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Proof that fitand
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ON THE COVER
64
ELLE AGENDA: POLITICS
IS THE NEW BLACK
Two writers debate fashions
new obsession: feminism

123
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201
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Highly personalized hair is
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242
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Leading our jam-packed
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ELLE FASHION
Whats the best way
to mix of-the-moment
makeup and straight-
from-the-runway trends?
Our fashion team breaks
it down
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ELLE ACCESSORIES
Glide into summer
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THE COLOR CURE
To see Marimekkos boho By Miranda Purves
charm firsthand, Olivia
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Meet the woman behind
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As an adaptation of The
Handmaids Tale hits
Hulu, Canadian literary
force Margaret Atwoods
singular prescience is front
and center once again.
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prove that fashions a splash in unexpected
future looks varied
and bright. By Molly
Langmuir. Photographed
p.123 by Terry Tsiolis. Styled
by Samira Nasr
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LAWS OF ATTRACTION
Models on the rise make
Technicolor mash-ups
and major makeup.
Photographed by
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Samira Nasr

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CLEAN BREAK
This summers chicest Youve seen her in daring
suit is simply white.
Photographed by David
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David Vandewal
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AMERICAN GOTH
roles onscreen and off. But
who is Mia Goth? By Seth
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by Patric Shaw. Styled by Hailey Baldwin wears a knit top from Washable Mascara in Blackest Black,
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77 MAXIMUM EXPOSURE ModelCo. Maria Borges wears a cotton

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Jasmine Tookes wears a silk lace dress
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gold and diamond earring from Maria
Tash, a gold necklace from Cartier,
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A VERY BETTY TAKEOVER
Americas favorite Klementieff, Marvels
doe-eyed ingenue, Betty
Boop, gets a fashion
editorapproved 2017
makeover. Illustrated by
Frank Caruso
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Photographed by Terry Tsiolis; styled
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at Streeters (Baldwin, Hosk), Romina
Manenti at Home Agency (Borges,
Huffine, Tookes), and Ward at the Wall
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 SUPER MAGNATE
Heidi Klum isnt just one of the most recognizable faces
in the world; shes also a whip-smart businesswoman. This
month, shell let you pick her brainand her beauty arsenal
Before Heidi Klum became Americas Heidi
Klumbefore she became the creative di-
rector of her eponymous intimates line; be-
fore she launched a multiple Emmy Award
nominated TV show; before she appeared on
the cover of ELLE, not once but three times
before all that, Heidi Klum was the daughter
of a hairdresser and a cosmetics-
company executive who lived in the
little town of Bergisch Gladbach,
Germany, and planned to go to a
Dsseldorf fashion-design school.
I would have learned everything
from sewing in shoulder pads to
buttons to fully designing, Klum
says. But then a friend convinced
the 18-year-old Klum to try out for
Model 92, a 25,000-contestant modeling
contest, which she entered and proceeded
to win. And then, Klum says, everything
was put on pause for about 20 years. Every-
thing meaning her serious design aspira-
tions. Everything else kicked into hyperdrive.
After winning the contests $300,000 mod-
eling contract, Klum spent two years modeling
in Europe, but it was when she moved to New
York in 1994 that her career really took off. She
Lavish and Loved. In 2008, she
became an American citizen in
what she calls a double wham-
my of circumstance. Most of
my income was coming in from
America. I fell in love with Amer-
ica, she says. And then Obama
came along, and I was just like,
Yes, I want to vote for this dude.
Klum became the creative di-
rector of Heidi Klum Intimates
in 2014, adding four to six yearly
design meetings to the already-
packed, meticulously color- Clockwise from
right: Klum
coded iCal she depends on to attends the 2017
keep her own hectic schedule Grammy Awards;
January 2002;
under control, not to mention May 2003
that of her four children. One of
Klums mantras is The harder
you work, the luckier you get. After spending off to reveal a 9.99. Klum then shrugs and
more than two decades modeling swimsuits goes on with the shoot. Looking back now, she
and lingerie sets, Klum has developed an ex- says, I just thought I would make light of it.
haustive knowledge of what makes good un- Because, why not? (While Klum was a guest at
derthings, drawing inspiration from her love the presidents wedding to First Lady Melania
of fabrics and interest in the fast-developing and always got along with him very well, she
technology of the bra industry. My motto is notes, I wouldnt say we ever were friends.)
always More boobs, less bra, she says. When the former supermodel turned 40

was appearing regularly in magazine
shoots by 1995, walked her first Vic-
torias Secret fashion show in 1997,
and landed the Sports Illustrated
Swimsuit Issue cover the following
year. She also found ways to work her
early penchant for design into her in-
creasingly multifaceted career: Klum
has executive-produced and fronted
the 15-seasons-and-counting fashion-design
show Project Runway (Lifetime) since 2004
and has worked on a number of design part-
nerships, including a capsule collection for
Jordache Jeans and two maternity lines called
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Klums immense and sustained ca- in 2013, she was met with a barrage of Oh
reer success has, in part, come from my God, youre 40 now. Youre so old, she
her winning combination of smarts, says. And I was like, Old at 40? Ill show
drive, and almost ineffable likability; you old! That year, for her famed annu-
shes serious about her work with- al Halloween partythe host has a thing
out ever taking herself too seriously. for elaborate costumes and has shown up
For instance, in August 2015, Donald as everything from Lady Godiva to Jessica
Trump told the New York Times that Rabbit to an apeKlum transformed into a
Klum was sadlyno longer a 10. 95-year-old woman. Costumes aside, Klum
Klum promptly posted a tongue-in-cheek vid- has picked up more than a few quick tricks
eo to her Instagram, in which she poses for a to get camera-ready under her own steam.
cameramana giant 10 scrawled across a This month, visit ELLE.com to slip into the
paper taped to her chestand is accosted by career chameleons favorite easy-to-replicate
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You Are So
Beautifulto Me!
My father has four daughters, two from his first marriage and two
from his third (from two wives who looked so much alike that the
latter accused my dad of trying to replicate the former), but we look
like him in many ways. His wide brow is strongly expressed, as are
his sharp jawline and the upward tilt of his eyescharacteristics that
my grandmother frequently told us that she was proud to pass on, as
they were traits of great beauty from her family line.
Beauty is a word that contains multitudes: passion, longing,
judgment, rebukewho hasnt hoped to define it, and possess it? I
was comforted to learn early on from Grandmother that what peo-
ple think of as beautiful is often relative and deeply narcissistic: It
wasnt until I had my own children, of course, that I was witness to
true beauty, inarguable in any context. Right?
In putting together our annual May Beauty Issue, we decided to
look at whats at the core of attending to our own beauty in ways
big and small, from changing the arch of an eyebrow to lifting the
eyebrows through surgery. Transformation is a big word to apply to
what were after when we put on a no-smudge, plumping waterproof
mascara, but a change in perceptionour own and other peoples
is what lies in that act. (Im perfectly comfortable with the tiny do-
pamine hit of pleasure I get from thinking Ive achieved the perfect
lip glosstoeye shadow ratio; and I no longer feel Ive abandoned
feminist principles by counting on science, and Rita Hazan, to bring
forth the strawberry-blond highlights of my teenagerhood, even
though when they were acquired naturallyi.e., while accruing
sun damage after school at the beachI swore Id never do such a
thing.) Among perhaps more profound transformations? Feeling
not like herself anymore, our intrepid Beauty Adventuress, Holly
Millea, goes for plastic surgery and discovers whats most unlovely
about the experience is the reaction of some of her friends. Senior
Beauty and Fitness Editor Megan ONeillwho believes that when
it comes to beauty signifiers, the choices we make should please us,
firstgives colored contact lenses a try, and finds that while few
people notice her new eye color, this relatively small transformation
has a big impact on her swagger.
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We also focus on transformations of the heart and mind: In a
profile of actress Chrissy Metz, one of the stars of the blockbust-
er series This Is Us, Deputy Editor Maggie Bullock explores the
charged territory of weight biasand the cultural shift that can be
occasioned by one character in a single television show. And Linda
Tirado, author of Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America, hits
the road to talk to female Trump voters about the kinds of changes
theyd hoped hed bring to the country. As with any good makeover
story, Tirado will check back with the women several more times
this year to see how reality is stacking up with their desires and ex-
pectations when they cast their ballots.
In our up-front fashion pages, weve built looks around discrete
beauty elements, since for many women, a ruby lip, say, or a low
ponytail is not just their signature but an organizing principle for
getting dressed. Our mission: Helping you dress to accentuate your,
well, beauty marks. In our fashion well, weve expanded this idea
further, inviting a strong new crop of models to join our six amazing
cover girlsHailey Baldwin, Maria Borges, Bella Hadid, Elsa Hosk,
Candice Huffine, and Jasmine Tookesto express how beauty and
fashion work together to enhance individuality, as opposed to styl-
ing and powdering and hairspraying it away. Diversity and unifor-
mity are opposites, after all. And beauty should be in the eye of the
beholden, every bit as much as the beholder.
PS: Inspired by just meeting with the most wonderful group of female mayors from
around the world, who, led by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, were in NYC for the C40
Women4Climate conference, I want to say that if you, like them, are a lover of natural
beauty, i.e., Mother Nature, the Peoples Climate March in Washington, DC, on April
29 will be part of the fight to keep her healthy and vibrantand oppose the proposed
deep cuts to the EPA and the confounding notion that global warming is not caused by
humans. For more information, go to ELLE.com/womensmarch.
 POLITICS IS THE NEW BLACK
On fall 2017 runways from New York to Paris, fashion displayed its woke-ness
from head to toe. Is this consumer-friendly activism a sign of feminist progress
or just a sellout? Two writers join the debate

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

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

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

DVF with
the button
handed out by Dior, spring
the CFDA at 2017: A portion
40-plus NYFW of the proceeds
Versace
shows. from this tee will
issued a call
benefit Rihannas
for unity
Clara Lionel
and strength
Foundation.
in capital
letters.
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to mention that the waves of pink telegraphed a powerful, wide-
spread unification to anyone who might want to argue that wom-
ens rights are a niche concern.
Political movements can only succeed with mass supportand
peer pressure is a reliable motivator: Studies have found that peo-
ple are more likely to vote if their friends say that they, too, voted.
Likewise, wearing a The Future Is Female T-shirt isnt activism
per se, but it can help normalize feminist politics. Radical causes
have always used imagery and celebrity to reach the mainstream,
whether its NBA stars donning T-shirts emblazoned with the
words I Cant Breathe (the last words Eric Garner spoke before
a police choke hold killed him) or Laverne Cox using her Orange
Is the New Black role as a springboard for transgender advocacy.
Imagine the gateway-drug effect of that mammoth Feminist
sign backlighting Beyoncs Mrs. Carter Show World Tour, at-
tended by nearly 2 million people and viewed by countless more
on social media. Is it mere coincidence that in a poll conducted
the following year by the Washington Post and the Kaiser Family
Foundation, 63 percent of women ages 18 to 34 identified as fem-
inist? In fact, the only group more likely to embrace the f word, at
68 percent, was women 50 to 64, who came of age during femi-
nisms second wave.
So a young feminist may well begin with a $95 Jonathan Simkhai
Feminist AF T-shirt (100 percent of proceeds go to Planned Par-
enthood)or even with the oeuvre of Katy Perry, who, as one wom-
an wrote to me, has taught her 12-year-old daughter that feminism
wasnt just a thing Mom and teachers were about. She may be in-
spired by the pussyhats on the runway at Missoni (maybe shell knit
her own), or might plunk down $6 for LOccitanes Solidarity
Balmbenefiting NGOs that facilitate female lead-
ershipinstead of any old lip balm. As an ardent
feminist activist, I believe that such surface- One hundred
percent of
level engagement is not enough on its own. proceeds from
Public Schools
But I wont deny that it can be a critical first $65 snapbacks
benefit the
step. Ill take I bought the T-shirt over I did ACLU.
nothing at all.
Missoni:
A portion of
proceeds will
benefit The Circle,
Annie Lennoxs
humanitarian
foundation.
At Tommy Hilfiger,
Gigi Hadid wore
the #tiedtogether
immigration
solidarity
bandanna seen
at shows from Los
Angeles to Paris.
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Mind you, some of these new offerings do not have a charita-
ble component; other brands note that they will donate, but wont
specify how much. But as long as the money is going somewhere
worthwhile, whats there to be cynical about? Even beyond fund-
raising, surely a feminist T-shirt out in the world means more visi-
bility for the fight. Every little bit of PR helps, right?
Feminist AF: courtesy of Jonathan Simkhai; models with signs: Alexander Farnsworth; remaining images: Getty Images
Last year, the poet and visual artist Anne Boyer, who was diag-
nosed with breast cancer in 2014, questioned whether aware-
ness should be equated with progress. In a piece in the New
Inquiry, Boyer wrote that the prevailing cancer narrative of heroic
fighting and survival glosses over the diseases industrial etiology,
its misogynist and racist medical history, capitalist medicines in-
credible machine of profit, and the unequal distribution by class of
suffering and death. In other words, if we really want more women
to survive breast cancer, we need to have uncomfortable dialogues
about why treatment is so expensive, how screenings lead to false
positives and unnecessary interventions, and why black women
have an increasing incidence rate, while the rate for white women
has stabilized.
The enemy here is twofold: One is the self-satisfied complacency
that can be fostered by making an easy, visible statement, patting
oneself on the back, and moving on. The other is the kind of cause
marketing that enriches corporations under the guise of advoca-
cyi.e., when companies spend megabucks on celebrity-splashed
ads celebrating their charitable works while donating a fraction of
that amount to the charity in question.
Maybe retailers really do want to help. Or maybe they just want
to look like they do. Feminism, the word, may be fashionable, but
the hard work of advocating for and creating an egalitarian world
seems as unfashionable as ever. We should be asking questions
like Are these same companies rushing to give the women
in their factories a living wage? Feminism cant just be a
slogan you can take on and off at will. We should be wary
of corporations that want to take our good intentions
and sell them back to us, telling us were helping when
were merely helping ourselves to a trend.
Adam Lippess
presentation
lent publicity to
All proceeds a local Planned
from Jonathan Parenthood
Simkhais tee rally.
go to Planned
Parenthood.
Artist Coco
Capitn took
the existential
approach at Balenciagas
Gucci. fall 2017
menswear: an
ode to Bernie
Sanders.
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TAURUS
APRIL 20MAY 20
May is off to a spirited start as
the Sun beams through your sign
until the 20th. What makes sense
on paper may not land on the Taurus
notepad, or in your bed. Thank your ruler,
creatrix Venusin your twelfth house of fan-
tasy all monthfor chipping away at your
pragmatism. Make art for arts sake and love
for loves sake. Your experimentation will yield
positive results, especially near a partnership-
cementing full moon on the 10th. Mars boosts
your money mojo throughout the month.
Practice your pitch: The new moon on the 25th
opens the floodgates to abundance.
GEMINI (MAY 21JUNE 21) This months
theme: radical reimagining. Adrenaline junkie
Mars is motoring through Gemini, giving you
the urge to tear down and rebuild basically ev-
erything. Wait until Gemini season begins on
the 20th to fire up the proverbial jackhammer.
Before then, quiet contemplation begets divine
inspiration. On the 12th, youll electrify the
world stage, thanks to a crackling current be-
tween Mars and Jupiter. Flaunt yourself fear-
lessly. People want in to Camp Gemini; but on
the 19th and 29th, Saturn insists that you clearly
define partnership parameters so you dont
hand out the milk for free.
CANCER (JUNE 22JULY 22) Mays future-
forward star map helps you explore new schools
of thought and then expand. Tap into technolo-
gy with a lifesaving app, or outfit yourself with
VR glassesbut avoid the rose-colored variety.
A murky Mars cycle muddles your intuition in
personal affairs this month. One exception: the
full moon on the 10th. This lunation delivers
shining clarity in the game of loveand even a
noteworthy milestone. (Time to start knitting?)
Escape off the grid to recharge near the new
moon on the 25th. PS: A spotty cell phone signal
is an underrated serenity saver.
LEO (JULY 23AUG 22) Your courageous and
capable leadership will be called upon through-
out the month. Shatter those glass ceilingsand
dont shy away from controversy. With planets
pinging your genre-busting eleventh house, the
element of surprise is the best tactic to deploy.
An influential woman swings open doors of op-
portunity near the 10ths full moon, but you
may also have to put out a few fires with family.
On the 19th and 29th, Cupid demands airtime,
calling for structure in your love life, be it a
weekly date night, a more balanced budget, or
an exclusive commitment.
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Youre on a growth trajectory
ay 5
in May, Virgo, as momentum-
booster Mars spends the month
in your achievement zone. Stream-
line your goal sheet and focus on
that one courageous coup. With the
Sun in your peripatetic ninth house until the
20th, venture into new territory. Your favorite
vacation spot could even become a place to do
business. Celestial seductress Venus slinks
through your erotic eighth house all month.
Thou giveth feverand thou can take it away if
your amour fails to step up near the 19th! Avert
disaster by clearly spelling out your terms
of engagement.
LIBRA (SEPT 23OCT 22) You can stop pull-
ing petals off that daisy now, Libra. With Mer-
cury ending a retrograde on the 3rd, youll see
clearly whos a loves me versus a not. inner circle, but save space on the calendar for
Mays planets are sowing the seeds of ro-
mance, so stay present: A partner of lasting
value could stroll right into your world by the
20th. Already attached? Strengthen your
merger in practical ways, like starting a joint
investment portfolio. Ready your passport
and backpack after the 20th, when the Sun
and Mars activate your wanderlust. Your trav-
els could be paired with an educational com-
ponent or even teacher training.
SCORPIO (OCT 23NOV 21) Meow, Scor-
pio! Mays romantic roundup of planets fills
your love tanks with diesel. Youre attracting
keepersbut dont sleep on self-care! With
beautifying Venus in your wellness zone all
month, your lit-from-within glow is the radi-
ance to amplify. Eat clean, move often, and get
your beauty rest. Youll be ready for your close-
up when 2017s only Scorpio full moon pushes
your achievements into the public eye on the
10th. Dont cling to the security of a nine-to-
five. A side hustle or investment in a start-up
you ignite after the 20th could flood the coffers
this year and beyond!
SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22DEC 21) Dont pan-
ic about Mays languid groove. As long as
youre moving the needle, it still counts as
progress. A measured pace is preferable any-
way, as the Sun drops anchor in your systemat-
ic sixth house until the 20th. Further, youll
need to be grounded near the 19th, when a Ju-
piterVenus opposition dangles temptation in
your path. The offer may be too good to refuse,
but research thoroughly! An attractive oppo-
site could turn your head near the 25ths new
moon, but with strict Saturn in tow, make sure
this relationship doesnt derail your own plans.
CAPRICORN (DEC 22JAN 19) Modesty?
Pssh. With the Sun in your flamboyant fifth
house until the 20th, unleash your superpow-
ers in a very public way. Monetary benefits
flow in near the 9th, and you might even trav-
el in pursuit of profit. Romantically, dont set-
tle for less than the royal treatment. But if
youre not the one being worshiped, dial back
the caretaking and make bold requests to re-
store balance. Single? Your girlfriends could
play Cupid, or you could reconnect with a
childhood sweetheart. Kick your spring train-
ing into high gear after the 20th, as the Sun
and motivator Mars pump up your stamina to
beast mode.
AQUARIUS (JAN 20FEB 18) With the Tau-
rus Sun in your domestic sector through the
20th, May is your month for putting down
roots. Nurture connections to your neglected
new amies. Who knows? You could start a
business alliance (or a band) with your local
coffee-shop comrades and, by the 10ths full
moon, have many an achievement to blast
around the Twittersphere. Heavenly heart-
throbs Mars and Venus stoke your spring fe-
ver all month. An energetic contenderor a
major romantic milestonecould arrive on
the 12th or 25th.
PISCES (FEB 19MAR 20) Mays celestial
winds send you soaring. Use this mercurial
magic to refresh your friend feed and be a dat-
ing dilettante. Indeed, romantic travel will be
sublime near the 10th, but a square-off be-
tween Venus and Jupiter demands that you
operate from a stricter budget in May. Re-
member: The best things in life can be free (or
at least comped). Mobilize with women after
the 20th, as the Sun joins fiery Mars in your
feminist fourth house. Ready to pull up
stakes? A lucky listing could appear on the
25th, but make sure the commute works with
your career goals.
ARIES (MAR 21APR 19) Game on! After
springs stagnant start, Mercury flips out of ret-
rograde on May 3rd and restores your action-star
status. Charge aheadjust make sure youre
working from a plan and a budget. Venus hovers
in Aries all month, heightening your romantic
superpowers, and a soul-mategrade connec-
tion lures near the 10ths full moon. If long-
range goals misalign, however, the promise
could fade near the 29th. Dont stress if one door
closes. With your ruler, trailblazing Mars, in
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reft of options. The right duet could strike a
chord near the new moon on the 25th.
For your daily reading from the
AstroTwins, go to ELLE.com/horoscopes.
 LOVELY AND AMAZING
For this months Beauty Issue, were joined by a half dozen of fashions most
sought-after glamour girls, who prove theres no single definition of American
beauty. Theyve got the looksand are raising their voices to boot

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

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

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

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

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

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PAPERLESS
POST-CARD
Paperless Post cofounder Alexa Hirschfeld details
her recent jaunt to Peru. By Molly Langmuir
As a child, New York City native
Alexa Hirschfeld spent a lot of
time exploring online and learn-
ing about technology, while her
younger brother James collected
stamps and coins and created
artwork. In 2009, the
siblings, both Harvard
grads, combined
their interests and
launched the start-up
Hir s
Paperless Post, which
ch
el
Clockwise from top left: Belmond; Getty Images; Viniios Barros; Hans Stoll;
has raised $37 million d theres Central, a sleek
f
in financing and produced
200 millionplus virtual and
paper-stock cards. These days, Al-
Getty Images; Alamy; Getty Images; courtesy of Hirschfeld
exa, 33, who caught the travel bug
earlyher first job was working
on an edition of Lets Go Greece
lives in New Yorks East Village
and heads out of the country
whenever possible, most recently
spending two weeks in Peru with
her London-based boyfriend.
It was all about eating, Hirsch-
feld says about the couples time
in the seaside capital. Their first
stop was Canta Rana, a casual
lunch spot with some of the best
ceviche in the city and great
people-watching. Go at 1 p.m.
and youll see Limas young,
cool, hipster society, she says.
More-formal options include
the Japanese-Peruvian fusion
restaurant Osaka, and
Rafael, a white-table-
cloth establishment
with a memorably
delicious pisco sour.
(For the truly upscale,
spot with artful food that
is frequently referred to as the
best restaurant in Latin America;
its 11-course tasting menu is $107
per person.) In between noshes,
the couple visited the Museo
Mario Testino, established by the
Peruvian photographer in 2012
to showcase the
countrys art and
culture, and spent a
few leisurely hours
on Punta Hermosa,
a picturesque curve
of surfer-friendly
beach about an
hours drive from
the city center.
From Lima, they headed to Cus-
co, perched in the Andes at 11,152
feet (the trip takes a little over an
hour by plane but a whopping 19
hours by car). Once the capital of
the Incan empire, its now filled
with such an impressive mix of
pre-Columbian and colonial
architecture that its been named
a UNESCO World Heritage site,
and it boasts a number of richly
appointed hotels (including the
luxurious Belmond Hotel Mon-
asterio, situated in a monastery
built in 1592) to accommodate
the crowds who flock here. The
couple used the city as a base to
explore the surrounding Sacred
Clockwise from top left: The
luxurious Belmond Hotel Mon-
asterio; the Lima restaurant
Rafael and its grilled octopus;
Machu Picchu; a pisco sour;
the colorful wares in Pisac
Valley, hiring a driver
to take them to Pisac, a
village with a large mar-
ket offering up locally
produced jewelry and
textiles, and to Chin-
chero, where Hirschfeld
bought baby-alpaca
blankets and the pair
visited a colonial-era
church in which Catho-
lic imagery mixes with Incan mo-
tifs. They also traveled to Machu
Picchu by Inca Rail, a four-hour
journey that winds through the
jungle.
While in Arequipa, their final stop
in the Andes and the second-
biggest city in the country, they
dined at Chicha, a stone-walled
restaurant run by Gastn Acurio,
the countrys most famous
chef. (Hirschfeld recommends
the rocoto rellenoa Peruvian
stuffed pepper.) Finally, they took
a day trip to Colca Canyon, which
is twice as deep as the Grand
Canyon and offers a chance to
observe condors, with their nine-
foot wingspans, flying at close
range. All in all, not a bad way
to spend two weeks, Hirschfeld
says. Theres this
French expression,
she says, where
you say something
is goodthen add,
But its not Peru.
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@SETHPLATTNER
SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR, ELLE
THIS MONTH: GALAXY GIRL
(PAGE 143), LIPSTICK JUNGLE
(PAGE 149), AND AMERICAN
GOTH (PAGE 272)
Pom Klementieff,
whom I interviewed,
plays one of my
favorite comic-book
heroesMantis!
in Guardians of
the Galaxy Vol. 2.
Reading: Almost
done with Hanya
Yanagiharas A Little
Life. Listening to:
It Aint Me by
Selena Gomez and
Kygo, Betty Whos
The Valley, and
XXPEN$IVE
by Erika Jayne.
Watching: Im
the TV editor
at ELLE, and
currently I
love 13 Reasons
Why, Insecure,
Westworld,
Atlanta, and,
duh, Game of
Thrones. IEF
F LITTLE INSANE.
NT
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KL
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Linda
Tirado
@KILLERMARTINIS
AUTHOR OF HAND TO
MOUTH: LIVING IN
BOOTSTRAP AMERICA
THIS MONTH: WHY
IM FOR TRUMP
(PAGE 232)
Upcoming projects:
ILL BE REPORTING
FOR ELLE ON A GROUP
OF FEMALE TRUMP Olivia Stren
@OLIVIASTREN
VOTERS ALL YEAR. FREELANCE WRITER
ALSO, IM IN A NEW THIS MONTH: THE COLOR CURE (PAGE 118) AND INSTANT MESSAGING (PAGE 181)
FILM CALLED NO Going to Marimekkos Helsinki HQ, even in deepest
MANS LAND . ITS winter, being surrounded by all those fabrics, was
ABOUT THE MALHEUR magical. You cannot be in a bad mood when youre
looking at a Marimekko print. Reading: Im on a
NATIONAL WILDLIFE
Carrie Fisher journey. Watching: The Americans
REFUGE ARMED just keeps getting better, and Keri Russells
PROTESTS . wardrobe alone is a masterpiece. If I werent a
Reading: writer, Id be: An illustrator! Dream vacation
DEATH OF THE destination: Im currently fantasizing about
LIBERAL CLASS , Corsica. Upcoming projects: Im working on a
Portraits: courtesy of the subjects; Klementieff, Mars, and Marimekko: Getty Images
KO
EK
BY CHRIS HEDGES; collection of personal essays. M AR
IM
A DAY AT THE
FARE , BY PAMELA
M. COVINGTON; Laura Sampedro
@LAURAVSAMPEDRO
REPUBLIC OF DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR, ELLE
SPIN, BY DAVID Listening to: Bruno Marss 24K
GREENBERG; AND Magic on repeat! Watching:
DEMOCRACY IN The Great British Bake Off. Who
AMERICA , BY ALEXIS knew waiting for bread to rise could
DE TOCQUEVILLE have all the suspense of a Hitchcock
Splurge: thriller? First job: I wrote for a
WHENEVER IM IN music zine (hey, it was the late 90s!)
that covered female musicians. I
A CITY WHERE I CAN
BUY BOOKS, I GO A
transcribed a lot of interviews that
took place in loud rock clubs.
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STYLE BOSS
LADY
Betty sneaks a quick
macchiato break at Music.lys
New York HQ. Nothing
combines chic and efficiency
quite like Balenciagas all-in-
one stiletto legging. (Blouse,
Balenciaga; earrings,
Jennifer Fisher.)

A VERY
BETTY
TAKEOVER
Hold onto your hats, ELLE has always been inter- whopping eight decades, as Betty Now, in a partnership with King
Fleischer Studios, Inc. TM Hearst Hold-
2017 King Features Syndicate, Inc./

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

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

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

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

REALITY TELEVISION all different types of appetites, he says.

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

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

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

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getically melodramatic, and yet it has prov-
en irresistible for even the most hard-nosed
critics. Watching This Is Us is like getting
beaten up with a pillow soaked in tears,
wrote the New York Times. After one epi-
sode, queen of snark Sarah Silverman tweet-
ed, Im a puddle of tears.
In January, NBC re-upped the casts con-
tractsnot for one season, but two. It was a
savvy way to lock down the freshly minted
stars of falls top-rated new network show,
not to mention one that had garnered NBC
its first Golden Globe nod for best TV drama
in a decade (plus Best Supporting Actress
nominations for Metz and Moore). But the
networks chief exec also noted that this rare
move was partly an insurance policy for the
shows emotionally invested viewers: The
characters you love arent going anywhere.
If there were any doubts about how direct-
ly NBC would address Kates weight, those
were dispelled four minutes into the pilot.
Some 15.3 million viewers have watched
Metz disrobe down to her underwear, hes-
itate, then remove the last few ounces of
added weighther earringsand step onto
a scale. The network does testing when you
finish a pilot, says This Is Us creator Dan
Fogelman. Needless to say, Kates metrics
were off the charts. People immediately
responded to the character and to Chrissy,
which really came as no surprise to anyone.
Kates ordealthe exhaustive calorie
counting and demoralizing weigh-ins famil-
iar to any long-term dieterquickly stood
out as one of the shows most compelling
story lines but also its most critiqued, by
viewers who found Kate worryingly one-
dimensional. I think its a little silly, Fogel-
man says. Its like saying, Why is Randalls
story so often about his biological father, or
Kevins about his acting career? These are the
crossroad stories we introduced them with.
Of course, they get a lot of screen time.
The parallels Metz sees with Kate are so
crazy, she says. I feel like its forcing me to
look at these issues every day. Every time I
pick up the script, every time I go to the re-
frigerator, as Chrissy, as Kate, as Chrissy,
as KateI feel as if I am two people some-
times. When Metz first learned about the
role, she called her mother, Denise Hodge.
Mom, this role is meant for me, Hodge
remembers her daughter saying. Kate is
the person that I was. Metz meant that
Kate is just coming to the realization that
weight itself is not the root of her problems,
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Metz and her
onscreen mom,
Mandy Moore, at
ELLEs Women in TV
dinner in January
There arent a lot of
roles on TV that
people all over the
world can relate to,
Ryan Murphy says.
but a symptoma truth hard-won by the ac-
tress herself.
After her thirtieth birthday, I had a big
meltdown, Metz says. Shed moved to L.A.
at age 23 after being singled out by a talent
scout at the Holiday Inn in her hometown of
Gainesville, Florida. But in Hollywood, I
can count on my hands how many auditions
I had in three years. She landed a Bell South
commercial and guest spots on My Name Is
Earl and Entourage, but mostly she worked
as an agent, booking kids for commercials.
Shed struggled with her shape since child-
hood, enrolling in Weight Watchers as
young as 11, but it was during this period,
she says, that her weight spiraled upward.
Youre sitting at a desk, she says. Your life that would be a mistake, Fogelman says.
is literally two clients; they bring you Sprin-
kles cupcakes.
The process that followed Metzs moment
of reckoning not only gave her the footing
to radically change her circumstances but
also the fortitude to eventually access (and
expose) many of her own vulnerabilities
through Kate. Over time, she tried several
therapists, read a lot (including the work
of self-help guru Marianne Williamson),
and spent time digging into deep spiritual
work. Yes, her sense of humor applies even
to that phrase. People are like, Oh, you leagues marvel at a born star. Theres the
moved to L.A. and you got so kooky! But
whatever! Everybodys on their own path.
On This Is Us, Kate considers bariatric
surgery but decides against ita conclusion
that Metz, too, arrived at. People dont fill a
void to this extent without some underlying
issues, she says. The quick fixes, the fad
diets, the surgeriesthey dont assess the
emotional stuff, the trauma youve got to get
over. The truth is, weve all got issuesmine
just happen to be external.
Metz has been candid about long-simmer-
ing childhood pain resulting from her par-
ents divorce and its aftermath, during which
Hodgewhom Metz describes as as gritty
as they comefound herself a single mother
of three struggling to pay the bills. She baked
and sold cakes for a while, drove a cab, and
ultimately got a job in the contracts depart-
ment of the University of Florida, where she
worked her way up. Metz says that in those
years, every penny went somewhere.
In another almost uncomfortably close
parallel with her characterwho at the end
of season one hinted that the source of her
pain was guilt and grief over her fathers
deathMetzs own father looms large
in her psyche. Growing up, I had a lot of
resentment. How does a person leave? Pe-
ripheral at best during her childhood, he re-
cently came back into the picture, a turn of
events that has the added, surreal twist of
her newfound fame. Speaking to him now
is like talking to a stranger. I dont know
him. But her fathers own weight struggle,
and the fact of his quadruple bypass at age
55, is a sobering connection for Metz, who
acknowledges that what shes contending
with is obviously hereditary, but its also
issues, dare I say addictions, in my family.
Given the similarities between Metz and
her character, its tempting to conflate the
twowhich no doubt adds fuel to audiences
fiercely protective fondness for Kate. But
It actually, accidentally, does a slight dis-
service to what Chrissys doing as an ac-
tress playing the character. For Fogelman,
theres no comparison: Kates a late bloom-
er, shy, not one to hold the spotlight com-
fortably. Clearly marked by tragedy, there is
a sadness to her. Chrissy is filled with light.
Shes funny, warm, charismatic. Shes very
popular with our cast and crew. She is not a
wallflower. She was a star from day one.
There it is again: that s word. Metz may
find the idea hilarious, but her veteran col-
craft of acting, and theres the personality
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that is just God-given, Brown says. Some-
one who just lights up whatever space they
walk into. That is Chrissy Metz.
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THE COLOR CURE
In chilly Finland, Olivia Stren discovers the secret to fashion
survival: ebullient, color-saturated prints
Your mother looks like a gypsy, a so-
called friend once said to me, referring to
the clothes my mom would wear to pick
me up from schoolno doubt making an
entrance. It was the mid-80s. I was about
10 years old. Among all the other mothers,
sensibly dressed in their sweatshirts and
jeans or Angela Bowerstyle power suits, my
mother was forever outfitted in voluminous
skirts and robes paysannes.
Born in a taxicab in Casablanca in 1941
the first of her dramatic entrancesmy moth-
er had been forced to leave sunny Morocco
with her family for political and religious
reasons at 16 years old. After a decade in Par-
is, she arrived in Toronto on April 27, 1969, at
the age of 27. The next dayshe loves to tell
me, as if still recuperating from the shock
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Toronto greeted her with a snowstorm. The
climate was a match, she felt, to the bloodless
temperament of the stereotypical Anglo-
Saxon Torontonian. Ill-equipped for this
place (sartorially, culturally, psychically),
she felt lonely and marginalized, and re-
solved to dress the part: Her exotic clothes
became a kind of commitment to not be-
longing. So my classmates gypsy com-
ment did not wound me; to my eyes, her
mother looked conventional. And in our
house, conventional, along with its plain sis-
ter, appropriate, were pejoratives. My moth-
ers dresses, meanwhile, are laced up in my
memory with all that is feminine and warm,
but also rebellious.
Perhaps its a reaction to fashions recent,
ardent love affair with minimalism, or an
From left: Marimek-
kos reissued styles
Monrepos (1967),
Kentauri (1973),
Liidokki (1974), and
Linjaviitta (1966)
embrace of the inclusivity marking the pro-
tests in the streets, but peasant-style dresses
feel utterly of-the-moment once again. Its
truetheres something about that look
that is never completely out of style (my
mom wore her dresses right through the
beige, Calvin 90s). But the effortless,
breezy vibe and artisanal, slow-fashion
qualitynot to mention the specifics: blou-
son sleeves, rich colors, bohemian prints
could be spotted floating down the spring
runways of Alexander McQueen, Jacque-
mus, Ulla Johnson, and Peter Pilotto. Mean-
while, Colombian designer Johanna Ortizs
billowing volumes and the richly embroi-
dered, tasseled, Ukrainian-style vyshy-
vanka dresses of Vita Kin are hot sellers on
Matchesfashion.com.
Courtesy of Marimekko
My mother would probably be most
moved, however, by the spring offerings of
Finlands iconic fashion house, Marimekko.
The company has rereleased five archival
pieces hailing from the 60s and 70s, which
bear only the most minor changes from the
 originals. Whats striking is not how old
these designs are, but how new they look.
Marimekkos origin story is the stuff of
national lore in Finland, as much a part of
the local identity as saunas and sisu (which
means strength of will and determination
and, Im told, is a defining local trait). The Two exemplars of
Marimekkos 67-year
CliffsNotes version: Armi Ratia, a former tradition of female
textile designer and copywriter, founded print designers:
Annika Rimala (above,
Marimekko (Finnish for Maris dress) in in 1960) and Maija
1951, when she galvanized a group of fe- Isola (in the 1980s)
male artists to create avant-garde prints to
enliven the oilcloth produced by her hus- And they were rife with contrastsbetween giant rocks are accoutred in ocher-colored
bands company. the practical silhouettes and the playful lichen in patterns that could have inspired
Armi was a visionary, says Tiina Ala- prints, the humble fabrics and the theat- Marimekko prints, and probably did. With
huhta-Kasko, the brands current presi- rical colors, the Scandinavian minimalism its mystical, round-roofed earthen bun-
dent. She didnt like the delicate, romantic and the Russian ornamentalism. Such jux- kers, the island looks like a sort of Hamp-
florals of that time. She felt the world was tapositions, Im told by every woman I meet tons for hobbits.
longing for positivity, that gray, postwar at Marimekko, lie at the heart of the com- On my ferry ride over, even the clock tow-
Finland was longing for an injection of pany. (And the company is 94 percent fe- er perched above the jetty barrackswashed
energy. For her, the prints and the col- male, by the way; men there are as exotic as a blush pinklooks ruddy-cheeked from the
ors were an answer to that void. If those palm trees.) wind, and by 3 p.m., the sun is already set-
life-validating prints served as an anodyne This algorithm of opposites was clearly ting. Chilled to the bone, I try to summon a
to the grim political climate, they also successful. Marimekko prints, headlined little sisu. Sisu is a will to make it. Its what
were a survival tactic amid the epic, light- by the iconic poppy, made their way onto you need during a Finnish winter, when
starved Finnish winters. everything from sundresses to oven mitts youre fighting a hard wind, says Marimek-
In 1959, Ratia officially took the brand even, my mother tells me, onto the curtains ko PR manager Sanna-Kaisa Niikko, though
international when she packed an airplane (strawberry print) that cheered my par- I can barely hear her over the gusts.
full of Finnish models and flew to the ents tiny gecko-and-salamandertouristed My mind wanders to a warmer place;
U.S. The following year, Jackie Kennedy bungalow in Tanzania in the early 70s, I fantasize about spring and trading my
snapped up seven dresses during her hus- when my father was completing his PhD in parka for, say, a rereleased, circa-1967
bands presidential campaign, appearing African politics. The idea to animate a dress circular-hemmed Monrepos dress in a
in a berry-colored Marimekko sundress on and a dinner napkin with the same pattern print called Keidas (oasis)its charged
the cover of Sports Illustrated. Those early cannily qualified Marimekko as one of the shades of orange and cactus green evoking
dresses, designed by Vuokko Eskolin- worlds first lifestyle companies. Today, all the rawness and jubilance of a Matisse
Nurmesniemi, considered one of the the companys Helsinki headquarters paper cutout. Or the Liidokki dress (1974),
Portraits: courtesy of Marimekko; runway: Imaxtree.com (2); Vita Kin: courtesy of the designer

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

ani
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So
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Nasr a

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

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

Im superinspired
by the cornrows we saw at Saint Laurent
for spring and again at Fendi for fall.
For so long, fashion didnt know what
to do with black hairit was always
straightened or slicked back. Hairstylist
Shani Crowe (near right), the woman
responsible for Solanges braided halo T
IN NT
SA U RE
on SNL, has been creating major looks. LA

Check out her Insta @crowezilla.

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

But Mantis is something different.

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

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LAST SUPPER
Things will never be the same between two brothers and their wives after
an elaborate gourmet repast thats poisoned by proliferating secrets and
misunderstandings in The Dinner. By Ben Dickinson
Families work together; they
bury the ugly stuff. At least as
much aspirational as it is fac-
tual, that declarationuttered
sotto voce toward the end of The
Dinnercuts to the heart of this
bristlingly intelligent, idiosyn-
cratic, and sinuously suspenseful
film. Is it a thriller? An Oedipally-
tinged drama? A midnight-dark
comedy of manners? Its all of the
above, and more.
Writer-director Oren Mover-
man adapted the international
best-seller by Dutch novelist Her-
man Koch, published in the U.S.
in 2013, brilliantly converting it
from its European mise-en-scne
into a thoroughly American fable.
Moverman, who made the highly
regarded 2009 Iraq War drama
The Messenger and cowrote the
intricate script for 2014s Love &
Mercy, the biopic about the Beach
Boys Brian Wilson, is an eclectic
talent whose star is rising. In 2014,
he also made Time Out of Mind
Gere
144
(the avant-garde movie equiva-
lent of ambient music), starring
Richard Gere as a suddenly home-
less and rudderless New Yorker.
Moverman knows every crag and
angle of Geres elegantly aging
face, and in The Dinner, he has
Gere playing Stan Lohman, a con-
gressman of resplendent charm
(well, and smarm) whos now
campaigning for a governorship.
Youll not find a more unctuous
yet irresistible politico, one who
finds himself hopelessly and ad-
dictively tethered to the smart-
phone borne by his ever-hovering
assistant, Nina (a savvy, some-
times smirking Adepero Oduye).
First, though, we meet Stans
younger brother, Paul (the bril-
liant Steve Coogan), a former
high school history teacher whos
obsessed, in a flagrantly political-
ly correct way, with our nations
rampant inequality, the broken
promise of the Civil War and
Emancipation, and the legacy of
Native American genocide. Hes a
charismatic rager who can scarce-
ly bring himself to go to dinner
with Stan at an ultrahaute cuisine
restaurant that he knows hell de-
spise; were privy to what appears
to be a marital ritual as his Earth-
Motherly wife, Claire (a glowing
UNBURIED SECRETS
In HBOs The Immortal
Life of Henrietta
Lacks, a film based on
Rebecca Skloots 2010
nonfiction best-seller,
a greenhorn reporter
chases a medical
saga deep into the
Hall and
Linney heart of a Baltimore
family. A biopsy from
Henrietta Lacks
(Hamiltons Rene
Elise Goldsberry), who
died of cervical cancer
in 1951, grew into a
Laura Linney), talks him down in
their bedroom and coaxes him to
line of cells that has
transformed medical
Clockwise from bottom left: courtesy of the Orchard (2); Quantrell D. Colbert/HBO
go out. They strike us as both sym-
pathetic and symbiotic. research worldwide.
The restaurant, a dimly lit den When Skloot (Rose
of clubby luxury, indeed turns out
to be a surpassingly inappropriate
Byrne) approaches
place for them to meet with Stan the troubled Deborah
and his glam new wife, Katelyn Lacks (Oprah
(the fab Rebecca Hallfor whom, Winfrey) and her
more roles like this, please!). Be-
cause it turns out that, amid all
siblings about their
the ridiculous ceremony of food mothers life and
fetishism (These winter roots scientific legacy, she
were grown right here in our gar-
den!) and constant interruptions
sets off a spectacular
by Nina bearing frantic commu- chain reaction
nications from Washington, these involving medical
two couples have a deadly serious ethics, race, and
crisis to chew over and somehow
try to resolve: Their two teenage
classand, now, a
sons have recently done some- must-see TV event
thing tragically bad but have not (April 22).B.D.
been found outbut a third son,
whom Stan adopted from Ken- Winfrey
ya, appears to be on the verge of and
Byrne
ratting on them. This becomes
the fulcrum of an almost alchem-
ical alteration of our assumptions
about these four people, and the
last half hour of The Dinner un-
folds like a vehicle headed straight
for a concrete bridge abutment at
ever-increasing velocity. What is
it, exactly? Something to behold.
DIRECTORS SPOTLIGHT
ABOUT
A GIRL
A charismatic child, a heinous
unsolved crime, a bewildered
community: all ingredients
for a bewitching documentary
Gr
ee
A whole litter of little blond girls dressed
in red, white, and blue costumes spills
boisterously forward from camera to stage
in an audition for the role of JonBent Ram-
sey; youd be hard-pressed to pick the real
JonBent out of the lineup were she actually
there. Talk about a through-the-looking-
glass moment: From the first scene of Cast-
ing JonBenet, in theaters and on Netflix this
month, its clear that Aussie documentarian
Kitty Green knows how to take you there.
There would also be Boulder, Colorado,
where Ramsey, a six-year-old child-beauty-
pageant star, was murdered in her home on
Christmas night in 1996an infamous case
that has never been solved and may very well
stay that way.
Does this sound like yet another schlocky
cable-TV expos about the case? Its not; in
fact, the movie is almost all about the cast-
n ing process. And it got
uniformly adulatory re-
views at Sundance and, at
this writing, enjoys a 100 percent fresh
critics rating on rottentomatoes.com. Green
is after something far removed from a rehash
of the sordid and timeworn details. How do
you make sense of senseless horror and trag-
edy? That was always our fascination, Green
says. She trawled the Boulder area with open
casting calls for locals, ranging from dinner-
theater veterans to folks just off the street,
to play the central rolesJonBents brother
and parents and a few other prominent sus-
pectsin reenactments of what might have
happened that mysterious night. Then she
interviewed them about their memories and
theories about the case and how its affected
their lives. We were more interested in the
cultural obsession, the mythology and legacy
Casting
JonBenets
star lineup
of Ramsey, she adds, than in the case itself.
When did Green know for sure that shed
struck documentary gold? I think we cast
the Santa Clauses first, she recalls. (For a
time, a chief suspect in the case was a neigh-
bor of the Ramseys who moonlighted yearly
as Santa Claus.) We had them in a Barca-
Lounger, and once they sat down, they just
wouldnt stop talking. It was actually cathar-
tic, or therapeutic, I think, to talk through
not only their impressions of this tragedy but
also their own personal narratives and con-
nections to the case. Throughout the film,
auditioners blurt out unexpected and reveal-
ing glimpses of themselves. It soon becomes
clear that were beholding, in microcosm, the
things that people tell themselves to push
away the darkness and meaninglessness of
whats stubbornly unknowable and get on
with their lives.B.D.

TRUST US through and feeling

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

THE BIG PICTURE was always writing about aban-

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

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

PIONEER 45s and order some Chinese takeout/I

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

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

Benton. CE: Strive for

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

ALTERED
STATES
From mile-long hair extensions
that only lasted for two weeks to
an Instagram-esque brow tattoo
Jan Welters/Trunk Archive

that may (yikes!) stick around

several years, ELLE editors test-
drive top beauty transformations,
both big and small.
EDITED BY EMILY DOUGHERTY

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THE BOMBSHELL REBOOT
X FACTOR
Cotton Codinha goes from
gamine to glam
After a dramatic haircut last fall that left
my lob a 90s-inspired mullet, I found
myself settling into a uniform of oversize
sweaters, flats, and tinted lip balms. After
receiving no less than three compliments
on my androgynous style in one month,
I started to find myself gazing at vintage
photos of Brigitte Bardot in her cinched
waists and Scarlett Johansson vamping for
the camera. How does that feel? I won-
dered. And so began an exploration into
embodying the bombshell.
The first step in achieving bombshell-dom
is figuring out exactly what a bombshell
is, especially in 2017. For almost 80 years,
the bombshell has been blond, comic-
book curvy, and magnetic. A bombshell is
more than hot: A hot girl can wear a biki-
ni; a bombshell can make you buy stock in
the brand and move to the beach. And now
shes a contradiction: Emily Ratajkowski,
with her feminist af T-shirt pulled taut
across her famous breasts; Jemima Kirke,
with her fallen-angel face and silk slipdress-
es exposing a fringe of armpit hair; Amber
Rose, with her fembot-perfect features and
shaved-platinum head. I dont even know
if its a look anymore, says a friend. Or Soul Makeup Studio (her clients include Zo
rather, yes, its about being a babe, but its
less about getting hit on than about telling
the guy whos hitting on you a massively
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dirty joke and then laughing because youve
made him uncomfortable.
When it comes to that bombshell x factor,
Im beginning to conclude that either youve
got it or you dont, when, at a party for Sexy
Hairs new shampoo, Im treated to a full set
of waist-grazing clip-ons and an over-the-
top, costume-y candy-red lip. I snap a self-
ie for my feed, with the caption So this is
happening. The next morning, I wake up to
three DMs, from men I have either not spo-
ken to in years or never spoken to at all, on
the same theme: Youre so pretty. Maybe
there is something to this.
The transformation is fairly life-disruptive:
I need to enlist a whole army of helpers. I
start with nails. Take a look at Margot Rob-
bies perfectly tapered ring finger flipping
off the Instagram world or Rihannas ever-
changing experimentation with length and
color: Nails are Bombshell 101, and the more
I dont work with my hands, the better.
The pros at NYC nail salon Valley talk me
down from acrylics to gel extensions, which
are very similar to press-ons but are semi-
permanent, tailor-fit, and attached with
industrial-strength glue. Once the plastic
nail topper is applied and sculpted (long sti-
letto shape for me, please!), its coated with a
pale gray-pink gel. My fingers immediately
become exclusively ornamentalthe nails
make it impossible to type. Four days later, I
lose one when I try to button my jeans.
Next stop: lashes. Soul Lee of Beautiful
him about the extensions but leave the rest
Kravitz and Chrissy Teigen) is the ne plus
ultra for glamorous faux lashes, which she
fastidiously trims individually to make
wearable (Ive already lost my sense of
touch; Id like to keep my sight). I carve out
two hours, and Lee gently affixes 150 syn-
thetic and silk lashes as I lie back with my
eyes closed. My rise from the treatment
table to open my fluttering lids is so Dis-
ney princess, its almost embarrassing. The
effect is like real-life Facetune, and with
the makeover I have planned, Ill be more
Jessica Rabbit than Belle. Soul warns me to
avoid oils, sleeping on my side, or pointing
my lashes directly under the shower stream.
Now, the hair! After my episode with clip-
ons, I know that Sports Illustratedmodel hair
helps, but Im dubious it can look natural. I
enlist Joseph Maine of Serge Normant at John
Frieda salon, who squeezes me in between
Katy Perry at the Grammys and Kate Mc-
Kinnon at the Oscars. He applies one-and-a-
half-inch hair extensions all over my head in
a bricklaying pattern to keep the volume uni-
form and to obscure my own strands, then
chops my hair to armpit length, adding sexy
rock-chick layers.
From left: Getty Images (2); Matt Baron/Rex/Shutterstock
Then, thanks to a consult with ELLE fash-
ion editor Yashua Simmons, I embark on a
mission to acquire the clothes of a young
Kardashian. My lips are painted vermilion
24/7, my eyelids and cheekbones are tacky
with gloss, Im in a constant low-grade pan-
ic that my hair extensions are showingand
I have a weekend-long date with a guy Ive
been seeing. He travels for work, so he hasnt
seen the inch-by-inch transformation. I warn
to be discovered as the nature of the experi-
ment unfolds. Feeling a little like a Victorias
Secret Angel, I strut up to him in my very best

bombshell travel gearcrop top and Levis,
naturallyand bat my lashes. He goes to kiss
me hello andhis hand has nowhere to land.
The nape of my neck? I flinch away; the tapes
are very stiff there. The side of my face? Fin-
gers start to creep right into where the ex-
tensions are more layered. I sigh deeply and
steer his hand to my waist. I had anticipated
tactile, bouncy hair as the ultimate roman-
tic accessory, so Im the truly disappointed
one. He assures me he likes my hair both
long and short (good answer!), but I clock a
wince when I touch him with my dramatic
manicure. The last day, another nail pings to
the floor as I put on my pants (what do these
girls wear that doesnt require fastening?),
and I am grateful for the singular dexterity
Ill have with that ravaged finger.
Back at home, a friend and I take my new
look out for a spin at Mr. Fongs downtown,
a fashionable bote thats close enough to my
apartment for me to saunter there in heels.
I wear my very best off-the-shoulder sheer
The author, pre-
overhaul (below
left), and at full
volume (right)
BEFORE
Wolford bodysuit (undergarments are
for prudes) under tight vintage Levis
rolled to show the slightest bit of wan-
ton ankle and a whole lot of stiletto
plus a fire-red lip, piles of mascara,
and a face full of gloss. My friend and
I swan in, awaiting collective gasps,
only to hearnothing. Look at that
girl at the bar, points out my pal help-
fully. Shes wearing less than you
are. We order, I flip my hair a few
times, make my best doe eyes, and feel
so incrediblybasic. My body hurts, I AFTER
feel untouchable, I havent made contact with but the bombshell formula hasnt quite left
my own scalp in weeks, and my clothes, as me. I pair a worn-in jean with a shrunken
Cher Horowitz would say, are binding. sweater and keep a bitten red lip. Caught up
The next day, I wrench off the seven re- in telling a story at a party, I find myself with
maining nails. (Pro tip: The destruction to the undivided attention of two men who
ones natural nails is avoidable with salon re- compete throughout dinner for my conver-
moval.) Maine kindly fits me in to scrape off sation. Each tails me to the next locale. My
the hair extensions well ahead of schedule. I friend rolls her eyes when they both lurch to
lovingly brush the lashes and pray they nev- grab my bar tab. The best part? I snorted my
er leave me. That night, I dress like myself, beer, laughing at my own dirty joke.

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

PLAYING Overwashing may disrupt the

skin barrier. In other words,
feels to cover myself in mud.
Perhaps its no coincidence that
myself down with her Moroccan
Mint Tea Silt Purifier body wash;

DIRTY
Sayonara, soap! Keziah
Weir learns the key to
clear skin might just be
a little dirt
I have cranky skin (sensitive,
prone to tantrums), and over the
years, Ive tried all manner of
soaps and tonics and leave-ons
aimed at calming it down and
clearing it up, always favoring the
more extreme formulas strong
enough, so I thought, to snuff
out all the oil and dirt clogging it
up. Until two months ago, when
I spoke to Manhattan-based
not only had I not been solving
the problem, I may have been
causing it.
And dirt, long considered my
foe, might actually be my greatest
ally. Specifically, dirts electrically
charged componentclay
which, as Zeichner explained,
combats excess oil and draws
out impurities (e.g., inflammation-
causing excess sebum) without
stripping the skin of moisture
completely. Clay as cleanser isnt
anything newCleopatra is said
to have maintained her poreless
complexion with the help of white-
clay masksbut its new to me: The
first standouts in my experiment
are Freshs Umbrian Clay, a no-
nonsense gunk-extractor mask,
ancient civilizations, from the
Incans to the Greeks, theorized
that a creator deity fashioned
human beings out of glorified
dirt. (Its a claim that a group of
scientists at Cornell all but backed
up in 2013, when they found that
clay can act as an incubator for
DNA and the other building blocks
of life.) Better yet, the stuff actually
worked: My windburned skin was
less ruddy and softer to the touch.
Now hooked, I consult Yael
Alkalay, founder of skin-care
brand Red Flower. A decade ago,
Alkalay launched her hammam
set, a clay-centric line partially
inspired by visits to Turkish and
Moroccan bathhouses that left
her with a feeling of lightness
paint myself from hairline to pinkie
toe in a thin layer of Jasmine Rose
Rhassoul Clay combined with a
capful of apple cider vinegar (to
balance out the clays alkaline
base); dollop LOral Paris Hair
Expert Extraordinary Clay Pre-
Shampoo Mask on my scalp; and
then soak in the bath for an hour.
The next morning, the Rhassoul
Clay has significantly reduced
a painful cystic breakout on my
jawline (brought on, I think, from
forgetting to heed Zeichners
warning about overcleansing),
and by the next evening, my oil-
prone roots still look as if theyve
been freshly shampooed. As my
new favorite saying goes, a little
dirt dont hurt.

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dermatologist Joshua Zeichner,
MD, and my skin-care worldview
was shattered. Acne doesnt
mean youre dirty, Zeichner
told me. People who wash their
skin regularly may break out,
and Borghese Fango Delicato
Active Mud for Delicate Skin, a
silky, seafoam-colored concoction MUD HONE YS 1. THE DIRT Natural Toothpaste. 2. BORGHESE Fango Delicato
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 be sisters but not twins. Nervously, I ask her
to err on the side of subtlety: I dont need wow
brows, I tell her. Id just like them to be pretty
and innocuous. Dont worry, she says. The
idea is for no one to be able to tell its been
done. And then she switches on the machine.
Bossavys procedure involves a custom-
ized mixture of mineral-based pigments,
which she delivers with a specially designed
miniature needle that injects color into the
MY FIRST TATTOO skin without cutting or scraping. Shes quick

INK YOURSELF HAPPY to distinguish her technique from micro-

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

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I would have spent even more time look- any inflammation). Its important, she tells two weeks and tap on a Vaseline-type salve
ing like a clown-school dropout). Ive also me, to preserve some asymmetry. It makes to address any flaking. Retinol and exfoliants
experimented with off-label use of the lash people look fake when their brows match too are no-nos; daily sunscreen is a must.
booster Latisse, which coaxed out a few perfectly, she says. Youre never the same For the rest of the day, I cant stop examin-
wheezy sprouts but none in the region I ac- on both sides. What you want is for them to ing my brows in the mirror. Its like Ive fallen
tually wished to regrow. For asleep and someone has drawn on my face
the most part, I threw in the BEFORE with a Sharpie. The edges seem too precise,
towel, growing my bangs out to giving them the stencil-y Instagram-brow
hide my brows like a shameful effect I had hoped to avoid. But I do love the
secret, appalled when theyd ac- shape: Theyre smooth where once they were
cidentally pop through in photo- hooked, lush where once they were emaciat-
graphs, making me look as if Id ed. They now swoop in a seamless arc from
just heard a sudden loud noise. inner to outer eye, and my nose, wide at the
When I received an invitation bridge thanks to a childhood break, some-
to meet with Dominique Bossa- how looks slimmer.
vy, a blond Frenchwoman in her AFTER When my husband gets home that night,
fifties who specializes in reshap- he does a double take. Oh wow, he says.
The authors pre-tattoo
horseshoe (top); days after
her second session with
158 Bossavy (above and right)
You look crazy. And then, while Im
trying to conjure some white lie about
having my brows tinted or something else
that sounds unscarily temporary, he asks,
Is that microblading? Its a whole sep-
arate story how my straight (I promise),
non-YouTube-video-watching better half
has any idea what microblading is, but
suffice it to say I come clean and warn him
that he might be living with these brows
for quite some time. Well, he says help-
fully, you can always start wearing hats.
The next morning, I look like Eddie
Munster. Even my dog looks at me funny.
But on day three, I catch my reflection in
the mirror of a dark restaurant and think,
I look good. Are my cheekbones higher?
Are the bags under my eyes gone? No, I
realize, its the brows. In the right lighting,
theyre amazing.
By the time I see Bossavy two weeks lat-
er, the color has mellowed considerably.
The outlines are softer, the strokes less
noticeable. Certain areas have, however,
begun to take on a slightly gray hue, which
Bossavy tells me is only temporary, an awk-
ward but necessary phase in treating those
with fair hair. If I put just the warm color
on first, it will not stay, Bossavy says. By
putting the warm shade on top of an ashy
shade, it becomes a neutral blond.
Sure enough, after themuch quick-
ersecond pass, the overall effect is more
consistent, more natural. I find Im no lon-
ger tugging my bangs down like a curtain
to cover my brows; instead, Im sweeping
them aside. I love them. I love having
them done without having to do any-
thing. I love that they make me feel like I
need less makeup overall and that out of
my myriad irrational insecurities, I now
have one less thing to think about.
Ive become obsessed with peoples
brows. I study strangers foreheads on the
subway, thinking how an attractive brow
can come in a billion different shapes and
sizes. The arches I personally find most
beautiful are those that appear to be only
moderately shaped, that telegraph some
kind of individuality. My least favorites
remain the supersculpted, highly refined,
social-media-star brows. But ironically,
I feel like mine look most my own now,
after maximum intervention. Had my
mother never stepped in, I might have
grown up looking half wolf, so I suppose I
should thank her. But oh, its been a long
journey to find the brows I should have
been born with.
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THE RAINBOW CONNECTION
BLUE CRUSH
Megan ONeill discovers that a new eye color lends her some serious swagger
It all started with Kanye. I was
looking at a photo of him and
Kim Kardashian from the 2016
Met Gala, in which Kardashians
spectacular Balmain gown,
created with actual pieces of
disco ball, somehow managed
to accentuate her impossible-
to-accentuate-further bottom.
But it was Kanyelove him
or hate himwhose getup
ensnared me. It wasnt his
crystal-adorned Balmain jacket
that got me (although that was
pretty amazing); it was his eyes,
which hed transformed for the
evening into a hypnotic blue-
green that was part husky, part
Game of Thrones White Walker,
and wholly badass.
I decided I needed to get
them myself. (It must be a
by-product of my growing up
in New York City, where you
glimpse all manner of folks with
outrageous everything, that I
view the zany as beautiful.) I
knew, as with Kanye, the wild
color would pop against my
dark complexion.
I track down Kanyes
optometrist, Mitch Cassel,
whose Studio Optix office
in Manhattan specializes
in custom, hand-painted
contacts. Cassel treats patients
with eye disfigurements, as
well as celebs like Leonardo
DiCaprio, whom he fitted with
jaundiced-looking lenses for
The Revenant, but the majority
of his clients are people like me,
angling to add an electrifying
touch to their look. While a pair
AFTER
The author
and her
power blues
of his lenses can run well past
the four-figure mark, Cassel
insists the result makes you
walk differently, like changing
your hair color. Perfect timing,
because my hairstylist had just
put the kibosh on another round
of bleachmy looks current
source of fantastical zaniness
until some of my breakage grew
out. For the first time in three
years, my hair was mostly an
unfantastical brunette.
Cassel is busy with the
likes of Leo, so I impatiently
order myself green, garish
violet, gold-flecked hazel, and
dreamy blue contacts from
LensCircle, a site that stocks
practically every shade of
FDA-approved (something to
look out for!) lenses. I opt for
circle lenses, a style with an
extrawide outer rim that makes
your irises appear like saucers
(think: Lady Gaga lurching
around in the bathtub in her
Bad Romance video).
A few days later, I receive
the package, tear it open, and
have a ball trying out all the
different lenses. (Note: If youre
considering circle lenses for
the first time, give yourself,
like, 45 minutes to actually
get them into your eyes. It
feels dreadfully unnatural at
firsteven if youre used to
regular contacts.) The violet
isnt pigmented enough to really
show up over my own tree-
bark-brown irises. The hazel
is pretty but not nearly weird
enough. The green is awesome,
but the blueespecially in
contrast to my skinis it. Forget
the old-timey stigma that
women of color who wear
contact lenses to adopt a
lighter iris shade are grappling
with feelings of racial self-
hate: Mesmerizing crystalline-
geode eyesnot found in
nature, people!and physical
experimentation are pure fun.
That Saturday, I make my
debut as a blue-eyed girl.
As I walk around SoHo, Im
pulsating with that distinct
energy you acquire from
wearing a new dress that makes
your waist look small and your
legs infinite. I lock eyes with an
attractively scruffy man, who
grins at me as he passes. On the
same block, a dapper-looking
couple glance at me, whisper
something to each other, and
then look back at me and
smile. As I leave a boutique, the
security guard tells me I cut a
nice figure. Why in the name of
Yeezy have I not been rocking
these my entire adult life?
Later, waiting for the subway,
I feel a tap on my shoulder. I
turn around to face two women
dressed like Alexa Chung, the
kind of It Girl influencer types
whod have upwards of 10,000
Instagram followers each.
We just spotted you from
across the platformyoure so
exotic, one says. We have
a clothing line. Would you be
interested in coming to a casting
call to model in our fall show?
I say Id love to and take
their card. As they walk away,
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I think how crazy it is that
contact lenses are responsible
for this inordinate amount of
attention. Or are they? I chase
after the women.
Can I ask you guys
something? I say, catching
them as they step into their
train. Did you notice me
because I have blue eyes?
The women peer closer, their
faces now inches from mine.
Ohmygod, you do have blue
eyes! one says. We stopped
you because we thought your
hair and style and vibe were
cool and confident.
And then, the door closes.
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Whenever my editor Liesl calls me into the
office, I know shes going to ask me to do
something I wont want to do. Its much easier
to twist my arm when my arm is in the room.
Failing that, her headlock is very persuasive.
The May issue is all about transforma-
tion, she begins, circling my chair. Me-
gan is wearing colored contacts; Cotton is
getting hair extensions; April is undergoing
eyebrow tattoos; and Keziah is cleansing
with dirt.
For real? Thats a thing? (Yes. And it is.)
But youyou are a Beauty Adventuress.
And you always want to do something big.
Liesl snaps her fingers, points at me, and
commands: Say the first thing that comes
to mind!
Run for the elevator!
The second thing that comes to mind!
Shave my head? Pierce my nose? Lose
162
BEAUTY ADVENTURE
THE ONE
AND DONE
Holly Millea has long been
our cosmetic astronaut. For her
eightieth Beauty Adventure, she
goes where none in her orbit have
gone before: She gets a facelift.
Along the risk/reward curve,
theres no procedure more daring.
Heres what happened.
10 pounds? Stop procrastinating? Id never
make that deadline.
But what really comes to mind is a facelift.
I mean, Ive been contemplating that
leap for a while (as has Liesl, among other
friends), for both professional and person-
al reasons. I earn my living in an industry
where youth is the greatest currency, and I
live in a city where women outnumber men.
Need I say more? Yeah, I do want a facelift,
in the same way I really do want a man in my
lifelike last night, when I woke up alone in
my bed and the smoke-alarm battery needed
changing. Chirpchirpchirp
But then I think, What if I get what I want,
and it ends in disaster? Im not commitment-
phobic, but I am life-altering-mistake averse.
The wrong man, a bad faceliftthere would
be nothing worse than having to look in the
mirror every day knowing I could have pret-
ty much lived happily ever after without one.
In the midst of the indecision and vacilla-
tion, my iPhone rings. I pull it out, pausing
at my reflection in the black-screen glass.
I send the caller to voice mail and turn to
Liesl: Count me in.
A few weeks later, the girls are abuzz with
holiday plans over dinner at Freds at Bar-
neys in New York. Virginia is visiting
family in Philly, Betsy is finishing a
documentary in Phoenix, and Renata is
delivering Meals on Wheels in Manhat-
tan. I announce Ill be hiding out in my
apartment recovering from plastic sur-
gery. It goes over like a lead fruitcake.
Please tell me youre joking, Renata
says. What kind of plastic surgery?
A brow lift, I tell them (not telling
them that Im actually going full Monty).
Im finally fixing my Frankenforehead,
which is so heavy that I have a headache
from lifting it all day. Having inherit-
ed this brow from my dada ringer for
Marlon BrandoI ooze masculinity.
Whats worse, when my brow is relaxed,
I look beady-eyed, shiftyguilty. I cant
get away with anything anymore.
Virginias not buying it. If you lift
your forehead, youll end up with a
five-head, and then youll have to wear
bangs. You might as well get bangs now
and skip the surgery.
I, for one, am excited to see if it
works, Betsy says. Whats the big diff
between Botox four times a year and
a brow lift? And you wont have that
wonky look everybody has the first week
Botox settles in. Its not a big dealnot
like a facelift.
Reflexively, I start pulling at the loose
skin around my jowls, stretching it away
from my face like Silly Putty. This is what I
do when I get anxious.
What are you doing? Betsy asks.
And why are you looking at me and do-
ing that? Virginia says. You think I need a
facelift?
No, Renata says, turning to me, narrow-
ing her eyes. Holly is getting one. Onlyshe Alexandre Weinberger/Trunk Archive
wasnt going to tell us.
Betsy: You are? This is very exciting!
Oh, stop already, Virginia says, holding
her hand up. Are you crazy? Youre going to
end up with your head in a jar!
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I am going to do this. Im not going
to feel ashamed or guilty or say sorry
to anyone for saying yes to myself.
The stopgap measures workfor a while.
Then its out with the credit card, back for
more. And more. And more often.
I see the surgery as an investmentand
for me, it is a major investment. (The na-
tional average price for forehead, face, and
neck is $14,429: anesthesiologist, operating
room, postoperative care, and batteries sold
separately. The bigger the city, the bigger
the price tags.) But nothing can dissuade
me. Ive done my homework, all the re-
search. Ive even watched the YouTube sur-
gery videos. (Trust me, you do not want to
see how the sausage is made.) I am going to
do this. I want the mythic one and done.
And Im not going to feel ashamed or
guilty or say sorry to anyone for say-
BEFORE
ing yes to myself. Got it?
Yes, its scary. Its my
damn face. As we wait for a
cab after dinner, Renata, my
philosopher king-of-a-friend,
says, Facelifting is the anti-
aging mother lode of courage
and risk. I dont believe that
you think you really need it. I
think you really want to do it.
I feel like a beauty astro-
naut, and this adventure? Its
a moon shot. And my mission
is to go there and back, to re-
turn safelyand, I hope, recognizableand
to report every detail.
Herewith, the story I wish I could have
read before I decided to go for it.
I meet Liesl at the office of David Rosen-
berg, MD, the facial plastic surgeon I inter-
viewed on my last adventure, whose scalpel
has worked wonders on several of my indus-
try acquaintances.
First off, lets focus on the brow, Rosen-
berg says, steering me to the floor-length
mirror in his exam room. Its hard to see
the upper half of your eyeball when your
brows are this heavy. And your outer lids are
actually impeding your peripheral vision.
An endoscopic brow lift softly elevates the
entire brow in a way that the outer third is a
bit more elegant.
The inner third comes up in a subtle
waytheres no deer in the headlights
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look. It just allows you to look rested.
He stands behind me, lifting my forehead
with his fingers, opening up my eyes. This
is you, he says, looking at my reflection.
This is pretty. I would say that where you
are right now is not you. Its not communi-
cating a sense of vitality. It just makes you
look exhausted and angry.
Rosenberg gets down to the nuts and bolts
of the procedure, or, in the case of an endo-
scopic brow lift, the Endotine absorbable
fixation devicea triangular piece of what
looks like plastic, the size of a thumbnail; its
flat on one side, with sharp barbs on the oth-
er. He pulls one out of the drawer.
There are surgeons doing very beautiful
coronal brow lifts, Rosenberg says, refer-
ring to the classic, old-school
lift, wherein a single incision is
made from one ear to the other
across the top of the head, like
a headband, and a strip of skin
and tissue is removed. (Some
consider it the gold standard,
prized for its precision and per-
manence.) You could do it, but
youre buying a 16- or 18-inch
scar with the potential for per-
manent hair loss. Endoscopic,
theres no hair loss. The [four]
The author
10 days
before her
surgery
(above), and
two months
post-op
(right)
incisions are [each] the length of a pinkie
nail. Its the easiest recovery of any operation
I do.
As with the coronal, in this lift the mus-
cle and fat are released from the skull and
elevated to a higher position. Rosenberg
then attaches two Endotines, securing them
via two tiny holes he drills into the skull,
aligning them, in my case, with the mid-
dle of each eyebrow arch. Placement of the
Endotines varies depending on the issues
youre trying to correct; mine were placed a
bit farther out than is typical, for maximum
lift in the area of my forehead with the most
droop. The five barbs evenly distribute the
weight of and tension on the brow. Think
of it like hanging from a jungle gym,
Rosenberg says. Its easier to hang using all
of your fingers than just hanging by one.
He holds the device up to the light. This is
dissolvable sugar. It stays for five months,
and the brow heals in the new position.
Rosenberg estimates he does 200 of the
30-minute procedures a year. Best-case
scenario, three days youre perfect. If there
were any recovery issues, there might be
swelling here around the eyes. Maybe one
in 50 will get a bruise.
He addresses the rest of my mug. Your
jawline and cheeks have fallen, he says,
manipulating the soft clay of my skin. A
deep-plane facelift will restore the archi-
tecture of your face to reveal beautiful bone
structure. The cheek will be highlighted,
the jawline defined; no sense of pull.
Pinching the slack skin of my neck,
he gives it a wiggle. This loose skin in
AFTER the central neck will be gone. Rosen-
berg hands me a mirror and, with his
hand flat, irons everything slightly
up. This is a beautiful, elegant, soft
change. Can you live with that?
Liesl erupts, I can! We look
at her.
I can live with it, too. Houston, Im
ready for lift-up in T-minus 10 days.
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But first things first, and the first
thing is Botox. You have a very, very
expressive face, he says, injecting
the muscles atop and between my
eyebrows to prep me for surgery. I
can lift your forehead, but when you
wake up and start frowning, youre
going to pull the brow back down. Get
Botox twice a year, and the lift will
last a decade.
The day comes, December 15, and Im
ready for launch. I wake up at 6 a.m.,
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undergo caffeine withdrawal (no foods or
liquids after midnight), exercise, vacuum,
shower, do laundry, respond to a slew of
well-wishers, pop an Ativan (prescribed by
Rosenberg to prevent presurgical hysteria),
and wait for Liesl to pick me up, as promised.
Then she calls; shes stuck in traffic. So I walk
alone the three blocks to his office. I know,
only three blocks. I just wanted someone I
love to hug me before I went under.
Wearing green scrubs, Rosenberg enters
the exam room upbeat, tousle-haired, with
the energetic confidence of a Greys Anato-
my star: This is going to be fun! I find his
certainty comforting. Staring at me intent-
ly, he uses a fine marker, drawing incision
guidelines on my scalp and around my ears.
I ask questions: Is he sure I wont lose any
hair? Positive. Will he take a decade off
my face? Trust me, you will not be under-
done. But will I look like I had work? Mak-
ing your face more beautiful is an art form. I
try to perfect doing living art, really individ-
ualizing it. Youll look like you.
Im not going to wake up with a five-
head?
No! he says. Now youre going to have
to stop talking, and let me go into my zone.
The anesthesiologist, Connie Ding,
checks in, confirms my medical history, and
takes me next door to the operating room,
where I lie down and suddenly panic. Ding
is all business. This wont hurt, she says,
sticking a catheter in my vein, leaving me
just enough time to utter what could be my
famous last words: That did hurt.
Okay, Im way beyond asleep. Where I am,
right now, only God and maybe Vladimir
Putin know. Meanwhile, heres whats hap-
pening as Im traveling without a passport
across conscious borders.
Van Morrison is playing on Pandora.
Rosenberg, scalpel in hand, starts at my left
temple first, careful to work beneath the fron-
tal branch of the facial nerve (one slip of the
knife and no more frowning, no more look of
surprise, no more knitting of the brow).
Through a total of four small incisions just
behind the hairline (one above each eye-
brow and one in each temple), he inserts an
endoscopea fiber-optic camera the size of
a straw. With the lighted endoscope in one
hand, his cutting instrument in the other,
and his eyes on the monitor, he releases the
muscle fibers and underlying tissues from
the skull and debulks the fibersweakens
themleaving the forehead with some
expressionless harsh than what you had,
but enough to keep you looking vibrant and
166
No one will even
suspect. Unless
you tell everyone.
normal, Rosenberg says. (It used to be that
the standard was to remove the muscle com-
pletelywhich left you with a flat facial ex-
pression, not unlike a lobotomy.)
He then lifts my brow into an aesthetical-
ly pleasing positionovercorrecting by 10
percent to accommodate a slight drop that
will happen once the postsurgical swelling
recedesand attaches it to the Endotines.
Raising the operating table, he sees how
gravity impacts the placement and, pleased
with the result, lowers me back down. This
has all taken 30 minutes.
Moving on to my neck, Rosenberg makes
a one-and-a-half-inch incision just under my
chin to access the platysma muscletwo
thin sheets of muscle that extend from the
collarbone all the way up to the midface,
overlapping under the chin.
Like the elastic in a pair of tights, the pla-
tysma loosens with age, spreading out. The
skin loses elasticity, too. The fix is remov-
ing an inch-wide vertical strip of the muscle
where it overlaps, and endoscopically sew-
ing the sides back together with eight inter-
nal stitches. Fifteen minutes work.
Now Rosenberg turns to the right side of
my face to begin tightening my jawline and
redefining my cheek. Using his scalpel, he
traces the curve where my ear meets my
face, continuing down to the earlobe, up be-
hind the ear, and into the hairline behind my
ear for an inch and a half.
He peels back the skin of my cheek, lo-
cates the top of the platysma muscle, and
goes under it into the deep plane, but above
the facial nerve branches, and releases the
muscle. A slip here, and sayonara to smiling,
whistling, kissing.
Using a pair of $500 porcelain scis-
sorsso, so sharp they require complete
accuracyRosenberg works above the
muscle, freeing it from the skin. With the
muscle suspended, he slides it back up onto
the cheekbone, anchoring it in place using
permanent internal stitches. He then moves
on to the left cheek.
Redraping the skin, he trims the over-
agean inch and a half on each side of my
face and neckand begins closing up all the
incisions with such precision that suturing
accounts for half the operation time.
Four hours, 100 itsy stitches, 10 staples,
and two big Novocain injections later, my
hair is washed, my head is wrapped, and Im
lying on a gurney floating back to earth.
I wake and feel so good (thanks to the pain-
killing Novocain and Percocet) that before I
even leave Rosenbergs office, Im taking
selfies with my home-care nurse, Melissa,
and sending them out to my peepsthe
postoperative equivalent of drunk-dialing.
Back in my apartment, I fall into a deep
sleep, sitting up with my head wrapped in
ice to keep the swelling down. The next
morning, Melissa removes the bandages,
and I look in the mirror. Relief doesnt be-
gin to describe it. I feel the kind of eupho-
ria one must feel after dodging a bullet or a
malfunctioning guillotine. Ive gotten away
with a crime against nature.
The next few days are a Percocet blur of
ice packs and sleeping upright, eating ap-
plesauce and tapioca pudding and popping
arnica tablets, friends coming and going and
calling and texting, and me taking progress
pictures and shooting them out.
Not smart to mass-text pics, Renata
texts back.
I should have locked my phone away. I
couldnt tell you whom I exposed myself to,
or who in turn exposed me, bruised, swol-
len, my bright red ears looking like theyve
been removed and reattached, my deep
purple neck matching my purple pajamas. I
know firsthand the fascination that accom-
panies plastic-surgery procedures. Friends
have sent me their pictures, and Ive had to
delete themstat!to save myself from be-
ing awful and showing them to other people.
Dont ask me what the temptation is. All
I know is that a close friend sent me a pic-
ture of her breast implants, and I would have
flashed it a hundred times if I hadnt deleted
it as promised on the life of my dog, Truman.
Day four, off the pain meds, out of the fog
and, I must say, looking relatively goodI
call Liesl and scold her for not visiting me.
I did! she says. I brought a bottle of wine.
Your second cousin was staying the weekend
with you. She was visiting from Yale. Dont
you remember? I have a second cousin?
(Apparently Joanna and Germaine came by
with a bottle of champagne and we put the
lights on your Christmas tree, Joanna says.
How do you think they got there? Elves!)
The first thing Renata says seeing me is,
Holy shit. Good for you! Dont take this the
wrong way. Its not that you look younger
its that he made you prettier. Honestly, youve
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BEAUTY REPORT

Whether youre a filler first-timer or

a Bo pro, ELLEs first annual no-fear
guide to injectables covers everything
you need to know, from choosing
the best doctor to the importance of
taking things slow. Here, April Long
celebrates all the small things.

It goes without saying that no one

wants to look done. Still, weve all seen
it, or maybe its even happened to us:
the brow too high, too low, too fro-
zen; the balloonish lips or Angelina-
Jolie-in-Maleficent cheekbones that
give the game away. Here is a per-
son, these all-too-obvious needle-
assisted interventions say, who hoped
to look younger, prettiersomeone
who strove to arrest aging, la Blake
Livelys magical imperviousness to
time in The Age of Adaline, or even
to reverse it, like Benjamin Button
and overshot the mark.
 Thankfully, as dermatologists have In more tradition-
grown more sophisticated in their meth- ally treated areas,
ods and the array of fillers, neurotox- derms tend to stay
ins, and fat dissolvers like Kybella has with standard doses of
become more diverse and specialized, Botox and fillersI
patently obvious nonsurgical work is be- believe that if you use
coming the exception rather than the too little between the
rule. (And surely, if the 9 million-plus eyebrows, youre not
injections done in the United States going to prevent those
in 2015 had made us a nation of funny- etched lines from
faced freaks, wed know it.) The best getting deeper over
needle wielders now recognize that time, says New York
the most natural-looking effects are based dermatologist
achieved incrementally, with tiny, al- Whitney Bowe, MD.
most imperceptible adjustments. And I find that I need
Im a big believer in You dont fill to put in .1 to .2 ccs
up the gas tank in one try, says Los the more traditional
Angelesbased dermatologist Annie doses of filleralong
Chiu, MD. Softly adjusting gives the the cheekbone in or-
most beautiful results, and budgetwise der to get the lifting
its more reasonable as well. You can effect Im after. But
always add, but its harder to take away. for the rest of the face,
Hyaluronic acid fillers are reversible, Bowe says, Ive com-
but you obviously dont want to do that pletely changed my
unless absolutely necessary. injection technique.

I CALL THEM little tweak-bits, says

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

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

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teetering over into too much, Engelman

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

WHEN WE DO SEE overfilled or dis-

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

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She also forbids shoe shopping (bending
down can upset Botox placement), fly-
ing (the change in altitude exerts added
There are alternative facts galore when it comes to what to do pressure that can be problematic for fresh
and what not to do when getting a round of injectables. Here, the Botox and filler, which both need time to
misconceptions get debunked. By Megan ONeill integrate into the face), and high-altitude
skiing (ski goggles pressing against your
Botox and filler shouldnt be to seven daysthe time it takes neuro- forehead can cause filler to clump) within
cocktailed in the same syringe. toxins to reach full effectfor Ultherapy the same time frame.
FALSE. New Yorkbased derm Doris Day, or Thermage, he says. I like the skin to be
MD, sometimes adds a few units of Botox relaxed so that Ultherapys or Thermages You can help extend your Botox.
into filler and then injects them together tightening effects can occur without being TRUE. In a study published in Dermato-
for a sleek, natural-looking outcome. You compromised by the skin pulling in the op- logic Surgery in 2015, researchers separat-
can get some extra tightening, she says of posite direction. ed overly square-jawed participants into
mixing in a line-diminishing neurotoxin two groups: Both received slimming injec-
so that the combined effect with the filler Blow-outs posttreatment are A-OK. tions of Botox into their masseter muscles
yields a smooth surface. If you want to FALSE. New Yorkbased dermatologist Pa- (the key muscles that move the jaw), but
soften the lip lines, its a combo that dif- tricia Wexler, MD, advises patients not to one group was instructed to do chewing ex-
fuses nicely, and you wont affect how the break a sweat for a full day postfiller, since ercises for weeks afterward, and the other
lip moves. upping the heart rate increases circulation had no specific instructions. Interestingly,
and can cause swelling if hyaluronic acid the group that chomped more experienced
One size fits all when youre based fillers are exposed to more fluid. But the benefits of Botox longer than the con-
scheduling Botox and filler. there are sedentary activities that also, trol group did. The idea is if we encourage
FALSE. One size fits none is Days rule for surprisingly, pose a threat: Dont get your patients to purposely use their chewing
tune-up regularity. The FDA gauges that hair done or cook over a stove for at least muscles during the few months when Botox
neurotoxins last about four months, while four hours; the heat can diffuse Botox, is active, once the Botox wears off, the mas-
most soft-tissue fillers endure for about six says Wexler, even though some derms seter muscles wont be relied on as much for
months. But some fillers last much longer: no longer consider such activities risky chewing, Anolik says. As a result, theyll
Juvderm Voluma (made of molecules that since injection techniques have evolved. stay streamlined longer.
are cross-linked to create a viscous consis-
tency thats suited for adding structural
support to the cheeks) and Juvderm Vol-
bella (whose molecules are cross-linked
to form a thinner texture thats better for
TRICK OR TREAT?
Before-and-after photos provide key proof of a practitioners
filling superficial lines around the lips) can skillexcept when the proof has been tampered with.
last up to two years. For Botox and filler, One dermatologist reveals the red flags Robert Anolik,
the stress surrounding, say, a wedding or MD
workor being athletic!can cause the
1. LIGHTING the lighting has 3. CAMERA ANGLE the neckline looks
body to metabolize both substances faster, Side lighting been altered. Anolik advises that worsethe face
so that treatment may be needed sooner exaggerates every unless youre view- looks more jowly,
than usual. crease, while head- 2. MAKEUP ing the subject from Anolik says.
on lighting can Beauty products the same camera
Injectables and ultrasound dont erase wrinkles are used to en- angle in both shots, 5. SELFIE CULTURE
play well together. altogether, says hance a feature or you cant really Beware of
FALSE. AND TRUE. Arkansas-based derm dermatologist cover a flaw. If trust the shot. patient-provided
Missy Clifton, MD, emphasizes the need Robert Anolik, makeup is used photos. Filters
to get procedures done in proper order: MD. Look at the only in the after 4. POSE When are available
shadows in both photo, dont believe the chin is up, the with a few clicks,
If shes administering a deep-heat treat-
photosdo they the comparison, neckline looks even on a not-so-
ment, such as Thermage (radio frequen- match? If not, Anolik says. better; if its down, smart phone.
cy) or Ultherapy (ultrasound), she does
it first, then waits a few minutes for skin
FAKE NOT FAKE
to come back to its normal temperature
before going ahead with filler and Botox.
Meanwhile, New Yorkbased derm Robert
Anolik, MD, separates such procedures
and injections by a few days. In the sce-
nario of a new patient coming in whos nev-
er had anything done, Id inject Botox and BEFORE AFTER BEFORE AFTER
then have the patient come in after three
BEAUTY REPORT
KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
The best way to ensure the most refreshed, rejuvenated-looking outcome
after an injection: Brush up on these key protocols before setting foot inside
a professionals office. By Megan ONeill
BE AWARE OF WHERE YOUR
INJECTABLE CAME FROM
Make sure your doctor is an
official vendor of everything
youre getting injected. Allergan,
Merz, and Galderma are three of the
top manufacturers of neurotoxins
and fillers, and Allergan also makes
the fat-dissolving Kybella. To reduce
the risk of getting a subpar, poten-
tially dangerous product, some man-
ufacturers websites offer a tool to
search by zip code for every licensed
physician whos obtained their prod-
uct legally.
BIN THE BARGAINS
If the price is questionably
low for Botox or filler, you
may be getting a diluted dos-
age, says West Islip, New Yorkbased
dermatologist Kavita Mariwalla, MD.
Another possibility is that your doc-
tor purchased the product from a sup-
plier in a country such as Canada or
the United Kingdom, where govern-
ment price controls keep pharmaceu-
tical prices substantially lower than
those in the United States. Not only
is it illegal (with very few exceptions)
for doctors to intentionally purchase
medications outside the country for
use on patients within the U.S., man-
ufacturers also say that unauthorized
suppliers may compromise the effec-
tiveness and safety of injectables by,
for example, not storing them at the
proper temperature or even offering
counterfeit products.
That said, prices for in-office treat-
ments tend to be higher in metro-
politan regions, such as New York,
Chicago, and Dallas, where theres
a greater demand for cosmetic pro-
cedures. To find out the price range
in your area, call around. New York
based dermatologist Elizabeth Hale,
MD, adds that youre usually better
off with a doctor who bases his or her
fee on how many units of product are
used, rather than how many different
zones of the face are injected. All the
muscles in the face are intertwined,
and even when I treat, say, just the 11
lines between the brows, I always put
a tiny bit in the forehead to balance
things outI dont count that as two
[separate] zones.
BLOOD-THINNING MEDS
ARENT THE ONLY THING TO
AVOID PRE-INJECTION
Most Botox and filler veter-
ans know to lay off anticoagulants
such as aspirin and ibuprofen before
treatment, since those types of drugs
hinder blood clotting and increase
the risk of bruising should the needle
nick a blood vessel. But Manhattan
dermatologist Patricia Wexler, MD,
has a longer list of things to forgo, in-
cluding some seemingly innocuous
pantry staples. No fish oil, multivi-
tamins, green tea, cinnamon, gin-
ger, and red wine a full week before
treatment, she says. Antioxidants,
though not all of them, can increase
the fragility of blood vessels and pre-
vent clotting. Ask your MD at least
two weeks ahead of time for a full list
of what to avoid.
A CONSULTATION IS CRUCIAL
The person performing the
injection should have you
smile and frown and raise
your eyebrows, Hale says. An expe-
rienced professional is carefully eval-
uating you that whole time to see how
different areas of your face naturally
move, so that he or she can keep you
looking refreshed instead of expres-
No fish oil, multi-
vitamins, green tea,
cinnamon, ginger,
and red wine a full
week before treat-
ment, Wexler says.
sionless. Some derms like to ask pa-
tients to talk about something theyre
passionate about to gauge facial
movement. You should also be given
a thorough health assessment prior to
the injection. Certain antibiotics, spe-
cifically in the aminoglycoside cate-
gory, like gentamicin (prescribed for
bacterial infections), can increase the
potency of neurotoxins. (To avoid risk,
dont receive treatment for the dura-
tion of your antibiotic prescription.)
Worst-case scenario: You end up with
a droopy lid, according to Mariwalla.
BRUISES CAN BE UNDONE
Neurotoxins generally require
finer needles and are usual-
ly placed more superficially
than fillers, but any injection could
potentially hit a vessel, causing blood
to pool beneath the skin and form an
unattractive black-and-blue blotch.
Fortunately, many dermatology prac-
tices, including Hales, offer a next-
day complimentary vascular laser
treatment, which breaks down pooled
blood into smaller particles, thereby
greatly diminishing bruises within 24
hours. Its a good idea to ask up front
if whoever youre going to offers it,
Hale says. Our patients take a lot of
comfort in knowing they can come
back for that.
NOT ALL FILLERS
ARE CREATED EQUAL
Never get silicone. Its the
one filler we see the most
complications from, says Mariwalla
of one injectable thats occasionally
usedbut not FDA approvedto
fill wrinkles in the face. Unlike mal-
leable hyaluronic acidbased fillers,
which can be absorbed by the body
and will eventually break down,
silicone is a synthetic material that
cant be metabolized and can hard-
en over time, creating unsightly,
uneven bulges. Its permanent, and
it does not age well with you, Mari-
walla says.

INSTANT MESSAGING
Theres a new movement in the beauty world, starring antiaging
concoctions made to be blended at home. But is skin care really more
effective when its freshly mixed? By Olivia Stren
In my bathroom, Im whipping up a DIY
face maskone that doesnt involve kitch-
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en staples like yogurt or egg whites (and, at
$420, costs a bit more). I open a gold-lidded
jar of Lancme Absolue LExtrait Ultimate
Rose Serum Mask and follow the instruc-
tions, combining, in what looks like a dolls
tea saucer, a vial of serum plus a spoonful of
pearlescent pink beads containing Lancmes
proprietary rose extracts. The pearls, which
have been bioengineered by grace of 11 pat-
ents, dissolve as I stir, releasing their pre-
cious skin-softening cargo. And as I spread
this confection on my face with the abandon
of a tycoon heaping caviar on a cracker, a
scene in an episode of Louis C.K.s show Lou-
ie comes to mind. A father of two girls, Louie
talks about the moment after he secures his
children in the back seat of the car, closes
the door, and walks toward the drivers seat.
This brief amble, he riffswhen the kids
are, for those few blessed seconds, quiet,
fed, safeis a Carnival cruise. Im sorry to
say, as the mother of a two-year-old, that
I can relate. Drugstore runs pass for me
time, and a shower can feel like a sojourn at
Canyon Ranch. As my son snoozes and my
face is scented like a flower garden, I feel,
momentarily, relaxed and nourished. Its
better than a cruise.
The act of mixing the Lancme mask
gives it a pleasurable, ritualistic appeal, but
this make-it-fresh approach is actually more
about supercharging results than about cer-
emony. And as with the farm-to-fork mega-
movement, this trend is flourishing in the
land of skin care. The logic: Some popular
skin-care ingredients are volatile and can
lose potency when combined into formu-
las. So keeping these active ingredients in
protective quarantine until the moment of
applicationthe technology of separating
and protecting the extract until released,
as Macrene Alexiades, MD, PhD, founder of
Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center of New
York, says about Lancmes rose-pearl-and-
serum meet-cutehelps to safeguard and
optimize their efficacy.
The most wildly unstable ingredient is
vitamin C (ascorbic acid), making it your
routines most high-maintenance star. The
powerful antioxidant stimulates collagen
and evens out mottled hyperpigmentation
by interfering with the oxidative processes
necessary to form melanin, so skin-care com-
panies have long grappled with how to best
stabilize it in order to capitalize on its prop-
erties. Of all the popular skin-care ingredi-
ents, vitamin C has the shortest shelf life by
a very large margin, says cosmetic chemist
Stephen Alain Ko. Ascorbic acid oxidizes and
degradeslosing its potencywhen it hits
the air or meets with water, heat, or ultravio-
let light. It remains most stable in dry powder
form. But on its own, the powder wont pen-
etrate your skin, so blending it with a liquid
is the most effective way of getting it past the
skins barrier.
This equation is what inspired Janet Par-
do, senior vice president of global product
development at Clinique, to create the com-
panys Fresh Pressed Daily Booster With
Pure Vitamin C 10%. The prescription: two
drops, twice a day, for seven days, to fast-
track a brightened, rejuvenated complexion.
This is de-aging for the impatient! she tells
me energetically, in a way that suggests that
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impatience may be something shes famil-
iar with. The product, the company claims,
works immediately: In-house studies show
that skin is 36 percent brighter after one
use. After a month, age spots are reduced by
32 percent, and lines and wrinkles by 43 per-
cent; skin appears visibly lifted by 41 percent.
Its the dual-chamber package, Pardo ex-
plains, that helps to deliver these results. One
lightproof chamber protects the dry vitamin
C powder from oxidization, and a neighbor-
ing chamber contains a serum rife with pep-
tides as well as molasses, mulberry root, and
grapefruit extractssoothing, cell-renewing
dancing partners to the powder. Press a but-
ton, shake, and the two mix into a measured
single dose of ultrapotent vitamin C emul-
sion, ready to be applied straight to the skin or
added to the moisturizer of your choice.
Other cosmetic favoritesvitamin A,
green tea, resveratrolmay have their own
stability issues but dont require such careful
handling. For instance, Ko explains, green
tea contains ECGC, a polyphenol that de-
grades from 5 to 10 percent every montha
slow rate of breakdown that makes only the
most negligible difference to the user.
Jasmi Bonnn, founder of indie line Nuori,
learned in her former tenure as a marketing
executive at LOral Paris that the majority
of skin-care products are designed to last on
shelves for two and a half years. But time,
like air and water, can in some cases be detri-
mental to potency. Hence the use of common
preservatives such as tetrasodium EDTA and
phenoxyethanol; they not only work to pro-
tract a products life-span but also fight off
bacteria and potentially harmful microor-
ganisms. But Bonnn divined a solution that
2
1
3 released just prior to application.
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would negate the need for synthetic preser-
vatives. She fashions freshly blended prod-
ucts in small batches and sells skin care in the
same way you might sell cold-pressed juice
to be consumed quickly, with attention to
its use by date. Nuoris Supreme-C Serum
also comes in a dual-chamber package: A
tiny vial holds 100 percent vitamin C powder,
and another contains a serum replete with
plant-based, free radicalneutralizing feru-
lic acid. Like all Nuori products, its blended
every 12 weeks in a factory in the countryside
outside Copenhagen, and if its not sold by
stores within three months, its replaced with
a fresh batch.
None of this means the moisturizers and
premixed vitamin C products weve been us-
ing for years are useless. This is just the latest
way formulators have found to stabilize and
deliver antiaging powerhouse ingredients.
To wit: SkinCeuticals dermatologist-beloved
vitamin C serum, C E Ferulic, uses ferulic
acid, not fancy packaging, as a vitamin C
stabilizer. Its a potent union, explains Kavita
Mariwalla, MD, a West Islip, New Yorkbased
dermatologist. It turns out that .5 percent
ferulic acid with 15 percent vitamin C and
1 percent vitamin E increases the efficacy of
vitamin C eightfold, which is very useful for
the reduction of photodamage.
Im wary of trends, but the intuitive logic
of freshness over its alternative is persuasive.
And frankly, I could use a bit of freshening.
Its spring, but my complexion appears to
have lost the memo, continuing to assume
the undertones of sidewalk slush. Author Jill
Kargman, in praise of pallor, once told the
New York Times, I want to look like a dead
body. I dont. I strive to look alive. So, for a
few weeks, I mask with rose oil
and binge on Cliniques boost-
er and Nuoris serum. My skin,
flirting with that long-lost look of
the rested, does appear brighter,
more petite of pore, more radi-
antas if my face, if not the rest
Go with your own glow
of me, has just returned from a
Carnival cruise.
1. When combined, HANACURE
All-in-One Facial Masks Lifting
Serum and Gelling Solution
have a tightening effect on skin.
2. CLINIQUE Fresh Pressed Daily
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Booster delivers a blast of high-
potency vitamin C with every pump.
3. LANCME Absolue LExtrait
Ultimate Rose Serum Mask pearls
emulsify when mixed with serum
so that their active ingredients are
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SCENT-SATIONAL!
The king of niche, in-the-know perfumery is getting
big and beautiful. On the occasion of his ninth
store opening, Frdric Malle tells April Long how
to find a scent you want to go to bed with
This is how much of a perfec-
tionist Frdric Malle is: When
he tests fragrances for his brand
Editions de Parfums, he wears
each sample on a different part
of his arm for eight hours at a
time, periodically taking notes.
(The best spot? The warm
pulse point inside the wrist. I
never put fragrance on top of
my hand, he says, because it
always smells bad.) Then hell
have someone else spritz on a
scent and walk in front of him,
so I can be sure theres a trail
seven feet away. To prep an eau
for launch, hell often try it on
his skin in New York, and again
in Paris. Because the air doesnt
smell the same, he says. If it
works in both locales, its a go.
When Malle founded Editions
de Parfums in 2000, he was the
first to give perfumers (who so
often toil behind the scenes)
top billing, putting their names
on the bottles and celebrating
them as artists. The unique,
often iconic results of their work
(think Dominique Ropions
alluring Carnal Flower) made
Frdric
Malle
Malle the de facto father of mod-
ern niche perfumery. He now
has eight stand-alone storesa
ninth opens in L.A. this month
and has branched out into home
scents and body care. You can
be big and beautiful, he says,
as long as you stay true to your
story and your beliefs. Ive made
a promise to the perfumers nev-
er to betray them, and a promise
to myself never to do a market
testoriented fragrance, ever.
What are your thoughts on the
explosion of niche perfumery?
Its a much more interesting
world than it was. When we
started, perfumery was dying, in
a way. It was made by people in
the mass-market industry who
were asking perfumers to make
one-size-fits-all fragrances.
So theres been this reaction to
that, and some very creative fra-
grances have come out of it. The
public has also become much
more educated. People smell
good on the street again!
Whats the key to a great eau?
Its very simple. When I make a
fragrance, I want it to make the
person who wears it sexier. You
can be sexy in many different
ways, but you still have to smell
like a human being. A lot of
flower scents stay on top of peo-
ple, like theyre wearing a room
spray. But the classics enhance
the skin and generate sex appeal.
Whats the defining aesthetic
now, scent-wise?
People are looking for big
volume, particularly with dark
woods, like patchouli and am-
ber. People are relearning what
quality means, and obvious
quality in a scent often comes
from those types of notesso
theres been a move away from
watery, transparent fragrances.
What fragrances have had the
biggest impact on you?
I was brought up by a mother
who worked for Dior, so the
original Miss Dior and Dioris-
simo were like the yin and yang
of femininity for me. And when
I was very young, I fell in love
with so many girls. I saw them
in three dimensions because of
their scents. I fell in love with
a girl who wore Paris by Yves
Saint Laurent, and there was an
innocence about her. But I also
fell in love with a girl who wore
Shalimar, and there was nothing
innocent about her. You have to
match the right fragrance with
the right person, and then, to-
gether, they become irresistible.
How do I know whats right
for me?
Its instinctual. Its important to
know who you are; Im not going
to become Baryshnikov. I wish!
It takes a great perfumer and
a lot of money to get a floral
aldehyde right, Malle says.
Frdric Malle Editions de
Parfums Superstitious, crafted
by Ropion, nails it.
1 2
3 4
THE WORLDS SEXIEST
EAUX, ACCORDING TO MALLE:
1. FRDRIC MALLE EDITIONS DE
PARFUMS MAURICE ROUCEL MUSC
RAVAGEUR: When it launched,
it was the opposite of prevailing
trends. Everyone wanted to copy
Dior Jadore, and here was this big,
mean oriental with a flower inside.
It was really dirty-minded, in the
nicest way, and it became our first
best-seller. 2. NINA RICCI LAIR
DU TEMPS: A false-innocent floral
perfume ([it smells like] carnations)
mixed with magnetic musk.
3. GUERLAIN SHALIMAR: The
perfect alliance of amber, vanilla,
and animalistic notes. Fire in a
bottle. 4. ESTE LAUDER YOUTH-
DEW: Deep, spicy, and mysterious.
But Im not. You have to find a
fragrance youre comfortable
with physicallyyou want to
go to bed smelling like it, or put
it on when you step out of the
shower. Avoid trying to smell
like your BFF or someone you
admire, because then youre
going to appear as if you were
wearing someone elses clothes.
How interconnected are our
tastes in fragrance and fashion?
There are very dressed-up
fragrances, like Superstitious
[Malles new collaboration with
former Lanvin designer Alber
Elbaz], which is like a couture
dress. But, just like Loulou de la
Falaise used to wear a couture
Saint Laurent jacket with some
beads and a pair of jeans,
maybe you can pull off wearing
Superstitious with sweatpants
and still be yourselfand be
superelegant. Everything is
an equation.
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AN AWAKING NIGHTMARE
Rachael Combe was coming apart under the burden of unrelenting insomnia.
Nothing helpeduntil one day her dentist, of all people, told her she had the so-
called young, thin, beautiful womens sleep disorder. Flattered, she investigated

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

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cotton-headed the day after I took them.
I followed all the sleep hygiene advice:
no naps, getting out of bed at the same time
every day, no caffeine, no screens an hour
before bed. I exercised daily. I took lavender
baths, hung blackout curtains, wore a sleep
mask and earplugs. I took a seminar on
stress reduction. I meditated. I tried sleep-
ing in a different room from my husband.
I tried giving up wheat, dairy, sugar, and
finally, painfullywine. Nothing worked.
And then I crunched through the night
guard I wore to stop me from grinding
my teeth at night. Oddly enough, it was
my dentist, Michael Gelb, who diagnosed
It sounded too good to be true: Curing
my sleep disorder would cure my
anxiety, stomach problems, everything.
my problem when I went to get a new
one. He peered down my throat and then
motioned for his assistant to come over.
Look at that big tongue! No wonder! he
exclaimed. He turned to me. This is easy.
I know what you have. Youre waking up
in a panic? In a cold sweat? Like someone
just threw a rock through your window?
he asked. Yes, yes, yes, I told him. You
have low blood pressure? Cold feet? Uh,
yeah. You have anxiety? Yes. You had
your wisdom teeth out? Were you ever
told you needed a palate expander as a
kid? Ummyes? You have UARS. Its the
young, thin, beautiful womens sleep dis-
order. You should write about it!
In the 15 years Ive known Dr. Gelb, he
has never steered me wrongan expert in
jaw pain and snoring, hes cured both my
TMJ and my husbands log-sawing. And yet,
hes such a smooth salesman, such an ad-
ept self-promoter, and so quick to diagnose
problems that can only be resolved with
$4,000 retainers, Im sometimes inclined to
disbelieve him. I couldnt hold my freakish-
ly huge tongue in check: Dr. Gelb, please.
The beautiful womens sleep disorder? I pressure can be so low that it leads to faint-
laughed. Thats not a thing.
Gelb snap-snapped at his assistant, who
printed out an inch-thick stack of research
articles from reputable journals. Turns
out, UARS is a thing. Upper airway resis-
tance syndrome was identified in adults
nearly 25 years ago by medical researchers
at Stanford University. Its a form of sleep-
disordered breathing in which people get
slightly less air than they should because
some part of their airway is too narrow
andthough theyre not actually in dan-
gertheir body perceives theyre suffocat-
ing and wakes them up.
The American Academy of Sleep Med-
icine categorizes UARS as a form of ob-
structive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA)but
UARSs effects are subtler and its diagno-
sis trickier than the apnea most people are
familiar with. Because the research on it
is broad but rather shallowand includes
few randomized, controlled trialssleep
experts disagree about almost every aspect
of the disorder, from whether its distinct
from OSA to the best therapies to amelio-
rate it. The exact prevalence of UARS isnt
knownin part because its thought to be
so underdiagnosedbut the National Sleep
Foundation estimates that 18 million Amer-
icans suffer from apnea overall, two or three
men for every woman.
That said, there are some established
facts about UARS: While OSA is associated
with being older, heavier, and male, UARS
sufferers are typically younger, leaner, and
predominantly female, according to epide-
miological data. A petite build may be a risk
factor, because smaller bodies have smaller
airways, which can be more easily crowded
by adenoids, the tongue, and the uvula, as
well as relaxation of the throat during sleep.
(And while the literature is silent on the top-
ic of beauty and UARS, one physician told
me anecdotally that the facial structure that
can put a woman at risk for UARS is some-
times linked with beauty in our culture: a
small jaw and nose.) High blood pressure
commonly occurs in tandem with OSA; the
opposite is true for UARS, in which blood
ing and chronically cold extremities. UARS
patients dont always snore or stop breath-
ingsymptoms a bed partner would likely
noticebut they tend to complain of greater
fatigue than people with standard apnea do.
The reason for the excess fatigue is the
subject of debate. One theory is that people
with UARS are more exhausted because they
awaken at the first ragged breath, while the
classic apnea sufferer may sleep through
his funky breathingunaware hes snoring
and even, at times, not breathing at all.
Undercutting that hypothesis, though,
are sleep studies that show that tiredness
isnt necessarily related to the number of
apneas or arousals patients experience
and some patients may have fairly normal-
looking sleep studies but still suffer from
brutal fatigue. These findings have prompt-
ed some scientists to bore in on the fact
that UARS coexists with a host of other psy-
chiatric and somatic disordersanxiety,
depression, posttraumatic stress, irritable
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 bowel syndrome, ADHD, and fibromyalgia,
among others. Theyve suggested that the
exhaustionand somatic disordersarent
caused by a shortage of sleep but by the ner-
vous systems overreaction to the disordered
breathing. If thats true, treating the irreg-
ular breathing could mean the anxiety or
fibromyalgia recedes without doing any-
thing else.
It frankly sounded too good to be true: Not
only did I have Gelbs pretty girls sleep dis-
order, but curing it would eliminate every
ailment Ive ever had. I felt like one of those
parents who cant face that their child has
a behavior problem and so, instead, blame
gluten or vaccines or the kid being too cre-
ative for school. On the other hand, I had
nothing to lose except debilitating insom-
nia, so I headed to the Stony Brook Univer-
sity Sleep Disorders Center in Smithtown,
New York, where much of the research on
UARS and somatic disorders has been done.
I walked in fully expecting to be told that
my dentist was a quack and I was a head case.
Instead, Susan Manganaro, MD, took one
look at my history, peered into my mouth,
and agreed with Gelb (although Stony Brook
is abandoning the term UARSthey see
CHRISTIAN TAYLOR
it as a manifestation of OSA and think its
2 x WORLD CHAMPION misleading to cordon off sufferers just be-
2 x OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST cause theyre mostly thin women). Again, my
tongue was of great interest. See how it has
ridges on the side? Manganaro said. Thats
called scalloping. It means your tongue is
pressing against your teeth because there
isnt enough room for it. (I swear, my tongue
doesnt loll out of my mouth like on the Roll-
ing Stones album cover.) She said I likely
needed to use a continuous positive airway
pressure machine (CPAP), which would blow
air up my nose and keep my breathing even.
To confirm the diagnosis and then titrate the
machine to the right air pressure, I needed to
do two overnight sleep studies in the hospital.
Those studiessensors all over my head
and body, a tube up my nose, a camera
watching me while I slept in a Motel 6ish
room with pastel ocean scenes on the wall
showed 70 arousals in the 6.5 hours I spent
in bed. I spent two of those hours lying
awake, giving me a sleep efficiency rat-
ing of 69 percent (normal is anything over
85 percent). The diagnosis? Moderate sleep
apnea with mild sleep fragmentation.
After some tussling with my health insur-
er (Manganaro says insurers seem to prefer
to wait until people develop the calamitous
downstream effects of untreated apnea
such as high blood pressure and stroke
rather than pay for preventive measures),
my CPAP machine finally arrived. It looked
like a clock radio, connected by a long tube
to a mask for your face. I had to try five
masks before I found one that didnt give
me claustrophobia or rub my nostrils so raw
and pink that I looked like a coke-addicted
rabbit when I awoke. Ultimately I settled on
a snazzy ResMed AirFit P10 for Her, size ex-
tra-small, that goes just into the tips of my
nostrils and gives me the appearance of hav-
ing a dainty lilac-and-white elephant trunk
dangling off my schnoz. Its the least sexy
thing Ive ever worn to bed, outside of the
disposable panties filled with ice packs and
Tucks hemorrhoid pads the hospital gives
you after you have a baby.
I was told it would take a couple of weeks to
get used to the machine, but it took me nearly
two months. It was definitely a neverthe-
less, she persisted type of situation. At first,
I had to use sleeping pills to be able to fall
asleep with the mask, and Id often rip it off
in the wee hours. But then the turning point
came: I woke up one morning and realized Id
slept straight through the nightCPAP suc-
cess! But then my heart sank. Where was my
mask? I didnt feel it on my face; I must have
clawed it off without realizing it. I scanned
my bedside table, looking for my little lilac
elephantbefore realizing it was, in fact, still
on my face. Id acclimated!
Once I was able to wear my CPAP through
the night without sleeping meds, my fatigue
and anxiety juststopped. Another part of
my brainthe part that had enthusiasm for
work, playing with my kids, even getting er-
rands doneturned on. It was like Id been
listening to a fire alarm for decade upon de-
cade and then, finally, found the button to
switch it off. At my follow-up visit with Man-
ganaro, my resting heart rate had dropped
from 79 to 60 beats per minute.
My sleep still isnt perfect, but now all the
stress-reduction and sleep-hygiene tactics
Id tried in the past make a difference. Caf-
feine, wine, and PMS pretty reliably give me
insomnia; exercising and setting my alarm
for the same time every day improve my
sleep. Now Im no longer a black box, where
nothing I do has the outcomes I expect. Im
more of a clockwork gumball machine: You
put the quarter in and the happy rainbow
gumballs roll out.
Four months into my treatment, Im still
stunned by the change. Who is this calm,
elephant-masked woman? I called up Avram
Gold, MD, director of the Stony Brook sleep
center, Manganaros boss, and among those
Almost two-thirds of women
experience insomnia at least a
few nights a week, according to a
National Sleep Foundation poll.
who believe that it may not be the extra sleep
that makes people feel better restedand
just all-around betterbut the reduction in
activation of stress hormones. He blames
the olfactory nerve for UARS. For all mam-
mals, the nasal passage is one of the funda-
mental ways we learn about opportunities
and dangers, he said. Think of the rabbit
on the lawn, sniffing to find something to
eat but also sniffing to smell a coming dog.
The olfactory nerve is directly connected
to the limbic systemthe emotional center of
the brainand senses not only smells but air
pressure. Gold suspects that UARS patients
limbic systems have come to associate a drop
in air pressure during sleep with danger. For
this connection to form, he postulates, there
must be a stressful sensitizing event, wheth-
er the trauma of war or the strain of getting a
divorce or becoming a parent. And perhaps,
Gold argues, you need to be someone whos
more reactive to stress to begin with.
Manganaro points out that someone else,
with a different nervous system, could have
sleep-study results similar to mine yet feel
completely fine. Though she has to grade
apnea on a scale of mild to severe for health
insurers, she is less interested in the num-
ber of arousals patients have at night than
in the severity of their symptoms during
the day. If your brain is responding to the
sleep-disordered breathing as a danger, and
your fight-or-flight system turns on and the
anxiety syndromes start up, it doesnt mat-
ter how many times an hour youre waking
up, she says.
Of course, not everyone is convinced by
Gold and his colleagues. Scientists from
Penn States sleep disorder center wrote an
essay in a prominent sleep medicine journal
a few years ago, complaining that his con-
jectures are based on small studies without
control groups and that if physicians act on
them without more proof, Gold will have
a negative impact on the health of our pa-
tients, on our economy, and, not least, on
the credibility of our field.
It is possible that all the benefits Ive no-
ticed are the result of a placebo effect. Pla-
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 SPRING HAIR REPORT

WHEN I HAD
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DIDNT SEE MY
PERSONALITY.
NOW THEY SAY
MY HAIR REALLY
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 I LOVE TO SHAKE
MY HAIR AND HAVE
PEOPLE LOOK AT ME
AND KNOW WHAT
IM ALL ABOUT:
CONFIDENCE.

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M aybe its gradually
dawned on you, or maybe it struck you sud-
denlysay, when you were seated at the back
of a packed theater or crammed into a sub-
way car and took the time to really look at the
dozens of other women gathered before you.
But by now, youre probably aware that some-
thing big and multifarious is going on with
our hair. We have entered an age where
rather than duplicating a few stock looks ad
infinitumwomen are breaking traditional
rules of presentation and wearing an un-
precedented variety of self-expressive styles,
with courage and joy. See Solange Knowles
on the cover of her latest album, A Seat at the
Table, her mesmerically pretty, long natu-
ral curls bedecked with salon-style duckbill
clips, a sly nod to her own complex relation-
ship with hair care (or perhaps to her mother
Tinas years running a Houston beauty par-
lor?). Or Meryl Streep, forgoing stiff profes-
sional updos in favor of simple, sophisticated
blow-outs and buns while she increasingly
uses her time in the spotlight to speak up for
justice and human rights. Oryes, yes, yes
Zo Kravitz, with her radiant white braids.
Modern power hair has rapidly evolved to be-
come a more creative, crafty, and individual-
ized affair, reflecting our growing desire to
celebrate the advantages of our natural tex-
ture and embrace whatever styles happen to
make us feel strong and happy.
Its an enormous shift when viewed
through the lens of fashion history. For cen-
turies, women spent countless hours crafting
looks that might grant them power, whether
political, social, or sexual. In eighteenth-
century France, women of all classes pumped
animal fats and potato starch into their hair
in an attempt to replicate Marie Antoinettes
towering pompadour. For most of the nine-
teenth century, young Japanese women wore
elaborate waxed chignonswomen of high
birth puffed theirs skyward, while courtesans
sculpted theirs outward. During the 70s and
80s, women dutifully lopped off their feath-
ered lengths to get tight, all-business bobs as
soon as they sensed it was time to get serious
about their careers (the shearing of Mela-
nie Griffiths magnificent mane in Working
Girl being a prime example). And over the
past decade, weve spent ample time and
money cultivatingvia extensions, chemical-
straightening treatments, and standing ap-
pointments at a proliferation of blow-out
barsthe sort of Bachelor/Kardashian-esque
hair (extravagantly long, straight, or precision-
curled) weve long been told men prefer.
Is a departure from such labor-intensive,
conformist styles toward a wider (and, dare
we hope, easier to execute) spectrum a sign
of intersectional female solidaritya change
related, however tangentially, to the coast-to-
coast sea of pink pussyhats? Perhaps. But the
patriarchy is not, of course, the only culprit:
Research published last year in the journal
Frontiers in Psychology found that women
typically find straight hair more attractive
than wavier hair because they associate it
with youth and health. And another study,
 released earlier this year by the Percep-
tion Institute, an organization dedicated
to reducing bias and discrimination in the
workplace, found that both white and black
women with smooth, straightened hair ex-
hibited negative bias toward naturally tex-
tured black hair, consistently rating it less
beautiful, attractive, and professional than
smooth hair.
But while some of these deeply ingrained
and remarkably shallow attitudes and ste-
reotypes may take time to break down,
Hollywood, the fashion world, and even the
U.S. Army (which earlier this year lifted its
ban on braids and dreadlocks, to the over-
whelming delight of black servicewomen)
are sanctioning more multifaceted defini-
tions of beauty. Women in the past want-
ed more male approval, says L.A.-based
stylist Mara Roszak, whose celebrity cli-
ents include Emma Stone, Zoe Saldana,
and Brie Larson. Sure, there was a time
and place for long, carefully blown-out
hairwhich Roszak herself wore before
coming around to the beauty of her natu-
ral frizzbut now it isnt about looking

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 IM GOING
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BUT SURELY.
BUT MY HAIR IS
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 this specific way that society is telling us is
cool. Its about embracing your own tastes,
your own texture, who you are. Roszak
recalls spotting a woman in her seventies
at a recent womens march who had this
amazing, beautiful deep purple hair, she
says. I have clients who can see right after
a cut that their curl is doing what they want
it to, and theyre like, Okay, Im good, and
they leave with wet hair. Women are feel-
ing more freedom, and theyre custom-
izing beauty looks that make them feel
powerful when they go out into the world.
Theyre changing the conversationand
its exciting.
Its not all about going natural. While
Roszak, who is a LOral Paris hairstyl-
ist, snips soft layers to accentuate natural
texture and unique growth patterns (lay-
ers make hair happier, she says), she also
recently steered a brunette friend whod
been contemplating platinum for years to
a colorist she knew could deliver the de-
sired rooty, radical vibe. The impact of

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 EVERY HAIR
COLOR GIVES ME
A NEW ATTITUDE.
IM GOING TO
GO WHITE-BLOND
NEXTLIKE
STORM FROM
THE X-MEN.

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 the switch was profound. Her friend, who
got a choppy bob to accompany her new
white-hot, Debbie Harryinspired color,
told Roszak afterward, with a mix of pride
and amazement, I always felt like I was
this person, but I didnt feel like I actually
represented herbut now I have the hair
that represents who I am.
The shift isnt just happening stateside.
In France, hair care has become all about
individuality and low maintenance, ac-
cording to Paris-based colorist Christophe
Robin. He sees plenty of women whove
previously relied on extensions, relaxers,
and the heavy use of hot tools stopping
because such techniques have become un-
sustainable. Most of the time, they ruin the
hair, and they just take too much time.
Robin encourages clients to stay close to
their natural shades when coloring (cutting
down on frequent root touch-ups) and to
stick with softly layered styles long enough
to grow them out gracefully. For 30 years,
women have come to me with pictures of
somebody else they want to look like. Now
they just tell me they want comfort and
long-lasting styleshair they can run their
hands through. They like to be feminine
and sexy, but natural and sophisticated.
Still, for other women, experimenting

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

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

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

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Hair by Romina Manenti at Home Agency; makeup by Frankie Boyd at Streeters; manicure by Yukie Miyakawa at Kate Ryan Inc.; casting by Zan Ludlum and Paul Brickman
for Zan Casting; produced by Una Simone Harris for Wanted Media; fashion assistant: Veronika Belyaeva. Still lifes by Jeffrey Westbrook.

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LIVING
HAVEN SENT
Alison Cayne offers up an in-demand lesson at her megahit
New York City cooking school, Havens Kitchen.
By Charlotte Druckman
Alison Cayne has just spent the afternoon
teaching a few of her friends how to master
the deceptively simple-seeming art of mak-
ing salad in the demo kitchen of the cooking
school she founded on West 17th Street in
Manhattan five years ago. We talked about
grilling, roasting, blanching, composition,
balance, texture, dressing, seasoning, and
platingoh, and knife skills, she says, sip-
ping a turmeric latte on a sofa beneath a
giant poster for Luis Buuels 1967 French
film, Belle de Jour, starring Catherine De-
neuve, who gazes out over the nook one
f loor up from the classroom. Meanwhile,
everyone drank wine, ate salad, and was
happyand walked away with at least one
new thing, like how, when you cut some-
thing, you should have it f lat-side down so
it doesnt rock.
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This is exactly what she imagined Ha-
vens Kitchen would bea salon where
Id hold book clubs and dinners planned
around a theme. Its become so much more
than that: She may have pictured it like a
clubhouse, but she didnt realize it could
be one for the food community at large. She
also didnt know paid events would be such
a big part of it; some of New York Citys
most intimate and exclusive press dinners,
book parties, and product launches are
held here, and its a popular wedding spot.
She never would have predicted that the
small retail operation at the entrance of the
building would become a caf because the
local community wanted to make it their
clubhouse. Basically, shed envisioned the
school, but not its three-story proportions,
or how those would be used.
Cayne with friends,
including Lela Rose
(far left), in her
spaces classroom
Before she imaginedor didntany of
it, Cayne was a stay-at-home mom in Man-
hattan. She gave birth to her first child in her
midtwenties (after having worked in urban
planning) and checked out of the workforce.
At 33, by then a mother of three girls and two
boys, all under the age of eight, Cayne con-
fined her culinary efforts to making lunch.
My friends couldnt understand how I was
cooking so much, preparing separate meals
for each kid and for the adults. Her peers, she
noticed, had a lot of anxiety about what to feed
themselves and their children. In 2010, when
her youngest entered preschool, Cayne, whod
received her undergraduate degree from
Duke, went back to school herself, enrolling
in NYUs masters program in food studies. I
wanted to be teaching about the love of food
Photographed by Shawn Brackbill
and anthropology, she says. While studying
for her degree, she had an internship as the
head of the education station at the Green-
market in Union Square, where she gave
people of all ages walking tours of the farm-
ers market and manned the information
booth. Shoppers would ask her what to do
with the ingredients theyd purchased, and
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shed share her e-mail address with each
of them, responding to any and all kitchen
conundrums.
Eventually, she began telling her kids, jok-
ingly, that shed open a cooking school when
they left for collegeuntil it stopped being
a joke. She wanted to offer New Yorkers the
option of taking lessons in a nonintimidat-
ing space. Everyone was so scared of the
kitchen, she says. In so many cultures
around the world, the kitchen is an altar, its
sacredits a haven. For me, it was where I
got to be creative and take care of people. It Clockwise from left:
was my happy lab. Cayne admits to having A grilled salmon,
cucumber, and eda-
had her own hang-ups about signing up for mame salad; Cayne; a
classes at the culinary schools that allow broccoli and radicchio
salad with toasted
home cooks to participate. Why, she won- walnuts and pecorino
dered, couldnt there be an alternative that
could be a happy lab for others?
When you walk into Havens Kitchen,
you enter a bright, high-ceilinged, flower- CAYNES school became a very person-
accented, subway-tiled space where cus-
tomers sink their teeth into freshly piled SALAD 101 al haven. It gave her a produc-
tive outlet and a way to start
sandwiches or just-baked chocolate chip BE DELIBERATE. Start rebuilding her life. But the
cookies, and their spoons into bowls of al- by thinking about learning curve of running a
what flavors you crave,
mond milksplashed homemade granola whats in season, and business was an all-consum-
or vibrant-hued vegetable soups, all made what you have on hand. ing distraction. I learned
Pick a basea green, a
with carefully selected and responsibly vegetable, a grain, or a a lot from my accountant,
produced ingredients. On one of the walls, beanand then build from she says. She would re-
there with complementary
beneath graphic black-and-white posters, a ingredients. mind me, Ali, its a business.
few lines of text have been stenciled. Our Its okay to be a business with
Mission: To help our guests re-connect with USE ALTERNATIVE PARTS a heart that tries to do good
the land, the table and each other. To help
OF THE VEGETABLE. Celery in the world. But its a busi-
leaves are full of flavor
family farmers build economically viable and act as a delicate ness, and if it fails, you cant
finish. Most of the nutrients
businesses. To build a new system that feeds in vegetables like zucchini, do that.
our whole community sustainable food. for example, are in the She has begun to think
skin, so wash them well,
The challenge, of course, is to find ways to but theres no need to
about ways to do bothmain-
meet that mission while generating enough peel. Broccoli stems tain a business and do good
are crunchy and sweet.
income to do so. Im balancing trying to beyond four walls. In addition
do good things for the community and pay- AVOID TOO MUCH OF to teaching a course on con-
ing rent, and supporting my employees so A GOOD THING. Toss in temporary food policy and
sweet, chewy, or crunchy
they can take care of their families. She ingredients, but with
theory at NYU, shes written
planned to be self-sustaining three years restraint. They should The Havens Kitchen Cooking School, a primer that helps home cooks
be happy surprises for
in; she did it in half that time. And she did your mouthnot the
everywhere figure out whats appealing to them, and then gives
it while going through a divorce: Two weeks main attraction. them the tools to make it. If the typical cookbook presents people
after she opened the doors to her dream, SAY NO TO SOGGINESS. with someone elses culinary style, Caynes bucks the trend; she
she separated from her husbandand the Dry greens well and wants her audience to find their own voices at the stove: Its not
add dressing just before what I want you to cook or think you need to cook. As she writes
serving (unless youre
making a slaw or a bean in the introduction to the book, out last month from Artisan, its
salad; both need to meant to teach and inspire you: It is not a list of recipes or a photo
absorb dressing and
get better with time). collage of unattainable food. I hope that you will love this book Hair and makeup by Julianna Grogan
forever but only need it for a short while.
GO WITH A LIGHT FINISH.
Toss with a drizzle of olive This afternoons salad lesson was intended to serve a similar pur-
oil and a drop of acid: pose. When her friend, fashion designer Lela Rose, asked which sal-
A splash of rice wine
vinegar is refreshing for ad would be the best to make with kids, the answer was whichever
Asian-inspired salads, salad they made themselves; it tastes better if youre invested, fol-
a squeeze of grapefruit
juice pairs well with lowed by, its true for adults, too. Caynes vision hasnt changed
creamy avocado, and a all that much. She still wants to encourage people to cook. Now,
dribble of nutty sherry
vinegar is the ultimate though, she wants to turn everyones kitchen into a havenor a
all-purpose choice. happy labno matter where they are.

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THE PROPHET
One of the most acclaimed novelists of our time,
Margaret Atwood is as prolific an enviro-warrior Tweeter
as she is a writer of brilliant fictions. Meanwhile, her classic
The Handmaids Tale is debuting on television, not to mention
energizing womens rights advocates around the globe.
Of course, she saw it all coming. By Miranda Purves
Youd better not be late, or Margaret At-
wood will slap you! my husband calls as I
rush to make my flight to Toronto to inter-
view the acclaimed Canadian woman of let-
ters. Hes referring to Atwoods cameo in the
terrifying first episode of a new Hulu series
based on her novel The Handmaids Tale. In
it, the authors character whacks a young
woman (played by Elisabeth Moss) whos
daydreaming during lessons in how to be a
womb slave.
For those of you who missed the book
when it came out in 1985, werent assigned it
in a college English course, or arent among
the many new readers whove recently
put The Handmaids Tale back on the best-
seller list, the story takes place in a dystopi-
an future where an authoritarian Christian
political faction has taken over America,
renaming it Gilead. Pollution and venereal
disease have decimated female fertility, and
women who can still give birth are turned
into handmaids, required to wear red
robes and white hoods to denote their status.
This part might be bearable, as the outfits
are fetchingly fall 2013 Valentino. But each
member of the birthing corps is then placed
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in the household of a government higher-up,
who ritually rapes her as he recites biblical
passages and his resentful wife sits behind
the handmaid, whose head is between the
wifes open legs.
My cameo, my looming cameo! Lets just
say there are only a certain number of roles
in that film for a person of my age, Atwood,
whos 77, says to me wryly. In the series,
which debuts April 26, she portrays one of
the cruel spinsters, known as Aunts, charged
with forcibly converting the captive women
into obedient handmaids. Mosss Offred
assigned to the house of a commander
named Fred (Joseph Fiennes)narrates the
story, and we quickly learn that her child has
been taken from her, and her husband shot,
as the family tried to escape to Canada.
Atwood and I are meeting at LEspres-
so Bar Mercurio, a bote with an edge of
old-world formality where she, along with
much of the University of Toronto human-
ities faculty, likes to conduct meetings. A
lovely floral/herbal smell envelops us as
we speak, which Atwood says is probably
her lotion, though she wont identify it.
Shes wearing a fuchsia vest, fuzzy polar
fleece pants, and pearl drop earrings. Like
the Mercurio, her outfit is both cozy and el-
egant, warm but strict.
With typical pragmatism, Atwood is hav-
ing none of my grand suggestion that there
is symbolism behind her being the one to
strike a blow. (Bruce Miller, the series show-
runner, affirms my interpretation, howev-
er: Of course, she had to have that role.)
The Handmaids Tale has been perceived as
an awakening slapyes, this could happen
heresince the day it was published. That
was in the Reagan era, when the Republi-
can Party, once champion of causes like the
Equal Rights Amendment, became entwined
with the Moral Majority. Cofounded by tel-
evangelist Jerry Falwell, the powerful lob-
bying group opposed government programs
that supported single mothers or helped
women advance in the workforcethe ERA
was verbotenwhile promoting prayer in
schools and sexual-abstinence education.
But The Handmaids Tale seems even
more prescient now. As in our current
stateat least if youre persuaded by White
House chief strategist Steve Bannon that the
Western world is at the dawn of a global
war against jihadist Islamic fascismthe
Republic of Gilead is in a holy war with re-
ligious forces outside its (locked) borders.
And considering our virtually all-white-
male presidential cabinet, for whom con-
trolling female reproductive freedom is a
central agenda and closing the church/state
gap an ominous subtext, the Leaders of the
Faithful, who run Gilead, sound familiar,
too. As Moss put it in an e-mail, The first
time I met Margaret, I asked her if she felt
she predicted the future when she wrote the
book. She said no, but five months later we
were at a wrap party, and we turned to each
other and both said, Wow, because now
the beginnings of what she warns us about
in the book are happening in America.
Hulu has invested heavily in the show,
airing a spooky Handmaids ad during the
Super Bowl, where 30-second spots go for
around $5 million. The series, also starring
Orange Is the New Blacks Samira Wiley as
Offreds best friend, is open-ended. That
means Millera former showrunner for ER
who most recently helped create the post-
apocalyptic sci-fi drama The 100gets to
collaborate with Atwood to fill in parts of the
story only alluded to in the book. Whats
Stills: Take Five/Hulu
happening in Canada, which now has a mas-
sive refugee problem? Miller says, offering
examples of new material. And in Israel,
where Jewish people have been shipped?
The officers lives? Its kind of a dream come
 true, the possibilities for story.
Although The Handmaids Tale
has never been out of print, sales
are up 30 percent since 2015, and
Penguin Random House has
had to supply an extra 250,000
copies to meet postelection de-
mand. Other dystopian novels,
such as George Orwells 1984, are
also resurgent, but Handmaids
is the unofficial spirit guide of
the protests against Trump ad-
ministration policies. Fans fill Instagram
with images of tattoos saying Nolite te bas-
tardes carborundorumthe words Offred
found scratched in her closet floor from a
member of the resistance. At various post-
Inauguration womens marches, signs pop
up with slogans such as Make Margaret At-
wood Fiction Again and The Handmaids
Tale Is Not an Instruction Manual.
In fact, in a wonderful irony, the profusion
of pink pussyhats at the marches, with their
earlike protrusions, echo the handmaids
white wimples as they appeared on the
iconic original book cover. A point Atwood
makes to me, and notes that shes repeated
often, is that everything that happens in The
Handmaids Tale has some historical prece-
dent, from the sumptuary laws that deter-
mined which social class could wear what
garb, to the impact of pollution on fertility
(Look it up in your browser!), to Amer-
icans fleeing for Canada. (It happened
during Vietnam and when the Loyalists fled
the Revolution.)
Atwood has pulled off the feat of being
a living legend who continues to remain
fresh and innovative on the page, as a New
York Times reviewer recently wrote. Over
the course of her career, shes coaxed us into
the dark of injustice with ever-lighter, funni-
Credits Tkers
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Atwood says she writes
speculative, not science,
fiction. Everything
in Handmaids has some
historical precedent.
er sentences. Shes been short-listed for the sponsiveness. She has two other TV projects
Man Booker Prize five times (and won once, in the works: Black Swan director Darren
for The Blind Assassin, a plot-twisty historical Aronofsky is adapting her MaddAddam tril-
metafiction about two sisters in 1930s and ogy, and Anna Paquin is set to star in a six-
40s Ontario); in March, she won the 2017 part Netflix miniseries based on Alias Grace.
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Outside the entertainment realm, Atwoods
from the National Book Critics Circle. somewhat cockamamy-sounding (at least in
She gets as much attention for her envi- 2004) start-up idea called LongPenwhich
ronmental and humanist advocacy as she allows authors to sign books long distance
does for her 16 novels, 15 books of poetry, has turned into Syngrafii, a legitimate soft-
10 works of nonfiction, 8 short-story collec- ware business that facilitates off-site doc-
tions, 8 childrens books, and two graphic ument signing. Shes in on the small-batch
novels. Shes a Twitter adept with 1.4 mil- coffee trend, having helped create Atwood
lion followersand can even claim her own Blend, the proceeds from which support
gate hashtag. During Justin Trudeaus Ontarios Pelee Island Bird Observatory.
successful race to unseat conservative Ste- And she steadfastly refuses to indulge in
phen Harper as Canadian prime minister in Canadas predilection for smugness, in full
2015, Atwood wrote a piece for the Nation- tilt since Trump, pointing out that Toronto
al Post criticizing an attack ad against the not long ago elected so-called crack mayor
liberal Trudeau that featured the tag line Rob Ford. Trump is going to do a lot of the
Nice hair, Justin. (Which candidate, At- same things [Harper did], Atwood tells me.
wood parried, was using taxpayers money Muzzle government scientists. Get rid of
to travel with a personal grooming assis- womens programs. Somebody such as Ann
tant? Hint: Initials are S.H.) When the Coulter will be put in an Aunt Lydia position
right-leaning Post mysteriously removed her as the head of all women.
column for several hours, then brought it At that, the author leans across the ta-
back with edits, #hairgate spread. ble and grabs my wrist, bearing down on
Part of Atwoods public appeal is that for me with her clear, almost impossibly blue
such a literary heavyweight, she has a light eyes. Were just trying to help you, dear,
touch and a graceful, outward-looking re- she says, putting on a splendid Aunt Lydia
meetsAnn Coulter performance. Were
In addition to The going to keep you safe. Stand in that line!
Handmaids Tale, two
other Atwood books
are being made for TV: The daughter of an entomologist, Atwood
Alias Grace and the spent her early years tracking infestations in
MaddAddam trilogy.
the northern Ontario and Quebec woods for
her father to study, until the family, which
also included her homemaker mother, sis-
ter, and brother, moved to Toronto when
she was eight. In her memoir-esque In Other
Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, she
describes herself as an itinerant wild child
who wrote and illustrated elaborate stories
about flying rabbits who had cats for pets.
As an undergrad, she studied literature at
the University of Toronto, then went to Rad-
cliffe College (still known as the Harvard
Annex) to focus on the Victorians. Atwood
had decided in high school to become a writer
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notwithstanding her affinity for biology,
which remains a hobby and a source of ma-
terialand crafted stories and poetry as
a grad student, to her colleagues disdain.
You werent a serious academic if you wrote
[fiction], she says. Twenty-three was the
hardest year. Twenty is hell. Its iffy. You dont
know what the plot is.
Then she won the Governor Generals
Award in 1967 for a book of poems, Circle
Game. With her masters but an unfinished
PhD, she left Harvard and, at 28, returned
to Canada and the tabula rasa that was her
native countrys literature scene. She lived
in Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, and
Europepublishing and teaching at various
universitiesbefore settling down, more or
less permanently, in Ontario, first in farm
country, then, in 1980, in Toronto. When I ask
if it was daunting to enter a field dominated
by male authors, she deadpans, What male
authors? It was Canada. She became both
creator and chronicler of the barely existent
world of Canadian fiction. I had an advan-
tage in two ways, she says. There were no
huge literary giantsMelville, Hawthorne,
Whitman, Dickinsonlooming over us at
that time. Yes, there were writers, but they
werent writing crush-your-soul, youre not
as good as this [books].
She also had a sense that writing was an ac-
ceptable occupation for a Canadian woman.
The United States was quite different from
a lot of other countries because it was started
by seventeenth-century Puritans, [a group]
that was very male dominated, she says.
Whereas Canada, on the English side, was
populated in the early nineteenth century by
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Samira Wiley
as Offreds best
friend, Moira;
Joseph Fiennes as
Commander Fred.
literate women who were already published
writers. On the French side were nuns who
were literate and publishing and writing.
Not that she didnt confront inequality: I
like to horrify the young by saying things like
When I went to graduate school at Harvard,
you werent let into the Lamont Libraryit
was only for boys. Not only that, in our grad-
uate seminar, the girls made tea and cookies
for the boys. She doesnt remember feeling
angry, she says. I didnt even know it was sex-
ism. At the time, you didnt get it that maybe
theres a dark side to that. You didnt resent.
This is what she says now, at least. Shes
been with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson for
46 years and ends the acknowledgments to
her most recent novel, Hag-Seed, an adapta-
tion of The Tempest, with my special thanks
to Graeme Gibsonan old enchanter, though
happily not the one in this book. He has a
T-shirt with a quote from an article about At-
wood: Every woman writer should be mar-
ried to Graeme Gibson.
But her brilliant first novel, The Edible
Woman, which immediately established her
as a significant voice and is considered one
of the galvanizing works of second-wave
feminism, tells a different story of Atwoods
attitude toward womanhood, circa 1960. A
novel-length metaphor of anger, resentment,
and suffocation, the book centers on a young
woman named Marian living in Toronto.
Engaged to be married, she slowly anthro-
pomorphizes each and every food group, em-
pathizing so deeply with their pain at being
consumed (including the shrieking carrot
pulled from the ground) that she stops being
able to eat at all.
Atwoods upper hand, of course, was that
of the confident sublimator who, rather than
being consumed herself, leveraged her an-
ger into the capital of art. To one set of her
admirerscall them the interior-minded
realiststhe Atwood book that inspires the
fiercest devotion is Cats Eye, an autobio-
graphical bildungsroman that put female
friendship in its rightful place almost a full
25 years before Elena Ferrante mined the
subject in her lauded Neapolitan novels. In
Cats Eye, Elaine, a painter, is the daughter of
an entomologist who moves to Toronto after
a life in the woods unencumbered by social
constraints. Readers follow her through an
early marriage and the birth of a daughter
(Atwood has a daughter, born in 1976, with
Gibson) and meet her again when shes 50,
visiting Toronto for a retrospective of her art.
(Through Elaine, Atwood perfectly expresses
the gall that fills so many women upon real-
izing, with a start, that theyve become the
chief domestic and emotional laborer in the
family enterprise. Elaine is banging around
in the kitchen while her artist-husband loi-
ters in the living room with a friend. Whats
wrong with her? the friend asks. Shes mad
because shes a woman, the husband replies.
At which point Elaine stands in the doorway
and announces: Im not mad because Im a
woman. Im mad because youre an asshole.)
But the heart of Cats Eye is the evolution
of the friendship between Elaine and her
girlhood friend Cordelia, who, when she rec-
ognizes in the preteen Elaine a sense of free-
dom and scientific curiosity shes never been
allowed, endeavors to improve her. Cord-
elia selects two henchgirls for the task, and
the trio slowly psychologically torture Elaine:
forcing her to walk ahead of them on the way
home from school while they criticize her
comportment, rating her locution, teaching
her manners, and punishing her with exclu-
sion and, eventually, worse.
When I read Cats Eye shortly after it was
published, it was the mean-girl episodes
that I most related to. Rereading it now, at
46, about the age when Atwood wrote it,
Im moved to tears multiple times at the true
subject of the book: time itself, the impossi-
ble, insurmountable layers of loss its passing Stills: Take Five/Hulu; Atwood: Getty Images
piles on. Now that I know what its like to have
forgotten pieces of my history surface unan-
nounced, then recede as suddenly as they
appear, its Atwoods ability to capture the vi-
cissitudes of other selves living within us that
seems most remarkable.
After Cats Eye, Atwood made a genre
shift into speculative fiction, which to her
is based on things that could happenas
opposed to science fiction, which she cate-
Atwood has produced work that
is true to her public role, and her
public role is true to her worka feat
perhaps equal to magic.
gorizes as invented from whole cloth. Her
later novelsAlias Grace, The Robber Bride,
the MaddAddam trilogyare rich in fantasy
or scientific or historical conceits, and very
plot driven. These are the books that appeal
to a second group of devotees, and alien-
ate some of the first, who still thirst for her
chronicling of the folds and nuances of the
female experience.
Atwood credits her parents child-rearing
technique, in part, for her willingness to
embark on brand-new storytelling territory:
Stiffen your spine! Stand up for yourself! wood comes from the generation of women
Dont waste your brain. Do whats right even
if its hard! Chop some wood! Drive the boat.
This is how you make a piecrust. Basically,
they let me do whatever, she says.
In a discussion with her friend and fellow
speculator, Ursula K. Le Guin, at the Portland
Arts & Lectures series in 2010, Atwood said
shed lost interest in contemporary realism
because it had become overly concerned with
well-off people and their problems, with little
room left for bearing witness outside that
sphere. These days, she tells me, only half
joking, its less true, since keeping a journal
of day-to-day life in the U.S. would be very
Le Guinonly, um, real. Of course, many
contemporary fiction writers have followed
Atwood into speculative or science fiction
Chang-Rae Lee and Lionel Shriver, to name
just twoand the genre has positively ex-
ploded in the YA realm. (And Atwood may be
in the process of converting those of us who
wish her to stick with limning the inner world
of the now: I loved her 2015 novel, the creep-
ily mesmerizing The Heart Goes Last, which
begins as a straightforward dystopian about
a couple in the near future who agree to live
in prison half the year to pay for their liberty
the other half, but veers into an exploration of
sexual desire in the technological age.)
Just as she hasnt hesitated to stretch her
readers, Atwood has been willing to mess
with her millennial feminist fans heads. She
recently signed an open letter in defense of
professor and writer Steven Galloway, who
was fired by the University of British Co-
lumbia for undivulged reasons after being
accused of sexual indiscretions by former
students. An active member of PEN Inter-
national, which fights for freedom of ex-
pression, Atwood believed the investigation
against Galloway was neither fair nor trans-
parent. If its a matter of rape, then it should
be a matter of jail, she wrote in The Walrus
magazine.
This prompted outrage from women who
thought Atwood should know better than to
assume publicly challenging a powerful pro-
fessor would be easy, or lead to justice. Along
with internalizing the lessons her parents in-
stilled in her about doing the right thing, At-
who made it in spite of sexism. So while shes
well aware of the systemic problems that im-
pede womens progress, shes also attached to
the possibility of individual triumph against
the odds. Shes as willing to hold women re-
sponsible as men: A central theme of The
Handmaids Tale is how women get lulled into
acquiescence with the dominant paradigms.
For the sheer release of it, the handmaids
beat to death a man who the regime claims
is a rapist, even as they suspect hes actually
a member of the resistance. Atwood e-mails
me after our interview: Remember how old I
am. Totalitarianisms, many of which existed
during my lifetime and formative years, dont
stop at women! They oppress everyone who is
not the ruling elite.
Although Atwood was able to find her place
in the literary scene free of competition, now
that shes a star, not just in her own country
but in the world, she does have a crush-your-
soul good Canadian figure with whom to
contend: Alice Munro, also a writer of the
female experience and a genius of the short
story. While Atwood has collected loads of
honors, she did not win the Nobel, as Mun-
ro did in 2013. I dont ask Atwood if she was
envious of her colleague and friends prize; it
would go beyond the pale of manners. What-
ever nugget of envy (surely healthy) might
lurk has been transformed into a wonderful
show of sisterhood: Atwood wrote an enco-
mium upon Munros win for the Guardian.
Both of them found their early readers
through a grasp of a distinctly Canadian
brand of prudish, judge-y limit setting (aka
tall-poppy syndrome). Its an attitude, to some
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 EVERYBODY HAS HER REASONS
Over the next few months, Linda Tirado will be talking to a group of women in America
here, youll meet three of themabout what influenced them to vote for Donald Trump
and how hes met their expectations so far. Hint: Social media figures prominently in their
views, and its getting ever more personal. PHOTOGRAPHY BY SKYE PARROTT

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

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city-in-America lists. Since the Feiwells
do well enough with Scotts small busi-
nesses in marketing and material han-
dling, the fact that Brittanys not work-
ing doesnt create financial stress for
the family.
We discuss the madness that has over-
come America in recent years, which
she describes as kind of astound-
ing, really. You used to be able to talk
about politics, and maybe it was tense,
but it wasnt so full of hatred. We talk
about the fear we share that the nation
might be actually breaking apart. She
always votes in presidential elections.
She says she voted for Trump on large-
ly economic grounds, and doesnt want
to get into the weeds of his position on
abortion. (Trump promised to defund
Planned Parenthood and suggested
punishing women who got abortions.)
She wants the president to focus instead
on American prosperity. People are
angry and afraid when theyre strug-
gling, she says. Wed do better making
Continued on page 289
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KIMBERLEY EUSTON
M A R I E T TA , G E O R G I A
Kimberley Euston lives in a big, beautiful
house in the exclusive East Cobb section
near Marietta, Georgia. Georgia remained
red in the 2016 election, despite prognos-
tications that it might not. But Marietta, a
town 20 miles up I-75 from Atlanta, has been
growing bluer with each election, and Clin-
ton bested Trump here by about 30 percent.
A lot of Eustons friends voted for Trump,
and a lot of her friends voted for Clinton. It
was Eustons dislike of Clintonand I cant
emphasize this enoughthat was the ani-
mating factor in her vote for Trump.
Euston is a high-level executive at a well-
known private accounting firm in Atlanta
(she doesnt want to name it), and her earn-
ings and those of her husband, Greg, put them
in the one percent. After she graduated from
Sweet Briar College in 1992, she worked for
the State Department in the Bureau of Inter-
national Narcotics and then joined Vice Pres-
ident Dan Quayles national security staff. and a tougher one, too.
Greg Euston owns a PR firm that specializes
in corporate and environmental communica-
tions, and their sons (she has twin 16-year-old
boys and a 13-year-old daughter) are soccer
stars, making her an actual suburban soccer
mom. Remember them, that mythic voting
bloc back in 1996? She is on the board of the
Georgia chapter of Covenant House, which
works on child homelessness issues; her hus-
band is a trustee of the Georgia Conservancy,
an environmental group. Their conservatism
is the old-guard sortas in party-of-Lincoln
old-guardand shes always voted Republi-
can in presidential elections.
Euston is originally from a small com-
munity in West Virginia, Glen Daniel,
with family roots in construction and coal
mining, and the rural working-class men-
tality has stuck with hereven though she
worked on Wall Street and for the veep.
She straddles two worlds: the one she came
from, where people are poor, are hurting,
and the one in which she lives now, where
we give everyone participation trophies.
She wants a more conservative America,
 But shes had her beefs with the Republi-
can Party. Euston, whos 47, voted for John
Kasich in the primaries and is not happy with
the state of the GOP and its values since the
election of George W. Bush, when social
conservatives were seriously mobilized as a
voting bloc. Inclusiveness has kind of gone
away from the party, she says. The reli-
gious right has had control of the party, but
the party needs to stay away from the social
issues. If I were raped, or my daughter were
raped, I should have the right to choose what
I would do with my body.
She believes in limited government,
keeping a strong military to maintain su-
perpower status, financial-sector deregula-
tion, and entrepreneurship. For her, a suc-
cessful [Trump] presidency will be if were
seeing an increase in the real GDP and in
jobs, and I think those things will happen
if there are fewer regulations, and if we
can even look at changing the tax code to
make investing in America better for peo-
ple again because itswe have the highest
corporate tax code among industrial na-
tions. So growth, jobs, GDPthats what
Im watching closely.
A reluctant Trump voter, she contends that
everyone should vote as a matter of civic re-
sponsibility, and she loathes Hillary Clinton
on principle, saying that Clinton believes her-
self to be above and beyond the law.
Given her background in DC Republi-
can politics and civil service, I ask what she
thought of the mess that was Trumps first
six weeks: his immigration-ban forays and
his gambit on the repeal of the Affordable
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KRISTIE DAVIS
H A R N E Y C O U N T Y, O R E G O N
I first met Kristie Davis at a campfire in Har-
ney County, Oregon, in January 2016, where
she and I were discussing the relative merits
of armed rebellion. Literally a stones throw
from the thousand-acre farm where Da-
vis lives with her husband and two teenage
daughters, an armed group led by Ammon
Bundy had overrun the Malheur Nation-
al Wildlife Refuge. Bundy and company
claimed they were fighting the federal gov-
ernments jurisdiction over lands on which
ranchers wanted to graze their cattle, as
well as protesting the treatment of two local
ranchers named Dwight and Steven Ham-
mond (who didnt particularly want Bundys
help) whod been convicted of burning
acreage that belonged to the feds. I was on
assignment to cover the standoff, and once
Davis found out Id been planning to sleep
outside in subfreezing temperaturesI grew
up in the mountains and had the proper
gear, but still, its not something you really
want to doshe insisted that I come stay
with her family for the duration of my visit.
Kristie, 45, is headstrong and mouthy, the
sort of woman youd describe as taking no
shit from anyone. She gets it from her moth-
er, Sandy Potter, 64, who lives nearby and
was at that campfire as well. I let them take
me to where it was warm and there was elk
steak, because I am not stupid.
The closest town to Daviss spread is
Burns, population 2,757the largest town in
Harney County, which is the largest county
by area in Oregon. Ranching and farming
are the major professions here, and its a
precarious living; one late spring blizzard
or one worse-than-usual summer drought
can easily turn Daviss tight margin of prof-
it growing alfalfa hay, grain, and mint leaf
(for tea) into a loss. Given that, Kristie and
her husband, Herb, do well in the context
of their environs. They pay for their own
private health insurancenot Obamacare.
They have one full-time employee, and for a
Continued on page 290
 ASK E. JE AN
What to do if youre living a lucky life?
Stop making problems for yourself, already!
Plus, a passel of clever retorts to those who
insist on inquiring about your childless state
MODELING
SINFUL BEHAVIOR
DEAR E. JEAN: I eloped last year with an
extraordinary Spartan warrior of a man.
We lead a charmed life, traveling to faraway
lands, sleeping together in jungles under the
stars, and I could not dream of a better mate.
But something bothers me: Three years ago,
after he promised to quit his James Bond
esque life to be with me and I abandoned a
promising modeling career in New York to be
with him, I was at a party and got blackout-
drunk. It was the first and last time in my
life I got that drunk, and I let someone else (a
puppy-like man whom Im not attracted to at
all, at all, at all) kiss me.
I dont have any recollection of this. Its
just black nothingness. When I was told
about the kiss, it felt like I was being gaslight-
ed by a mean joke. Nothing like this has ever
happened to meIm known as picky and
standoffish. For three years, Ive been a sin-
less angel, so this fall continues to rattle my
sense of identity and self-confidence! How
can I shake the feeling that when all inhibi-
tions are removed, Im not nearly as extraor-
dinary as I think I am? My husband and I
agree: If a relationship isnt something for
the ages, why bother? Obviously, Id never
tell my husband, but have I ruined our great
love? Ive always prided myself on my elevated
way of behaving, and now I feel the balance of
our relationship is off. My husband has been
perfect, and I have done a sad thing.
Fallen From Grace
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! My heart rejoiceth!
You are the first sinless angel to appear in
an American advice column.
I dont know how long youre planning on
visiting us down here, Miss Fallen; Earth is
a strange and marvelous place. You see, on
this planet, nobody is perfect. We all sin
around here. Today, I myself trespassed and
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forgave those who trespassed against me
and hell, its not even lunchtime yet.
Youre sinless, Fallen, so excuse my
bluntnessits kindly meant: People here
arent crazy about (pardon me) picky and
standoffish former-model angels flapping
around. Accordingly, Im 97 percent certain
that a mean joke was, in fact, played upon
you by a bunch of humorless mortal dimwits.
Ping the puppy and ask him what your lips
were doing. (If they were, in truth, smacking
himLOL and forgive thyself. Your love is not
ruined; its tougher because
youve learned a lesson.)
Go easy on yourself, Fallen.
43 MINUTES
While visiting Earth, remem- Morning
ber that no wife or husband toilette
is for the ages. Get that
straight now, or suffer the
tortures of the damned when
Mr. Spartan Warrior forgets
and leaves his befouled socks
on the floor, and you discover
hes a mortal manchock-
full of follies and nonsense. 14 MINUTES
PS: Upon your return to Cover
Heaven, tell those two arch- nakedness
angels, Gabriel and Michael,
hello from old E. Jeanand that they have
a good time coming their way if ever they
drop by.
MORNING, GLORY:
MINUTE BY MINUTE
DEAR E. JEAN: My morning routine: Wake
up at 6 a.m. Fall back asleep. Wake up again
at 7 a.m. Look at my phone. Start shouting at
myself. Enter bathroom. Exit feeling calm and
fresh. Look at my phone. Discover Ive spent
40 minutes in there! At this point, Im no lon-
ger calm. I start getting dressed and looking
desperately for the top I could swear was on
the drying rack. Now its 7:55. This leaves me
five minutes to do my hairand I never go
a day without a compliment on my hair. It is
8:26 a.m. when I finish my hair. Feeling that I
am forgetting something keeps me in the house
until 8:40. I arrive at work at 9:25late. This
happens every day! I cannot get myself out of
this rut! Can you help?
The Girl Who Runs Late
My Girl: Begin your routine 15 minutes
Gregg Delman (styled by Christian Stroble; hair by Eduardo Carrasco at Ford Artists NYC; makeup by Sylwia Rakowska at Ford Artists NYC)
earlier, and youve got yourself the kind of
gorgeously ambitious day that F. Scott Fitz-
gerald writes of in The Great Gatsby. To wit:
6:45: Open eyes.
6:456:46: Rise to sitting
position. Raise glass from
30 MINUTES
Arrange bedside table. Toast to fall-
tresses ing in love. Drink 10 ounces
of water. All sorts of sweet,
exciting health benefits are
ascribed to drinking water
first thing in the morning on
an empty stomach (jolts me-
tabolism, revs the digestive
tract, thrills the brain, and so
1 MINUTE
on), but these claims never
Guzzle H2O mention the main thing: It
elixir wakes a betch up!
6:47: Enter bathroom.
7:30: Exit bathroom.
7:31: Get dressed. Now, Gatsby had a lot
of shirts, yes. But if you pry open your clos-
et the night before and use your imagination,
you can style four or five profoundly inter-
esting outfits straight from the castoffs in
the back. (I can only imagine what you may
find in the front. One need only strike envy
in the hearts of two or three women on the
walk to work to understand how really im-
portant clothes are.) Hang your days outfit
on the closet door the night before.
7:45: Hair. (And may Auntie Eeee just say,
Your hair looks stunning!)
8:15: Exit house. Therell be no frenzied
loping through the premises, muttering,
Where are my sunglasses? Where are my
damn sunglasses? Everything you need for
the day will be neatly arranged and waiting
by the front door. Why? Because you put it
there the night before.
8:58: Arrive at work. You cant change the
world unless you get out of bed.
WHAT IS IT WITH
YOU DUDES AND YOUR
MOTHERS-IN-LAW?
DEAR E. JEAN: Im a guy. My wife and I
met when we were in college. Her mother was
good-looking and very nice, and as time went
on, we developed a close relationship. It even-
tually led to cuddling. Clothes on, then naked.
She never really wore underwear, and I loved
it. To sum it up, we did oral a few times and
intercourse twice. She taught me things, helped
me grow and experience life as most people
dont. Eventually our meetings stopped when
she moved to another state, but I couldnt quit
thinking about her.
After we married, I told my wife everything.
She said she pretty much suspected this had
been going on, but she was still mad for a while.
Then she told me it turns her on to imagine
what happened. That got me superexcited, and
weve been role-playing during sex. Is this nor-
mal? Is it okay? I was researching this topic and
read your answer where you were angry with the
guy for propositioning his mother-in-law.
Good Karma
Karma, You Bounder: You refer, of course,
to Frogman, the British Royal Marine who
snuck behind his wifes back and pestered his
poor mother-in-law for sex so often that I had
to forbid him from speaking to any mother-
in-law, including Queen Elizabeth II.
Q: My boyfriend asks why I dont dress up like I
once did. He says he longs for the good old days
when I showed I cared about him. But the truth is,
Im just so comfortable with him that I feel I can be
myself. E. Jean, must I put on a dress and mascara?
A : Yes, you must. Youll look great in the dress.
Hell feel great that you dressed up, and nothing
will be as great as you both coming home
together and putting on your old pajamas.
And as for you, you abysmal chump, lets
see: The woman who taught you to experi-
ence life as most people dont is now out of
the picture. The lovely, trusting young wife
you betrayedlied to, cheated ondoes
she leave you? Does she give you a running
kick out the door? Does she even excoriate
you for your faithlessness? No! Her amo-
rous romps with you are now twice as ex-
citing! What can I say? Youre one of those
irrepressibly lucky people who escape lifes
moral muckheaps unscathed. So, naw. I
will not be angry with you. (Just ignore
the silent rebuke in my eyes.)
And speaking of mothers
THE AGONY OF
AUNTS
DEAR E. JEAN: Im a married 38-year-old
woman who does not want children. My hus-
band, parents, and dearest friends have always
supported this decision. Im a devoted aunt to
my nieces and nephews and have tons of respect
for parents. I just dont want to be one.
However, everyone seems to be pressuring
me to have kids! People I dont even know
wellfriends of friends, random taxi driv-
ersconstantly comment: Why dont you
have kids yet? or You should have kids be-
fore its too late!
Can you please help me find a polite, nonag-
gressive way to shut down these conversations
without sounding like a kid hater?
So Ova It!
Ova, My Orchid: When people ask, Why
dont you have kids yet?, smile, open your
arms wide, and cry out: Eeeeeegads! Am I
not enough for you?
And then keep smiling, because the ques-
tion will never, never, never cease. When
you turn 50, people will ask: Are you con-
sidering adoption? (Answer: Yes. Elton
John and his husband, David Furnish, are
considering adopting me.) When you turn
60, the question will be: Why didnt you
have kids? (Answer: Because I saw how
your parents kids turned out.) When you
turn 70, the question will be: Do you regret
not having kids? (Answer: Are you kid-
ding? I still get up every morning and thank
God I dont have children!) When you turn
80, the question will be: Do you wish you
had kids to help you with the house? (An-
swer: I wish I had rich kidscan you lend
me $1,700?) When you turn 90, the ques-
tion will be: Who will be at your deathbed,
since you dont have kids? (Answer: My
husband, my dog, and my seven lovers.)
And when you die serenely at 103, the first
question the obit writer from the New York
Times will ask your niece: Why didnt your
aunt have kids?
METTA DATA
DEAR E. JEAN: Im curious: Should I have sex
before marriage?
XX Metta
Miss Metta: Before I respond, please answer
two questions for me: (1) How old are you?
(2) Are you in love?
Ravishing Regards, E. Jean
AUNTIE EEEE: Im 22. Just graduating col-
lege. An old soul. As for being in love, every day
is like Hoziers songI fall in love with some-
one new. Keeping this in mind, Ive been in love
countless times, but Ive never been in a rela-
tionship with a significant other.
XX Metta
Miss Metta: Well, then, to answer your
question: Do whatever you like before mar-
riagelet the chaps pursue you the way ev-
ery woman wants to be pursued, or move to
a hut in the wildernessits after marriage
when you must get down to business and
have sex as often as possible, because if
you dont, you wont be having much sex at
all during your divorce.
Ask a question! E.Jean@AskEJean.com or
Twitter.com/ejeancarroll. Read past columns at
ELLE.com/life-love/ask-e-jean/. You can watch
videos, write with anonymity, and exchange
genius tips on Advice Vixens at AskEJean.com.
And if youd like a date: Tawkify.com.
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HAILEY
BALDWIN
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 JASMINE
TOOKES
On Jasmine Tookess twenty-fourth
birthday, in 2015, she learned that
after three years of walking the
Victorias Secret runway, she was
finally becoming an Angelone of
the bewinged models who rep the
brand year-round. It was a dream
come true: As a little girl, Tookes
had staged Victorias Secret shows
at home for her mom, who was a
stylist. I had crowns and wings and
scarves that Id tie in crazy ways,
she says. Shed particularly looked
up to Tyra Banks for her confidence
and skill, and also for having
been the first black woman to don
the jeweled, multimillion-dollar
Fantasy Bra, an event that basically
anoints its wearer as the sexiest
woman in the world. Victorias
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following in Bankss footsteps and
wearing that years version, she
burst into tears. After moving to
New York from Orange County,
California, to model at 18, shed too
often found herself the only black
model in a show. But since then,
she says, the industry has grown.
Last February, for the first time, at
least one model of color appeared
on every New York Fashion Week
runway, and more than 30 percent
of the models were nonwhite.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beauty Secret: On lids, try

LORAL PARIS Infallible 24 HR
Eye Shadow in Glistening Garnet.

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

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

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

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

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

Model Hannah Bennett wears:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Models Danielle Gordon, Georgia

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

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

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

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

Left: Embroidered dress, silk

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

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

Far right: Leather jacket,

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

Hair by Kevin Ryan for Unite;

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

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

CLEAN BREAK
Pack your bagsbut leave your baggage behind. Nothing tunes
out the noise like a sleek, simple suit in purist white.
Photographed by David Bellemere Styled by David Vandewal
 Far left: Nylon swimsuit, $90, leather
handbag, both, CALVIN KLEIN, visit
calvinklein.com. Sunglasses, MIU MIU,
$500. Silver earring, MARIA BLACK, $240.
Silver earring, CHARLOTTE CHESNAIS,
$290, worn throughout. Silver bracelet,
$315, ring, $90, both, MIANSAI. White gold
and diamond ring, CARTIER, $5,600.

Left: Elastane-blend swimsuit, LAUREN

RALPH LAUREN, $104, visit ralphlauren
.com. Silver earrings, $350, cuff, $890,
all, AGMES. White gold and diamond
stud, HEARTS ON FIRE, $895 (for pair),
worn throughout. Crystal arm cuffs, both,
MAISON MARGIELA, $1,190 each. Silver
bracelets, $895$2,900 each, ring, $400,
all, LAGOS. Silver bracelet, JOHN HARDY,
$795. Silver cuff, $370, ring, $160, both,
EDDIE BORGO. Silver rings, both, MARIA
BLACK, $140$155 each. Silver rings, both,
MIANSAI, $60$90 each. White gold and
diamond ring, CARTIER, $5,600. For
details, see Shopping Guide.

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Viscose vest, BOSS, $945, visit
hugoboss.com. Metal mesh top,
$7,190, skirt, $7,590, plexiglass
earring, $260 (for pair), all,
PACO RABANNE. Silver cuff,
EDDIE BORGO, $370. Silver
ring, CLOSER BY WWAKE, $176.
Silver rings, MIANSAI, $90$125
each. Chain-metal handbag,
KENZO. Leather sandals,
ISABEL MARANT, $690.

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 Cotton T-shirt, $150, jersey
hooded top, $540, plastic
skirt, $2,350, plexiglass
earring, $260 (for pair),
calfskin handbag, $1,850,
all, PACO RABANNE, visit
pacorabanne.com. Nylon
bikini bottom, JADE SWIM,
$80. Brass lipstick case (worn
around neck), VALENTINO
GARAVANI, $895. For details,
see Shopping Guide.

Beauty Secret: Get lashes as

big as the waves youre chasing
with MAYBELLINE NEW
YORK Volum Express The
Colossal Waterproof Mascara.

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Viscose dress, TOM FORD, $3,450,
visit tomford.com. Palladium-plated
earring, J.W.ANDERSON, $1,650
(for pair). Leather backpack, $450,
clutch, $275, both, KARA. White gold
and diamond rings, both, DELFINA
DELETTREZ. Silver and diamond ring,
DAVID YURMAN, $1,200.
Beauty Secret: CLINIQUE Broad
Spectrum SPF 30 Sunscreen Body
Cream offers insurance for a big reveal.

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 Techno jersey jacket, $795,
sunglasses, $395, both, MAX
MARA, at Max Mara, NYC. Velour
shorts, ROXANA SALEHOUN, $187
(sold as set). Neoprene brief bikini
bottom, CALI DREAMING, $110.
Gold vermeil earring, MODERN
WEAVING, $155. Iridescent
backpack, KARA, $495. Silver rings,
both, MIANSAI, $125 each. For
details, see Shopping Guide.

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Embroidered-chiffon dress, MONSE,
$6,490, collection at Bergdorf Goodman,
NYC. Silver-plated hoop earring,
ANNELISE MICHELSON, $398 (for pair).
Silver cuff, ALYSSA NORTON, $225. Silver
rings, both, MIANSAI, $90$125 each.
White gold and diamond ring, CARTIER,
$5,600. Leather clutch, KARA, $275. Vinyl
sandals, ALEXANDER WANG.

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Patent leather jacket, $2,875, leather
belt, $430, handbag, $1,480, cir
cap (held with bag), $800, all, MIU
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EXPOSURE
On the heels of a contemporary art revolution in China, Max Mara
brings classic Italian tailoring to an avid Shanghai following.
Molly Langmuir hits the citys experimental, cash-infused gallery
scene and discovers four boundary-breaking new talents.
Photographed by Jason Schmidt Styled by Morly Guo
When I arrived in Shanghai one night
last December, the city was glitteringly
bright and bracingly cold. In one of the
worlds most sophisticated urban centers,
an international technology hub with a
fluorescent-lit skyline, many buildings still
dont have central heatingjust one of the
places unlikely juxtapositions. Another is
that despite the governments history of cen-
sorship, over the last few years an art scene
has developed in Shanghai thats so dynam-
ic and fresh the city has, practically over-
night, become a global cultural destination.
Its an underground art and music ex-
plosion! says Max Mara Creative Director
Ian Griffiths the next morning, sitting in a
(frigid) barren room off the cavernous great
hall of the Shanghai Exhibition Center,
where the brand was preparing to reveal its
prefall 2017 collection, titled Monopolis!
Everywhere you go here, people are talking
about art or making art or showing art. Not
only was Max Mara staging its first show in
China, it had tapped Beijing-based multidis-
ciplinary artist Liu Weiwhose sculptures,
paintings, videos, and photographs explore
what it means to live in a rapidly shifting
urban environmentto collaborate on an
11-piece capsule collection. Liu also de-
signed the set, which, by the following eve-
ning, had transformed the hall into a runway
with mirrored columns, planetlike globes,
and wire sculptures that towered over the
models and evoked, like much of the artists
work, an environment both slightly dystopi-
an and sleekly futuristic.
Griffiths joined Max Mara in 1987, right
after graduating from Londons Royal Col-
lege of Art, and rose through the ranks un-
til he was named creative director in 2013.
Roughly two years later, he began to speak
to the press on behalf of the brandan
unprecedented move for the 66-year-old
family-run Italian business, which (despite
having hired, from the 70s on, luminaries
such as Karl Lagerfeld and the duos behind
Dolce & Gabbana and Proenza Schoul-
er to work in its atelier) had never put
a designer front and center. Over the
years, Ian just absorbed the DNA of
the brand, says Giorgio Guidotti, the
companys long-standing president of
worldwide communications and public
relations. As for what that DNA entails,
Max Mara remains geared toward a
woman who wants to put her person-
ality forward, and also wants beautiful
clothes that last over time, Guidotti
says. Both he and Griffiths stress that,
in an ever more globalized world, this
woman exists anywhere from Amer-
ica to China, where the group (which
includes Sportmax and Max&Co.)
opened its first store on the mainland in
1993 and now has 414 shops across the
country. Despite Asias recent economic
slowdown, Max Maras Chinese market
remains roughly the same size as that of
Europe or the U.S.
Alongside his work at Max Mara,
Griffiths also teaches fashion design at
Londons Kingston University. His flu-
ency in everything from fine art to indie
rock plays out in Monopolis!, which
was inspired by 80s neo-noir film Blade
Runner, the Chinese electro-pop band
Nova Heart, and the general creative
ferment of Shanghai. The designer lik-
ens the citys great love of fashion and
great love of art to that of 70s New
York and London.
The fascination with art, at least, is
fairly recent. Contemporary art only
really began to be produced in China
in the 80s, after the Cultural Rev-
olution, and even through the 90s,
there was an assumption that young
 VIVIAN XU
For her work, the bio-artist has grown
silkworms and even strains of bacteria.
We humans experience everything with
a centric view, she says. But thats only
one slice of what life is. With a series of
images produced for her project
Living Devices (201213).
Wool coat, MAX MARA, $5,890.
 FUN A YE OPHELIA S. C H AN
Funa once recorded teens discussing a perfect In some of Chans multimedia
world, then superimposed burgers and other installations and videos, people
food floating around their heads. It looks talk about themselves as fictional
like a colorful, crazy video, but its actually characters: Its about performance
a documentary, she says. With wallpaper in daily life. With a still from a video
produced for her installation Diamond Nail Salon titled Dream Lense (2015). Silk printed
(2015). Wool crepe skirt, MAX MARA, $535. dress, MAX MARA, $1,150.

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

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Wang recently produced two pink-lit installations
that poked fun at art-world careerism. Welcome
to the Art World (2016), for example, featured a
human-size hamster wheel with instructions like Build
Relationships and Create a Mailing List. With part
of her installation Every Artist Should Have a Solo
Show (2016). Cashmere knit top, MAX MARA, $765.
casting by Samantha Culp; artists: Wang Xin, Ophelia S. Chan, Vivian Xu, and Funa Ye;
Styled by Morly Guo (hair by Yang Changxiu; makeup by Yooyo Ko at Andy Creation;
fiths puts it, Chinese artists are giving us a
kind of total review of what can be consid-
ered art and how you can make it. Some say
this is particularly true of the countrys fe-
produced by Lucas Lechevalier and Baba Liu at 5e Productions)
male artists. Many of the most exciting stu-
dios of digital artists Ive gone to have been
womens, says David Maupin, cofounder of
New Yorkbased Lehmann Maupin gallery,
which represents Liu Wei.
As for the gender divide in China, its not
as strong as in the West, because socialism
always promoted women as equals to men,
says Zhang Ga, artistic director of Shang-
hais Chronus Art Center. (Women hold
up half the sky is an oft-quoted Maoism.)
Yet into the 80s, female artists were a rari-
ty. Its not that they got forgotten; they just
didnt exist, Munroe says. Today, female
artists continue to face barriers. Gallerist
Leo Xu, who frequently shows new media
work, says clients inquiring about female
artists often ask, Does she have a hus-
band? Does she have a kid? If she doesnt,
they want to wait until she does to see how
far she can go. (Theyre not as scrutinizing
when purchasing the work of foreign female
artists, he adds.) Yet Xu, too, notes the suc-
cess women are having with new media.
Theres less hierarchy there, he says. It
gives women an advantage.
Its one thats being exploited by the four
groundbreaking female artists in these pag-
es. Ophelia S. Chan recently produced a
multimedia installation focused on stills of
70s amputee porn star Long Jeanne Silver,
a symbol of female power and of reclaim-
ing power, she says. And Vivian Xu, a bio-
artist whose work explores, shes written,
distinctions between the organic from the
artificial, the living from the dead, is in the
process of building a suit that would enable
its wearer to pick up electrical currents.
Censorship hasnt affected me much,
she says, partly because if work isnt overt-
ly political, the government tends to look
the other way, but also because shes based
in Shanghaiand if theres a crackdown,
Beijing gets hit first. Funa Ye, who has an
interest in ordinary peoples aesthetic, has
become known for her work based on nail
art; for one recent installation, Nailhenge,
she produced 10 monumental nails covered
in pastel swirls and rainbows, elevating a
personal (often female) form of creativi-
ty into the realm of high art. And finally,
theres Wang Xin, a certificated hypnotist
who puts people into trances to help them
explore their subconscious. Society hyp-
notizes people every day, through advertise-
ments and stuff like that, she says. Really,
Im trying to wake people up.
Those women are all in the early stages
of their success. But Liu, 45, is a perfect il-
lustration of the reach of Chinese art. Max
Maras Griffiths originally encountered
Lius work at Pariss Centre Pompidou,
where, in 2010, he installed ever-so-slightly-
skewed architectural models of famous
centers of powerthe Pentagon, the Colos-
seumconstructed from dog chews.
Liu brought his appreciation for imper-
fection to Max Mara, a brand defined by its
tasteful, precise tailoring. When Griffiths
shared fabric samples with him, the artist
routinely turned them over and declared he
preferred the reverse. The resulting pieces,
produced in Max Maras signature palette
of camel, black, and white (and made avail-
able, in a first for the brand, online and in
some stores directly after the show), retain
classic shapestheres an elegant wool-
blend wrap coat; a slim jacquard pencil
skirtbut, through trompe loeil prints and
fabrics chain-stitched to evoke topographic
maps, incorporate a subtle rawness.
Griffiths, in turn, incorporated certain
rough elements into the rest of his prefall
collection. Among the pussy-bow blouses,
ruched-tulle pencil skirts, and trademark
coats, there was also the odd ripped-looking
sweater and a white maxidress covered in
raw-edged black strips with visible white
stitching. It gives the clothes a new kind of
modernity, which is exactly right for the time
in which we find ourselves, Griffiths says.
Right now, he adds, whether in Shanghai,
New York, or Rome, People are looking for
products that have meaning, that feel secure.
In that sense, its a very Max Mara moment.
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never looked this feminine. Its the eyes.
Theyre more open. And your eyebrows are
higherand arched.
She asks whom Ive seen, heard from, but its
whom I havent seen or heard from that hurts.
They number both family and friends.
Renata distills it: When one of us goes for
it, it gives anxiety to the others, no matter the
outcome. If it looks good, were torn between
elation that we too can take the plunge, and re-
sentment that the voices pushing us to do it just
got louder: Look, Holly did it. Or if it looks bad,
now were totally panicked because we cant get
off the assembly line of aging, and we have to
stick with our bags and sags. So chances are, no
one is really happy to see your facelift because
it triggers too many selfish emotions. But Im
happy for you, truly.
And she truly is. Renata picks up her iPhone
and finds two pictures she snapped on the sly.
One was of me at the pre-op dinner, the other
taken earlier tonight, when I thought she was
sending a text. The first photo is unkind; my
mouth is awkwardly open, my forehead pushed
up into Shar-Pei creases, my facial wrinkles
amplified by the overhead lighting. The second
is a bad angle, but even so, you can see the wave
of Rosenbergs wand. I look like mephoto-
shopped. Renata says, Youre a lucky girl.
THE OFT-ASKED QUESTION: Does it hurt?
On a pain scale of 1 to 10, I register whiny. I keep
a recovery journal, most of which will read like
a litany of bratty, spoiled, high-end complaints:
Must sleep on doughnut-hole pillow as ears ache
inside and outsidescalp numb yet still weirdly
itchyneck feels like its in a choke hold, major
bruisinghurts to open mouth and floss teeth
mood swinging way up, way downcheeks, neck
numbgreat day, UPS guy called me miss He takes a pair of medical tweezers and plucks:
can feel Endotines beneath my scalp like bud-
ding hornstotally anxiousbrushing hair feels
like brushing dolls headsparks flying through
face as nerves reconnectlumps under jawears
sticking out, HUGEwhats this line still doing
around my mouth?me so prettyearlobes hot,
swollenhurts neck to talk too muchforehead
288
falling down?stretching neck back out talking
too much?eyes uneven?did he do enough???
Of course, it would not be a Beauty Adven-
ture if there werent complications. I was the
one in 50 who got bruising. And two weeks in,
I wake up to a bald spot the size of a quarter
right near the front of my hairline. The vanity
gods are punishing me! Panicked, I call Rosen-
bergs office. Hes in surgery, his patient coor-
dinator, Janie Indursky, says. But come in;
Dr. Pauls here.
That would be Dr. Benjamin Paul, Rosen-
bergs very tall, dark colleague, professorial-
ly handsome and spectacled in rectangular
frames. Married. One child. I had to ask. He
saw me last week when I had my stitches and
staples removed, and again when I was con-
vinced Id gone forever cockeyed. (Diagnosis:
uneven swelling. Absolutely normal.)
Paul enters the examining room, smiling,
Who are you? (Thats a jokean Im so pret- me in the lobby: Your facelift is great. Now,
ty now he doesnt recognize me joke.) I tell him
we have to stop meeting like this and point to
the bald patch.
I see that, he says, confirming Im not cra-
zy. Theres nothing long-term to be worried
about. Its root shock. It happens. It could be
the anesthesia aloneyou could go in for bar-
iatric surgery and, just from the anesthesia,
get these little patches. And honestly, if you
operate on the scalp, sometimes the neighbor-
ing hair follicles feel stress from the event and
they can shed.
It can take anywhere from six weeks to three
months before it starts to regrow. So I wouldnt
expect next week its going to be growing. Seri-
ously, its temporary.
One thing you can do is change your part
one millimeter over, Paul says. Just take a few
hairs from this side and pull them over it. Like
a comb-over?
Thats what I would do. Take a few of these
hairs. He re-parts my hair. And its gone!
And yet, still there!
Paul crosses his arms and furrows his brow:
Are you a worrier?
No! Im a woman with a bald spot in the front
of my head! Poor Dr. Paul.
Youre going to be absolutely fine. In a
month or two, youll have forgotten this was
even a thing. The eyes are looking better, by the
way. The swelling is down 50 percent.
He checks my head for spit stitches, the
dissolvable ones that sometimes work their way
out to the surface. They feel like little bristles.
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
Rosenberg pops his head in the door. I just
finished up, and I heard you were here, he says.
You look great! I tell him Im embarrassed to as weve been here a dozen times pre-op. Joel
admit that I wish hed hiked my forehead up a
teensy bit more, say, an extra 5 percent.
In plastic surgery, one centimeter is a lot,
Rosenberg says. So you have to balance beau-
ty with risk. Yes, theres a subtle hooding that
persists over your eyes. I like to keep that. Its
perfectly imperfect. Trying to get rid of ev-
erything becomes evident to the layperson.
Whereas this. No one will even suspect. Un-
less you tell everyone.
The late, great Nora Ephron, who felt bad
about her neck, once told me: Tell one, tell a
thousand.
Every time I see my doorman, he circles
his face with an index finger and gives me the
thumbs-up. Neighbors knock on my door un-
der the auspices of borrowing something, or to
ask if my cables working, or to invite me over
or themselves in for a glass of wine, which in-
evitably leads to a play-by-play and an iPhone
slide show. Doris, a beautiful older woman, an
actress who makes her living as an extra, stops
dont sit in your apartment. Get out there! Dont
waste it.
I swing by Renatas New Years party, and the
heads in the room swivel in unison. A woman
Ive met once, whose name I cant recall, tells
me I look fantastic. I smile, fishing for how
much she knows. Renata showed you the pic-
tures, right? Yes!
Excuse me, but I have to go strangle her. I find
Renata in the kitchen and let her have it. But
youre writing about it! she says, apologizing,
deleting the photos on her iPhone. You have to
decide whether youre a private person or a
memoirist. And after everything youve written
over the years, I think you know the answer.
Shes right, but shes still wrong.
Meanwhile, Virginia, one of my oldest, best
friends, is MIA. Aside from one textHows
the face?we havent seen each other since
our dinner at Freds. Her absence is more pain-
ful to me than the surgery.
By the end of March, three months out, all
the feeling has returned to my scalp, and baby
hairs are sprouting through my bald spot. My
ears are still a little sore; my neck still feels
stiff and tight and numb-ish. Rosenberg says
itll take six months before the final results are
in. (I promise an update.) But honestly, I dont
think about any of it that much. This face has
become my new norm. I no longer look in the
mirror wondering, wishing, wanting, waiting
no more waiting.
I meet Germaine for a drink at City Hops, the
Alexandre Weinberger/Trunk Archive
craft-beer pub in our neighborhood where Joel,
a handsome hipster bartender with a man-bun,
gives us a round of pints, chats us up, and asks
if were sisters. Huge compliment, as Gem is
beautiful. (We look nothing alike.) And funny,
just doesnt recognize its me.
Our friend Joanna breezes in, and the place
starts filling up. Am I imagining this, or are we
 getting lots of attention? I mean, even me.
Ill tell you what it is, Jo says, leaning in.
Before, you felt better than you looked, and
now, you look better than you feel.
Oh, I dont know. I feel pretty greatmore
lighthearted, more open, more brave. Yes, sub-
tly and majorlyand still transforming.
THE PROPHET
Continued from page 231
degree, shared with other commonwealth na-
tions, whose double remove from the British
aristocracy, by class and geography, created a
sniffy social MO to put people in their place.
Since shame and a rebellion from shame are
inherent to the human condition, Munros
and Atwoods familiarity with these psychic
twins gives them an excellent vantage point
to connect with a vast readership.
Munro, though, never changed course; she
just honed her subject and her form to an oth-
erworldly perfection. Munros talent is the
talent of magic, like the Rocky Mountains, or
some other sublime natural wonder. Atwood
is not sublimeeven her magical confidence
is made explicable by loving and accepting
parents. (The only time Atwood is without
a decisive comment or new addition to push
our conversation forward is when her moth-
er comes up. She died at 97, she says, then
pauses for a long stretch before adding, in a
tone inflected with the unresolved, Anyway,
back to the present.) But in remaining open
to the contemporary rather than holing up
with her muse, Atwood has produced work
that is true to her public role, and her public
role is true to her workan achievement per-
From left: Take Five/Hulu; Skye Parrott
haps equal to magic. Atwood has what people
used to want, gravitas and depth, but has also
grabbed the new golden ring on lifes wacked
carousel: Shes an image-based influencer.
When she came to visit the set for the
first time, Bruce Miller says, everyone got
into their costumes, and all the actors who
played handmaids lined up in rows and, as
she walked through, bowed their heads.
BRITTANY FEIWELL
Continued from page 234
sure everyone has enough.
It takes more than an hour of talking with
her before we get to the thing that I couldnt
figure out: How is it that a moderate, the Jew-
ish daughter of a father who emigrated from
Spain, and a woman who grew up in cultur-
ally diverse Miami, voted for Donald Trump?
How is it that she supports the travel ban,
versions 1.0 and 2.0? She tells me its because
she lived in New York City and worked near
the World Trade Center, and September 11,
2001, was her last day of work before she was
to move to L.A. She slept in a bit that morn-
ing, and thats why she wasnt at her office
on Wall Street when the planes hit. When she
woke, she could see the smoking Twin Tow-
ers out her bedroom window, and all these
years later during anniversary remembranc-
es, she can still smell that terrible acrid smell.
When Trump talked about Islamic terrorism,
it resonated with her; it didnt seem unrea-
sonable to have a 90-day restriction on a few
countries, she says, while the government
checks people out. My understanding is that
its temporaryas a way to reset.
She gets her news online, mostly from
social media, but she also watches the To-
day show and The View religiously, as well
as Meet the Press. She didnt know about the
fascists supporting Trump or the alt-right
conference in late November in DC where
people sieg-heiled. Her right-wing Facebook
feeds, of course, hadnt mentioned them; the
soft-focus TV shows dont talk about those
kinds of things, either; and her liberal friends
have gotten so enraged that when they start-
ed screaming about Nazis, Feiwell thought
it was hyperbole. Im Jewish, and Im the
daughter of an immigrant, and Im a wom-
anand I wish people could get themselves
away from that polarizing view, she says.
Were talking in March, after several weeks
in which scores of Jewish cemeteries across
the country had been vandalized, and Jewish
community centers and synagogues were re-
ceiving bomb threats. Feiwell tells me, If we
had talked last week, I would have been like,
Im supernervous. People really wanted him
to speak out against hate. Locally, weve had
three bomb threats on our [Jewish commu-
nity center] in the last two weeks, and I have
friends who work closely with the JCC, and
we went to temple this morningso I was
like, I feel really sick about this. There was a
lot of social media asking, Why wont he just
come out against hate? He did. Eventually.
Feiwell accepted Trumps lateness in com-
menting on the acts: My husband sent me
two articles: [Trump] came out against hate
in the election; he came out against hate [this
time]. He cant tackle every issue at exactly
the moment that everybody wants him to.
Shes preoccupied with the rage she sees on
the left and how impossible its becoming for
her to reason with people, because she isnt
actually a white nationalist or a gun nut and
doesnt see herself as really anything but a
moderate who is frequently reminded of the
most terrifying day of her life and votes ac-
cording to her deeply held fears for the safety
of her family. Yes, she was cool with the trav-
el bans; what made her unhappy was the way
they were rolled out. I think that these types
of policies to protect our country and Ameri-
cans need to be moderate, like I consider my-
self to be. So when we talk about the Muslim
ban, the way it came out and the way they ex-
ecuted it is not moderate. But I agree with the
principle of it. But then President Trump is
so crass and says things exactly as they are in
his mind, and in a way, that isolatesso I was
off-put by that.
Shed be more inclined to engage with the
liberals screaming for impeachment if theyd
stop screaming and start talking. When I say
that I want Trump impeachednot just be-
cause I disagree with nearly all of his policies
(and, so far, all of his appointments and all of
his executive orders) but because its the only
way that well get the information we need
on his taxes and foreign entanglements (im-
peachment would mean months of discovery
and documents that Congress would make
available to the public) and because I do not
believe he can govern under the weight of
suspicion that his campaign possibly collud-
ed with Russiait makes sense to her. Thats
not at all what you hear, though, Feiwell says.
You just hear people calling you hateful, and
its hard to engage with that.
She cast a single vote in a system of millions
of voters: Why, she wants to know, is she re-
duced, through willful misunderstanding by
half the country, to a single decision in her life,
given all the rest of who she is? I want people
to understand, she says, that some people
who voted for Trump really gave consideration
and thought and care to it.
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Care Act. Hes really trying to move quickly
on some of the promises he made, she says,
but also says that the conventional wisdom on
her side of the aisle is that once the right peo-
ple are in key positions, everything will calm
down a bit. Shes cautiously pleased so far:
The stock market has hit record highs since
hes taken office; well actually end up rais-
ing interest rates because of the job growth
and strong economy, and were seeing more
limited, reduced regulations, which I think is
helping stimulate business. Februarys pos-
itive jobs reportunemployment dipped to
4.7 percentmust have made her happy. Still,
she says, I wish he would tweet less. The
weekend of the womens marches, she was
surprised at how many of her friends joined
the protests in both DC and Atlanta. (She and
they are navigating their differences, she says,
by not talking about it.) She wonders why all
the hair-on-fire stuff is happening now instead
of before, when it might have made the dif-
ference for the Democrats. She wouldnt have
voted for Bernie, but I mean, I just feel for the
Bernie supporters, because Hillary really stole
the nomination, with what was going on with
the DNC. Bernie wasnt given a fair shake. I
wish more people wouldve been energized
during the election because I think it wouldve
turned out differently. I dont think Trump
would have necessarilyI dont think Trump
would have even received the Republican Par-
tys nomination.
That the GOPs brand is starting to become
associated with neo-Nazis and white suprem-
acists Euston finds extremely troubling. That
isnt anything I approve of at all. She adds,
Im hoping hell stop with the over-the-top
rhetoric but also knows its that very rhetoric
that got Trump elected.
The media landscape disturbs her, too. She
misses the era when there were just three
major networks doing the evening news, and
when print did journalismshes referring have hired them. Thats who shows up to do
to those halcyon days when the news wasnt
so full of alternative facts and bloggy opin-
ions. We discuss that as recently as the early
1990s, everyone basically consumed the same
presentations of the same events. These days,
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it can be hard to parse reality from rumor
which is how you get a high-information voter
like Euston who once had a security clearance
and doesnt think Hillary Clinton is running
secret sex cults in DC pizzerias; but neither is
she willing to discount the conspiracy that Bill
Clintons deputy White House counsel, Vin-
cent Foster, may not have committed suicide.
Still, it worries her that the country is be-
coming so divided and that good information
is getting lost in the thicket. Yes, the Wash-
ington Post and the New York Times do real re-
portingif you can afford the paywall. (You
know whats free? Breitbart.) We joke about
how bad things are when civilians are trying
to dissect raw intel just to figure out whats
happening in America.
When my boys were three, Euston says,
a former colleague from Washington said
that the biggest fear I should have for them
growing olderif they dont have to fight a
war on foreign soilis a war in Americathe
haves versus the have-nots. I was speaking to
this individual recently, and I said, Remem-
ber when you said this to me, like, 13 years
ago? Thats worrisome.
KRISTIE DAVIS
Continued from page 237
few weeks, when they have to get done a vol-
ume of work, like mint weeding, they hire day
laborers to help out. (Whether theyve hired
undocumented workers, Davis doesnt know,
though its pretty unusual in the West not to
theyve learned. I was uncomfortable more
the work.) The Davises keep a comfortable
five-bedroom house and a few head of cat-
tle. The schedule and work are brutal, but its
hard to be in too bad of a mood, no matter
how sore your back is, when the sun is rising
over the plain and the whole world seems to
be made new just so you can see it. Its a good,
and hard, life. I wouldnt trade this for the
world. Maybe if you gave me a billion dollars,
but Id have to think about it, Potter says.
If youre not a rancher or farmer, your best
hope for a job here is at the Safeway grocery
store in Burns, or the state and federal gov-
ernment jobsat places like Malheur. Burns
is way more red than blueby roughly two-
to-one margins, the town went for McCain
and Romney, and by almost three to one for
Trumpbut the standoff at Malheur in the
first months of 2016 turned up the antigov-
ernment, anti-Washington, anti-Hillary (as
a creature of government and Washington)
rhetoric. It also changed Daviss news con-
sumption. Her hometown was featured in a
story that dominated network newscasts for
weeksand nothing anyone was saying was
right, she says. They didnt tell people what
was actually happening. For example, the
Bundy protest was cast as the armed takeover
of federal buildings by menacing militiamen,
when the way Davis saw it was a handful of
guys overrunning a few bunkhouses and a
tiny museum and visitor center out in the
middle of nowhere. She never saw the occu-
piers being violent, only talking about the
need to defend and preserve liberty: Gun tot-
ing isnt a big deal to a rural rancher. She says
she saw the sausage of narrative and clickbait
being made, and it really amazed me how
so many people went out of their way to tell
us they hated us without even understanding
what the issue was. For her, the issues were
about water rights and resources, about graz-
ing rights, about what she views as her neigh-
bors serving time twice for the same crime.
(A federal appellate court actually ordered a
retrial, insisting that the lower court had un-
dersentenced the Hammonds.)
The right wing had been preaching that
Barack Obama made sweeping public-land
grabshe did set aside more acreage for fed-
eral protection than any other president in
history. And if theres one thing you can do to
annoy a rancher, its tell her she cant graze
her cattle on lands where theyve grazed for
decades. Adding to the animus, Oregon has a
history of racism; when it was granted state-
hood in 1859, it was the only state in the union
to forbid black people from living, working,
or owning property there. It was illegal for
black people even to move to the state until
1926. The legacy of this resonates even today.
Davis and Potter havent entirely escaped
their surroundings or the cultural lessons
than once during our time spent together
when the topic of Native American sover-
Skye Parrott
eignty came up; we agree that the problem is
largely unsolvable now, having been created
by generations well before us. But its indis-
 putable that if youre white and you live in the
Mountain West, youre living on Native land.
Over dinner one night, Davis uses the individ-
ual responsibility argument when asked about
educational and health disparities between
Native and non-Native populations. I reply
that we should honor our treaties and not hold
Native Americans at gunpoint for protesting
a pipeline that will run through their burial
grounds. At least were having a conversation.
She thinks the media is a conglomerate,
more about making money than about report-
ing facts, and she no longer trusts it. She reads
whatever stories her friends post on Facebook,
which are by and large right-leaning. But in-
terestingly, Davis still watches the local news,
broadcast out of Portland, and after she saw a
TV news story about a Muslim child who was
blocked from coming to Oregon for medical
treatment, she thought the travel ban was
unkind. They stopped that little girl from
coming here for heart surgery, Davis says,
disgusted. And hows a baby supposed to be a
problem? She thinks the Mexico border wall
is a dumb idea: I dont believe in building
the wall; I believe in taking away the free ride
when they get over here. I mean, I know a lot of
great Mexicans that arent legal, but they still
pay taxes and work; they dont live off our free
welfare system. And I think Trumps taking
that a little bit too far.
What attracted Davis to his candidacy
she and her mom were on board early, having
voted for him in the primariesis that hes
an international business guy who says
whatever he thinks, she says. They liked
that he rarely plays respectable politics with
his phrasing. Politics as usual hasnt real-
ly helped us as a nation in recent years, and
maybe Congress will get off their asses and
do something if forced to by Trumps drain-
the-swamp mentality. Because he was inex-
perienced, she knew there was a risk in voting
for him. As of March, she was annoyed that
his transition and first weeks in office hadnt
gone more smoothly. But she still considers
him worth the gamblebecause her other
option was more of the same, and that wasnt
helping anyone she knew. Donald Trump
could be really good, she says.
For her part, Potter says she hopes people
give him a chance, because hes the president
now, whether they like it or not. Davis is, in
typical fashion, more blunt: Quit trying to
wish that the freaking plane would blow up
or the pilot would have a heart attack, guys;
you know, [if] he goes down and he fucks
up, were all going down. She argues that if
Bottom right: Terry Tsiolis
Americans helped him instead of poking at
him, he might calm himself. He should slow
down a bit, she says, show more reserve.
Whatever happens, it wont be the status quo.
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project
contributed research to this story.
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 AMERICAN DREAM
Chris Evans may be Marvels brawniest paladin, but this
supersoldiers real power goes soul-deep. By Mickey Rapkin
Every couple of years, Chris Evans pulls
on his red, white, and blue spandex,
picks up Captain Americas shield, and saves
the world from impending doom. But his
smaller, less-talked-about films (Snowpiercer,
Before We Go) are often just as thrilling. In
Gifted, out now from 500 Days of Summer di-
rector Marc Webb, Evans stars as a sensitive
small-town boat mechanic fighting a custody
battle for his orphaned niece (a first-grade
know-it-all who just may be a math prodigy).
Evanss own early years were less conten-
tious, though they werent without drama.
His mother ran a local childrens theater in
Concord, Massachusetts, and Evans says he
and his siblings were basically Bostons an-
swer to the von Trapps. These days, the
35-year-oldwho once spent three weeks in
India studying meditationis as likely to
quote Siddhartha as he is Sondheim. That
zen, no doubt, comes in handy, whether on
set for the currently filming Avengers: Infinity
War Part 1, or in Evanss personal life, in
which hes been linked to Jessica Biel, Minka
Kelly, Lily Collins, and, most recently, his
Gifted costar, Jenny Slate. You know what
they say: Make love, not war.
ELLE: Early in your career, you were often
asked to be shirtless. Tell me about a scene you
might not have done if youd had more clout.
CHRIS EVANS: Its so funny; I woke up this
morning, and Not Another Teen Movie was on
TV. I dont know if you ever saw it, but I had to
put a banana in my butt. [Laughs] At the time,
youre just so happy to be on a job. I just
looked at it and said, Who cares? Im
earning my stripes.
ELLE: Youre at that age where youre
going to a lot of birthday parties for
your friends kids. How does that feel?
CE: I feel deeply connected to my inner child.
When I see a bounce house and those little
cups of ice cream, Im like, Shit. Wheres
mine? Im not ashamed of the parts of my
youth that Im still connected towhether its
cartoons or Disney World or Christmastime. I
think theyre a real representation of my true
self before the world had its impact on me.
ELLE: Seriously?
CE: Sometimes when you see a group of
grown-ups together acting like adultsits
just not in me. I always kind of feel like a lit-
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tle kid trapped in a 35-year-olds body.
ELLE: Are your friends pressuring you to set-
tle down?
CE: I dont think so. Not to my face.
ELLE: You studied with a guru in India. What
did you learn?
CE: It was one of the most eye-opening ex-
periences of my life. I had never really med-
itated before. Id tried it, but Id always been
very aware of my thoughts. While I was over
there, you do it every day. And I really un-
locked a little door in myself. My mind was
really noisy, and I had a lot of questions. My
guru would just say, Chris, shhh.
ELLE: What kinds of questions were you asking?
CE: It didnt matter. I had questions every five
minutes. A lot of our sadness and fearsand
sufferingis born out of this unnecessary
constant narrative. The only reason the brain
wants those questions is because its aware of
the past, and its fearful of the future. The truth
is, you are not your thoughts. If you are able to
surrender and let your brain be quietjust for
a minutea real sense of beauty emerges.
ELLE: Whats the last thing you did that
scared you?
CE: I took the last year off and moved home
to Massachusetts.
ELLE: Whatd you do all day, work out?
CE: Thats what a lot of people asked me.
ELLE: Im kidding.
CE: To be honest, I didnt do a whole lot. My
sister has three kids. I spent a lot of time
with them, just really hanging out. I got a
dog a year ago. Shes become a huge part of
my life. I felt very normal, like a regular hu-
man. I felt like my 12-year-old self. And I was
really full of a lot of joy.
ELLE: Would you tell me about a time you
were envious of another man?
CE: I have a lot of really funny friends in my
life. Im not one of the funny ones. Im fun.
But Im not funny. And theres a big differ-
ence. Anytime I hang out with a guy who
is hilarious, Im like, Man, I wish my brain
worked the way his does.
ELLE: Youre a big New England Patriots fan.
And a big Democrat. Was it hard for you to
hear that Tom Brady called Donald Trump
personally to congratulate him?
CE: This whole year has had so many tricky
ups and downs. But the Brady-Trump con-
nection is the one part of it that I truly
have been unable to process in
any capacity. My brain just can-
not reconcile that. I truly chose
to stick my head in the ground
and pretend that doesnt happen.
I cant afford to lose my love of Tom
Brady.
ELLE: What would you say if you met Brady?
Would you talk politics?
CE: No way! Id be lucky if I could even form
words. I would be focusing on being cool,
calm. Dont be a weirdo. Small sentences.
Dont aim too high.
ELLE: Why hasnt there been a stand-alone
Black Widow movie yet?
CE: Thats a good question. It would really just
clean up, wouldnt it? Scarlett [Johansson] is
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so good at everything she does. Shes played
such a crucial part in the other films. She al-
ways makes her presence so felteven when
there are 50 different superheroes running
around onscreen. I wouldnt be surprised if
that happens at some point in the future. Im
sure Scarlett would be open to it.
ELLE: Youve dated a number of actresses.
How do you handle running into exes in L.A.?
CE: Its very rare. But Ive had no bad breakups
in my life. Typically, if I see an ex, I give a big
hug, and its wonderful to catch up. If youre
ever fortunate enough to love someone and
have them love you back, its worth protecting
that. Its rare that someone can truly know
you. And if youve broken through that kind
of wall, I think its important to value that.
ELLE: Would they say the same about you?
CE: I hope.
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