Innehållsförteckning för August 2016 från ELLE

AUGUST 5–21 Tug-of-war, sadly, is no longer an Olympic sport (it was until 1920!), but you can still catch fencers, boxers, and more at the Rio Olympics. Prepare by feasting your eyes on some of the fiercest U.S. competitors in our portfolio on page 170, or visiting the Brooklyn Museum for Who Shot Sports, an exhibit highlighting classic sports photography from 1843 to now. Three-time Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1987 AUGUST 2 In the acclaimed graphic novel Maus, Art Spiegelman interviewed his father about being a Holocaust survivor. Now, with the poetic and powerful I’m Supposed to Protect You From All This, Art’s daughter, Nadja Spiegelman, tells her own coming-ofage story as well as her mother’s and grandmother’s. AUGUST 4–8 Catch the Champagne Papi pulling his smooth moves…

Tali and Ophira Edut (the AstroTwins) PROVENANCE: Detroit HOME BASE: New York and Seattle PROFESSION: Astrologers THIS MONTH: “Horoscope” (page 48). “At the University of Michigan, we worked on a multicultural women’s magazine and one of the unifying languages among our diverse group of writers and contributors was astrology,” Tali says. “We’d all sit around and obsess over our moon signs, and my sister and I started learning how to run people’s charts. We literally haven’t stopped since.” READING: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, by Pema Chödrön Ryan Pfluger HOME BASE: New York PROFESSION: Photographer BONA FIDES: Work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Time, and the New Yorker. THIS MONTH: “The Long Game” (page 124). “I loved hanging out with all the older…

For ELLE’s June cover shoot, newly minted supe (not to mention full-fledged social media star and reality show veteran) Bella Hadid radiates old-school model power for photographer Terry Tsiolis. ELLE readers gave glowing reviews: “Great cover, reminiscent of the ’90s dawn of the supermodels. Bella has such good skin—and those cheekbones, gorgeous.” —Aoedele, thefashionspot.com “This is arguably Bella’s biggest (and first solo) fashion title cover to date— and the outcome is very chic. In the cover shot, Bella is sans pants, wearing a beret, and clad, almost entirely, in Alaïa; inside the issue, she wears the likes of Givenchy and Valentino. (Bonus points for covering the ELLE issue following Beyoncé’s big May cover reveal of Ivy Park.)” —Alexandra Ilyashov, of refinery29.com “Loving the styling here...very French femme fatale.” —vogue28, thefashionspot.com…

As much as I appreciate an incredible gown or a beautiful dress, those are never the things I dream of owning. A T-shirt, a sweatshirt—a jean? Those are the pieces I build my wardrobe around. My love affair with denim started with my older brother, in the ’80s; I felt so cool stealing his jeans, pulling them up really high, throwing on a belt, and creating my own look. There’s just something comforting about denim. And I love how the fabric changes and tells its own story. Never buy jeans when you’re in a rush. From age 19 to 22, I worked at a store in Montreal called Mosquito. We sold Kookaï, Huit bodysuits, and a wall of denim by brands like Cimarron, Replay, and Rivet. I’d tell customers, You…

I couldn’t tell you where I first got my jean shorts, just that it feels like they’ve always been with me. The summer I turned 17, I wore them to get my belly button pierced at a tattoo parlor on the one-block strip of downtown in Albuquerque, New Mexico, then immediately got into a car with my best friend and drove cross-country to our nanny gigs on Martha’s Vineyard. When we got pulled over somewhere in Texas for going 115 miles an hour (and sticking one bare foot out the driver’s-side window), I was wearing those shorts. Later that summer, in a hayloft above the barn where I lived, worked, and taught riding lessons, those shorts were taken off, button by button, by the first boy ever to go down…

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS Too much of a good thing? Never. Go for baroque this season with a pailletteencrusted bag and a boot studded with 5,500 crystals BECOMING MARY JANE With its high-cut vamp and optical color combos, the latest iteration is more gallery girl than schoolgirl…

What fun it’s been to watch Ruth Negga bring the tenacious, brassy Tulip O’Hare to life on the first season of AMC’s Seth Rogen–produced fan-bait comic book series, Preacher. As an expert assassin joining Jesse Custer—the hit man–turned–clergy (and former paramour of Tulip) who becomes possessed by a supernatural creature—on his perilous journey to find God after He’s abandoned heaven, the 33-year-old Ethiopian/Irish actress wields a scrappiness that comes in handy when, say, battling demonic beings or bringing down a helicopter of assailants with a homemade bazooka. But prepare for a potentially award-winning gearshift: This fall, Negga stars alongside Joel Edgerton in Loving, the Cannes Film Festival hit that rustled up serious Oscar talk for its two leads thanks to their quiet yet no less unnerving portrayal of Richard (Edgerton)…

MAC DADDY Michael Keaton takes another big swing at the elusive Oscar with his all-in portrayal in The Founder of the irrepressible, can-do entrepreneur Ray Kroc, who went from selling fountain equipment out of the trunk of his well-traveled sedan to building the McDonald’s empire. The picture darkens by degrees as Kroc changes wives (a soulful Laura Dern for a sparkling Linda Cardellini) and struggles with the real McDonald brothers for the pot of gold at the end of the golden arches. HOUSE AT ROAD’S END Writer-director Patricia Rozema (Mansfield Park) has adapted Jean Hegland’s near-future apocalyptic novel Into the Forest into an original entertainment with singular passion and ravishing visual flair. Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood bond persuasively as sisters who find they must fend for themselves in…

20S You look amazing, thanks to your radiant skin, lustrous hair, and sparkly white teeth. This can also be a supremely selfconscious decade; make sure to appreciate your beauty! IT’S TIME GET YOUR FIRST CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING. CDC guidelines recommend that women ages 21 to 65 have a Pap smear every three years. GET THE HPV VACCINE IF YOU HAVEN’T YET. Human papillomavirus can lead to cervical cancer. The threedose vaccine is recommended for women 26 and under. KNOW YOUR FAMILY HISTORY. Now’s the time to find out who among your parents, aunts and uncles, and grandparents had cancer, heart and cardiovascular problems, fertility and pregnancy issues, or other serious conditions. IF THAT HISTORY INCLUDES BREAST CANCER, CONSIDER GETTING THE BRCA1 AND BRCA2 TESTS BY AGE 25. This will show…

20s THE MUSTS: To ward off wrinkles and brown spots and protect plumping collagen fibers, the American Academy of Dermatology recommends a daily dose of SPF 30 or higher. Acneprone? Zinc oxide formulas are nonclogging and nonirritating. EXTRA CREDIT: A nightly retinoid will both keep acne at bay and goose cell turnover—which occurs every 14 days in childhood but slows to every 28 days or more by your thirties— into action, reversing early photo damage and boosting collagen production. PASS: On “firming” creams, says dermatologist Annie Chiu, MD. “The peptides in this type of formula can rev oil production, causing acne.” 30s THE MUSTS: “In your twenties, you made collagen faster than it broke down,” Chiu says. Now, topical vitamin C will “energize fibroblasts, the cells that make collagen, to…

It’s a cartoonishly perfect late-spring morning in New York City. The air is warm, and the skyline looks like a cutout superimposed on a giant blue canvas. Inside the Crosby Bar in SoHo, a restaurant where the bathrooms are like spas and the lavender matchbooks like little jewel boxes, you can feel the beating heart of the city’s postwinter promise—at least as it exists for a certain kind of clientele. At the table behind me, Claire Underwood clones in expensive neutrals discuss plans to pitch Nike a “branding sync.” To my right, a power blonde in head-to-toe Stella McCartney workout gear tap-tap-taps her nails on a series of Apple devices, and across the room, Diane Keaton, in her signature black fingerless gloves, finishes up breakfast. As Keaton rises to leave,…

Chris Pine is basically the thinking woman’s action hero. He’s got Sinatra-blue eyes and he-man biceps—but his nightstand is piled high with recommendations from his mom’s book club (yes, A Little Life made him cry, too). And he’s the rare A-list star comfortable enough in his masculinity to take a backseat to a woman, or, more specifically, Wonder Woman. (He plays Gal Gadot’s boyfriend in 2017’s most anticipated superhero flick.) So where did this modern god come from? Pine, 35, grew up in Los Angeles, where acting was the family business. His father, Robert Pine, was the sergeant on CHiPs; his grandmother and mom were actresses, too (until the latter gave it up to become a therapist). But Pine’s the first to go supernova. He joins Ben Foster in this…

AUGUST 1 Liven up the dog days of summer by checking out J.W. Anderson alumna Claudia Li’s collection of anything-but-basic blues (1) frayed into bishop sleeves and origami-like knots. (Want more denim? Dive into our comprehensive guide on page 58.) AUGUST 5 Won’t make it to Rio? Fly the flag for the Olympics host country with a clutch from the “United Bags of Elena Ghisellini” collection (3). Available in five patriotic motifs, the pieces incorporate the Florence-based Ghisellini’s signature themes of diversity and acceptance. AUGUST 8 Sure, Barton Perreira’s new “technical luxury” eyewear line, Allied Metal Works—available at the Southern California– based firm’s newly opened Madison Avenue boutique—features screwless, titanium-hinged designs. But we also love the Boogie Nights–chic rose gold Leilani style (2), from the brand’s main line. AUGUST 10…

LEO JULY 23–AUGUST 22 Glow on! The Leo Sun blesses you with the halo effect until the 22nd. Use this high-visibility period to promote yourself publicly or avail yourself to influencers. Strapping Mars and stalwart Saturn team up in your love zone from the 2nd on, illuminating a connection that’s both passionate and permanent. Then, during the 18th’s relationship-driven full moon, Leos could cement a bond or lock down a business partnership. Virgo season begins on the 22nd, kick-starting a cash-positive month. But get the books balanced before Mercury goes retro on the 30th. VIRGO (AUG 23–SEPT 22) Saturation point: achieved. Recline into Virgo-off-duty mode until the 22nd, as Saturn circles out of retrograde on the 13th. You could plant deeper roots, or even purchase property. Cupid has your back…

8 MILES Between the two locations: midtown Manhattan cocktail lounge The Rickey and photographer Cedric Buchet’s Red Hook, Brooklyn, studio 23 YEARS Age of Angolan model Maria Borges, who rocks velvet looks from a Monse dress to a Bottega Veneta jacket 8 O’CLOCK Time when the sun sets, creating a fairy-tale backdrop for Buchet’s New York street scenes 18 PEOPLE On set for the two-day shoot, from stylist David Vandewal to a five-person photography team…

Jeans. Sexy, sturdy, deeply personal, masculine and feminine—and utterly essential. Here, ELLE’s 2016 denim manifesto: fall’s hottest cuts, worth-it trends, and how to put it all together for a look that’s totally ELLE, totally now, totally you UPGRADE! THE MOST FLATTERING JEANS ON THE PLANET…

“There isn’t one perfect fit for denim,” Derek Lam declares. Fans of the American sportswear master will know he’s fashioned raw, dark indigo into just about every shape under the sun, from trench coats to shirtdresses, even crafting shredded strips into tweedlike suiting and denim jacquard peplum tops. “I just think it’s this beautiful, humble material that you can do so much with,” Lam says. “I’ve always loved giving it an elevated point of view.” But the one denim silhouette Lam feels he hasn’t explored fully is, well, jeans. Until now: With Derek Lam 10 Crosby Denim, launching this month at the designer’s SoHo boutique, as well as at Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, and Saks, Lam zeroes in on five styles made of premium Japanese and Italian denim in new light,…

BECCA McCHAREN, CHROMAT New York What’s your favorite body part? My hourglass figure. What’s your workout routine? I bike to work and do yoga when I can. I just joined a dance company— a lifelong dream! What’s the best pickup line you’ve ever heard? Probably whatever my fiancée, Christine Tran, said to me first. It was along the lines of, “Can I buy you a drink?” Do you have any secret recipes for homemade skin care? Coconut oil on everything. Do you have any tattoos? All my tattoos are buddy tats with my best friends. I have a zebra (my spirit animal) on a bed frame, a diamond, and some daggers. MARA HOFFMAN New York What’s your favorite body part? I like my arms: They’re long in proportion to the…

“I don’t know what propelled me,” says founding Garbage front woman Shirley Manson of her new, chic, candy-pink dye job. “I woke up one day and thought, I cannot stay red-haired for one second longer! My hairdresser didn’t want to do it. But I needed a break from myself. When she pulled the towel from my head and I saw my pink hair, I burst into this huge grin and gasped: ‘I look amazing!’ And I’ve never said that about myself in my entire life.” This is a woman who, since Garbage’s first electro-tinged, trip-hoptraced, self-titled album in 1995, has challenged what it means to rock hard and—with her punky mix of combat boots, acid-bright clothes, and iconic black eyeliner—looked great doing it. She’s the hard-core fighter pilot Queen Astarte…

Q AMERICA’S MOST-GOOGLED LONG HAIR Queen Bey’s loose waves inspired obsessive browsing, with Blake Lively, Mila Kunis, and Chrissy Teigen close behind for their cascading lengths. TIMING IS EVERYTHING: Celebrity stylist Kim Kimble, the maestro behind Beyoncé’s looks, shampoos B when she wants extra body. “But if I want texture,” she says, “it’s easier when it’s not freshly blown out.” LEARN FRACTIONS: The secret to beachy waves, according to Lively’s go-to pro, Rod Ortega, is his three-tiered approach with a curling iron: “The bottom third of hair is left straighter, the middle third wavier, and the top third, even more so.” PUMP IT UP Ortega primes hair with 1 L’ORÉAL PARIS Elnett hairspray to give flat hair texture and prep it for curling. “It’s brushable,” Ortega says, “so you can…

Ten years ago, when the world was a younger and maybe simpler place, when we still believed that chairs were not homicidal and that saturated fat stopped our hearts, I began writing a column for the New York Times about the science of health, fitness, and the human body. At the time, I fastidiously removed the skin from chicken breasts, never bought bacon, and felt guilty about eating cheese. I exercised regularly and at length, running and cycling for hours every week. I stretched before workouts and wore heavy running shoes designed to keep my foot from moving much when I ran, since a salesclerk— a clerk!—had once told me that I overpronated. I hydrated by keeping a large bottle of water on my desk and easily exceeded eight glasses…

A LOT OF PEOPLE GET PAID TO HAVE SEX in the San Fernando Valley. There are the street hustlers and “erotic massage therapists” who compete for johns along the rougher blocks of Van Nuys and Sun Valley. There are the spray-tanned and surgically amplified actors who grope one another in Woodland Hills mansions and Klieg-lit Chatsworth studios. And then there is Shai Rotem, a 46-year-old Israeli transplant who’s neither prostitute nor porn star, but who also gets paid to have sex with strangers. Rotem is a surrogate partner—a stand-in lover for women in sex therapy. Although female surrogates were somewhat mainstreamed by the 2012 film The Sessions—which was based on a true story and features Helen Hunt as a surrogate who relieves a paraplegic poet of his virginity— male surrogates…

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAIL OPENING CEREMONY, AUGUST 5 206 NATIONS 306 EVENTS 10,500 ATHLETES SARAH TRUE 34, TRIATHLETE SECOND OLYMPICS; RANKED THIRD IN 2015 ITU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS HOME BASE: HANOVER, NH “There are only so many years that my body will be able to handle this. When everything falls into place, coalesces into this almost magical physical experience, it’s really rare. So when you get that, you just have to be aware that it’s fleeting.” RYAN LOCHTE 31, SWIMMER FIVE-TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST HOME BASE: CHARLOTTE, NC “I don’t have any superstitions. I don’t listen to music, I don’t get psyched up; I just rely on my training, so I can be relaxed and calm all the way up until I’m on the blocks. And then something happens. I switch.”…

Comt @Robbiemyers Comi @Robbie_Elle In April of this year, my grandmother Marietta died, four weeks shy of her 103rd birthday. Besides my father, she was the only person alive who’d been witness to my whole life, and who, throughout, offered singular, nuanced perspective on so many aspects of existence. I guess when you’ve lived through the Bolsheviks, two world wars, 17 presidents, the building and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, Watergate, Coatgate, mass production, weapons of mass destruction, the Walkman, Wi-Fi, iPod, iPad, Big Bird, Angry Birds, the Jazz Age, rock ’n’ roll, rap, tweeting, twerking, and gay marriage; and you’ve voted for FDR, JFK, and twice for President Obama, you might know a thing or two about the Big Picture. Close…

Universally flattering! How do we know? Five ELLE.com editors test-drove 55 pairs of jeans to find which cuts work best for all body types. Find more winners at ELLE.com/DenimTestDrive.…

Shopping for jeans is no trifle. Unearthing the perfect pair of vintage jeans—which lack the magic of twenty-first-century stretch and come in limited, often baffling sizes—is a time-consuming, patience-testing task. Unless, that is, The Vintage Twin is doing the legwork for you. Since 2013, the Manhattan-based pop-up founded by twin sisters Samantha and Morgan Elias, 26, has been making the process positively breezy by eliminating the need to rifle through piles of aged wares. Instead, a staff of well-trained “jeaniuses” eyeball each shopper’s shape and spirit a surefire winner out of the hundreds of pairs that line the walls. In 2010, while Samantha was attending the University of Michigan, the Eliases opened a brick-and-mortar shop in Ann Arbor, providing coeds with both reworked vintage and original designs. Three years later,…

UNDER ARMOR The secret to taking lingerie staples for a spin outside the bedroom: artful layering 1 THE BUSTIER Throw a blazer over the consummate feminine underpinning for masculine contrast. Lace bustier, VA BIEN, $375, visit vabienlingerie.com 2 THE SHEER BLOUSE Paired with a triangle bra, this sultry riff on the classic button-down offers a soupçon of sex without revealing all. Mesh top, DEREK LAM 10 CROSBY, $395, visit 10crosby.com. Stretchbamboo jersey bra, BASERANGE, $65, similar styles at baserange.net 3 THE BODYSUIT In lace or mesh, the ’80s staple gives a textural foundation to any look—and lends itself to infinite styling options. Lace bodysuit, CALVIN KLEIN, $68, visit calvinklein.com CHAIN REACTION The body chain—that Coachella MVP—gets a luxe upgrade in Jacquie Aiche’s S&H diamond halter bra. Made of 14K gold…

First up: High-octane volume meets soft pastels in the smash-hit debut of New York– based label Sies Marjan 1. SIES MARJAN STANDOUT: MIDIDRESS Dries Van Noten alum Sander Lak received high praise for his calf-grazing dresses that beautifully balance sweet and scorching. WEAR IT WITH: Flared jeans and eclectic earrings for bohemiancool day dressing 2. ATLEIN STANDOUT: JERSEY MINISKIRT Paris-based Antonin Tron (his CV includes stints at Balenciaga and Givenchy) struck out on his own with a lineup of simple separates that have a certain ease (he works exclusively in jersey). Case in point: his refreshing, fluid take on the mod staple. WEAR IT WITH: A body-skimming knit to balance the swingy bottom and a white bag for graphic punch 3. SIMON MILLER STANDOUT: “BONSAI” BAG Daniel Corrigan and Chelsea…

In the wikiHow article “How to Fake Your Own Death: 11 Steps,” the first step, under an illustration of a woman animatedly pondering her faux demise, encourages selfreflection: “Does your situation really warrant a death-fake? Can you just move away? Are you being melodramatic?… You should only do this if you keep feeling that faking your own death is the only way to start over or escape, and you have no viable alternatives.” All hope is indeed lost? Proceed to step two. This entry is just one of the many macabre tidbits Elizabeth Greenwood uncovers in her uncanny first book, Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud (Simon & Schuster). Inspired by a friend’s joking suggestion that Greenwood fake her own death (as an alternative to paying…

LIZ MOIRANO lizmoirano THE SMITTEN SALON, DC Moirano’s tactic to create sunwarmed highlights: “Make sure there’s dimension and contrast. Lightening in the right spots— around the face, hairline, and ends— creates a lived-in feel.” In this photo, Moirano strategically left roots dark for a naturally golden appearance, finishing with Bumble and bumble’s new Surf Foam Spray Blow Dry to add lift. JAMIE RIVERA bbjam RED STELLA SALON, AUSTIN, TX Rivera used two different curling irons—a three-prong barrel and a single oneinch barrel—to form these wind-whipped waves, then added R+Co Dallas Thickening Spray at the roots. The stylist also subtly incorporated a little shimmer: “I thought it’d be fun to paint red glitter at her part,” she says. JAHMAI LUMPKIN jahmonit GOO SALON, L.A. “The most important tip in creating this…

Living in L.A. for the past two decades, I’ve become immune to many a visual WTF. Post-rhinoplasty teens with bandaged noses and bruised eyes cruising $5,000 bags at Barneys no longer shock. Prides of taut moms with the exact same shade of buttery highlights and identical plump pouts don’t raise a brow. Even matrons with pulled-taffy faces and staple scars behind their ears barely move me. But lately, I’ve noticed a phenomenon far subtler than these, and yet more disturbing: young women, sometimes very young, their lips suspiciously full, cheekbones hyperdefined, skin seemingly airbrushed, like filtered selfies come to life. Now, I’m no crusader against cosmetic fairy dust. My inaugural Botox injections, at age 33, erased the two exclamation points between my eyebrows. (I noticed them one afternoon in my…

Erica Malbon is an earth-tones queen— even her voluminous walk-in closet is free of primary colors. The co-owner of The Now, a rustic-chic massage boutique in Hollywood rendered in shades of cream and burlap, she likewise barely permits any colors in the home she shares with media executive husband Stephen Malbon in Nichols Canyon, a tony pocket just below the Hollywood Hills. The couple’s living room, which opens onto a sprawling lawn where a dinner party is currently under way, is awash in natural light—all the better for sparkling across the crystals she has placed on the tables flanking the low-slung couch. At the moment, Jackass alum Johnny Knoxville sits with a few others, gripping an accent pillow while watching a tight basketball game. In less than a year, The…

JASON WU IS 33 YEARS OLD, but could easily pass for 23. It’s not just his boyish build, it’s the skin—the kind of luminescent, creaseless look that most of us can only achieve via filtering and Facetune. If the designer is sleep-deprived on the day of his ELLE shoot, it’s impossible to tell. Though he must be. Besides designing four collections annually for his New York label, for the last three years Wu has spent one week a month working in the Metzingen, Germany, headquarters of Hugo Boss, crafting ready-to-wear and accessories as the 92-year-old fashion monolith’s first artistic director for women’s wear. Oh, and Wu also recently returned from Mexico, where he married his partner of nearly 11 years (and the chief brand officer of his eponymous label), Gustavo…