnight on a Saturday, and Elise Kornack is loading a dishwasher full of plates from the 11-course dinner she’s just served at her Brooklyn restaurant, Take Root. Anna Hieronimus, Kornack’s wife and the restaurant’s only other employee, is in the dining area acting as a de facto coat check for the last of the evening’s customers. Even though they’re technically in separate rooms, the two are no more than three feet from each other: With just 12 seats (two two-tops, one four-top, and four seats at a counter), their 750-square-foot space, tucked away on a brownstone-lined side street on the border between Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, is impossibly tiny, even by Precious Brooklyn standards. As Hieronimus asks one of the last guests what her coat…