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have a white-hot aid schools in 10 clothing (3) utilizing
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the question: Is fashion on May 1, company SVP and all-round icon Linda Fargo shares a few
finally waking up to
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hued athleticwear, the month, Colombias buzzy fashion talent takes over the third floor:
Fabletics (1), will run Mnica Holgun, the second-gen knitwear designer behind the
from size XXS to 3X. oh-so-flattering gowns and separates of Pepa Pombo (9).
Proof that fitand
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ON THE COVER
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ELLE AGENDA: POLITICS
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Heidi Klum isnt just one of the most recognizable faces
in the world; shes also a whip-smart businesswoman. This
month, shell let you pick her brainand her beauty arsenal
Before Heidi Klum became Americas Heidi Lavish and Loved. In 2008, she
Klumbefore she became the creative di- became an American citizen in
rector of her eponymous intimates line; be- what she calls a double wham-
fore she launched a multiple Emmy Award my of circumstance. Most of
nominated TV show; before she appeared on my income was coming in from
the cover of ELLE, not once but three times America. I fell in love with Amer-
before all that, Heidi Klum was the daughter ica, she says. And then Obama
of a hairdresser and a cosmetics- came along, and I was just like,
company executive who lived in the Yes, I want to vote for this dude.
little town of Bergisch Gladbach, Klum became the creative di-
Germany, and planned to go to a rector of Heidi Klum Intimates
Dsseldorf fashion-design school. in 2014, adding four to six yearly
I would have learned everything design meetings to the already-
from sewing in shoulder pads to packed, meticulously color- Clockwise from
right: Klum
buttons to fully designing, Klum coded iCal she depends on to attends the 2017
says. But then a friend convinced keep her own hectic schedule Grammy Awards;
January 2002;
the 18-year-old Klum to try out for under control, not to mention May 2003
Model 92, a 25,000-contestant modeling that of her four children. One of
contest, which she entered and proceeded Klums mantras is The harder
to win. And then, Klum says, everything you work, the luckier you get. After spending off to reveal a 9.99. Klum then shrugs and
was put on pause for about 20 years. Every- more than two decades modeling swimsuits goes on with the shoot. Looking back now, she
thing meaning her serious design aspira- and lingerie sets, Klum has developed an ex- says, I just thought I would make light of it.
tions. Everything else kicked into hyperdrive. haustive knowledge of what makes good un- Because, why not? (While Klum was a guest at
After winning the contests $300,000 mod- derthings, drawing inspiration from her love the presidents wedding to First Lady Melania
eling contract, Klum spent two years modeling of fabrics and interest in the fast-developing and always got along with him very well, she
in Europe, but it was when she moved to New technology of the bra industry. My motto is notes, I wouldnt say we ever were friends.)
York in 1994 that her career really took off. She always More boobs, less bra, she says. When the former supermodel turned 40

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was appearing regularly in magazine Klums immense and sustained ca- in 2013, she was met with a barrage of Oh
shoots by 1995, walked her first Vic- reer success has, in part, come from my God, youre 40 now. Youre so old, she
torias Secret fashion show in 1997, her winning combination of smarts, says. And I was like, Old at 40? Ill show
and landed the Sports Illustrated drive, and almost ineffable likability; you old! That year, for her famed annu-
Swimsuit Issue cover the following shes serious about her work with- al Halloween partythe host has a thing
year. She also found ways to work her out ever taking herself too seriously. for elaborate costumes and has shown up
early penchant for design into her in- For instance, in August 2015, Donald as everything from Lady Godiva to Jessica
creasingly multifaceted career: Klum Trump told the New York Times that Rabbit to an apeKlum transformed into a
has executive-produced and fronted Klum was sadlyno longer a 10. 95-year-old woman. Costumes aside, Klum
the 15-seasons-and-counting fashion-design Klum promptly posted a tongue-in-cheek vid- has picked up more than a few quick tricks
show Project Runway (Lifetime) since 2004 eo to her Instagram, in which she poses for a to get camera-ready under her own steam.
and has worked on a number of design part- cameramana giant 10 scrawled across a This month, visit ELLE.com to slip into the
nerships, including a capsule collection for paper taped to her chestand is accosted by career chameleons favorite easy-to-replicate
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This month, visit My boyfriends The key to a long-lasting red For an aesthetic Klum went all out for her 2015
ELLE.com each sister was
deejaying,
lip, Klum says, is to start with
a stain, and then put another
aphrodisiac, go
for what Klum
Jessica Rabbit costumean
iconic sexy woman, Klum says,
Monday for step- Klum says. color on top of it. So even if calls a big Bambi and a cartoon to boot!but
by-step tutorials Normally, I have my team help you kiss that off, or drink that eye and just give your lips a this week, learn how to get the
on four of Klums get me ready, but it was a last-
minute thing. The can-do Klum
off, or eat that
off, theres still the
quick gloss. I dont have luscious
Angelina Jolie lips, she says,
sexpot vibe, without
the prosthetics.
favorite looks created her own waves with stain underneath. so I do lots of lashes, top and Purple eye shadow:
a quick shampoo, a blow-dry, bottom. And a lot of shading, to never not flattering.
and a really big curling iron. make the eye really big.

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You Are So
Beautifulto Me!
My father has four daughters, two from his first marriage and two
from his third (from two wives who looked so much alike that the
latter accused my dad of trying to replicate the former), but we look
We also focus on transformations of the heart and mind: In a
profile of actress Chrissy Metz, one of the stars of the blockbust-
er series This Is Us, Deputy Editor Maggie Bullock explores the
like him in many ways. His wide brow is strongly expressed, as are charged territory of weight biasand the cultural shift that can be
his sharp jawline and the upward tilt of his eyescharacteristics that occasioned by one character in a single television show. And Linda
my grandmother frequently told us that she was proud to pass on, as Tirado, author of Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America, hits
they were traits of great beauty from her family line. the road to talk to female Trump voters about the kinds of changes
Beauty is a word that contains multitudes: passion, longing, theyd hoped hed bring to the country. As with any good makeover
judgment, rebukewho hasnt hoped to define it, and possess it? I story, Tirado will check back with the women several more times
was comforted to learn early on from Grandmother that what peo- this year to see how reality is stacking up with their desires and ex-
ple think of as beautiful is often relative and deeply narcissistic: It pectations when they cast their ballots.
wasnt until I had my own children, of course, that I was witness to In our up-front fashion pages, weve built looks around discrete
true beauty, inarguable in any context. Right? beauty elements, since for many women, a ruby lip, say, or a low
In putting together our annual May Beauty Issue, we decided to ponytail is not just their signature but an organizing principle for
look at whats at the core of attending to our own beauty in ways getting dressed. Our mission: Helping you dress to accentuate your,
big and small, from changing the arch of an eyebrow to lifting the well, beauty marks. In our fashion well, weve expanded this idea
eyebrows through surgery. Transformation is a big word to apply to further, inviting a strong new crop of models to join our six amazing
what were after when we put on a no-smudge, plumping waterproof cover girlsHailey Baldwin, Maria Borges, Bella Hadid, Elsa Hosk,
mascara, but a change in perceptionour own and other peoples Candice Huffine, and Jasmine Tookesto express how beauty and
is what lies in that act. (Im perfectly comfortable with the tiny do- fashion work together to enhance individuality, as opposed to styl-
pamine hit of pleasure I get from thinking Ive achieved the perfect ing and powdering and hairspraying it away. Diversity and unifor-
lip glosstoeye shadow ratio; and I no longer feel Ive abandoned mity are opposites, after all. And beauty should be in the eye of the
feminist principles by counting on science, and Rita Hazan, to bring beholden, every bit as much as the beholder.
forth the strawberry-blond highlights of my teenagerhood, even
though when they were acquired naturallyi.e., while accruing
sun damage after school at the beachI swore Id never do such a
thing.) Among perhaps more profound transformations? Feeling
not like herself anymore, our intrepid Beauty Adventuress, Holly
Millea, goes for plastic surgery and discovers whats most unlovely
about the experience is the reaction of some of her friends. Senior PS: Inspired by just meeting with the most wonderful group of female mayors from
Beauty and Fitness Editor Megan ONeillwho believes that when around the world, who, led by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, were in NYC for the C40
Women4Climate conference, I want to say that if you, like them, are a lover of natural
it comes to beauty signifiers, the choices we make should please us, beauty, i.e., Mother Nature, the Peoples Climate March in Washington, DC, on April
firstgives colored contact lenses a try, and finds that while few 29 will be part of the fight to keep her healthy and vibrantand oppose the proposed
people notice her new eye color, this relatively small transformation deep cuts to the EPA and the confounding notion that global warming is not caused by
has a big impact on her swagger. humans. For more information, go to ELLE.com/womensmarch.

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 POLITICS IS THE NEW BLACK
On fall 2017 runways from New York to Paris, fashion displayed its woke-ness
from head to toe. Is this consumer-friendly activism a sign of feminist progress
or just a sellout? Two writers join the debate

Diane von Furstenberg: courtesy of BFA; Bella Hadid: Kailas (creative direction by David Yassky); remaining images: Getty Images
To hear some tell it, there are two ways to be a feminist: One ver- As a young feminist in the 90s, I relished the dirty looks my Barbara
sion entails ceaseless seriousness, migrating from protest to pro- Kruger Your Body Is a Battleground T-shirt got me on the streets
test with a Dworkin book in your bag. The otherthe fluffy, of Dallas. Before you could just switch your Twitter avatar to declare
not-really-feminist feminismconsists of sticking a solid-gold safe- your beliefs, we declared them through T-shirts, stompy boots, and
ty pin (signifying solidarity with immigrants and minority groups) buzzed hairall signals to allies in enemy territory. Wed rush to say
on your Beyonc-inspired beret and calling it a day. hi to one another in bookstores, at concerts, on the sidewalk. Oh, I
Yes, the gold safety pin is real. It costs $233 and has a mother- love your Righteous Babe button! And I love your Planned Parent-
of-pearl clasp, and buying it does not in itself constitute a politi- hood T-shirt!
cal act. Nor does applying lipstick in a shade called Activist (by I wonder, though, what kind of community might be built around
British brand Illamasqua) or lacing up a pair of KedsLadies first a Dior We Should All Be Feminists T-shirt ($710); or the Missoni
since 1916whose latest empowerment-themed tag lines include version of the humble pussyhat women were encouraged to knit for
Make Your Move. Leave Your Mark and Were Wolves in Zebra themselves for the January marchesthis one in cashmere, at $190 a
Print Clothing. Femvertising can take an activist movement and pop. Do these items signal openness and political awareness to your
turn it into merely a consumer trend. sisters, or simply buying power?
Still, feminists are also human women with multiple interests Fashion and feminism used to have a contentious relationship,
which can include fashion, and pop music, and everything else with feminists charging that designers warped girls body images by
society considers frivolous because its feminine. When I put out parading size zeros down runways. It didnt help when, in 2009, Karl
a call on social media for feminists whose early views had been Lagerfeld, having been asked to channel Coco Chanel in an inter-
shaped by pop culture, Susan Markham, a consultant who advises view, said, I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough
organizations on how to invest in women and girls, and an alum for that. Cut to Chanel spring 2015, when Lagerfeld himself staged
of pro-choice organization EMILYs List, recalled that on her col- a feminist-inspired collection featuring models waving slogans like
lege campus at Ohio State University, only a handful of people History Is Her Story. Fashion does love a good flip-flop.
discussed womens issues. It wasnt until she went to the 90s Now that designers have caught on to the fact that feminist slo-
music festival Lilith Faira girl-power phenomenon that gans can move product, the old This Is What a Feminist Looks
was itself parodied for peddling feminism litethat I Like T-shirt you could find in a secondhand store for a buck
saw myself reflected. It wasnt like, Ugh, Im that nerdy or two has gone upmarket with Prabal Gurungs own This
girl in the corner, Markham says. There were other Is What a Feminist Looks Like shirtone of 39 slogan tees
people who felt that way, and it was kind of a hip thing that closed his fall 2017 show. Part of the proceeds from its
to do. That same sense of belonging and solidar- $130 price tag will be divided between Planned Parent-
ity was stoked by the sea of pink hats at hood, the ACLU, and an organization benefiting survivors
womens marches in Januarynot of the 2015 earthquake in Gurungs native Nepal.

Somali American
Prabal model Halima Aden
Gurungs walked Max Mara,
runway finale Alberta Ferretti,
and Yeezy in hijab, Christian
included 39 Sirianos (sold-
pro-woman becoming fashion
months most out) $25 tees:
messages. 100 percent of
potent symbol.
proceeds went
to the ACLU.

In London,
Indian-born
Ashish Gupta
spelled
solidarity in
sequins.

DVF with
the button
handed out by Dior, spring
the CFDA at 2017: A portion
40-plus NYFW of the proceeds
Versace
shows. from this tee will
issued a call
benefit Rihannas
for unity
Clara Lionel
and strength
Foundation.
in capital
letters.
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to mention that the waves of pink telegraphed a powerful, wide- Mind you, some of these new offerings do not have a charita-
spread unification to anyone who might want to argue that wom- ble component; other brands note that they will donate, but wont
ens rights are a niche concern. specify how much. But as long as the money is going somewhere
Political movements can only succeed with mass supportand worthwhile, whats there to be cynical about? Even beyond fund-
peer pressure is a reliable motivator: Studies have found that peo- raising, surely a feminist T-shirt out in the world means more visi-
ple are more likely to vote if their friends say that they, too, voted. bility for the fight. Every little bit of PR helps, right?

Feminist AF: courtesy of Jonathan Simkhai; models with signs: Alexander Farnsworth; remaining images: Getty Images
Likewise, wearing a The Future Is Female T-shirt isnt activism Last year, the poet and visual artist Anne Boyer, who was diag-
per se, but it can help normalize feminist politics. Radical causes nosed with breast cancer in 2014, questioned whether aware-
have always used imagery and celebrity to reach the mainstream, ness should be equated with progress. In a piece in the New
whether its NBA stars donning T-shirts emblazoned with the Inquiry, Boyer wrote that the prevailing cancer narrative of heroic
words I Cant Breathe (the last words Eric Garner spoke before fighting and survival glosses over the diseases industrial etiology,
a police choke hold killed him) or Laverne Cox using her Orange its misogynist and racist medical history, capitalist medicines in-
Is the New Black role as a springboard for transgender advocacy. credible machine of profit, and the unequal distribution by class of
Imagine the gateway-drug effect of that mammoth Feminist suffering and death. In other words, if we really want more women
sign backlighting Beyoncs Mrs. Carter Show World Tour, at- to survive breast cancer, we need to have uncomfortable dialogues
tended by nearly 2 million people and viewed by countless more about why treatment is so expensive, how screenings lead to false
on social media. Is it mere coincidence that in a poll conducted positives and unnecessary interventions, and why black women
the following year by the Washington Post and the Kaiser Family have an increasing incidence rate, while the rate for white women
Foundation, 63 percent of women ages 18 to 34 identified as fem- has stabilized.
inist? In fact, the only group more likely to embrace the f word, at The enemy here is twofold: One is the self-satisfied complacency
68 percent, was women 50 to 64, who came of age during femi- that can be fostered by making an easy, visible statement, patting
nisms second wave. oneself on the back, and moving on. The other is the kind of cause
So a young feminist may well begin with a $95 Jonathan Simkhai marketing that enriches corporations under the guise of advoca-
Feminist AF T-shirt (100 percent of proceeds go to Planned Par- cyi.e., when companies spend megabucks on celebrity-splashed
enthood)or even with the oeuvre of Katy Perry, who, as one wom- ads celebrating their charitable works while donating a fraction of
an wrote to me, has taught her 12-year-old daughter that feminism that amount to the charity in question.
wasnt just a thing Mom and teachers were about. She may be in- Maybe retailers really do want to help. Or maybe they just want
spired by the pussyhats on the runway at Missoni (maybe shell knit to look like they do. Feminism, the word, may be fashionable, but
her own), or might plunk down $6 for LOccitanes Solidarity the hard work of advocating for and creating an egalitarian world
Balmbenefiting NGOs that facilitate female lead- seems as unfashionable as ever. We should be asking questions
ershipinstead of any old lip balm. As an ardent like Are these same companies rushing to give the women
feminist activist, I believe that such surface- One hundred
percent of
in their factories a living wage? Feminism cant just be a
level engagement is not enough on its own. proceeds from slogan you can take on and off at will. We should be wary
Public Schools
But I wont deny that it can be a critical first $65 snapbacks of corporations that want to take our good intentions
benefit the
step. Ill take I bought the T-shirt over I did ACLU. and sell them back to us, telling us were helping when
nothing at all. were merely helping ourselves to a trend.
Missoni:
A portion of
proceeds will
benefit The Circle,
Annie Lennoxs Adam Lippess
humanitarian presentation
foundation. lent publicity to
All proceeds a local Planned
from Jonathan Parenthood
Simkhais tee rally.
go to Planned
Parenthood.

At Tommy Hilfiger,
Gigi Hadid wore
the #tiedtogether
immigration
solidarity
bandanna seen
at shows from Los
Angeles to Paris.

Artist Coco
Capitn took
the existential
approach at Balenciagas
Gucci. fall 2017
menswear: an
ode to Bernie
Sanders.

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 THE NEW
HARLEM
RENAISSANCE
Photographer Mark Seliger and ELLE
Fashion Director Samira Nasr found
inspiration in Harlem for the March
fashion shoot Take the A Train:

Extremely inspiring @elleusa

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In our March profile of S/o to @elleusa, @markseliger,

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book, The Mother #eyecandy #harlem.
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marielty, Instagram
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everybodywere
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For this months Beauty Issue, were joined by a half dozen of fashions most
sought-after glamour girls, who prove theres no single definition of American
beauty. Theyve got the looksand are raising their voices to boot

Age: 20 Hometown: Mali- Age: 26 Hometown: Age: 32 Hometown:

bu, CA On her role models: I was watching Huntington Beach, CA On her passion project: Washington, DC On finding your voice:
an Alaa show from the 90s, and its Naomi My goal has always been to create my own Women have to come together in a way
[Campbell], Cindy [Crawford], Linda beauty line. I have such a unique skin tone we havent before. Were united and not
[Evangelista]the way they were radiating when I go on set, makeup artists have to use all standing for less than we deserve. Its about
was beautiful. They were so confident. different mixes of makeup to match my skin. Id celebrating who we are and not backing
Those are the people I look up to. love to do a line that has tones for everybody. down. Its not a time to be quiet.

Age: 28 Hometown: Stock- Age: 24 Hometown: Lu- Age: 20 Hometown:

holm, Sweden On learning from failure: anda, Angola On the power of representation: Nyack, NY On industry misconceptions:
When I came to New York [at] 20, I didnt The fashion industry is here for everyone, People think its all fun and glamorous,
know the level of professionalism required. [regardless] of color or race. When I was but its a lot of work, a lack of sleep, and a
Terry Tsiolis

You cant half-ass it, because people will growing up, I never saw someone like me, lot of being by yourself, away from family.
take your place. I screwed up many times and now the other girls can see someone Traveling the world alone when youre 18
and had to prove myself over seven years. like them. Its all about inspiration. or 19 is a lot.

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 Clockwise from top left: The
luxurious Belmond Hotel Mon-
asterio; the Lima restaurant
Rafael and its grilled octopus;
Machu Picchu; a pisco sour;
the colorful wares in Pisac

Valley, hiring a driver

to take them to Pisac, a

PAPERLESS village with a large mar-

ket offering up locally

POST-CARD produced jewelry and

textiles, and to Chin-
Paperless Post cofounder Alexa Hirschfeld details chero, where Hirschfeld
bought baby-alpaca
her recent jaunt to Peru. By Molly Langmuir blankets and the pair
As a child, New York City native ceviche in the city and great visited a colonial-era
Alexa Hirschfeld spent a lot of people-watching. Go at 1 p.m. church in which Catho-
time exploring online and learn- and youll see Limas young, lic imagery mixes with Incan mo-
ing about technology, while her cool, hipster society, she says. From Lima, they headed to Cus- tifs. They also traveled to Machu
younger brother James collected More-formal options include co, perched in the Andes at 11,152 Picchu by Inca Rail, a four-hour
stamps and coins and created the Japanese-Peruvian fusion feet (the trip takes a little over an journey that winds through the
artwork. In 2009, the restaurant Osaka, and hour by plane but a whopping 19 jungle.
siblings, both Harvard Rafael, a white-table- hours by car). Once the capital of
grads, combined cloth establishment the Incan empire, its now filled
their interests and with a memorably with such an impressive mix of While in Arequipa, their final stop
launched the start-up delicious pisco sour. pre-Columbian and colonial in the Andes and the second-
Hir s

Paperless Post, which (For the truly upscale, architecture that its been named biggest city in the country, they
ch

el
Clockwise from top left: Belmond; Getty Images; Viniios Barros; Hans Stoll;

has raised $37 million d theres Central, a sleek a UNESCO World Heritage site, dined at Chicha, a stone-walled
f

in financing and produced spot with artful food that and it boasts a number of richly restaurant run by Gastn Acurio,
200 millionplus virtual and is frequently referred to as the appointed hotels (including the the countrys most famous
paper-stock cards. These days, Al- best restaurant in Latin America; luxurious Belmond Hotel Mon- chef. (Hirschfeld recommends
Getty Images; Alamy; Getty Images; courtesy of Hirschfeld

exa, 33, who caught the travel bug its 11-course tasting menu is $107 asterio, situated in a monastery the rocoto rellenoa Peruvian
earlyher first job was working per person.) In between noshes, built in 1592) to accommodate stuffed pepper.) Finally, they took
on an edition of Lets Go Greece the couple visited the Museo the crowds who flock here. The a day trip to Colca Canyon, which
lives in New Yorks East Village Mario Testino, established by the couple used the city as a base to is twice as deep as the Grand
and heads out of the country Peruvian photographer in 2012 explore the surrounding Sacred Canyon and offers a chance to
whenever possible, most recently to showcase the observe condors, with their nine-
spending two weeks in Peru with countrys art and foot wingspans, flying at close
her London-based boyfriend. culture, and spent a range. All in all, not a bad way
few leisurely hours to spend two weeks, Hirschfeld
on Punta Hermosa, says. Theres this
It was all about eating, Hirsch- a picturesque curve French expression,
feld says about the couples time of surfer-friendly she says, where
in the seaside capital. Their first beach about an you say something
stop was Canta Rana, a casual hours drive from is goodthen add,
lunch spot with some of the best the city center. But its not Peru.

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Pom Klementieff, ALSO, IM IN A NEW THIS MONTH: THE COLOR CURE (PAGE 118) AND INSTANT MESSAGING (PAGE 181)
whom I interviewed, FILM CALLED NO Going to Marimekkos Helsinki HQ, even in deepest
plays one of my MANS LAND . ITS winter, being surrounded by all those fabrics, was
favorite comic-book ABOUT THE MALHEUR magical. You cannot be in a bad mood when youre
heroesMantis! looking at a Marimekko print. Reading: Im on a
in Guardians of NATIONAL WILDLIFE
Carrie Fisher journey. Watching: The Americans
the Galaxy Vol. 2. REFUGE ARMED just keeps getting better, and Keri Russells
Reading: Almost PROTESTS . wardrobe alone is a masterpiece. If I werent a
done with Hanya Reading: writer, Id be: An illustrator! Dream vacation
Yanagiharas A Little DEATH OF THE destination: Im currently fantasizing about
Life. Listening to: LIBERAL CLASS , Corsica. Upcoming projects: Im working on a

Portraits: courtesy of the subjects; Klementieff, Mars, and Marimekko: Getty Images
KO
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It Aint Me by BY CHRIS HEDGES; collection of personal essays. M AR
IM

Selena Gomez and A DAY AT THE

Kygo, Betty Whos FARE , BY PAMELA
The Valley, and M. COVINGTON; Laura Sampedro
@LAURAVSAMPEDRO
XXPEN$IVE REPUBLIC OF DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR, ELLE
by Erika Jayne. SPIN, BY DAVID Listening to: Bruno Marss 24K
Watching: Im GREENBERG; AND Magic on repeat! Watching:
the TV editor DEMOCRACY IN The Great British Bake Off. Who
at ELLE, and AMERICA , BY ALEXIS knew waiting for bread to rise could
currently I DE TOCQUEVILLE have all the suspense of a Hitchcock
love 13 Reasons Splurge: thriller? First job: I wrote for a
Why, Insecure, WHENEVER IM IN music zine (hey, it was the late 90s!)
Westworld, that covered female musicians. I
Atlanta, and, A CITY WHERE I CAN
BUY BOOKS, I GO A
transcribed a lot of interviews that
duh, Game of took place in loud rock clubs.
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Betty sneaks a quick
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New York HQ. Nothing
combines chic and efficiency
quite like Balenciagas all-in-
one stiletto legging. (Blouse,
Balenciaga; earrings,
Jennifer Fisher.)

A VERY
BETTY
TAKEOVER
Hold onto your hats, ELLE has always been inter- whopping eight decades, as Betty Now, in a partnership with King
Fleischer Studios, Inc. TM Hearst Hold-
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boys: Everybodys ested in the personal style of Boop has. (Never before have we Features Syndicate, we reimagine
ings, Inc./Fleischer Studios, Inc.

favorite liberated cartoon power-wielding creative women featured a cartoon, either.) Since Betty as the consummate ELLE
headline-making entrepreneurs, her 1930 debutin a talkie titled woman, circa 2017; an in-demand
woman is ready to lean influential politicos, best-selling Dizzy DishesBetty, with her sig- Manhattanite, running the show
in! ELLE gives icon Betty authors, and James Beard Award nature curves and frank sexuality, in a new, very now job (chief ideas
Boop a (totally hot) 2017 winning chefs. Yet despite all the has embodied many of the charac- officer at music-streaming start-
makeover. Illustrated talent weve celebrated over the teristics we admire at ELLE: Shes up Music.ly), with a wardrobe
by Frank Caruso years, never have we featured a self-assured, captivating, and al- hot off the spring runways. Boop-
woman with a career spanning a ways in on the joke. Oop-a-Doop, indeed.

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FOR THE WEEKEND
Awaiting her brunch
partner at SoHo hot spot
Le Coucou, Betty catches up
with a B-school classmate on
her Louis Vuittonencased
iPhone. The look: model-
off-duty meets always-
on tech wizard.

READY-
TO-SCOUT
As a music-industry exec,
Betty spends her days, and
many nights, scouting talent at
live performances and record-
release parties. Clines
Yves Kleininspired dress,
a spring runway hit, sets
the tone.

BIG
LITTLE MEETING
Box-fresh sneakers and
a tracksuit-inspired take on
tailoring (in signature Betty red,
a real Pantone color) from buzzy
label Off-White are just the thing
for a meeting at Facebook New
Yorks supershrunken, Insta-
ready miNY room.

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 able, known entity, a friend, whose point of
difference is eventually accepted as just one
of her many facets? (Metzs body, after all,
is a point of difference only in the world of
media; in the world of actual Americans,
the average woman is size 16 to 18, and 67
percent of women wear a size 14 or larger
making plus-size people the most underrep-
resented majority on TV.) Okay, thats a lot
to hang on a woman nine months into her
first mega-role. But its not totally out of the
question, either. Metz appears unusually
at ease carrying the mantle of instant role
model, one that many actors take decades to
master, or never do.
TV wizard Ryan Murphy (Glee, Ameri-
can Horror Story, The People v. O.J. Simpson)
spotted a particular strength in Metz that
inspired him to put her on the map in 2014.
He wanted Ima Barbara Wiggles, a Park
Avenue debutante recruited from a wellness
facility to become the literal fat lady in FXs
American Horror Story: Freak Show, to have

REALITY TELEVISION all different types of appetites, he says.

Somebody who, even back in the 50s, thin
We cant remember the last time everyone was this excited or fat, would admit to loving sex and phys-
icality. In Metzs audition tape, he recog-
about an actress in an ensemble show. But in a single season of nized a strong woman who doesnt take shit
This Is Us, Chrissy Metz has redefined what a TV starand a from anybody, who struggles with cruelty, of
romantic leadcan look like. By Maggie Bullock course, but takes a stance of Im not going to
be a victim of anybody or anything. Im going
On September 20, 2016, the day NBCs This identity, and self-esteem as a central story to push through to be optimistic and hope-
Is Us premiered, actor Sterling K. Brown line. The show has been praised for equip- ful. Murphy continues: Like all pioneering
walked up to costar Chrissy Metz and whis- ping Kate not just with a struggle, but with an people, her spirit is bigger than her circum-
pered, All right, are you ready?, Brown actual life: She flails in search of a career but stancesthats what lifts people up.
recalls. She said, Ready for what? I said, also has a hilarious, hot-for-her fianc, Toby
Ready to be a star! Metzs response: She (Chris Sullivan), and gets propositioned for This Is Us is a feat not justof casting but
cracked up. But Brown wasnt joking. At sex by another man. Metz herself has been of construction, weaving flashbacks with
that point, I had seen the work that every- happily dating This Is Us cameraman Josh current-day scenes to chronicle the Pearson
body else had yet to see. Stancil, 40, for several months. Sitting in an family: sexy-earnest parents Jack and Re-
Within months, Metz, 36, was a Golden unassuming Studio City coffee shop wear- becca (the magnetic Milo Ventimiglia and

Clockwise from top left: Vivian Zink/NBC; Ron Batzdorff/NBC (3)

Globe nominee being accosted in California ing a long gray jersey top, black jeans, black Mandy Moore) and their three kidsMetzs
Chicken Cafe by tearful women thanking Christian Siriano flats, and bubblegum-pink Kate and her biological twin, Kevin (Justin
her for her vulnerability and courage, con- lipstick, she notes that dating has never been Hartley), all of whom are white, and their
fessing that This Is Us had changed their a problem. I know a lot of women, especially adopted black triplet, Randall, played by
lives. There was her smiling face on the if they have insecurities, they take whatever Brown. Each Pearson sibling is loved and
cover of People, with the line Im Proud of is thrown at them, Metz says, with a perfect- privilegedthe show has the comfortable
Who I Am. Here she was on a SiriusXM ly timed eye roll. Im like, girlplease. Pottery Barn catalogveneer of wealth fa-
radio show, slamming online trolls for This dual punchthe actresss intimate, miliar from network-TV predecessors such
body-shaming Lady Gaga postSuper Bowl: relatable onscreen plight, plus her real-life as Parenthoodand yet each is in some way
I want to see somebody else get on that buoyancy and life-of-the-party charisma stuck: Type A overachiever Randall longs
damn stage and do what she did! seems flush with a potential that could tran- for a connection to his African American
American audiences have seen plus-size scend even almighty TV ratings. Will Chris- roots and birth parents; blond, brawny actor
women on reality shows, weight-loss com- sy Metz be a force for cultural progress and Kevin is a sitcom beefcake desperate to be
petitions, even the odd sitcom. But as Kate acceptance, even empathy and kindnessa taken seriously; and witty, vivacious Kate,
Pearson on This Is Us, Metz is the first to star poster girl along the lines of what 90s-era for reasons that unfold gradually over sea-
in a major network drama that treats obesity, Ellen DeGeneres became for lesbians: a lov- son one, has been locked in a battle with her

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body since childhood. The show is unapolo- that Metz, too, arrived at. People dont fill a
getically melodramatic, and yet it has prov- void to this extent without some underlying
en irresistible for even the most hard-nosed issues, she says. The quick fixes, the fad
critics. Watching This Is Us is like getting diets, the surgeriesthey dont assess the
beaten up with a pillow soaked in tears, emotional stuff, the trauma youve got to get
wrote the New York Times. After one epi- over. The truth is, weve all got issuesmine
sode, queen of snark Sarah Silverman tweet- just happen to be external.
ed, Im a puddle of tears. Metz has been candid about long-simmer-
In January, NBC re-upped the casts con- ing childhood pain resulting from her par-
tractsnot for one season, but two. It was a Metz and her ents divorce and its aftermath, during which
savvy way to lock down the freshly minted onscreen mom, Hodgewhom Metz describes as as gritty
Mandy Moore, at
stars of falls top-rated new network show, ELLEs Women in TV as they comefound herself a single mother
not to mention one that had garnered NBC dinner in January of three struggling to pay the bills. She baked
its first Golden Globe nod for best TV drama and sold cakes for a while, drove a cab, and
in a decade (plus Best Supporting Actress
nominations for Metz and Moore). But the
There arent a lot of ultimately got a job in the contracts depart-
ment of the University of Florida, where she
networks chief exec also noted that this rare
move was partly an insurance policy for the
roles on TV that worked her way up. Metz says that in those
years, every penny went somewhere.
shows emotionally invested viewers: The people all over the In another almost uncomfortably close

world can relate to,

characters you love arent going anywhere. parallel with her characterwho at the end
If there were any doubts about how direct- of season one hinted that the source of her

Ryan Murphy says.

ly NBC would address Kates weight, those pain was guilt and grief over her fathers
were dispelled four minutes into the pilot. deathMetzs own father looms large
Some 15.3 million viewers have watched in her psyche. Growing up, I had a lot of
Metz disrobe down to her underwear, hes- but a symptoma truth hard-won by the ac- resentment. How does a person leave? Pe-
itate, then remove the last few ounces of tress herself. ripheral at best during her childhood, he re-
added weighther earringsand step onto After her thirtieth birthday, I had a big cently came back into the picture, a turn of
a scale. The network does testing when you meltdown, Metz says. Shed moved to L.A. events that has the added, surreal twist of
finish a pilot, says This Is Us creator Dan at age 23 after being singled out by a talent her newfound fame. Speaking to him now
Fogelman. Needless to say, Kates metrics scout at the Holiday Inn in her hometown of is like talking to a stranger. I dont know
were off the charts. People immediately Gainesville, Florida. But in Hollywood, I him. But her fathers own weight struggle,
responded to the character and to Chrissy, can count on my hands how many auditions and the fact of his quadruple bypass at age
which really came as no surprise to anyone. I had in three years. She landed a Bell South 55, is a sobering connection for Metz, who
Kates ordealthe exhaustive calorie commercial and guest spots on My Name Is acknowledges that what shes contending
counting and demoralizing weigh-ins famil- Earl and Entourage, but mostly she worked with is obviously hereditary, but its also
iar to any long-term dieterquickly stood as an agent, booking kids for commercials. issues, dare I say addictions, in my family.
out as one of the shows most compelling Shed struggled with her shape since child- Given the similarities between Metz and
story lines but also its most critiqued, by hood, enrolling in Weight Watchers as her character, its tempting to conflate the
viewers who found Kate worryingly one- young as 11, but it was during this period, twowhich no doubt adds fuel to audiences
dimensional. I think its a little silly, Fogel- she says, that her weight spiraled upward. fiercely protective fondness for Kate. But
man says. Its like saying, Why is Randalls Youre sitting at a desk, she says. Your life that would be a mistake, Fogelman says.
story so often about his biological father, or is literally two clients; they bring you Sprin- It actually, accidentally, does a slight dis-
Kevins about his acting career? These are the kles cupcakes. service to what Chrissys doing as an ac-
crossroad stories we introduced them with. The process that followed Metzs moment tress playing the character. For Fogelman,
Of course, they get a lot of screen time. of reckoning not only gave her the footing theres no comparison: Kates a late bloom-
The parallels Metz sees with Kate are so to radically change her circumstances but er, shy, not one to hold the spotlight com-
crazy, she says. I feel like its forcing me to also the fortitude to eventually access (and fortably. Clearly marked by tragedy, there is
look at these issues every day. Every time I expose) many of her own vulnerabilities a sadness to her. Chrissy is filled with light.
pick up the script, every time I go to the re- through Kate. Over time, she tried several Shes funny, warm, charismatic. Shes very
frigerator, as Chrissy, as Kate, as Chrissy, therapists, read a lot (including the work popular with our cast and crew. She is not a
as KateI feel as if I am two people some- of self-help guru Marianne Williamson), wallflower. She was a star from day one.
times. When Metz first learned about the and spent time digging into deep spiritual There it is again: that s word. Metz may
role, she called her mother, Denise Hodge. work. Yes, her sense of humor applies even find the idea hilarious, but her veteran col-
Mom, this role is meant for me, Hodge to that phrase. People are like, Oh, you leagues marvel at a born star. Theres the
remembers her daughter saying. Kate is moved to L.A. and you got so kooky! But craft of acting, and theres the personality
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the person that I was. Metz meant that whatever! Everybodys on their own path. that is just God-given, Brown says. Some-
Kate is just coming to the realization that On This Is Us, Kate considers bariatric one who just lights up whatever space they
weight itself is not the root of her problems, surgery but decides against ita conclusion walk into. That is Chrissy Metz.

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 From left: Marimek-
kos reissued styles
Monrepos (1967),
Kentauri (1973),
Liidokki (1974), and
Linjaviitta (1966)

THE COLOR CURE

embrace of the inclusivity marking the pro-
tests in the streets, but peasant-style dresses
feel utterly of-the-moment once again. Its
In chilly Finland, Olivia Stren discovers the secret to fashion truetheres something about that look
survival: ebullient, color-saturated prints that is never completely out of style (my
mom wore her dresses right through the
Your mother looks like a gypsy, a so- Toronto greeted her with a snowstorm. The beige, Calvin 90s). But the effortless,
called friend once said to me, referring to climate was a match, she felt, to the bloodless breezy vibe and artisanal, slow-fashion
the clothes my mom would wear to pick temperament of the stereotypical Anglo- qualitynot to mention the specifics: blou-
me up from schoolno doubt making an Saxon Torontonian. Ill-equipped for this son sleeves, rich colors, bohemian prints
entrance. It was the mid-80s. I was about place (sartorially, culturally, psychically), could be spotted floating down the spring
10 years old. Among all the other mothers, she felt lonely and marginalized, and re- runways of Alexander McQueen, Jacque-
sensibly dressed in their sweatshirts and solved to dress the part: Her exotic clothes mus, Ulla Johnson, and Peter Pilotto. Mean-
jeans or Angela Bowerstyle power suits, my became a kind of commitment to not be- while, Colombian designer Johanna Ortizs
mother was forever outfitted in voluminous longing. So my classmates gypsy com- billowing volumes and the richly embroi-
skirts and robes paysannes. ment did not wound me; to my eyes, her dered, tasseled, Ukrainian-style vyshy-
Born in a taxicab in Casablanca in 1941 mother looked conventional. And in our vanka dresses of Vita Kin are hot sellers on
the first of her dramatic entrancesmy moth- house, conventional, along with its plain sis- Matchesfashion.com.
Courtesy of Marimekko

er had been forced to leave sunny Morocco ter, appropriate, were pejoratives. My moth- My mother would probably be most
with her family for political and religious ers dresses, meanwhile, are laced up in my moved, however, by the spring offerings of
reasons at 16 years old. After a decade in Par- memory with all that is feminine and warm, Finlands iconic fashion house, Marimekko.
is, she arrived in Toronto on April 27, 1969, at but also rebellious. The company has rereleased five archival
the age of 27. The next dayshe loves to tell Perhaps its a reaction to fashions recent, pieces hailing from the 60s and 70s, which
me, as if still recuperating from the shock ardent love affair with minimalism, or an bear only the most minor changes from the

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 originals. Whats striking is not how old
these designs are, but how new they look.
Marimekkos origin story is the stuff of
national lore in Finland, as much a part of
the local identity as saunas and sisu (which
means strength of will and determination
and, Im told, is a defining local trait). The Two exemplars of
Marimekkos 67-year
CliffsNotes version: Armi Ratia, a former tradition of female
textile designer and copywriter, founded print designers:
Annika Rimala (above,
Marimekko (Finnish for Maris dress) in in 1960) and Maija
1951, when she galvanized a group of fe- Isola (in the 1980s)
male artists to create avant-garde prints to
enliven the oilcloth produced by her hus- And they were rife with contrastsbetween giant rocks are accoutred in ocher-colored
bands company. the practical silhouettes and the playful lichen in patterns that could have inspired
Armi was a visionary, says Tiina Ala- prints, the humble fabrics and the theat- Marimekko prints, and probably did. With
huhta-Kasko, the brands current presi- rical colors, the Scandinavian minimalism its mystical, round-roofed earthen bun-
dent. She didnt like the delicate, romantic and the Russian ornamentalism. Such jux- kers, the island looks like a sort of Hamp-
florals of that time. She felt the world was tapositions, Im told by every woman I meet tons for hobbits.
longing for positivity, that gray, postwar at Marimekko, lie at the heart of the com- On my ferry ride over, even the clock tow-
Finland was longing for an injection of pany. (And the company is 94 percent fe- er perched above the jetty barrackswashed
energy. For her, the prints and the col- male, by the way; men there are as exotic as a blush pinklooks ruddy-cheeked from the
ors were an answer to that void. If those palm trees.) wind, and by 3 p.m., the sun is already set-
life-validating prints served as an anodyne This algorithm of opposites was clearly ting. Chilled to the bone, I try to summon a
to the grim political climate, they also successful. Marimekko prints, headlined little sisu. Sisu is a will to make it. Its what
were a survival tactic amid the epic, light- by the iconic poppy, made their way onto you need during a Finnish winter, when
starved Finnish winters. everything from sundresses to oven mitts youre fighting a hard wind, says Marimek-
In 1959, Ratia officially took the brand even, my mother tells me, onto the curtains ko PR manager Sanna-Kaisa Niikko, though
international when she packed an airplane (strawberry print) that cheered my par- I can barely hear her over the gusts.
full of Finnish models and flew to the ents tiny gecko-and-salamandertouristed My mind wanders to a warmer place;
U.S. The following year, Jackie Kennedy bungalow in Tanzania in the early 70s, I fantasize about spring and trading my
snapped up seven dresses during her hus- when my father was completing his PhD in parka for, say, a rereleased, circa-1967
bands presidential campaign, appearing African politics. The idea to animate a dress circular-hemmed Monrepos dress in a
in a berry-colored Marimekko sundress on and a dinner napkin with the same pattern print called Keidas (oasis)its charged
the cover of Sports Illustrated. Those early cannily qualified Marimekko as one of the shades of orange and cactus green evoking
dresses, designed by Vuokko Eskolin- worlds first lifestyle companies. Today, all the rawness and jubilance of a Matisse
Nurmesniemi, considered one of the the companys Helsinki headquarters paper cutout. Or the Liidokki dress (1974),
Portraits: courtesy of Marimekko; runway: Imaxtree.com (2); Vita Kin: courtesy of the designer

foremothers of Finnish design, were prints 1.2 million square yards of fabric which conjures Latin American caftans.
architectural in silhouette and fash- a year in riotous Marimekko designs You could see Frida Kahlo wearing it in her
ioned with as few seams (some 3,500 of them) and debuts 20 Casa Azul. Or, for that matter, my mom
as possible to facilitate new prints annually. wearing it to run errands. For as long as I
movement and dispense In December, I vis- can remember, shes worn an airy white
with restrictions both ited Marimekko HQ embroidered summer dress. Its a Mexican
physical and ideo- and capped off my wedding dress, but shed wear it to pick me
logical. The heavy trip with a visit to up from playdates or to go to the grocery
cotton fabricsnev- the fortress island store, always with red lipstick and her fa-
er anything flimsy of Suomenlinna, a vorite Guerlain Vol de Nuit perfume. This
or fragilewere har- 15-minute ferry ride rejection of occasion dressing is another
dy, utilitarian. The off the wind-frilled shared Marimekko principle: Marimekko
woman is sexy, not coast of Helsinki. is meant for everyday, Alahuhta-Kasko
the dress, the de- Its the sort of place tells me, because every day is the heart
signer famously said. that might inspire a of your whole life. Last summer, at 74, my
These were clothes Tolkien epicwhich mom wore that Mexican wedding dress to
intended less to en- is not as far-fetched accompany me and my two-year-old son,
tice others than to em- as it might sound: Leo, to the sandbox.
power their wearers. D ER TO Tolkien actually Unlike my mom, Im more vulnerable to
T
AN N ILO N
E X EE RP KI fashioned Elvish af- trends, and lately I find myself falling hard
AL cQU T E
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BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY M
Blouson sleeves dangle from stone closet full of them. Its a longing, perhaps, to
and mega prints in the
spring collections.
buildings like vit- recapture my mothers youthand maybe
rified tassels, and hang on to some of my own.
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IN WITH THE NEW
ELLE Fashion Director Samira Nasr on trickle-up style,
fashions new hair obsession, and inner (and outer) glow

ani
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Nasr a

EASY DOES IT
My friend, makeup artist
Romy Soleimanithe genius
behind the enviable glow of
both Cara Delevingne and

Runway: Imaxtree.com (2); Fly Girls: from A Time Before Crack, by Jamel Shabazz (powerHouse Books)
Kate Hudsonshares the
four products (shown here)
every woman should own.
Pai Rosehip BioRegenerate
Oil: I press a little into my
cheeks to hydrate, soothe,
and make me look alive!
RMS Beauty Un Cover-
up concealer: With the
right concealer, you can
skip foundation or tinted
moisturizer. If you have
naturally rosy cheeks, add
STREET SCENES toe shoes, the leather minis, concealer around your nose
Jamel Shabazz, whose book the matching Kangol hatsit and chin, and let your skin
Sights in the City: New York Street kills me! And its a look thats shine through.
Photographs (Damiani) comes relevant all over again, as we Surratt Releve eyelash
out this month, is the original saw on the Marc Jacobs fall curler: It opens eyes, even
street-style photographer. Both runway (above). when youre wearing no
a photojournalist and a fashion makeup at all.
photographer, he documented Kevyn Aucoin The Flesh
ordinary people in the 80s Tone Lip Pencil (shown
who were making incredible in Hyacinth): Pencils are
style statements, long before unsung multitaskersfill
the days of social media. Look your lips for a natural pout
at Fly Girls (far right), shot or press the color into cheeks
in downtown Brooklyn, circa for a healthy glow.
1984: The tights with the open-

Im superinspired
by the cornrows we saw at Saint Laurent
for spring and again at Fendi for fall.
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to do with black hairit was always
straightened or slicked back. Hairstylist
Shani Crowe (near right), the woman
responsible for Solanges braided halo T
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GALAXY GIRL MOVIES,
Marvel gets an ebullient
(and hilarious) new star BOOKS, MUSIC,
in Pom Klementieff. AND MORE!
By Seth Plattner
When asked who inspired her portray-
al of the classic Marvel comic-book
hero Mantisa bizarre, buggy human-
oid who can sense peoples emotions
through touch (and is the newest mem-
ber of Chris Pratts ragtag group of celes-
tial protectors in this months Guardians
of the Galaxy Vol. 2)Pom Klementieff
has a list at the ready: A praying man-
tis, obviously, says the 30-year-old
graduate of Pariss Cours Florent drama
school, who, although born in Quebec
to a French-diplomat father and a Ko-
rean mother, was ultimately raised by
her paternal aunt and uncle after she lost
her father at age five and her mother be-
came unwell. Gollum, from The Lord of
the Rings; Leeloo, Milla Jovovichs char-
acter in The Fifth Element, because shes
discovering new things in a new world
oh, and Mr. Burns! From The SimpsonsI
like the way he holds his hands!
Though Guardians revolves around
constant warring and world-saving (for-
tunately, Klementieff was trained in
boxing and Tae Kwon Do before even
auditioning for the movie), its the ac-
tresss offbeat sense of humor that will
be her signature in the Marvel universe.
Female characters in Marvel films are
usually cool and badass and strong, and
I love that! says Klementieff, whos re-
cently finished filming Avengers: Infinity
War Part I, alongside Robert Downey Jr.,
Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, and the
rest of the star-studded superhero gang.
Emma Holly Jones

But Mantis is something different.

Shes childlike. She listens rather than
fights. Shes also weird! I get to be the
total weirdo! How totally refreshing.

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 UNBURIED SECRETS
In HBOs The Immortal
Life of Henrietta
Lacks, a film based on
Rebecca Skloots 2010
nonfiction best-seller,
a greenhorn reporter
chases a medical
saga deep into the
Hall and
Linney heart of a Baltimore
family. A biopsy from
LAST SUPPER Henrietta Lacks
(Hamiltons Rene
Things will never be the same between two brothers and their wives after Elise Goldsberry), who
an elaborate gourmet repast thats poisoned by proliferating secrets and died of cervical cancer
misunderstandings in The Dinner. By Ben Dickinson in 1951, grew into a
Families work together; they
bury the ugly stuff. At least as
(the avant-garde movie equiva-
lent of ambient music), starring
Laura Linney), talks him down in
their bedroom and coaxes him to
line of cells that has
transformed medical

Clockwise from bottom left: courtesy of the Orchard (2); Quantrell D. Colbert/HBO
much aspirational as it is fac- Richard Gere as a suddenly home- go out. They strike us as both sym-
tual, that declarationuttered less and rudderless New Yorker. pathetic and symbiotic. research worldwide.
sotto voce toward the end of The Moverman knows every crag and The restaurant, a dimly lit den When Skloot (Rose
Dinnercuts to the heart of this
bristlingly intelligent, idiosyn-
angle of Geres elegantly aging
face, and in The Dinner, he has
of clubby luxury, indeed turns out
to be a surpassingly inappropriate
Byrne) approaches
cratic, and sinuously suspenseful Gere playing Stan Lohman, a con- place for them to meet with Stan the troubled Deborah
film. Is it a thriller? An Oedipally- gressman of resplendent charm and his glam new wife, Katelyn Lacks (Oprah
tinged drama? A midnight-dark (well, and smarm) whos now (the fab Rebecca Hallfor whom, Winfrey) and her
comedy of manners? Its all of the campaigning for a governorship. more roles like this, please!). Be-
above, and more. Youll not find a more unctuous cause it turns out that, amid all
siblings about their
Writer-director Oren Mover- yet irresistible politico, one who the ridiculous ceremony of food mothers life and
man adapted the international finds himself hopelessly and ad- fetishism (These winter roots scientific legacy, she
best-seller by Dutch novelist Her-
man Koch, published in the U.S.
dictively tethered to the smart-
phone borne by his ever-hovering
were grown right here in our gar-
den!) and constant interruptions
sets off a spectacular
in 2013, brilliantly converting it assistant, Nina (a savvy, some- by Nina bearing frantic commu- chain reaction
from its European mise-en-scne times smirking Adepero Oduye). nications from Washington, these involving medical
into a thoroughly American fable. First, though, we meet Stans two couples have a deadly serious ethics, race, and
Moverman, who made the highly
regarded 2009 Iraq War drama
younger brother, Paul (the bril-
liant Steve Coogan), a former
crisis to chew over and somehow
try to resolve: Their two teenage
classand, now, a
The Messenger and cowrote the high school history teacher whos sons have recently done some- must-see TV event
intricate script for 2014s Love & obsessed, in a flagrantly political- thing tragically bad but have not (April 22).B.D.
Mercy, the biopic about the Beach ly correct way, with our nations been found outbut a third son,
Boys Brian Wilson, is an eclectic rampant inequality, the broken whom Stan adopted from Ken- Winfrey
talent whose star is rising. In 2014, promise of the Civil War and ya, appears to be on the verge of and
Byrne
he also made Time Out of Mind Emancipation, and the legacy of ratting on them. This becomes
Native American genocide. Hes a the fulcrum of an almost alchem-
Gere charismatic rager who can scarce- ical alteration of our assumptions
ly bring himself to go to dinner about these four people, and the
with Stan at an ultrahaute cuisine last half hour of The Dinner un-
restaurant that he knows hell de- folds like a vehicle headed straight
spise; were privy to what appears for a concrete bridge abutment at
to be a marital ritual as his Earth- ever-increasing velocity. What is
Motherly wife, Claire (a glowing it, exactly? Something to behold.

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DIRECTORS SPOTLIGHT
ABOUT
A GIRL
A charismatic child, a heinous
unsolved crime, a bewildered Casting
community: all ingredients JonBenets
star lineup
for a bewitching documentary
Gr
ee
A whole litter of little blond girls dressed n ing process. And it got of Ramsey, she adds, than in the case itself.
in red, white, and blue costumes spills uniformly adulatory re- When did Green know for sure that shed
boisterously forward from camera to stage views at Sundance and, at struck documentary gold? I think we cast
in an audition for the role of JonBent Ram- this writing, enjoys a 100 percent fresh the Santa Clauses first, she recalls. (For a
sey; youd be hard-pressed to pick the real critics rating on rottentomatoes.com. Green time, a chief suspect in the case was a neigh-
JonBent out of the lineup were she actually is after something far removed from a rehash bor of the Ramseys who moonlighted yearly
there. Talk about a through-the-looking- of the sordid and timeworn details. How do as Santa Claus.) We had them in a Barca-
glass moment: From the first scene of Cast- you make sense of senseless horror and trag- Lounger, and once they sat down, they just
ing JonBenet, in theaters and on Netflix this edy? That was always our fascination, Green wouldnt stop talking. It was actually cathar-
month, its clear that Aussie documentarian says. She trawled the Boulder area with open tic, or therapeutic, I think, to talk through
Kitty Green knows how to take you there. casting calls for locals, ranging from dinner- not only their impressions of this tragedy but
There would also be Boulder, Colorado, theater veterans to folks just off the street, also their own personal narratives and con-
where Ramsey, a six-year-old child-beauty- to play the central rolesJonBents brother nections to the case. Throughout the film,
pageant star, was murdered in her home on and parents and a few other prominent sus- auditioners blurt out unexpected and reveal-
Christmas night in 1996an infamous case pectsin reenactments of what might have ing glimpses of themselves. It soon becomes
that has never been solved and may very well happened that mysterious night. Then she clear that were beholding, in microcosm, the
stay that way. interviewed them about their memories and things that people tell themselves to push
Does this sound like yet another schlocky theories about the case and how its affected away the darkness and meaninglessness of
cable-TV expos about the case? Its not; in their lives. We were more interested in the whats stubbornly unknowable and get on
fact, the movie is almost all about the cast- cultural obsession, the mythology and legacy with their lives.B.D.

TRUST US through and feeling

around the shadows
Sensibility, Pride and
Prejudice, and Mans-
This month: priests and nuns, of an idea. Getting field Park. Good tim-
radical writers and lovers pricked. Cursing ing! Austens pensive,
purity. Threshing intelligent face, haloed
memoir, Priestdaddy out. Scuffing up and by her Regency-era
(Riverhead), about peeling away. Feral cap, will grace the
growing up as the rearranging. Let- Bank of Englands
daughter of a Catholic ting form ferment. new 10-pound note (it
priest. Lockwood, a debuts in September).
taboo-breaking doy- If youre ripe for a
enne of the Twitter- If you want to read the presummer blockbust- sistersone destined If youre at the end of your
verse whose book of work of Canadas literary er that delivers an to become a ma- relationship rope, reach

From top left: Gregory Erdstein; courtesy of Netflix

poetry Motherland It Girl, check out writer engrossing family drama triarch, the other a for Radical Acceptance:
Fatherland Homeland- Durga Chew-Boses with feisty humor and cloistered nun. The Secret to Happy,
sexuals hit it big in essay collection, Too transformative tough Lasting Love (Atria
If this grabs you: Before 2014, describes family Much and Not the love, put Saints for All If youre keen for a Books) by YourTango
they allowed your father photo-sifting night: Mood (FSG). The Occasions (Knopf), fresh take on the life .com CEO and founder
to be a priest, my mother My father in a tight, first (and best) piece, J. Courtney and work of beloved Andrea Miller: a thinky,
tells me, they made me take appalling sailor suit. Heart Museum, Sullivans latest writer Jane Austen, UK shrinky, five-step guide
the Psychopath Test. You My father dressed as is a fluid, almost New Englandset biographer Helena to loving by embracing,
know, a priest cant have a a pro-life Dracula. My dreamlike disquisition saga (she also Kellys Jane Austen, as Millers written, the
psychopath wife, it would father wearing a Spee- on finding ones voice. wrote Maine and the Secret Radical darkness, the murki-
bring disgrace, youll do at the lapping edge She writes, Groping Commencement) on (Knopf) reveals the ness, the shadows of
be wowed by Patricia of a picturesque lake, through the dark is your must-read list. subversive rebel soul a relationship and the
Lockwoods darkly between two buff what writing consists This novels about behind such towering people in it.
profane and poetic buttocky dunes. of anyway. Working two very different classics as Sense and Lisa Shea

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LOVE AND
and Khin understands only a few words of
English, but they marry and begin an epic,
complicated love story that unfurls just as
IDENTITY the world begins to shudder with the horrors
of World War II. The couple are forced to
A Jewish boy, a Burmese beauty, make impossible choices as Burma becomes
and the WWII savagery they increasingly dangerous for Khin, as a Karen;
endure make for an epic roman for Benny, who is often misidentified as a
clef. By Keziah Weir British spy; and for their children.
Craig (incidentally, a former actress who
At one point in Charmaine Craigs served as a model for Disneys Pocahontas)
emotionally complex second novel, masterfully renders the human condition in
Miss Burma (Grove Press), married matters micro and vast. And as Benny and
couple Khin and Benny are reunited Khins story opens up to include the desires
after nearly two years of separation. and fears of their strikingly beautiful, fiery
Astonishing, Benny thinks, facing his wife, suming her husbands military duties at age daughter Louisa, she proves to be a singular
how one could go from absolute intima- 24, upon his assassination. force, a combined product of her parents
cy to utter estrangement. This notionof Benny, a seven-year-old Jewish boy living separate strengths that reveals the power in
human closeness and alienation and what in Rangoon (then still under British rule), individual perseverance, even in the face of
constitutes eachis central to Craigs novel, is orphaned and shipped off to Calcutta to torture and slaughter.
which follows a mixed-race couple and their live with his aunts, a pair of rabbis daugh- Like many of the best books, Miss Burma
children living in racially charged Burma ters. But its the words of Saint Augustine feels rooted in its time and place, while also
between 1926 and 1965. Miss Burma is large- that get to him: God loves each of us, as if laying bare timeless questions of loyalty,
ly based on the incredible true story of the there were only one of us. Returning as a infidelity, patriotism, and identitynot to
authors own famous mother, Louisa Char- young man to Burma, Benny meets Khin, mention the globally perpetuated unfair
maine Benson Craigwho, at 15, became an 18-year-old girl belonging to the coun- treatment of women. It also raises one par-
Burmas first Miss Universe contestant and trys tyrannized ethnic minority, the Karen. ticularly resonant concern: What does it
went on to marry an army commander, as- Benny has all but forgotten his Burmese, take to shake us out of complacency?

THE BIG PICTURE was always writing about aban-

doned places, about some form
of aftermath, the place left after
that everything will become no
longer ours. In places, the com-
mingled pictorial and written
Kristen Radtkes graphic memoir is a cool, capacious the action, she says. Shes con- narrative flows like a film, like
telling of her life. By Lisa Shea sumed with the question of how a dreamscape, like the river of
Writer and illustrator Kristen ry wrapped in a coming-of-age something that is can become, time itself. Its Radtkes quiet-
Radtke has an insatiable attrac- tale. Its her thumbnail history very suddenly, something that ly erudite, observant language
tion to abandoned places. Shes of left-behind people and places, isnt. A striking full-page pan- (The candles outside temples
wandered the hollowed-out and a wondrous panel-by-panel el of an abandoned church in in Laos that looked just like the
cities of Americas Rust Belt, archive of the interplay between downtown Gary, Indiana, that ones we used to light for my
roamed a lava-buried Icelandic her rapacious intellect and her Radtke and a boyfriend explored grandmother) that grounds her
village, visited vacated mining expansive imagination. presages a later trip the artist intricate and dramatic drawings.
towns in Colorado, and scoured Before the book, which took made to Southeast Asia seek- But maps, photographs, medical
the former U.S. military base forever to complete, the 29- ing out the ruins at Angkor Wat, charts, newspaper clippings, and
on the Philippine island of Cor- year-old Radtke says, I wasted the gilded stupas in Myanmar, a free-floating Sharpie embed-
regidor. These and other trips to a lot of time writing about ex- and the killing fields of Cam- ded in the almost 300-page book
landscapes of aftermath, ruin, boyfriends. After art school at bodia. Twice these terse words enhance the storytelling as they
and decay gave the Green Bay, Chicagos Columbia College, an accompany the cartoonish yet surprise and delight.
Wisconsin, native the courage MFA in nonfiction at the Uni- vividly animated drawings that Radtke is mindful of women
she needed to process loss and versity of Iowa, and a stay in drive the mem- comic artists, such as Fun
past romantic entanglements, Milan, Radtke struggled, but I oir: We forget Homes Alison Bechdel
and to come to grips with her and Persepoliss Marjane
familys scary medical history, Satrapi. On the last page
forging all of it into her brilliant of Imagine, this acknowl-
graphic memoir, Imagine Want- edgment appears: Every
ing Only This (Pantheon Books). woman who has ever put
The book is a family drama, a comic into the world has
youthful romance, obsessive made it a little more possi-
adventure, and karmic inqui- ble for me to do so.

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 a record deal or shoot for country
radio, it just felt slightly contrived,
she says. That all changed when,
on the heels of artists like Kacey
LIPSTICK JUNGLE
While Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon
Musgraves, Maren Morris, and duke it out on TV as Joan Crawford and Bette
Mickey Guyton, who were starting Davis, respectively, in the hit FX drama Feud,
Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole are
to forge a new path for female tal- bringing to life another historic tte--tte in
ent, Smith decided to release her the Broadway musical War Paint. The Tony-
music independently, leading to winning legends enact the storied rivalry
2016s breakout EP, Starfire. The between Helena Rubinstein (LuPone) and
album debuted at number one on Elizabeth Arden (Ebersole), one that made both
women boundary-pushing beauty moguls and
the iTunes singer-songwriter chart renowned figures of female power. To salute that
and at last revealed, says Smith, legacy, LuPone and Ebersole weigh in on some
who I am at the core: a versatile, pressing questionsjust in time for our May
classic-country-loving vocalist Beauty Issue.Seth Plattner
whose songs mix acoustic Ameri- What hardships are Shes brilliant.
cana with gritty blues swagger and women still dealing Whats your one
punchy pop hooks. with that Helena and weird but faithful
Elizabeth dealt with beauty ritual?
On the full-length Starfire, its
60 years ago? PL: Montepulciano
that same mix of tender (Taco- Patti LuPone: mud on my face.
ma), tough (Contact High), and oc- Prejudice. Pay CE: Beyond
casionally silly (Lets spin a couple of equality. Equality. moisturizing, I dont

PIONEER 45s and order some Chinese takeout/I

couldnt think of a better way to spend my
Men suckexcept for
my husband, my son,
have any rituals.
But Im open to

WOMAN
and my men friends. suggestions!
Friday night, she sings on the sweet bal- Christine Ebersole: Whats currently in
lad Cheap Date) that illuminates what Aging gracefully. your makeup bag?
How Caitlyn Smith bucked the rallied her grassroots fan base in the first In terms of rivalry, PL: La Perla for the
lips, Elizabeth Arden
country music establishment place: a sense of authenticity in a universe what can healthy
opposition teach us? cream blush and
to build her long-overdue of label-packaged product. Fans who dis- PL: Acceptance. lip protectant, plus
cover your music in that way feel even more
breakthrough. By Dan Hyman inclined to back you, says Morrisand she
CE: That rivalry can
inspire us.
mascara, lip gloss,
Tylenol, toothpicks,
When it came time for singer-songwriter would know. Before winning a 2017 Best Is there still a and Big Red gum.
Broadway role you CE: Elizabeth
Caitlyn Smith to sign her first record Country Solo Performance Grammy for her wish you could play? Arden cream blush
deal, the 30-year-oldwhod been kicking first single, My Church, Morris racked up PL: Always [Gypsys] and gloss, hand
around Nashville for 15 years, writing hits supporters by self-releasing the song to Spo- Madame Rose. moisturizer, and
for everyone from Dolly Parton (You Cant tify, reaping millions of streams and spark- As long as I have Olbas natural nasal
breath, Id love to inhalerits better
Make Old Friends) to Meghan Trainor ing a bidding war among Nashvilles top la-
play Madame Rose than drugs.
(Like Im Gonna Lose You)wasnt in a bels (she ultimately signed with Sony Music again. Finish this sentence:
glitzy Music Row boardroom but rather on Nashville). Fans appreciate, she says, that CE: The part of Beauty is ____.
her couch, wearing mom yoga pants, with the works not being paid for or pushed in Mame, but this time PL: Tough work.
her six-month-old son, Thomas (whom she their faces. While female country artists on Broadway. CE: As beauty does.
Whos a new Whats the one thing
had with her husband, fellow musician may just now be wising up to the strategy, Broadway star who women need to do to
Rollie Gaalswyk), hysterically crying on her its a lesson that rap and hip-hop have un- inspires you? transform the world?
lap. Its not how I pictured it! says Smith, derstood for years, with artists like Soulja PL: Annaleigh PL: Demand their
now with Monument Records and set to re- Boy, A$AP Rocky, and, more recently, Lil Ashford, Lena Hall, placewhich is not
Cristin Milioti, Dene equal, but superior.
lease her first full-length album, Starfire, Yachty and Migos leveraging the Internet
Smith: Getty Images; LuPone and Ebersole: Joan Marcus

Benton. CE: Strive for

this month. But honestly, it couldnt have for a followingand then forcing the indus- CE: Cynthia Erivo. authenticity.
been more perfect and beautiful. try to play catch-up.
A small-town Minnesota native, Smith had When I think of my passed-over peers,
been jockeying for a solo career for years. maybe they werent 6'3" or a supermodel, so
She took her parents up on an offer to use her they werent getting deals, says Smith, who
college-fund money to record her first album cofounded the quarterly Girls of Nashville
and, while still in high school, started making showcase to highlight undiscovered female
monthly trips to Nashville to attract label talent. Its ridiculous, but I think its stirred
attention. For the past decade, however, a lot of women. Were finally like, Okay,
Smith, like many female artists looking for whatever! You arent going to sign me? Fine.
their break, has had to fight biases that have Im just going to do my own thing. And to fi-
long plagued women in Music City: Theyre nally put me out there, the unedited version, Ebersole
seen as either a sex symbol or just another tal- and have people love itits a confirmation
ented songwriter. Every time Id try to get that Im on the right path.
LuPone
 EDITORS TIP
To pamper
extensions, avoid
sulfate-based
shampoos and
use your fingers
(not a brush) to
detangle.

ALTERED
STATES
From mile-long hair extensions
that only lasted for two weeks to
an Instagram-esque brow tattoo
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that may (yikes!) stick around

several years, ELLE editors test-
drive top beauty transformations,
both big and small.
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THE BOMBSHELL REBOOT dirty joke and then laughing because youve wearable (Ive already lost my sense of
made him uncomfortable. touch; Id like to keep my sight). I carve out

X FACTOR When it comes to that bombshell x factor,

Im beginning to conclude that either youve
two hours, and Lee gently affixes 150 syn-
thetic and silk lashes as I lie back with my
Cotton Codinha goes from got it or you dont, when, at a party for Sexy eyes closed. My rise from the treatment
gamine to glam Hairs new shampoo, Im treated to a full set table to open my fluttering lids is so Dis-
of waist-grazing clip-ons and an over-the- ney princess, its almost embarrassing. The
After a dramatic haircut last fall that left top, costume-y candy-red lip. I snap a self- effect is like real-life Facetune, and with
my lob a 90s-inspired mullet, I found ie for my feed, with the caption So this is the makeover I have planned, Ill be more
myself settling into a uniform of oversize happening. The next morning, I wake up to Jessica Rabbit than Belle. Soul warns me to
sweaters, flats, and tinted lip balms. After three DMs, from men I have either not spo- avoid oils, sleeping on my side, or pointing
receiving no less than three compliments ken to in years or never spoken to at all, on my lashes directly under the shower stream.
on my androgynous style in one month, the same theme: Youre so pretty. Maybe Now, the hair! After my episode with clip-
I started to find myself gazing at vintage there is something to this. ons, I know that Sports Illustratedmodel hair
photos of Brigitte Bardot in her cinched The transformation is fairly life-disruptive: helps, but Im dubious it can look natural. I
waists and Scarlett Johansson vamping for I need to enlist a whole army of helpers. I enlist Joseph Maine of Serge Normant at John
the camera. How does that feel? I won- start with nails. Take a look at Margot Rob- Frieda salon, who squeezes me in between
dered. And so began an exploration into bies perfectly tapered ring finger flipping Katy Perry at the Grammys and Kate Mc-
embodying the bombshell. off the Instagram world or Rihannas ever- Kinnon at the Oscars. He applies one-and-a-
The first step in achieving bombshell-dom changing experimentation with length and half-inch hair extensions all over my head in
is figuring out exactly what a bombshell color: Nails are Bombshell 101, and the more a bricklaying pattern to keep the volume uni-
is, especially in 2017. For almost 80 years, I dont work with my hands, the better. form and to obscure my own strands, then
the bombshell has been blond, comic- The pros at NYC nail salon Valley talk me chops my hair to armpit length, adding sexy
book curvy, and magnetic. A bombshell is down from acrylics to gel extensions, which rock-chick layers.

From left: Getty Images (2); Matt Baron/Rex/Shutterstock

more than hot: A hot girl can wear a biki- are very similar to press-ons but are semi- Then, thanks to a consult with ELLE fash-
ni; a bombshell can make you buy stock in permanent, tailor-fit, and attached with ion editor Yashua Simmons, I embark on a
the brand and move to the beach. And now industrial-strength glue. Once the plastic mission to acquire the clothes of a young
shes a contradiction: Emily Ratajkowski, nail topper is applied and sculpted (long sti- Kardashian. My lips are painted vermilion
with her feminist af T-shirt pulled taut letto shape for me, please!), its coated with a 24/7, my eyelids and cheekbones are tacky
across her famous breasts; Jemima Kirke, pale gray-pink gel. My fingers immediately with gloss, Im in a constant low-grade pan-
with her fallen-angel face and silk slipdress- become exclusively ornamentalthe nails ic that my hair extensions are showingand
es exposing a fringe of armpit hair; Amber make it impossible to type. Four days later, I I have a weekend-long date with a guy Ive
Rose, with her fembot-perfect features and lose one when I try to button my jeans. been seeing. He travels for work, so he hasnt
shaved-platinum head. I dont even know Next stop: lashes. Soul Lee of Beautiful seen the inch-by-inch transformation. I warn
if its a look anymore, says a friend. Or Soul Makeup Studio (her clients include Zo him about the extensions but leave the rest
rather, yes, its about being a babe, but its Kravitz and Chrissy Teigen) is the ne plus to be discovered as the nature of the experi-
less about getting hit on than about telling ultra for glamorous faux lashes, which she ment unfolds. Feeling a little like a Victorias
the guy whos hitting on you a massively fastidiously trims individually to make Secret Angel, I strut up to him in my very best

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 The author, pre-
overhaul (below
left), and at full
volume (right)
BEFORE
bombshell travel gearcrop top and Levis, Wolford bodysuit (undergarments are
naturallyand bat my lashes. He goes to kiss for prudes) under tight vintage Levis
me hello andhis hand has nowhere to land. rolled to show the slightest bit of wan-
The nape of my neck? I flinch away; the tapes ton ankle and a whole lot of stiletto
are very stiff there. The side of my face? Fin- plus a fire-red lip, piles of mascara,
gers start to creep right into where the ex- and a face full of gloss. My friend and
tensions are more layered. I sigh deeply and I swan in, awaiting collective gasps,
steer his hand to my waist. I had anticipated only to hearnothing. Look at that
tactile, bouncy hair as the ultimate roman- girl at the bar, points out my pal help-
tic accessory, so Im the truly disappointed fully. Shes wearing less than you
one. He assures me he likes my hair both are. We order, I flip my hair a few
long and short (good answer!), but I clock a times, make my best doe eyes, and feel
wince when I touch him with my dramatic so incrediblybasic. My body hurts, I AFTER
manicure. The last day, another nail pings to feel untouchable, I havent made contact with but the bombshell formula hasnt quite left
the floor as I put on my pants (what do these my own scalp in weeks, and my clothes, as me. I pair a worn-in jean with a shrunken
girls wear that doesnt require fastening?), Cher Horowitz would say, are binding. sweater and keep a bitten red lip. Caught up
and I am grateful for the singular dexterity The next day, I wrench off the seven re- in telling a story at a party, I find myself with
Ill have with that ravaged finger. maining nails. (Pro tip: The destruction to the undivided attention of two men who
Back at home, a friend and I take my new ones natural nails is avoidable with salon re- compete throughout dinner for my conver-
look out for a spin at Mr. Fongs downtown, moval.) Maine kindly fits me in to scrape off sation. Each tails me to the next locale. My
a fashionable bote thats close enough to my the hair extensions well ahead of schedule. I friend rolls her eyes when they both lurch to
apartment for me to saunter there in heels. lovingly brush the lashes and pray they nev- grab my bar tab. The best part? I snorted my
I wear my very best off-the-shoulder sheer er leave me. That night, I dress like myself, beer, laughing at my own dirty joke.

THE CLAY STATION and people who dont may have dcolletage, Im struck by how and renewal. I have a similar
clear skin. And then the kicker: naturaland almost spiritualit reaction the first time I sluice

PLAYING Overwashing may disrupt the

skin barrier. In other words,
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DIRTY
not only had I not been solving ancient civilizations, from the paint myself from hairline to pinkie
the problem, I may have been Incans to the Greeks, theorized toe in a thin layer of Jasmine Rose
causing it. that a creator deity fashioned Rhassoul Clay combined with a
Sayonara, soap! Keziah And dirt, long considered my
foe, might actually be my greatest
human beings out of glorified
dirt. (Its a claim that a group of
capful of apple cider vinegar (to
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prone to tantrums), and over the causing excess sebum) without worked: My windburned skin was Clay has significantly reduced
years, Ive tried all manner of stripping the skin of moisture less ruddy and softer to the touch. a painful cystic breakout on my
soaps and tonics and leave-ons completely. Clay as cleanser isnt Now hooked, I consult Yael jawline (brought on, I think, from
aimed at calming it down and anything newCleopatra is said Alkalay, founder of skin-care forgetting to heed Zeichners
clearing it up, always favoring the to have maintained her poreless brand Red Flower. A decade ago, warning about overcleansing),
more extreme formulas strong complexion with the help of white- Alkalay launched her hammam and by the next evening, my oil-
enough, so I thought, to snuff clay masksbut its new to me: The set, a clay-centric line partially prone roots still look as if theyve
out all the oil and dirt clogging it first standouts in my experiment inspired by visits to Turkish and been freshly shampooed. As my
up. Until two months ago, when are Freshs Umbrian Clay, a no- Moroccan bathhouses that left new favorite saying goes, a little
I spoke to Manhattan-based nonsense gunk-extractor mask, her with a feeling of lightness dirt dont hurt.

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dermatologist Joshua Zeichner, and Borghese Fango Delicato
MD, and my skin-care worldview Active Mud for Delicate Skin, a
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 be sisters but not twins. Nervously, I ask her
to err on the side of subtlety: I dont need wow
brows, I tell her. Id just like them to be pretty
and innocuous. Dont worry, she says. The
idea is for no one to be able to tell its been
done. And then she switches on the machine.
Bossavys procedure involves a custom-
ized mixture of mineral-based pigments,
which she delivers with a specially designed
miniature needle that injects color into the
MY FIRST TATTOO skin without cutting or scraping. Shes quick

INK YOURSELF HAPPY to distinguish her technique from micro-

blading, the Instagram-fueled sensation in
After years of struggling with her barely-there brows, April Long calls in which pigment is manually scratched into
the big guns (literally) to take on her arch nemeses once and for all the skin, a process Bossavy says can cause in-
fection and end up looking blobby. Her pig-
I know this sounds dramatic, but its true: ing sparse brows with a tattoolike process mentsblended for each clients skin tone,
My eyebrows have been a problem for most she calls micro color infusion, I was both so the brows not only look natural during
of my life. When I was little, they were as thrilled and terrified. If she was as good as their life span but also fade without taking
thick as caterpillarsnot in a face-framing, reputed (Bossavys ability to revivify arches, on any dreaded apricot or blue tonesarent
80s-fashionable Brooke Shields way, but in disguise stretch marks, and enhance lip con- implanted as deeply as with a traditional tat-
an amorphous, forehead-dominating, does- tours draws Manhattan socialites, Brazilian too, meaning theres neither bleeding during
that-child-have-eyes kind of way. Which is supermodels, and Oscar nominees), then application nor redness afterward. And to my
likely why, when I was 13, my mother draped my brow woes would be over, but if she was surprise, the process doesnt hurt so much as
me across her lap on our living room couch, heavy-handed, or somehow gave me a shape it tickles; I find myself having to stop her re-
hissing, Ive been wanting to do this for that didnt suit my face, I might walk out peatedly so I can sneeze.
years, and went to town with a pair of twee- looking even worse than when I went in. And Over the machines hum, Bossavy tells me
zers. The ribbon-thin McDonalds arches because this is semipermanent makeup were shes making thin, quick strokes, some of
that resulted from her savage artistry left me talking about, Id have to live with the results which are crosshatched, in order to create a
looking perpetually surprised, an unlovely for up to three years. fluffy facsimile of hair. Im giving you lit-
situation only compounded by my own over- You have beautiful eyes, Bossavy says tle wisps at the ends, she says. A real eye-
zealous efforts to mimic Gwyneth Paltrows pretty much the second I arrive at Dangene, brow never ends with a hard line. After 45
Brad-era slivers in the late 90s. By the time the chic medi-spa where she sees clients in minutes, shes done, and I peer into a mirror
I decided to try to let those little hairs grow New York (she also has salons in L.A. and to survey the results. My first response is
wild and free again, it was too late. Paris). But oh, girl, your brows are killing oh! And then uh-oh. I cant decide how I feel.
Over the past few years, Ive tried virtu- you! She points to my U-shaped arches. Theyre so unfamiliar, so big, so dark. This
ally every arch-enhancing pencil, marker, Youve got the horseshoes. is the worst theyre going to look, Bossavy
gel, and powder known to humankind, but Bossavy begins by sketching in my ideal says, assuring me that over the next few days
most can endure only a few hours on my brow shape with a soft pencil, then shaves theyll fade to a less jarring intensity. Ill need
oily skin before vanishing (quick shout- away any hairs outside that outline with a tiny two more sessions before we reach the final
out to long-lasting Benefit Goof Proof and razor (Tweezing irritates the skin, she ex- result; in the meantime, Im instructed to
Dior Diorshow Brow Styler, without which plains, and I dont want to start my work with keep my brows away from water (tricky) for

From top: Owen Bruce/thelicensingproject.com; Frances F. Denny (3)

I would have spent even more time look- any inflammation). Its important, she tells two weeks and tap on a Vaseline-type salve
ing like a clown-school dropout). Ive also me, to preserve some asymmetry. It makes to address any flaking. Retinol and exfoliants
experimented with off-label use of the lash people look fake when their brows match too are no-nos; daily sunscreen is a must.
booster Latisse, which coaxed out a few perfectly, she says. Youre never the same For the rest of the day, I cant stop examin-
wheezy sprouts but none in the region I ac- on both sides. What you want is for them to ing my brows in the mirror. Its like Ive fallen
tually wished to regrow. For asleep and someone has drawn on my face
the most part, I threw in the BEFORE with a Sharpie. The edges seem too precise,
towel, growing my bangs out to giving them the stencil-y Instagram-brow
hide my brows like a shameful effect I had hoped to avoid. But I do love the
secret, appalled when theyd ac- shape: Theyre smooth where once they were
cidentally pop through in photo- hooked, lush where once they were emaciat-
graphs, making me look as if Id ed. They now swoop in a seamless arc from
just heard a sudden loud noise. inner to outer eye, and my nose, wide at the
When I received an invitation bridge thanks to a childhood break, some-
to meet with Dominique Bossa- how looks slimmer.
vy, a blond Frenchwoman in her AFTER When my husband gets home that night,
fifties who specializes in reshap- he does a double take. Oh wow, he says.
The authors pre-tattoo
horseshoe (top); days after
her second session with
158 Bossavy (above and right)
You look crazy. And then, while Im THE RAINBOW CONNECTION
trying to conjure some white lie about
having my brows tinted or something else
that sounds unscarily temporary, he asks, BLUE CRUSH
Is that microblading? Its a whole sep- Megan ONeill discovers that a new eye color lends her some serious swagger
arate story how my straight (I promise),
It all started with Kanye. I was of his lenses can run well past but the blueespecially in
non-YouTube-video-watching better half
looking at a photo of him and the four-figure mark, Cassel contrast to my skinis it. Forget
has any idea what microblading is, but Kim Kardashian from the 2016 insists the result makes you the old-timey stigma that
suffice it to say I come clean and warn him Met Gala, in which Kardashians walk differently, like changing women of color who wear
that he might be living with these brows spectacular Balmain gown, your hair color. Perfect timing, contact lenses to adopt a
for quite some time. Well, he says help- created with actual pieces of because my hairstylist had just lighter iris shade are grappling
disco ball, somehow managed put the kibosh on another round with feelings of racial self-
fully, you can always start wearing hats. to accentuate her impossible- of bleachmy looks current hate: Mesmerizing crystalline-
The next morning, I look like Eddie to-accentuate-further bottom. source of fantastical zaniness geode eyesnot found in
Munster. Even my dog looks at me funny. But it was Kanyelove him until some of my breakage grew nature, people!and physical
But on day three, I catch my reflection in or hate himwhose getup out. For the first time in three experimentation are pure fun.
ensnared me. It wasnt his years, my hair was mostly an That Saturday, I make my
the mirror of a dark restaurant and think,
crystal-adorned Balmain jacket unfantastical brunette. debut as a blue-eyed girl.
I look good. Are my cheekbones higher? that got me (although that was Cassel is busy with the As I walk around SoHo, Im
Are the bags under my eyes gone? No, I pretty amazing); it was his eyes, likes of Leo, so I impatiently pulsating with that distinct
realize, its the brows. In the right lighting, which hed transformed for the order myself green, garish energy you acquire from
theyre amazing. evening into a hypnotic blue- violet, gold-flecked hazel, and wearing a new dress that makes
green that was part husky, part dreamy blue contacts from your waist look small and your
By the time I see Bossavy two weeks lat- Game of Thrones White Walker, LensCircle, a site that stocks legs infinite. I lock eyes with an
er, the color has mellowed considerably. and wholly badass. practically every shade of attractively scruffy man, who
The outlines are softer, the strokes less I decided I needed to get FDA-approved (something to grins at me as he passes. On the
noticeable. Certain areas have, however, them myself. (It must be a look out for!) lenses. I opt for same block, a dapper-looking
by-product of my growing up circle lenses, a style with an couple glance at me, whisper
begun to take on a slightly gray hue, which
in New York City, where you extrawide outer rim that makes something to each other, and
Bossavy tells me is only temporary, an awk- glimpse all manner of folks with your irises appear like saucers then look back at me and
ward but necessary phase in treating those outrageous everything, that I (think: Lady Gaga lurching smile. As I leave a boutique, the
with fair hair. If I put just the warm color view the zany as beautiful.) I around in the bathtub in her security guard tells me I cut a
on first, it will not stay, Bossavy says. By knew, as with Kanye, the wild Bad Romance video). nice figure. Why in the name of
color would pop against my A few days later, I receive Yeezy have I not been rocking
putting the warm shade on top of an ashy dark complexion. the package, tear it open, and these my entire adult life?
shade, it becomes a neutral blond. I track down Kanyes have a ball trying out all the Later, waiting for the subway,
Sure enough, after themuch quick- optometrist, Mitch Cassel, different lenses. (Note: If youre I feel a tap on my shoulder. I
ersecond pass, the overall effect is more whose Studio Optix office considering circle lenses for turn around to face two women
in Manhattan specializes the first time, give yourself, dressed like Alexa Chung, the
consistent, more natural. I find Im no lon-
in custom, hand-painted like, 45 minutes to actually kind of It Girl influencer types
ger tugging my bangs down like a curtain contacts. Cassel treats patients get them into your eyes. It whod have upwards of 10,000
to cover my brows; instead, Im sweeping with eye disfigurements, as feels dreadfully unnatural at Instagram followers each.
them aside. I love them. I love having well as celebs like Leonardo firsteven if youre used to We just spotted you from
them done without having to do any- DiCaprio, whom he fitted with regular contacts.) The violet across the platformyoure so
jaundiced-looking lenses for isnt pigmented enough to really exotic, one says. We have
thing. I love that they make me feel like I The Revenant, but the majority show up over my own tree- a clothing line. Would you be
need less makeup overall and that out of of his clients are people like me, bark-brown irises. The hazel interested in coming to a casting
my myriad irrational insecurities, I now angling to add an electrifying is pretty but not nearly weird call to model in our fall show?
have one less thing to think about. touch to their look. While a pair enough. The green is awesome, I say Id love to and take
their card. As they walk away,
Ive become obsessed with peoples

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AFTER I think how crazy it is that
brows. I study strangers foreheads on the contact lenses are responsible
subway, thinking how an attractive brow for this inordinate amount of
can come in a billion different shapes and attention. Or are they? I chase
sizes. The arches I personally find most after the women.
Can I ask you guys
beautiful are those that appear to be only something? I say, catching
moderately shaped, that telegraph some them as they step into their
kind of individuality. My least favorites train. Did you notice me
remain the supersculpted, highly refined, because I have blue eyes?
The women peer closer, their
social-media-star brows. But ironically,
faces now inches from mine.
I feel like mine look most my own now, Ohmygod, you do have blue
after maximum intervention. Had my eyes! one says. We stopped
mother never stepped in, I might have you because we thought your
grown up looking half wolf, so I suppose I hair and style and vibe were
cool and confident.
should thank her. But oh, its been a long The author And then, the door closes.
journey to find the brows I should have and her
power blues
been born with.

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In the midst of the indecision and vacilla-
tion, my iPhone rings. I pull it out, pausing
at my reflection in the black-screen glass.
I send the caller to voice mail and turn to
Liesl: Count me in.

A few weeks later, the girls are abuzz with

holiday plans over dinner at Freds at Bar-
neys in New York. Virginia is visiting
family in Philly, Betsy is finishing a
documentary in Phoenix, and Renata is
delivering Meals on Wheels in Manhat-
tan. I announce Ill be hiding out in my
apartment recovering from plastic sur-
gery. It goes over like a lead fruitcake.
Please tell me youre joking, Renata
says. What kind of plastic surgery?
A brow lift, I tell them (not telling
them that Im actually going full Monty).
Im finally fixing my Frankenforehead,
which is so heavy that I have a headache
BEAUTY ADVENTURE from lifting it all day. Having inherit-

THE ONE
ed this brow from my dada ringer for
Marlon BrandoI ooze masculinity.
Whats worse, when my brow is relaxed,
AND DONE I look beady-eyed, shiftyguilty. I cant
get away with anything anymore.
Holly Millea has long been Virginias not buying it. If you lift
our cosmetic astronaut. For her your forehead, youll end up with a
eightieth Beauty Adventure, she five-head, and then youll have to wear
bangs. You might as well get bangs now
goes where none in her orbit have and skip the surgery.
gone before: She gets a facelift. I, for one, am excited to see if it
Along the risk/reward curve, works, Betsy says. Whats the big diff
theres no procedure more daring. between Botox four times a year and
Heres what happened. a brow lift? And you wont have that
wonky look everybody has the first week
Botox settles in. Its not a big dealnot
Whenever my editor Liesl calls me into the 10 pounds? Stop procrastinating? Id never like a facelift.
office, I know shes going to ask me to do make that deadline. Reflexively, I start pulling at the loose
something I wont want to do. Its much easier But what really comes to mind is a facelift. skin around my jowls, stretching it away
to twist my arm when my arm is in the room. I mean, Ive been contemplating that from my face like Silly Putty. This is what I
Failing that, her headlock is very persuasive. leap for a while (as has Liesl, among other do when I get anxious.
The May issue is all about transforma- friends), for both professional and person- What are you doing? Betsy asks.
tion, she begins, circling my chair. Me- al reasons. I earn my living in an industry And why are you looking at me and do-
gan is wearing colored contacts; Cotton is where youth is the greatest currency, and I ing that? Virginia says. You think I need a
getting hair extensions; April is undergoing live in a city where women outnumber men. facelift?
eyebrow tattoos; and Keziah is cleansing Need I say more? Yeah, I do want a facelift, No, Renata says, turning to me, narrow-
with dirt. in the same way I really do want a man in my ing her eyes. Holly is getting one. Onlyshe Alexandre Weinberger/Trunk Archive
For real? Thats a thing? (Yes. And it is.) lifelike last night, when I woke up alone in wasnt going to tell us.
But youyou are a Beauty Adventuress. my bed and the smoke-alarm battery needed Betsy: You are? This is very exciting!
And you always want to do something big. changing. Chirpchirpchirp Oh, stop already, Virginia says, holding
Liesl snaps her fingers, points at me, and But then I think, What if I get what I want, her hand up. Are you crazy? Youre going to
commands: Say the first thing that comes and it ends in disaster? Im not commitment- end up with your head in a jar!
to mind! phobic, but I am life-altering-mistake averse. Over the last two decades, Ive gone on 79
Run for the elevator! The wrong man, a bad faceliftthere would Beauty Adventures, many of which have in-
The second thing that comes to mind! be nothing worse than having to look in the formed my resolve. Ive tried and tested all
Shave my head? Pierce my nose? Lose mirror every day knowing I could have pret- sorts of sundry youth-preserving methods.

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I am going to do this. Im not going incisions are [each] the length of a pinkie
nail. Its the easiest recovery of any operation

to feel ashamed or guilty or say sorry I do.

As with the coronal, in this lift the mus-

to anyone for saying yes to myself. cle and fat are released from the skull and
elevated to a higher position. Rosenberg
then attaches two Endotines, securing them
The stopgap measures workfor a while. look. It just allows you to look rested. via two tiny holes he drills into the skull,
Then its out with the credit card, back for He stands behind me, lifting my forehead aligning them, in my case, with the mid-
more. And more. And more often. with his fingers, opening up my eyes. This dle of each eyebrow arch. Placement of the
I see the surgery as an investmentand is you, he says, looking at my reflection. Endotines varies depending on the issues
for me, it is a major investment. (The na- This is pretty. I would say that where you youre trying to correct; mine were placed a
tional average price for forehead, face, and are right now is not you. Its not communi- bit farther out than is typical, for maximum
neck is $14,429: anesthesiologist, operating cating a sense of vitality. It just makes you lift in the area of my forehead with the most
room, postoperative care, and batteries sold look exhausted and angry. droop. The five barbs evenly distribute the
separately. The bigger the city, the bigger Rosenberg gets down to the nuts and bolts weight of and tension on the brow. Think
the price tags.) But nothing can dissuade of the procedure, or, in the case of an endo- of it like hanging from a jungle gym,
me. Ive done my homework, all the re- scopic brow lift, the Endotine absorbable Rosenberg says. Its easier to hang using all
search. Ive even watched the YouTube sur- fixation devicea triangular piece of what of your fingers than just hanging by one.
gery videos. (Trust me, you do not want to looks like plastic, the size of a thumbnail; its He holds the device up to the light. This is
see how the sausage is made.) I am going to flat on one side, with sharp barbs on the oth- dissolvable sugar. It stays for five months,
do this. I want the mythic one and done. er. He pulls one out of the drawer. and the brow heals in the new position.
And Im not going to feel ashamed or There are surgeons doing very beautiful Rosenberg estimates he does 200 of the
guilty or say sorry to anyone for say- coronal brow lifts, Rosenberg says, refer- 30-minute procedures a year. Best-case
BEFORE
ing yes to myself. Got it? ring to the classic, old-school scenario, three days youre perfect. If there
Yes, its scary. Its my lift, wherein a single incision is were any recovery issues, there might be
damn face. As we wait for a made from one ear to the other swelling here around the eyes. Maybe one
cab after dinner, Renata, my across the top of the head, like in 50 will get a bruise.
philosopher king-of-a-friend, a headband, and a strip of skin He addresses the rest of my mug. Your
says, Facelifting is the anti- and tissue is removed. (Some jawline and cheeks have fallen, he says,
aging mother lode of courage consider it the gold standard, manipulating the soft clay of my skin. A
and risk. I dont believe that prized for its precision and per- deep-plane facelift will restore the archi-
you think you really need it. I manence.) You could do it, but tecture of your face to reveal beautiful bone
think you really want to do it. youre buying a 16- or 18-inch structure. The cheek will be highlighted,
I feel like a beauty astro- scar with the potential for per- the jawline defined; no sense of pull.
naut, and this adventure? Its manent hair loss. Endoscopic, Pinching the slack skin of my neck,
a moon shot. And my mission theres no hair loss. The [four] he gives it a wiggle. This loose skin in
is to go there and back, to re- AFTER the central neck will be gone. Rosen-
turn safelyand, I hope, recognizableand The author berg hands me a mirror and, with his
to report every detail. 10 days hand flat, irons everything slightly
before her
Herewith, the story I wish I could have surgery up. This is a beautiful, elegant, soft
read before I decided to go for it. (above), and change. Can you live with that?
two months
post-op Liesl erupts, I can! We look
I meet Liesl at the office of David Rosen- (right) at her.
berg, MD, the facial plastic surgeon I inter- I can live with it, too. Houston, Im
viewed on my last adventure, whose scalpel ready for lift-up in T-minus 10 days.

From left: courtesy of the subject; Frances F. Denny

has worked wonders on several of my indus- But first things first, and the first
try acquaintances. thing is Botox. You have a very, very
First off, lets focus on the brow, Rosen- expressive face, he says, injecting
berg says, steering me to the floor-length the muscles atop and between my
mirror in his exam room. Its hard to see eyebrows to prep me for surgery. I
the upper half of your eyeball when your can lift your forehead, but when you
brows are this heavy. And your outer lids are wake up and start frowning, youre
actually impeding your peripheral vision. going to pull the brow back down. Get
An endoscopic brow lift softly elevates the Botox twice a year, and the lift will
entire brow in a way that the outer third is a last a decade.
bit more elegant.
The inner third comes up in a subtle The day comes, December 15, and Im
waytheres no deer in the headlights ready for launch. I wake up at 6 a.m.,

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undergo caffeine withdrawal (no foods or
liquids after midnight), exercise, vacuum, No one will even Four hours, 100 itsy stitches, 10 staples,
and two big Novocain injections later, my
shower, do laundry, respond to a slew of
well-wishers, pop an Ativan (prescribed by suspect. Unless hair is washed, my head is wrapped, and Im
lying on a gurney floating back to earth.
Rosenberg to prevent presurgical hysteria),
and wait for Liesl to pick me up, as promised.
Then she calls; shes stuck in traffic. So I walk
you tell everyone. I wake and feel so good (thanks to the pain-
killing Novocain and Percocet) that before I
even leave Rosenbergs office, Im taking
alone the three blocks to his office. I know, normal, Rosenberg says. (It used to be that selfies with my home-care nurse, Melissa,
only three blocks. I just wanted someone I the standard was to remove the muscle com- and sending them out to my peepsthe
love to hug me before I went under. pletelywhich left you with a flat facial ex- postoperative equivalent of drunk-dialing.
Wearing green scrubs, Rosenberg enters pression, not unlike a lobotomy.) Back in my apartment, I fall into a deep
the exam room upbeat, tousle-haired, with He then lifts my brow into an aesthetical- sleep, sitting up with my head wrapped in
the energetic confidence of a Greys Anato- ly pleasing positionovercorrecting by 10 ice to keep the swelling down. The next
my star: This is going to be fun! I find his percent to accommodate a slight drop that morning, Melissa removes the bandages,
certainty comforting. Staring at me intent- will happen once the postsurgical swelling and I look in the mirror. Relief doesnt be-
ly, he uses a fine marker, drawing incision recedesand attaches it to the Endotines. gin to describe it. I feel the kind of eupho-
guidelines on my scalp and around my ears. Raising the operating table, he sees how ria one must feel after dodging a bullet or a
I ask questions: Is he sure I wont lose any gravity impacts the placement and, pleased malfunctioning guillotine. Ive gotten away
hair? Positive. Will he take a decade off with the result, lowers me back down. This with a crime against nature.
my face? Trust me, you will not be under- has all taken 30 minutes. The next few days are a Percocet blur of
done. But will I look like I had work? Mak- Moving on to my neck, Rosenberg makes ice packs and sleeping upright, eating ap-
ing your face more beautiful is an art form. I a one-and-a-half-inch incision just under my plesauce and tapioca pudding and popping
try to perfect doing living art, really individ- chin to access the platysma muscletwo arnica tablets, friends coming and going and
ualizing it. Youll look like you. thin sheets of muscle that extend from the calling and texting, and me taking progress
Im not going to wake up with a five- collarbone all the way up to the midface, pictures and shooting them out.
head? overlapping under the chin. Not smart to mass-text pics, Renata
No! he says. Now youre going to have Like the elastic in a pair of tights, the pla- texts back.
to stop talking, and let me go into my zone. tysma loosens with age, spreading out. The
The anesthesiologist, Connie Ding, skin loses elasticity, too. The fix is remov- I should have locked my phone away. I
checks in, confirms my medical history, and ing an inch-wide vertical strip of the muscle couldnt tell you whom I exposed myself to,
takes me next door to the operating room, where it overlaps, and endoscopically sew- or who in turn exposed me, bruised, swol-
where I lie down and suddenly panic. Ding ing the sides back together with eight inter- len, my bright red ears looking like theyve
is all business. This wont hurt, she says, nal stitches. Fifteen minutes work. been removed and reattached, my deep
sticking a catheter in my vein, leaving me Now Rosenberg turns to the right side of purple neck matching my purple pajamas. I
just enough time to utter what could be my my face to begin tightening my jawline and know firsthand the fascination that accom-
famous last words: That did hurt. redefining my cheek. Using his scalpel, he panies plastic-surgery procedures. Friends
Okay, Im way beyond asleep. Where I am, traces the curve where my ear meets my have sent me their pictures, and Ive had to
right now, only God and maybe Vladimir face, continuing down to the earlobe, up be- delete themstat!to save myself from be-
Putin know. Meanwhile, heres whats hap- hind the ear, and into the hairline behind my ing awful and showing them to other people.
pening as Im traveling without a passport ear for an inch and a half. Dont ask me what the temptation is. All
across conscious borders. He peels back the skin of my cheek, lo- I know is that a close friend sent me a pic-
Van Morrison is playing on Pandora. cates the top of the platysma muscle, and ture of her breast implants, and I would have
Rosenberg, scalpel in hand, starts at my left goes under it into the deep plane, but above flashed it a hundred times if I hadnt deleted
temple first, careful to work beneath the fron- the facial nerve branches, and releases the it as promised on the life of my dog, Truman.
tal branch of the facial nerve (one slip of the muscle. A slip here, and sayonara to smiling, Day four, off the pain meds, out of the fog
knife and no more frowning, no more look of whistling, kissing. and, I must say, looking relatively goodI
surprise, no more knitting of the brow). Using a pair of $500 porcelain scis- call Liesl and scold her for not visiting me.
Through a total of four small incisions just sorsso, so sharp they require complete I did! she says. I brought a bottle of wine.
behind the hairline (one above each eye- accuracyRosenberg works above the Your second cousin was staying the weekend
brow and one in each temple), he inserts an muscle, freeing it from the skin. With the with you. She was visiting from Yale. Dont
endoscopea fiber-optic camera the size of muscle suspended, he slides it back up onto you remember? I have a second cousin?
a straw. With the lighted endoscope in one the cheekbone, anchoring it in place using (Apparently Joanna and Germaine came by
hand, his cutting instrument in the other, permanent internal stitches. He then moves with a bottle of champagne and we put the
and his eyes on the monitor, he releases the on to the left cheek. lights on your Christmas tree, Joanna says.
muscle fibers and underlying tissues from Redraping the skin, he trims the over- How do you think they got there? Elves!)
the skull and debulks the fibersweakens agean inch and a half on each side of my The first thing Renata says seeing me is,
themleaving the forehead with some face and neckand begins closing up all the Holy shit. Good for you! Dont take this the
expressionless harsh than what you had, incisions with such precision that suturing wrong way. Its not that you look younger
but enough to keep you looking vibrant and accounts for half the operation time. its that he made you prettier. Honestly, youve
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It goes without saying that no one

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 Thankfully, as dermatologists have In more tradition-
grown more sophisticated in their meth- ally treated areas,
ods and the array of fillers, neurotox- derms tend to stay
ins, and fat dissolvers like Kybella has with standard doses of
become more diverse and specialized, Botox and fillersI
patently obvious nonsurgical work is be- believe that if you use
coming the exception rather than the too little between the
rule. (And surely, if the 9 million-plus eyebrows, youre not
injections done in the United States going to prevent those
in 2015 had made us a nation of funny- etched lines from
faced freaks, wed know it.) The best getting deeper over
needle wielders now recognize that time, says New York
the most natural-looking effects are based dermatologist
achieved incrementally, with tiny, al- Whitney Bowe, MD.
most imperceptible adjustments. And I find that I need
Im a big believer in You dont fill to put in .1 to .2 ccs
up the gas tank in one try, says Los the more traditional
Angelesbased dermatologist Annie doses of filleralong
Chiu, MD. Softly adjusting gives the the cheekbone in or-
most beautiful results, and budgetwise der to get the lifting
its more reasonable as well. You can effect Im after. But
always add, but its harder to take away. for the rest of the face,
Hyaluronic acid fillers are reversible, Bowe says, Ive com-
but you obviously dont want to do that pletely changed my
unless absolutely necessary. injection technique.

I CALL THEM little tweak-bits, says

To address crows-
feet, for example, Bowe wraps micro- This is the
New Yorkbased derm Dendy Engel-
man, MD. This is the secret behind all
doses of neurotoxindelivered with an
ultrathin tuberculin needlearound the secret behind all
the celebrities who the layperson thinks eye, starting from the tail of the eyebrow the celebrities,
Engelman says.
are just genetic phenoms. They are and finishing under the lower eyelid. In-
able to age beautifully because theyre stead of hitting that area with just three
not doing major overhauls. Theyre not injections on each side, which is what
changing their faces, adding tons of was studied during FDA trials, I actually this injection technique, Im able to get
volume, or erasing their expressions. do a series of about six or seven injection a much more powerful preventive effect
Theyre just focusing on tiny changes sites, she says. That way, I get a very from the filler, because Im creating ten-
that really fly under the radar. Theyre gentle, natural, widespread effect that sion on the fibroblast cells, making them
not so perceptible that its like, Oh, she opens up the eye and lightens up heavy create more collagen. Again, its very
went and got her eyes done or Shes lids. It also changes the texture of the skin off-label, but if I see people every three

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changed her lips. Nobody can tell. in a way that traditional deeper injections months and I use very low doses distrib-
With injectables, small hits can have dont, because Im actually affecting uted in a lot of different areas, Im able
a big impactand not necessarily in the only the very superficial muscle fibers. to get healthier-looking skin over time.
places one might expect. Engelman, So when people complain that they have So even after the enzymes in our bodies
for example, sometimes uses a tiny bit crepey or cigarette-paper skin around the break down that hyaluronic acid filler,
of Botox at the base of the columella, eye, it helps to smooth that out. the skin looks tighter and firmer.
which is that divider between the nos- The goal, always, should be natural
trils, to lift the tip of the nose. There SIMILARLY, BOWE USES minus- movement (nothing should stop you
are a lot of small physiological changes cule doses of hyaluronic acid fillers in from communicating, emoting, show-
that people dont really notice as signs of marionette lines, smile lines, and naso- ing sympathy or empathy or interest,
aging, which we can address, she says. labial folds, placing them shallowly into Bowe says)even if that means leaving a
Another trick: making the eyes look big- the dermis to gently hydrate the skin few wrinkles unsmoothed and not going
ger by injecting a baby dose of neurotox- from beneath the surface. This imparts full throttle on a particular area, which
in just underneath the eye. If you just an immediate dewy glow but also, she could create, say, an overlarge lip thats
put one unit of Botox there, Engelman says, galvanizes a longer-term benefit: disharmonious with the rest of the face.
says, it drops the lower eyelid about It triggers your own body to make more Indeed, with cruel irony, anything too
one or two millimeters and opens up the collagen. Im deliberately wounding heavy-handed can actually backfire and
aperture of the eye. So you look a little the skin in tiny points down and along make someones face read as being older,
more awake, a little younger or prettier those lines in order to tell your body to rather than younger. Its always that fine
but not noticeably different. start healing itself. I find that by doing line between doing just enough but never

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teetering over into too much, Engelman

says. I think that although Kylie Jenner
has had good work, she looks about 15
years older than her real age. All these
young girls are doing way too much, way
too early. I always say to my young pa-
tients, The one thing I cant give you is
your actual youth, so you need to ride that
out as long as you can. When that starts
to break downand it willwe can start
to do things. But in the meantime, dont
go messing with it. If you start monkey-
ing with it too early, it knocks you into an
older-looking category.

WHEN WE DO SEE overfilled or dis-

concertingly immobile faces, there can
be several factors to blame, but it nearly
always involves either an unskilled in-
jector or an unscrupulous one who will
acquiesce to patients who wantand
are willing to pay forsomething they
dont need. Every time I look at celeb-
rities who have crossed over to the dark
side of doing too much, its not that Im
upset with them; Im upset with the doc-
tor who did it to them, Engelman says.
We all know the right aesthetic.
Its important, therefore, to find a
board-certified dermatologist or plas-
tic surgeon who will work with you to
strike the right balanceand say no to
you when necessary. When Bowe en-
counters millennials who come in with
Instagram pictures of enormous lips,
she says, I have to counsel them exten-
sively about how we have to maintain
the proper ratios and proportions. I can
put in only a little bit of product but focus
on the pillows of the lips, and give you a
beautiful, sexy smirk when youre at rest.
I can turn up the corners or make the
Cupids bow pop. Its not about pump- idiosyncrasies and asymmetries; the goal I might like to offer. I draw out a mas-
ing lips full of product and giving you is to make us look like better versions of ter plan with each patient, even using
two big sausages. Even when a patient ourselves, not like everyone else. I really an iPad painting tool on a photo of the
does have naturally thin lips and desires believe injectables are an art, Chiu says. patient. We start with baby steps and
a fuller pout, Bowe takes it slow: Id Every single face is different, and there give touch-ups until weve achieved a
rather do a series of treatments using are vast differences, even culturally, in uniquely personalized map of what and
very small injections at a time. Someone how you approach someone. Its about where to inject.
might need two syringes to get to the enhancingnot changing. Although it may seem counterintui-
point where shes going to be happy, yes, tive, or even wasteful, to invest money in
but Ill do one syringe, and then Ill have WHEN I TALK to patients, new or something so deliberately invisible, Mar-
the patient come back in a month or two established, Im actually analyzing their mur says, economic analysis has proven
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to do the second. I like to give the tissues expressions and balance and beauty, that routine, under-the-radar procedures
a chance to recover, and then evaluate. says New York dermatologist and Mount pay off over time more than the big, dra-
In general, derms are breaking away Sinai Medical Center associate clinical matic antiaging procedures. No one will
from a one-size-fits-all approach and professor Ellen Marmur, MD. By the know how weve managed to sail through
tackling individual faces with an eye to- time we catch up on our news or intro- time so remarkably unravaged. And isnt
ward modest interventions that preserve ductions, I already have an idea of what it better to leave them guessing?

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AINT THAT THE TRUTH
She also forbids shoe shopping (bending
down can upset Botox placement), fly-
ing (the change in altitude exerts added
There are alternative facts galore when it comes to what to do pressure that can be problematic for fresh
and what not to do when getting a round of injectables. Here, the Botox and filler, which both need time to
misconceptions get debunked. By Megan ONeill integrate into the face), and high-altitude
skiing (ski goggles pressing against your
Botox and filler shouldnt be to seven daysthe time it takes neuro- forehead can cause filler to clump) within
cocktailed in the same syringe. toxins to reach full effectfor Ultherapy the same time frame.
FALSE. New Yorkbased derm Doris Day, or Thermage, he says. I like the skin to be
MD, sometimes adds a few units of Botox relaxed so that Ultherapys or Thermages You can help extend your Botox.
into filler and then injects them together tightening effects can occur without being TRUE. In a study published in Dermato-
for a sleek, natural-looking outcome. You compromised by the skin pulling in the op- logic Surgery in 2015, researchers separat-
can get some extra tightening, she says of posite direction. ed overly square-jawed participants into
mixing in a line-diminishing neurotoxin two groups: Both received slimming injec-
so that the combined effect with the filler Blow-outs posttreatment are A-OK. tions of Botox into their masseter muscles
yields a smooth surface. If you want to FALSE. New Yorkbased dermatologist Pa- (the key muscles that move the jaw), but
soften the lip lines, its a combo that dif- tricia Wexler, MD, advises patients not to one group was instructed to do chewing ex-
fuses nicely, and you wont affect how the break a sweat for a full day postfiller, since ercises for weeks afterward, and the other
lip moves. upping the heart rate increases circulation had no specific instructions. Interestingly,
and can cause swelling if hyaluronic acid the group that chomped more experienced
One size fits all when youre based fillers are exposed to more fluid. But the benefits of Botox longer than the con-
scheduling Botox and filler. there are sedentary activities that also, trol group did. The idea is if we encourage
FALSE. One size fits none is Days rule for surprisingly, pose a threat: Dont get your patients to purposely use their chewing
tune-up regularity. The FDA gauges that hair done or cook over a stove for at least muscles during the few months when Botox
neurotoxins last about four months, while four hours; the heat can diffuse Botox, is active, once the Botox wears off, the mas-
most soft-tissue fillers endure for about six says Wexler, even though some derms seter muscles wont be relied on as much for
months. But some fillers last much longer: no longer consider such activities risky chewing, Anolik says. As a result, theyll
Juvderm Voluma (made of molecules that since injection techniques have evolved. stay streamlined longer.
are cross-linked to create a viscous consis-
tency thats suited for adding structural
support to the cheeks) and Juvderm Vol-
bella (whose molecules are cross-linked
to form a thinner texture thats better for
TRICK OR TREAT?
Before-and-after photos provide key proof of a practitioners
filling superficial lines around the lips) can skillexcept when the proof has been tampered with.
last up to two years. For Botox and filler, One dermatologist reveals the red flags Robert Anolik,
the stress surrounding, say, a wedding or MD
workor being athletic!can cause the
1. LIGHTING the lighting has 3. CAMERA ANGLE the neckline looks
body to metabolize both substances faster, Side lighting been altered. Anolik advises that worsethe face
so that treatment may be needed sooner exaggerates every unless youre view- looks more jowly,
than usual. crease, while head- 2. MAKEUP ing the subject from Anolik says.
on lighting can Beauty products the same camera
Injectables and ultrasound dont erase wrinkles are used to en- angle in both shots, 5. SELFIE CULTURE
play well together. altogether, says hance a feature or you cant really Beware of
FALSE. AND TRUE. Arkansas-based derm dermatologist cover a flaw. If trust the shot. patient-provided
Missy Clifton, MD, emphasizes the need Robert Anolik, makeup is used photos. Filters
to get procedures done in proper order: MD. Look at the only in the after 4. POSE When are available
shadows in both photo, dont believe the chin is up, the with a few clicks,
If shes administering a deep-heat treat-
photosdo they the comparison, neckline looks even on a not-so-
ment, such as Thermage (radio frequen- match? If not, Anolik says. better; if its down, smart phone.
cy) or Ultherapy (ultrasound), she does
it first, then waits a few minutes for skin
FAKE NOT FAKE
to come back to its normal temperature
before going ahead with filler and Botox.
Meanwhile, New Yorkbased derm Robert
Anolik, MD, separates such procedures
and injections by a few days. In the sce-
nario of a new patient coming in whos nev-
er had anything done, Id inject Botox and BEFORE AFTER BEFORE AFTER
then have the patient come in after three
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KNOW BEFORE YOU GO

The best way to ensure the most refreshed, rejuvenated-looking outcome
after an injection: Brush up on these key protocols before setting foot inside
a professionals office. By Megan ONeill
BE AWARE OF WHERE YOUR muscles in the face are intertwined, sionless. Some derms like to ask pa-
INJECTABLE CAME FROM and even when I treat, say, just the 11 tients to talk about something theyre
Make sure your doctor is an lines between the brows, I always put passionate about to gauge facial
official vendor of everything a tiny bit in the forehead to balance movement. You should also be given
youre getting injected. Allergan, things outI dont count that as two a thorough health assessment prior to
Merz, and Galderma are three of the [separate] zones. the injection. Certain antibiotics, spe-
top manufacturers of neurotoxins cifically in the aminoglycoside cate-
and fillers, and Allergan also makes BLOOD-THINNING MEDS gory, like gentamicin (prescribed for
the fat-dissolving Kybella. To reduce ARENT THE ONLY THING TO bacterial infections), can increase the
the risk of getting a subpar, poten- AVOID PRE-INJECTION potency of neurotoxins. (To avoid risk,
tially dangerous product, some man- Most Botox and filler veter- dont receive treatment for the dura-
ufacturers websites offer a tool to ans know to lay off anticoagulants tion of your antibiotic prescription.)
search by zip code for every licensed such as aspirin and ibuprofen before Worst-case scenario: You end up with
physician whos obtained their prod- treatment, since those types of drugs a droopy lid, according to Mariwalla.
uct legally. hinder blood clotting and increase
the risk of bruising should the needle BRUISES CAN BE UNDONE
BIN THE BARGAINS nick a blood vessel. But Manhattan Neurotoxins generally require
If the price is questionably dermatologist Patricia Wexler, MD, finer needles and are usual-
low for Botox or filler, you has a longer list of things to forgo, in- ly placed more superficially
may be getting a diluted dos- cluding some seemingly innocuous than fillers, but any injection could
age, says West Islip, New Yorkbased pantry staples. No fish oil, multivi- potentially hit a vessel, causing blood
dermatologist Kavita Mariwalla, MD. tamins, green tea, cinnamon, gin- to pool beneath the skin and form an
Another possibility is that your doc- ger, and red wine a full week before unattractive black-and-blue blotch.
tor purchased the product from a sup- treatment, she says. Antioxidants, Fortunately, many dermatology prac-
plier in a country such as Canada or though not all of them, can increase tices, including Hales, offer a next-
the United Kingdom, where govern- the fragility of blood vessels and pre- day complimentary vascular laser
ment price controls keep pharmaceu- vent clotting. Ask your MD at least treatment, which breaks down pooled
tical prices substantially lower than two weeks ahead of time for a full list blood into smaller particles, thereby
those in the United States. Not only of what to avoid. greatly diminishing bruises within 24
is it illegal (with very few exceptions) hours. Its a good idea to ask up front
for doctors to intentionally purchase A CONSULTATION IS CRUCIAL if whoever youre going to offers it,
medications outside the country for The person performing the Hale says. Our patients take a lot of
use on patients within the U.S., man- injection should have you comfort in knowing they can come
ufacturers also say that unauthorized smile and frown and raise back for that.
suppliers may compromise the effec- your eyebrows, Hale says. An expe-
tiveness and safety of injectables by, rienced professional is carefully eval- NOT ALL FILLERS
for example, not storing them at the uating you that whole time to see how ARE CREATED EQUAL
proper temperature or even offering different areas of your face naturally Never get silicone. Its the
counterfeit products. move, so that he or she can keep you one filler we see the most
That said, prices for in-office treat- looking refreshed instead of expres- complications from, says Mariwalla
ments tend to be higher in metro- of one injectable thats occasionally
usedbut not FDA approvedto
politan regions, such as New York,
Chicago, and Dallas, where theres No fish oil, multi- fill wrinkles in the face. Unlike mal-
a greater demand for cosmetic pro-
cedures. To find out the price range vitamins, green tea, leable hyaluronic acidbased fillers,
which can be absorbed by the body
in your area, call around. New York
based dermatologist Elizabeth Hale,
cinnamon, ginger, and will eventually break down,
silicone is a synthetic material that
MD, adds that youre usually better and red wine a full cant be metabolized and can hard-

week before treat-

off with a doctor who bases his or her en over time, creating unsightly,
fee on how many units of product are uneven bulges. Its permanent, and
used, rather than how many different
zones of the face are injected. All the ment, Wexler says. it does not age well with you, Mari-
walla says.
 children in the back seat of the car, closes
the door, and walks toward the drivers seat.
This brief amble, he riffswhen the kids
are, for those few blessed seconds, quiet,
fed, safeis a Carnival cruise. Im sorry to
say, as the mother of a two-year-old, that
I can relate. Drugstore runs pass for me
time, and a shower can feel like a sojourn at
Canyon Ranch. As my son snoozes and my
face is scented like a flower garden, I feel,
momentarily, relaxed and nourished. Its
better than a cruise.
The act of mixing the Lancme mask
gives it a pleasurable, ritualistic appeal, but
this make-it-fresh approach is actually more
about supercharging results than about cer-
emony. And as with the farm-to-fork mega-
movement, this trend is flourishing in the
land of skin care. The logic: Some popular
skin-care ingredients are volatile and can
lose potency when combined into formu-
las. So keeping these active ingredients in
protective quarantine until the moment of
applicationthe technology of separating
and protecting the extract until released,
as Macrene Alexiades, MD, PhD, founder of
Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center of New
York, says about Lancmes rose-pearl-and-
serum meet-cutehelps to safeguard and
optimize their efficacy.
The most wildly unstable ingredient is
vitamin C (ascorbic acid), making it your
routines most high-maintenance star. The
powerful antioxidant stimulates collagen
and evens out mottled hyperpigmentation
by interfering with the oxidative processes
necessary to form melanin, so skin-care com-
panies have long grappled with how to best
stabilize it in order to capitalize on its prop-
erties. Of all the popular skin-care ingredi-
ents, vitamin C has the shortest shelf life by
a very large margin, says cosmetic chemist
Stephen Alain Ko. Ascorbic acid oxidizes and
degradeslosing its potencywhen it hits

INSTANT MESSAGING the air or meets with water, heat, or ultravio-

let light. It remains most stable in dry powder
Theres a new movement in the beauty world, starring antiaging form. But on its own, the powder wont pen-
concoctions made to be blended at home. But is skin care really more etrate your skin, so blending it with a liquid
is the most effective way of getting it past the
effective when its freshly mixed? By Olivia Stren skins barrier.
In my bathroom, Im whipping up a DIY proprietary rose extracts. The pearls, which This equation is what inspired Janet Par-
face maskone that doesnt involve kitch- have been bioengineered by grace of 11 pat- do, senior vice president of global product
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en staples like yogurt or egg whites (and, at ents, dissolve as I stir, releasing their pre- development at Clinique, to create the com-
$420, costs a bit more). I open a gold-lidded cious skin-softening cargo. And as I spread panys Fresh Pressed Daily Booster With
jar of Lancme Absolue LExtrait Ultimate this confection on my face with the abandon Pure Vitamin C 10%. The prescription: two
Rose Serum Mask and follow the instruc- of a tycoon heaping caviar on a cracker, a drops, twice a day, for seven days, to fast-
tions, combining, in what looks like a dolls scene in an episode of Louis C.K.s show Lou- track a brightened, rejuvenated complexion.
tea saucer, a vial of serum plus a spoonful of ie comes to mind. A father of two girls, Louie This is de-aging for the impatient! she tells
pearlescent pink beads containing Lancmes talks about the moment after he secures his me energetically, in a way that suggests that

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impatience may be something shes famil- would negate the need for synthetic preser-
iar with. The product, the company claims, vatives. She fashions freshly blended prod-
works immediately: In-house studies show ucts in small batches and sells skin care in the
that skin is 36 percent brighter after one same way you might sell cold-pressed juice
use. After a month, age spots are reduced by to be consumed quickly, with attention to
32 percent, and lines and wrinkles by 43 per- its use by date. Nuoris Supreme-C Serum
cent; skin appears visibly lifted by 41 percent. also comes in a dual-chamber package: A
Its the dual-chamber package, Pardo ex- tiny vial holds 100 percent vitamin C powder,
plains, that helps to deliver these results. One and another contains a serum replete with
lightproof chamber protects the dry vitamin plant-based, free radicalneutralizing feru-
C powder from oxidization, and a neighbor- lic acid. Like all Nuori products, its blended
ing chamber contains a serum rife with pep- every 12 weeks in a factory in the countryside
tides as well as molasses, mulberry root, and outside Copenhagen, and if its not sold by
grapefruit extractssoothing, cell-renewing stores within three months, its replaced with
dancing partners to the powder. Press a but- a fresh batch.
ton, shake, and the two mix into a measured None of this means the moisturizers and
single dose of ultrapotent vitamin C emul- premixed vitamin C products weve been us-
sion, ready to be applied straight to the skin or ing for years are useless. This is just the latest
added to the moisturizer of your choice. way formulators have found to stabilize and
Other cosmetic favoritesvitamin A, deliver antiaging powerhouse ingredients.
green tea, resveratrolmay have their own To wit: SkinCeuticals dermatologist-beloved
stability issues but dont require such careful vitamin C serum, C E Ferulic, uses ferulic
handling. For instance, Ko explains, green acid, not fancy packaging, as a vitamin C
tea contains ECGC, a polyphenol that de- stabilizer. Its a potent union, explains Kavita
grades from 5 to 10 percent every montha Mariwalla, MD, a West Islip, New Yorkbased
slow rate of breakdown that makes only the dermatologist. It turns out that .5 percent
most negligible difference to the user. ferulic acid with 15 percent vitamin C and
Jasmi Bonnn, founder of indie line Nuori, 1 percent vitamin E increases the efficacy of
learned in her former tenure as a marketing vitamin C eightfold, which is very useful for
executive at LOral Paris that the majority the reduction of photodamage.
of skin-care products are designed to last on Im wary of trends, but the intuitive logic
shelves for two and a half years. But time, of freshness over its alternative is persuasive.
like air and water, can in some cases be detri- And frankly, I could use a bit of freshening.
mental to potency. Hence the use of common Its spring, but my complexion appears to
preservatives such as tetrasodium EDTA and have lost the memo, continuing to assume
phenoxyethanol; they not only work to pro- the undertones of sidewalk slush. Author Jill
tract a products life-span but also fight off Kargman, in praise of pallor, once told the
bacteria and potentially harmful microor- New York Times, I want to look like a dead
ganisms. But Bonnn divined a solution that body. I dont. I strive to look alive. So, for a
few weeks, I mask with rose oil
and binge on Cliniques boost-
2
er and Nuoris serum. My skin,
flirting with that long-lost look of
the rested, does appear brighter,
more petite of pore, more radi-
antas if my face, if not the rest

Go with your own glow

1
of me, has just returned from a
Carnival cruise.

1. When combined, HANACURE

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3. LANCME Absolue LExtrait
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 person who wears it sexier. You
can be sexy in many different
ways, but you still have to smell 1 2
like a human being. A lot of
flower scents stay on top of peo-
ple, like theyre wearing a room
spray. But the classics enhance
the skin and generate sex appeal.
Whats the defining aesthetic
now, scent-wise?
People are looking for big
volume, particularly with dark 3 4
woods, like patchouli and am-
ber. People are relearning what
quality means, and obvious
quality in a scent often comes
from those types of notesso
theres been a move away from
Frdric
watery, transparent fragrances.
THE WORLDS SEXIEST
Malle
What fragrances have had the
EAUX, ACCORDING TO MALLE:
1. FRDRIC MALLE EDITIONS DE
biggest impact on you? PARFUMS MAURICE ROUCEL MUSC

SCENT-SATIONAL! I was brought up by a mother

who worked for Dior, so the
RAVAGEUR: When it launched,
it was the opposite of prevailing
trends. Everyone wanted to copy
The king of niche, in-the-know perfumery is getting original Miss Dior and Dioris- Dior Jadore, and here was this big,
mean oriental with a flower inside.
big and beautiful. On the occasion of his ninth simo were like the yin and yang It was really dirty-minded, in the

store opening, Frdric Malle tells April Long how of femininity for me. And when nicest way, and it became our first
best-seller. 2. NINA RICCI LAIR
I was very young, I fell in love
to find a scent you want to go to bed with with so many girls. I saw them
DU TEMPS: A false-innocent floral
perfume ([it smells like] carnations)
mixed with magnetic musk.
This is how much of a perfec- Malle the de facto father of mod- in three dimensions because of 3. GUERLAIN SHALIMAR: The
tionist Frdric Malle is: When ern niche perfumery. He now their scents. I fell in love with perfect alliance of amber, vanilla,
and animalistic notes. Fire in a
he tests fragrances for his brand has eight stand-alone storesa a girl who wore Paris by Yves bottle. 4. ESTE LAUDER YOUTH-
Editions de Parfums, he wears ninth opens in L.A. this month Saint Laurent, and there was an DEW: Deep, spicy, and mysterious.
each sample on a different part and has branched out into home innocence about her. But I also
of his arm for eight hours at a scents and body care. You can fell in love with a girl who wore But Im not. You have to find a
time, periodically taking notes. be big and beautiful, he says, Shalimar, and there was nothing fragrance youre comfortable
(The best spot? The warm as long as you stay true to your innocent about her. You have to with physicallyyou want to
pulse point inside the wrist. I story and your beliefs. Ive made match the right fragrance with go to bed smelling like it, or put
never put fragrance on top of a promise to the perfumers nev- the right person, and then, to- it on when you step out of the
my hand, he says, because it er to betray them, and a promise gether, they become irresistible. shower. Avoid trying to smell
always smells bad.) Then hell to myself never to do a market How do I know whats right like your BFF or someone you
have someone else spritz on a testoriented fragrance, ever. for me? admire, because then youre
scent and walk in front of him, What are your thoughts on the Its instinctual. Its important to going to appear as if you were
so I can be sure theres a trail explosion of niche perfumery? know who you are; Im not going wearing someone elses clothes.
seven feet away. To prep an eau Its a much more interesting to become Baryshnikov. I wish! How interconnected are our
for launch, hell often try it on world than it was. When we tastes in fragrance and fashion?
his skin in New York, and again started, perfumery was dying, in There are very dressed-up
in Paris. Because the air doesnt a way. It was made by people in fragrances, like Superstitious
smell the same, he says. If it the mass-market industry who [Malles new collaboration with
works in both locales, its a go. were asking perfumers to make former Lanvin designer Alber
When Malle founded Editions one-size-fits-all fragrances. Elbaz], which is like a couture
de Parfums in 2000, he was the So theres been this reaction to dress. But, just like Loulou de la
first to give perfumers (who so that, and some very creative fra- Falaise used to wear a couture
often toil behind the scenes) grances have come out of it. The It takes a great perfumer and Saint Laurent jacket with some
a lot of money to get a floral
top billing, putting their names public has also become much aldehyde right, Malle says. beads and a pair of jeans,
on the bottles and celebrating more educated. People smell Frdric Malle Editions de maybe you can pull off wearing
Parfums Superstitious, crafted
them as artists. The unique, good on the street again! by Ropion, nails it. Superstitious with sweatpants
often iconic results of their work Whats the key to a great eau? and still be yourselfand be
(think Dominique Ropions Its very simple. When I make a superelegant. Everything is
alluring Carnal Flower) made fragrance, I want it to make the an equation.

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AN AWAKING NIGHTMARE
Rachael Combe was coming apart under the burden of unrelenting insomnia.
Nothing helpeduntil one day her dentist, of all people, told her she had the so-
called young, thin, beautiful womens sleep disorder. Flattered, she investigated

Id wake in the middle of the night, gasping and went on for years, gradually progressing cologist: Was it perimenopause? No, she
for breath as though surfacing from a near in severity and frequency until, according to said, just stress and postpartum hormones.
drowning. My heart would be racing, my skin my Fitbit, I was averaging only four hours of (I gave birth to my fourth child during this
clammy, my organs suffused with grief and sleep a night. Id always been an insomniac, periodanother red herring that threw
fear, like Id been pickled in some bitter brine but this was a new level of hell. In the past, everyone off: Of course youre tired! Of
while I slept, and now, at 2 or 3 a.m., I was Id prided myself on being an efficient, hard course you feel crazy! You are crazy.) I went
fighting my way out of the jar. Id then pro- worker. Now I could barely keep my mind to my general practitioner: Was it cancer,
ceed to lie awake for hours, my life flashing on a task for 15 minutes. My body began to Lyme disease, hyperthyroidism, early-onset
before my eyesbut only the sad, bad, mad break down: My ankle gave out mysterious- Alzheimers? He tested me for all of them.
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parts. Even the happy scenes curdled in this ly, and I had to wear an orthopedic boot for Nope. I went to a gastroenterologist and
filmI was screwing up my children, ruining months. I ached everywhere. I developed ro- a nutritionist, who failed to find anything
my marriage, wasting my life. And my life! sacea. It became hard to eat out because ev- wrong with my stomach or diet. I went to
Was I dying? This gasping and sweating in erything but the plainest food made me sick. a psychiatrist, who diagnosed anxiety and
the nightsomething was wrong with me. I am fortunate to have good health insur- prescribed sleeping pills, which did not help
The episodes started in my early thirties ance, and I put it to use. I went to my gyne- me get more sleep but did make me feel more

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 It sounded too good to be true: Curing
my sleep disorder would cure my
anxiety, stomach problems, everything.
my problem when I went to get a new of the disorder, from whether its distinct
one. He peered down my throat and then from OSA to the best therapies to amelio-
motioned for his assistant to come over. rate it. The exact prevalence of UARS isnt
Look at that big tongue! No wonder! he knownin part because its thought to be
exclaimed. He turned to me. This is easy. so underdiagnosedbut the National Sleep
I know what you have. Youre waking up Foundation estimates that 18 million Amer-
in a panic? In a cold sweat? Like someone icans suffer from apnea overall, two or three
just threw a rock through your window? men for every woman.
he asked. Yes, yes, yes, I told him. You That said, there are some established
have low blood pressure? Cold feet? Uh, facts about UARS: While OSA is associated
yeah. You have anxiety? Yes. You had with being older, heavier, and male, UARS
your wisdom teeth out? Were you ever sufferers are typically younger, leaner, and
told you needed a palate expander as a predominantly female, according to epide-
kid? Ummyes? You have UARS. Its the miological data. A petite build may be a risk
young, thin, beautiful womens sleep dis- factor, because smaller bodies have smaller
order. You should write about it! airways, which can be more easily crowded
In the 15 years Ive known Dr. Gelb, he by adenoids, the tongue, and the uvula, as
has never steered me wrongan expert in well as relaxation of the throat during sleep.
jaw pain and snoring, hes cured both my (And while the literature is silent on the top-
TMJ and my husbands log-sawing. And yet, ic of beauty and UARS, one physician told
hes such a smooth salesman, such an ad- me anecdotally that the facial structure that
ept self-promoter, and so quick to diagnose can put a woman at risk for UARS is some-
problems that can only be resolved with times linked with beauty in our culture: a
$4,000 retainers, Im sometimes inclined to small jaw and nose.) High blood pressure
disbelieve him. I couldnt hold my freakish- commonly occurs in tandem with OSA; the
ly huge tongue in check: Dr. Gelb, please. opposite is true for UARS, in which blood
The beautiful womens sleep disorder? I pressure can be so low that it leads to faint-
laughed. Thats not a thing. ing and chronically cold extremities. UARS
Gelb snap-snapped at his assistant, who patients dont always snore or stop breath-
printed out an inch-thick stack of research ingsymptoms a bed partner would likely
articles from reputable journals. Turns noticebut they tend to complain of greater
out, UARS is a thing. Upper airway resis- fatigue than people with standard apnea do.
tance syndrome was identified in adults The reason for the excess fatigue is the
nearly 25 years ago by medical researchers subject of debate. One theory is that people
at Stanford University. Its a form of sleep- with UARS are more exhausted because they
cotton-headed the day after I took them. disordered breathing in which people get awaken at the first ragged breath, while the
I followed all the sleep hygiene advice: slightly less air than they should because classic apnea sufferer may sleep through
no naps, getting out of bed at the same time some part of their airway is too narrow his funky breathingunaware hes snoring
every day, no caffeine, no screens an hour andthough theyre not actually in dan- and even, at times, not breathing at all.
before bed. I exercised daily. I took lavender gertheir body perceives theyre suffocat- Undercutting that hypothesis, though,
baths, hung blackout curtains, wore a sleep ing and wakes them up. are sleep studies that show that tiredness
mask and earplugs. I took a seminar on The American Academy of Sleep Med- isnt necessarily related to the number of
stress reduction. I meditated. I tried sleep- icine categorizes UARS as a form of ob- apneas or arousals patients experience
ing in a different room from my husband. structive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA)but and some patients may have fairly normal-
I tried giving up wheat, dairy, sugar, and UARSs effects are subtler and its diagno- looking sleep studies but still suffer from
finally, painfullywine. Nothing worked. sis trickier than the apnea most people are brutal fatigue. These findings have prompt-
And then I crunched through the night familiar with. Because the research on it ed some scientists to bore in on the fact
guard I wore to stop me from grinding is broad but rather shallowand includes that UARS coexists with a host of other psy-
my teeth at night. Oddly enough, it was few randomized, controlled trialssleep chiatric and somatic disordersanxiety,
my dentist, Michael Gelb, who diagnosed experts disagree about almost every aspect depression, posttraumatic stress, irritable

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 bowel syndrome, ADHD, and fibromyalgia, rather than pay for preventive measures),
among others. Theyve suggested that the my CPAP machine finally arrived. It looked
exhaustionand somatic disordersarent like a clock radio, connected by a long tube
caused by a shortage of sleep but by the ner- to a mask for your face. I had to try five
vous systems overreaction to the disordered masks before I found one that didnt give
breathing. If thats true, treating the irreg- me claustrophobia or rub my nostrils so raw
ular breathing could mean the anxiety or and pink that I looked like a coke-addicted
fibromyalgia recedes without doing any- rabbit when I awoke. Ultimately I settled on
thing else. a snazzy ResMed AirFit P10 for Her, size ex-
It frankly sounded too good to be true: Not tra-small, that goes just into the tips of my
only did I have Gelbs pretty girls sleep dis- nostrils and gives me the appearance of hav-
order, but curing it would eliminate every ing a dainty lilac-and-white elephant trunk
ailment Ive ever had. I felt like one of those dangling off my schnoz. Its the least sexy
parents who cant face that their child has thing Ive ever worn to bed, outside of the
a behavior problem and so, instead, blame disposable panties filled with ice packs and
gluten or vaccines or the kid being too cre- Tucks hemorrhoid pads the hospital gives
ative for school. On the other hand, I had you after you have a baby.
nothing to lose except debilitating insom- I was told it would take a couple of weeks to
nia, so I headed to the Stony Brook Univer- get used to the machine, but it took me nearly
sity Sleep Disorders Center in Smithtown, two months. It was definitely a neverthe-
New York, where much of the research on less, she persisted type of situation. At first,
UARS and somatic disorders has been done. I had to use sleeping pills to be able to fall
I walked in fully expecting to be told that asleep with the mask, and Id often rip it off
my dentist was a quack and I was a head case. in the wee hours. But then the turning point
Instead, Susan Manganaro, MD, took one came: I woke up one morning and realized Id
look at my history, peered into my mouth, slept straight through the nightCPAP suc-
and agreed with Gelb (although Stony Brook cess! But then my heart sank. Where was my
is abandoning the term UARSthey see mask? I didnt feel it on my face; I must have
CHRISTIAN TAYLOR
it as a manifestation of OSA and think its clawed it off without realizing it. I scanned
2 x WORLD CHAMPION misleading to cordon off sufferers just be- my bedside table, looking for my little lilac
2 x OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST cause theyre mostly thin women). Again, my elephantbefore realizing it was, in fact, still
tongue was of great interest. See how it has on my face. Id acclimated!
ridges on the side? Manganaro said. Thats Once I was able to wear my CPAP through
called scalloping. It means your tongue is the night without sleeping meds, my fatigue
pressing against your teeth because there and anxiety juststopped. Another part of
isnt enough room for it. (I swear, my tongue my brainthe part that had enthusiasm for
doesnt loll out of my mouth like on the Roll- work, playing with my kids, even getting er-
ing Stones album cover.) She said I likely rands doneturned on. It was like Id been
needed to use a continuous positive airway listening to a fire alarm for decade upon de-
pressure machine (CPAP), which would blow cade and then, finally, found the button to
air up my nose and keep my breathing even. switch it off. At my follow-up visit with Man-
To confirm the diagnosis and then titrate the ganaro, my resting heart rate had dropped
machine to the right air pressure, I needed to from 79 to 60 beats per minute.
do two overnight sleep studies in the hospital. My sleep still isnt perfect, but now all the
Those studiessensors all over my head stress-reduction and sleep-hygiene tactics
and body, a tube up my nose, a camera Id tried in the past make a difference. Caf-
watching me while I slept in a Motel 6ish feine, wine, and PMS pretty reliably give me
room with pastel ocean scenes on the wall insomnia; exercising and setting my alarm
showed 70 arousals in the 6.5 hours I spent for the same time every day improve my
in bed. I spent two of those hours lying sleep. Now Im no longer a black box, where
awake, giving me a sleep efficiency rat- nothing I do has the outcomes I expect. Im
ing of 69 percent (normal is anything over more of a clockwork gumball machine: You
85 percent). The diagnosis? Moderate sleep put the quarter in and the happy rainbow
apnea with mild sleep fragmentation. gumballs roll out.
After some tussling with my health insur- Four months into my treatment, Im still
er (Manganaro says insurers seem to prefer stunned by the change. Who is this calm,
to wait until people develop the calamitous elephant-masked woman? I called up Avram
downstream effects of untreated apnea Gold, MD, director of the Stony Brook sleep
such as high blood pressure and stroke center, Manganaros boss, and among those
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that makes people feel better restedand percent of the response to sleeping pills. One
just all-around betterbut the reduction in study found that just telling healthy subjects
activation of stress hormones. He blames they slept well improved their performance
the olfactory nerve for UARS. For all mam- on neurological tasks compared with sub-
mals, the nasal passage is one of the funda- jects whod been told they slept poorly.
mental ways we learn about opportunities Gold agrees that better studies are need-
and dangers, he said. Think of the rabbit ed. Sleep medicine is bullshit. Weve built a
on the lawn, sniffing to find something to branch of medicine on a very weak founda-
eat but also sniffing to smell a coming dog. tion, he says, referring to the lack of invest-
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looks that might grant them power, whether
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thing big and multifarious is going on with elaborate waxed chignonswomen of high
our hair. We have entered an age where birth puffed theirs skyward, while courtesans
rather than duplicating a few stock looks ad sculpted theirs outward. During the 70s and
infinitumwomen are breaking traditional 80s, women dutifully lopped off their feath-
rules of presentation and wearing an un- ered lengths to get tight, all-business bobs as
precedented variety of self-expressive styles, soon as they sensed it was time to get serious
with courage and joy. See Solange Knowles about their careers (the shearing of Mela-
on the cover of her latest album, A Seat at the nie Griffiths magnificent mane in Working
Table, her mesmerically pretty, long natu- Girl being a prime example). And over the
ral curls bedecked with salon-style duckbill past decade, weve spent ample time and
clips, a sly nod to her own complex relation- money cultivatingvia extensions, chemical-
ship with hair care (or perhaps to her mother straightening treatments, and standing ap-
Tinas years running a Houston beauty par- pointments at a proliferation of blow-out
lor?). Or Meryl Streep, forgoing stiff profes- barsthe sort of Bachelor/Kardashian-esque
sional updos in favor of simple, sophisticated hair (extravagantly long, straight, or precision-
blow-outs and buns while she increasingly curled) weve long been told men prefer.
uses her time in the spotlight to speak up for Is a departure from such labor-intensive,
justice and human rights. Oryes, yes, yes conformist styles toward a wider (and, dare
Zo Kravitz, with her radiant white braids. we hope, easier to execute) spectrum a sign
Modern power hair has rapidly evolved to be- of intersectional female solidaritya change
come a more creative, crafty, and individual- related, however tangentially, to the coast-to-
ized affair, reflecting our growing desire to coast sea of pink pussyhats? Perhaps. But the
celebrate the advantages of our natural tex- patriarchy is not, of course, the only culprit:
ture and embrace whatever styles happen to Research published last year in the journal
make us feel strong and happy. Frontiers in Psychology found that women
Its an enormous shift when viewed typically find straight hair more attractive
through the lens of fashion history. For cen- than wavier hair because they associate it
turies, women spent countless hours crafting with youth and health. And another study,
 released earlier this year by the Percep- U.S. Army (which earlier this year lifted its
tion Institute, an organization dedicated ban on braids and dreadlocks, to the over-
to reducing bias and discrimination in the whelming delight of black servicewomen)
workplace, found that both white and black are sanctioning more multifaceted defini-
women with smooth, straightened hair ex- tions of beauty. Women in the past want-
hibited negative bias toward naturally tex- ed more male approval, says L.A.-based
tured black hair, consistently rating it less stylist Mara Roszak, whose celebrity cli-
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smooth hair. and Brie Larson. Sure, there was a time
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cool. Its about embracing your own tastes, Theyre changing the conversationand
your own texture, who you are. Roszak its exciting.
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a cut that their curl is doing what they want ers make hair happier, she says), she also
it to, and theyre like, Okay, Im good, and recently steered a brunette friend whod
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COLOR GIVES ME
A NEW ATTITUDE.
IM GOING TO
GO WHITE-BLOND
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HAIR SHINY, NYC-BASED
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WITH THE COLOR, SHE
SAYS. ITS SO GOOD.
I COMBINE IT WITH
COCONUT OIL AND LEAVE
IT ON FOR 30 MINUTES.
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EARRINGS BY BOTTEGA VENETA.
 the switch was profound. Her friend, who because such techniques have become un-
got a choppy bob to accompany her new sustainable. Most of the time, they ruin the
white-hot, Debbie Harryinspired color, hair, and they just take too much time.
told Roszak afterward, with a mix of pride Robin encourages clients to stay close to
and amazement, I always felt like I was their natural shades when coloring (cutting
this person, but I didnt feel like I actually down on frequent root touch-ups) and to
represented herbut now I have the hair stick with softly layered styles long enough
that represents who I am. to grow them out gracefully. For 30 years,
The shift isnt just happening stateside. women have come to me with pictures of
In France, hair care has become all about somebody else they want to look like. Now
individuality and low maintenance, ac- they just tell me they want comfort and
cording to Paris-based colorist Christophe long-lasting styleshair they can run their
Robin. He sees plenty of women whove hands through. They like to be feminine
previously relied on extensions, relaxers, and sexy, but natural and sophisticated.
and the heavy use of hot tools stopping Still, for other women, experimenting

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 I DIDNT FALL IN
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UNTIL I STARTED
MODELING. NOW
I GET BOOKED
BECAUSE OF MY
CURLS.

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with a panoply of hairstyles remains a
great way to blow off steam (all the more
essential in 2017) and explore and ex-
press their own changing aspirations and
identities. Stylist Csar DeLen Ramirz,
global artistic director for Mizani, gets in-
spired watching women teach each other
new ways to cut, color, and style. All you
have to do now is open your phone or lap-
top and scroll aroundeveryone has their
own space where theyre expressing them-
selves, he says. Perhaps all of us could
learn from Ramirzs client Taraji P. Hen-
son, who has fallen for wigs, which give
her the freedom to show up at events every
other week with a different style: Maybe
today she feels like being long, tomorrow
she wants curly hair, and the next day she
wants a pixie cut. Wigs are a great way for
a woman to not feel trapped in one look.
Could that kind of openness and mutabil-
ity help us thrive in other areas of our lives?
Sonja Lyubomirsky, a psychologist at the
University of California, Riverside, and
the author of The How of Happiness (who
recently added blue stripes to her dark
hair as a kind of post-Trump protest state-
ment), posits that when we feel beautiful
and satisfied because our hair meets our
own standards of excellence, its likely well
have more energy and resources to put to-
ward achieving the intrinsic goalsprofes-
sional, personal, spiritualthat make us
feel truly happy and powerful.
Johnny Wright, who started styling Mi-
chelle Obamas hair in 2007, says one of
the things he respects most about her is
her decisiondespite knowing how eager-
ly the world would judge her every move
to live her life out loud as First Lady,
celebrating both adventurous young de-
signers and her own textured hair (which
Wright gently smooths with heat, never
chemical relaxers), styled into a seemingly
endless array of glamorous bobs, buns,
and feathery waves. Hairstyling is about
storytelling. The way a woman wears her
hair always becomes part of her story. And
when women can do that without follow-
ing rulesother than the rules they set for
themselvesthat is powerful. Its epic.
Louisa Kamps
 MY HAIR IS A
MANIFESTATION
OF HOW I FEEL ON
THE INSIDE. ITS
A HUGE PART
OF WHAT
DEFINES ME.

HOME IMPROVEMENT
TO KEEP HER CURLS DEFINED
AND HYDRATED, NYC-
BASED MODEL EBONEE DAVIS
AVOIDS OLD-SCHOOL
SUPERSUDSY SHAMPOOS
AND INSTEAD CO-WASHES
WITH AN ULTRARICH
FORMULA, LIKE MIZANI
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CHOOSE
YOUR OWN
ADVENTURE
How to find your superhero cut and color
The first step is the deepest: Throw out high-maintenance blond that needs a TIE ONE ON
all preconceptions about what your hair touch-up every three weeks is a major Now that office-appropriate color has ex-
should be. Anything is possible thanks investment, but its worth it because it panded from brunette to platinum to the
to all the modern innovations: The dark- pulls everything else together, says col- complete ROYGBIV spectrum, how do
est hair can go blond, the shortest hair orist Kyle White at New York Citys Oscar you choose your next new hue? White rec-
can be instantly long, and the curliest Blandi salon. Spend your time making a ommends visiting the scarf department.
hair can be straight if you want it. But statementnot trying to fit in. If youre just adding streaks, try wrap-
only spend the time changing your color, ping a scarf around your neck: Pick the
changing your shape, if it brings you joy, AIR APPARENT shade that makes your eyes sparkle and
says Romina Manenti, our hairstylist for Put your hands up and step away from the your complexion glow. If you are going
this shoot. Power hair can be wash-and- blow-dryer. If youve got fine, thin hair, for allover color, wrap the scarf to hide
go, or it can be high-maintenance. But dont change it with teasing. If youve your hair. You need to remove your cur-
bottom line, your hair should celebrate got textured hair, dont try to iron it into rent hair color completely from the equa-
who you are or be a bridge for who you submission. Instead, your stylist should tion to get a sense of how your new color
want to be. create a cut that looks fantastic when air- will look, he says. That said, basic color-
dried and styled with only a few essential theory rules are still in play. According to
YOUR NEW ECONOMY products. Power hair to me is embracing White, If you have pink undertones in
Apply the same high/low approach that and enhancing your natural hair texture, your skin, go for blues, espresso brown,
you use with your wardrobe. However, not fighting against it, says stylist and or icy platinum; if you have yellow under-
your currency is not just money, but also colorist Riawna Capri, co-owner of L.A.s tones, think corals and pinks, fire-engine
time. The Chanel bag of hair? That Nine Zero One salon. reds, warm purples.
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 I CANT REMEMBER
THE LAST TIME I USED
A CURLING IRON.
MY HAIR IS SUPER-
STRAIGHT, AND
THATS ME.

HOME IMPROVEMENT
NYC-BASED MODEL
SHARINA GUTIERREZ
STYLES HER SLEEK HAIR
WITH LEAVE-IN
CONDITIONING SPRAYS:
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Hair by Romina Manenti at Home Agency; makeup by Frankie Boyd at Streeters; manicure by Yukie Miyakawa at Kate Ryan Inc.; casting by Zan Ludlum and Paul Brickman
for Zan Casting; produced by Una Simone Harris for Wanted Media; fashion assistant: Veronika Belyaeva. Still lifes by Jeffrey Westbrook.

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LIVING

Cayne with friends,

including Lela Rose
(far left), in her
spaces classroom

HAVEN SENT Before she imaginedor didntany of

it, Cayne was a stay-at-home mom in Man-
Alison Cayne offers up an in-demand lesson at her megahit hattan. She gave birth to her first child in her
midtwenties (after having worked in urban
New York City cooking school, Havens Kitchen. planning) and checked out of the workforce.
By Charlotte Druckman At 33, by then a mother of three girls and two
boys, all under the age of eight, Cayne con-
Alison Cayne has just spent the afternoon This is exactly what she imagined Ha- fined her culinary efforts to making lunch.
teaching a few of her friends how to master vens Kitchen would bea salon where My friends couldnt understand how I was
the deceptively simple-seeming art of mak- Id hold book clubs and dinners planned cooking so much, preparing separate meals
ing salad in the demo kitchen of the cooking around a theme. Its become so much more for each kid and for the adults. Her peers, she
school she founded on West 17th Street in than that: She may have pictured it like a noticed, had a lot of anxiety about what to feed
Manhattan five years ago. We talked about clubhouse, but she didnt realize it could themselves and their children. In 2010, when
grilling, roasting, blanching, composition, be one for the food community at large. She her youngest entered preschool, Cayne, whod
balance, texture, dressing, seasoning, and also didnt know paid events would be such received her undergraduate degree from
platingoh, and knife skills, she says, sip- a big part of it; some of New York Citys Duke, went back to school herself, enrolling
ping a turmeric latte on a sofa beneath a most intimate and exclusive press dinners, in NYUs masters program in food studies. I
giant poster for Luis Buuels 1967 French book parties, and product launches are wanted to be teaching about the love of food
Photographed by Shawn Brackbill

film, Belle de Jour, starring Catherine De- held here, and its a popular wedding spot. and anthropology, she says. While studying
neuve, who gazes out over the nook one She never would have predicted that the for her degree, she had an internship as the
f loor up from the classroom. Meanwhile, small retail operation at the entrance of the head of the education station at the Green-
everyone drank wine, ate salad, and was building would become a caf because the market in Union Square, where she gave
happyand walked away with at least one local community wanted to make it their people of all ages walking tours of the farm-
new thing, like how, when you cut some- clubhouse. Basically, shed envisioned the ers market and manned the information
thing, you should have it f lat-side down so school, but not its three-story proportions, booth. Shoppers would ask her what to do
it doesnt rock. or how those would be used. with the ingredients theyd purchased, and

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shed share her e-mail address with each
of them, responding to any and all kitchen
conundrums.
Eventually, she began telling her kids, jok-
ingly, that shed open a cooking school when
they left for collegeuntil it stopped being
a joke. She wanted to offer New Yorkers the
option of taking lessons in a nonintimidat-
ing space. Everyone was so scared of the
kitchen, she says. In so many cultures
around the world, the kitchen is an altar, its
sacredits a haven. For me, it was where I
got to be creative and take care of people. It Clockwise from left:
was my happy lab. Cayne admits to having A grilled salmon,
cucumber, and eda-
had her own hang-ups about signing up for mame salad; Cayne; a
classes at the culinary schools that allow broccoli and radicchio
salad with toasted
home cooks to participate. Why, she won- walnuts and pecorino
dered, couldnt there be an alternative that
could be a happy lab for others?
When you walk into Havens Kitchen,
you enter a bright, high-ceilinged, flower- CAYNES school became a very person-
accented, subway-tiled space where cus-
tomers sink their teeth into freshly piled SALAD 101 al haven. It gave her a produc-
tive outlet and a way to start
sandwiches or just-baked chocolate chip BE DELIBERATE. Start rebuilding her life. But the
cookies, and their spoons into bowls of al- by thinking about learning curve of running a
what flavors you crave,
mond milksplashed homemade granola whats in season, and business was an all-consum-
or vibrant-hued vegetable soups, all made what you have on hand. ing distraction. I learned
Pick a basea green, a
with carefully selected and responsibly vegetable, a grain, or a a lot from my accountant,
produced ingredients. On one of the walls, beanand then build from she says. She would re-
there with complementary
beneath graphic black-and-white posters, a ingredients. mind me, Ali, its a business.
few lines of text have been stenciled. Our Its okay to be a business with
Mission: To help our guests re-connect with USE ALTERNATIVE PARTS a heart that tries to do good
the land, the table and each other. To help
OF THE VEGETABLE. Celery in the world. But its a busi-
leaves are full of flavor
family farmers build economically viable and act as a delicate ness, and if it fails, you cant
finish. Most of the nutrients
businesses. To build a new system that feeds in vegetables like zucchini, do that.
our whole community sustainable food. for example, are in the She has begun to think
skin, so wash them well,
The challenge, of course, is to find ways to but theres no need to
about ways to do bothmain-
meet that mission while generating enough peel. Broccoli stems tain a business and do good
are crunchy and sweet.
income to do so. Im balancing trying to beyond four walls. In addition
do good things for the community and pay- AVOID TOO MUCH OF to teaching a course on con-
ing rent, and supporting my employees so A GOOD THING. Toss in temporary food policy and
sweet, chewy, or crunchy
they can take care of their families. She ingredients, but with
theory at NYU, shes written
planned to be self-sustaining three years restraint. They should The Havens Kitchen Cooking School, a primer that helps home cooks
be happy surprises for
in; she did it in half that time. And she did your mouthnot the
everywhere figure out whats appealing to them, and then gives
it while going through a divorce: Two weeks main attraction. them the tools to make it. If the typical cookbook presents people
after she opened the doors to her dream, SAY NO TO SOGGINESS. with someone elses culinary style, Caynes bucks the trend; she
she separated from her husbandand the Dry greens well and wants her audience to find their own voices at the stove: Its not
add dressing just before what I want you to cook or think you need to cook. As she writes
serving (unless youre
making a slaw or a bean in the introduction to the book, out last month from Artisan, its
salad; both need to meant to teach and inspire you: It is not a list of recipes or a photo
absorb dressing and
get better with time). collage of unattainable food. I hope that you will love this book Hair and makeup by Julianna Grogan
forever but only need it for a short while.
GO WITH A LIGHT FINISH.
Toss with a drizzle of olive This afternoons salad lesson was intended to serve a similar pur-
oil and a drop of acid: pose. When her friend, fashion designer Lela Rose, asked which sal-
A splash of rice wine
vinegar is refreshing for ad would be the best to make with kids, the answer was whichever
Asian-inspired salads, salad they made themselves; it tastes better if youre invested, fol-
a squeeze of grapefruit
juice pairs well with lowed by, its true for adults, too. Caynes vision hasnt changed
creamy avocado, and a all that much. She still wants to encourage people to cook. Now,
dribble of nutty sherry
vinegar is the ultimate though, she wants to turn everyones kitchen into a havenor a
all-purpose choice. happy labno matter where they are.

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 fleece pants, and pearl drop earrings. Like
the Mercurio, her outfit is both cozy and el-
egant, warm but strict.
With typical pragmatism, Atwood is hav-
ing none of my grand suggestion that there
is symbolism behind her being the one to
strike a blow. (Bruce Miller, the series show-
runner, affirms my interpretation, howev-
er: Of course, she had to have that role.)
The Handmaids Tale has been perceived as
an awakening slapyes, this could happen
heresince the day it was published. That
was in the Reagan era, when the Republi-
can Party, once champion of causes like the
Equal Rights Amendment, became entwined
with the Moral Majority. Cofounded by tel-
evangelist Jerry Falwell, the powerful lob-
bying group opposed government programs
that supported single mothers or helped
women advance in the workforcethe ERA
was verbotenwhile promoting prayer in
schools and sexual-abstinence education.

THE PROPHET
But The Handmaids Tale seems even
more prescient now. As in our current
stateat least if youre persuaded by White
One of the most acclaimed novelists of our time, House chief strategist Steve Bannon that the
Margaret Atwood is as prolific an enviro-warrior Tweeter Western world is at the dawn of a global
as she is a writer of brilliant fictions. Meanwhile, her classic war against jihadist Islamic fascismthe
The Handmaids Tale is debuting on television, not to mention Republic of Gilead is in a holy war with re-
energizing womens rights advocates around the globe. ligious forces outside its (locked) borders.
And considering our virtually all-white-
Of course, she saw it all coming. By Miranda Purves male presidential cabinet, for whom con-
trolling female reproductive freedom is a
Youd better not be late, or Margaret At- in the household of a government higher-up, central agenda and closing the church/state
wood will slap you! my husband calls as I who ritually rapes her as he recites biblical gap an ominous subtext, the Leaders of the
rush to make my flight to Toronto to inter- passages and his resentful wife sits behind Faithful, who run Gilead, sound familiar,
view the acclaimed Canadian woman of let- the handmaid, whose head is between the too. As Moss put it in an e-mail, The first
ters. Hes referring to Atwoods cameo in the wifes open legs. time I met Margaret, I asked her if she felt
terrifying first episode of a new Hulu series My cameo, my looming cameo! Lets just she predicted the future when she wrote the
based on her novel The Handmaids Tale. In say there are only a certain number of roles book. She said no, but five months later we
it, the authors character whacks a young in that film for a person of my age, Atwood, were at a wrap party, and we turned to each
woman (played by Elisabeth Moss) whos whos 77, says to me wryly. In the series, other and both said, Wow, because now
daydreaming during lessons in how to be a which debuts April 26, she portrays one of the beginnings of what she warns us about
womb slave. the cruel spinsters, known as Aunts, charged in the book are happening in America.
For those of you who missed the book with forcibly converting the captive women Hulu has invested heavily in the show,
when it came out in 1985, werent assigned it into obedient handmaids. Mosss Offred airing a spooky Handmaids ad during the
in a college English course, or arent among assigned to the house of a commander Super Bowl, where 30-second spots go for
the many new readers whove recently named Fred (Joseph Fiennes)narrates the around $5 million. The series, also starring
put The Handmaids Tale back on the best- story, and we quickly learn that her child has Orange Is the New Blacks Samira Wiley as
seller list, the story takes place in a dystopi- been taken from her, and her husband shot, Offreds best friend, is open-ended. That
an future where an authoritarian Christian as the family tried to escape to Canada. means Millera former showrunner for ER
political faction has taken over America, Atwood and I are meeting at LEspres- who most recently helped create the post-
renaming it Gilead. Pollution and venereal so Bar Mercurio, a bote with an edge of apocalyptic sci-fi drama The 100gets to
disease have decimated female fertility, and old-world formality where she, along with collaborate with Atwood to fill in parts of the
women who can still give birth are turned much of the University of Toronto human- story only alluded to in the book. Whats
Stills: Take Five/Hulu

into handmaids, required to wear red ities faculty, likes to conduct meetings. A happening in Canada, which now has a mas-
robes and white hoods to denote their status. lovely floral/herbal smell envelops us as sive refugee problem? Miller says, offering
This part might be bearable, as the outfits we speak, which Atwood says is probably examples of new material. And in Israel,
are fetchingly fall 2013 Valentino. But each her lotion, though she wont identify it. where Jewish people have been shipped?
member of the birthing corps is then placed Shes wearing a fuchsia vest, fuzzy polar The officers lives? Its kind of a dream come

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 true, the possibilities for story.
Although The Handmaids Tale Atwood says she writes
has never been out of print, sales
are up 30 percent since 2015, and speculative, not science,
fiction. Everything
Penguin Random House has
had to supply an extra 250,000
copies to meet postelection de-
mand. Other dystopian novels,
such as George Orwells 1984, are in Handmaids has some
also resurgent, but Handmaids
is the unofficial spirit guide of
the protests against Trump ad-
historical precedent.
ministration policies. Fans fill Instagram er sentences. Shes been short-listed for the sponsiveness. She has two other TV projects
with images of tattoos saying Nolite te bas- Man Booker Prize five times (and won once, in the works: Black Swan director Darren
tardes carborundorumthe words Offred for The Blind Assassin, a plot-twisty historical Aronofsky is adapting her MaddAddam tril-
found scratched in her closet floor from a metafiction about two sisters in 1930s and ogy, and Anna Paquin is set to star in a six-
member of the resistance. At various post- 40s Ontario); in March, she won the 2017 part Netflix miniseries based on Alias Grace.
Inauguration womens marches, signs pop Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Outside the entertainment realm, Atwoods
up with slogans such as Make Margaret At- from the National Book Critics Circle. somewhat cockamamy-sounding (at least in
wood Fiction Again and The Handmaids She gets as much attention for her envi- 2004) start-up idea called LongPenwhich
Tale Is Not an Instruction Manual. ronmental and humanist advocacy as she allows authors to sign books long distance
In fact, in a wonderful irony, the profusion does for her 16 novels, 15 books of poetry, has turned into Syngrafii, a legitimate soft-
of pink pussyhats at the marches, with their 10 works of nonfiction, 8 short-story collec- ware business that facilitates off-site doc-
earlike protrusions, echo the handmaids tions, 8 childrens books, and two graphic ument signing. Shes in on the small-batch
white wimples as they appeared on the novels. Shes a Twitter adept with 1.4 mil- coffee trend, having helped create Atwood
iconic original book cover. A point Atwood lion followersand can even claim her own Blend, the proceeds from which support
makes to me, and notes that shes repeated gate hashtag. During Justin Trudeaus Ontarios Pelee Island Bird Observatory.
often, is that everything that happens in The successful race to unseat conservative Ste- And she steadfastly refuses to indulge in
Handmaids Tale has some historical prece- phen Harper as Canadian prime minister in Canadas predilection for smugness, in full
dent, from the sumptuary laws that deter- 2015, Atwood wrote a piece for the Nation- tilt since Trump, pointing out that Toronto
mined which social class could wear what al Post criticizing an attack ad against the not long ago elected so-called crack mayor
garb, to the impact of pollution on fertility liberal Trudeau that featured the tag line Rob Ford. Trump is going to do a lot of the
(Look it up in your browser!), to Amer- Nice hair, Justin. (Which candidate, At- same things [Harper did], Atwood tells me.
icans fleeing for Canada. (It happened wood parried, was using taxpayers money Muzzle government scientists. Get rid of
during Vietnam and when the Loyalists fled to travel with a personal grooming assis- womens programs. Somebody such as Ann
the Revolution.) tant? Hint: Initials are S.H.) When the Coulter will be put in an Aunt Lydia position
Atwood has pulled off the feat of being right-leaning Post mysteriously removed her as the head of all women.
a living legend who continues to remain column for several hours, then brought it At that, the author leans across the ta-
fresh and innovative on the page, as a New back with edits, #hairgate spread. ble and grabs my wrist, bearing down on
York Times reviewer recently wrote. Over Part of Atwoods public appeal is that for me with her clear, almost impossibly blue
the course of her career, shes coaxed us into such a literary heavyweight, she has a light eyes. Were just trying to help you, dear,
the dark of injustice with ever-lighter, funni- touch and a graceful, outward-looking re- she says, putting on a splendid Aunt Lydia
meetsAnn Coulter performance. Were
In addition to The going to keep you safe. Stand in that line!
Handmaids Tale, two
other Atwood books
are being made for TV: The daughter of an entomologist, Atwood
Alias Grace and the spent her early years tracking infestations in
MaddAddam trilogy.
the northern Ontario and Quebec woods for
her father to study, until the family, which
also included her homemaker mother, sis-
ter, and brother, moved to Toronto when
she was eight. In her memoir-esque In Other
Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, she
describes herself as an itinerant wild child
who wrote and illustrated elaborate stories
about flying rabbits who had cats for pets.
As an undergrad, she studied literature at
Credits Tkers

the University of Toronto, then went to Rad-

cliffe College (still known as the Harvard
Annex) to focus on the Victorians. Atwood
had decided in high school to become a writer

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 Atwoods upper hand, of course, was that
of the confident sublimator who, rather than
being consumed herself, leveraged her an-
ger into the capital of art. To one set of her
admirerscall them the interior-minded
realiststhe Atwood book that inspires the
fiercest devotion is Cats Eye, an autobio-
graphical bildungsroman that put female
friendship in its rightful place almost a full
25 years before Elena Ferrante mined the
subject in her lauded Neapolitan novels. In
Cats Eye, Elaine, a painter, is the daughter of
an entomologist who moves to Toronto after
a life in the woods unencumbered by social
constraints. Readers follow her through an
early marriage and the birth of a daughter
(Atwood has a daughter, born in 1976, with
Gibson) and meet her again when shes 50,
Samira Wiley
as Offreds best visiting Toronto for a retrospective of her art.
friend, Moira; (Through Elaine, Atwood perfectly expresses
Joseph Fiennes as
Commander Fred. the gall that fills so many women upon real-
izing, with a start, that theyve become the
chief domestic and emotional laborer in the
notwithstanding her affinity for biology, literate women who were already published family enterprise. Elaine is banging around
which remains a hobby and a source of ma- writers. On the French side were nuns who in the kitchen while her artist-husband loi-
terialand crafted stories and poetry as were literate and publishing and writing. ters in the living room with a friend. Whats
a grad student, to her colleagues disdain. Not that she didnt confront inequality: I wrong with her? the friend asks. Shes mad
You werent a serious academic if you wrote like to horrify the young by saying things like because shes a woman, the husband replies.
[fiction], she says. Twenty-three was the When I went to graduate school at Harvard, At which point Elaine stands in the doorway
hardest year. Twenty is hell. Its iffy. You dont you werent let into the Lamont Libraryit and announces: Im not mad because Im a
know what the plot is. was only for boys. Not only that, in our grad- woman. Im mad because youre an asshole.)
Then she won the Governor Generals uate seminar, the girls made tea and cookies But the heart of Cats Eye is the evolution
Award in 1967 for a book of poems, Circle for the boys. She doesnt remember feeling of the friendship between Elaine and her
Game. With her masters but an unfinished angry, she says. I didnt even know it was sex- girlhood friend Cordelia, who, when she rec-
PhD, she left Harvard and, at 28, returned ism. At the time, you didnt get it that maybe ognizes in the preteen Elaine a sense of free-
to Canada and the tabula rasa that was her theres a dark side to that. You didnt resent. dom and scientific curiosity shes never been
native countrys literature scene. She lived This is what she says now, at least. Shes allowed, endeavors to improve her. Cord-
in Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, and been with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson for elia selects two henchgirls for the task, and
Europepublishing and teaching at various 46 years and ends the acknowledgments to the trio slowly psychologically torture Elaine:
universitiesbefore settling down, more or her most recent novel, Hag-Seed, an adapta- forcing her to walk ahead of them on the way
less permanently, in Ontario, first in farm tion of The Tempest, with my special thanks home from school while they criticize her
country, then, in 1980, in Toronto. When I ask to Graeme Gibsonan old enchanter, though comportment, rating her locution, teaching
if it was daunting to enter a field dominated happily not the one in this book. He has a her manners, and punishing her with exclu-
by male authors, she deadpans, What male T-shirt with a quote from an article about At- sion and, eventually, worse.
authors? It was Canada. She became both wood: Every woman writer should be mar- When I read Cats Eye shortly after it was
creator and chronicler of the barely existent ried to Graeme Gibson. published, it was the mean-girl episodes
world of Canadian fiction. I had an advan- But her brilliant first novel, The Edible that I most related to. Rereading it now, at
tage in two ways, she says. There were no Woman, which immediately established her 46, about the age when Atwood wrote it,
huge literary giantsMelville, Hawthorne, as a significant voice and is considered one Im moved to tears multiple times at the true
Whitman, Dickinsonlooming over us at of the galvanizing works of second-wave subject of the book: time itself, the impossi-
that time. Yes, there were writers, but they feminism, tells a different story of Atwoods ble, insurmountable layers of loss its passing Stills: Take Five/Hulu; Atwood: Getty Images
werent writing crush-your-soul, youre not attitude toward womanhood, circa 1960. A piles on. Now that I know what its like to have
as good as this [books]. novel-length metaphor of anger, resentment, forgotten pieces of my history surface unan-
She also had a sense that writing was an ac- and suffocation, the book centers on a young nounced, then recede as suddenly as they
ceptable occupation for a Canadian woman. woman named Marian living in Toronto. appear, its Atwoods ability to capture the vi-
The United States was quite different from Engaged to be married, she slowly anthro- cissitudes of other selves living within us that
a lot of other countries because it was started pomorphizes each and every food group, em- seems most remarkable.
by seventeenth-century Puritans, [a group] pathizing so deeply with their pain at being After Cats Eye, Atwood made a genre
that was very male dominated, she says. consumed (including the shrieking carrot shift into speculative fiction, which to her
Whereas Canada, on the English side, was pulled from the ground) that she stops being is based on things that could happenas
populated in the early nineteenth century by able to eat at all. opposed to science fiction, which she cate-

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Atwood has produced work that
is true to her public role, and her
public role is true to her worka feat
perhaps equal to magic.
gorizes as invented from whole cloth. Her national, which fights for freedom of ex-
later novelsAlias Grace, The Robber Bride, pression, Atwood believed the investigation
the MaddAddam trilogyare rich in fantasy against Galloway was neither fair nor trans-
or scientific or historical conceits, and very parent. If its a matter of rape, then it should
plot driven. These are the books that appeal be a matter of jail, she wrote in The Walrus
to a second group of devotees, and alien- magazine.
ate some of the first, who still thirst for her This prompted outrage from women who
chronicling of the folds and nuances of the thought Atwood should know better than to
female experience. assume publicly challenging a powerful pro-
Atwood credits her parents child-rearing fessor would be easy, or lead to justice. Along
technique, in part, for her willingness to with internalizing the lessons her parents in-
embark on brand-new storytelling territory: stilled in her about doing the right thing, At-
Stiffen your spine! Stand up for yourself! wood comes from the generation of women
Dont waste your brain. Do whats right even who made it in spite of sexism. So while shes
if its hard! Chop some wood! Drive the boat. well aware of the systemic problems that im-
This is how you make a piecrust. Basically, pede womens progress, shes also attached to
they let me do whatever, she says. the possibility of individual triumph against
In a discussion with her friend and fellow the odds. Shes as willing to hold women re-
speculator, Ursula K. Le Guin, at the Portland sponsible as men: A central theme of The
Arts & Lectures series in 2010, Atwood said Handmaids Tale is how women get lulled into
shed lost interest in contemporary realism acquiescence with the dominant paradigms.
because it had become overly concerned with For the sheer release of it, the handmaids
well-off people and their problems, with little beat to death a man who the regime claims
room left for bearing witness outside that is a rapist, even as they suspect hes actually
sphere. These days, she tells me, only half a member of the resistance. Atwood e-mails
joking, its less true, since keeping a journal me after our interview: Remember how old I
of day-to-day life in the U.S. would be very am. Totalitarianisms, many of which existed
Le Guinonly, um, real. Of course, many during my lifetime and formative years, dont
contemporary fiction writers have followed stop at women! They oppress everyone who is
Atwood into speculative or science fiction not the ruling elite.
Chang-Rae Lee and Lionel Shriver, to name
just twoand the genre has positively ex- Although Atwood was able to find her place
ploded in the YA realm. (And Atwood may be in the literary scene free of competition, now
in the process of converting those of us who that shes a star, not just in her own country
wish her to stick with limning the inner world but in the world, she does have a crush-your-
of the now: I loved her 2015 novel, the creep- soul good Canadian figure with whom to
ily mesmerizing The Heart Goes Last, which contend: Alice Munro, also a writer of the
begins as a straightforward dystopian about female experience and a genius of the short
a couple in the near future who agree to live story. While Atwood has collected loads of
in prison half the year to pay for their liberty honors, she did not win the Nobel, as Mun-
the other half, but veers into an exploration of ro did in 2013. I dont ask Atwood if she was
sexual desire in the technological age.) envious of her colleague and friends prize; it
Just as she hasnt hesitated to stretch her would go beyond the pale of manners. What-
readers, Atwood has been willing to mess ever nugget of envy (surely healthy) might
with her millennial feminist fans heads. She lurk has been transformed into a wonderful
recently signed an open letter in defense of show of sisterhood: Atwood wrote an enco-
professor and writer Steven Galloway, who mium upon Munros win for the Guardian.
was fired by the University of British Co- Both of them found their early readers
lumbia for undivulged reasons after being through a grasp of a distinctly Canadian
accused of sexual indiscretions by former brand of prudish, judge-y limit setting (aka
students. An active member of PEN Inter- tall-poppy syndrome). Its an attitude, to some
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 EVERYBODY HAS HER REASONS
Over the next few months, Linda Tirado will be talking to a group of women in America
here, youll meet three of themabout what influenced them to vote for Donald Trump
and how hes met their expectations so far. Hint: Social media figures prominently in their
views, and its getting ever more personal. PHOTOGRAPHY BY SKYE PARROTT

Solipsism is self-soothing. It is easier to be- intelligent beings who seriously considered BRITTANY FEIWELL
lieve that everyone knows everything you the world as they understand it and voted ac- HENDERSON, NEVADA
do, and thus you can assume that when they cordinglyfor Donald J. Trump. Id expected Brittany Feiwell is that political unicorn:
come to a different conclusion than you have, to find anger and status anxiety driving their a true independent with a completely
they are being intentionally wrongheaded, votes. What I found instead was fear and mis- mixed social circle, as she calls it. Her
or selfish, or evil. Only, what if they arent? information, and I had trouble finding wom- Facebook feed is half conservatives in
What if you, given the information they have, en whod go on the record for this series. Many Miami and half liberals from Califor-
would have reached the same conclusion were afraid of backlash at work or on social niaboth places shes lived. She and
they did? What if the problem in America is media; some worried that Id mock them in her husband, Scott, were in L.A. for five
that millions of us, on the right and on the these mainstream-media pages. Theyre not years. They have three children under
left, have been propagandized? In all the exactly wrong to be afraid: The political has the age of 10, and she stays home with
discussions of fake news, we seem to keep become personal in myriad ways. This isnt a them. She says shell eventually get back
missing the most important conversation of sympathetic portrait of the downtrodden or a into the digital marketing contract work
all: Different information leads to different bid to infantilize grown women. Im interest- she used to do, but for now, shes focused
decisions for most rational thinkers. ed in what people believe to be true and why. on her family.
Starting this month and continuing peri- We have to grapple with the flow of informa- Ten years ago, the Feiwells moved to
odically over the rest of the year in the pages tion in our society. We arent all starting with Hendersonthe second-largest city in
of ELLE, Im checking in with a small group the same facts, and if there is any one thing Nevada, just 16 miles from Las Vegas
of women in Americafrom rural Orego- that will kill this nation, its refusing to recog- largely for quality-of-life reasons: bigger
nians to suburban Atlantansall of them nize and remedy that. house, lower taxes, less crime. Hender-

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son, notably, turns up on many safest- Greg Euston owns a PR firm that specializes
city-in-America lists. Since the Feiwells in corporate and environmental communica-
do well enough with Scotts small busi- KIMBERLEY EUSTON tions, and their sons (she has twin 16-year-old
nesses in marketing and material han- M A R I E T TA , G E O R G I A boys and a 13-year-old daughter) are soccer
dling, the fact that Brittanys not work- Kimberley Euston lives in a big, beautiful stars, making her an actual suburban soccer
ing doesnt create financial stress for house in the exclusive East Cobb section mom. Remember them, that mythic voting
the family. near Marietta, Georgia. Georgia remained bloc back in 1996? She is on the board of the
We discuss the madness that has over- red in the 2016 election, despite prognos- Georgia chapter of Covenant House, which
come America in recent years, which tications that it might not. But Marietta, a works on child homelessness issues; her hus-
she describes as kind of astound- town 20 miles up I-75 from Atlanta, has been band is a trustee of the Georgia Conservancy,
ing, really. You used to be able to talk growing bluer with each election, and Clin- an environmental group. Their conservatism
about politics, and maybe it was tense, ton bested Trump here by about 30 percent. is the old-guard sortas in party-of-Lincoln
but it wasnt so full of hatred. We talk A lot of Eustons friends voted for Trump, old-guardand shes always voted Republi-
about the fear we share that the nation and a lot of her friends voted for Clinton. It can in presidential elections.
might be actually breaking apart. She was Eustons dislike of Clintonand I cant Euston is originally from a small com-
always votes in presidential elections. emphasize this enoughthat was the ani- munity in West Virginia, Glen Daniel,
She says she voted for Trump on large- mating factor in her vote for Trump. with family roots in construction and coal
ly economic grounds, and doesnt want Euston is a high-level executive at a well- mining, and the rural working-class men-
to get into the weeds of his position on known private accounting firm in Atlanta tality has stuck with hereven though she
abortion. (Trump promised to defund (she doesnt want to name it), and her earn- worked on Wall Street and for the veep.
Planned Parenthood and suggested ings and those of her husband, Greg, put them She straddles two worlds: the one she came
punishing women who got abortions.) in the one percent. After she graduated from from, where people are poor, are hurting,
She wants the president to focus instead Sweet Briar College in 1992, she worked for and the one in which she lives now, where
on American prosperity. People are the State Department in the Bureau of Inter- we give everyone participation trophies.
angry and afraid when theyre strug- national Narcotics and then joined Vice Pres- She wants a more conservative America,
gling, she says. Wed do better making ident Dan Quayles national security staff. and a tougher one, too.
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 But shes had her beefs with the Republi-
can Party. Euston, whos 47, voted for John
Kasich in the primaries and is not happy with
the state of the GOP and its values since the
election of George W. Bush, when social
conservatives were seriously mobilized as a
voting bloc. Inclusiveness has kind of gone
away from the party, she says. The reli-
gious right has had control of the party, but
the party needs to stay away from the social
issues. If I were raped, or my daughter were
raped, I should have the right to choose what
I would do with my body.
She believes in limited government,
keeping a strong military to maintain su-
perpower status, financial-sector deregula-
tion, and entrepreneurship. For her, a suc-
cessful [Trump] presidency will be if were
seeing an increase in the real GDP and in
jobs, and I think those things will happen
if there are fewer regulations, and if we
can even look at changing the tax code to
make investing in America better for peo-
ple again because itswe have the highest
corporate tax code among industrial na-
tions. So growth, jobs, GDPthats what
Im watching closely.
A reluctant Trump voter, she contends that
everyone should vote as a matter of civic re-
sponsibility, and she loathes Hillary Clinton
on principle, saying that Clinton believes her-
self to be above and beyond the law.
Given her background in DC Republi-
can politics and civil service, I ask what she
thought of the mess that was Trumps first
six weeks: his immigration-ban forays and
his gambit on the repeal of the Affordable
Continued on page 290

KRISTIE DAVIS
H A R N E Y C O U N T Y, O R E G O N
I first met Kristie Davis at a campfire in Har-
ney County, Oregon, in January 2016, where
she and I were discussing the relative merits
of armed rebellion. Literally a stones throw assignment to cover the standoff, and once The closest town to Daviss spread is
from the thousand-acre farm where Da- Davis found out Id been planning to sleep Burns, population 2,757the largest town in
vis lives with her husband and two teenage outside in subfreezing temperaturesI grew Harney County, which is the largest county
daughters, an armed group led by Ammon up in the mountains and had the proper by area in Oregon. Ranching and farming
Bundy had overrun the Malheur Nation- gear, but still, its not something you really are the major professions here, and its a
al Wildlife Refuge. Bundy and company want to doshe insisted that I come stay precarious living; one late spring blizzard
claimed they were fighting the federal gov- with her family for the duration of my visit. or one worse-than-usual summer drought
ernments jurisdiction over lands on which Kristie, 45, is headstrong and mouthy, the can easily turn Daviss tight margin of prof-
ranchers wanted to graze their cattle, as sort of woman youd describe as taking no it growing alfalfa hay, grain, and mint leaf
well as protesting the treatment of two local shit from anyone. She gets it from her moth- (for tea) into a loss. Given that, Kristie and
ranchers named Dwight and Steven Ham- er, Sandy Potter, 64, who lives nearby and her husband, Herb, do well in the context
mond (who didnt particularly want Bundys was at that campfire as well. I let them take of their environs. They pay for their own
help) whod been convicted of burning me to where it was warm and there was elk private health insurancenot Obamacare.
acreage that belonged to the feds. I was on steak, because I am not stupid. They have one full-time employee, and for a
Continued on page 290
 ASK E. JE AN
What to do if youre living a lucky life?
Stop making problems for yourself, already!
Plus, a passel of clever retorts to those who
insist on inquiring about your childless state
forgave those who trespassed against me a day without a compliment on my hair. It is
MODELING and hell, its not even lunchtime yet. 8:26 a.m. when I finish my hair. Feeling that I
SINFUL BEHAVIOR Youre sinless, Fallen, so excuse my am forgetting something keeps me in the house
DEAR E. JEAN: I eloped last year with an bluntnessits kindly meant: People here until 8:40. I arrive at work at 9:25late. This
extraordinary Spartan warrior of a man. arent crazy about (pardon me) picky and happens every day! I cannot get myself out of
We lead a charmed life, traveling to faraway standoffish former-model angels flapping this rut! Can you help?
lands, sleeping together in jungles under the around. Accordingly, Im 97 percent certain The Girl Who Runs Late
stars, and I could not dream of a better mate. that a mean joke was, in fact, played upon
But something bothers me: Three years ago, you by a bunch of humorless mortal dimwits. My Girl: Begin your routine 15 minutes

Gregg Delman (styled by Christian Stroble; hair by Eduardo Carrasco at Ford Artists NYC; makeup by Sylwia Rakowska at Ford Artists NYC)
after he promised to quit his James Bond Ping the puppy and ask him what your lips earlier, and youve got yourself the kind of
esque life to be with me and I abandoned a were doing. (If they were, in truth, smacking gorgeously ambitious day that F. Scott Fitz-
promising modeling career in New York to be himLOL and forgive thyself. Your love is not gerald writes of in The Great Gatsby. To wit:
with him, I was at a party and got blackout- ruined; its tougher because 6:45: Open eyes.
drunk. It was the first and last time in my youve learned a lesson.) 6:456:46: Rise to sitting
life I got that drunk, and I let someone else (a Go easy on yourself, Fallen. position. Raise glass from
43 MINUTES 30 MINUTES
puppy-like man whom Im not attracted to at While visiting Earth, remem- Morning Arrange bedside table. Toast to fall-
all, at all, at all) kiss me. ber that no wife or husband toilette tresses ing in love. Drink 10 ounces
I dont have any recollection of this. Its is for the ages. Get that of water. All sorts of sweet,
just black nothingness. When I was told straight now, or suffer the exciting health benefits are
about the kiss, it felt like I was being gaslight- tortures of the damned when ascribed to drinking water
ed by a mean joke. Nothing like this has ever Mr. Spartan Warrior forgets first thing in the morning on
happened to meIm known as picky and and leaves his befouled socks an empty stomach (jolts me-
standoffish. For three years, Ive been a sin- on the floor, and you discover tabolism, revs the digestive
less angel, so this fall continues to rattle my hes a mortal manchock- tract, thrills the brain, and so
sense of identity and self-confidence! How full of follies and nonsense. 14 MINUTES 1 MINUTE
on), but these claims never
can I shake the feeling that when all inhibi- PS: Upon your return to Cover Guzzle H2O mention the main thing: It
tions are removed, Im not nearly as extraor- Heaven, tell those two arch- nakedness elixir wakes a betch up!
dinary as I think I am? My husband and I angels, Gabriel and Michael, 6:47: Enter bathroom.
agree: If a relationship isnt something for hello from old E. Jeanand that they have 7:30: Exit bathroom.
the ages, why bother? Obviously, Id never a good time coming their way if ever they 7:31: Get dressed. Now, Gatsby had a lot
tell my husband, but have I ruined our great drop by. of shirts, yes. But if you pry open your clos-
love? Ive always prided myself on my elevated et the night before and use your imagination,
way of behaving, and now I feel the balance of you can style four or five profoundly inter-
our relationship is off. My husband has been MORNING, GLORY: esting outfits straight from the castoffs in
perfect, and I have done a sad thing. MINUTE BY MINUTE the back. (I can only imagine what you may
Fallen From Grace DEAR E. JEAN: My morning routine: Wake find in the front. One need only strike envy
up at 6 a.m. Fall back asleep. Wake up again in the hearts of two or three women on the
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! My heart rejoiceth! at 7 a.m. Look at my phone. Start shouting at walk to work to understand how really im-
You are the first sinless angel to appear in myself. Enter bathroom. Exit feeling calm and portant clothes are.) Hang your days outfit
an American advice column. fresh. Look at my phone. Discover Ive spent on the closet door the night before.
I dont know how long youre planning on 40 minutes in there! At this point, Im no lon- 7:45: Hair. (And may Auntie Eeee just say,
visiting us down here, Miss Fallen; Earth is ger calm. I start getting dressed and looking Your hair looks stunning!)
a strange and marvelous place. You see, on desperately for the top I could swear was on 8:15: Exit house. Therell be no frenzied
this planet, nobody is perfect. We all sin the drying rack. Now its 7:55. This leaves me loping through the premises, muttering,
around here. Today, I myself trespassed and five minutes to do my hairand I never go Where are my sunglasses? Where are my

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damn sunglasses? Everything you need for And as for you, you abysmal chump, lets And then keep smiling, because the ques-
the day will be neatly arranged and waiting see: The woman who taught you to experi- tion will never, never, never cease. When
by the front door. Why? Because you put it ence life as most people dont is now out of you turn 50, people will ask: Are you con-
there the night before. the picture. The lovely, trusting young wife sidering adoption? (Answer: Yes. Elton
8:58: Arrive at work. You cant change the you betrayedlied to, cheated ondoes John and his husband, David Furnish, are
world unless you get out of bed. she leave you? Does she give you a running considering adopting me.) When you turn
kick out the door? Does she even excoriate 60, the question will be: Why didnt you
WHAT IS IT WITH you for your faithlessness? No! Her amo- have kids? (Answer: Because I saw how
rous romps with you are now twice as ex- your parents kids turned out.) When you
YOU DUDES AND YOUR citing! What can I say? Youre one of those turn 70, the question will be: Do you regret
MOTHERS-IN-LAW? irrepressibly lucky people who escape lifes not having kids? (Answer: Are you kid-
DEAR E. JEAN: Im a guy. My wife and I moral muckheaps unscathed. So, naw. I ding? I still get up every morning and thank
met when we were in college. Her mother was will not be angry with you. (Just ignore God I dont have children!) When you turn
good-looking and very nice, and as time went the silent rebuke in my eyes.) 80, the question will be: Do you wish you
on, we developed a close relationship. It even- And speaking of mothers had kids to help you with the house? (An-
tually led to cuddling. Clothes on, then naked. swer: I wish I had rich kidscan you lend
She never really wore underwear, and I loved me $1,700?) When you turn 90, the ques-
it. To sum it up, we did oral a few times and THE AGONY OF tion will be: Who will be at your deathbed,
intercourse twice. She taught me things, helped AUNTS since you dont have kids? (Answer: My
me grow and experience life as most people DEAR E. JEAN: Im a married 38-year-old husband, my dog, and my seven lovers.)
dont. Eventually our meetings stopped when woman who does not want children. My hus- And when you die serenely at 103, the first
she moved to another state, but I couldnt quit band, parents, and dearest friends have always question the obit writer from the New York
thinking about her. supported this decision. Im a devoted aunt to Times will ask your niece: Why didnt your
After we married, I told my wife everything. my nieces and nephews and have tons of respect aunt have kids?
She said she pretty much suspected this had for parents. I just dont want to be one.
been going on, but she was still mad for a while. However, everyone seems to be pressuring
Then she told me it turns her on to imagine me to have kids! People I dont even know METTA DATA
what happened. That got me superexcited, and wellfriends of friends, random taxi driv- DEAR E. JEAN: Im curious: Should I have sex
weve been role-playing during sex. Is this nor- ersconstantly comment: Why dont you before marriage?
mal? Is it okay? I was researching this topic and have kids yet? or You should have kids be- XX Metta
read your answer where you were angry with the fore its too late!
guy for propositioning his mother-in-law. Can you please help me find a polite, nonag- Miss Metta: Before I respond, please answer
Good Karma gressive way to shut down these conversations two questions for me: (1) How old are you?
without sounding like a kid hater? (2) Are you in love?
Karma, You Bounder: You refer, of course, So Ova It! Ravishing Regards, E. Jean
to Frogman, the British Royal Marine who
snuck behind his wifes back and pestered his Ova, My Orchid: When people ask, Why AUNTIE EEEE: Im 22. Just graduating col-
poor mother-in-law for sex so often that I had dont you have kids yet?, smile, open your lege. An old soul. As for being in love, every day
to forbid him from speaking to any mother- arms wide, and cry out: Eeeeeegads! Am I is like Hoziers songI fall in love with some-
in-law, including Queen Elizabeth II. not enough for you? one new. Keeping this in mind, Ive been in love
countless times, but Ive never been in a rela-
tionship with a significant other.
Q: My boyfriend asks why I dont dress up like I XX Metta

once did. He says he longs for the good old days Miss Metta: Well, then, to answer your
question: Do whatever you like before mar-
when I showed I cared about him. But the truth is, riagelet the chaps pursue you the way ev-

Im just so comfortable with him that I feel I can be ery woman wants to be pursued, or move to
a hut in the wildernessits after marriage
myself. E. Jean, must I put on a dress and mascara? when you must get down to business and
have sex as often as possible, because if
A : Yes, you must. Youll look great in the dress. you dont, you wont be having much sex at
all during your divorce.
Hell feel great that you dressed up, and nothing
will be as great as you both coming home Ask a question! [email protected] or
Twitter.com/ejeancarroll. Read past columns at

together and putting on your old pajamas.

ELLE.com/life-love/ask-e-jean/. You can watch
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 THE
BEAUTIFUL
NOW
In the hypercompetitive, rarefied
world of professional beauty,
what defines the look of the
moment? In the following 24
pages, the pulchritudinous Bella
Hadid and many more models
from social media phenoms to
far-flung global discoveries
prove the answer is, for once,
truly manifold. Consider this
issue a celebration of progress
for diversity of skin color, hair
texture, and body shape, yes, but
also dreams and ideasand a bid
for much more of it to come.

Gold and diamond

Terry Tsiolis

pendant necklace,
CARTIER, $4,000,
visit cartier.com.
For details, see
Shopping Guide.
SUPER
GIRLS Their backstories may vary, but these six top models have plenty
in common: good genes, professional discipline, and the kind
of star power and charisma that jump through the lens and stop
fashion lovers in their tracks. By Molly Langmuir
Photographed by Terry Tsiolis Styled by Samira Nasr

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HAILEY
BALDWIN
Daughter of The Usual Suspects
actor Stephen, cousin to model
Ireland, niece to Alec (not to
mention onetime love interest of
Justin Bieber), Hailey Baldwin has
made a seamless transition from
Hollywood royalty to fashion rock
star. It just happened naturally
and progressed, says Baldwin,
20, who switched her focus from
ballet to modeling when she
was 17. Now best friends with
fellow social-media-queens
turnedmodels Kendall Jenner
and Gigi Hadid, Baldwin has a
whopping 9.4 million followers on
Instagram, where her feed brims
with not only glamour shots from
fashion shoots and shows around
the world but also Bible verses
(My faith is something people
sometimes get surprised by)
and casual, makeup-free shots.
I think naturally pretty is the way
to go, says Baldwin, currently
the face of Guess and a cohost of
TBSs celebrity rap-battle show,
Drop the Mic. She cites another
beachy blonde, Claudia Schiffer,
as her beauty icon. Girls should
feel confident in themselves
without having to alter anything.

Far left: Cotton briefs, CALVIN KLEIN

UNDERWEAR, $28, visit calvinklein
.com. Rose gold and diamond earrings,
HEARTS ON FIRE, $5,900. Right:
Cotton T-shirt, CALVIN KLEIN
UNDERWEAR, $40 (for pack of 3). Rigid
Re-Release jeans, FRAME DENIM,
$269. Silk suspenders, THE TIE BAR,
$25. Rose gold and diamond earring,
HEARTS ON FIRE, $5,900 (for pair).
Steel watch, ROLEX, $6,600. Patent
leather oxfords, SAINT LAURENT,
$695. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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 JASMINE
TOOKES
On Jasmine Tookess twenty-fourth
birthday, in 2015, she learned that
after three years of walking the
Victorias Secret runway, she was
finally becoming an Angelone of
the bewinged models who rep the
brand year-round. It was a dream
come true: As a little girl, Tookes
had staged Victorias Secret shows
at home for her mom, who was a
stylist. I had crowns and wings and
scarves that Id tie in crazy ways,
she says. Shed particularly looked
up to Tyra Banks for her confidence
and skill, and also for having
been the first black woman to don
the jeweled, multimillion-dollar
Fantasy Bra, an event that basically
anoints its wearer as the sexiest
woman in the world. Victorias
Secret knows that whichever model
walks the runway in Fantasy
will generate break-the-Internet
numbers on social media. In 2016,
when Tookes found out shed be
following in Bankss footsteps and
wearing that years version, she
burst into tears. After moving to
New York from Orange County,
California, to model at 18, shed too
often found herself the only black
model in a show. But since then,
she says, the industry has grown.
Last February, for the first time, at
least one model of color appeared
on every New York Fashion Week
runway, and more than 30 percent
of the models were nonwhite.

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 Far left: Cotton swimsuit,
MISSONI, $395, at Missoni,
NYC. Gold and diamond wrap
bracelet, DAVID YURMAN,
$4,500. Her own bandanna. Left:
Bead-embroidered jacket, $5,600,
satin jean shorts, $2,500, both,
MARC JACOBS, visit marcjacobs
.com. Gold and diamond earring,
MARIA TASH, $575. Gold and
diamond rings, both, TIFFANY &
CO., $2,200$2,950 each. Her own
earrings, worn on left. For details,
see Shopping Guide.

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BELLA
HADID
As a Malibu teen, Bella Hadid
half Dutch, half Palestinian,
all Americanspent her time
working at a juice bar, riding
horses, and having the high
school experience, she told
ELLE, or as much as thats
possible when your mom is a Real
Housewife of Beverly Hills and
your sister, Gigi, has a burgeoning
modeling career. But once Hadid
met with a modeling agent at 18,
things went a little more full
force than I expected. Its an
understated way of describing
the speed with which the now
20-year-old ascended to the
supernova status she currently
holds: 11.2 million Instagram
followers who fanatically follow
her every move; more than 30
magazine covers in 2016 alone;
campaigns for Topshop, Balmain,
and Dior Makeup. After long
looking up to 90s supermodels
like Linda Evangelista, Hadid
is now often compared to them.
Theres this extra x factor that
makes these girls superstars,
designer Jeremy Scott told ELLE.
Bella has that.
 Nylon Lycra swimsuit,
TOMMY BAHAMA, $112,
visit tommybahama.com.
Antique gold earrings,
GLENN SPIRO. For details,
see Shopping Guide.

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 CANDICE
HUFFINE
When Candice Huffine was 15,
her bedroom walls were plastered
with her favorite beauty queens,
and she had years of pageant
competitions already under her
belt. So when she traveled from
DC, her hometown, to New
York for modeling-agency open
calls, she assumed it would be as
simple as signing on the dotted
line. Instead, she heard over and
over that theyd love to have
herbut only if she lost 15 pounds.
Ultimately, one agency signed her
as a plus-size model, though the
category left her confused: I was
a size 6! I went so far as to show
them the label in my pants, she
says, noting that these days, shes
a size 12. She started booking jobs
immediately, first for catalogs
and magazines like Seventeen, and
then, pivotally, she landed a 2011
cover of Italian Vogue: Previously,
curvy girls had lived a quiet,
commercial-catalog existence,
she says. It ignited some
lightbulbs in peoples heads.
In 2015, Huffine broke another
barrier when she appeared in
Pirellis iconic pinup calendar.
Growing up, my favorite model
was Laetitia Casta, the curviest girl
at the time, she says. Its vitally
important, moving forward, that
theres a woman every girl can
identify with.

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 Far left: Nylon Lycra swimsuit,
NORMA KAMALI, $150, visit
normakamali.com. Gold hoop earrings,
DAVID YURMAN, $2,500. Leather
sandals, PIERRE HARDY, $845. Left:
Denim shirt, LEVIS, $70, visit levi
.com. Gold chain, VERDURA, $1,425.
Gold pinkie ring, DAVID YURMAN,
$1,950. For details, see Shopping Guide.

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 MARIA
BORGES
Born in the midst of the civil
war in her native Angola, Maria
Borges was raised by her sister
from the age of 11, when their
mother died. Often teased for
being so tall and lean, Borges,
who revered Naomi Campbell,
entered a modeling competition
in Luanda, the countrys capital,
at 17, and while she didnt
win, she did land a contract.
In her first New York Fashion
Week, in 2011, she walked in 17
shows, despite barely speaking
any English (If someone said
something to me, I just smiled,
she says). By her second season,
she was a Givenchy exclusive
(she refers to Givenchys then
creative director Riccardo Tisci
as her godfather); countless
editorials, fashion shows, and
advertising campaigns later,
in 2015, she became the first
black Victorias Secret model to
rock her natural hair in a short
Afro on the runway. I wanted
to inspire women around the
world to embrace their own hair
and texture, especially African
women, she says. Most recently,
she was named the new face
of LOral Paris. Im happy to
see this embrace of diversity
happening right now, she says.
But I hope its forever. Girls with
short hair, tall girls, black girls,
Chinese girls, Korean girls
we all follow fashion.

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 Far left: Cotton top, tights,
$1,015 each, lace skirt, $7,500,
brass necklace, $1,695, all,
BALENCIAGA, visit balenciaga
.com. Left: Gold and diamond
earring, 2017 TIFFANY BLUE
BOOK COLLECTION, call
800-843-3269. For details, see
Shopping Guide.

Beauty Secret: On lids, try

LORAL PARIS Infallible 24 HR
Eye Shadow in Glistening Garnet.

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ELSA
HOSK
Beauty is changing, says the
5'9" Elsa Hosk, 28. Its more
about finding someone with
beliefs that you look up to versus
just a pretty face. For Hosk,
a highlight of last Februarys
fashion shows was meeting
Halima Aden, the Somali
American model who walked the
runway for Max Mara and Alberta
Ferretti in a hijab and braces. I
was such a silly fangirl, she says.
Its more important than ever to
stand up and have a voice. After
being thrown into this crazy
industry at 15, then playing
professional basketball for a
short time in her native Sweden,
Hosk moved to New York to
model full-time at 20, quickly
landing print work for Guess,
H&M, and now Givenchy, as well
as shows like Altuzarra, Oscar de
la Renta, and Victorias Secret.
Youre constantly judged on
how you look, she says of her
job. But over the years, Ive
come to not care so much. You
cant be perfectno one is.

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 Far left: Leather dress, silk
chiffon dress, both, GIVENCHY
BY RICCARDO TISCI, similar
styles at Givenchy, NYC. Left:
Polyamide elastane swimsuit,
GOTTEX, $60, collection
at Saks Fifth Avenue stores
nationwide. Satin boots,
GIANVITO ROSSI, $2,195. For
details, see Shopping Guide.
Models Maria Borges, Candice Huffine,
and Jasmine Tookes at IMG (hair by
Romina Manenti at Home Agency for
Amika; makeup by Frankie Boyd at Tim
Howard Management for Tom Ford Beauty
[all]; manicure by Gina Edwards at Kate
Ryan Inc. for Dior Beauty; casting by Zan
Ludlum at Zan Casting [all]). Models Elsa
Hosk and Hailey Baldwin at IMG (hair by
Kayla MiChele at Streeters for Message
Organics; manicure by Elisa Ferri at See
Management for Chanel Beauty). Model
Bella Hadid at IMG (hair by Ward at the
Wall Group for Living Proof). For more
information, see Shopping Guide.

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 EXPRESS
Lucky usgetting to create a beauty-themed issue in a year in
which American beauty is being redefined, everywhere from
prime-time TV to fashions most-watched runways.
Lets take a second to consider the countless ideas and ideals
that add up to one spectacular now

American beauty doesnt have a single add that there is power, and wonder, and
definition, because no one face or body joy. How dull would life be if we were all
type could ever possibly exemplify all alike? American women represent every
of us. From the very beginning, this skin tone, every size, and every shape
was a nation of immigrants. In one way all singular, all gorgeousand this vari-
or another, we hail from everywhere, ety makes us more interesting and more
and the faces we see in the mirror em- indomitable, both together and individu-
body countless, multifarious threads ally. No matter how we choose to express
of DNA that have woven together to ourselves with our hairstyles, makeup,
make each of us unique. No less an icon and clothesand no matter how of-
of truth-speaking than Maya Angelou ten we decide to change those things
once said, In diversity there is beauty upwe all have stories to tell, and all of
and there is strength. To which we will them are good ones. Vive la diffrence!

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AT T R AC T I O N
Photographed by Terry Tsiolis Styled by Samira Nasr
Crayola-hued puffers and
logo-laden sweats form
an unlikely alliance with
makeup, glorious makeup,
modeled by a cast of
fashions most intriguing
new head-turners. And
what faces they are.

Model Hannah Bennett wears:

Polyamide vest, BALENCIAGA,
$2,525, at Balenciaga, NYC. Nylon
spandex bikini top, $62, bottom,
$60, both, TAVIK.
Model Alecia Morais wears: Viscose
bodysuit, VERSACE, $675, at select
Versace boutiques nationwide. For
details, see Shopping Guide. Makeup
artist Frankie Boyd used shades from
the M.A.C Trend Forecast Spring 17/
Eye palette on Moraiss lids and lips.

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Model Hyunji Shin
wears: Cotton and silk
top, DSQUARED2,
$700, visit dsquared2
.com. Cotton-blend
pants, ADIDAS
ORIGINALS, $70.

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 Model Misty Downs wears:
Gore-Tex parka, LOEWE, $1,150,
visit loewe.com. Cotton hooded
jumpsuit, PACO RABANNE,
$1,790. Nylon spandex sports
bra, VICTORIAS SECRET, $25.
For details, see Shopping Guide.
On brows, try MAYBELLINE
NEW YORK Brow Precise
Fiber Volumizer.

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Model Hannah Bennett
wears: Lambskin top,
CHANEL, at select Chanel
boutiques nationwide. Nylon
jacket, NIKE, $100. Boyd
coated Bennetts lashes with
DIOR Diorshow Waterproof
Mascara in Catwalk Blue.

264
 Model Charlene Hogger wears:
Nylon puffer coat, CANADA
GOOSE x VETEMENTS, $2,750,
collection at ssense.com. Polyamide
elastane swimsuit, GUESS x A
BIKINI A DAY, $79. Velour pants,
ADIDAS ORIGINALS, $40. Steel
watch, OMEGA, $4,900. Leather
fanny pack, ASOS, $28. Leather
sneakers, REEBOK, $90. For
details, see Shopping Guide.

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Model Bhumika Arora wears:
Cotton sweatshirt, ALEXANDER
WANG, $165, similar styles at
alexanderwang.com. Mesh top,
PUMA, $45. Neoprene pants,
leather sandals, all, COURRGES.
Ceramic watch, CHANEL, $5,400.
Metal mesh belt bag, KENZO.

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Model Danielle Gordon wears: Wool
jacket, SACAI, visit sacai.jp. Cotton
hoodie, $65, sweatpants, $60, both,
CHAMPION. Magnesium watch on
rubber strap, BULGARI, $4,950.
Synthetic patent leather sneakers,
REEBOK, $160. For details, see
Shopping Guide. Boyd dabbed TOM
FORD Violet Fatale on lips.

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Model Kenya Kinski Jones
wears: Cotton hoodie,
ADIDAS ORIGINALS,
$70, visit adidas.com.
Ceramic watch on rubber
strap, OMEGA, $11,700.
For details, see Shopping
Guide. Create the ultimate
smoky eye with LANCME
Auda[city] in Paris eye
shadow palette.

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 Model Sophia Pastorius-
Young wears: Sequin-panel
bodysuit, MUGLER, $1,450,
collection at Barneys New
York. Crystal-embellished
velour pumps, CHRISTIAN
LOUBOUTIN, $1,095.

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Model Georgia Pratt wears:
Mesh top, SPORTS UNLIMITED,
$10, visit sportsunlimitedinc
.com. Jacquard bra, CHANTELLE,
$72. Denim jumpsuit, FENDI,
$1,800. On lids, try a wash of
LORAL PARIS Infallible Paints
Eye Shadow in Shady Violet.

Models Danielle Gordon, Georgia

Pratt, Hannah Bennett, Hyunji
Shin, and Sophia Pastorius-Young
at IMG (hair by Kayla MiChele at
Streeters for Message Organics;
makeup by Frankie Boyd at
Streeters for Tom Ford Beauty
[all]; manicure by Gina Edwards
at Kate Ryan Inc. for Chanel
Beauty; casting by Zan Ludlum
at Zan Casting [all]; produced by
Una Simone Harris at Wanted
Media; fashion assistant: Yashua
Simmons [all]). Models Alecia
Morais, Bhumika Arora, and
Charlene Hogger at the Society
Management, and Kenya Kinski
Jones at the Lions (hair by Peter
Gray at Home Agency for Phyto;
manicure by Dawn Sterling at
MAM-NYC for Dior Beauty;
produced by Lisa Weatherby at
Home Agency). Model Misty
Downs at IMG (hair by Ward at
the Wall Group for Living Proof;
manicure by Gina Edwards at Kate
Ryan Inc. for Chanel Beauty)

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 Model Sophia Pastorius-
Young wears: Tricot-blend
top, ADIDAS ORIGINALS BY
ALEXANDER WANG, $150,
visit alexanderwang.com. Silver
aluminum watch on Nike Volt
Sport Band, APPLE WATCH
NIKE+, $369. For details, see
Shopping Guide. On nails,
manicurist Gina Edwards used
DEBORAH LIPPMANN in
Weird Science and Xanadu.

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 Otherworldly actress
Mia Goth has slayed Shia
and bewitched a spate of
Hollywood auteurs. Here,
with the art of high-drama
hair, makeup, and fashions
best spring looks, she quick-
changes through a spectrum
of rolesand continues
to keep us guessing.
By Seth Plattner

AMERICAN
GOTH
PHOTOGRAPHED BY PATRIC SHAW
STYLED BY SABINA SCHREDER
Far left: Cashmere sweater, $1,295,
cotton poplin shirt, $495, both,
MICHAEL KORS COLLECTION,
visit michaelkors.com. Jeans,
LEVIS, $88. Gold necklace,
DAVID YURMAN, $2,600.

Left: Embroidered dress, silk

crepe bodysuit, both, LOUIS
VUITTON, visit louisvuitton
.com. White gold and diamond
earring, DE BEERS. White
gold and diamond rings,
both, HEARTS ON FIRE,
$3,450$6,850 each. Stylists
own headband. For details, see
Shopping Guide. To get Goths
lip, try NARS Larger Than Life
Lip Gloss in Rouge Tribal.

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Right: Cotton trench coat,
MAISON MARGIELA, $3,280,
at Maison Margiela boutiques
nationwide. Embellished
T-shirt, DOLCE & GABBANA,
$355. Custom hat, BRIXTON.
Stylists own scarves. To create
a soft wave, hairstylist Kevin
Ryan blow-dried Goths hair
with UNITE Boosta spray and
added waves with R SESSION
Tidal Waver iron.

Far right: Leather jacket,

COACH 1941, $2,500, similar
styles at coach.com. Printed
dress, GUCCI, $4,400.
Cashmere hat, DIOR. Stylists
own rings. For details, see
Shopping Guide.

Hair by Kevin Ryan for Unite;

makeup by Alice Lane at
the Wall Group for NARS;
manicure by Mar y Soul at
Kate Ryan for Dior; fashion
assistants: Natasha Devereux
and Lexi Lampel

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In 2013, then 19-year-old London actress Mia trapped in an eerie Swiss hospitalthat Increasingly, Goth has also become one to
Goth got her big break: a buzzy movie, a leg- Verbinski says there were moments when I watch offscreen as well: Soon after Nympho-
endary director, famous costars. All she had was so seduced by her performance, I forgot maniac wrapped, she started dating costar
to do was, well, simulate a lot of graphic sex, to say Cut. LaBeoufwhos known for public, emo-
intimidate and overpower full-grown men Indeed, its that tightrope walk between tional pendulum swings, including wearing
sometimes with a gunand then defile Char- coquettish intrigue and dark intensity that a bag on his head bearing the words i am
lotte Gainsbourg. (Google at your own risk.) makes Goth one of the most exciting young not famous anymore (on the red carpet,
The film was Nymphomaniac Vol. II, the actors in Hollywood. I dont really know any around his neighborhood, etc.). In October
second installment of lightning-rod director other way to do it, says Goth, the daughter of last year, Goth married LaBeouf in Las
Lars von Triers two-part, five-and-a-half- of an ice-trucker father and former-waitress Vegas at the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chap-
hour, unrated psychosexual epic starring mother, who spent her childhood in both el, broadcasting their nuptials via Facebook
Gainsbourg and Shia LaBeouf. As a charac- Canada and Braziland then, at 12, returned Live. The tabloids cant get enough of them.
ter named P, Goth estab- Still, despite the couples
lished herself as a unique penchant for the offbeat,
kind of actressone who when it comes to his wifes
looked so fresh-faced talents, LaBeouf sounds
and nave as to resemble like any other proud part-
an actual doll, but was a ner: Mia is the most be-
mysterious and, at times, guiling actor I have ever
disquieting provocateur known. Shes fearless yet
underneath. diffident, laser-focused
Since Nymphomaniac, and wide-eyed. Shes a
Goth, now 23, has con- truth seeker.
tinued to subvert her in- LaBeouf may be bi-
nocent visagethe big ased, but some of the
brown eyes, the button worlds most visionary
nose, the pretty poutby filmmakers seem equal-
choosing work that flirts ly impressed. Later this
with the weird, the sexu- year, Goth will join Anya
al, or the weird and sex- Taylor-Joy in Spanish writ-
ual. In 2015, she starred er-director Sergio G. Sn-
in Miu Mius spring ads, chezs Marrowbone, about
dressed in the seasons four children hiding out
ruffles and florals while on a mysterious farm after
lying seductively on an their mother dies. Shell
unkempt bed; the ads then star alongside Dakota
were banned in the UK Johnson and Tilda Swin-
for sexualizing someone ton as a dancer who disap-
who looked so young pears in Suspiria, from A
when, in fact, Goth was Bigger Splash director Luca
21 at the time of the Guadagnino. Next, shell
shoot. (Shes also main- film Claire Deniss High
tained her relationship Life, which follows Goth,
with the house, having Robert Pattinson, and
recently appeared in Patricia Arquette as they
the spring campaign for travel into deep space.
Pradas La Femme fra- So much so fast must
grance.) That same year, be a little draining, no?
she starred in The Surviv- When I finish a film, I
alist, a film that follows a hard-edged loner to her native London, where she was discov- want to feel drained, says Goth, who, de-
(Martin McCann) making his way through a ered by Storm Model Management. I never spite being so raw in her work, remains cir-
postapocalyptic worlduntil he meets Milja went to school to study acting, so Im doing cumspect about the details of her personal
(Goth), whose guile and charm hes unable this purely on feeling, and I give it my all. For life. I want to feel like I couldnt have possi-
to resist. Then, this spring, there was the his part, Verbinski describes her approach as bly done any more to service a character and
twisty-turny, downright freaky A Cure for channeling reality from finding something a story. Then I want to go back to life and re-
Wellness, director Gore Verbinskis take on to believe in, and then ravenously commit- charge so I have something to bring back to
cerebral horror, in which Goth was so hyp- ting to it. When she does that, when she con- my work. Otherwise you run the risk of play-
notic as Hannaha repressed woman-child nects, its transformative. ing yourself. And that doesnt interest me.

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MAXIMUM
EXPOSURE
On the heels of a contemporary art revolution in China, Max Mara
brings classic Italian tailoring to an avid Shanghai following.
Molly Langmuir hits the citys experimental, cash-infused gallery
scene and discovers four boundary-breaking new talents.
Photographed by Jason Schmidt Styled by Morly Guo

When I arrived in Shanghai one night

last December, the city was glitteringly
China, it had tapped Beijing-based multidis-
ciplinary artist Liu Weiwhose sculptures,
Dolce & Gabbana and Proenza Schoul-
er to work in its atelier) had never put
a designer front and center. Over the
years, Ian just absorbed the DNA of
the brand, says Giorgio Guidotti, the
companys long-standing president of
worldwide communications and public
relations. As for what that DNA entails,
Max Mara remains geared toward a
woman who wants to put her person-
ality forward, and also wants beautiful
clothes that last over time, Guidotti
says. Both he and Griffiths stress that,
in an ever more globalized world, this
woman exists anywhere from Amer-
ica to China, where the group (which
includes Sportmax and Max&Co.)
opened its first store on the mainland in
1993 and now has 414 shops across the
country. Despite Asias recent economic
bright and bracingly cold. In one of the paintings, videos, and photographs explore slowdown, Max Maras Chinese market
worlds most sophisticated urban centers, what it means to live in a rapidly shifting remains roughly the same size as that of
an international technology hub with a urban environmentto collaborate on an Europe or the U.S.
fluorescent-lit skyline, many buildings still 11-piece capsule collection. Liu also de- Alongside his work at Max Mara,
dont have central heatingjust one of the signed the set, which, by the following eve- Griffiths also teaches fashion design at
places unlikely juxtapositions. Another is ning, had transformed the hall into a runway Londons Kingston University. His flu-
that despite the governments history of cen- with mirrored columns, planetlike globes, ency in everything from fine art to indie
sorship, over the last few years an art scene and wire sculptures that towered over the rock plays out in Monopolis!, which
has developed in Shanghai thats so dynam- models and evoked, like much of the artists was inspired by 80s neo-noir film Blade
ic and fresh the city has, practically over- work, an environment both slightly dystopi- Runner, the Chinese electro-pop band
night, become a global cultural destination. an and sleekly futuristic. Nova Heart, and the general creative
Its an underground art and music ex- Griffiths joined Max Mara in 1987, right ferment of Shanghai. The designer lik-
plosion! says Max Mara Creative Director after graduating from Londons Royal Col- ens the citys great love of fashion and
Ian Griffiths the next morning, sitting in a lege of Art, and rose through the ranks un- great love of art to that of 70s New
(frigid) barren room off the cavernous great til he was named creative director in 2013. York and London.
hall of the Shanghai Exhibition Center, Roughly two years later, he began to speak The fascination with art, at least, is
where the brand was preparing to reveal its to the press on behalf of the brandan fairly recent. Contemporary art only
prefall 2017 collection, titled Monopolis! unprecedented move for the 66-year-old really began to be produced in China
Everywhere you go here, people are talking family-run Italian business, which (despite in the 80s, after the Cultural Rev-
about art or making art or showing art. Not having hired, from the 70s on, luminaries olution, and even through the 90s,
only was Max Mara staging its first show in such as Karl Lagerfeld and the duos behind there was an assumption that young
 VIVIAN XU
For her work, the bio-artist has grown
silkworms and even strains of bacteria.
We humans experience everything with
a centric view, she says. But thats only
one slice of what life is. With a series of
images produced for her project
Living Devices (201213).
Wool coat, MAX MARA, $5,890.
 FUN A YE OPHELIA S. C H AN
Funa once recorded teens discussing a perfect In some of Chans multimedia
world, then superimposed burgers and other installations and videos, people
food floating around their heads. It looks talk about themselves as fictional
like a colorful, crazy video, but its actually characters: Its about performance
a documentary, she says. With wallpaper in daily life. With a still from a video
produced for her installation Diamond Nail Salon titled Dream Lense (2015). Silk printed
(2015). Wool crepe skirt, MAX MARA, $535. dress, MAX MARA, $1,150.

artists had to look to the West for subject citys art-focused institutions funded by ing to Italian owner Enrico Polato, most
matter, says Alexandra Munroe, the Gug- Chinas relatively new class of ultrarich. had found the experience so inspiring (and
genheim Museums NYC-based senior (Since 2000, the number of millionaires in fruitfulsales were strong) theyd already
curator of Asian art. Now theres a sense China has grown by a factor of 25, and the applied for residencies to return. At Bank,
that they dont need the West anymore, country now has more billionaires than the a subterranean space in the midst of an in-
whether as an imprimatur or a market. In U.S.) Jacob Dreyer, an American journalist stallation, American expat owner Mathieu
2012, the Shanghai Biennale, a sleepy exhi- who writes frequently about art, arrived Borysevicz suggested that the mobile app
bition when it debuted in 1996, moved to in Shanghai in 2008, back when basi- WeChatimagine Instagram, PayPal, eBay,
the citys newly opened Power Station of cally it was as important to the global art Facebook, and Skype in onehad advanced
Art, one of the largest contemporary art world as, say, Quito, Ecuador, is today, he the burgeoning scene. We use it for pay-
museums in the world; the most recent edi- says. And now, well, now is now. Art has ments, for sending images, for arranging art
tion, which opened last November, drew gone from being an elite discourse for the dinners, he said. Its drawn a web around
crowds even on weekdays. And the K11 Art super-rich to a mass phenomenonfrom the community.
Malla retail/gallery hybrid in which art is avant-garde to TV. This digital savvy is also reflected in the
displayed amid high-end boutiqueswas Dreyer spent an afternoon taking me to work itself: Chinese artists are embracing
launched in 2013 by then 33-year-old Adrian a few of the galleries that have popped up new media in a very impactful way, says
Cheng, heir apparent to a wildly successful in the city. Our first stop, Capsule Gallery, Xin Li, the deputy chairman of Christies
family-run business (its interests span opened last October with a show featuring Asia, referring to a wave of art employing
property to jewelry) and one of the worlds eight artistsseven were based in Europe computer graphics, robotics, 3-D printing,
youngest billionaires. Its just one of the and the U.S. rather than China. Accord- and bioengineering. Or, as Max Maras Grif-

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 process of building a suit that would enable
its wearer to pick up electrical currents.
Censorship hasnt affected me much,
she says, partly because if work isnt overt-
ly political, the government tends to look
the other way, but also because shes based
in Shanghaiand if theres a crackdown,
Beijing gets hit first. Funa Ye, who has an
interest in ordinary peoples aesthetic, has
become known for her work based on nail
art; for one recent installation, Nailhenge,
she produced 10 monumental nails covered
in pastel swirls and rainbows, elevating a
personal (often female) form of creativi-
ty into the realm of high art. And finally,
theres Wang Xin, a certificated hypnotist
who puts people into trances to help them
explore their subconscious. Society hyp-
notizes people every day, through advertise-
ments and stuff like that, she says. Really,
Im trying to wake people up.
Those women are all in the early stages
of their success. But Liu, 45, is a perfect il-
lustration of the reach of Chinese art. Max
Maras Griffiths originally encountered
Lius work at Pariss Centre Pompidou,
where, in 2010, he installed ever-so-slightly-
skewed architectural models of famous
centers of powerthe Pentagon, the Colos-
seumconstructed from dog chews.
Liu brought his appreciation for imper-
WANG XIN fection to Max Mara, a brand defined by its
Wang recently produced two pink-lit installations tasteful, precise tailoring. When Griffiths
that poked fun at art-world careerism. Welcome
to the Art World (2016), for example, featured a shared fabric samples with him, the artist
human-size hamster wheel with instructions like Build routinely turned them over and declared he
Relationships and Create a Mailing List. With part
of her installation Every Artist Should Have a Solo
preferred the reverse. The resulting pieces,
Show (2016). Cashmere knit top, MAX MARA, $765. produced in Max Maras signature palette
casting by Samantha Culp; artists: Wang Xin, Ophelia S. Chan, Vivian Xu, and Funa Ye;
Styled by Morly Guo (hair by Yang Changxiu; makeup by Yooyo Ko at Andy Creation;

of camel, black, and white (and made avail-

able, in a first for the brand, online and in
fiths puts it, Chinese artists are giving us a work, says clients inquiring about female some stores directly after the show), retain
kind of total review of what can be consid- artists often ask, Does she have a hus- classic shapestheres an elegant wool-
ered art and how you can make it. Some say band? Does she have a kid? If she doesnt, blend wrap coat; a slim jacquard pencil
this is particularly true of the countrys fe- they want to wait until she does to see how skirtbut, through trompe loeil prints and
produced by Lucas Lechevalier and Baba Liu at 5e Productions)

male artists. Many of the most exciting stu- far she can go. (Theyre not as scrutinizing fabrics chain-stitched to evoke topographic
dios of digital artists Ive gone to have been when purchasing the work of foreign female maps, incorporate a subtle rawness.
womens, says David Maupin, cofounder of artists, he adds.) Yet Xu, too, notes the suc- Griffiths, in turn, incorporated certain
New Yorkbased Lehmann Maupin gallery, cess women are having with new media. rough elements into the rest of his prefall
which represents Liu Wei. Theres less hierarchy there, he says. It collection. Among the pussy-bow blouses,
As for the gender divide in China, its not gives women an advantage. ruched-tulle pencil skirts, and trademark
as strong as in the West, because socialism Its one thats being exploited by the four coats, there was also the odd ripped-looking
always promoted women as equals to men, groundbreaking female artists in these pag- sweater and a white maxidress covered in
says Zhang Ga, artistic director of Shang- es. Ophelia S. Chan recently produced a raw-edged black strips with visible white
hais Chronus Art Center. (Women hold multimedia installation focused on stills of stitching. It gives the clothes a new kind of
up half the sky is an oft-quoted Maoism.) 70s amputee porn star Long Jeanne Silver, modernity, which is exactly right for the time
Yet into the 80s, female artists were a rari- a symbol of female power and of reclaim- in which we find ourselves, Griffiths says.
ty. Its not that they got forgotten; they just ing power, she says. And Vivian Xu, a bio- Right now, he adds, whether in Shanghai,
didnt exist, Munroe says. Today, female artist whose work explores, shes written, New York, or Rome, People are looking for
artists continue to face barriers. Gallerist distinctions between the organic from the products that have meaning, that feel secure.
Leo Xu, who frequently shows new media artificial, the living from the dead, is in the In that sense, its a very Max Mara moment.

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 falling down?stretching neck back out talking Rosenberg says. So you have to balance beau-
too much?eyes uneven?did he do enough??? ty with risk. Yes, theres a subtle hooding that
Of course, it would not be a Beauty Adven- persists over your eyes. I like to keep that. Its
ture if there werent complications. I was the perfectly imperfect. Trying to get rid of ev-
one in 50 who got bruising. And two weeks in, erything becomes evident to the layperson.
I wake up to a bald spot the size of a quarter Whereas this. No one will even suspect. Un-
right near the front of my hairline. The vanity less you tell everyone.
gods are punishing me! Panicked, I call Rosen-
bergs office. Hes in surgery, his patient coor- The late, great Nora Ephron, who felt bad
dinator, Janie Indursky, says. But come in; about her neck, once told me: Tell one, tell a
Dr. Pauls here. thousand.
That would be Dr. Benjamin Paul, Rosen- Every time I see my doorman, he circles
bergs very tall, dark colleague, professorial- his face with an index finger and gives me the
ly handsome and spectacled in rectangular thumbs-up. Neighbors knock on my door un-
THE ONE AND DONE frames. Married. One child. I had to ask. He der the auspices of borrowing something, or to
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saw me last week when I had my stitches and ask if my cables working, or to invite me over
never looked this feminine. Its the eyes. staples removed, and again when I was con- or themselves in for a glass of wine, which in-
Theyre more open. And your eyebrows are vinced Id gone forever cockeyed. (Diagnosis: evitably leads to a play-by-play and an iPhone
higherand arched. uneven swelling. Absolutely normal.) slide show. Doris, a beautiful older woman, an
She asks whom Ive seen, heard from, but its Paul enters the examining room, smiling, actress who makes her living as an extra, stops
whom I havent seen or heard from that hurts. Who are you? (Thats a jokean Im so pret- me in the lobby: Your facelift is great. Now,
They number both family and friends. ty now he doesnt recognize me joke.) I tell him dont sit in your apartment. Get out there! Dont
Renata distills it: When one of us goes for we have to stop meeting like this and point to waste it.
it, it gives anxiety to the others, no matter the the bald patch. I swing by Renatas New Years party, and the
outcome. If it looks good, were torn between I see that, he says, confirming Im not cra- heads in the room swivel in unison. A woman
elation that we too can take the plunge, and re- zy. Theres nothing long-term to be worried Ive met once, whose name I cant recall, tells
sentment that the voices pushing us to do it just about. Its root shock. It happens. It could be me I look fantastic. I smile, fishing for how
got louder: Look, Holly did it. Or if it looks bad, the anesthesia aloneyou could go in for bar- much she knows. Renata showed you the pic-
now were totally panicked because we cant get iatric surgery and, just from the anesthesia, tures, right? Yes!
off the assembly line of aging, and we have to get these little patches. And honestly, if you Excuse me, but I have to go strangle her. I find
stick with our bags and sags. So chances are, no operate on the scalp, sometimes the neighbor- Renata in the kitchen and let her have it. But
one is really happy to see your facelift because ing hair follicles feel stress from the event and youre writing about it! she says, apologizing,
it triggers too many selfish emotions. But Im they can shed. deleting the photos on her iPhone. You have to
happy for you, truly. It can take anywhere from six weeks to three decide whether youre a private person or a
And she truly is. Renata picks up her iPhone months before it starts to regrow. So I wouldnt memoirist. And after everything youve written
and finds two pictures she snapped on the sly. expect next week its going to be growing. Seri- over the years, I think you know the answer.
One was of me at the pre-op dinner, the other ously, its temporary. Shes right, but shes still wrong.
taken earlier tonight, when I thought she was One thing you can do is change your part Meanwhile, Virginia, one of my oldest, best
sending a text. The first photo is unkind; my one millimeter over, Paul says. Just take a few friends, is MIA. Aside from one textHows
mouth is awkwardly open, my forehead pushed hairs from this side and pull them over it. Like the face?we havent seen each other since
up into Shar-Pei creases, my facial wrinkles a comb-over? our dinner at Freds. Her absence is more pain-
amplified by the overhead lighting. The second Thats what I would do. Take a few of these ful to me than the surgery.
is a bad angle, but even so, you can see the wave hairs. He re-parts my hair. And its gone! By the end of March, three months out, all
of Rosenbergs wand. I look like mephoto- And yet, still there! the feeling has returned to my scalp, and baby
shopped. Renata says, Youre a lucky girl. Paul crosses his arms and furrows his brow: hairs are sprouting through my bald spot. My
Are you a worrier? ears are still a little sore; my neck still feels
THE OFT-ASKED QUESTION: Does it hurt? No! Im a woman with a bald spot in the front stiff and tight and numb-ish. Rosenberg says
On a pain scale of 1 to 10, I register whiny. I keep of my head! Poor Dr. Paul. itll take six months before the final results are
a recovery journal, most of which will read like Youre going to be absolutely fine. In a in. (I promise an update.) But honestly, I dont
a litany of bratty, spoiled, high-end complaints: month or two, youll have forgotten this was think about any of it that much. This face has
Must sleep on doughnut-hole pillow as ears ache even a thing. The eyes are looking better, by the become my new norm. I no longer look in the
inside and outsidescalp numb yet still weirdly way. The swelling is down 50 percent. mirror wondering, wishing, wanting, waiting
itchyneck feels like its in a choke hold, major He checks my head for spit stitches, the no more waiting.
bruisinghurts to open mouth and floss teeth dissolvable ones that sometimes work their way I meet Germaine for a drink at City Hops, the
Alexandre Weinberger/Trunk Archive

mood swinging way up, way downcheeks, neck out to the surface. They feel like little bristles. craft-beer pub in our neighborhood where Joel,
numbgreat day, UPS guy called me miss He takes a pair of medical tweezers and plucks: a handsome hipster bartender with a man-bun,
can feel Endotines beneath my scalp like bud- Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! gives us a round of pints, chats us up, and asks
ding hornstotally anxiousbrushing hair feels Rosenberg pops his head in the door. I just if were sisters. Huge compliment, as Gem is
like brushing dolls headsparks flying through finished up, and I heard you were here, he says. beautiful. (We look nothing alike.) And funny,
face as nerves reconnectlumps under jawears You look great! I tell him Im embarrassed to as weve been here a dozen times pre-op. Joel
sticking out, HUGEwhats this line still doing admit that I wish hed hiked my forehead up a just doesnt recognize its me.
around my mouth?me so prettyearlobes hot, teensy bit more, say, an extra 5 percent. Our friend Joanna breezes in, and the place
swollenhurts neck to talk too muchforehead In plastic surgery, one centimeter is a lot, starts filling up. Am I imagining this, or are we

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 getting lots of attention? I mean, even me. ceiving bomb threats. Feiwell tells me, If we
Ill tell you what it is, Jo says, leaning in. had talked last week, I would have been like,
Before, you felt better than you looked, and Im supernervous. People really wanted him
now, you look better than you feel. to speak out against hate. Locally, weve had
Oh, I dont know. I feel pretty greatmore three bomb threats on our [Jewish commu-
lighthearted, more open, more brave. Yes, sub- nity center] in the last two weeks, and I have
tly and majorlyand still transforming. friends who work closely with the JCC, and
we went to temple this morningso I was
like, I feel really sick about this. There was a
lot of social media asking, Why wont he just
come out against hate? He did. Eventually.
Feiwell accepted Trumps lateness in com-
menting on the acts: My husband sent me
two articles: [Trump] came out against hate
in the election; he came out against hate [this
time]. He cant tackle every issue at exactly
BRITTANY FEIWELL the moment that everybody wants him to.
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Shes preoccupied with the rage she sees on
sure everyone has enough. the left and how impossible its becoming for
It takes more than an hour of talking with her to reason with people, because she isnt
her before we get to the thing that I couldnt actually a white nationalist or a gun nut and
figure out: How is it that a moderate, the Jew- doesnt see herself as really anything but a
ish daughter of a father who emigrated from moderate who is frequently reminded of the
Spain, and a woman who grew up in cultur- most terrifying day of her life and votes ac-
ally diverse Miami, voted for Donald Trump? cording to her deeply held fears for the safety
THE PROPHET How is it that she supports the travel ban, of her family. Yes, she was cool with the trav-
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versions 1.0 and 2.0? She tells me its because el bans; what made her unhappy was the way
degree, shared with other commonwealth na- she lived in New York City and worked near they were rolled out. I think that these types
tions, whose double remove from the British the World Trade Center, and September 11, of policies to protect our country and Ameri-
aristocracy, by class and geography, created a 2001, was her last day of work before she was cans need to be moderate, like I consider my-
sniffy social MO to put people in their place. to move to L.A. She slept in a bit that morn- self to be. So when we talk about the Muslim
Since shame and a rebellion from shame are ing, and thats why she wasnt at her office ban, the way it came out and the way they ex-
inherent to the human condition, Munros on Wall Street when the planes hit. When she ecuted it is not moderate. But I agree with the
and Atwoods familiarity with these psychic woke, she could see the smoking Twin Tow- principle of it. But then President Trump is
twins gives them an excellent vantage point ers out her bedroom window, and all these so crass and says things exactly as they are in
to connect with a vast readership. years later during anniversary remembranc- his mind, and in a way, that isolatesso I was
Munro, though, never changed course; she es, she can still smell that terrible acrid smell. off-put by that.
just honed her subject and her form to an oth- When Trump talked about Islamic terrorism, Shed be more inclined to engage with the
erworldly perfection. Munros talent is the it resonated with her; it didnt seem unrea- liberals screaming for impeachment if theyd
talent of magic, like the Rocky Mountains, or sonable to have a 90-day restriction on a few stop screaming and start talking. When I say
some other sublime natural wonder. Atwood countries, she says, while the government that I want Trump impeachednot just be-
is not sublimeeven her magical confidence checks people out. My understanding is that cause I disagree with nearly all of his policies
is made explicable by loving and accepting its temporaryas a way to reset. (and, so far, all of his appointments and all of
parents. (The only time Atwood is without She gets her news online, mostly from his executive orders) but because its the only
a decisive comment or new addition to push social media, but she also watches the To- way that well get the information we need
our conversation forward is when her moth- day show and The View religiously, as well on his taxes and foreign entanglements (im-
er comes up. She died at 97, she says, then as Meet the Press. She didnt know about the peachment would mean months of discovery
pauses for a long stretch before adding, in a fascists supporting Trump or the alt-right and documents that Congress would make
tone inflected with the unresolved, Anyway, conference in late November in DC where available to the public) and because I do not
back to the present.) But in remaining open people sieg-heiled. Her right-wing Facebook believe he can govern under the weight of
to the contemporary rather than holing up feeds, of course, hadnt mentioned them; the suspicion that his campaign possibly collud-
with her muse, Atwood has produced work soft-focus TV shows dont talk about those ed with Russiait makes sense to her. Thats
that is true to her public role, and her public kinds of things, either; and her liberal friends not at all what you hear, though, Feiwell says.
role is true to her workan achievement per- have gotten so enraged that when they start- You just hear people calling you hateful, and
From left: Take Five/Hulu; Skye Parrott

haps equal to magic. Atwood has what people ed screaming about Nazis, Feiwell thought its hard to engage with that.
used to want, gravitas and depth, but has also it was hyperbole. Im Jewish, and Im the She cast a single vote in a system of millions
grabbed the new golden ring on lifes wacked daughter of an immigrant, and Im a wom- of voters: Why, she wants to know, is she re-
carousel: Shes an image-based influencer. anand I wish people could get themselves duced, through willful misunderstanding by
When she came to visit the set for the away from that polarizing view, she says. half the country, to a single decision in her life,
first time, Bruce Miller says, everyone got Were talking in March, after several weeks given all the rest of who she is? I want people
into their costumes, and all the actors who in which scores of Jewish cemeteries across to understand, she says, that some people
played handmaids lined up in rows and, as the country had been vandalized, and Jewish who voted for Trump really gave consideration
she walked through, bowed their heads. community centers and synagogues were re- and thought and care to it.

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 it can be hard to parse reality from rumor over the plain and the whole world seems to
which is how you get a high-information voter be made new just so you can see it. Its a good,
like Euston who once had a security clearance and hard, life. I wouldnt trade this for the
and doesnt think Hillary Clinton is running world. Maybe if you gave me a billion dollars,
secret sex cults in DC pizzerias; but neither is but Id have to think about it, Potter says.
she willing to discount the conspiracy that Bill If youre not a rancher or farmer, your best
Clintons deputy White House counsel, Vin- hope for a job here is at the Safeway grocery
cent Foster, may not have committed suicide. store in Burns, or the state and federal gov-
Still, it worries her that the country is be- ernment jobsat places like Malheur. Burns
coming so divided and that good information is way more red than blueby roughly two-
is getting lost in the thicket. Yes, the Wash- to-one margins, the town went for McCain
ington Post and the New York Times do real re- and Romney, and by almost three to one for
portingif you can afford the paywall. (You Trumpbut the standoff at Malheur in the
KIMBERLEY EUSTON know whats free? Breitbart.) We joke about first months of 2016 turned up the antigov-
Continued from page 237
how bad things are when civilians are trying ernment, anti-Washington, anti-Hillary (as
Care Act. Hes really trying to move quickly to dissect raw intel just to figure out whats a creature of government and Washington)
on some of the promises he made, she says, happening in America. rhetoric. It also changed Daviss news con-
but also says that the conventional wisdom on When my boys were three, Euston says, sumption. Her hometown was featured in a
her side of the aisle is that once the right peo- a former colleague from Washington said story that dominated network newscasts for
ple are in key positions, everything will calm that the biggest fear I should have for them weeksand nothing anyone was saying was
down a bit. Shes cautiously pleased so far: growing olderif they dont have to fight a right, she says. They didnt tell people what
The stock market has hit record highs since war on foreign soilis a war in Americathe was actually happening. For example, the
hes taken office; well actually end up rais- haves versus the have-nots. I was speaking to Bundy protest was cast as the armed takeover
ing interest rates because of the job growth this individual recently, and I said, Remem- of federal buildings by menacing militiamen,
and strong economy, and were seeing more ber when you said this to me, like, 13 years when the way Davis saw it was a handful of
limited, reduced regulations, which I think is ago? Thats worrisome. guys overrunning a few bunkhouses and a
helping stimulate business. Februarys pos- tiny museum and visitor center out in the
itive jobs reportunemployment dipped to middle of nowhere. She never saw the occu-
4.7 percentmust have made her happy. Still, piers being violent, only talking about the
she says, I wish he would tweet less. The need to defend and preserve liberty: Gun tot-
weekend of the womens marches, she was ing isnt a big deal to a rural rancher. She says
surprised at how many of her friends joined she saw the sausage of narrative and clickbait
the protests in both DC and Atlanta. (She and being made, and it really amazed me how
they are navigating their differences, she says, so many people went out of their way to tell
by not talking about it.) She wonders why all us they hated us without even understanding
the hair-on-fire stuff is happening now instead what the issue was. For her, the issues were
of before, when it might have made the dif- about water rights and resources, about graz-
ference for the Democrats. She wouldnt have ing rights, about what she views as her neigh-
voted for Bernie, but I mean, I just feel for the bors serving time twice for the same crime.
Bernie supporters, because Hillary really stole (A federal appellate court actually ordered a
the nomination, with what was going on with retrial, insisting that the lower court had un-
the DNC. Bernie wasnt given a fair shake. I dersentenced the Hammonds.)
wish more people wouldve been energized The right wing had been preaching that
during the election because I think it wouldve Barack Obama made sweeping public-land
turned out differently. I dont think Trump grabshe did set aside more acreage for fed-
would have necessarilyI dont think Trump eral protection than any other president in
would have even received the Republican Par- history. And if theres one thing you can do to
tys nomination. annoy a rancher, its tell her she cant graze
That the GOPs brand is starting to become her cattle on lands where theyve grazed for
associated with neo-Nazis and white suprem- decades. Adding to the animus, Oregon has a
acists Euston finds extremely troubling. That history of racism; when it was granted state-
isnt anything I approve of at all. She adds, KRISTIE DAVIS hood in 1859, it was the only state in the union
Continued from page 237
Im hoping hell stop with the over-the-top to forbid black people from living, working,
rhetoric but also knows its that very rhetoric few weeks, when they have to get done a vol- or owning property there. It was illegal for
that got Trump elected. ume of work, like mint weeding, they hire day black people even to move to the state until
The media landscape disturbs her, too. She laborers to help out. (Whether theyve hired 1926. The legacy of this resonates even today.
misses the era when there were just three undocumented workers, Davis doesnt know, Davis and Potter havent entirely escaped
major networks doing the evening news, and though its pretty unusual in the West not to their surroundings or the cultural lessons
when print did journalismshes referring have hired them. Thats who shows up to do theyve learned. I was uncomfortable more
to those halcyon days when the news wasnt the work.) The Davises keep a comfortable than once during our time spent together
so full of alternative facts and bloggy opin- five-bedroom house and a few head of cat- when the topic of Native American sover-
Skye Parrott

ions. We discuss that as recently as the early tle. The schedule and work are brutal, but its eignty came up; we agree that the problem is
1990s, everyone basically consumed the same hard to be in too bad of a mood, no matter largely unsolvable now, having been created
presentations of the same events. These days, how sore your back is, when the sun is rising by generations well before us. But its indis-

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 AMERICAN DREAM
Chris Evans may be Marvels brawniest paladin, but this
supersoldiers real power goes soul-deep. By Mickey Rapkin

Every couple of years, Chris Evans pulls man. I felt like my 12-year-old self. And I was
on his red, white, and blue spandex, really full of a lot of joy.
picks up Captain Americas shield, and saves ELLE: Would you tell me about a time you
the world from impending doom. But his were envious of another man?
smaller, less-talked-about films (Snowpiercer, CE: I have a lot of really funny friends in my
Before We Go) are often just as thrilling. In life. Im not one of the funny ones. Im fun.
Gifted, out now from 500 Days of Summer di- But Im not funny. And theres a big differ-
rector Marc Webb, Evans stars as a sensitive ence. Anytime I hang out with a guy who
small-town boat mechanic fighting a custody is hilarious, Im like, Man, I wish my brain
battle for his orphaned niece (a first-grade worked the way his does.
know-it-all who just may be a math prodigy). ELLE: Youre a big New England Patriots fan.
Evanss own early years were less conten- And a big Democrat. Was it hard for you to
tious, though they werent without drama. hear that Tom Brady called Donald Trump
His mother ran a local childrens theater in personally to congratulate him?
Concord, Massachusetts, and Evans says he CE: This whole year has had so many tricky
and his siblings were basically Bostons an- ups and downs. But the Brady-Trump con-
swer to the von Trapps. These days, the nection is the one part of it that I truly
35-year-oldwho once spent three weeks in tle kid trapped in a 35-year-olds body. have been unable to process in
India studying meditationis as likely to ELLE: Are your friends pressuring you to set- any capacity. My brain just can-
quote Siddhartha as he is Sondheim. That tle down? not reconcile that. I truly chose
zen, no doubt, comes in handy, whether on CE: I dont think so. Not to my face. to stick my head in the ground
set for the currently filming Avengers: Infinity ELLE: You studied with a guru in India. What and pretend that doesnt happen.
War Part 1, or in Evanss personal life, in did you learn? I cant afford to lose my love of Tom
which hes been linked to Jessica Biel, Minka CE: It was one of the most eye-opening ex- Brady.
Kelly, Lily Collins, and, most recently, his periences of my life. I had never really med- ELLE: What would you say if you met Brady?
Gifted costar, Jenny Slate. You know what itated before. Id tried it, but Id always been Would you talk politics?
they say: Make love, not war. very aware of my thoughts. While I was over CE: No way! Id be lucky if I could even form
there, you do it every day. And I really un- words. I would be focusing on being cool,
ELLE: Early in your career, you were often locked a little door in myself. My mind was calm. Dont be a weirdo. Small sentences.
asked to be shirtless. Tell me about a scene you really noisy, and I had a lot of questions. My Dont aim too high.
might not have done if youd had more clout. guru would just say, Chris, shhh. ELLE: Why hasnt there been a stand-alone
CHRIS EVANS: Its so funny; I woke up this ELLE: What kinds of questions were you asking? Black Widow movie yet?
morning, and Not Another Teen Movie was on CE: It didnt matter. I had questions every five CE: Thats a good question. It would really just
TV. I dont know if you ever saw it, but I had to minutes. A lot of our sadness and fearsand clean up, wouldnt it? Scarlett [Johansson] is

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put a banana in my butt. [Laughs] At the time, sufferingis born out of this unnecessary so good at everything she does. Shes played
youre just so happy to be on a job. I just constant narrative. The only reason the brain such a crucial part in the other films. She al-
looked at it and said, Who cares? Im wants those questions is because its aware of ways makes her presence so felteven when
earning my stripes. the past, and its fearful of the future. The truth there are 50 different superheroes running
ELLE: Youre at that age where youre is, you are not your thoughts. If you are able to around onscreen. I wouldnt be surprised if
going to a lot of birthday parties for surrender and let your brain be quietjust for that happens at some point in the future. Im
your friends kids. How does that feel? a minutea real sense of beauty emerges. sure Scarlett would be open to it.
CE: I feel deeply connected to my inner child. ELLE: Whats the last thing you did that ELLE: Youve dated a number of actresses.
When I see a bounce house and those little scared you? How do you handle running into exes in L.A.?
cups of ice cream, Im like, Shit. Wheres CE: I took the last year off and moved home CE: Its very rare. But Ive had no bad breakups
mine? Im not ashamed of the parts of my to Massachusetts. in my life. Typically, if I see an ex, I give a big
youth that Im still connected towhether its ELLE: Whatd you do all day, work out? hug, and its wonderful to catch up. If youre
cartoons or Disney World or Christmastime. I CE: Thats what a lot of people asked me. ever fortunate enough to love someone and
think theyre a real representation of my true ELLE: Im kidding. have them love you back, its worth protecting
self before the world had its impact on me. CE: To be honest, I didnt do a whole lot. My that. Its rare that someone can truly know
ELLE: Seriously? sister has three kids. I spent a lot of time you. And if youve broken through that kind
CE: Sometimes when you see a group of with them, just really hanging out. I got a of wall, I think its important to value that.
grown-ups together acting like adultsits dog a year ago. Shes become a huge part of ELLE: Would they say the same about you?
just not in me. I always kind of feel like a lit- my life. I felt very normal, like a regular hu- CE: I hope.

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