Winter 2020

L'OFFICIEL USA

Men’s and Women’s fashion magazine

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L'officiel USA
PUBLISHERS Marie-José Susskind-Jalou, Maxime Jalou CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Benjamin Eymère GLOBAL DEPUTY CEO Maria Cecilia Andretta CONSULTING GLOBAL CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER Stefano Tonchi CHAIRMAN CHRISTOPHER BROWN GLOBAL CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER Anthon
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In this Issue
Menelik PURYEAR PHOTOGRAPHER “Off Site” “We really wanted to work on something that captured the urban diaspora to the country and the new relaxed sense of the city.” David THIELEBEULE STYLIST “Off Site” “This story celebrates originality. Why not we
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Rad Tidings
ART DIRECTION: Giel Domen MODEL: Hannelore Knuts HAKIM MODEL MANAGEMENT HAIR: Joeri Rouffa using BALMAIN HAIR COUTURE and WELLA PROFESSIONALS MAKEUP: Liselotte Van Saarloos using MAC COSMETICS MOVEMENT DIRECTOR: Wim Vanlessen HAIR ASSISTANT: Joffrey
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DAILY Gratification
Since 1880, Cartier has made ordinary items extraordinary, from its first inkwells and fragrance bottles to crisp stationary and gilded lighters. In the 1930s, Louis Cartier—the grandson of the French maison’s founder—declared, “jewelry like ours is
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BLUE CHIP bling
When considering the greatest artists of the 20th century, a lengthy list comes to mind: Pablo Picasso, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Fernand Leger, Man Ray, Damien Hirst, Pol Bury, Keith Haring, Yayoi Kusama, Anish Kapoor, and so o
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TIME, Light, SPACE
Poliform pays tribute to the history of Made-in-Italy design while celebrating its 50-year anniversary with a photographic volume entitled Time, Light, Space, lensed by Paolo Roversi and published by Rizzoli. Through visuals from the fashion photogra
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MIND to Body
When Alice Pagani introduced herself to director Andrea De Sica at her audition for Baby, the hit Netflix teen drama in which she plays lead Ludovica Storti, she ended up flat on her face. “I wanted to be brave, but I was so embarrassed that I trippe
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Party Favors
L’OBSESSION PROP STYLIST: Haidee Findlay-Levin RETOUCHING: Picture House ■
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Learning CURVE
São Paulo, Brazil–born Alice Braga always knew she wanted to act. “I grew up on a movie set,” she says, following in the footsteps of her mother, Ana, and aunt, Sônia, who are both Brazilian actors. “What I most loved in life was the arts, and my pas
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FLOW State
MODEL: Diarra WHY NOT HAIR: Matteo Bartolini FREELANCER using BALMAIN HAIR COUTURE MAKEUP: Riccardo Morandin WMMANAGEMENT using PAT McGRATH LABS STYLIST ASSISTANTS: Adele Baracco and Terry Lospalluto In the 1920s, when this magazine first appeared, t
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Lily On The Beach
When Lily Collins arrived in Paris over a year and a half ago to start filming Emily in Paris—the unsuspecting Netflix feelgood that became an overnight fame monster—the city was not as she’d expected. Born in Surrey, England but raised in LA, the da
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The FOLLY & the Reason
After decorating his way through the Second World War, the Spanish silver-mining heir Carlos de Beistegui turned his attention to the adornment of his garden at the Château de Groussay, just over 30 miles west of Paris in Montfortl’Amaury. His creati
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Dark MIRROR
With her wide doe eyes and porcelain skin, Ariana Papademetropoulos—who seems something between an ingenuous Renaissance figure and a Robert Rodriguez heroine—is almost as visually intriguing as her paintings; both are tinged with nostalgia and the o
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Earthly Delights
MODEL: Micaela Tosi IMG MODELS HAIR: Lorenzo Barcella ALDOCOPPOLA MAKEUP: Gimmy Arevalo SET DESIGNER: Lorenzo Dispensa AURAPHOTOAGENCY HAIR ASSISTANT: Alessandro Ragione STYLING ASSISTANTS: Emanuele Recupero and I-Ting Yeh ■
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Breaking THROUGH
In Cité Internationale des Arts’ austere and derelict modernist building in Paris, which sits beside the perfectly squared French garden of the Hôtel de Sens, Bianca Bondi set up vases and amphora-like vessels in a small sink in the corner of a wet r
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Off Site
MODELS: Alissa Sugawara THE SOCIETY Amelia Rami HEROES HAIR: Erick Williams STREETERS NY MAKEUP: Kuma STREETERS NY MANICURIST: Daria Hardeman EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Roger Inniss CASTING AND PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Eli Perdew DIGITAL TECH: Brandon Bakus
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Real WORLD
Tall and blue-eyed with sunny short blond hair, at first glance Rasmus Myrup easily appears a poster boy for his home country of Denmark. And in fact he might have been—had his artistic practice not been about deifying one of modern society’s stronge
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HOME AWAY from STUDIO
In the summer of 1955, an unlikely meeting of the minds occurred in the forests of southern New Hampshire. It happened at MacDowell Colony, the art residency founded in the early years of the 20th century as a place for creative minds to flourish ami
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UP & COMING RESIDENCIES
Castillon, France, founded in 2018 “The Côte d’Azur has always had an interesting art scene but one that is almost strictly institutional,” explains collector and advisor Maria-Theresia Pongracz. “I launched Castel Caramel because I wanted to add a l
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GREENER Pastures
Airbnb ads, cottagecore influencers, and lifestyle magazines sell “going upstate” to New Yorkers as if it is a relatively new phenomenon, or one dreamt up by romantic millennials looking to detox. But the truth is that urban defectors have always bee
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Powerful Art Will Always Be Radical
In 2016, L’OFFICIEL Art invited Alex Da Corte to work on a special project for its 18th issue. The American conceptual artist presented a set of collaged images titled “Dead Roses” for the magazine alongside an interview with writer Yamina Benaï and

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