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countries will be represented at
the LA Art Show, alongside must-
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heavyweights as LACMA and the
Museum of Latin American Art.

JANUARY 12
The Commuter—raucous
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embroiled in a crime
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your inaugural 2018 book season of Carrie Brown-
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THE FINANCE FEMINIST

This month on ELLE.com: Ellevest CEO Sallie Krawcheck, once
dubbed “The Most Powerful Woman on Wall Street,” has weathered
two job terminations, a divorce, and workplace harassment—all
while navigating the high-stress, male-dominated world of finance.
Now she’s changing the financial game for women
“I never thought women needed a differ- husband was having an affair,” she says, “so we
ent [investing] environment than men did; I got divorced anyway.”
thought the idea was patronizing and sexist,” In a whirlwind, she resumed working as a
says Sallie Krawcheck, chair of the Ellevate banker; married her current husband, bank
Network and cofounder of Ellevest—career executive Gary Appel; and had a baby. It was
and investing platforms that are, indeed, during her maternity leave that she finally
geared toward women. Because as Kraw- answered a question she’d been mulling over in 2008, when Krawcheck pushed Citi to re-
check began to do a little digging, she was for years: What career truly fit her interests? imburse clients for failed investments, her
hit with startling disparities: While we’re all She hated banking’s boys’-club mentality but morals cost her the job), and then at Bank of
aware of the gender pay gap (about 80 cents loved examining financial models and writ- America during a 2011 restructuring. “It’s em-
on the dollar, at last count), over the course ing. She realized she was ripe for a career as barrassing and humiliating,” she says. “It un-
of a career, the lesser-known gender investing a financial analyst. “Giving yourself a break moors you.” Nevertheless, Krawcheck took
gap can also cost women thousands—even and allowing your subconscious to go to work her business acumen and fierce desire to level
millions—of dollars. Women retire, on aver- is a key to substantial insight,” she says. the playing field—plus, it must be noted, her
age, with two-thirds of the money that men Fresh off her maternity leave, Krawcheck six-million-dollar severance package from
do. This, Krawcheck says, “tells me some- got a job as an equity analyst at Sanford C. Ber- Bank of America—and acquired the network-
thing is not working for women.” nstein covering Wall Street. “I was successful ing company 85 Broads Unlimited, which she
“It was seared into my brain at an early age really quickly in the job because I had given it rebranded as the Ellevate Network. She also
that money equals freedom equals power,” that deep consideration,” she says. Less than launched Ellevest, an automated investing
Krawcheck says. When she was growing up a decade later, she was named CEO of Citi- platform geared toward the financial habits
in Charleston, South Carolina, the only fights group’s Smith Barney unit. Over the years, she of women, who tend to be goal-oriented and
she remembers her parents having were about added even more impressive titles to her CV, risk-averse. “Money that’s sitting in cash is
money. She dreamed of becoming an indepen- including CFO and president, respectively, losing ground for you every single day,” Kraw-
dent career woman à la Mary Tyler Moore. of Citigroup’s and Bank of America’s wealth check cautions. Which isn’t to say one should
After graduating in 1987 with a BA in jour- management divisions. But with high highs invest everything—Krawcheck recommends
nalism from the University of North Carolina, came low lows; Krawcheck continuously ex- building an emergency fund of two or three
Chapel Hill (which she attended on a compet- perienced sexual harassment at work. Earlier months’ worth of take-home pay to keep in
itive Morehead-Cain scholarship), Krawcheck in her career, when she’d been promoted to the bank.
entered into what she calls the “wild waste- director of research at Bernstein, Krawcheck Besides just thinking about money, Kraw-
land” of her twenties. She got married and hosted an event at which “a gentleman whose check wants women to start talking about it:
started working as a banker, thinking she’d name you would recognize” gave a speech. Af- Last year, she wrote Own It: The Power of Wom-
become a business journalist, but “it was very terward, she says, “he invited me, in the mid- en at Work (Crown) in hopes of encouraging

Krawcheck: courtesy of the subject; remaining images: Getty Images

macho, very male, very competitive,” she says. dle of the afternoon, to join him in his hotel such conversations. “How are you supposed to
Not to mention very inappropriate: She arrived room—and then he stuck his tongue out and know how your friends are investing if you’re
at work each day to find “Xeroxed copies of jangled it. And I looked at him like, Did you, fa- not supposed to talk about it? Networking
men’s nether regions on my desk.” Desperate mous man, whom I always see on the evening is not a bad word for the guys, but it’s ‘tacky’
to get out, she quit to pursue an MBA from Co- news, invite me to your room, stick out your for women? This is how our patriarchal soci-
lumbia Business School, landing a finance job tongue, and jangle it at me?” ety keeps us from reaching our full potential.”
at Disney in Los Angeles following her gradu- Krawcheck also lost her very public jobs— Money has remained a dark taboo for too long.
ation. She declined the offer—her spouse’s job twice—first at Citigroup (Fortune had called This month on ELLE.com, let Krawcheck lead
kept him in New York. “Then I found out my her “The Last Honest Analyst” years earlier; you into the light.—Keziah Weir

DOLLARS AND PLANNING AHEAD

JANUARY 1
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(GOOD) SENSE This week, Krawcheck sets out
guidelines for the most important
Is it better to invest in stocks
or bonds? How should you
If you’ve been waiting to make
a career leap, wait no more.
Negotiating pay raises and new-job
salaries is essential. And that voice
Throughout January, financial milestones—from diversify your investment Krawcheck will help you navigate in your ear telling you that if you
Krawcheck will upgrade knocking out student debt to portfolio? Whether you’re a job pivot with ease—and you ask, they’ll get rid of you? Ignore it.
your financial health. opening a 401(k)—with research- looking into investing for the won’t even need a maternity “I’ve never, ever, ever seen anybody
backed tips on when, and how, first time or just hoping to glean leave to do it. negotiate a new job just to have the
make the most of the to hit them. new insights, Krawcheck has hiring manager say, ‘Oh my God, you
money you have the answers for you. asked for something—never mind.’”

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Party
On
G ifts? We like gifts. And festively sprinkled cookies? Why not. And
chestnuts roasting on an open fire and all that? Sure, fine. But what
really revs our engines this time of year is that ’tis the season for parties—
throwing them, attending them, and, perhaps most essentially, dressing
up for them. And that’s what this issue is all about.
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what’s new in eveningwear—e.g., soiree-appropriate silk pajamas
and the recently reinvented tuxedo—may make you break up with
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entertaining tips from fashion-industry insiders. (For example, of-the-moment, foolproof makeup tips from some of the most
Casa Lever wine director Carrie Lyn Strong imparted this kernel creative makeup artists on the circuit. (You’ll never look at a basic
of wisdom: To ensure your guests’ bubbly stays, well, bubbly, smoky eye the same way again.) And because style is useless
serve your bottle of choice in a wineglass rather than a traditional without substance: Our feature on the complicated phenomenon
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HOROSCOPE By the Astrotwins, Tali and Ophira Edut

CAPRICORN
DEC 22–JAN 19
Kate Middleton
January 9

January is radical reinvention month for Cap- TAURUS (APR 20–MAY 20) Everything could VIRGO (AUG 23–SEPT 22) Seven heavenly
ricorns, as a breathtaking seven heavenly bod- feel a little “extra” in January, but adopting a bodies (including party girl Venus) rage on
ies cruise through your sign. With a wide-open “More is more” maxim will help you bust down through Capricorn and your festive, flamboy-
field in which to reimagine your life, what path barriers in every realm. With a planetary posse in ant fifth house. Appoint yourself activities di-
will you choose? The Capricorn new moon on your worldly ninth house, you could rack up the rector for your entourage—and not just for
the 16th brings early clues, while Mars inspires mileage points. Single Bulls: Diversify your dat- dinner and drinks. Workout junkies Mars and
you to incorporate technology and innova- ing portfolio. You’ll crush hard for a paramour Jupiter, copiloting through your third house,
tion into the plan. This month packs in two full with a distant provenance. Attached? Roam off command physical exertion. The 16th’s ro-
moons: one on the 1st, and another—a lunar the beaten path with your partner. A long-dis- mantic new moon brings a strong case of but-
eclipse—on the 31st. Since both fall in your re- tance bae-cation could be epic, as amorous Mars terflies for single Virgos, while those attached
lationship houses, you could lock down a self- and intrepid Jupiter unite in your relationship could have a big milestone to share. Embrace
sufficient partner who is also willing to stand house until the 26th. Return to base to support healthy hedonism after the 19th, when the
behind your dreams. your inner circle during the 31st’s lunar eclipse. Aquarius Sun makes green your new black.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20–FEB 18) Wellness res- GEMINI (MAY 21–JUNE 21) A sultry celestial LIBRA (SEPT 23–OCT 22) You’ll be lured
olutions top your 2018 agenda, thanks to a septet sets up shop in Capricorn and your erotic deep into the Libra lair to nest early in the
salubrious full moon on the 1st. Buzzwordi- eighth house, making January one for your month. Rest, rejuvenate, and bond with inner-
ness aside, it’s time to detox—from Nutella locked diary. As you explore your turn-ons, circle supporters—and ignore everything but
crepes to compulsive Facebooking. Begin you’ll simultaneously feel like setting fire to situ- your work emails. Until the 26th, an auspi-
mornings on a meditation cushion, sans de- ations that have endlessly frustrated you. Easy cious union of Mars and Jupiter brings major
vices. On the job, bold moves pay off, as mo- does it, Gem! Torching a crucial relationship in momentum to your moneymaking efforts.
tivator Mars stomps through your career the heat of anger would be a mistake. With Working with women will be especially profit-
zone until the 26th. On the 6th, high-rolling Olympians Mars and Jupiter in your health cor- able near the 9th, when superfemme Venus
Jupiter raises the odds in your favor. Aquari- ner until the 26th, hit the gym and transmute and power broker Pluto blend their energies.
us season begins on the 19th, rebooting your rage into a wellness revolution. Travel to a far- Emerge in something runway-fierce on the
joie de vivre—and get ready for an exhilarat- flung destination after the 19th—and pack your 19th, and enjoy a romantic revolution as the
ing surprise from Cupid near the 31st’s Leo good lingerie—as the Sun and femme fatale Ve- Aquarius Sun starts a monthlong fete in your
lunar eclipse. nus nuzzle up in your nomadic ninth house. frisky fifth house.

PISCES (FEB 19–MAR 20) New Year’s Day ar- CANCER (JUNE 22–JULY 22) A New Year’s SCORPIO (OCT 23–NOV 21) Everything
rives with a full supermoon in your house of Day supermoon in Cancer pours premium you touch will turn bolder and more badass,
true love. Snog your way into 2018, and turn rocket fuel into your tanks. Pick one personal as lusty Mars and larger-than-life Jupiter kiki
your romantic resolutions into a vision board. goal to crush, and go at it full force. Magnifier in Scorpio until the 26th. Take charge of a
With a celestial septet occupying your wish- Jupiter and motivator Mars campaign in your floundering project: With seven celestial bod-
ful eleventh house, having a clear picture of fame zone until the 26th, making it easy to at- ies in your cooperative third house, people
your desires helps you manifest them in record tract support. (Time for a photo shoot? Yep.) will be clamoring to partner with you. But be
time. Galactic go-getters Mars and Jupiter are The first round of profit could roll in by the selective, as a kindred-spirit–grade candidate
tandem-touring your travel zone, and their ex- 31st’s lunar eclipse. Relationships are on the could emerge under the 16th’s new moon. An
act connection on the 6th could put you on a fast track all month: Level up your status, or intense attraction crackles near the 9th, as
plane for business or pleasure. Plan a postholi- celebrate your long-term pairing with a cou- Venus nuzzles your ruler, Pluto. Cozy up at
day detox after the 19th, when the Sun dips into ple’s holiday. Solo Cancers could reel in a Château Scorpio after the 19th, when the Sun
your twelfth house of healing for a month. keeper near the new moon on the 16th. sinks into your nesting zone for a month.

ARIES (MAR 21–APR 19) The year 2018 LEO (JULY 23–AUG 22) You’re the busiest SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22–DEC 21) When you
dawns on a cozy note for Rams, as a full super- bee in the hive this January, thanks to a seven- fail to plan, you might just be, well, a Sagittarius.
moon tucks into your domestic zone on the 1st. planet conference call in Capricorn. Between But in January, your recipe for success involves
Feather your nest, and include a home office in planning meetings and closet purges, priori- project management and practical magic: Out-
the blueprints. With a cosmic cabal in Capricorn tize fitness. Those lateral lunges and sun salu- source, and say no to time-sucking side hustles.
hitting your career zone all month—including tations will save your serenity! Have all your A promising work opportunity arrives near the
alchemical Pluto and industrious Saturn—your ducks in a row by the 31st, when a dynamic 16th’s new moon—and the heat is really on
professional life is due for an unparalleled lunar eclipse in Leo launches your dreams when motivator Mars blasts into your sign for
growth spurt. Bawdy Jupiter and your ruler, into orbit. Efforts you’ve made since the total seven weeks on the 26th. Personal relationships
lusty Mars, are tandem-twerking through your solar eclipse in Leo last August could bring will drain you if you make sacrifices. Negotiate
seductive eighth house until the 26th, making you major street cred. And with the Sun and better terms near the 6th, when assertive Mars
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insane chemistry nonnegotiable. But loyalty is amorous Venus snuggled up in your partner- and your guardian, Jupiter, provide extra back-
equally important, Aries, and if you demand it, ship house after the 19th, you’ll toast your vic- bone. An off-the-grid winter getaway is a sanity
you must give it in return. tories with a promising plus-one. saver near the lunar eclipse on the 31st.

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STYLE

LET THEM ENTERTAIN YOU

No one parties more chicly than the fashion set. From Pop Art–
inspired hors d’oeuvres to the best bargain bubbly, we bring
you insider tips from fashion’s most prolific entertainers to guide
your next celebration. By Naomi Rougeau

STEFANIE COVE
EVENT PRODUCER
Whether she’s planning elaborate dinners
for Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon,
Net-a-Porter, or simply her own destination
thirty-fifth birthday celebration in Costa
Careyes, Mexico, Stefanie Cove is known
for understatedly elegant events. “I’m never
going to do something that’s so over the top
that you walk in and immediately think, ‘Oh

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my goodness, they’ve spent so much mon-
ey,’ ” Cove says. Although it certainly helps
when one lives in sunny L.A., Cove is also a
proponent of bringing the outdoors in. Rath-
er than fashioning an entire wall of greenery,
as she recently did for pal Molly Sims’s book
launch, Cove recommends sticking to a sin-
gle color of bloom, such as her favorite white
peonies and dahlias: “You don’t even need to
run out and buy vases. Even simple drinking
glasses work beautifully in larger quantities.”
Some words of wisdom: Keep arrangements
below eye level, and steer clear of lining the
inside of vases with leaves. “Those days are Scenes from fetes
so over,” she says. “It’s so much chicer to see past; Cove with
client Sims (right)
the stems peeking through the clear water.”

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 IPPOLITA ROSTAGNO
JEWELRY DESIGNER AND ARTIST
“I grew up in Italy and my father was an
experimental-theater director, so we spent
a lot of time entertaining,” says jewelry
designer Ippolita Rostagno. “It was a very
bohemian period, very My Dinner With
Andre—lots of characters.” The same can
be said of the colorful dinners Rostagno
now hosts at her Park Slope brownstone.
From left: You might spot, say, author Salman Rush-
Venini die bearing baked goods for a potluck.
glassware;
Castillo “It’s all about the mix,” Rostagno says,
and that includes friends famous and not;
mismatched, hand-painted china from
MERCEDES CASTILLO Milanese treasure Laboratorio Paravicini;
DESIGNER homemade floral arrangements (variegat-
ed tiger tulips are a favorite); and a rain-
bow of Murano glassware from La Forna-
Danish midcentury glass, which she fills sotta (available on Artemest, Rostagno’s
- with arrangements of “pink peonies, yel- online marketplace for Italian artisanal
low calla lilies, and red parrot tulips for a goods). And the food? Simple Italian fare,
her work), Castillo sees a tablecloth as a bold color statement.” Rules she swears by? such as tomatoes and mozzarella “with
blank canvas. “I have a fixation with white, “Seating arrangements and handwritten the best-quality olive oil you can get your
geometric shapes and 90-degree angles, place cards,” Castillo says. “I love connect- hands on” or a one-dish meal like lasa-

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so plates and vases are always white and ing people, and I think placement is criti- gna—always prepared the morning of,
either perfectly square or perfectly round,” cal, regardless of the size of the party.” “the better to concentrate on your guests.”

CARRIE LYN
STRONG
WINE DIRECTOR,
CASA LEVER
“I straight up just love
bubbles!” says Carrie
Lyn Strong, who
serves them up nightly
at Casa Lever. The Park Avenue restaurant
has been a fashion- and art-world staple
since 2010, thanks to both the food and the
interiors (there’s a wall of rotating Warhols
on loan from the collection of owner Aby
Rosen). For the most bang for your hosting
buck, Strong swears by Ca’ del Bosco’s Cuvée
Prestige (around $30), a Franciacorta, which is Rostagno; La
Fornasotta
wine-speak for a sparkling Italian white made Murano
drinking glass
champagne-style. She keeps it on hand, along (above)

with her favorite Humboldt Fog cheese, for

impromptu gatherings. And you needn’t
fret about old-school stemware: According
to Strong, it’s not a tall, elegant flute but a
wide-base pinot grigio glass that best retains
the fizz (she recommends the one from
Lenox’s Tuscany collection).

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 STEPHANIE
WATINE ARNAULT
FOUNDER AND CEO, CLOS19
“For my birthday one year, I was in
the middle of completing my MBA,
so I decided to invite all 300 of my
classmates to my garden to celebrate
with several magnums of champagne,”
From top: A
recent dinner
says Stephanie Watine Arnault. “It’s
party chez
Perry to
much more of a statement, and a
celebrate the wine’s taste varies with the size of the
designer’s
tenth anniver- bottle.” Easily done when the family
sary; Lisa
Perry place
biz, luxury conglomerate LVMH,
mats, available
at barneys.
counts some of the world’s most
com; Perry coveted wine and spirits producers
among its holdings. So passionate
LISA PERRY about entertaining and quality vin
DESIGNER
is Watine Arnault that she decided
Never let it be said that Lisa Perry can’t stick to launch Clos19, an online platform
to a theme. For her 2012 clothing collabora- that offers LVMH beverage brands,
tion with Jeff Koons, the designer hired a accessories, and incredible experiences,
balloon-animal artist for the launch party. which can be as simple as securing a
When she teamed with Robert Indiana, she mixologist for your next cocktail party
only served food from Indiana—“which was or as elaborate as an insider tour of
challenging at first, but turned out great.”
For Perry, Pop Art isn’t just a passion, it’s a
the Glenmorangie whiskey
way of life: A metallic green Jeff Koons ring distillery in the Scottish
sculpture sits on her sprawling Sutton Place Highlands, complete with
terrace, and her signature shiftdresses are falconry and archery lessons.
screen-printed with iconic works from War- Chez Watine Arnault, she
hol and Lichtenstein. “For a Pop-themed favors pot-au-feu served
dinner party, I’ll do Campbell’s tomato soup buffet-style and red wine
with a mini grilled cheese for dunking and
‘Chicken Pop Pies,’ ” Perry says. Also among
(in particular, Bodega
the designer’s staples: Gerbera daisies, stem- Numanthia, which starts at
less wineglasses, and her line of place mats around $20 a bottle).
featuring everything from paint-splatter
prints à la Pollock to single-word designs— Watine
Arnault;
Eat, Love, Fun, Hello—in bold graphic let- Bodega
tering. Above all, Perry insists that a relaxed Numanthia
(above)
attitude is key. “Entertaining should be fun,
not a chore or a bore. If it is, don’t do it!”

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STYLE
ACROSS
AMERICA:
DETROIT
The Motor City is revving up, with both
locals and transplants contributing to
its bustling art, fashion, and music scenes
Christina Chen menswear-inspired looks,”
MARKETING DIRECTOR, frequently paired with
SHINOLA Nikes (and sometimes a
@christinatchen1 vintage YSL heel). Off duty,
“I eventually caved,” she takes the city’s rich mu-
Christina Chen says of her sic history seriously, hitting
2015 move from New York up Detroit’s oldest blues
to Detroit to be with her bar, Raven Lounge; the
Michigan-born (now) Motown Museum, former-
husband after a 10-year ly Hitsville U.S.A.; or buzzy
long-distance relation- farm-to-table restaurant
ship. Having grown up Lady of the House.
in industrial Pittsburgh,
she instantly felt at home
in the city: “There’s an
energy I can’t explain.”
Despite having carved out
a fashion career working at
Alexander Wang and Yves
Trench coat,
Saint Laurent, Chen insists FRAME. Top,
she’s a casual dresser and Motown Museum FILA X DISNEY.
favors “drapey dresses and Skirt, PRADA.
Beret, DIOR.
Pumps, ISABEL
Coat, MARANT.
POLOGEORGIS.
Hoodie, BAJA
EAST. Skirt,
GIVENCHY. Roslyn Karamoko shows, art installations, and
Tote, SHINOLA. FOUNDER, DÉTROIT IS poetry slams. (She added an
Her own vintage THE NEW BLACK accent on the e in Detroit, a
T-shirt and @detroitisthenewblack nod to the eighteenth-century
Alexander Wang “I just loved the city and decid- French fur trade.) “Detroit

Nabile Quenum (styled by Yashua Simmons; hair and makeup

sneakers.
ed to stay,” says Roslyn Kar- style is about not looking like
amoko, a former retail consul- you’re trying too hard,” she
tant for Saks who, after stints in says, and the same can be said

by Megan Murphy); insets: courtesy of the venues

New York and Singapore, made for Karamoko’s look: vintage
Eastern Market the Motor City home in 2013. furs to brave the brutal mid-
Karamoko found herself moved western winters, the occasion-
by the city’s sense of pride, al print from Detroit native
often emblazoned on T-shirts Tracy Reese, and architectural
with slogans such as “Detroit pieces inspired by traditional
vs. Everybody” and “Detroit African garb from former GM
Hustles Harder.” When her engineer Muktar Onifade.
family questioned her decision, When not manning her store,
she joked, “Detroit is totally Karamoko heads to Eastern
the new black.” And so came Market for locally made
the name for her Woodward products, Parc for “irresistible”
Bad Luck Bar
Avenue store, which promotes lemon cake, and Bad Luck Bar
local creatives through fashion for inventive cocktails.

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 STYLE
Jesse Paris Smith ACROSS
COMPOSER, MUSICIAN,
AMERICA:
DETROIT
AND ENVIRONMENTAL
ACTIVIST
@michiganmanhattan
“I actually thought I would be
a writer,” Jesse Paris Smith
says. But for the daughter
of Patti Smith and Fred
“Sonic” Smith, music is in her
genes. So, too, is a renegade
sense of style. Though she
enjoys the theatricality of
dressing for the stage—she
favors gowns by Ann De-
meulemeester—Smith finds Jesse Paris Smith and Patti
Smith perform at Sindbads
her everyday pieces closer
to home. Detroit has “the
best estate sales and vintage
shopping around,” she says.
And for a distinctly Motown
bite, she hits up Lafayette
Coney Island and American
Coney Island, two rival hot
dog stands founded by a pair
Nabile Quenum (styled by Yashua Simmons; hair by Marina Bojaj; makeup by Megan Murphy); Pewabic: Alamy; remaining images: Getty Images

of brothers. (“My parents met

at Lafayette, so there’s the Lafayette Coney Island and
sentimental aspect for me, American Coney Island
too.”) Smith encourages visi-
tors to dive into the city’s rich
history and visit the 115-year-
old Pewabic pottery studio
(“Their beautiful tilework
graces all of the city’s most
iconic buildings and homes”) Jacket, PRADA.
for a unique souvenir, or sam- Top, GUCCI.
ple local seafood and sounds Trousers, ELLERY.
Platforms, SIES
at 67-year-old Sindbads MARJAN. Her own
Restaurant and Marina. necklace and belt. Pewabic
—Reported by Naomi Rougeau

SPOTTED! MORE GREAT STYLE ON THE STREETS OF DETROIT

Bree Hietala Leah Vernon Ellen Rutt Natasha T. Miller

HR manager, Rose’s Fine Food Fashion blogger Artist Filmmaker
@breeeetala @lvernon2000 @ellenrutt @natashatmiller

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Tradition since 1774.
birkenstock.com
Hair by Katsumi Matsuo at Art Department for Bumble and bumble; makeup by Sam Addington at Kramer + Kramer; manicure by Kelly B at De Facto
for Chanel; casting by Paul Brickman for Zan Casting; models: Tara Falla at Muse Models and Camila Costa at IMG

Far left: Sequin-embroidered dress,

DUNDAS, $5,100. Earring, FALLON, $110
(for pair). Crystal-embellished ankle boots,
GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI, $1,695. Stylist’s own
socks. Left: Embroidered dress, canvas and
leather handbag, ankle boots, all, LOUIS
VUITTON. For details, see Shopping Guide.

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FASHION TRENDS

OFF THE WALL

Rich interior-worthy florals are begging to be Silk dress, CYNTHIA
arranged according to your botanical whims ROWLEY, $495,
cynthiarowley.com

Hair by Katsumi Matsuo at Art Department for Bumble and bumble; makeup by Sam Addington at Kramer + Kramer; manicure by Kelly B at De Facto for Chanel; casting by Paul Brickman for Zan Casting; models:
Tara Falla at Muse Models and Camila Costa at IMG; Valentino jacket and Etro ankle boot: Richard Majchrzak/Studio D (styled by Jill Telesnicki for R.J. Bennett Represents); for details, see Shopping Guide
Gold and multicolor
gemstone earrings,
DIOR FINE
JEWELRY, call 800-
929-DIOR

Embroidered-georgette
pouch bag, REBECCA
DE RAVENEL,
Silk jacket, VALENTINO, $595, collection at
$10,300, valentino.com modaoperandi.com

Far left: Satin dress,

PREEN BY THORNTON
BREGAZZI, $1,555.
Earring, BALENCIAGA,
$195. Boots, ETRO,
$1,010. Left: Silk
dress, ETRO, $2,070.
Earrings, ROBERT
LEE MORRIS,
$300. Pantashoes,
BALENCIAGA, $2,950.
For details, see
Shopping Guide.

Floral ankle boot,

ETRO, $800, etro.com

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 THE MORE
THE MERRIER
How to concoct the cocktail
look of the moment? Try a slinky
dress-over-pants silhouette
Lace top, $2,750, pants, $1,990, gold-plated
metal cuff, $1,495, all, PROENZA SCHOULER,
proenzaschouler.com. Leather jacket, CHROME
HEARTS, $7,150. Gold earrings, KATHLEEN
WHITAKER, $4,400. Leather ankle boots, TOGA
PULLA, $460. For details, see Shopping Guide.

STYLIST’S TIP
To show a little skin
while still covering
up, opt for lace in
surprising shapes.

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Muse Models and Camila Costa at IMG; Brunello Cucinelli sandal and Alexander Wang x Stephen Jones party hats: Richard Majchrzak/Studio D (styled by Jill Telesnicki for R.J. Bennett Represents); for details, see Shopping Guide
Hair by Katsumi Matsuo at Art Department for Bumble and bumble; makeup by Sam Addington at Kramer + Kramer; manicure by Kelly B at De Facto for Chanel; casting by Paul Brickman for Zan Casting; models: Tara Falla at
with feather-festooned accents Feather and metal
earrings, PROENZA
Far left: Sequin and SCHOULER, $995,
feather dress, SAINT proenzaschouler.com
LAURENT BY ANTHONY
VACCARELLO. Cotton
top, VINCE, $85. Earring,
FALLON, $395 (for
pair). Watch, CARTIER,
$17,900. Left: Feather
coat, NINA RICCI,
$3,890. Vintage shirt,
WGACA, $128. Jeans,
LEVI’S, $65. Signet
ring, JEMMA WYNNE,
$13,950. For details, see
Shopping Guide.

Denim jacket,
CLOSED, $506,
collection at
Brooklyn Denim
Co., NY

Feather-embellished
raffia skirt,
JOHANNA ORTIZ,
$1,750, collection at
modaoperandi.com

Feather-embellished
calfskin sandal,
BRUNELLO CUCINELLI,
$4,295, at Brunello
Cucinelli, NYC

Rhinestone and
feather party hats,
both, ALEXANDER
WANG X STEPHEN
JONES, $5,100–$6,000 Jeans, AG, $245,
each, at Alexander agjeans.com
Wang, NYC

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Richard Majchrzak/Studio D (prop styling by Miako Katoh); for details, see Shopping Guide

BEAUTY
With feather accents,
the evening sandal soars
to dramatic new heights
EDITED BY MAYA SASAKI
Leather and feather sandal, SAINT LAURENT
BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO, $1,295,
at Saint Laurent, NYC

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ACCESSORIES

Richard Majchrzak/Studio D (prop styling by Miako Katoh); for details, see Shopping Guide

AUTO FOCUS
Merge into the fast lane with hot rod–inspired extras
Calfskin clutch, MICHAEL KORS COLLECTION, $1,290, michaelkors.com. Leather mule,
MIU MIU, $1,250, miumiu.com

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 SPOT TREATMENT
Filtered through Raf Simons’s lens, a calf-hair bag is more haute than honky-tonk
Calf-hair bucket bag, CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC, $3,950, calvinklein.com

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ACCESSORIES

Richard Majchrzak/Studio D (prop styling by Miako Katoh); for details, see Shopping Guide

WEST WORLD
Southwestern-inspired turquoise is the stone—and shade—of the moment
Leather clutch, BOTTEGA VENETA, $2,800, 800-845-6790.
Turquoise and bronze pendant on leather necklace, LISA EISNER JEWELRY, $7,000, collection at Maxfield, L.A.

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 From kitten heels to cocktail-ready bags,
designers are singing the blues—and elevating
denim to haute new heights
Lapis lazuli, brown
diamond, and rose gold
fiftieth-anniversary
special-edition
pendant necklace,
POMELLATO, $8,500,
pomellato.com

Denim loafers, TOD’S,

$545, tods.com
Tod’s loafers and Alexander Wang bag: Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D; remaining images: courtesy of the designers (6); for details, see Shopping Guide

Denim handbag,
SONIA RYKIEL,
$550, collection at
Barneys New York

Denim bucket bag, ALEXANDER

WANG, $595, alexanderwang.com BALMAIN

Denim slingback, KATE Denim and leather

SPADE NEW YORK, handbag, VALENTINO
$278, katespade.com GARAVANI, $2,195, at
Valentino boutiques
nationwide
Steel watch on leather and
rubber strap, TAG HEUER,
$1,550, tagheuer.com

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FASHION FE ATURES

YOU HAD
TO BE THERE
This season’s Milan and Paris shows
made a case for the power of the
runway. Véronique Hyland dives in
Sitting beneath the lights of a sparkling Eiffel
Tower, it’s hard not to surrender to your most
romantic impulses. And everyone at Saint Lau-
rent’s show this season at the Fontaine du Tro-
cadéro—with direct sight lines to the ultimate
Paris monument—did just that, turning into
unabashed tourists raptly taking photos of the
sight just as the lights went down. Days earlier,
a similar hush had fallen over a room of fashion-
jaded insiders when a quintet of supermodels
who need only first-name identification—Cin-
dy! Naomi! Claudia! Helena! Carla!—closed the
Versace show in Milan with a Grecian goddess–
like tableau. It was, to use a well-worn fashion-
ism, a moment.
Over the past few seasons, there’s been a lot
of hand-wringing about the relevance and ne-
cessity of the fashion show itself. Should that
lavish, elitist, admittedly old-school institution
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be replaced with the (admittedly more conve-

nient and casual) drop-in presentation? Should
designers show on Instagram, or some other Saint Laurent

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Versace

social media platform du jour? Is being jacked Chanel

into a live stream as good as the real thing?
This season, a dramatic spate of experiential
European shows—including Chanel’s runway-
side waterfall and Rick Owens’s outdoor
show, during which he soaked the front row
with steam—served as a pretty good riposte
to such doubts. Supermodels and supermon-
uments resound on Instagram, but they’re
even better live and in person. Think of Paco
Rabanne, which turned the city’s Grand
Palais into a disco hothouse of slit-to-there
dresses, Studio 54–worthy jumpsuits, and me-
tallic fringe. It was inspired, designer Julien
Dossena told me, by his friends’ response Prada
to the 2015 Paris terror attacks and the 2016
Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Rather father who owned a club in Brittany, he always
than sit at home in fear, they began going out saw clubbing as a way to express oneself and
to clubs more and more, embracing being celebrate the good things in life. He remem-
“young people trying to live their lives with as bers his dad’s patrons, who loved “dressing
much freedom as they can.” Nightlife pumps up and being seductive. They wanted to for-
through Dossena’s veins: Growing up with a get about their daily lives.” So, too, did his

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supermonuments
resound on
Instagram, but
they’re even better
live and in person.
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show invitees, at least for a little while—in-

cluding club-kid friends he invited to pack the
space. “Everyone told me they wanted to go
out dancing,” he said, “but it was 2 P.M.”

HAIL TO THE NEW CHIEFS

This season brought the anticipated debuts
of female designers at two French power
maisons. Clare Waight Keller, formerly of
Chloé, had Riccardo Tisci–size shoes to fill at
Givenchy, and she traded his Goth romanti-
Givenchy
cism for French sportif—from striped shirts
for daytime to wispy lace for evening. Her suc-
cessor at Chloé, Natacha Ramsay-Levi, kicked a story,” said Joseph Altuzarra, who relocated Rodin, where Karen Elson and Carmen Kass
off her tenure with an airy, feminine collection his runway to Paris for the first time to show stalked the runway in bra-baring gowns. After
that included nods to the house’s history, like his fishnet-overlay slipdresses and sequined Proenza Schouler and Rodarte decamped for
the equine prints on velvet suits. And she had a gowns. He still remembers being a teen in Paris to show during the July couture season,
beguiling innovation: doubling up bags linked France and unsuccessfully trying to crash a you might think Altuzarra was just following
by chunky gold chains. few of Tom Ford’s YSL shows at the Musée the herd. In fact, “it’s something I’ve been
thinking about for a while,” he told me. He
THE AMERICAN INVASION Rick Owens
grew up in Paris and attended a French lycée
Some of the season’s excitement was gener- much like the one where he showed, but the
ated by American designers who traded the collection went beyond that personal con-
Hudson River for the Right Bank. “The show nection. “I didn’t want to feel like this show
is one of the strongest places that you can tell was going to be a referendum on how French
I was,” he said. “Because I am French, and I
don’t really feel like I have to prove that I am.”
For spring, he looked not to Gallic clichés but to
anime classic Princess Mononoke and photogra-
pher Charles Fréger’s 2012 book Wilder Mann,
which depicted folk-festival costumes around
the world. Between the quilting, crochet, and
shearling touches, it was the crunchiest the
usually staid designer gets.
Thom Browne is known for turning his New
York shows into site-specific installations—
his Chelsea show spaces have played host to
reconstructions of a creepy hospital ward, a
Thom Browne Catholic church, and a schoolroom—evoking
stern, rules-based environments. So it was
a departure when, this season, he showed a
sunnier side and brought fantastical beasts to
Paris via a gauzy white unicorn costume worn
by two models. Browne leaned into weird even
more than before. One look—a cocoon that
encircled a model’s head—brought to mind a
mash-up of Klimt and the quilts of Gee’s Bend.
Who wouldn’t want to see that up close?

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EDITION

Index
the Holiday Style
PARTY
HOLIDAY

From the pair-with-anything party accessory, holiday coats that take

you from day to night, statement lashes, and perfect skin, plus much
more—we’ve rounded up the best in holiday style to ring in the
holidays—all wrapped up in an easy-to-navigate shopping guide
for your perusing pleasure. Here, Caitlyn Warakomski, Founder
and Editor of howdoyouwearthat.com, and ELLE Tribe Member
takes us on a mini tour of her must-have picks.

Guest edited by Caitlyn Warakomski @HowDoYouWearThat

/ 1 / 2 / 3

“I LOVE PAIRING
THESE SUPER-
COZY BOOTS
WITH LEGGINGS
AND OVERSIZED
SWEATERS FOR
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/ 4 / 5 / 6 / 7

/ 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12

“THE PERFECT
STAPLE TO
PAIR WITH
SLEEK
LEATHER
“ This 60 second in-
shower facial is ideal
for pre-party beauty
prep or post-party
detox—it makes
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PANTS OR radiant, and smooth
TROUSERS.” instantaneously!”
/ 13 / 14 / 15
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Boom Fox Intarsia Earmuffs; Fur.org/where-to-buy for Eye; PerriconeMD.com Florentine Cameron Satchel;
Pologeorgis.com 8. AVEENO®, POSITIVELY RADIANT® Dooney.com
5. NEUTROGENA, Healthy Volume Body Lotion; Walmart.com 12. AVEENO®, POSITIVELY
2. DOONEY & BOURKE, Becket Mascara; Ulta.com RADIANT® 60 Second In-Shower Facial; 16. DOONEY & BOURKE,
Henley Feed Bag; Dooney.com 9. L’ORÉAL PARIS, Total Repair 5 Damage Walmart.com Florentine Suede East/West
6. INTUITIONS JEWELRY, Inspirational Erasing Balm; Walmart.com
Skylar Tote; Dooney.com
3. BURBERRY, My Burberry Blush Bracelets with Birthstones and Diamonds; 13. ONE TWO LASH;
Eau de Parfum; Burberry.com 10. WOLFIE, Scarlet sheared beaver moto OneTwoLash.com
Intuitionsjewelry.com 17. L’ORÉAL PARIS, Revitalift
jacket with lamb leather trim and buckles;
Cicacream; Available at Mass, Drug,
Fur.org/where-to-buy 14. BIRKENSTOCK, Sarnia Suede black;
& Food Retailers
Birkenstock.com
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/ 17 / 18

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/ 19 / 20

“ A Burberry
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classic choice
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These bedside
essentials remove
even your most
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/ 25 / 26 / 27 / 28

“WHAT’S THE
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/ 29 / 30 / 31 / 32
18. PHILLIP GAVRIEL, Popcorn 21. BURBERRY, Mr. Burberry Eau de 25. L’ORÉAL PARIS, Colorista Sprays; 28. BURBERRY, My Burberry Black 31. L’ORÉAL PARIS, Lash Paradise
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Shine; Ulta.com Natural Silver Fox/Arctic Marble Fox Woven Bracelets for Men and Women with 32. POLOGEORGIS,The Olivia Shearling
19. ONE TWO LASH; & Black Dyed Fox Diagonal Jacket; Gold and Diamonds; PhillipGavriel.com Coat; Pologeorgis.com
OneTwoLash.com 23. PERRICONE MD, Cold Plasma Fur.org/where-to-buy
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Moisturizer; Walmart.com
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an might reject as too conservative, and attend-

ed a black-tie gala at La Scala in a pink gown by
the label Vivetta that looked, with its candy-
pink color and oversize bow, plucked from the
wardrobe of a very chic fashion clown. Novem-
bre mingles the bright-color–loving style of her
homeland, Argentina, with the Gucci-driven
eccentricity of her newfound home. And she’s
not alone: Instead of monochromatic cock-
tail frocks, Novembre and her friends turn to
statements like pajamas for evening, courtesy
of the Milan-based brand For Restless Sleep-
ers; or dresses dripping with disco glitter, from
the boudoir-inspired Milanese label Attico.
These are just two of the newish names that
have sprung up in response to demand for a
very old-fashioned commodity: eveningwear.
Yes, the word brings with it a whiff of moth-
balls, a holdover from an era in which “dress-
ing for dinner” was a thing. But if, these days,
“evening” can mean almost anything—from a
casual Netflix night with a backyard projector

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to a red-carpet event—young designers are re-
alizing the same anything-goes ethos can also
apply to eveningwear.
For Restless Sleepers, for instance, came
about when designer Francesca Ruffini decid-
ed to start wearing pajamas out at night. She
enlisted a tailor to make them at first, and “in
the beginning, I never wore them together,”
she recalls. “Just the top, like a jacket; or the
bottom, like elegant trousers.” Initially, she
elicited “very strange reactions. People were
afraid of wearing something so intimate to
go outside.” But since she started her line in
2015, fashion has seen pajamas evolve from a
left-field style idea to an evening staple. (And,
as Ruffini points out, it’s a staple with serious
history: Coco Chanel was known to sport her
pj’s on the beach beginning in the late 1910s.)
“I’m obsessive about comfort,” Ruffini says.
She doesn’t like to feel any fabrics against her
skin except cotton and silk, the latter sourced
A pajama “gown” by from Lake Como, whose factories have pro-
For Restless Sleepers duced silk for luxury brands like Louis Vuitton
for spring 2018
and Pucci. Her latest addition, ankle-length
pajama shirts, proves a comfortable alterna-
THE NIGHT OWLS tive to the standard gown. (Novembre’s styling
tip: “Never put pajamas with a flat shoe.”)
How about an oversize sweater for evening? Or why not pajamas? Giorgia Tordini, the cofounder of two-year-
Denim…or a tux! Véronique Hyland meets the new labels, and the boldface old Attico, also began designing to meet her
partygoers, who are pushing an anything-goes agenda after dark own needs. When she and design partner Gilda
Ambrosio found themselves reaching for the
A few years ago, Milan-based style blogger color. Completely unexpected. Everyone was rich, maximalist vintage pieces in their closets
Candela Novembre was rushing from a fash- like, ‘You went to amfAR in a raincoat?’ ” again and again, “we wanted to reproduce the
ion show—in which she’d walked—to the city’s Consider that just one of the leaves in No- same aesthetic for a woman of today—mod-
annual star-every-square-foot amfAR gala. So vembre’s prodigious stylebook. She’s also worn ern and fresh but still with that slight sense of
she threw on a bubble-shaped, brushstroke- a completely transparent lace skirt—over tap something old,” Tordini says. They named the
print Vionnet raincoat: “It was short and full of pants—with a sweater that Marian the Librari- label after the Italian word for “penthouse,”

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and have shown in one dizzyingly chic Milan
aerie after another. Says Tordini, “Attico is “Women want to be
a fashion brand that kind of creates a world
around it.” The duo’s own circuits around the a little bit excessive
street-style scene didn’t hurt the brand’s rise.
Says Tordini, a tad bashful, “People enjoy see-
sometimes. It makes
ing when we wear it.”
Tordini is another designer who doesn’t
you feel more like
believe in rules for eveningwear: Attico recent-
ly added jeans, which she recommends wear-
a woman.”
ing with one of their sequined robe dresses. al approach suits Milan, where “we entertain
“When you look at it, you’re like, ‘Oh, this is at home; that’s what people do. There is this
an eveningwear piece,’ but it’s nice to unbal- cozy elegance.”
ance it with something completely out of con- The flip side of the eccentric, print-heavy
text.” The label’s satin pouches—a carefree Italian approach is the starker style now ruling
alternative to the standard box clutch—have in Paris. There’s a reason Le Smoking originated
also become a hit, and for spring 2018 they’ve in that city, given the local preference for more
introduced mini feather-fringed bags meant to sober formality. One of the most notable heirs
be worn around the neck like jewelry. to the tuxedo-dressing throne is Pallas, a label
Meanwhile, J. J. Martin, an editor-turned- that’s been around since 1960 but launched an
designer also on the Milanese evening circuit— exceedingly hip tuxedo collection five years
though, she says, “I’m not a nightclub person; ago by the husband-and-wife team of heir-
I like to go to bed at 10”—has made maximal- to-the-house Daniel Pallas and Véronique A Vegas-inspired
ist prints the hallmark of La DoubleJ, her line Bousquet. It began when Pallas started mak- tuxedo look from
Pallas for fall 2017
of dresses and separates. “What’s great about ing items for Bousquet, who eschews gowns
wearing a print, especially one in a fancy fabric and all things froufrou. “The first style I made
like silk,” she says, “is that it automatically can for her was a tuxedo—even when she asked ’90s powers, wearing a slip accessorized with
feel very dressed up.” She’ll wear one of her me for a dress, it was a tuxedo dress,” says angel wings. In contrast with some of the
own dresses with Stan Smiths and “a big roly- Pallas, who grew up idolizing photos of YSL showy, lingerie-inspired versions out there,
poly sweater” on the weekend, then switch to collections. “I was amazed by the strength that Galvan’s live up to the stripped-down ’90s
jewelry and fancy flats after dusk. That casu- a tuxedo could give a woman. There is no mo- mandate, with ultraclean lines and few, if
dernity anymore with gowns. If you look at the any, embellishments. For fall, they’re feeling
another grunge-era staple, velvet. For those
- who fear its teen-goth associations, Holmgren
insists, “If you’re keeping the lines simple and
clean, it still manages to be quite modern.” She
- calls the result “not your mother’s velvet.”
One reason for eveningwear’s sudden re-
emergence is, of course, the 24/7 documenta-
tion of social media. A zany Gucci bee print or
Adam Selman denim jumpsuit, after all, gar-
ners more likes than the standard LBD. And on
- a practical level, several of the designers inter-
viewed for this story note that now that women
chronicle their nighttime escapades in detail,
it’s even harder to repeat outfits. Martin herself
has had moments of “ ‘Oh my God, I’ve been
caught wearing this dress 10 times. I guess I
can’t wear this again tonight’—though I do.”
- But in many ways, the new evening
clothes serve the same purpose as their pre-
decessors—they can make you look and feel
fantastic. “Women want to be a little bit ex-
cessive sometimes,” Tordini says. “It makes
the red carpet (left, on Candela Novembre), hard pieces led them to the silhouette, now the you feel more like a woman.” And Martin
a vintage-inspired Attico gown (on Giorgia foundation of the Galvan collection—and of a explains her evening-dressing philosophy
Tordini, center), or a Pallas tuxedo (on bridal range launching this month. Galvan’s as something any woman can aspire to: “I’m
Aymeline Valade, right), the best evening looks
don’t play by the rules. initial inspiration was a Peter Lindbergh photo smiling, I’m laughing, I’m enjoying myself.
of Amber Valletta, at the zenith of her waifish My life—and my dress.”

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FASHION TECH

based odor-control treatments

developed by Mint Materials that
will replace harmful chemicals
in fabrics, and leather substitutes
ethically created by VitroLabs
from the cells of cows and croc-
odiles. Both projects have the
support of the Fashion Tech Lab,
an incubator founded in 2017 by
Miroslava Duma.

BACK ON TRACK
Transparency has become a
buzzword in fashion, but how do
you really know the story behind
what you buy? That’s where
tracking technology comes in:
The Fashion Tech Lab “Imagine every item has a unique
showcase in Paris
identifier that’ll let you know it
isn’t a knock-off and that it was
BEST IN SHOW made sustainably,” Raskin says.
It’s a grand idea that’s already in
Lab-grown leather, bags with a built-in backstory, the works, thanks to companies 3
and shopping via headset? That might all sound like Avery Dennison RBIS and
farfetched, but it’s soon to be fashion-world reality. EVRYTHNG. With a mission to
Jenna Blaha gets a sneak preview give 10 billion products a digital
life, these tech innovators are
This month, thousands of new Digital Times, for a peek at the working with designers like
products and technologies advances she’s betting will be Rebecca Minkoff to make all her
will premiere at Las Vegas’s updating fashion’s operating bags smart (1).
Consumer Electronics Show system in 2018. Visit ELLE.com
(CES), the convention that has January 9–12 for exclusive, on-the- LEAN LINES
seen the debuts of everything ground coverage come showtime. Artificial intelligence is about
from the personal camcorder to make purchasing easier (and
(1981) to a smart hairbrush EASY BEING GREEN more fun). Prime example:

Getty Images for Fashion Tech Lab; Fashion Tech Lab event:
Runway: Getty Images; Duma, Ackermann, and McCartney:

Marie-Laure Dutel for Bureau Future (2); remaining images:

(2017)—and that, increasingly, Fashion-tech matchmaking is Levi’s StyleBot, powered by the sneakerheads push notifications
has become the tech world’s fueling the rise of sustainable artificial-intelligence chatbot to discover and purchase the
version of Fashion Week. We fashion. “The new e-textiles and company mode.ai, uses machine latest drops. And Swarovski and
asked CES producer Robin biotextiles are functional but also learning and rich visual features Mastercard have teamed up to
Raskin, founder of event beautiful,” Raskin says. Cases to transform shopping into a build Atelier Swarovski Virtual
production company Living in in point: cutting-edge, plant- conversation. Ask the bot to find Showroom, a VR (virtual reality)
you the perfect pair of black skin- platform that allows you to make
From left: Duma, ny jeans (2), and it’ll respond purchases from Swarovski’s
Haider Ackermann,
and Stella McCartney with what you’re looking for in home-goods line straight from
courtesy of the brands

at the showcase; the an instant. a crystal-embellished headset.

event space
So if you see a Zaha Hadid center-
STATE OF PLAY piece, you can learn the story
Nike is taking a cue from behind its craftsmanship—and
Pokémon Go: The new AR get it shipped to your door—with-
(augmented reality) camera in out ever having to lift a finger.

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 Ava Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon

ELLE celebrated the 24th annual Women in Hollywood event

at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on October 16,
presented by L’Oréal Paris and Real is Rare Real is a Diamond,
with a special thanks to CALVIN KLEIN. ELLE brought together
Hollywood’s most stunning and accomplished talent for a
celebratory awards ceremony hosted by Joel McHale.
Shonda Rhimes and Kathleen Kennedy Nina Garcia, ELLE Editor in Chief

Nina Garcia, Margot Robbie, Riley Keough, Kathleen Kennedy, Cicely Tyson, Jessica Chastain, Laura Dern and Tessa Thompson

Cicely Tyson

Vanessa Hudgens, Juliette Lewis and Julianne Hough Jennifer Lawrence Nina Dobrev
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Riley Keough and Lisa Marie Presley Nikki Read and Ian Somerhalder Cindy Crawford Annette Bening and Diane Ladd

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 INTEL
KING
CHARLES
Boyish good looks that
belie boundless depths?
Meet Charlie Plummer.
By Seth Plattner
“Everyone relates to the heroes—
that’s why they’re the heroes,”
says actor Charlie Plummer.
“But I’ve realized there are just
more layers to characters who
have been through something
dark.” That doesn’t mean Plum-
mer is going the villain route. At
18, he’s rendering performances
as emotionally rich as they are
gritty and complex. After a
breakout role leading 2016’s King
Jack, about a small-town teen
who is being bullied, this season
Plummer—the son of actress Maia
Guest and writer-producer John
Christian Plummer—is pulling
double duty as young men on
opposite ends of the coming-of-
age spectrum: In Lean on Pete, his
performance as Charley, a high
schooler who befriends a race-
horse and embarks on the road to
self-discovery, earned Plummer
the 2017 Venice Film Festival
award for best young actor. And in
Ridley Scott’s new All the Money
in the World (costarring Michelle
Williams and Mark Wahlberg),
Plummer plays John Paul Getty
III, the playboy heir famously
kidnapped in the 1970s, only to
be denied ransom by his wealthy
grandfather. “John thought he
was a man, because he was hang-
ing out with Mick Jagger—then
he was stripped of everything,”
Plummer says. “Charley, though,
is a boy who has to become a man.
Their journeys are backward, but
Luke Fontana

they’ve both been through some

grim stuff—and that’s more fun
to dig into.”

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INTEL MOVIES

for director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boo-

WHEN DANIEL DAY-LEWIS gie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood,
The Master), who also wrote the script and
DOES FASHION served as his own cinematographer. A cre-
ative dynamo who has always dreamed big
Could his indelible performance in Phantom Thread as a couturier (and has sometimes fallen short, it must
bewitched by his muse really be the actor’s final bow? By Ben Dickinson be said—as in his previous effort, the pot-
hazed slog of Inherent Vice), Anderson here

L 
ike a nuclear device stealthily de- handicap his chances of finishing his sto- bids fair to rival the likes of Orson Welles
ployed in the final moments of ried career by adding a fourth statuette from and Stanley Kubrick as a Hollywood auteur
this year’s Oscar-nomination wars, the Academy for the plum role of the ultra- for the ages.
Phantom Thread was quietly target- fastidious, tightly wound Reynolds Wood- And that’s not nearly all the Oscar bait
ed for release on Christmas Day; its detona- cock, 1950s women’s fashion designer to in this film: The intermittently deranged

This page: Laurie Sparham/Focus Features. Opposite page, from top left: courtesy of Paramount Pictures; Susie Allnutt; Liam Daniel/Vertical Entertainment; courtesy of Saban Films
tion will long be remembered among movie British royalty and high society. But I, for chamber-music score by Anderson’s frequent
geeks. For one thing, it’s apparently the vale- one, won’t be betting against him. Day- collaborator, the guitarist Jonny Greenwood
dictory performance of Daniel Day-Lewis, Lewis—whose father served as poet laureate of Radiohead, couldn’t be more hand-in-
who announced his retirement from the sil- of the UK—exudes authenticity and is utter- designer-glove for this drama. The sterling
ver screen last summer. He already stands ly arresting as a tortured, perfectionist soul British actor Lesley Manville absolutely
alone as the winner of three Oscars for Best cosseted in his upper-class milieu. Phantom slays as Woodcock’s loyal sister, Cyril, who
Actor; we’ll leave it to the oddsmakers to Thread is also a resounding return to form manages his career and daily life as if they
shared the same brain—early in the film, she
discusses dismissing his current paramour
as if the woman were a chambermaid. (“I
simply don’t have time for confrontations,”
Woodcock intones in response to a romantic
dispute over morning tea and pastries; later
on, Cyril spits out, “If breakfast isn’t right,
it’s very hard for him to recover for the rest of
the day.”) And not least do we admire new-
comer Vicky Krieps, the Luxembourger who
plays Alma, the ingenue who’s the engine
of Woodcock’s comeuppance in this mind-
boggling turnabout-is-fair-play drama.
From his patrician perch in swanky Lon-
don, where much of Phantom Thread was
filmed (specifically in Fitzrovia, a neigh-
borhood just north of Soho where Virginia
Woolf once lived), Woodcock frequently
escapes in his snazzy maroon sports car
to a country home on England’s tweedy
northeast coast. It’s here that he encoun-
ters and woos Alma, a foreign national who
waitresses at his preferred local restaurant.
He makes her his muse; fans of Pygmalion
and My Fair Lady can fill in much—but not
nearly all—of what follows. He dresses her
with spectacular care and design; the film
pulls us wholly into dressmaking as a craft
of meticulously constructed magic. But he
also comes to lord over her in a way that she
ingeniously rebels against, with the des-
perate cunning of the powerless, in a thor-
oughly shocking way. Phantom Thread is a
work about a master craftsman, by a master
craftsman, starring a master craftsman; it
exerts a gravitational disorientation, an at-
mospheric approximation of insanity, that
Krieps and lingers with you long after you wander back
Day-Lewis
into your own mundane life.

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 TRUST US

FINAL ACT
In the fact-based drama Film Stars Don’t Die
in Liverpool, Annette Bening shines as the
forgotten Oscar-winning silver-screen star
Damon and Gloria Grahame, who by the late 1970s was
a downsized trying her luck in English regional theater;
Jason Sudeikis Jamie Bell plays the earnest young actor who
falls under her spell in this May-December
romance, backed by Vanessa Redgrave and
DIRECTOR’S SPOTLIGHT mer—all your dental work has to be removed
a uniformly strong supporting cast.
and then replaced to scale as soon as you’re
IT’S A SMALL tiny). It was incredibly time-consuming to
make the world around the tiny people as re-
WORLD alistic as possible, Payne says—from the huge
vegetation to the way waves lap under tiny

AFTER ALL boats—but “I wanted the visual effects in this

film to be so believable as to be banal. It’s a
Alexander Payne’s imagination visual-effects movie, but I wanted it to look
goes gloriously global, and goofy, like a Robert Altman or a Hal Ashby film—all
just normal, everyday life.”
in Downsizing The verisimilitude allows the imaginative
Downsizing, the latest offering by the con- story line to command our attention, and FUNEREAL HOME
sistently excellent Alexander Payne (Elec- you need to be paying attention as the film A cavalcade of stars—Christina Hendricks,
tion, Sideways, The Descendants), seems careers from spoofing on the time-share- Julian Sands, Gillian Anderson, and Glenn
preternaturally of-the-moment—especially condo vibe of living in a micro-McMansion Close, for starters—carry on with high-
mannered good humor in Crooked House, yet
considering that Payne and his collabora- subdivision (“The Summit at Navajo Or-
another Agatha Christie whodunit, this one
tor, Jim Taylor, have been working on the chards,” the place is dubbed with signature adapted by Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park,
project for more than 10 years. “The issues Payneian wit) into plot twists that include Downton Abbey). Max Irons stars as a 1940s PI
that get touched upon are not new ones, but a Vietnamese émigré who was involuntari- puzzling out the demise of an eccentric clan’s
I think recent events have made them more ly downsized for being a political dissident patriarch in the family’s country manor.
salient,” Payne says dryly. (the radiant Hong Chau, who, in Payne’s
“We’re very close friends,” Payne says of own estimation, “steals the movie”) and a
Taylor, “and when we write, we’re always in climactic scene involving a cult of micro-
the same room together. We literally have environmentalists who are devising a tiny
one monitor with two keyboards.” Downsiz- refuge from global warming, “until the sur-
ing, their most imaginative concoction yet, face environment stabilizes” from a coming
seems at first to be a straight-up satire about methane-induced meltdown (think Journey
social inequality that riffs on a simple and to the Center of the Earth). Our leading char-
literal-minded premise: What if, in agreeing acters have to decide whether “the future is
to become a microsize version of yourself down in that hole!,” as one of them says, or
(via a process of “cellular reduction” devised whether to stay the course above ground.
by Norwegian scientists), you could shed Just when you might fear that Payne is going TANGLED UP IN BLUE
The inimitably scruffy John Hawkes lifts Small
your mortgage and debts and subsist luxuri- to find a smug, PC resolution of this dilem- Town Crime from a 1970s noir genre exercise
ously at a fraction of the cost of your present ma, it all ends with something of a hilarious into a transfixing character study about
standard of living? As the financially harried whimper. “If anything,” Payne allows, “we an ex-cop with a drinking problem whose
middle-American Safraneks, Matt Damon were a bit too greedy in trying to cast a very redemption story involves solving a young
local woman’s murder—while unintentionally
and Kristen Wiig agree to take the plunge. big net of ideas.” Give the man credit—this endangering the lives of his adoptive sister
Payne has wicked fun with the special ef- film is a marvelously expectation-defying (Octavia Spencer, also a producer on the
fects and practical logistics involved (bum- creation.—B.D. film) and her family.—B.D.

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SHE LIKED TO WATCH

And then she dove in. Erica Garza has written
a riveting, can’t-look-away memoir of a life
lived hard-core. By Lisa Shea
In an era when predatory male sexual be- by middle school, when her best friend
havior has finally become a topic of urgent turned on her and she was diagnosed with
national discourse—I personally consider it scoliosis. For two years, Garza wore a pain-
a public-health issue!—Erica Garza’s Getting ful corrective brace, followed by surgery.
Off: One Woman’s Journey Through Sex and She withdrew socially and got hooked on
Porn Addiction (Simon & Schuster) makes for TV—“the beginning of my intense bond with
a wild, timely read. In the prelude to her raw, screens”—which led to an obsession with
sometimes almost pornographic memoir, pleasuring herself while watching porn, dis-
Garza, who’s in her midthirties, writes that covering virtual online sex and game-based
her dual addictions fed “an elaborate mix of chat rooms, and exploring her bisexuality.
shame and sexual excitement I had come to “The type of porn I watched varied from
depend on since I was twelve years old. And day to day. My young lust gravitated to cat-
my methods of getting this only became egories like cheerleaders, schoolgirls, and
darker and more intense so that it wreaked teens, probably because I related to the youth-
havoc on all aspects of my life until I became ful theme,” she writes. “I was also drawn to
a shell of a person, isolated, on a path to cer- lesbian scenes, which were equally exciting
tain destruction.” regardless of the age of the actresses.”
Garza grew up in a middle-class house- Garza says she would “carry the scenes
hold in a Los Angeles neighborhood dubbed around with me all day, fantasizing about
“the Mexican Beverly Hills.” She was a top the people around me and imagining what
student at a private high school, read Sylvia we’d do if given a dark room and opportu-
Plath and T. S. Eliot, and went to Hawaii on nity. And as exciting as it was to feel a man’s
family vacations. But Garza’s neediness and
feelings of emptiness had already emerged
eyes on me, when it didn’t happen, I felt
empty and pathetic.”
THE AFFAIR
Online hookups progressed to many a A powerfully sexy novel
messy offline “violent romance,” and to takes its heroine into that
blacking out on drink and drugs. The com- place: unwilling to lose her
mon thread was Garza’s compulsive need to husband, unable to shake
feel sexual humiliation and shame, and her her lover
destructive quest took her from California
to Italy and New York City, to London and Charged with erotic energy and an al-
Hawaii, Thailand and Bali. Consider a Ha- most mystical yearning, Jamie Quatro’s
waiian encounter, set up by her landlady, debut novel, Fire Sermon (Grove Atlan-
who is also a madam: “Just as I was starting tic), is a tour de force exploration of lust,
to feel disgusted with him and with myself, marriage, longing, and love. Quatro, who
something strange happened. There was a lives in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and
shift. An opening. Suddenly, I felt turned on. who wrote the rapturously received 2013
I opened my eyes and saw him on top of me, short-story collection I Want to Show You
this old man I didn’t know or like, and then More, moves even deeper into the brave
I looked over at the photo of him on the wall territory she exposed in those lavishly
with his kids, and I, too, felt like a kid. Like praised stories, exploring the tensions
a little girl who was unsure of herself and that play out when heightened sexual de-
didn’t know what else to do but hand herself sire, intellectual frisson, and having one’s
over to a man, any man.…” beliefs tested meet the quotidian routines
Garza eventually got the real help she and rewards of work, family, and faith.
needed, immersing herself in a mix of East- In the novel, Maggie is a Brooklyn-
ern and Western religious and therapeutic based emerging writer, a graduate stu-
practices and meeting a man she was ready dent in postcolonial theory at Princeton,
to honestly share herself with. Her sexual and a married mother of two whose mod-
appetite now? As Garza, who’s married and est, steadfast husband, Thomas, works
has a daughter, tells it: healthy, open, and no for an architectural firm. On their June
longer ruining her life. wedding day in Malibu, she had bragged

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to her parents, “He’s a good listener.…
You should see him with children. You
should hear him play the guitar.” On the
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this deal.” And she had replied, “I’m get- Hardest Things I’m Learning to House), the author’s first since
ting you.” Say (Random House) includes his canonic Jesus’ Son rocked
Years later, when Maggie’s uncle dies chapters on how to say no— readers 25 years ago.
and leaves her a million dollars, the fam- because “no makes room for
ily moves to Nashville, where Thomas yes”—and on how saying yes
enrolls in grad school and Maggie be- allows for “a second chance,
gins corresponding with a brash, estab- but maybe not a third.”
lished Chicago-based poet named James, And “Science Advice God-
dess” Amy Alkon’s practical
whose work she admires. Almost a year
and hilarious Unf*ckology:
goes by before they meet at a conference. A Field Guide to Living With
“James saw me first.… I was wearing a Guts and Confidence (St.
scoop neck blouse, long skirt, flip-flops. Martin’s Griffin) begins:
My hair pulled back, no makeup.… He “You can’t order a lightly used
stood waiting.… I felt he wanted to watch spine off eBay. There’s no
me approach, to study the way I moved; Find My Balls cousin of Find
I imagined he felt that any movement on If you’re game for a slim, My iPhone.… All you actually
his end would dull his pleasure in watch- stylish novel set in New have to do to change is behave
ing. The look on his face was one I would York City’s risky demi- like the confident person you
monde—to which a kick-ass want to be.”
become familiar with, whenever we were
feminist fatale has just re-
together: amusement on the surface, ad- turned after a decade abroad If you adore color, you’ll
miration beneath. A kind of ease, some- (“I left in Dubai a closet of love Kassia St. Clair’s The
thing already understood. We belong to beautiful dresses”)—read Secret Lives of Color (Penguin
one another.” James asks Maggie if she’s Katherine Faw’s fearless Books). This passionate and
coming to his talk. “Of course. I wouldn’t Ultraluminous (MCD). Simi- majestic compendium of the
miss it.” And after? She says, “I’m free all larly captivating is British origin stories of 75 shades,
afternoon, I said. What’s on your agenda? writer Hermione Hoby’s de- ranging from Naples Yellow
‘You’re my agenda,’ he said.” but novel, Neon in Daylight to Scarlet to Heliotrope to
(Catapult), about an offbeat, Celadon to Jet—“Some are
What Maggie can share with James
smartly observant hero- artists’ colors, some are
that she can’t achieve with her husband
ine newly arrived in New dyes”; others are akin to
includes ecstatic sex (“He entered me York City during the sultry “sociocultural creations”—
three ways at once. Cock in my mouth, summer before Hurricane will leave you bathed in the
tongue in my front, fingers in my back”); Sandy; Ann Patchett calls gorgeous optics of light.
heady postcoital talk about literature Hoby “a marvel.”
and art; and, at least for Maggie, a feel- If you’re in the mood for a
ing of divine union with Christian mys- If you need a double dose of cautionary work of farsight-
tics like St. John of the Cross, who wrote sage advice, this month two ed fiction à la Margaret
of how it is possible to be “sexually wise women have your back: breaks new ground, British Atwood, try Leni Zumas’s
“Poet Laureate of the Ordi- author Emma Glass’s debut, Red Clocks (Little, Brown).
aroused in the middle of spiritual acts,
nary” Kelly Corrigan’s Tell Peach (Bloomsbury)—about In an Oregon fishing town,
such as prayer, or communion, because
a girl experiencing the after- the fates of five courageous
when the spirit is moved to pleasure it math of a sexual assault—is women—a single high school
drags the body up with it.” a must-read: “I sit in the sun teacher and a historic female
Quatro’s special magic as a writer is her and look up at the sky and polar explorer she’s writing a
ability to illuminate and intensify Mag- count the clouds. One is a biography about; a mother of
gie’s secret (and ultimately finite) love wolf. Two is a toad. Three is two stuck in a static marriage;
affair so that it seems to resonate across a tree. Four. My eyes are sore an adopted daughter who
decades of Maggie’s life, continuing to from staring. I look down at accidentally gets pregnant;
shape and inform her even as her mar- the grey ground. A shadow and a woods-dwelling homeo-
stops the sun from shining on pathic healer—converge in a
riage endures, her career thrives, and her
my face. His twig-thin fingers spooky-good novel of ideas
children grow into adulthood.
touch my cheek.” Another about the power of collective
Incorporating a mix of narrative styles original, from National Book resistance against the tyr-
from epistolary to confessional to flash- Award winner Denis Johnson, anny of rights and freedoms
back, Fire Sermon is a virtuosic portrait of who died last year, is the denied, from the author of
flesh-and-blood sensuality and the mys- transcendent posthumous The Listeners and Farewell
tery of salvation.—L.S. story collection The Largesse Navigator.—L.S.

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Department for Dior; model: Alecia Morais at the
Mikael Shulz (makeup by Kajsa Svanberg at Art

Society Management)

NOCTURNAL
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Because sometimes the best part of the
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VIOLET FEMME
What better setting to debut an experimental beauty look
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DISCO INFERNO
Sandy Linter, makeup artist to
Studio 54–era It Girls, literally wrote
the book (1979’s Disco Beauty) on
bedazzling: “The rest of the face has
to be perfectly made up,” Linter says,
with sparkle added selectively —to
the Cupid’s bow, for instance— to
achieve the desired impact. These
days, glitter comes in many forms,
from biodegradable paillettes to self-

Mikael Shulz (makeup by Kajsa Svanberg at Art Department for Dior; model: Alecia Morais at the Society Management)
adhering, microfine sparkles. But
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 LINER NOTES
On the fall 2017 runways, makeup
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interpretation of the backward

step is understanding your
troubling thoughts, not trying
to make them go away, and, in
the process, letting yourself
back down. If you’re criticized
or called out for something, the
ego’s first impulse is to protect
itself—and often we respond by
acting defensively or by pushing
away. A therapist listening to
you describe your experience
can help you put your finger on
it. But once you realize “Oh,
that’s the ego,” you don’t have
to totally identify with that
response. Even in people who
are very advanced in meditation
or therapy, I don’t think it ever
goes away—like, if someone
honks at you when you’re driv-
ing, the impulse to immediately
honk back is still there. But
you’re freed up just a little bit,
and that ends up feeling good.
ELLE: This reminds me of
Bruce Springsteen’s remark-
able ability, which you de-
scribe in the book, to forgive
his verbally abusive father
and look forward, choosing to
honor what was good about
his dad and not dwell on the
scars he caused.
ME: Yes! I heard Springsteen
saying this years ago on the
radio. He was taking what’s
good and leaving the rest—and
I loved that. This was before
Springsteen wrote his [auto-

This page: Kayla Snell/Stocksy. Opposite page: courtesy of the publisher

biography], but he seemed to

YOU’RE NOT ALL THAT be thinking about what he was

going to write, and clearly it was
In a world where navel-gazing is almost a cliché, psychiatrist Mark Epstein the evolution of a long process
proposes a new, very old way: Curb your ego. By Louisa Kamps of coming to terms with his
imperfect father. But he was not
In this age of unbridled brag- Buddhist philosophy, Epstein ELLE: You write that our getting stuck. As therapists, we
gadocio and deep anxiety, it’s shows us in this warm and human egos can be very know that people often hold on
easy to wonder who we really riveting book how following tricky and persistent, making tightly to their resentments—it’s
are. But that’s why Advice Not the Eightfold Path—eight us feel arrogant and entitled, a certain type of clinging. And
Given: A Guide to Getting Over clear steps of meditative prac- or embittered and less than, the feeling of liberation that
Yourself (Penguin Press), by the tice designed to deepen self- depending on the day or comes when you step away from
psychiatrist and author Mark reflection, behavior, and even the moment. But you them is analogous to the feeling
Epstein, MD, a longtime scholar action—can reduce stress; also say we can slip free of of liberation that the Buddha
of Buddhism and author of reboot our natural human our egos’ grip by taking talked about, when you step
the best-seller Going to Pieces empathy; and help curb our what’s known in Buddhism away from overidentification
Without Falling Apart, feels like egos’ gnawing desire to make as “the backward step.” with your own ego.
a godsend. Weaving insights ourselves “bigger, better, Please explain. ELLE: You say it’s good to be
from psychology together with smarter, stronger.” Mark Epstein: I think a good generous toward others, to err

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on the side of forgiveness. But
letting go of resentment is also
seeing women now who’ve
had all kinds of weird [sexual] Has modern psychology
a way to be generous toward
ourselves. How can we learn
to be more forgiving?
experiences, some worse than
others, beginning to speak to
one another and realizing that
made us too quick to blame
ME: One major piece of advice
in this book, if I were to distill
how they’ve been speaking to
themselves—totally privately,
our moms for everything
it, is to not take yourself so
seriously. It is tricky, because
and often very untruthfully—is
also, in some ways, a univer-
that goes wrong in our
a lot of people everywhere—
certainly a lot of people in our
sal experience. Sharing these
stories publicly might actually
lives? “Yes, yes, a thousand
culture now—don’t really take
themselves seriously enough.
have an effect on changing
consciousness, moving us in a
times yes!” Epstein says.
They’re putting themselves positive direction.
down all the time, and they ELLE: Springsteen had to the emphasis on the mother important now to know there
don’t think well enough of reckon with his dad. Yet you (and father) is not so out of place. are other places you can go that
themselves. But there’s also a note in the book that while But this does not have to be the are just as, if not more, inter-
strong clinging to the self in forgiving one’s mother “does only prism we look at ourselves esting. Meditation is like the
all of that—a kind of overpre- not show up in the [Buddhists’] through, and it can be tremen- secret ingredient: They knew
occupation with the self, even traditional list of liberating dously liberating to question the about it in India thousands of
in someone who doesn’t have insights,” if the list were being resentments we harbor. years ago. And Right Concen-
a healthy enough ego. They’re compiled now, it would “be ELLE: Describing Right Con- tration—available at the tips of
better than they’re thinking near the top.” Why so? Has centration, the final step of our noses, as we breathe in and
they are, and they could find modern psychology made us the Eightfold Path, you write out—shows us there’s a whole
more liberation by learning how too quick to blame our moms that by sitting in deep con- internal world available through
to let go of all that negativity. for everything that goes centration, we observe the the portal of deep attention.
The same advice to not take wrong in our lives? “incessant…repetitive, and ELLE: Why do you think
yourself so seriously holds for a ME: Yes, yes, a thousand times self-serving thoughts” churn- therapy and meditation work
person who has an overinflated yes! Freud and his followers ing in our minds and often especially well together to
ego: She would be much better shed light on how important find balance by recognizing help people change?
off if she could let go of her own those early years are, how those the impermanence of every- ME: The great gift that I was
self-preoccupation. On both early relationships condition thing, including our thoughts. given by coming to Buddhism
sides—[having too much or too us and form the nucleus of our But getting people to home and meditation before I came
little ego]—there’s too much identities. No one ever bothered in on anything besides their to psychotherapy was that I had
self-preoccupation, and that thinking that way before. But we phones is a big ask these days. a real faith that everything that
turns into anxiety. all now subscribe to that point How do you help people pay happens in life is workable—and
ELLE: The third principle of of view, even if we have rejected attention to their inner lives? that even the most painful stuff
the Eightfold Path—Right Freud and even if psychoanaly- ME: Well, the phones are here that happens can be used for
Speech—also seems especially sis has long passed its prime. We to stay, and we have to deal with growth. Freud’s final paper was
important right now. How can are also living in a time of nu- them. Sometimes when I teach titled “Analysis Terminable and
those of us who’ve kept quiet clear families rather than large meditation to big groups, like in Interminable.” And [in psycho-
in the face of sexual harass- extended families, so perhaps a yoga studio, I ask everybody therapy], there’s always been
ment and abuse learn to speak to take out their phones and this stoic, ironic idea that “Well,
truth to power? turn them on so they’ll beep we’ll do the best we can, but we
ME: It’s hard to be a person: if they get a text or a call. The don’t quite know how it will go.”
We all feel very separate and room becomes filled with ran- But from Buddhism, I knew that
isolated. Even when we’ve dom sounds, like a John Cage balance and liberation from
been raised in a loving family, symphony, and we make these clinging is conceivable. That
we all have weird experi- the object of meditation. was so encouraging for me, and
ences, strange encounters ELLE: That’s funny! I imagine I could bring it to therapy as the
with people, that we rush to that hearing the abstract operating vision: the idea that
explain away or paper over— jumble of sounds reduces the our essential nature is concern
and the ego talks to us about allure of your own phone’s for others, and once you get
them in ways that turn out not individual ping and points over yourself enough—stop
to be true [and often are very out the absurdity of our high taking yourself so seriously—
self-critical]. Right Speech is regard for these devices. empathy emerges and makes
about not only how we speak to ME: Exactly. Phones can you a happier and more fulfilled
each other, but how we speak become our entire world. But person. It’s a completion of a
to ourselves. I think we’re that’s why it’s helpful and kind. And it’s profound.

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Clockwise from top

left: Majolica tiles in
the cloister of Santa
Chiara; Pica; Naples,
with Vesuvius in the
distance; paint colors
that inspired Chanel
nail polishes; detail
of the door to Gesù
Nuovo; a fresco at
Herculaneum

eye shadow palette mimic the What are some of the best
THE ITALIAN JOB rich burnished golds, browns,
and greens of a showstop-
ways to use the Poudre à
Lèvres lip powder?
When masterminding Chanel’s spring beauty offerings, ping cathedral ceiling; and It sounds intimidating, but it’s
makeup artist Lucia Pica took her cue from the palette of a peachy blush captures the easy and very comfortable to
her storied birthplace. The result? A hyperluxe collection color of misty clouds hovering wear. You can use a brush to
that’s as classic as it is modern. By April Long over Vesuvius at sunset. Pica’s apply the powder over a red

Tiles, fresco, and church interior: courtesy of the author; Pica and remaining
favorite creation, a lip-powder- lipstick to change the finish
Naples, Italy, is a crush of grandeur of Naples, as well as and-balm duo, was inspired and help it stay on longer. It can
crumbling baroque churches, all of its oppositions—ancient by the soft reds of Pompeian look very romantic if you apply
daredevil motorcyclists, yellow- and contemporary, mysterious frescoes, which were originally the powder only in the middle

Naples images: Max Farago; all others: courtesy of the brands

rock cliffs plunging into a and energetic—into color and painted onto wet plaster. “I and then blend it out into the
turquoise sea, and multihued texture,” Pica says from her was thinking about how the other color; that gives it a faded,
houses, resplendent beneath the perch in a picturesque hillside colors of these 2,000-year-old kissed effect. Or you can just
watchful eye of romantic—but villa, waving a hand toward the frescoes are still so rich, but put on a bit of balm, then tap
menacing—Mount Vesuvius, city below, which still bears the they also look powdery,” she the powder on top. That gives a
the still-active volcano that distinct architectural imprints of says, “and it made me think really soft, tinted look and adds
swallowed nearby Pompeii and the Roman, Byzantine, French, of something I do all the time volume to the lips.
Herculaneum in 79 A.D. It’s also and Spanish cultures that have on photo shoots—which is pat What’s the secret to making
Chanel global creative makeup held sway over the centuries. a glaze of powder on top of ultrabright eyeliner and
and color designer Lucia Pica’s The color of the collec- lipstick to make it more matte. shadow look sophisticated?
hometown, and the inspiration tion’s mascara, for example For me, it was a natural bridge: Even if a color is very intense,
behind the brand’s vibrant (described by Pica as “a to take these abstract refer- it can still look like it’s part
spring collection, Neapolis (tak- gunmetal black with flecks ences and translate them into of your skin and part of your
en from the metropolis’s original of light”), matches the door something that can actually go personality. I like to layer a
Greek name, meaning “new of the fifteenth-century Gesù on a woman’s face to enhance cream eye shadow underneath
city”). “I wanted to translate the Nuovo church; the hues of the her beauty.” a powder, for example. The

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 “So much little bit, so that it feels lived-in.
I think that makes it more wear-

about make- able and less dated—it wouldn’t

make you think of the ’80s.

up is the You assisted Charlotte Tilbury

for three years. What did you

attitude with learn from her?

She’s the most vibrant, ener-

which you getic, and focused person I’ve

ever met. Her stamina is so
inspiring, and she was always
wear it.” very supportive. She made me
believe that I could do it, and
tle feline shape and then put that was so important. I’ve been
mascara on—so that you have lucky to have many women
Gesù Nuovo
the impact of the color, but your come into my life and help me
eyes still have definition. I think get to the next level, and that’s
a bright eyeliner, like a bold what Charlotte taught me more women also like to have some-
green, also works best next to a than anything else: confidence. thing a little more relaxed,
darker color, so you definitely The new Chanel collection whether it’s their hair or some-
want a lot of black mascara for was inspired by Naples, but thing else, and they don’t like
a bit of chiaroscuro. This will you live in London and work to look like they’re wearing a
create intensity and depth—and a lot in Paris. How have lot of makeup. I like things that
make the eyes look so inviting. those cities informed your are not entirely perfect—I find
You’re not someone who steers notions of beauty? that very interesting. Finding
away from the bold-eye/bold- I’ve been in London for 19 beauty in reality.
lip combo, either. years. It’s formed my adult per- What’s most important to you
So much about makeup is the sonality, I think. I love the way when developing products?
attitude with which you wear that people express themselves I always think about how things
it, and the juxtaposition of with such a strong individual- are going to feel. I often touch
textures. It’s superimportant to ism and freedom there. That’s a product with my eyes closed
keep your skin very fresh and very different from Italian to see if I like the texture. And
combination makes any color natural-looking when you’re beauty, which is all about being then I test it on myself. As a
appear more velvety and a bit wearing powerful colors on your radiant and glamorous. Your woman, I know how I like to feel
more alive. When you’re using, lips and eyes. This helps to cre- hair is done. Your face is done. with makeup on. It should be
say, a blue shadow on the lid, ate balance and keeps it modern. There’s a lot of color coordi- comfortable and something that
you can use a dark liner through I also sometimes put balm on the nation. And then Paris has the anyone—not just a makeup art-
the lash line to create a sub- lid to break up bold eye shadow a glamour, but I think French ist—can use in her everyday life.

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 nance. “I think that he adjusted the shape of
WRINKLES IN TIME your eyes somehow. And it’s beautiful—eyes
are what define beauty. He’s very aware of
A year after her facelift, Holly Millea tells you what to expect those elements.”
when you’re not expecting bumps along recovery road. Relax. You get “I always thought you were beautiful,” our
a beautiful visage—and, if you’re lucky, some superpowers, too chum Joanna chimes in. “You’re funny, and
your personality has always been a part of
I’m only half joking when I say that my head- the next thing I knew, I was waking from a your beauty. But if you feel more comfortable
stone will read, “Here lies the body of a writer deep, anesthetized sleep in a Manhattan re- in your skin now, then all the power to you,
who never met a deadline she could meet.” covery room following four hours of nipping my friend, if it makes you happy.”
So what, you might ask, does this have to and tucking—a midlife bid to buy back time. I am happy. I look exactly the way I looked
do with the one-year anniversary of my last Thanks a little to luck, and a lot to the sleight when I tied my hair in a tight ponytail, minus
Beauty Adventure, the one that required of hand of my plastic surgeon, David Rosen- the ponytail. Simply put, the surgical cinch
scalpels and stitches and staples and seda- berg, MD, the results were magically subtle: tidied up my face, brought my bone structure
tives and several bottles of Christmas cheer: I was not a new version of myself, just me… back to light, and raised my spirits as well.
my brow lift and facelift? only better. No one will even suspect, Rosen- ’Twas the week before Christmas when I
Everything, because it has to do with time berg had promised. “Unless you tell anyone.” went on my most adventurous Beauty Ad-
and the passing of that finite commodity, I told everyone. Though not at first. But my venture, chronicling every drop of blood in
and how we choose to invest in it—or are too friends were telling everyone, so it was only my column, as well as my post-op recovery
risk-averse to invest in it, leaving us without a matter of time before an acquaintance ran details, among them: When I brushed my
memories: Do you remember that time we…? up to me and said, “Oh my God! Have you hair, my scalp felt like a doll’s head, as if it
Yes! Those were the days. As an old, much heard? You had a facelift!” I wanted to get weren’t mine. I had a bald spot the size of a
older boyfriend told a teenage me, “Get over ahead of the not-fake news. quarter—“root shock”—around one of the six
your blues, baby. Time flies whether you’re “Here’s to your face turning a year old,” 1-inch incision areas, each an inch inside my
Bess NYC

having fun or not.” my pal Germaine says, raising her glass of hairline. The twigs on the branches of my sen-
Seemingly overnight, decades passed, and Burgundy. She leans in, studies my counte- sory nerves signaled they were reconnecting

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via random tingling sensations and sporadic up, up, up, up, increasing exertion. Like a feeling an injection,” he explains, pressing it
shooting flares. It was all totally normal and frog in a pot of water set to boil, I dumbly all around my head with each shot. It works!
funnily bizarre. I’d feel an itch near my ear, adapted to my rising internal temperature. I After 25 injections of novocaine, I turn into
but when I scratched, it was like scratching felt fine—good, even. Twenty minutes later, a numbskull, while Melissa centrifuges my
someone else’s face. I’d scratch a tickle on I dismounted in a proud sweat, and my face blood, separating the red blood cells from
my nose and feel the scratching on my fore- burst into flames. When the crimson flood of the gold-colored platelets, which contain po-
head. “This phenomenon is what’s known as blood finally drained, tiny blue capillaries ap- tent growth factors. Paul sucks the precious
referred sensation,” Rosenberg explained. peared, creeping around my ears and jawline. liquid into another syringe and proceeds to
“There are four nerves the size of linguine Surely they’d disappear, right? fertilize my follicles. I don’t feel a single one
that run up to your hairline from the eyebrow The bald patch, however, was not disap- of the twentysomething PRP injections.
area; they have little offshoots that go into the pearing fast enough. (Is it my imagination, Before I go, Paul tells me to come back in
top of the nose. These nerves are stretched as or am I shedding more hair everywhere?) two months for another treatment, prom-
part of the brow lift, and that causes a tempo- Both Rosenberg and his partner, Ben Paul, ising, “You should see a change by then.”
rary misfire of the sensations.” MD, had patiently tried to allay my fears, ex- PRP is recommended every six weeks for a
When I last reported on this topic, I was plaining that root shock is a fairly common year, and thereafter twice a year for main-
about a month postprocedure, still slightly side effect of anesthesia and resolves itself tenance. Good to know, as 40 percent of all
swollen and numb from the neck up. And lik- in three months. women experience hair loss at some point
ing the results of my buyback. in their lifetime.
Then came the physiological setbacks.
“Inside, you’re still healing,” Rosenberg I was liking the Paul hands me a small bottle stamped Hair
Care, MD. It’s an individualized topical com-
said. “It’s like a graduate course—during the
year after surgery, you become an expert in results of pound addressing my specific issues. (I’m not
special. Every patient is prescribed a bespoke
your body’s recovery. But each month is bet-
ter than the prior month for looking in the my buyback. bottle.) Mine contains 5 percent minoxidil,
aloe vera, and melatonin. “Roll this on your
mirror and looking better, rather than watch-
ing yourself age. That’s what fuels the ability Then came the bald spot and natural part twice a day,” he
instructs me. “Do not use it on your face,
to sustain the ups and downs of what happens
over the next 12 months.”
I was an excellent patient. Noncompliant
physiological because it really does work.” In that case,
there’s gotta be a secret ingredient. Paul
smiles. “Rosenberg’s tears,” he says.
by nature, I nevertheless followed the doc-
tor’s strict instructions to take time off from
setbacks. By the second round of PRP, my garden is
sprouting; by the third, the bald spot is stub-
all head-turning exercises: two weeks away But I am nothing if not fearful—and im- bly and filling in. On my fourth visit, eight
from spin class and the elliptical; one month patient. Six weeks postsurgery, fearing a months in, the top of my scalp has a new layer
off from tennis and golf; and six weeks off Trumpian comb-over, I’m sitting in Paul’s of Dr. Seussical fringe that stands up until I
from yoga, Pilates, and swimming—no office, his nurse Melissa drawing two vials flatten it with a flatiron.
sweat, I never do those anyway. My favorite of blood from my arm. Enter the doc, a tall, But I have other problems. Or rather, post-
exercise—gum chewing—was verboten for dark, handsome Doogie Howser type who surgical surprises. In addition to being late,
one month, as it overworks the neck muscles looks preternaturally young for someone and noncompliant, and also underachieving,
before they’ve healed. who’s a board-certified otolaryngologist overdoing, and impatient, I am obsessive.
By the end of February, I’d gained eight and facial plastic surgeon and a leading Those dilated, broken capillaries? Still visi-
pounds, with an assist from Valentine’s Day expert in hair loss and restoration, with an ble on my visage. I tear myself away from my
candy clearance sales. Already living in arm’s length of honors. 10x magnifying mirror and Uber it up to my
athleisure, I headed to the gym for a little Paul intends to jump-start my re- dermatologist, Dennis Gross, MD, who, see-
face-forward treadmill action. “Don’t overdo growth with a treatment that uses my own ing Holly 2.0, says, “Wow! You look great!”
it,” Rosenberg said. platelet-rich plasma (PRP) as a scalp fertiliz- I confess to having a facelift and brow lift
It’s also my nature, when not willfully un- er. “Think about your hair like a garden,” he and to treadmilling until my head burst into
derachieving, to be an overdoer. My goal? says, combing through mine. “If you have lots flames—and point to the collateral damage.
Burn a heart-shaped box of Whitman’s Sam- of follicles that are miniaturized, you need to Always one to know what’s what and why
pler chocolates, roughly 9,236 billion cal- fertilize. You don’t need more plants [i.e., a what is what it is, Gross explains, “Anytime
ories, in 30 minutes. I’ve never jogged, but hair transplant]; you need healthier plants.” you have a nip or tuck, anytime you have to
I’ve got this. News flash! Jogging requires He hands me a pillow to hold, wipes my move skin and be rough with it and pull and
getting your entire body off the ground all at scalp with alcohol pads, picks up a syringe, stitch it and manipulate it, like with a facelift?
once. Something I haven’t done since I was and begins microinjecting novocaine into Those little blood vessels will break because
a cheerleader. The landing impact made my my head. I flinch, grit my teeth.… “Are you in we are injuring a fragile structure as a result
newly cinched cheeks feel like they were be- pain as I do this?” he asks as the pillow bursts of mechanical manipulation.” Oh.
ing yanked back down away from my ears. and feathers fill the air. Turning to Melissa, Other capillary busters? Sun, alcohol,
Without question, my jogging experiment, he says, “Let’s use the vibrator.” She opens a pimple picking, rough scrubbing…I’m guilty
conducted freshly facelifted, proves that drawer and pulls out a five-and-a-half-inch on all counts. But I get a reprieve. “What you
this popular activity strains facial muscles. gold number called a Nüevibe. Paul slips it have is fixable with the Vbeam laser,” Gross
Send my Nobel Prize in Research c/o my ed- into the finger of a rubber glove and turns it says. V as in vessels—the laser only sees red,
itor Liesl at ELLE magazine. on. “The vibration is placed near the injec- breaking up the blood in the capillary, which
I slowed to a walk and pressed “Incline” tion site and helps distract the brain from is then taken away by the immune system.
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 From left:
Elliott and
Current

FAIR GAME
Emily Current and Meritt Elliott head to Texas’s Round Top
Antiques Fair in search of design inspiration. Spoiler alert:
They don’t go home empty-handed. By Lauren Smith Ford

Skye Parrott (hair and makeup by Andrea Schutter at Zenobia)

In early October, while the fashion world on a jam-packed 20-mile stretch of barns and
transplanted itself to the runways of Paris, tent-filled cow pastures. Originally a place
Emily Current and Meritt Elliott, the celeb- for in-the-know antiquers, Round Top (which
rity stylists–turned–designers, found them- recently added a third show to its calendar
selves in Round Top, a speck of a town in the due to popular demand) has become a more
Texas Hill Country, for the triannual Round mainstream destination over the last decade
Top Antiques Fair—a Texas institution since as buyers from Anthropologie and Resto-
1968. Three times a year, the one-stoplight ration Hardware started making the journey
community—situated between Austin and for inspiration and store-display propping.
Houston, and with a population of less than This is Current and Elliott’s first time in
100—transforms itself into a whirling der- Round Top, but the exercise—scouring racks
vish of fashion and design inspiration. It’s for that one gem of a find—is familiar to
in this itty-bitty piece of rural Texas that them. Friends since their days as undergrads
200,000 shoppers and 6,000 antiques deal- at UCLA, they bonded over a shared love of
Tents at
Round Top ers hawking everything from vintage Stet- vintage and spent many a Saturday morning
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Goodwill. After graduation, the L.A.-based
duo began their careers as stylists (they still
continue to style a small roster of celeb cli-
ents, including Jessica Alba) and eventually
launched their eponymous denim brand,
Current/Elliott—purveyors of the megahit
boyfriend jean—in 2008. Current and Elliott
left the company in 2012, reportedly over a
dispute with Serge Azria, the brand’s own-
er. In 2015, they founded The Great, which is
similar to Current/Elliott in its boy-meets-
girl sensibility and vintage Americana ap-
peal but has greater range than the denim
brand: The fall collection included a boxy
argyle sweater that could have been plucked
Blankets on offer at
from the set of School Ties and a polka-dot the Marburger tent;
off-the-shoulder dress with billowy bishop reworked vintage
jackets by Samuel Brave
sleeves that recalls a Laurel Canyon–era Joni Manufacturing (right)
Mitchell. “We discovered through styling
our [Current/Elliott] look books and meet-
ing customers that they wanted to know
what our shirt was and what our shoe was,
“I see three pottery colors and I see three
and most of the time the answer was some- different shades of white—that concept
thing vintage or something we made,” El-
liott says. “So we knew there was a thirst for
our aesthetic in different fabrications.”
could inspire an entire collection.”
Back in Round Top, Elliott, a tall and prag- Current hasn’t been able to stop thinking ers come for inspiration,” Elliott says, “but
matic brunette, is behind the wheel, heading about the white clay pottery she saw at Mar- as a fashion designer, I look at these three
down a byway toward Marburger Farm, the burger Farm earlier in the week—which both pottery colors and see three different shades
marquee and therefore largest show with- she and Elliott take as a sign that the pieces of white—a tinge of pink or green changes
in the fair, when Current, a polished blonde would blend in nicely at one of their homes everything—and that concept alone could in-
and daughter of university professors, en- (they reside on the same street in West Hol- spire an entire collection.”
thusiastically calls out, “Pull over!” A pop-up lywood) or in their office—so from the dense- It doesn’t take long for the pair to breeze
shop encased in vintage red-and-white circus ly packed Marburger Farm parking lot, they through the endless rows of antiques, and
tent material, with a southwestern cow skull beeline back to the Brown Shed booth. With even when a booth seems cluttered, they
perched at the entrance, has caught her eye. a few words and a knowing glance shared somehow quickly give it a scan and spot a
They hop out of the car and practically run between them, they’re soon having bowls gem that would go unnoticed by most shop-
(in their matching Boxcar Boots, a Victorian- wrapped up and taken to the shipping station, pers. They’re seeking embroideries, Victori-
style lace-up from The Great) to a hanging where shoppers can get their items sent back an lace, floral prints, and, of course, denim.
rack of worn-in, paint-splattered overalls. As home. “I know this is where interior design- Along the way, Current buys a southwestern
Elliott inspects each one, her excitement is indigo-and-white poncho, and Elliott tries on
palpable. “You can’t re-create these washes,” A vintage and then buys a hand-dyed pastel tunic from
she says, carefully combing through the rack. African tribal a French artisan. They poll each other on
textile that
“These are the types of pieces my grandfa- the designers which of the vintage rust-colored U.S. mail-
ther would wear in his woodworking work- bought bags is just right.
for $90
shop. They just feel authentic, like someone As their two-day marathon trip comes to
truly worked in these.” She’s a decisive shop- an end with a celebratory round of margar-
per, and after a once-over of the rack, she itas at local favorite Los Patrones, Current
buys two pairs and is back on the hunt. reflects on how Round Top was more than
Why make the trip to Round Top? “What they ever imagined. “This has been so in-
happens in Paris sometimes is that people credible for us, because you can’t be creative
have these big ideas that trickle down into on demand. You can’t be in 20 meetings and
fast fashion, and it’s so much the opposite then be expected to create. There has to be
process for us, where we are looking at the a moment where you are sweaty and you
little things and trying to create something are digging and thinking and dreaming, all
bigger out of it,” Current says. “Being here while your subconscious is working to piece
feels like getting back to our roots of being things together,” she says. “That’s how we
creative, which is hard to do when you’re run- did it in the beginning, and it feels good to
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then it became clear, right away, there’s going

to be a huge deficit on his side every month.”
This wasn’t a total surprise: Nine years
ago, Andrea’s husband—let’s call him Phil—
decided to leave his job and go back to school
for his PhD in literature, with his wife’s full
emotional and financial support. “I didn’t
care about who earned more,” said Andrea,
who earns a good living as an executive at a
tech company. “I wanted him to be happy.”
Since then, Phil had gotten a job as a
part-time teaching assistant. But look-
ing at the cold, hard numbers, it was clear
this wouldn’t be enough for them to follow
through with the vague plan they’d come
up with: Andrea and the kids would stay in
their rent-controlled apartment, and Phil
would get a place nearby. In their neighbor-
hood, Phil couldn’t afford a backyard yurt.
She wasn’t even sure how he’d be able to
move out. “And we need separate spaces
so we can maintain goodwill,” she thought,
starting to panic. “We can’t be around each
other’s dirty socks and dishes in the sink.”
Thankfully, her husband, who had appar-
ently been making the same calculations,
spoke up.
“I’ll have to get a job,” he said.
Andrea was relieved. “He was being very
stoic,” she recalled approvingly. But to her
surprise, the mediators seemed to discour-
age him. While it was true that Phil was the
lesser earner, they said, he had still made
THE LAST FEMINIST TABOO contributions to the marriage, and as such
was afforded certain benefits under New
We’re constantly fighting for equality—at work, in York state law: For instance, in a custody
relationships, out in the world. So why does it ignite a deep arrangement such as the one he and Andrea
rage within us when we’re told that we women also had planned—in which the couple would
get the privilege of paying alimony? By Jessica Pressler truly share custody of their two children—
the moneyed spouse, in this case, Andrea,
Last year, Andrea, 37, and her husband de- she and her soon-to-be ex had reached a lev- would be held responsible for paying a larg-
cided to end their marriage. It wasn’t easy. el of equanimity. “He’s a good person; I’m a er portion of the children’s expenses. And as
They’d been together for 17 years and had good person,” she said. “I just think we’ve the “nonmoneyed spouse,” Phil was entitled
two small children. But over time, a col- changed.” to spousal support, to be determined based
lection of grievances and resentments had Once they’d made the decision—or, rather, on Andrea’s income.
piled up under their marriage like tinder. “called it,” as Andrea said, “like on a medi- Spousal support? Like, alimony? Every
Add to that the pressure of living in New cal drama when someone’s dead”—things nerve in Andrea’s body suddenly felt like it
York City: “Two working parents, no family moved quickly. Determined to keep the situa- was on fire. Who did they think her husband
nearby,” Andrea points out. “Things were tion amicable for their kids, they made an ap- was, Zsa Zsa Gabor? She tried to catch Phil’s
bound to blow up.” pointment at a friendly-seeming mediation eye, but he was listening intently. When she
For at least a year, the couple tried to rec- office, one with child psychologists on staff ventured to say that if she was working full
oncile their differences. They read books who specialize in helping families navigate time, she thought it was only fair that Phil
and articles, and logged countless hours on the complex emotional territory of divorce. work full time, she felt as if everyone—in-
Bryan Mullennix/Alamy

the tear-sodden couches of various thera- While it can’t be said that Andrea and her cluding Phil—was looking at her as though
pists. But nothing worked, and finally, they husband felt good walking into their Upper she was in some way trying to take advan-
were tired. West Side facility, at least they felt in control. tage of her ex.
As agonizing as making the decision was, That is, until the mediators asked them to sit Was she? Later that night, as Phil con-
it was also a relief to agree on something; down and draw up a budget. “We were like, tentedly snored in the bed they still shared,
when I spoke to Andrea a few months later, ‘Okay, fifty-fifty,” Andrea recalled. “And Andrea tossed and turned. As a child of

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the 1980s, she considered herself “all for ny, but the term is ancient and has simpler the case, decided the husband had a point.
equality and feminism,” blind to the tradi- roots. Derived from the Latin word for sus- “The old notion that generally it is the
tional gender roles her parents had grown tenance, the concept can be traced back to man’s primary responsibility to provide a
up with. That was how she had gotten into the Babylonian king Hammurabi—he of home and its essentials can no longer justi-
this situation in the first place, she thought the “eye for an eye” system of justice—who fy a statute that discriminates on the basis
indignantly. declared that if a man wished to separate of gender,” Justice Brennan wrote in the
Phil was a great dad, but it wasn’t like he from a woman who has borne him children, court’s landmark 1979 decision, Orr v. Orr,
had sacrificed his career to take care of the he must give her a percentage of his wealth which ruled that alimony be awarded based
children and domestic work. “He’s been (and if they did not have children, he must on financial need rather than gender and
working part time so he can do other things return her dowry). At the time, women had required that states rewrite their laws using
for his career,” she said. Meanwhile, they— few economic possibilities outside marriage. sex-neutral terms.
she—paid for a part-time cleaning lady and (“If a woman opens a tavern, she should be The victory was bittersweet for William
full-time child care. “So that he could pur- burned to death” was another of Hammu- Orr, who by then was president of his broth-
sue his hopes and dreams,” she said. rabi’s rules.) And the goal, in addition to er’s technology company; he was ordered to
While Andrea felt empathetic toward her discouraging divorce, was to preserve the pay his ex in full, with interest. Nor was this
ex—she still, despite everything, wanted social order: If every man threw his wife out particular breakthrough in equal rights cel-
him to be happy—there were practical con- on the street when he was tired of her, the ebrated by feminists, especially given that
cerns. For starters, she couldn’t afford to the same year, Congress had failed to ratify
support two households in New York City.
And there was another uncomfortable
As of 2010, the Equal Rights Amendment.
“For 200 years, women have been coming
thought roiling in the back of her mind: a
sense that “if the roles were reversed” and only 3 percent before judges and saying, ‘I’m entitled,’ ”
famed divorce lawyer Raoul Felder said on
she were in Phil’s shoes, if she were the
lower-earning spouse, she might feel differ- of men a TV panel after the proceedings. “And then
the United States Supreme Court said, ‘Hey,
ently about the situation. “I feel so conflict-
ed,” she told me. “On the one hand, I want received spousal men are just as good as women.’ ”
“Men are not just as good as women,”
to be like, ‘Sorry, it’s not my job anymore to
support your lifestyle.’ On the other hand, support—but his foil on the panel, divorce lawyer and
women’s-rights advocate Cecile Weich,
if a man was speaking of his wife that way,
we’d be like, ‘What an asshole.’ ” that number fired back. “Women, in most instances, are
better. That’s not the point. In the United
Andrea wasn’t alone—not in being in this
situation, or in feeling conflicted about it.
In 2013, the number of households with kids
might soon jump. States, we have a Constitution that doesn’t
recognize women as equal under the law.”
Nor were women recognized as equal in
under 18 featuring female primary bread- streets would be filled with starving women, the workplace. The year the court passed
winners was 40 percent, according a study which wouldn’t be good for anybody. Orr v. Orr was the same one in which the Bu-
from Pew Research, up from 33 percent in Several hundred years later, the ecclesi- reau of Labor Statistics first measured the
2005. And while as of 2010 only 3 percent astical courts in England adopted a similar wage gap and found that women’s paychecks
of men received spousal support from their rule, although since divorce was anathema averaged 62 percent of men’s. Divorce only
wives, that number might soon jump. “It’s a to the church, alimony was only granted in made these numbers worse, according to so-
huge issue,” says Elise Pettus, the founder of exceptional circumstances, to those whose ciologist Lenore J. Weitzman, who reported
a New York–based support group for divorc- husbands were judged truly despicable (in in 1985’s The Divorce Revolution that men’s
ing women called UNtied. “And there’s a the Middle Ages, this bar was high). Eventu- standard of living increased by 42 percent
big backlash against it,” she says, in part be- ally the rule made its way to America, where in the year after a divorce, while women’s
cause many of the women divorcing now— its essence remained the same—the man and children’s dropped 73 percent. “I handle
who, like Andrea, come from Generation X paid the woman—right up until the 1970s, many women in the courts who are unable
or older—find themselves caught between when William Orr, a fortune seeker in San to get a job, because they have to take care
the views they grew up with and those of Francisco, fell $5,000 behind on payments of those young children,” Weich said on the
their parents, who came of age in the 1950s. to the ex-wife he’d left back in Alabama. panel. “And I have heard middle-aged male
“We all think we’re feminists,” Pettus says. Instead of paying up, he decided to take his sexist judges say to those women, ‘Well,
“But our society hasn’t fully caught up.” chances suing the state: The law, he protest- this is liberation. Go out and get a job.’ ”
ed, was unfairly based on “archaic notions” All of which is to say, for a long time after
The word alimony has itself become some- of gender roles, an argument that had reso- that, if you heard about a woman paying her
thing of a shorthand for the war between the nance in the post–civil rights era. Although husband “to go away,” as Felder put it, it was
sexes, thanks to the Hollywood stereotype lawyers for Orr’s ex, Lillian, countered that probably someone rich and famous. Like
of a scheming vixen with dollar signs on her alimony was a kind of acknowledgment Jane Fonda, who forked over $10 million
eyeballs, hell-bent on taking her ex for all of, and reparation for, the long history of to her second husband, or Roseanne Barr,
he’s worth. discrimination against women—the mal- who supported her first for nearly 16 years.
The first version of this schemer was treatment and burning and whatnot—the Or Joan Collins, whose fourth husband,
likely introduced in the 1949 movie Alimo- Supreme Court, which eventually took on a Swedish rock star, asked for $80,000 a

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month after 13 months of marriage in 1987. this is how men have been feeling all along— that. “Men are fragile; we know this,” says
“Isn’t there a bit of a loss of dignity in “This is what equality looks like!” says Alan Orna Guralnik, a New York–based couples
this?” TV talk-show host Phil Donahue Frisher, the head of the National Parents therapist. “And they tend to experience di-
asked Collins’s ex, Peter Holm, glancing at Organization of Florida—the reality is more vorce as a massive loss of control.” With
the audience, who laughed uproariously, complicated. the caveat that this is a generalization, she
because even then the idea of a man being Like Sexton’s client, many of these higher- points out this also tends to hold up with gay
financially supported by a woman seemed earning women feel as if they are contrib- couples who adhere to traditional gender
ridiculous. After all, it had been the other uting more than their fair share already, in roles. Male or masculine-identifying clients
way around for literally hundreds of years. the form of childbearing, housework, home- who feel like they are losing their mascu-
(Holm ultimately received $80,000 total work, and “emotional labor.” Carol Gilligan, line grip sometimes try desperately to hang
from Collins.) a psychologist who specializes in women’s on—and sparring over money can be a way
Over time, there were more of these sto- and ethical issues, says the anger women of doing so. “It’s about retaining some sense
ries—J.Lo paying her backup dancer hus- feel is fully understandable. “We know it’s of control,” Guralnik says. “Control of the
band, Cris Judd, $14 million; Roseanne, hard for women to do what, for a lot of men, other, and control of their own lives.”
again, this time having to give $50 million is easy to do, which is sit down and read a On the other hand, women (or female-
to Tom Arnold; Britney Spears paying Kevin newspaper, and not see the dirty dishes or identifying people) tend to see divorce as
Federline $1 million; Roseanne, again, pay- that someone needs a costume for school. freedom, Guralnik says. “For them, the idea
ing her final husband and onetime body- of continued contact through payments
guard $40,000—and they started to seem
less surprising. And not just because you “Ten minutes feels like a noose; they’re allergic to it.”
However it ends up, this sort of battle
could see them coming a mile away (ladies:
Stay away from the help!). Women of the non- before, they were tends to lead to lasting scars. This was the
primary reason Ritch Workman, a former
famous variety were also gaining economic
ground, and states like New York were doing Al Bundy, and Florida congressman who worked with Alan
Frisher on an alimony reform bill in that
away with the dreaded term alimony and re-
placing it with maintenance, which was seen now they’re state, decided to forgo his own “manimony”
(a term coined around the time of that 2008
as “something more rehabilitative, meant to
get lesser-moneyed spouses into a position
where they could be self-supporting after a
Gloria Steinem.” Wall Street Journal article) during his own
divorce. Sure, it was partly “a macho” thing,
he concedes. But at the time, Workman was
divorce,” says Tom Kretchmar, a lawyer at All those nights with a sick child, or at a soc- also out of a job, and “it would have been an
Chemtob Moss & Forman in New York City. cer game, that doesn’t count. But when they easier transition for me to take money from”
The refashioning of the idea of marriage as are earning money, it does count?” his ex-wife, Tiffanie, whom he’d trained in
an economic partnership, as opposed to an This is something that Elise Pettus hears the mortgage business. But he’d seen how
institution defined by gender roles, might about at the workshops and dinners she ugly things could get—like the guy he knew
be part of the reason why by 2008, the Wall hosts. “What I am hearing is ‘Yeah, he stays who had the checks he wrote to his wife
Street Journal reported that men were “shak- home, but I’m still doing the lion’s share of printed with a photo of his face on them, so
ing off the stigma of being supported by the housework,’ ” she says. “Or ‘I’m still pay- that she would see him whenever she cashed
their ex-wives.” ing for a nanny, because he’s working on his them—and he didn’t want that. Workman
Which, again, wasn’t exactly the kind novel or his band.’ ”  settled for her making him a pot of coffee at
of feminist milestone women felt like cele- This is also true of many of the female her house every time he went to pick up their
brating. James Sexton, a New York divorce breadwinners Kretchmar sees as clients. kids, which he and his ex refer to as his “al-
attorney, estimates that for him, cases in “In many cases, you have women with these imony.” “What was most important to me
which the wife is the main earner have gone huge jobs with enormous commitments, was that we had shared custody,” Workman
up tenfold in the past decade—a period of women who earn more money and work lon- says. “Those people who pay money and be-
recession that saw men’s earnings decline ger hours than their husbands, but are none- grudge each other, they’re the ones picking
while women’s leapt higher. “I have a client theless really, truly, and heroically still the up their kids at McDonald’s.”
right now,” he says. “She has $2 million in primary caregiver to the children,” he says. Back in New York, Andrea was beginning
stock options from a company, and her hus- “In those situations, a battle that frequently to worry that she and Phil were headed for
band is a total parasite. All he did was start plays out is whether the father can succeed this Unhappy Place. Since their mediation
unsuccessful businesses and be like, ‘Yeah, in getting fifty-fifty custody of the children, session, Phil had become increasingly hos-
one will take off!’ And she’s deeply involved which, generally speaking, would qualify tile. “He started blaming me,” she said.
in the lives of her children,” Sexton goes on, him to receive not only maintenance from “You wanted this,” he hissed at one point, as
“and I saw it dawn on her, like, ‘Wait a min- his wife but child support as well.” though divorcing had been her idea. Their
ute—I’m supposed to give him money? Be- It’s enough to make a man suddenly be- second mediation session was even worse:
cause he tried to start, like, guacamole.com lieve deeply in equal rights. “You see it all Phil, Andrea said, “kind of freaked out,”de-
and it didn’t take off?’ ” the time,” Sexton says. “Like, 10 minutes manding that child-care expenses be split
This reaction—disbelief, followed by before, they were Al Bundy, and now they’re seventy-thirty.
rage—is not an uncommon one. While Gloria Steinem.” What happened to his idea about get-
men’s-rights advocates like to point out that Of course, there might be more to it than ting a full-time job? Andrea ventured to ask
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THEY VOTED TRUMP. HOW’S THAT GOING?

At the end of the president’s first year in office, five of his female voters talk to ELLE.
They still support him. But it’s been a wild ride for them, too. By Linda Tirado
PHOTOGRAPHED BY SKYE PARROTT

T
hings change very slowly, and then
all at once. In the course of this year-
long series on five women who voted
for Donald Trump, I thought I’d find
the reaches beyond which Trump’s voters
wouldn’t go. That even the people who sim-
ply hated Hillary Clinton would eventually,
mostly, come to realize that she’d have been
a better choice. Right?
That hasn’t happened, at least not with
the women we’ve been following. As I type
this, Trump’s approval ratings are at record
lows, and his administration is still mired in
chaos. Yet many of Trump’s voters are stick-
ing by him; all of our women are, though
most of them aren’t overjoyed with the job
he’s doing. Some of it is the sunk-cost falla-
cy: You’ve made a bad bet and you know it,
but you stick with your decision because you
don’t want to admit you’ve made a bad bet.
I’ve never experienced this in politics, but I
could name a few exes I gave far too much
credit to—and too many chances to—before
I finally learned better. Half the reason I
stuck with them for as long as I did was that
I didn’t want to think of myself as so stupid
as to have been taken in by a charming lout.
None of the five women I interviewed are
stupid; quite the contrary. They are all articu-
late about their Trumpian choices. So for this
last piece, I decided to let them speak in their
own words about some of the pivotal events
and sound bites of the past year. What did
they think about…
The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, last
August, when hundreds of mostly young
white men marched through the town with
actual torches shouting, “Jews will not re-
place us”?
Florida immigration lawyer Mayra Joli
says, “In my view, if blacks have the right to
march, to protest, to do whatever peacefully,
everybody has the right to do it. The pink-
hat girls in Washington, the white-hood
guys, the ski-mask guys, the gangsters—
everybody has the right to protest. Don’t tell
me that I have the right to protest only if you
like what I’m going to say. The way the pres-
ident handled it is by putting the blame on
everybody.” Oregon rancher Kristie Davis
Joli says she hadn’t really thought about Char-
lottesville at all: “I think I was out in the

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READER POLITICS

Clockwise
from left:
Feiwell; Euston;
Meiler; Davis

fields.” Missouri small-business manager

Stephanie Meiler told me, “I stopped pay-
ing attention.” The toxicity of the political
campaign, she said, had given her politics
fatigue. (Then she grew fatigued with me; in
August, Meiler stopped returning my calls.)
And what about Trump’s moves on the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA)—specifically, his throwing the pol-
icy back in Congress’s lap and giving the
members six months to pass a law regard-
ing the so-called Dreamers?
“America was built on immigrants, and im-
migration will be a part of our future success,
too,” Georgia executive Kimberley Euston
emailed me. “But the immigration ‘system’
today doesn’t work for anybody—not citi-
zens, not companies, and not undocumented
immigrants. Trump’s move[s] forced Con-
gress to begin addressing these issues.”
Is the media “the enemy of the people”?
“No, absolutely not,” says Nevada home-
maker Brittany Feiwell. But in Davis’s opin-
ion: “Um, in general? Big media, yes. I really
don’t rely on mainstream media anymore. I
do rely a lot on Facebook, because I can get
the underground news.… I see the people that
are, you know, actually there, with [Facebook
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 Euston wrote, “The media is not necessar-
ily the enemy of the people, but it is creating “At some point, I hope and pray he will lead,”
enemies among people. There is no doubt
there is heavy bias in the media.”
Euston says. “His speech to the United
“Media is not the enemy of anybody!” Joli
says. “It’s not friends with anybody, either.”
Nations was powerful. As Peggy Noonan,
Is Trump doing what he said he’d do? Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter, wrote:
“No,” Feiwell says. “Part of his job is to bring
us together as Americans, and too many of ‘Be U.N. Donald, not Twitter Donald.’”
his reactions and perspectives divide us.
And what that’s really led to is him not being How do you feel about the way Trump is ity, and it’s that need for the simplistic that’s
able to get as much done legislation-wise, handling the situation with North Korea the biggest risk to our national stability. It’s
which is the platform he ran on.” and its leader, Kim Jong-un? easier to hate and fear the people we don’t
“I think he’s trying,” Davis says, “but I “It kinda scares the shit out of me,” Davis know, whether that means writing off whole
think he’d get farther if he were a little bit says. “Trump should freaking soften up a states as irredeemable backwaters or sup-
softer, a little smoother, you know? Instead little bit…or hey, we’re all gonna be in trou- porting that wall.
of just, ‘Hey, you’re fired.’ ” ble here in a second, because I think the What’s true, though it remains to be seen
Euston says, “My litmus test has been the North Korea dude, I think he’s a little bit whether we will grapple with it, is that mil-
economy, which is doing well. Since Election fucking crazy.” lions of Americans were lied to and then vot-
Day, I have said he needs to listen more to his “North Korea has been a hot issue for ed based on what they thought they knew. A
advisers and tweet less. At some point, I hope years,” Euston says. “Trump sent a strong handful of media companies control most of
and pray he will lead. His speech to the Unit- message with his speech at the United Na- our information. There’s a multibillion-dollar
ed Nations was powerful. As Peggy Noonan, tions. However, using terms like ‘Rocket industry dedicated to punditry and spin. It’s
Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter, wrote: ‘Be Man’ diminished his message.” Joli, on the not a good climate for honest questions about
U.N. Donald, not Twitter Donald.’ ” other hand, likes the Rocket Man approach. the nature of our country and how to stabilize
Do you think the ferocity of the hurri- “Mr. Donald Trump, who’s not afraid to call it, but without that discussion, it’s unlikely we
canes last fall had anything to do with cli- our good friend the ‘Rocket Man,’ at least has will survive this many constitutional crises
mate change? made him respond to that.” and come out the other side unscathed.
“No,” Davis says. “That’s just—it’s the earth And the travel ban 3.0? It’s easy to put other people in your
and the moon and the stars, and that has “It’s funny that you bring that up, because shoes, harder to put yourself in theirs. Un-
nothing to do with [climate change].” Fei- that is one of the things I haven’t heard about derstanding doesn’t mean agreement; it
well, who lived through Hurricane Andrew in a while,” Feiwell says. “Like, where are we means honesty. We are here, like it or not,
when it devastated Miami, says, “I can only with that?” and we are bitterly divided; it’s now our
say that I have not read enough scientific job to figure out how to live without kill-

S
proof on both sides to definitively say that I olipsism is self-soothing, I wrote in ing each other. There are real problems in
think global warming caused or contributed the first piece in this series. I stand America, problems it will take all of us to
to a worse situation. But I’m definitely open by that thesis; in the last year, we’ve solve. If any of us truly want to make Amer-
to hearing and thinking through anything not shown any particular shift to- ica great, we’ll need to start by making
with an open mind.” ward empathy or truth. We dislike complex- America rational.

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 READER ADVICE

ASK E. JEAN
This month we encounter boyfriends who are
snotty, holding us back professionally, and
acting badly about an unplanned-for pregnancy.
Men: Are they always such idiots?
TAKE THAT, THE PAPER CHASE someone who could be the love of my life until we
ELITIST BOYFRIEND HELLO, E. JEAN! I am a newspaperwoman can leave together? Or should I put my career
DEAR E. JEAN: My boyfriend is shocked on the West Coast—a young and very low-paid first and leave town without him? All the best.…
when I don’t know a seventeenth-century his- reporter. My boss is bipolar and goes back and —Career Girl in Love
torical event or an eighteenth-century philos- forth between complimenting my work and
opher. He sometimes belittles my taste in books screaming at me. My editor-in-chief is aloof Career, My Kumquat: Bah! Stop yammering
and movies. Other times he simply outshines and doesn’t interact with the reporters much. about love: Give the editor-in-chief 10 solid
me. We both took standardized tests for law I receive minimal health insurance and don’t items of proof that your reporting is increas-
school, for example, and he scored far better. even get paid overtime. ing readership, damn the senior reporters,
He also landed a more lucrative job than I did The only good part of my job is my boyfriend. and ask for the raise. And keep capturing
upon graduating. He’s a fellow reporter, and we’ve been dating for readers and asking for the raise until you get

Gregg Delman (styled by Christian Stroble; hair by Eduardo Carrasco at Ford Artists NYC; makeup by Sylwia Rakowska at Ford Artists NYC)
We’ve been dating for a year. Since we met in six months. Our relationship is great. We work it. This is how you solve your problem—by
college and moved to New York—the occasions I really well together in and out of the office, and taking action. Not by holding yourself back
mentioned excepted—our relationship has been I’m so happy with him! He doesn’t like our boss for a man.
wonderful, respectful, and loving. Yet I’m feel- Meanwhile, begin interviewing with other
ing a lack of confidence in my intelligence and papers, magazines, and media companies.
accomplishments. Is it rational to feel this inse- LOVE/CAREER VENN DIAGR AM Many people beat their breasts wondering
cure? Or is my behavior petty? why women—as smart and talented as men
—Who Is Spinoza, Again? are—run only 6.4 percent of Fortune 500
companies. I never beat my breast. I never
Spinoza, My Sublime Woman: Of course wonder. I’ve read your letter, Miss Career
Keep the
your “behavior” is “petty.” My God! Whose Empowered
boyfriend; Girl, and I know. It’s contained in your ques-
decisions!
wouldn’t be? I, myself, am petty enough to get a raise tion: “Should I stay with my dead-end job to
bring the Advice Columnist’s Curse down be with someone who could be the love of
upon your boyfriend: “Belittles” your taste, my life?”
does he? Fie! Fie! May his jaws lock when he The “love of your life” could fall for some-
mocks your books! May his bowels loosen one new, decide to become a chef, return to
when he hoots at your choix de films! May his school for an MBA, or make any of 100 oth-
nose run when he speaks to the boss at his either, but he wants to stay for a while longer er moves. By waiting around for him, you’re
“lucrative job” and finds he has no mono- than I do because he wants to get a good recom- chaining yourself to his victories and defeats.
grammed hankie! mendation from our EIC when he finally does Stand up, Girl! Give yourself as much free-
You know 10 times more about certain top- leave. So he’s going to put in his time. dom to be successful as you’re giving him.
ics than he knows (and 20 times more than I However, he’s not financially independent That is the real test of love—and its tragedy.
do—I looked you up, Miss Ivy League). The from his parents yet, and I am. I’m paying for
secret to gaining equal footing is to control all my own living expenses, and I’m approach-
the topics you talk about. ing a point where I can no longer afford to work BABY PAPAS
Next time the lad is shocked that you don’t for this newspaper. I already know a raise is out DEAR E. JEAN: Several months ago, I in-
grok one of his references, blast his frontal of the question, since there are a couple of senior formed the guy I’d been dating for two years
lobes with Mary Wollstonecraft or Artemis- reporters at the paper who’ve been here for years that I was five weeks pregnant. He snapped at
ia Gentileschi. The insufferable twit only who make only a little bit more than I do. me to “sort it out!” He said he already had kids
flits like a butterfly (and you only crawl at As an unmarried woman, I’ve hit rock bot- and was “not prepared for more.” I’m 33 and
his feet like a caterpillar) because he controls tom financially. I want to leave and find a bet- have no children, and he’s 39. I want the child
a larger number of topics and you’re a tad ter position, but part of me wants to hold out very much, and I ended the relationship.
too concerned about appearing intelligent. a little longer and stay with my man until he’s I began dating a new man, and I somehow let
Don’t be afraid of losing your dignity, and ready to leave, too. I’m completely in love with him think he’s the father. Yes, call me names.
jump on him! Your confidence will come him, but I’m always broke! What do you think? The new guy is my age and has been here every
roaring in like a polar bear! Should I stay with my dead-end job to be with day—paid all my prenatal bills, scratched my

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back—and he’s happily planning our future local college, clinic, church, or hospital) for friendly drink, and that’s it. You do not invite
life together. a support network. Good luck. I believe you them to your digs. You do not loan your car.
Now that I’m on maternity leave from work can bear down much more opposition than You do not pick up the tab. If they ask to stay,
and have time to think, I realize what a big shit you’ll meet with! tell them, “I’d adore it, but I’m in the middle
I am. How do I name my baby? How do I fix this of a special project.” (No need to say the proj-
mess? I feel bad, but I really have no romantic ect is your own blessed solitude.) Of course, if
feelings for this new guy. So do I tell my former THE VACATIONERS one of the visitors is very beautiful, you may
boyfriend, the man I possibly still love, that I DEAR E. JEAN: I recently moved to a beauti- take him or her in the car to a high mountain-
kept the pregnancy and will give birth soon? ful and, unfortunately, popular spot for tour- top and make out in the moonlight, but only
The baby won’t look like the new guy, so do I tell ists, and now friends (and friends of friends) if you have plenty of gas.
him I was already pregnant and that the child are constantly visiting. I’ve ended up paying
isn’t his? This will kill him! OMG! I messed up so for their parking, their gas, their laundry Happy birthday to me! As the Ask E. Jean
much! Or do I just not confess to anyone? Please soap, their groceries. They don’t even seem column enters its twenty-fifth year, I thought
help! I’m really scared now! interested in me or how I’m doing. They just it might be fascinating to look at some ques-
—In Deep Distress drop their bags, dirty my fresh towels, and tions from a quarter-century ago (pre-Google,
borrow my car! How do I accept visitors into pre-Instagram, pre-Tinder) and see how much
Deep, My Love: This is a celestial command: my new home without ending up as their per- has changed. First up: the following letter from
For the baby’s sake—speak up! Neither man sonal valet service? 1993, which would receive a very different an-
will like the news (or, possibly, both will), but —The Tourist Attraction swer today.
each will require time to recover and to think
about his own future. However, darling, it Attraction, My Iris: When I lived in Ennis, DEAR E. JEAN: I met a man on a phone net-
won’t kill them. Montana, i.e., “the fly-fishing capital of the work. He’s married and lives 800 miles away.
Cut to the chase with a simple “I want to world,” a spot in the Rockies so sublime that Out of curiosity, we saw each other. To make a
tell you something that may surprise you”— carloads of acquaintances would roar up the long story short, we felt connected immediately.
research shows that long preambles only driveway and burst in on our slow-paced I know this is going to sound odd, but we
add to the distress of the recipient—and tranquility unannounced, Steve and I—Steve ended up having psychic sex. He can raise my
state the plain facts. (In the case of the sec- was one of my early husbands—kept two big temperature, etc. My problem is that sometimes
ond chap, he may have already suspected suitcases by the front door. Whenever a sta- he “comes to me” at inappropriate times—when
something was amiss, or he may be in deep tion wagon packed with pals showed up, we’d I’m with someone else or in public, and it’s em-
denial, since the math—you’d have to have greet them with a hearty “Lovely seeing you! barrassing and difficult to keep my cool. He
been at least five weeks along when you met How fantastic you look! We’re just leaving,” says he can’t control the energy when he’s asleep
him—doesn’t quite add up.) whereupon we’d lock the door behind us and, and apologizes. I seem to be in his conscious
I receive so many letters from women hefting the bags into our pickup, back out of and unconscious mind! What can I do?
who are distraught because they can’t have the driveway at 40 mph. —Zapped
a baby; my wish for you is to relish this joy- And then we’d go someplace marvel-
ful time—not fear it. The two men may be ous for the day. Try it. Or if your “friends of Dear Zapped: Sweetie, sweetie, sweetie,
the best, most upstanding, kindest, tender- friends” text, call, or email ahead, you can have you been sucking on the cap of the K-Y
est men in existence—or they may be scal- do the old “Oh-Fabulous-Great-Wonderful- Jelly again? Or has this chap actually ripped
awags. Either way, rely on yourself! Join a Splendid-Meet-Me-at-the-Green-Parrot-at-7- the pants off your satellite dish?
new-mothers’ group (find one through your P.M.-Sharp!” dodge. You then see them for a Whichever, my darling, most blokes can
barely boost a lady’s temperature while in
the same bed with her. So next time your lad
Q: Three months ago, my handsome fiancé walked tries to compromise your dignity in public,
remember your brain is not an electrified
away from his high-paying career. I’m trying to plan cauliflower. You control the situation with
our wedding, but most of my wedding fund is going a sharp “Not now, Quibberdick!” Then give
your hair a toss, and shut off your sensors.
toward supporting him while he’s out with friends play- PS: Of course, whether he’s in or out of your
head, my dear, this mind-bender’s married,
ing golf! He’s a wonderful man—I’m just so confused! and you’re zooming a sister’s man.
A: A man paid to play golf by a woman with a
How would I answer this question today?
large wedding fund does not a good groom make. My Darling Miss Zapped: FaceTime.
Cut off the money. Call off the wedding. Give Ask a question! [email protected] or Twitter
the bloke a chance to pull himself together and .com/ejeancarroll or Instagram.com/ejeancarroll1.
Read past columns at ELLE.com/life-love/ask-e-jean.
change careers. Then think about wedlock. You can watch videos, write with anonymity,
and exchange genius tips on Advice Vixens at
AskEJean.com. And if you’d like a date: Tawkify.com.

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 Belted suede dress,
SAINT LAURENT
BY ANTHONY
VACCARELLO, $6,800,
at Saint Laurent, NYC.
Turquoise earrings, all,
LISA EISNER JEWELRY,
$350–$900 each. Gold
chain, MONICA RICH
KOSANN, $1,395 (sold
with locket). Diamond
and gold rings, both,
TIFFANY & CO.,
$2,200–$6,900 each.
Gold ring, FOUNDRAE,
$1,295. Her own
studs and small hoop
earrings. For details,
see Shopping Guide.

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Park Avenue

Above: Disco drama for day? But of course. Fringe knitted dress, $6,900, eel-leather ankle boots,
$1,395, all, CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC, at Calvin Klein, NYC.
Right: The track-star staple is back—and bejeweled. Rhinestone-and-crystal–embroidered nylon jacket, $5,800,
pants, $1,300, canvas and leather shoulder bag, $1,750, cotton socks, $390, crystal-embellished leather moccasins,
$1,290, all, GUCCI, gucci.com. For details, see Shopping Guide.
The ‘21’ Club’s Bar ‘21’

For spring, fashion’s most

COMING
directional looks run the gamut,
from bedazzled riffs on early-’90s
wind suits to Jackie O–worthy
bouclé coatdresses. Here, we set
the stage—with a backdrop of time-
honored New York City institutions

ATTRACTIONS
Photographed by Mark Seliger
Styled by Samira Nasr

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Right: An elegant top gets
grounded with tough, reptilian
lace-up boots. Jersey knit cape top,
$1,250, wool-blend pants, $1,095,
printed-ayers calfskin boots,
$2,150, all, CHLOÉ, collection at
Barneys New York.
Beauty Secret: The ultimate tool
for showstopping blow-outs,
CAROLS DAUGHTER Hair Milk
4-in-1 Combing Creme gives hair
dramatic and weightless waves.
Far right: In a mix of textures and
shades, brown is never boring.
Silk trench coat, $6,900, cotton
shirt, $620, leather high-shine
pants, $4,850, calfskin clutch,
$3,750, stretch grosgrain and
calfskin boots, $880, all, CÉLINE,
at Céline, NYC. For details, see Sant Ambroeus Coffee
Shopping Guide. Bar at the Hanley
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The ‘21’ Club

Above: Look like a million bucks in a head-to-toe statement print. Pleated dress, $2,790, pantatights, $2,290,
acrylic hoop earrings, $595, lambskin fringe shopper, $3,400, all, BALENCIAGA, at Balenciaga, NYC.
Right: Opt for athletic-inspired accents—no gym membership required. Jacquard top, $1,060, cotton shirt,
$1,060, wool shorts, $840, leather belt, slingbacks, nylon socks, $210, all, PRADA,
at select Prada boutiques nationwide. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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at the Plaza hotel

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The Carlyle hotel’s
Bemelmans Bar
Fifth Avenue

Left: This season’s take on the flower child is anything but boho. Crystal-embroidered silk jacquard jacket, $2,995, dress, $1,495,
silk-blend leggings, $795, gloves, $545, printed-leather handbag (on table), $2,195, all, DOLCE & GABBANA,
at select Dolce & Gabbana boutiques nationwide. Swarovski crystal–embellished satin pumps, MANOLO BLAHNIK, $1,295.
Above: Thigh-high PVC boots lend an edge to tasteful tweed. Tweed coat, $9,900, PVC and grosgrain hat, $1,150, boots, $1,550,
strass earrings, $1,800, strass and resin choker, $3,400, necklace, $5,650, polyurethane toile and lambskin gloves, $625,
lambskin handbag, $3,100, all, CHANEL, at Chanel boutiques nationwide. For details, see Shopping Guide.

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 East 93rd Street

Camo-inspired looks blend in just as well in the urban jungle. Linen jacket, $1,895, pants, $995, bucket hat, $250, cashmere sweater,
$695, all, MICHAEL KORS COLLECTION, michaelkors.com. Patent leather cowboy boots, STALLION, $1,295.

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Army green gets a ladylike lift from bow-bedecked pumps. Dyed-denim jacket, $1,490, pants, $1,290, silk blouse, $1,890, all, VALENTINO, similar styles at Valentino
boutiques nationwide. Earrings, $445, leather shoulder bag, $2,895, patent leather pumps, $445, all, VALENTINO GARAVANI. For details, see Shopping Guide.

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 The Campbell at Grand
Central Terminal

Above: Sailor stripes and high-waisted, wide-leg denim—a match made in nautical heaven. Top, jeans, cap, necklace,
belt, ring, tote bag (on floor), pumps, all, DIOR, at Dior boutiques nationwide.
Right: Baroque embroidery is the perfect counterpoint to sci-fi sneakers. Embroidered-silk gilet, cotton and silk redingote,
cotton pants, lambskin handbag, calfskin sneakers, all, LOUIS VUITTON, at select Louis Vuitton stores nationwide.
For details, see Shopping Guide.

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The Bar & Lounge at Daniel

Right: A dramatically slit evening dress:

the better to show off a statement boot.
Sheer dress, $5,100, thigh-high boots,
$1,350, raffia handbag, $1,980, all,
FENDI, fendi.com.
Beauty Secret: For color so vibrant it
nearly glows in the dark, try GIORGIO
ARMANI Lip Magnet Liquid Lipstick in
Four Hundred for All.
Far right: Shine all night in a sequined
suit. Viscose-blend jacket, $2,895,
pants, $1,395, cotton and silk-blend top,
$1,395, lambskin shoulder bag, $2,495,
all, GIORGIO ARMANI, armani.com.
Crystal-embellished suede sandals,
GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI, $1,295.
For details, see Shopping Guide.

Hair by Rolando Beauchamp at the Wall Group for

Bumble and bumble; makeup by Georgi Sandev at
the Wall Group; manicure by Gina Edwards at Kate
Ryan Inc. for Deborah Lippmann; set design by
Jesse Nemeth at the Magnet Agency; casting by Paul
Brickman at Zan Casting; model: Georgia Fowler
at IMG Models; produced by Una Simone Harris;
fashion assistant: Yashua Simmons; locations (all
New York City): ‘21’ Club; Sant Ambroeus Coffee
Bar at the Hanley; the Rose Club at the Plaza; the
Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel; the Campbell at Grand
Central Terminal; the Bar & Lounge at Daniel
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 Crystal-embroidered silk jacket,
$4,300, silk crepe pants, $1,500, both,
GUCCI, gucci.com. Diamond and
white gold stud earrings, HEARTS
ON FIRE, $895–$2,500 per pair. Satin
pumps, STELLA LUNA, $327. Her
own studs and small hoop
earrings, worn throughout. For
details, see Shopping Guide.
American
Woman Can’t look away from Zoë Kravitz?
Neither can the rest of us. She’s an
in-demand actress and fashion arbiter
with creativity in her blood. And,
as Janelle Monáe learns, she also
has a lot to say.

PHOTOGRAPHED BY PAOLA KUDACKI STYLED BY SAMIRA NASR

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 Left: Lambskin shirt, $6,775, skirt, $2,695, gold medallion earrings, $300, gold and leather necklace
(around collar), $425, belt, $1,225, all, VERSACE, versace.com.
Above: Wool suit, $3,100, cotton shirt, $500, all, DIOR HOMME, diorhomme.com. Silk corset belt, FLEUR DU MAL,
$195. Diamond and white gold stud earrings, all, HEARTS ON FIRE, $895–$2,500 per pair. Pavé diamond and gold
rings, TIFFANY & CO., $2,200–$6,900 each. Canvas high-tops, CONVERSE, $55. For details, see Shopping Guide.

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Z oë Kravitz has the kind of mag-
netism that practically shouts,
“This woman is a star!” She’s
distractingly, otherworldly beautiful. She’s
the spawn of two of the coolest people on the
planet, Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz. This
ZK: Oh my God. Yes. My first band.
JM: Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz, your par-
ents, are such cool individuals. What was
your childhood like with them?
ZK: It’s funny, because to everyone else, it’s
like, “What are they like?” And I don’t have
JM: It’s hard. He’s made some comments.
[Editor’s note: Last year, Burton said of diver-
sity in casting: “[Projects] either call for things
or they don’t.”] I haven’t seen a lot of people
of color in his movies. When I was little, I
was naïve, but being in the industry, we need
is a girl who knows how to milk a step-and- anyone else to compare them to. They were to have a conversation about that. I was dis-
repeat in a slinky white Calvin Klein number strict in the normal ways—bedtimes and appointed, but I’m still a fan of his movies.
and a voluminous ROYGBIV Dior gown with eating my vegetables and cleaning my room ZK: Yeah, it’s the same with Woody Allen,
equal aplomb. And she’s a damn talented ac- and “Yes ma’am, no ma’am.” And then there whom I grew up loving. You get a little older
tress. Which is why, looking back, it’s amaz- was, of course, a bunch of extraordinary and realize, Oh, you don’t put black people
ing to consider that for the better part of the parts: being surrounded by extraordinary in your movies. It’s set in New York! It’s just
last decade, she hovered in a kind of Holly- people, going to extraordinary places. Also, crazy.
wood up-and-comer limbo, playing support- people recognizing your father or your mom JM: Right. So what made you say, “I want to
ing roles in blockbusters like the Divergent when you’re just going to get ice cream— act”?
movies, X-Men: First Class, and Mad Max: it’s bizarre. ZK: I didn’t grow up with television. We had
Fury Road (a prebreakout part of sorts—she JM: What’s your answer to people who as- a TV, but it wasn’t connected to anything
certainly held her own in scenes with the sume—because your parents are incredibly except for a VCR. My mom and I would
also-so-beautiful-it’s-unfair Rosie Hunting- creative, well known, and well connected— go to the video store, and I was allowed to
ton-Whiteley). But inevitably, thankfully, that everything has been handed to you? watch, like, one movie a weekend. I was an
2017 happened, and with it, Big Little Lies— ZK: I understand where that notion comes only child, and your imagination goes crazy.
HBO’s Emmy-crushing miniseries in which from 100 percent. And there were some These films kind of became my friends.
Kravitz, 29, played the luminous When I got older, my mom would
hippie-turned-hero Bonnie. Now show me, like, Sophie’s Choice. Like,
Kravitz—in her rightful place on the
A-list—is showing no signs of losing
It,s important to be honest, like, “Want to see some crazy shit?”
JM: We have so much in common.
ground (she’ll soon appear opposite This may be uncomfortable, I also created these alternate uni-
Johnny Depp in the sequel to the , verses. We had TV, but I grew up
J. K. Rowling adaptation Fantas- but no. Or Please remove your in Kansas—a working-class family

hand from my lower back.,

tic Beasts and Where to Find Them, where sometimes our lights would
for one). be cut off. My sister and I shared a
Kravitz’s friend Janelle Monáe room until it was time for me to go
is similarly versed in the art of the to college. I’d be making up stories
well-earned breakthrough, having released things that were handed to me. I got an agent and dancing, with her telling me to shut up,
her first critically acclaimed album back pretty quickly out of high school. But once which made me want to sing and act more.
in 2003 but not reaching household-name you get past that door—a hard door for a lot You’ve recently been a part of Big Lit-
status until starring in (and singing on the of people to open—a lot of directors don’t tle Lies. Congratu-fucking-lations on that.
soundtrack of) 2016’s Hidden Figures. As care who your family is. When you’re doing A year ago, you told ELLE you were ner-
the daughter of a truck driver and a janitor, movies with Jodie Foster or Charlize Ther- vous about working alongside such well-
the 32-year-old Kansas City native had a on, you don’t need the daughter of some established actresses. Has your confidence
markedly different upbringing than Kravitz celebrity to make the movie better. I spent level changed since filming?
did. Yet as actor-singers (Kravitz fronts years auditioning and not working and play- ZK: I got cast quickly, so I didn’t have time
electropop band Lolawolf when she’s not ing very small parts. to process it, and then all of a sudden, I was
making movies), style savants, and black JM: We’re both musicians and actors. Is like, Wait, I’m getting to work with whom?
women in the entertainment industry, Monáe there a different way that you structure your When? Women like Laura and Nicole and
and Kravitz have much in common. Here, persona as a musician than as an actor? Reese, I’ve grown up watching them, and
Monáe interviews Kravitz for her second ZK: Yes. For me—and this is different than to me they’re, like, just untouchable. I had
ELLE cover story.—Amanda FitzSimons for you, because you tour and you put out nightmares about them being like, “Oh,
records; it’s not a side project—with music, I no, you’re not good; you should go home.”
JANELLE MONÁE: Let’s start here: I saw you feel a little more vulnerable. What you say or But they were so encouraging. When those
in the flesh for the first time in 2008 at Afro- how you look onstage is just you. women are in your corner, it gives you a little
punk. My band was playing, and maybe 20 JM: I want to talk about cinema. Do you re- pep in your step.
people were invited. I remember you danc- member that moment when you said, “I want JM: Next season, I want your character to
ing, and I was like, Oh my God. Zoë Kravitz to be in movies”? I remember watching a lot have greater depth, to learn more about her.
is in the front row of our show. of Edward Scissorhands and other Tim Bur- ZK: I hope so. But there’s [only] talk of a sec-
ZOË KRAVITZ: I can’t believe you knew who ton films, and clicking with the characters. ond season. I mean, I would be there in a
I was. ZK: I love that Tim Burton was your gate- heartbeat. I’m waiting eagerly by my phone.
JM: Yes! And then your band Elevator Fight way. You should definitely be in a Tim Bur- JM: Let’s get into some beauty, because we’re
played. ton film. speaking to ELLE. You’re this chameleon.
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 ments—like when he suggested his career deci-
sion was similar to the one she’d made a few years
back, when she left a high-paying job for a more
interesting, equally compensated one at a smaller
company—she held her temper in check. “I guess
you’re right,” she said evenly. “I didn’t want to
poke the beast,” she told me later. “If we went to
court, he could rob me blind.”
WRINKLES IN TIME As their third and final mediation drew near,
Continued from page 113 Andrea was filled with dread. But then, miracu-
Or as Gross puts it: “Little cells that look like Pac- lously, there was a thaw. Phil came back to their
Men gobble up the blood, particle by particle.” apartment looking more relaxed, and when he
He wheels in the heavy-artillery machine and arms opened his mouth, he sounded once more like the
himself with the attached laser gun as I take cover person she’d married. “I don’t want to do this,” he
beneath protective eye goggles. Zap, zap, zap, zap…it said, regarding the arguing.
feels like a rubber band snapping across my face. “I’m As it turned out, Phil had gotten a job. “He has a
sending the beam underneath the skin, where the lot of pride, and he’s not a jerk,” Andrea said. “To
vessels live, and obliterating them,” Gross says, firing his credit, he saw how off the rails it was getting.”
away. “You’re going to have about five days of down- In the end, they skipped the last mediation ses-
time.” Forty-five zaps later, I’m hailing a cab, purple sion and filed with Wevorce, an online service
welts blooming. Within three days, the swelling is that allows couples to work out their own arrange-
gone; in another week, the purple is just a haze, and ments. This time the negotiations went much
my skin is clearing as the Pac-Men chomp away. more smoothly. Andrea let Phil have the rent-
controlled apartment and bought a small place for
Here I am a year later. (Where did the time go?) herself down the street. They agreed to split child-
All swelling is gone; I can feel my entire head again, care expenses sixty-forty, with Andrea taking on
with the exception of a small strip just under my chin. the larger amount, at least until Phil starts his job.
My neck took the longest to wake up, but as it did, it After that, they’ll split it fifty-fifty. And that, fi-
kept tightening to the point that I’m wearing chokers nally, will be the end.
instead of scarves, and I’ve felt jaunty enough to bob
my newly thick hair.
My nerve twigs have regrown and calmed down. AMERICAN WOMAN
Continued from page 144
One of the odd upshots of these offshoots is that
every time I get anxious about anything—people, And it doesn’t feel forced. Like, whenever I look on
places, things, you name it—I get the sensation your Instagram or see you on the red carpet, it’s
that a Fourth of July sparkler has been lit inside my like its own genre—the Zoë Kravitz genre. How do people can mistake you for being too cold at times?
cheeks, burning.… you feed your evolution as a style icon? ZK: Yeah, especially in America, and especially as
“As we age, we all get our Achilles’ heels—mi- ZK: I remember when my grandmother died, a woman in America, and then especially as a black
graines, knee injuries, irritable bowel, lower back and after the funeral, I wanted to make my mom woman in America. It’s good to be polite, but it’s
trouble,” Rosenberg says. “The symptoms worsen laugh. So I put on a suit, drew on a mustache, put important to be honest. There’s a difference be-
with anxiety and depression. When we’re under stress on “The Boy Is Mine,” by Brandy and Monica, and tween saying hurtful things and being like, “This
and release cortisol, the place that’s traumatized be- performed as the boy. It was weird, but it made her may be a little uncomfortable, but no.” Or “Please
comes sensitized. You’re experiencing this in a place crack up. For me, clothes are a gateway to charac- remove your hand from my lower back.” Or “You
that’s still healing and is connected to your emotions. ters. I watch Audrey Hepburn movies and I’m like, made a weird joke. Why did you make that joke?”
The fact that you’re able to connect the two is amaz- I want to do my makeup like that. I watch Stand by JM: Exactly. Do you have any illegal fantasies?
ing. It’s like your personal radar system!” Me and I think, I want to look like a boy. ZK: Illegal? Like, I wish I could do that, but it’s ille-
More like a superpower. I hope it never goes away. JM: When I got into the industry, people were tell- gal? I would push Trump off a cliff. If it was legal,

This page, from top left: Bess NYC; Paola Kudacki. Opposite page: Mark Seliger
Now when I sense danger, I flit, I flee, I fly, shutting ing me, “You’re a girl, so you need to show up in which it’s not, so I won’t, but if he was on a cliff
the cortisol down. (How many years have I lost to the dresses and be a conventional artist.” And I, like and I was on the cliff, too, and it was legal, I might
damage of that stress hormone?) I’m not wasting any you, wasn’t going to allow someone to tell me that trip him.…
more time on that. if I don’t do this, I won’t succeed. The last time I JM: You’re so my birthday twin. Thank you. I want
saw you was around the Emmys. How has your life to talk about a story when you and I went out to
changed this past year? dinner with a mutual friend. There were two guys
THE LAST FEMINIST TABOO ZK: I got to spend a lot of time at home during the sitting across from us talking extremely loud, like
Continued from page 118
first half, which was a nice change. My boyfriend they were at a football game. One of the guys start-
afterward. “Well,” Phil snapped. “I don’t have to [actor Karl Glusman] moved in with me. That’s ed to make these remarks about how our friend
get one.” new territory. And I’ve been working the second looked like The Weeknd—
By then, Andrea had been to Pettus’s support half of the year nonstop. I’m realizing how import- ZK: Yeah, and how you were so cute and tiny.
group a few times and had heard horror stories. ant it is to find a balance so that I continue being JM: And how I look like Kerry Washington—which,
“Just don’t wind up in court,” one high-achieving an artist who has something to offer. she’s gorgeous, but it was just so rude, the manner
woman warned. She had, and had found herself JM: People may not know this, but you and I have in which he did it. He glossed over the fact that we
“painted as the Wicked Witch of the East” by her the same birthday [December 1]! were having an intimate conversation.
husband’s lawyer—whom, to add insult to injury, ZK: We’re birthday sisters! ZK: They were just a prime example of people like
she was paying for. She should have hired him for JM: Yeah, birthday twins, and there are absolutely Trump, for whom there are no rules—like, “I own
herself, she thought bitterly as the judge award- a lot of similarities that, after spending time with everything, I can do whatever I want.…”
ed her husband—whose looting of their joint ac- you at your place in Brooklyn or even watching you JM: So you turned to him and were like, “Listen,
counts was the reason for the breakup of their from afar, I’m like, Wow. We have a straight-up- buddy, please don’t interrupt our conversation.”
marriage—a large cash settlement. ness that I don’t see a lot in this industry. It’s like, And he continued. And I found out that Zoë Krav-
So even though Andrea bristled at Phil’s com- I don’t want to be a bullshitter. Do you find that itz is not to be fucked with: You got up and went to

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SHOP GUIDE
ZK: I was like, “This dude needs to go!” They Embroidered-silk dress by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello,
$13,000, at Saint Laurent (NYC). Black resin and gold-plated
asked him to leave, and he gave me the finger and hoop earrings by Kenneth Jay Lane, $65, kennethjaylane.com.
called me a c***.
JM: I just want to say thank you for not backing TABLE OF CONTENTS
down to that narcissistic, egotistical fuck man— PAGE 14: Turtleneck by Adam Lippes, collection at shopbop.com,
he’s not a boy; he’s a man. He’s a bully. Which thewebster.us. Pantashoes by Balenciaga, balenciaga.com.
brings me to my next question: Harvey Weinstein. STYLE ACROSS AMERICA: DETROIT
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the specifics. Did I hear that he was a question- urbanoutfitters.com. Skirt by Prada, $2,390, at select Prada
able person and feel that energy from him when I boutiques nationwide. Pumps by Isabel Marant, $420, at Isabel
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best at what they do, in some way or another. And Platforms by Sies Marjan, collection at Barneys New York.
there’s a connection with people who have zero re- TRENDS AND ACCESSORIES
gard for others and think that everything already PAGE 49: Dress by Dundas, collection at Bergdorf Goodman p.126
belongs to them. Being a woman in this industry, (NYC). Earring by Fallon, fallonjewelry.com. Ankle boots by
you’re asked to ride this line between being pro- Giuseppe Zanotti, at Giuseppe Zanotti boutiques nationwide. monicarichkosann.com. Rings by Tiffany & Co., call 800-843-
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your jokes, and it’s okay that your hand is on my Rowley, at Cynthia Rowley boutiques nationwide. Ankle boot by PAGE 126: Dress, ankle boots by Calvin Klein 205W39NYC,
thigh,” then you’re a bitch, you know? Where do Etro, at Etro boutiques nationwide. On models: Dress by Preen by calvinklein.com. PAGE 127: Jacket, pants, handbag, socks,
we draw the line? Thornton Bregazzi, preenbythorntonbregazzi.com. Earring by loafers by Gucci, at select Gucci stores nationwide. PAGE 132:
JM: Right. Have you ever had a moment where you Balenciaga, similar styles at Balenciaga (NYC). Dress, boots by Pumps by Manolo Blahnik, at Manolo Blahnik (NYC). PAGE 133:
Etro, at Etro boutiques nationwide, etro.com. One-of-a-kind Coat, hat, earrings, choker, necklace, gloves, handbag, boots by
felt intimidated [by a man at work]?
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ZK: I had one moment when I was 18 or 19—on one .com. Pantashoes by Balenciaga, at Balenciaga (NYC). PAGE 51: bucket hat by Michael Kors Collection, at select Michael Kors
of my first films. A director came on to me—and I Top, pants, cuff by Proenza Schouler, at Proenza Schouler (NYC). stores nationwide. Cowboy boots by Stallion, at Space Cowboy
almost feel like I brushed it off as okay. I declined Jacket by Chrome Hearts, chromehearts.com. Earrings by Boots (NYC), call 646-559-4779. PAGE 136: Top, jeans, cap,
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now. Knowing that this is a grown-ass man with Pulla, collection at shopbop.com. PAGE 52: Earrings by Proenza PAGE 137: Gilet, redingote, pants, handbag, sneakers by Louis
Schouler, at Proenza Schouler (NYC). Sandal by Brunello Vuitton, louisvuitton.com.
a family who knows I don’t have the power here—
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lished director. Vince, vince.com. Watch by Cartier, 800-CARTIER. Earring by PAGE 140: Jacket, pants by Gucci, at select Gucci stores
JM: Do you think it’s worse for black women in this Fallon, fallonjewelry.com. Coat by Nina Ricci, ninaricci.com. nationwide. Stud earrings by Hearts On Fire, heartsonfire.com.
industry when we speak up? We’re not getting the Vintage shirt by What Goes Around Comes Around, whatgoes Pumps by Stella Luna, stellaluna.co, collection at Barneys New
aroundnyc.com. Jeans by Levi’s, levi.com. Signet ring by Jemma York. PAGE 142: Shirt, skirt, earrings, necklace, belt by Versace,
majority of roles out there, we’re not allowed cer-
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tain lead parts.… Clutch by Michael Kors Collection, at select Michael Kors stores Dior Homme, at Dior Homme stores nationwide. Corset belt by
ZK: If you have any kind of oppression, it causes nationwide. Mule by Miu Miu, at select Miu Miu boutiques Fleur du Mal, fleurdumal.com. Stud earrings by Hearts On Fire,
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ready on edge about, Will I work again? It just adds Calvin Klein (NYC). PAGE 58: Necklace by Lisa Eisner Jewelry, High-tops by Converse, converse.com. PAGE 147: Jacket,
to why you can’t have a voice or make a scene. collection at maxfieldla.com. PAGE 61: Pendant necklace by bodysuit, pants by Tom Ford, tomford.com. PAGE 148: Pendant,
Pomellato, call 800-254-6020. necklace by David Yurman, davidyurman.com. PAGE 149:
JM: What I love most that is happening right now
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where the women are taught to compete with each collection at bergdorfgoodman.com. Earrings by Georg Jensen, PAGE 150: Coat by Gucci, $26,000, at select Gucci stores
call 800-546-5253. Earrings by Sorellina, collection at London nationwide. Turtleneck (worn throughout) by Adam Lippes,
other—and that is just poison.
Jewelers (NYC), call 877-601-9924. PAGE 76: Dress by collection at shopbop.com, thewebster.com. Earring (worn
JM: I didn’t understand the importance of sister- LoveShackFancy, collection at net-a-porter.com. Socks by The throughout) by Ana Khouri, $90,000 (for pair), available by
hood until I got into the industry and started to Elder Statesman, at The Elder Statesman (Santa Monica). Track appointment at Ana Khouri (NYC), anakhouri.com. Boots by
feel alone. I felt like this creative black girl who jacket by Adidas Originals, similar styles at Adidas stores Calvin Klein 205W39NYC, calvinklein.com. PAGE 151: Top by
was going against the grain. After meeting you nationwide. Waist bag by Miu Miu, at select Miu Miu boutiques Hanky Panky, collection at lordandtaylor.com. Necklace (worn
and having a big sister like Erykah Badu, I feel nationwide. Pump by Louis Vuitton, louisvuitton.com. Pump by throughout) by Effy Jewelry, $57,263, call 877-ASK-EFFY. Boots
Paul Andrew, collection at fortyfiveten.com. PAGE 78: Shirt by (worn throughout) by Calvin Klein 205W39NYC, at Calvin Klein
like, Wow, I’m not the only one. I genuinely love Becken, at Becken (NYC). Shorts by Rosetta Getty, collection at (NYC), calvinklein.com. PAGE 152: Coat by Céline, $15,300, at
you, Zoë, and a lot of these answers were beyond Delsette (Ardmore, PA). Jacket by M. Martin, collection at Space Céline (NYC). PAGE 154: Jacket by Chanel, call 800-550-0005.
the interview—there were things that I wanted to 519 (Chicago). Ankle boot by Jimmy Choo, at select Jimmy Choo PAGE 157: Jacket, pants, handbag by Louis Vuitton, at select Louis
know. stores nationwide. Vuitton stores nationwide. Pumps by Céline, similar styles at
ZK: Thank you for taking the time to think about Céline (NYC).
EVENING NOT-SO-STANDARD
these questions. All of it. Prices are approximate. ELLE recommends that merchandise
PAGE 125: Earrings by Lisa Eisner Jewelry, collection at Forty
JM: Anything for you, sweetie pie. Five Ten (Dallas). Chain necklace by Monica Rich Kosann, availability be checked with local stores.

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STRONG SPIRIT
He’s a sucker for a good suit and is set to bring none other than
Gianni Versace back to life, but don’t be fooled: Edgar Ramirez’s passions
go well beyond his ultrastylish surface. By Mickey Rapkin
Edgar Ramirez romanced Jennifer Law- ER: I come from Latin America. I’m a magi-
rence in Joy and spooked Emily Blunt in cal realist. We feel very comfortable with the
The Girl on the Train, but the 40-year-old’s best unknown. I would say there was a very strong
stories are his own. He grew up all over Venezu- energy. Ricky, Ryan [Murphy], Penélope, and
ela, where his father worked as a military at- I—we discussed that maybe we never really go
taché. Ramirez speaks five languages, curses in completely away. That house was built for cre-
German, and studied to be a journalist before ativity. We turned it into a mini studio. Gianni
taking a sharp turn toward acting at 25. He might have felt very happy that the house be-
stormed Cannes in 2010 with Carlos, a career- came again what it was always meant to be: a
defining, six-hour miniseries in which Ramirez beacon of creativity.
played Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal, ELLE: Are you saying you believe in ghosts?
from his days as a young playboy admiring his ER: There was a moment when my grand-
own junk in a hotel-room mirror to his even- mother died. She was a tailor. My appreciation
tual capture some 20 years later. This month, in for design and clean-cut suits comes from her.
the second season of FX’s American Crime Sto- We were very close. I was the first to find her,
ry, Ramirez becomes another iconic rebel, the and I wouldn’t say that she talked to me. It was
titular legendary fashion designer in The Assas- more like a certainty. I put my forehead on her
sination of Gianni Versace, which opens with forehead, I smelled her.… I was crying intensely.
Versace’s murder on the steps of his Miami Then I felt everything was going to be all right.
Beach mansion. (Penélope Cruz stars as Do- She may be listening to this conversation next
natella Versace; Ricky Martin appears as the to me. That’s what eternal life is about. People
designer’s longtime partner, Antonio D’Ami- live on in the memory of the ones who stay here.
co.) While Versace famously lived life you felt the sexiest. ELLE: What can Americans learn from Venezu-
his life openly, Ramirez, who has ER: The sexiest? Wow. Let me think. ela’s turbulent political history?
been linked to former costars Jes- ELLE: Maybe it was when Carlos screened at ER: Never underestimate a populist. We have
sica Chastain and Ana de Armas, Cannes. What is it like to be naked in front of so come to a moment where language is very im-
prefers an existence laid less bare. many people? portant. Saying the media is the number one
Here, the international man of ER: That was actually embarrassing. I didn’t see enemy of society is a way to create confusion
mystery—he splits his time be- the entire cut of the movie before Cannes. Oliv- and set people against each other. It’s like a vi-
tween New York, L.A., and Cara- ier [Assayas, the director] used a very, very close rus. Democracy dies and is born every day. If
cas—explains why. full-frontal shot of myself. There was a subtle you don’t take an active role in what is going on,
gasp in the theater. When we shot that scene, somebody can easily steal it from you.
ELLE: Tell me about a time that being handsome the script suggested that Carlos was drunk in ELLE: In Bright [out now on Netflix], you play an
got you out of trouble. his hotel suite wearing a towel. That doesn’t FBI agent—who’s also an elf in a modern-day
EDGAR RAMIREZ: Honestly, I try not to rely too make sense. If you’re by yourself, drinking from world where orcs and fairies live uneasily
much on that. It’s too relative and it’s too frag- the minibar, you’re not wearing a towel. alongside humans. Is this meant to be escapist
ile. But maybe last night: I was trying to expand ELLE: The nude scene was your idea? entertainment or an allegory on race?
the number of seats of a dinner table and the ER: Yeah. But I didn’t know it was going to be a ER: It’s a little bit of both. I grew up watching

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restaurant was full. Maybe it was my accent full frontal. I didn’t know the camera was going Hollywood films that gave you the ride of your
that got me more seats. to go there. life and also invited you to reflect on greater
ELLE: What surprised you about Versace? ELLE: Very little is known about your private life. subjects in society.
ER: He was a family man. He would wake up Is that by design? ELLE: But you have purple hair!
very early and go to bed rather late. People ER: It’s not necessarily about protecting my life. ER: It’s a great color, actually. It vibrates really
fantasize about his life because of the lush- I have put the focus in my work and what I do as well. There is a dandy quality to this charac-
ness of his clothes and the atmosphere and the an actor. It’s important to make people believe ter. Louis Vuitton designed my clothing for the
mystique around his brand. His parties were that they’re on a journey with you. part. These are very stylish elves.
legendary. It was necessary for him to be sur- ELLE: Okay. What’s the most outlandish thing ELLE: Last one: How did Versace’s robes feel?
rounded by that diversity of people—rich peo- you’ve done for love? ER: You saw the pink one? That made me feel
ple, affluent people, people from the street.… ER: Crossing an ocean for one night. sexy. My chest is bare; I had put on almost 20
He would get his inspiration from that. And ELLE: Was it worth it? pounds, and I was very proud of my paunchy
everyone went crazy for the mix. ER: Of course. It always is. stomach. I was surrounded by beautiful peo-
ELLE: Versace famously married sex and cou- ELLE: You filmed in the house where Versace ple. It made me feel like an emperor. Everyone
ture in his work. Tell me about the time in your was assassinated. Could you feel his presence? should feel like an emperor once in their life.

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