Innehållsförteckning för November 2017 från ELLE

NOVEMBER 3 Netflix’s six-episode Alias Grace—the second Margaret Atwood novel to become prestige TV this year—is as unsettling as The Handmaid’s Tale. But this one’s set in the bleak past of the mid-1800s, rather than the bleak future. NOVEMBER 3 Yeah, girl! Pop-country singer Kelsea Ballerini, 24, heads in a more confessional, adult direction on her sophomore album, Unapologetically. NOVEMBER 3 Ultrahot artist Math Bass’s gloriously graphic paintings and sculptures from her series Newz! go on display in a self-titled solo show at the Jewish Museum in New York. NOVEMBER 5 Season two of Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience has a fresh cast and two totally new story lines, but still focuses on power, money, and complex sex—with political blackmail thrown in for good measure. NOVEMBER 10 A high-drama whodunit for…

SCORPIO OCT 23–NOV 21 Your manifestation powers are working at warp speed as the Sun and providential Jupiter sail through Scorpio—and host a potent tête-à-tête on the 13th. With these two working on your behalf, everything you touch expands quickly, but more isn’t necessarily better. Curate with care, and give everything your signature, bespoke touch. A relationship hits a milestone during the 4th’s full moon, but when amorous Venus enters Scorpio on the 7th, you’ll need a longer leash. Single Scorps should be entirely untethered for maximum exposure—and fun. There’s another new moon in your sign on the 18th, a day for initiating a personal project or investing in your own development. Self-care will indeed beget greater success in the months to come. SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22–DEC 21) The Sun and your…

@Robbiemyers @Robbie_Elle In the ’90s, I had a one-year gig as the editor of a launch called Tell, covering the younger avatars of popular culture. I was an unknown editor with an unknown product who landed Will Smith—the Fresh Prince himself—for my first cover. The star of a huge, game-changing sitcom, he was also a hit recording artist (“Parents Just Don’t Understand”; Spotify it). It was a home run, and so it was with great excitement that I went to show the issue to upper management, in the time-honored tradition of the dramatic cover reveal. But as I pulled off the blank sheet covering the image…nothing. People just stared. Finally, someone spoke up: “Black people don’t sell magazines. Do you have anything else we could put on the cover?” I…

Lizzy Goodman @LIZZYDGOODMAN WRITER THIS MONTH: “WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD: LAURA DERN” (PAGE 223) “I once dressed up for Halloween as Laura Dern’s character from Enlightened, Amy Jellicoe. If you want to understand where we are as a culture right now, that series can be seen as one giant, hyperaccurate Magic 8 Ball. It warned us!” Watching: “I’m all about Insecure. I think Issa Rae is a genius. It’s incredibly hard to make yet another show about young, privileged urban women figuring their shit out, but the world she builds is so simultaneously distinctive and relatable, you’re just…in. I think it’s the most deeply human thing on television right now, at a time when we particularly need all the humanity we can get.” Upcoming project: “I’m adapting my recent book Meet…

THE AGENTS HYLDA QUEALLY Partner, CAA Clients: Daisy Ridley, Cate Blanchett, Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard SHARON JACKSON/ MICHELLE BOHAN Partners, WME Clients: Emma Stone, Cara Delevingne, Amy Adams TONI HOWARD Partner, ICM Clients: Laverne Cox, Michael Keaton, Holly Hunter TRACEY JACOBS/ BLAIR KOHAN Partners, UTA Clients: Taraji P. Henson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Seth Rogen THE MANAGERS SUZAN BYMEL Co–Founding Partner, Management 360 Clients: Anne Hathaway, Michelle Pfeiffer, Catherine Zeta-Jones ALEEN KESHISHIAN Founder and CEO, Lighthouse Management & Media Clients: Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Gwyneth Paltrow CHRISTIE SMITH Partner/Manager, Rise Management Clients: Chris Pratt, Andy Samberg, Lizzy Caplan THE LAWYERS NINA L. SHAW Clients: Ava DuVernay, Lupita Nyong’o LAURA WASSER Clients: Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp KIMBERLEY D. HARRIS As NBCUniversal’s EVP and general counsel, she helped the company acquire DreamWorks in just…

In my early twenties, I experienced something of an overnight makeover. I went from being a recreational therapist at a nursing home in Greenwich Village, where my job was to perk up the residents—organizing art classes for our Alzheimer’s patients and hosting the Frank Sinatra Appreciation Society—to landing a coveted job as an MTV VJ. (I’d sent the network an unsolicited audition tape of myself interviewing people in Times Square; I had only a few acting classes under my belt, but figured I had experience entertaining an audience with a short attention span.) At the Village Nursing Home, my uniform was black pants and a crisp buttondown shirt. But television, as you may have heard, is a visual medium. Good-bye, frowsy substitute-teacher separates; hello, unlimited sartorial choices, courtesy of MTV’s…

SWING TIME Louis Vuitton gives us the Néonoé—a colorful update on its capacious logo classic, Noé WESTERN UNION Saddle up with cowgirl fringe and seed-bead detailing…

ELLE: Why the name Man Repeller? LEANDRA MEDINE: I wasn’t really thinking about building a brand when I launched the site seven years ago, but the name was so catchy, so gimmicky, and I knew people wouldn’t forget it. It also provided me with an opportunity to be really irreverent. ELLE: You approach fashion with a sense of fun, but I also think of your style as very feminine. Have you gone through androgynous or menswear moments? LM: Definitely. [A couple of years ago] all I wanted to wear was high-waisted vintage Levi’s and flannel shirts from Uniqlo and J.Crew men’s. That’s probably when I started pinning photos of you as inspiration! My style does generally lean on the feminine side, but I love the disconnect of a baggy, ripped…

Director Rob Reiner’s surefooted political drama LBJ is lifted by an all-in performance by Woody Harrelson as fellow Texan Lyndon Baines Johnson, who inherited the Kennedys’ Camelot—and by a lived-in turn by Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lady Bird Johnson. Director Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour, blessed with a far-out script by Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything), boasts a deliriously expressionistic portrayal of Winston Churchill by Gary Oldman, with Kristin Scott Thomas as his marvelously frank wife, Clementine. Both films focus on these leaders’ obsession with their unpopularity (“I am unwanted!” rages Oldman’s Churchill on the eve of his elevation to prime minister) and the pathos of being ambitious men who have leadership thrust upon them at the most inauspicious time (Churchill as Hitler’s forces threaten to overrun the UK; Johnson…

DUE SOUTH In Mudbound, the searing second feature by director and cowriter Dee Rees (Pariah), you feel the Mississippi Delta’s damp dirt between your toes from the first frame. A powerful cast led by Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, and Mary J. Blige draws you into a Southern Gothic drama about the return of two World War II soldiers—one white, one black. They’ve changed; Mississippi has not. FAMILY TIES Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, as brothers Danny and Matthew, and Grace van Patten, as Danny’s daughter, particularly shine in writer-director Noah Baumbach’s latest, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), a family dramedy in which the children of a noted artist (Dustin Hoffman, with Emma Thompson as his current wife) strive to make peace with his huge ego before he passes on.…

CLOTHES CONSCIOUS It’s easy to make smarter decisions about the clothing you buy. Source garments that are made locally, and avoid synthetic materials that are harmful to the environment by choosing organic fabrics that are made in America. Or better yet, buy used or vintage. SAY NO TO PLASTIC Reduce your carbon footprint immensely by refusing to use singleuse plastic, such as straws, coffee lids, cups, utensils, etc. Bring your own containers and reusable bags to the grocery store, and spread the word to others to inspire them to do the same. HEALTHY HOME It’s easy to be eco-friendly in your home. Use paint with no volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are harmful to breathe. Opt for natural rugs and flooring vs. synthetic fibers and fabricated woods. Decorate with indoor…

ELLE: You had all this information about resilience and adversity from seeing clients as a therapist for 20 years, and you probably knew much more than the average person before you began this research formally. What did you find were your biggest misconceptions? What surprised you? MEG JAY: One thing that stuck out is how common it is to have problems with siblings. If you do a checklist, abusive sibling isn’t going to be on it, even though this is a lot more common than people think. I didn’t know sibling sexual abuse was the most common sexual abuse in families.… I had never really thought about the fact that the home is the most dangerous place in America. More peo ple are going to face adversity in their homes…

My marriage fell apart while I was working for Sydney Pollack. The fact that I loved hanging out in Sydney’s office on the Universal lot more than I did at home was, in equal parts, thrilling and devastating. I was in my midthirties, a new mother; Sydney was the age my father might have been, had I had a father. Every morning I came to work to find the genius behind The Way We Were, Three Days of the Condor, Out of Africa, and Tootsie excited about the work we’d do that day (as his story editor, I worked on scripts he was producing or directing), and every night I came home to find my husband, then a resentful out-of-work actor, on the futon watching TV, a beer in his…

ELLE: The relationship between a principal and his chief of staff is so close. Was it easier in any way to have a woman in that role? ERIC HOLDER: It was certainly easier with Margaret [see story below], but I’m not sure that’s a function of gender—Margaret is intellectually and politically precocious. One thing I saw that I didn’t see in the people before her was a fierceness about protecting me. It’s like my mother: nice woman, even-tempered, but you couldn’t say something bad about her boys. This was different—I’m older than Margaret. Still, I wonder if it’s because she came at the job from a different perspective than her [male] predecessors. Because with Margaret, boy. You could not mess with Attorney General Holder. She’d say, “This person is dead…

TO SCHEME, OR NOT TO SCHEME—THAT IS THE QUESTION DEAR AUNTIE EEEE: I am happily nonmonogamous and usually have a few romances of varying types going on all at once. But there’s a new rascal in my life I’ve been dating long-distance for five months, and I’m utterly besotted—daydreaming at work, uninterested in the modelesque tennis player who just asked me out, and suddenly wanting to have children! The long-distance dude is brilliant, fascinating, and, TBQH, the most attractive human being I’ve ever seen. We visit each other once a month. When we’re together, the conversation is captivating, the sex is i-nc- r-e-d-i-b-l-e, and we have each other’s complete attention. But as soon as we part, he becomes aloof, and I turn into a pining teenager waiting for him to text…

By the time Tessa Thompson reaches our table at the midtown restaurant where we’ve arranged to meet, she’s trailing stares behind her like streamers. Two weeks earlier, she’d slayed her way through the newly released trailer for Thor: Ragnarok as the superhero Valkyrie, her arms as ripped as Sarah Connor’s in Terminator 2. The previous day, she’d shown up as Monica in the music video for Jay-Z’s “Moonlight,” the buzzy, all-black take on Friends. But once she settles into her chair—the word “Yes” tattooed on her wrist, glitter sparkling above her eyes—it’s clear that the kind of focused charisma she radiates would prompt double takes no matter her profession. “Tessa’s engaged,” says Alex Garland, who directed her in next February’s Annihilation, about five women (Thompson’s an astrophysicist) who head into…

In Cicely Tyson’s groundbreaking role in the 1974 television movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman—for which she won two Emmys (Actress of the Year and Best Lead Actress in a Drama)—she played a woman who was born into slavery and lived to participate in the civil rights movement in 1962 at the age of 110. Today, the life and career of Tyson, now 92, encompasses a similarly grand arc set against the most recent century of American history. Since landing her first film role back in 1957, Tyson’s monumental catalog of work has spanned six decades and counting: She’s starred in plays ranging from 1969’s To Be Young, Gifted and Black to the 2013 revival of The Trip to Bountiful, for which she won a Tony. Her work on…

Add a touch of simple luxury to everyday dressing with the CH Carolina Herrera Initials Insignia bag. Stunning and unique, this expertly-crafted crossbody is made of soft, supple leather and features a reimagined monogram buckle created in celebration of the 35th Anniversary of the House of Herrera. Available in multiple shades (including fall’s hottest hue: bright red) this covetable bag is a perfect accessory for any style savant this season. SHOP IT NOW Shop CH Carolina Herrera Initials Insignia bag at CH Madison Avenue or CH Rodeo Drive…

There’s a picture of Miuccia Prada that überstylist Karla Welch—whose clients include Ruth Negga, Sarah Paulson, and Tracee Ellis Ross— thinks about a lot. It was originally part of a magazine shoot featuring designers and their muses; in it, Prada sits alone next to a mirror, looking at herself. As for her own style influences or icons, “I’m my own muse,” Welch says. “I really, really am.” Born in the little Canadian town of Powell River, British Columbia, Welch has been exposed to the idea of personal style from the beginning. She grew up creating the window displays in her father’s haberdashery, and she fell in love with the CBC Television documentary series Fashion File. As an elementary school student, she longed for the day when she could abandon her…

“Let me tell you one thing / I’m about to overflow,” sings Kelela, imposing both her will and her seductively open presence on the title track of her debut album, Take Me Apart. After lending sinuously soothing vocals to songs by the likes of Solange and Gorillaz—and making a name with her breakout single, “Bank Head”—the Ethiopian American continues to carve out a reflective R&B niche with 14 brandnew songs. Each bursts with the 34-year-old’s signature emotional frankness and strength, as exemplified in the album’s title, which the singer says has several meanings: “One of them being the emotional risk of demanding that someone make you vulnerable, essentially. It also sort of displays a confidence, like how strong one has to feel in order to invite a person to deconstruct…

For nearly 50 years, Manolo Blahnik has shod everyone from Michelle Obama to Princess Diana. The new documentary Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards (1), traces his empire to an unlikely source: As a child in the Canary Islands, he crafted footwear for local reptiles using Cadbury chocolate wrappers. His fall capsule, timed to the film and featuring cameos from Naomi Campbell, Iman, and Rihanna, includes a sartorial nod to his hobby of old (2). What’s your job? I’m a doodler. It was my first job as a boy, and I still do it. At night I keep a block of paper and a pencil with a huge piece of string next to me. When I have an idea, I grab the string and just doodle. Your greatest…

ALICIA VIKANDER ELLE’s September cover star, the Oscar-winning, Tomb Raider–fronting Alicia Vikander, served up her signature intensity during the issue’s cover shoot. ELLE readers loved photographer David Bellemere’s striking shots of the indomitable actress: “Her gaze is serene. She has quiet power.”—Jean Sheridan, gofugyourself.com “Just great.” —@perparimsopi, Instagram “Simply stunning.” —@jadejkr, Instagram CHANGE AGENT In “Al Gore Is Getting...Hotter” (August), ELLE Senior Features Editor Lisa Chase joined Gore at the People’s Climate March on Washington to discuss his latest project: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the follow-up to his terrifyingly truthful, instantly iconic An Inconvenient Truth. The story resonated with readers: “I’m so happy Chase featured Al Gore’s warmth and humor, which I’ve always seen, as much as she did his drive, enthusiasm, and determination for saving the environment.…

“The Parisian way of life is about attitude and style,” Sophie Delafontaine says. “It’s a sophisticated naturalness.” This fall, the Longchamp artistic director is splitting time between her hometown, Paris, and New York to finalize details on the French brand’s fourth Manhattan store, opening in spring 2018 on Fifth Avenue and timed to Longchamp’s seventieth anniversary. Since joining her family’s Parisian handbag behemoth in 1995—her father, Philippe Cassegrain, designed the iconic foldable nylon Le Pliage tote, of which more than 30 million have been sold—Delafontaine has ushered in Longchamp’s ready-to-wear and footwear collections and will launch the brand’s debut eyewear line this fall. “You can have Parisian moments everywhere,” the jet-setter says. Here, she shares the New York eateries and activities that remind her of home. BEMELMANS BAR 35 East…

Chriselle Lim BLOGGER @chrisellelim With nearly a million Instagram followers, Chriselle Lim has come a long way from her 2010 YouTube debut—a tutorial on how to tie a scarf. But the unique balance of masculine and feminine on her site, The Chriselle Factor, remains constant. “Menswear really inspires me,” says Lim, who’s partial to gauzy florals paired with structured blazers. Among her favorite labels: Fellow Los Angelena Rosetta Getty’s dramatic bell trousers (find them at Beverly Hills boutique Gratus) and Brock Collection’s romantic blouses. Lim frequents downtown L.A. for its art (she loves gallery Hauser & Wirth) and restaurant scene (check out rustic Italian hot spot Bestia for its Lobster Crostino and Cavatelli alla Norcina). All highly Instagrammable, of course! Tara Swennen CELEBRITY STYLIST @taraswennen The genius who maintains Kristen…

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My approach to fashion has always been a hat one amazing accessory define my look. It’s the first thing anyone notices, so it takes the pressure off the rest of the outfit. My beauty philosophy is the same—maintaining a clean, glowing face, as it’s what people see first! That’s why my beauty must-have is OLAY Daily Facials. They remove my makeup and leave my skin hydrated and smooth. PRESENTED BY OLAY HOW IT WORKS & FEELS 1 Wet with water, rub to lather, and cleanse—it’s that easy. 2 Removes makeup and excess oil! 3 The cloths work as a scrub, toner, mask, and cleanser all-in-one (without a multi-step regimen)! 4 The ingredients and texture make my skin clean, hydrated, and smooth all day long. “It’s important that I look fresh…

First up: Chanel’s seriously cinematic Greek goddess rules cruise WARRIOR PRINCESS In the year of the box office–busting Wonder Woman, Hellenic white and gold redefine power dressing CLASSICS MAJOR We’ve got an Achilles-style weakness for goddess sandals QUEEN OF THE DESERT Revisit the southwestern staples of larger-thanlife artist Georgia O’Keeffe—subject of a lush 2009 TV biopic MOC TRIAL Soft soles, perfect for more than just desert strolls BOSS LADY Nothing says “Anything they can do, we can do (and wear) better” than a Working Girl–esque combo of a suit and crisp shirting ARMED FOR THE C-SUITE Make an entrance with a chic-ified laptop carrier LIME LIGHT Fashion has never forgotten Gwyneth’s verdant, minimalist wardrobe in the 1998 reboot of Great Expectations A NEW LEAF With emeralds, jade, malachite, and more,…

Before actress Kelly Marie Tran had to endure the five-month casting process to join Star Wars: The Last Jedi—as Rose Tico, a Starfighter mechanic who becomes one of Finn’s (John Boyega’s) biggest allies in his continued fight against the First Order—she was knocking around the L.A. audition circuit while working as an office assistant to pay the bills. “I always thought I was going to be that weird friend on a sitcom,” says Tran, the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants (her mom worked at a funeral home; her dad, at Burger King) and a UCLA communications major. “But after I got the role, I had to work for another week! Then I told my job, my family, and my friends I was moving to Canada for an indie. I had to…

Imagine a world in which women and girls possess the gender privilege and superior physical prowess that men and boys have wielded throughout human history. Given how fed up and furious women are feeling in these backward-stepping times, the zeitgeist seems primed for a pointed revenge fantasy. This month we get one from award-winning British novelist Naomi Alderman (author of The Liar’s Gospel and Disobedience) in her unsettlingly satisfying new novel, The Power (Little, Brown). For the girls and women who populate her fiercely forged saga, “The shape of power is always the same, it is the shape of a tree. It is the shape that lightning forms when it strikes from heaven to earth.” This life-anddeath ability “grows within us, our inward trees of nerves and blood vessels. We…

PALM PILOTS Senior accessories editor (and resident cocktail-ring tester) Jennifer Gach won’t take a hand selfie without sweet almond– based CND SolarOil (1). “A drop on each finger keeps my skin moisturized and cameraready,” Gach says. For hands that are dry from constant washing to safeguard delicate clothing samples, protective but nongreasy Kiehl’s Ultimate Strength Hand Salve (2) is the fashion closet MVP. LINE DANCE After two weeks of twice-daily use of La Prairie Anti-Aging Rapid Response Booster serum around the eyes, Features Director Laurie Abraham experienced a 70 percent improvement in fine lines (clinically measured at left). We’re all using this now! WING THEORY By April Long I’ve been wearing liquid eyeliner since I first caught Breakfast at Tiffany’s on TV in high school and attempted to copy Holly Golightly’s…

I’m unable to resist the charms—and offerings—of foreign pharmacies. Over the years, I’ve built my tightly edited arsenal of staples through my travels: Acca Kappa lip balm (Italy), Mason Pearson hairbrushes (England), and Santa Maria Novella olive oil soap (also Italy). One thing that long eluded me, however, was a signature scent—that is, until I spent a summer in Spain. Every farmacia window I passed seemed to contain the same sunny yellow bottles with retro red curlicue font spelling out Alvarez Gómez’s Agua de Colonia Concentrada. Its clean and cheery blend of lemon, lavender, rosemary, and thyme has been around since 1912 and is pretty much universally beloved by Spaniards (yes, it’s unisex). And at around $10 a bottle, who doesn’t love a cheap thrill? (Hot tip: A quick Google…

FESTIVAL DE CANNES Cannes, France (May 9 to 20) “The red carpet is outside, so makeup magnet products are key,” says Daniel Martin, one of the artists behind Elisabeth Moss’s perfect skin. Lock in a smoky eye with URBAN DECAY Eyeshadow Primer Potion (1), which Martin also uses to cover up blemishes. For the essential shot of glam that stays put? Martin swears by DIOR Rouge Dior Liquid Lip Stain in Matte-Red (2). “It’s iconic and comfortable on lips.” SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Park City, Utah (January 18 to 28) In beanie weather, hairstylist Renato Campora—one of Jessica Chastain’s secret weapons—suggests combating static by finger-combing KÉRASTASE Crème de la Crème (1) through dry hair “to tame baby hairs that catch the light.” In arid Park City, moisture is key. Jillian Dempsey,…

When Manfred Thierry Mugler enters a room, the atmosphere shifts. Not only because, seamburstingly bemuscled and mischievously grinning, he’s impossible to miss, but because he’s a walking icon—a man whose impact on the clothes we wear, and the way we smell, cannot be overstated. The French designer (he now prefers to go by Manfred) founded his eponymous label in 1974 and was a fashion-world superstar throughout the ’80s and ’90s: The extreme shoulders and wasp waists of his outlandish, intricately crafted creations reshaped the female silhouette. He was the first—pre-McQueen, pre–Victoria’s Secret—to inject spectacle and fantasy into his runway shows, supe-studded extravaganzas at which the likes of Naomi, Linda, and Claudia ruled the catwalk in diamanté bustiers and black vinyl, insect-inspired suits. He was also a pioneer in imageand myth-making,…

GLOW UP Descended from the OG of luminizers, YSL Touche Éclat, the new Glow Shot highlighters (shown in Sunrise) are available in three shades to complement a range of skin tones. Mix and match them for a custom strobing palette. STYLE REMAINS Jasmine, orange blossom, ylang-ylang, and—in a Chanel first—Grasse tuberose combine in Gabrielle for a white-floral scent versatile enough to take you from tennis to the Ritz, just as Mlle Chanel would have wanted. KINGS OF METAL Layer on L’Oréal Paris Infallible Paints Metallics Eye Shadow (shown in Aluminum Foil) for a superpigmented shimmer that doesn’t dust off. CELESTIAL VISION Harness a little star power with Givenchy La Palette Éclat Nocturne. The gilded shades pay homage to the planet Venus and the surrounding golden cast of the heavens. SWEET…

By the time I arrived in New York at 24, I was already a weary veteran of what social psychologists call “identity work”—the burdens women shoulder to navigate workplaces too often rife with sexual objectification and harassment. The theory is that identity work is a kind of tax that can hold women back— and working in restaurants and bars during high school and college, I’d paid my share. I’d trained myself to ignore men who stared at my breasts (fixing my eyes on the point where wall met ceiling, I could sort of pretend the guy wasn’t there) and to invent some suddenly pressing chore whenever one particularly aggressive maître d’ tried to reel me into a squeeze. While restaurants are notorious for harassment, I still suspected I might be…

I’ve always been mystified when I hear about men who have problems working for women. How can they be so backward? So sexist? Why can’t they be more like me, an enlightened modern male completely free of gender bias? Or so I thought until a recent run-in with a female supervisor, which made me question my self-congratulatory assumptions. But before confessing to my failings, I want to offer a few observations about the differences between male and female bosses. I know, I know, that may sound sexist on its face, but it’s also true that almost all my best bosses have been women. The three I worked for during the first 15 years of my professional life were kind and supportive and brilliant at their jobs. At the time when…

It all started with a stiletto. Specifically, a red pump, digging into Leonardo DiCaprio’s face in Martin Scorsese’s 2013 Oscarnominated opus, The Wolf of Wall Street. In the pivotal scene, DiCaprio’s notorious New York stockbroker, Jordan Belfort, crawls across the carpet toward his wife, Naomi, groveling for forgiveness for his infidelity. But Naomi—played to power sex-kitten perfection by Margot Robbie—is having none of it. “I didn’t really get much direction from Marty the whole shoot,” says Robbie, 27, who made her acting debut as a teenager, on the Aussie soap Neighbours, before moving to Los Angeles and almost instantly landing a lead in ABC’s 2011 short-lived drama, Pan Am. “Our job was to find the character and to rise to the occasion. If we didn’t, we weren’t going to be…

When she became, at 20, the third-youngest person ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, some mistook Jennifer Lawrence for a new arrival. Which makes sense: Most people hadn’t seen her onscreen prior to her breakthrough performance in Winter’s Bone, the critically adored 2010 film about an Ozark girl searching for her missing meth-cook father. But, revelation though she may have been, Lawrence was no neophyte. Discovered at 14 by a model scout who spotted her on the street during a family trip to New York City, the Kentucky-bred daughter of a builder and a children’s-camp administrator (and baby sister to two older brothers) had logged three seasons on a TBS sitcom (The Bill Engvall Show) and appeared in several other TV shows and films by…

There’s a moment in The Girlfriend Experience, Steven Soderbergh’s 13-episode thriller about a high-class sex worker named Christine, where you believe you are finally about to witness Riley Keough smile. She learns from her lawyer that she’ll receive a million-dollar settlement from the former employer she masterminded a lawsuit against. But rather than celebrate, Keough’s character barely registers the life-changing sum. “Can we get more?” she asks. Onscreen, Keough—who was nominated for a Golden Globe for the part—is stone-cold to an almost lobotomized degree. But you can still sense her breathing a mixture of rage and hunger. “She can be perfectly still, and you can feel that there’s a thought process that keeps you attached to her,” Soderbergh says. “She could have emerged from the silent film era.” Manipulating her…

This fall, Andrew Garfield—erstwhile Spider-Man, an Oscar nominee for Hacksaw Ridge, and the ex-boyfriend of Emma Stone—will rely on an unlikely superpower: his eyebrows. Garfield stars in Breathe, the inspiring true story of Robin Cavendish, who was stricken with polio in 1958 and left paralyzed from the neck down. Cavendish might have lived out his days in a British hospital ward had his very tenacious wife (played by The Crown’s Claire Foy) not rescued him—with a mobile respirator—and encouraged him to become an advocate for people with disabilities. It’s a revelatory performance, a testament to the human spirit, and entirely in line with Garfield’s current streak of important, actors’-actor work. He recently received rapturous reviews for a London revival of the landmark AIDS drama Angels in America, which will transfer…

NOVEMBER 14 Has it really been 24 years since a baby-faced Kate Moss shot to supermodeldom as the face of Calvin Klein? Revisit the brand’s most defining moments in Calvin Klein, out now from Rizzoli. And who better to recount the behind-the-scenes stories than the founder himself—who handselected and annotated the photos, shot by such boldface names as Irving Penn and Mario Sorrenti. NOVEMBER 4 Dip your toe into maximalism with Max Mara’s new crystal-embellished mini edition of its hit Whitney bag (2), which now comes in rich jewel tones—new colorways will be released this month. NOVEMBER 16 Contemporary art lovers are in luck: Today the Guggenheim presents its annual Dior-sponsored International Gala, and Rizzoli drops a new, comprehensive monograph (1) of Brit neon queen Tracey Emin. NOVEMBER 20 We’re…

A FORMAL AFFAIR NOVEMBER 6 Some functions call for more than a great pair of jeans and a white T-shirt (even if it’s designed by Welch). This week: how to dress up— way up—without losing your personal style. Want to try a long black dress or a slinky suit, but not sure how to style it? Welch to the rescue! UNIFORM DRESSING NOVEMBER 13 Welch arms you with the tools to build your own uniform. “You don’t have to have a ton in your closet,” she says, as long as you love the pieces you have—and they go together. If it ain’t broke... WEAR YOUR POLITICS ON YOUR SLEEVE NOVEMBER 20 The personal is political, and that goes for your style as well— whether it’s voicing your stance via a…

Any fiction lover could thrill to the epic, multigenerational sprawl of The Joy Luck Club, but back in 1989, Asian American readers finally felt seen in their country’s literature. It was all thanks to Amy Tan, whose debut novel so affectingly married personal and national histories that it was eventually made into a feature film. Now Tan has written a memoir—in a process she calls “exhilarating and emotionally harrowing”—about her own path to personhood and authorship. Here, she shares the three books that most powerfully shaped her on her journey. Read our full conversation with Tan at ELLE.com/AmyTan. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë “Jane was a spunky, independent, misunderstood, and lonely girl who was never defeated. I identified with her during my childhood.” The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood…

“Adolescence was the only time when we ever learned anything,” Proust wrote, and for proof of that dictum, just ask Helen Downie, the “completely self-taught” artist who calls herself Unskilled Worker. Her inspiration comes from memories of her London youth, and her paintings feature the characters she saw walking around her friends’ public housing projects back then. Downie, who is 52, found that in midlife, her memories of that time—or at least her recollections of the way things looked—became suddenly sharper. “Some of the names have been lost,” she says. “The atmosphere hasn’t. I think I found being young quite troublesome— it wasn’t an easy time in my life. In a way, I’m revisiting it and wanting to make it better, and a lot of my work is about that.”…

First up: Burberry’s sportif spin on British classics…

1 THE SUNDRESS A tasteful chalk stripe, tortoiseshell buttons, and a modest midi length conspire to turn the warm-weather staple into an office-appropriate, ultrafeminine riff on the pinstripe suit. 2 THE HAWAIIAN SHIRT No longer a kitschy souvenir consigned to the depths of Magnum P.I.’s closet, the tropical topper has been refashioned as one heck of a statement jacket. 3 THE MAILLOT The classic one-piece swimsuit has been back in a big way for a minute. For a new, slightly ’70s twist, sport it as a top with jeans (downtown) or a sunray-pleated skirt (uptown). 4 THE SARONG The beachside cover-up inspires a skirt that’s thoroughly city-chic. Best served with a contrast-print blouse and dressed-up mules. 5 THE IT PRINT Fresh-off-the-picnic-table gingham never fails to cheer, whether perking up classic…

“La luce!” exclaims Lucia Silvestri. The Bulgari creative director is recalling the moment she decided to facet the reverse side of a 180-carat sapphire cabochon that had lain dormant in a vault for years. “It was as if it had been reborn. It finally came to life with light,” Silvestri says. Not wanting to take a sliver of attention away from such a rare gobstopper— the centerpiece of Bulgari’s Principesse range within its new Festa high-jewelry collection— Silvestri added a “simple” chain boasting 28 carats of trapezoidal step-cut and pavé diamonds. Its name? “Il Magnifico.” Inspired by Roman princess Paolina Bonaparte Borghese, whose brother Napoleon gave her the nickname “Our Lady of Trinkets” due to her affinity for the finer things, the necklace is one of 28 one-off pieces inspired…

NATALIE MARTIN COLLECTION Natalie Martin Batik, c’est chic? It is in the hands of designer Natalie Martin, whose breezy silk caftans and maxidresses (beloved by Miranda Kerr and Rihanna) offer an elevated take on the bohemian staple. “It’s basically my perfect summer wardrobe,” Martin has said. POE JEWELRY Danielle Birrittella “A woman and her path are individual and multifaceted,” Danielle Birrittella says. As a reflection of that belief, her new Orbit Rings collection features a spectrum of symbolic stones, from rubies (meant to boost creativity) to blue sapphires (intuition). STONED IMMACULATE Chloe Chippendale Feel as though you were born in the wrong decade? You’re in luck, as online vintage boutique Stoned Immaculate (of which Chloe Chippendale is a cofounder) offers a range of high-waisted denim and snug knits worthy of…

DÔEN Missed your pioneer-girl calling? Fret not. Dôen, a collective of creative Angelenos spearheaded by sisters Margaret and Katherine Kleveland, offers nostalgic riffs on all-American classics: Rosie the Riveter–esque workwear, calico prairie dresses, and romantic collared blouses. ROUJE Who hasn’t tried to imitate the effortlessly chic style of (insert Gallic icon here)? So popular was model Jeanne Damas’s 2015 collaboration with Reformation, the Parisian decided to start her own label, Rouje. Think Jane Birkin–worthy wide-leg denim and hippie-chic toppers. LILY ASHWELL Lily Ashwell certainly comes by her love of pastel florals naturally. Her mother, Rachel Ashwell, founded the overstuffed, chintz-heavy Shabby Chic home-goods empire in the late ’80s. Look to Ashwell Jr. for slinky vintage lingerie-inspired separates, dresses, and even wedding gowns.…

When constructing an album, Fatimah Warner slowly maps out a mental moodboard: ideas, themes, and, most importantly, experiences. And she will not be rushed in the process, thank you very much. “I need to just live!” the rapper-singer says. Better known as Noname (derived from her insistence on not being tied down to any one sound, genre, or vibe), Warner came to recognition in 2013 after appearing on Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap mixtape—only to wait more than three years to release last year’s Telefone, an intimate, slinky, and trenchant solo debut. She’s since toured the world, played major festivals like Bonnaroo, and appeared on Saturday Night Live. But despite all the attention, she’s not about to change her methods. “It’s about just having holistically new experiences,” says the 26-year-old…

IF NOIR LIT WITH A FEMINIST TWIST APPEALS, treat yourself to Liska Jacobs’s magnetic debut novel, Catalina (FSG), about a young woman’s dramatic undoing after being fired from her New York City museum job following an affair with her boss. Elsa Fisher has landed back in her hometown, L.A., and checked into a fancy hotel to lick her wounds. Here’s a taste: “All the cocktails here are named after celebrities: the Capote is a mess of bourbon and mint, the Marilyn has gin and a cherry. The Bloody Mary is the only one named for what it is, and…it’s exactly what I need.” IF YOU’RE READY FOR A RIVETING LESSON ON A LOADED SUBJECT, immerse yourself in award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young’s Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists,…

I have what beauty marketing teams call “problem skin,” that catchall phrase covering all manner of dermatological woes. For me, the term translates to a trifecta of dry flakes, hormonal breakouts, and general weather-induced redness and irritation. After I’d spent years trying everything from the traditional acne battlers (salicylic acid, benzoyl peroxide) to the counterintuitive ones (oil cleansing, no cleansing), my dermatologist prescribed a slightly grainy, sulfur-based wash, Avar, loading me up with a plastic Baggie of individual samples unlikely to make it through airport security. Two months into the trial period, my skin was clear, even if there was a lingering smell of eggs postapplication. But after burning through my freebies, I balked at the product’s $200 price tag, too expensive even after insurance ($460 without a prescription). Keeping…

When viewed from a distance, the lavender fields of Provence appear almost abstract, draped across the low, rolling mountains of southern France like so many discarded, vividly colored scarves. But to stand in one of those fields— in this case, 24 acres of what locals refer to as “blue gold,” maintained by L’Occitane—is sensory overload in the best possible way: Under a beating-hot sun, the soundtrack is a low, rumbling hum of thousands of bees, and the scent is so strong and distinct you can actually taste it. The headiness of the effect is such that I can’t help thinking perhaps L. Frank Baum should have used this flower instead of poppies for that famous Wizard of Oz wicked witch spell: “Lavender will put them to sleeeep.” Because—scientific fact—it actually…

KEEPING PACE Treadmill novices and marathon mavens, take note: A new study published in the International Journal of Exercise Science by USA Track and Field consultant Iain Hunter and former U.S. Olympian Jared Ward (both professors at Brigham Young University) found that for those whose goal is to run longer without tiring, it’s best to stick to the stride that comes naturally. The oxygen use of 33 runners—19 of whom ran at least 20 miles per week, and 14 of whom had never run more than 5 miles in a week—was monitored while they tried out five different stride lengths during a 20-minute run. All were shown to be the most energy efficient when using their most comfortable stride. OIL RUSH After recent studies suggested that sweet orange and peppermint…

“I gravitate toward a neutral, natural palette because it allows you to layer things,” says California designer Jenni Kayne, who launched her namesake line of minimalist separates at 19 with seed money from her father, a Los Angeles oil investor. (She promptly dropped out of the Otis College of Art and Design.) Sixteen years later, Kayne, now 35, is translating her enviable aesthetic to interiors via a 30-piece home-goods collection that exemplifies her ultracurated California lifestyle. To kick off the line this fall, Kayne & Co. are traveling cross-country in a refurbished 1957 Airstream trailer (shown on page 200) outfitted with the collection’s alpaca throws, Peruvian handwoven pillows, and candles inspired by West Coast locales. But with kids of her own, Kayne prioritizes practicality above all else: “The most important…

Hollywood’s dearth of “complicated” or “difficult” female characters is one of those truisms so often lamented it’s become a cliché, and yet there are a handful of actresses who make a career of finding, landing, and embodying exactly those roles. Take Laura Dern, who has been pursuing atypical, sometimes deliberately unlikable characters for decades—and making them crackle with both sex appeal and humanity onscreen. Consider her doe-eyed temptress in Rambling Rose (1991), an almost literal blend of the Madonna-whore archetypes that Hollywood has so often fallen back on (and which earned Dern her first Oscar nom); her punkrock Bonnie to Nicholas Cage’s Clyde in Wild at Heart (1990); her pregnant drug addict in Alexander Payne’s slapstick feminist parable Citizen Ruth (1996). Dern’s mantra has always been to seek “wild places,”…

How seriously does Jessica Chastain take preparing for a role? “By the time filming started,” says Kathryn Bigelow, director of the war-on-terror thriller Zero Dark Thirty (2012), “Jessica was quite conversant in counterterrorism, and she once told me that the hard part for her was that you had to reach an understanding of Osama bin Laden’s intelligence in order to comprehend and ultimately outmaneuver him.” Since then, Chastain says, she’s stayed in touch with “Maya,” the real-life deep-cover CIA figure her character was based on. And before playing the title role in Molly’s Game, out this month, adapted from Molly Bloom’s memoir about hosting high-stakes underground poker games that drew everyone from A-list celebrities to Russian mobsters, Chastain not only hung out with Bloom, she says, but also “went to…

As with every Jedi in the Star Wars universe, the ascension to Master doesn’t come without some prequel. For Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy—who, in 2012, became one of the most powerful executives in Hollywood when George Lucas handpicked her to succeed him as head of the biggest, most profitable, most rabidly fan-consumed movie franchise ever—the same holds true. The daughter of a theater actress and a judge, Kennedy grew up in Redding, California, a small town “where I didn’t actually see a lot of movies.” Nevertheless, she began honing her producing skills by managing her high school’s talent shows. As a telecommunications and film major at San Diego State University, she immersed herself in various media jobs: camera operator at a local station; news desk assistant; morning talk show producer.…