Innehållsförteckning för February 2018 från ELLE

FEBRUARY 16 In the Ryan Coogler–directed Black Panther, the Marvel universe expands to the fictional African nation of Wakanda, home of the titular superhero (Chadwick Boseman), as well as fierce female warriors played by Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira. FEBRUARY 9 Up, up, and away! Lauded Scots Franz Ferdinand release their fifth studio album, Always Ascending, a more futuristic, still-dazzlingly-groovy rock record. FEBRUARY 13 If you’ve ever wondered how Edith Wharton would treat the twentyfirst- century Manhattan elite, look no further than Mrs., Caitlin Macy’s Big Little Lies–esque drama. FEBRUARY 14 Everything was bigger in the ’80s—the shoulders, the hair, New York’s East Village art scene. At the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn museum, revisit the moment when artists themselves became merch with Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s. FEBRUARY 14…

BONNIE HAMMER Chairman, NBC Universal Cable Entertainment Group Big hits: A 137- show portfolio that includes Mr. Robot, the Housewives franchise, and the Kardashians’ series. On staying creatively energized: “We can’t be complacent, because nothing is the same. There used to be 40 new original series a year; now there are 300-plus. There’s so much competition, so much noise, so much change every day, that the world itself keeps us on our toes.” SHONDA RHIMES Founder, Chair, and CEO, Shondaland Big hits: Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away With Murder, and a new development deal with Netflix. DANA WALDEN Chairman and CEO, Fox TV Group Big hits: Empire, American Crime Story, and This Is Us, produced by Fox. CINDY HOLLAND Vice President, Original Content, Netflix Big hits: Stranger Things, 13…

SECURITY MEASURES Open your heart but safeguard your secrets with a hard-bodied padlock carryall—no password needed. ALL THAT TICKLES From the Red Room to the dance floor, thigh-grazing ivory feathers dominate. BEDTIME STORIES Even among a collection of racy titles, Gucci’s tooled-leather “book” clutch is the lustiest of all. THE SWEETEST THING Pulsing with the energy of Keith Haring’s exuberant work, Coach’s collab with the artist’s estate renews faith in love. SEE IT THROUGH To extend cuffing season, take a cue from one of the season’s most revealing bags, and lay your essential needs bare.…

HEART OF ATLANTA On FX’s Atlanta, a show about three men trying to make it in Atlanta’s rap scene, Zazie Beetz’s Vanessa may be the series’ most potent presence. “She’s a woman a lot of people relate to: a middle-class mother trying to support herself and her child, and working through a nebulous definition of a relationship,” says Beetz of Van, the on-again, off-again girlfriend of Earn (Atlanta’s creator, star, and sometime director Donald Glover) and the mother of his child. The show’s sole female lead, Van “just wants to keep her strength through that,” Beetz says—“that” being grappling with parental responsibility, a longing for carefree days, and the desire for mutual love and respect. “We’ll finally get to see more of why she is who she is,” says Beetz,…

CAITLIN FITZGERALD You loved her in... Masters of Sex The new gig: Lifetime’s unREAL The role: Serena, the first bachelorette on Lifetime’s reality-TV dating show send-up: “She’s a shark, a Silicon Valley mogul who’s unlucky in love. For her, it’s a numbers game. Even if this doesn’t work out, statistically speaking, more men will know who she is and she’ll have a lot of exposure.” AULI’I CRAVALHO You loved her as... The voice of Moana The new gig: NBC’s Rise The role: Lilette, a working-class teen who finds her voice in a high school production of Spring Awakening: “High school amplifies emotions so much. I’m 16, and Lilette’s at least a sophomore. Through her, I’ve had quintessential high school experiences, [like] attending a house party.” MELISSA BENOIST You loved her…

The first thing you observe on Rachel Brosnahan’s Twitter page is a picture of Elisabeth Moss as Mad Men’s Peggy Olson. It’s not just any picture of Peggy: It’s Peggy in cool dark shades, a cigarette dangling from her lip, and carrying something— a mock-up for an ad campaign? (in fact, it’s Roger’s illustration of “an octopus pleasuring a lady”)—in such a way that it looks like she’s slinging a gun. “It’s just one of the most badass pictures that I’ve seen of her. Like, fuck the world,” says Brosnahan, the 27-year-old actress you may know as the prostitute Rachel on House of Cards. Brosnahan is currently killing it as Miriam “Midge” Maisel; she’s the star of writer-director Amy Sherman-Palladino’s new series streaming on Amazon, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Amazon…

TWICE THE TROUBLE The pouty young French actor Marine Vacth convincingly portrays a fragile young Parisienne who gets caught up in a mindbending puzzle involving the problematic identities of two psychotherapists in Amant Double (“Double Lover”), the latest from French director François Ozon. Based on a tricksy horror novel by Joyce Carol Oates, this film leaves a lingering chill of creepy disquiet in its wake. LIFE IN PIECES Director Mark Pellington (Arlington Road) ventures into allusive, atmospheric Terrence Malick territory with Nostalgia, a lushly shot, ruminative drama in which a fine ensemble (including John Ortiz, Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener, Bruce Dern, and Ellen Burstyn) explores how the personal effects of departed loved ones illuminate the meaning of their lives and our memories of them. HUNGRY HEARTS Permission, a dramedy about…

If you like stories of ill-fated lovers—one a bookish young Iranian woman named Zebra who embarks on a “Grand Tour of Exile” in Europe after her father dies, and the other “a runaway philologist from Italy” named Ludo—who begin a sexy, complicated affair, read Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s geopolitically savvy second novel, Call Me Zebra (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). If you admire Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson (Gilead), check out her essay collection, What Are We Doing Here? (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), based on some of her recent lectures on freedom of conscience, beauty, integrity, and divinity, which, given how polarized Americans appear to be, “reflect central preoccupations that are to my mind matters of urgency and that arise from the way we think now.” If you want to curl…

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These are the colors that, to me, convey wintertime glamour,” says makeup pro Violette, referring to the plush palette she used to magnify smoldering supe Joan Smalls’s distinctive features. A social media phenom with more than 150,000 Instagram followers—not to mention her wildly popular YouTube tutorials—Violette is famous for her dexterity with textures and hues. Now she’s bringing her signature French chic to beauty-biz grande dame Estée Lauder. As the brand’s global beauty director, Violette says her goal is to create products “that are like having a makeup artist in your bag.” Her philosophy—that beauty shouldn’t be overly complicated, and that runway-caliber effects should be a cinch to replicate—will manifest itself in versatile, userfriendly collections debuting later this spring. Expect unexpected finishes and formulas—and a huge capacity for fun. “You…

FEBRUARY 24 Have your mind blown by some of the most experimental fashions around (think iron-infused fabrics that spring to life when passed over with magnets) at Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion, at the Phoenix Art Museum through May 13. FEBRUARY 1 The perfect accompaniment to Joseph Altuzarra’s subtly sexy designs? The designer’s debut eyewear collection of chic aviators (1), notable for the discreet A framing the bridge. FEBRUARY 25 Happy twenty-fifth to Kate Spade New York! To celebrate the milestone, the brand reintroduces its original Sam bag (2), along with 33 new interpretations of the classic silhouette. Hat tip to the Tim Walker– lensed ad campaign from 1993 (left)—a timeless treat. FEBRUARY 8 Scrolling through Alessandro Michele’s Instagram feed lends a fascinating insight into the Gucci designer’s creative process:…

At 26, Suki Waterhouse wears many hats: model, designer, actor, musician (and, literally, her oftphotographed baker-boy topper). This month, the London It Girl and former Burberry model dons a new crown as the face of Salvatore Ferragamo’s latest fragrance, aptly dubbed Amo Ferragamo (1). “It reminds me of my week in Florence—and the naughtiness and cheekiness of the Italians,” Waterhouse says of the vanilla and rhubarb eau. Next up, she stars in the suburban thriller Assassination Nation, then joins James Franco’s postapocalyptic flick Future World. What’s your greatest skill? Emotional intelligence. It’s an excuse for not having any actual skills. And shortcoming? If I’m not superengaged in what’s going on, I’ll do too many things. For example, I end up overflowing my bath a lot. I’ll turn it on and…

I am a person given to discretion. The contents of my brain, bed, inbox, and medicine cabinet are not up for public consumption. But the contents of my purse soon may be—at least, if designers have anything to say about it. Fashion’s biggest players have fallen headover- Lucite-heels for all things see-through this season, albeit in their own signature ways. Chanel showed extreme over-theknee boots and transparent totes (the better to weather the show’s indoor waterfall); Valentino nestled smaller pouches inside clear Rockstudded clutches; and Céline’s Phoebe Philo presented a “plastic” bag—elevating it to cult must-have status. The young designer crowd got in on it, too. Shayne Oliver’s debut show for Helmut Lang featured an oversize acrylic briefcase emblazoned with the brand’s logo—making “transparency” more than a boardroom buzzword. Collaborator…

What does it feel like to wear a Sacai jacket? Well, to answer that question with another question: Which part? On a recent Saturday afternoon, I browsed the Sacai section at the department store of avant-garde dreams, Dover Street Market in Manhattan, where I threw on the peacoat-and-bomber-jacket combo from the label’s fall 2017 collection. This is no simple piece of outerwear, but two jackets in one. The bomber acts as the lining to a classic navy peacoat, its shearling hood bisected by a zipper so that when undone, it lies like a stole across the shoulders. On the inside, the jacket feels warm but light, the elegant construction belying the weight of the combined layers; on the outside, it’s the perfect item for a woman who hates to have…

When I first started thinking about The Deuce, the scripts were brilliant, and I was drawn to the character of Candy. But I was concerned about playing a sex worker who wasn’t completely written yet—what were we trying to say? So I asked for a producing credit, which guaranteed me a place at the table in terms of talking about story and character. When I got that, I felt like I had what I needed to sign on. In preparation, I met a lot of women who had been prostitutes or involved in the early days of the porn industry, many of whom are in their sixties now. One of them invited me to a porn set that she was working on at the time, and I went. I read…

On the Cold War–set drama The Americans, Keri Russell is always playing two roles: Nadezhda, a Smolensk-bred KGB operative, and whomever Nadezhda is pretending to be. Most of the time, that’s Elizabeth Jennings— the suburban travel agent, wife, and mother that the so-called illegal has lived as for two decades. But at least once per episode, the Soviet spy adopts a different cover, like Patty, the would-be cosmetics saleswoman who cozied up to a government scientist’s wife in season four. If all Russell did was transition between her character’s many bewigged personas, pausing every so often to kick a few butts, it would probably be enough. (Certainly that worked for Jennifer Garner in Alias—a series created by J. J. Abrams, the same man who made Russell a star back in…

In a note describing her transcendent, triumphant new novel, An American Marriage (Algonquin Books), Tayari Jones writes that in order to “tell the story of Celestial and Roy, whose young marriage is tested by forces beyond their imagining, I had to explore my own understanding of love and loyalty. I had to wonder how I would manage the anger of Roy, an innocent man behind bars. I had to walk in the shoes of Celestial, an ambitious young woman asked to stand by her man while her own life passes her by.” Jones, author of the best-selling Silver Sparrow and two other novels, is a genius at tackling big-picture subjects such as love, identity, race, loyalty, and injustice. Using a profoundly intimate narrative lens, Jones homes in on an Atlanta-based…

In movies about a woman trying to get pregnant, there’s always that scene in which the protagonist looks around and sees nothing but infants in strollers, swollen bellies, signs advertising DJ school for toddlers. I have a similar obsessive streak, but in my movie, I’d be faced with a sea of Rihannas, Cate Blanchetts, Pharrells— flawless visage after flawless visage. I’d stroke my own imperfect cheek and weep. My skin problems began in puberty with a case of cystic acne that haunted me right up until last year, at age 25. (Aczone, my friends: Ask your doctor about it.) Even though I’ve now got my blemishes more or less under control, I’ve been left with enlarged pores and scars around my cheeks and mouth. For this, I’ve tried all manner…

On the one-year anniversary of the election of Donald J. Trump, Rose McGowan was driving through rural Colorado, on her way to “wherever I felt like going next,” when she got pulled over for speeding by a local cop. It was a tense moment for McGowan—her heart was racing—because there was a warrant out for her arrest, stemming from charges that an item she’d left behind after a flight to DC in January contained narcotics. In McGowan’s low, sultry voice, she explained to the officer that the warrant was a result of the craziest story he’d ever hear: She believed she’d been targeted by a years-long campaign against her by private investigators, who’d been assigned to paint her as a deranged, hysterical, drug-addicted has-been. The man paying for these dark…

Rely on a groundhog for your seasonal direction, if you must. But this February 2, we prefer to consider the runway. Signs of spring’s early arrival: diaphanous dresses and a clean, neutral palette—lightened up and born anew. To hasten brighter days, look no further than actress Margot Robbie, sand-kissed, radiant, and, dare we say, ready for gold.…

Nestled into a breakfast nook at New York’s Mercer Hotel, Natacha Ramsay-Levi looks like any other hip European who stalks the streets of SoHo. Her hair: perfectly tousled. Her eyebrows: enviably untamed. Across her fingers, a row of gold rings is attached by a string of chains—brass knuckles for the manicured set. Since being named creative director of Chloé last March, the 38-year-old has been the subject of much discussion among fashion devotees. Who is this relative unknown joining Karl Lagerfeld, Phoebe Philo, Stella McCartney, and, most recently, Clare Waight Keller in the lineup of luminaries to helm the 66-year-old brand? What will her imprint be? The answer lies, perhaps, in those brass knuckles. Designed for her debut collection, they provide a road map to her aesthetic—namely, the point at…

Jamie Dornan has made a career out of being objectified. Before he was cast as Christian Grey—the physical embodiment of a billion housewives’ sexual fantasies in Fifty Shades of Grey—he’d appeared in a Calvin Klein campaign, with Kate Moss draped over his yoked chest. The New York Times dubbed him the Golden Torso. Still, news of his casting didn’t excite the millions of rabid readers who’d made E. L. James’s BDSM trilogy a global hit. First, fans were upset he wasn’t Ryan Gosling (or Ian Somerhalder or Alexander Skarsgård). Then, once they’d seen the film, they were angry he hadn’t gone full frontal. Costar Dakota Johnson joked about mounting a campaign saying, “Everybody wants to see the D.” (More on that below.) Dornan, 35, grew up in Northern Ireland, the…

@ELLEmagazine @elleusa @elleusa ELLE Magazine (US) ELLE PEP TALK Folk sisters First Aid Kit unveil their keys to emotional upkeep Feeling lovelorn this month? Sister singers Klara and Johanna Söderberg—aka Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit—take away the pain with their soothing, vital fourth album, Ruins. Because it’s our very own musical heartache cure, we asked them to reveal what keeps their spirits soaring. See more of their picks at ELLE.com/FirstAidKit. What’s your must-have album? We’ve been obsessing over Big Thief lately. They’ve released two albums, Masterpiece and Capacity—both are so heartbreakingly beautiful. Singer Adrianne Lenker’s voice is vulnerable and touching, and the lyrics go straight to your heart. Confess: What’s pulling its weight in your closet? Anything with leopard print! We used to really dislike it, but now we’re…

YARA SHAHIDI Actress She’s graduating from ABC’s Blackish, where she plays oldest child Zoey, to star in her own spin-off, Grownish, on sister channel Freeform, which follows Zoey to college. On her professional future: “I’m about to cast my first short that I’m directing. I definitely want to do more work behind the camera. But I’ve also always wanted to play two roles: a superhero and a sociopath. Opposite ends of the spectrum.” LENA WAITHE Writer and Producer A regular on Master of None, she wrote and starred in the Emmy-winning coming-out episode “Thanksgiving.” Now she’s got her own show, as creator and executive producer of Showtime’s The Chi, an ensemble drama set in her hometown of Chicago. PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE Actress and Writer After creating and starring as the sharptongued,…

PISCES (FEB 19–MAR 20) Your career mojo’s on fire as momentum-boosting Mars crowns your chart this month. A leadership role is fated for some, while others may break off to helm their own empires. The Sun sails into Pisces on the 18th, joining love goddess Venus. You’ll be eager to leap into a relationship or creative collaboration. One catch: Aligning long-term goals could require a tough compromise on the 25th. ARIES (MAR 21–APR 19) People are your raison d’être this February, so choose legit face time over group-texting! With the Sun in unconventional Aquarius until the 18th, you’ll be drawn to “unicorn” rebels, and the 15th’s solar eclipse could launch a joint venture that brings pleasure and profits for six months. With Mars in your travel zone, distant lands call.…

THE LOOK OF LOVE We can’t fathom a more stylish way to let your feelings show than Alessandro Michele’s oversize, heart-shaped sunnies. Even if you don’t fancy yourself a modernday Lolita, the ’70s-chic, ambertinted lenses are a must-hit trend. TO A TEE Better than an episode of The Bachelorette: This month, designers make a play for your heart by, well, offering you theirs. Oscar de la Renta, Saint Laurent, or Comme des Garçons— the choice is yours. SAY IT WITH FLOWERS Loves me? Loves me not? Turn Van Cleef & Arpels’s articulated pavé diamond petals to reveal such sentiments as “infinitely” and “passionately”—in French, bien sûr—and leave nothing to chance. SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED Like the grown-up version of your very first valentine, Akris’s new Anouk envelope clutch is crafted to…

TIE ONE ON Galentine’s Day (February 13) calls for a not-so-basic white blouse, perfectly pulled together OPPOSITES ATTRACT Sparks fly when moto-inspired leather accents meet ultrafemme slipdresses GETTING SERIOUS Paired with the shortest of shorts, a classic tuxedo jacket goes the distance…

“I’ve always been attracted to the opulence of Versace, his baroque sensibilities and Grecian influence—the brand’s logo is the head of the Medusa. Showing this particular brand and designer’s story was so exciting. L.A.’s Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, which is right in our backyard, has the largest U.S. collection of Versace; it’s full of men’s safety-pin suits, metalwork, and a lot of leather. We used vintage Versace, re-created pieces, and expanded to other designers of the period—Donatella was known for wearing Alaïa. Penélope’s introductory look, when she’s just arrived from Europe to Miami, is an awesome vintage doublebreasted leather jacket, with a real Versace belt and safetypin details, and a leather jodhpur (see above). She’s a woman in mourning, but also a woman who suddenly steps into her…

Where to start unpacking the good news that Kayleen Schaefer broadcasts in her timely, nimble, essential memoir, Text Me When You Get Home (Dutton), which investigates and celebrates the power and glory of female friendships? Key to her narrative is the reveal that our twenty-first-century friendships are conquering invidious, “smothered” stereotypes, such as “Women can’t get along,” women are catty, women drop their friends when a guy comes along. We’re replacing them with tight bonds that are loving, supportive, uplifting, and, most importantly, crucial to a sense of well-being. This evolution is occurring despite the fact that “throughout history, women have seen their bonds dismissed, picked apart, or outright mocked. Men, from classical philosophers to religious leaders, told women that they had weak morals, which made it impossible for them…

To the casual observer, the Terme di Stigliano, a thermal spa just outside Rome, might resemble either a very posh insane asylum or a film set for a Creature From the Black Lagoon remake. Behind tall iron gates, Italians of all ages—some wrapped in fluffy white robes, others coated from head to toe in an impasto of mucky, greenish-gray mud—shuffle between a series of five pools, ranging in temperature from frigid to pleasantly toasty and scattered at various levels among rolling green hills. Habitués flock here to indulge in the skinsoftening and sore-muscle–relieving properties of the region’s sulfur- and iodine-rich water and clay, and to join them—marinating in each of the admittedly malodorous (think rotten egg salad) pools; scooping up the mud (fango in Italian) from the earth and lavishing…

Skimping isn’t an option when it comes to needles in your face—at-home dermarollers like the RODAN + FIELDS Amp MD Micro-Exfoliating Roller System (1) may help with product penetration. And while in-office posttreatment topicals include injection-grade hyaluronic acid and platelet-rich plasma (via your own blood— as in the vampire facial), there are ultraeffective over-thecounter alternatives. Astarita swears by antioxidants, like SkinBetterScience Alto Defense Serum and SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic, and peptide promoters, like DEFENAGE 8-in-1 BioSerum (2); Zeichner recommends simple wound-healing balms, like LA ROCHE-POSAY Cicaplast Baume B5 (3). “You may have a fantastic microneedling procedure,” he says, “but if you use the wrong products afterward, you may run into problems.”…

“What is the black woman, and how do we go about procuring this knowledge about who she is?” writes 25-year-old Morgan Jerkins in her debut essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing (Harper Perennial). “I’ve never been asked what I am in my own imagination.” Throughout the collection, which ponders these questions, Jerkins’s intellectual interests are expansive and energetic. She writes about growing up in a tight-knit Christian community in South Jersey, the bullying she experienced at the hands of her peers, and coming of age. She writes about the respectability politics her mother encouraged as a means of black-girl survival: “Unless I was in a space that was totally black, my dialect had to be modulated, my gesticulations moderated, my voice quieted, my hair tamed, my clothes fastened.” She…

THE PIERCING EYES. The megawatt smile. The extreme charisma. Margot Robbie is, yes, a knockout. But like the women she’s portrayed in her decade-long career—a trophy wife on a mission in The Wolf of Wall Street; a balls-to-the-wall war reporter in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot; the feisty, feminist Jane in The Legend of Tarzan; and, of course, Suicide Squad’s lovable lunatic criminal, Harley Quinn—the Aussie stunner is so much more than an ingenue. In truth, Robbie, 27, is a character actor, ready to take risks with roles that are as transformational for her as they are pure cinematic joy for the rest of us. And in her most recent award-worthy work, as Tonya Harding in I, Tonya—a dark comedy about the life of the infamous Olympic figure skater—Robbie’s bravura extends beyond…