Innehållsförteckning för May 2025 från Harper's Bazaar

IN 1967, as Harper’s Bazaar celebrated its 100th anniversary, the magazine used the occasion to try to imagine what beauty might look like in the future—a century ahead, in fact, in 2067. The prevailing theory it arrived at back then was that there would be a wide variety of pills to make you look and feel the way you wanted. There would also be at-home devices that could alter the shape of your body, light-sensitive makeup that could adjust to your environment, and adaptive masks that could transform your face. Not all of that has become a reality in 2025, but a good portion of it has—and 42 years early. Beauty, though, has always been about a kind of vision: about looking beyond what we see and toward who or…

WHY DON’T YOU…EMBRACE the virtues of bespoke headwear. While walking through a quaint street in the 1st Arrondissement in Paris during Fashion Week, I stopped by a milliner’s boutique on the advice of fashion critic Rachel Tashjian. Inside were a number of signature designs, but what really made my heart sing were the customizable options. Head like a bull terrier? She can accommodate! Flipping through old Slim Aarons photographs and inspired by the socialites of yesteryear in boater hats? She’s got you. Milliners like this exist in all the great metropolitan cities and are well worth a visit. Besides, a good hat is the ultimate marker of sophistication! WHY DON’T YOU…REPURPOSE your evening attire. We’ve all been there. That beautiful gown you wore to your cousin’s wedding now hangs in the back…

There’s an iconic scene in the 2000 season-three premiere of Sex and the City where Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw loses her shoe while chasing after the Staten Island Ferry. She misses the boat, but it’s her shoe that she’s most concerned about. “I lost my Choo!” she shouts as her ride floats away. Carrie is, of course, referring to her pastel-purple heel by the British purveyor of ultra-covetable footwear Jimmy Choo, which became a sensation thanks to her on-screen love affair with the brand’s vibrant designs. (Earlier in the episode, Carrie opines, “With no man in sight, I decided to rescue my ankles from a life of boredom by purchasing too many pairs of Jimmy Choo shoes.”) To celebrate its upcoming 30th anniversary, Jimmy Choo is releasing a capsule…

Our culture tells us that the body is a problem to solve. Youthful, thin, and shining is the ideal, and to attain it, we should take this supplement, wear this waist cincher, or use that miracle face cream. Day after day, year after year, we chase this perfect state of being. The body must be constantly manipulated, kept up, and improved. Yet at some point, life intrudes, unmasking the illusion we’re being sold by the beauty and wellness industrial complexes. My liberation began at age 22, in the summer of 2011. I was back in my hometown after two months in the hospital being treated for leukemia, but I was sicker than ever. In anticipation of beginning a clinical trial, my doctors sent me home to rest and gain strength.…

As a kid growing up in Canada, I always had my face buried in a fashion magazine, and Linda Evangelista, a Canada native, was royalty. Her photos were all over my wall. I remember seeing that issue of Harper’s Bazaar with her on the cover when it relaunched under Liz Tilberis in 1992 and thinking it was the most striking cover I’d ever seen. Years later, I got to meet Evangelista when I was a fashion assistant. So to have her back on the cover for our Beauty issue—and to mark her 60th birthday—is really special. I’m thrilled that Anthony Seklaoui, the French-Lebanese photographer, lensed this shoot, his first cover for us. That my former boss, the founding editor in chief of Allure, Linda Wells, wrote the cover story is…

WHY DON’T YOU…? Dress it up with a LIGHTWEIGHT BLAZER and sculptural SILVER EARRINGS.…

SWAP out your work bag for an A-grade CARRYALL that’s NICE enough for the OFFICE and BIG enough for all your BELONGINGS…

Remember the days of a 12-step skincare routine—before the pendulum swung the other way, toward skin minimalism? Today’s regimens are less about hitting a quota than about opting for specialized treatments. “Social media has fueled this focus on ingredients, where people feel compelled to try every new buzzworthy product,” says New York–based dermatologist Nicole Lee. Plus, with the rising influence of technology out of South Korea, viral products are becoming more efficacious than gimmicky. “There’s a growing shift toward skincare that is streamlined, result-driven, and easier to maintain,” Lee says. Our 2025 Skincare Awards winners deliver transformational results without overcomplicating your routine.…

FEATURED TRACKS 1 “YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL” Lana Del Rey 2 “BEAUTIFUL” Eminem 3 “BEAUTIFUL GIRLS” Sean Kingston 4 “UNPRETTY” TLC 5 “PRETTY” Col3trane feat. Mahalia 6. “BEAUTIFUL THINGS” Benson Boone 7. “PRETTY” Lil Yachty 8. “BEAUTIFUL” Akon feat. Colby O’Donis and Kardinal Offishall 9. “PRETTY” Don Broco 10. “BEAUTIFUL” Christina Aguilera 11. “BEAUTIFUL LADY” Gyptian 12. “PRETTY HURTS” Beyoncé 13. “BEAUTIFUL” Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell Williams and Uncle Charlie Wilson 14. “PRETTY ISN’T PRETTY” Olivia Rodrigo 15. “PRETTY” The Weeknd 16. “BEAUTIFUL” Doja Cat 17. “PRETTY LITTLE FEARS” 6lack feat. J. Cole 18. “BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE” Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi Listen to Lola Young’s full playlist exclusively on Apple Music. It’s a credo that helped fuel “Messy,” Young’s surprise hit off her latest album, This Wasn’t Meant for You Anyway, an ode to unabashedly embracing…

WHY DON’T YOU…? STEP things up with a pair of STRAPPY BLACK SANDALS.…

The Floral-Appliqué Cape The Silky Neck Scarves The Graphic Knee Boots The Spotted Clutch The Oval-Face Watch The Sequined Slingback The A-Line Maxi Skirt The Buttoned-Up Sweater…

IN ONE OF the most evocative scenes in Durga Chew-Bose’s new film adaptation of Bonjour Tristesse, 18-year-old Cécile, played by Lily McInerny, is sitting on the kitchen floor, having a midnight snack. Her legs are bent to one side, and she leans back on her hands. She’s wearing a champagne-colored silk party dress with a sweetheart neckline, thin spaghetti straps, and a bubble hem. She stares at the fluorescent light coming through the open door of a refrigerator. A half-full (empty?) glass is beside her. The tulle and taffeta of her skirt fan around her. The dress is a recent gift from her late mother’s fashiondesigner friend Anne, played by Chloë Sevigny, who has shown up at her family’s summer home for an unexpected visit. Cécile appears as a child…

WILLY CHAVARRIA X ADIDAS ORIGINALS The designer debuted his latest collaboration with Adidas on the runway in Paris this past January, and the first drop will hit stores this month. The initial installment of the collection launch includes baggy-cut trackpants, bomber jackets, and sneakers inspired by the original 1978 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar basketball shoe. CHRISTOPHER JOHN ROGERS SWIM Rogers is branching out into a new category this spring with a 12-piece collection of swimwear plus a sarong available on his website. The one- and two-piece swimsuits are crafted from printed Italian satin jersey and rendered in the vibrant rainbow hues he is best known for. THE PUZZLE BAG TURNS 10 This year marks a decade since Loewe’s former creative director Jonathan Anderson introduced the Puzzle bag. The house is celebrating the…

Linda Evangelista lifts her shirt over her head. She wants to show me her scars, two purple, ragged parentheses that travel from her outer breasts to her mid back, just under the shoulder blades. I have to muffle a gasp. They look violent, like coordinated shark attacks or swipes from the grim reaper’s scythe. She rearranges her black T-shirt, straightens her aviator glasses, tucking her bob behind her ears, and smiles as if to say, “Yes, I lived through that.” The double mastectomy, followed by the removal of a lump between her breasts: lived through that. Liposuction and surgery over and over again—four times under her chin alone—to extract the hunks of hardened fat caused by CoolSculpting machines. Collapsed lungs. So many collapsed lungs. She lived through all of it.…

In the fall of 2014, on the top floor of a makeshift office space in an old brick building in Manhattan where SoHo melds into Chinatown, Emily Weiss gathered the 12 employees of her then nascent beauty brand, Glossier, in front of a wall of images of glowy, freshfaced, smiling models against a sky-blue backdrop. She asked her team to put little dots on the images they liked best. At the time, “Glossier” was just a mysterious Instagram account populated with behind-the-scenes images, cute little stickers, and a distinctive pastel shade that would become known as millennial pink. No one really had a clue what Weiss, already a fixture in the beauty world herself, thanks to the popular four-year-old beauty blog Into the Gloss, was up to, but it didn’t…

SOMETHING IN THE AIR was undeniably different at the turn of the 21st century; that much was evident. Y2K notwithstanding, the new millennium had arrived, and, with it, new dreams and possibilities. Getting a clear fix on the future, though, is always a tricky proposition. So for Harper’s Bazaar’s first edition of the aughts, as the era would become known, the editors chose (wisely) to sidestep the sweeping proclamations and focus instead on how designers were imagining the very near term through the lens of the brand-new Spring 2000 collections. That was the context for a fashion story in the issue photographed by Craig McDean, a love letter to New York starring model Angela Lindvall. The British-born McDean captured the Missouri-raised Lindvall—both of them, at the time, transplanted New Yorkers—in…