Innehållsförteckning för March 2021 från Harper's Bazaar

As I watched our new president, Joe Biden, take office in January, I was struck by the personal touches in his redecoration of the Oval Office. A lacquered side table, just behind the famed Resolute Desk, was filled with framed family photos. Among them, a bronze bust of labor leader Cesar Chavez, on loan from Chavez’s son Paul. It was a small detail that will undoubtedly mean so much to those who see themselves represented and inspired by Chavez’s legacy as a Latino civil rights activist and organizer. The idea of legacy is one I’ve been thinking about a lot lately and a subject we explore throughout this issue. What does it mean to inherit a legacy? Or to refuse to be burdened by one? To choose instead to move…

COLLIER SCHORR PHOTOGRAPHER: “The Importance of Being Megan Thee Stallion,” Page 144 “I’ve been writing and taking pictures for 30 years. For me, it’s about preserving and building on ideas I had when I was younger and less engaged with notions of success or acceptance. It’s to keep the radicality of youth, the desire to transcend specific identities, and, finally, the exuberance of sharing the platform.” JADA YUAN WRITER: “What Martha Stewart Knows,” Page 206 “I’m already part of a legacy: In February, the USPS honored my grandmother Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu on a Forever stamp. She was a trailblazing nuclear physicist who wanted to increase our understanding of the world, and I like to think that as a journalist I’m carrying on what she started.” LAUREN MICHELE JACKSON WRITER: “The…

DURING THE PANDEMIC, THE NARRATIVES AND CHARACTERS DEPICTED ON THE SMALL SCREEN OFTEN SERVE AS OUR ONLY ESCAPE FROM ISOLATION. THE CRIES FOR REPRESENTATION, THEN, GROW EVEN MORE ACUTE ALONGSIDE OUR INCREASED DEPENDENCE ON THE TRANSPORTIVE QUALITIES OF TELEVISION. Showrunners Susan Fales-Hill, Issa Rae, and Camilla Blackett are no strangers to the possibilities and burdens of representation. Their collective careers illustrate the great sea change in the medium over the past three decades—from groundbreaking network sitcoms dedicated to portraying the texture of Black life, to the creative opportunities within premium cable, to the gold rush of the streaming era. Susan Fales-Hill was a writer and producer of the classic sitcom Different World and is currently an executive producer of the Lena Waithe–created sitcom Twenties on BET. Issa Rae is a…

WHEN PETER DO WON A 2020 LVMH PRIZE, AN AWARD GIVEN BY THE FRENCH LUXURY CONGLOMERATE TO PROMISING EMERGING FASHION DESIGNERS, IT MARKED THE FIRST TIME A RECIPIENT’S DESIGNS CARRIED A “MADE IN NEW YORK” LABEL. Do, who was born in Vietnam and moved to Philadelphia as a teenager, launched his namesake line three years ago with the goal of building a new American luxury house, and spurring a renaissance in Manhattan’s Garment District, for decades the city’s manufacturing hub, but in more recent years a flagging emblem of an industry in transition. “We put pockets on everything,” Do says, explaining one of the more practical ways in which his line has tapped into American sportswear’s can-do legacy. “To me, American style epitomizes functionality.” Once a bustling epicenter, the stretch…

THE ULTIMATE SKIN-CARE GUIDE THE PAST 12 MONTHS HAVE BEEN ALL ABOUT EXPERIMENTS IN AT-HOME D.I.Y., AND SKIN CARE HAS BEEN NO EXCEPTION. In place of visits to the dermatologist and aesthetician, there’s been a surge of super-potent serums, exfoliators, and blinking devices to try, all promising miracles. Sometimes you just end up with frustration. Let’s pull it back. “First, master the basics: Cleanse, moisturize, and wear sunscreen,” says Camille Howard-Verovic, D.O., a New York derm. After that, you can add the fun extras to get the results you want. Here, how to get your best complexion at home. CLEANSE AT NIGHT Cleansing twice daily is great, but evening is critical. “You want to remove pollution, makeup, and sebum to create a clean slate for treatment products,” says Philadelphia-area dermatologist…

PISCES FEBRUARY 20–MARCH 20 You shouldn’t feel guilty if you crave alone time this month. It won’t be forever, so you need not worry about offending those who would be happy to spend every waking minute with you. LUCKY DAY: THE 1ST. Sharing secrets with family members clears your mind. ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 20 Regardless of the pressure you may be under involving work or other commitments, make sure you’re doing your part in a scenario with a loved one. You may have to rethink your priorities. LUCKY DAY: THE 16TH. At last you look ahead, not over your shoulder. TAURUS APRIL 21–MAY 21 While not everyone will be willing to lend a hand to a project dear to your heart, keep from speaking out in anger to those you…

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The day after the Great Blizzard of 2020 dropped a foot of snow on her farm in Bedford, New York, in December, Martha Stewart arose around 4 a.m., like she always does, jumped into her snowplow and got to work. The 79-year-old, who became America’s first self-made female billionaire when her company went public in 1999, has plenty of groundskeepers for her “hundred and fifty fucking acres”—as she once described her vast estate on her cheeky HGTV gardening show, Martha Knows Best—but she’s a gay icon for a reason: She. Will. Work. Plowing her own roads is just so very Martha: taking a problem, attacking it creatively, getting visible results, and, most importantly, doing it yourself. “Oh, I love to snowplow,” says Stewart. “I was out there actually for three…

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Despite agreeing to curate a playlist around this issue’s theme of legacy, Lenny Kravitz hasn’t given much consideration to his own. “It’s not something I really think of,” says the rock god, who has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. “I JUST WANT TO BE REMEMBERED AS SOMEONE WHO EXPRESSED HIMSELF IN EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE. MUSIC IS OXYGEN FOR ME.” The son of actress Roxie Roker and news producer Sy Kravitz, who was also a part-time jazz promoter, he grew up surrounded by legends like Miles Davis and Sarah Vaughan. His playlist—a celebration of such greats—speaks to their influence on his work. “I started with Duke Ellington’s ‘In a Sentimental Mood’ because one of my earliest memories is sitting on his lap while he played piano,” he explains. Also…

THE IDEA THAT NEW YORK IS OVER MAKES SOME PEOPLE ANGRY, BUT IT MAKES ME LAUGH. IT’S SUCH A RIDICULOUS IDEA. Everything changes in New York. That’s the essence of a city. There is not a square foot of New York City that is the same as when I got here in 1970. What makes someone a real New Yorker, in my opinion, is the first time you get angry that something that you knew to be here is gone. I remember when I moved to New York, I was on a bus going up Eighth Avenue. At the corner of 42nd Street, there had been a bank. Now, that would have been a neighborhood that I wouldn’t be in for weeks at a time. So I looked out the…

FOR HIS FIRST-EVER ON-CAMERA ROLE, ALDIS HODGE SAYS HE WASN’T EXACTLY MOTIVATED BY THE PURSUIT OF ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE. “Honestly, I just did it for the toys,” Hodge recalls of modeling for a magazine when he was all of three years old. Now 34, Hodge, who has been working steadily since his toddler years—with childhood appearances on Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live before making the rounds on classic prime-time series like ER, CSI, and Friday Night Lights—wants more out of his work. “This is gonna sound crazy, and stupid, maybe,” he says. “[But] I used to audition to impress the people in the room so I could get the job. Wrong reason.” Hodge changed his approach. “If I do the audition and I’m satisfied with what I did, then I…

MEGAN THEE STALLION Photograph by COLLIER SCHORR / Styling by SAMIRA NASR What does it mean to create a LEGACY? Or to ASSUME OR REJECT what’s been handed to you? FASHION is filled with legacies, from the HOUSES AND DESIGNERS who have shaped our SENSE OF STYLE to the codes that are reimagined on the RUNWAYS. But even the most illustrious legacy isn’t a blueprint; IT’S A STARTING POINT. Here, we explore this notion of legacy. Because when so much about LIFE HAS CHANGED, each and every day is an opportunity to BUILD A NEW ONE. Megan Thee Stallion isn’t hurting for stage time. The 26-year-old rapper, just on the other side of her debut studio album, has bounced and high-kicked atop music’s choicest platforms—glittering in her strut at the…

Betye Saar. Faith Ringgold. Mickalene Thomas. Julie Mehretu. Simone Leigh. Jordan Casteel. These are only a few of the Black women artists who have recently exhibited in the nation’s largest museums, like the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim, and the Getty. But long before, it was the Studio Museum in Harlem that had the foresight and intuition to show their work, linking these women both to one another and to generations of Black artists, curators, and critics who have helped reshape American art history over the past 50 years. LOCATED ON HARLEM’S FAMED 125TH STREET, WITH ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR. BOULEVARD ON ONE SIDE AND LENOX AVENUE ON THE OTHER, THE PHYSICAL BUILDING THAT HOUSES THE STUDIO MUSEUM HAS BEEN CLOSED SINCE 2018…

SUZANNE KOLLER, THE INFLUENTIAL PARIS-BASED STYLIST, WAITED TWO YEARS TO GET IT. The current fashion director of M Le Magazine du Monde, who has also served as fashion director of Vogue Paris and cofounded the biannual cult magazine Self Service, surely has access to designer bags as soon as they exit the runway. But for an Hermès Birkin bag, she waited. “I always wanted one,” Koller says. But it wasn’t until her late 20s that she “finally felt grown-up enough” for a Birkin, which can cost upwards of $15,000. “I had never bought anything that expensive before,” she explains, admitting that she was nervous about the price but figured she could save for it while waiting the two years it would take to fulfill her custom order: dark navy leather…

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AS A CHILD, I KNEW MY GRANDPARENTS AS DEEPLY IN LOVE. MY OWN PARENTS WOULD HAVE A DRAWN-OUT AND TRAUMATIC DIVORCE, AND DURING IT, FOR A TIME, WE LIVED WITH MY GRANDPARENTS. I saw their devotion up close. When I was a teenager, my mother told me, in passing, a story about how my grandfather used to apply my grandmother’s makeup for her, a small act of luxury and care, a bonded intimacy between the two that captivated me. I held it out as a standard of affection: Get me a man so devoted, he’d beat my face for me. On my wedding day to my now ex-husband, I realized I couldn’t apply my eyelashes on my own, and I remember thinking, as he stood with me in our hotel…

KARA WALKER: A BLACK HOLE IS EVERYTHING A STAR LONGS TO BE (JRP|Editions) This new 600-page Kara Walker monograph features more than 700 works created over the past three decades. Large-format pieces, sketches, and collages are juxtaposed with typewritten notes and journal entries, providing an intimate window into the creative process of an artist whose practice examines the intersection of race, gender, history, identity, and violence. ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21 Opening March 13, a survey of Latinx contemporary art curated by New York’s El Museo del Barrio spotlights the works of more than 40 artists from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Along with established names like Candida Alvarez and Carolina Caycedo, the show features a number of up-and-coming talents. COACH X CHAMPION A collaboration that remixes New York…

THE GREAT ESCAPE Impeccable timing: With primofiore lemon, mandarin, and guava, a spritz of Versace Dylan Turquoise ($105) cuts through the fog of winter, a reminder that brighter days are just around the bend. THE LONG GAME WHAT CONSTITUTES A LUXURY MASCARA IN 2021? SISLEY-PARIS HAS A GOOD IDEA. The brand’s So Stretch Mascara ($72) bypasses the big brush trend, using a wand skinny enough to get down to the very base of the lash line to grab every last lash—essential for defining the eyes. (Try it in Deep Brown for a subtle look.) As for the formula, it’s infused with damask rose, castor oil, and carnauba wax to keep lashes healthy and plumped. SHEER BRILLIANCE Chris Appleton + Color Wow Money Masque ($45) is the celeb stylist’s first foray…

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