Innehållsförteckning för September 2023 från ELLE

The same fashion coup de foudre that most girls of her generation felt upon seeing Kate Moss or Alexa Chung struck Jenny Walton when she first watched Roman Holiday. That swirling full skirt Audrey Hepburn wore while careening around the Eternal City imprinted on a teenage Walton to such a degree that she started taking sewing classes and constructing her own clothes. (“Because,” she says, “I wasn’t really happy with what was at the mall in New Jersey.”) Walton, now an illustrator, influencer, and street-style star, has been working the ’50s look ever since. She still makes some of her clothes, but these days, you’re equally likely to find her in names such as Prada and Miu Miu—often featuring a skirt of generous circumference. Now, it seems, fashion has caught…

RABANNE BEAUTY leans hard into the ’60s metallic heritage of the fashion brand, with glitter in all-new, extra-shiny forms: glitter spray that makes you look like you were doused with pixie dust; a concentrated loose powder that turns metallic and can be dabbed everywhere; and even a sparkly mascara topcoat. For something a little more subtle, there are eye shadow palettes in rich shades and extra-smooth formulas (above, the Handbag Palette, $38; pacorabanne.com) and an inky black mascara (above, Famous Mascara, $25; pacorabanne.com).…

Imagine a world where Wednesday Addams has graduated from Never-more Academy and is serving as legal counsel for the Church of Satan; Lydia Deetz has her own spoken-word café–meets–art gallery; and the girls from The Craft have a trendy vegan restaurant. They’re still wearing kohl-rimmed eyes, but with a grown-up spin. The latter you don’t have to simply imagine—look to the fall runways of Valentino, Dior, and Proenza Schouler, where goth girls got a sophisticated spin. —Polished Punk STEP 1: Choose your shape. Valentino’s cat-eyes varied from a slight kitten flick to temple-touching wings, while at Dior, every model had a negative-space, smudgy eye. STEP 2: Any liner texture works—liquid, gel, or a smoky pencil, like Huda Beauty Creamy Kohl Longwear Eye Pencil ($21; hudabeauty.com). “It’s all about the execution,”…

1 THE BAG Pushing the boundaries of the brand’s signature intrecciato technique, Bottega Veneta weaves a dream of a bag in a whimsical egg shape. Handbag, Bottega Veneta, bottegaveneta.com. 2 THE BRACELET Chanel’s Tweed Étoilé cuff is inspired by the house’s most iconic textile and Gabrielle Chanel’s first and only high jewelry collection. Bracelet, Chanel High Jewelry, 800-550-0005. 3 THE SHOE If Le Smoking were a shoe, it would undoubtedly be Saint Laurent’s sleek patent stiletto slingback. Slingback, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, $1,090, Saint Laurent, NYC.…

Chloë Sevigny’s voice boomed over the speakers at Proenza Schouler’s fall 2023 show as the actress and It Girl read fictional diary entries from the author and It Girl Ottessa Moshfegh. In London, Sir Ian McKellen opened S.S. Daley’s show by reading one of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poems. If it seems like the line between fashion shows and literary readings is starting to blur, you’re not mistaken. Across the fall collections, a singular icon emerged: the nerdy intellectual with a library card. Think Miu Miu’s artfully mussed librarians in tortoiseshell glasses, Altuzarra taking inspiration from Greek mythology, Thom Browne paying homage to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, and Sandy Liang’s bow-adorned belles walking in the New York Academy of Medicine’s library. Valentino recently featured text from Hanya Yanagihara’s A…

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ELLE celebrated its annual class of rising stars taking film and television by storm with an exclusive cocktail party at The Georgian Room at The Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Presented by Polo Ralph Lauren, ELLE’s 2023 Hollywood Rising event toasted some of the most promising young talent in the business, including Ariana Greenblatt, Ever Anderson, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Madison Bailey, Rachel Sennott, Reneé Rapp, Storm Reid, and Tyler James Williams.…

Kendel Kay looks like a lot of TikTok influencers. She’s got the icy-blonde hair, the perfectly tanned skin, the filter that makes it look like she’s not wearing makeup, just dewy and “natural.” And like a lot of influencers, she’s found her 500,000-plus following posting TikToks detailing the mundane details of her twentysomething life. The difference, as she posted in a video of her morning routine, is that she is showcasing the life of a self-professed “stay-at-home girlfriend.” She and her boyfriend have an agreement: He’ll make the money, and she’ll “take care of the house.” And that’s what Kendel films herself doing. She makes the bed. She pops big ice cubes out of one of those silicone trays and into her Stanley cup, then fills it with filtered water.…

VIRGO AUG 23–SEPT 22 Rather than ruminating on whether or not something’s real, turn inward and ask, “Does this feel good to me?” Pleasure is a powerful compass this September, provided you don’t ditch your sensibility in the process. LIBRA SEPT 23–OCT 22 Time alone will be scarce after September 3, once Venus ends its retrograde. With the charmed planet sailing through Leo and your eleventh house of community all month, team efforts could take flight, especially when it comes to creative projects. SCORPIO OCT 23–NOV 21 Venus powers through your career zone after the 3rd, which brings a reprieve from six weeks of retrograde setbacks. Bosses and coworkers will readily see your brilliance and give you license to forge ahead. Spruce up your professional wardrobe with a couple of…

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see,” wrote English critic Samuel Johnson at the height of the Grand Tour’s popularity. (So much for #FOMO being a modern invention.) For young Europeans of means in the 17th to 19th centuries, these travels through Italy and France were a rite of passage, a way to supplement one’s education by taking in the treasures of classical antiquity and the Renaissance. The shared experience of the Grand Tour also contributed to a revival in classical styles among designers and architects—thanks in no small part to the objets travelers filled their country homes with upon returning. This season, Van Cleef & Arpels took editors on a…

For starters, I didn’t think I was going to win,” Catherine Holstein says of being up for the CFDA American Womenswear Designer of the Year award this past November. “On top of that, I don’t like attention.” So when presenter Christina Ricci called her name, she found herself onstage “looking at all these designers I have admired and respected for so long and thinking, ‘Are you serious?’” At the podium, the soft-spoken designer cradled the silver trophy in her hands, saying, “I’ve had many failures, so I guess this is failing up.” In a world of social media braying and relentless self-promotion, Holstein’s modesty is refreshing. She lets her clothes speak for themselves, and like her, they’re understated, but come with some intriguing undertones. In mad-scientist fashion, she’s constantly tweaking…

Paris has no shortage of architectural icons. But few are quite as vibrant or charming as the Hôtel Plaza Athénée, with its signature red awnings and coordinating balcony planters and window boxes, flush with geraniums. Like most well-known spots in the city, it is steeped in history: Some time after Jean Gabin and Marlene Dietrich ended their love affair, the actress purchased an apartment across the street. The next time Gabin booked a room at the hotel, still thinking of Dietrich, he asked the concierge to place hundreds of red roses on his balcony so the actress couldn’t possibly miss the signal. The hotel came up short on the long-stemmed blooms, but had plenty of geraniums in the desired shade. It’s safe to say that the service is still very…

SOMETIMES, CANDACE PARKER has a hard time believing it’s real. The WNBA star has spent 16 seasons in the league, where she’s been named to seven All-Star teams and has won two championships. Parker has played professionally in Russia, China, and Turkey, and she’s won two gold medals with the U.S. Olympic team, as well as two national championships at the University of Tennessee. At 37, the 6'4" forward is one of the league’s all-time leading scorers, and is considered one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. So by the time Parker shocked the league by leaving her hometown team, Chicago Sky, to sign with the defending champion Las Vegas Aces in February, it was safe to assume she’d seen it all. What else could possibly…

On the outskirts of Paris, a studio blooms with bright flowers—some real, some faux. Lucie de la Falaise, however, is accoutred in all black. “I’m like a strong fairy,” the legendary model jokes. Her daughter Ella Richards, the shoot’s other subject—in a white bathrobe and house slippers, and the same slick blonde chignon as Mom—counters: “If you are, then I am.” That exchange sums up their playful dynamic, the two perpetually in cahoots. When the photographer behind the shoot, Brigitte Niedermair, saw the duo leaving Dior’s Mumbai show in March sniffing jasmine necklaces, very much in fairy mode, she had the idea to photograph them festooned with blooms, and clad in some of fall’s most exuberant, lush takes on floral, from designers like Bottega Veneta and Chanel. “[Nowadays] you can be…