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fashion photographer
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model Stella Tennant in
his wife’s first-ever gar- tales of women confronting their
ment—the Triangle top in life’s messes: In The Mars Room
striped Sim jersey (right). (Scribner), acclaimed novelist
For spring 2018, Cornejo Rachel Kushner presents Romy
revisits the iconic fabric, Hall, sentenced to an inconceivable
rendering it into breezy two life terms in prison, while
dresses and separates as ir- in Unwifeable (Gallery Books),
resistible now as they were former dating columnist Mandy
when the label debuted. Stadtmiller looks back at her
(zeromariacornejo.com) perilous, booze-fueled path to
finding a stable relationship.

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in a big way. For the brand’s first
collection of bikinis and maillots,
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with his purpose in the aftermath
of a near-fatal accident. Inspired

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what it means to be a man.

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Since opening its doors in 1997,
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Charlotte, North Carolina, base. To
celebrate the big 2-0, the boutique
invited its designer friends to create
covetable, collectible items (like
Olympia Le-Tan’s clutch in honor of
NC author Thomas Wolfe, shown
here) exclusive to the store and
Farfetch. (Clutch, $1,875, at Capitol,
Charlotte, NC, and farfetch.com.)

Clockwise from top left: courtesy of the designer (2); courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics; courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum; courtesy of the designer
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London’s Victoria and Albert
Museum, explores 400 years
of ecologically resourceful
design—from Victorian-era
earrings crafted from taxi-
dermied bird heads to the
folksy, upcycled crocheted
knits of designer Katie Jones
seen here. (April 21 to Janu-
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London shoe label Malone producer Mariska Hargitay parlays
Souliers, makes the most of his her fictional detective work on
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of Emanuel Ungaro by merg- exposing the vast (and infuriating)
ing his British brand with the backlog of untested rape kits in the
iconic French house. These U.S., estimated in 2015 to be around
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the Spring Style
EDITION
STYLE

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stocked with the right pieces, from glow-getting skincare to a statement lip shade to a goes-
anywhere sandal. No one knows transitional fashion better than Krystal Bick, founder of
SPRING

style and travel site This Time Tomorrow and a lifelong West Coaster who now sashays
around New York City in the latest fashions. Here, she makes her top picks for making the
most of the new season.

guest edited by Krystal Bick, @ krystal_bick

/ 1

“
I love switching “
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/ 4 / 5 / 6 / 7

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THE BRIEF
24 CALENDAR
50 THE FEED
52 WEDDING FEVER
Meghan Markle weds
Prince Harry on May 19.
ELLE.com takes you there
60 EDITOR’S LETTER
64 NINA’S EDIT
66 MORNING RUSH
Rise and shine with Olivia
Wilde
68 NEW ARRIVALS
Three storied labels lean
into what they do best

FASHION
75 RELIABLE SOURCES
The latest fashion fad?
Print journalism. Véro-
nique Hyland reports
78 ELLE TRENDS
Sartorial takes on summer,
à la Florida beaches and
overnight camps
83 ELLE ACCESSORIES
Luxe brands give a wel-
come revamp to Dad’s good
ole Hawaiian print
97 SOLE MAN
Magic maker Giovanni
Morelli joins Stuart Weitz-
man. By Naomi Rougeau
102 FASHION NEWS
Twisted fairy tales, belted
bags, and a neuroscientist’s
ideal weekender
104 PRO FLOWERS
Tifany & Co. design chief
Reed Krakof’s debut line
107 BUON APPETITO
Dine in!—courtesy of the
Missoni family and their
knack for a mean Italian
meal. By Naomi Rougeau
A LIFE LESS
ORDINARY 115 ELLE SHOPS
Add nautical stripes, palm-

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121 BEAT THE HEAT

Necessary sunscreens, salt
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glow under my
makeup.
/ 1 / 2

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and a purifying
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132 DOES NATURAL SKIN
CARE WORK?
Cotton Codinha reports
136 PRO PICKS:
BRONZERS
Looking for the perfect
faux glow? Sam Neibart
investigates
138 BEAUTY SECRETS
Bella Hadid’s favorite face
masks, undereye concealer,
and spa treatments
140 IT LIST
142 THE SKIN PERFECTOR
Are needle-prick injections
the next moisturizer? April
Long signs up
148 BEAUTY INSIDER
Makeup icon Pat McGrath
talks with April Long about
her coveted line
150 ELLENESS
Five hotshot workouts
to try at home. By Nicole
Catanese

CULTURE
155 IT’S MOTHER-EFFING
TIME
Stand-up sensation Ali
Wong returns for her
second Netflix special.
By Doree Shafrir
160 THE MYTH OF THE
NATURAL MOTHER
Armed with parenting man-
uals and mantras, Molly
Langmuir seeks her own
new-mom peace of mind
171 THE THIRST IS REAL
Climate crusader Jaden
Smith talks with Mickey
Rapkin about Al Gore, Girls
Trip, and life on the water
172 ALL THE QUEEN’S
MEN SEA CHANGE
In an excerpt from her

206
new book, Chasing
Hillary, political reporter
Amy Chozick tracks the
scandal-clad men near the
Tom Schirmacher

Clinton campaign
178 WOMEN IN
HOLLYWOOD
Gabrielle Union reflects

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ART &
DESIGN
180 FAIR GAME
Art-fair mastermind
Victoria Siddall is just
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Langmuir
184 WORLD WONDERS
Four jet-set-worthy events
and exhibitions
PROFILES &
PERSPECTIVES
186 BREAKING POINT
She was on top of the
beauty world as co-CEO
of Deciem, and then she
was fired. Carrie Battan
reports on the curious
case of Nicola Kilner
190 MORNING GLORY
MSNBC’s Joy Reid is
arming the world with
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facts—and lots of them.
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THE WELL
194 A LIFE LESS
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Charlize Theron talks
with Chelsea Handler
about motherhood, her
forties, and raising black
children in Trump’s
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by George Cortina
206 SEA CHANGE
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Photographed by Tom
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HIGH TIDE by Benjamin Puckey.
216
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216 HIGH TIDE
Throwback beach styles for
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Styled by Laura Ferrara
222 WHITE NOISE
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Styled by Charlotte
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230 ELLE TRAVEL
Four editor-approved
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232 ASK E. JEAN
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235 SHOPPING GUIDE
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MODEL JASMINE
TOOKES IN “SEA
CHANGE,” PAGE 206
(NEAR RIGHT); GRACE
GAIL RODRIGUEZ
AND DAUGHTER IN
MOTHER AND CHILD,
BY CLAIBORNE
SWANSON FRANK,
PAGE 160

WELCOME TO MAY

M
otherhood is complicated. That’s a fact that
gets lost in the deluge of mom-appreciation
and throwback posts that will inevitably
flood your Instagram and Facebook feeds
this Mother’s Day, May 13. There’s no single
picture or spot-on meme that can sum it up.
Which is why, for this issue, ELLE explores
the many facets of motherhood. In these pages, you’ll find surpris-
ingly honest stories of the mom experience. They range from the
profound (our own Molly Langmuir shares her emotional pregnancy
journey, page 160) to the profoundly funny (few make mothering
more hilarious than comedian Ali Wong, page 155).
And, of course, there’s our cover star, Charlize Theron. In the
on-camera interview, I was taken aback when the reporter remarked
on the age I had chosen to become a mother. Men rarely face such
scrutiny for how old they are, how many times they’ve been married,
or what level they are in their career when they have kids. And yet,
as women, we face criticism—often from other women—all the time.
It’s important that we give each other a break.
It’s also important to celebrate the individuals whom we choose
as family. For years, makeup artist extraordinaire Pat McGrath (page
148) has been known simply as “Mother” to those lucky enough
to be in her orbit. And Angela Missoni has long served a maternal
role in the fashion world, welcoming strangers and friends into her
home for dinner (page 107). That May is also ELLE’s Beauty Issue
is no coincidence. As beautiful as motherhood is, choice is the most From left: Tom Schirmacher; Claiborne Swanson Frank

new film Tully, the actress and radiant face of Dior all but disappears gorgeous thing of all.
into her role as a mother of three grappling with her loss of identity.
In reality, Charlize is a single adoptive mother of two. Forgoing the
traditional path to parenthood was, as she tells her friend Chelsea
Handler (page 194), always her first choice.
Which is the key word when it comes to motherhood: choice.
When to have children; how to birth them, feed them; how to
balance their needs with your own ambition. I waited until I felt I
was at a good point in my career to have my two boys, and discov-
ered just how quickly we as women judge each other. During a live, @ninagarcia ninagarcia @ninagarciaofficial

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RUSH:
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WILDE
The lauded actress, producer, and chief brand
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other things) nontoxic beauty products for
facing the day.
RISE AND SHINE PEARLY WHITES,
I don’t have an alarm; I usually COURTESY OF

wake up between 6:30 and 7
a.m. with my son crawling into
my bed or staring at me in-
tensely, one inch from my face.
ARE YOU A MORNING
PERSON?
Not before I had kids, but now
I really enjoy it because I get to
CLOCKWISE FROM
TOP: WILDE; LOUNGING see them before work.
IN LA LIGNE; CLARE
V.’S BLACK PERF
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and Legos. I highly recom-
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Alderman, particularly for
these times.
FIRST THINGS FIRST
I’m not a human being until
I wash my face. I scoop the
two kids up, and they sit on
the bathroom floor.
SKIN SAVIORS
True Botanicals’ Clear
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CLOCKWISE
a few drops of the Clear Pure
FROM FAR LEFT: Radiance Oil (left). It’s the
THE POWER,
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ALDERMAN; TRUE
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CLEAR PURE
RADIANCE
gives it that springy, hydrated
OIL, $110; NIKE feeling. I’d always struggled
with hormonal adult acne.
I didn’t understand that a face
oil could be an antibacterial
treatment and completely
clear up my skin.
Wilde: Thomas Slack (top) and courtesy of La Ligne (center); oil swirl: Devon Jarvis/Studio D; The Power: courtesy of Little, Brown; remaining images: courtesy of the designers
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HAIR CARE
Davines Oi Oil ($23–$44)
with True Botanicals
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I’ve spent my life trying to
find nontoxic, natural
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QUICK SPRITZ
Litoralle’s Onde Biancha
($115). It has a woodsiness
to it. I don’t like anything
too sweet.
TRUSTY BAG
I just joined the fanny-pack
revolution. I got a simple black
one by Clare V.—really big fan.
DEFAULT SNEAKERS
Nike’s Flyleather low-tops.
They’re made in Oregon from
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usually discarded.
CAFFEINE FIX
I’m a real cofee addict.
There’s a cofee place in Fort
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LEAVE BEHIND
My keys [laughs]—the
most important thing.
—Brianna Kovan

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N E W A R R I VA L S

THIS
MONTH
Among the season’s essential additions:
a dangerously seductive timepiece
and mini but mighty bag.

T he T imep iece
Bulgari’s latest Serpenti
Spiga watch sees the
house’s legendary motif
slithering all the way to
the elbow, to undeniably
striking result.
CERAMIC, PINK GOLD, DIAMOND,
RUBELLITE, AND LACQUER TWIRL
WATCH, BULGARI, 800-BULGARI

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LOUIS VUITTON,
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 T h e He e l
Azzedine Alaïa’s laser
precision lives on in
a pair of skyscraping
leather beauties that
offer both the fierceness
of gladiators and the
flirtation of peep-toes.
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BACKSTAGE
AT BALMAIN,
TRENDS
SPRING 2018

BALMAIN

Rather than just making

headlines, designers are
using them—a sign of our RELIABLE
renewed love affair with old-
fashioned reporting.
By Véronique Hyland
nce, slick snakeskin and lo-
SOURCES
O goed leather were what you
Clockwise from top left: Peter White/Getty Images; WWD/Rex/Shutterstock; courtesy of the designer

conjured when you thought of

luxury. Now? In an era of bot
battles and ongoing spats over
“fake news,” it seems that truth, reliability,
and reporting might be the new luxuries. BALMAIN
(And the new statement accessory, informa- PRINTED-LEATHER
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tion: Subscriptions to the New York Times BALMAIN, $1,250,
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jumped tenfold after Trump was elected.)
Some of the most memorable design
moments of recent months have come from
old-media news organizations. Think of
CNN’s “This is an apple” commercial, the
Washington Post’s declaration that “De-
mocracy dies in darkness,” and the Times’s
truth-themed series of ads. That message
even spilled over onto the runway, where
Balenciaga and Balmain embraced news-
print patterns. Shayne Oliver’s outing for
Helmut Lang saw models shielding their
eyes with newspaper-shaped bags and
clutches. But designers aren’t just having

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 FROM FAR LEFT:
TWIGGY WEARS
THE LOOK IN 1967;
SARAH JESSICA
PARKER IN DIOR

BALENCIAGA

fun with the motif. Now that the glowing

pixels of push alerts hold us captive, and
the 24-hour news cycle is crammed with
indictments and outrage, we’re all looking

Clockwise from top left: SSPL/Getty Images; Christopher Peterson/Getty Images; Estrop/Getty Images; Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/Getty Images
for authoritative takes on the world around
us. Being informed is suddenly cool and en-
viable—maybe even, in a perverse way, luxe.
Further proof: Not one but two designers
debuted collaborations with the paper of
record. Sacai, the Japanese label known for
its linkups with everyone from the North
Face to Levi’s, showed T-shirts printed with
the New York Times’s Truth ads, and Études
Studio, a French design collective, used the
paper’s iconic logo as though it were the
latest streetwear must-have.
Any fashion fan whose obsession began HELMUT LANG
pre-Y2K will recall John Galliano’s news-
print-heavy 2000 couture collection for
Dior. That show was what we would now
consider “problematic”: Galliano said that
he drew his inspiration from the homeless
denizens of Paris he saw on his morning jog,
as well as from the “tramp balls” of the ’30s,
where socialites commissioned high-end
designers to create derelict looks. Despite
those associations, the collection was re-
cently revived by one of 2018’s preeminent
newsmakers, Kendall Jenner, who wore a
Galliano-era Dior T-shirt courtside at an
L.A. Clippers game. Long before Jenner
was making headlines for her outfits, there
was Elsa Schiaparelli, who designed a print
based on newspaper clippings about her
own work—proof that there’s always been
power in believing your own press.

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TRENDS

The
Florida
Project
Fashion finds unlikely inspiration in 1. PVC AND LEATHER
HANDBAG, EMPORIO
touristy Orlando: wraparound shades, ARMANI, $825,
ARMANI.COM
kitschy prints, Day-Glo brights, even 2. PRINTED-SILK SHIRT,

Courtesy of the designers, Farfetch, and Moda Operandi; for details, see Shopping Guide
DSQUARED2, $595,
fancy pool strappies. FARFETCH.COM
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MOONSTONE, AND
GOLD RING, SOLANGE
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$615, MYKITA.COM
5. NYLON AND RESIN
BACKPACK, DSQUARED2,
$630, FARFETCH.COM
6. EMBELLISHED SANDAL,
MARC JACOBS, $525,
MARCJACOBS.COM
7. WOOL-BLEND
SWEATER, N°21, $760,
SIMILAR STYLES AT
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bracelets, and hiking gear
for blazing trails long after
you’ve left the cabin bunk.

1. KHAKI BACKPACK, VACCARELLO, $1,890, AT

FENDI, $2,750, SAINT LAURENT, NYC
FENDI.COM 6. WOVEN-COTTON
2. STRAW HAT, GUCCI, BRACELET, DIOR,
$450, GUCCI.COM $250 (FOR PAIR), AT
3. WOOL SWEATER, DIOR BOUTIQUES
DSQUARED2, $640, NATIONWIDE
FARFETCH.COM 7. SUEDE AND
4. SANDSTONE LEATHER SANDAL,
NECKLACE, LOUIS MONCLER, $780,
VUITTON, $730, MONCLER.COM
LOUISVUITTON.COM 8. CERAMIC WATCH

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5. PATCH-EMBROIDERED ON CALFSKIN STRAP,
WOOL AND LEATHER PANERAI, PANERAI.COM
DUFFEL, SAINT 9. COTTON-BLEND CAPE,
LAURENT BY ANTHONY DSQUARED2, $1,595,
FARFETCH.COM

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Beach Boys plaid, and actual fruit shapes, the season’s
shoes and bags signal one thing: It’s tiki time.

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 STYLE

SOLE
MAN
Certified hitmaker Giovanni Morelli,
the mastermind behind some of the last
decade’s It accessories, takes the helm at
Stuart Weitzman. By Naomi Rougeau

S
tanding in Stuart Weitzman’s airy Hudson Yards HQ in
New York City, the brand’s newly appointed creative
director, Giovanni Morelli, could easily be mistaken
for a rock star. Maybe it’s the all-black ensemble, or
the chunky silver jewelry that picks up the gray flecks
in his unruly mane. But most likely it’s because, in the
accessories world, he is very much a headline act. For
the last two decades, Morelli has served as global design director
at some of the top fashion houses, churning out such hits as Marc
Jacobs’s quilted Stam bag, Chloé’s padlocked Paddington, and,
most recently, Loewe’s slouchy yet structured Hammock bag. His
fall 2018 debut for Weitzman marks the first time in the company’s
32-year history that someone other than its namesake has helmed
the brand. Weitzman himself handpicked the Cosenza, Italy, native
FROM FAR LEFT:
THE REVAMPED
NUDIST SUEDE
SANDAL IN BLUSH
PINK, STUART
WEITZMAN, $525,
STUART
WEITZMAN.COM;
MORELLI.
From left: courtesy of the designer; Mario Sorrenti

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STYLE Fash i on N ews
BLUE VIOLET LEATHER
SHOEBOX SHOULDER
BAG (LEFT), $1,195,
LEATHER LARGE
SHOPPING TOTE
(RIGHT), $1,350, BOTH,
STUART WEITZMAN,
STUARTWEITZMAN.COM
for his boundary-pushing creative vision and ability to drive desire.
“To me, there are two main points of reference in the perception
of the brand,” Morelli says in his languorous Calabrian accent. “One
is the stretch 50/50 boot, sexy but with an element of comfort. On
the other end, you have the Nudist pump, which is so linked to Hol-
lywood and the red carpet.” Their identities are polar opposites, he
explains. But fans of the iconic styles need not fear: Morelli plans to
maintain the classics, with a few artful updates thrown in.
The Nudist (see previous page), which was first worn by Diane
Kruger at a 2013 party in West Hollywood, has already undergone
several iterations over the years, rising and falling in height and
embellishments. For fall, a thicker heel appears square from be-
hind, but in profile takes on a slight flare. The ankle straps are also
wider, obscuring the buckles, and Morelli has decorated the newly
squared-of toe with sculptural brass pieces that resemble a twisted
segment of ribbon—far edgier than a dainty bow. “It’s a great can-
vas,” Morelli says of the slinky sandal. “So it’s a good place to evolve.”
His biggest design shift has nothing to do with heels. Morelli
switched up the brand’s signature royal purple packaging and linings
to a more cobalt shade he’s dubbed Blue Violet. The new hue also
inspired him to launch Weitzman’s first significant foray into hand-
bags, the rectangular Shoebox bag. “There was zero identity with the
bags,” Morelli says of the brand’s previous oferings, which included
only simple evening clutches. “We transformed the shape of an actual
shoebox into a bag—turning something quite basic into a classic.”
Blue Violet isn’t the only new addition to the Weitzman palette.
“Color for me is really important, particularly for shoes,” says Morelli,
who has broadened the range of what can be classified as neutrals
with the addition of olive and cranberry, to name but two. “These
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“We transformed
the shape
of an actual
shoebox into a
bag—turning
something
quite basic
into a classic.”
are easily wearable, everyday colors, but they’re also vivid enough to
lift whatever you might be wearing.” Equally important to Morelli:
keeping a wide range of signature styles in constant production, with
customizable heel and material options. “All modern women have
complex lives,” he says, “but at some point, they want to be sexy.” Sex
appeal is something Weitzman has long had in spades; remember
the ad campaigns featuring supes wearing nothing but shoes?
Those making predictions about the next face of the brand need
look no further than Weitzman’s celeb-filled NYFW presentation at
New York’s scene-y restaurant The Pool. There, Morelli hobnobbed
with singer Solange Knowles and actress Camilla Belle. But he
credits his mother as one of his biggest inspirations. “She definitely
influenced me,” he says. “When I was around 15, it was quite clear
to me that I should pursue design as a career.”
While the previously Milan-based Morelli is still adjusting to life
in the Big Apple, he references his frequent trips to Weitzman’s Elda,
Spain, workshops as a high point of his new gig. “I’m at home in the
factories,” he says. “Plus, there’s the best CrossFit gym right across
the street.” Another perk: an extensive archive of Weitzman designs
that ofers an endless source of creative fuel. In addition to his own
work, Weitzman himself is an avid collector of vintage and antique
footwear. Though Morelli was not involved in the curation, he will
undoubtedly be among the hordes when the New-York Historical
Society hosts Walk This Way: Footwear From the Stuart Weitzman
Courtesy of the designer
Collection of Historic Shoes (April 20 to October 8).
Given Morelli’s track record, one can’t help but wonder what’s
the common thread that links his biggest hits. “Attitude,” he insists,
with a flick of his mane. “Sometimes you have to be willing to go
against the market.”
STYLE Fashi on N ews

GOLD WOOL-BLEND
SWEATER, $395,
LEATHER ANKLE
BOOT, $595, BOTH,
COACH 1941,
COACH.COM.

STANDARD

At a loss for a week-

ender bag to his exact
liking, Columbia neuro-
GOTHIC
scientist Jason Stalvey For Coach 1941’s prefall collection,
took the scientific Creative Director Stuart Vevers
approach: two years looked to the delightfully dark
researching materials, and somewhat twisted side of
touring factories, and classic Disney tales for inspiration.

Kaia Gerber: Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images; remaining images: courtesy of the designers
ultimately crafting one Rotting poison apples are just the
of his own. Now his thing to subvert a bubblegum-pink
crocodile top-handles intarsia knit sweater. And a pair
are regularly spotted of witchy white ankle boots with
on fans Kendall, Kaia tattoo-style embroidery make an
(right), and Gigi. His ideal match for his slipdresses
latest version, clad in printed with diving sparrows—the
24-karat gold and ring- more sinister counterpart to Snow
ing in at a whopping White’s happy little birds.
$100K, is as much art as
it is arm candy. LEATHER HANDBAGS,
ALL, BURBERRY,
$2,290–$2,590 EACH,
BURBERRY.COM.

IT’S A CINCH
With a classic like the trench coat under its, um,
belt, why shouldn’t Burberry look to its iconic
outerwear for inspiration? The Brit brand’s latest
must-have: the Belt Bag, an infinitely practical
carryall available in three sizes and 11 colorways.

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THE HERE. THE NOW. THE READY.

THE NEW FRAGRANCES FOR HER AND FOR HIM

STYLE Fash i on N ews

DIAMOND,
TANZANITE, AND
PLATINUM PAPER
FLOWER EARRINGS,
TIFFANY & CO.,
TIFFANY.COM.
PHOTOGRAPHED BY
ALLIE HOLLOWAY.

PRO FLOWERS
Since his 2017 debut at Tiffany & Co., Chief Artistic Officer Reed Krakoff has injected the 181-year-old American
brand with an unprecedented sense of whimsy. For his first jewelry collection, Paper Flowers, Krakoff imagined
delicately cut arts-and-crafts petals arranged in a dazzling bouquet. It’s about “stripping away all the rules
associated with fine jewelry,” he says. Working mostly with platinum and diamonds, he added vibrant tanzanite
for color and a nod to Tiffany lore: The jeweler was the first distributor of the luminous blue stone upon its 1967
discovery in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro—thereby making it a giant (quite literally) in the gemstone industry.

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SPINACH
AND
RICOTTA
GNOCCHI

BUON
APPETITO
Knitwear scion Francesco Maccapani
Missoni compiles his family’s favorite
recipes into a cookbook that’s every bit
as colorful as the fashions that bear his
surname. By Naomi Rougeau
his is Italy, baby!” proclaims music-industry

T legend Quincy Jones in the foreword of

The Missoni Family Cookbook, authored
by Francesco Maccapani Missoni (son of
current creative director Angela Missoni)
and available this month from Assouline. Jones first fell
in love with the brand’s joyous designs in the ’70s. A
friendship with the family led him to visit the Sardinia
vacation home of his bellissima sorellina—his nickname
Courtesy of Missoni

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STYLE Enter tai ni n g

FROM TOP: A
HOLIDAY DINNER,
MISSONI-STYLE;
SWEET ORANGE AND
GRAPEFRUIT SALAD

for Angela—where he devoured such treats as Ricotta con Miele and

Pane Carasau.
Missoni dinner parties have long been legendary, particularly
among the fashion set. For peckish, jet-lagged editors, they’re a civ-
ilized high point of Milan Fashion Week. The fare, always fresh and
seasonal, is displayed on a hodgepodge of whimsical plates from the
Missoni Home range. Driven by a desire to conserve his family’s most
beloved recipes, Francesco, 32, began compiling them as a personal
project nearly six years ago. But after a two-year stint working at a
design studio in New York, during which he became disheartened
with American food culture, he felt compelled to share the cookbook
with a wider audience. “Italians are so good about making people
feel welcome,” he says. “New Yorkers don’t really entertain at home.”
Fortunately, the book provides a master class in gracious entertain-
ing, juxtaposing candid scrapbook-style snaps of family members
alongside their favorite dishes—such as the chocolate pudding pre-
pared annually for Francesco’s aunt Teresa’s birthday (page 112).
Lest one mistake the tome for yet another Italian cookbook, note
that you’ll find no instructions for caprese salad or Cacio e Pepe
here. In fact, Francesco’s favorite dish is a curried chicken with soy
spaghetti and vegetables. Several meals have Croatian roots, a nod
to patriarch Tai Missoni’s birthplace. And those with a broad palate
will be particularly pleased. “The more color you have, the better,”
Francesco insists. “Both in food and in knits.”

TAI AND ROSITA

MISSONI PREPARING
LUNCH IN THE ’80S
Courtesy of Missoni

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T he Mi s s o n i s ’
One a nd O n ly
Cho cola t e
Pud d ing ( Bu d in o )
Ingredients
1¼ cups superfine sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
4 cups whole milk, at
room temperature
1 lb dark chocolate (70
percent), finely chopped
7 oz unsalted butter
Whipped cream, for serving

1. In a mixing bowl, combine

the sugar and flour.
2. In a second mixing bowl, pour
the milk, then the sugar mixture,
whisking until well incorporated.
3. Using a fine sieve, pour the
mixture into a saucepan over
low heat. Increase heat to
medium; whisk in the chocolate
and butter until completely
melted. Reduce heat to low
and cook, stirring constantly,
until the pudding thickens and
reaches 212˚F, measured
with a candy thermometer.
Continue cooking over low
heat, stirring constantly, for
7 minutes. Remove from heat.
4. Fill a nonstick 10½-inch Bundt
pan with cold water and set aside
for a few minutes to cool. Drain
and wipe off the excess water.
Pour the warm pudding into the
cold mold and set aside to cool.
5. When the pudding reaches
room temperature, cover the
mold with plastic wrap and
refrigerate for about 2 hours, From left: courtesy of Missoni; courtesy of Assouline

or until cold throughout.

6. To serve, firmly hold a plate
over the mold and carefully
flip it over. The budino should
slide out easily; if it does not,
dip the mold in hot water for 5
to 10 seconds, then flip it.
7. Serve cold with the
whipped cream. Serves 5.
Adapted from The Missoni
Family Cookbook (Assouline).

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FROM FAR LEFT:

GIORGIO ARMANI
EYE TINT ACQUA
IN #32 BLUE
REFLECTION ($39);
CHANTECAILLE
LUMINESCENT EYE
SHADE IN MARE
($48); CHANEL
STYLO YEUX LONG-
LASTING EYELINER
IN MARE-CHIARO
($33); LANCÔME
MONSIEUR BIG
WATERPROOF
MASCARA ($25).

“Wearing pastels is positive and optimistic,”

says Giorgio Armani international makeup
artist Linda Cantello, who lavished models’
lids with glistening shades at the spring
Armani Privé show. To keep Easter-egg hues
from skewing too girly, she recommends

Jason Hetherington/Trunk Archive; Chanel eyeliner: courtesy of the brand; remaining images: Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D
layering them over a darker, smudged pencil
applied close to the lash line, then anchoring
them with black mascara.

The New Juicy Lip

For a modern-looking, high-shine pout,
swipe on a lip-conditioning gloss with
sheer, but punchy, color. Still loving the

FROM LEFT:
COVERGIRL
PRETTY shade of your favorite matte? Top it of with
a clear gloss, such as Givenchy Gloss Inter-
dit Vinyl in Rose Révélateur ($30), which
can also be used on bare lips, where it reacts
with skin pH to conjure a subtle tint with a
VITALIST LIP OIL IN
new-car finish.
($7); GUERLAIN

SYRUP ($30).
Lighten Up
Skin gets thirsty in summer, just as it does
in winter, but thick, occlusive moisturizers
can feel too heavy under makeup. Enter a
new breed of water-based hydrators, such
as Mamonde Floral Hydro Cream ($32),
which imparts a fresh, cooling sensation
as it (instantly) absorbs, and the airy Olay
Luminous Whip Face Moisturizer ($30),
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upon contact with skin.

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This summer, La Roche-Posay will intro-
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heres to a thumbnail—à la high-tech nail
art—and measures UV exposure, which can
be monitored on the user’s phone. Mean-
while, SPF options are becoming increas-
ingly solution oriented, especially when it
comes to sweat: La Roche-Posay Anthelios
60 Sport is formulated with perlite, a vol-
canic glass that can absorb more than two
times its weight in water and oil, essentially
wicking away perspiration. And Shiseido
Ultimate Sun Protection Lotion 50+ fea-
tures a functional fragrance that transforms
the smell of sweat into a more pleasant aro-
ma. Sunscreens designed for high-activity
days have the added benefit of lasting lon-
ger, but that doesn’t mean you can get away
without a top-up. “All sunscreen should be
reapplied every two hours,” says dermatol-
ogist Joshua Zeichner, MD.

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Even with diligent sunscreen application,
summer skin can get depleted by hot air,
wind, and water. Neutrogena Hydro Boost
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“The trend for a dark tan is over,” says faux- EXFOLIATING SUGAR
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ize your look with product-specific filters).

New mousse- and water-based products go
on clear, “so they won’t transfer onto your
clothes or sheets,” says Read, whose Gradu-
al Tan H2O Tan Drops contain skin-soothing
aloe vera and hyaluronic acid and can be
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tan in the sun now—that is, if you’re using
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Supergoop! Sunless Tan SPF 40.
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Everlasting Bronze
To extend a DIY tan, Read recommends
practicing restraint: “Apply a gradual tan
product over two days, then wait until it
fades before reapplying; otherwise it’s go-
ing to start to look cakey and unnatural. To
maintain color in the interim, use a wash-
of tan. Exfoliate thoroughly, and start all
over again.”

Luminous Skin
The prettiest complexion illuminators come
in a variety of styles: Shimmery sticks, such
as the Tom Ford Shade and Illuminate Glow
Stick ($55), can be applied strategically for
targeted luminescence; creamy Estée Laud-
er Bronze Goddess Illuminating Powder
Gelée can be swept on with a brush for a
pearlescent finish; and versatile new add-ins,

Norbert Kniat/Trunk Archive; French Girl, James Read, Supergoop!, and St. Tropez stills:
including L’Oréal Paris True Match Lumi
Glow Amour Boosting Drops, can be mixed
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B E A U T Y Bea t t h e Hea t
The Best Waves
Texturizing shampoos are a quick hack for
creating beachy waves right out of the show-
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hair, so you want to add shine back in,” says
celebrity hairstylist Tommy Buckett. To
keep strands looking healthy and glossy
but with tousled, post-plage allure, he rec-
ommends “spritzing a salt spray onto wet
hair, then scrunching it or putting it into
loose braids while it’s air-drying. When you
shake it out, add a glossing spray on top.”
Try TRESemmé Perfectly (Un)Done Sea
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Protection and Shine

Buckett suggests wetting hair with tap wa-
ter before getting into a pool or the ocean
“so that it can’t absorb anything that’s going
to dry it out or fade the color,” and lavishing
locks with an oil spray or “a Pantene con-
ditioner, which is the best because it’s full
of lipids that coat and protect the hair. Just
comb it through and put it up.” Try Pantene

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CLOCKWISE
FROM TOP LEFT:
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SEA MIST
TEXTURIZING
SPRAY ($20);
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REPAIRING
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gets thinner and the muscle layer thickens,”
says New York dermatologist and laser spe-
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ploys a single panel, which is placed over the
abdomen, love handles, or derriere during
each 30-minute session. “Electromagnetic
fields speed up the movement of water mol-
ecules in fat and muscle,” Katz says. “This
destroys the fat cells.” At the same time,
the electromagnetism induces tiny muscle
contractions, like an efective miniworkout.
And perhaps best of all: Initial studies show
that improvements continue for up to three
months after treatment. For an at-home fix,
smooth on Clarins Body Fit, which confers
an instant tightening efect.
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scent of monoi—an aromatic Polynesian
skin and hair soother made by macerating
tiare flowers in coconut oil—with an added
dash of addictive vanilla. Tom Ford Eau de
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Soleil Blanc channels the sensation of sun-
beams on skin with notes of zesty orange
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spicy pink peppercorn.
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Brightly hued polishes play beautifully of
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Does
Natural
Skin Care
Work?
It’s covetable, cool, and arguably
a boon for the planet. But is
it effective? By Cotton Codinha

I
n the course of becoming a top-shelf
status symbol, green beauty has splin-
tered into nuanced, sometimes bewil-
dering, factions. “Organic” products
are untouched by pesticides, GMOs, or syn-
thetic chemicals, while “vegan” products
do not contain animal byproducts. Beauty
oferings labeled “natural” are perhaps the
most confusing, as they are unregulated but
generally deemed to be made without any
artificial ingredients or fragrance. With to-
day’s emphasis on purity and sustainability
disrupting industries from food to fashion,
this last classification has become especially
desirable—and abused.
“Natural is a classic marketing word,”
says pharmacist and Truth Treatment Sys-
tems founder and formulator Benjamin
Fuchs. “To a chemist, there’s no such thing
as natural. The distinction the body makes
is not between natural and synthetic; it just
looks at the molecular structure. If I take
vitamin C [from nature] or I create it in my
lab, it’s the same molecule. I look at ingredi-
ents to see whether the body will recognize
them.” That recognition is what translates
to results, the holy grail of any beauty prod-
uct. Nevertheless, an ever-growing number
of consumers are greening their routine,
whether motivated by concern for the plan-
et or the suspected toxicity of certain chem-
Florian Sommet/Trunk Archive

icals—but they’re also questioning the scope

of what can be achieved for the skin using
all-natural products. “Every day, someone
comes into the store wanting to go organic,”
says Jessica Richards, owner of cult beauty
shopping mecca Shen Beauty, in Brooklyn.

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“Often it’s because someone close to them
has cancer, or they’re pregnant. They want
everything new. And 99 percent of them
come back to buy something to get a result
they can’t get with a natural product, like
fixing an age spot. They always incorporate
something chemical back in.”
The Case for Natural
For years now, studies have suggested that
certain endocrine disrupters found in per-
sonal-care products, such as phthalates and
parabens, may have adverse efects when
used long-term, and many informed beauty
shoppers have a general aversion to sili-
cones. But that’s not the only reason to go
natural. “One of the main benefits of natural
ingredients is that they can be more sustain-
able and generally better for the environ-
ment” if responsibly sourced, explains Perry
Romanowski, one of the cosmetic scientists
behind the Beauty Brains website.
Some of the hardest-working, scientif-
ically proven ingredients in beauty prod-
ucts are natural. Romanowski recommends
rosa canina fruit extract (rose-hip oil)
and niacinamide (vitamin B3), which are
“skin-smoothing, antiwrinkle, and anti-
hyperpigmentation,” as well as green tea,
“an antioxidant that is a preventive against
aging.” For redness and inflammation, scan
the ingredient list for soothing argan oil,
feverfew, chamomile, and aloe, says Leslie
Baumann, MD, a Miami dermatologist and
author of Cosmeceuticals and Cosmetic In-
gredients. Blue tansy, the superstar ingredi-
ent in May Lindstrom Skin the Blue Cocoon
($180), an übercalming skin balm, instantly
2 the founder, defines as simply using the
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THE BEST NATURAL DEODORANTS
For many women, the first and easiest switch is deodorant. The key is in the lexicon.
“Think about the names,” says Austin-based dermatologist Ted Lain, MD. “Deodorants
stop odor. Antiperspirants stop perspiration.” Traditional antiperspirants rely on
aluminum salts, which melt with moisture to form a gel that plugs your sweat glands;
natural deodorants use ingredients to mask odor, usually a strong essential or coconut
oil. Lain recommends looking for absorbing ingredients, like activated charcoal, baking
soda, or magnesium salts. And keep expectations realistic: “Depending on the weather
and how much you sweat, I might not wear natural deodorant in front of someone
I want to impress,” Lain says. Our favorites: Agent Nateur & Shiva Rose Holi (Rose)
No. 4 Deodorant ($26) and Schmidt’s Lavender + Sage Natural Deodorant ($9).
counters irritation, while the rice and cotton and radiance), there isn’t a natural equiv-
extracts in Burt’s Bees Sensitive Daily Mois- alent for retinoic acid, which is produced
turizing Cream provide major hydration. with chemically derived vitamin A. Reti-
Plant oils like rosemary and rose, two ingre- noids are available in prescription creams
dients found in Vintner’s Daughter Active (like Retin-A and Renova) and in over-the-
Botanical Serum and Kypris Antioxidant counter products such as retinol, a weaker
Dew, boast antioxidants to both combat the version of the ingredient. Why are signs of
stressors that cause dryness and return the aging best treated with synthetic retinoids?
glow to parched skin. Even acne has met a In order to get maximum cell turnover and
worthy foe in the salicylic acid contained antiaging benefits from the ingredient, Bau-
in black willow bark, a key element in True mann explains, “the molecule has to act like
Botanicals Clear Cellular Repair Serum. a key in the ‘lock’ of the retinoid receptor in
Hyperpigmentation can be addressed, to a your skin, and the key has to be a particular
degree, with brightening mulberry extract shape. Vitamin A from nature is not the
or with licorice, as in Juice Beauty Stem Cel- same shape as retinoic acid or retinol.”
lular Exfoliating Peel Spray, which whisks
away dead skin cells in minutes to bestow A Happy Medium
luminosity to all skin types. Vitamins A and Luckily, we don’t live in a black-and-white
C are similarly efective; Tata Harper Reti- world. Companies like Glossier (née Into
noic Nutrient Face Oil provides a double hit the Gloss) and Paula’s Choice—neither of
of both, without peeling or redness. which have gone completely natural—have
armed a generation of beauty buyers with
When to Go Synthetic knowledge, encouraging people to make
The experts agree: For truly impactful anti- informed decisions about their own skin,
aging effects (smoothness; wrinkle, pore, and a world of options has emerged to meet
and pigment reduction; increased firmness them. Millennial-beloved brand Drunk
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The model, paparazzi magnet, and face of Dior Makeup opens up about her
laid-back regimen—and weakness for French fries. By April Long
Skin Savers
Morning routine: “I’m
usually running late, so I
just wash and moisturize.
I love Mario Badescu
products—the face sprays
are major, and they have a
really good drying lotion
for when you break out.”
Complexion boost:
“I’m mask obsessed. The
Mario Badescu Flower
& Tonic Mask ($18) is so
moisturizing. My skin gets
really dry, especially during
Fashion Week, so it’s good
for me to give it as much
love as I can.”
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S ec r e ts
BELLA HADID
Easy Makeup
The basics: “Peter Philips
[creative director of Dior
Makeup] taught me how to
contour, and the impor-
tance of curling my lashes
and using the right founda-
tion. I’ve been perfecting my
no-makeup makeup look.”
Touch-ups: “I love having a
thick concealer to put under
my eyes. The Diorskin
Forever Undercover Con-
cealer ($34) is my favorite.
It’s light, but full coverage.”
Must-have: “I keep the new
Dior Addict Lacquer Plump
in my purse. I love color,
but don’t really love lipstick.
I’m also into old-school ’90s
brown lip liner.”
No-Fuss Hair
Off-duty strands: “[My
hairstylist] Jen Atkin will
kill me for saying this,
but I literally do nothing
with my hair. Sometimes
I’ll use one of my mom’s
masks, but I’m really
low-maintenance.”
Wash and go: “The
Moroccanoil line keeps
my hair supersoft and
smells amazing. I love the
Extra Volume shampoo
GLOWING
BACKSTAGE and conditioner. I have
AT OFF-WHITE, really thin hair, so
FALL 2018
whatever helps.”
Mood Lifters
Favorite spas: “I love this
tiny Korean massage place
near my old apartment.
I’ve been going there for
years, and they have no
idea who I am. They’re
amazing—so talented and
so strong. At the other
end of the spectrum, the
Dior Institut spa in Paris
has a beautiful vibe, like
you’ve stepped into a giant
perfume bottle.”
Go-to treatments: “I’m
not really into facials. I
usually go for a massage
because my bones are
always hurting. And I like
getting body scrubs, just to
kind of get Fashion Week
scrubbed of.”
Signature scent:
“Lavender. It calms me
down. I’m an essential-oil
girl, so I always have
them with me. I mix
lavender and lemongrass
and keep a spray bottle
in my purse. The scent
is light, but I do spray it
everywhere. People can
smell me coming.”
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IN GLITTERATTI ($37);
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($24); MARIO BADESCU
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HADID BREAKING A SWEAT
Body Essentials
Supplements: “I take
fish-oil pills, multivitamins,
and probiotics. Anything
that’s good for my skin
and organs.”
Comfort food: “Basically
anything that’s not green is
comforting to me. I always
say I go for the pizza, but it’s
more like chicken nuggets
and French fries. Anything
fried. When I really crave
something, I’ll just have it.”
Top tipples: “I drink a lot
of Diet Coke. If I’m just
hanging out and don’t have
to work the next day, I love
a good gin and tonic.”
Typical breakfast: “I’ll
do scrambled eggs or an
omelet. If I’m out, I’ll have
two fried eggs, a pastry
basket, sausage or bacon, a
latte, and an orange juice. I
get really hungry!”
Fashion Week fare: “I need
to have a good breakfast and
a big dinner, because going
from show to show, all you
get is little sandwiches.”
Workout: “When I feel
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like I need it, I’ll work out.
Coming up on Fashion
Week, I’ll try to get more
fit. I’ll go hard for a few
days and then take a break.
I like to box, and I’ll do ab
work—a lot of core training
and hand weights.”
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B E A U T Y Tes t D r i ve
The Skin
PERFECTOR
Could injections put an end to moisturizer? April Long signs up for a
new procedure that promises a long-lasting, radiant complexion.
I
’m sitting in the oice of New York der-
matologist Dendy Engelman, MD, let-
ting her repeatedly and systematically
stick a needle into my face. Her pan-
oply of pricks—I’ve counted at least
60—is quick, but I made the mistake of de-
clining preprocedure numbing cream, and
it hurts. This isn’t Botox, nor is it standard
filler, but it is supposed to make me look like
I’ve been permanently Instagram-filtered.
I first learned about this procedure,
called skin-boosting, at a beauty-industry
dinner in Switzerland, where I was seated
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next to a Russian editor whose skin was so
plump and dewy it glistened. Her secret,
she explained, was that every six months,
a dermatologist injected tiny amounts of
hyaluronic acid (HA), the supremely mois-
turizing ingredient found in most face
creams, all over her face. “It’s about 100
injections,” she said, casually returning to
her meal. “Everyone in Moscow is doing it.”
The treatment is common in Europe,
where Juvéderm Volite, an ultrathin HA
gel designed for shallow injections, was ap-
proved last year. HA, a naturally occurring
sugar, is typically used for deep, volumiz-
ing injections, thanks to its ability to hold
1,000 times its molecular weight in water,
but when delivered difusely just beneath
the skin’s surface, it can smooth lines and
bolster elasticity for up to nine months.
Because Volite is not yet FDA-approved
(though it’s expected to be by 2019), enter-
prising dermatologists like Engelman have
developed their own of-label techniques
with existing FDA-approved HA fillers,
such as lip enhancer Volbella: diluting them
with saline, and injecting microdroplets of
the solution from forehead to chin.
Engelman’s method consists of up to 100
injections of a 50/50 solution of Volbella and
saline, depending on the patient’s needs
(pricing begins at $3,000). “HA plumps
from within, so you’ll get immediate textural
improvement,” she says as she works her
way around my wincing face. “But you’re
also going to see long-term benefits in firm-
ness because dermal fillers build collagen
and elastin.” Indeed, she’s found the pro-
cedure to be most popular with younger
patients: “For millennials, who want Fraxel,
fillers, and Botox earlier than previous gen-
erations, this is a great global preventive. It’s
like injecting antiaging cream into the skin.”
When she’s done, she hands me a mir-
ror. The good news: Despite being blotchy,
I don’t look crazy. The not-so-good news:
Tiny blue dots under my eyes augur na-
scent bruises. For nearly a week, I look like
a prizefighter, but as my double shiners fade,
everything else continues to improve. My
face feels increasingly silkier and bounci-
er to the touch, and it requires vastly less
moisturizer.
I’m thrilled with the results, but der-
matologist Annie Chiu, MD, of Redondo
Beach, California, who has been conducting
U.S. trials for Volite, advises patients to wait
until the specialized filler is available before
going under the needle. “The problem is
that everyone’s technique is diferent,” she
says. “Most don’t know what injection pat-
tern would be optimal or what depth to put
microdroplets in.” Volite will provide greater
safety and standardization.
Antoni Bernard/Blaublut Edition/August
The subtle but significant changes I see
in my complexion plateau after about two
weeks. Do I look 10 years younger? No. But
my skin is juicier and more radiant. Even the
cigarette-paper crepiness under my eyes is
noticeably diminished. For this, I would face
a thousand more needles—but next time,
numb me, please.
B E A U T Y I n si der

PAT McGRATH
The makeup maestro reveals her must-have tools, the secret to perfect skin,
and why rules are made to be broken. By April Long
You’ve done a lot of shimmer at recent shows.
What’s the best way to wear it in real life?
“A touch of highlight on the cheekbone goes
a long way toward achieving an angelic glow,
but if you want to add a moment of scintillat-
ing shine, you can use a metallic pigment. Start
softly, with a gentle wash, and then build it in
layers to keep it from taking over your face.”
What’s one makeup trick everyone should know?
“The fingertips are everything. That’s my ulti-
mate trick behind each of my signature looks.
I love applying eye shadow with my fingers
so it melts into the lids for a gilded, sensual
efect. The heat from your hands helps blend
foundation, giving it a natural, translucent fin-

Anna Sui: Ron Adar/WireImage/Getty Images; backstage: courtesy of the subject; Givenchy: Catwalking/
ish that’s impossible to achieve using sponges

Getty Images; shadow swirl: Jeffrey Westbrook/Studio D; remaining images: courtesy of the brands
or brushes. I also recommend using the fin-
gers if you want to create a stain efect on the
lips or for seamless application.”
What sets your line apart from others?
“Pat McGrath Labs products are to be used
without caution. There have always been so
CLOCKWISE many rules and restrictions—certain hues
FROM LEFT:
ANNA SUI,
only being right for certain skin tones, and
FALL 2018; bold colors often eliciting fear or confusion.
MCGRATH
BACKSTAGE; I want to eradicate all that and encourage
GIVENCHY,
SPRING 2016
everyone to feel limitless.”
Does having your own products cut down the
87 trunks of makeup you famously travel with?

S
he’s been called the most influential makeup artist “I think I’ve lost a quarter of a trunk. But much of what they contain
of all time, but to her fashion designer, model, and is not makeup. You’ll find Swarovski crystals, masks, gemstones,
photographer friends—among them Domenico Dolce feathers, fabric, even gold splinters. My kits are a menagerie of
and Stefano Gabbana, Victoria Beckham, Steven Mei- obscure objects.”
sel, and the Hadids—Pat McGrath is simply “Mother.” What are your five nonnegotiable essentials?
The backstage moniker is fitting for a woman who is, “How dare you make me choose just five! Shiseido eyelash curlers
unquestionably, a mother of invention: Since partner- ($20); Avène Thermal facial mist spray for prepping skin ($14); my
ing with Alexander McQueen and John Galliano in the ’90s, the Skin Fetish 003 (below), because it creates a legendary glow; Rohto
industry icon has dazzled runways with her dynamic looks, often Z! cooling eye drops ($6) for clear eyes; and SK-II masks (below) to
featuring elaborate sequins or masks. In 2015, she launched her own freshen up an early-morning—or late-night—face.”
boundary-pushing line, Pat McGrath Labs, with a gold pigment that
sold out in six minutes. It remains a Sephora best-seller. McGrath’s Tool Kit
McGrath’s passion for her work is palpable: Unveiling three new
eye shadow palettes at New York Fashion Week, she rattles of the
inspirations behind every texture and shade (Grace Jones figures
prominently). For Anna Sui, she created a graphic pink-and-purple
eye; for Tom Ford, darkened lids with rock ’n’ roll kohl. “The addic-
tion is real with me,” she says, revealing an arm striped from wrist to
elbow with vibrant swatches. “Makeup has always brought me joy.
When I was growing up, it was my mother’s and my escape from
what was happening in our lives and in the world, a place we went
together. That’s why beauty means so much to me. It’s something I FROM LEFT: SK-II FACIAL TREATMENT MASK ($135); PAT MCGRATH LABS SKIN FETISH 003 KIT
can do 24 hours a day, because I truly love it.” ($72); PAT MCGRATH LABS MTHRSHP SUBVERSIVE EYE PALETTE IN LA VIE EN ROSE ($55)

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THE VIBE: The brainchild of the queen
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THE WORKOUT: Follow along to prerecord-
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THE VIBE: Log in to BBS TV to feel as if
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THE WORKOUT: BBS includes a lot of dance,
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C
omedy may be all about
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til Ali Wong got onstage
seven-and-a-half-months
pregnant to shoot her
2016 Netflix special, Baby
Cobra, nobody had bro-
ken the unspoken taboo of a visibly pregnant
comedian making jokes about pregnancy,
miscarriage, motherhood, and having to
scratch your vagina under the conference
room table because you’ve been taking pro-
gesterone suppositories. In a world where
the same tired dick jokes have been told by
aging male comedians since the days of the
Borscht Belt, Cobra was a smash hit. Netflix
immediately signed on for Wong’s second
special, Hard Knock Wife, which comes out
this Mother’s Day and which she shot last
year, when she was (again, visibly) pregnant
with her second child.
One of the most slyly subversive things
about Hard Knock Wife is when Wong ad-
mits that she was wrong about motherhood.
That is, she was wrong about the some-
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joked and fantasized about in Baby Cobra:
that being a stay-at-home mom was an easy
job where you got to lounge around all day
watching TV, having lunch with your girl-
friends, and getting to poop in the privacy
of your own bathroom.
“I didn’t understand that the whole
price you had to pay for staying at home
is that you gotta be a mom,” she says in
Hard Knock Wife, calling the gig a “wack-
ass job” with crappy benefits. “You’re just
in solitary confinement all day long with
this human Tamagotchi that don’t got no
reset button. So the stakes are extremely
high.” (That’s your one and only spoiler,
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she’s one of the busiest women in comedy “Women who want to work and have a family
right now—and the mother of two daugh-
ters under three. She’s a regular on the ABC are, like, in this shitty zone right now.”
sitcom American Housewife, where she
plays one of the main character’s two best Lisa Nishimura, vice president of orig- Hard Knock Wife and be like, “Yes, yes!” to
friends. She has a rom-com in development inal documentary and comedy program- everything you say. It’s all that stuff that
at Netflix with Randall Park, star of Fresh ming for Netflix, says there’s no one else everyone talks about in private.
Off the Boat, where she was a writer be- in comedy like Wong. “She has a real sense ALI WONG: Just, like, being in the position
fore landing the role in Housewife. She’s of command and obviously an incredibly of being a breadwinner. There are a lot of
writing a book of essays for Random House distinct and singular voice,” Nishimura women who are in that position now, where
that will come out next year. Oh, and she’s says. “But really, she’s 100 percent herself.” they’re working their ass of. The idea that
still performing regularly, under the radar, ELLE spoke with Wong over dinner near we are supposed to contribute income has
at clubs in Los Angeles to try out new ma- her home in Los Angeles. evolved greatly since our moms’ genera-
terial for an as-yet-unsigned third special. ELLE: Every mom I know is going to watch tion—but the idea that men should share

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equal responsibility in child care has not
evolved. Women who want to work and
have families are, like, in this shitty zone
right now, and then combined with there
being no federal maternity leave policy…
it’s just crazy.
ELLE: I was really glad you talked about that
in Hard Knock Wife.
AW: Yeah. It bugs me. You talk to people
from Europe and they think it’s savage. Be-
cause it is, you know!
ELLE: In Baby Cobra, you joke
about what you think motherhood
is going to be like, but what was
it like once it actually happened?
AW: I cried so much, mostly
from breastfeeding. I had a lot of
guilt about being away from my
kid, and I thought to myself, like,
“Breastfeeding is the one tangible
thing that I can say I did.” Even if
I spent a bunch of hours away and
I wasn’t with her all the time, I can
say that I breastfed my kid for this
amount of time. And I didn’t know
how to do it right. My nipple was
bleeding, and it really hurt.
ELLE: In Hard Knock Wife, you say
that your mom wasn’t very sym-
pathetic about the breastfeeding—
that she just basically said, “Well,
I fed you formula, and you turned
out fine.”
AW: Mothering is just so diferent
now from the way it was before.
Especially with my mom. She was
like the anti–helicopter mom. She
was like an inflatable-tube, blow-
“There are more and more
up-flamingo-in-the-pool mom. comics becoming moms, and it’s
Her philosophy was, the situation
will declare itself. So she thought
awesome…a super sisterhood.”
I was being crazy with the breast-
feeding, which only made me more deter-
mined to prove her wrong. I put a lot of
pressure on myself.
ELLE: Where do you think that pressure
comes from?
AW: I think it comes maybe just from being
so scared of being a bad mom, and that being
possibly the worst thing anybody could say
to me. That or, like, “You’re not funny.” Well,
there are a million things that people could
say. But that would hurt the most.
ELLE: Did you have the same experience
with your second kid?
AW: With my first, I used this app, and all
my friends did, too. We would talk about
it and how we were, like, psychopaths. It’s
some breastfeeding app. You record, “I
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breastfed on the right boob for 10 minutes,
and I breastfed on the left boob for 12 min-
utes.” You record every poo and pee. Doing
that alone caused so much anxiety and took
up so much time. This time around, I just
wasn’t as uptight. And now I know she will
not be fussy forever. Before, I just never
knew if it was going to end. Also, honest-
ly, we got a night nanny this time around.
Which is huge.
WONG
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FOR HARD
KNOCK WIFE
ELLE: So at least you could sleep.
AW: That makes all the diference. I hate
when people lie and say, “I’m in shape be-
cause I chase my kids around.” It’s like, “No,
bitch. You have a nanny, and so you have
time to go take Tracy Anderson’s class.”
ELLE: You were a writer on Fresh Off the
Boat, and now you’re a regular on American
Housewife. How do you like acting versus
writing on a show?
AW: It’s really fun to act now, especially
with my life. It’s one of those things that
allow me to take a break from touring. It’s
really nice to feel like a family. Especially
with [American Housewife star] Katy Mix-
on. I did not expect it, but she and I have
become really close.
ELLE: You went on tour with your husband
and daughter when she was a year old. What
was that like?
AW: I remember I would get into fights, like
I would get so upset with the TSA agents
when they would open up my pumped milk
and put a strip above it and test it. It’s your
breast milk! It feels really invasive. I talk
to [male comics] who are away from their
kids for weeks, but when they do it, it’s
“heroic.” Like, other men admire
them. They’re like, “Oh my God,
you go away and you’re providing
for your family.” I don’t think any
woman, any mom, would envy me
spending a month away from my
kid. So now, for my tour in 2019,
we’re planning it all around my
daughter’s preschool schedule,
because I don’t want to take her
out of school.
ELLE: Are there other moms in
comedy who tour?
AW: There are certainly other
female comics who are moms,
but I don’t know any who are ac-
tively touring with their kids. But
there are more and more becom-
ing moms, and it’s awesome. I feel
we’re in a super sisterhood.
ELLE: How do you decide which
jokes make it into the special?
AW: The audience is so import-
ant. Because there’s something
that I might think is super fun-
ny, but if it’s just not getting the
feedback, I have to let it go. And
instinct. There was a joke I used to
do about, like, how there’s nothing
more exciting than when a man
gets a boner. It was a very long
joke about boners. But there was
a certain point where I was like, This joke is
from when I was living in New York and I
was in my twenties, and now I’m pregnant
with my second kid. And boners frankly
aren’t actually that exciting, so this doesn’t
feel true to me anymore. So even if it’s get-
ting laughs, I’m just going to take it out.
E L L E : How do you see your stand-up
evolving now that you have two kids? Do
you think you’ll keep doing stuff about
motherhood?
AW: It’s all getting worked out right now,
but all of it is about sexual harassment stuf.
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But you’ll have to wait and see, because the
thing is that I also want my special to have
lasting power. The goal is to make people
laugh for generations, you know?
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The Myth
of the
NATURAL
MOTHER As a chorus of new
voices swells to either
rhapsodize over, or bemoan,
motherhood, one new
parent discovers beauty in
the fear of the unknown.
By Molly Langmuir

M
y son was born last October
in a hospital in Chinatown,
New York, howling and
red, the cord around his
neck. It was the afternoon,
though I only learned this later, for time
had been moving strangely ever since I had
been admitted to the hospital, as my mind
narrowed to focus on one single thought,
which was that I wanted this baby to be
born alive. I told him that, over and over,
as my other plans slipped away. I hadn’t
wanted a monitor, I hadn’t wanted an IV,
I hadn’t wanted an epidural. Most of all, I
didn’t want a C-section.
Time had, in fact, been moving strangely
for weeks. The fall had been filled with a
succession of endlessly beautiful days that
stretched by like a lazy river, slow but inex-
orable. I passed my due date, then the full
moon, at which point I started to wonder if
maybe I would always be pregnant, trapped
Claiborne Swanson Frank

in a body stuffed with a baby who kicked

so much that in one ridiculous moment I
Googled whether this might be an early
GRACE GAIL RODRIGUEZ WITH HER DAUGHTER GEORGIE DAYE,
sign of epilepsy (it’s not, but also, don’t do
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even know the sex. He was Schrödinger’s
baby, a complete unknown.
My maternity leave had already begun,
so my husband and I walked all over Brook-
lyn. We ate spicy food and had sex. But ev-
ery morning I’d wake up, still pregnant,
and sad in a wordless way. The gloom was
a weight rather than a thought, and was
similar to how I’d felt during my two mis-
carriages: as if my body was incapable of
doing the one thing it was supposed to do
most naturally, and that if I couldn’t man-
age that, what did that mean for whatever
came after?
I knew, of course, that birth wasn’t some-
thing you can plan. At the same time, what
else can you do but plan? I had a midwife
practice and a doula. I had a birth plan,
What I didn’t know was endless. I had never changed a diaper. I didn’t
know how to wrap a swaddle. I hadn’t even known if I wanted kids until
my late twenties, and even then, I wanted them later.
printed out, that explained what I want-
ed: no pain medicine, few interventions,
a “natural” birth. I had coconut water; an
ugly blue birth ball that rolled around the
house for weeks, terrifying the dog; and a
copy of Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, by
midwife Ina May Gaskin, in which woman
after woman described labor as empower-
ing, even orgasmic.
At two weeks late, though, even my
laid-back midwives suggested it was bet-
ter not to wait. That night, as my husband
and I walked to the hospital, we passed a
mural of a growling tiger and he snapped
a picture of me in front of it, enormous, my
mouth stretched into a tight smile. Thread-
ed through Gaskin’s book was the idea that
emotional blocks can delay labor, so a few
days earlier, I had done something I’d been
putting of for weeks and wrote the baby a
letter. All I’d been able to express, though,
was that I was afraid of hurting the baby,
and this feeling was the reason, I realized,
I’d been avoiding the letter in the first place.
Maybe that was why I couldn’t go into labor,
because I felt so inadequate. I didn’t actually
believe birth was a vision quest. But maybe
it was. What did I know? I’d never done it.
Without even having begun, I already felt
like I had failed.
They tried various interventions to move
labor along, but whenever I had a strong
contraction, the baby’s heartbeat would
drop precipitously, prompting a medical
team to rush in, their faces drawn. That
was when I lost track of time, not because
there was pain but because of the fear. And
16 hours later, my midwife gently suggested
a C-section.
After that, things became jumbled. In
the fluorescent lights of the operating room,
the nurses shaved my pubic hair while dis-
cussing where their kids went to school.
I shook so violently that they had to hold
down my arms, which had broken free of
the restraints. Finally, the doctor yanked
and tugged, and then after it didn’t work the
first time, did it again, which was horrifying.
But a moment later, all of this was eclipsed
by the fact that there he was, screaming and
alive, my son.
W
hat I didn’t know was
endless. I had never
changed a diaper. I
didn’t know how to
soothe a newborn,
how often they ate, or how to wrap a swad-
dle. I didn’t know why one would swaddle.
I hadn’t even known if I wanted to have
kids until my late twenties, and even then,
I wanted them later, when life was more
settled, which didn’t happen until I was
36—geriatric, in medical terms.
We got pregnant right away, and I mis-
carried. “What did you do?” the gynecologist
asked me as she couldn’t find the heartbeat.
Which is when I decided I wanted a mid-
wife. I got pregnant again and lost that baby,
too, which gutted me. By the time I got preg-
nant a third time, I was 37. I peed on a stick
in one of the stalls of my oice’s antiseptic
bathroom and went downstairs to call my
husband, dazed from the news but also be-
cause it was Donald Trump’s inauguration
day and the world already felt of-kilter. The
next day, I went to the Women’s March in
DC, the baby a secret, not even a seed, but
already I was speaking to him. This is anger,
I told him. This is fear.
As he grew, his presence became a hum
in the background. Once I started to show,
people would comment—“It’s a boy?” they’d
ask, because of how I was carrying, high and
forward—and I’d tell the baby, “You see?
Essa y CULTURE
Everyone is so excited for you to get here.”
Near the end, the lady from my burrito shop
leaned down to my belly and shouted, as
loud as she could, “Baby! It’s time to come
out!” This is anxiety, I’d say sometimes, be-
cause I was often anxious. This is hope.
Because whatever was happening in
politics, it was clear that something else
that had been taking shape for years was
gaining momentum. Stories that had been
dormant were bursting into the open, about
racism and harassment, and about pregnan-
cy, childbirth, and being a mother. By the
time I went back to work in January, the
prime minister of New Zealand was preg-
nant, and so was Illinois senator Tammy
Duckworth, who strategized aloud about
how she would vote while breastfeeding.
Meanwhile, a spate of new books was com-
ing out, almost all of them focused not on
the pleasures or importance of parenthood
but on upending our expectations, on the
way your mind can become unmoored, on
the ugly parts, the drudgery. In Nurture,
Erica Chidi Cohen, an L.A.-based doula,
argues that we should stop using the phrase
“natural birth” altogether. “The concept es-
tablishes a rigid rubric for achievement, and
with that an implicit hierarchy and competi-
tiveness,” she writes. “All birth is natural. It’s
as simple as that.”
At first, I sped through these books. It
took me just a day to read Meaghan O’Con-
nell’s And Now We Have Everything, in
which she describes resenting breastfeed-
ing and feeling terrible for not wanting to
have sex with her husband, “but not bad
enough to fuck him.” (This section culmi-
nates with the two of them fighting at a sex
shop where her husband, baby strapped to
his chest, has brought her on Valentine’s
Day.) There was also Things That Helped,
by Jessica Friedmann, which opens with a
description of her postpartum depression–
induced suicidal ideation that’s almost il-
licit in its beauty. And Amateur Hour, by
Kimberly Harrington, in which she admits
to telling her children, after they interrupt
an important work call because one of them
has gotten hurt, “I think you guys should be
bleeding more than that. Like maybe a level
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The honesty in these books was so gen-
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I couldn’t, I found, without having opinions,
and I was so tired of opinions. It didn’t make
sense. Motherhood is clearly something
every person has to do her own way, but
I couldn’t seem to hear about other peo-
ple’s experiences without holding them
up to the light to see how they reflected on
mine. My favorite ended up being Mother-
hood, by Sheila Heti, a fiction-ish medi-
tation about the narrator’s ambivalence
toward the prospect of becoming a mother,
and I liked it partly just because there was
nothing parent-related to which I could
compare myself.
This was the terrain I worried about
wading into when telling other women
about my birth, especially ones who were
pregnant. On one hand, I wanted them to
know it was possible to have a birth that
diverged dramatically from the one they
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C U L T U R E Essa y
the kind of person who’d have a C-section,”
someone told me recently. But the gift of
having one meant that I understood that
the kind of birth you have doesn’t neces-
sarily have anything to do with the kind of
person you are, just like the feelings I had
about my birth didn’t have to do with my
priorities as a mother. They were, like so
much of this endeavor, not mine to control.
S
oon after returning to work, I
watched Diablo Cody’s mother-
hood-focused movie Tully. Near
the beginning, the mother, Char-
lize Theron, is shown contending
with a series of events—diaper change,
feeding, breast pump, cries—that repeats,
faster and faster, until it evokes a manic
The honesty in these books was so generous,
but then, abruptly, I stopped reading.
I couldn’t, I found, without having opinions,
and I was so tired of opinions.
delirium. Afterward, the younger coworker
I’d seen it with looked at me nervously. “Is
it really like that?” she asked, and I couldn’t
quite bring myself to tell her, “Yes, it is.” Be-
cause I didn’t know how to express that it
was, but not only. It was so many diferent
things at once. As O’Connell writes in And
Now We Have Everything, “With stuf this
big almost any way of looking at it could
be true.”
This tiny baby with a tuft of hair stick-
ing straight up on top of his head, fierce
and frantic for my breasts when he was
hungry, his body rubbery when he was
tired, his fists clenched when he wasn’t—I
would feel buoyant with love for him one
moment and exhausted to the point of
disinterest the next. I was disgusted with
my own body, mashed up in the wrong
ways and places, and I also had never cared
less about how I looked. I felt betrayed by
my brain, which could hardly compose
a complex thought. In certain moments,
I imagined myself a dull-minded family
cow, only good for milking. At night, as
my son wailed, I would walk and pat and
rock him, singing lullabies with made-up
words, until, a few times, I started crying,
too. Once, I became so frustrated, I set him
down on the bed next to my husband and
explained that I was too angry to touch
the baby at all. But this wasn’t the full of
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it, either. Another night, the baby made
a funny noise; I laughed and then looked
down to find him smiling back at me, and
the joy I felt was so undiluted and raw it
was a little like pain, too.
Now he is five months old and my inad-
equacies remain endless, but it has gotten
easier. I know about the way he sometimes
falls directly to sleep after eating and about
how sometimes I’ll look down and find his
eyes wide as tiny saucers, a little lemur. I
have learned some of his preferences and
habits. He cries less and smiles more. I
sleep for more than two hours at a stretch.
Breastfeeding no longer hurts. I have re-
membered I have other interests. I have
been using my phone too much again. I
manage to text my friends back.
Last summer seems unimaginably long
ago, but there is one moment I’ve thought
of often. Some friends and I had gone to
Cape Cod to spend a weekend in a rickety
house, and one day we’d packed a picnic,
strapped an even more rickety boat to the
top of an old van and headed of, motor rat-
tling, to a marshy lake that, on the far side,
bordered a thin beach. I was nine months
pregnant, and leaving town had already felt
risky. Then, when we were in the middle
of the lake, crammed in the boat with a
yelping dog, one of the oars snapped. We
made it the rest of the way, helped along
by what had by then become a fierce wind,
but once we arrived at the beach, it was
freezing—too cold to swim, too cold even
to stay. I thought about going into labor on
that inaccessible strip of sand and got ner-
vous, but then I forgot about it. I was with
people I loved and we were laughing, giddy
with the way the day had unfolded, all these
events conspiring to make what should
have been pleasant exactly the opposite.
This, I remember saying to the baby, still
then suspended in the galaxy of my belly,
is happiness. Standing in the midst of the
mess of it all, sand in the sandwiches, goose
bumps on our skin, unsure how we’d make
it home. It wasn’t that the moment was
perfect. It was that it wasn’t, and that was
okay. It was enough.

The Thirst Is Real
So earnest he doesn’t even know he’s adorable, Jaden Smith is on
a mission to save us all. And he just might. By Mickey Rapkin
A
t 19, Jaden Smith is already a
master provocateur. Whether
he’s challenging gender norms
in a Louis Vuitton skirt or hold-
ing forth on the power of prana
energy, he knows how to get people talking.
Now he’s hoping to start a global conver-
sation about water. More specifically, Just
water—the boxed-water brand he cofound-
ed with his father, Will Smith, and others
to cut down on plastic bottles. (Just’s 100
percent recyclable carton ofers a 74 percent
reduction in carbon emissions over plastic.)
On a break from recording his second al-
bum—the follow-up to 2017’s Syre, named
for his alter ego—Jaden talks about Mother
Earth, that Louis Vuitton x Supreme collab,
and Tifany Haddish.
JADEN SMITH: Sorry I’m two minutes late. I
Cesar Soto
was getting out of the water. I surf every day.
ELLE: How’s the water today?
JS: Cold. But I am one with the ocean!
ELLE: You really had the idea for a recyclable
water bottle when you were 11?
JS: I really did. It all started when I found out
there was a patch of plastic floating in the
Pacific. That traumatized me as a young’un.
ELLE: President Trump rolled back Obama-
era clean-water regulations. Your genera-
tion will inherit this problem. Maybe I’m
being too dramatic.
JS: People are not being dramatic enough.
This is such a serious problem. My number
one inspiration is Al Gore—
ELLE: Really? You’re cool. Al Gore is…
JS: The coolest person in the world. I was
watching An Inconvenient Sequel last night.
Meeting him at TED was one of the best
moments of my life.
ELLE: Did he know who you were?
JS: I think he was familiar with Just. I don’t
remember if he was familiar with me.
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ELLE: Was he familiar with Syre?
JS: [Laughs] No, no. That was before Syre.
ELLE: Did anyone ever tell you you’re too
young to have a song called “Icon”?
JS: [Laughs] The song is not about me. That
song belongs to the people. When a 10-year-
old is in the car and they’re like, “Oh, I’m
just an icon living,” it’s like, “Yeah. You are.”
We’re gonna have 50 million climate refu-
gees by 2050. We’re not going to be able to
solve those problems if you don’t believe
you’re an icon living right now.
ELLE: You cry in at least two of your videos.
When was the last time you cried?
JS: I cry all the time. Last time I cried, I was
just listening to a song that’s for my next
album. I was driving to the beach and think-
ing about the world and how we can make
a change with the youth—if we start being
honest and get enough scientists mixed
with young minds to really create a utopian
world. My next album is extremely dark.
ELLE: At least you look good. I saw a paparaz-
zi shot of you wearing a Louis Vuitton x Su-
preme shoulder bag. How does the bag feel?
JS: Um, it’s cool. But I got rid of a good por-
tion of my clothes. There’s an orphanage
up in Camarillo, and I gave away a lot. I feel
free. I don’t need clothes when I surf. Albert
Einstein wore the same thing every day.
ELLE: Just is getting into flavored water. You
could do a red collaboration with Supreme.
JS: That would be genius. Tell Supreme to
hit me up if they’re down.
ELLE: Your mom is friends with Tiffany
Haddish—
JS: Tifany Haddish? Oh, man! One time, I
went to a party. She was there. This was be-
fore I saw Girls Trip. She was just like, “Oh,
what’s up, Jaden! What’s poppin’?” I was
like, “What’s good?” She’s like, “I’ve been
with your moms; we were in N’Awlins; we
went to see alligators and shit. She’s lit! Your
mom is poppin’.” Then I saw Girls Trip, and
I was like, Oh my God!
ELLE: You’ve got a movie coming out with
Cara Delevingne, Life in a Year—a sort of
bucket list for millennials. What would you
do if you had only one year left to live?
JS: I would release two to three albums a
day, every day. And then I would surf. And
go on tour. I would try to give back. I would
try to reinvent Nikola Tesla’s machine that
created wireless, free energy. I’d give away
everything. I would try to start a hospital
where you bring Eastern and Western med-
icine together. I would start a public school.
Yeah, I would just do all of that.
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ALL
THE
QUEEN’S DEMOCRATIC
PRESIDENTIAL

MEN
NOMINEE HILLARY
CLINTON AND
HER HUSBAND,
FORMER PRESIDENT
BILL CLINTON,
ABOARD HILLARY’S
CAMPAIGN PLANE
ON NOVEMBER 7,
2016, ONE DAY
BEFORE THE
2016 ELECTION.

Hillary Clinton’s decades-long struggle for career equality was supposed to end with
her achieving the nation’s highest office. We all know how that went. In a new,
eye-opening memoir, Chasing Hillary, political reporter Amy Chozick pulls back the
curtain on Bill, “Carlos Danger,” and the moments left on the cutting-room floor.

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From the book Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling, by Amy Chozick. Copyright © 2018 by Amy Chozick. Reprinted by permission of Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Opposite page: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
illions of Americans despaired when
M Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presiden-
tial election. For Amy Chozick, the loss
meant reevaluating her life’s work. The
now 38-year-old, who hails from San
Antonio, first reported on Clinton’s 2008
campaign for the Wall Street Journal
before landing her dream job covering
the 2016 campaign for the New York Times. There she published
1,285 stories on the Clinton beat, among them the first on-record
interview with Chelsea Clinton and the controversial New York
Times Magazine “Planet Hillary” cover story.
Throughout her years of reporting—working from cheap motels,
on trains, in rental cars, and finally on the presidential candidate’s
press plane—Chozick found that her life had become strangely
entangled with Clinton’s. Tracking the politician’s every move took
priority over her personal life. While her husband was understanding
about the demands of her job, the couple put children on hold for fear
it would conflict with her rigorous and unpredictable schedule—es-
pecially as Clinton inched closer to the White House. “So many wom-
en have had to make these sacrifices—putting of having kids, letting
their husbands down—for some career opportunity,” Chozick says.
“Mine just happened to be covering the woman trying to become the
first woman president.” It’s not insignificant that HRC herself has
long been seen as the personification of female ambition. “I suppose
I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas,” Clinton
famously said during her husband’s first
1. Shortly before the presidential campaign, “but what I decided
second presidential to do was to fulfill my profession.”
debate, Donald Trump
held a surprise news In 2013, Chozick talked to her doctor
conference alongside about freezing her eggs, a safeguard for a
three of the women future not dictated by Clinton’s schedule.
who had accused Bill
of sexual assault or It was then that she began toying with the
harassment. idea of writing a memoir. “My vision was
always Julie & Julia, but with politics instead
of cooking,” Chozick says. “This woman taking over my life: I think
about her all the time, and she thinks about me never.” The result—
Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One
Intact Glass Ceiling—is a fascinating, anxiety-inducing, and at times
heartbreaking account of what it was like, as a female reporter in
an unusually female-dominated press pool, to cover the would-be
first female president. “These politics books are always written by
great men getting inside the campaigns of other great men,” Chozick
says. “There’s a lot of dick swinging.”
Of course, dick swinging, for lack of a better expression, played a
major part in the 2016 election as well, from the current president’s
fixation with, ahem, hand size to the sexist overtones that plagued
Clinton’s campaign. And then, as Chozick says, “It’s amazing how
many men accused of sexual harassment or assault were around
Hillary prominently.” Her own husband, Bill Clinton, and her top
aide Huma Abedin’s husband, Anthony Weiner, most notably.
“Looming over all of it is that she was trying to defeat an opponent
who bragged about sexually assaulting women. It was this swirl
of abuse and assault allegations around her. I certainly don’t fault
Hillary for that; I think maybe it’s a question of when a woman
reaches that highest echelon of power, does she have to learn how
to function around badly behaving men?”
Herewith, a behind-the-scenes look. What both sides of the
presidential campaign had in common: men on their most question-
able behavior.—Keziah Weir
BILL’S L AST STAND
CHAPPAQUA, OCTOBER 2016
Bill Clinton was pissed of at the world. Trump parading out those
women [1]. The lawyers insisting he lay of dozens of employees and
shutter the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) [2]. Brooklyn [3] blaming
him for that smug James Comey taking over
the email investigation.
Clinton turned 70 in August. He’d al-
ways thought Hillary would go to the White
House and he could mostly stay in Chap-
paqua and continue to run the foundation.
2. Founded by Bill in
2005, CGI was a not-
for-profit initiative with
a mission to convene
“global and emerging
leaders to create and
implement solutions
Even though Hillary moved back there af- to the world’s most
ter the State Department, Chappy had al- pressing challenges.”
ways been Clinton’s stomping ground. In 3. Hillary’s campaign
the paid-speech boondoggle years, Hillary headquarters.
would sometimes spend nights at a suite in
the Lowell on the Upper East Side. People said Chelsea needed a $10
million apartment so that her mom could sleep over, but that hardly
ever happened.
“I hope I’ll get permission to keep this foundation going,” Clin-
ton told Queen Latifah on her eponymous talk show in 2014. Wish-
ful thinking.
Two years later, it was obvious there would be no way for Clinton
to maintain any semblance of his postpresidential life. His ego took a
hit. At Hillary’s Roosevelt Island kickof speech, I overheard a gaggle
of young girls point at Bill as he made his way through the crowd and
shout, “Look, there’s Hillary’s husband!”
The Clinton Foundation had been so dragged through the dirt
that there was no way he could keep it going. I’d seen CGI’s work in
Africa—seen deaf Ugandan children given the gift of hearing—and
still helped fire the opening shot with the 2013 investigation into
mismanagement that I cowrote. Even if Clinton could somehow
avoid the White House Easter Egg Roll and continue to run his
foundation after the election, his philanthropy wouldn’t have much
money coming in. Along with shutting down the Clinton Global
Initiative, the foundation said it would stop accepting foreign dona-
tions. There would be no more late nights with rich donors hanging
on Clinton’s every word.
But it wasn’t just the foundation. The entire election had be-
come a repudiation of the Bill Clinton years—NAFTA, the 1994
crime bill [4], his dismantling of financial regulations, his gutting
welfare by $55 billion. People—Democrats,
4. The $30 billion even—linked the rise of Trump, the general
crime bill allocated degradation of the office of the presiden-
funds primarily cy, to Clinton. He lied about getting a blow
toward punitive rather
than rehabilitative job in the Oval Oice, so why not turn to a
measures—some reality TV star who brags about sexual as-
link it to an
increase in mass
sault and seems proud to be propped up by
incarceration—and the Russians?
disproportionately It seemed the whole country was in
targeted communities
of color. Near the open, angry revolt against a presidency
beginning of Hillary’s that until recently most people would’ve
campaign, Bill said was pretty good. As Hillary used to say
acknowledged that
the bill “made the during the 2008 primary, whenever she was
problem worse.” accused of living in the past, “What part of
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the 1990s didn’t you like—the peace or the 5. Chozick: “One of
prosperity?” Incomes rose for everyone, the things I hope to
get through about
not just the rich. No major wars, unless you Hillary, which I think
count the Balkans and Somalia. people will find
In the spring, Clinton had this embar- surprising, is how
religious she is.
rassing showdown with Black Lives Matter And I think she
protesters. They waved signs like clinton was committed to
crime bill destroyed our communities the marriage.”
and black youth are not super preda-
tors, a term Hillary had used in 1996 to describe gang violence. In-
stead of ignoring them, Clinton extended a long finger and entered,
as Jezebel called it, “Peak White Mansplain” mode.
“I don’t know how you would characterize the gang leaders who
got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out onto the
street to murder other African American children,” Clinton said, his
bloodshot eyes bulging. “Maybe you thought they were good citizens.
She didn’t. She didn’t.” He would’ve been at a yell if his voice had
been stronger. “You are defending the people who killed the lives
you say matter. Tell the truth.”
As a proxy for his wife’s primary campaign, which at that point
was kept afloat almost entirely by black voters, the confrontation was
a disaster. But the people who knew Clinton best said he was looking
ahead to the fall, and especially the white working-class voters who
put him in oice in the first place. He figured that, for the most part,
those voters would’ve agreed with him.
Like most reporters, I loved covering Clinton, being around
him, watching him work a room, even (or especially) at his most
self-indulgent. He constantly disobeyed his staf and security detail.
In White Plains, before the New York primary, he shook hands at a
Hillary field oice and then walked across a busy two-lane street.
He blocked traic and almost caused a multicar pileup with a single
outstretched palm so he could drop in on the Dominican bodega
across the street.
“Amy, Amy, take a look at this. This woman is Peruvian, but she
has a Hindi tattoo on her hands,” he said. “Trump’s America,” I said.
By the fall, Clinton was tired of reaming campaign strategist
Robby Mook out on conference calls, screaming that the campaign
shouldn’t ignore the white voters he’d won in ’92 and ’96 and whom
Hillary won over in upstate New York in the Senate years and in her
2008 campaign.
Clinton tried to tell them that he knew Trump better than any of
the other candidates did. Hillary, thinking Trump was a bigger donor
than he actually was, had insisted they attend his 2005 wedding to
Melania, despite a couple of aides warning her not to go. Nobody
reminded Clinton that his sexual past left the campaign paralyzed in
hitting Trump’s treatment of women. Or that shouts of “Bill Clinton’s
a RAPIST!” now interrupted almost all of Hillary’s rallies.
The campaign treated Clinton like a distraction, a gifted but
problematic child who needed to be kept busy. Regular updates to
Brooklyn from Clinton’s team included, “Fair to say we didn’t break
anything.” By October, Clinton had splintered of from the campaign,
venturing on a series of “Stronger Together” bus tours. He went places
Hillary wouldn’t go to—tried to talk to the Bubba-Trump continuum.
North Florida, eastern Ohio, the Mahoning Valley, Iowa, rural Penn-
sylvania, stops in Wisconsin and Michigan. At a diner in Bufalo,
Clinton ate a French fry of a customer’s plate (with permission).
I didn’t believe the rumors that Bill was sick or losing it. My Irish
power-broker friends—the same ones who invited me to a luncheon
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the year before at which Hillary sat next to [former Sinn Féin lead-
er] Gerry Adams (“palling around with terrorists,” a source texted
me)—invited me to a St. Patrick’s Day event with Clinton. Mouths
fell open as he extemporaneously wove a speech decrying political
polarization into a crescendo with flavors of Yeats.
“We can never let our hearts turn to stone, and we can never let
things fall apart so much that we cannot build a dynamic center
where the future of our children counts more than the scars of our
past,” he said.
But something had changed in Clinton. He spoke with a kind
of schmaltzy desperation I hadn’t heard before. “You guys did well
when I was president, let’s come in and talk,” he told a couple hun-
dred people at a rally in Fort Collins, Colorado. He raised his dry
voice to speak over the hum of a turboprop plane circling overhead
with the words go trump painted on its wings.
In Pueblo, Clinton told the crowd, “Look, [Trump’s] base is where
I grew up. I was born in Arkansas to a mother of Scots-Irish lineage.
These are good, honest people,” he said, “but always and forever
we’ve been manipulated by scoundrels.”
In the back, a man shouted, “Lock that bitch up!”
CHEKHOV’S GUN
NEW YORK CITY, OCTOBER 28, 2016
File under headlines that didn’t hold up: stop trying to make an-
thony weiner’s sexting a political issue, New York magazine,
August 30, 2016.
The day October delivered its final big surprise, my colleague
Mike Schmidt was visiting from DC. He sat in the cubicle next to
me in the newsroom as we both worked our sources. Twenty min-
utes after the Clinton campaign announced in a show of confidence
that Hillary would hold an early voting rally in Arizona, a state that
had gone red in 11 of the past 12 presidential campaigns, but seemed
potentially in play, news broke that James Comey sent a letter to
Congress stating the FBI had found additional emails related to
Hillary’s private server. Trump wasted little
6. In July 2013, time declaring, “This changes everything.”
then-23-year-old Schmidt heard the emails had been
Sydney Elaine
Leathers leaked a unearthed during a separate investigation
trove of explicit texts into Anthony Weiner’s sexting with an un-
from then–New York
mayoral candidate
derage girl. He kept yelling into the phone,
Anthony Weiner, alias “They’ve got Weiner by the balls!” until I
Carlos Danger. Weiner finally G-chatted him that he had to stop
conceded after
winning just 5 percent saying that.
of the vote in the The Times news alert went out that the
Democratic primary. emails had been found on a computer Huma
7. Clinton’s close had used. The Weiner connection both was
male aides. unbelievable and yet, in some sad way, made
perfect sense: Hillary, married to an alleged
sexual predator, could lose to Trump, an alleged sexual predator,
because of Weiner, an alleged sexual predator.
No one understood why Huma had stayed with Anthony for so
long, but the best explanation I’d heard came from a close girlfriend
of Hillary’s who reminded me that Huma had grown up amid the
tumult of the Clintons’ own marriage [5]. “You can’t blame her,” this
friend said. “She was raised by wolves.”
I thought back to 2013, when I first heard about the “Carlos Dan-
ger” scandal [6], to the stories I wrote about The Guys [7] hoping
to contain Huma’s personal life so that it didn’t spill into Hillary’s
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political future. They protected Huma as if she were
a beloved little sister and a vital appendage of Hil-
lary’s. Big donors were less sympathetic, imploring
Hillary to put Huma in a less visible role. At least
one top donor confronted Huma directly in 2013,
pleading with her, for Hillary’s sake, to step down.
“I’m good at what I do and that’s Hillary’s decision,”
Huma replied.
Now, in the last act, with 11 days before the elec-
tion, Huma’s problems exploded in one final self-
inflicted, seismic wound. “It’s like Chekhov’s gun,”
I said as we stood around discussing the news. A
colleague who overheard
8. Chozick: “There’s this said, “I didn’t know they
this idea, postelection, knew who Chekhov was in
that the other guy
was so bad, and so
Texas.” Very Senior Editor came by my desk
beyond the pale, to ask, “She’s not gonna lose, right?”
that we should’ve I gave my extremely professional assess-
not covered these
things about Hillary, ment of the situation. “Brooklyn is freaking
her being under FBI the fuck out,” I said. “Her trust numbers are
investigation. I think already shit.”
that is a dangerous
proposition for In August, after the pop goes the weiner
journalists.” cover of the New York Post, Trump told us,
“I only worry for the country in that Hillary
Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such
proximity to highly classified information. Who knows what he
learned and who he told? It’s just another example of Hillary Clin-
ton’s bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security
have been greatly compromised by this.”
His statement had seemed so farfetched that my colleague Pat
Healy and I took a fair amount of outrage from the #ImWithHer
contingent for including it in a front-page story (“this changes
everything”: donald trump exults as hillary clinton’s team
scrambles). But Trump had been half-right. The FBI didn’t find any
additional classified or incriminating emails on Weiner’s computer,
but the “bad judgment” line stuck [8].
Hillary was en route to Cedar Rapids when the news broke,
accompanied by her childhood friend, Betsy Ebeling, a sweet, gray-
haired Midwesterner whom the campaign rolled out every time they
needed a testament to Hillary’s warmth and down-to-earthiness,
and the celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz. Hillary didn’t ini-
tially see the news—nor did most of the press—thanks to the plane’s
shoddy Wi-Fi.
When the Stronger Together Express touched down, disbelief,
followed by alarm, spread throughout the front cabin. The press
corps bustled onto the tarmac hoping to scream a question, “SEC-
RETARY! WHAT ABOUT THE FBI?” Hillary lingered on board.
She had the photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz to finish. She’d later
tell friends that the development was “just
another crisis” in a career full of them. 9. Chozick: “[There’s]
this parallel universe:
In the newsroom, we turned up the vol- What if Hillary had
ume to watch Hillary’s press conference never moved to
that evening. Part of me longed to be there Arkansas and married
Bill? Some people say
shouting questions myself. But mostly, I she would have been
thought of Sara. president 20 years
I’d spent the last year bringing chocolate ago. Some people
say she wouldn’t
babka and challah to Sara Ehrman, the fem- be anything without
inist firebrand whom Hillary had lived with her husband.”
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after law school when she worked on the Watergate
Committee. We’d become close over the many after-
noons I’d try to woo her into talking on the record.
She’d finally agreed.
Forty-two years earlier, in August 1974, Sara drove
Hillary, then 26, to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to be with
Bill Clinton. Sara tried to talk her out of the move
the whole way down. “We’d drive along, and I’d say,
‘Hillary, for God’s sake, he’ll just be a country lawyer
down there.’ ” And each time, Hillary would answer
the same way, telling Sara, “I love him and I want to
be with him [9].”
Sara was 97 but feisty, still dispensing tough love
to her most famous protégé, Hillary, and a revolving
door of Washington women who came to her sunny
Kalorama apartment, bearing gifts and seeking career advice. Sara
reminisced about Hillary’s sloppy room, with brown clothes and
books and a bicycle strewn about. She told me about the deeply
personal conversations they shared on the two-day drive down In-
terstate 81 in Sara’s beat-up ’68 Buick sedan (“an old rattletrap,” she
called it). The journey, I wrote in the Times, had “the ingredients of
a classic American road trip—a cheap motel, tchotchke purchases,
encounters with drunken strangers and deeply personal conversa-
tions” and ofered “a glimpse of Hillary the public seldom sees…wide-
eyed and eager, vulnerable and afraid, at the cusp of a momentous
decision that would alter the course of her life.”
The road trip story—and accompanying video interview with
Sara, sitting on the sofa in a seafoam sweater set that brought out her
eyes—was my favorite article that I ever wrote on the beat, maybe
in my entire career. It was published on the
Times website hours before news of the 10. Chozick on
Comey letter broke. Hardly anyone read it. the other email
story—those stolen
The Comey news would lead the entire by the Russians and
front page—three stories, seven bylines (in- released on WikiLeaks:
cluding mine) [10], a four-column photo of “Everyone covered
these emails, so at
Hillary, Huma standing over her shoulder, the time, I was just in
arms akimbo. The layout would live in infa- mechanical mode.
my, proof to Hillary and the #StillWithHer This is news; I’m gonna
write it. One of the
crowd that the Times blew the email story things that really
out of proportion, the climax of its supposed stayed with me was—
decades-long anti-Clinton vendetta. the more we learned
about Russia and
“I am confident whatever they are will continue to learn about
not change the conclusion reached in July,” the Russian efforts to
Hillary told reporters when barraged with sway the election—that
I basically did what
questions that afternoon about the newly Russian intelligence
unearthed emails. Asked about the Antho- wanted me to do.”
ny Weiner connection, Hillary said, “We’ve
heard these rumors; we don’t know what to believe.” Less than four
minutes later, she closed her green binder and turned to leave. The
press pool yelled, “Secretary, is this going to make your campaign so
much harder?” “Secretary, how did you learn about this?” Hillary
pointed at the scrum. “Same way you did, from the press.”
“Are you worried this could sink your campaign, Secretary?”
Courtesy of the publisher
Hillary, now almost out of sight, shook her head and laughed.
Adapted excerpt from Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential
Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling (Harper).
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CULTURE
1988
Gets first gig
“At 15, I was the informa-
tion girl at the Alameda
[California] County Fair. If
you needed to know where
the livestock exhibits, the
biggest sow, or the 4-H
clubs were, I’d point you in
the right direction.”
1995
Lands a
model agent
“I was at UCLA taking 20
units, working at the book-
store, and interning at the
Judith Fontaine Agency.
When my internship ended,
they asked if they could
represent me.”
1995
1995
Scores first
onscreen role
“Saved by the Bell: The New
Class was my first job. I
was, like, ‘Mistletoe Girl
Number One,’ making the
lowest you could possibly
pay somebody.”
2000
Stars in Bring It On
“I had wanted this cheer-
leading movie Sugar &
Spice, but they didn’t go
black on any of the roles. I
couldn’t even audition. In
Bring It On, the story is
about cultural appropri-
ation, and how the hard
work of African Americans
has been repackaged with
blond hair and blue eyes.
The social justice of it
appealed to me.”
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2015
Produces first TV
movie, With This Ring
“It wasn’t a blockbuster,
but the feeling I got from
being able to create
female-driven employ-
ment was awesome.”
2016
Sues BET for
$3 million for
breach of contract
“I was terrified. I’ve seen
what happens to women
of color, and specifically
black women, who make
waves. They’re dismissed
and never heard from again.
Hopefully we set a
precedent and put the
industry on notice.”
Women in H o llywo o d
Gabrielle UNION
The actress, producer, and outspoken activist dishes on
2017
Writes best-selling
memoir We’re
Going to Need
More Wine
the roles and realities that have shaped her career. “When you speak your truth
By Brianna Kovan in an open, honest way,
people are drawn to that.
The book tour was a safe
space. Your soul might be
2013–PRESENT could. I loved how Mary fucked up and your boat
Stars in and Jane was unapologetic might have holes in it, but
Clockwise from top: Tim Zaragoza; courtesy of the publisher; Paul Sarkis/Universal Pictures;
produces BET drama about her mistakes. I [start- you’re going to survive.”
Being Mary Jane ed producing] in season
“The script blew me away. It three. I was being called
was created by a brilliant upon for casting and using
black woman [Mara Brock stories from my life. If I was
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On the cusp of Frieze New York, the art fair’s director, Victoria Siddall, makes staying
calm amid the frenzy an art form all its own. By Molly Langmuir
n a brisk morning in January, Victoria Siddall sits in a York, which opens on May 3. (It will soon be four—Frieze Los

O corner of a quiet café in Manhattan, sipping jasmine

tea while rattling of her upcoming schedule. She is in
town for Old Masters Week, a series of art exhibitions
and auctions. The following week, she’ll be in Mexico
City for Zona Maco, an art fair. In between, she’ll head home to Lon-
don to spend a few days with her husband and their two-year-old
daughter. “I don’t normally travel two weeks running,” she says. “But
it was kind of unavoidable this time.”
At 40, Siddall is the director of three of the most significant art
fairs in the world—Frieze Masters and Frieze London, which run
concurrently in Regent’s Park during October, and Frieze New
Angeles launches in 2019.) Seven-day workweeks are her norm. But
if the constant motion wears on her, it doesn’t show. A bright Marni
cocktail ring on her finger and jaguars leaping across her Dries Van
Noten blouse, she acknowledges her life can be a bit hectic. And
then she smiles the calm smile of a woman who can handle it. What
might she be doing if she weren’t in her current position? She’d be
traveling the world as an ambassador, she told the Financial Times
in 2016. “That or a cabaret singer.”
Meanwhile, her team is ramping up for Frieze New York, a mas-
sive undertaking held in a 250,000-square-foot tent that, this year,
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AT FRIEZE NEW YORK, JUSTIN FITZPATRICK’S A SQUEEZE
OF THE HAND, (COME, LET US SQUEEZE HANDS ALL
AROUND; NAY, LET US ALL SQUEEZE OURSELVES
INTO EACH OTHER.) (ABOVE), 2017, WILL BE IN A
SECTION DEDICATED TO EMERGING ARTISTS, WHILE
CLINTON HILL’S 31A (RIGHT), 1964, WILL BE IN ONE
DEDICATED TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY PIONEERS.
course through that tent during the fair’s five-
day run. They arrive largely by ferryboat, as the
event takes place on Randall’s Island on the East
River. What used to be one of New York City’s
“islands of the undesirables,” housing inmates
and the mentally ill, now attracts the art world
en masse. “If you’re interested in art,” Siddall
says, “you have to be there.”
Growing up in Washington, DC, Zimbabwe, Germany, Ireland,
and elsewhere (her father was an oicer in the British army), Siddall
didn’t always know that art was her calling. She studied literature
and philosophy at the University of Bristol, then took a starter job
at Christie’s. “It wasn’t my family background, certainly,” she says.
“And it wasn’t my educational background, but it seemed exciting.”
In 2003, she responded to an ad in the Guardian and met with the
staf at Frieze, then just a contemporary art magazine run out of a
tiny oice, who were in the midst of organizing the first London fair.
It opened soon after, instituting what’s come to be known as the
“Frieze formula”: The food was carefully curated (“Before Frieze,
there were a lot of bad sandwiches at fairs all over the world,” Siddall
says), and the tent was modern and airy. The show also served as an
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anchor for so many other art-focused events throughout the city that
the period was dubbed Frieze Week. “It was widely, ambitiously
scaled and set the city alight,” Siddall says. Jumping in, she came on
board as head of sponsorship, “a job about which I knew very little,”
she says, though this hardly proved an impediment: She soon brought
on Deutsche Bank, which now sponsors all three existing fairs.
Nine years in, Siddall took the lead on the inaugural Frieze
Masters, which showcases art produced before 2000. “I remember
opening the door and waiting,” she says. “I knew the fair looked
amazing, but I didn’t know if anyone would come…then all these
people piled in.” At that first Masters, a single work sold for $20
million. It had taken years, but Siddall’s baby looked to all the world
like an instant success. In 2014, she became director of the two other
Frieze fairs as well.
Her real-life baby came in 2016, just 12 weeks before that year’s
Frieze New York. Siddall’s mother traveled with them and brought
the newborn on-site in the afternoons to be fed. “You know that
saying, ‘If you want something done right away, give it to the busiest
person you know’?” says Eleanor Acquavella, co-owner of the New
York–based Acquavella Galleries. Never more true. “You can get
through anything for a few months,” Siddall says. “Since then it’s
gotten easier, but harder, too, now that my daughter is old enough
to ask me not to leave. FaceTime helps a lot.”
It’s a job that requires more than knowledge and high executive-
functioning skills. “There’s also a delicate juggling act she has to
do,” Acquavella says. “People pay a lot of money for their booths at
the fair”—last year, Artnews reported that Frieze charged $77 per
square foot—“and she’s able to appease 17 people who all want the
same spot. She has a diplomatic and even-keeled approach that is
immediately calming.” Or as Loring Randolph, Frieze’s artistic direc-
tor of the Americas, puts it, “My dad sometimes
says that you want to have all your knives sharp.
That’s Victoria.”
The perennial critique of art fairs is that they
are too transactional, too much about the money
and not enough about the art. To some extent,
with the art market valued at about $40 billion
and 40 percent of those sales taking place at fairs,
this is just the nature of things.
But Siddall takes it as a challenge to make her
fairs mean more than just business. To buy art,
after all, you have to feel like the kind of person
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who buys art—a person who could, for instance,
wind her way through a Fluxus labyrinth, squeal
with excitement, and post a video of that on social
media, as so many Frieze visitors did in 2015. This year, Kapwani
Kiwanga, the inaugural winner of the Frieze Artist Award, will
build a large-scale sculpture outside the entrance, constructed from
metal and fabric, that contains holes and passageways. Performa’s
Adrienne Edwards will also curate a program of interactive and
performance-based works themed around street performance and
protest, with people marching across the island with banners. “This
is a thing you don’t often see at a fair, but it feels right for Frieze in
New York right now,” Siddall says. “At its heart, the fair is a trade
event. But if that basic function works, there’s a huge amount you can
build on top.” There can be magic, in other words, that goes beyond
the money. “The moment the galleries open the crates and the art
comes out, there’s a buzz,” she says. “That never gets tired.”
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From a long-overdue retrospective to a cutting-edge commission,
Art New York
Between May 3 and 6,
the contemporary art
fair Art New York takes
over Pier 94. Covering
more than 170,000 square
feet, it includes booths
from dozens of top-tier
galleries, including Sims
Reed Gallery, which
represents Mel Bochner
(top, Bochner’s Blah Blah
Blah), and Rosenfeld
Gallery, which represents
Keith Haring (above, his
Monkey Man).
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WORLD WONDERS
what to see this month. By David Graver
Clockwise from top left: Mel Bochner, Blah Blah Blah (2016); Gabriele Münter, Portrait of Marianne von Werefkin (1909)/Urban Gallery in Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich; Anthea Hamilton, Brick Suit (2010)/
SculptureCenter/photographed by Kyle Knodell; Zoe Leonard, TV Wheelbarrow (2001)/collection of the New York Public Library; Keith Haring, Monkey Man (1983)/Rosenfeld Gallery
Gabriele Münter
at the Louisiana Museum
During her lifetime, German expressionist painter
Gabriele Münter, who died in 1962, was often egregiously
shunted aside for her frequent collaborator (and onetime
partner) Wassily Kandinsky. With this 130-piece
retrospective at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of
Modern Art, opening May 3, she finally gets the critical
attention she has long deserved.
Anthea
Hamilton at
Tate Britain
British artist Anthea
Hamilton is known for
producing playful and some-
times provocative works (at a
show dedicated to the artists
who’d been short-listed for
the 2016 Turner Prize, she
Zoe Leonard at the Whitney exhibited a sculpture of an
The first large-scale American survey dedicated to New enormous rear end!). Now
York–based artist Zoe Leonard, this groundbreaking show Tate Britain hosts a newly
(open through June 10 at New York’s Whitney Museum of commissioned, immersive
American Art) features work made over the last three installation by Hamilton
decades, including Leonard’s much-reprinted poem, “I Want (March 22 to October 7)
a President.” Showcasing the breadth of her sculptures, pho- that’s part sculpture and part
tography (like the image above), and more, it reveals her abid- performance—as much an
ing interests, from gender, loss, and politics to urban space. experience as a piece of art.
PERSPECTIVES
he Lone Star Hotel in Barbados is

T an ideal place to escape during a

personal crisis. Quiet and breezy,
with a giant veranda accented with
plush couches, it’s a haven where no need
goes unmet and no moment of serenity is
interrupted. Most crucially, no one here is
aware of the tale of Deciem, the beauty com-
pany with a peculiar story that’s unfolding in
spectacular and public fashion at the hands
of its mercurial founder, Brandon Truaxe.
No one, that is, except for Nicola Kilner,
the company’s newly ousted co-CEO. Kilner
is in Barbados after being abruptly terminat-
ed by Truaxe, her boss and best friend of five
years. Her firing was the culmination of six
weeks of baffling behavior from Truaxe, who
had been using Deciem’s Instagram account
to post profoundly bizarre content—closeup
videos of him talking disjointedly about the
popular skin-care line’s vision, a river flow-
ing around a mass of garbage, and a photo
of a dead sheep, captioned with a promise to
never test products on animals. Deciem had
skyrocketed to popularity by virtue of its low
prices and no-bullshit, hyper-science-focused
branding, which didn’t exactly square with
the messiness of Truaxe’s posts. Confused
fans turned to Kilner’s personal account: “For
the love of all things good, please take the
Deciem IG account away from Brandon,”
pleaded one follower. “It’s a hot mess over
at @deciem. Please, take control,” requested
another. Many commenters questioned his
mental stability. But it was Kilner who was
suddenly out of a job. Stunned and heartbro-
ken, she fled to the beach.
I find Kilner mourning this transition
like the death of a loved one, or a divorce. “It
was such an intense relationship. We were
inseparable,” she says. The first few days,
she was in shock (“I still don’t fully under-
stand what happened”); then came tears and
grief (“I’m obviously hurting and I know he’s
hurting, because he does have a kind heart”);
now, some perspective: “It’s his choice. His

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job when you’re doing a good job. But with
Brandon, it was never [just about] business.
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miles from the commotion, she is struggling
to pull herself away from Truaxe’s confound-
ing behavior and the media blizzard sur-
rounding it. When she’s not on the sand with
her husband, Sean Reddington, she’s check-
ing Instagram and Twitter constantly. But
she has diiculty writing Truaxe of as the
headstrong and temperamental leader he is
made out to be in news reports. Throughout
our time together, she maintains that he is a
genius—one whose madness was directly
responsible for the monumental success
of the business. (Deciem as a company has
even embraced the kooky public image of
its founder; the website proudly broadcasts,
“The founder is screwed up!”) Maybe it’s
Kilner’s investments talking—she owns
shares in the company, and her mom even
works part-time at one of Deciem’s facto-
ries—but she also seems unshakably loyal to
Truaxe. And most importantly, she is fiercely
protective of the brand and the team she
worked night and day to build. To dismiss
them would be self-sabotage, a repudiation
of years of work.
This is Kilner’s first real vacation in a
while. “We didn’t really have time for a hon-
eymoon,” she says in a cheerful British ac-
cent, glancing over at her husband with a
mixture of faint regret and gratitude. The
young former CEO is relentlessly upbeat—a
product of her upbringing in the unpreten-
tious north of England. Technically, Kil-
ner now lives in Nottingham, but she says
her real home base has been on an airplane.
Growing Deciem from a tiny start-up into a
reported $150 million-a-year business re-
quired a tireless devotion to Truaxe and
years of self-sacrifice. She missed countless
birthdays and weddings and, strapped for
time, even barely focused on the planning
of her own wedding—which Truaxe did not
attend, saying it would be too emotional for
him. “For our five-year anniversary, we’re
going to do it again and put all the time and
energy I wanted into it,” Kilner says.
But the success was worth the life-
consuming hours. Deciem’s story was an
unprecedented fairy tale and a once-in-a-
lifetime opportunity for a small-town girl with
an entrepreneurial spirit. Kilner worked her-
self to the bone overseeing retail operations
and partnerships, opening new oices around
the world, coordinating orders, even packag-
ing products for shipments. “When you’re in
a start-up mentality, the number one thing is
to survive. But I went to work with a smile
and left with an even bigger smile every day.”
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ilner started young in the beau-
K ty industry: At age 18, while a
business-management student
at Nottingham Trent Universi-
ty, she was sponsored in a work program
by the major UK pharmacy chain Boots,
where she became one of the company’s
youngest buyers. Six years ago, she met
Truaxe, who was working for Indeed Labs
at the time; Kilner was his point person
for the launch of their products on Boots’
shelves. She loved his enthusiasm and ideas.
The two clicked instantly. When Truaxe
launched Deciem in 2013, he quickly re-
cruited the 24-year-old to be his brand
director. Deciem, derived from the Latin
word for 10, would be a parent company
to a diverse array of smaller beauty brands,
many specializing in facial serums. Truaxe,
a former computer scientist, developed a
simple premise: He would take a highly
analytical approach to skin care and sell
time-tested ingredients at hugely reduced
margins. No longer would a customer pay
$80 for a generic ingredient (retinol, for ex-
ample) that cost a couple of dollars to pro-
duce. Everything would be made in-house.
A bit presciently, Truaxe gave Deciem the
tagline “The Abnormal Beauty Company.”
Kilner bought into his vision entirely:
“My mum was like, ‘Why are you leaving
a steady job at a good retailer?’ But some-
times you have to follow your heart. Even
with everything that’s happened, it’s still the
best decision of my life.” As brand director,
she spent three weeks of every month at
Deciem’s Toronto headquarters working on
every aspect of the business. And within six
months, Truaxe named her co-CEO.
After a couple of years, the pair devel-
oped The Ordinary, a line of extremely efec-
tive products in sleek packaging that played
to consumers’ desire to feel like masters of
their own personalized, well-informed skin-
care routines. Sold at rock-bottom prices
but still with an air of luxury, The Ordinary
elevated Deciem to household-name status
for savvy millennials everywhere. It rapidly
grew to make up a reported 70 percent of
Deciem’s total revenue and inspired a rash
of fan communities online. When the com-
pany launched a new foundation last year, it
quickly racked up a 25,000-person waiting
list; the Deciem website crashed. Mean-
while, Deciem’s staf ballooned to more than
450, according to Kilner, almost all of whom
were under 35 and recruited more for their
passion than for their experience.
At just 28, Kilner held enormous respon-
sibility. But if Truaxe was the idea driver and
the public face of the company, Kilner was
content to toil patiently and deferentially in
the background. The thrill of building some-
thing that felt so groundbreaking was worth
it. “Brandon and I would be in the factory
all night because we’d get a purchase order,
and you can’t aford to sit on stock,” Kilner
remembers. “Those were the best days.”
ruaxe, Kilner allows, had his ob-
T vious quirks. “I think he’s always
been crazy,” she says. “But in good
ways. People don’t build that size
of a company [without being a little crazy].”
The 39-year-old Toronto native had a pen-
chant for yelling, both in times of anger and
in great excitement. He also had a habit of
terminating employees on a moment’s no-
tice. But Kilner was unfazed. “You meet a
lot of people in the beauty industry who are
flamboyant, but there’s no depth behind it,”
she says. Truaxe was different. She could
handle his moods. “I’m quite adaptable,” she
says. “A lot of people who work closely with
founders are the most patient people in the
world, because founders are often eccentric
characters. It takes a certain skill set to work
with them.” Her behind-the-scenes role
suited her personality. “I’m calm, easygoing.
If someone doesn’t like my idea, I’m not pre-
cious,” Kilner says. “Five years is a long time
to be by Brandon’s side. And I think that’s
because I don’t have an ego.”
The staf adored her. “She’s a very good
leader. She didn’t get angry or tell you of,”
says a current Deciem employee, who asked
to remain anonymous. “When she came in,
people had more oomph about them. They
were more energetic and motivated to work
because she was so passionate about the
company.” Plus, she was a good communi-
cator and “glued to her phone. No matter
where she was in the world, you knew you’d
always get a response.”
Kilner’s work did not go unnoticed: In
November, she received an Achiever Award
from the industry group Cosmetic Executive
Women. For the event’s program, Truaxe
penned a gushing testament to Kilner’s work
ethic. Kilner also participated in industry
panels like the Women’s Wear Daily Digital
Beauty Forum. And she developed a fan base
for her regular appearances on QVC. “She
was very good at public speaking,” says the
current Deciem employee. “I always thought
she could sell Deciem better than anyone.” I
 ask Kilner if she thinks her expanding reach
as the female face of the brand contributed to
her dismissal. “That’s probably something I
don’t want to comment on,” she says. “I don’t
know if that was an element or not [in my
firing]. But I don’t have this thing of needing
to be the face [of anything].” She emphasizes
that all of Deciem’s products are, for the most
part, unisex, and that men, including her
husband, love them.
The Ordinary’s broad appeal is part of
what made it such an explosive success,
but as the company grew, waves of panic
washed over the expanding staf. “The cha-
os went to a new level,” Kilner says. “We
were struggling to keep up.” At the end of
2017, Truaxe took a vacation and returned
with a new outlook: He wanted to make
Deciem “more peaceful,” he told Kilner.
And yet what followed was the exact oppo-
site: Truaxe stripped himself and Kilner of
their titles, changing them to “worker” and
“coworker,” respectively. Then came the
Instagram onslaught. Beyond the posts on
Deciem’s account, Truaxe began wading into
comments to spar publicly with any Deciem
detractors, an alarming move for the CEO of
a company projected to earn a reported $300
million in sales in 2018.
K
ilner was put in the extraordinarily
uncomfortable position of having
to navigate the space between the
entire world and Truaxe, her boss
and the person who’d given her a dream
career. “I truly believe Brandon has good
reasons for everything he does,” she says.
“But then the downside is that sometimes
decisions happen that don’t seem to make
sense.” Still, Kilner kept forging ahead. She
lived by the motto “Honey will attract more
bees than vinegar,” something she’d picked
up from Truaxe. And besides, the company
was healthier than ever: Kilner remembers
that on one of the most turbulent days of
Instagram chaos, Deciem’s sales were the
second-highest since Black Friday.
For five years, Kilner had always deferred
to Truaxe—until she didn’t. In early Febru-
ary, Truaxe posted on Instagram alerting fol-
Courtesy of Nicola Kilner/Instagram
lowers that he would be severing Deciem’s
partnership with Tijion Esho, MD, a well-
regarded dermatologist with whom they’d
manufactured a line of lip products. He had
not notified Esho beforehand. For Kilner,
this was simply too much. “It was prob-
ably our first disagreement,” Kilner says.
Days later, Kilner was called into human
resources and informed she was no longer
part of Deciem. No paperwork, no expla-
nations, and no word from Truaxe. “I’m not
upset that Brandon didn’t do it personal-
ly,” she says. “We’re both very emotional. It
would have been too hard. He is a founder;
founders are allowed to change their teams.
But I didn’t see this ending,” she says. (Tru-
axe declined to comment for this story via a
KILNER WITH FORMER CO-CEO AND DECIEM
FOUNDER BRANDON TRUAXE AT THE COSMETIC
EXECUTIVE WOMEN ACHIEVER AWARDS IN 2017.
“A lot of people
working with founders
are the most patient
people in the world,
because founders are
often eccentric.”
Deciem spokeswoman, whom Kilner had
hired.) Everyone was shell-shocked. “Nicola
was the one really doing the negotiations and
giving us timelines,” Esho says. “With her
gone, there aren’t many answers.”
T
alking to Kilner is a bit like talking
to someone rescued from a cult
against her will. She is unflagging
about the quality of Deciem’s prod-
ucts, recommending various items to me.
Her husband tells me that he uses the prod-
ucts religiously, and he follows along with a
33,000-member Facebook group tracking
the company’s every move. “I’m obsessed,”
he confesses at the bar at Lone Star. Occa-
sionally, during our conversation, Kilner will
refer to Reddington as her husband, before
clarifying that he’s her “real” husband, in
contrast to the marriage-like closeness she
held with Truaxe. Eerily, Truaxe and Red-
dington share the same birthday.
A
t press time, Kilner has had no
more than a brief email exchange
with Truaxe. She says that he has
been financially generous through-
out her career, and she awaits the day that he
approaches her for closure. “My door’s open,
so whenever his door is open, I’m ready to
talk to him—whether it’s weeks, months,
years.” She insists that she would return to
Deciem in a heartbeat, “no qualms,” if they
asked. But, she adds, “This is a reality check. I
put my life and soul into [Deciem]. I’m proud
that I was involved in creating something
amazing. The ending is a bit shit, but it’s not
the end. It’s another chapter.”
Since arriving in Barbados, Kilner has
received upwards of two dozen job ofers in
the industry. She’s booked a few meetings
but is hesitant to jump right back in the
mix—partly because nothing compares to
the excitement she still feels for Deciem,
and partly because she’s exhausted. Worn
down from the work itself, but also presum-
ably from the experience of managing and
protecting an unpredictable and strong-
willed man for years. She may have been
Truaxe’s co-CEO, but she had also become
his expert caretaker.
Kilner has visions of a company of her
own, something she’s dreamed of since she
was a child. “When I was leaving Boots, I
actually went to Brandon with an idea—a
TripAdvisor for beauty—but then Deciem
took over, and it just slipped away.” Now is
as good a time as any to revisit this entre-
preneurial itch. But a company of Kilner’s
founding will look a lot different. “I think
about the culture I want to build, the team,
how we’d treat people,” she says. “Someone
once said: It’s nice to be powerful, but it’s
powerful to be nice.” Truaxe recently posted
a photo from a new Deciem store location,
the walls plastered with a similar motto. Kil-
ner, now poised for her next venture, carries
Truaxe’s all-encompassing positivity man-
date in a more polished, gracious way than
perhaps her former boss ever could.
After our time together, she follows
up on email, with a simple request for the
piece. “If possible, I would love to use the
images where I am smiling,” she writes.
“Given that I did just get publicly fired, I
want women (and men) to know that actu-
ally you can make it into the best thing that
happens to you.”
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MORNING GLORY
With her calm crusade against fake news, MSNBC’s Joy Reid is quietly, steadily,
stealthily changing the game for women on TV. By Véronique Hyland
Hair by Paul Warren for Oribe; makeup by Danielle Terry

T
he federal government has been shut down for 35
hours, 5 minutes, and 58 seconds. But Joy Reid is
hard at work. As the shutdown time ticks away
on an onscreen countdown clock, she checks her
phone and lets loose a long, sibilant “Yessss!” Quick-
ly followed by an exultant “We’re trending!”
A weekend-morning MSNBC show, lodged
firmly in the posthangover, prebrunch hours, wouldn’t ordinarily
be the stuff of trending topics. But the rules have changed since
November 8, 2016. Now Reid’s show, AM Joy, regularly pulls in
viewers, and 2017 marks the first time in 16 years that MSNBC beat
out CNN in the Saturday-morning time slot. Twitter swells with
real-time reactions from #Reiders, especially when Reid schools a
guest in her trademark patient, no-nonsense fashion. (After Shonda
Rhimes retweeted a clip of Reid calmly demolishing a guest who
was spouting Clinton Foundation conspiracy theories—appending
the comment “Just in case you’re wondering how to dismiss foolish-
ness”—Reid confesses, “I died. Oh, I died!”) Given the cacophony of
cable news, where the loudest panelist often wins, Reid’s approach
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has few antecedents on the right or the left, but perhaps that’s why Brooklyn. She’s at the point where her on- and ofscreen conversa-
she has so many newly minted fans: In a sensationalist climate, she tions have begun to merge: During one break, she mentions to a guest
refuses to let facts wriggle out of her grasp. whom she’s met before, “I can never remember the context in which
“Joy’s fearless authenticity is perfect for this moment, when peo- I meet people, whether it’s on or of TV.”
ple feel like, ‘Am I crazy? Are things absolutely bonkers right now, or But behind this serene scene, Reid is working away. Post-taping,
am I losing my mind?’ ’’ says her fellow MSNBC host Chris Hayes. she’ll tell me that due to breaking news, including the shutdown, she
“To find someone who is as commanding as Joy is, who’s like, ‘No, and her team planned the show at 6 p.m. the night before, then had
things are pretty nuts, and here’s why,’ that really resonates.” to keep changing it well into the morning hours, because President
Reid never thought she’d be the one in the host’s chair, but her Trump, as she puts it wearily, “keeps doing things.” In between seg-
childhood couldn’t have scripted that path more clearly. Growing up ments, she wields her phone like a missile launcher, tweeting away
in Montbello, Colorado, she was a word vulture, calling dibs on the or texting her family and friends. (Reid is married with three kids,
crossword and front page of the newspaper and plowing her way and her work and home lives inevitably blend.) A stafer sees her
through a set of bound classic books her mother had bought from texting during a commercial break and says, with exasperation, “Joy,
a door-to-door salesman. As a latchkey kid with a single mom, she you can do that after the show.”
says, “TV was, in some sense, my babysitter.” On air, Reid’s role is more nuanced than
One night, she begged her mother to allow her that of an Edward R. Murrow type. She doesn’t
to stay up late for a news program. “It was a intone the day’s headlines, and she sometimes
countdown to the [1979 Iran] hostage crisis and
“We’re trying to gets personal. When President Trump report-
would eventually be renamed Nightline,” Reid fill the show edly referred to Caribbean and African nations
recalls. She watched it nightly until she gradu-
ated from high school, along with a steady diet
with as many fact- as “shitholes,” Reid, whose parents emigrated
from Guyana and the Democratic Republic of
of TV news shows. “My goal was to be a guest. vitamins as we can, the Congo, had an emotional on-air response.
I just wanted to be a guest on Chris Matthews’s to inoculate our The value of diversity in media, she believes, is
show, on Meet the Press, and on The McLaugh- that she’s not describing these events from a dis-
lin Group. I was like, Those will be my three
audience against tance. She makes it a point to have female guests
shows. I’ll be sitting there with Freddy ‘the fact-free nonsense.” and guests of color on the show; on days when
Beadle’ Barnes.” everyone on the panel is black, she says, laugh-
But first: Harvard, where she studied film, ing, “that’s what we call chocolate Sundays.”
wanting to be “the girl Spike Lee.” For years afterward, she bounced “As a woman of color,” Cross notes, “there’s often this unspoken
around between the worlds of marketing, radio, print journalism, pressure to dot your i’s with hearts to avert the presumed angry
TV, and politics. She calls herself “the winding cork on the ocean Black woman stereotype. But Joy skirts past that and gets right to
road to TV.” the business of unapologetic truth telling.”
By 2014, she landed her own MSNBC show, The Reid Report, in Reid also looks for what she calls “ideological diversity,” although
the afternoons, and a year later, she began hosting AM Joy, making that can backfire in cases like the dustup that earned her Rhimes’s
good on that winding road. She also often pinch-hits for Matthews, attention. “I’m not trying to do Barnum & Bailey’s circus. If you’re
Hayes, and Rachel Maddow. “Joy’s platform elevates the discourse coming on to do a circus act and say that Hillary Clinton murdered 40
in the echo chamber that is cable news these days,” says Tifany D. people, we can’t have a conversation,” she says. When she appears on
Cross—cofounder of the political diversity platform The Beat DC Meet the Press, she’s been known to run upstairs, in heels, to her own
and Reid’s frequent guest—via email. “Her background in documen- studio between breaks to check a fact. “You have to act fast, because
taries gives her keen insight into bridging imagery with information. once something’s said on TV, people think it’s true. So that’s one of
Her experience in print journalism honed her skills for content dis- the reasons I will interrupt people.” Notes Hayes, “She has this deep
covery. Her time working in the Black press gives her the ability to centeredness I have come to really value and appreciate. She doesn’t
quickly identify unique angles. And the breadth of her experience really raise her voice. She’s not a ranter; she’s not a yeller.”
as a woman—a wife, a mother, a sister, a friend, a boss—commands Still, every viral clip earns cries of approval from the rah-rah arm
interest,” Cross writes. People who would otherwise just read the of the left-wing media—and ire from the far right. Reid tells me the
headline and move on, she adds, “tune in for a full two hours to get harassment has spread beyond Twitter; she recently had to inform
real analysis from Joy.” NBC of a rape threat.
When I arrive on a Sunday morning to observe Reid at work, the Her philosophy, she tells me, is just to keep on keeping on. “We’re
streets around 30 Rock are still shut down from the previous day’s trying to fill the show with as many fact-vitamins as we can, to inocu-
Women’s March, and everything feels morning-after somber. I wait late our audience against the fact-free nonsense they’ll deal with the
in a ground floor holding room, where HD-screen walls flash with rest of the week. We’re trying to load you up with nutritious facts, so
images of NBC anchors past—mostly square-jawed white men. An when you go into the world and are arguing with your argle-bargle
elevator whooshes me up to the studio, which seems, to someone uncle who’s trying to tell you Seth Rich was murdered, you’ve got
whose main frame of reference is Joan Cusack in Broadcast News some facts; or they tell you that Uranium One was a scandal, you’ve
sprinting through a newsroom clutching a VHS tape, strangely got something. We’re delivering people some ammunition to be able
sedate. Absent the cameras and the lights clustered in the ceiling, to fight in a fact-free world.”
and the stylist jumping in to adjust her makeup during breaks, the Weekend-morning cable news shows, I note, were once the prov-
49-year-old Reid might be chatting at her kitchen table at home in ince of nerds. She counters: “We’re all nerds now.”
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She grew up during apartheid in South Africa and fought her way to Hollywood greatness.
Now CharlizeTheron squares off with her biggest challenge yet: parenthood, both onscreen and off.
Chelsea Handler gets her to go deep. Photographed by Mario Sorrenti. Styled by George Cortina.

There’s an element of warfare to Tully, Charlize Theron’s second
outing with Young Adult director Jason Reitman and screenwriter
Diablo Cody. In it, Theron plays Marlo, an overwhelmed and over-it
pregnant mother of two. Her Waterloo: the birth of her third child.
As she plunges into staggering depths of exhaustion, Marlo faces
down opponents familiar to so many mothers: an inefectual partner,
moody daughter, and diferently abled son (and a school system that
fails him); scarce funds for child care; and a postpartum body—heavy,
leaking, and unwieldy—that’s no longer her own. Relief comes in the
form of the titular night nurse, Tully, gifted to Marlo by her wealthy
brother, and perhaps too good to be true.
Theron, who adopted her two children—Jackson (Jacks), six,
and August (Auggie), two—gained 35 pounds for the part. And not
since her Oscar-winning turn as Aileen Wuornos in Monster has
the 42-year-old been more unrecognizable. (It’s worth noting that
while Wuornos was actually homicidal, there are times when Ther-
on’s Marlo, dead-eyed and anguished, looks similarly unhinged.)
Bolstering the dark comedy is Cody’s clever, poignant dialogue,
which is at once funny “ha-ha” and funny “hmmm.” And while, yes,
Tully is a mom movie, albeit one of a very specific socioeconomic
status, it’s also a rumination on aging and the erasure of one’s iden-
tity when faced with the relentless monotony and drudgery of not
just mom life, but life in general.
In a phone interview with her good friend Chelsea Handler, who
has famously chosen “otherhood”—aka not having children—Theron
unloads all that’s weighing her down.—Katie Connor
Chelsea Handler: Let’s start with Tully. You gained a lot of weight
for this film. Which you did for Monster, but you’re obviously older
now, and this time was diferent. It was an emotional experience.
Charlize Theron: Yeah. I filmed Monster when I was 27, and I
just stopped snacking for three weeks and was back to my normal
weight. This time it really hit me hard. I was constantly fucking eat-
ing. And I love carbs. But I sort of plateaued on carbs. So I started
eating and drinking a lot of sugar. It really messed with my head. I
had depression for the first time in my life shooting this film. I felt
like I was in a dark cloud. Getting back to normal took a long time.
CH: I saw you at the amfAR awards. You had a dress and a jacket
on and you said, “I need to show you my body in the bathroom.” I was
like, “No, I’m good.” But we went to the bathroom and you showed
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me your thighs, your back, and your stomach, and I could not believe
what was going on underneath your dress. You were a completely
diferent person. A lot of actresses wouldn’t have done that, but it’s
part of your craft. I wish more people would be that brave.
CT: I’ve never really understood people who don’t want to do
the transformation. That, to me, is the joy of the job. You get to visit
the entire body of someone else. That’s not to say that it’s brave. But
I can’t imagine playing this character and not gaining the weight.
That exhaustion, the way you feel about your body, the way your
face changes. Everything. Your hands, fingers, shoe size.
CH: Your feet got bigger?
CT: Oh my God, my feet got so fat. I was living in Uggs.
CH: Oh, dear. I love what you and Diablo do together. Young Adult
and Tully are so unglamorous, which strikes a chord because you’re
a supermodel and blah blah blah, we don’t want to talk about how
pretty you are, that’s boring—but it’s nice to see a woman be so real.
CT: If you look at my career, I have done more work in realism
than the glamour stuf. It’s what I wanted to build my career on and
why I fought so hard to not just play the ingenue or the girlfriend. It’s
strange to me that people still go, “Oh, this is such a nice surprise!”
I’m like, No, it’s not a surprise anymore! After 25 years, I’ve been
consistently trying to explore real people. Every once in a while, I do
something crazy, like Atomic Blonde, but that’s more rare for me now.
CH: People just have a very limited way of thinking about some-
body who looks like you, but that’s their preconceived notion. So the
movie is about motherhood. You have Jacks and Auggie, whom you
adopted. Is there any part of you that feels like you’re missing out on
something by not having your own biological kids?
CT: When I first filed [for adoption], my mom showed me a letter
I’d written when I was little; I asked if we could go to the orphanage.
In South Africa, orphanages were everywhere, and I wanted a broth-
er or sister. I was always aware that there are so many children in this
world who don’t have families. Adoption is a very personal thing—I
know people whom I love dearly who don’t feel that they could raise
another child as their own. I respect that. But for me—and I can’t be
the only person out there—I never saw a diference in raising an ad-
opted child versus my own biological child. I don’t feel like I’m miss-
ing out on something. This was always my first choice, even when I
was in a relationship. I was very honest with my partners that I was
open to having my own biological kids but that adoption had to be a
part of my life. I felt that strongly about it.
CH: What have you learned about yourself as a parent?
CT: Perspective. I just see things clearer. A child in my twenties
was the scariest idea I could think of. When I got to my thirties, I
was so ready. But there’s a moment where you’re like, Oh God, I
hope once I have my kids, I’m still going to want to be a parent this
much. I have bad days. I make mistakes. Going through the tantrum
stages when they’re such little assholes. And they choose the worst
moments. It’s a lot for one person. But after six years of having my
two nuggets, there’s not a day when I wish I hadn’t done this.
CH: And you coparent with your mom, Gerda, which is nice.
CT: I knew that I would have to have my mom help me if I was go-
ing to do this as a single parent. To not acknowledge her in coparenting
my children would be a lie. She has jokingly said, “Being a grandpar-
ent is what I was born to do.” I was like, “Yo, bitch! What about me?
Was it not to raise me? I’m your kid!” But I’m so lucky to have that. I
would feel pretty alone if I didn’t have a partner in crime in all of this.
CH: About your twenties comment—because it does matter when
you have children, how you feel about yourself, your career—how
would you describe your twenties versus thirties versus forties?
CT: My twenties were everything I wanted them to be. I had a
partner. He was an adventurer, and I was an adventurer. We would
pack backpacks, go to a country for five weeks, climb mountains,
stay in people’s homes. I partied. I did it all. We didn’t have a care in
the world. Then, when I ended that relationship, I had a strong need
to be a mom. It was all-consuming. I didn’t need to travel or go out
constantly or drink anymore. But I struggled mentally through the
adoption process. Some of the lowest points in my life were deal-
ing with the first time I filed; it really took an emotional toll. There
were many situations that didn’t work out, and you’d get attached
and have all your hopes up and then just get crushed. So I was in a
diferent mind space. I had diferent needs. My forties—I have never
loved an age more than my forties. Forty to me feels like Goldilocks.
Like I’ve finally found the perfect-size bed, the perfect-size mug.…
CH: The perfect mattress. That was your birthday present, so
you’re welcome. Let’s talk about the postpartum stage, because that’s
uplifting! I remember you saying when you were getting Jacks that
your breasts were sore.
CT: Yeah. I was waiting for so long that when I found out Jackson
was born, I was like, Wow, I want this kid so badly that my breasts are
hurting. I didn’t have postpartum depression or anything like that;
it was just my boobs. It’s the power of the mind. When motherhood
is taking up a lot of space in your head, your brain can tell you that
your body is experiencing things. But my friend Ashlee was a huge
inspiration in making Tully. She’s one of my closest friends, and I saw
her struggle through postpartum depression. She had this moment
“The good thing about me is, I’ve never given a shit
about what people think. That’s the only quality I have that has
probably helped me in being a mother.”
where she was like, “I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel right
now. I don’t feel like me.” It’s hard to watch a friend go through that.
CH: There’s a sequence of emotions that women go through.
CT: Completely. And pregnancy has a lot to do with that, which
I never experienced. I didn’t go through a 30-hour labor or carry an
extra 40, 50 pounds. I didn’t go through all those dramatic physical
things. So of course it was okay for me to wake up every two hours.
But pregnancy takes a toll on women. Some love it; others don’t. It’s
time to acknowledge that postpartum depression doesn’t have to fit
into this little compartmentalized box of what we think it is. In the
beginning, I wanted to do it all and didn’t reach out for as much help
as I actually needed. I felt, If I don’t do all of this, then maybe I am
a bad parent. The second time, I realized I am happier and my kids
are happier if I ask for more help. People think I have a staf of 40,
but I don’t. I have one nanny and my mom up the street and amazing
friends and family. I call them my village. But I’ve learned to balance
things out more. I look at my fuel gauge and think, Is it full or is it
empty? Then it’s up to me to decide how to fill that tank back up or
just remain empty. But what can you do on an empty tank?
CH: I’ve seen Diablo raise her three kids. If I’ve learned anything,
it’s that only you know what’s right for you and your children. Peo-
ple have their own style of parenting, and that’s the way it should be.
CT: I’ve had a lot of moms come up to me and tell me I’m screw-
ing everything up. Both my kids grew up on formula, and I remember
a mom saying to me, “You should really buy breast milk.” And I was
like, What?! That’s a line you just don’t cross. My oldest just start-
ed big school. She’s not even there a full year. So I’ve not gotten into
the whole [judgy moms at] school thing yet. The good thing about
me is, I’ve never given a shit about what people think. That’s the
only quality I have that has probably helped me in being a mother.
CH: You’re raising two children of color. Obviously, coming
from South Africa, you know a lot about racial inequality, but what
are your thoughts on Black Lives Matter and our current climate?
CT: Being raised during the apartheid era in South Africa made
me so hyperaware of equality and human rights. Of course, I have
two black kids, but that was always something I was passionate about.
I don’t even know how to talk about the last year under our new ad-
ministration. But racism is much more alive and well than people
thought. We can’t deny it anymore. We have to be vocal. There are
places in this country where, if I got a job, I wouldn’t take it. I wouldn’t
travel with my kids to some parts of America, and that’s really prob-
lematic. There are a lot of times when I look at my kids and I’m like,
If this continues, I might have to [leave America]. Because the last
thing I want is for my children to feel unsafe.
CH: It’s a tough conversation to have.
CT: We’re not there yet, but trust me, we talk. I want them to
know who they are, and I want them to be so fucking proud of who
they are. Building confidence for them right now is an oath I made to
myself when I brought them home. They need to know where they
come from and be proud of that. But they’re going to have to know
that it’s a diferent climate for them than it is for me, and how un-
fair that is. If I can do something about that, of course I’m going to.
CH: There’s a line in the movie where Tully tells Marlo, “Girls
heal.” To which Marlo replies, “No we don’t. We might look like
we’re all better, but if you look close, we’re covered in concealer.”
How do you feel about that? Girls don’t heal….
CT: I always laugh. It’s such a Diablo line. I don’t know whether
we heal or just cope or get wiser. I just think that line is really fucking
funny, because can you imagine any of us without concealer? That’s
figuratively and literally. We experience so much; I don’t know if that
ever gets fixed. What do you think?
CH: I think men get injured in a diferent way than women do.
We can take a lot more, but we feel a lot more. Let’s talk about Hol-
lywood. You work with a ton of women. But how do you see your
role in terms of getting more opportunities for women?
CT: That our world has been run by men is something that we
have to change. As a producer, I look at not just directors but my
crews, the writers, editors, composers—across the board. I take that
responsibility very seriously. I was just on a film where there wasn’t
one woman in the sound department, and I was like, No! We have
to hire smarter. In saying that, I don’t want to ever sound like I’m
doing women a favor. I’m not carrying some mission on my sleeve.
But there are women out there who are fucking crazy talented. And
I’m hiring them because they are the best at their job.
CH: As you’re saying this, I’m looking at a picture of Diablo and
Dan [Maurio, Cody’s husband] that they gave me for my fortieth
birthday, which is her topless and him grabbing her boobs. It’s so
fucking stupid, but what an image for this story.
CT: [Laughs] That sounds like the perfect gift for you. I know
what I’m getting for you your next birthday!
CH: Do one with Jason [Reitman], and I’ll have a whole set.
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Isabel Marant,
isabelmarant.com.
Woven bracelet,
Dior, $250
(for pair). Bead
bracelets, all,
Luis Morais, $475
each. Bandanna,
Levi’s, $14. For
details, see
Shopping Guide.

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 Viscose elastane
jumpsuit, $2,700,
Dior, at Dior boutiques
nationwide. Nylon
Lycra bikini top, Jade
Swim, $90. Hair
tie, Mokuba. Silk
scrunchie, Donni, $38.
Scuba duffel, Fenty
Puma by Rihanna,
$200. Resin watch,
Casio G-Shock, $99.

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Nylon-blend
jumpsuit, Fenty Puma
by Rihanna, similar
styles at puma.com.
Neoprene swim top,
Body Glove, $77.
Linen scrunchie,
Donni, $32. Sunglasses,
Polaroid, $90. Resin
watch, Casio G-Shock,
$200. For details,
see Shopping Guide.

Hair by Alessandro
Rebecchi at ArtList;
makeup by Lloyd
Simmonds at Agence
Carole; casting by
Paul Brickman at
Zan Casting; model:
Blanca Padilla at Next
Models; produced
by Marie Fioriti at
Onirim and Ale Diaz
at Shoot Canarias 221
 Slipping into (and out of ) richly textured tops and seriously sexy dresses, Dutch
beauty Lara Stone demos how a wardrobe nearly absent of color is anything but quiet.
Photographed by Samuel Bradley. Styled by Charlotte Roberts.

White
 Wool coat, Max
Mara, $3,590,
at Max Mara,
NYC. Gold, onyx,
tsavorite, and
diamond ring,
Cartier, $13,600.
For details, see
Shopping Guide.

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Tweed hat,
$1,300, glass,
resin, and strass
brooch, $900,
both, Chanel,
at select Chanel
boutiques
nationwide. Silk
trousers, Ralph
Lauren Collection,
$1,150. Gold and
diamond bangle,
Paloma Picasso
for Tiffany & Co.
 Silk and wool
jacket, trousers,
both, Rebecca
Jeffs, rebeccajeffs
.com. Fur scarf,
Off-White c/o Virgil
Abloh, $2,727.
Tanzanite, emerald,
and diamond ring,
Bulgari. Crystal-
embellished
platforms, Sonia
Rykiel, $860.
For details, see
Shopping Guide.

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226
Poplin shirt,
Miu Miu, $2,265,
miumiu.com. Satin
cummerbund,
Racil, $140. Gold
ring, Paloma Picasso
for Tiffany & Co.,
$5,500. Thigh-
high stockings,
StockinGirl.
Crystal-fringe ankle
boots, Christopher
Kane, $965.
For details, see
Shopping Guide.

Hair by Eamonn
Hughes for Hair
by Sam McKnight;
makeup by Lotten
Holmqvist at
Management+Artists;
manicure by Nickie
Rhodes-Hill at
David’s Artists; set
design by Hella Keck;
produced by
Noir Productions
 Organza top,
skirt, both,
Chanel, at
select Chanel
boutiques
nationwide.
Gold ring,
Paloma Picasso
for Tiffany &
Co., $5,500.
Leather boots,
Givenchy.

BEAUTY TIP
Garnier Fructis
Style Texture
Tease Dry
Touch Finishing
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keeps tousled
strands in place
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 Pearl- and crystal-
embroidered bustier,
Gucci, $5,900, gucci.com.
Silk trousers, Max Mara.
Gold and diamond
pendant necklace, De
Beers. Gold ring, Paloma
Picasso for Tiffany &
Co., $5,500. For details,
see Shopping Guide.

BEAUTY TIP
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The New Hot Spot:
Chablé Resort, Mexico
Built around a nineteenth-century hacienda
in the Yucatán jungle just 25 minutes outside
of hipster haven Mérida, the spa at Chablé
is situated on a cenote, one of the ancient
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natural pools sacred to the Maya. Treat-
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medically therapeutic experiences: Think
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stones, sound baths, Reiki, meditation ses-
sions with spiritual guides, and acupressure
with plant tinctures. Post–spa bliss, check
out the hotel bar, which boasts the world’s
largest tequila collection.
Don’t Miss: The Song of Heaven Ritual
($550), which involves body brushing with
native plants sourced from Chablé’s organic
garden, followed by a pink-salt scrub, de-
toxifying massage, and banana-leaf body
wrap—all while listening to the relaxing
sound you hear when holding a conch shell
to your ear. (chableresort.com)
The Far-Flung Splurge:
Six Senses, Fiji
The scenery of Fiji’s Malolo Island alone is
enough to summon instant serenity, with
opalescent water and golden sand as far
as the eye can see, but guests at luxury
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invited to take an even deeper dive into
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transformational wellness. An integrated
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ercise, and diet plans for each individual.
Those looking for straight-up pampering
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will leave you gleaming from head to toe.
Don’t Miss: The Sleep Well Journey
($167), a series that includes guided med-
itation and breathing exercises; a facial
massage to stimulate the pineal gland; and
the scary-sounding but efective Ayurvedic
practice of nasya, a cleansing of the nasal
passages with oil to relieve tension and open
airways. (sixsenses.com)
The Couples Getaway:
Rancho La Puerta, Tecate, Mexico
This holistic-health mainstay nestled into
the mountains of Baja California has been
ministering to those in need of profound
rejuvenation since 1940. A series of new
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in on reducing inflammation throughout
the body and enhancing mental clarity, and
a new Dynamic Running program takes ad-
vantage of the extensive trails that crisscross
the property’s 4,000 acres of private land.
Even if you’re just there for, say, a cacao but-
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enough to keep a plus-one occupied, too,
with hiking, biking, obstacle-course racing,
and more than 60 fitness classes.
Don’t Miss: The ranch’s culinary school,
La Cocina Que Canta (classes from $90, led
by chef Denise Roa), which has been hailed
as life-changing by those who have learned
to whip up transcendent vegetarian fare
with ingredients plucked from the ranch’s
own organic farm. (rancholapuerta.com)
The City Sanctuary:
Bamford Haybarn Spa at 1 Hotel
Brooklyn Bridge, New York
An urban sister to the bucolic Haybarn spa
created by Lady Carole Bamford in the En-
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centering benefits of aromatherapy, specialty
blends are used in every supremely soothing
treatment, from de-stressing lavender and
geranium to invigorating rosemary and sage.
Don’t Miss: The Bamford Signature
Facial ($235), which begins with a Palo
Santo smudging ritual to cleanse the ener-
gy in the room, followed by a personalized
combo of exfoliation, hydration, reflexol-
ogy, and targeted massage to encourage
lymphatic drainage and lift facial contours.
(bamfordhaybarnspany.com)
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ADVICE
Ask E.Jean
A CRUSH on the (married)BOSS, a GREAT
LOVE LOST, and a MEA CULPA,too.
Auntie E. dishes out the TOUGH LOVE (EVEN ON
HERSELF ) so we can all sleep pretty tonight.
Grab A KLEENEX
DEAR E. JEAN: I think back to when he asked
me for a first date and flew me in his plane to
the mountains for a romantic picnic. He was
my rock, my confidant, the smartest person I
knew. His support helped me rise quickly in
my career. I felt I could achieve anything. We
married. I was in a constant state of euphoria.
One day, he didn’t come home.
That morning, he got out of bed, kissed me,
said he was getting the plane ready for a trip
to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, for my birthday, and
told me he would see me that afternoon at
the gym. He didn’t show—totally unlike Mr.
Dependable. With a huge weight on my chest,
I went to the airport hangar. There was his car,
parked out front, and as I noticed a commo-
tion on the tarmac, I got an alert on my phone
saying that a pilot had died in a plane crash.
Minutes later, the emergency response team
gave me the same news. It was my husband.
My happy existence ended. I’m tearing up
just writing this.
Here is my question: Everyone tells me
I need to move forward. Start dating again.
I am a young widow; I get that. So I let my
friends fix me up with two nice gentlemen,
but they pale compared to my beloved. Will I
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always compare? Will I ever be with another
man? Are there any spectacular men left? I
would love to experience again the blissful
life I once shared with the greatest man I’ve
ever known.
—Broken Hearts Club Member
PS: I did get grief counseling for two years,
which helped me get to here.
Club, My Dear, Dear Love: What do you
mean, “two nice gentlemen”? Two? You
enchanting widow! Good Lord! You are
beautiful, clever, and rich; there are thou-
sands of “spectacular” men who’d enjoy the
honor of being in love with you.
And how will you meet these alluring
specimens? By going to new places, enlarg-
ing your social circle, taking charge of the
alumni dinner, joining a Sierra Club hike,
hitting a bucket of golf balls at the driving
range, volunteering with the Pacific Crest
Trail Association, flying to Vegas to take
ringside seats at a prizefight, wearing a
hat three feet wide in the premium seats
at Belmont (the final jewel in the Triple
Crown of horse racing, where Auntie Eeee
had a stall door chivalrously held open for
her by a gentleman billionaire in the men’s
room after the sixth race; Auntie’s rule:
Never waste time standing in a long line
for the women’s room). And I don’t need
to mention the best apps—Bumble, Hinge,
and Meetup—do I?
Now let us turn to your other questions:
Yes, you will “be with another man.” (Prob-
ably several.) Yes, of course you’ll “compare”
and find the entire male race riddled with
flaws. Yes, you will adjust. Yes, you will live
a “blissful life”…but only on one condition:
that you don’t make that life totally about
men. You might be just as happy, or a great
deal happier, being on your own, Miss Club.
I’m pretty quick at picking up on the talents
of my correspondents (particularly after
I read newspaper accounts about them—
thank you for the links), and I suggest you
run for mayor.
My darling, every reader of ELLE is sad
to hear about the death of your husband.
Time will lighten your sufering—indeed, I
see that it already has. And I admire you for
your ardor, your loyalty, and your genius
in foreseeing the possibility of a new and
exciting life!
 TWO MARRIED PEOPLE
Walk Into an Office…
DEAR E. JEAN: Can office romances still hap-
pen in the world after Harvey Weinstein, Rus-
sell Simmons, and Matt Lauer? I started a
new job several months ago, and I’m attract-
ed to my new manager. We are close to the
same age, we’re both married, and both of us
have kids. On a good day, my marriage is meh.
A few years ago, my husband had a thing with
one of his coworkers, and it’s been rough. Our
marriage has never fully recovered. Normal-
ly, I wouldn’t have an afair (I’ve passed up
several opportunities). I know the trouble
they cause from having been on the other side.
But my boss is sexy! Such a nice, sweet
guy—funny, smart, and optimistic. In addi-
tion to work, we have lots of common inter-
ests. He is naturally outgoing, and I could be
E. Jean, EVER-EVOLVING
Scintillating Readers! Because the Ask E.
Jean column is in its twenty-fifth year, we’ve
been occasionally running questions from
a quarter-century ago (pre-Google, pre-
Instagram) and seeing how much has
changed. The following letter from 1993 ap-
peared in my very first column and would
receive a very diferent answer today.
DEAR E. JEAN: I live in Chicago, and there
are homeless people everywhere. I feel sorry
for the women and the kids, but the bums are
beginning to irk me. I have to walk to work
with my eyes glued to the pavement. They are
ruining my whole day, because on the inside,
it is tearing me to pieces! What can I do when
they hold out their hands?
—Conscience-Stricken
1993 ANSWER Dear Conscience: Stop sufo-
cating your heart. Charity is not a vice! Take
the moral high ground. Decide how much
misinterpreting his general enthusiasm as
interest in me. It’s also possible this guy is
a chronic flirt. Nevertheless, thinking about
him keeps me awake at night.
In this age of awareness of workplace sex-
ual harassment, there’s very little chance my
boss is going to make a move. How can I give
him the green light? I am also happy to hear
any practical advice about why I shouldn’t
pursue this. But shouldn’t I view this guy as
a gift from the universe that I would be fool-
ish to refuse?
—Hot and Bothered
Miss Hot, My Heliotrope: No. No. No. No. No,
my luv. This dilemma is not about your boss.
It’s about your husband and the afair he had
you can allot per person (5 cents, 10 cents,
a quarter), carry it in your pocket, and give
to every poor soul whose hand is out. You
will experience a rare and almost forgotten
emotion—compassion—again and again.
2018 REPLY Conscience, My Crocus: The phi-
losopher Diogenes lived in a giant wine
jar on the streets of Athens, begged for his
food, trash-talked Alexander the Great, and
taught us this excellent lesson: Goodness
comes from action, not theory (and not from
putting a few coins in a cup, either).
Because an enormous number of home-
less people live with serious mental health
challenges, if you volunteer with an orga-
nization that meets with the homeless and
provides services to create a foundation for
independence, what a marvelous way to
give your “conscience” a kick in the pants!
Every large city has organizations that
are working to end homelessness. Google
with his coworker—and the chance you see
for settling the score.
Revenge is enticing, but consider: You
were once deeply attached to your husband;
you probably remember days when your
appetite for each other was so ferocious,
you wouldn’t even go to work but would
stay home in bed making love. You have kids.
Don’t throw it away. Let your anger at your
husband’s infidelity spark a change.
Divorce your old marriage. Go to cou-
ples counseling. I believe with generous
intentions and valiant hearts, you can cre-
ate a stronger, sexier, more rousing union
with your husband, and leave your boss
to enjoy the pleasures and torments of his
own marriage.
what’s going on in your town, or check out
the websites nationalhomeless.org and
partnershipforthehomeless.org.
You see, dear readers? Just give me 25 years, a
little Diogenes, a jar of wine, a stack of letters
from smart Ask E. Jean correspondents, and
an editor whose husband is a psychiatrist and
who alerted me to the mental health problems
of the homeless, and I grow less stupid!
ASK A QUESTION!
Via email: E.Jean@AskEJean.com
Twitter: @ejeancarroll
Instagram: @ejeancarroll1
Read past columns:
ELLE.com/life-love/ask-e-jean
Want more Auntie E?
You can watch videos, write with
anonymity, and exchange genius
tips on Advice Vixens at Ask EJean.com.
And if you’d like a date: Tawkify.
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derlust for the first half of May, so widen Make something beautiful together, like art,
your worldview. Thanks to amorous Mars in Apr 20–May 20 music, or babies.
your romance zone, things could get frisky On the 15th, innovative
beneath the palmas. On the 16th, the red Uranus launches an Pisces
planet powers up your work and wellness Feb 19–Mar 20 You’re in social-butterfly
zone for a protracted, six-month stay. Boost
eight-year tour through mode this month; just don’t flutter too far
your epic career quest with daily workouts your sign—its first from home, because on the 15th, Uranus
and acai bowls. visit to Taurus in 77 buzzes into your local activity zone until 2028.
years! The subsequent You may become influential in your commu-
Libra nity. But keep a suitcase handy near the 25th,
Sept 23–Oct 22 Planets storm through reimagining of your when your co-rulers, dream weavers Jupiter
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 SHOPPING GUIDE
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Azzedine Alaïa, $800, at Rachel Zabar Vintage mokubany.com. Watch by Hermès, hermes
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Cotton underwear by Hanro, $25, hanro.com. .com. PAGE 219: Swimsuit, jumpsuit by Isa-
Subscriber cover: Knit bodysuit by Marc bel Marant, at Isabel Marant stores nation-
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Boater hat by Stephen Jones for Marc Jacobs, nationwide. Bracelets by Luis Morais, mr
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PAGE 220: Jumpsuit by Dior, 800-929-DIOR.
ELLE TRENDS AND ACCESSORIES Bikini top by Jade Swim, jadeswim.com. Hair
PAGE 78: Handbag by Emporio Armani, at tie by Mokuba, at Mokuba (NYC). Scrunchie
Armani (NYC, L.A.). Sandal by Marc Jacobs, by Donni, shopdonni.com. Duffel by Fenty
at Marc Jacobs stores nationwide. Watch by Puma by Rihanna, at Puma stores nationwide.
Audemars Piguet, $19,900, audemarspiguet Watch by Casio G-Shock, gshock.com. PAGE
.com. PAGE 80: Necklace by Louis Vuitton, 221: Jumpsuit by Fenty Puma by Rihanna, sim-
at select Louis Vuitton stores nationwide. ilar styles at Puma stores nationwide. Swim
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Moncler, at Moncler (NYC). Watch by Panerai, by Polaroid, at select Solstice Sunglasses bou-
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PAGE 116: Sandal boot by Giuseppe Zanotti,
at Giuseppe Zanotti boutiques nationwide.
83 PAGE 223: Ring by Cartier, 800-CARTIER.
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0005. Trousers by Ralph Lauren Collection,
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York stores. Cross-body bag by Coach x Keith PAGE 199: Tank by Zimmerli of Switzerland, Bangle by Paloma Picasso for Tiffany & Co.,
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Sport, torysport.com. Sweater by Abercrombie phen Jones for Marc Jacobs, at Marc Jacobs sers by Rebecca Jeffs, contact@rebeccajeffs
& Fitch, at Abercrombie & Fitch stores nation- stores nationwide. PAGE 201: Top by Rick .com. Scarf by Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh,
wide. Skirt by CH Carolina Herrera, at CH Owens, rickowens.eu. PAGE 203: Tank by off---white.com. Ring by Bulgari, bulgari
Carolina Herrera (Beverly Hills). Shorts by Zimmerli of Switzerland, zimmerli.com. PAGE .com. Platforms by Sonia Rykiel, at Sonia Ry-
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man, samedelman.com. Miu, at select Miu Miu boutiques nation-
SEA CHANGE wide. Cummerbund by Racil, exclusively at
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barneys.com. Glasses by Dolce & Gabbana, .com. PAGE 209: Earring by Mounser, StockinGirl, stockingirl.com. Ankle boots by
at select Dolce & Gabbana boutiques na- barneys.com. Earring by Mizuki, net-a- Christopher Kane, christopherkane.com. PAGE
tionwide. Pumps by Manolo Blahnik, similar porter.com. Earring by Maria Tash, at Maria 228: Top, skirt by Chanel, 800-550-0005. Boots
styles at Manolo Blahnik (NYC). PAGE 156: Tash (NYC). PAGE 211: Bikini bottom by Solid by Givenchy, at Givenchy (NYC). PAGE 229:
Dress by Jason Wu, similar styles at Saks Fifth & Striped, solidandstriped.com. Earrings by Bustier by Gucci, at select Gucci stores nation-
Avenue (Beverly Hills). Glasses by Dolce & Maria Tash, mariatash.com. PAGE 215: Ear- wide. Trousers by Max Mara, at Max Mara
Gabbana, at select Dolce & Gabbana boutiques rings by Maria Tash, 212-253-0921. Earring by (NYC). Necklace by De Beers, $15,500, debeers
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Alaïa
On the eve of a new retrospective that Azzedine Alaïa himself helped curate before his passing last
November, ELLE salutes the “King of Cling” by revisiting one of the magazine’s most iconic shoots.
From left: Gilles Bensimon; courtesy of Azzedine Alaïa

I
t wasn’t just supermodels for whom Azzedine Alaïa’s
body-con designs were a seemingly perfect match. Though
the late couturier counted Christy, Naomi, et al. among his inner
circle—often entertaining them at his Paris home as he whipped
up his native Tunisian specialties in the kitchen—his celebration
of the female form was also perfectly in line with the ELLE ethos
and its emphasis on personal style. Alaïa’s designs didn’t follow
trends, and he was one of the first to eschew the traditional fashion
calendar. His peers were equally charmed and in awe, with John
Galliano boasting, “He cuts a great dress and cooks a great couscous.”
Over the years, ELLE has devoted several shoots to Alaïa’s work,
often choosing to photograph the designer and his subjects in his
home studio, which was always so integral to his creative vision.
On the occasion of the first-ever fashion exhibit at the Design
Museum in London, Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier (opening on
May 10), we revisit our January 2003 pairing of Alaïa and Gisele
Bündchen. After her day on set, the Brazilian supe told then–fashion
news editor Nicole Phelps, “His clothes fit like a glove. I fell in love
with Azzedine. I’d fly across the world to do his show.”
—Naomi Rougeau

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