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ELLE CALENDAR
From big anniversaries to
this month’s scary-good
music festival—ELLE
plans the agenda
For more cultural coverage, go to elle.com/blogs
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Tuesday, October 12
STATE OF MIND In her
new memoir, Extraordinary,
Ordinary People, former secretary
of state Condoleezza Rice
recounts her upbringing in
Birmingham, Alabama.
“And somehow [my parents]
raised their little girl in Jim Crow
Birmingham to believe that even if
she couldn’t have a hamburger at the
Woolworth’s lunch counter, she could be
President of the United States.”—Rice
in Extraordinary, Ordinary People
Thursday, October 7–Sunday, October 10
At the third annual Food Network
New York City Wine & Food Festival,
award-winning chefs and food
personalities (from Daniel Boulud to
Martha Stewart) will cook to benefit
charity. nycwineandfoodfestival.com
Sunday, October 10
JOIN THE CLUB
Newly opened restaurant Lavo
New York serves southern Italian
cuisine in its upstairs dining
room but hosts fashion week
after-parties for of-the-moment
designers in its glittering
nightclub space downstairs.
Friday, October 29–
Sunday, October 31
SOUTHERN GOTHIC Just
in time for Halloween, New
Orleans hosts the twelfth
annual Voodoo Experience, a
three-day music fest featuring
headliners Ozzy Osbourne,
Muse, and Weezer,
among others,
who’ll perform to
costumed fans.
thevoodoo
experience.com
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Tuesday, October 12
ACTING OUT Patrick Stewart and
T. R. Knight star in Pulitzer Prize–
winner David Mamet’s A Life in
the Theatre, which opens on
Broadway tonight. The comedy
is a backstage look at two
actors (one a seasoned vet,
the other a young upstart) and
their struggle for the spotlight.
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HAPPY 25th
ANNIVERSARY
to fashion boutique
White House
Black Market.
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October 22
NOW AND THEN
Matt Damon and Bryce
Dallas Howard star in Clint
Eastwood’s Hereafter, an
Oscar-bait drama about
three people touched
by near-death
experiences.
Saturday, October 2
EURO TRIP Today, the Los
Angeles County Museum of
Art will display newly acquired
couture gowns, suits, and
children’s garments as part of its
“Fashioning Fashion: European
Dress in Detail, 1700– 1915”
exhibition. lacma.org
Friday, October 1
Yasmin Le Bon graces
ELLE U.S.’s first cover
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From exotic African masks to
Nantucket reds, fashion
goes around the world
in 31 days
For more fashionable recommendations, go to elle.com/fashionfile
THE BEACH
Vieques has long been the
authentic, no-frills alternative
to Puerto Rico’s nearby
mainland—until now.
W Hotels has opened a retreat
on the Caribbean island with
a full-service spa and an
Alain Ducasse restaurant.
starwoodhotels.com
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WHAT BECOMES A LEGEND
Peek into the mind of
fashion photographer Cecil
Beaton by preordering this
new eponymous scrapbook
(Assouline) of his magazine
clippings, including images of
royals, celebrities, and clowns.
SWEET HEART
Love is in the air. Stella McCartney,
perhaps inspired by her
burgeoning family, is launching
her first fine-jewelry collection,
featuring kissing cousins, cuddly
bunnies, and BE MINE messages.
BANANA BOAT
Create, the new Jason Wu for GE
line of digital cameras, is as color
drenched as the designer’s favorite
runway looks.
MASQUERADE BALL
After years of photographing
indigenous cultures, Phyllis Galembo
has compiled her new book Maske
(Chris Boot), which shows traditional
masqueraders from Zambia, Nigeria,
Ghana, and beyond.
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SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS
Transgressive artist Paul
McCarthy is kicking things off
at the new L&M Arts gallery in
Venice, California. Who doesn’t
want to see a giant inflatable
pig? imgallery.com
A STEP UP
Smythson and Mulberry have a new
neighbor. London It girl and vampy
shoe designer Charlotte Olympia
opens her first boutique in Mayfair.
charlotteolympia.com
ON A WHIM
In honor of Barneys Co-op’s
twenty-fifth anniversary, cult
accessories line Swash has
dreamed up a limited-edition
birthday scarf with a playfully
imaginative illustration.
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MAKER’S MARK
Yigal Azrouël has come out with a
more affordably priced line, Cut25.
The look is evening casual: slouchy
sequin pants, oversize anoraks,
and lots of black.
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PATENT PENDING
Repetto is Opening Ceremony’s
latest obsession. The two have
teamed up on a black boot worthy
of the Wicked Witch of the West,
with the season’s au courant
kitten heel.
GOING FOR GOLD
Roberto Cavalli celebrates 40
years of flash-tastic fashion with
the debut of his new Saint Tropez
Denim line and an equally island-
appropriate eyewear collection.
SELF HELP
Thirty years after
writing The Official
Preppy Handbook, Lisa
Birnbach is back with an
update: True Prep (Knopf).
Guess what? WASPs still
vacation on Nantucket, pop
their collars, and drink
before noon.
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FALL FASHION!
630+ chic coats, killer boots, must-own bags.
Plus: Get the ELLE look in 25 steps
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THE NEW CLASSICS
APRIL LONG shares how looks that hadn’t
been invented 25 years ago are now part of
today’s beauty lexicon. Photographed by
JEM MITCHELL
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FOREVER 25
Is it possible to reset the clock so that we might
look younger as we grow older? By APRIL LONG
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THE AGING OF INNOCENCE
When HOLLY MILLEA hit Manhattan, she
worked every A-list party in town. But in
time, she found a new calling: tirelessly testing
beauty treatments, tricks, and occasional
tortures—so we don’t have to!
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WHAT YOU WANT
We polled more than 25,000 people to find
out how you really feel about love, sex,
money, and power
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THE QUARTERBACKS
When ELLE touched down 25 years ago, a new
generation of smart, talented, game-changing
women were busy starting life. Starring: Megan
Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Gabourey Sidibe,
Lauren Conrad, and more. Photographed by
CARTER SMITH. Styled by JOE ZEE
OCTOBER 2010 VOLUME XXVI NUMBER 2 NO. 302
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ELLE GIRL
Twenty-five years after she first graced our
cover, supermodel Elle Macpherson shows
off fall’s undeniably sexy sophistication. By
CANDICE RAINEY. Photographed by MAX
FARAGO. Styled by BETH FENTON
FASHION
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STYLE A TO ZEE:
MAKING THEN, NOW
Creative Director JOE ZEE reminds us why
ELLE’s founding rules of fashion, which he
obsessed over in high school, still apply
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THE QUEEN AND I
Victoria Brynner discovers that growing up
among elite fashion-obsessed movie stars and
socialites can warp and inspire one’s own style.
By AMANDA FORTINI
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BODY DOUBLE
For VICTORIA REDEL, wearing a body brace for
most of her adolescence was teenage torture,
but it also left an unexpectedly positive mark—
and not just because it straightened her spine
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WHAT TO WEAR?
Our Fashion Know-It-All, ANNE SLOWEY ,
answers your pressing style questions
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ELLE FASHION: THE LOOK, TRENDS,
AND JEWELS
Prairie-prep outfits…cozy Fair Isle knits...
Cartier’s iconic big-cat jewelry collection…
and more
CONTINUED ON PAGE 72
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Lauren Conrad wears a toile bustier, pants, and a suede belt
from Yves Saint Laurent, a yellow and white diamond necklace,
diamond sunflower bracelet, and diamond line bracelet from Harry
Winston, a 4-row diamond bracelet, diamond link bracelet from
Kwiat, and a white gold and pavé diamond watch from Bulgari. To
get her makeup look, try Get in Line Hook Up Liquid Waterproof
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Avon. Photographed by Carter Smith. Styled by Joe Zee. Hair by
Ashley Javier. Makeup by Polly Osmond. Manicure by Bernadette
Thompson. Set design by Juliet Jernigan.
Megan Fox wears an embroidered lamé gown from Armani Privé,
a diamond line bracelet from De Beers, and a white gold ring with
diamonds, emeralds, and onyx from Cartier. To get her makeup
look, try Rouge d’Armani Lipstick in 506, Sheer Blush in Beige 10,
and Smooth Silk Eye Pencil in Brown Black 12, all by Giorgio Armani
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Amanda Seyfried wears wool dress from Louis Vuitton and a yellow
gold necklace from Tiffany & Co. To get her makeup look, try Rouge
d’Armani Lipstick in Soft Pink 602, Sheer Blush in Beige 10, and
Smooth Silk Eye Pencil in Brown Black 12, all by Giorgio Armani
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earrings from Beladora, Beverly Hills, and a bib necklace from
Fenton. To get her makeup look, try Dew Drenched Moisturlicious
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Bernadette Thompson. Set design by Stefan Beckman. For details,
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FASHION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 64
240
WORKBOOK : LAW AND ORDER
Attorney Pamela Bradshaw discovers her real
style in post-firm life. By JOHANNA COX
247
THE DRESSING ROOM
A retrospective of fashion culture in the past
quarter century. By ANNE SLOWEY
260
SCHOOL DAYS
The Rhode Island School of Design teams up
with ELLE to prove that it takes a lot more than
expert pattern-making to earn fashion’s highest
grade. By WHITNEY VARGAS
470
OF MUSE AND MAN
ELLE’s legendary lens man, Gilles
Bensimon, steps behind the camera yet
again to capture runway superstar Karolina
Kurkova in a panoply of lean, layerable knits.
Photographed by GILLES BENSIMON. Styled by
CHRISTOPHER NIQUET
476
THE DRESSER
Celebrating 30 years as a slave to Seventh
Avenue, Michael Kors has built a booming
ready-to-wear and accessories business that
will soon boast 100 stores worldwide. By TERI
AGINS. Photographed by DAN KING
478
THE BODY WHISPERER
Donna Karan reinvented the dialogue between
a woman and her wardrobe. DAPHNE MERKIN
finds that for this designer, there’s a fine line
between what you wear and how you feel.
Photographed by DAN KING
480
AMERICAN GRAFFITI
From outfitting ’60s hippies in bell-bottoms
to uniforming Europeans in standard prep,
Tommy Hilfiger is celebrating his 25 years by
bringing his smart chic style home to stay. By
NICK FOULKES. Photographed by PIERRE BAILLY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Lauren Conrad wears a wool blazer, pants, and a belt from Gucci,
sunglasses from Ray-Ban, and a smoky topaz necklace from Kara
by Kara Ross. To get her makeup look, try Lash Splash Hook Up
Waterproof Mascara in Black by mark. for Avon, and Ultra Color
Rich Mega Impact Lipstick in Fuchsia Fun by Avon Photographed by
Carter Smith. Styled by Joe Zee. Hair by Ashley Javier. Makeup by
Polly Osmond. Manicure by Bernadette Thompson. Set design by
Juliet Jernigan.
Megan Fox wears bra, panty from Emporio Armani Underwear
and poplin shirt from Armani Jeans. To get her makeup look, try
Rouge d’Armani Lipstick in Soft Pink 602, Sheer Blush in Beige 10,
and Smooth Silk Eye Pencil in Brown Black 12, all by Giorgio Armani
Beauty. Photographed by Carter Smith. Styled by Joe Zee. Hair by
Ashley Javier. Makeup by Angela Levin. Manicure by Bernadette
Thompson. Set design by Juliet Jernigan.
Amanda Seyfried wears a vinyl jacket from Lisa Perry and a
cashmere sweater and swim trunks from Chanel. To get her makeup
look, try Eyes to Kill Mascara in 1 Steel Black, Liquid Silk Eye Liner
in Anthracite Matte Gray 2, Rouge d’Armani Lipstick in 100, and
Sheer Blush in Pink 2, all by Giorgio Armani Beauty. Photographed
by Carter Smith. Styled by Joe Zee. Hair by Harry Josh. Makeup by
Yumi. Manicure by April Foreman.
Gabourey Sidibe wears a jersey dress from Tadashi Shoji and a
diamond necklace from Chopard. To get her makeup look, try Dew
Drenched Moisturlicious Lip Color in Dew, Get in Line Hook Up Liquid
Waterproof Eyeliner in Painted Black, and Glowdacious Illuminating
Powder in Amped Up, all by mark. for Avon. Photographed by Carter
Smith. Styled by Joe Zee. Hair by Ashley Javier. Makeup by Polly
Osmond. Manicure by Bernadette Thompson. Set design by Stefan
Beckman. For details, see Shopping Guide.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 78
FEATURES
152
JET-SETTER: LONDON, ENGLAND
If it’s good enough for the Queen, it’s good
enough for our expert travel correspondent,
MARIO GRAUSO
309
ELLE INTELLIGENCE
Hollywood’s up-and-coming studs Clark
Duke, Dave Franco, and Donald Glover…
Kristin Kimball’s beguiling memoir, The Dirty
Life…KAREN DURBIN reviews the film Never Let
Me Go…and more
391
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
David Bouley, Eric Ripert, and Jean-Georges
Vongerichten prepare a celebratory dinner for
ELLE’s quarter-century anniversary and dish
on the fashion of food, then and now. By RUTH
REICHL. Photographed by LISA HUBBARD
396
CLOSET CASES
25 style-philes spill their wardrobe secrets in
a new book by ELLE editors. By JOE ZEE and
MAGGIE BULLOCK
406
RENAISSANCE MAN
After a stellar start in Hollywood, Ben Affleck
got lost in a confusion of bad film choices and
an overly public private life. But with Gone
Baby Gone and two dramas this fall, he’s proved
himself better than ever. By KAREN DURBIN
414
THE SARAH ERA
Don’t be fooled into thinking Sarah Palin is
a standard-bearer for the Republicans. Like
any good reality star, she’s in the business of
promoting herself. By REBECCA TRAISTER
420
THE RACE TO FIND MYSELF
What do you do when you’re 28 years old
and certain you’re adopted, but your
family continues to insist you aren’t?
By NINA BURLEIGH
426
ASK E. JEAN
Relationship hell? E. JEAN CARROLL to
the rescue!
488
HERE’S TO YOU, MR. ROBINSON
Craig Robinson tells ANDREW GOLDMAN that
even though he may attract the occasional
super-fan, he’s the one doing the stalking
490
DREAM GIRLS
A 25-year retrospective of ELLE’s most iconic
and timeless looks
BEAUTY
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TOP 25
Not only have these superstar beauty products
earned the most accolades in our pages since
1985, they continue to be can’t-live-without-it
daily essentials
356
NATURAL HISTORY
Over the past 25 years, makeup artist Laura
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Here, the secrets to her own timeless technique.
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NEWS
ELLE’s Top Shop: Kerut, La Jolla, CA, 858-456-0800
What’s there: Timo Weiland draped lamé tanks, Earnest Sewn
high-rise skinny jeans, and Circa Sixty Three bubble Bakelite
cocktail rings
Projected wait-list items: Kara Ross’s spiderweb necklace, Rag
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made of shellacked wood and buttery leather
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Playlist: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jamie Johnston,
Barrington Levy, and the Dirty Heads
In the Bronx apartment where Liz Murray
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Perfume guru Frederic Malle gives
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fashion magazines. If there was an “ELLE girl,” it was Elle Macpher-
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outward manifestation of all kinds of strengths underneath. And
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because of his inspiring lyrics.
He’s a great role model. I hope
that the industry will begin
to produce more music with
similar integrity.
Cecile, Bradford, NY
CONVENIENT TRUTH
I loved that ELLE’s interns
were used to model the faux-
fur choices in Joe Zee’s A to
Zee column this month [“Are
You Faux Real?” August
2010]. It made the pieces seem
more wearable and not so out
of reach.
Samantha, via e-mail
MISSED CONNECTIONS
Though I’ll admit that the
replacement of dirty words
with Italian cooking terms
in “They Like It Like That?”
[August 2010] did make me
snicker, I’m offended by
Anonymous’ assumption
that men are the only ones
who fantasize about sex with
strangers or, moreover, think
about sex multiple times a
day. Well, excuse me, Mr.
Anonymous, but monogamy is
just as unnatural for women as
it is for men, and it’s not news
to us that you want to “fillet”
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I can never get enough of Drew
Barrymore [“The Future Perfect,” August
2010]. She seems like such a positive
and down-to-earth person. After facing
hardships such as addiction at a young
age and making an incredibly strong
return, she deserves to be celebrated.
Agnes, Bellemont, AZ
THE COMEBACK KID
Thank you for the August
issue. It’s my favorite yet. Drew
Barrymore is sexy sexiness,
and the rest of the magazine
also made my blood rush and
sent shivers down my spine
(in a good way).
Zahn, via e-mail
Drew Barrymore looks
absolutely beautiful on your
cover. I didn’t think the
photo shoot of her in water
for the May 2009 issue could
be rivaled, but you did it. I
have to say, though, the
interview didn’t bring any
interesting information to the
table. Can you please focus
on someone new instead of
featuring the same handful of
celebs every six months?
Juliana, Chapman, KY
SHOPGIRL
I loved your ELLE Shops
section this month [August
2010]! I always look to fashion
insiders for style tips, and who
better to give advice than your
editorial staff? I also really
appreciate that a wide range
of price points was included in
their selections. I’m especially
fond of the lace button-downs.
They’re perfect for work!
Emma, Hartwick, IA
I was so excited to see your
editors’ style selections in this
month’s ELLE Shops! Each
one has such distinct personal
taste, and it’s great that you
allowed the individual fashion
identities to shine.
Margaret, Boston
DREAM CATCHER
Thank you for writing about
Drake’s overwhelmingly
successful new album, Thank
Me Later [“Drake Effect,”
August 2010]. I grew up
watching him on Degrassi:
The Next Generation and
think it’s terrific how he has
forged a career in the music
industry. Drake has proven
to be extremely talented in
everything he does. I’m so
happy he is finally gaining
widespread recognition!
Mary, Danville, ME
Drake’s success story was
amazing to read! I think he
really stands out from the
other performers in his genre
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realize that you are the one who is naive.
Ginger, Santa Monica
SLEEPING BEAUTY
It’s such a shame that ELLE chose so many
pictures of Ashley Greene with closed and
half-open eyes [“If Looks Could Kill,”
August 2010]. There’s no excuse for why
this beautiful starlet was portrayed as
nearly drifting into sleep rather than into
the full-fledged stardom she deserves.
Katherine, Fort Wayne, IN
TOUGH LOVE
I was saddened and appalled to read “The
Choice” [August 2010]. As a mother of
triplets, I think it’s insane for someone
to even consider reducing two babies to
one. Life is going to throw you all kinds
of curveballs, and you need to go with it
and know you will be just fine. When you
enter the world of infertility treatment,
there’s always the chance of multiples, and
you have to accept that. I’m sorry that the
author will never get to enjoy that little
boy because she and her husband wanted
to maintain their current lifestyle. I’m also
sorry she missed an opportunity to find
out just how strong she, her husband, and
their family could really be.
Linda, Westwood, NJ
I’m in shock that you would publish
such a disturbing, abhorrent story [“The
Choice”]. It’s one thing to report that
such things go on, but it’s another to
sympathetically portray this woman as
some lost soul struggling with a “Sophie’s
Choice” while she chooses which twin to
“selectively reduce.” She wasn’t poverty-
stricken or ill or mentally imbalanced—she
was just inconvenienced.
Laura, Starkville, MS
The seat pocket of my flight to Dallas had
a copy of ELLE in it. Figuring that it would
be better than the airline mag, I read it.
“The Choice” gripped me. Up until the last
line, I hoped she would freak out, run, and
have the twins. I nearly swore aloud in the
plane when she didn’t. If she couldn’t care
about the consequences of her actions, then
maybe adoption would have been a better
option than IVF. I have a seven-week-old
and a two-year-old. Twins would have been
spectacularly hard too, but I could never
have made that choice.
Ben, Woodville, New Zealand
UPSIDE DOWNTOWN
I found your article about Alexander
Wang’s expanding tee line [“Easy Rider,”
August 2010] very interesting. Whitney
Vargas did a great job of highlighting
Wang’s direct connection to the business
side of his company. It’s not often that
designers speak of their brand’s financial
and marketing potential, and I feel that
Wang’s deep involvement sets him apart
from the fashion pack.
Joan, Charleston, SC
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his growing tee line a sign that the
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and moving toward a more accessible
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affordable sweatshirt blazers and knits
from his upcoming collection.
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In 25 years, ELLE has produced 301 issues and featured 329
cover girls (plus three cover boys: Julia Roberts’ and Britney
Spears’ sons) . In the early days, we ran close-up shots of the era’s
superest supermodels, usually framed by a rainbow of bold acces-
sories (such as February ’93, when the model’s entire head was ob-
scured beneath a yellow YSL mousseline scarf). Today, we
spotlight our favorite actresses and music industry idols—chic to
the core. What hasn’t changed, however, is the essence of the
ELLE woman. From Alek Wek (whose first-ever cover was for
ELLE in November 1997) to Kim Basinger (our inaugural non-
model cover in January 1995) to Christy Turlington (our most fre-
quent cover face, with 14 appearances), we celebrate not just pretty
women, but striking individuals who have their own authentic
approach to life. For this, our 302nd issue, we give you four cover
girls—Lauren Conrad, Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, and
Gabourey Sidibe —who fit right in: They’re modern, sexy, defi-
nitely a little rebellious, and they emanate a beauty that goes well
beyond good looks. Also this month, we really go Behind the Cover
to show you the small army that creates each issue’s cover: There
are the editors who book the subject; the stars themselves; the
makeup artists and hairstylists who primp them; the fashion edi-
tors who pull every dress, shoe, bracelet, bag, etc.; the creative
director, Joe Zee, who styles—and charms—the talent; and the
photographer, mega-talented Carter Smith, who captures the
winning shots. We hope all their hard work will keep you coming
back for another 25 years.—JOHANNA COX
Edited by Kyle Anders
1. Props for the anniversary
shoot; 2. Makeup artist
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actress Mila Kunis for our
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3. Creative Director Joe Zee;
4. Fashion Director Alexis Bryan
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NAME: Gilles Bensimon
PROVENANCE: Paris
CURRENTLY: In New York City
PROFESSION: Photographer
THIS MONTH: “Of Muse and Man”
(page 470)
BONA FIDES: Chosen by ELLE’s
longtime publication director, Régis
Pagniez, to help launch ELLE U.S.
in 1985; has worked for ELLE in
Paris and New York since 1969,
eventually as creative director and
later international creative director;
in 2003, published Gilles Bensimon
Photography: No Particular Order,
featuring everyone from Penélope Cruz
to the book’s cover girl—and perennial
ELLE favorite—Christy Turlington
IN THE FAMILY: “My mother was
a painter, and my father was an
art director, so when I picked up a
camera, it wasn’t a surprise to anyone.”
EARLY DAYS: “ELLE made people
anxious with its first issues. It was so
different from the other New York
fashion magazines, nobody dared to
copy it. For the first few years, ELLE
didn’t have to worry about putting this
girl or that bag on the cover, Régis just
did what felt right.”
THE WOMEN: “It was never about color,
but we were the first magazine to cast
African-American models—not as a
statement but because they were right
for a story. Beauty is beauty; that is
how we felt.”
LOOK BOOK: “It was hard for me to look
at the magazine each month, because
I was reminded that we had to make a
choice—pick that photograph, not this
one. I always wanted to include more.”
NAMES: Joe Zee and Carter Smith
PROVENANCE: Toronto (Zee); Bailey
Island, Maine (Smith)
CURRENTLY: In New York City (both)
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THIS MONTH: “The Quarterbacks”
(page 432)
BONA FIDES: Zee: ELLE Creative
Director; former Vitals editor-in-chief;
in-demand celeb stylist; The City
star. Smith: Regular ELLE cover
photographer; has shot for GQ, Allure,
and Vogue Nippon; short- and feature-
film director (Bugcrush; The Ruins)
BACK IN THE DAY: Smith: “Joe and I
were both students at FIT, working
at the school newspaper. We used
to daydream about doing shoots for
‘real’ magazines.”
DAYDREAM REALIZED: Zee: “Our first
big collaboration was a fashion story
for W on Amber Valletta. We shot it in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, her hometown, over
a Thanksgiving weekend.”
COLLABORATIVE CHEMISTRY: Smith:
“We’ve been working together so
long that we’ve developed a creative
shorthand that makes it easy to
communicate. We trust each other.”
MOST WATCHED MOVIE: Zee: Titanic;
Smith: Jaws
NAME: Anne Slowey
PROVENANCE: South Bend, Indiana
CURRENTLY: In New York City
PROFESSION: ELLE Fashion News
Director since 1998
THIS MONTH: Her monthly column,
“Fashion Know-It-All” (page 180)
BONA FIDES: BA in history,
University of Notre Dame; MA in
journalism, NYU; editor of ELLE
ACCESSORIES; reality TV fashion
guru (she’s appeared on Project Runway,
Stylista, and The City)
MOST WATCHED MOVIE: “Everything by
the great Italian auteurs like Visconti
and Antonioni.”
IN A FIRE… “My dogs, Edie and Maud,
get lowered down in a basket, while I
persuade a ladder company to catch me
and all my Balenciaga on a trampoline.”
FALL ANTICIPATION: “The fantasy
of writing a tell-all about the fashion
industry and coming up with a name
for my daughter-to-be.”
NAME: Ruth Reichl
PROVENANCE: New York City
CURRENTLY: In New York City
PROFESSION: Writer, editor, lifelong
foodie
THIS MONTH: “The Birthday Party”
(page 391)
BONA FIDES: Editor-in-chief of Gourmet
for 10 years; author of numerous
books, including Mmmmm (Holt,
Rinehart and Winston), Tender at the
Bone (Broadway), Comfort Me With
Apples (Random House), Garlic and
Sapphires (Penguin), and most recently,
For You, Mom. Finally. (Penguin)
ON TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARIES:
“This year is also my twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary—a wonderful
coincidence!”
MOST WATCHED MOVIE: “The original
Sabrina with Audrey Hepburn. I know
the dialogue by heart.”
FALL ANTICIPATION: “To be well on my
way with the novel I’m writing. It’s my
first, and all I’ll say is that food is part
of it!”
NAME: Janet Lever
PROVENANCE: St. Louis
CURRENTLY: In Los Angeles
PROFESSION: Professor of sociology
at California State University,
Los Angeles
THIS MONTH: “What You Want” (page 408)
BONA FIDES: PhD in sociology, Yale
University; BA in sociology, St. Louis’
Washington University; former cohost
of the Playboy Channel’s Women on
Sex, which had an all-female cast and
crew; longtime writer and analyst of
ELLE’s surveys
LAUGH-IN: “I’m a daily follower of The
Colbert Report. The Word segment is
brilliantly funny.”
FALL ANTICIPATION: “I’m working
on a couple of romantic travel books
with sociologist Pepper Schwartz,
my longtime collaborator. We’re just
learning about digital books, which
have opened up a whole new world
of possibilities.”
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NAME: Rebecca Traister
PROVENANCE: Philadelphia
CURRENTLY: In Brooklyn
PROFESSION: ELLE contributing
editor; senior writer at Salon.com
THIS MONTH: “The Sarah Era”
(page 414)
BONA FIDES: BA in American studies,
Northwestern University; has written
for The Nation, The New York Observer,
and the Los Angeles Times
MOST WATCHED MOVIE: “The American
President. I’ve been known to watch
it all the way through on TBS and,
when they rebroadcast it immediately
afterward, to keep my ass on the
couch and watch it again.”
FALL ANTICIPATION: “My new book,
Big Girls Don’t Cry (Free Press). It’s
about all the women in the 2008
election—not just Hillary and Sarah,
but also Michelle Obama, Elizabeth
Edwards, Katie Couric, and
Rachel Maddow.”
NAME: Jem Mitchell
PROVENANCE: Northampton, England
CURRENTLY: In London
PROFESSION: Photographer
THIS MONTH: “The New Classics”
(page 331)
BONA FIDES: Attended Northampton
College (“was asked to leave”);
eventually earned a degree in
photography at the Kent Institute
of Art & Design; has shot for GQ
France, Vogue Nippon, and Flair, plus
campaigns for Loewe, Adidas, and
Victoria Beckham Eyewear
WISH I’D SHOT… “That Molly Ringwald
story from the October ’85 ELLE
[featured in this month’s “A to Zee”
column, page 154]. Like, really wish!”
IN A FIRE… “I’d take my ridiculous cat,
Joni Whiskers.”
FALL ANTICIPATION: “I’m working on a
short film that I shot in the desert with
a Super-8 camera.”
NAME: Elvis Cruz
PROVENANCE: New York City
CURRENTLY: In Queens, New York
PROFESSION: ELLE associate
art director
THIS MONTH: Designed “Behind the
Cover,” our Shops sections, “The Sarah
Era” (“Too many to count!”)
BONA FIDES: AAS in art and
advertising, New York City College of
Technology; former Web developer at
Radical Media; former Web designer
and systems administrator at IXL;
graffiti muralist for hire
LAUGH-IN: “Children, dogs, and Russell
Peters make me laugh. In that order.”
OFF-DUTY: “Competing in one-wall
handball games throughout the city.
The sport keeps me sane.”
IN A FIRE… “I’d grab my iMac. Like the
Prego ads used to say, ‘It’s in there.’ ”
NAME: E. Jean Carroll
PROVENANCE: Dutch Ridge, Indiana
CURRENTLY: In the Wawayanda
mountains of upstate New York
PROFESSION: Writer, ELLE
contributing editor
THIS MONTH: Ask E. Jean (page 426)
BONA FIDES: Ask E. Jean every month
since September 1993; has written for
Spin, New York, Esquire, and Rolling
Stone; author of four books, most
recently, 2004’s Mr. Right, Right Now!
(HarperCollins); nominated for an
Emmy in 1985 for her Saturday Night
Live writing
LITERARY CRUSH: “Hunter Thompson
came out of the womb on fire and
just saw the world in a different way.
The thing is, he’s the only one who’s
right—we’re all wrong.”
FALL ANTICIPATION: “Publishing the
detective novel I started a couple of
months ago. It has a female villain, and
it’s fucking brilliant!”
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STAY
We always stay at the stately
Lanesborough Hotel on the
edge of Hyde Park because the
rooms (Leo, Madonna,
Michael J. slept here!) feel so
English (think Chesterfields,
four-poster beds, butler
service). I’m a bit of a luxe
addict, but on a less expansive
budget I’d be tempted to try
the pint-size Shoreditch
Rooms in the new heart of the
art scene. You get views, style,
and access to the private
Shoreditch House.
The new Louis
Vuitton flagship
store on New
Bond Street is
worth a stop
just for the
original art.
A 1925
costume for
Massine’s
Zephyre et
Flore at
the V&A
The Lazy Lawn
(above) and a
tiny-cool room at
Shoreditch Rooms
(Ebor Street)
If it’s good enough for the queen,
it’s good enough for our tapped-in
continent-hopper, Mario Grauso
LONDON,
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SHOP
EAT
This month, Vera Wang president and intrepid world
gallivanter Grauso alights in London, where in four days
he crams in more culture, shopping, and worth-it calo-
ries than you could get in a year anywhere else. Yes, it’s
all scandalously expensive, and the fare box in those
charming black cabs will have you scurrying for the
tube, but it pays dividends in cocktail banter repertoire:
“Covent Garden? It’s the new Shoho, as in Shoreditch
Hoxton!” “You didn’t see War Horse? Oh, you must!”
“Have you eaten at La Chapelle, the latest from the
Galvin brothers? It’s a bit ‘city,’ but lovely wines by the
glass. The city—you know, their Wall Street.”
First stop, the new Louis
Vuitton for gifts for my wife;
then, it’s suits for me and my
travel sidekick, 14-year-old son
Harry, from my tailor Timothy
Everest (35 Bruton Place). I find
reading at Sims Reed Rare
Books (43a Duke Street) and hit
Harvey Nichols’ food court for
singular hotel- room snacks, as
well as the new Fourth Floor for
only-here fashion finds, and the
Dover Street Market (17–18
Dover Street) for other unique
treasures.
It’s easy to get sidetracked
from the art and theater by all
the lurvly food and shopping,
but don’t! Until October 17,
play ping-pong in the
Serpentine Gallery’s annual
temporary pavilion, this one by
Jean Nouvel (Kensington
Gardens), then see the extensive
Ballets Russes exhibit at the
Victoria & Albert Museum
(Cromwell Road) and get
tix to War Horse, the
sad and stunning
puppet-and-actor
production—before
Spielberg makes the
movie adaptation.
All of London is screaming for
ice cream. One new parlor is the
Chin Chin Laboratorists (49–50
Camden Lock Place), where liquid
nitrogen instantly turns eggs,
cream, and sugar into to-order
scoops. For adventurous fine
dining, Nuno Mendes at
Viajante (Patriot Square) is the
chef of the moment, though it’s
hard to make time for the new
when London’s classics are
unparalleled: avocado salad at
the Wolseley (160 Piccadilly) for
lunch and, at least once a visit,
drinks at deco divine Claridge’s
(Brook Street).
Nouvel-designed pavilion at the
Serpentine Gallery, and a program
from War Horse, playing at the
New London Theatre DO
My son,
Harry,
at the
Wolseley
Viajante restaurant
(Patriot Square);
Chin Chin’s nitro’d
ice cream
Exclusive to Harvey
Nichols Fourth Floor:
Chinese artist Ji-Ji’s
viral panda T-shirt
Fall LV bags, the
new monogrammed
Neverfull and the
Empreinte—one of
each for Anne,
my wife!
Harvey Nichols (109–125
Knightsbridge); treats
from the food court
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In high school, I was one of
those dorks who thought he
knew it all. Whether it was a ques-
tion about my future, the calculus problem
from third period, or what someone should
wear to the prom, I had the answer. And I
wasn’t stingy with my knowledge, especially
when it came to fashion. Between periods
and during lunch breaks at my Toronto
school, I could usually be found in front of
my locker dispensing style advice, lemon-
ade stand–style. Some kids stopped by with
serious inquiries; others snickered and
walked off, muttering under their breath.
Some passersby got judgments from me,
whether they wanted them or not. In any
case, I always felt the need to be honest—
but constructive.
“You look heavy in a big skirt like that.
Try moving the emphasis up;
do a big shoulder
instead,” I’d enthuse, or, “Bright horizontal
stripes aren’t anyone’s friend. But vertical
stripes? Now we’re talking! They’ll make
you look tall and lean!”
Oddly, my fellow students rarely argued
with me. In fact, I don’t recall any discon-
tent, just astonishment at my definitiveness.
In hindsight, I realize I was the fashion ver-
sion of Tracy Flick.
Anyway, people had good reason to trust
me: After I gave my prescription, I’d send
each subject on her way with a page torn
from a current fashion magazine that sup-
ported my recommendation. A fashionable
second opinion, you might say.
In eleventh grade, just before I turned 17,
I distinctly remember going to the drugstore
to pick up my monthly stash of magazines
and being blown away by something new on
the racks. New!—the word blared back at me
from this square, bold publication. It was
the first monthly issue of American
ELLE. On the cover was gorgeous
Yasmin Parvaneh, who was about
to make headlines that year by
becoming Mrs. Simon Le Bon.
(Marrying a member of Duran
Duran was the ’80s equivalent of
snagging a Jonas brother.)
The thing that obsessed me
in that moment wasn’t Yas-
min’s beauty, but the
pop of her single yellow glove, a bright, de-
clarative statement made with one simple
accessory. It screamed: “Color rules!”
I snapped up two issues so I’d be able to
reference the pictures on both sides of every
page. Back at school, I spent the next few
days doling out tips from its pages . Wear leg-
gings with military jackets and pins! Take
Claude Montana’s cue: cobalt blue for win-
ter formal! Elbow-length gloves with stacks
of gold bangles will totally stand out at next
week’s dance! The ideas were endless.
In the years to come, I learned a lot from
the pages of ELLE—ironic, given that de-
cades later, living in another country, I
would be working and writing for the very
title I grew up idolizing.
With this issue, ELLE celebrates its
twenty-fifth anniversary, and I am so proud
to be here to help blow out the birthday can-
dles. In tribute, I’ve selected a few of the most
memorable images from when I was grow-
ing up and reinvented them with current-
season clothes. In fashion, we’ve long held
the theory that trends come and go in 20-
year cycles, so it’s no surprise that what was
hot when ELLE first launched is again—in
modern incarnations—finding its way back
onto the runways for fall. Consider this
month’s Style A to Zee my new lemonade
stand: I’m still passing out advice. And yes,
I’m still a big dork.
From teen style guru to ELLE Creative
Director, Joe Zee has come a long way,
baby. Reinventing looks he first fell for in
high school, he reminds us why ELLE’s
founding rules of fashion still apply
MAKING
THEN, NOW
THEN: Courreges sweater, Grandoe Corp. glove
NOW: Fendi jacket, Carolina Amato glove
JOE’S TAKE: Color was definitely an ’80s
staple, but no one championed it more
brilliantly or more frequently than ELLE,
as seen on the cover of our debut monthly
issue. This daring new magazine almost
single-handedly started the decade’s
color craze. Back then, even if we (that is,
we fashion devotees) were still hooked on
our black, we punched it up with bright
or neon tones—especially if it was an
excuse to add a fab accessory. Well, guess
what? This fall, on the runways of YSL
and Donna Karan, I saw black runway
looks punctuated with the same strong
purples and hot pinks I remember from
early ELLEs.
TIP: Color phobic? Layer in a few bold
details: a sliver of skinny belt, a hot-hued
bag, or the drama of a bright pair of
gloves—accents that easily slip off when
you’ve reached your color saturation point.
COLOR THEORY
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ELLE STYLE A TO ZEE
THEN: The Antique Boutique coat,
Benetton blazer
NOW: MaxMara coat, pureDKNY blazer
JOE’S TAKE: I’ve always been a fan of
menswear on women, which is probably
why I love this image of Christy Turlington
walking down the street like a New
York dandy. I’ve worked with many
great beauties, but Christy, that elegant
chameleon, has always been one of my true
favorites. While Christy’s coat came from
NYC’s famous but now defunct vintage shop
The Antique Boutique, our modern version
came straight off the runway of MaxMara—
no stranger to chic tailoring.
TIP: Don’t forget a bit of feminine contrast.
For instance, our “now” beauty wears slim,
cropped pants—nothing too slouchy. A sexy
skirt or cuffed shorts would work too.
LET’S HEAR IT
FOR THE BOYS
THEN: Sweater, jewelry, and gloves,
all by Chanel
NOW: Alexander Wang leather vest, 3.1
Phillip Lim jeweled sweater, Chanel jewelry
JOE’S TAKE: I loved this mix of textures—the
leather gloves, the knit sweater, strings of
pearls—so much when I saw this original
photo. (And yes, it’s Christy again!) For our
“now” picture, I mixed the same materials
but drew inspiration from the new guard
of New York fashion—guys like Alexander
Wang and Phillip Lim, who have burst
onto the scene in recent years with truly
innovative ideas.
TIP: Even if you’re recycling older pieces,
proportion and silhouette are key. Pairing
something slim (leggings!) with something
heavier (a leather vest!) creates a modern
balance. Chanel pearls? Always!
THEN: Azzedine Alaïa white bandage bra
and leather jacket
NOW: Herve Leger bandage top and Ralph
Lauren leather vest
JOE’S TAKE: Perhaps ELLE’s most defining
style trademark is a certain chic,
aggressive sexiness. Azzedine Alaïa, the
king of sexy and a staple in the pages of
ELLE since day one, pioneered this idea
to perfection —as seen in both the cool
juxtaposition of our “then” model’s wintery
top and summery bottom, and in her bold
stance, which says to me: “I’m sexy, I’m in
charge, I’m ELLE.” Ironically, the year ELLE
debuted also marked the arrival of another
young upstart, Herve Leger, who dealt very
specifically in skintight bandage dresses.
TIP: Today, not much has changed. After
a brief hiatus, Leger was relaunched by
Max Azria, allowing women once again to
unapologetically flaunt their assets.
KNIT ONE
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ELLE STYLE A TO ZEE
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THE QUEEN AND I
When Victoria Brynner, daughter of the
famed actor Yul Brynner, set out to publish a
collection of his photographs, she discovered
not only her dad’s appreciation for beauty, but
her mother’s ineluctable taste. Amanda Fortini
looks at how growing up among elite fashion-
obsessed movie stars and socialites can warp
and inspire your own style
Doris and Victoria Brynner,
Copa de Oro, Los Angeles,
1963. Photographs provided by:
Yul Brynner: A Photographic
Journey, Edition 7L of Steidl,
compiled by Victoria Brynner
I
f you are Victoria Brynner and your
father is the late movie star Yul Bryn-
ner, your earliest sartorial memories
are much like those of other women:
watching your mother transform into
some dazzling, fragrant, nearly unrec-
ognizable nocturnal self as she primps
to go out for the evening; or studying
her impossibly stylish friends, crea-
tures who, with their valley-deep
necklines and vertiginous heels, seem
more exotic even than she. The particu-
lars, however, are considerably more
glamorous. Instead of sitting around a
card table playing mah-jongg or bridge,
your mother and her crowd were loung-
ing around palatial houses and pools in
Gstaad, Lausanne, the Costa del Sol, or
the French Riviera. And your father,
rather than buying your mother the sin-
gle cashmere sweater she’d requested,
brought her a suitcase full of cashmere
twinsets in a rainbow of colors from one of
the fancier boutiques in Lausanne.
You remember, at age eight, standing
in the bathroom that belongs to your
mother, the Chilean-raised model Doris
Kleiner (Brynner’s second wife)—a
woman for whom dressing was nothing
short of a religion and the vulgar nearly a
sin—and fastening her Valentino couture
gown, a gauzy column of pastel layers, the
most exquisite dress you have ever seen.
(As you work your way up the bodice,
your mother offers a lesson on quality:
“Look how incredible, the way each loop
fits into each little hook! Notice how beau-
tifully it’s made.”) You remember the so-
cialite Gloria Guinness, a “style dictator”
who “tyrannized everybody,” arriving at
your Lausanne home dressed entirely in
beige, from sweater to shoe, the whole
neutral ensemble set off by an “incredible
necklace of green emeralds” worn under
her sweater—that “little touch” of colo r
making the outfit. You remember Audrey
Hepburn, your mother’s best friend, fret-
ting about “big events and what she was
going to wear to them,” as though she
couldn’t have “worn a trash bag and
looked great,” says Victoria Brynner, a
handsome woman in her late forties who
inherited her father’s immense, soulful
eyes. And of course you remember Eliza-
beth Taylor—“always late”—at home in
Gstaad: “We’d be ready,” Victoria says,
laughing as we sit talking on a tan toile-
print couch in her modest Beverly Hills
home, “and we’d go pick her up, and then
we’d sit there for two hours while she got
ready. Dinner would be at eight, and at ten
o’clock we’d be looking at jewelry and
deciding what pieces to wear!”
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Victoria and a friend,
Chanivaz, Switzerland, 1967
Bettina Graziani and Doris,
Deauville, France, 1961
These are but a few of the many women—
some of the most stylish in history, it
would not be an overstatement to say—
who populated Victoria’s girlhood and
who are now part of a four-volume collec-
tion of Yul Brynner’s photographs being
published this fall. (An accompanying ex-
hibition opened at Lehmann Maupin Gal-
lery in New York on September 12, and
another went on view at Galerie du Pas-
sage in Paris on September 28.) Though
the actor was best known for playing King
Mongkut of Siam in The King and I on both
stage and screen (he is said to have per-
formed the role approximately five thou-
sand times, and he won both a Tony and
an Academy Award for his portrayals), he
was also a prolific amateur photographer
rarely without his Leica. The collection,
titled Yul Brynner: A Photographic Journey,
consists of photos snapped by Brynner
himself as well as pictures taken of him
by celebrated photographers, including
Cecil Beaton and Richard Avedon.
Among the many remarkable aspects of
Brynner’s work is the unlikely state in
which he catches the very famous. These
aren’t formal portraits, visual hagiogra-
phies arranged by a studio, but neither are
they tabloid shots stolen by an antagonistic
lens . They’re a kind of sociological wildlife
photography in which the subjects are
shown in their natural habitats. “How did
he capture the usually camera-shy Vanes-
sa Redgrave being so intimate with her
two daughters, Natasha and Joely?” asks
Bruce Weber, who, in an essay for the
book, writes about an image in which a be-
spectacled Redgrave, chunky rings on two
fingers, lit cigarette in hand (a definite pe-
riod detail), reads to her young daughters.
As a member of the lofty milieu he cap-
tured on film, Brynner photographed his
peers; his pictures, you might say, arose
from a contract among equals. “His sub-
jects [are] either oblivious of his presence
or so comfortable knowing that nothing of
their being would ever be betrayed, know-
ing that his interpretation of them would
be one of beauty,” Victoria writes in her
foreword to the book.
The images from Brynner’s private
realm, including shots of Victoria and her
mother, Doris (who, at 79, is still a manager
at the Dior boutique on the Avenue Mon-
taigne in Paris), are organized chronologi-
cally: “divided by wives,” as Victoria puts
it. (Brynner had four.) “Some people said,
‘Oh my God! How horrible!’ ” Victoria
says. “And I said, ‘No, these are the four
women who marked his life and four very
distinct periods—different houses, differ-
ent sets of children, different groups of
friends .’ ” There is Doris, her dark hair
shiny as glass, gamely perched on a coun-
tertop for a lesson in martini making from
none other than Frank Sinatra. There’s
Brynner’s third wife, Jacqueline —white
shirtdress, bare tan legs, cigarette, chi-
gnon, vanity dog at her side—leaning in
seductively to listen as a mustachioed Sal-
vador Dalí holds forth. On the grand stone
steps of the Brynner house in Switzerland,
there is a young Victoria, nestled between
a dalmatian and Mia Farrow, who sports
corduroys and her signature pixie haircut.
These are artifacts from an era far more
elegant than our own.
Or maybe it was just more exacting.
“They all had very specific dos and
don’ts,” says Victoria, referring to her
mother, Guinness, Hepburn, the socialite
Marella Agnelli, et al. “How rigorous they
were in their life and their homes,” she
adds, dispelling any notion that the aes-
thetics in these photos were accidental. “It
was a commitment. There was a wardrobe
code for every occasion. Back then, if you
were just casually at home, you dressed a
certain way, and you slept in a certain
nightgown, and there was what was appro-
priate in terms of hair, makeup, and what
kind of shoes.” For her own mother, this
code meant mainly Balenciaga or Val-
entino, along with Balenciaga gloves
(“always in cream or white,” Victoria says),
made-to-measure Roger Vivier shoes, Car-
tier bags, and on more laid-back days,
capri pants (“bought at a place in Beverly
Hills called Jack’s”) worn with ballet flats
(“ballerinas”) and “little tops,” such as a
polo shirt from Lacoste. “Everything was
just impeccable,” says Victoria, using a
word she often employs to describe her
mother’s well- curated world. “I mean,
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every sweater was folded around a piece of
tissue paper.”
I ask whether these “strict guidelines”
were expressly articulated or osmotically
absorbed. “They said them,” Victoria re-
plies, in a near whisper. “I remember want-
ing to go out to dinner with a bag that was
too big and my mother telling me, ‘You
don’t go out to dinner with a big bag that
you’ve worn at work, during the day, or at
school,’ or wherever I’d just been.… It just
wasn’t done. It wasn’t done.” More that was
“not done”: Watches were never to be
worn with evening gowns. Makeup was to
remain light. Hair was always neat and
pulled back off the face. Nail polish, except
maybe on the toes in the summer, was ver-
boten. Going barefoot was the ne plus ultra
of chic, perhaps because it conveyed a bo-
hemian free-spiritedness combined with an
aristocratic nonchalance: What, me, have ob-
ligations that require shoes? Details like this
were meant to project an aura of leisure, of
sportiness—of not having to try too hard.
Ironically, of course, in its artfully unstud-
ied ease, the entire uniform was actually
quite studied. Not to mention time-con-
suming and expensive to achieve. Its point
was to signal (perhaps mostly to other
women) membership in a certain class
and, more rarefied than that, a certain
crowd: one with loads of free time and
even more money.
As we tour Victoria’s art-filled home—
there’s a Warhol lithograph of an Ameri-
can Indian (“My mother and I, we went to
New York, and we visited the Factory”)
and several of Konstantin Kakanias’ irrev-
erent “Mrs. Tependris” watercolors that
feature Victoria and Doris as characters—
I wonder aloud how intimidating it must
have been to spend one’s youth flanked by
international style icons. “It was just my
mom and her friends,” Victoria says, shrug-
ging off that idea. Later, I ask again: Didn’t
living amid such gods and goddesses affect
her self-esteem? “I didn’t compare myself
to them,” she insists. “If I’d been the daugh-
ter of a famous actress, maybe things
would’ve been different. My mom has an
incredible personality and style and her
own notoriety, but I found my own path.”
(Victoria and her husband head Stardust
Visions, a print and commercial produc-
tion company whose client list includes
many luminaries of the art and fashion
worlds, from Annie Leibovitz to Nick
Knight to V Magazine.)
But insecurity can manifest in various
and subtle forms. At one point, Victoria
e-mails me a few thoughts: “How was one
supposed to grow up and keep it together
the way they did, and how would we or
could we ever develop our own style?” she
asks rhetorically. She admits that she often
feels “ruffled, messy, crinkly” next to
women for whom there is “never a bad hair
day, never a sloppy sweat pant or stained
Ugg boot” and has struggled to develop a
look that departs from the received dic-
tates of her mother. “I think I became quite
hesitant for a while,” she tells me. “I was
always thinking, Is this chic or is this not
chic?” Her solution has been to forgo her
mother’s flats for ultrahigh heels, even at
the office—she calls the epiphany that led
to this shift one of the great “fashion mo-
ments of freedom” of her adult life—as well
as to wear lots of black, to the horror of her
color-loving mother. Small rebellions, to
be sure, but then how many aren’t? I can’t
help but think about my own mother, in all
ways impeccable (to borrow Victoria’s
term) and the rumpled, slightly frayed, I-
have-more-exalted-cares style I have culti-
vated in response, while still adhering to
her strict regimen of skin cleansing and
eyebrow plucking, and never managing to
shed her cares about the opinions of others.
A peek inside Victoria’s closet reveals,
on neat rows of padded hangers (“I never
have the hangers from the dry cleaners”)
Chanel jackets, Rick Owens pants, and
numerous pairs of Christian Louboutin
shoes. The uniform is there, only the de-
signers’ names have changed. In the next
room, we scan the meticulously organized
closet of her four-year-old daughter, Isa-
bella. “I don’t put that many rules on her….
She has her own taste, and she dresses her-
self in the morning,” Victoria says, as she
opens a drawer containing pair after tiny
pair of shorts, lined up like pastel candies
in a box. Inevitably, unavoidably, we are
our mothers’ daughters.
Elizabeth Taylor at
home, Hollywood, 1959
Mia Farrow, Victoria,
and dog Lina,
Chanivaz, 1965
Richard Brooks with Jean
Simmons and her daughter Tracy
Granger, Hollywood, 1959
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F
or seven years, between the
ages of 14 and 21, I had two
bodies. The split happened as
quickly as it took for an ortho-
pedic specialist to clip X-rays
of my back onto his light box
and, with a flourish of medical
authority, declare that I had
the progressive spinal disease
scoliosis. I needed, the doctor
decreed, to be fitted for a Milwaukee body
brace, which I was to wear 23 hours a day.
After the first year, I’d gain an hour out of
the brace with each biannual X-ray that
showed improvement.
The brace bracketed me from my chin to
my pelvis, from the back of my skull to the
middle of my ass. I was a rigid stretch of
metal bars—two running the length of my
back and one in front that ran from a plastic
chin pad down between my breasts to a
molded plastic girdle, which looked like
some rigged-up, perverse chastity belt.
There were straps and pads strategically
placed to prevent my S-shape spine from
snaking any further. A cloth pull strap al-
lowed the brace to be cinched tighter and
tighter, until I’d hear the plastic click as the
two sides of the girdle met. Now all move-
ment I’d never given a moment’s attention to
was rendered impossible. No quick turn of
my head, no twist or arch—this new, clunky
body functioned like a plank.
My first reaction was fierce; I was deter-
mined not to let scoliosis keep me from
doing anything. I went off backpacking,
the pack’s frame clanging against the
brace. I signed up for a white-water canoe
trip, knowing swimming would be impos-
sible and never bothering to test just how
quickly I’d sink if the boat capsized. I con-
tinued studying ballet, convincing the doc-
tor that the muscle-strengthening rigor of
the classes warranted an additional half
hour out of the brace three times a week. By
that first spring, all the gadgetry of the
brace had rubbed and worn my skin into a
patchwork of purple bruises and bleeding
sores. Luckily, my grandmother—who,
given the chance, might fix the world with
a needle and thread—slit and tapered
men’s cotton undershirts into a thin, skin-
tight layer of protection over my shredded
waist and hip bones .
But in dealing with how I looked in this
new monstrous contraption, I was less
fierce. I no longer fit in any of my cute T-
shirts and jeans. Actually, I decided I could
forget about cute. When it came to figuring
out what to wear, my entire goal was to hide.
Baggy was good.
Baggier was better.
The whole point of clothes was to keep me
unrevealed, to show as little of my new zom-
bie metallica as possible. I wanted invisible.
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everyday uniform ; I wore a Mexican peas-
ant dress with appliqué bluebirds when I
had to dress up. As freakish as I felt, it was
the late ’70s, and fashion was on my side.
Hippie had mainstreamed; loose was cool.
What girl sprawled on the high school lawn
Wearing a full-body brace for most of
her adolescence was teenage torture,
but the “monstrous contraption” also
left an unexpectedly positive mark—
and not just because it straightened
her spine.
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at lunch wasn’t wearing jeans and a peasant
top? Even the cheerleaders wore carpenter
pants. But though I might have been one
among a whole blousy flock of suburban
girls, where the embroidered peasant stitch-
ery ended, the shiny metal bars continued,
holding my neck and face in fixed posi-
tion—this body could not sprawl. A few
times I tried a turtleneck under an Indian-
print smock to hide the jutting plastic chin
piece, but then I just looked weirdly up-
right—and supremely uptight.
I never considered that other girls also
might have been trying to hide in plain
sight, that they too felt uncomfortable in
their bodies. It wasn’t that I was clueless
about my friends’ internal struggles; it just
never occurred to me that knotting them-
selves into the paisley halter tops everyone
was wearing one spring might be their way
of staying off the radar. Social and sexual
unease, a parents’ divorce, a brother’s ad-
diction—the whole existential tumult of ad-
olescence might remain unseen if the right
outfit could help them appear “normal.”
A couple of years into the seven-year
stint, my friend Bobby, who’d begun a long
and winding spiritual path, chided me for
expressing angst about my brace. “Count
yourself lucky,” he said in his new Zen tone.
“All of us have something that needs brac-
ing; be glad yours is on the outside.” I think
I rolled my eyes and shot him the finger. It
seemed way too “oh wow,” too guru-swami,
when I was immersed in such practical cal-
culations as deciding whether it was better
to use the allotted hours out of the brace to
take my SATs on Saturday morning, or to
wait and use my time for a birthday party
that evening.
By senior year of high school, I’d been
granted three, then a whopping four hours
of freedom. I could go out at eight and get
home by midnight. Hardly a party animal,
I just wanted to be out among other kids, me
and my real body. I was Cinderella. I want-
ed transformation. Not a ball gown with
layers of tulle, of course. Give me show-offy,
skimpy, body baring. I loved my white,
thin-rib corduroys: high waist, no back
pockets, just the single layer of fabric hug-
ging my ass. They looked perfect with T-
shirts—tight, tucked in, or, better yet, with a
bit of my stomach showing. (If big and bil-
lowy defined one half of the fashion spec-
trum in the late ’70s, tight and shrunken
defined the other.)
In my brace , there was always so much
to navigate—getting into cars, sitting in
soft-cushion chairs, to say nothing of the
nosy “What happened to you?” alarm of
strangers. During my few daily hours of lib-
eration, nothing the body could do was too
simple for me to revel in. And I did—
shaking and shimmying my hips at dance
parties, sneaking into the town pool to
skinny-dip. Just bending to tie my shoes or
feeling the slight tickle of cotton against my
skin or walking with a natural gait was my
secret amazement. Okay, sometimes I
pushed that walk into a bit of a sashay, just
because I could.
Yet unlike Cinderella, I didn’t lose track of
time. When the clock struck midnight, I was
already at home, pulling taut the straps of my
brace. Because the truth was, I was scared of
ending up bent, some kind of cripple. I never
once cheated on my back’s curfew.
There was another reason I was usually
glad to be back inside my brace, though I
couldn’t have admitted it then. It held me
straight. It held me. And it held me back.
For those fleeting hours as a “regular teen-
ager,” I felt the vulnerability my girlfriends
grappled with every day. Yes, I enjoyed
being noticed in my jeans, but I also
squirmed at being looked at. Having my
body seen positively, even admired, felt
awkward—and sometimes scary, like a
challenge or a dare.
Years later, some friends told me that as
teenagers they’d leapt into risky situations,
into the arms and beds of boys, not out of
genuine choice or desire, but for fear they’d
stick out if they didn’t. They’d gotten way
ahead of themselves, they thought. In high
school, I don’t think I was ready for a boy-
friend, let alone sex, though, again, I
couldn’t have articulated that to myself in
those days. But I didn’t have to; my brace
did the talking. If I didn’t have a boyfriend,
well, duh. If I felt unprepared to make cer-
tain sexual leaps—voilà—blame it on the
metallic nunnery. I had in the brace an ex-
cuse not to be a contender.
Weaning myself from it was a gradual
process: Six hours out became seven be-
came 10, until, at 21, I only wore the brace
to sleep. Then it was all over: the S of my
spine not fully corrected, but mild and with-
out subsequent progression.
However, more than 20 years later, I’m
somehow still a woman with two bodies.
Part of me walks through the world a girl in
clunky full-body armor, imagining that my
damage is constantly exposed to others. Yet
that same girl, the one whose body was a
board, learned to count on other aspects of
the self; I determined to be in the thick of
life, despite limitations (and remain regu-
larly humbled by the ways people manage
physical situations so much more extreme
than being trapped in a Milwaukee brace).
But I also get to be that girl just sprung
from a brace—still stunned every day to be
able to move. I know that keeping strong and
physically fit is critical for my back’s health,
but exercise is also part of the celebration.
Biking or dancing or even engaging in a
humdrum gym workout, I’m suffused with
a kind of joy. When it comes to fashion,
while I admit I’m not hiding anymore, you’ll
never see me buckling the straps of denim
overalls. I love the slouchy, easy pants or
dresses I see on other women, but my jeans
are always fitted, my clothes tailored. Re-
cently, I bought one of the peasant blouses
that are in again, but each time I’ve put it on,
I’ve thought, Why would I wear such a
shapeless shirt?—and quickly pulled on a
muscle tee. It’s embarrassing to admit that
my clothing choices still are in some mea-
sure dictated by the brace, that I’m still try-
ing to say “See, I’m not that girl!”
Last year I was back in touch with my
first boyfriend, a guy I’d met freshman year
of college and dated until I was a junior.
Since then, I’ve often thought how lucky I
was to have known a boy so kind and loving
that, when my five or six hours of freedom
expired and I was back in my brace, he’d
curl up behind me and fall asleep, holding
the two back bars. It never seemed to mat-
ter to him that for some hours of the day I
was encased in plastic and metal. Finally I
was going to have the opportunity to thank
him for this.
“What are you talking about?” he asked
as I began.
“My brace, my back,” I stuttered. “Re-
member?”
“Oh yeah,” he said. “I’ve thought about
you a lot over the years, but I completely for-
got about that brace.”
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Dear FKIA,
I love all the army fatigues on
the runway, but how can I wear
the military look without looking
like G.I. Jane?
—Jody, Cleveland, OH
Dear Jody,
It would take a heck of a lot
more than olive drabs to make
yourself look like Demi Moore
in her boot-camp, ass-kicking
movie turn . You’d have to
shave your head and invest in
a new body—which, judging
by Heidi Montag’s horrific
example, only someone with
the resources, connections, and
taste of Ms. Moore can pull off.
The beauty of this season’s
military garb is that you don’t
have to act tough to wear it—in
fact, instead of cargo pants and
patch-pocket shirts, designers
opted to use this humble fabric
to make elegant, feminine
dresses. Whether it’s the frilly,
’80s Russian–inspired numbers
at Oscar de la Renta, the
sporty suits at Junya Watanabe,
or the Monet watercolor shifts
(with army green sleeves) at
Dries Van Noten, modern
WAC-wear is perfect for
cocktails at Bemelmans.
Which is also to say that
these M*A*S*H -happy basics
come with more
than a dash of irony.
(Speaking of which, why is a
uniform meant for a 24-7 alert
soldier named after a state
of exhaustion?) Designers
seem to realize that women
want to embody a sense of
humor from time to time. It’s
an aesthetic challenge that,
I’m thrilled to say, they’ve
mastered over the past decade
in particular—and it works
best when high refinement is
shot with irreverence.
The way to wear these
battle-dress beauties is with a
poker face. Let the silhouette
speak for itself. Pair them
with leggings or tights and
wear a seriously trendy shoe.
No patent-leather secretary
pumps or slingbacks— I’m
talking super-luxe, sky-high,
lace-up or utility-buckle boots
in velvet or laser-cut lace to
give the look the spunk it
needs to stay on the edge.
Warning: Stay away from
accessories that drag the
look back into the trenches.
Studded jewelry, combat
boots, anything heavy or
masculine or that reeks of
a vintage shop should be
furloughed.
Despite the brilliantly
wacky humor and slapstick
sex-appeal of Major Margaret
Houlihan, no one wants to end
up looking like a cliché.
From Euro-glam furs to ultra-elegant riffs on
fatigues, Fashion Know-It-All Anne Slowey
applauds looking round-the clock chic STEPPIN’ OUT
everyone strives to act
anything but her age, and using
fashion as a signifier of one’s
mores is beyond passé. Women
in their forties dress like teens,
or don’t blink at sharing a
wardrobe with a daughter
barely out of college. And
don’t even get me started on
the rivalry between the dewy
freshness of a twentysomething
and the wax appeal (or not) of
a Botoxed middle-ager.
Against this age-agnostic
backdrop, this season’s grown-
up chubbies and drop-waist
coats—think prewar cabaret
chanteuses and ’70s French-
intellectual demimondaines—
seemed downright youthful.
From Marc Jacobs’ blush suede
wrap coat with Mongolian and
raccoon fur trim , to Fendi’s
bobcat and Lanvin’s painted
goat, the look is eye-popping
but not overpowering. But
what really make this season’s
furs so eminently wearable
for someone just approaching
adulthood are the new naive,
lighter colors, such as skin tone
and white.
Chances are, however, you
won’t be able to afford one of
these monstrously expensive
keepsakes (and nothing is more
old-fashioned than Mommy’s
shapeless mink). My solution?
Follow the lead of off-duty
models and toss a cut piece
(sort of like an elongated toilet
seat cover) over the shoulder of
a silk dress, tailored blazer, or
sweater. The shelf life for the
irreverent gestures of youth is
limited, so seize the moment.
Past a certain age, thumbing
your nose at the establishment
just gets old.
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Dear FKIA,
I’d like to wear fur, but I’m
afraid I’m too young to pull off
such a strong look.
—Caroline, Tulsa, OK
Dear Caroline,
In these sartorially
democratic times, there
is apparently no age too
young to be enthralled
with fashion. So if you’re
concerned about falling prey
to trends beyond your years,
fuhgeddaboudit—but how
refreshing that you care!
There used to be a time,
not so long ago, when age-
appropriate dressing was more
a concern for the under-40
than the over-40 crowd; certain
garments, like sheer blouses,
signaled a woman’s sexual
experience, a no-no for young
women. Even as recently as
the ’90s, the older generation’s
duds (tailored suits, brocade
cocktail dresses, and the
occasional fur) were only for
costume parties—and were
usually acquired by raiding the
’rents’ closets. Youth rebellion
takes many forms, and in the
twilight years of the twentieth
century, if you weren’t into
the outright anarchy of neon
graffiti-splattered Stephen
Sprouse (oh, my!), you could
poke fun at Mom and Dad by
mimicking them.
Not true today! Now
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BOTTEGA VENE TA TAVIK
LISA MARIE FERNANDEZ
HIT THE SURF, THE SAND,
OR THE DANCE FLOOR IN
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BEBE ADDICTION, $119, call 877-232-3777 | 4. Viscose jersey top, BOTTEGA VENETA, $620, visit bottegaveneta.com | 5. Gunmetal and pavé crystal brooch, EDDIE BORGO, $190, visit colette.fr | 6. Hand-painted
jeans, PROENZA SCHOULER/J BRAND, $550, visit proenzaschouler.com | 7. Satin sandal, NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD FOR LIBERTY, $850, visit liberty.co.uk | 8. Neoprene skirt, LISA MARIE FERNANDEZ, $295, visit
lisamariefernandez.com
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3. Bebe Addiction
8. Lisa Marie Fernandez
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4. Bottega Veneta 6. Proenza Schouler/J Brand
7. Nicholas Kirkwood for Liberty
5. Eddie Borgo
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TAO COMME DES GARÇONS JEAN PAUL GAULTIER
MIX COLORFUL MEXICAN-INSPIRED
TEXTILES, BALINESE BEADING,
AND ARCTIC ACCESSORIES FOR AN
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1. Wool jacket with crochet appliqué, HUSSEIN CHALAYAN, price upon request, at Ikram, Chicago | 2. Gem-studded rayon sandals, TAO COMME DES GARÇONS, $945, call 212-604-9200 | 3. Gold and crystal ring
with light blue topaz, DELFINA DELETTREZ, price upon request, at Opening Ceremony, NYC | 4. Archive patchwork and fur backpack, JEAN PAUL GAULTIER | 5. Suede wedge moccasin, WILLIAM RAST, $350, at
William Rast, L.A. | 6. Silk skirt, JEAN PAUL GAULTIER, $2,995, at Emphatics, Pittsburgh | 7. Hand-beaded cotton bolero, MEADHAM KIRCHHOFF, price upon request, visit meadhamkirchhoff.com | 8. Velour felt
hat, ALBERTUS SWANEPOEL FOR DEREK LAM, $495, at select Barneys New York stores nationwide
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8. Albertus Swanepoel for Derek Lam
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SACAI
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AND ACCESSORIES IN FAIR ISLE
KNITS—AND DON’T FORGET
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ELLE, OCTOBER 2002
MAXMARA
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upon request, call 800-CHOPARD | 4. Leather and wool knit boot, D&G, $1,185, at select D&G boutiques nationwide | 5. Fair Isle knit mittens, RAG & BONE, $140, visit rag-bone.com | 6. Wool knit skirt, D&G,
$325, at select D&G boutiques nationwide | 7. Wool knit bag with leather trim, D&G, $1,790, at select D&G boutiques nationwide
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2. Proenza Schouler
3. Chopard
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J. MENDEL MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA
WHETHER IT’S FAUX OR THE REAL
DEAL, MIX IN FUR FOR FALL
Primal
Instinct
ELLE, OCTOBER 2002
1. Human-hair zip necklace, BITCHING AND JUNKFOOD, $85, visit bitchingandjunkfood.com | 2. Rabbit-and-fox-fur hooded coat, CHLOÉ, price upon request, at Chloé, NYC | 3. Faux-fur and calfskin backpack,
CHANEL, price upon request, call 800-550-0005 | 4. Leather and faux-fur pants, CHANEL, $2,310, at select Chanel boutiques nationwide | 5. Beaver-fur boot, BRUNO FRISONI, $1,280, at the Room at Hudson’s Bay
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7. Michael Kors
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TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT AT
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ELLE, OCTOBER 2004
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3. Cotton anorak, $575, plaid shirtdress, $355, both, RAG & BONE, call 212-219-2204 | 4. Suede boot with rubber insole, JOHN GALLIANO, $1,500, visit johngalliano.com | 5. Tweed and faux-fur water bottle bag,
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JULIEN MACDONALD HERMÈS
CLASSIC SHEARLING SHAPES
UP IN EDGY INCARNATIONS WITH
TOUCHES OF TOUGH LEATHER
Shear
Bliss
ELLE, SEPTEMBER 1986
1. Paneled shearling coat with leather underlay, 3.1 PHILLIP LIM, $2,950, at 3.1 Phillip Lim, NYC | 2. Shearling jacket, JUST CAVALLI, $1,869, at Just Cavalli boutiques nationwide | 3. Sheepskin bum bag,
TOPSHOP UNIQUE, $460, visit topshop.com | 4. Leather and shearling boot, VIKTOR & ROLF, $760, visit viktor-rolf.com | 5. Sheepskin binoculars, HUSSEIN CHALAYAN, price upon request, visit husseinchalayan
.com | 6. Tweed skirt with shearling detail, PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND, $2,395, visit pringlescotland.com
SEEN AT:
BURBERRY PRORSUM
2. Just Cavalli
1. 3.1 Phillip Lim
6. Pringle of Scotland
5. Hussein Chalayan
4. Viktor & Rolf
3. Topshop Unique
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ALEXANDER WANG RICHARD NICOLL
DESIGNERS LET YOU FILL IN
THE BLANKS FOR FALL, WITH
DECONSTRUCTED MENSWEAR-
INSPIRED PIECES
ELLE, NOVEMBER 1988
1. Cashmere coatdress with chiffon details, JIL SANDER, $3,645, at Jil Sander Boutique, NYC | 2. Wool jacket, ANTONIO BERARDI, $1,515, collection at Curve, NYC | 3. Limited edition platinum-case watch,
TAG HEUER, price upon request, call 866-675-2080 | 4. Leather-trim wool bag, TRUSSARDI 1911, price upon request, visit trussardi1911.com | 5. Metal belt, MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, $2,965, at Maison Martin
Margiela, Miami | 6. Wool-blend skirt, ALEXANDER WANG, $550, collection at Bergdorf Goodman, NYC | 7. Sparkle leather oxford, MARC JACOBS, $775, call 212-343-1490 | 8. Suede and vinyl document holder,
YVES SAINT LAURENT, $1,395, call 212-980-2970
SEEN AT:
ANTONIO BERARDI
1. Jil Sander
3. Tag Heuer
2. Antonio Berardi
6. Alexander Wang
7. Marc Jacobs
8. Yves Saint Laurent 4. Trussardi 1911
5. Maison Martin Margiela
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ACCESSORIES
Natural
Charm
KICK UP YOUR HEELS
IN CHARISMATIC
COLOR-BLOCK RAFFIA
Embellished raffia mule,
MARC JACOBS, price upon
request, call 212-343-1490
Leather, satin, and raffia T-strap
sandal, YVES SAINT LAURENT,
$780, call 212-980-2970
Leather, satin, and raffia
ankle-strap sandal, YVES SAINT
LAURENT, $650, call 212-980-2970
Edited by
Ellyn Chestnut and
Kate Davidson Hudson
For more resort accessories highlights, go to elle.com/accessories
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WHITEWASHED OR LUGGAGE-
DISTRESSED, THE NEW MINI
BAGS PUT A DAINTY SPIN
ON UTILITY
Lambskin bag with white metal
chain strap, CHANEL, $1,900,
call 800-550-0005
Buffalo-skin bag with ram’s-
head detail, DEREK LAM,
$590, call 212-966-1616
Leather bag with linen
strap, MICHAEL KORS,
$495, call 866-709-5677
ACCESSORIES ELLE FASHION
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PLAN AN EXOTIC GETAWAY
THAT INCLUDES THE
SEASON’S SEXIEST STONE-
ENCRUSTED FLATS
ELLE FASHIONACCESSORIES
Turquoise-embroidered cork
flat, OSCAR DE LA RENTA,
$595, at Oscar de la Renta
boutiques nationwide
Embellished sandal with
chain and ribbon details,
LANVIN, $1,990, in December
at Barneys New York
Jeweled snakeskin flat,
SERGIO ROSSI, $1,265,
call 305-864-3643
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Resort
CORK ADDS A CASUAL
TOUCH TO CORAL-STUDDED
CLUTCHES AND BEACH-
FRIENDLY WEDGES
ACCESSORIES
Snake-print-leather and cork
wedge, TORY BURCH, $350,
visit toryburch.com
Embroidered cork clutch,
OSCAR DE LA RENTA,
$850, at Oscar de la Renta
boutiques nationwide
REMOVE CAPTION
Leather and cork sandal, SERGIO ROSSI,
$1,190, at Sergio Rossi, Bal Harbour, FL
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ACCESSORIES
Leather bag, HERMÈS,
price upon request, visit
hermes.com
Leather bag, HERMÈS,
$4,850, call 800-441-4488
Singular
Vision
TO CELEBRATE ELLE’S 25
YEARS OF ENDURING STYLE,
HERMÈS REIMAGINES
THE CONSTANCE—A
JACKIE O. FAVORITE—WITH
MONOCHROMATIC MATTE
HARDWARE, CERTAIN TO LAST
ANOTHER QUARTER CENTURY
AND BEYOND
ELLE FASHION
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ELLE FASHION
Heart-pendant necklace,
GIVENCHY BY RICCARDO TISCI,
$1,895, visit givenchy.com
Crystal-detail link necklace,
LANVIN, $995, at Jeffrey, NYC
Jeweled link necklace, CHANEL,
$3,025, call 800-550-0005
The Big
Heavy
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HEFT WITH INDUSTRIAL-GRADE
CHAIN NECKLACES
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Pride
ACCESSORIES ELLE FASHION
White gold and diamond bracelet
with emerald eyes and onyx on a
fabric strap, CARTIER, price upon
request, call 800-CARTIER
Platinum and diamond necklace
with emerald eyes, onyx, and three
emerald drops, CARTIER, price
upon request, visit cartier.com
Platinum and diamond ring with
sapphire eyes, onyx, and a 29.96-carat
cushion-cut sapphire, CARTIER, price
upon request, visit cartier.com
Platinum and diamond earrings with
blue sapphire beads and emerald drops,
CARTIER, price upon request, at select
Cartier boutiques nationwide
Cartier first pounced on the idea of haute, feline-themed jewelry in 1917, with
an animal-print watch dial “spotted” with onyx and diamonds. Inspired by the
house’s former fine-jewelry director Jeanne “Panther” Toussaint and first imag-
ined by legendary jewelry designer Peter Lemarchand, the brand’s iconic
Panthère pieces have always been more than just investment accessories. The cats’
“magic,” as Toussaint described it, was meant to represent postwar emancipation
and elegant empowerment. And devotees across the ages, from the Duchess
of Windsor—whose panther perched upon a 152.35-carat Kashmir sapphire
cabochon—to modern-day fans such as Gwen Stefani and Rachel Weisz, have
been bitten. The cats have changed with the times: In the free-loving ’60s, they
had friendlier expressions; in the free-spending ’80s, their carats leaped into the
thousands. The latest pets have sharp geometric angles and wilder, more powerful
poses— proving once again that when a Cartier cat changes its spots, the result is
nothing short of dazzling.—Johanna Cox
THE LEGACY OF THE CARTIER PANTHER
PROWLS ON WITH THE FRENCH HOUSE’S LATEST
COLLECTION OF ICONIC BIG- CAT PIECES
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october
2010
RoC
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SKINCARE
Supporting Female Filmmakers
At the 18th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival, RoC
®
Skincare will honor one
outstanding filmmaker with the “Gold Standard Award for Feature Female Director.”
The winner will receive a $5,000 endowment.
To celebrate, RoC
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Skincare will cohost a Women in Film reception at the exclusive Hedges Inn.
CALVIN KLEIN
Strong. Minimal. Refined.
Presenting Calvin Klein women’s apparel for Fall 2010. Influenced
by the power of precision movement, this season is defined by
the sexy yet sophisticated formality of cadet-inspired separates
with utilitarian details.
Check out Calvin Klein’s latest trends at Lord & Taylor, Bloomingdale’s,
and at calvinklein.com.
85 BROADS
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These are the words that best describe the elite members
of 85 Broads, a multigenerational global network of visionary
women who are blazing amazing new trails together every
single day.
To learn more and to apply for membership, visit 85broads.com.
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VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
JOURNEYS INTO THE GREAT
UNKNOWN WITH A HIGH
JEWELRY COLLECTION
INSPIRED BY A SCI-FI LEGEND
Long before space shuttles and deep-sea
submarines were even blips on the radar, the
grandfather of science fiction Jules Verne was sending
his imaginary characters to the farthest reaches of the
earth. Now Van Cleef & Arpels is honoring the
nineteenth-century French writer with Les Voyages
Extraordinaires. The couture jewelry collection,
based on Verne’s tales, features fantastical creatures,
such as a 15-carat diamond and pink sapphire manta
ray brooch (from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea) and a 25-carat asteroid opal necklace (From the
Earth to the Moon). To help preserve an underwater
legacy for the next generation of dreamers, Van Cleef
& Arpels has also teamed up with the international
Peace Parks Foundation to fund the conservation of
loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles off East
African shores. As Verne once wrote, “The sea is
everything.… It is an immense desert, where man is
never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.”
—Whitney Vargas
Beautiful
Dreamers
White gold clip with gray and white
diamonds, sapphires, and mother-of-
pearl, VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, price
upon request, call 877-VAN-CLEEF
White gold clip with
white diamonds and
onyx featuring a 34-carat
octagonal-cut tourmaline,
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS,
price upon request, visit
vancleef-arpels.com
Pink sapphire and diamond
clip set in white and pink
gold, VAN CLEEF & ARPELS,
price upon request, visit
vancleef-arpels.com
Sapphire and diamond
necklace set in white gold
featuring a 25-carat black
opal, VAN CLEEF & ARPELS,
price upon request, visit
vancleef-arpels.com
ACCESSORIES
White gold clip with gray and
white diamonds, cabochon-
cut sapphire, and a 48-carat
pear-shape topaz, VAN CLEEF
& ARPELS, price upon request,
call 877-VAN-CLEEF
Sketches for the forthcoming Stromboli necklace,
Olindias clip, and Andromede necklace in Van
Cleef’s Les Voyages Extraordinaires collection
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ELLE FASHIONACCESSORIES
OLD SOULS
Long before skulls adorned evening clutches and tie-dye neon
scarves, they were the calling card of Venice-based jewelry house
Codognato. Founded in 1866 by Simeone Codognato and now
owned by his grandson, Attilio, the Italian institution is best
known for its one-of-a-kind, archaeology-inspired skull vanities
studded with gems.
Ring, CODOGNATO, price upon request, visit attiliocodognato.it
GET TANKED
According to legend, Louis
Cartier dreamed up his iconic
tank watch in 1917 upon seeing
a group of Renault military
vehicles. The first of the
legendary timepieces was
gifted appropriately to the
American WWI military
commander in Europe, John
Pershing. In the decades since,
the women’s tank has become
synonymous with understated
elegance, gracing the wrists of
such women as
Catherine Deneuve and
the late Princess Diana.
Yellow gold watch, CARTIER, price upon
request, at Cartier boutiques nationwide
Pearl crystal, rhodium, and crystal
bead necklace, TOM BINNS, $1,275, call
917-475-1412
COSTUME BINNS
What do Michelle Obama and
Mary-Kate Olsen have in
common? A Tom Binns habit,
for one thing . The king of
costume jewelry punks his
pearls with safety pins, spikes,
and a smattering of time-
stained stones.
White gold and diamond ID
bracelets, CHROME HEARTS,
prices upon request, visit
chromehearts.com
LINKED IN
Verdura’s link necklace goes
with nearly everything. Showy
enough for strapless yet
suitably simple for the office,
this chain staple of Italian
founder Fulco Santostefano
della Cerda’s 71-year-old line
transcends the trends.
GOLD STANDARD
A girl’s favorite thing to steal
from her boyfriend isn’t his
shirt, it’s his watch. Introduced
in 1956, the weighty Rolex
Day-Date is still the masculine
touch of choice for women.
Yellow gold curb-link necklace, VERDURA,
price upon request, visit verdura.com
Yellow gold bracelet watch, ROLEX, price
upon request, visit rolex.com
HARD CORE
Launched in 1988 as a line of motorcycle gear,
L.A.-based Chrome Hearts soon expanded to
include jewelry as chic as it is tough—just like
the brand’s following.
ELLE CELEBRATES WITH ITS MOST
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OF THE PAST QUARTER CENTURY
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LAW AND
ORDER
When attorney Pamela Bradshaw
left the firm, she found her real style
“The dramatic coat and studded
bag make this perfect for a meeting
downtown.” Wool coat, LANVIN, $3,325,
at Lanvin Boutique, Bal Harbour, FL. Wool
sweater, $485, cotton-blend pants, $765, both,
STELLA MCCARTNEY, at Stella McCartney,
NYC. Sunglasses, ADAM KIMMEL, $285,
at Barneys New York. Vintage onyx ring,
from BELADORA, Beverly Hills, $995, visit
beladora.com. Lambskin bag, $650, lambskin
boots, $670, both, ALEXANDER WANG, visit
alexanderwang.com
MONDAY10A.M.
“On the rare day I don’t have to meet with
investors or go out after work, I’ll wear
something simple like this—punctuated by
a great heel.” Wool and cashmere sweater, $755,
wool trousers, $735, both, STELLA MCCARTNEY, at
Stella McCartney, NYC. Chiffon blouse, VINCE,
$195, visit vince.com. Printed pony-hair jacket,
ETRO, price upon request, at Etro, Beverly Hills.
Velvet pumps, LOUIS VUITTON, $1,605, visit
louisvuitton.com
TUESDAY1 P.M.
In December, 33-year-old Manhattan attorney Pamela Brad-
shaw left law-firm life—and its accompanying staid wardrobe—to
join Kurron Capital, a private equity company. As general counsel
and partner at Kurron , the graduate of Brown University and Har-
vard Law now divides her days between a full legal load—primarily
drafting documents and handling contracts—and the demands of
business development, including plenty of after-hours networking.
Her day-to-night schedule calls for “sleek, feminine” silhouettes, she
says, and a rotation of textured, mostly black sheaths by D&G and
Diane von Furstenberg, high-waisted trousers and tailored jackets
by Theory, and statement heels from Stella McCartney and Ba-
lenciaga. On weekends, when Bradshaw isn’t volunteering at New
York Needs You, a nonprofit that mentors first-generation college
graduates, her style veers distinctly downtown. “Off-duty means leg-
gings and a big cashmere sweater at [West Village restaurant] Little
Branch,” she says. “And, depending on
what kind of week I’ve had, maybe my
thigh-high boots!”— Johanna Cox
Pop Rocks
“I usually go pretty minimal with
jewelry, but I have a weakness for
ultrafeminine rings with colored
stones.” Silver and rose gold rings
with blue topaz, rhodolite, or amethyst,
POMELLATO, prices upon request, call
212-879-2118. Wool-and-nylon blazer,
MM COUTURE BY MISS ME, $128, visit
missme.com
Bag It Up
“With clothes, I favor black to
a fault. This camel bag lightens
up my look—and still goes with
everything in my closet.” Above :
Lizard-strap watch with diamond
bezel and markers, DAVID YURMAN,
$3,550, visit davidyurman.com.
Leather boot, COLE HAAN, $348,
visit colehaan.com. Left: Mohair-
and-wool-blend coat, DIANE VON
FURSTENBERG, $725, call 646-486-
4800. Leather bag, MANGO, $120,
visit mango.com
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FRIDAY3P.M.
“This blush tone is just so striking
and in this style could work on almost
any day of the year.” Cotton long-
sleeve dress, LOUIS VUITTON, $2,720, call
866-VUITTON. Wool twill coat, MARC
JACOBS, $1,900, at Marc Jacobs, NYC.
Leather bag, ALEXANDER WANG, $1,050, visit
alexanderwang.com
THURSDAY6P.M.
“This works for the office and for
after-hours—maybe for the ballet or
a Broadway show.” Gathered jersey
dress, BURBERRY PRORSUM, $2,495, visit
burberry.com. Yellow gold earrings, MARCO
BICEGO, $1,990, call 866-4-BICEGO. Calf-
hair bag, COACH, $328, call 866-262-2440
“I don’t bother with trendy
looks that last half a season,
but I’m drawn to silhouettes—
like this dress—I’ve never seen
before.” Faux-fur coat, RICHARD
NICOLL , $1,175, visit richardnicoll
.com. Diamond stud earrings,
TACORI, $1,490, visit tacori.com.
Open-shoulder cocktail dress,
ALEXANDER WANG, $925, visit
alexanderwang.com
Modern Architecture
WEDNESDAY2P.M.
“Wearing a cozy sweater this way
is so unexpected and elegant—a
great look for a big presentation.”
Wool sweater, $590, laminated jersey
skirt, $590, both, PRADA, similar styles
at select Prada boutiques nationwide.
Vintage gold necklace, price upon
request, gold and gemstone bangles,
$1,550–$1,850, all, from BELADORA,
Beverly Hills, visit beladora.com.
Stainless steel watch, CARAVELLE BY
BULOVA, $90, visit bulova.com. Suede
belt, SALVATORE FERRAGAMO, $240,
call 800-628-8916. Patent leather
pumps, BRIAN ATWOOD, $660, at
Footcandy, Los Angeles
“The retro style of this sandal
is playful but not over-the-top.”
Leather platform sandal, REED
KRAKOFF, $650, call 877-733-3525.
Leather messenger bag, TORY
BURCH, $550, visit toryburch.com
Nice Touch
“Sleekly tailored long-sleeve
dresses are great investments—I
wear them everywhere, even on the
weekend.” Cashgora dress, PRADA,
$2,870, visit prada.com. Rose gold
bangle with rock crystal and diamonds,
IVANKA TRUMP FINE JEWELRY, $3,000,
visit ivankatrumpcollection.com
Dress Request
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A lot can happen in two and a half decades. It was nearly
impossible to settle on the most iconic collections of the past 25
years. Painful cuts were made (check out ELLE.com for those
collections ). What remains are the designs that changed the
course of fashion thanks to utter originality, wit and
craftsmanship, or just plain beauty. From Gaultier’s cone bras
and Stephen Sprouse’s monochromatic knits to YSL’s army
pants and Chanel’s biker shorts, to the more recent offerings of
Rei Kawakubo, Marc Jacobs, Miuccia Prada, Alber Elbaz, and
the late Alexander McQueen—it’s startling to see how clothes
have evolved toward a more subtle, elegant, and personal
expression. As fashion has become more accessible over the
past decade, more recent trends really do hold up against the
THE DRESSING ROOM
PREP MANIA
1985
America adores Lisa
Birnbach’s prepster Bible.
Pastel polos, lockjaws, and
nicknames Tripp and Muffy
are all the rage.
AEROBICIZE ME
1985
Jamie Lee Curtis feels the
burn in James Bridges’
Perfect. Home exercise
machines and unitard sales
skyrocket.
HAIR BANDS
1985
Mötley Crüe releases
“Smokin’ in the Boys
Room.” Aqua Net and
eyeliner? Suddenly badass.
DANCING IN THE STREET
1985
LL Cool J releases his debut
album, Radio, with Def Jam.
Boom boxes and B-boys
(bre -dancers) rejoice.
LOVE IS IN THE AIR
1985
Sylvester Stallone marries
Brigitte Nielsen. Rambo:
First Blood Part II hits
theaters .
MURDER, SHE WROTE
1986
The preppy killer, Robert
Chambers, strikes. A dark
cloud hovers over WASP
headquarters, the Upper
East Side.
TIME SUCK
1985
Once upon a time, before
Facebook, there were all
eight corners and 12 edges
of the Rubik’s Cube for
wasting time.
FUTURE’S SO BRIGHT
1985
Ray-Ban sunglasses win a
CFDA award. The beloved
Wayfarer wins a
permanent place in
teenagers’ hearts.
RIP IT GOOD
1985
Velcro makes sneakers
(Reeboks) and homework
(Trapper Keepers) cool.
HI-TECH
1985
Seven years after Sony
cofounder Masaru Ibuka
yearned for tunes aboard
international flights, the
Walkman gets movers
grooving.
SHOULDER PADS
1985
Secretary chic takes
hold. Women’s shoulders
become all business, all
the time.
HIGH STYLE
1985
Girls Just Want to Have
Fun premieres . Perky
ponytails and stirrup pants
join the party.
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F/W 1985
Yves Saint
Laurent,
S/S 1988
Thierry
Mugler,
F/W 1989
Donna Karan,
F/W 1991
Gucci, F/W 1995
Versace,
S/S 1994
Jean Paul Gaultier, F/W 1986 Oscar de la Renta, F/W 1985
Christian
LaCroix,
F/W
1988
Yohji Yamamoto, S/S 1999 Gucci, F/W 1997
Chanel,
S/S 1981
Ralph
Lauren,
S/S 1989
Comme des
Garçons ,
S/S 1997
Romeo
Gigli, F/W
1989
Emanuel Ungaro,
S/S 1988
Calvin Klein,
S/S 1988
Perry Ellis,
S/S 1993
Gianfranco
Ferré, S/S
1989
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1993
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REACHING FOR THE STARS
1986
Seconds into its flight, the
space shuttle Challenger
explodes, killing seven
Americans.
CONSERVATIVE PARTY
1987
British prime minister
Margaret Thatcher
is elected for an
unprecedented third
term. Is BFFs with
President Reagan.
I WANT YOUR...
1987
Former Wham! front man
George Michael graces
the cover of his solo
debut, Faith, in a biker
jacket and earring.
New boyfriend dress
code emerges.
MIGHT AS WELL FACE IT
1986
Robert Palmer’s
“Addicted to Love” video
premieres. The ultimate
sexbot look is born: a
tight black dress and
red lips.
FADING GLORY
1987
Andy Warhol dies; Wall
Street crumbles. Greed is
no longer good.
WITHOUT BORDERS
1989
East and West Germany
begin reunification with
the fall of the Berlin Wall.
VROOM, VROOM
1986
Girls fall in love with
Pretty in Pink character
Blane McDonnagh—and
his hot sports car.
FAST TIMES
1986
The stacking of Swatch
watches is cool. Artist
Keith Haring creates a
limited-edition ticker for
the brand.
SMACKDOWN
1988
Slap bracelets replace
Care Bears as must-have
children’s item.
HOLD TIGHT
1986
The scrunchie and
other cute-name hair
accessories (banana
clip) grab hold of perms
everywhere.
BACK TO FRONT
1987
Invented to stow gear
above one’s rear, the
fanny pack frenzy is in full
tilt—world wears trend
backward .
IN THE MIX
1989
Debbie Gibson releases
Electric Youth. A year
after Tom Cruise stars in
Cocktail, tropical drinks
are still hot, hot, hot.
Dior
Haute
Couture,
S/S 2000
Junya
Watanabe,
F/W 2001
Gucci, S/S 2001
YSL,
S/S
2006
Prada,
F/W
2008
Lanvin, F/W 2009
Louis
Vuitton,
S/S
2009
Viktor & Rolf, F/W 2001
Rochas,
F/W 2005
Chloé , S/S
2006
Balenciaga,
F/W 2006
Calvin Klein, S/S 2007
Jil
Sander,
F/W
2009 Céline , S/S 2010
Marc Jacobs,
F/W 2010
Rodarte,
F/W
2008
Helmut Lang, S/S 2000
YSL, F/W 2004
Jil
Sander,
S/S
2008
Comme des
Garçons , S/S
2006
Alexander McQueen, F/W 2010
Prada, F/W 2003
Hussein Chalayan, F/W 2000
Alexander McQueen, S/S 2003
2000s
,
Balenciaga,
F/W 2008
more rarefied offerings of the now retired (or sadly departed)
éminences grises ; they’ve become more expressive and unusual, too.
Designers today truly are engaged in the quest for a modern approach
to dressing—a multifaceted one that captures the intimate, spirited,
curious, soulful, and intelligent personalities of women the world over .
How lucky we are to reap the rewards!—Anne Slowey
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Photographed at storied Manhattan nightclubs,
state dinners, Oscar parties, fashion fetes
abroad—and more recently, doing just about
anything anywhere, thanks to overzealous
paparazzi—these 24 women defined personal
style in each of their decades. Who can forget
risk-taker Grace Jones at the height of New York
City’s ’80s party culture, Carolyn Bessette
giving Manhattan a flash of exquisite minimalist
glamour, or our first glimpses of Sienna Miller, a
then unknown on Jude Law’s arm, full of
sunshine and bohemia? The common thread?
Certainly not just great clothes, but a unique
perspective from which to wear them.—A.B.
SHE’S THE
ONE
Debbie Harry, circa 1980
Jodie
Foster,
1991
Bianca Jagger, 1980
Kate Bosworth,
2007
Brooke Shields, 1988
Jennifer
Connelly,
2007
Grace Jones, 1987
Rihanna,
2010
Katie Holmes, 2008
KILLER LOOKS
1991
Bret Easton Ellis’ novel
American Psycho fuels
public fear of yuppie
bankers.
LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX
1992
Joey Buttafuoco: busted!
Woody Allen and Soon-Yi:
exposed! Madonna’s new
tome, Sex: published!
TRAGIC END
1993
River Phoenix overdoses
outside the Viper Room in
Los Angeles on
Halloween morning.
GOOD VIBRATIONS
1990–1991
Vanilla Ice’s album To the
Extreme drops; Marky
Mark and the Funky
Bunch join forces.
GRUNGE FEST
1992
Nirvana’s Nevermind is
No. 1 on the Billboard
charts. Kurt Kobain
marries Courtney Love.
HOOK UP
1995
Riding on the past year’s
wave of scandal (Tonya
and Nancy, O. J. and
Nicole), Hugh Grant gets
caught…er…red-handed.
CRUISE CONTROL
1990
Saab 900 becomes the
ultimate intellectual
yuppie wagon.
FOOT FORWARD
1991
For work? Manolo Blahnik
Maryjanes. For play?
Two-tone Rollerblades.
CAFFEINE HIGH
1994
Starbucks purchases
the Boston-based chain
Coffee Connection and
with it the Frappuccino.
INDELIBLE MARK
1991
U2 releases Achtung
Baby; the equally classic
Prada nylon tote reaches
height of popularity.
CHATTY CATHY
1992
Nokia releases the 1011,
the first mass-produced
GSM phone. Meeting up
for drinks gets a lot easier.
INSIDE JOB
1994
Boxing champion George
Foreman lets city dwellers
with no outdoor space
BBQ too.
Michelle
Pfeiffer,
1986
Elizabeth Hurley,
1994
Kim
Basinger,
1990
Daryl Hannah,
1984
Cindy
Crawford,
1991
Christy
Turlington,
1990
Isabella
Blow,
2004
Chloë
Sevigny,
2010
Sienna
Miller,
2004
John F.
Kennedy
Jr. and
Carolyn
Bessette
Kennedy,
1998
Sofia
Coppola,
2001
1980s
1990s
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Princess Diana, 1996
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Kate Moss and
Naomi Campbell,
1993
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BOY CRAZY
1996
Basketballer Dennis
Rodman “marries
himself.” The artist
formerly known as Prince
rocks our world.
BEAT STREET
1996
From high school dances
to Manhattan nightclubs,
everyone’s doing the
Macarena.
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
1998
The Pamela Anderson–
Tommy Lee sex tape goes
public, as does President
Bill Clinton’s cigar trick.
SNAP ATTACK
1996
Italian clothing company
gets political with
its United Colors of
Benetton ad campaigns.
TRAGEDY STRIKES
1997
The world loses two
larger-than-life legends:
rapper Biggie Smalls and
designer Gianni Versace.
FOREVER YOUNG
1999
JFK Jr.’s plane crashes
off the coast of Martha’s
Vineyard, killing
him; his bride, Carolyn
Bessette Kennedy; and
her sister.
DEPTH PERCEPTION
1995
Optical illusion
phenomenon Magic
Eye takes over malls in
America; makes cameo in
Mallrats.
BRAND RECOGNITION
1997
Logos large and small are
it—from Gucci’s G-print
mules to Fendi’s original
Baguette bag.
SINGLE IT
1998
Sex and the City debuts on
HBO. The Cosmopolitan
becomes the international
girls-night-out drink.
LUCKY CHARMS
1996
Elsa Peretti’s designs for
Tiffany and Co. win the
CFDA Accessory Designer
of the Year Award. Hearts
and beans adorn necks of
young swans everywhere.
NEO-HIPPIES
1997
The crunchy revolution
inspires teens to wear
tie-dye and Tevas and to
attend three-day Phish
concerts.
Y2K
1999
The millennium bug
strikes fear in the hearts
of computers everywhere.
We laughed, we cried, we copied their looks! Although these films and TV shows are, in some cases, 25 years old (just
like us!), their relevance lives on serving as inspiration for both the runway and our closets. Madonna’s layers of leather
and lace in Desperately Seeking Susan; Demi Moore’s Georgetown-appropriate diamonds, fur coats, and party dresses in St.
Elmo’s Fire; Claire Danes’ grunge-lite plaid shirts in My So-Called Life; Uma Thurman’s monochromatic wardrobe and
bloody red lipstick in Pulp Fiction; the eccentric Harlemites in The Royal Tenenbaums; the fashion-obsessed Upper East
Siders on Gossip Girl. The gang’s all here, and then some. Netflixing strongly encouraged.—Alexa Brazilian
REEL
LIFE
Napoleon Dynamite, 2004
Dogtown and
, 2001
Mad Men,
2007–
Lost in
Translation,
2003
The Last Days of
Disco, 1998
Marie Antoinette, 2006
Pulp Fiction, 1994
Showgirls, 1995
Reality
Bites, 1994
Kids,
1995
Blue Velvet, 1986
Fatal
Attraction,
1987
Desperately
Seeking
Susan,
1985
Working Girl, 1988
Less
Than
Zero,
1987
Heathers,
1989
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,
1986
Miami
Vice,
1984–
1990
Wall Street, 1987
Pretty
in
Pink,
1986
Dallas,
1978–1991
Absolutely
Fabulous,
1992–2004
Batman, 1989
Clueless, 1995
My So-Called Life,
1994–1995
Mean Girls, 2004
2000s
The Royal Tenenbaums ,
2001
Thelma & Louise,
1991
1980s
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Gossip Girl, 2007–
Rushmore, 1998
1990s
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’80s
2000s
’80s
’90s
STAR
ATKINS TAKES OVER
2000
Steak and cheese are
considered diet foods;
bread is neglected for
a decade.
NUMBER CRUNCHING
2001
Texas energy company
Enron’s stock goes
from $90 a share to $1.
Declares bankruptcy.
WARDROBE MALFUNCTION
2004
Justin Timberlake
exposes Janet Jackson at
the Superbowl.
Accident or publicity
stunt? Discuss.
NICOLE KIDMAN
Sweet sailor jackets, floral
prints, those mad Days
of Thunder ringlets, and
Tom make way for prim
Prada dresses, and finally,
true love—both with
Karl Lagerfeld’s pastel
confections and her own
country music cowboy,
Keith Urban.
BRAD PITT
Hollywood’s leading
man’s hair matches
his affairs: punky with
Christina; side-swept
and frosted with
Gwynnie; sandy and
sleek with Jen;
voluptuous and
chestnut with Angie.
JULIA ROBERTS
Pretty Woman walks our
way, as does her love of
boyfriend sweaters and
full-length skirts. Next,
it’s menswear all the time,
and the short do to match.
After marriage, three kids,
and an Oscar, luscious
blond locks and down-to-
earth chic.
DEMI MOORE
Side parts, oversize
sweaters, and Estevez
arm candy make way
for ladylike hats, Bruce
Willis, and blooming
bosoms. After a hausfrau
sabbatical, the flat-ironed
hair, Missoni dresses, and
killer stems go swimmingly
with her new beau,
Ashton.
MARY-KATE AND
ASHLEY OLSEN
Whatever the trend,
they’ve done it together,
from matching Betsey
Johnson and wire-rim
shades to bag-lady chic
to the current polished
and pretty, in Calvin Klein,
Narciso Rodriguez, and
Proenza Schouler.
DARK DAY
2001
Al-Qaeda-hijacked
airplanes crash into the
World Trade Center and
the Pentagon, killing
thousands.
LIGHTS OUT
2003
The largest blackout
in the history of North
America shuts down NYC.
Indigo Girls perform in
Central Park anyway.
EYE OF THE STORM
2005
Hurricane Katrina causes
the levee system to fail
in New Orleans. Disaster,
ruin, and heartache ensue.
LISTEN AND LEARN
2001
Napster’s free file sharing
is shut down. The first
iPod, with a 1,000-song
capacity, is unleashed.
CASUAL EXCESS
2002
FDA approves Botox for
cosmetic use. Juicy
Couture tracksuits
become an airport-travel
uniform.
HOT STEPPERS
2004
Originally developed as a
boat shoe, Crocs corner
the market. Fan Mario
Batali lends street cred.
ICONS IN THE MAKING
2001–2002
Stephen Sprouse and
Louis Vuitton ignite
fashion and art’s
commercial love affair.
Christian Louboutin
paints his soles red.
BIG LOVE
2003
The Hummer: required
equipment for
maneuvering suburban
jungles.
HEALTH CLUB
2005
Pilates, Power Bars,
and all things fit eclipse
smoking, beer bellies, and
all-night benders.
Demi! Nicole! Julia! Brad! The twins! These women (and man) have spent three whole decades in our
collective consciousness. We’ve watched them date around—who can forget Moore and Emilio Estevez
or Pitt and Christina Applegate?—and dress around (goodbye, teen angst; hello, red carpet) with the
same voracious appetite. Watch Roberts’ hairstyles evolve as she ascends to superstardom. Marvel as
Moore morphs from Brat Pack fashion icon to foxy mommy (Twitter.com/mrskutcher). Cheer as
Kidman goes from a shy Laura Ashley–esque Aussie to couture goddess, and more!—A.B.
GROWING
PAINS
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THE WORLD WIDE WEB
2005
A public forum for
expressing one’s
obsessions (blogging),
including mullets and
hipsters, gains momentum.
GIRL ON FIRE
2007
In one year, Lindsay
Lohan is arrested for
two DUIs and checks in
and out of rehab three
times. And that’s just the
beginning.
MAD MEN
2009
Taylor Swift wins MTV’s
best female video award.
Kanye’s crazy
alter ego steals
her moment.
OVERSHARE
2005
A year after Facebook’s
inception, YouTube comes
online. Navel-gazing
goes global.
A GREAT COUPLE
2008
John McCain taps Sarah
Palin as VP candidate.
Russia mysteriously
moves closer to Alaska.
LADYLIKE
2010
Chelsea Clinton is the
epitome of good taste,
as she weds quietly
with a gluten-free cake
and minimal Hollywood
celebrities in attendance.
THE GREEN MILE
2006
Cameron Diaz and
Leonardo DiCaprio fight
conspicuous consumption
by driving Toyota Priuses.
SHOW AND TELL
2007
Pants lose battle against
scene-stealing thong,
nicknamed “the
whale tail.”
HUGS ALL AROUND
2009
The economy only gets
worse. Enter the nurturing
Snuggie.
POWER AID
2006
Red Bull widely
consumed, especially
while trying to stay
awake through
Mission: Impossible III.
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
2008
Wall Street crashes;
Bernie Madoff swindles;
U.S. survives on
staycations and ramen
noodles.
“BAG OF DIRTY-LOOKING
STONES”
2010
Naomi Campbell defies
prosecutors at Charles
Taylor’s war crimes trial.
Fashion designers change jobs about as frequently as Sarah Palin. From who bumped
who out of the top seats to the most memorable flameouts, here, a not-so-politically
correct rundown of the past 25 years.—Whitney Vargas
GUNS FOR HIRE
1985
While everyone else is constructing
lamé parachute pants and crop tops,
DONNA KARAN exploits her workaday
Anne Klein experience to launch her
own Seven Easy Pieces collection.
1986
Hello, MARC JACOBS, ISAAC MIZRAHI, and
HELMUT LANG! Goodbye, PERRY ELLIS.
1988
A year after CHRISTIAN LACROIX debuts
his couture Toulouse- Lautrec-
inspired puffball skirts, he expands
to ready-to-wear. The ANTWERP SIX
puts Belgium on the map when
recent grads DRIES VAN NOTEN, ANNE
DEMEULEMEESTER, and company rent
a truck and drive their avant-garde
wares to London Fashion Week.
A little late to the party, MARTIN
MARGIELA joins in the fun next.
1989
MARC JACOBS revives Perry Ellis.
GIANFRANCO FERRÉ ousts MARC BOHAN at
Christian Dior.
1990
TOM FORD starts at Gucci. HALSTON
passes away.
1992
The late great ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
sends his subversive looks down
the Central Saint Martins runway,
followed by his first collection:
Highland Rape, featuring his
infamous “bumster” pants. Future
bestie Isabella Blow swoons, as does
LVMH, who installs him at Givenchy
four years later.
1993
Ciao, MIUCCIA PRADA! Capitalizing on
her earlier success at Prada, the
Italian designer calls her new line
after her own sobriquet, Miu Miu.
HUSSEIN CHALAYAN digs up clothes he’d
buried in the ground for his senior
Central Saint Martins show. Table
skirts and LED laser dresses to come.
1994
Two heavy hitters come out of the
gate: CONSUELO CASTIGLIONI at Marni
and RICK OWENS.
1995
HUBERT DE GIVENCHY retires.
1996
Mustachioed matador of grand
theatrics JOHN GALLIANO sashays
from the top post at Givenchy over
to that of Dior.
1997
There’s a new guard in town.
A laundry list of the great ’97
migration : MARC JACOBS arrives at
Louis Vuitton; NARCISO RODRIGUEZ at
Loewe and later that year launches
his own line; MICHAEL KORS at Céline;
NICOLAS GHESQUIÈRE at Balenciaga;
STELLA MCCARTNEY at Chloé;
MARTIN MARGIELA at Hermès.
OLIVIER THEYSKENS goes out on his
own. Sadly, it’s also the year
GIANNI VERSACE is murdered outside
his Miami home. Enter Donatella.
1998
After toiling away at Guy Laroche,
ALBER ELBAZ truly arrives on the scene
at Yves Saint Laurent. The romance
begins: He loves women. Women love
him. Doppelgängers VIKTOR & ROLF
debut at couture.
1999
TOM FORD flexes Francois Pinault’s
wallet and plucks YSL ready-to-wear
from ALBER ELBAZ. MIGUEL ADROVER
soon introduces high fashion to
dhoti pants.
2000
NICOLAS GHESQUIÈRE moonlights
at Callaghan. H&M hits the states.
The Prada Group, which owns
a majority stake in JIL SANDER,
forces out the matriarch of
minimalism, only to hire her back
three years later. She quits a year
after that.
2001
The British are coming! STELLA
MCCARTNEY turns the Chloé reigns
over to PHOEBE PHILO and launches
her own line; CHRISTOPHER BAILEY
rides in to Burberry Prorsum,
replacing ROBERTO MENICHETTI. On
the continent, ALBER ELBAZ takes
over at Lanvin; GIAMBATTISTA VALLI, at
Emanuel Ungaro.
2002
YVES SAINT LAURENT officially retires
from haute couture to lead the good
life in Marrakech. The spotlight
swerves to a younger generation:
Proenza Schouler’s JACK MCCOLLOUGH
and LAZARO HERNANDEZ, and OLIVIER
THEYSKENS at Rochas. BILL BLASS joins
the fashion gods in the sky.
2003
Brooke Shields may have said that
nobody comes between her and her
Calvins, but there’s one thing she
forgot: time. After 35 years at the
helm of his megaempire, CALVIN KLEIN
steps down. FRANCISCO COSTA steps
up. Following MARTIN MARGIELA’s exit,
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER tames his enfant
terrible image, becoming Hermès’
new creative director.
2004
TOMMY HILFIGER buys [Karl] Lagerfeld
Collection for an estimated
$30 million. Fashion loses two of its
best: GEOFFREY BEENE passes away and
TOM FORD leaves Gucci Group. STEFANO
PILATI takes over at YSL.
2005
RICCARDO TISCI replaces JULIEN
MACDONALD at Givenchy and leads
Paris’ newly appointed bad-boy
charge. Balmain’s CHRISTOPHE
DECARNIN soon proves people will pay
$2,500 for a T-shirt.
2006
FRIDA GIANNINI is named Gucci’s
creative director; OLIVIER THEYSKENS
arrives at Nina Ricci. DEREK LAM
adds Tod’s to his CV. Amazonian
stylist turned designer L’WREN SCOTT
puts boyfriend Mick Jagger on the
back burner to officially open for
business. DIANE VON FURSTENBERG is
named president of the Council of
Fashion Designers of America.
2007
Big brands get big buzz thanks
to the Gap’s PATRICK ROBINSON and
J. Crew’s JENNA LYONS. Target really
gets the ball rolling on its designer
collabs, which started with LUELLA
BARTLEY, later to include RODARTE
and THAKOON PANICHGUL.
2008
Blonds really do have more fun in
2008: HANNAH MACGIBBON starts at
Chloé, and PETER DUNDAS pops up at
a post–Matthew Williamson Pucci.
Following a two-year hiatus, PHOEBE
PHILO makes editors go gaga with
her first resort 2009 collection
for Céline. YSL passes away. After
throwing himself a three-day
Roman bacchanalia with a
retrospective of his work and
aerial dancers the previous year,
VALENTINO, feeling uninspired
by the industry’s increased focus
on the bottom line, proclaims,
“The world of fashion has now
been ruined.” He throws in
the towel.
2009
JASON WU makes headlines with his
Michelle Obama Inauguration gown;
Brit darling CHRISTOPHER KANE helps
out at Versus. Topshop hops
across the pond. Culminating the
bizarre rage for celebrities-
cum-designers, LINDSAY LOHAN is
named artistic adviser at the
house of Ungaro (for exactly
one season).
2010
Paging ALEXANDER WANG, PRABAL
GURUNG, JOSEPH ALTUZARRA: The year’s
not over yet.…
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pare shoes, layers of
chiffon, and tubes of
lipstick are flying back-
stage at the Veterans
Memorial Auditorium
in Providence, Rhode
Island. Minutes before
the Rhode Island School
of Design’s (RISD) an-
nual fashion show, stu-
dents are frantically applying last-minute
details to their looks. Senior Heesun Huh
is demonstrating how to untie her multi-
layered take on a traditional Korean han-
bok dress to a confused model. Meanwhile,
her peer Hayley Johnson paints tears on
her sad clowns—a little too in character—
who are limply standing around in leather-
harnessed tweed jackets. Someone walks
by with a giant papier-mâché head. These
are the apparel department’s best and
brightest, and the experimental fun house
of fashion on display hints at the core of the
department’s curriculum.
At RISD, which was founded in 1877
“to educate its students and the public in
the creation and appreciation of works of
art and design,” creative exploration su-
persedes practical business instruction. Of
the East Coast’s three major fashion de-
sign schools (including New York’s Par-
sons The New School for Design and the
Fashion Institute of Technology), RISD is
often the choice for teenagers who might
wish to be the next Calvin Klein but want
to make dresses out of melted crayons and
lasagna strips first. “Our students very in-
frequently do the expected. We encourage
them to feel free to experiment,” says
Donna Gustavsen, until this fall RISD’s
head of apparel design; she is a 1970 grad-
uate of the school, which also proudly
boasts designer Nicole Miller and fashion
photographer Steven Klein as alums .
“One of our main objectives is to help
them develop their own design identity.”
Back at the auditorium, it’s clear she’s
succeeded. It’s a day before the school’s an-
nual fashion show, which features the en-
tire student body’s outstanding looks of the
year and the senior thesis presentation, se-
lected by faculty and a revolving group of
industry critics. Gustavsen is standing on-
stage for the dress rehearsal, patiently field-
ing concerns: One model can’t walk in her
macramé rainbow skirt (Eric Dinges, class
of ’11); how will another unravel herself
from a three-piece jute, chiffon, and rayon
jumpsuit ( Jenny Lai, ’10) on the runway?
Despite the more surreal fashion on dis-
play— a Queen of Hearts ball gown with a
latex lace Elizabethan ruff (Hannah Kit-
tell, ’10); a knit bubble dress symbolizing
metastasized breast cancer (Egle Paulaus-
kaite, ’11); a Judy Jetson– print romper with
a star cutout across the chest (Caitrin Wat-
son, ’12)— there are also a handful of de-
signs that could easily fly at New York
Fashion Week. In fact, many will. RISD
and ELLE are teaming up on a runway
show to be held at New York Fashion
Week’s new home at Lincoln Center, fea-
turing the school’s top students in fashion,
textiles, and jewelry. In addition to a select
few pieces being photographed in poster-
size format by Dan King, a 12-member
SCHOOL
DAYS
The Rhode Island School of Design teams up with
ELLE to prove that it takes a lot more than expert
pattern making to earn fashion’s highest grade.
By Whitney Vargas
Desjardins’ layered
jersey dress
From left: Jewelry
design student
Tracey Wilder’s
aphasia-inspired
headpiece; fashion
design student
Lien Tong’s sheer
coatdress
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student
Caroline Hust
fits her knit
romper on
fellow designer
Lindsay Degen
Lai’s four-piece
jute, chiffon, and
rayon collection
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judging panel—slated to include Kate
Spade creative director Deborah Lloyd,
Tommy Hilfiger, Derek Lam, and jeweler
Waris Ahluwalia—will hand out a $25,000
Maybelline NY Fashion Next Award,
a $25,000 ELLE/RISD Design Award, a
$10,000 ELLE People’s Choice Award (se-
lected by ELLE.com users), and a Kate
Spade apprenticeship.
Among the finalists is Sang Dinh, who
creates formfitting dresses with zip-away
peplums. “I like silhouettes that look weird
the first time you see them but then
become beautiful,” says the Vietnam-born
junior, who dreams of following in Nicolas
Ghesquière’s footsteps at Balenciaga.
Another, Hailey Desjardins, focuses on
muted jersey layers inspired by underwear
as outerwear, which could easily hang
alongside those of her idol, VPL designer
Victoria Bartlett. And Lindsay Perkins’
organic wraparound dresses and samurai
pants are an exercise in, as the designer
puts it, “peaceful elegance.” She’s interest-
ed in sustainability and the romance of in-
digenous silhouettes, especially after
interning for small, women-run fashion
start-ups in Afghanistan and Rwanda.
All RISD students, who share courses
with nearby Brown University, spend
freshman year studying the general prin-
ciples of fine arts, from drawing to concep-
tual theory. After choosing a major,
sophomore apparel students learn the ba-
sics of design: pattern making , sketching,
and basic sewing. “Just when they can’t
stand it anymore,” says Gustavsen, only
half jokingly, they take on the school’s hall-
mark Innovative Project, with free rein to
design, say, a medieval- knight-inspired
metal skirt or a yellow Splenda- packet
dress, as two students did this year. Juniors
focus on knitwear and tailoring, rounding
out all the tools they’ll need to create a
three-piece senior collection based on
their wildest imaginings .
While designers are encouraged to take
summer internships in New York at major
fashion labels (recent grads have done so at
Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs, and Alexan-
der Wang), most value the school’s quiet re-
move. “There’s a creative freedom at
RISD, possibly because we aren’t located
close to the heart of the fashion industry,”
says Perkins (of the eco-friendly wraps). “I
think it allowed me to approach apparel ar-
tistically rather than as a response to cur-
rent trends.” Maybe in the years to come,
many of the 23 current graduates will suc-
ceed in clawing their way up New York’s
highly competitive— and decidedly more
earthbound— ranks. But for now, on the
big runway in Providence’s auditorium,
family, friends, and a beaming faculty led
by Gustavsen cheer every look made with
heart and dreams .
Fashion design
student Sheridan
Irwin’s mesh
chain-link top
Degen with her
exaggerated
anatomical knits
Clockwise from
left: Jewelry
design student
Ryan Thomas
Peters’ pendant;
Perkins’ organic
pullover;
models in Huh’s
hanboks before
undressing and
after; backstage
at the Veterans
Memorial
Auditorium
Fashion design
student David Yoo
with his nineteenth-
century-menswear-
inspired collection
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Dinh with his
octopus-arm
dress
Perkins
To see profiles of the top RISD student award winners and
behind-the-scenes videos, go to
elle.com/risd w w w . e l l e . c o m 265 E L L E
ELLE FASHION NEWS
Textile design
student
Heeyoen Uee’s
fabrics, inspired
by natural
disasters
Wilder modeling
her designs
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tweed pumps, $198, both, ANN
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sunglasshut.com
THE ELLE WORD
It’s normal to ponder one’s younger years
around a birthday, so for ELLE’s twenty-fifth,
we’ve combed through every issue, starting
with September 1985. From the iconic surfer-
style photos of a teenage, zinc-wearing Elle
Macpherson to fashion stories devoted entirely
to plaid, we rediscovered what it truly means
to be an ELLE woman. What emerged was a
perennial enthusiasm for personal style. This
month, we celebrate ELLE’s trademark take
on fashion with a guide to modern versions of
the iconic pieces that have defined the maga-
zine’s aesthetic, including sailor-stripe boat-
neck tees, razor-sharp motocross jackets, and
the classic white button-down (we’ve been pop-
ping the collar for three decades straight !).
Whether your look is preppy, retro, demure, or
all three, join us in celebrating all things ELLE.
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Cotton-blend
sweaterdress, FRENCH
CONNECTION, $118, at
select Bloomingdale’s
stores nationwide
Cotton and
merino jacket,
ANN TAYLOR,
$118, visit
anntaylor.com
Lace-detail cotton
shirt, LOFT, $40,
visit loftonline.com
Cotton-blend T-shirt,
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Sterling silver
cuff, TOM BINNS
DESIGN, $290, visit
tombinnsdesign.com
Sterling silver and ruby
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Leather bag, MICHAEL
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Leather bootie,
MANOLO BLAHNIK,
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212-582-3007
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BCBGMAXAZRIA,
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DESIGN, $1,195, visit
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Cotton denim pants, GRYPHON
NEW YORK, $185, collection at
Bergdorf Goodman, NYC
Leather belt, TIBI, $150, at
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NINE WEST, $89, call
800-999-1877
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ANTHROPOLOGIE,
$198, visit
anthropologie.com
Cashmere-blend knit top,
PETIT BATEAU, $161, at
Petit Bateau, NYC
Suede shoe, SPERRY TOP-SIDER,
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Nylon and wool fleece vest,
BAND OF OUTSIDERS, $1,010,
visit shopbandofoutsiders.com
Cotton jersey and PVC
tote bag, JEAN PAUL
GAULTIER, $595, at
Ikram, Chicago
Cotton striped top,
YIGAL AZROUËL,
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yigal-azrouel.com
The Romantic
The Classicist
The Wild Child The Tomboy
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TRENCH COAT
Lace-up and peep-
toe leather bootie,
GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI
DESIGN, $695, visit
giuseppezanottidesign.com
Patent leather bag, MULBERRY,
$695, at Mulberry NYC
Cotton-blend skirt,
MAXMARA , $495, at
MaxMara, NYC
Two-tone hoop earrings with
spikes, RACHEL RACHEL ROY,
$42, at Macy’s stores nationwide
Waterproof silk-blend
trench coat, MARC
JACOBS, $1,900, at
Marc Jacobs, NYC
Rubberized
canvas trench
coat, LANVIN,
price upon
request, at Lanvin
Boutique, NYC
Leather boot, VIKTOR & ROLF,
$885, visit viktor-rolf.com
Sequined flannel
dress, $695, leather
belt, $225, both,
TORY BURCH, call
866-480-8679
Pink gold watch with
diamonds, white
sapphire crystals,
and alligator strap,
DIOR TIMEPIECES,
price upon request,
call 866-675-2078
Leather and suede top,
H&M, $99, visit hm.com
Sterling silver–
plated cuff with
gold-plated studs,
EDDIE BORGO, $225,
at Capitol, Charlotte
Wood beaded satin and leather bag,
LANVIN, $2,895, at Kirna Zabête, NYC
Cotton-blend cape,
JUICY COUTURE,
$328, at Juicy
Couture, NYC
Patent leather pump
with bow detail, MIU
MIU, $850, visit
miumiu.com
Satin and cotton dress, STELLA McCARTNEY,
$1,137, at Stella McCartney, L.A.
Leather bag, MARNI, $1,071, at select
Marni boutiques nationwide
Poppy ring, MONET, $52, collection at
select Macy’s stores nationwide
Calf-hair bag,
MULBERRY, $2,650,
visit mulberry.com
Leather jacket,
BEBE, $259, call
877-232-3777
Coated bouclé dress,
REED KRAKOFF, $940,
call 877-733-3525
Leather sandals with aluminum
shield detail, GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI
DESIGN, $1,510, call 212-650-0455
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ELIZABETH AND
JAMES, $565, at
select Neiman
Marcus stores
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ORANGE, $425, call
800-HUGO-BOSS
Leather belt, VIKTOR & ROLF,
$875, visit viktor-rolf.com
Silk shirt,
EQUIPMENT, $228,
visit bloomingdales.
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Rhinestone
necklace, COACH,
$428, call 866-
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Quilted leather
skirt, CAMILLA AND
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Neiman Marcus
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Satin-trim wool-blend
blazer, MM COUTURE
BY MISS ME, $108,
visit missme.com
Lace jumpsuit,
TIBI, $455, visit
shopbop.com
Python clutch, BOTTEGA
VENETA, $2,100,
at Bottega Veneta
boutiques nationwide
Leather pumps with ribbon bow
detail, CIRCA JOAN & DAVID,
$110, call 800-999-1877
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plumes, SERGIO
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Swarovski-crystal-
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clutch, VALENTINO
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call 212-772-6969
Cotton silk jacket,
ERIN FETHERSTON,
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Gold and turquoise
ring, IPPOLITA, $2,200,
visit ippolita.com
Sequin-detail cotton-
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at Isabel Marant
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Leather loafer pump,
CÉLINE, $950, visit
celine.com
Cotton and silk
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BCBGMAXAZRIA,
$198, visit bcbg.com
Mink-fur-detail sandal,
GIANVITO ROSSI, $1,000, at
select Saks Fifth Avenue stores
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Satin skirt with crystal
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Goatskin bag,
GIORGIO ARMANI,
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Lambskin and shearling
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$2,950, at 3.1 Phillip
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visit anthropologie.com
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visit net-a-porter.com
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KERSH, $75, visit
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at select Marc
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hat, MONCLER
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$1,075, at
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Wool peacoat with
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$550, at select Barneys
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Cotton-blend bag,
STELLA McCARTNEY,
$1,235, at Stella
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Wool twill coat with
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visit missme.com
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$195, at select Gap stores
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SUI, $405, collection at
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$2,590, at Derek
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TEMPLE ST. CLAIR,
price upon request, at
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Wool wrapskirt with
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$345, at select DKNY
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Wool-blend jacket,
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Wool peacoat, NAUTICA,
$225, at select Macy’s
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visit hm.com
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GUESS BY MARCIANO,
$188, call 866-446-2724
Suede jacket,
ST. JOHN,
$1,395, visit
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ACNE, $769, at Acne
Studios, NYC
Patent leather flats,
AK ANNE KLEIN, $79,
call 800-999-1877
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TORY BURCH, $375,
visit toryburch.com
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ADAM, $395, at
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BEBE, $159,
visit bebe.com
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$995, at St. John
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visit katespade.com
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ST. JOHN, $595, at
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BOUTIQUE 9, $225,
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ANN TAYLOR,
$198, visit
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Silk dress, GUESS BY
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Necklace, H&M, $13,
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bow, EMPORIO
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Wool bag lined in cotton twill,
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visit llbeansignature.com
Cotton jacket, LEVI’S,
$70, visit levi.com
Leather clutch, COACH, $298,
call 866-262-2440
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Sunglasses, RAY-BAN, $145,
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Velvet dress,
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order at select Barneys New York stores nationwide
Leather and suede
fringe bag, CLUB
MONACO, $229, visit
clubmonaco.com
Quilted jacquard
patchwork jacket,
REBECCA TAYLOR,
$425, visit
shopbop.com
Polyester bustier dress with
draped hem, BCBGMAXAZRIA,
$398, visit bcbg.com
Sheer mesh peep-toe
bootie, GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI
DESIGN, $695, visit
giuseppezanottidesign.com
Lizard bag,
VALENTINO GARAVANI,
$3,870, at Valentino
Boutique, NYC
Python bag,
LANVIN, $3,595,
visit net-a-porter.com
Wool twill vest,
NICOLE MILLER
COLLECTION, $330,
visit nicolemiller.com
Denim skirt, CHARLEY 5.0,
$98, visit shopbop.com
Leather boot,
MANOLO
BLAHNIK,
$1,295, at select
Neiman Marcus
stores nationwide
Leather pump, DIEGO DOLCINI,
$875, at select Neiman Marcus
stores nationwide
Chiffon skirt, SUNO, $460, at
The Webster, Miami Beach
Leather and wool
bag, MARC BY MARC
JACOBS, $498, at
Marc by Marc Jacobs
stores nationwide
Faux-leather sneaker,
ALDO, $80, visit
aldoshoes.com
Leather bracelets, TOD’S,
$225 each, at Tod’s
boutiques nationwide
Wool-blend parka,
STELLA MCCARTNEY,
$1,675, at Stella
McCartney, NYC
Silk shirt, CLUB
MONACO, $129, visit
clubmonaco.com
Knit jacket, TORY
BURCH, $450, call
866-480-8679
Sterling silver and pearl
bracelet, TOM BINNS
DESIGN, $350, at Tom
Binns Megastore, NYC
Wool-blend skirt, DKNY,
$245, at select DKNY
stores nationwide
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The Romantic
The Tomboy The Wild Child
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Gilded metal
necklace with resin
beads and ceramic
roses, DIOR, $3,200,
at Dior boutiques
nationwide
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understands that giving the Fiesta a Ti-VCT engine will allow
it to squeeze every last drop. Or that a line cutting through
the taillamp will make the Fiesta more aerodynamic,
and therefore more fuel-efficient. But these are only a few
of the many reasons the Fiesta can go farther than so many
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MOTOCROSS JACKET
Satin pump,
CHARLOTTE
OLYMPIA, $1,144, at
Kirna Zabête, NYC
Leather jacket,
COACH, $698,
at Coach stores
nationwide
Lacquer bangles, ELSA
PERETTI, TIFFANY &
CO., $395 each, visit
tiffany.com
Silk chiffon
top, BEBE, $79,
visit bebe.com
Studded silk skirt,
TIBI, $325, at select
Bloomingdale’s
stores nationwide
Lambskin jacket,
BALENCIAGA BY NICOLAS
GHESQUIÈRE, $2,595, at
Barneys New York
Printed silk skirt,
NINA RICCI, $1,990,
visit nina-ricci.fr
Gold-plated earrings
with crystal detail,
NINA RICCI, $275,
visit nina-ricci.fr
Leather pants,
ISABEL MARANT,
$1,850, at Isabel
Marant, NYC
Metal, glass, and
textile necklace,
ALDO, $40, visit
aldoshoes.com
Patent leather clutch,
MOSCHINO CHEAP
AND CHIC, $395, visit
moschino.com
Leather jacket, JEAN
PAUL GAULTIER,
$3,995, visit
neimanmarcus.com
Leather jacket,
GUESS, $308, visit
guess.com
Chiffon dress,
PROENZA
SCHOULER, $850,
collection at saks.com
Suede peep-toe pump,
BARBARA BUI, $785, at
Barbara Bui, NYC
Leather T-shirt,
CALVIN KLEIN, $199,
visit calvinklein.com
Necklace, BANANA REPUBLIC,
$98, visit bananarepublic.com
Suede bootie,
BEBE, $189,
visit bebe.com
Leather boot,
TORY BURCH,
$495, visit
toryburch.com
Pony-hair
chain-handle
bag, DOLCE &
GABBANA, $1,345,
at select Dolce &
Gabbana boutiques
nationwide
Calfskin bag, LOEWE, $1,600,
collection at Bergdorf Goodman, NYC
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The Romantic
The Lady The Neo-Prep
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A FEW
GOOD
MEN
We proudly present three more reasons to pay homage to the mid-’80s, with the next
crop of bright young things. Photographed by Doug Inglish
CLARK DUKE, 25: The Straight Man
Adorably harried star of last spring’s Hot
Tub Time Machine and one-liner clincher
in Kick-Ass—who just may get his own su-
perhero costume in the inevitable sequel.
Duke’s 2007 Internet series with Michael
Cera, Clark and Michael, remains the
object of online fandemonium.
I hear you’ve been to the Playboy Mansion.
Hell yeah, they had the Hot Tub DVD-
release party there. That’s big-time . How
was it? I’m obsessed with that genera-
tion of dudes—Hugh Hefner, Burt Reyn-
olds, James Caan—and it feels like
you’re back in that era there. I just have a
weird affinity for old dudes.… That’s
going to read great in print.
DAVE FRANCO, 25: The Breakout
Funny or Die sensation (as his older bro’s
much tortured protégé in the viral mock-
tutorials Acting With James Franco ), who re-
cently appeared as a cocky med student in
the final season of Scrubs and as Zac Efron’s
departed friend in Charlie St. Cloud.
What else do you want to do before you’re
30? I picked up the guitar a year and a
half ago, so, on the record, one day I want
to play a concert for…50 people. Fifty?
You’re really shooting high. I’m gonna keep
my bar low for now. What’s the best part of
being 25? Now that I’m older, I look 17
instead of 16. Everyone says it’s good to
look young in this business, but damn, I
just want to look my age!
DONALD GLOVER, 27: The Quadruple
Threat Comedian, former 30 Rock
writer , star of NBC’s Community, and se-
rious rapper. (Well, not too serious: His
album Culdesac features lyrics à la
“crowd at my shows more mixed than
Rashida Jones.”)
Do you think you can keep all this up? It’s
the same as asking, Do you think you’ll
live forever? No. But I’m going to try!
Also, I’m working on a device that will
make me live forever. When did you realize
you’d crossed over into adulthood? The first
time my dentist said, “You have to start
flossing. Gum activity is related to heart
activity.” They never say that to kids. That’s
legit adult shit. —Nojan Aminosharei
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Matching Stephen Frears with Ta-
mara Drewe is a marriage made if not
in heaven, then in one of the racier
precincts of purgatory. Based on the
graphic novel by British writer and car-
toonist Posy Simmonds and starring an
especially winning Gemma Arterton
as the naughty but nice title character,
Tamara Drewe harks back to the rustic
English comedies of the 1950s, which
tended to be a bit cute. Cute doesn’t
exist in the cinematic lexicon of the di-
rector who made such tart fare as The
Queen, My Beautiful Laundrette, and The
Grifters—although he’s not above doing
sappy for a paycheck (e.g., the egregious
Liam). But when Frears is being Frears,
he’s gleefully ruthless, which gives his new film an unpredict-
able sharp edge that keeps it not only uproarious but delightfully
smart. Thanks to its heroine’s predatory predilections, Tamara
Drewe is something of a bedroom farce. But bolstered by expert
performances, it casts a wider net of desire and attachment, rang-
ing from a dismayingly exploitative marriage well past its expira-
tion date to the plot-driving antics of two off-the-leash adolescent
girls lusting for life and the hot drummer of a band called the
Swipes. It’s impossible to watch Tamara Drewe without finding
some aspect of yourself in it, embarrassing, ecstatic, or both.
The action turns on twin pivots. One is successful newspa-
per columnist Tamara’s triumphal return to the homestead she’s
inherited; a former ugly duckling turned killer swan, she’s writ-
ing a roman à clef while hooking up with the rock-star drummer
(Dominic Cooper, looking just cheesy enough to be authentic).
The other is the writers’ retreat run on a pretty farm by the
accomplished plain-Jane Beth (Tamsin Greig) and starring her
husband, Nicholas (Roger Allam), the author of popular crime
novels whose ego is much bigger than his talent. Nicholas rewards
Beth’s expert management of his career by cheating on her non-
stop. Fortunately, each woman’s life features a pertinent extra
man. Tamara’s is her handsome high school sweetheart Andy
(Luke Evans), who is fixing up her house, while Beth’s is Glen (Bill
Camp), a shaggy but insightful American professor struggling to
write a biography of Thomas Hardy (Simmonds’ wink at her dis-
tant source material, Far From the Madding Crowd). Those orbits
overlap like smoothly whirring gears, but just when you think all
is amusingly predictable, the filmmakers spring a surprise that
shocked some critics at Cannes but just might leave you with a
wicked grin on your face.
Last year, British actress Carey Mulligan became an overnight
star in at least two countries—hers and ours—with her Oscar-
nominated performance as a naïve, eagerly seduced London
schoolgirl in An Education. Oscar buzz hovers over her haunting
new film, Never Let Me Go, in which she conveys a quiet authority as
a young woman coping with a sadness that is all too earned. Like
the Kazuo Ishiguro novel it’s based on, Never Let Me Go explores
LOVE AND DEATH
England’s It Girls Gemma Arterton and
Carey Mulligan star in two outstanding
films: an insightful comedy and a
provocative, beautifully subtle sci-fi
drama. Karen Durbin reviews
Knightley,
Mulligan,
and Garfield
in Never Let
Me Go
Arterton
and Evans
in Tamara
Drewe
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VAMPIRES IN AMERICA
Matt Reeves’ Let Me In proves
that American remakes of terrific
foreign films needn’t suck, even
when the leading lady is a 12-year-
old vampire. The Swedish original,
Let the Right One In, is a cinematic
ode to loneliness. Even when the
remake goes for the gore, Chloe
Moretz and The Road’s Kodi
Smit-McPhee keep things
touchingly real.
Katherine Heigl isn’t just beautiful,
she can play smart with the right
material. After her recent terrible
choices, the brightly written Life
as We Know It hits the spot, with
Heigl and hunky Josh Duhamel
at daggers drawn until they must
care for an orphaned baby girl.
The hilarious, captivating tot would
wobble off with the movie except
that she and the romantic leads
have great triple chemistry.
THREE’S COMPANY
PSYCH 101
The couple who made the
memorable Half Nelson excel again
with their exuberant yet moving It’s
Kind of a Funny Story. Keir Gilchrist
is terrific as a brainy, overwhelmed
teen who gets more than he
bargained for when he checks into a
hospital psych ward for relief. As his
unlikely mentor, Zach Galifianakis
gives a tragicomic performance
that’s pure grace.—K.D.
WHAT TO
SEE NOW
TRUST US
a futuristic dystopia in the vein of such post-9/11 films
as Children of Men, The Road, and this year’s The Book of
Eli. Anxious times make for anxious movies, but direc-
tor Mark Romanek and his screenwriter Alex Garland
ring welcome changes on that bleak, violent genre. For
starters, its main character, Mulligan’s Kathy, is female,
and the landscape she inhabits is no apocalyptic waste-
land but England’s soft green countryside. Better yet,
thanks to an unspecified medical breakthrough, life ex-
pectancy is now 100. Not for Kathy, though, or anyone
she’s close to. She, her best friend Ruth (an impressively
unglamorous Keira Knightley), and the young man
they vie for, Tommy (rising star Andrew Garfield), have
grown up in a special boarding school called Hailsham.
Like its other students, they’re clones who have spent
most of their lives being prepared to die young. That’s
why they exist.
What makes Never Let Me Go so disturbing is how
plausible it seems, and worse, how close. The word clone
is never uttered. The proper term in Hailsham’s tightly
closed world—presided over by Charlotte Rampling’s
elegant Dickensian headmistress—is donor, and they’re
told from an early age how special, even superior, they
are to play such a selfless role for the good of the larger
society. Romanek highlights the hypocrisy of their sup-
posed elevation with a scene in which boxes arrive full
of toys, games, music tapes, and other treats for the
students to buy with tokens they’ve accumulated for
good behavior. Opening the boxes, they squeal with
pleasure, but what we see is the worst sort of hand-me-
downs, shabby, broken, heavily used, and discarded—
just like the students will be within a few short years.
The real antecedent to Never Let Me Go isn’t Romanek’s
previous film, the stalker thriller One Hour Photo, but his
celebrated music video of a fragile Johnny Cash singing
Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt.” With Never Let Me Go, he has
depicted an entitled society rotting from within. The
subtlest of horror stories, it isn’t gloomy, just unbear-
ably poignant. As for its plausibility, in 2005, the year
that Ishiguro’s novel came out, a bioethicist at Brown
University argued in The New York Times Magazine that
“children cloned for therapeutic purposes” such as “to
donate bone marrow to a sibling with leukemia” might
someday be viewed as heroes. Surely victims is the more
honest term.
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This month,
Frank Darabont,
the three-time
Oscar-nominated
screenwriter of
The Shawshank
Redemption and The
Green Mile, helms
The Walking Dead
on AMC. Based on
the Robert Kirkman
comics, the drama
follows a group of
survivors stranded
after a mysterious
zombie-breeding
apocalypse. They
cling to their
humanity while
the undead roam,
and those humans
left devolve with
startling cruelty. It
may sound like a
knee-jerk answer to
vampire mania, but
it isn’t. The Walking
Dead is a gripping,
dark character study
of how we transform
in the face of our
greatest fears. Of
course, it’s viscerally
terrifying, too.
“The zombies are
frightening,” says
Laurie Holden, who
plays former lawyer
Andrea. “I’ve had a
lot of nightmares.”
When the ABC laugh riot Modern Family
debuted last fall, creators Steven Levitan
and Christopher Lloyd revived the
family sitcom by making often pallid
material—raising children, maintaining a
marriage—new again. (Effeminately gay
dad Cameron might just be the most
hilarious homemaker archetype
we’ve seen since Carol Brady.)
This season, FOX’s Raising Hope
continues to push the genre forward
with politically incorrect jokes and its
expertly cast uncouth brood: Martha
Plimpton is at her best as a chain-smoking,
foul-mouthed mom, and Cloris Leachman
amuses (and horrifies) as a semisenile
grandma who can’t keep her bra on.
FOX phenom Glee returns for season two , giving
lovable but lobotomized ditz Brittany (Heather
Morris) her moment at the mic in a—what
else?—Britney Spears–themed episode. Creator
Ryan Murphy, who developed the Britney-
Brittany story line after Gleeks launched a
Twitter campaign championing the idea , has
already dubbed it hallucinogenic. If that’s not
enough to make you want to go Gleek, John
Stamos makes his debut this fall as Emma’s
dentist/love interest (Justin Timberlake, as
rumored , will not), and the cast will pay tribute to
the campiest musical comedy of them all, The
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz reunites with Will Arnett and David Cross
for Running Wilde, a FOX series about a coddled playboy trying to win back the one
who got away. But Arnett and Cross’s shared gift for lampooning with cutting precision
is put to better use in IFC’s The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, an off-kilter
comedy (think The Office meets Strangers With Candy) with more teeth than Wilde.
The Walking Dead,
October 2010 on AMC
Modern Family, September 22, 9 P.M. EST on ABC;
Raising Hope, September 21, 9 P.M. EST on FOX
Glee, September 21, 8 P.M. EST on FOX
Running Wilde, September 21, 9:30 P.M. EST on FOX; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, October 1 ,
10 P.M. EST on IFC
Scary
Brilliant
Zombies
Families Matter
Britney & Brittany!
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TUNE IN
,
TURN ON
Reason
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Arrested
Alums
Are Back
This fall, TV networks boast their most addictive shows yet—from
Glee’s Britney-loving sophomore season to Conan’s cable debut,
you’ll know where to find us. On the sofa. Here are 10 reasons
why. By Nojan Aminosharei and Julie Vadnal
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Boardwalk Empire, September 19, 9 P.M
America’s favorite
overprivileged New Yorkers
decamp for Paris in Gossip
Girl’s fourth season, where the
show’s costume designer, Eric
Daman, says the clothes alone
are worth tuning in for. “I
wanted Blair Waldorf to have
And God Created Woman
Bardot feel,” Daman says. “For
Serena, I was kind of inspired
by Jane Birkin. We went full
used flats. What is the world
coming to when Serena van
der Woodsen is wearing flats?”
The six-hour PBS miniseries God in America may sound like homework,
but this compulsively watchable documentary manages to make
our country’s religious history as thrilling as any Dan Brown novel.
Portrayed in vivid reenactments (the Franciscans landing on American
soil, the spiritual struggles of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass),
riveting archival footage, and fascinating interviews with theologians
and religious experts, the complex relationship between democracy and
faith is a story line that never gets old.
Gossip Girl, September 13 , 9 P.M. EST on the CW
God in America, October 11, 9 P.M. EST on PBS
Even God
Watches TV
Is TBS really
the place where
America’s funniest
redhead will find
redemption? We
think so! For one,
it’s basic cable,
meaning Conan
will be allowed the
comedic liberties
that most networks
discourage (curse
words and dirty
jokes). It’s also
widely reported
that TBS gave
Conan full creative
control over the
show, and who
doesn’t want to
see what hatches
from this comedic
genius brain
with no network
noose to worry
about? Besides his
1,066,359-and-
counting Facebook
acolytes, even
the suits believe
Conan will prevail;
since he signed to
TBS, ad sales have
skyrocketed.
Conan O’Brien,
November 8, 11 P.M. EST
on TBS
Nikita, September 9,
9 P.M. EST on the CW
Cable
Will Work
for Coco
Maggie
Q
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NBC’s 30 Rock gets more meta than ever on
October 14, when it will air a live episode
(of a sitcom about a live show, semi-based
on a real-life live show). The cast—
including the notoriously unpredictable
Tracy Morgan, who once told a local El
Paso morning show, “Somebody gonna
get pregnant while I’m in town!”—will
perform twice, once for each coast.
30 Rock Live , October 14, 8:30 P.M. EST on NBC
30 Rock Is On
Reason
9
Not surprisingly,
Steve Buscemi
delivers in
spades in HBO’s
prohibition drama,
Boardwalk Empire,
playing corrupt
Atlantic City
treasurer and
bootleg booze
boss “Nucky”
Thompson with
equal parts
venom and
vulnerability. But
it’s Michael Pitt’s
out-of-nowhere
ace performance
as Jimmy, Nucky’s
cocksure go-to guy,
that gives tense
emotional heft to
this spellbinding
mobster series
executive-produced
by Martin Scorsese
and former
Sopranos writer
Terence Winter.
Pitt’s resourceful
but unhinged
protogangster
makes for a
fascinating primer
on the proliferation
of organized crime,
at once relatable and
morally menacing.
Michael
Pitt’s
Gangster
Reason
6
Jackie Chan–
trained martial
artist Maggie Q is
startlingly hypnotic
as an ex-assassin
in the CW’s Nikita,
a La Femme Nikita
redux so pulse-
quickening that it
makes Alias seem
like an after-school
special. Q’s secret
weapon? “Besides
my manly voice?
Honestly,” she says,
“it’s all in the eyes.”
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Leighton
Meester in
Moschino;
Blake Lively
in Georges
Chakra
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THEATER/MUSIC
On its tenth album, False Priest,
the band Of Montreal manages to
keep things freaky deaky, with R&B
inflections and slick production that
set the tone for this ode to trippy
glam rock. Vocalist Kevin Barnes
duets with Beyoncé’s little sis,
Solange Knowles, on “Sex Karma,”
while Janelle Monáe lends her
brand of cybersoul to “Our Riotous
Defects,” a finger-snapping kiss-off
meant to detonate on the dance floor.
NEW RELIGION
GIRL WHO PLAYS GUITAR
IT’S A GRIND
On her self-titled third album,
electric guitar virtuoso Marnie
Stern reigns as indie rock’s most
riotous woman to pick up an ax .
Her twitchy rhythms and fast,
frenzied riffs invite comparisons to
Eddie Van Halen, but on “Female
Guitar Players Are the New Black,”
Stern proves that she shreds even
better than the boys.
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TRUST US
Grinderman 2, the second coming
of goth-rock auteur Nick Cave’s side
project, may not be as bawdy as the
band’s 2007 debut, but that doesn’t
mean it’s any less brilliant. From the
serrated riffs of “Worm Tamer” to
the dreamy harmonies of “Palaces
of Montezuma,” 53-year-old Cave
continues to knock out some of the
most potent rock ’n’ roll around.
TRUE BRIT
Art arises in unpredictable
ways but seldom as
unpredictably as it did among
a group of British coal miners,
or pitmen, who banded
together and, despite virtually
no training, became famous in
the 1930s as painters of their
hardscrabble lives. But the
fame of the Ashington Group,
as the collective became
known, was brief—as brief as
the socialist dream that
inspired them. Even the
playwright Lee Hall, who
grew up near Ashington in
Newcastle, and whose
grandfather was himself a
pitman, never heard of them
until a few years ago, at which
point the author of the
screenplay for Billy Elliot (and
the libretto of the hit musical
based on it) immediately set
out to investigate the society
that could produce, and then
abandon, such an
achievement. After acclaimed
runs in Newcastle and
London, Hall’s play The Pitmen
Painters comes to Broadway in
September with its original
company—many also the sons
and grandsons of miners—
intact.–Jesse Green
What drew you to the material:
the politics or the art?
Both. The problem of the
blue-collar artist is what the
play’s about. But the story of
people striving to achieve
something that society makes
difficult is universal.
The plot turns on an offer by a
wealthy patroness to provide
one of the men with a stipend so
he can paint full-time. Did that
really happen?
The specifics are my invention.
But the pitmen’s determination
not to be sucked in, not to leave
their roots, was something they
spoke about very fervently.
Their art was limited by their
circumstances, as is
everybody’s. But even though
individually they were
thwarted, the group’s
achievement rises above that
because they were a collective
and stayed where they were.
They created a body of work
that is a record of a life made by
the people who lived it. Most
records like that are made
by visitors to that world.
In celebrating the high
point of socialist hope in
Britain, the play is
almost a prequel
to Billy Elliot, which mourns
the death of that hope 50 years
later. Are things worse or
better now?
Worse. I was writing the play in
the last days of the Labour
administration; as we speak,
the new government is
dismantling the welfare state
created by the idealism and
utopianism of men like the
Ashington Group. That
generation was a monumental
one and certainly shaped my
life for the better, allowing me
to be an artist, writing on the
national and international
stages. Now everyone is
pragmatic and cynical
about the very thing this
play celebrates.
And yet even former prime
minister Gordon Brown was
said to be “transfixed” by it.
I sat next to Brown as he
watched it. I think he delighted
in the sentiments of hope, but
when the slides at the very end
came up, saying how his party
had abandoned its fundamental
value of shared ownership of
the country’s resources, I
literally saw him wince.
A lot of Americans may
wince, too. Socialism is a
dirty word here.
But I think it’s why the play
works: It’s asking questions
about what the state provides
and what kind of society we
wish to live in. It seemed
unfashionable to write about,
but it turned out that people
were eager to engage in
that conversation.
The Ashington artwork, too, is
being rediscovered. Do you like
it? Or just the fact of it?
The fact of it and the whole of it
are much more overwhelming
than any individual
painting. But that’s the
point. There are no
masterpieces. Instead,
there are ordinary people
trying to make their
lives art.
Hall
The Pitmen Painters, UK production
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Intriguing if uneven, Danielle Evans’ first story
collection, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
(Riverhead), boasts a bevy of mixed-race charac-
ters whose lives fuse and fray over ticking time
bombs involving family, friendship, education,
divorce, romance, abortion, and discrimination.
There’s the trio of 15-year-olds (girl, girl, boy)
in “Virgins” who, oddly, hang out in their former
grade-school principal’s backyard pool in Mount
Vernon, New York, rather than using the local
public pool. Out clubbing one night in New York
City with fake IDs, they become separated from
one another, and the girl who finally goes for help
gets the sexual surprise of her young life. In
“Snakes,” a nine-year-old girl is sent by her
parents to spend the summer for the first time
with her wealthy (and likely mentally ill) mater-
nal grandmother in Tallahassee, Florida, where,
after a series of frightening encounters, she real-
izes that “w e are safe, with our families, until we
are not. ” A Columbia University student in “Har-
vest” is enmeshed in a moral dilemma that goes
far beyond “weekends watching burned DVDs
and chasing ramen noodles with Corona the way
broke college students were supposed to ,” and for
which her new age mother and erratic father are
unable to supply either emotional solace or finan-
cial support. Less successful is “Jelly fish,” about a
young woman still sleeping with her supposed
ex- boyfriend when she learns that the roof of her
father’s Harlem apartment building has caved in.
The powerhouse setup goes nowhere, and the
tale becomes a wagging shaggy-dogger.
But some of the book’s best lines appear in the
arrestingly titled “Someone Ought to Tell Her
There’s Nowhere to Go,” in which a soldier comes
home “too spooked to sleep” and is told matter-
of-factly by another war-haunted vet, “You didn’t
get to pick your ghosts, your ghosts picked you. ”
The great pleasure of reading any story collection
lies in finding those that best deliver
on the promise of their opening
lines, so make sure you read “The
King of a Vast Empire” and “Robert
E. Lee Is Dead” twice.—Lisa Shea
THE
ELLE’S LETTRES
READERS’ PRIZE
2010
For our readers’ comments, go to elle.com/readersprize
For details on becoming a Readers’ Prize juror, e-mail us at [email protected].
1. HEATHER SELLERS
YOU DON’T LOOK LIKE ANYONE
I KNOW (RIVERHEAD)
Although it sounds like a train wreck,
almost every reader loved this plucky
self-portrait: Her parents chronically
beset by mental illness, alcoholism,
and domestic dysfunction, Sellers
herself struggles with face blindness,
a neurological disorder that makes
people literally unrecognizable to her.
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A wry, hard-edged debut collection of stories about
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“At the door
one of the bouncers checked
Jasmine’s ID, then looked her up and down
and waved her in. He barely looked at mine, just
glanced at my chest and stamped my hand. But he
didn’t even take Michael’s, just shook his head at him
and laughed.
‘Not tonight,’ he said. ”
Sena Jeter Naslund’s most famous
and best-selling novel is 1999’s
Ahab’s Wife, a retelling of Moby Dick
from the perspective of the
captain’s spouse. The book sparked
a six-figure bidding war among
publishers and, when it appeared,
confirmed Naslund’s reputation as a
compelling storyteller who weaves
enduring truths about human
nature into her historical fiction.
Her latest effort, Adam & Eve
(William Morrow), riffs off another
famous book (the most famous of
them all!): the Bible. The action—
set, in a creatively bold move, in
2020—follows Lucy, the wife of an
astrophysicist who suddenly dies
(or was he murdered?) when a
falling piano crushes him. (Just go
with it—this is one of the book’s less
weird plotlines.) Lucy thus becomes
the only person left to guard her
late husband’s secret research, in a
flash drive that she wears around
her neck like an amulet. But things
get complicated when, as Lucy is
en route to deliver some religious
artifacts that might have huge
import, the plane she’s piloting
crashes in an Eden-like paradise,
where she finds Adam, a naked
twentysomething U.S. soldier who
helps her to survive. They bond over
existential musings and eventually
decide to return to the world at
large, even if it means they risk
being captured by a cult that wishes
to quash the sacred information
Lucy is carrying with her.
Though Naslund’s characters
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fanaticism) reveals about the
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Every nature-minded city dweller fantasizes
about fleeing the concrete jungle for a pastoral
paradise. Kristin Kimball did it: In her mid-
thirties, she gave up her apartment in New York’s
East Village to follow a charismatic farmer to
greener pastures edging Lake Champlain .
In her beguiling memoir, The Dirty Life
(Scribner), Kimball describes the complex truth
about the simple life in prose that is observant
and lyrical, yet tempered by a farmer’s lack of
sentimentality. Kimball met the man who would
become her husband while reporting a magazine
story, and in less than two short growing seasons,
she had yoked her future to his. She agreed not
only to marry him but also to help him pursue his
dream of owning and operating an ecologically
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100-odd food-subscribers need to have a “healthy
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Kimball didn’t originally comprehend the
grandiosity of the plan—up to that point, she
had subsisted mainly on a vegetarian diet of
takeout food, and her exercise regimen had
consisted of playing pinball in dive bars. But
despite her agricultural ignorance, the book is
blessedly free of scenes of stilettos sinking into
manure (although Kimball does describe doing
chores in her cashmere “first-date sweater” until
holes wear through the elbows). Here’s a typical
passage about her new life: “A farm asks, and if
you don’t give enough, the primordial forces of
death and wildness will overrun you. So
naturally you give…to the point of breaking,
and then and only then it gives back, so bounti-
fully it overfills not only your root cellar but also
that parched and weedy little patch we call the
soul.” This is a grown-up love story
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man and with the land, and learn-
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both.—Corrie Pikul
The most heartbreaking part of
Great House (Norton), the third
novel by Nicole Krauss (The History
of Love), is having to finish it. Oh,
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stuffed to its inevitable dog ears
with soul-stinging, chest-knotting,
eloquently structured themes: the
translucence that blurs truth and
falsehood, dreams, and memory;
the potential for betrayal in the
stories we tell (to others and to
ourselves); our failure to glimpse
the inner worlds of the people with
whom we live, no matter how hard
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beginning, a call to reconcile a life
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The book is about a simple piece of
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by Nazis that subsequently
changes owners and continents
several times over the decades,
always landing in the hands of a
serious writer for whom its
significance looms large. “The
immutable fact of that desk, the
first thing I saw each morning when
I opened my eyes, renewed my
sense that a potential in me had
been acknowledged, a special
quality that set me apart and to
which I was beholden,” says Nadia,
one of four narrators who end up
connected—though not all of
them directly—to the desk’s
hulking presence.
What can a lifeless object tell us
about being human?, Krauss seems
to be asking. “Unlike people…, the
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disappear,” she writes. Instead, it
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much the way our secrets, lies,
ghosts, and memories do. And as
the mysteries of this beautifully
written novel come spooling out,
you’ll marvel at how profoundly
one brilliantly crafted
extended metaphor
involving a mute
wooden artifact can
remind us what it
means to be alive.
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romance and class while visiting the
exotic, beleaguered island nation in
the grip of a despotic regime.
“I had never
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being outdoors before light. I
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of secret with the un-human things
around me, the birds not yet
stirring in the trees, the mud quiet
on the ground. I carried provisions
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Katherine Ellison’s memoir, Buzz
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impulsive world of her preteen
son’s attention deficit disorder.
After learning that she, too, has a
variant of the syndrome , the Pulitzer
Prize–winning journalist investigates
the complex nature of this common
diagnosis . “What you pay attention
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whose The Corrections was the run-
away literary success of post-9/11
America and won the 2001 National
Book Award, composed 10 rules for
novelists in England’s Guardian
news paper. No. 1 : “The reader is a friend, not
an adversary, not a spectator.” Of course,
there are all kinds of friends, includ ing the
snarky, misanthropic genius who points out at
parties how pretentious and shallow everyone is, which makes you
feel a little bit dirty afterward —but you just listened, after all.
Reading Freedom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Franzen’s colos-
sally ambitious, intermittently entertaining, but ultimately unsuc-
cessful new novel, I felt I was huddling with him while he vented his
loathing of our species, colluding in mocking everyone in the
book—and that he was mocking me, too, for turning the pages,
because doing so implied that I care about these repellent people.
But if I wasn’t supposed to care about them, then why was I read-
ing? I’m as given to hating humanity en masse as the next person ,
but when I read 500-plus-page novels, I want to feel an edge-of-my-
seat involvement in the characters’ mistakes, foibles, fates, and feel-
ings. Although Saul Bellow and George Eliot are completely
different kinds of writers, I remember Augie March and Dorothea
Brooke as if I knew them both intimately. Not so Freedom’s Walter
and Patty Berglund, or their children, Joey and Jessica, all of whom
feel like paper dolls lacking inner lives or autonomous personali-
ties. Walter’s college roommate and Patty’s lifelong crush, the bad-
boy indie rocker Richard Katz, is the only figure who is somewhat
spared the flattening effect of Franzen’s disdain.
The book’s major misstep is the 200-page “autobiography” of
Patty, a depressive, obsessive college basketballer turned house-
wife. Her narrative (purportedly written for her shrink) is rendered
in the third person in Franzen’s unmistakable voice. She seems to
be a barely disguised facet of Franzen himself. The characters in
Freedom are all at various times animated by torrid gusts of
Franzen’s thoughts about recent events—9/11, the Iraq War, envi-
ronmental devastation, the Israeli-Palestinian standoff. But there’s
a dated feeling to it all: We’ve had all these conversations—they’re
yesterday’s news, microwaved but not thoroughly reheated.
Franzen is at his best when he goes after small moments that
snap personalities into focus and make us suddenly care about
what’s going on. Patty and Katz’s long-postponed moment of truth
catapults forward unerringly. So, a little further on, does Katz’s
halfhearted attempt to seduce a barely legal girl. Such passages
ring true, unburdened by undue Import —and the final 20 pages of
the novel contain more tenderness, humor, and memorable dia-
logue than the rest of the book put together. These few
brilliantly rendered scenes suggest that, within the
cage of this bloated, earnest would-be Great Ameri-
can Novel, there might be a leaner, funnier, better one
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YOU SAW IT
HERE FIRST
Since our inception 25 year ago, ELLE
has featured not only fashion’s most gifted
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ents. We were the first to make Bend It Like
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DICAPRIO
JANUARY 1994
On fame at 19 for What’s
Eating Gilbert Grape: “I don’t
go to those big parties. It
just hasn’t been on my
agenda in life.”
KATE WINSLET
DECEMBER 1995
Discussing her post–
Heavenly Creatures
anxiety: “I thought I
might have to go back
to my part-time job at
the deli.”
GWYNETH
PALTROW
DECEMBER 1993
Recalling her childhood on set
after her first major role, in
Flesh and Bone: “I was the kid,
the freak of the set, running
around and being crazy.”
JUDE LAW
AUGUST 1995
About the romance in his
Tony-nominated Broadway
debut, Indiscretions: “The
word love is ridiculous.
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CATE
BLANCHETT
NOVEMBER 1997
After starring with Ralph
Fiennes in Oscar and
Lucinda: “I’ll probably be
doing Zombie Cave
Women II next.”
VINCE
VAUGHN
MAY 1997
Remembering life before
Swingers: “I had a lot of lean
times. A lotta macaroni
and cheese.”
NATALIE
PORTMAN
FEBRUARY 1996
Age 14, discussing her
homework while filming
Beautiful Girls: “Math’s my
favorite subject
because there’s always
an answer.”
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JANUARY 2007
About feeling at home on
set in The Messengers: “My
brothers are all grips.
I grew up on craft services.
I always knew I’d be
involved somehow
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HEATH
LEDGER
JUNE 2000
On his next move after The
Patriot: “I’m too caught up in
life to worry about what’s
going to happen. Whatever
comes, I’ll just play it out.”
JAMES
FRANCO
MAY 2002
On taking the role of
franchise-villain-in-the-
making Harry Osborn in
Spider-Man: “Oh, God.
Everybody thinks I did it
for the money.”
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Makeup artist Francelle
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top tints: COVERGIRL Outlast stain in Bit of Blossom, REVLON Colorstay Just Bitten Lipstain in Beloved, BENEFIT Posietint,
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notice-me color. While smudgy black shadow has long been the never-fail shorthand for
sultry, nighttime looks, the development of ultrablendable, vibrant pigments has made
it easy to experiment with bright, unexpected hues. “With a jewel-tone eye, makeup is
jewelry for the face,” says Francelle, who bedazzled model Pamela Bernier’s lids with
Nars Night Porter and Star Sailor shadows.
From top: Francelle recommends starting with a base of matte black shadow under your chosen green. We love CLÉ DE PEAU eye
shadow in Emerald, MAYBELLINE NEW YORK eye shadow in Ivy Icon, and SHISEIDO Luminizing Eye Satin Trio in Jungle.
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FLATIRONED HAIR : After the big hair that dominated most of the ’80s deflated, it was time to go
straight. With the introduction of mass-market flatirons, women could achieve sleek strands at
home in minutes, and the launch of John Frieda’s Frizz-Ease serum in 1992 ensured humidity-
defying silkiness and shine. “We knew it would be big when we developed it,” Frieda says. “But the
response was overwhelming. You’d have thought I’d invented penicillin.”
From left: Prone to frizz? Prep damp strands with classic FRIZZ-EASE before blow-drying. Then “try to glide the iron rather than clamping it;
otherwise hair will be too straight,” says Javier, who smoothed model Julia Svets’ naturally curly hair. “Always finish by adding shine.” Try
Awapuhi Wild Ginger Shine Spray by PAUL MITCHELL, 30 years young this year. Keep kinks at bay with a blast of SEBASTIAN Re-Shaper Strong
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Not only did these superstars earn the most accolades
in our pages since 1985 (beating out more than
10,000 other products for the honor), they continue
to be can’t-live-without-it daily essentials hoarded by
editors, readers, and industry insiders alike
CHEEK
AND LIP
STAIN
BENEFIT BENETINT:
The Eva Perón of
cosmetics, this
rose-scented tint
(originally concocted
as a nipple dye for
BeneFit’s stripper
clientele) shed its
risqué past to become
an oh-so-respectable
daily staple. According
to makeup artist Sonia
Kashuk in 1998, “You
can’t screw it up.”
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LIP GLOSS
LANCÔME JUICY TUBES: You’ve told us you “love,
love, love” Juicy Tubes because they “stay on better
than any other gloss.” Our current must-buy shades:
the face-brightening Cherry Burst (right) and
Spring Fling (left).
FOUNDATION
ARMANI LUMINOUS SILK FOUNDATION:
Developed by makeup megastar McGrath nine years
ago, this skin-perfecting prodigy remains a multitasking
must-have. With one application, it acts like a tinted
moisturizer; brush on another layer to get a creamy
foundation; dab on a final coat for coverage to rival
high-octane concealer.
POWDER
BARE ESCENTUALS BAREMINERALS SPF 15: “It’s the bomb,”
makeup artist Ashunta Sheriff declared in 2006.
This loose mineral finisher works for all complexions,
making it a steadfast favorite to this day. After erasing
any imperfections with a skin-tone-matching concealer,
Sheriff brushes the “universal” Warm Radiance
(shown) “to add shimmer” to the lightest and
darkest skin tones.
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GUERLAIN TERRACOTTA BRONZING POWDER: We’ve hailed it
as the “safest way to glow” and one of the “best faux
glows.” This beloved basic is still at the top of our list
because it works on all skin tones: As Hollywood pro
Gianpaolo Ceciliato said in 2008, “It’s not too beige,
not too gold.”
EYE
GLOSS
ELIZABETH ARDEN
EIGHT HOUR CREAM:
Makeup artists such
as runway regular
Pat McGrath and
red-carpet king Troy
Surratt use this
ultramoisturizing balm
(invented in 1930 by
Ms. Arden) to create a
“dewy, light-reflective”
quality on eyelids,
but it can be applied
anywhere you need a
little extra glow.
MASCARA
“DIOR’S DIORSHOW IS
IDEAL: THICK WITH-
OUT BEING CLUMPY,
IT’S NOT AFRAID OF
BEING MASCARA.”
—Makeup artist Jorjee Douglass
HIGH-
LIGHTER
YSL TOUCHE ÉCLAT:
The closest thing
to Photoshop, this
shimmery highlighter
“covers anything;
brightens anywhere”
(or so our editors
first promised back
in 1993). Brush over
concealer to eradicate
dark circles or across
cheekbones and
temples for “golden,
goddess skin” (as
recommended
by makeup artist
Charlotte Tilbury).
LIP COLOR
CLINIQUE ALMOST LIPSTICK IN BLACK HONEY:
Two over-the-top crimsons—Nars Jungle Red and
M.A.C Ruby Woo—split the lipstick vote to leave this
buttery-soft berry in the lead. Unlike tricky intense
reds or chalky neutrals, this sheer delight really does
work on everyone. (“Unbelievably flattering,”
we wrote in 1997.)
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EYE SHADOW
DIOR 5-COLOUR IN STYLISH MOVE: “Splurgeworthy,” richly
pigmented Dior shadows are “silky and soft”; you
told us that you adore the mauve Stylish Move
(voted best shadow “for a night out”) because it
“transitions from daytime to drink time.” We apply
the darkest shade with a wet brush as a liner and
use the pearly pink to highlight.
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CLÉ DE PEAU BEAUTÉ CORRECTEUR VISAGE: If a beauty
product could be eligible for an EGOT (the Emmy,
Grammy, Oscar, Tony sweep), it would be this award-
show red-carpet essential, used by Hollywood’s
finest to hide any flaw from HD cameras and
paparazzi zoom lenses. “The consistency is
amazing,” makeup artist Kate Lee told us in 2006.
“It requires no powder.”
NAIL
COLOR
CHANEL VAMP: This
protopunk red-black
lacquer caused “mass
hysteria” when it
launched in 1994 and
quickly became an
uptown-girl basic.
(“Chanel Vamp—that’s
always a classic look,”
said makeup artist Ana
Marie Rizzeri in 1997.)
After snoozy beiges,
we’re newly obsessed
with this dark, sultry
superhero.
BLUSH
NARS ORGASM: With
the “right amount of
peach and pink” (or
so says makeup artist
Katey Denno), this
international ELLE
editor favorite has
plenty of stateside
fans: Two Orgasms are
sold every minute in
the U.S.
EYELASH
CURLER
SHU UEMURA: Even on-staff makeup-phobes use this
crimper every morning for fluttery, fuller-looking
lashes. “It makes eyes look alert, like you’ve had tons
of sleep,” agrees makeup artist Shalini Vadhera.
EYE PENCIL
LANCÔME LE CRAYON KHÔL: ELLE Beauty Genius and
“smoky-eye star” Linda Hay’s “trick of the trade”:
Line the “lid underneath the upper lashes” with
Lancôme’s pitch black eye pencil, which is “soft
enough to smudge easily.”
ANTI-AGER
ESTÉE LAUDER
RE-NUTRIV IS “THE
ONLY PRODUCT
THAT CAN CLAIM
TO BE A FACE-LIFT
IN A JAR.”
—Makeup artist Napoleon Perdis
(A supercharged version of the classic face
fixer hits counters this month.)
MOISTURIZER
CRÈME DE LA MER: Hey, La Mer, were you invented by a
NASA aerospace physicist? Because you’re out of this
world. The cream that causes editors to wax poetic
(“Rubbing it into my face is like being kissed by a
million little pink bunny noses. My skin becomes baby
soft,” we gushed in 2000) has its share of MD backers.
“It’s the one product that many of my clients with
amazing skin have in common,” plastic surgeon David
Hildalgo told us.
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SELF-
TANNER
CLARINS SELF TANNING
INSTANT GEL: We’ve
celebrated this
“quick drying” gel’s
“believable color”
(1993) and called it
“the best way to hide
cellulite” (2005), but
our favorite faux-glow
love letter came from
one ’90s-era editor:
“You won’t turn
orange. You won’t
have streaks. You
won’t smell funny. You
will, like me, have no
problem sitting under
a beach umbrella,
swathed in sunscreen,
because you’ll already
be tan.”
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MASON PEARSON: When reviewing runway film, ELLE’s
photo editors play spot the Mason Pearson, as this
mixed-bristle mane tamer has made an appearance
backstage at almost every show we’ve covered since
1985. It’s a bit pricier than drugstore alternatives, but
“you’re worth it,” we’ve promised. “A few swipes make
hair look blow-out perfect: shiny and sleek.”
FRIZZ
ERASER
JOHN FRIEDA FRIZZ-EASE:
“Look at vintage
fashion shoots, and
you can easily tell
which photos were
taken BFE and AFE
(Before Frizz-Ease
and After Frizz-Ease),”
we said in 2009. And
readers have written
in countless times to
tell us they “worship”
this silicone-based
smoother.
HAIR
SMOOTHER
KIEHL’S CREME WITH SILK
GROOM: This enduringly
popular phenom
“gives that certain ‘I
take care of myself’
sheen,” according to
stylist Hallie Bowman
(2007). Hair pro Adir
Abergel in 2006
called it a “quick fix”
for lengths that look
“fried or unruly.”
MUD MASK
BORGHESE FANGO ACTIVE MUD: A “head-to-toe purification,”
this cult clay (also celebrating its twenty-fifth birthday!)
leaves skin clean, soft, and ultramoisturized, as one
ELLE fan raved in 1996: “I cover myself from face to
foot in Borghese mud. The only thing better than being
a gooey mess is showering my way out of it. All said and
done, I do feel radiant.”
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BODY
BOOSTER
RENE FURTERER NATURIA:
This “brilliant
invention” (according
to singer Lily Allen in
2009) isn’t just for
limp strands (although
it instantly nixes
grease). When spritzed
on clean hair and
rubbed in with fingers,
the powder creates
bombshell-worthy
volume, no blow-dryer
required.
HAIRSPRAY
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KANDEE
In December, COVERGIRL Beauty Guru Kandee showed you
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latest COVERGIRL beauty obsession—and how you can achieve
a sophisticated night look, perfect for fall’s busy social calendar,
using COVERGIRL’S Blast Boutique.
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In March, COVERGIRL Beauty Guru Caitlin channeled pared-down runway
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being on trend without
looking trendy—just going
with what suits you. For
instance, if there’s a purple
craze and purple doesn’t look
good on you, try a grayish
mauve instead. Adapt the
trend to suit your face shape
and skin tone. That’s what’s
most modern: sticking to your
personality, no matter what.
What are the essential tools to
achieve flawless skin?
You need to have both
camouflage and concealer,
which are separate things.
Concealer should be creamy
and hydrating and only used
under the eyes, where the skin
is thin and fragile. You should
never put concealer on a pimple
because it’s too emollient and
will just slide off. A camouflage
is like a concealer but thicker
and more saturated, and it
should be noncomedogenic. It’s
good for pimples, rosacea,
broken capillaries, and sun
spots. It’s better to apply both
with a brush rather than your
finger—you can push the
pigment into the skin precisely
where you need it so it will
disappear and look natural.
You’re known for your “tight
eyeliner” trick. What’s the best way
to do it at home?
The idea is to apply eyeliner
at the roots of the lashes so that
the line will be more contrasty
with the white of the eye and
iris. If you just draw a line on
top of the lashes, you’ll leave a
space that diminishes contrast
with your eyeball. Apply a
smudgeproof cake or pencil
liner to the waterline under the
lashes from below, starting
In 1985, Laura Mercier was a
fledgling makeup artist
working in Paris with French
ELLE when she was invited to
join the team that launched
ELLE in America. “It was so
exciting!” she recalls. “We’d fly
to New York for weeks at a time
to test models, trying to find the
perfect mix for the magazine,
which was all about celebrating
individuality.” In keeping with
ELLE’s breath-of-fresh-air
aesthetic, Mercier found herself
working on a lot of outdoor
shoots—a challenge she credits
with helping her develop her
now famous “flawless skin
technique.” “There wasn’t
much photo retouching in
those days,” she says, “so the
models’ skin had to look
completely perfect while also
looking natural and not too
made up.” Since then she’s been
unstoppable, developing her
own wildly popular makeup
line and working with the likes
of Sarah Jessica Parker, Julia
Roberts, and Madonna, who
has called her “the Rembrandt
of makeup artists.” “I love to
show women how to celebrate
their skin,” Mercier says. “I
believe anyone can look
vibrant and luminous .”
What’s been the biggest change in
makeup since you first started out?
Foundation has evolved
tremendously. The foundation
that was available in the ’80s
was very pink—I had to add
yellow pigment so that it would
look like real skin.
How do you define the modern face?
Polished, glowing skin that isn’t
deadly matte. It’s also about
(From top) Laura Mercier Sheer Lip Colour shades such as Baby Lips were
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wears them “every day”; she has been using her “all-time favorite” Carita
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around the mouth”; Laura Mercier Eye Liner in Bleu Marine “can look like
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above the pupil, and then
going left and right—
otherwise you’ll get too much
in one corner. You also want
the color concentrated in the
center because it makes the iris
stand out. You’re basically
contouring the eyes,
making them look bigger
and whiter while also
making it look like you
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more—thicken the line on
top, add eye shadow, create a
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eye look heavy and sad,
whereas wearing it on the top is
always going to lift your eye up.
What makeup look has best stood
the test of time?
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trendless because it can be
used as a tool to change the
shape of the eye—a short,
thick line can widen the eye; a
long, winged line can give you
a sexy retro effect. And I
think red lipstick can be worn
very elegantly, even on a bare
face. It doesn’t have to mean
you’re trying to seduce
someone. It just looks happy.
When you wear it, your face
wakes up.
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AN EAU OF
OUR OWN
F
rederic Malle is sitting in the
ELLE offices, surrounded
on all sides by teetering
stacks of magazines. He’s
flipping slowly through
them, mumbling as he goes:
“Skin…beach…color.” Malle
lingers, as any man would,
on a shot from June 1986:
leggy X-Men star Famke
Janssen (long before Hollywood came
calling) in Superwoman stance, a sun-
soaked beach goddess in a sliver of tanger-
ine Lycra, seemingly hitting the apex of
postadolescent perfection at the exact mo-
ment of the camera’s click. “I know what to
do,” he declares, thumping a mountain of
magazines emphatically. “You need some-
thing very clear-cut with angles, colors.
Very clean. Not a fur coat—a swimsuit.”
With that, he stands, smooths his suit,
and prepares to exit. Wait…that’s it? In
less than an hour, Malle—bona fide fra-
grance genius—has mentally distilled 25
years of ELLE into a two-sentence brief.
This he will deliver to a perfumer, who
will create “25,” a special-edition birthday
eau that, Malle promises, will somehow
sum up who we are—and more to the
point, who you, our faithful readers, are—
and where we’ve been, with a sly nod
toward where we’re headed.
Perfume guru Frederic Malle gives us the best
birthday gift ever: ELLE, bottled. By Maggie Bullock
Malle calls himself a “perfume pub-
lisher.” He comes up with a scent con-
cept, assigns it to a perfumer, then culls
and shapes the result. Ultraluxe and
micro niche, his scents, Les Editions de
Parfums Frederic Malle—hot sellers at
Barneys New York and his own bou-
tiques in Paris and on Madison Avenue—
are one part his inspiration, one part the
per fumers’ execution.
Malle is also terribly French, yet unde-
niably American—i.e., trés ELLE. He was
grandfathered into the world of perfum-
ery, literally; his maternal grand-pére,
Serge Heftler-Louiche, launched Dior’s
fragrance arm. His mother also worked
for the house and famously test-drove its
potent Eau Sauvage on six-year-old Fred-
eric; she brought the stuff home in liter
bottles. As a teen, he consulted on packag-
ing ideas for now-iconic Dior products.
Such a well-scented child is likely to be-
come a very particular kind of adult, and
Malle lives up to his lineage. His suits—
slim-cut and ever-so-slightly short—are
custom-made at London’s Anderson &
Sheppard. Upon meeting, you would not
be surprised if he gallantly kissed your
hand (though die-hard fragrance fanatics,
who classify him somewhere between
Jesus and Mick Jagger, would likely drop
dead on the spot were he to do so).
For all his old-school ways, Malle has
some of the most modern ideas in the busi-
ness: His boutiques boast steel-and-glass
“smelling columns”—round, sliding-door
scent chambers that look as if Dr. Who
might spring out at any moment, which
keep the air in the shop untainted by spritz-
happy testers. And, launched last year, his
shiny red Fleur Mécanique electronic dif-
fusers are the iPods of home fragrance.
When he was growing up in France,
where ELLE has been published weekly
since 1945, the magazine was such a staple
that “I didn’t know any girl or more mature
woman who didn’t buy it every week,”
Malle says. “It’s incredible. My ex-girl-
friends, lovers—everybody read it.” The
U.S. version, which launched soon after he
came stateside to study art history at New
York University, also made an impression.
“It was colorful, bright, no-nonsense,” he
says, pausing. “Seriously heterosexual.”
Still, magazines, rather uninspiringly,
waft notes of ink and paper, maybe the
odd perfume scent strip. ELLE is about
ideas, words, images. How does a beach
babe like Famke—and her mood, her mo-
ment—translate into molecules of scent?
Malle, true to form, answers this by ref-
erencing decadent nineteenth-century
poet Arthur Rimbaud, whose sonnet
“Vowels” assigned colors to letters: “A,
Swimfan (from right):
Elle Macpherson and
Famke Janssen lead
the team in June, 1986
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ples, spat blood, smile of beautiful lips…U,
waves, divine shudderings of viridian seas.”
It’s possible Rimbaud really did see letters
in color. He was believed to have had syn-
esthesia, a kind of gray-matter cross-wiring
in which one sense is also perceived as an-
other; someone with synesthesia may per-
ceive colors in music or see tastes as shapes.
Malle says the process of translating ab-
stract concepts into concrete scents relies on
a similar ability. “I’m a very visual person; I
smell in color,” he says. “For instance, vanil-
la smells of yellow; amber’s a bit brown;
rose generally is a pale pink—but then there
are so many roses.” Perfumers are guided
by the smells of flowers but also their physi-
cal characteristics: the milky, velvety sensa-
tion of a gardenia petal is somehow akin to
its scent; the leaves of a fig tree feel like sand-
paper and, in fact, smell astringently
green—“the relationship there is made by
your brain,” Malle says.
Two months after his initial ELLE visit,
Malle checks in with Bruno Jovanovic, the
perfumer charged with making “25,” at
the Manhattan office of International Fla-
vors and Fragrances (IFF), one of the top
scent houses in the world. To understand
why noses like Jovanovic are so tickled to
work with Malle, a word on how most
scents come about: Generally, a brand
ap proaches IFF or one of its rivals,
Givaudan—often both—with a brief that
includes the desired spritz’s target market,
price, and market positioning. A team of
perfumers at each house devises dozens of
contenders; they then compete against
each other to see which formula will ulti-
mately be commissioned. Interestingly,
the creative work is done on spec; only if
the house produces the winning formula—
and then uses its own raw ingredients,
sourced from all over the globe, to manu-
facture it—does it make money. (In Jova-
novic’s case, some key wins include the
recent Armani Idole and Calvin Klein’s
CK in2u for men.)
In contrast, perfumers love the rather
old-world simplicity of being, as Jovanovic
puts it, Malle’s “writing hand.” For Jova-
novic, that means pixelating Malle’s broad
notion of the essence of ELLE—“comfort,
sex appeal, precise colors…girls feeling
good, really,” Jovanovic says—into a series
of scent-specific images. “What is the smell
of sun? Of sea? Of skin?” he says. “What
would red smell like?”
Malle and Jovanovic have already elimi-
nated dozens of contenders; today they are
down to two, code-named M and N, which
have the same basic ingredients—bergamot,
jasmine, rose, orange blossom, ylang-ylang,
amber, and cedar—but in different propor-
tions. To this editor—no scent expert, per-
haps, but certainly a bit of an ELLEophite—
they are both bright, beautiful florals;
distinctly youthful, but not at all cloying.
Neither is shy. But N has a little something
extra. If you could bottle what Famke must
have been feeling that day on the beach, this
would be it—and any scent that could deliver
even a whiff of that gets my vote.
But which will please the master? Malle
leans back in his chair, paper scent strips
stuck flowerlike between each finger.
“Now,” he announces, “we smell.”
With enormous concentration, he
moves methodically between the samples.
He and Jovanovic lapse in and out of
French and perfume-speak (technically
English, but a language unto itself), dis-
cussing M’s hint of cedar, which makes its
musk “soft but not fuzzy.” (“It’s like the left
pedal on the piano that shifts the sound.”)
But N holds his interest longer, due in part
to a not-so-sexy sounding secret ingredi-
ent, the plant-derived chemical styrallyl
acetate. “It reminds you of a very bright,
almost solar floralcy,” Jovanovic says. “It
gives us the skin part, the warmth.” Malle
nods approvingly. “Yes,” he says. “Now we
have a bathing suit.”
“25” is available at Editions de Parfums Frederic
Malle, 212-249-7941
A “bathing suit” in which to bathe oneself —the
bergamot, jasmine, rose, orange blossom, ylang-
ylang, amber, and cedar bouquet of “25”
Malle puts “25” to the sniff test in the labs of
fragrance house IFF
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FOREVER 25
I
t’s a proposition that sounds like
something out of a Philip K. Dick
novel: Would I like to see a photo of
my future? Specifically, a snapshot
of what I’m going to look like in
about 10 years—wrinkles, brown
spots, and all? For a morbidly curi-
ous beauty writer, it’s a dream offer.
Which is why I find myself, along
with a few other prepared-to-be-
traumatized ELLE editors, sitting in
front of the Advanced Aging Simulation
machine at Canfield Scientific, a high-
tech medical research facility in Fairfield,
New Jersey.
The machine’s software is based on a
study by Greg Hillebrand, PhD, of P&G
Beauty and Science, published in the June
issue of the British Journal of Dermatology,
which tracked the long-term development
of facial wrinkles and brown spots in 122
women originally recruited in a Los An-
geles shopping mall . At the beginning of
the study, the subjects (whose ages ranged
from 10 to 70) were photographed both
smiling and relaxed. Eight years later,
when they were photographed again with
a neutral expression, the temporary smile
lines in most of the women’s original grin-
ning pictures had become etched into the
skin as permanent (or, in the reassuring
parlance of the study, “persistent”)
wrinkles . In short, Hillebrand proved
that the repetitive muscle contractions we
AGELESS FACE
Is it possible to reset the clock so that we might look
younger as we grow older? By April Long
make when forming facial expressions will
eventually wear creases into our skin like
those in old leather gloves. How’s that for
news to wipe the smile off your face?
As I steady my chin on the headrest of
the aging simulator (imagine a large,
brightly lit camera portal), Hillebrand ex-
plains how it works: The crinkles from my
smile will be overlaid on a photograph in
which I’m pulling my best poker face. This
will then be combined with data from an
unforgiving UV image that shows subder-
mal sun damage, and voilà: My skin’s for-
tune will be told. The resulting picture,
which fast-forwards my midthirties face to
what it might look like when I’m in my late
forties, isn’t so much the precipitous plunge
into crone-faced decrepitude I had imag-
ined, but it’s still not pretty. “Everyone’s
wrinkles are as unique to them as their fin-
gerprints,” Hillebrand says. “In 10 to 15
years, you’ll have this guy coming across
here.…” He points to a road map of lines
under my future eyes. “And this guy here.
And this guy here.” I stifle a sob. “Hey, look
on the bright side,” he says. “Now you know
exactly where stuff is going to happen.”
Forewarned is forearmed. So if we can
predict how we’re going to age, then might
it be possible to delay—even turn back—
the process? Hillebrand moves a toggle on
the screen toward the word younger and,
Benjamin Button–like, the image of my
face ages backward, becoming smoother
and brighter than it is in real life. “If you
take care of your skin properly, you can re-
verse direction a bit,” he says. “Then you’ll
start with a new baseline, and that can put
you on a different time line.”
The first step toward changing one’s
wrinkle destiny is the most basic: moistur-
izer. Hillebrand’s study found that having
dry skin more than doubles the rate at
which lines will develop. That means a
28-year-old with dry skin will have a 52
percent increase in wrinkles by the time
she’s 36, whereas a woman of the same age
with a well-hydrated dermis will show only
a 22 percent increase. The quickest creasers
in Hillebrand’s study were also those with
the fairest skin —several African-American
women showed no change at all over
eight years—so those of us with pasty
complexions should take extra care to
slather on sunscreen if we want to put the
brakes on collagen breakdown (and pre-
vent telltale age spots). The third factor to
play a role in the speed of wrinkle devel-
opment was skin pH: Women with a
more alkaline stratum corneum (that’s
the outermost layer of the epidermis)
showed more advanced signs of aging
than those whose skin was more acidic.
“You need a swab test to determine your
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skin’s pH,” Hillebrand says, “but it’s a
good idea to avoid using soap on the face,
as it can make the skin more alkaline.”
For those not satisfied with the age-
fighting potential of mere lotions and po-
tions, Hillebrand’s research has further
implications: Use of Botox can be preven-
tative. Quite simply, if wrinkles form
along the fault lines created by muscular
contractions, they’re less likely to appear if
those muscles are unable to move. Fur-
thermore, according to Hillebrand, “less-
ening the repeated mechanical stress may
even allow repair of persistent wrinkles
that have already formed.”
Miami- and New York–based derma-
tologist Fredric Brandt, MD, believes that
“if you start getting Botox early, you can
prevent a lot of those lines from setting in,”
but says patients’ use of sunscreen, mois-
turizer, and antioxidants will play the big-
gest role in how well their skin holds up
over the years. “I like to use the analogy
that you can’t just get your teeth cleaned,
you have to brush them every day.”
Ultimately, though, “what makes the
face look older isn’t just wrinkles and un-
even tone, it’s loss of volume,” Brandt says.
“It’s the falling of the cheeks and eye-
brows, the hollowing around the eyes and
the sagging jawline. As we age, the con-
tour of the face changes from a heart shape
to an upright triangle, where the lower
face becomes fuller than the upper face.”
Brandt—the miracle worker behind
many of Hollywood’s has-she-or-hasn’t-
she ageless faces—addresses volume loss
with an arsenal of fillers: usually starting
by injecting the cheek area to lift up the
face and diminish the nasolabial folds.
“I’ve seen fillers take 15 to 20 years off of
women’s faces,” he says. Indeed, a study
published in Dermatologic Surgery in March
showed that women
ages 42 to 59 who had
received a single multi-
syringe treatment with
hyaluronic acid fillers
were perceived to be an
average of 6.1 to 7.3
years younger than
their actual age.
But can injections
really establish that al-
luring “new baseline”
Hillebrand spoke of, or
are they just holding the
inevitable at bay? “We
know that hyaluronic
acid fillers stimulate the
body’s own fibroblasts
to produce collagen,”
Brandt says. “So if you
combine that with sun-
screen and good skin
care, you can change
the way you age—and
look younger over
time.” An anec dotal
case in point: 52-year-
old Helen,* who has
been reaping the bene-
fits of Brandt’s genius
since she was 27, says, “My friends
thought I was crazy going in for fillers
when I was in my twenties and thirties,
but now they’re getting lines that I never
did—presumably because I kept up main-
tenance over the years.” She believes
her regimen of twice-yearly injections of
Botox and Restylane (“to raise my cheeks
and tighten my jawline”) plus nightly
applications of Retin-A have had an ag-
gregate effect: “The older I get, the less I
feel like I need to do.” Another patient,
56-year-old Linda, * who looks in photos
to be barely over 40, is convinced that her
Dr. Brandt–prescribed protocol—topical
Tri-Luma treatment to fade brown spots,
Restylane to fill the hollows under her
eyes and plump her cheeks every five
months—has altered her aging arc. “I
can’t say for sure that I look younger than
I did 10 years ago,” she says, “but I defi-
nitely look better.”
As for my own time line? I’m hanging
on to my Advanced Aging Simulation
photo not as a harbinger of doom, but as
a constant reminder to be vigilant about
the way I treat my skin. I’ll definitely be
flashing a smile at myself in the mirror
every time I apply moisturizer and add-
ing another dollop on the lines that
come up , and those projected age spots
had better watch their backs. But I’m
also taking comfort in the results of a
2008 Yale School of Medicine study in
which researchers found that people with
crow’s-feet were perceived as being happier
than those without any lines at all. Sure, it’s
tempting to try to walk around stoically ex-
pressionless and wrinkle-free, but if you’ve
spent your life smiling, maybe the fact that
it’s written all over your face really isn’t such
a bad thing after all.
TODAY IN 10 TO 15 YEARS
THE NONSURGICAL FACE-LIFT
GETS A FACE-LIFT
No pain, no gain? Not necessarily. Brandt,
who has long been at the forefront of
dermatological techniques, has
trademarked a new procedure he’s dubbed
the Can-u-Lift, in which he uses a cannula—a
slender steel tube—to inject hyaluronic-acid-
based fillers into the face. While needles can
deliver filler only at the point of insertion,
and typically require multiple (potentially
bruising) punctures in the skin, the cannula
can be threaded under the skin from inches
away in order to target previously difficult-
to-treat areas such as undereye hollows.
“That area is so delicate that you tend to get
a lot of swelling from needles,” Brandt says,
“but I’m able to insert the cannula farther
down on the face, which gives a smoother
result.” Since introducing the procedure at
his practice earlier this year, Brandt has used
it to sculpt cheeks, straighten jawlines, and
enhance lips. “It picks the face right up,” he
says. “And because the cannula has no sharp
tip to cause trauma to blood vessels, there’s
less pain and virtually no bruising.”—A.L.
Flash forward: Aging-simulation results for the author, in her midthirties (top),
and ELLE associate beauty editor Janna Johnson, in her midtwenties. “This is a
personalized look at how your skin will age,” Hillebrand says. “It identifies the areas
prone to wrinkles and spots.”
Time regained (clockwise
from left): SK-II Skin
Signature Melting Rich
Cream seals hydration into
the skin for up to 12 hours;
Olay Pro-X Age Repair
Lotion deflects damaging
rays with SPF 30; Dr. Brandt
Time Arrest Crème de Luxe
boosts firmness and radiance
with peptides and grape-
stem cells.
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weak, porous hair by filling in gaps on the
cuticle layer with strengthening peptides and
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mega-volume while protecting hair with anti-
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and static with vitamin-packed Pantene Pro-V
Beautiful Lengths Shine Enhance Shampoo.
Real-world Dorian Grays such as Jennifer
Aniston, Elle Macpherson, and Jennifer
Lopez share more than universally flat-
tering long layers— they all have versions
of a glossy champagne hair color. While
stark, dark tones accentuate fine lines and
sun spots more than lighter shades , blond
hair, no matter how artful the color, won’t
reflect as much light as brunette . The solu-
tion? Not bl ond, not brown, but the per-
fect balance of both. To make almost
anyone a “blondette,” Brit hairstylist
Charles Worthington gives his celeb cli-
ents a “hair tan,” a precise blend of low-
lights and highlights designed to
maximize shine and volume as well as to
bounce warmth onto the skin.
Your haircut can also put time on your
side. Avoid styles that are “too structured”
says New York City hairstylist Michelle
Fiona, who trims Zooey Deschanel’s flirty
long layers. “Youthful hair has soft move-
ment,” Fiona says. “Anything overly styled
screams ‘old lady hair.’ ”
If you’re noticing a wider part or a thin-
ner ponytail, head straight to your derm
for a checkup. New York City– based Fran-
cesca Fusco, MD, puts the stress-tressed
on Rogaine, which she says is “the gold
standard for controlling and stopping hair
loss.” Its active ingredient, minoxidil, en-
larges shrunken hair follicles—the larger
the follicle, the longer the growth cycle
and thicker the strand.
Blown away by the megalong lash
growth her patients experienced after
using Latisse, Miami-based dermatologist
Heather Woolery-Lloyd, MD, prescribes it
off label to kick-start growth of sparse
brows and temples. For larger areas, ask
your derm about cocktailing Latisse with
the less pricey minoxidil—the combo,
according to Woolery-Lloyd, will sprout
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Even if your going-pro dreams faded in
junior high, you and David Beckham could
have more in common than you think.
Derms are stealing from the playbooks of
sports medicine’s mad scientists, treating the
signs of aging with the same devices used on
blown hamstrings and blasted ACLs.
Blood injections (prolotherapy) have
been used to heal damaged cartilage in
joints for more than 20 years; last year, the
FDA approved platelet-rich plasma shots
(Selphyl, dubbed the “vampire face-lift” by
excitable bloggers) to plump cheeks and
minimize creases. “A small amount of your
own blood is drawn, and the platelets and
fibrin are separated and then injected back
into the targeted zones, triggering collagen
cells to regenerate,” Fusco says. Although
the results aren’t as immediate as those of a
filler (it takes about three weeks to see any
plumping), the benefits can last up to a year
and a half.
Similarly, ultrasound treatments, per-
fected in sports rehab centers to speed mus-
cle repair, are being used to jump-start
collagen production. “I’ve seen promising
results with Ulthera, which uses visual ul-
trasound,” Woolery-Lloyd says. During the
45-minute procedure, Woolery-Lloyd,
using sonogram-like imaging, targets ultra-
sound waves into the deepest layer of the
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Loaded with the antioxidants copper, iron, and
zinc, Bulgari Source Defense Serum moisturizes
and protects skin against free-radical damage.
L’Oréal Paris Visible Lift Serum Absolute
smooths and firms skin with pro-retinol and
hyaluronic acid while hiding imperfections with
medium coverage. Estée Lauder Advanced Night
Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex plumps
skin with moisture magnet hyaluronic acid. A
stronger version of the popular peel, Dr. Dennis
Gross Skincare Extra Strength Alpha Beta Face
Peel improves tone with glycolic acid.
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dermis in specific areas of the face. In re-
sponse, cells produce healing collagen that
will tighten the jawline and lift the brow.
New York City– based derm Dennis
Gross, MD, gives his A-list patients a dou-
ble dose of collagen-building treatments,
starting with a chemical peel followed by a
few passes of a pulsed-dye V-Beam laser for
“an extra-strength boost,” he says.
If you’re after (almost) instant gratifica-
tion, dermatologists still hail the quick re-
sults of line-erasing neurotoxin injections
(Botox and Dysport), and plumping der-
mal fillers (Restylane and the new Juvé-
derm XC with numbing lidocaine). “They
are a home run, a guaranteed fix,” says
Fredric Brandt, MD.
For home use, most derms agree retinol,
both OTC and prescription , is still the best
topical anti-ager. The powerhouse ingredi-
ent speeds up cell turnover to smooth
wrinkles, fade sun spots, and build collagen.
But proceed with caution: Retinol doesn’t al-
ways play nice and can start by turning skin
to an irritated, flaky mess. For retinol new-
bies or those who are photosensitive , Brandt
suggests baby steps. “Apply it all over the
face, and then rinse it off after two minutes,”
he says. “After two weeks, leave it on for four
minutes and so on until you have the toler-
ance to leave it on all night.”
COMPLEXION PERFECTION
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(Clockwise from far left) Fruit enzymes in Kate
Somerville ExfoliKate Body Scrub slough
off dead skin cells, revealing ultrasoft skin.
Strivectin-SD Intensive Concentrate for Stretch
Marks & Wrinkles is packed with skin-tightening
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instant firming, courtesy of the acacia gum
and sunflower extracts. Elizabeth Arden
Ceramide Plump Perfect Ultra All Night Repair
and Moisture Cream keeps the delicate neck
skin supple and smooth. Super By Dr. Nicholas
Perricone Supermodel Legs cream jump-starts
circulation with hot-pepper extract.
When model and actress Brooklyn Decker
(star of ELLE’s Make Better exercise DVDs)
told us that she adds spinning class to her
routine whenever she needs to get her body
Sports Illustrated–shoot ready, one miniskirt-
phobic ELLE editor followed suit. And after
a month of twice-weekly classes at New York
City’s SoulCycle, her legs “look toned and
smooth, better than they did in high school.”
Spinning (and other forms of cardio) boost
kidney and liver function for head-to-toe
anti-aging benefits, according to Fusco , as
well as stimulate the lymphatic system to re-
duce puffiness. “Spinning is a good cardio
choice because it’s high intensity but low im-
pact,” says Soul Cycle instructor Sue Mol-
Zac Posen
nar. “My students usually see skin-firming
benefits after just a few weeks.”
Dermatologist Howard Murad, MD, au-
thor of The Water Secret, believes proper
hydration is the key to staying and looking
young— but says it’s not about drinking the
standard eight glasses. Too much water, he
believes, flushes out important nutrients. In-
stead, eating water-rich raw foods, such as
cucumbers and grapes, attracts H
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aging cells, plumping them up. The benefits
of hydrated, healthy cells go beyond firmer
skin. Murad says: “To have shiny hair, fewer
wrinkles, or even to sleep better, you need to
repair every cell in your body.”
For those wanting to take it to the next
level, updated versions of in-office treat-
ments provide proven results with a little
less discomfort than before . A new painless
sclerotherapy injection, Asclera, erases spi-
der veins without any stinging. And body-
contouring hero Thermage now uses
vibration to reduce the pinching sensation
caused by its collagen-boosting heat. “It’s
great for shaping stubborn areas that can’t
be helped by exercise, like the wrinkling
above the knee,” Fusco says.
Have only five minutes? Try dry-brushing
to boost circulation and exfoliate dead skin,
followed by moisturizing and illuminating
creams to mask cellulite and make limbs
look longer and leaner.
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H
old on a minute, I need to
go get the reading glasses
I now have to wear in
order to see what I’m typ-
ing, which brings me to
this sentence: I was
young once. And like all
young persons , I pos-
sessed the beauty and en-
ergy and excitement of
youth, as well as the vanity and arrogance
and a capacity for cruelty, and the talent for
drinking without getting a hangover.
Twenty-five years ago, when the first bun-
dles of American ELLE flew off delivery
trucks, I also landed in Manhattan, starting
out as an assistant to three loons at Simon &
Schuster, whom I dubbed the SS. I was the
Lucille Ball of secretaries, dressed in cheap-
chic ’50s thrift store finds, equal parts ear-
nest effort and exuberant idiocy. But man,
could I type. Spelling, not so good. “Holly,”
read one of many letterheaded reprimands,
“Note the word juvenile has only one l !!!”
My favorite: “Holly, you simply cannot
not do your work!” Which I misread as a
compliment, like, “Wow, Holly, you’re ad-
dicted to your work!” tacking it above my
IBM Selectric. After a year and a half of
misspelled words and lost dry-cleaning
slips and failing to perform slave labor in a
timely fashion, I was given the SS boot with
the parting advice: “At your next job, try not
to be yourself.”
That was when my life began.
A month later, thanks to my friend
Max making a postcoital recommenda-
tion into the ear of a beautiful, much older
woman who was friends with the head
of the research department at Us maga-
zine, I became a fact-checker. For my first
day at work I’d splurged on a Charivari
sweater and Bettina Riedel stirrup pants.
It was Monday, February 23 , 1987, and
the cover of the New York Post screamed:
ANDY WARHOL DEAD AT 58, with a picture
of the white-wigged artist beside his silk-
screened Marilyn.
Mild-mannered fact-checker by day,
wild-mannered Faces & Places reporter
by night, I ran around the city with a tape
recorder in one hand and a cocktail in the
other, covering premieres, benefits, bal-
lets, and art openings. It was not so much
a Carrie Bradshaw life as it was a Holly
Golightly getting-by existence. I made
$17,000 a year and owned one little black
dress and maybe four pairs of shoes. Like
that Holly , I ran away to New York from
the flyover states; lived in an Upper East
Side (studio) apartment; frequented P. J.
Clarke’s; have an older brother named
Fred; and had an affair with a struggling
writer upstairs who, ironically, would
marry a French waitress, quit writing, and
make a fortune in EmerginC skin care .
I loved the relationship’s geographic
convenience, but when life is literally a
party, every night is a blind date. I thrived
swirling in social circles, interviewing
stars so happy and so willing to embrace
a petite, pretty, bright young thing. All it
took for me to breathe that rarefied air was
my Mason Pearson hairbrush, Great Lash
mascara , roll-on lip gloss, a mist of Chanel
THE AGING OF
INNOCENCE
When Holly Millea hit Manhattan, she worked every
A-list party in town. But with time, she found a new
calling: tirelessly testing beauty treatments, tricks,
and occasional tortures—so we don’t have to!
ADVENTURE
Catching
Alec Baldwin
at a Rock
the Vote
fundraiser,
1992
With
Esai
Morales,
Banff ski
party,
1988
Interviewing Farrah
Fawcett, Chances Are
premiere party, 1989
Ivana Trump,
Metropolitan Museum
of Art gala, 1988
Warren Beatty, Green Card
premiere, 1990
Between
Christie
Brinkley
and
John F.
Kennedy
Jr., circa
1988
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No. 5; and the blush of delight that I would
be this thing, this favored pet, forever.
My debut was an AIDS benefit at
Sotheby’s hosted by Elizabeth Taylor. I
walked in and interviewed my first movie
star, Richard Gere, and moved on to col-
lar Taylor herself—in an Arnold Scaasi
beaded bolero jacket depicting the actress
in various roles she’d played—Debbie
Harry, Matt Dillon, Bianca Jagger, Dick
Cavett, Mayor Ed Koch, Susan Sarandon,
and socialite jewelry designer Tina Chow
(who, sadly, would die of AIDS in 1992).
Afterward , I floated home, stopping at
a pay phone to place a collect call to South
Dakota. “Dad,” I said, slightly teary, “I
think I found something I’m actually good
at. And I can be me!”
My best memory of those years wasn’t
of a party at all. I was sent to cover the
Mike Tyson versus Michael Spinks fight
in Atlantic City, when I got stuck in an el-
evator with Muhammad Ali and Norman
Mailer. “Don’t be scared,” Ali said, patting
my shoulder. “They’ll get it moving again.”
“Are you kidding?” I pulled my recorder
out. “I hope we’re stuck in here all night!”
“Oh God,” Mailer groaned, dropping
his head into his hands. “Someone please
save us.”

What we choose to remember, or can’t
forget, can be inexplicable. The night of
December 20, 1993, I left the Plaza hotel,
where I’d covered Donald Trump’s wed-
ding to Marla Maples, who’d worn a Caro-
lina Herrera gown and a $2 million tiara.
After sitting through the ceremony and
collecting quotes from guests Susan Lucci,
Paul Anka, O. J. Simpson, Robin Leach,
Rosie O’Donnell, Howard Stern, Rudy
Giuliani , Adnan Khashoggi, Carl Icahn,
and Mayor David Dinkins, I strolled the
six blocks home, a filched Plaza crystal
ashtray heavy in my pocket.
It was around 2 A.M., the crisp air
filled with feathery tufts of snow glid-
ing toward the ground. Christmas lights
twinkled in storefront windows along
Park Avenue. East 60th Street was dark,
with the exception of the Bloomingdale’s
employment office, across from the store.
Crowded in the brightly lit lobby were
maybe a dozen bald, naked, beautiful
women—mannequins. They stood behind
a thick glass door stenciled BLOOMINGDALE’S
HUMAN RESOURCES . Lifelike and frozen,
they seemed, to me, caught in the act of
making a run for it. I stopped and stared,
and kept staring, wishing, then willing one
of them to move. I felt held there, the snow
dusting my shoulders. And I remember
thinking , I’m so tired. Seeing my reflection,
aged in the fluorescent light, I thought,
Why aren’t you making a move? What are
you doing with your life? Holly, when are
you going to leave the party?
By the time my face caught up with the
unsettling vision in the glass, it was 1998
and I was six happy years into a feature-
writing job at Premiere magazine. The trans-
mogrification seemed— bam!—sudden. I
woke up, looked in the mirror, and knew I
would never again get carded. Game over.
Not so fast.
I gave myself the pep talk that always
works on my friends: Okay, no more
tears…look at me: “Who can turn the
world on with a smile? Who can take a
nothing day, and suddenly make it all
seem worthwhile? Well, it’s you, girl, and
you should know it!” Not working. Mary
Tyler Moore could stand here and sing it
herself, throw her hat up in the air, and I’d
still feel depressed, because the truth was,
if I could turn the world on with a smile,
I’d have had a lot more dates, and not just
with Americans.
But Mr. Grant told Mary, “You’ve got
spunk!” And I did too. Incurable spunk
detected in a routine blood test. Deter-
mined to turn my aging into an asset, I
took the elevator up to Premiere’s sister
magazine Mirabella and boldly pitched
an experiential column aimed at cosmet-
ics junkies and nip-and-tuckers, in which
I would be their trusted guide through the
$50 billion beauty industry maze. I would
be the guinea piglet standing up and shout-
ing, “I’ll sign the Not Tested on Animals
waiver!” and give the raw play-by-play
and honest upshot, testing new products
and procedures. Simply put, I was willing
to donate my body to science while still
breathing. The editor had one question:
“Do you have health insurance?” And
with that, a beauty adventuress was born.
My first Beauty Adventure took me
to Dallas to try a new laser machine—
ThermoLase Softlight—that promised
permanent hair removal. My legs, under-
arms, and bikini line were zapped, and just
to show my derring -do, I made them zap
my nipples, too, which burst into flames.
I had my lead! Permanent? My hair grew
back in the span of a waxing. But four
years later, Intense Pulsed Light machines
hit the market and left me, like the name
of the salon, Completely Bare. (A tad too
bare down there.)
By the third column, truth telling had
cost the magazine an advertiser, and my
Beauty Adventure passport was pulled.
But when Robbie Myers took over the
editor’s chair, she handed it back, stamped
TRUTH BEFORE ADVERTISING.
Perfect timing. The beauty industry was
exploding with promises of anti-aging ev-
erything. I found it funny that my grand-
mother could remember the invention of
the electric razor (1928), the eyelash curler
(1931), nylons (1939), hairspray (1948), and
tube mascara (1957) ; and now it seems in-
credible that I not only remember but par-
ticipated in the birth of lasers, Botox , and
injectable fillers—big breakthroughs back
then—that 12 years later are de rigueur.
In 2000, Robbie became the editor of
ELLE, and she took me along, promising,
as ever, to have my back and post my bail.
There was sure to be trouble. As Holly
Golightly says, “I’m always top banana in
the shock department.” I was a kid who
never stopped talking. My parents offered
bribes: “Be quiet until we get to the restau-
rant and you can order a Shirley Temple.”
Never happened. My father’s constant re-
frain: “Houlihan, do you always have to
tell everybody everything you know all the
time?” Yes, I do, and now more than ever,
and often in great , immodest, embarrass-
ing, gross but necessary detail. Because
what began as a flip, facile way to finance
the recouping of my youth evolved into a
reality check and something that actually
mattered. The blithe spirit of the column
grew weighted with the unrealities of the
industry. I had a first-class ticket to the sup-
posed “best” doctors, hottest gizmos, and
latest procedures, but the rates at which I
returned with negative reports of “scam”
and “don’t bother” and “I’m scarred” were
higher than “it works!”
“Dad,” I said,
slightly teary,
“I think I found
something I’m
good at. And I
can be me!”
With Johnny
Depp, 1989
With Jay McInerney (left)
and Norman Mailer’s son
Michael, 1988
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This month, Dr. Peredo answers
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the fall season.
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Over the course of 50-
some adventures, I’ve cov-
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surgical to the nonsensical to the totally
surreal. I had my eyelids snipped, veins
stripped, and muscles ripped; my chakras
rocked, pimples shocked, and colon un-
blocked. I’ve been Platza -ed with tree
branches, slept in a hyperbaric chamber,
and gone undercover as a QVC model. I
joined the Victoria’s Secret Angels Across
America tour , where Adriana Lima—the
Mean Girl in the mix— kicked me off the
bus in Vegas for being old. I’ve been Eliza
Doolittled by Oscar de la Renta and dis-
guised as a Latina, a WASP, and a punk
rocker on the website HotOrNot. (The
Latina me was voted hot. The punk pose,
not: “She looks like the girl that beat me up
in high school.”)
I was stuck in a Czech monastery loo,
visiting monks who make Fresh Crème
Ancienne, and stuck up a Brazilian rainfor-
est tree picking açai berries for Kiehl’s, and
stuck up the bum with an herbed oil enema
by a former supermodel turned Ayurvedic
healer turned close friend, Cameron
Alborzian. (It was a bonding experience.)
When my wizened hands were plumped
with Radiesse, the Jezebel.com girls ripped
me a new a-hole, which, God bless Cam-
eron, he repaired. Their mock cover line
screamed: VAGINA OF A TEEN BUT HANDS OF
A 52 YEAR OLD? PLASTIC SURGERY FOR YOUR
NEW NEUROTIC OBSESSION. No, I am not
52. Yes, I am neurotic. And according to
my gynecologist, I absolutely do have the
vagina of a teenager, which makes sense
since it never gets any exercise. The Jezzies
have attacked me before, and will again. I
call them the Monkey Coven because they
sit chattering away in their website tree,
casting evil aspersions, throwing coconuts,
and hoping celebs slip on their banana
peels. There’s no need for a counterattack .
Sit by the river long enough, and you will
see the body of a chimp float by, felled by
middle age. And seeing me, the simian
beast will swim toward the bank, panicked
and screaming: “Who’s best at Botox? Lip
filler? Vein injections? Eye jobs? !”
As Cameron says,
“There is no such
thing as good karma
or bad karma, there
are only lessons to be
learned.” Don’t worry,
girls, despite the hard
coco-knocks, I’ll be
here when you need
me. I was you once,
after all.
Some adventures
were misadventures,
and those were the
best to write, because,
all fun and games and coconuts aside, bust-
ing a bogus new product claim, or better
yet, a procedure, gives me a Ralph Nader
high. I will always, and somewhat proudly,
bear the white hyperpigmentation scars of
coblation—a skin- resurfacing technique
that uses radio-frequency energy. If you
read the column, you ran in the other di-
rection. After that scarring nightmare, I
held off testing the new laser resurfacers
that sprang up over the years, which were
all deemed “too risky” by my dermatolo-
gist, Dennis Gross, MD . He finally gave
the MiXto Micro Fractional CO
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Resurfacing laser his ultraconservative
“good to go.” S till gun-shy , I coaxed Emily,
our beauty director, and my editor, Liesl,
into walking a mile in my guinea piglet
shoes. But seeing their MiXto lobster red
faces, I took a guilt trip to Gross’s office
and underwent the lasering too. For better
or worse, we were all in it together. And,
amen, it was for better. Two years later,
MiXto is still a top Beauty Adventure,
completely changing the landscape of my
skin, erasing fine lines and sun damage
and inducing collagen production. Liesl,
too, was thrilled, though Em did file a
freckling complaint.
That was the first and last time I’ve
had company on a serious Adventure ,
and frankly, it spoiled me. The MiXto re-
covery being long and not pretty, I would
have been a little scared and a lot lonely
getting through it without my commiserat-
ing cohorts. There have been days when
I’ve returned from an Adventure to my
empty apartment and sat in stricken si-
lence thinking, What have I done? Like
when I watched my hands blow up into
oven mitts post-Radiesse. (Ten days later
they deflated, looking 10 years younger.)
The three weeks of seeping, scabbing,
coblation wounds. And let’s not forget the
truly traumatizing Edward (Scissorhands)
Tricomi shag haircut that sentenced me
to four months’ house arrest. (I’d been
shagged, but not in the way my friends said
I so badly needed.)
Those nights when I was physically un-
comfortable and overtired and everything
felt like The End, I called the one I knew
would not answer, “I told you so” (even
though she sometimes told me so) Liesl.
And during the day, when the light exposed
just how wrong everything had gone and I
couldn’t bring myself to go out in public,
I rang the one who could actually make it
better, Gross. For more than a decade, this
man has always fixed my self-infliction,
or at least performed damage control. We
met on one of my first Adventures testing a
new wrinkle eraser: Botox. Seeing him last
week, he’d found a new use for the juice.
“I invented this procedure,” he said, prick-
ing me along my upper and lower lip lines.
“It relaxes the muscles around the lips that
cause them to contract and appear smaller.
By relaxing them, your lips expand and
have a natural volume.” It works. “Have
12 years really gone by?” Gross asks. “It’s
funny, but I feel emotional about that.” (He
thinks he’s emotional? When I first stepped
into his office, I could still get pregnant.)
But hey, I signed up for it all, right?
Literally signed—my ELLE contract; the
medical waiver; and the Who to Contact
in Case of Emergency form, which, I swear
to God, was Warren Beatty, because he’s
on the Scripps Research Institute board
and I still had his phone number from
when I interviewed him for Premiere.
In another instance, I nearly signed
away my soul. I’m obsessed with my teeth,
neurotic about gum recession. During one
of millions of cleanings, my periodontist
observed that overbrushing had made me
“long in the tooth” and suggested pulling
the gum down in that area. I let her per-
form the procedure, with horrific results.
My dentist determined she’d stitched the
incisions so tight the blood supply was cut
off from my gum tissue, which died and
sloughed off , exposing the roots of three
teeth. I’d broken my first rule: Never trust
a doctor simply because you like her or she
says she can fix you. Despite the license
on the wall, she wasn’t skilled or talented
enough to perform cosmetic surgery. Now
I had a serious problem. Which demanded
Our indefatigable guinea pig: Holly
tries out three looks on the website
HotOrNot.
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a serious —and seriously accomplished—
surgeon: Dennis Tarnow, DDS, a pioneer-
ing periodontist and one of the coinventors
of the coronally positioned flap procedure
that corrected the unsightly mess in my
mouth. Given my crazed emotional state
at the time, the guy pretty much saved my
life. Or at least kept me from living alone,
unloved, in a cave.
When it comes to your face, the first cut
is akin to losing your virginity. All that
messing around that leads up to it—the
Botox , filler, lasers—they’re the cosmetic
equivalent of getting to first, second, and
third bases. But when a surgeon pulls out
his scalpel, you’re going all the way. And
whoever’s wielding the blade better be bet-
ter than the guy in high school.
I wasn’t one of those who swore they’d
never get plastic surgery. I was born with
heavy-hooded eyes that were sexy when I
was young, but I knew would come to hang
past my lashes. I also knew that cutting the
lids, like refining the nose, can easily lead
to a loss of self-recognition. The decision
was made easy when I no longer recog-
nized my eyes anyway. I’d interviewed
most of the famous Park Avenue plastic
surgeons over the years, but, like Gold-
ilocks, I couldn’t find the one that felt “just
right.” Gross —being my most trusted MD,
and a man who sees a lot of “work”—rec-
ommended Gerald Pitman, whose work
can’t be seen.
In a city where people can point at
strangers and accurately say, “That’s Doc-
tor So-and-So’s nose job. That’s a Doctor
So-and-So face-lift,” Pitman doesn’t leave
his signature. Which is probably why he’s
best known for liposuction—he literally
wrote the medical textbook. I knew he was
the one. For starters, he was a real surgeon,
not a celebrity. He didn’t have a KING OF THE
WORLD–embroidered cushion in his office,
like one I’d met; or framed pictures of him-
self with presidents and famous clients, like
another. Nor did he suggest I get a nose job,
as did the one whose noses populate Man-
hattan’s Upper East Side. Pitman listened.
And understood. And had a feel for my
emotional life, which is key in a plastic sur-
geon. Everyone’s expectations are unique,
but everyone wants to wake up happy. And
the difference between happy and another
“Oh God, what have I done?” moment that
would last a lifetime can be a millimeter (or
an ounce) one way or the other. I commit-
ted and asked, “While you’re at it, could you
suck a pound off my pear shape?” Which,
given the two procedures, amortized the
cost of the anesthesiologist and the hospi-
tal fees. (My advice? Never get surgery in a
doctor’s private operating room.)
Back then I said the good news and bad
news were the same news: You couldn’t
tell I’d had an eye job. The Monkey Coven
bonked me on the head for that and chat-
tered, “An expensive form of emo self-
mutilation!” Wrong again, girls. I pay Pit-
man a visit three years later. Studying my
before and after blepharoplasty pictures,
and staring at me now, he declares, “Your
eye job gets inexplicably better.” I see for
myself. Yep, it’s true and slightly anx-
ious making—shades of Death Becomes
Her, growing wider-eyed by the minute.
Checking my imagination, I strip and we
agree that my old pear is peachy lean. But
I do miss a bit of the junk he took out of
my trunk. Like, two ounces. He laughs:
“Your bottom is still round and high!”
I leave Pitman, but not before asking
him if I could use a little neck lift. “You’re
not even close to needing that,” he says.
“Holly, stop looking for what ‘needs to be
done.’ You’re an attractive woman, and the
truth about attractive women is that they’re
attractive at any age. Growing older isn’t
going to change that.”
Have I changed? Years ago I’d Adven-
tured to the office of Gerald Epstein, MD ,
a psychiatrist and expert in the ancient
art of morphology—the science of face
reading. Morphologists believe that 95
percent of our disposition is set at birth,
with our profiles revealing one of four
temperaments, and our faces one of 12
personalities designated by their shapes,
which correlate with the names of Greek
and Roman gods. He’d diagnosed me as
a rectangle, Aries/Mars: “gregarious,
good-humored, fickle, short-tempered,
penchant for war.” All job requirements. I
have the angular face “women find attrac-
tive in men” but men don’t find appeal-
ing in women. Which leaves me single,
wishing I were a lesbian, who could find
another lesbian, who was attracted to
women who look like men. Meanwhile,
the men I’m attracted to fall for moon-
shaped faces: “a circle of receptivity that
conveys a yielding nature.” It is also a
more youthful look, which is why so many
women are inflating their faces—cheeks
especially—with fillers.
Cosmetic procedures big and small can
change your morphology and, in turn,
your character. I swing by Epstein’s office
to see if I’ve become a different person. On
close inspection he says matter-of-factly,
“You still have the face of a warrior. Look
at the sharp angles, the creases around
your mouth—your calling is to conquer,
be indefatigable, acquire knowledge.
That’s why you do what you do. You also
put obstacles in your own way so that you
can surmount them.” He chuckles. “But
you don’t like other people putting things
in your way. God help them.” What about
my eyes? “They smile when you smile,
which doesn’t always happen after people
have surgery. That’s one way you can tell.”
When I’d first met Epstein, he’d exam-
ined a photo of me at three and said, “Now
this is a tough little monkey.” (I told you I
was one of them.) And now? “You’re still
you.” What a relief, for the most part.
Walking home down Madison Avenue,
I smile at all the work coming toward
me in the other direction: the overblown
lips and implanted cheeks and frozen
foreheads and cinched faces. You can
see it all, just as you could see it in me
at times. After one noodling, my friend
Jo said something that sums it up for me,
and probably anyone who indulges: “You
look prettier in an artificial way and less
pretty in a natural way.” So we all have
to decide.
I pass by Barneys (a first) and turn on
60th Street . The Bloomingdale’s human
resources lobby is empty, of course. The
mannequins have escaped and are walk-
ing among us now, indistinguishable
from their well- sculpted human counter-
parts. “What is there left for you to do?”
my oldest friend Virginia asked not long
ago, adding, “You could go to Japan and
have your legs lengthened! They cut your
bones in half and insert metal rods…. ”
She burst into laughter. I’ll pass on that,
thanks. In this modern day and age—and
at my age—there will always be more Ad-
ventures. (Have you noticed how my hair
is thinning? I’ll get back to you on that.)
Inside my elevator is a silver plaque,
etched with HELP IS ON THE WAY, which
lights up if you push a button. I always
look at that and think, Oh, yeah? When?
I’m tempted to push it now, just to see
who comes. Would Dr. Gross show up?
Or Robbie? Liesl? Em? Maybe Cameron.
They’re always helping me. Do I help
anyone? Beauty Adventuring isn’t exactly
brain surgery. “No,” I can hear Virginia
say, “but surgery has been involved.”
I’m older now. And occasionally I get
what the other Holly called “the mean
reds…when suddenly you’re afraid and
you don’t know what you’re afraid of.”
Only I know. I’m afraid of growing even
older. I can’t honestly tell you otherwise. I
just am. And I know I’m not alone. I’d like
to think there’s something to be said for
putting that anxiety out there, and finding
ways to alleviate it—or ways not to. And
if I can throw in a laugh, that’s a beautiful
thing too. So you see, it’s me. I’m the help
that’s on the way.
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celebratory dinner for our quarter century and
dish on the fashion of food, then and now.
Ruth Reichl takes notes
P H O T O G R A P H E D B Y L I S A H U B B A R D
When ELLE arrived stateside 25 years ago, along with its modern perspective on style, it
also imported the French media’s ahead-of-the-curve food coverage. Pre–Food Network
and dining blogs, ELLE reserved an unprecedented number of gorgeously art-directed
pages for cuisine culture. There were even tear-out recipe cards! To celebrate our birth-
day and our ongoing love for the art of eating, we invited a star trio, who, as still nascent
luminaries, cooked for these pages decades ago, to reinvent those recipes and create a
feast that represents who they, and we, are today: fresh, ever-changing, delicious.
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When Vongerichten was featured in ELLE in
1992, he’d recently opened JoJo , the Upper
East Side temple to the marriage of lighter,
clearer French cooking with Asian flavors. Now
the Alsatian master chef runs a megabrand,
with restaurants from Bora Bora to Las Vegas,
including his latest, NYC’s ABC Kitchen, where
he’s putting his swank touch on the locavore
ethos to drooling reviews (just try getting
a rezzie!). Back in the ’90s, he proselytized
about the merits of unexpected grains : quinoa,
amaranth , and even kasha varnishkes, a Jewish
classic of bow-tie pasta with buckwheat oats.
In his modern take on the dish, adorable little
meatballs replace slices of veal. It’s his chic
nod to this meatball moment—the first time in
history they’ve made the leap to haute cuisine.
BOW-TIE PASTA
WITH VEAL
MEATBALLS
JEAN-GEORGES VONGERICHTEN
Kasha with bow-tie pasta and roast veal, featured in
ELLE’s September 1992 issue
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Now the ingredients they requested—
lemongrass, heirloom apples, black cur-
rants, baby beets—are widely available,
and the competition to invent the latest,
coolest cookery is intense. The four of us
sat down to sample the spectacular dishes
they created when we asked them to envi-
sion an ELLE twenty-fifth-anniversary
dinner party menu and to talk about how
things were, how they’ve changed, and
where they’re going, in the obsessed-over
world of haute food.—Ruth Reichl
ELLE: How have restaurants changed
since you came here from France in the
’80s?
Eric Ripert: The position of the chef
[here] has changed a lot. It was like a mini
revolution. In Paris, I worked with Joël Ro-
buchon, and if you are coming to Robu-
chon, you will eat what Robuchon gives
you. And you shut up, as a client.
David Bouley: It was so different back
then in New York City. People used to
walk in thinking they were going to tell the
waiter what [I should] cook for them.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten: Really, it
was Le Bernardin that changed things.
JGV: [Le Coze] would die before he made
something he did not want to cook.
DB: He was very progressive….
ER: Now the client comes to you because
they like your style. And young eaters are
adventurous and curious. They come in
for an experience.
DB: They challenge you.
ER: And at the same time, they don’t mind
being challenged.
ELLE: Have prices changed?
JGV: At the time, there were only a few fine-
dining restaurants. Five, six, seven. Now
there is more competition. I was doing more
expensive food in 1988 than I’m doing now.
At the first New York restaurant I worked in,
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walks into ELLE’s
photo shoot an
hour late, the
other chefs laugh.
“You’re always
late,” Eric Rip-
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don’t change
at all.”
But they have changed, these three
great chefs, in the 20-odd years since they
first created recipes for ELLE’s lush food
section. When the magazine covered him
in 1991, Jean-Georges Vongerichten had
just opened his first restaurant, the minus-
cule JoJo, in New York City, hoping that
his reputation for making French food
lighter by replacing butter and cream
with vegetable stocks would bring cus-
tomers flocking. Had you told him he’d
become the head of a vast restaurant em-
pire—Jean Georges, Spice Market, ABC
Kitchen, and so on—he would have said
you were insane.
In 1993, Eric Ripert’s destiny as a major
media star and Top Chef judge was also far
in the future ; newly arrived at New York’s
Le Bernardin, he was helping legendary
chef Gilbert Le Coze change the way res-
taurants served fish. “Gilbert was a pur-
ist,” Ripert says . “For him, fish was so
delicate and sacred, he didn’t even want to
cook it.” Nobody could have foreseen that
Le Coze would soon die, tragically young,
of a heart attack in 1994, leaving Ripert to
carry his torch with his sister Maguy Le
Coze and make Le Bernardin The New
York Times’ current longest-running four-
star restaurant.
And in 1991, the remarkably sensual
menu at Bouley had already transformed
New York’s food sensibility, but David
Bouley had yet to discover the Japanese
aesthetic that would transform his own.
“The purity of Japan will change the
world,” he says now—and the others nod
in agreement.
In the intervening years, each chef has
had a profound effect on the way we eat. “I
came from France in 1986,” says Vongeri-
chten, “to cook French food. But I looked
around and thought, This food’s too rich;
the meals too long; the Italian restaurants
are packed—we have to change.”
They took their French training and
turned it inside out. In France, technique
was everything, but in America, they
began putting ingredients first. And when
the ingredients didn’t exist, they changed
that, too. “In those days,” Vongerichten
says , “the farmers would come into your
restaurant with seed catalogs: ‘What do
you want us to grow for you next year?’ ”
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Bouley is a known obsessive who likes to
work solo. While running the kitchen at the
multistarred Montrachet in the mid-’80s, he
had a dustup with restaurateur Drew Nieporent
and broke free to be the boss at Bouley, then
later started a groundbreaking test kitchen. His
current fixation, other than personally manning
the stoves at the reopened Bouley,
is Japan. (His next project, Boji, is
soon to open in NYC.) Both his 1991
recipe for ELLE and its revision
are an original version of a terrine,
DAVID BOULEY
Ripert had been working at the fanciest fish parlor
in Manhattan, Le Bernardin, for only two years
when he was featured in a 1993 ELLE story about
desserts reminiscent of modern art. Unlike many
celeb toques, this likable Top Chef judge has kept his
focus on the same restaurant over the years, and
Le Bernardin continues to be the chowhounds’ “at
least once in a lifetime” mecca. Consistently great
and ever evolving, Ripert has pared down his ’90s
poached pear for today. Back then, it was all about
towers and Pollock splashes. Now that ingredients
are such high quality, simplicity is all. So
he took away the ostentatious tuile
and the lily-gilding chocolate sauce
to offer one in-season pear stuffed
with dried fruits and bathed in a
light caramel wine sauce. Sublime.
ERIC RIPERT
Honey-poached pear
in a tuile nest with
caramel chocolate
cream ganache and,
above, a chocolate
bombe, in the December
1993 issue of ELLE
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and each uses luxury ingredients and textural
contrast. But unlike the foie gras–stuffed apple,
which looks to France, this version owes its debt
to Japan. Bouley is using sea urchin roe—as rich,
soft, and splendid as foie—encasing it not in
apple, but in a lightly gelled stock. The result is
every bit as decadent—but so much lighter.
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today at Jean Georges it’s $148.
ER: That’s pretty interesting when you
consider how the prices have gone up.
Back then, you could buy sea bass for
$2.50 a pound; today it’s $8 or $9.
ELLE: How have ingredients changed?
JGV: Everything is so much more eclectic.
I discovered grains in New York. In
France, the only grain I knew was wheat.
When ELLE asked me to do recipes [in
the early ’90s] , I had a Jewish girlfriend, so
I thought I’d make a variation of kasha
varnishkes.
ER: New York is so cosmopolitan, with so
many different nationalities; you’re get-
ting inspired by the Koreans, the Irish, the
Japanese, the Jewish, and the Latinos.
DB: Robuchon was using soy sauce in
1981, you remember? No other French
chef was doing that. Now everybody does.
JGV: Soy sauce and butter—it’s the best
sauce in the world. Bring a spoonful of
each to a boil and add lime juice.
ELLE: How will we eat in the future?
ER: Molecular gastronomy is dead. Our
generation is all about the primacy of in-
gredients. Things keep getting lighter.
Escoffier [the early-twentieth-century
chef who remade French cooking] meant
to make food lighter by replacing meat
stocks with butter and cream. Then nou-
velle cuisine came along, trying to make
food lighter by taking away the butter
and cream. And then, Jean-Georges,
you made it lighter with the vegetable
juices. Today, there’s the Japanese influ-
ence, making the food lighter again.
ELLE: Okay, last question: Women in the
kitchen? Has that changed?
DB: It’s totally a coed environment now.
That macho thing? It’s over.
JGV: They do come, the women, but they
don’t stay; the drop-off is enormous. It’s
very hard to be a mom and a chef.
DB: It requires a lot of sacrifice. But I no-
tice that women understand complex
things faster than some of the guys. They
get it like that, in a second. It’s amazing.
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ROCK-STAR
FABULOUS: FERGIE
PINUP PRECISION:
DITA VON TEESE
25 style-philes spill their wardrobe
secrets in a new book by ELLE editors.
Joe Zee and Maggie Bullock
CLOSET
CASES
As any ELLE reader knows, the way we
choose to dress—this bag, not that one; these
jeans, not those—telegraphs countless mes-
sages: who we think we are, what we do,
even what we believe. The writers, actresses,
artists, and execs featured in our first book,
The ELLEments of Personal Style (Gotham
Books), are masters of this art of self-expres-
sion. We spent months sleuthing through
their homes (and wardrobes) to bring you a
treasure trove of new ideas and inspirations.
Here, we offer you the first peek!
STYLE PROFILE: A head-turning blend of
naughty and nice, Von Teese (formerly known
as Heather Sweet of Rochester, Michigan)
reignited the long-forgotten art of burlesque in
the early 2000s. Her lustrous black hair (self-
dyed!), siren-red lips, and to-the-letter retro
wardrobe—and her knack for coyly taking
it off while aboard, say, a horse-size lipstick
bullet—bewitched designers and now friends
such as Marc Jacobs, Dolce & Gabbana, and
Christian Louboutin.
ART OF TEESE: “My favorite thing about dressing
is when you put something on and everything
changes. The way you walk, your mannerisms,
the way you look at people. I feel like my whole
persona changes, depending on my outfit.”
DISCOVERING VINTAGE: “In high school, I lusted
after Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano,
but I couldn’t afford them. I went into a vintage
store and thought, Oh, I can make that
look like Westwood if I pinch in the
waist and pad the hips. That was my
goal—to get that look for less.”
STYLE PROFILE: From nine-year-old Kids Incorpo-
rated cereal-hour star to Black Eyed Peas front
woman and sometime “Ferg alicious” solo artist,
the California girl’s style has coevolved with her
career, “in front of everybody,” she jokes.
CH-CH-CH-CHANGES: Uniform? “I have no such
thing!” says Fergie. Starting with what she calls
her “Dickies and a wife-beater” tomboy phase,
she segued into “skater-meets-old-school-hip-
hop-meets-B-girl-meets-a-little-L.A.-chola
style.” Then came the “sci-fi superhero” look
of the Peas’ recent The E.N.D. tour, and most
recently, a mix of uptown-girl chic and rock ’n’
roll swagger (leather pants, rock tees).
CLOSET CASE: “My husband knows I’m a pack
rat,” says Fergie, who talked hunky Josh
Duhamel into a “rock ’n’ roll boudoir-themed”
closet with chandeliers, zebra-lined floors, a
fitting room, and a “treasure chest” accessories
cabinet that locks via remote control.
Above: Fergie’s
inspirations;
essential
ELLEment
(below): face-
wrapping Dolce &
Gabbana shades
Above: Pages from
Von Teese’s chapter;
essential ELLEment
(below): Christian
Louboutin heels
seduce, onstage
and off.
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FREE SPIRIT:
MILLA JOVOVICH
STYLE PROFILE: “As a kid, I was always trying to
find a little doorway that would take me into
wonderland,” says Jovovich, whose dress-up-
closet look—long, flowy dresses, hair ornaments,
hints of sparkle—is as eclectic as her career:
She’s starred in countless ad campaigns,
recorded an album (1994’s The Divine
Comedy), codesigned a clothing line (the now
“semiretired” Jovovich-Hawk), and established
herself as a fearsome ass-kicker in The Fifth
Element and the Resident Evil franchise.
CLOTHES CALL: “My style tells people I’m not your
ordinary run-of-the-mill character—it’s a little
wacky; it’s got a sense of humor.”
EBAY TO THE RESCUE: “I’ll stay up till three in the
morning Googling vintage hats or Victorian
walking suits. You can find anything,” says
Jovovich, who stockpiles hats as well as veils,
combs, hairpieces, and headbands to add “a
little wink-wink” to every look.
STYLE PROFILE: After 12 Grammys and five
platinum-selling albums, R&B’s soulful
songbird—newly married to record producer
Swizz Beatz and a soon-to-be mom—has
maintained a hint of New York grit. “When I
started, I was coming straight off the streets of
New York, and I wanted to be the everyday
girl,” Keys says. “Not too sexy or trying too
hard; the girl who just got up and did her thing.
As I grew...things got a little more girly.”
REFORM SCHOOL: Keys is the first to laugh
about her former wardrobe, er, exuberance.
“Overaccessorizing!” she says. “Patterns,
colors, braids, scarves, beads, hats. Everything,
all at once.” She’s learned to love simplicity,
like the sexiness of a bare neck.
THE NEW LOOK: “It’s feminine, tailored—high-
waisted pants, sharp jackets. Jumpsuits! I
don’t like to just do the safe thing. I still like
to take a chance and have some fun.”
EARTHY OPULENCE:
ALICIA KEYS
SILHOUETTE SAVVY:
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS
STYLE PROFILE: As Mad Men office manager
extraordinaire Joan Holloway (now Harris), Hendricks
sashays about in jewel-tone sheaths cut to showcase
an anatomy extraordinary enough—in Hollywood, at
least—to make her a cultural talking point. “So many
women have told me it’s been inspiring to them that I
feel like it’s something to celebrate,” she says.
SCHOOL DAZE: As a teen goth, Hendricks wore all black;
her hair “changed from black to fire engine red to
purple, depending on the month.”
LESSON LEARNED: “The key for me is
tailoring and showing my waistline.
I used to love these billowy, silky,
romantic things. Finally, it was like,
Okay, let other girls wear those. I’ve
got to recognize what works for me.”
Essential ELLEment
(right): An hourglass-
friendly Zac Posen;
far right: Hendricks’
inspiration page
Above, from top:
Keyes’ inspiration
page; essential
ELLEment: a
textured Oscar de
La Renta jacket
The ELLEements of Personal Style
will be available October 14, wherever
books are sold.
Essential
ELLEment (right):
An Oscar de la
Renta vest shines
up daytime looks;
below: Jovovich’s
inspiration page
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I
discovered the charms of Ben
Affleck 13 years ago, when he played
Gunner in Going All the Way, a mod-
est Sundance film set in 1950s India-
napolis, my hometown. A Korea vet
in his early twenties, Gunner is
newly home and looking for love, or
at least some loving. As Affleck plays
him, he’s one of nature’s golden
boys, beautiful and self-assured. But
instead of being smug, he’s kind; when he
takes a younger, less confident vet under
his wing, the kid can barely believe his
luck. Gunner reminded me of my favorite
high school boyfriend: generous, funny,
and wise enough to appreciate his good
fortune. When I tell Affleck this, he lights
up. “Oh ho , thank you!” he exclaims. “I
love that little film. It probably didn’t cost
more than a few million, maybe less, but it
had such good people—Rachel Weisz and
Jeremy Davies and the director, Mark
Pellington.” Then he says a very golden-
boy thing: “I loved spending the summer
in Indianapolis.” Really? Indianapolis
summers were nice, but I wouldn’t have
expected a movie star to think so.
With a little help from Gunner and a lot
more from two other 1997 movies, Affleck
became a golden boy for real. That year, he
costarred in Chasing Amy, Kevin Smith’s
ingen iously obscene R-rated romantic
comedy and—the jackpot—in Gus Van
Sant’s megahit Good Will Hunting, which
brought Affleck and his Latin school buddy
Matt Damon the Oscar for best original
screenplay and made both men stars.
Set mostly in a down-at-the-heels section
of Boston, Good Will Hunting is the story of
a scrappy young janitor (Damon) at a
Harvard- or MIT-like university who is
revealed to be a math genius and all-
around intellectual prodigy. The movie
combines drama, comedy, and romance,
but its real subject is rare in American
films: not just class, but class conflict. With
its bristling town-and-gown tensions, it laid
down a marker for a theme close to
Affleck’s heart, which he has lately come
back to in some of the best work of his life.
Three years ago, Affleck made a stun-
After a stellar start in Hollywood, Ben
Affleck got lost in a confusion of bad
film choices and an overly public private
life. But with Gone Baby Gone and this
fall’s enthralling dramas The Company
Men and The Town (his second turn
behind the camera), he’s proved himself
better than ever. By Karen Durbin
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ning directing debut with Gone Baby Gone,
a deeply character-driven crime drama
based on a Dennis Lehane novel and set in
Dorchester, another working-class part of
Boston. Featuring a cast including his
brother, Casey, and Morgan Freeman, it
won a slew of critics’ awards for Affleck
and especially for Amy Ryan, a gifted stage
actress who also got Oscar and Golden
Globe nominations for her supporting turn
as one of the worst, most memorable young
mothers ever to walk the earth.
“I wish I could take the credit for Amy,
but she just came in to audition and was
amazing,” Affleck says. He offered her the
part on the spot—much to the chagrin of
the producers and casting director.
“Apparently, it’s just not done,” Ryan says,
and laughing, she describes how Affleck
handled her second audition two weeks later.
Telling the others he wanted her to read for
him in private, “He ushered me into his office
and said, ‘Listen. They think I’m too young
and too much a novice, but I know what I
like, and I want you in my movie—so, no, you
don’t have to read. This is just to make them
think you did.’ ”
This fall, Affleck follows his earlier
triumph with The Town and The Company
Men—two other gripping, character-rich
dramas. He stars in the second and directs
and stars in the first, but in their different
ways, both films explore the themes of get-
ting and spending and haves and have-nots.
Written and directed by John Wells and
costarring Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee
Jones, The Company Men leaps from the
evening news: To bolster the falling stock
price of their firm , the dizzyingly rich men
at the top of a multipronged corporation
fire thousands of employees, including
some who thought they were safe. Affleck’s
cocky, successful sales manager now faces
the prospect of returning to the humble
roots he worked so hard to escape.
In The Town, which Affleck adapted
from the Chuck Hogan novel Prince of
Thieves, he plays Doug MacRay, the rest-
lessly intelligent leader of a pack of young
bank robbers, and sure enough, the setting
is a working-class part of Boston. But this
time, the area, Charlestown, is rapidly
gentrifying its Irish denizens out of their
homes, and Doug finds himself falling for
the assistant bank manager (played by
Rebecca Hall) whom the gang—against
his wishes—blindfolded and briefly took
hostage. The movie runs on two tracks—
the burgeoning but impossible love story,
and the furious pursuit of Doug by Jon
Hamm’s FBI man, Frawley. That it’s hard
to say which of these narrative threads is
more suspenseful is a tribute to the direc-
tor’s control of his complicated material.
Affleck is like a homing pigeon with these
movies. He loaded Gone Baby Gone and The
Town with local nonactors, who, as Ryan
points out, are more challenging to work
with than pros. Affleck wasn’t just upping
the realism, he was correcting the record.
“People think of Boston as just white and
Irish,” he says, “but in fact there are all
kinds of ethnicities.”
Technically, Affleck is a California boy,
born in Berkeley and now settled in Los
Love and other demons: Affleck and Hall in The
Town (left); Ryan in Gone Baby Gone (below)
(conti nued on page 482)
“I did Gone Baby Gone,
and then I just waited to do
things that were good. Doesn’t
mean I was snobby about it.”
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An entire generation has come
of age in the ELLE era. How do
your attitudes and behavior
measure up in hard numbers?
We know—you’re all attitude. As
for your behavior—well, let’s see
if you’ve been naughty or nice…
WHAT YOU
WANT
“I know I have issues with my body. I’ve tried to work through them, but it doesn’t always help when my boyfriend prefers me underweight.
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oday’s 25-year-old women—let’s call them the
ELLE Generation, since they’re the same age as
American ELLE—are the first to grow up after the
era when everything changed, to borrow the title of
Gail Collins’ inspiring recent account of how their
mothers’ generation emerged from untold millen-
nia of second-class status to men. So—what’s the
upshot of the great uplift? Is there still a sexual
double standard? Are these women as obsessed
about their appearance as their fore mothers were?
What are their aspirations for their lives and careers? What are
they looking for in their men? Are they even looking for men? What
are their attitudes toward fashion? Are they pessimistic or optimis-
tic? Fairly happy or disturbingly stressed out? ELLE and msnbc
.com, with the help of our longtime collaborators, the California
State University, Los Angeles sociologist Janet Lever and her team
of ace UCLA number crunchers, recently conducted an online
survey that attracted more than 25,000 participants, providing us
with the data around which to construct an informed portrait of the
ELLE Generation (based on 1,432 women 24 to 26 years old, if you
want to get technical about it). We think you’ll agree they’ve come
a long way (just don’t call them “baby”)—not that they’re inclined
to make a big deal out of it.—BEN DICKINSON, WITH ANALYSIS BY JANET
LEVER, DAVID FREDERICK, AND KIM ELSESSER
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Who You
Calling
Average?
Lookin’
for Love
Doing It for Themselves
THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF
romantics out there: A quarter of today’s
25-year-old women have been felled by love
at first sight—as have fully a third of their male
counterparts . But the experience doesn’t
always take: 88 percent of presently unattached
females say it’s difficult to find someone they’d
like to date—and 76 percent of men agree .
Wow—that’s just sad! Around 20 years ago, a
Virginia Slims/Roper survey found 73 percent
of women and 57 percent of men feeling so
frustrated. Looking further afield, about one in
eight young women and men report having had
a relationship with someone 15 or more years
older . And there’s a great yearning behind these
numbers: Among both sexes, 7 in 10 believe they
will need a life partner to be truly happy . But only
15 percent of young women are casually dating
one or more people—while a quarter of them
aren’t currently dating at all . (The rest are in a
relationship.) And here we thought the Internet
would be so helpful! 31 percent of young women
and men report having engaged in Internet
dating ; around a quarter of them have dealt with
a breakup via text, IM, or e-mail; and more than
a third of them have “sexted” nude or risqué
photos of themselves to someone.
MOST EVERYONE (87 PERCENT
among young women) is convinced
that people do judge us by our looks . The ELLE
Generation woman gives herself a median
score of 7 on the 10-point Bo Derek (you oldsters
remember her) scale of attractiveness (the fig-
ure is almost identical for 25-year-old guys) , and
fewer than 10 percent think their looks are below
average. Congratulations on an amazing feat of
visual prestidigitation, ladies and gentleman!
ALTHOUGH ONE IN FIVE ELLE-GENERATION WOMEN
admits to feeling “very stressed” most of the time, which strikes us
as seriously crazy-making, more than half our quarter-lifers expect to be
more prosperous than their parents . In this sense, these women feel less
bleak about their own economic prospects than they do about dating.
On the other hand, half of our young singles would also be supportive,
at least theoretically, if their man wanted to be a stay-at-home dad —a
seriously nontraditional preference! (Nearly half of all young women claim
they would respect a guy more for giving up his career to hold down the
fort at home—which is odd, because only a third of them would extend the
same respect to other women .)
TODAY’S WOMAN DOESN’T THINK ANY
LESS OF HER SEXUALLY ADVENTUROUS
SISTERS THAN SHE THINKS OF MEN WHO
BEHAVE THE SAME WAY—NOT THAT SHE
ACTUALLY APPROVES
BUT MANY MEN STILL THINK differently
about men and women who’ve had numerous
partners—the stallion/slut double standard
lives on. And 54 percent of young women have
engaged in casual sex—a similar percentage as
men of the same age—although almost half of
them regretted their last tryst, while not even
a third are glad they did it. Almost a third of
women—the same number as among men—
have cheated on a serious partner. And only 16
percent of these women would respect another
woman less if she moved in with her boyfriend .
SAUCE FOR THE GANDER
The less I eat, the less likely I am to want to have sex. The more I eat, the less likely I am to let him see me naked. There’s no winning.”
NONE OF US ARE
DECEIVED ABOUT
APPEARANCES…
EXCEPT OUR OWN
MOST WOMEN TODAY ARE CONVINCED
THAT THEY’LL BE MORE SUCCESSFUL AND
PROSPEROUS THAN THEIR PARENTS—BUT
NOT MORE SO THAN THEIR MEN (AND THEY
DON’T NECESSARILY WANT TO BE)
MORE THAN EVER, DATING IS A MATTER
OF FEAST OR FAMINE—AND PLENTY
OF US ARE GOING HUNGRY
YOUNG WOMEN
REALLY ARE
GETTING THEIR
PARTNERS TO DO
MORE AROUND
THE HOUSE (JUST
WAIT, WE HEAR
YOU THIRTYSOME-
THINGS SAYING,
UNTIL THE KIDS
COME ALONG….)
DO YOU SPLIT THE
house chores 50/50?
Sure thing, say 42
percent of our young
women —that’s way,
way up from 1985,
when scientific polling
showed that more
than 80 percent of all
women were doing
most or all of the
housework (and most
of the men polled
admitted as much) .
PARITY
BEGINS AT
HOME
MIRROR, MIRROR
IT’S STILL THE UNFAIREST JUDGE OF ALL
TWO OUT OF THREE YOUNG WOMEN are pleased with how they look—but that means one in
three women is less than satisfied with her appearance (because “average” just isn’t good enough!) .
Fewer women than men are content with their weight and muscle tone , and roughly twice as many
women as men dieted or took weight-loss pills in the past year . Fully 71 percent of our young women
agree with the statement “I feel pressure to have a more attractive body from magazines and
television” —nearly twice the rate among 25-year-old men. Hey, lighten up and keep it fun, people—
ELLE wants to be as much about feeling good about yourself as looking good. We around the office
figure we’re 7s ourselves, at best—which makes us completely average!
“Deciding to leave
my partner to move to New
York City to follow my dream
of working in the fashion industry
for six months—before ultimately
realizing that being successful in the
Big City wasn’t what I wanted after
all. I moved back to be with the
man I left behind. I consider it a
success because I followed my
dreams and then ultimately
my heart.”
★
GREATEST SUCCESS
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DAY CARE? YES!
Only one in eight young
women says she’d respect a
woman less for putting her
kids in day care in order to
work full-time .
Reasons Not to Have Casual Sex: 1. “Because he was really good in bed, and now I compare my husband to him.” 2. “I found out that it was a bet.”
MOMMY
WAR &
PEACE

GETTING
GOOD AT
GETTING
IT ON
A GENERATION
AFTER THE SEX-
UAL REVOLUTION
(REMEMBER
NEHRU JACKETS
AND KEY PARTIES?
DIDN’T THINK SO!),
WE’VE SEEN THE
FUTURE OF SEX,
AND IT WORKS
Almost two thirds
of our 25-year-old
women in relation-
ships report that they
are “very satisfied”
with their sex life
(while just 48 percent
of the young men
are)—and 83 percent
of these women are
satisfied with their
relationship overall .
SEX AND THE CITY
HAD IT RIGHT
AVERAGE NUMBER OF FRIENDS WITH WHOM OUR
YOUNG WOMAN CAN TALK ABOUT HER SEX LIFE: 3
AM I WITH
STUPID?
CONTRARY TO
COMMON SPECU-
LATION ABOUT
MATING RITES
IN THE AGE OF
HOMER SIMPSON,
FEWER THAN ONE
IN FIVE YOUNG
PEOPLE (MEN,
TOO!) SAY THEY’VE
PRETENDED TO
BE LESS INTELLI-
GENT TO ATTRACT
SOMEONE
WHATEVER
HAPPENED
TO PROM
NIGHT?!
YOUNG WOMEN
WHO’VE EVER
SPLURGED MORE
THAN $400 ON
ONE FASHION
ITEM: 16 PERCENT
WELL,
ISN’T THAT
INTEREST-
ING…
25-YEAR-OLD
WOMEN IN OUR
SURVEY EARN A
MEDIAN INCOME
OF $33,700;
THE GUYS EARN
$40,300
DESIRABLE TRAITS IN A PARTNER
WILL MAKE A LOT OF MONEY
WANTS KIDS
HAS A COLLEGE DEGREE
HAS STEADY INCOME
SLENDER BODY
SEXUALLY ENTICING
GOOD-LOOKING
51
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78
81
82
95
97
SLENDER BODY
WILL MAKE A LOT OF MONEY
WANTS KIDS
HAS A COLLEGE DEGREE
GOOD-LOOKING
SEXUALLY ENTICING
HAS STEADY INCOME
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I try to get fashionable pieces every week or month
I try to get fashionable pieces each season
I try to get fashionable pieces each year
I generally don’t go out of my way to buy things that are fashionable
I have my own style that has little to do with fashion trends
I can’t afford to be fashionable
I’m not the right size to wear current fashion trends
%
FEMINISM—
STILL
RELEVANT?
FOUR IN 10 YOUNG
WOMEN FEEL
FAVORABLY toward
feminists—about
twice the rate among
young men. But one in
five women expresses
hostility—as do half
the young guys (10
percent more than
men of the previous
generation) . Interest-
ingly, young women
who admire feminists
report being every
bit as preoccupied
with their appear-
ance, weight, muscle
tone, and looks as
other women are. Pro-
feminists do express
somewhat more
independent attitudes
regarding sex and
the importance of a
career (and they seem
to get a little more
help around the house
from their guys). But
they also confess to
wanting a partner
who is more prosper-
ous and successful
than themselves, just
as much as their more
traditional-minded
sisters do . (And check
out the inexplicable
income disparity on
the opposite side of
this page.) Roll over,
Betty Friedan!
SURE! MAYBE?
WHATEVER!!!
“
Playing it safe in my
early twenties. I had so
many dreams and wishes,
and I didn’t pursue them ,
because I was scared.
”
GREATEST REGRET
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n the midst of the dripping heat last
summer, the coolest game in town
was being played by Sarah Palin,
the 46-year-old mother of five who
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her fortunes were reversed by a surprise
Palin endorsement in May. In July, Palin
was lighting up the Georgia governor’s
race, tapping underdog Republican Karen
Handel, whose moribund campaign was so
transformed that she went on to finish first
in the July primary. In an Atlanta Journal-
Constitution story headlined PALIN NODS,
AND SUDDENLY A GEORGIA RACE WAKES UP,
68-year-old Paulene Shedd was quoted as
saying, “I knew we were due to have a new
governor, but I didn’t know a whole lot
about it…until Sarah endorsed [Handel]….
I just kind of trust her judgment.”
In the two years since she drove herself
into the American consciousness with the
subtlety of a snow-machine champion, and
a year after bailing on her job as Alaska’s
governor (a move that many of her critics,
and even supporters, felt would quash any
political future), Sarah Palin has finagled
a surprising role for herself: She is a game-
changing player in conservative politics,
and among the most jaw-droppingly confi-
dent political tastemakers of our time.
In the months leading up to 2010’s mid-
term elections, operating entirely on her
own— remaining calm and self-assured
while her fellow Republicans flailed their
way through a post-Obama identity crisis—
Palin has, like some sugar plum fairy who
hates the “lamestream media” and loves
abstinence-only education, managed to
exert more power than anyone else in her
party, bestowing her crowd- generating,
rainmaking touch on unsuspecting and
often struggling candidates across the
country. As Nikki Haley’s spokesman, Rob
Godfrey, explained to me in an e-mail ,
Palin’s involvement in the South Carolina
race “was a huge boon to our campaign,
because it caused a lot of South Carolin-
ians to take a second look at a once little-
known …state legislator who was fighting
to give them back their government.”
Putting aside the twisted logic about
whose government has been taken away,
Godfrey’s statement positions Palin as
a kind of extra-American superhero,
shining a revealing light on the extra-
American qualities of those she endorses.
It has been said that in picking the charis-
matic Alaskan as his running mate, John
McCain created a monster who soon
zipped beyond his control. While McCain
may have unleashed Palin, what’s truer is
that America created her.
Sarah Palin is stitched from the nation’s
basest desires and most persistent habits,
from our impulsive nature, our ambitions
and carelessness and vanity and self-
Don’t be fooled into thinking Sarah
Palin is a standard-bearer for the
Republicans, the Tea Party, or even
the Mama Grizzlies. Like any good
reality star, she’s in the business of
promoting herself, and she’ll use any
tool to get where she wants to go.
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regard. She is us. And that means she’s
probably not disappearing anytime soon.
Palin, like the country itself, is built of
raw, willful independence and an idea of
“liberty” stretched so far that it sometimes
seems more like total bat-shit unpredict-
ability. As befits her rep during her years
as a wily teenage basketball star, Palin’s
moves—quitting her job as governor; try-
ing to claim the word feminism for her own;
keynoting bizarre events such as the Wine
& Spirits Wholesalers convention—are
abrupt, difficult to anticipate, and thus
hard to defend or go on the offense against.
No one can say she doesn’t live up to her
image as a maverick; Palin has surprised
even fellow Republicans, not only with
her robust postelection role, but also with
her insistence on being able to rewrite the
rules—including, sometimes, her own. In
Iowa, she dismayed conservative Chris-
tians by endorsing a former governor they
opposed ; her backing of Handel, who is
pro-life but supports an abortion excep-
tion in cases of rape and incest, earned her
the pique of Georgia Right to Life. Palin
has stumped mostly for female candidates,
a coalition she’s dubbed her Mama Griz-
zlies, but in her home state, she’s come out
against incumbent Republican senator
Lisa Murkowski in favor of Murkowski’s
male opponent.
Palin appears beholden to no one but
herself and will cross anyone who’s been
under her tent, if it serves her needs. Perhaps
that’s because she senses— correctly, given
the perfidy of the campaign that picked
her and then leaked nasty stories about her
all over tarnation —that party loyalty is not
a quality from which she herself is likely to
profit. Or maybe she is simply one of the
purest iterations ever of Ayn Rand’s objec-
tivism , and in this, precisely the politician
for the present moment in a country in-
creasingly guided by self-interest over any
investment in the common good. Once
it seemed that Palin might be motivated
by some cohesive ideological goal: that if
elected, she would work to ban abortion or
undo the secular underpinnings of the na-
tion. But after two years of skidding right,
then back to center, then right again, and
of giving voice to her distorted versions
of populism and feminism, it now seems
possible that if the space-time continuum
collapsed and the obvious path to power
opened for someone who espoused An-
drea Dworkin–style radical feminism,
Palin might strap on the oversize overalls
and hit the road.
And another thing about Sarah Palin:
She competes. Fiercely. In everything she
does, from basketball to beauty contests
to elections, on her own behalf and for
whomever she’s decided to go to bat.
“She was a Title IX girl,” says her
admiring friend John Coale, Democratic
fundraiser, lawyer, former Hillary Clinton
supporter, and husband of Fox News’ Greta
Van Susteren, referring to the landmark
legislation that enabled girls like young
“Sarah Barracuda” to play team sports in
school. Now girls like Palin can play poli-
tics. Tweeting (to her 200,000 followers)
in mid-July about Karen Handel’s August
10 runoff election, Palin promised that the
Georgia woman was going to “bring it on”
in her race “against [a] career politician.”
Coale says with a laugh, “This is why I
love Sarah Palin, even if I don’t agree with
her on stuff: Because if you give her shit,
she’s going to poke you in the eye with a
stick.” Noting that the same impulse makes
him adore another friend of his, Nancy
Pelosi, he says, “I love tough women.”
And boy, is Palin tough. Disgrace,
embar rassment, shame, remorse, regret—
these self-defeating tendencies find no
place in her countenance or perhaps even
in her soul, and she is a stronger and infi-
nitely more resilient public figure for it.
In addition to the fearsome animals to
which she has often been compared—
barracudas, pit bulls, grizzly bears—Palin
has something of the duck about her: It all
just rolls right off her back.
But where she floats, nobody knows.
Will she be satisfied simply to usher a
wave of gunslinging , fetus-loving Republi-
can women into office? This would be no
mean feat, given the ways in which such
an onslaught would not only change the
gendered makeup of our ruling bodies
but seriously confuse the country’s grasp
on what female empowerment actually
means. However, it seems increasingly
likely that she will use the power this exer-
cise has made apparent to launch her next
drive to the Oval Office—a drive she will
make on her own unconventional terms.
“Sarah does what Sarah wants to do,”
Coale says. “She has group after group and
person after person giving her advice. Some
she takes, some she doesn’t. It’s up to Sarah.
I’ve said to her, ‘As long as it works!’ ”
Despite her propensity for touting the
girl-power bona fides of female candi-
dates who do not support economic, labor,
health, or reproductive policies that would
actually make the world more equitable
for women, Palin has perfected a kind of
female-empowerment performance art,
fortified by her tough Alaskan roots and
tempered by her more traditionally femi-
nine attributes.
“There’s a convergence of critical fac-
tors that have placed her in this moment
of female identity I call the butch femme,”
says movie producer Lynda Obst (Sleepless
in Seattle, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days),
who knows something about what kinds
of women appeal to American main-
stream audiences. “She’s the pit bull who
can dress a moose, hunt, fish, root for her
kids at games, run a state for a year and a
half and have a baby on the run, but with
the hair piled on top of her head. [It’s]
this sexy winking thing to neocons, and a
pile of kids.” Obst says that in some ways,
Palin strikes notes similar to those of Ange-
lina Jolie and her smoldering-but-tough-as-
nails roles in Salt and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. “It’s
a movie-star image: ‘I do my own stunts.
I’m an action hero. I’m a mother. I have
17 children. I kick ass.’ ”
The cocktail is a potent one that Palin’s
adherents have begun to mix themselves.
This summer, Georgia’s Handel, the long
shot whose race Palin energized, released a
television ad called “Lipstick” in which she
advertised herself as “tougher than an ox”
and then amplified her point by depicting
herself as an actual ox. Wearing lipstick.
Sound familiar?
Sarah Palin is a politician, but more
powerfully, she’s a trendsetting person-
ality who has blurred the line between
politics and celebrity, function and fame.
Coale told me of dining this past spring
with Sarah and Todd Palin at the Union
Oyster House in Boston. “It was like sitting
down with a rock star,” he says, citing the
hordes who crowded around to meet Palin,
even in blue, blue Boston, just a table away
from the one long occupied by liberal lion
“It’s a movie-star image,”
producer Lynda Obst says
of Palin. “ ‘I do my own
stunts. I’m an action hero. I
have 17 children. I kick ass.’ ”
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Ted Kennedy. “Everyone was nice,” Coale
says. “You see people getting a picture with
her and walking away thrilled. You don’t
see that with John Kerry.” The only other
politician who Coale thinks of as sharing
Palin’s ability to light up a room is Bill Clin-
ton, though I think also of Barack Obama,
whose ability to sway crowds of thousands
found a disconcertingly close echo when
Palin came on the scene at the end of his
remarkable run for the presidency.
But Palin’s self-presentation is not in
line with Obama’s dapper, matinee-idol
vibe. Instead, she has made her moves
on a nation that no longer demands that
its celebrities be sophisticates or its can-
didates be policy wonks. Erudition and
refinement have come, in our class-riven
nation, to signify elitism. Sarah Palin may
be rich, she may be powerful, but by gosh,
she is not elite.
“Instead of the historic mystery with
which female icons used to be re garded,”
Obst points out, “now even the pettiest
stars are being turned into megastars by
vulgarizing the details of their personal
lives.” Think reality stars. Obst makes
the comparison with reference to the tab-
loidy Sturm und Drang of Bristol Palin’s
on-again, off-again relationship with Levi
Johnston. “Sarah’s daughter gets back
together with her boyfriend; Jake and
Vienna have a fight,” she says. “They drag
their children out, and it sells Us covers.”
Palin would surely balk at this char-
acterization, growling instead about her
grizzly protectiveness over her brood. But
anyone who watched Bristol and her then
boyfriend Levi sitting at the Republican
National Convention, or noticed six-year-
old Piper chewing up the scenery during
her mother’s interviews, or listened to
Palin make each of her children’s stories—
from Track’s service in Iraq to Trig’s
special needs to Bristol’s getting knocked
up—part of her political identity would be
hard-pressed to deny that Palin’s family,
and its attendant dramas, have been part
of what has kept her in the headlines.
Like Kate Gosselin—who reportedly trav-
eled with her kids to Alaska to go camp-
ing with Palin for an upcoming episode
of Kate Plus Eight—Palin is a woman who
has responded to the country’s unslakable
thirst for realities that are not our own, but
which magnify our own enough to engage
us. “There are lots of people with dysfunc-
tional families out there,” says Coale. “She
has publicly gone through things most
families go through.” Maverick socially
conservative leaders with cultlike follow-
ings: They’re just like us!
Reality shows, from Gosselin’s to
the seemingly endless contestant-based
economies of American Idol and The Bach-
elor, have also firmly situated Palin’s
success in the realm of the normal. This
is why her speedy, sometimes confound-
ing ascen dancy does not trouble us but in
fact affirms what we seem increasingly to
believe: that anyone, anyone, can cast his
or her designs on Hollywood or the White
House and reasonably expect to get there.
It’s what we loved about Ronald Reagan,
but Palin’s “just your average hockey
mom” exceptionalism takes the unexcep-
tional American ideal to new heights, and
her fame and influence support the belief
that no matter how ordinary our ambitions
or our achievements, a hand may one day
come down and select us for greatness.
This is a particularly American optimism,
part religious fundamentalism, part rags-
to-riches DNA that is embedded in the
country’s historical sense of possibility. Its
most contemporary iteration is the self-
affirmation and self- congratulation of The
Secret– style philosophies that persuade us
that we are all as special as we think we
are, and that we all deserve to be recog-
nized as such.
Not long ago, I turned on Turner Classic
Movies and settled in to watch Elia Kazan’s
classic A Face in the Crowd , the story of
a magnetic drifter, Larry “Lonesome”
Rhodes (played chillingly against type
by Andy Griffith), who is discovered by a
Sarah Lawrence– educated radio pro ducer
played by Patricia Neal. An unsettling
allegory about America’s on-again, off-
again romance with populism, the film’s
vision of Lonesome as a man able to bend
public opinion through the sheer force of
his down-home personality is a reflection
of a reality we’ve seen played out more
than once, and most recently with Palin.
We have a history of falling for proudly
anti-intellectual leaders, only dimly aware
that they are the creations of intellectual
architects. Governor Palin was propelled
into the national arena by the conservative
pundit William Kristol; not too long ago,
an operative named Karl Rove performed
his makeover magic on another governor:
George W. Bush.
In the climax of A Face in the Crowd,
Patricia Neal finally gets wise to Lone-
some, and when he becomes dangerously
drunk on power, she’s able to pull the
plug. But Sarah Palin is well beyond her
handlers and early advocates. Nobody but
Palin is going to pull the plug on her power
at this point, and she seems to be having
far too much fun these days to do some-
thing crazy like that.
“Palin is a politician, but more
powerfully, she’s a trendsetting
personality who has blurred
the line between politics and
celebrity, function and fame.”
The general in her labyrinth (clockwise from left): Signing her
memoir in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2009; with McCain in
Hershey, Pennsylvania, in 2008; at a presidential campaign
stop in Carson, California, in 2008; anointing candidate Nikki
Haley in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2010.
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posedly she had two baby books; someone
had half-joked about it long ago—back when
everyone was still talking—but she could
only ever open the pink ribbony one filled
out in her mother’s flawless script, the one
that told how much she weighed, ate, and
slept in her first year of life, that described the
gymnastics and dance classes she took, the
words she babbled before she was five.
The mystery deepened with the color of
her skin. She began life relatively pale, but
by the time she was 9 or 10, she was much
darker than her mother and father and
baby sister, and her hair was kinkier. In
high school the kids would mutter, “She’s
the black girl who thinks she’s white”—but
what else was she supposed to think? She’d
been told she was white for as long as she
could remember. She’d first started asking
when she was 12, and, well, hadn’t her dad
gotten ruddier as he got older, as years of
boozing stacked up behind him? Maybe,
just maybe, there was a recessive African
gene in him, Amanda thought, a gene he
despised enough to call her the N-word
sometimes when he was drunk.
Amanda’s suspicion that she wasn’t her
parents’ biological child was always there,
like a faint bell clanging louder every year,
but she didn’t really push her mother on
the matter until she herself was a mother,
with one young son and twins on the way.
Then, Amanda learned the story that
belongs in her second baby book. She
also learned that while society endlessly
debates which matters more—nature or
nurture—sometimes both are wholly in-
adequate to explain why the girl becomes
the woman she is. No matter how much we
know about our origins, the closer we look,
the more we realize that who we are, even
why we exist, may remain a mystery.
Amanda is a caramel-colored, clear-
eyed mother of three with a wide smile
and blond-streaked curly brown hair. Her
voice has an appealing combination of
gentleness and confidence, and she rarely
raises it, no matter what her three young
sons are getting into. Thirty years old, she
has her mom’s perfectionist bent, her pen-
chant for maintaining order inside and out.
Messy feelings go in a notebook she carries
everywhere with her. She apologizes for
the state of her spotless house. Her hus-
band, Jason Campbell, recently quit his job
as a car salesman, but Amanda keeps the
paychecks coming in and her own spirits
up. There’s a sign on her bedroom door:
EVERYDAY GOALS. The list is drill-sergeant
simple: “Walk. Drink 64 ounces of water.
Read the Bible for five minutes. Organize
for 10 minutes.” In other words, she has the
can-do, will-do armor of a survivor—but
she is more than that. She has a liveliness,
an intelligence, an unfussy kindness about
her that will leave me marveling, the more
What do you do when you’re 28 years old
and you’re certain you’re adopted, but your
family continues to insist you aren’t? Amanda
Campbell struck out on her own to find out
who she really was, and what she discovered
was nothing short of shocking.
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I learn of her story. The apple was thrown,
hurled, whipped from the tree.
“After I was 18, I just always figured I
was adopted,” Amanda tells me as we sit
in her station wagon in front of the ranch
house where she grew up. She now lives
five hours south of here, in Rogue River,
where she works as part jailer/part coun-
selor for boys in a state juvenile detention
center. Her children, the twins and their
older brother, are sleeping in their car seats,
sweaty, coated with milk shake. “When I
envisioned my real parents, I envisioned a
white girl who had a thing with a black boy
and her family wouldn’t accept it.”
Her baby book describes a circle of
warmth. On the page for “first birthday
party,” her mother wrote: “A big party. 25
people. Mandy had a Holly Hobbie cake
made for her. Mom made it.” Each pres-
ent is listed. Twenty-four people came
to the second birthday, where they ate a
cat-and-mouse cake. Her mom, Amanda
says, aimed for a household of scrupulous
middle-class normality. “She really cared
about how things looked. At Christmas,
we would have to pose for a picture after
we opened each present.”
Young Amanda did her part to buff the
family’s surfaces. She got good grades,
played sports and the flute. Even the
asthma from which she has suffered since
infancy had an upside: She was selected as
the National Asthma and Allergy Poster
Child in 1992, and she and her mother trav-
eled to Washington, DC, where she got her
photo taken with the first President Bush.
The picture lost some of its shine as
Amanda got older. The family gradu-
ally ceased contact with relatives on her
mother’s side, such that Amanda’s maternal
grandmother just dropped off Christmas
presents at the door and hustled away, never
staying for dinner. As for Amanda, she
kept her “good girl” cred—solid report
cards, no drinking or drugs—but in her
mid-teens, she says, she became depressed.
There were teenage hormones to contend
with, her father’s drinking had acceler-
ated, and her parents had ugly fights. And
then there was her skin, her inexplicable
dark skin. “Once I started middle school,
almost daily the question would come up,
‘What are you?’ ” Amanda recalls. “In the
beginning, I didn’t even understand the
question. After I figured it out, I’d say, ‘I’m
white, I guess,’ or, ‘My parents are white,
so I guess that makes me white’ ”—answers
that, as one can imagine, made her the sub-
ject of much jeering among her classmates.
“My mother didn’t want to hear about
it,” Amanda says. “I would write little notes
telling her I thought I needed therapy. She
would put them back on my bed, folded
up, and never say anything.” At 15, after a
family argument, Amanda was sent to her
room, where she swallowed 80 Tylenols but
quickly told her parents, who took her to
get her stomach pumped. A social worker
interviewed her in her hospital bed about
the family discord but never followed up.
“That was the low point in my life. After
that, I promised myself I would never let
myself get that down. And I haven’t.”
Following graduation from high
school, she gathered up enough scholar-
ship and loan money to go to Southern
Oregon University, where in 2003 she
became the first person in her family to
earn a four-year college degree, a bach-
elor’s in human communications with a
minor in criminology. She married Jason,
whom she met in a bar, a year later.
A combination of factors drove Amanda
to find out once and for all where she came
from: her pregnancy and the news that
her father had been admitted to a nursing
home suffering from brain degeneration
with a possible genetic component. (By
that point, her parents had divorced, and
her mother had remarried.) Afraid she
might pass something dangerous to her
unborn babies, she ordered her birth cer-
tificate from the state. Eight weeks later,
the envelope arrived. “I was on the phone;
Jason walked in with it and said, ‘You need
to see this.’ ” And there, on the line for
“Mother,” was the name of a woman she’d
never heard of: Katherine Stockton.* The
line for “Father” was blank.
Amanda called her mother, reaching
her in the stands at a hockey game in Port-
land, sitting with her stepchildren. On the
cell phone, her mother blurted out the
story. “She said, ‘We never wanted you
to know,’ ” according to Amanda. “Kathy
Stockton was my sister,” Amanda’s mother
continued. “She was profoundly retarded
because your grandmother had German
measles and refused to have an abortion.
Kathy Stockton was raped, and you are
her child.” She added that she didn’t know
if the rapist was ever caught, but that she’d
heard he was “probably Hispanic.” And,
she said, Amanda’s real mother was dead.
“In that moment, my whole life changed,”
Amanda wrote later. “But really nothing
changed, the muffling was gone, and I was
now standing in the bell tower as the bell
rang incessantly; the vibrations made it
hard…to pay attention to anything other
than the loud sound of the bell.”
Reeling, Amanda confided in her clos-
est friend. “I wasn’t sure whether to be-
lieve my mother or not. I was six months
pregnant. That night, I woke up hyper-
ventilating, having a panic attack.” She
decided she needed to know more, not
less. She drove to the state records office
in Portland and found that there was no
death certificate for a Katherine Stockton.
She went to the pediatrician who’d cared
for her as a child in Portland. He wasn’t
in, but another doctor in the practice con-
firmed the story. It seemed everyone had
known about it but her.
Around this time, CNN aired a docu-
mentary, Where’s Molly?, about a man
named Jeff Daly who’d tracked down his
long-lost sister, a former resident of Fair-
view Training Center, a home for the men-
tally disabled. One of Amanda’s cowork-
ers saw it, and Amanda called Cindy Daly,
Jeff’s wife, who’d produced the program
and had vast contacts in the Oregon hu-
man services system. Within two days,
Cindy told Amanda that her mother was
living in a group home in Portland, not
two miles from where Amanda had gone
to high school.
In 1956, Linda Beard, 17 years old and
pregnant, boarded a train from Portland,
Oregon, headed for her boyfriend at an
Air Force base in Georgia. She was a lean
looker with fine Nordic features and had
never been east of the Oregon state line.
Her mother packed her some sandwiches
and told her not to talk to strangers, and
for the next three days, Linda made the
sandwiches last, kept her mouth shut, and
watched the continent go by.
At the base in Georgia, her high school
beau, Dale Stockton,* was training to fly
military jets. After she gave birth to their
little girl, Linda went to work as a nurs-
ing aide in the county hospital. Two years
later, she became pregnant with their
On a cell phone, her
mother blurted out
the story: “We never
wanted you to know.”
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second child, just, it so happened, as she
contracted German measles. The doc-
tors told her there was a chance that her
baby wouldn’t be born “right.” “They
said I could have an abortion or take my
chances, because I was less than 24 hours
pregnant when I got sick,” Linda recalls.
“They’d traced it down that far. And I said,
‘For 24 hours, I’ll take my chances.’ ”
Linda moved back to Portland to give
birth to another girl, whom she named
Katherine. Within six weeks, Linda real-
ized her daughter was indeed not right. Her
pale eyes were sightless, she wasn’t growing,
and she barely moved. Dale came home
from service in Greenland in time for the
first of seven operations on Kathy’s eyes and
three on her heart. She survived, but Linda
was told her girl would never function be-
yond an infant level.
Her marriage soon collapsed. “He was
a nice man,” Linda says of her ex, 50 years
on, reminiscing from inside her cat-filled,
two-room, railroad-style house in a ram-
shackle neighborhood near the airport in
Portland. Down the weedy highway a few
blocks from her home, there’s a billboard
from the Clackamas Sheriff: “1 in 4 Girls is
abused before she is 18. It’s OK to Tell.” To
the east, the snowcapped peak of Mount
Hood pokes through the clouds like a mi-
rage. “But when Kathy turned out the way
she turned out, he couldn’t handle it.”
Linda really couldn’t handle it either.
After she and Dale split, she took a job sling-
ing burgers at a diner while her mother
raised her older daughter. As for her sick
child, Kathy, Linda took doctors’ advice to
relinquish her parental rights to the state, as
was still common practice for the severely
mentally disabled in the 1960s. The little
girl was sent to live at the Fairview Train-
ing Center, a massive 1,400-bed institution
made up of clusters of buildings set on
700 rolling green acres. The facility was
located an hour south of Portland, in the
state capitol of Salem, and Linda says she
tried to visit once a month, but she found
the place, and her daughter’s inability to
recognize her, deeply depressing.
Meanwhile, Dale remarried a woman
with kids of her own and drifted out of their
lives. When Kathy was about 12, he drove
to Fairview one morning and spent the
whole day with her, as she lay on a bed in a
fetal position. The next day, he committed
suicide. Dale apparently had many prob-
lems, but this was how he chose to spend
his last day: saying goodbye to a daughter
he’d essentially erased from his life.
In the summer of 1979, Kathy had just
turned 19. She had her mother’s thick, pale
hair and facial structure and a voluptuous
upper body. The hospital superintendent
recalls her as rather attractive, though she
was only four feet tall, weighed less than 70
pounds, wore diapers, and was fed mashed
food with a spoon. She couldn’t speak and
expressed her dislikes by scratching.
For other people her age, it was a sum-
mer of disco, hot pants, “My Sharona,”
and Jimmy Carter’s last stand. For Kathy,
it was the season that Emanuel “Manny”
Sistrunk, a 31-year-old high school drop-
out, showed up in her life. Chicago born
and bred, Sistrunk was not an exemplary
citizen. He’d gotten a girl he met in Boston
pregnant, and he was later incarcerated
for a year in Oregon for raping a home-
less 16-year-old. Another time, he distin-
guished himself with the law by stepping
out in front of then Vice President Walter
Mondale’s motorcade to protest his job-
lessness. Sistrunk landed a job at Fairview
in 1979 under a federal recession-busting
program known as CETA (Comprehen-
sive Employment and Training Act). His
new employer didn’t have a much better
reputation than he did. Established by
the Oregon State Legislature in 1908 to
house the “feebleminded,” by the 1960s,
when Kathy was admitted, Fairview had
reached its highest population level, with
close to 3,000 inhabitants. Conditions in
the so-called cottages—which once had
been said to resemble “magnificent south-
ern mansions”—were notoriously bad.
Disabled children were lined up in cots
and received the sketchiest of education
and training; assaults among the residents
were common. Sistrunk was put to work in
the cottage for severely disabled women.
In October, Linda got a call at the diner:
“You’re going to have a baby,” a hospital
supervisor told her. Kathy was pregnant.
“The first thing I thought was, I need a
cigarette,” Linda says. “The second was,
I’m going to kill someone.” She drove to
Salem immediately.
Hospital superintendent Jerry McGee
explained that Kathy had been on a special
feeding program, and when she’d started
gaining weight, doctors credited the extra
nutrition. Now tests showed Kathy was five
months pregnant. Too late for an abortion,
Linda thought. Kathy wasn’t the only one:
Another woman in the same cottage, diag-
nosed with profound autism, was also five
months along.
Linda agreed to take Kathy’s baby,
though it was touch-and-go whether
67-pound Kathy would even survive the
pregnancy. On January 25, 1980, Uni-
versity Hospital North doctors in Port-
land delivered a two-pound infant via
C-section. No one knows what Kathy com-
prehended. “I stood outside the door while
they did it and listened,” Linda says. “She
laughed through the whole thing.”
Linda named the girl Amanda. Nurses
gave Kathy a doll to see how she might re-
spond to a baby, but she only held it for a
minute before hurling it across the room.
Kathy returned to Fairview after the
C-section in decent health, but Amanda,
born a month premature, remained in the
hospital in critical condition. Linda and
her eldest daughter stood vigil, social work-
ers hustling them in and out of the hospi-
tal’s back entrances to shield them from
local newspaper reporters who’d found out
about the pregnancies at Fairview.
After a month, Amanda was discharged
home, though she wasn’t exactly wel-
come. “When my dad found out the guy
that raped Kathy was black, all hell broke
loose,” Linda says. Her father owned the
house where she was living and threat-
ened to throw her out. “My dad was the
type who believed white marries white,
black marries black, and there’s no in
between.” At that point, Linda’s eldest
daughter, Kathy’s then 21-year-old sister,
volunteered to formally adopt her niece.
Meanwhile, Portland prosecutors
charged Sistrunk with rape. DNA testing
did not yet exist, but the state-of-the-art
blood testing at the time had found with
97 percent certainty that he was the father
of Amanda and the autistic woman’s baby
boy. Investigators also had statements
from at least four fellow Fairview aides
saying that they’d reported Sistrunk to su-
pervisors (for, among other things, kissing
one patient on the mouth and improperly
Nurses gave Kathy a doll to
see how she might respond
to a baby. She held it for
a minute, then hurled it
across the room.
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touching another’s vagina). Sexual assault
law at the time was tilted in favor of defen-
dants, and the prosecutors were worried
they’d lose at trial—Kathy and the other
Fairview resident were lousy witnesses,
and their cases couldn’t be tried together
to establish a pattern, as would be routine
now. So Sistrunk was allowed to plead to a
lesser charge. He was sentenced to 10 years
for his crime—five for each woman.
For reasons that Oregon Department of
Corrections officials say cannot be deter-
mined, Sistrunk was paroled in June 1984,
having served only two years of his 10-year
sentence. A few months later, he raped an
11-year-old girl and threatened to kill her if
she told anyone. By the time he was tried
for that crime in 1986, the pendulum in
rape cases had swung decisively in favor
of victims; children were considered reli-
able witnesses, for one thing. Sistrunk was
found guilty and sentenced to a maximum
of 30 years. Proving that the pendulum
probably will swing in perpetuity, a three-
judge appeals panel in 2001 threw out a
statement an expert made in the girl’s trial
that children never lie about sexual abuse.
But the panel upheld Sistrunk’s conviction
anyway; he’s due for parole in 2015.

In February 2008, an eight-months-
pregnant Amanda walked up the stone
steps of a clean, gabled house nestled
behind a wall of ivy in northeast Portland.
She had Cindy Daly with her for support.
Inside, she found a group home with rub-
ber floors and caretakers who tend to in-
habitants who can barely walk, swallow, or
talk. Each resident has an aide who serves
as a “voice.” Kathy’s “voice” is a lean young
man with magenta-dyed hair and several
piercings. He is trying to teach her to sign
for “no” instead of scratching.
Kathy, who was moved here when Fair-
view closed in 2000, was curled up in an
adult-size jogger stroller, her hands over her
face. Amanda had made her a tiny cloth
book about herself, with bits of feather and
fluff taped in for tactile sensation—the kind
of gift you’d give to a baby. She sat down on
the couch and started stroking her mother’s
arm, telling her who she was. After a few
minutes, Kathy crawled out of her jogger
and into pregnant Amanda’s lap.
The staff and Cindy Daly started to
weep. “Here was this woman, who has al-
most no family contact for her whole life,”
Daly says. “And she doesn’t know her own
daughter, but we all saw it, there was this
eerie connection she made with Amanda.
Everyone in the room felt it.”
For Amanda, meeting the frail, word-
less woman whose body had formed her
was surreal. “I am such the mother. I fell in
love with my babies in my womb. How do
you hold something in your womb and not
know you gave it life? I picture her feeling
so alone and being ignored when she was
pregnant and when I was born. What did
she think of the life moving inside? I can-
not believe she felt nothing.”
Two weeks after meeting her birth
mother, Amanda gave birth to fraternal
twin boys she named Isaiah and Samson.
Isaiah is heavier and quieter and darker.
Samson is petite and blond and strongly
resembles his grandmother. He’s also a
handful—Amanda puts him in squeaky
shoes to keep track of him.
When the twins were two months old,
Amanda learned Emanuel Sistrunk’s
name, again thanks to Cindy Daly. Yel-
lowed newspaper clippings told the story
of her conception: “Two Fairview Resi-
dents Apparent Rape Victims.” Amanda
went to the state Department of Correc-
tions website, where she studied a mug shot
of Sistrunk, bearded and older. There was
her skin color and her hair, maybe even
her eyes. For a while, she considered writ-
ing him, pretending to be a criminology
student interested in his case. She imag-
ined the clinical fashion in which she’d
approach him. “From what I know about
sex offenders, most likely he’d try to groom
me,” she says, using the jargon for how
sex offenders soften up potential victims.
“There was a part of me thinking, What if
he starts sending me sick sexual things?”
Then she phoned a juror from Sistrunk’s
1986 rape case who’d publicly criticized the
attempt to appeal his conviction for raping
the 11-year-old. The juror told Amanda he
thought her father had no redeeming quali-
ties, that he “was and always will be an evil
man.” She decided not to contact Sistrunk,
though she plans to attend his parole hear-
ing to speak out for her mother. She doesn’t
buy that her mother was a consensual part-
ner, as a social worker testified in a pretrial
hearing. “I have a hard time believing she
didn’t feel pain,” Amanda says. “Who
stood by and did nothing? Someone had to
have known something wasn’t right.”
We’ve been talking for more than an
hour in the front seat of Amanda’s car
when the sleeping boys stir in the back-
seat. They go everywhere with her—even
though her husband is out of work, the kids
are mainly her responsibility. She unstraps
her sons, changes their diapers, sets them
loose in the playground where she herself
Left: Amanda on her wedding day; right:
Amanda, top row, fourth from left, with her
North Portland soccer team
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Dolls, in honor of ELLE’s twenty-fifth
anniversary, I thought I’d reveal how the
Ask Eeee column started. It all happened
after I was fired as a writer on Saturday
Night Live—a hilarious interlude that has
lent a lovely piquancy to my subsequent
advice on how not to be fired. Anyway,
after I was canned, I started writing for
Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Outside, cover-
ing sex and adventure and sometimes
both! In 1993, this led ELLE editor Amy
Gross to ask me to lunch at the hottest res-
taurant in New York—damn, I wish I
could remember the name!—and inquire
if I’d like to write a monthly advice col-
umn. I nearly passed out, I was so ecstatic!
I was (and still am) riotously opinionated
and don’t mind making readers say
“Yikes! ”— because every time I’m wrong,
hundreds of readers are kind enough to
set me straight. So after 17 years of an-
swering questions, the question I find my-
self answering in this column is: What
have I learned? I can tell you, the letters
have taught me plenty! Herewith, accord-
ing to Auntie Eeee…
1. That it’s impossible to distill everything
a woman should know into a list of 25
things. Also, every woman should know
that it’s impossible to get the 25 things in the
right order. Where do I put, for instance,
“Life is short. Don’t waste it trying to make
everything perfect”?
2. How to change a tire, how to change
your hair color without going to a salon,
and how to change a man. (Regarding the
dude: Tell him what you want him to do,
reward him when he does it, and ignore
him when he doesn’t do it.)
3. If you don’t question what you believe
in, you end up making the same mistakes
over and over. When we find ourselves in a
romantic quagmire or struggling for an
eternally denied promotion at work and
our old ideas aren’t working, we must,
must, must ask ourselves two questions:
(A) Is this idea I’m acting on even effing
true? (e.g., Am I so irresistible that this
time he really is going to leave his wife?)
And (B) What would happen if everyone
in the world believed this idea and be-
haved as I’m behaving now? (This is our
old friend Immanuel Kant’s categorical
imperative—view every action you take as
a universal law. Meaning, if you’re consid-
ering lying to your boss to save your job,
imagine a universal law that says everyone
must lie to his or her boss.)
When it comes to sex and love, question
(B) has a great way of yanking the blinders
off and giving you a clearer picture of what’s
actually going on. Speaking of which…
4. Your chap is not a mind reader. Mak-
ing him have to ask you what he is doing
wrong in the sack will cause him so much
anxiety, shame, and humiliation, he’ll
regret he even has a penis. Show him
what you like. Always choose action over
words.
5. Stay attuned to your mother’s vanities.
These are the key to how she set out to
build your character. My mother always
wanted me to be a writer. On my birth an-
nouncements, she declared, “A great nov-
elist is born!” Close, but no cigar, Ma.
6. To get rid of bags under your eyes,
prop up your bed frame on a stack of books
to lift your head a foot higher than your
heels while you sleep. The next morning,
you’ll look as tight as Russell Brand’s
skinny jeans.
7. Are you reading these 25 things stand-
ing up? I’ve seen the research, and you bet-
ter believe I’m bloody writing them standing
up! According to the American Cancer
Tormented? Driven witless? Whipsawed by confusion?
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Society, if women sit more than six hours
a day, we’re increasing our chances of
dying by 37 percent despite whether or not
we work out, compared with women who
sit less than three hours a day. When we
stand, we burn more calories, engage
more muscle, and can whittle the circum-
ference of our waists from a fat eunuch’s
to the size of a greyhound’s. Barry Braun,
PhD, associate professor of kinesiology at
UMass Amherst , told Gretchen Reynolds
of The New York Times that if you want to
drop pounds, you don’t necessarily have
to run a marathon every morning, “just
get rid of your chair.” A quick fix: Buy a
large U-Haul box for $3, put it on your
desk, and place your phone, papers, and
computer on top of it. Voilà! You’re stand-
ing at your desk!
8. Don’t read blogs written by unhappy,
spiteful people. Bad blogs will mangle
your mood. Instead, spend an hour a day
with your Moleskine notebook, connect-
ing deeply with your own spiteful thoughts.
At least they’ll be original. And P.S.: Any-
one can make history. Only a great woman
can tweet it.
9. When addressing a man’s penis, if you
want it to get huge, tell it it’s huge.
10. If you desire a promotion, ask for it.
But first, I hope to God you never leave
your office before the boss, are always the
woman with the clever idea at meetings,
don’t hide your ego, don’t play humble
(unless you screw up, and then you are
very, very humble), and on casual Fridays
never dress like you are heading out to do
laundry after a couple of bong hits. Now,
here’s your secret weapon: You’ll soon be
handing the boss a list of the 10 outstand-
ing things you’ve done for the company.
Make certain you print that list on heavy
parchment paper. MIT, Harvard, and
Yale psychologists have found that heavy,
more tactile objects make job candidates
seem more important. So whatever you’re
proposing will be taken more seriously on
thick paper.
11. Go play with your dog. Your dog is the
one creature on earth you can make in-
sanely happy by playing “hide the cookie”
in the living room. (You can also play with
your cat, of course, but only if you let him
correct your grammar during the action.)
If you have neither cat nor dog (nor bird,
nor fish), it’s not essential, but if you want to
lead a more enjoyable life …why not?
12. Don’t expect a man to give you multi-
ple orgasms. Indeed, you’ll live a more
fulfilling life if you don’t expect a man to
give you multiple anything.
13. If you’re struggling for your “art,”
stop making it about the art and start mak-
ing it about the money. Be Basquiat in
your ambition, Botticelli in your dedica-
tion, and Buffett with your bottom line.
Or, in Andy Warhol’s words, “Making
money is art.”
14. Here’s how to nail the job interview:
Pretend that the person interviewing you
is the one applying for the position and
that you’re interviewing him or her for the
job. If you do that, you can’t help but be
genuinely interested in what he or she is
saying, ask interesting questions, and
speak honestly—and glowingly—about
the company, as if it’s the grandest place to
work in the whole world.
15. When you’re in college, don’t worry
too much about grades. Other than getting
into a decent grad school and associating
with the cream of your generation, getting
straight A’s means diddly-squat in the real
world, where it’s all about hustle, determi-
nation, focus, dressing right, sucking up,
and who you know.
16. Women say they want a “nice guy,”
but show them an asshole who treats them
like dirt and they’ll trample over their own
therapists to get to him.
17. Wait. You’re telling me you didn’t see
that poor homeless woman on the street?
Come on. You didn’t notice? Really? If
you’re anxious about “hobos” asking you
for money, decide how much you can allot
per person (a quarter, a buck), carry the
cash in your pocket, and give it to every
poor person whose hand is out. You’ll
experience a rare, nearly forgotten emo-
tion—compassion.
18. If you’re tired of waiting for the dude
to pop the question, start introducing him
as your fiancé.
19. If you want to be told you look gor-
geous, tell people they look stunning. We’re
all the prettiest girl in the room, depending
on the day, the hour, and the room.
20. When you discover your husband’s
cheating, hire an attorney before you
Krazy Glue his $60 Hanro boxers to his
backside. A lawyer will help you figure
out what you want, and when you know
what you want, you’ll be able to act with
discipline and courage. Then, over cock-
tails, tell your spouse you know he’s hav-
ing an affair. Don’t be treacly. Don’t cry.
Don’t squish Kleenex into your face, and
be prepared to hold your ground. If you
stay strong, drop the helpless-wife act,
and tell him exactly what you want, you’ll
have taken the first step on a trek that
could lead to an advantageous divorce…
or a thrillingly nontraditional marriage.
21. If you suffer the heinous habit of con-
stantly saying “I’m sorry” (a real career
killer, right up there with downing a flask of
vodka before important meetings), take
your pathetic “I’m sorry” and start adding
three words: “I’m sorry…I’m so brilliant.”
“I’m sorry…I’m so stunning.” “I’m sorry…
I’m so miraculous.”
22. The three tragedies of life: (A) not
getting what you want, (B) getting it,
(C) seeing your best friend getting it.
Don’t you know you were born to feel
competitive with your friends? Jealousy
is a little whip given to you by Mother
Nature to push you to excel above your
own expectations—to be better than your-
self. Rivalry brings glory to the human
race. And speaking of the human race…
23. Chasing men is the highest purpose
in life. As my old boyfriend, the great
Arthur Schopenhauer, says, “The final
aim of all love intrigues, be they comic or
tragic, is really of more importance than
all other ends in human life. What it all
turns upon is nothing less than the com-
position of the next generation.… It is not
the weal or woe of any one individual, but
that of the human race to come, which is
here at stake.”
24. You’re spinning on a merry-go-
round at no cost. It’s whirling around a star
that has hitched a ride on a galaxy moving
so fast in the universe you can’t even feel it.
So listen to Auntie Eeee, doll. Whatever
went wrong yesterday? You’ve already
moved on.
25. If all else fails, live by these three
rules: (1) Never trust a woman who shags
married men. (2) Never make a deal with a
guy who wears a white belt. (3) Never try
to be “friends” when the affair is over. Not
even the great Gatsby could make Daisy
stay. After she slobbered over his shirts, it
was pretty much finished.
To ask a question, write to e.jean@askejean
.com. Or to see more columns, go to ELLE.com/
askejean. Twitter me @ejeancarroll. You can
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answers, and exchange genius tips on Advice
Vixens at askejean.com.
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neoprene bottom, $300 (sold with
top), all, Lisa Marie Fernandez, visit
lisamariefernandez.com. Sunglasses,
Fred Flare, $11. Left arm: Clear round
bangles, Kenneth Jay Lane, $50
each. Large Lucite bangles, both,
Alexis Bittar, prices upon request.
Right arm: Clear round bangles,
Kenneth Jay Lane, $50 each. Large
Lucite angular bangle, Alexis Bittar,
$155. For details, see Shopping Guide.
Karolina Kurkova just passed the quarter-century mark,
and guess what? So did we! That’s not all we have in common; this issue is
also superhot. ELLE has always been the magazine of yours that men want
to borrow (for, er, yeah, the articles). Our earliest images, shot by fashion
legend Gilles Bensimon, of the tall, athletic supermodels who reigned in the
late ’80s , sent the message that looking reeeediculously sexy needn’t cramp
any notions of high-powered modern womanhood. In honor of our birthday,
which happily coincides with the return of sex appeal after seasons of chic
droop, Bensimon shoots Kurkova in the new lean (but oddly forgiving) knits.
Then, from our original ELLE girl, Elle Macpherson , in saucy countryside
trystwear, to a bevy of 25-year-olds who are exploding all style expectations ,
turn the page for more stories that will rev you up for another 25 years of
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actress, scene-stealer
Tweed organza jacket, $1,595, tweed
shorts, $695, both, Jason Wu, to special
order, visit jasonwustudio.com. Cotton
jersey shirt, DKNY, $75. Straw hat,
Maison Michel, $524. Leather lace-up
boots, Vivienne Westwood Red Label,
$771. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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activist, pedigreed designer
Cotton T-shirt, Gap, $25, at Gap
stores nationwide. Custom vintage
denim shorts, from What Goes
Around Comes Around, NYC, $78.
Belt, Erickson Beamon, $408.
Sunglasses, Linda Farrow Vintage,
$325. Burlap and organic cotton bag,
FEED Projects, $60. Socks, Hue, $7.
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Southpaw, NYC, price upon request.
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actress, Hollywood cliché slayer
Jersey cocktail dress with jeweled
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For details, see Shopping Guide.
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actress, Gleek heroine
Strapless wool bodysuit, Viktor & Rolf,
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with satin pleats and rhinestones, Heather
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artist, NYC scenester
Sauvage feather jacket, $3,395,
skirt, $1,795, both, Chris Benz,
call 212-244-2020. Her own glasses,
boots. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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6. SUS ANNA LAU
(AKA SUS IE BUBBLE)
blogger, UK stylephile
Wool, tweed, and alpaca jacket, price
upon request, faux-fur skirt, $1,798,
calfskin bag, $3,600, small faux-fur and
tweed bag, $2,950, faux-fur and tweed
bag, $3,195, faux-fur boots, $1,350, all,
Chanel, call 800-550-0005. Silk blouse,
Moschino, $1,050. Long pearl necklace,
Janis by Janis Savitt, $200. Faux pearl
necklace, Mark Walsh Leslie Chin, $195.
Leather gloves, Carolina Amato, $375.
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7. CHLOE MALLE
journalist, high-profile offspring
Silk chiffon blouse, $315, skirt, $800, both,
D&G, at select D&G boutiques nationwide.
Freshwater pearl stud earrings, $150,
necklace, $850, both, Tiffany & Co.
For details, see Shopping Guide.
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8. LINDSEY VONN
skier, Olympic medalist
Glossy lambskin jacket, price upon
request, linen and silk scarf, $360,
cotton shorts, $450, all, Bottega
Veneta, at Bottega Veneta boutiques
nationwide. Her own watch, rings.
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9.MEGAN FOX
actress, bombshell
Bra, $44, bikini underwear,
$18, both, Emporio Armani
Underwear, at select
Macy’s stores nationwide.
Printed poplin shirt,
Armani Jeans, $235. For
details, see Shopping Guide.
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10. SARAH LANE
ballerina, American Ballet
Theatre soloist
Leather and fur motorcycle jacket,
3.1 Phillip Lim, $1,250, at 3.1 Phillip
Lim, NYC. T-shirt, Armani Exchange,
$25. Felt hat, Eugenia Kim, price
upon request. Satin point shoes,
Capezio, $78. Tutu, courtesy of
American Ballet Theatre.
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11. DIANNA AGRON
actress, Gleek convert
Silver evening gown, $3,290, hardware
belt, $495, lizard clutch, $1,890, all,
Salvatore Ferragamo, call 800-628-
8916. Vintage Yves Saint Laurent topaz
Swarovski-crystal-detail earrings, faux
pearl necklace with topaz Swarovski
crystals, both, from, Decades, L.A., prices
upon request. Circa 1970s gold and wood
ring, from Robin Katz Vintage Jewels,
$2,900. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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12. GRETA GERWIG
actress, mumblecore queen
Silk and ostrich-feather dress, Sonia
Rykiel, $3,835, at Sonia Rykiel
stores nationwide. Monogram
minaudière, Louis Vuitton, $1,515.
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13. GRACE & MAMIE GUMMER
actresses, Meryl Streep’s progeny
Left: Silk shirt, Club Monaco, $119, visit
clubmonaco.com. Wool pants, Chloé, $1,115.
Leather belt, Hermès, $560. Yellow gold watch,
Cartier, price upon request. Leather boots,
Gianvito Rossi, $925. Right: Charmeuse shirt,
Ralph Lauren Black Label, $598, at select
Ralph Lauren stores nationwide. Wool shorts,
$1,150, leather belt, $360, cotton dress socks,
$65, all, Salvatore Ferragamo. Yellow gold
watch, Cartier, price upon request. Crocodile
and shearling booties, Ralph Lauren Collection,
price upon request. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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14. AMANDA BLANK
singer and rapper, indie phenom
Wool and silk jacket, $2,250, silk-blend
bodysuit, $490, wool-blend pants, $815,
all, Maison Martin Margiela, at Maison
Martin Margiela, Beverly Hills.
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blogger, GOP rabble-rouser
Alpaca coat, Oscar de la Renta,
$4,590, at Oscar de la Renta
boutiques nationwide. Silk slip with
lace detail, Stella McCartney, $195.
Leather bag, Hermès, price upon
request. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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16. MELANIE FIONA
singer, Motown reviver
Ribbon pleated dress, price upon
request, pendant necklaces, $1,353–
$2,110, all, Lanvin, at Lanvin, NYC.
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17. CAMILLA BELLE
actress, fashion muse
Floral Chantilly lace and silk organza
two-tiered gown, Carolina Herrera,
price upon request, at Carolina
Herrera, Las Vegas. Her own jewelry.
For details, see Shopping Guide.
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18. ISABEL LUCAS
actress, eco warrior
Leather vest, $2,025, silk skirt,
$370, both, Isabel Marant, at
Isabel Marant, NYC. Floral-print
jacket, Just Cavalli, $1,450.
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19. AUBREY PLAZA
actress, (deadpan) funny girl
Lambskin jacket, price upon request,
lambskin skirt, $2,500, both, Dior,
call 800-929-DIOR. Leather bow
belt, Prada, $355. Leather bag,
Hermès, price upon request.
Polyamide thigh-highs, Falke, $36.
For details, see Shopping Guide.
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20. AMANDA SEYFRIED
actress, box-office sweetheart
Vinyl rain jacket, Lisa Perry, $895, at Lisa
Perry, NYC. Cashmere sweater, $1,980,
bikini bottoms, $390, both, Chanel.
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21. JANELLE MONÁE
singer, Diddy protégé
Cotton shirt, Brooks Brothers, $90, at
Brooks Brothers stores nationwide. Wool
crepe and satin pants, Azzaro, $1,465.
Vintage gold earrings with enamel and
diamonds, $1,150, gold ring with onyx,
$995, both, from Beladora, Beverly Hills.
Brass bone cuff, Fawn by Jennifer Fisher
Jewelry, $200. Lace-up and peep-toe
leather booties, Christian Louboutin, $995.
For details, see Shopping Guide. H
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22. MILA KUNIS
actress, male obsession
Wool and stingray jacket with
Swarovski crystals, $3,105, skirt,
$2,520, both, Louise Goldin, visit
louisegoldin.com. Wool military hat,
Eugenia Kim, price upon request.
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23. OLIVIA THIRLBY
actress, indie ingenue
Cashmere cardigan, Missoni, $2,410, at
Missoni Boutique, Beverly Hills. Stretch
wool turtleneck, Versace, $595. Wool
and silk pants, Prada, $1,380. Gold and
bead necklace (in hair), Me&Ro, $4,110.
Leather oxfords, Common Projects,
$575. Her own jewelry and bag. For
details, see Shopping Guide.
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ex–reality TV star, novelist
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1. ANNA KENDRICK
Credits: Tony nomination
at age 12 for best actress
featured in a musical for
1998 ’s High Society; best
supporting actress Oscar
nom at 24 for Up in the Air;
plays Kristen Stewart’s
snarky high school BFF in
next year’s Breaking Dawn.
Where she thought
she’d be at 25: “Cooking
Thanksgiving dinner and
doing my taxes.” Where
she sees herself at 50:
“Botox-free.”
5. AUREL SCHMIDT
Credits: Art world
up-and-comer with
painstakingly intricate
drawings; her Minotaur,
detailed with cigarettes,
condoms, and bananas,
landed in this year’s
Whitney Biennial. Is 25 too
young for marriage and
kids? “Definitely. I’ve been
in love five times in my life—
fully ‘I’ll have your babies’
love. And each time it ends,
you’re like, ‘Wow, I’m so
glad I didn’t stick with that.’ ”
13. GRACE & MAMIE GUMMER
Mamie: Sparkled in 2007’s
Evening and onstage in Les
Liaisons Dangereuses; coming
this fall: horror flick The Ward
and family drama Twelve
Thirty, costarring Jonathan
Groff. Grace: Vassar grad;
will join Kevin Spacey and
Jeremy Irons in financial-
crisis thriller Margin Call.
3. GABOUREY SIDIBE
Credits: Nominated for
best actress Oscar in 2009’s
Precious; plays Laura Linney’s
mouthy high school student
on Showtime’s cancer-is-
hilarious dramedy, The Big
C, and bully Latonya in the
upcoming Yelling to the Sky.
On celebrating her
twenty-fifth birthday:
7. CHLOE MALLE
Credits: The New York
Observer reporter; Brown
University literary-arts grad
(’08); wrote for magazines in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;
contributes to The Daily
Beast and The Huffington
Post; daughter of Candice
Bergen and late auteur Louis
Malle. Age she feels:
“Some days 12, others 80.
I’m high-strung, especially
about things like not
understanding my tax
returns. In those moments, I
just want to play with my
American Girl doll again.”
11. DIANNA AGRON
Credits: Reformed mean
2. LAUREN BUSH
Credits: Her now-
ubiquitous burlap sack funds
world-hunger-fighting
FEED projects; designs
Lauren Pierce collection
using Congolese fabrics;
niece of George W. Bush;
dates Ralph Lauren scion
David . Fashion versus
philanthropy: “The
combination gives me true
satisfaction. That’s what
unique about people our
age—we’re willing to break
out of the norm.”
6. SUSANNA LAU
(AKA SUSIE BUBBLE)
Credits: Sartorial superstar
10. SARAH LANE
Credits: Twyla Tharp’s
Sinatra Suite; Balanchine’s
Theme and Variations; Anne
Boleyn in Christopher
Wheeldon’s VIII; married at
23 to fellow ABT dancer
Luis Ribagorda. On her
twenty-fifth birthday:
“I did 16 performances in
Italy.” By her fiftieth: “I
want to dance when I’m in
my prime, not when I’m
older and can’t do it the way
I want. I hope to let it go at
some point and have a
family; there’s a lot more to
life than ballet.”
4. LEA MICHELE
Credits: Broadway veteran
with roles in Spring
Awakening, Les Misérables,
Fiddler on the Roof; Glee’s
teenage diva-in-training.
Song that sums up life
right now: “ ‘Don’t Rain on
My Parade’ from Funny Girl.
It just exudes freedom and
strength.” Where she
thought she’d be by 25:
“When I was younger, I was
like, ‘I want to know who I’m
going to marry when I’m 23,
be engaged by 24, and
married by 25.’ Now I’m
like, ‘No way!’ ”
8. LINDSEY VONN
Credits: After crashing at
the 2006 Turin Winter
Games, she won her first
Olympic medals—women’s
downhill skiing gold and
women’s super G bronze—in
Vancouver in 2010. Adult
milestone achieved: “At
nine, I went to a training
camp in Europe. I was the
youngest there by seven
years. I felt cool, but I wasn’t.
I had a perm and bangs. I
don’t know how my parents
let me leave the house.”
12. GRETA GERWIG
Credits: Cowrote, starred
in, and codirected indie
Nights and Weekends while
earning Barnard BA;
captivated in Greenberg with
Ben Stiller. According to The
New York Times’ A. O. Scott,
“may well be the definitive
screen actress of her
generation.” Next: Arthur
remake. On youth: “Save a
few poets, it’s all a young
man’s game. There’s some
horror about getting older.
But recognizing mortality
makes better art.”
“Part of me thought it would
be weird if people knew I
was a grown-up playing a
teenager in Precious. So I had
a twenty-first-birthday
party. We had drinks and
went to a strip club called
Shotgun Willie’s.”
and first-wave fashion
blogger behind insider-
beloved Style Bubble, with
more than 10,000 readers a
day; has written for Pop,
ELLE Collections, Dazed &
Confused online. Next: A
“personal-style
autobiography.” By 50 :
“Living in Hampstead
Heath, London—this
ancient, woodsy, very posh
area—possibly writing a
Jane Auste n–style novel.”
9. MEGAN FOX
Credits: Teen-boy-movie
staple; cast as fallen angel in
the upcoming drama
Passion Play opposite
Mickey Rourke and Bill
Murray. On being
married: “When I talk
about my husband [Brian
Austin Green], I feel as if
people roll their eyes. It’s
like when you’re 16 and
order a martini, and the
waiter says, ‘Do you think
I’m stupid?’ They can’t
grasp that I’m old enough to
be married.”
girl Quinn on Glee; comic
relief as Anna Paquin’s
precocious little sister in
quirky wedding flick The
Romantics; burgeoning
filmmaker who wrote,
directed, and starred
opposite Dave Franco in the
short A Fuchsia Elephant.
To do before she’s 30:
“Direct my first feature,
travel, and, if I find a good
guy, have my first kid—but
maybe when I’m 29 ½…”
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Credits: Breakout role in
indie drama The Ballad of
Jack & Rose opposite Daniel
Day-Lewis; horror flick
When a Stranger Calls;
dreadlocked fantasia
10,000 BC; Vera Wang
Princess ads, starring those
eyebrows. On adulthood:
“I’m both young and old for
my age. My mom told me,
‘Don’t grow up too quickly;
once you’re an adult, you’re
always an adult.’ ”
21. JANELLE MONÁE
Credits: Cofounded
record label Wondaland
Arts Society; released
toe-tapping album The
ArchAndroid, earning
critical hosannas (from
mainstream and indies
alike) and an opening spot
on Erykah Badu’s tour.
Wisdom gained so far:
“Don’t get high off praises,
and don’t get too low on
critiques.” How she’ll
celebrate her twenty-
fifth: “On a space shuttle.”
23. OLIVIA THIRLBY
Credits: Straight-talker of
The Wackness, Breaking
22. MILA KUNIS
Credits: Shined as
rebound-who-stuck in
Forgetting Sarah Marshall;
Natalie Portman’s costar in
Aronofsky ballet-themed
thriller Black Swan; Justin
Timberlake’s lust object in
2011’s Friends With Benefits.
To do before she’s 30:
“Jump out of a plane! In your
twenties, you’re still
very courageous.”
24. LAUREN CONRAD
Credits: The Hills’ one
relatable star; New York
Times best-selling novelist
whose inspired-by-real-life-
events series sold more than
one million copies. Best
part of being in her
twenties: “It’s your time to
be selfish; you still have
freedom.” Where she
thought she’d be now:
“I was never that girl who
just wanted babies. I wanted
a career before all of that.”
25. BAR REFAELI
Credits: Israeli power-
babe; Sports Illustrated
Swimsuit issue cover girl;
Victoria’s Secret model;
Louis Vuitton catwalker;
Leo DiCaprio’s on again, off
again; debuts on big screen
in upcoming thriller Session.
To do before she’s 30:
“Marriage, I don’t care
about. But I want two kids. I
have small dreams, like
learning another language.”
15. MEGHAN MCCAIN
Credits: Hilariously
documented dad’s 2008
presidential campaign on
Mccainblogette.com; avid
columnist for The Daily
Beast; penned Dirty Sexy
Politics, her no-holds-
barred memoir on
Republicans, Sarah Palin,
and hitting the trail. On
celebrating her
twenty-fifth: “I went to
Vegas with friends and did
everything one does in
Vegas: play blackjack,
drink, and eat steak.” To
do before she’s 30 : “I’ll
get my motorcycle license.”
19. AUBREY PLAZA
Credits: Seth Rogen
heartbreaker in Judd
Apatow’s Funny People;
bone-dry office intern April
on NBC’s Parks and
Recreation. To do before
she’s 30: “I want to have as
many babies as I can. I’ll just
crank them out on hiatuses.”
Age she feels:
“Professionally, I feel like a
little baby who doesn’t know
how to eat. Socially, like a
60-year-old because I never
go out.”
18. ISABEL LUCAS
Credits: Former Aussie
soap star; protested dolphin
16. MELANIE FIONA
Credits: 2010 Best Female
R&B Vocal Performance
Grammy nod for single
“It Kills Me” off debut
album The Bridge, an
homage to ’60s girl-group
soul. Learned so far:
“In love, I don’t have to
settle to be with somebody
who isn’t the right person.”
Where she’ll be at 50:
“Comfortably enjoying all
the hard work I put in at 25.
And doing a show
in Vegas.”
20. AMANDA SEYFRIED
Credits: Former child
model; comic foil (Mean
Girls); polygamy-TV star
(HBO’s Big Love); singer
(Mamma Mia! ); sucker for
romance (Dear John) and fairy
tales (next: Red Riding Hood).
What are the best and
worst things about
turning 25? “The best thing
is, I’m happy. The worst is
that I’m scared; the scariest
thing is that I know it can’t
be easy—the years to come.”
14. AMANDA BLANK
Credits: Released 2009’s
I Love You, a genre-spanning
debut coproduced by world
music auteur Diplo; sings in
theatrical pop-rock band
Sweatheart. Age she feels:
“I get why that store’s called
Forever 21, because that’s
what I am.” Before she’s 30 :
“I’ve been able to do a lot—
except meet Beyoncé. I met
Jay-Z, and I was like, ‘Where
is she?’ ” On celebrating
her twenty-fifth : “I was
sick and in the studio, but
Santigold brought me pizza
and champagne.”
Adult milestones
reached: Mamie: “Sang in
public, performed Chekhov,
got engaged.” Song that
sums up life right now:
Grace: “ ‘It Was a Good Day’
by Ice Cube.”
Upwards, Snow Angels, New
York, I Love You; dumped
Jason Schwartzman in
HBO’s Bored to Death;
popularized phrase “honest
to blog” ( Juno); die-hard
New Yorker. Next:
Margaret, with Anna Paquin
and Matt Damon. To do
before she’s 30: “Have a
lot more shit figured out.
They say that’s when you get
over most of your
insecurities and connect
with people in a real way.”
slaughter in Japan; climbed
Kilimanjaro to raise global
water-crisis awareness ; sat
front row at Chanel; played
killer ’bot in Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen. Next:
Red Dawn remake; musical
comedy A Heartbeat Away.
To do before she’s 30:
“Live in New York, Berlin,
and Barcelona. Make
documentaries, sell my
paintings, and study Jungian
psychology.”
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Burberry Prorsum, price upon
request, visit burberry.com.
Wool and linen jacket, $1,495,
pants, $695, both, Calvin Klein
Collection. Platform pumps,
Christian Louboutin, $875.
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WITH HER ROCKET-SHIP CURVES
AND ATHLETIC CONFIDENCE, IT’S
CLEAR HOW ELLE MACPHERSON
BECAME AN ICON. TWENTY-
FIVE YEARS SINCE SHE FIRST
GRACED THE COVER OF ELLE,
THE AUSSIE SUPERMODEL HAS
COME HOME—TO A STATELY
MANOR IN THE ENGLISH
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S T Y L E D B Y beth fenton
Printed silk dress with lace
sleeves, Dolce & Gabbana,
$3,150, at select Dolce &
Gabbana stores nationwide.
Printed canvas coat, Moschino,
price upon request. Gold,
diamond, tsavorite, and black
lacquer panther necklace,
Cartier, price upon request.
For details, see Shopping Guide.
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Right: Embroidered silk chiffon
dress, Dior, price upon request,
at select Dior boutiques
nationwide. Shearling cowl,
Kenneth Cole New York, $350.
White and yellow gold cuff with
lavender jade and diamonds,
Buccellati, price upon request.
White gold and diamond panther
ring with sapphire, onyx, and
emeralds, Cartier, price upon
request. Far right: Bonded
lambskin coat, price upon
request, cowhide belt with brass
buckle, $890, both, Céline, at
Céline Boutique, Bal Harbour,
FL. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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t’s impossible to talk about the beginnings of ELLE the mag-
azine without coming back to Elle the supermodel. Look at
any issue from 1985 to 1989 and you’ll likely find her: baring
those swimmer’s shoulders in a backless, body-hugging Alaïa
dress; emerging from crystal blue waters like a Bond girl in a
glistening one-piece; on the cover, coyly biting her lower lip,
behind a pair of jet-black Persol shades. To call Macpherson
the face of early ELLE isn’t hyperbole—she appeared on
more than 130 pages and landed five covers in four years
(leading many to assume the monthly was named after her). In
1985, she married ELLE’s then creative director, legendary pho-
tographer Gilles Bensimon, having met him on a shoot for French
ELLE in Tahiti, and she would “fill in the gaps in the pages” when
needed. “He would use me as a working model,” says the now
46-year-old mother of two, who was divorced from Bensimon in
1989 but still counts him as her all-time favorite photo grapher. “It
was easy, because we had an unspoken language. He just had to
look a certain way, and I knew what he meant.” The Australia-
born Macpherson was always at her best in a neon Speedo
(there’s a reason she also graced the cover of Sports Illustrated’s
swimsuit issue a record five times): Her lean 6 ' frame and wet,
sun-bleached surfer-girl hair made women want to toss aside
their makeup bags, hit the beach, and drop for some push-ups.
“I was strong and very athletic,” she says. “I would use my
body much more than I ever used my face to create images that
other people were not doing, because that was my calling.” She
left Ford Models in 1994 to concentrate on Elle Macpherson
Int i mates, now the number one–selling lingerie line in the UK
and Australia, and currently hosts and produces Britain’s Next Top
Model. But recently, she floored the fashion illuminati once
again, by closing the Louis Vuitton show in Paris last March. “I
smiled the whole way around,” she says, “because the response
from people in the room was palpable.” We expect nothing less
from an ELLE original.—Candice Rainey
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Silk and cotton blazer, $2,050,
skirt, $1,220, both, Louis Vuitton,
call 866-VUITTON. Silk-blend slip,
Obsidian by Elle Macpherson
Intimates, $125. Felt hat, Albertus
Swanepoel for Carolina Herrera,
price upon request. Leather
and suede belt with glass dots,
Meredith Wendell, $450.
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Laminated jersey coat,
Prada, $3,100, at select
Prada boutiques nationwide.
Patent leather pumps,
Rupert Sanderson, $580.
For details, see Shopping Guide.
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Silk shirt, Akris, $995, at Akris,
NYC, Boston. Suede skirt,
Fendi, $1,970. Felted rabbit-fur
hat, Patricia Underwood,
$550. Suede belt with glass
dots, Meredith Wendell, $495.
Platform pumps, Christian
Louboutin, $875.
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Lamb-leather hooded cape, Bally, $4,895,
at Bally, NYC. Wool jumpsuit, Chloé, $2,675.
Leather belt, Meredith Wendell, $250. For
details, see Shopping Guide.
HAIR BY JAMES ROWE FOR L’ORÉAL PROFESSIONEL
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FOR CHANEL AT D+V MANAGEMENT; MANICURE BY
MIKE POCOCK FOR N’APPLIQUE AT STREETERS;
PRODUCED BY ETTY BELLHOUSE AT 10-4 INC.;
FASHION ASSISTANT: REBECCA DENNETT.
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Above: Embroidered silk ottoman coat, price upon request, wool turtleneck, $998, both, Ralph Lauren Collection, at select Ralph Lauren stores
nationwide. Chain mail cuffs, Yazbukey for Zac Posen, price upon request. Tights, American Apparel, $14. Right: Cashmere cutout turtleneck, $1,095,
cashmere fishtail skirt, $1,995, both, Michael Kors, at select Michael Kors stores nationwide. Felt hat, Heather Huey, $195. Lotus necklace,
Georg Jensen, $970. Lace bra, Only Hearts by Helena Stuart, $48. Chain mail cuffs, Yazbukey for Zac Posen, price upon request.
Suede bag, Emporio Armani, $995. Suede shearling boots, Ralph Lauren Collection, $1,100. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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ELLE’S LEGENDARY LENSMAN GILLES BENSIMON
CAPTURES RUNWAY SUPERSTAR KAROLINA
KURKOVA IN THE SEASON’S LEAN, LAYERABLE KNITS
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Left: Wool and cashmere dress, MaxMara, $1,050, at MaxMara, NYC. Quilted hat, Burberry, $125. Chain mail cuffs, Yazbukey for Zac Posen, price upon
request. Gemstone cone rings, Eddie Borgo, $240 each. Leather bag, Marc Jacobs, $995. Suede shearling boots, Ralph Lauren Collection, $1,100.
Above: Cashmere cape, $3,895, sequin-embroidered silk jersey shirt, $4,995, stretch wool pants, $395, all, Calvin Klein Collection, at Calvin Klein
Collection, NYC. Tassel-trim hat, Ralph Lauren Collection, price upon request. Chain mail cuffs, Yazbukey for Zac Posen, price upon request.
Sterling silver cuff, Stephen Dweck, price upon request. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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AT ART DEPARTMENT; CASTING BY ANITA BITTON FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT; FASHION ASSISTANT: KATIA HAKKO; MODEL: KAROLINA KURKOVA AT IMG.
Above: Lace top, $1,480, mantella cape skirt, $1,545, both, Missoni, at Missoni Boutique, NYC, Beverly Hills. Lace bra, Only Hearts by Helena Stuart, $48.
Chain mail cuffs, Yazbukey for Zac Posen, price upon request. Lambskin bag, Z Spoke by Zac Posen, $525. Right: Ruffled duchesse satin tunic, price
upon request, silk georgette pants, $1,390, both, Yves Saint Laurent, at select Yves Saint Laurent boutiques nationwide.
Link necklace, Kenneth Jay Lane, $338. Chain mail cuffs, Yazbukey for Zac Posen, price upon request.
Suede shearling boots, Ralph Lauren Collection, $1,100. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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DRESSER
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s a designer, you’re always reinventing yourself, in a
new category, with proportions of clothes that shift
and change,” says Michael Kors. “But I’ve learned
in my three decades that what keeps you growing is
strong DNA that keeps pushing in new directions.”
Over the past three decades, Kors has kept re-
interpreting his signatures—the perfect pant,
the ultimate coat, and, of course, the cashmere
sweater—as up-to-the-moment staples, skillfully
gilded with his own specific jet-set gloss: i.e., Carmen Kass in a body-
hugging turtleneck, trotting down the gangplank of “her” yacht.
“It’s the idea of being consistent and yet always throwing a curve-
ball,” says the 51-year-old, who has increased his personal celebrity
but stayed true to the age-old strategies that initially won over his
clientele. Even today, at the helm of a 30-year-old brand, he works a
trunk show like nobody’s business. Darting from dressing room to
sales floor, serving up frank opinions and pointed questions, Kors
never stops and seems to truly sympathize with the challenges of get-
ting dressed. He plucks camel coats and floor-sweeping caftans from
the racks, waxing on the virtues of a sable vest or his latest wedges,
and always throwing in a self-deprecating joke or piece of scintillat-
ing gossip—or a bit of natural-born salesmanship. (“I can give you
croc for under $500!” he exclaimed at a recent resort presentation.)
A blond, blue-eyed toddler who appeared in Lucky Charms
commercials at age four, Kors was an early bloomer, on fashion’s
fast track by age 19. He dressed the windows of the Manhattan
boutique Lothar’s when he was a Fashion Institute of Technology
student in the late ’70s, then spent three years as the store’s in-house
designer, making everything from tie-dye jeans to swimsuits.
He launched his own line in 1981, when rah-rah skirts and
Dynasty dresses were raging through Manhattan’s club circuit.
“When everyone was doing brocade and crinoline, I was swim-
ming in the other direction,” he says. His sporty yet luxurious
instincts effectively put him on the path of the legendary Bill Blass,
the standard-bearer to American socialites who wanted their
ready-to-wear straightforward, without a lot of frivolity. Until the
late ’90s, in fact, Kors remained a niche brand, popular with a cer-
tain sort of woman: gallerist Mary Boone, fashion legend Nan
Kempner, actress Sigourney Weaver.
His label teetered on the brink in the early ’90s, but thanks to
those ever-popular trunk shows, he began to build a tangible busi-
ness. The real turning point came with his breakout Wyoming
collection for fall 1999: supermodel Gisele Bündchen in a coyote vest
and bootleg beige pants, Naomi Campbell in a striped serape, Kass
in a slinky sweater gown. Every look hit the mark. “What I soon real-
ized is that most women don’t live a red-carpet life, and even if it is a
gown, it needs to have a sportswear attitude,” says the designer.
Kors latched onto the idea of mining classic American lifestyles
and offered casual clothes in luxurious fabrics like sable and cash-
mere. As a follow-up to the Wyoming collection, he turned out a
parade of shifts in sea foam and preppy florals for his spring 2000
“Palm Bitch” collection. “Michael saw an opportunity to reinterpret
the Palm Beach world, but in the most sophisticated color palette and
silhouettes,” says Robert Burke, who opened an eponymous luxury
consultancy firm in 2006 after seven years as senior vice president
of fashion at Bergdorf Goodman. “He completely updated it.”
More important, the Wyoming and Palm Bitch collections
helped put American fashion week on the map. At the time, the in-
dustry was dominated on one side by the hard-edged intellectual-
ism of designers like Jil Sander, and on the other by the sexy
showstoppers of Tom Ford and Donatella Versace. “It was all so de-
pressing,” Burke says. “American fashion was not particularly fun
at that moment. You had Kate Moss going into rehab and suddenly
Michael has Gisele, all tan and healthy, opening his show. It was
luxurious and sheer fun. And it appealed to 25- as well as 50-year-
olds. Such an easy sell.” Meanwhile, every executrix was clamor-
ing to be as sexy as Rene Russo, in the Michael Kors slide-around
sheaths and snappy polo coats she wore in the 1999 remake of The
Thomas Crown Affair. Later the same year, Kors was clutching his
first Council of Fashion Designers of America award, for Womens-
wear Designer of the Year.
These back-to-back smash hits prompted him to open a Madi-
son Avenue flagship in 2000, and in 2004, to launch the lower-
price Michael Michael Kors as a sister line to the midprice line of
shoes, denim, and outerwear, Kors Michael Kors, which bowed in
1995. Today, he has more than 80 boutiques worldwide, capped off
with freestanding stores in Milan, London, and Munich, with 20
more slated to open by the end of the year. Next spring, he’ll open
his largest boutique ever, on Paris’ rue Saint-Honoré.
All of which means it’s easier than ever for leggy society gals in
Dallas or Toronto—known to pull their daughters out of school for a
mother-daughter shop—to find their python totes. But they’re not
the only ones. Kors, of course, has been judging contestants along-
side Heidi Klum during eight seasons of Project Runway. Now, not
only does his celebrity roster include Mary J. Blige, Gwyneth Pal-
trow, Laura Linney, Diane Sawyer, and Blake Lively—to say noth-
ing of Michelle Obama, who wore a snappy black sleeveless dress
for her official White House portrait—but Kors himself ranks as a
celeb, with fans eager to snap up Michael leather flip-flops and Kors
croc bags. A Fordham University coed summed it up on the fashion
blog CollegeCandy.com: “To. Die. For.” She gushed about Kors’
oversize, crystal-embellished Runway watch, the “perfect mix of
stately sophistication and playful girlishness. The amount of wear I
will get out of this thing is ridiculous.” The king of functional glam-
our couldn’t have sold it better himself.
From left: Wool melton coat, $2,795, silk wrap top, $795, cashmere skirt,
$1,995, leather belt, $695; suede wrap top, $3,995, wool flannel pants,
$795, trouser belt, $250, sandals, $1,295; wool balmacaan coat, $995, silk
shirtdress, $1,795, cashmere hip band, $295, trouser belt, $250; crystal-
embroidered crepe jersey dress, price upon request, leather belt, $695,
suede boots, $1,075, all, Michael Kors, call 866-709-KORS. Mr. Kors, in his
own clothes. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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BODY WHISPERER
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t seems somehow fitting that when, after several re-rescheduled
dates, I finally get to meet Donna Karan in an apartment-cum-
office in a building on Greenwich Street in New York City, she is
huddled in conversation with Karen Berg, one of the gurus of the
Kabbalah Centre, with which Karan is closely involved. It seems
fitting because, on the eve of her company’s twenty-fifth anniver-
sary, Karan is very much a guru herself—a woman who’s always
on the verge of another evolution, someone who’s as much about
fashioning a meaningful life as she is about infusing the life of
fashion with fresh ways of thinking. She has traveled a long way
over the past two and a half decades. Where once she worried
about how to ease a woman’s decisions about what to wear by de-
signing Seven Easy Pieces in 1985, she now worries about how to
ease our way into the future with her global philanthropic
enterprises. One of them, the Urban Zen Foundation, is housed in
a storefront next door and advocates for everything from yoga and
meditation education in grammar schools to integrated medicine.
(The foundation is in part funded by the Urban Zen line Karan
designed—“seasonless comfort clothes, based on a T-shirt and a
bodysuit,” as she describes it.)
On this blisteringly hot July day, Karan manages to look sleek
and unruffled in layers of Urban Zen black. She wears not a speck
of makeup and has aged remarkably well (thanks, no doubt, to her
raw food diets, juice fasts, and beauty treatments). If anything,
she’s prettier than when I last met with her 20 years ago. Her hair
is longish and unstyled and her blue-green eyes crinkle when she
laughs, which is often. Karan speaks with the casual conviction of
her own experience, which, with the help of brilliant advertising
campaigns and the cult of personality that has grown up around
her, has come to stand in for the experience of Everywoman. “I
think what women respond to in me,” Karan says, “is that I under-
stand their complexities of life. I’m not just, ‘This is a runway shot,
and I expect you to wear it.’ ”
Karan is so enthusiastic about her extracurricular projects that
it’s hard to get her to talk about the trajectory of her aesthetic, or the
new line of separates she launched in September. But then, all of a
sudden, she’ll switch gears and sound very much like the savvy
Five Towns salesgirl she once was: “Women never gain weight at
the shoulder. Other places, I can’t help ya. Knees, toes, everything
else gets blah.”
Left to her own devices, Karan admits that she’d love to dress in a
uniform (“I wear these shoes every day,” she says, pointing to a great
pair of gladiator flats, “and they’re not even my shoes”), but one
might argue that it is precisely her recognition of the fact that getting
dressed is “a woman’s torture” that enables her to envision clothes
that we feel comfortable in. Karan knows intuitively to “accent the
positive and delete the negative,” as her mantra goes. Women of all
ages and sizes have trusted her through each of her phases—Seven
Easy Pieces, oversize camel coats, and menswear in the mid-’80s;
corporate suiting in the ’90s; ’40s-influenced polka-dot silhouettes
in the early 2000s; and most recently, her draped “goddess” cloth-
ing—because, for all her fame and fortune, she is a believable pres-
ence in an industry that has gone from intimate boutique labels to
impersonal multimillion- dollar conglomerates. (Karan’s own com-
pany was bought by LVMH in 2001.) She makes fashion, an artifi-
cial construct if ever there was one, seem real, like an extension of
the body rather than a mere decorative element.
The clothes she showed for fall were among her strongest yet, fea-
turing tropes she’s become identified with—underpinnings such as
matte jersey bodysuits and, yes, black tights, but also glamorous
coats and day dresses—as well as some of her newer interests:
Balenciaga-like tailoring and draping, in all its infinite possibilities
(this from someone who failed “draping” as a student at Parsons!).
She also sent out cocoon
coats and lamp-shade
skirts in beguiling soft-
hard combinations, like
wool with organza and
cashmere with jersey.
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ways of creating texture—
whether it’s mixing Lycra
with cashmere, using
bam boo in underwear, or
refashioning preexisting
gar ments as she sometimes
does for Urban Zen—is
one challenge that speaks
to the visionary in Karan
as much as her more ethe-
real interests do. She’s par-
ticularly intrigued by the
way technology can be harnessed to create support garments to hold
your back and chest up: “All the support that’s needed to help secure
the bodice, but with ease,” she says confidently. Watch out, Spanx.
Then again, Karan’s reserves of passion are such that she’s as ex-
cited about the organic dehydrated nut cookies she serves me—
“These cookies are really, really amazing”—as she is about where
women’s lives are headed, especially in regard to aligning the outer
and inner parts of the self. Listening to her, you can imagine that
transformation is just around the corner. “Everything is feasible,”
she says, a trace of Long Island brashness still evident. “I don’t
believe that anything cannot change.”
From left: Draped Grecian jumpsuit, price upon request, metallic scarf, $950,
shawl collar jacket, trousers, prices upon request, metallic halter, $2,995,
choker, price upon request, satin-lapel tuxedo jacket, $2,295, metallic halter,
$2,995, trousers, hip-sash jumpsuit, prices upon request, metallic scarf, $950,
all, Donna Karan New York, call 866-240-4700. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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WOMAN AND HER WARDROBE. AS KARAN CELEBRATES HER
COMPANY’S TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY, DAPHNE MERKIN
FINDS THAT FOR THIS EMPATHIC-MINDED DESIGNER, THERE’S A
FINE LINE BETWEEN WHAT YOU WEAR AND HOW YOU FEEL
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T
he first thing you notice about Tommy Hilfiger is
that, at 59, he still has a vaguely mischievous,
youthful quality—the knowing wink, the faintly
ironic grin, the easygoing charisma that works
quickly and well. It’s the same demeanor, one
imagines, that contributed to his success some 41
years ago as an enterprising Elmira, New York,
teen, selling bell-bottoms from his VW bug .
For Hilfiger, the Great American Wardrobe is a
wearable riposte to the Great American Songbook:
a shared cultural heritage that continues to evolve and accrue layers
of meaning the more it is reinterpreted. He knew it even then: Those
bell-bottoms were bigger than fashion. They were a symbol of what
it was like to be young and American in a time when the innocence
and simplicity of a hierarchical all-American life was coming apart
at the seams. It was an era full of possibilities, and young Hilfiger
was just the guy to grasp them. “Up until then, it was all about Elvis,
Motown, and musicians dressing in suits and ties,” Hilfiger says.
“Then there was a fashion revolution that affected everyone’s lives.”
Hilfiger’s business outgrew his car and spilled into his first shop,
People’s Place, which spawned nine more throughout upstate New
York. But youthful idealism did not equip him for the realities of
business. Going bankrupt in 1977 , he says, was a turning point. “I
decided I should really learn how to manage the business and how
to keep my finger on the pulse,” he says. Not that he was headed to
grad school. “I learned from life experience.”
In the early ’80s, he met Mohan Murjani, the investor behind
Gloria Vanderbilt who wanted to launch a menswear brand with a
man’s name. Hilfiger, incredible as it sounds now, suggested short-
ening his own surname to Hill. No way, Murjani said. “Hilfiger”
might be hard for people to pronounce at first, but it would be
equally hard to forget.
Soon enough, an inspired bit of guerilla marketing would put
that name on the fashion map. In 1985, George Lois, the visionary
art director of Esquire, concocted a cheeky, fill-in-the-blank Times
Square billboard that read THE 4 GREAT AMERICAN DESIGNERS FOR
MEN ARE… with each designer (Ralph Lauren, Perry Ellis, Calvin
Klein, and Tommy Hilfiger) identified only by their initials .
According to reports at the time, the reigning three musketeers of
American menswear weren’t amused by the stunt. But the truth
was, while Ralph was on the ranch or at a Gatsby party, and Calvin
was sensationalizing denim and schmoozing at Studio 54, the mys-
terious T. H. was beginning to peddle his own slice of the American
dream, with himself as a sort of Warhol figure (down to the mop of
hair) inviting us to consider the quotidian classics anew.
By the ’90s, Tommy Hilfiger stores were sprouting up across the
country, perfectly timed to another revolution, one Hilfiger calls
the “casualization of the world.” It wasn’t exactly the full-throated
protest of the Easy Rider years but just as fundamental in its way:
The loosening of strict dress codes that divided young from old,
work from weekend, made way for what he calls a “preppy all-
American sportswear brand, youthful in spirit but still affordable
and acceptable,” e.g., striped polos, khakis, and schoolboy jackets
that were literal riffs on private-school staples.
And then came hip-hop.
Hilfiger’s side step into that world, with its oversize, urban take
on polo shirts, denim, and logos, was groundbreaking for its genu-
ine street cred—but occurred by accident. After Hilfiger’s younger
brother, a rock musician, introduced him to his rapper friends, the
designer began tweaking his clothes to their tastes, more as a favor
than business strategy. Then in March 1994, he was anointed:
Snoop Dogg performed on Saturday Night Live wearing a red,
white, and blue Hilfiger rugby. The look sold out the next day .
A lifelong fan of pop music and pop culture, Hilfiger has over
the years featured everyone from David Bowie and Lenny Kravitz
to Britney Spears and Beyoncé in his ads. He has sponsored tours
for Sheryl Crow, Pete Townshend, and the Rolling Stones (his
house on Mustique is next door to that of good friend Mick Jag-
ger). But it was hip-hop that made him famous. With that commu-
nity behind him, nobody needed to ask who T. H. was. In 1995, he
cemented his stature with a CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year
award; he launched women’s wear the following year.
But by 2000, the year Hilfiger’s company went public, Sean
Combs and Russell Simmons—friends who’d once turned to him
for business advice—were undercutting his market with their own
labels. As suddenly as hip-hop embraced him, it turned away. “Our
urban run was great,” he says, “but having to shift our focus back to
our classic heritage was one of the best things that ever happened.”
After a two-year hiatus from the runway, he returned to New
York Fashion Week in 2007 with an edgier, more fashion-savvy
take on what he’s always described as “classic, American cool” (wit-
ness fall’s thigh-high duck boots, cropped camel kilts, and ’60s pea-
coats). Hilfiger’s masterstroke, however, has been marketing
Americana prep overseas; today, 80 percent of Hilfiger stores are
located abroad , and the brand has never been more successful. In
March, it was sold by private equity firm Apax Partners (which ac-
quired it in 2006) to apparel magnate Phillips-Van Heusen for
about $3 billion.
Ultimately, America—or Hilfiger’s idea of it—came through for
him. In that somewhat mythological place, the seemingly contra-
dictory worlds of rock ’n’ roll and Norman Rockwell meet; the
“honest masculinity” of a gas-station attendant is as valued as the
“simple, clean, and classic” chic of Grace Kelly—and his red,
white, and blue logo is as much a part of the international sema-
phore as the ornate calligraphy on a bottle of Coca Cola, or the red
tab on a pair of Levi’s.
Tommy Hilfiger 25th-Anniversary pieces. From left: Plaid wool stadium coat,
$598, plaid dress, $298, wool scarf, $198, leather belt, $128, watch, $85,
python and leather clutch, $298, tights, leather and rubber boots, $298,
denim shirt, $88, silk and wool pants, $248, leather belt, $128, leather
boots, $298, all, Tommy Hilfig er, at Tommy Hilfiger, NYC, call 212-223-
1824. Mr. Hilfiger wears his own clothes. For details, see Shopping Guide.
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UNIFORMING EUROPEANS IN STANDARD PREP—PLUS A
$3 BILLION BUYOUT THIS PAST SPRING—TOMMY HILFIGER IS
CELEBRATING HIS 25 YEARS BY BRINGING HIS SMART, CHIC STYLE
HOME TO STAY. BY NICK FOULKES
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Angeles with Jennifer Garner and their little
daughters. But the roots that call to him as a
filmmaker are in Boston. Describing his own
town-and-gown divide, he says, “My mother
went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to
get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught
for over 30 years in the public schools. She’s
definitely got some war stories.” As for his dad,
“He was the other side of it—a working guy, a
bartender, and later a janitor at Harvard, actu-
ally, which informed a bit of Good Will Hunting,
except my father was not a genius.”
His parents split up when Ben was 11, and his
father, an alcoholic, eventually entered a
no-nonsense recovery center—“definitely not
Betty Ford,” his son says wryly—and went on to
become an alcoholism counselor. Affleck
speaks courteously about his dad, but when he
talks about his mother—“an extremely bright
woman”—his voice is full of love. They lived in
Cambridge, but near Central Square, a rough
neighborhood at the time.
Class even turns up in 2003’s Daredevil,
which stars Affleck as a blind superhero whose
single-parent dad was a hard-drinking, washed-
up boxer. Affleck isn’t bad, and neither is
Garner as the martial-arts fighter who would
become his love interest, offscreen as well as on.
But Daredevil is that hapless thing, an action
movie so leadenly paced that it never gets off the
ground. Worse, it was just the sort of big-
paycheck blockbuster that was starting to clog
Affleck’s filmography. (All his films combined
have so far earned $1.4 billion.)
Affleck was 25 when fame and adulation fell
on him like a very large brick. By 1999, when
People magazine anointed him one of the 50
most beautiful creatures in the universe, or
maybe just the world, he was tabloid fodder.
When he and Jennifer Lopez announced their
engagement in 2002, the gossip media created a
monster called Bennifer: foolish, flashy, and
extra vagant, throwing money around in
unseemly but enviable ways. But the year
before, Affleck had made a significant move
toward putting the brakes on, entering a Malibu
rehab that used the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anon-
ymous. Affleck and Lopez’s relationship ended
in late 2003, and she recently revealed that he
broke it off. In 2004, she married Marc Antho-
ny, with whom she now has twins, and a year
later he married Garner.
Although what Affleck calls “the celebrity
magazine–Internet circus” eventually stopped
mining his life for scandal, a cloud lingered over
his work, as if dumb movies meant that he was a
dumb actor. Affleck isn’t a dumb anything, but
in those lucrative, lazily written roles that must
surely have bored him, he tends to look a little
glazed. It’s hard to breathe life into lines that just
lie there like a lox.
“As an actor, you try out all these things,
and sometimes, despite what you want, it
turns out differently than you would have
liked ,” Aff leck says, “and I was frustrated
with that. I thought, Either I’m going to live
by what other people think, or I’m going to
believe in myself. That was the sharpest and
maybe the most defining choice I felt I had to
make, and it kind of freed me from worry.
That’s when I did Hollywoodland and Gone
Baby Gone, which took almost two years, and
then I just waited to do things that were good.
Doesn’t mean I was snobby about it.”
No, indeed. Last year, Affleck did He’s Just
Not That Into You, a mainstream rom-com that
made me want to strangle someone—but not
him. In the elegantly simple role of a man whose
love for his partner is forthright and true—art
imitating life?—he’s the best thing in the movie.
That’s also the case with Hollywoodland, a
flawed but compelling 2006 semi-noir about
George Reeves, who became famous in the ’50s
as the first Superman but was desperate for
respect as a serious actor. The gamble paid off
for Affleck, who, unlike the poignant figure he
plays with such layered subtlety, saw his own
reputation fully restored.
Affleck has done some of his most inspiring
work in offbeat roles like that of Bartleby, in
another impious Kevin Smith comedy, Dogma.
As one of a pair of angels expelled from heaven
(the other is Matt Damon’s Loki), Affleck
mostly plays the part for laughs. But there’s an
astounding moment when, furious at the
thought that he’ll never again know grace,
Bartleby explodes in such rage and anguish
that, no matter one’s beliefs or lack of them,
God and heaven are suddenly real, and to be
without them is—what else?—palpable hell.
The scene has a bleakly humorous edge, but it
just knocks you off your pins.
That’s how Jon Hamm felt when he saw
Gone Baby Gone. “Like a lot of people, I was
blown away by it,” Hamm says. “Now, know-
ing him, it’s not surprising. He’s wickedly
intel ligent and has an incredibly curious
mind. He thinks in full thoughts, not sort of
piecemeal, and that translates into his film
work, especially his writing.”
Recently, Affleck ran into Morgan Freeman,
who he says asked him (he drops into a perfect
imitation of Freeman’s distinctive voice), “How
old are you now?” and when Affleck told him
37, Freeman said, “Ah, that’s the years you come
runnin’ to your prime.”
That’s certainly true if you’re in a good place,
and Affleck’s could hardly be better. He loves
his family and the way they anchor him. Talk-
ing about Garner and the girls, Violet and
Seraphina, he doesn’t sound sentimental so
much as gleeful, like a man who’s hit another
jackpot, one that will last. Asked if he wants to
continue directing, he says, “Yes. I’ve worked
harder at it than anything I’ve ever done, and
I’m sure I won’t be successful every time out.
But I love directing.”
On top of everything else, in March Affleck
founded the Eastern Congo Initiative, a project
he quietly devised over a two-year period of
research, inter mittent travel in Africa, and
fundraising. The organization will distribute
grants to community-based, Congolese-run
projects and facilities, from hospitals and
schools to care fully designed recovery pro-
grams for former child soldiers who were
forced to kill, and for the seemingly countless
women so brutally violated in the ongoing con-
flict that they give terrible new meaning to the
term war torn.
As for what inspired Affleck to do this, the
answer is Hollywood. “I was walking down the
street, and people were taking my picture, and it
just felt like a lot of waste,” he says. “And I
thought, God, I’m not doing anything that’s
really important, and I can. All I have to do is
just do it.” So he did.
RENAISSANCE MAN
(conti nued from page 406)
once played, an enchanted forest of towering
Northwest Pines and swings and teeter-totters. As
we watch the twins run, we can see flickers of Lin-
da’s strong, angular features, and the more delicate
visage of the mute, bent woman who is Amanda’s
real mother, and then Amanda’s own broader,
darker face, all flashing by as the twilight deepens.
Amanda and her adoptive mother are com-
pletely estranged over Amanda’s determination
to trace her real roots; her adoptive mom, who
asked not to be named in the story and for the
most part refused to comment for the record,
says she didn’t tell her daughter the “terrible
story” of her origins because the officials who han-
dled the adoption advised her not to. Amanda,
however, says she’s still disturbed that she was
kept in the dark about her “disabled relative,” not
the first time she’s employed the curiously general
term “relative” when talking about her biologi-
cal parents. “It’s worse than thinking someone is
dead. It’s like they were never born, zero acknowl-
edgement.” She’ll tell her sons about their family
history, Amanda says, doling out the information
as they’re able to understand it. “They will know
Kathy is their grandmother.”
Amanda recently learned that Sistrunk has
children from several relationships, and she has
contacted a half-sister, who’s in her mid-thirties.
After being the “black girl who thinks she’s
white,” Amanda is anxious to build a mixed-race
family network for herself. “Emanuel is evil,” she
says, “but I don’t believe evil is genetic.”
In December, it will be two years since Amanda
first saw the name “Katherine Stockton” on her
birth certificate. She now gets updates on her
mother’s care and condition. She learned Kathy
likes to swing, likes to be massaged, and has an un-
breakable habit of licking metal. Amanda, mother
of toddlers, found the last trait ironic. “My babies
like to lick metal too. When I first heard that, I
thought, Maybe they can share some spoons.”
She is still struggling to make sense of the
truth. “A child is always a blessing, but was this
child?” she wrote in her journal, referring to her-
self, shortly after she learned about Kathy. “[My
mother] should not have been born. To be born
as a shell of a person, only to be raped at 19 and
have whatever humanity or dignity she’d had
stripped away. Who could look upon this baby,
this representation of how one man preyed upon
a disabled young woman, and see a blessing?”
When she looks in the mirror, she sees the vic-
tim and the rapist, intertwined, from a moment
30 years ago. But she is also beginning to see her-
self, Amanda Campbell. “I’ve come to believe
that it doesn’t matter who your parents are—
what matters is who you are,” she says. Amanda
is too humble to say it, but part of who she is is
someone brave enough to embrace Kathy Stock-
ton: the first member of her family to regularly
visit her, to speak kindly to her, to touch her, to
rock her in her lap. The first not to try to erase
her. “I believe everyone has a purpose,” says
Amanda, who while in high school worked in a
group home, caring for the paralyzed residents.
“And I have a strong sense Kathy needs to be
protected.” Amanda is grateful to her biological
mother for helping her to discover her capacity
for compassion, she says, though she can’t help
but feel overwhelmed—at times, plain dumb-
founded—by the series of tragedies that led to
her existence, not to mention the Gothic strange-
ness of it all. “I still have the feeling someone is
going to call me and say, ‘Okay, this is all a joke.
Here are your real parents.’ ”
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Beverly Hills, call 800-680-9569 or visit beladora.com.
Blouse by Vince, at Vince stores nationwide. Jacket
by Etro, $7,615, at Etro (NYC; Las Vegas; Beverly Hills).
Pumps by Louis Vuitton, at select Louis Vuitton locations
nationwide, call 866-VUITTON or visit louisvuitton.com.
Boot by Cole Haan, at Cole Haan stores nationwide, call
800-201-8001. Rings by Pomellato, $7,350–$8,325, at
Pomellato Boutique (NYC). Coat by Diane von Furstenberg,
at Diane von Furstenberg (NYC). Page 242: Sweater,
skirt by Prada, visit prada.com. Belt by Salvatore Ferragamo,
at Salvatore Ferragamo boutiques nationwide, call 800-628-
8916. Necklace, $10,550, bangles, ring from Beladora,
Beverly Hills, call 800-680-9569. Pumps by Brian Atwood,
at Bergdorf Goodman (NYC), Hu’s Shoes (Washington,
DC), Elyse Walker (Pacific Palisades, CA), Footcandy
(St. Helena, Walnut Creek, Sonoma, Brentwood, CA).
Bag by Coach, at Coach stores nationwide. Dress by Louis
Vuitton, at select Louis Vuitton locations nationwide, visit
louisvuitton.com. Bag by Tory Burch, visit toryburch.com.
Dress by Prada, at select Prada boutiques nationwide.
ELLE SHOPS
Page 267: Sunglasses by Ray-Ban, call 800-SUN-
GLAS or visit sunglasshut.com. Page 268: Top by Petit
Bateau, call 212-988-8884. T-shirt by Loft, at Loft stores
nationwide. Dress by French Connection, call 800-777-
0000 or visit bloomingdales.com or frenchconnection
.com. Belt by Tibi, at Cielo Boutique (San Antonio, TX),
call 210-408-5000. Satchel by Michael Michael Kors, call
866-709-KORS. Earrings, cuff by Tom Binns Design, at
Tom Binns Megastore (NYC), call 917-475-1412 or visit
tombinnsdesign.com. Sandal by Giuseppe Zanotti Design,
at Giuseppe Zanotti Design boutiques nationwide (NYC;
Bal Harbour, FL; Las Vegas), call 702-866-0055. Skirt
by BCBGMaxAzria, at BCBGMaxAzria stores nationwide.
Top by Yigal Azrouël, at Yigal Azrouël Boutique (NYC), call
212-929-7525 or visit yigal-azrouel.com. Bag by Jean Paul
Gaultier, call 312-587-1000 or visit ikram.com. Page 270:
Coat by Marc Jacobs, call 212-343-1490. Skirt by MaxMara,
call 212-879-6100. Cuff by Eddie Borgo, call 704-366-
0388 or visit capitolcharlotte.com. Bag by Mulberry, visit
mulberry.com. Boot, sandals by Giuseppe Zanotti Design,
at Giuseppe Zanotti Design boutiques nationwide (NYC;
Bal Harbour, FL; Las Vegas), call 702-866-0055 or visit
giuseppezanottidesign.com. Dress, belt by Tory Burch,
visit toryburch.com. Bag by Lanvin, call 212-941-9656 or
visit kirnazabete.com. Watch by Dior Timepieces, $14,800,
at Dior boutiques nationwide. Coat by Lanvin, $5,330, call
646-439-0381. Cape by Juicy Couture, call 212-796-3360.
Dress by Stella McCartney, call 212-255-1556. Pump by
Miu Miu, at select Miu Miu boutiques nationwide. Jacket
by Bebe, visit bebe.com. Earrings by Rachel Rachel Roy,
visit rachelroy.com. Bag by Mulberry, at Mulberry stores
nationwide. Page 272: Blazer by Boss Orange, at Boss
stores (NYC; L.A.). Leggings by Isabel Marant, call 212-
219-2284. Clutch by Bottega Veneta, call 877-362-1715 or
visit bottegaveneta.com. Clutch by Valentino Garavani, at
Valentino Boutique (NYC). Blazer by BCBGMaxAzria,
at BCBGMaxAzria stores nationwide. Necklace by
Coach, at Coach stores nationwide. Skirt by Bebe, visit
bebe.com. Boot by Sergio Rossi, call 305-864-3643. Page
274: Boots by Hermès, at Hermès stores nationwide, visit
hermes.com. Coat by 3.1 Phillip Lim, at 3.1 Phillip Lim
(NYC; West Hollywood, CA), call 212-334-1160. Hat,
bracelet by A.P.C., at A.P.C. (NYC; West Hollywood,
CA), call 212-966-0069 or visit apc.fr. Tunic, shirt by
Brooks Brothers, at select Brooks Brothers stores nationwide,
call 800-274-1815 or visit brooksbrothers.com. Boot by
Barbara Bui, call 212-625-1938 or visit barbarabui.com.
Vest by Black Fleece by Brooks Brothers, at Black Fleece
(NYC; San Francisco), visit brooksbrothers.com. Boot
by Manolo Blahnik, at Manolo Blahnik (NYC). Pants by
Talbots, at Talbots stores nationwide, visit talbots.com. Bag
by Tommy Hilfiger, call 212-223-1824. Watch by Hermès,
visit hermes.com. Wrap by Guess by Marciano, at Guess
by Marciano stores nationwide. Boot by Emporio Armani,
at Armani / 5th Avenue (NYC), call 212-339-5950. Bag,
$5,995, dress, by Ralph Lauren Collection at select Ralph
Lauren stores nationwide, visit ralphlauren.com. Ring
by Gucci, call 800-456-7663 or visit gucci.com. Bag by
Salvatore Ferragamo, similar styles at Salvatore Ferragamo
boutiques nationwide. Page 282: Shirt by Viktor & Rolf,
call 866-887-8707. Shirt by Diesel, call 877-433-4373 or visit
diesel.com. Hat by The Henri Bendel Cocktail Hat, at Henri
Bendel stores nationwide, visit henribendel.com. Shoe
by Salvatore Ferragamo, at Salvatore Ferragamo boutiques
nationwide. Flats by Stuart Weitzman, call 212-750-2555.
Scarves by Tory Burch, call 866-480-8679. Bag by Diane
von Furstenberg, call 646-486-4800. Shirt by Rag & Bone/
SHIRT, at Rag & Bone (NYC), call 212-219-2204. Page
284: Peacoat by Nautica, visit nautica.com. Peacoat
by Veda, visit shopbop.com. Boot by Gap, call 800-GAP-
STYLE. Watch by Rolex, $5,625, visit rolex.com. Bag by
Stella McCartney, call 310-273-7051. Turtleneck by Kersh,
call 888-688-3657. Bag by Derek Lam, call 212-966-1616.
Charm bracelet by Temple St. Clair, $6,300, call 203-
227-5165 or visit mitchellsonline.com. Skirt by DKNY,
call 800-231-0884 or visit dkny.com. Boot by L.A.M.B.,
visit amazon.com or zappos.com. Page 288: Dress, vest
by Tory Burch, call 866-480-8679 or visit toryburch.com.
Sandal by Bebe, call 877-232-3777. Skirt, jacket by St.
John, at St. John Boutique (NYC; Manhasset, NY; Costa
Mesa, Beverly Hills, CA), call 212-755-5252 or visit sjk.com.
Coat by Adam, call 212-229-2838. Pants by Tibi, call 212-
226-5852. Jacket by Moncler Gamme Rouge, at Bergdorf
Goodman (NYC). Clutch by Diane von Furstenberg, call
646-486-4800. Bag by Barbour, call 800-338-3474. Page
298: Jacket by Lanvin, $5,495, call 305-864-4254. Bag by
Emporio Armani, at Emporio Armani boutiques nationwide.
Skirt by St. John, at St. John Boutique (NYC; Manhasset,
NY; Costa Mesa, Beverly Hills, CA), visit sjk.com. Pump
by White House | Black Market, at White House | Black Market
boutiques nationwide, visit whitehouseblackmarket.com.
Dress by Guess by Marciano, at Guess by Marciano stores
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ELLE SHOPPING GUIDE
True PDF release: storemags & fantamag
nationwide. Jacket by Juicy Couture, call 212-796-3360.
Bag by L.L.Bean Signature, call 800-650-6364. Earrings
by Roberto Cavalli, at Roberto Cavalli boutiques nationwide.
Cuff by Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, at Elyse Walker (Pacific
Palisades, CA), call 310-230-8882 or visit elysewalker.com.
Clutch, bag by Coach, call 866-262-2440. Leggings by
7 For All Mankind, at 7 For All Mankind stores nationwide.
Jacket by Gap, call 800-GAP-STYLE or visit gap.com.
Page 300: Dress by Jill Stuart, at Jill Stuart (NYC), call
212-343-2300. Clutch by Anya Hindmarch, call 212-343-
8147 or visit anyahindmarch.com. Belt by 3.1 Phillip Lim,
at 3.1 Phillip Lim (NYC), call 212-334-1160. Sandal
by Prada, visit prada.com. Bag by Versace, call 888-721-
7219. Jacket by Derek Lam, $12,000, visit dereklam.com.
Pump by Marc Jacobs, at Marc Jacobs (NYC). Necklace
by Juicy Couture, call 310-550-0736. Sunglasses by Ray-
Ban, visit sunglasshut.com. Dress by Chris Benz, visit
chalkofevanston.com. Clutch by Roberto Cavalli, visit
robertocavalli.com. Ring by White House | Black Market,
at White House | Black Market boutiques nationwide, call
877-948-2525 or visit whitehouseblackmarket.com. Bag
by Marni, at Cielo Boutique (San Francisco, CA), call 415-
776-0641 or visit cielo-boutique.com. Flat by Jimmy Choo, at
Jimmy Choo boutiques nationwide, call 866-J-CHOO-US.
Page 302: Boot by Manolo Blahnik, at Neiman Marcus,
Manolo Blahnik (NYC). Necklace by Dior, call 800-
929-DIOR. Bag by Nina Ricci, visit nina-ricci.fr. Dress
by BCBGMaxAzria, at BCBGMaxAzria stores nationwide.
Boot by Giuseppe Zanotti Design, at Giuseppe Zanotti
Design boutiques nationwide, call 212-650-0455. Parka
by Stella McCartney, call 212-255-1556. Skirt by Suno, at
The Webster (Miami Beach), call 305-674-7899 or visit
thewebstermiami.com. Bracelets by Tod’s, call 800-457-
TODS. Bracelet by Tom Binns Design call 917-475-1412 or
visit tombinnsdesign.com. Bag by Valentino Garavani, call
212-772-6969. Skirt by DKNY, call 800-231-0884 or visit
dkny.com. Pump by Diego Dolcini, visit diegodolcini.it.
Page 304: Jacket by Guess, at Guess stores nationwide.
Jacket by Coach, call 866-262-2440. Pump by Barbara Bui,
call 212-625-1938 or visit barbarabui.com. Bangles by Elsa
Peretti, Tiffany & Co., at Tiffany & Co. stores nationwide, call
800-526-0649. Pants by Isabel Marant, call 212-219-2284.
Bag by Dolce & Gabbana, call 877-70-DG-USA or visit
dolcegabbana.com. Top, boot by Bebe, call 877-232-3777
or visit bebe.com. Bag by Loewe, visit loewe.com. Boot by
Tory Burch, visit toryburch.com.
YOU’RE INVITED
Page 431: Maillot, bikini, bottoms by Lisa Marie
Fernandez, visit lisamariefernandez.com. Sunglasses
by Fred Fl are, cal l 877-798-2807 or visit f redf lare
.com. Bangles by Kenneth Jay Lane, call 877-953-5264.
Bangles by Alexis Bittar, at Alexis Bittar (NYC), visit
alexisbittar.com. Large Lucite bangle by Alexis Bittar,
exclusively at Neiman Marcus stores nationwide, visit
neimanmarcus.com.
THE QUARTERBACKS
Page 433: T-shirt by DKNY, at select DKNY stores
nationwide, call 800-231-0884 or visit dkny.com. Hat by
Maison Michel, visit michel-paris.com. Shoes by Vivienne
Westwood Red Label, visit viviennewestwood.com. Page
434: T-shirt by Gap, visit gap.com. Shorts from What
Goes Around Comes Around, NYC, call 212-343-1225 or visit
shopwgaca.com. Belt by Erickson Beamon, at Beyond 7
(NYC), call 646-619-6857. Sunglasses by Linda Farrow
Vintage, visit lindafarrowgallery.com. Bag by Feed Projects,
visit feedprojects.com. Socks by Hue, visit hue.com. Roller
skates from Southpaw, NYC, call 212-244-2768 or visit
southpawvintage.com. Page 435: Necklace by Fenton,
visit fentonusa.com. Page 436: Ears headband by
Heather Huey, visit heatherhuey.com. Tights by Falke, visit
shopbop.com. Page 437: Jacket, skirt by Chris Benz, call
212-244-2020. Page 438: Jacket, $5,587, skirt, boots,
bags by Chanel, at select Chanel boutiques nationwide or
call 800-550-0005. Blouse by Moschino, at Consortium
(Oklahoma City), call 405-286-4183. Gloves by Carolina
Amato, visit carolinaamato.com. Necklace by Janis by
Janis Savitt, at Bergdorf Goodman (NYC). Necklace by
Mark Walsh Leslie Chin, visit vintageluxury.com. Page 439:
Blouse, skirt by D&G, call 800-979-3038. Earrings,
necklace by Tiffany & Co., at Tiffany & Co., call 800-526-
0649. Page 440: Jacket, $6,500, pareo, shorts by Bottega
Veneta, call 877-362-1715 or visit bottegaveneta.com. Her
own jewelry. Page 441: Bra, bikini by Emporio Armani
Underwear, call 800-289-6229 or visit macys.com. Shirt by
Armani Jeans, at Armani / 5th Avenue (NYC), call 212-339-
5950. Page 442: Jacket by 3.1 Phillip Lim, at Confederacy
(L.A.), call 212-334-1160, visit shopconfederacy.com.
T-shirt by Armani Exchange, at Armani Exchange stores
nationwide, visit armaniexchange.com. Hat by Eugenia
Kim, visit eugeniakim.com. Shoes by Capezio, visit
capezio.com. Page 443: Gown, belt, clutch by Salvatore
Ferragamo, at Salvatore Ferragamo boutiques nationwide,
visit ferragamo.com. Necklace, earrings from Decades,
L.A., call 323-655-0223 or visit decadesinc.com. Ring
from Robin Katz Vintage Jewels, call 917-400-3613 or visit
robinkatzvintagejewels.com. Page 444: Dress by Sonia
Rykiel, visit soniarykiel.com. Bag by Louis Vuitton, at select
Louis Vuitton locations nationwide, call 866-VUITTON
or visit louisvuitton.com. Page 445: Pants by Chloé, at
select Neiman Marcus stores nationwide. Belt by Hermès,
at Hermès stores nationwide, call 800-441-4488 or visit
hermes.com. Watch on strap by Cartier, $6,900, at
Cartier boutiques nationwide, call 800-CARTIER or visit
cartier.com. Boots by Gianvito Rossi, collection at Saks Fifth
Avenue (NYC), call 212-753-4000. Shirt by Ralph Lauren
Black Label, visit ralphlauren.com. Shorts, belt, socks
by Salvatore Ferragamo, at Salvatore Ferragamo boutiques
nationwide, call 800-628-8916 or visit ferragamo.com.
Bracelet watch by Cartier, $17,600, at Cartier boutiques
nationwide, call 800-CARTIER or visit cartier.com. Boots
by Ralph Lauren Collection, $9,500, at select Ralph Lauren
stores nationwide or visit ralphlauren.com. Page 446:
Jacket, pants, bodysuit by Maison Martin Margiela, at
Maison Martin Margiela (Beverly Hills, CA). Page 447:
Slip by Stella McCartney, at Stella McCartney (NYC; L.A.),
call 310-273-7051. Bag by Hermès, $7,850, at Hermès stores
nationwide, call 800-441-4488 or visit hermes.com. Page
448: Dress by Lanvin, $7,140, call 646-374-0193. Pendant
necklaces by Lanvin, collection at Tender (Birmingham,
MI), call 248-258-0212 or visit tenderbirmingham.com.
Page 449: Gown by Carolina Herrera, $7,990, at Carolina
Herrera (NYC; Bal Harbour, FL; Dallas; Las Vegas; L.A.),
call 212-249-6552. Page 450: Jacket by Just Cavalli, at Just
Cavalli Boutique (NYC), call 212-888-4333. Page 451:
Jacket, $6,100, skirt by Dior, call 800-929-DIOR. Belt by
Prada, at select Prada boutiques nationwide or visit prada
.com. Bag by Hermès, $9,250, at Hermès stores nationwide,
call 800-441-4488 or visit hermes.com. Legwear by Falke,
at Dolce Donna (El Dorado Hills, CA), call 916-933-7707.
Page 452: Jacket by Lisa Perry, call 212-334-1956 or visit
shop.lisaperrystyle.com. Sweater, swim trunks by
Chanel, at select Chanel boutiques nationwide, call 800-
550-0005. Page 453: Shirt by Brooks Brothers, call 800-
274-1815 or visit brooksbrothers.com. Pants by Azzaro,
visit azzaro-couture.com. Earrings, ring from Beladora,
Beverly Hills, call 800-680-9569 or visit beladora.com. Cuff
by Fawn by Jennifer Fisher Jewelry, call 888-255-0640 or visit
fawnbyjenniferfisherjewelry.com. Boots by Christian
Louboutin, at Christian Louboutin Boutique (NYC; Las
Vegas), call 702-818-1650 or visit christianlouboutin.com.
Page 454: Hat by Eugenia Kim, visit eugeniakim.com.
Page 455: Cardigan by Missoni, at Missoni Boutique
(NYC, Beverly Hills). Turtleneck by Versace, at select
Versace boutiques nationwide, call 888-721-7219. Pants
by Prada, at select Prada boutiques nationwide, visit prada
.com. Necklace by Me&Ro, at Me&Ro (NYC), call 917-
237–9215 or visit meandrojewelry.com. Oxfords by
Common Projects, visit commonprojects.com. Page 456:
Blazer, pants by Gucci, call 800-456-7663 or visit gucci
.com. Necklace by Kara by Kara Ross, at Henri Bendel
(NYC), call 800-H-BENDEL or visit henribendel.com.
Sunglasses by Ray-Ban, call 800-SUNGLAS or visit
sunglasshut.com. Page 457: Jacket, vest, pants by Marc
Jacobs, call 212-343-1490. Shirt by Current/Elliott, visit
net-a-porter.com. Tie by Tom Ford, at Tom Ford (NYC),
call 212-359-0300 or visit tomford.com. Sunglasses by
SALT. Optics, visit saltoptics.com. Bracelet from Beladora,
Beverly Hills, call 800-680-9569 or visit beladora.com.
Bangle by Irene Neuwirth, $12,640, collection at Jeffrey
New York (NYC), call 212-206-1272 or visit jeffreynewyork
.com. Bracelet by David Yurman, at the David Yurman
Townhouse (NYC), call 212-752-4255. Watch by Movado,
call 888-4-MOVADO. Clutch by Louis Vuitton, at select
Louis Vuitton locations nationwide, call 866-VUITTON or
visit louisvuitton.com
ELLE GIRL
Page 462: Coat by Burberry Prorsum, $8,995, visit burberry
.com. Jacket, trousers by Calvin Klein Collection, at Calvin
Klein Collection (NYC), call 212-292-9000. Pumps by
Christian Louboutin, visit christianlouboutin.com. Page
463: Dress by Dolce & Gabbana, call 877-70-DG-USA.
Coat by Moschino, $6,995, at Moschino Boutique (NYC),
call 212-243-8600 or visit moschino.com. Necklace by
Cartier, $20,000, at Cartier boutiques nationwide, call
800-CARTIER or visit cartier.com. Other jewelry, her
own. Page 464: Dress by Dior, $23,000, call 800-929-
DIOR. Cowl by Kenneth Cole New York, at Kenneth Cole
New York stores nationwide. Cuff by Buccellati, $110,000,
visit buccellati.com. Ring by Cartier, at Cartier boutiques
nationwide, call 800-CARTIER or visit cartier.com. Page
465: Coat, $7,200, belt by Céline, at Céline Boutique (Bal
Harbour, FL). Page 466: Blazer, skirt by Louis Vuitton, at
select Louis Vuitton locations nationwide, visit louisvuitton
.com. Slip by Obsidian by Elle Macpherson Intimates,
collection at Intima Lingerie (Pacific Palisades, CA),
call 310-573-3794. Hat by Albertus Swanepoel for Carolina
Herrera, at Carolina Herrera (NYC), call 212-249-6552.
Belt by Meredith Wendell, at Poole Shop (Charlotte, NC),
Joseph’s (Houston), visit meredithwendell.com. Page
467: Coat by Prada, visit prada.com. Pumps by Rupert
Sanderson, visit rupertsanderson.com. Page 468: Shirt
by Akris, at Akris (NYC; Boston), call 877-700-1922. Skirt
by Fendi, at Fendi Boutique (NYC), call 212-759-4646.
Hat by Patricia Underwood, call 212-268-3774. Belt by
Meredith Wendell, at Poole Shop (Charlotte, NC), Joseph’s
(Houston), visit meredithwendell.com. Pumps by Christian
Louboutin, visit christianlouboutin.com. Page 469: Cape
by Bally, call 212-751-9082 or visit bally.com. Jumpsuit
by Chloé, visit net-a-porter.com. Belt by Meredith Wendell,
at Poole Shop (Charlotte, NC), Joseph’s (Houston), visit
meredithwendell.com.
OF MUSE AND MAN
Page 470: Coat, $20,000, turtleneck by Ralph Lauren
Collection, visit ralphlauren.com. Cuffs by Yazbukey for Zac
Posen, visit zacposen.com. Tights by American Apparel, visit
americanapparel.net. Page 471: Turtleneck, skirt by
Michael Kors, call 866-709-KORS. Hat by Heather Huey,
visit heatherhuey.com. Necklace by Georg Jensen, at Georg
Jensen (NYC), call 800-546-5253 or visit georgjensenstore
.com. Bra by Only Hearts by Helena Stuart, at Only Hearts
(NYC), call 212-431-3694. Cuffs by Yazbukey for Zac Posen,
visit zacposen.com. Bag by Emporio Armani, at Emporio
Armani boutiques nationwide, visit emporioarmani.com.
Boots by Ralph Lauren Collection, at select Ralph Lauren
stores nationwide, visit ralphlauren.com. Page 472:
Dress by MaxMara, call 212-879-6100. Hat by Burberry,
visit burberry.com. Cuffs by Yazbukey for Zac Posen,
visit zacposen.com. Rings by Eddie Borgo, at Bergdorf
Goodman (NYC). Bag by Marc Jacobs, at Marc Jacobs stores
nationwide. Boots by Ralph Lauren Collection, at select
Ralph Lauren stores nationwide, visit ralphlauren.com.
Page 473: Cape, shirt, pants by Calvin Klein Collection,
call 212-292-9000. Hat by Ralph Lauren Collection, at select
Ralph Lauren stores nationwide, visit ralphlauren.com.
Cuffs by Yazbukey for Zac Posen, visit zacposen.com. Cuff
by Stephen Dweck, collection at Bergdorf Goodman (NYC).
Page 474: Top, skirt by Missoni, at Missoni Boutique
(NYC; Beverly Hills). Bra by Only Hearts by Helena Stuart, at
Only Hearts (NYC), call 212-431-3694. Cuffs by Yazbukey
for Zac Posen, visit zacposen.com. Bag by Z Spoke by Zac
Posen, at select Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide, call
800-347-9177 or visit saks.com. Page 475: Tunic, $7,300,
pants by Yves Saint Laurent, call 212-980-2970. Necklace
by Kenneth Jay Lane, call 877-953-5264. Cuffs by Yazbukey
for Zac Posen, visit zacposen.com. Boots by Ralph Lauren
Collection, at select Ralph Lauren stores nationwide, visit
ralphlauren.com.
FASHION SPOTLIGHT
Page 476: All by Michael Kors, at select Michael Kors
stores nationwide, call 866-709-KORS. Page 478: White
jacket, pants, choker, white jumpsuit by Donna Karan
New York, at Donna Karan New York stores nationwide, call
866-240-4700 or visit donnakaran.com. Black jumpsuit
by Donna Karan New York, at Saks Fifth Avenue, call 866-
240-4700 or visit donnakaran.com. Metallic belt/scarf,
halter, black tuxedo jacket by Donna Karan New York,
in November at select Nordstrom stores nationwide, call
800-933-3365 or visit donnakaran.com. Page 480: All
25th Anniversary pieces by Tommy Hilfiger, at Tommy
Hilfiger (NYC), call 212-223-1824.
Prices are approxi mat e. ELLE recommends t hat
merchandise availability be checked with local stores.
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ELLE HOROSCOPE
urge you to help others and
make a difference in your
community. A day later, on
the 8th, Mercury will conjunct
the teacher planet, creating a
push-pull with a coworker. Get
beyond this date, and you’ll
gain the upper hand. Your
romantic life will depend on
your character. With Venus
close to Mars on the 3rd in
your clandestine twelfth house,
you could decide to embark
on a secret relationship, or to
resist one. For couples, a better
plan would be to get away for
a weekend alone. By the 22nd,
when you get your once-a-year
SCORPIO
(Oct 23–Nov 21)
Much to your liking, you’ll
start the month in hibernation.
With four planets —including
the Sun, a new moon on the
7th, Saturn, and Mercury—in
your behind-the-scenes twelfth
house, you’ll feel no pressure
to socialize but instead will
work on pending projects.
You’ll still want to schedule
alone time with a partner or
new love interest, as Venus
and Mars enter Scorpio on the
3rd, bringing you a hypnotic
allure. Mars’ presence is
*
YOUR YEAR AHEAD:

Get ready for a life-defining year! With eclipses continuing
in January and July 2011 at the very top and bottom of your
chart, any career or domestic questions you’ve had will be
answered. Saturn, the great teacher, will exert a strong
presence on almost every level, heaping new responsibilities
onto your shoulders. You’ll stabilize your life with many binding
commitments: Marriage is a strong possibility from January
through May 2011—maybe your best phase in 10 years to
wed. Health goals will be extraordinarily favored too through
January 22nd, thanks to a once-a-decade visit of Jupiter
to Pisces. Saturn will also make you the sign most likely to
improve your physique in the coming year.
full moon in your love sector,
expect an incredibly amorous
few days! The month ends
on the highest note yet, when
Mars, making you strong,
confident, and courageous,
enters your sign, clearing
the path for an onslaught of
enviable opportunities.

CAPRICORN
(Dec 22–Jan 19)
Romance should be incredibly
strong this month, for Venus
rules your house of love, and,
remarkably, Mars will link
with Venus and light up your
sign. But with Saturn still
in your career house, work
remains a main focus this
month. The taskmaster planet
has been tutoring you on
how to reinvent your career,
a process that will take two
years to complete. But keep in
mind that Saturn is your ruler,
so you’re able to absorb his
tests and lessons better than
any other. The new moon on
the 7th will help guide you to
a new professional incarnation
that won’t be easy but will be
rewarding in the long run.
For a bit of good news, look
to the full moon on the 22nd,
when you’ll be poised for
domestic success. Whether
buying, selling, or renovating,
this moon, Jupiter, and Uranus
will bring winning finishes to
home and family endeavors.
AQUARIUS
(Jan 20–Feb 18)
You’ll be ready to set up new
relationships and initiatives
this month, in business and
in life in general. You may
have some critics along the
way, but with Mars and Venus
at the pinnacle of your chart
on the 3rd, there will be a
beacon lighting the path to
prosperity. Jupiter will also
be back in your earnings
sector, so your chances at
nailing down a competitive
salary have never been better.
especially potent for couples
and will also begin a two -year
cycle that will give all your
plans and actions extra weight,
so prioritize carefully. In your
career, Uranus and Jupiter will
have your creativity running
high, and by the full moon
on the 22nd, a big project
could come to fruition. Pluto,
in lovely angle to that moon,
will ensure that every bit of
work is done with ease.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov 22–Dec 21)
Saturn, near the Sun and the
new moon on the 7th, will
LIBRA
(Sept 23–Oct 22 )
You’ll be anxious to move forward this month with
Saturn now in Libra for two years and a friendly group
of planets also visiting: Mercury, the new moon on the
7th, and the Sun. They’ll all help you make a name for
yourself, and Saturn as your tutor will ensure that if you
work patiently and consistently, no goal will be too big
to achieve. Though results might not be instantaneous,
don’t worry, they’re coming! Financially, you may have
something to cheer about on the 3rd, when you’ll be
a cash magnet. Look for good news about a business
deal, or even a surprise birthday gift. In romance, Venus
will be retrograde from the 8th until November 18th,
so if you’ve been seeing someone new or even long-
term, you may have a change of heart. But use this
time to think rather than to act. With Venus as your
ruler and now in retrograde, it’s no time to make big
decisions. Any bright, loving moments will come on
the 22nd, when a full moon, beautifully angled to Pluto,
lands in your commitment sector, turning alliances into
transformative and inspiring partnerships . Pluto will
pull double duty this month, also financially blessing
any plans to repair, sell, or buy your home. Thankfully,
your family will also serve as a support system.
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Travel is undoubtedly in
your chart on the 22nd,
with work being the likely
purpose. Still, it could be a
trip with a romantic twist. By
the month’s end, on the 28th,
Mars will enter Sagittarius
and begin to pour energy
into your fairy-tale house,
which governs fun, friendship,
hopes, and dreams . You’ll
be well prepped for an
eventful November.
PISCES
(Feb 19–Mar 20)
October looks to be a near
perfect month for Pisces
when it comes to travel and
fun. Your curiosity and
sense of discovery will lead
you forward, thanks to the
presence of Mars, Venus,
Mercury, and the Sun in
compatible Scorpio. With
Jupiter still in your sign and
the Venus-Mars conjunction
on the 3rd, romance could
easily be a by-product of
your journeys. On another
note, money matters will
need tending, so address as
necessary at the new moon on
the 7th. In the two weeks that
follow, Saturn will ensure that
negotiations are pitch-perfect .
By the full moon on the 22nd,
which will be well angled
to Pluto, you’ll be ready to
crystallize agreements and
see welcomed gains. Don’t
let this stellar opportunity to
get your financial house in
order pass you by. Once done ,
all areas of your chart will
continue to fall into place.
ARIES
(Mar 21–Apr 19)
When it comes to love, your
ruling planet, Mars, will
be sitting close to Venus on
the 3rd, a red-letter day for
romance. The Moon will also
be in luxury-minded Leo, so
you’re sure to enjoy the first
week of the month. The new
moon in your relationship
sector on the 7th will incite
a serious meditation about
your future with an important
someone. You could make
a binding commitment,
from marriage to a business
partnership, as your house
of contracts will be involved.
If it is work related, be
prepared for obstinate VIPs
or partners. Pluto, in your
career house, will be showing
his demanding side. By the
22nd, with the full moon
in Aries you’ll be highly
persuasive and talks will
finally conclude. Also ending:
your woes with money. When
Mars leaves Scorpio on the
28th, you can redirect your
focus to travel, study, and the
world opening up around you.
TAURUS
(Apr 20–May 20)
This month could mark the
start of something big at
work, as Saturn moves very
close to the new moon on
the 7th, suggesting new and
exciting projects. Think over
every step you take, as the
moon will give your actions
extraordinary staying power.
Your love life seems ready
to boom, thanks to the cozy
proximity of Venus, your
ruler, and Mars in your house
of serious relationships on
the 3rd. Still, Venus will be
retrograde from the 8th until
November 18th, and you’ll
enter a no-frills stage, so make
plans but don’t promise yet.
Romantically, take no risks.
Rather, clear the decks so that
you can fully indulge in fun
and flirtation next month. At
the month’s end, be aware
that the decisions you make
could change your future
forever. With Pluto (power),
Uranus (spontaneity), and
Jupiter (good fortune) all
working together, you’ll be
following a very powerful
and blessed time line.
GEMINI
(May 21–June 21)
You’ll be romantically
ruminating as the month
opens, with four planets
anxious to get you coupled
up. If you are single, you
might not be for much longer.
Your determination to
streamline your relationships
(thanks to the influence
of Saturn) will now begin
to pay off . The new moon
on the 7th, conjuncting
Saturn, could help you find
and create a fulfilling and
enduring bond. In your
career, this will be the only
time in your life you have
Jupiter and Uranus together
in your house of honors and
fame, lasting until January
2011. Indeed, it’s your time to
shine professionally. By the
weekend of the 22nd, the full
moon will rev up your social
life and possibly lead to a new
friend or even love interest.
If not the latter, this person
could at least aid in your
career. Whatever the case,
Mars signaling Uranus that
same weekend will ensure
the hook-up is advantageous.
CANCER
(June 22–July 22)
With Saturn back in your
home sector for a year, you’ll
be firmly anchored to a
family or domestic issue. At
the new moon on the 7th,
you’ll realize you need to
revise your thinking. Though
money could be the root of
the problem, as indicated
by Saturn’s proximity to the
Sun, the ringed planet also
forces us to be resourceful.
Do so and you’ll keep your
wits. Love will also raise
your spirits, with Venus
and Mars conjuncting in
passionate Scorpio on the
3rd and continuing to light
your house of love all month.
Venus may retrograde on
the 8th until November 18th,
but any delays that arise
won’t prevent good things
to come. A career matter
will appear at the full moon
on or around the 22nd,
and you’ll get closure on a
pending situation. Pluto,
one of the most influential
planets, will give you every
drop of support you need.
LEO
(July 23–Aug 22)
Communicating clearly could
possibly become your mission
this month and even over the
next two years, with Saturn
settled in your third house,
which governs these skills.
With improvement, you’ll
have better control over
everything from relationships
to family to business matters.
The new moon on the 7th
will highlight your efforts,
and people will notice your
newfound fluency. You’ll
feel an impulse to update
your space; hold off until
next month. Retrograde
Venus on the 8th until
November 18th could upset
your home balance. You’ll
need something to look
forward to, so use the full
moon on the 22nd to take
an adventurous and much-
needed trip. In romance,
Jupiter, the ruler of your
house of love, will orbit close
to Uranus, meaning your
romantic life will experience
a happy and unexpected
uptick this month.
VIRGO
(Aug 23–Sept 22)
Money is on your mind. With
Saturn still in Libra and your
second house of earnings,
your efforts to improve cash
flow may have been stymied.
While you investigate
options, Mercury, your ruler,
conjuncting Saturn, will help
you work to get more value
from what you have. In love,
Venus and Mars will have
a rare meeting on the 3rd,
scattering amorous vibrations
all over your chart. For you,
a romance will flourish on a
short trip away from home, so
plan to travel. For committed
couples, your partner is in a
surprisingly happy-go-lucky
mood—do something special
while the going is so good.
The full moon on the 22nd
will highlight other people’s
financial or family matters.
With Pluto so positive to this
moon, you’ll move forward
with confidence. Also, all
steps taken to improve health
or fitness (yours or that of
a friend or family ) will be
met with great success.
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ike Darryl Philbin, his character
on The Office, whose imagination
and charm got him promoted out
of the Dunder-Mifflin warehouse
to join the white-collar ranks of
Dwight, Jim, and occasional con-
sort Kelly Kapoor, Craig Robinson has dis-
tinguished himself from the horde of
vaguely familiar character actors to be-
come a recognizable star. Before costarring
with John Cusack in the ingenious, filthy
Hot Tub Time Machine (and hosting Last
Comic Standing), the 38-year-old onetime
Chicago-public-school music teacher
milked the most out of smaller roles in
Knocked Up and Pineapple Express. Robinson
(who shares a name with but is not, in fact,
Michelle Obama’s brother) once made his
living as a journeyman stand-up comic. Dur-
ing those salad days on the road, he could
find the beauty (and booty) in every crowd.
ELLE: Do you remember the moment you
realized you were a sexual being?
CRAIG ROBINSON: When I discovered
stockings. I was six and in first grade. I just
remember noticing the difference in legs
when stockings were on them and going,
“Oh, yeah.”
ELLE: Do stockings still excite you?
CR: Absolutely. Love, love, love the stuff.
Thigh-highs are always nice. But really, it’s
about the whole package. You might have
the thigh-highs, but you’ve also gotta have
the shoes in there and, of course, the rest of
the outfit.
ELLE: What can you think of that might
ruin a beautiful set of legs in a pair of
thigh-high stockings?
CR: Construction boots.
ELLE: Did either of your parents ever
provide you with any valuable information
about the opposite sex?
CR: My father would always be saying,
“Take your time.” It served me well.
ELLE: That advice seems a little vague. Did
he mean, take your time getting a woman
to bed or take your time once there?
CR: It can go in all different directions. His
point was, “A woman is like a flower. Let
her blossom and open herself up to you.”
ELLE: What’s the angriest you ever saw
your mother?
CR: My mother taught at my high school,
and she’d gone to my teachers and found
out I’d been missing some classes. We were
riding home from school, and I mean —she
was upset. That was the first time I ever
heard my mother use a bad word. She was
saying, “You sitting around on your a-s-s.”
That was the longest car ride I’ve ever had,
and I’ve been in the back of police cars.
ELLE: What can you tell me about your
first time?
CR: I was 14 or 15. Looking back, I was
surprisingly good. For whatever reason,
the girl thought that I was already not a
virgin. Compared to now, I was awesome.
ELLE: Has it really been all downhill?
CR: It’s just few and far between. I’m more
about career goals now.
ELLE: Hmm. Please provide a taxonomy of
the typical Craig Robinson groupie.
CR: I’m waiting to meet the Craig
Robinson groupies! There are all these
things you imagine will happen when you
become a celebrity, and then you get there
and you’re like, “Hey! When does this
happen?” Like I saw this Jimi Hendrix
movie, and in it he went into a bathroom,
and no sooner did he get into the stall than
this blazing hot girl came in and just starts
going at him. And he’s like, “Oh, that’s how
it is….” So I always go to the bathroom
after I perform. And never once have I
been attacked in a stall.
ELLE: This surprises me somewhat,
considering that in your stand-up act, you
have a bit where you pick a woman in the
audience and do a slow-jam serenade that
goes, “Can I have some booty?” How do
you choose your target?
CR: I try to find somebody who’s sitting
with girls—not with some guy, obviously—
and somebody I’d be attracted to.
ELLE: I imagine this must have gotten you
audience-member action dozens of times.
CR: No… it worked a few times.
ELLE: You’ve got another joke that begins,
“This girl I’m dating—I mean, stalking….”
What’s the closest you’ve come to true
stalking?
CR: I figured out a girl’s PIN number to her
voicemail .
ELLE: Learn anything interesting?
CR: Oh, yeah. She was always going to
rehearsals to be in this play, but it sounded
fishy. So the quote-unquote “director” was
on the voicemail saying, “Hey, why don’t
you come by my place so we can have
another rehearsal. I’ll see you tonight.” Of
course the play never happened. But I
couldn’t say anything about it because I
was spying.
ELLE: So what do you do with that kind of
intelligence?
CR: You just sit there and fume.
ELLE: Has a woman ever said something to
you in the midst of sex that’s made you
unable to continue?
CR: Yes. “Stop.”
ELLE: You’re not a kid. Why aren’t you
married?
CR: I’ve got too many divorced friends.
ELLE: What’s the most brutal thing a
woman’s ever said to you?
CR: One girl said to me, “Grandma always
said, ‘Don’t mess with the help.’” That’s
cold, ain’t it?
ELLE: Truly. How much money would it
take for you to be celibate for a year?
CR: Wow. What’s the number you never
hear in money that’s bigger than a trillion?
A centrillion? That many dollars. And a
whole lot of sushi.
ELLE: Why so much? Didn’t you tell me a
minute ago that you never have sex
anyway?
CR: I didn’t say never. I said “few and far
between.” It means when I get a hankering,
there’s people I spend time with who I
don’t have time to have a relationship with.
ELLE: Oh, I get it. And how often does a
“hankering” come along?
CR: Daily.
ELLE: What one thing could you find in a
woman’s house that would convince you
you’re not compatible?
CR: A dirty bathtub.
ELLE: So your own bathtub must be
spotless, then.
CR: Nope. That’s what I’m saying.
Somebody’s gotta clean the tub.
Craig Robinson tells Andrew Goldman
that even though he may attract the
occasional superfan, he’s the one doing
the stalking
HERE’S TO YOU
,

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fashion seasons, and the
atmosphere was just like a family
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during the shows.”—François Nars,
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