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THE MODERN
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75 NEW
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61 New maximalism
More is more be bigger,
be bolder, be yourself
68 Send in the heavies
Our edit of the best
shearling and faux
fur coats
81 The piece
Stripes on your shoes?
A thousand times yes
85 Into the wild
Wear your hiking boots
and sheepskin coat
to work (trust us)
Photography: Roberto Patella, Lauretta Suter, Graham Walser at Hearst Studios, Winnie Au, Amarpaul Kalirai.
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93 Watches
Square faces are timeless,
elegant and classic
96 Fast and loose
The trick to knitwear?
Piling it on
109 The spoils
Dont wait for Christmas.
Treat yourself right now!
111 The rise and rise of
the slogan T-shirt
Wear your heart on
your sleeve. Fashion
just got feisty
117 Take it easy
Laid-back clothing just
got even more relaxed
125 Age of insouciance
Meet the labels making
waves on the runways
127 Shine on
Lurex: sequins older,
more sophisticated sister
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ON THE COVER
198 Amy Adams
Emma Brockes meets a
very modern gentlewoman
222 75 new coats to buy now
Whether its oversized
or a trench, go on, protect
yourself from the cold,
cold world
254 Skin rehab: the
radical change you
can make today
Would you sacrifice
alcohol to cure your
hangover face?
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131 Future sounds

Three female musicians
changing pops profile
140 Are you sitting
comfortably?
The new TV obsessions.
Its OK to get hooked
149 Lottes lexicon
Is it really only boring
people who get bored?
150 Street style
How to rework evening
wear for day
152 My world
Model Marjan Jonkmans
most treasured items
154 My story
Phiona Mutesi the
inspiration behind a new
Hollywood film starring
Lupita Nyongo
157 ELLE Book Club
Vivienne Westwoods
most-loved literature
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FEATURES
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BEAUTY
170 Love in translation

When Lauren Collins fell
in love with a Frenchman,
her relationship with
language had to change
176 Animal, vegetable,
millennial
How vegetarianism
evolved from lifestyle
choice to wellbeing trend
184 A woman walks into
a bar
Hanging out with
chardonnay-drinking,
cabaret-singing, boob
-baring Bridget Everett
188 Sex can be life-changing,
self-affirming and
sometimes completely
underwhelming
Sexual encounters that
transformed three writers
TRAVEL
247 Vibrant thing

Curls are in and this time
around theyre a whole lot
more than a catwalk trend
261 Beauty CV
Anthony Turner the
go-to session stylist
263 Sophie says
ELLEs Beauty Director
collaborates with ghd
for Breast Cancer Now
267 High contrast
Step away from your usual
colour palettes: make-ups
getting bolder and braver
275 Fit notes
ELLEs columnist Bangs
pushes us out of our
comfort zones
286 Made in Taiwan

Road-tripping around this
enchanting island, Miette
L. Johnson uncovers a
whole new side to Asia,
embraces her wild side,
and rediscovers how to
be the Big Sister
290 Due south
Head out to these sunny
locales and postpone the
start of winter
292 Hot hotel
Think Cancn is all about
Spring Breakers? Think
again. Nizuc Resort & Spa
is a haven of refinement
and relaxation a world
away from the masses
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NOVEMBER
REGULARS
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46 Powered by
The creators and
curators behind the
November issue
51 Editors letter
Lorraine Candy on todays
clean-living culture
52 Astrology
The Saturn Sisters help
you navigate the changes
ahead this month
55 Behind the covers
Revealing the inspiration
and Balenciagas new
power dressing behind
this issues cover
285 The Clothes Show
Britains biggest fashion
festival is back, and its
offering ELLE readers
tickets for just 25
293 Join ELLE and Very at
our first pop-up shop
Enjoy discounts, meet the
ELLE team and discover
the V by Very collection
THE COVER
On the cover: Photographer: Liz
Collins. Styling: Anne-Marie
Curtis. Hair: Rolando Beauchamp
at The Wall Group using Bumble
and Bumble. Make-up: Stephen
Sollitto at TMG-LA.com using
Synthetic de Chanel and
Sublimage Le Teint. Manicurist:
Deborah Lippmann for Deborah
Lippmann. Set designer: Bette
Adams at Mary Howard Studio.
On the cover: Cotton coat,
Balenciaga. Wool jumper and
viscose skirt, both Balenciaga.
Gold-plated earrings, Thomas
Sabo. On the subscribers
cover: Wool jacket and matching
trousers, and silk shirt, all
Balenciaga. Gold-plated and
sterling silver earrings, Annelise
Michelson. Rings, all Amys own.
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FASHION
208 The get down
Use velvet, glitter and
bold clashing prints to
channel your inner Bowie
234 Style out
Russian model, Varya
Shutova, shows us how
to nail mens tailoring
Black culture is
a house with a
thousand rooms,
with windows
looking out on so
many views
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ELLE CONTRIBUTORS
2. MEGHAN MARKLE
Star of the hit US TV drama
Suits, Meghan says the best thing
about her job is being given the
platform to make a difference
in the world on a greater level.
Receiving a standing ovation
from UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon after her UN speech in
2015 was, says Meghan, the best
moment of my life. The greatest
piece of advice she has ever been
given is dont give it five minutes
if youre not going to give it five
years. Meghan writes about how
she combines her acting and
activism on page 180.
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NOVEMBER ELLE
POWERED BY
1. VARYA SHUTOVA
Varya started modelling three
years ago, aged 23, after being
scouted dancing in a band in
St Petersburg, Russia. She has
walked for Gucci, Louis Vuitton
and Givenchy, but says that her
greatest career achievement
has been working with Marc
Jacobs. Varya calls St Petersburg
home but is currently living and
working in New York. When she
gets a day off, she likes to roam
the city seeking inspiration for
her art: I love to draw, she says.
Varya keeps a scented candle
and a book by her bed, and her
current read is Paulo Coelhos
The Diary Of A Magus. Varya
stars in Style Out on page 234.
3. LAUREN COLLINS
Lauren has been a staff writer at
The New Yorker since 2008.
Born in North Carolina, she now
lives in Paris with her husband
and daughter. Her morning
commute consists of brushing
her teeth as she travels to her
laptop in the kitchen. On her first
day at work at American Vogue
she wore a pair of slingbacks
from T.K. Maxx: Big mistake!
Laurens greatest career
achievement is vomiting on
Donatella Versace and her worst
habit is freestyling the recycling.
Lauren explores love in
translation on page 170.
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5. NAOKO SCINTU
Always assist and never say a negative word about anyone is London-based make-up artist Naokos
advice to those starting out in the industry. Since graduating from the London College Of Fashion
in 2002, Naoko has worked with Karlie Kloss, the Olsen twins and Eva Green, but says she would be
star-struck if she met Jennifer Lopez: Shes my childhood inspiration! See her work on page 208.
@NAOKOSCINTU
FIVE THINGS THAT MADE THE NOVEMBER ISSUE

The song Youth by Glass Animals, VIET TRAN, DESIGNER New-season television, from The Night Of to Strictly HANNAH SWERLING,
CONTENT DIRECTOR Frank Oceans Blonde and binges on Stranger Things, KENYA HUNT, FASHION FEATURES DIRECTOR Early morning
runs in Hyde Park, RACHEL MACBETH, PA TO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Nihilist memes, HEATHER GWYTHER, FASHION INTERN
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Compiled by: Rachel Macbeth. Photography: Varya Shutova/courtesy of Premier Model Management.
4. SYD HAYES
London-born hair stylist Syd
Hayes started out sweeping the
floor in my dads salon, aged five.
Hes since cut the hair of models
Lara Stone, and both Bella and
Gigi Hadid. The best thing about
his job is being able to express
himself creatively: It truly is great
for the mind. His dream date
would be with his girlfriend and
their dog Clive: When you travel a
lot, you look forward to being at
home! Karaoke bars scare him,
but Syds choice of song would be
Shaggys Boombastic. See his work
on page 247.
NOVEMBER
wo years ago my friend, the writer Hannah

Betts, gave up drinking alcohol. Nothing
dramatic prompted this decision, she had
just become weary of her relationship with
booze and was on a quest for a more fulfilling
nights sleep. Renouncing drink turned out
to be the best solution for her own personal
predicament. I was intrigued by Hannahs
resolution, having known her for many years, and
having been an enthusiastic partner in what she calls
a lifetime of resplendent carousing.
One of the side-effects of her new cocktail-free
evenings was the extraordinary rejuvenation of
Hannahs skin, which I witnessed first hand. Could
giving up alcohol be the sole reason for this enviable
new glow I wondered (secretly hoping not, given my
own love of a Friday-night margarita)?
So I asked Hannah, a beauty product enthusiast,
to find out and on page 254 she writes about what she
discovered. I wont spoil the surprise for you, but I will
say it has made me re-evaluate my own relationship
with alcohol or, more importantly, the way I consume
sugar in my daily diet.
But Hannahs piece presents an emotional
dilemma for us all in this era of so-called clean living.
Is the abstinence mindset a realistic way of being?
Whats been great about Hannahs journey is
her non-judgemental approach to not drinking.
Its rare for those who have discovered what they
deem a better way not to demand we join their
own personal revolution.
When I looked into the possibility of a soberforever lifestyle (as everyone does after a long,
wine-fuelled summer) I was overwhelmed by the
evangelistic zeal of those who had already embraced
it, the way they believed the rest of us were blindly
living a worse life, that they were possibly better
human beings with more willpower than us normals.
Photography: Georgia Devey Smith.
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It put me off joining them and frankly, it made me

want to reach for an espresso martini with my toast
and Marmite.
Hannahs piece caused quite a debate among team
ELLE, with many of us wondering whether this all-ornothing way of life would be worth giving up whatever
it is we feel has a bad effect on our health.
Id be fascinated to hear your thoughts on this
because the generation I came from thoroughly
enjoyed a much less clean-living culture in the Nineties
wed never heard of juicing and there was only one
form of yoga! Today I worry there is a swing towards
a state of play where the occasional night that ends
in a hot mess of unpredictable chaos is frowned
upon rather than relished, that there is a downward
pressure on young women to be so hyper-mindful
of what they eat or drink that they lose the joy behind
consuming their favourite things. I could be wrong and
indeed my view may be warped by living in a big city
where fads ripple through communities with speed.
Moderation is probably the key here, as with
all things in life, and Hannahs piece is very much
a reminder that were all individuals and what works
for one doesnt work for others. Im not quite ready
to forfeit the joy of a cold glass of wine or a refreshing
beer, but the moment may come when something else
takes its place who knows!
In the meantime, Ill be relying on a host of exciting
new developments in skincare to give me some
of Hannahs new-found glow. I hope you like our
new-look beauty section, which we launched last
month. Our directory pages on 268 are designed to
show you exactly whats on offer for your hair, makeup, fragrance and skin right now. Its useful, practical
and thoughtfully edited by Beauty Director Sophie
Beresiner and Beauty Editor Joely Walker.
And for those who love a beauty adventure, we
are debuting some of the new Rouge Dior make-up
range with its limited-edition colourful new products,
on page 267. There are 37 lipsticks in the entire
collection and weve tried them all at ELLE HQ!
LORRAINE CANDY EDITOR IN CHIEF
Twitter @lorraineELLE
Facebook @lorraine.elleuk
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This month The Saturn Sisters predict

RELATIONSHIPS RULE THE WORLD THIS OCTOBER, WHETHER YOURE SINGLE OR INVOLVED.
GET READY TO DATE, MATE AND RELATE AS THE PLANETS HOVER IN LIBRA (THE SIGN OF
PARTNERSHIP) AND SCORPIO (THE SIGN OF SEX). CARNAL DESIRES DOMINATE IN THE DAYS
LEADING UP TO THE UBER-PASSIONATE PRE-HALLOWEEN FULL MOON. WHETHER YOURE
MASKED OR UNMASKED, AIM FOR MAXIMUM PLEASURE
to the next level on the 16th.

The month closes on a quieter
note than it began with a
dreamy new moon has you
looking inward on the 30th.
wanderlust on the 30th. Treat

yourself to a long weekend.
Date for your diary: 18th

Youre glowing from within.
ARIES
CAPRICORN
LIBRA
Your month to: Finally
prioritise number one
October is all about making
time for the most important
person in your life: yourself.
Your modus operandi is taking
care of others, but you need to
make self-care a priority right
now. Book that massage, now.
Relationships hit fever pitch
near the full moon on the 16th
for better or worse. When the
new moon arrives on the 30th,
financial issues are on your
mind. If you want a pay rise,
now is the time to ask.
Date for your diary: 21st
Go on a charm offensive
with your boss.
SCORPIO
Your month to: Trust your gut
Listen to your intuition closely
this October, Scorpio. It wont
let you down. By the time the
full moon arrives on the 16th,
you feel a bit burned out
dont work so hard that you
forget to breathe. This is really
important as you approach the
new moon in your sign on the
30th preserve your energy so
you can make this auspicious
moment even more awesome.
Date for your diary: 22nd
Prepare to instantly magnetise
everyone you meet people
cant take their eyes off of you
when you enter a room.
SAGITTARIUS
Your month to: Socialise
October is a great month to
seek new adventures, and
theyre better done in a pack.
You certainly dont want to
go solo under these stars, so
make sure your friends are
available to join you. A fiery
full moon takes your love life
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Your month to: Raise

the stakes
Your ambition is fierce, and
your professional prospects
are even fiercer during the
first three weeks of October.
Nothing can stop you now,
Capricorn, not even the
emotionally volatile full moon
on the 16th. Attend to family
matters mid-month before
they blow up in your face.
A new moon puts you in the
mood to network near the
30th. End the month on a
creative and collaborative note.
Reconnect with an old friend.
AQUARIUS
Your month to: Use your GPS
You need to get away from
home right now, Aquarius.
Take a few weeks off if you can.
A fiery, passionate full moon
highlights communication
issues on the 16th, so putting
your foot in your mouth is a
possibility tread carefully.
By the new moon on the 30th
youre back on track and
crushing professional goals.
Vent your troubles to a friend.
PISCES
Your month to: Indulge
in your desires
Your libido is overwhelming
for the better part of October,
Pisces make sure your lover
is available during the first
three weeks of the month
(or find a new one). There
could be a major development
on the financial front as the
full moon erupts on the 16th.
The new moon stokes your

Relationships reach boiling
point today.
Your month to: Love your lust

The stars are asking you
to delve into the nature of
your past and present
relationships. An intense
full moon in your sign explodes
on the 16th, offering powerful
self-realisation. Sex is the main
theme at Halloween thanks to
an intensely libidinous new
moon on the 30th.
Channel your passion into
a big work project.
TAURUS
Your month to: Make it
happen for yourself
Nothing can stop you now,
Taurus, especially on the
professional front. The only
cure for your current state
of overdrive is running out of
batteries. The full moon on the
16th means you cant hide from
reality any more. Deep breaths,
it will all be OK. When the new
moon arrives on the 30th,
your love life hits fever pitch.
Dont make any big romantic
decisions today.
GEMINI
Your month to: Get away
October is not meant for
sticking around, Gemini
youre ready to jet off on
your next adventure. When
the full moon arrives on the
16th, your social life is at the
centre of everything. Its time
to make that collaboration
happen. The new moon on
the 30th releases the pressure
valve on a very stressful work
issue once and for all.
the full moon arrives on the

16th, youre so enmeshed in a
professional matter that youll
barely have time to deal with
anything at home. As October
draws to a close, romance and
creativity beckon loudly. The
new moon on the 30th ensures
neither are far away.
Youre restless today plan
your next adventure.
LEO
Your month to: Talk it out
Communication is key
this month, Leo. Make sure
you put down your phone at
some point. On the 16th, a
powerful full moon stirs your
wanderlust this is an ideal
moment to make travel plans
for any time over the next six
months. The new moon arrives
at the very end of October,
bringing a long-standing family
issue to light precisely so you
can heal it once and for all.
Date for your diary: 23rd
Youre in demand this weekend
but dont say yes to everything.
VIRGO
Your month to: Fine-tune
your finances
The planets are focused on
your bottom line this month,
Virgo, so let them help you
generate all the cash you need.
The vibe changes near the full
moon on the 16th, when youre
suddenly obsessed with sex
and intimacy if you dont
have a current lover, fire up
your Tinder account ASAP.
A transformational new moon
makes you brave enough to
say exactly whats on your
mind on the 30th.
Go for a run to take the edge
off your anxiety.

Money changes everything.
CANCER
Your month to: Huddle
at home
You cant get away from it,
Cancer the stars are pushing
you to resolve a family issue
this month. But by the time
ELLE/NOVEMBER
BEHIND THE COVER

THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE AMY
ADAMS
IT WILL EITHER BE IN TOM FORDS DARK
THRILLER, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, OR IN THE
PROVOCATIVE AND BEAUTIFUL SCI-FI DRAMA
ARRIVAL TWO OF THIS YEARS MOST IMPORTANT

FILMS. A TRUE HOLLYWOOD MOVIE
STAR,
SHE IS ONE OF THE WORLDS MOST

BANKABLE ACTRESSES AND HAS THE RARE
TALENT OF MASTERING ANY ROLE SHE

CHOOSES, FROM WIDE-EYED DISNEY PRINCESS TO MARVEL
BLOCKBUSTER LEADING LADY AND COMPLEX INDIE HEROINE.
THE PLAYLIST
Your Song by Elton
John, Fuck You by Cee
Lo Green, Angels by
The xx, Destiny by
Zero 7, Landslide
by Fleetwood Mac,
Bittersweet by
Everything But The
Girl, A Boy Named Sue
by Johnny Cash
THE FASHION
Its a Balenciaga
moment with
exaggerated
proportions, mannish
shirting, long cuffs,
and weighty silk-satin.
This is the new power
dressing.
BALENCIAGA
JIL SANDER
CLINE
THE DIGITAL See the

soft side of our cover
star, Amy Adams.
For our exclusive and
personal digital shoot
of Amy, visit elleuk.
com/amy-adams.
THE LOOK Skin is in.
The trick to getting
a fresh and natural
complexion like Amys
is using a product that
lets your real skin
show through, such as
Chantecaille Future
Skin Oil Free Gel, 60.
ELLE/NOVEMBER
POWER OF AMY ADAMS.
BALENCIAGA
Compiled by: Lena De Casparis, Joely Walker. Photography: Liz Collins. Styling: Anne-Marie Curtis. Hair: Rolando Beauchamp
at the The Wall Group using Bumble and Bumble. Make-up: Stephen Sollitto at TMG-LA using Synthetic de Chanel and
Sublimage Le Teint. Manicurist: Deborah Lippman for Deborah Lippman. Set Designer: Bette Adams at Mary Howard Studio.
BEHOLD THE QUIET
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Model wears: Silk coat, 1,263, Zimmermann. Cotton-mix top, 395, and matching trousers, 350, both Paul Smith.
Silk-mix scarf, 145, Liberty. Gold-plated brass and pearl earrings (worn throughout), 58 for a single, Cornelia Webb.
THE MOOD
Less is no longer more.
The runways are challenging
you to be bigger, bolder and
braver. The new maximalism is
about turning up the dial on who
you are, says Kenya Hunt
Photography Roberto Patella Styling Michelle Duguid
ELLE/NOVEMBER
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Photography: Roberto Patella.
THIS PAGE LACE DRESS, 420, AND

WOOL AND DIAMANTE SCARF (WORN
THROUGHOUT), 456, BOTH PREEN BY
THORNTON BREGAZZI. RIBBON HAIR BOWS
(WORN AS BRACELET), 25, FINERY. PLATED
BRASS SILVER RING WITH BLUE STONES
(WORN THROUGHOUT), 80, JOOMI LIM. ALL
OTHER STERLING SILVER RINGS (WORN
THROUGHOUT), 35 EACH, ALL PANDORA
OPPOSITE PAGE SILK COAT AND SILK
TROUSERS, AS BEFORE. LEATHER SHOES,
120, UNDERGROUND. COTTON-MIX SOCKS
(WORN THROUGHOUT), 7.99 FOR THREE
PAIRS, PRINGLE AT SOCKSHOP
ELLE/NOVEMBER
THE MOOD
ELLE/NOVEMBER
DRIES VAN NOTEN
GUCCI
Its not
about being
flamboyant
for Instagram
likes. Its aboutt
turning up
the volume on
who you are
CHRISTOPHER KANE
ere not just living life. Were living our

best life. Were doing the most. We are
to throw in all the internet speak lit.
And were lit AF. In an age where the
internet has us communicating in all
caps, WTFs and emojis all of the time,
its not surprising that our clothes have
evolved to become just as hyperbolic.
If fashion is language and in the world
of ELLE, it certainly is our means of
speaking are becoming ever bigger
and bolder by the day.
Yes, maximalism is having a
ance thanks to Alessandro Micheles
wildly popular, highly decorative and
immensely sellable vision at Gucci. But this is a
shift that feels even bigger than that; a general
feeling of more-is-more that has permeated
through the runways, no matter what the trend
(grunge, Eighties, streetwear, you name it). Im
talking about the fashion of personal branding.
From the gargantuan shoulders on a
Marc Jacobs feathered cape for AW16 to
the lush, elaborate braiding on a cavalry coat
at Burberry, the rhetoric of the autumn
season is loud and proud. You dont have to
be a maximalist in the traditional sense, with
your gilded loafers styled with your paisley
trousers, to get it. Autumns new mood is less
about covering yourself in crystals and more
about the act of amplifying whatever your look
of choice is to the highest degree. Perhaps
its about distinguishing oneself from the noise.
In this current world of technology and social
media, where everything runs faster each
day, you want to keep that uniqueness that
makes you different from the rest, says Rio
Uribe, the designer behind the New Yorkbased label Delpozo known for its bold use
of volume and meticulous, highly
Instagrammable decoration.
But to be clear, this isnt about wearing

a flamboyant piece for the sake of likes on
Instagram. Its about turning up the volume on
who you are: letting your unstraightened curls
grow big and wild like models of the moment
Damaris Goddrie, Luisana Gonzlez and
Natalie Westling, or in singer Alicia Keys case,
swearing off make-up and committing to it in a
blaze of publicity, even on red carpets. Come as
you are. And then multiply that quality by 10.
Do you like your tailoring relaxed and pared
back? Then take it extra large and in charge as
seen through Clines exaggerated flared legs.
Do you love a plush velvet? Swathe yourself in
it from head to toe as seen at Alberta Ferretti.
A weakness for sequins? Wear them thick and
densely layered as shown at Dolce & Gabbana
and Preen. Ruffles? The bigger the better as
proven by Ellery.
Michelle Elie, the Haitian-born, Colognebased former model attributes the new
mood to fashions renewed appreciation of
individualism, an idea shes long epitomised.
She reached street-style icon status on the
strength of her boldly out-there, go-to-hell
wardrobe of challenging Comme des Garons,
Junya Watanabe and Prada pieces she
literally stops traffic during fashion weeks.
I think there is a lot of fashion meant to lift
the mood this season. I personally like fashion
that makes me feel a bit playful and fun. We
tend to buy the way we want to feel, and I think
designers are providing for the full range of
emotions, she says. The more,themerrier.
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LEFT POLYESTER DRESS,

75, ASOS. SILK SHIRT (WORN
UNDERNEATH), 378, KATE SPADE
NEW YORK. SUEDE SHOES, 125,
UNDERGROUND BELOW FAUX
FUR COAT, 185, GUESS. VISCOSE
DRESS, 200, BIMBA Y LOLA
THE MOOD
The feeling
of more-ismore has
permeated
through the
runways, no
matter what
the trend
We tend to
buy the way
we want to
feel, and
designers are
providing for
the full range
of emotions
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Photography: Roberto Patella.
ABOVE AND FAR LEFT POLY-MIX COAT,

350, KAREN MILLEN. COTTON JACKET, 434,
PINKO. SILK SHIRT, 239, SANDRO. VISCOSE
TROUSERS, 295, MOTHER OF PEARL.
LEATHER SHOES, 140, UNDERGROUND.
SILK-MIX SCARF (WORN THROUGHOUT),
145, LIBERTY. SILVER-PLATED EARRINGS,
70, FOLLI FOLLIE LEFT POLYESTER JACKET,
295, MICHAEL MICHAEL KORS. VISCOSE
SHIRT, 325, VIVETTA AT LIBERTY. COTTON
TROUSERS, 209, MAJE. LEATHER BOOTS,
290, ZADIG & VOLTAIRE OPPOSITE PAGE
SILK-MIX DRESS, 625, COACH 1941. LEATHER
BAG, 395, MOTHER OF PEARL
ELLE/NOVEMBER
ELLE/NOVEMBER
65
THE MOOD
If fashion is language, and in the

world of ELLE it certainly is, our
means of speaking are becoming
ever bigger and bolder by the day
ABOVE COTTON JACKET, 70, AND MATCHING

TROUSERS, 38, BOTH RIVER ISLAND. SILK SHIRT,
725, BALLY. LEATHER SHOES, AS BEFORE
FAR RIGHT VISCOSE DRESS, AS BEFORE Q
66
ELLE/NOVEMBER
Photography: Roberto Patella. Additional photography: Imaxtree. Hair: Johnnie Biles at Frank Agency using Bumble and Bumble. Make-up: Jose Bass
using Synthetic de Chanel and Sublimage Le Teint. Manicure: Veronica Butenko using MAC Cosmetics. Model: Evangeline Ling at Storm Models.
RIGHT LACE TOP, 1,140, AND

LACE SKIRT, 3,558, BOTH
ERMANNO SCERVINO. VISCOSE
TROUSERS, 260, BIMBA Y LOLA.
PATENT LEATHER BOOTS, 395,
DORATEYMUR BELOW SILK
DRESS, SILK SCARF AND LEATHER
BAG, ALL AS BEFORE
SHEEPSKIN COAT, 699,

JAEGER. COTTON TOP, 19.99,
H&M. POLY-MIX TROUSERS,
150, MICHAEL KORS. LEATHER
BOOTS, 1,165, VALENTINO.
CASHMERE SOCKS, 45,
JOHNSTONS OF ELGIN.
MODELS RIGHT HAND:
RHODIUM-PLATED RING (PART
OF SET, WORN THROUGHOUT),
99, SWAROVSKI. MODELS
LEFT HAND: 14CT GOLD HEART
RING (WORN THROUGHOUT),
225, PANDORA
68
ELLE/NOVEMBER
THE STYLING
SEND IN THE HEAVIES

WE WANT OUR SHEARLING
SHAGGY AND OUR (FAUX) FUR
FUZZY. GIVE US A HUG:
YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO
Words and styling Donna Wallace
Photography Lauretta Suter
COLOUR CODES
From Ellery and

Marc Jacobs to
MarquesAlmeida,
this is the shearling
coats moment.
My favourite way
to wear it right
now is in a fully
saturated colour
like a bright yellow
or bold blue
ELLE/NOVEMBER
TOP POLYESTER COAT, 350, KAREN MILLEN.

POLYESTER BOMBER, 399, SANDRO. COTTONMIX TROUSERS, 255, ZADIG & VOLTAIRE.
LEATHER AND SHEARLING SANDALS, 280,
LONGCHAMP. CASHMERE SOCKS, 175, WILLIAM
& SON. SHEARLING AND LEATHER BAG, 295,
MICHAEL KORS ABOVE GOAT-SUEDE COAT,
149.99, H&M STUDIO. WOOL DRESS, 225,
BY MALENE BIRGER. SHEARLING SCARF, 685,
LONGCHAMP LEFT SHEEPSKIN COAT, 1,495,
BA&SH. POLY-MIX TROUSERS, 140, KAREN
MILLEN. SUEDE AND SHEEPSKIN TRAINERS,
315, MONCLER. COTTON SOCKS, 11, FALKE
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THE STYLING
TOUCHING TRIBUTE
While outerwear
seems like the obvious
way to wear shaggy
wool, Im most
intrigued by all the
new bags. Imagine
sinking your hands
into something so
cosy on a glacial day
Photography: Lauretta Suter.
TOP RIGHT SHEARLING COAT, 2,610,

PAUL SMITH. VISCOSE-MIX DRESS, 59.99,
LINDEX. WOOL DRESS (JUST SEEN), 200,
BY MALENE BIRGER. LEATHER SHOES, 615,
TODS. MERINO WOOL SOCKS, 45, WILLIAM
& SON ABOVE WOOL TROUSERS, 250,
ZADIG & VOLTAIRE. CALF-LEATHER BOOTS,
875, LOUIS VUITTON. CASHMERE SOCKS,
175, WILLIAM & SON RIGHT COTTON-MIX
TOP, 59.99, LINDEX. WOOL-MIX JUMPER
(WORN UNDERNEATH), 195, MICHAEL
KORS. COTTON SKIRT, 265, RAG & BONE.
LEATHER-MIX BAG, 1,555, J&M DAVIDSON
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THE STYLING
Photography: Lauretta Suter. Styling: Donna Wallace. Make-up: Emma Osborne at One Represents using Chanel
Le Rouge Collection No 1 and Le Lift V-Flash. Hair: Sofia Sjoo using Oribe. Manicure: Lauren Michelle Pires using
Chanel Le Vernis in Particulire and Body Excellence Hand Cream. Model: Emily Delaloye at The Squad.
COMPLEX FEELINGS
Fashion loves contrast,

so mix textures just as
you clashed prints a
few seasons back.
Smooth and shiny with
matte and shaggy,
sweet and lacey with
rough and leathery
TOP RIGHT SHEARLING COAT, 1,795, MCQ. POLY-MIX BOMBER, 34.99,

NEW LOOK. WOOL TOP, 200, AND COTTON TROUSERS, 220, BOTH
BY MALENE BIRGER. LEATHER SHOES, 175, RUSSELL & BROMLEY.
WOOL SOCKS, 15, SCOTT NICHOL. SHEARLING BAG, 2,370, FENDI
ABOVE LEATHER COAT, 1,675, BIMBA Y LOLA. COTTON TOP 19.99,
H&M. VISCOSE TROUSERS, 110, JAEGER. SHEARLING FUR SLIDES,
210, AVEC MODRATION AT AVENUE 32. WOOL SOCKS, 14, FALKE.
MODELS RIGHT HAND: 14CT GOLD AND STERLING SILVER RING, 75, AND
STERLING SILVER RING, 35, BOTH PANDORA RIGHT MODA ACRYLIC
FAUX FUR COAT, 395, MICHAEL KORS. COTTON HOODIE, 70, CONVERSE.
SHEEPSKIN BAG, 525, FURLA. MODELS RIGHT HAND: STERLING SILVER
AND 14CT GOLD RING, 75, STERLING SILVER HEART RING, 35, BOTH
PANDORA. MODELS LEFT HAND: STERLING SILVER HEART RING, AS
BEFORE. STERLING SILVER TWIST RING, 40, PANDORA Q
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THE PIECE
Why should clothing have all the fun? I find
stripes most interesting when theyre on the feet.
And with plenty of colour pops please
Photography Benjamin Swanson
Words and styling Donna Wallace
SUEDE AND VELVET BOOTS,

1,350, SALVATORE FERRAGAMO
ELLE/NOVEMBER
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THE GIRL
FROM LEFT COTTONMIX LEGGINGS, 28, NEXT.
LEATHER BUM BAG, 39,
NICA. LEATHER BOOTS,
164.99, DR. MARTENS X
ZALANDO MARNI COLLECTION
BELOW PUFFA JACKET, 120,
MONKI. WOOL-MIX JUMPER,
29, WAREHOUSE. SKINNY
JEANS, 145, BA&SH
Still-life photography: Graham Walser at Hearst Studios.
INTO
THEWILD
Take it outside.
Or at least dress
like you are in
rugged, stomper
boots and the coziest
sheepskin coats.
Here are the ELLE
takes on rustic
dressing. The town
is your country
CREATURE OF
COMFORT
Never mind that it
has been months since
Alexander McQueen,
MarquesAlmeida and
Balenciaga showed
quilted duvet coats on
the catwalk. She still
cant believe her luck.
Fashions trend cycle
has finally aligned with
her ultimate weekend
guilty pleasures and
she has been blissfully
swathed in her puffa
since. Life made.
Photography Ben Parks

Styling Michelle Duguid
FROM LEFT WOOL-MIX

SWEATER, 80, CANVAS
BY LANDS END. METAL
SUNGLASSES, 189,
GIVENCHY. WOOL BEANIE,
95, RAG & BONE
ELLE/NOVEMBER
85
THE GIRL
BELOW SHETLAND COATING
AND FELT COAT, 1,995,
JOSEPH. SHORT WOOL COAT,
325, TOPSHOP UNIQUE.
WOOL JUMPER, 280, STUDIO
NICHOLSON. COTTON-MIX
JEANS, 54.95, GAP. LEATHER
BOOTS, 430, CARVEN
FROM LEFT COTTON

JUMPSUIT, 45, ASOS.
LEATHER BOOTS, 155,
COMPTOIR DES COTONNIERS.
LEATHER SUNGLASSES,
295, MONCLER BY
MARCOLIN
Still-life photography: Graham Walser at Hearst Studios.
ALL DAY, EVERY DAY

She mastered her
personal uniform from
the age of 18 denim
and an army coat and
never looked back. More
than a decade later,
its still serving her well
with a few tweaks here
and there. Her latest
update, the addition
of a pair of prize stomper
boots in the spirit
of Preen and Prada.
FROM LEFT POLY-MIX

BOMBER, 39.99, H&M.
BAG, 495, CHRISTOPHER
RAEBURN. WOOL COAT, 525,
MICHAEL MICHAEL KORS
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THE GIRL
ENGLISH PASTORAL
Shes the woman who
feels more comfortable
at a country hotel
than at any London
nightspot. An expert in
wardrobing, she may
like practical sheepskin
in elevated iterations
from Coach and
Burberry, but her denim
is always vintage.
FROM LEFT WOOL-MIX

JUMPER, 85, FRENCH
CONECTION. LEATHER
BOOTS, 149, NINE WEST.
CORDUROY TROUSERS,
190, PAUL & JOE Q
88
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Still-life photography: Graham Walser at Hearst Studios. Hair: Tomomi Roppongi. Make-up: Martina Lattanzi at One Represents using Make Up For Ever.
Manicure: Tinu Bello at One Represents using Chanel Le Vernis in Organdi and Body Excellence Hand Cream. Model: Talia Mathers at Select Models.
FROM LEFT SHEARLING

COAT, 350, COMPTOIR DES
COTONNIERS. LEATHER
AND SHEARLING BAG, 500,
LONGCHAMP. SHEARLING
HAT, 165, UGG
BELOW SUEDE COAT, 149.99,
H&M. WOOL-MIX JUMPER,
99, KAREN MILLEN. CORD
TROUSERS, 89, WAREHOUSE
THE PIECES
The latest mood in watch design brings together the old with the new.
Its all about square faces, making every piece feel like a future classic
Photography
Benjamin Swanson
Words and styling
Donna Wallace
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: LEATHER STRAP AND STEEL FACE, 2,020, CARTIER. LEATHER STRAP AND SILVER FACE, 2,380,
BOUCHERON. LEATHER STRAP AND SILVER FACE, 1,860, LOUIS VUITTON. LEATHER STRAP AND BEIGE GOLD FACE, 8,500, CHANEL. LEATHER
STRAP AND STAINLESS STEEL FACE WITH GOLD NUMERALS, 2,850, TIFFANY. LEATHER STRAP AND 18CT WHITE GOLD AND DIAMOND FACE
WITH MOTHER OF PEARL DIAL, PRICE ON APPLICATION, CHOPARD
ELLE/NOVEMBER
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WOOL COAT, 95, MONKI.

POLY-MIX SLEEVELESS COAT,
99.50, BODEN. COTTON-MIX
DRESS, 755, CALVIN KLEIN.
CASHMERE TROUSERS, 299,
JOHNSTONS OF ELGIN. FELT
TRAINERS, 120, KURT GEIGER.
WOOL SCARF, 137, ACNE
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ELLE/NOVEMBER
THE STYLING
FAST AND LOOSE

FROM THE MULTI-LAYERS AT VICTORIA
BECKHAM for autumn to Burberrys elegant
sweaters for spring, all-year-round knits have
never been more relevant. The new styling trick
is in the piling on. Think about the easy way
youd wear that sheer, gauzy slip over a T-shirt
in summer, and apply that same method to
your knitwear this fall. Youll want your wool
and cashmere as thin and breezy as your silks.
ABOVE LIGHT GREY WOOL-MIX JUMPER

(WORN AROUND BODY), 119, BARBOUR.
DARK GREY CASHMERE JUMPER (WORN
AROUND BODY), 1,060, GABRIELA
HEARST. ACRYLIC WOOL JUMPER (WORN
UNDERNEATH), 85, FRENCH CONNECTION.
WOOL-MIX TRACKSUIT BOTTOMS, 209,
MARC CAIN. SATIN BALLET PUMPS,9.80,
FREED OF LONDON RIGHT JERSEY
CORSET, 39, FINERY. WOOL-MIX
CARDIGAN, 39.99, H&M. WOOL-MIX
JUMPER (WORN UNDERNEATH), 80,
MODERN RARITY AT JOHN LEWIS. WOOL
TROUSERS, 185, TOPSHOP UNIQUE.
SHETLAND WOOL JUMPER (IN HAND),
198, JIGSAW. SATIN TRAINERS,
160, KURT GEIGER LONDON
Photography Amarpaul Kalirai Styling Harriet Stewart
ELLE/NOVEMBER
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THE STYLING
LEFT COTTON-MIX JUMPER, 85,

FRENCH CONNECTION. MERINO WOOL
ASYMMETRIC JUMPER, 59, COS.
POLYESTER TROUSERS (JUST SEEN),
220, PLEATS PLEASE BY ISSEY MIYAKE
98
Photography: Amarpaul Kalirai.
ABOVE ACRYLIC-MIX JUMPER (WORN ON

SHOULDERS), 29.99, LINDEX. CASHMERE
SWEATER (WORN UNDERNEATH),1,060,
GABRIELA HEARST. WOOL-MIX SWEATER
(WORN AROUND WAIST), 119, POLO
RALPH LAUREN. WOOL-MIX SKIRT,
70, MODERN RARITY AT JOHN LEWIS.
LEATHER BOOTS, 119.99, KENZO X H&M
LEFT WOOL-MIX JUMPER, 165, TOPSHOP
UNIQUE. CASHMERE JUMPER (IN HAND),
169, JIGSAW. CREPE TROUSERS, 230,
CARVEN. LEATHER BOOTS, 150, G-STAR
RAW. COTTON-MIX SOCKS, 3, ASOS
ELLE/NOVEMBER
Photography: Amarpaul Kalirai. Hair: Joana Neves using Oribe UK and Babyliss Pro UK. Make-up: Martina Lattanzi at One Represents
using Este Lauder, nails using Chanel Le Vernis in Ballerina and Body Excellence Hand Cream. Model: Olena at Next Models.
THE STYLING
LEFT PATENT LEATHER

BUSTIER TOP, 349, JOSEPH.
WOOL SWEATER, 274, ACNE
RIGHT WOOL-MIX JUMPER,

149, BARBOUR X WHITE
MOUNTAINEERING. ALPACAWOOL JUMPER, 89, COS. NYLON
TRACKSUIT BOTTOMS, 45,
URBAN OUTFITTERS. LEATHER
BOOTS, 655, TODS Q
100
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THE BEAUTY EDIT
THE SPOILS
SELF LOVE IS HAVING A MOMENT, which in
our minds means buying lots of lovely things
for ourselves. Consider a collectable candle
that evokes spiced oranges, an undeniably cool
perfume with a create-your-own label or makeup bound in gold fabric. We deserve it.
Words: Joely Walker.
Photography Eva Roovers
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT:

GIVENCHY PALETTE ORS AUDACIEUX,
40.50. GIVENCHY PRISME LIBRE
VOILE AUDACIEUX IN VOILE ROS, 36.
JO MALONE THREE-WICK ORANGE
BITTERS CANDLE, 120. GIVENCHY LE
ROUGE IN ROSE AUDACIEUX, 26. BYREDO
UNNAMED EAU DE PARFUM, 135 FOR
100ML EXCLUSIVE TO LIBERTY
ELLE/NOVEMBER
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THE STORY
IN TIMES OF POLITICAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL UNREST, FASHION

GETS FEISTY. ELLES HANNAH SWERLING LOOKS AT
THE RISE AND RISE OF THE SLOGAN T-SHIRT
Photography: Getty.
hen I was 14, in the Nineties, I had a black crop

top from Miss Selfridge that had the word
Attitude emblazoned across it in bright
white italics. (I also had one that said Babe in glitter
but lets never speak of it). The irony is not lost on me
that I was actually a mild-mannered, introspective
teenager with approximately zero attitude, but Im
thankful to my mum for buying it and humouring me.
Later that year, I ramped up my naive venture into
rebellion by wearing a French Connection FCUK
fashion T-shirt. I know what youre thinking: this
kid was edgy. But it did feel transgressive to be so
tantalisingly close to wearing a swearword out in
public. I dont remember that 1997 campaign sending
out any particular message but the simple acronym,
penned by an agency Creative Director Trevor Beattie,
captured the mood of a generation of teens who
wanted to experiment with anarchy (and I enjoyed a
wistful moment of nostalgia when the campaign came
back for SS16). According to Chief Executive of French
Connection, Stephen Marks, that was the goal: As
were paying homage to the Nineties, this was the
right time to bring back the FCUK logo.
ELLE/NOVEMBER
Fashion has always been about self-expression

but, in this moment of political upheaval, social unrest
and ceaseless change, capturing a mood isnt enough.
We want a message to scream and shout.
Sloganeering was all over the catwalk for AW16,
from Alexander Wang to DKNY, and its making its
presence felt on the high street, too (River Island,
Topshop, H&M). The hashtags and captions have
leapt from our smartphones and on to our clothes.
Just in case you didnt already know our political
affiliation or where we stand on Justin Bieber (were
looking at you, Vtements), were spelling it out for
all the world to see. But its not all righteous protest;
fashion has a unique way of getting the message
across, whether it be playful or poignant, while
succinctly capturing a moment, too.
The motivation and sentiment behind fashion
slogans have evolved over time and according to the
social climate. The Seventies and Eighties saw a rise in
bold, provocative activist messaging under the radical
eye of British designers such as Katharine Hamnett
and Vivienne Westwood. In the Seventies, Westwood
and her then partner Malcolm McLarens most
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Sloganeering made
a big comeback on
the AW16 catwalks
century before women had the vote, they would

use umbrellas that represented their preferred
candidate, he says, and the Suffragettes wore
purple to demonstrate who they were.
In an era of Brexit, Donald Trump, Everyday Sexism
and Black Lives Matter, it may feel like were more
politically engaged than ever, but conventional
campaigning often fails to capture our attention. One
of the problems of any campaign group or political
party is that people arent listening; theyve switched
off, adds Fielding. Any form of communication that
goes against expectation will make an impact.
This year, Anna Cosgrave, 26, from County
Wicklow launched her REPEAL tops to campaign
for a repeal of Irelands Eighth Amendment, a law
passed in 1983 outlawing abortion in the country.
To wear your rights on your body has resonance,
she says. I find they act as statements of
solidarity and unity, and embody what grass
roots activism is all about.
While some slogans can publicise a direct
cause, there is fashion that is more subtle in its
message; at Vtements, phrases such as, May
The Bridges I Burn Light The Way denoted
some undefined anger. Creative Director
Demna Gvasalia said, I remember the morning
after the 2015 attacks, walking through Paris and
it was zombie land. Maybe the anger somehow was
present in our last show but it was subconscious. In
the same way, before Charlie Hebdo, we had made
all these security sweatshirts. You feel things and it
filters through to the world. Gvasalias politics may
be less self-conscious than his predecessors but the
feeling of restless discontent persists. Thats whats
so brilliant about fashion: whatever your thing is,
there is clothing that can help you express it. And
a T-shirt is much less painful than a tattoo.
Its nearly 20 years since I wore that Attitude
top and while Im spoilt for choice with comparable
options today, Im not sure Ill be wearing a Where
My Beaches At ASOS T-shirt any time soon. Having
said that, sloganeering isnt going anywhere and Im
excited to see what awaits us in upcoming seasons.
Political uncertainty and seething emotion are
powerful tools for creative inspiration. That and
Donald Trump T-shirts saying We Shall Overcomb. Q
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popular design featured images of a swastika and

Christ on the cross under the word Destroy,
apparently making a stand against dictatorships.
A decade later, Hamnett created the design that
spawned a thousand imitators with her oversized
T-shirts with black block capital slogans. In 1984, she
famously stuck two fingers up at the establishment
by wearing a top saying, 58% Dont Want Pershing
to meet Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at a
Downing Street reception (in protest against US
Pershing missiles in the UK). The iconic Frankie Say
Relax and Choose Life soon followed. Hamnett says
the resurgence in sloganeering is the symptom of
a newly frustrated generation. There is a swing to
the right and with that a loss of civil liberties, she
explains. People feel they have no voice, but they
can wear it on a T-shirt and people cant not read it.
If the last few seasons have been an unapologetic
Nineties fashion revival (combat boots, chokers,
babydoll dresses, and so on), then its logical that we
should witness a nod to Nineties-era logomania this
season. The trend that DKNY helped to launch was
resuscitated for AW16 with slogans like Insert Logo
Here and Designers Know Nothing Yet. And for SS17,
hooded boilersuits were emblazoned with New York Is
The New York. This more playful tone reminded me of
the Noughties moment when the angry, political edge
of the punk era gave way to more cheeky, spirited
designs from the likes of Henry Holland Do Me Daily
Christopher Bailey and Flick Yer Bean For Agyness
Deyn. Holland has hit refresh on these T-shirts for
SS17, enlisting the biggest models with enormous
reach on social media to wear them before the catwalk
show itself: Im Yours For A Tenner Kendall Jenner
and Give Us A Toss Karlie Kloss. ELLE Designer Viet
Tran recalls the first collection with an affectionate
cringe. Before university, a load of us were really into
those T-shirts but we couldnt afford them, so we came
up with our own slogans such as, Hes your man, Viet
Tran, Its all coolio with Nat Feruglio. I think we liked
that it was fun and you could wear clothing that
referenced something or someone you associated
with. It was an inside joke that united us as a group.
There is a woman who loves these iconic slogans,
who has a sense of humour, says Natalie Kingham,
Buying Director at matchesfashion.com. It feels quite
tribal, people recognise and embrace these pieces and
it identifies them as part of a group. Whether youre a
designer broadcasting your philosophy on the catwalk
or the woman on the street wearing a Beyonc T-shirt,
fashion offers a simple means by which you can tell the
world what youre about. Steven Fielding, Professor of
Political History at University of Nottingham, argues
that display has always been important. In the 19th
THE STORY
Our workwear is more casual than

ever, but what does that mean for
off-duty dressing? Judging by the
runways, its time to unwind.
A super-relaxed era has dawned
and were taking it lying down
f youd have told me 18 months ago that a pair
of 510 velvet-trimmed Haider Ackermann
track pants would one day sit at the top of my
wish list, Id probably have shot you my steeliest
side-eye. If youd also said my justification for such a
fantasy purchase would be, Theyre great for both
work and weekends! I would have told you to stop
being so silly.
But here I am now, poring over a photo of Rosie
Huntington-Whiteley wearing a similar 810 pair by
Chlo as she strolls through LAX Airport.
Shes channelling what we fashion writers rather
uninventively call the model off-duty look: her outfit, which also includes a grey tee and black blazer,
combines comfort and style in equal measure. She
is, of course, in no way off duty with her image being her fortune, she never truly is, especially at the
paparazzi battleground that is an airport. Proof:
shes also wearing 5in heels.
Even though I know all of the above, Im still
hooked on the idea of more frequently wearing the
kinds of clothing that was once limited to Saturday dog walks in the park. Thats largely thanks to
the runways, where sweatshirts (Burberry, Hood
By Air, DKNY the list goes on) and baggy denim
(Balenciaga, Alexander Wang) rules.
Ive even contemplated creating a DIY version of
my own track pants courtesy of John Lewis haberdashery department. This is the perfect example
of the power behind those two little words: off duty.
Initially a trend, its now a movement. It no longer
pertains to our weekend wardrobes its impacting
how we dress for work. But why, and what does this
mean for our actual off-duty wardrobes?
Were dressing more comfortably because were
seeking ease in our hectic lives, says Tamu McPherson, Founder of street-style website All The Pretty
Birds.Ourproductivity demands are so much higher and life is more dynamic than it has ever been, so
itnecessitatesless-formal clothes.
Its true; according to a study by the Trade Un-
Photography: Getty, Imaxtree.
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Words Bibby Sowray
ion Congress, the average UK working week now

stands at 43.6 hours compared with a European
average of 40.3 hours, while the number of people working excessive hours (more than 48 hours
a week) has risen by 15% since 2010.
The most recent British Social Attitudes Survey reveals were experiencing more work-related
stress than ever, but conversely, those in professional jobs have more freedom and flexibility at
work than they did a decade ago, suggesting were
happy to work longer and harder for more autonomy. Its little surprise then, that as our work life has
percolated into our home life, weve reassessed the
role our clothes play in helping us deal with it. For
many of us, particularly those in the creative industries, this has blurred the line between workwear
and weekend wear.
I remember a few years ago, the first time I saw
somebody wearing trainers at work. I thought, She
looks really efficient, says Lisa Aiken, Net-A-Porters Retail Fashion Director. When you are comfortable, I believe you are more effective.
Kate Unsworth, Founder of wearable tech startup Vinaya, says she cant remember the last time
she bought clothing just for work. Everything has
to be adaptable to my lifestyle. If Im on a nine-hour
flight, having meetings with investors or going to
dinner with friends, I dont want to have to think
about whether my clothes are going to be able to
keep up with my day.
Having become aware that were now seeking
multipurpose pieces that represent our busy lives
but with comfort at the core, designers and brands
are upping their off-duty game and were playing along. Previously, the off-duty wardrobe was
an afterthought, but nowadays women are using
them to express their personalities, Aiken says.
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It was a sensibility that struck a chord with women everywhere. Wearing workout clothes in our
time off seemed like what we were searching for; the
next step in off duty, it also went hand-in-hand with
the way in which our attitude to health was changing. Wellness culture definitely influenced a shift to
athleisure in our downtime, says McPherson. Its
so important for me to work out, but I dont have
time to change for whatever else I have going on
Theyre able to have more fun styling the pieces,
that day.
so they are certainly willing to invest in it more.
It may not have been innovative, but as he did
As such, the sweatshirt once a lesser-thought of
with his simple-but-bold off-duty look years ago,
essential has become a luxe statement piece were
Wang lit the touch paper for the trend to influence
willing to splash out on, whether its a signature Belother designers. And its still going strong.
la Freud knit at just under 300 or an intarsia tiger
Wearing gym clothes something that not so
number by Gucci for a 700 price tag. And hoodies
long ago may have seemed lazy now allows us to
continue to rise in popularity: Off-White and Vtetell the world: Im busy but Im in control and take
ments are leading the way, says Aiken.
care of myself. In an era where our brains are bomSo if off-duty dressing has taken over our workbarded with never-ending notifications, maybe we
ing week, what do we actually wear when were, you
need our clothes to reflect our increasingly hectic
know, off duty? Natalie Kingham, Buying Director
lives. Its also worth noting that off duty and athleiof matchesfashion.com, recommends the highsure are two movements that have undoubtedly
low approach and investing in great outerwear.
been strengthened by social media. Not just beI really like athleisure with a camel coat over the top.
cause it has exposed us to thousands of influencDesigners are doing more cargo and army jackets,
ers who are showing us how to nail it, but also bewhich are good for transseasonal off-duty. The
cause Instagram has altered our perception of how
length, shape, fabric and colour go with everything.
successful women dress now.
Of course, this change is not simply down to our
Were presented with the likes of Leandra Medishift in work-life balance. Its rooted in how fashion
ne and Chiara Ferragni, both of whom preside over
has progressed over the last decade.
growing media empires in
When Alexander Wang, a
jeans and tees. The suit is
Parsons School Of Design
THE SWEATSHIRT, ONCE
amazing, but you dont have to
dropout, arrived on the scene
A LESSER-THOUGHTwear one to prove you belong
in 2006, he introduced an antiOF ESSENTIAL, HAS
at that table. You wear what
dote to the trend treadmill:
you want, says McPherson.
inconsequential, slightly worn
BECOME A LUXE
Off duty really is at its most
everyday items such as the
STATEMENT PIECE WE
powerful right now.
oversized T-shirt and mothWILL SPLASH OUT ON
But in a sea of athleisure and
eaten jumper repurposed with
built-for-comfort clothes, how
a dont give a damn attitude.
can we maintain our individuality and avoid becomThus, contemporary off-duty dressing was born.
ing too casual?
Of course, Wang didnt invent casual dressing.
My advice is to always have one element that is
People have always changed into casual stuff when
personal to you, says Aiken. Ill always have my
they get home it marks the transition between
Herms watch and multiple rings on no matter
work and downtime, notes Kate Finnigan, The Telewhat Im wearing. Meanwhile, Ive found an alternagraphs Fashion Features Director. But what he did
tive to my dream tracksuit bottoms that wont leave
do was take it from being something of an afterme eating soup for six months: Adidas Originals
thought to the catwalk and, more importantly,
premium three-stripe cigarette trousers. Athleibeyond. If a trend is a holiday romance you meet,
sure with a bit of tailoring. I think were going to be
you flirt, you say your goodbyes and, years later,
very happy. Q
you look back with a mix of nostalgia and What was
I thinking? what Wang did was plant the seed for
a love affair worthy of a Nicholas Sparks novel.
Ten years on, off-duty dressings roots are anchored and its influence none more apparent. But
it wouldnt be fashion if things didnt progress
again, we have Wang to thank for that. In 2014, he
used his H&M collaboration to bring athleisure to
the masses. I live in gym clothes. When you go out
on the street, its the uniform now, he told The New
York Times when it launched, adding a major but:
Im not an athlete.
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THE LABELS
AGE OF
INSOUCIANCE
Meet three designers who are gaining cult
status among fashion influencers, and are
giving everyday dressing a maverick twist
Words Billie Bhatia and Tina Chadha
DANIELLE ROMERIL
Photography: 3 Objectives, Graham Walser at Hearst Studios.
Above: Designer
Danielle Romeril.
From top: Wool
jacket, 1,799,
technical fabric
shirt, 599, and
technical fabric
coat, 1,399, all
Danielle Romeril
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When she was 15, Dublin-born Danielle

Romerils career in fashion began when
she created her very own trend. I called
it festival bride, she says, laughing.
The look might not have taken off, but
her work is every bit as singular now as it
was then. With a following that includes
singer FKA twigs and blogger Susie
Bubble, Romeril riffs on a playful
aesthetic, slashing her slouchy pieces
at the joints in an Edward Scissorhands
manner. My style is modern, relaxed and
teeters between girly but not too girly,
and boyish but not too boyish, she says.
Romeril left a degree in psychology
and politics in Dublin for the Limerick
School Of Art And Design, following it
up with internships at Sharon Wauchob
in Paris and Sinha-Stanic in London.
After her graduate show at the Royal
College Of Art in 2010, Romeril was
chosen to work at Alberta Ferrettis
studio in Rimini, Italy. Then in 2013, she
founded her own label and quickly won
a NewGen sponsorship from the British
Fashion Council for six seasons, joining
a pantheon of past recipients including
Christopher Kane and Erdem. Now,
with a range of international retailers
including Dover Street Market, and
a newly launched e-commerce site,
her bendy path from festival bride to
London label-to-love hasnt steered
her wrong. I dont really have a 10-year
plan, she admits. Somehow, we doubt
thats a problem. Prices start at 95
BEAUFILLE
Sisters Chlo and Parris Gordon grew
up on opposite sides of the fashion
spectrum: Parris would wear ball gowns
to kindergarten, and Id be rooting in
my brothers closet, says Chlo. Luckily
for the Toronto-based designers, the
contrast laid the foundation for a
successful working relationship.
Launched in 2013, their line Beaufille
(handsome girl in French) merges
masculinity and femininity to create
elegant pieces with a boyish insouciance.
Think one-shouldered tops, trousers
with big flares and bold jewellery.
The look has caught the attention
of celebrities (Lady Gaga) and top
retailers (Net-A-Porter) alike for their
techniques. Look closely at what
appears to be a shiny, oxblood leather
coat and youll find its boiled wool
treated with polyurethane. Meanwhile,
a knitted lace creation is much more
than meets the eye: Chlo sewed yarn
on to a water-soluble bag, embroidered
over it and then dunked it in a water
bath until the plastic dissolved. The
clothes sound complex, but theyre built
for frequent use. We want to invade
your everyday rotation, says Parris.
Well happily surrender for the oxblood
flares please. Prices start at 125
Below: Cotton-mix
coat, 1,510, and
cotton-mix top,
250, both Beaufille
at Net-A-Porter.
Bottom: Chlo and
Parris Gordon
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HARRIET STYLES IT
SHINE ON
Words and styling Harriet Stewart
Photography Victoria Adamson
I AM A FASHION MAGPIE AND ALWAYS
HAVE BEEN. When it comes to shopping,
no silver boots are safe, no sequined slip

will be left untouched.
But now, aged 30, there are new rules.
Sequin mini-skirts are a no-no. They have
been relegated to the festival box, along
with bum-baring denim hot pants. Make
that mini a midi however, pair it with a
white T-shirt and simple trainers, and
that works in my mind. Sequins have to
look expensive, and that means no gaudy
colours and strictly no bandage dresses.
Which is where Lurex comes in. Think
of it as the sequins older sister, which
works just as well with daywear as it does
partywear. While there is still cheaplooking Lurex out there, on the whole
it tends to look more refined, and it
featured pretty heavily on the autumn/
winter 2016 catwalks too, from Gucci to
Roksanda. These Seventies-style Lurex
trousers by Tibi would be welcomed by
anyone who can only tolerate sparkle
with a side-serving of boyish attitude.
Ive paired them with a gold sequin shirt
from Very. Simple in shape and not overly
skin-baring, its a case-study in how
sophisticated sequins should be done.
For a similar vibe, I suggest investing
in a Lurex poloneck (of which I have
more than could possibly be deemed
necessary) for the ultimate partywear
quick fix. Wear one with a pair of velvet
palazzo pants or under an LBD to show
an old classic some new tricks. Buy one
now and youll never look back.
These Lurex
trousers would
be welcomed
by anyone who
can only tolerate
sparkle with a
side-serving
of boyish attitude
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INSPIRING NEW
CULTURE PAGES.
THE FIRST TO KN
Photography: Amarpaul Kalirai. Hlose Letissier wears: Red wool-mix jacket, and matching trousers, both Gucci. White cotton shirt,
Magda Butrym. Multicoloured leather shoes, Stella McCartney at Harvey Nichols.
Edited by Lena De Caspa

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THIS MONTH
Meet the women leading musics
new movement: M, Christine
And The Queens and Kelsey Lu.
Ugandan chess champ Phiona
Mutesi tells her story, as Lupita
Nyongo prepares to star in
a film of her life. Plus, Vivienne
Westwoods most-loved books.
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THIS PAGE WOOL-MIX

JACKET AND COTTON
SHIRT, BOTH AS BEFORE
OPPOSITE PAGE
BLACK WOOL-MIX
JACKET AND MATCHING
TROUSERS, BOTH
STELLA MCCARTNEY.
BLACK LEATHER SHOES,
CHURCHS FOOTWEAR
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FUTURE SOUNDS
DARING TO BE DIFFERENT, THESE THREE WOMEN DEFINE POPS SPIRITED NEW MOMENT.
THIS IS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MUSICIANS SOUNDTRACKING TOMORROW
Words Lena De Casparis
PROFILE / Christine And The Queens
HOME TOWN:
Nantes, France
SOUNDS LIKE:
Powerhouse synth-led
pansexual anthems
FOR FANS OF: Bjrk,
Madonna, Miley Cyrus
LISTEN TO: When you
need to lose yourself
in a crowded train
carriage, in the office,
or on the dancefloor
MAJOR MOMENT:
Madonnas levitating
finale at the 2015
Grammys was inspired
by Christine And The
Queens Saint Claude
music video, in which
she dances while
suspended in the air
STANDOUT TRACK:
Tilted
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THE CONVERSATION: Im often lost in my

dreams, says 28-year-old Hlose Letissier talking about her breakout album Chaleur Humaine, which translates into English as human
warmth. When I was young, I would write all the
time, she says. Novels, plays, and poems. Its
like a disease my life is filled with fantasies and
I have to write them all down.
After a bad break-up in 2010, she came to
London and inspired by a troop of drag queens
she met at Soho nightclub Madame Jojos, she
dreamed up the alter ego she now performs as:
Christine And The Queens. Christine was me
wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy,
and shrinking, and apologising all of the time, so
I created a character that could be daring for
me. The Queens are her imaginary back-up
drag dancers.
Back home, in France, Hlose is already a

huge deal. Shes spent most of the last two
years in the top 40 of the countrys music
charts, where Chaleur Humaine is already
seven-times platinum. It was only this year
when she brought out a translated English
version of the album, and then won over a
rained-on Glastonbury crowd with a magical
acrobatic performance, that she became big
here. Her sound mixes synth-filled electro
productions with distinctive icy vocals, but
what really sets her apart is her dancing
style that crosses voguing with Michael
Jackson moonwalking. I call it a project
more than an album because for me everything the dancing, the performance, and
the music is linked.
At the core of the music is Hloses relationship with her sexuality. Identifying as
pansexual, she rejects the stereotypes
around femininity. Before I created Christine, I was actually really girly. Maybe I was
trying to hide something but I was trying too
hard to be a girl and I didnt know what it
meant. I was afraid of being myself. One
aspect vital for the creation of Christine was
her style; her stage looks all centre around
sharp tailoring. Clothing is so closely related
to how you present yourself to the world.
Suits are now for me these neutral clothes
they can be feminine and sexy, but also
really macho. Next, Hlose will disappear to
make the new album. Im ready to work on
some new music. I want to plot who the next
Christine will be.
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HOME TOWN:
Charlotte,
North Carolina
SOUNDS LIKE:
Soulful strings with
otherworldly vocals
FOR FANS OF:
FKA twigs, Kelela,
Dev Hynes
LISTEN TO: During
pensive moments at
home alone with a large
glass of pinot noir
MAJOR MOMENT:
Headlined this years
most-hyped festival
Afropunk in Brooklyn,
New York, alongside
Janelle Mone and
The Internet
STANDOUT TRACK:
Morning After Coffee
PROFILE / Kelsey Lu
THE CONVERSATION: Making the classical cello cool is an
impressive feat, but its one that Kelsey Lu does with ease.
The 27-year-old instrumentalist and singer is arguably the
coolest new musician on the planet right now. Having grown
up in a Jehovahs Witness family in small-town US, surrounded by music, Kelsey began studying classical composition at six years old. I grew up with a pretty strict religious
background, she says. But when I left to go to school, my life
flipped upside-down and it all changed. I questioned everything and thats when I started writing songs.
She is now based in Williamsburg, New York, and in July
Kelsey released her first EP, Church, recorded in a Brooklyn
church with a loop pedal. Inspired by artists Alice Coltrane,
Nina Simone and Billie Holiday, her sound still uses haunting
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strings from the cello but brings in echoing vocals to create

songs with a potent emotional punch.
She already boasts some high-profile fans; having played
with Dev Hynes and Kelela, Kelsey opened for Florence And
The Machines tour earlier this year. She also soundtracked
designer Grace Wales Bonners first runway show in spring.
Performing is everything for Kelsey. I did my show recently and the front row was mainly composed of women
of colour and I was like, The universe has answered my
prayers. It was such a beautiful and diverse mix of people.
It was electrifying.
For now, shes finishing her first full-length album and is
looking forward to working with more women. Its a world
full of men and being a female in music, its exciting to feel a
part of something, she says. Its so important for our voices
to be heard.
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THIS PAGE BLACK

VISCOSE DRESS,
BEAUFILLE AT NET-APORTER.COM. BLACK
LEATHER BOOTS, LOUIS
VUITTON OPPOSITE
PAGE LEATHER JACKET,
PROENZA SCHOULER.
NYLON BRALET,
BARBARA CASASOLA
AT NET-A-PORTER.COM.
ALL JEWELLERY
AND WATCH, KELSEY
LUS OWN
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HOME TOWN:
Ejlstrup, Denmark
SOUNDS LIKE:
Feisty electro-pop
with a punk attitude
FOR FANS OF:
Twin Shadow, Grimes
and Pussy Riot
LISTEN TO: When
you need a kick of
conviction before
a date, getting ready
for a night out, gearing
up to ask your boss for
a pay rise
MAJOR MOMENT:
This summer's
collaboration with
Justin Bieber and
Major Lazer on the
track Cold Water
STANDOUT TRACK:
Final Song
PROFILE / M
THE CONVERSATION: Age seven, Karen Marie rsted An-
derson, better known as M, discovered the Spice Girls and

decided she wanted to be a pop star. I wasnt from a musical
family but I was determined to be exactly like them.
Growing up in a small town west of Copenhagen, the 28
year old knew she couldnt conform to conventions:
I saw bands with perfectly choreographed performances
and I was so awkward, I couldnt do that. Instead M started
a punk band called MOR. Playing with the band I learned to
just say, Screw that, you can let go and be weird.
In 2013, she went solo and released her debut EP Bikini
Daze. Evocative of early Lana Del Rey with the defiance of
Pussy Riot, she immediately garnered attention. Next came
duets with Major Lazer, Iggy Azalea, Avicii, and this year,
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Justin Bieber I only met Justin one time but it was crazy.
I mean, its Bieber! followed by her second studio album
Kamikaze produced by Diplo, out this October.
Despite big chart success, M still refuses to conform.
I love pop music, but you need to give it some personality
otherwise why bother doing it? I would never make a pop
song that sounded just like an echo of everything thats
already going on. Thats just too boring.
She sees now as a great time to be a woman in music.
Theres so much focus on women as victims in this industry
and Im like, No! Women are doing great! Universities are full
of women, there are so many women in music and so many
more arriving. Her next challenge is to get a raspy voice
now that shes quit smoking. My voice got too angelic.
I want that rawness, thats what characterises me. Ive got to
find a way to do that. Q
ELLE/NOVEMBER
Photography: Amarpaul Kalirai. Stylist: Natasha Wray. Hair: Ben Jones using Bumble + Bumble. Hair Assistant: Nicola Harrowell. Make-up: Michelle
Dacillo at Caren using YSL Beaute and Sunday Riley. Manicurist: Jessica Thompson at Frank Agency using Gelish (nailharmonyuk.co.uk).
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ARE YOU
SITTING
COMFORTABLY?
Were living in an era of great TV. From Stranger

Things to The Night Of, the small-screen offerings
have never been so strong. But what to watch
next? Weve scoured all the shows premiering
this autumn to bring you the best. Welcome to
the seasons new obsessions.
Good Girls Revolt Based on a real-life story
by journalist Lynn Povich. This Mad Men-style
drama set in a 1969 newsroom tells the story
of several female magazine researchers (one
of whom is the legendary writer Nora Ephron)
who make the revolutionary request to be
allowed to write just like the men do.
Amazon Prime, from 28 October
Black Mirror With tales of cyber-terrorism,
gaming addictions and dystopian societies,
Charlie Brookers Black Mirror has a scary ability
to predict our darkest fears for the future. Its
moved to Netflix from Channel 4 and now the
award-winning science-fiction show is back for
a six-part series starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw
(Beyond The Lights) and Mackenzie Davis (Halt
And Catch Fire). Netflix, from 21 October
Crisis In Six Scenes Woody Allens first foray
into TV is this six-episode romantic comedy set
in the Sixties. During a time of political and social
turbulence, a middle-class suburban family,
including Miley Cyrus, are visited by a guest who
turns their household completely upside down.
Amazon Prime, out now
Better Things Fans of Louis CK wont want
to miss his and Pamela Adlons single-camera
sitcom. Sam (Adlon) is a working actress and
divorced single mother who is struggling to
balance her career, raise three daughters and
stay sane. Raw, uncomfortable and brilliantly
funny, it directly tackles the joys and the agonies
of life. FX, out now
The OA Actress Brit Marling and director
Zal Batmanglij join forces for a new series.
A blind woman who disappears for years,
reappears with her power of sight returned.
Netflix, from December
MAKE AN ENTRANCE
A NEW VOICE IN FICTION, BRIT BENNETT, 26, WROTE HER FIRST NOVEL THE
MOTHERS WHILE AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY. ITS A COMING-OF-AGE STORY
SET IN CALIFORNIA ABOUT TWO AFRICAN-AMERICAN FRIENDS STRUGGLING
AFTER BEING ABANDONED BY THEIR MOTHERS. A FEARLESS DEBUT THAT
SHOWS HOW PEOPLE CAN BE SHAPED BY THEIR LOSSES. OUT NOW
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ZADIES GIRL
Photography: Mary Stuart by Miles Aldridge, Rebekah Campbell, BBC/Mammoth Screen/Steffan Hill, Lukasz Wierzbowski.
Two queens
Theatre writer and director Robert
Icke (Oresteia, 1984) is shaking things
up again at Londons Almeida with
a version of Friedrich Schillers Mary
Stuart, which tells the story of the
Scottish queens final days as
Elizabeth Is prisoner. Actresses Juliet
Stevenson and Lia Williams (pictured,
above) will flip a coin each night to see
who will play Mary and Elizabeth. The
two queens have blood claims to the
same throne, Icke explains. By having
Lia and Juliet alternate the roles, this
mirroring becomes the centre of the
evening. With Laura Marling having
composed an original score for the
play, expect a spectacular Stuart/
indie-folk mash-up. But the biggest
question of the night remains: heads
or tails? From 2 December 2016 to 21
January 2017 at the Almeida, London
The woman on everyones radar this

autumn? Zadie Smith. She releases her
much-anticipatednewnovelSwingTime,
andBBC2isairingadramatisationofher
2012bestseller,NW.
NikkiAmuka-Bird,whostarsasNatalie
intheadaptation,grewupinAntigua
beforemovingtotheUK,andfirstcame
acrossthebookwhenshewaslivingin
northLondon:Zadiewasveryhonest
abouttheexperienceoffeeling
simultaneouslyEnglishandWestIndianin
London,shesays,andthattheyareequal
partsofwhoyouare.Shecouldidentify
withthecharacterofNatalie,whohasa
seeminglyperfectlifeasabarristeranda
mother,butbeginstoquestionhowhappy
shereallyis.Wecontinuallyassessthe
things that make us happy, whether its

family or work or whatever our passions
are, explains Nikki. As a child, its very clear
that you have to push yourself forward
through education, getting a job, having
a relationship and then you arrive at a point
in adulthood where you achieve them
and you think What do I achieve now?
Nikki had to wait until the last day of
shooting before meeting Zadie. She came
on set with her mother and the first thing
she said was, Doesnt she look perfect
for Natalie? I cannot tell you what a relief
that was. NW is on BBC2 in December
Powerful stage
actress Nikki AmukaBird returns to TV
COOL BEANS
GET TO KNOW NEW YORKS
COOLEST NEW BAND
SUNFLOWER BEAN. FRONTED
BY SINGER, BASSIST AND YVES
SAINT LAURENT MODEL JULIA
CUMMING WITH GUITARIST
AND VOCALIST NICK KIVLEN
AND DRUMMER JACOB FABER,
THIS TRIO ARE MAKING SWEET
MELODIC ROCK WITH BIG RIFFS
AND PSYCHEDELIC THRILLS.
DEBUT ALBUM HUMAN
CEREMONY, RECORDED WHEN
THEY WERE STILL IN THEIR
TEENS, IS OUT NOW.
Brooklyns
Sunflower Bean
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David Hockney features

in coffee-table book,
Speak Its Name!
Pride of place
This month sees the release of
Speak Its Name!, which is being
published ahead of the 50th anniversary
in 2017 of male homosexualitys
decriminalisation. Filled with quotations
by and about gay icons throughout
history, its Illustrated with images from
Londons National Portrait Gallery. The
funny and poignant coffee-table book
touches on gay marriage, labels, sex
and promiscuity to show how far the
acceptance of the LGBT community
has come in half a century. Its also
a rallying cry to continue the fight
for equality. Out now
SUITE SUITE FANTASY

November is all about beautiful spaces its
the grand reopening of Londons The Design
Museum with the show, Fear And Love: Reactions
To A Complex World in Kensington this month
so theres no better time than now to get caught
dabbling in a little interiors porn. Cue the
new Terrace Suite at The Berkeley Hotel in
Knightsbridge. After a hefty revamp by John
Heah (the architect behind the Aman and the
Four Seasons hotels), the suite has a terrace
overlooking St Pauls Church, a marble bathroom
with a huge tub, and two Burberry trench coats
hanging in the closet for guests personal use
throughout their stay. the-berkeley.co.uk
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST
NORWEGIAN SINGER ANNA
LOTTERUD (PICTURED, ABOVE)
AND HER PRODUCER, BRADY,
AKA ANNA OF THE NORTH,
WILL HAVE YOU DELVING DEEP
INTO YOUR EMOTIONS. SO FAR,
HER SONGS HAVE ALREADY
BEEN STREAMED MORE THAN
30M TIMES, AND HER EARLY
TRACKS HIT THE TOP SPOT
OF INFLUENTIAL MUSIC BLOG
HYPE MACHINE. SHES BEEN
WINNING OVER LONDON WITH
HER SENSITIVE SCANDIPOP DURING SHOWCASE
APPEARANCES AT MOTH
CLUB AND THE LEXINGTON.
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ELLIE BAMBER Havingmadeher

big-screendebutinTheFallingwith
GameofThronesMaisieWilliams,this
monththe19-year-oldfromBerkshire
starsinherfirstHollywoodfilm,Tom
FordsNocturnalAnimals,withJake
Gyllenhaal.Thefilmhaditsworld
premieretoravereviewsattheVenice
FilmFestival.Incinemas4November
HALEY BENNETT With two big films

coming this month The Magnificent
Seven opposite Denzel Washington
and thriller The Girl On The Train
the 28-year-old (pictured, left) is
about to become a household name.
Watch out for her next in the cast of
Terrence Malicks musical drama
Weightless opposite Christian Bale.
KATHERINE WATERSTON Having first

made us swoon in Paul Thomas
Andersons Inherent Vice, English-born
American actress Katherine Waterston,
36, makes her mark this month in
JK Rowlings screenwriting debut,
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find
Them. She stars opposite Eddie
Redmayne in the story of writer Newt
Scamander and New Yorks secret
community of witches and wizards. Q
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Above: Cos makes

workwear cool again
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Photography: Bjarne Jonasson, Alasdair McLellan, Kristopher McKay, Ward Ivan Rafik, , Fiesta 1985 2016 Agnes martin/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York.
ON THE HORIZON
ART APPAREL
FANS OF CANADIAN ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONIST AGNES MARTIN
(1912-2004), FAMED FOR HER
SQUARE CANVASSES, RENDERED
GRIDS AND REPEAT STRIPES
(UNTITLED #15, 1988), WILL WANT
TO HEAD TO COS THIS MONTH.
TO MARK A RETROSPECTIVE OF
MARTIN AT THE GUGGENHEIM,
NEW YORK, THE COVETED
SCANDI BRAND HAS CREATED A
12-PIECE WORKWEAR CAPSULE
COLLECTION INSPIRED BY HER
GEOMETRIC COMPOSITIONS.
PRICES START AT 68
IN OUR NEW COLUMN, DEPUTY EDITOR LOTTE JEFFS TAKES A SIDEWAYS LOOK AT A WORD
THE FASHION WORLD CANT STOP SAYING AND ASKS: WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN?
LEXICON
BORING
Photography: Silvia Olsen. Speech bubble stick, 45, Anya Hindmarch.
Adjective: Not interesting; tedious

low talkers, period dramas,
sports, the reason youre
late, tax returns, yin yoga,
other peoples dreams
The list of things that bore
me goes on, and on, and on,
and on BORING! Sorry.
In todays world of instant
gratification, where you
barely have to think about needing
something before its dropped by
drone into your garden, and where
brands such as Burberry are
flinging looks straight from the
catwalk on to the shop floor, were
doing everything we can to stave
off the dull thud of the diurnal. But
its not good enough because still
we find that sometimes, life just
doesnt have the range.
Maybe if British politics hadnt
been so dry for so long, young
people might have paid more
attention to the EU referendum,
and we wouldnt be panic-buying
macarons because were scared
our new blue passports will make
popping to Paris a thing of the
past. By the time Brexit got
interesting, it was too late. Human
beings need to be entertained is
also at the root of Donald Trumps
terrifying popularity; he may be
a dullard, but he sure aint dull.
Igrewupwithoutanysiblings,
andmychildhoodwaspunctuated
bythefearofcrashingboredom
betweenactivities.FellowonlychildrenoftheNinetieswillrecall
endlessrainyafternoonsplaying
BamboozleonTeletextand
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watching the Neighbours omnibus.

I was an expert at making my
parents sit and watch me perform
dramatic monologues that I had
written, produced and directed.
Im pretty sure being forced to
entertain myself has made me
a more creative adult.
Theres no such thing as being
bored, only boring people, my dad
used to tell me, and Im inclined to
agree. In my opinion, the world
comprises two types: those who
WHEN UBER ARRIVES

IN THREE MINUTES
AND NET-A-PORTER
SHOPPING THE SAME
DAY, THE ART OF BEING
BORED IS DYING A DEATH
knowhowtotellafunnystoryand
thosewhodont.Ivelittlepatience
forpeoplewhoarentinstantly
engaging,andImsorryifyourea
slowburner,butIwillhavecaught
atleast25Pokmoninthetime
ittakesforyourpersonality to
shinethrough.Luckilyforme,
workinginfashionmeansIm
alwayssurroundedbyweird
andwonderfulpeople.Butthats
nottosaykookydressersare
automaticallyinteresting.Ionce
satnexttoawomanatadinner
partywhowaswearingataxidermy
owl on her head. She was one of the

most insufferably dry people Ive
ever come across. Youre wearing
a dead bird on your head FFS,
I almost screamed at her. Your
conversational gambits should
extend beyond traffic on the M25.
A few years ago, fashion got so
bored of its own peacocking that
looking bland was actually a thing.
Normcore became an inside
joke; what could be more mildly
amusing than people who did
know how to dress well wearing
trousers that look like theyre from
The Guardians classified pages?
It didnt last, of course, because
Generation Snapchat was on
to the next trend before it even
started. And thats the thing: these
days, were all so quick to declare
something boring. Its why most
millennials are slashies working
several jobs so that no single
career ever becomes tedious.
When our Uber arrives in three
minutes and our Net-A-Porter
shopping the same day, the art
ofbeingboredisdyingadeath.
Butevenassomeonewiththe
attentionspanofagnat,Icant
helpthinking(forthemillisecond
beforeIstartwonderingwhatto
havefordinner)ifsittingquietly
alone,inastateoftemporary
boredom,withonlythemonotony
ofourownthoughtsandnoiPhone
forcompany,iswherethemost
interestingideasmightbefound.
Lotte Jeffs is the Writer
Of The Year PPA Awards
2016. Follow her on
Instagram @lottejeffs
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STREET STYLE
DOUBLE THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR
EVENING WEAR BY DRESSING IT DOWN FOR DAY.
THESE STYLISH WOMEN SHOW YOU HOW
An oversized
knit can turn a
little-worn party
piece,likestylist
EstellePigaults
diaphanousskirt,
intoastandoutlook
Frothy Valentino
ruffles are too good to
save for evening so
blogger Charlotte
Groeneveld pairs
them with Guccis
classic horsebit
loafers and low-key
make-up for day
A luxe velvet
dress is one of the
easiest pieces to
transform for
day. Wear with
trainers and an
oversized bag
Sequins can work in your

everyday rotation when
dressed down with a plain
T-shirt and denim jacket
like Miroslava Duma
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Channel the Nineties

to perfection by
layering a bias-cut
slip over a T-shirt and
trainers, like stylist
Angelica Ardasheva
Words: Bibby Sowray. Photography: Getty.
Wear straight-leg denim

underneath a dress for the perfect
evening-to-day equation, just like
Anna Borisnova
A sheer,
embroidered,
full-length gown
may scream
evening, but
fashion editor
Leaf Greener
proves
otherwise as
she styles
hers with biker
boots and a
long-sleeved layer
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A feathery dress
and heels worn
with an oversized
tunic top? Yes you
can. Street style
icon Candela
Novembre shows
you how
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MY MOSCHINO PHONE CASE

For the record, I dont smoke but
I still use this Moschino phone
case anyway. If you follow me on
Instagram, youll have seen it in
most of my selfies.
WE LIKE STYLISH PEOPLE

WHO FILL THEIR WORLDS
WITH MEANINGFUL STUFF.
SOME OF IT BRINGS THEM
JOY, SOME OF IT IS JUST
FASHIONABLE CLUTTER.
EITHER WAY, IT MAKES
THEM WHO THEY ARE
MY WORLD / Marjan Jonkman

When Hedi Slimane books you
for your first ever runway show,
as happened for model Marjan
Jonkman, 22, in February, its
clear a meteoric ascent is
imminent. Ever since, its
been hard to pin down the
Dutchwoman to one place for
long flitting between New
York, London and her favourite
hangout, Amsterdam. Being
one of the most in-demand
models (she walked
60 shows for AW), it can
be hard to lay down roots.
So Marjan and her housemate
in New York, the emerging
womenswear designer,
Kimberley Jenneskens, have
built a memory wall in their
apartment, where they can
remind each other there is
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Model Marjan has found

a home in New York
despite travelling so often
a home to come back to. Its

a communal wall where we hang
pictures and photographs and
write each other messages like
I miss you.
A self-professed vegetable
lover, salad obsessive and
good-girl vegan, its easy to
see why staying healthy is
essential to Marjan. I flew back
to New York to have an agency
meeting and then tomorrow
night I fly to Milan. And then
I come back to New York for
two nights, then to London
and then to Paris for couture.
Here, she talks us through
the pieces that ground her.
MY CAMERA
Maybe its because of my line of
work, but I love taking Polaroid pictures.
My apartment is covered in them.
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MORE ONE-OFFS
As youre probably gathering by this
point, one of the perks of having a
designer as a roommate is getting
great clothes such as this jacket
that Kimberley made me.
LIVE MORE MARJAN

DRESS IT
'I dont want to wear
standard model clothes.
It's cool to show your own
personal style. I like to
wear gym shoes and band
tour T-shirts.
MY DESIGNS
Words: Billie Bhatia. Photography: Winnie Au. All clothing worn by Marjan available at Claudie Pierlot.
This Claudie x Marjan

rucksack is part of my
design collaboration
with Claudie Pierlot and
I now carry it everywhere
I go. I made it with my
frequent traveller
lifestyle in mind.
EAT IT
'I love to watch the Food
Network I am kind of a
health freak. I'm obsessed
with these paleo choc chip
cookies from the show,
The Kitchen.'
BESPOKE JACKET
My roomie and I are closer
than close so we designed this
denim jacket together. Its our
version of a friendship bracelet.
READ IT
'I only read books about
real life because it's a way
of still learning. At the
moment, I'm reading a
history book about the
Iraq war.
MEMORY WALL
This is like a scrapbook of
our memories with Polaroids.
Kimberley and I have shared so
many experiences this year. We
should write a book about it.
MY SNAPS
Look at that pose, I was
born a model (joking!).
GO-TO BLAZER
Im normally quite dressed
down, but this blazer is
what I wear when I want to
look polished and classic.
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MY STORY / Phiona Mutesi

GROWING UP IN ONE OF THE MOST DERELICT SLUMS IN KAMPALA, UGANDA, PHIONA MUTESI,
20, SAW NO ESCAPE FROM A LIFE OF POVERTY. BUT WHEN SHE JOINED A CHESS CLUB RUN
BY A MISSIONARY, EVERYTHING CHANGED. AS WALT DISNEY PICTURES RELEASES A FILM ABOUT HER
LIFE, QUEEN OF KATWE STARRING LUPITA NYONGO, PHIONA IS TRAVELLING THE WORLD, PLAYING
CHESS AND INSPIRING A GENERATION OF YOUNG WOMEN TO NEVER GIVE UP
y father died of Aids when I was three years old .

From then on, everything in my life changed.
My mother, Harriet [played by Lupita Nyongo
in the film] struggled to pay school fees for me,
my sister and my brothers. Not only that, but
we didnt have enough money for food. I went to
school until I was six, but then I had to drop out.
I remember sitting at home alone, watching
the other kids go to school in their uniforms.
It made me sad to see them going and I was
so bored; at school theres always something
interesting going on and you have friends to talk to.
I began helping to bring money into the house by working
for my mothers business, selling corn to people living in
Katwe. I hated the job because I had no choice but to do
it. My mother needed help paying for our rent and food,
which would usually be one meal a day of rice or bananas, if
we sold enough. When I was nine years old, we were evicted
from our house because we couldnt afford to pay the rent,
so we went to live on the streets. We didnt have anything
to eat or drink; I was always hungry and scared because
young girls and women were raped a lot of the time. The
most important thing for women to do on the streets is to
produce kids, and thats all. I didnt want my life to be like
that of my mother. I wanted it to be better, but it was hard
to dream about life outside of Katwe. There was no one to
inspire me because most of the people lived the same life,
so it was difficult to think about a world outside of the slum.
One day, my brother Brian told me that they were giving
a cup of porridge to children at a local chess club set up by
a sports outreach programme. I decided to secretly follow
him to the dilapidated church where the club was held and
discovered a dozen children playing this strange game Id
never seen before. The coach, a missionary called Robert
Katende [played by David Oyelowo in the film], spotted
me peering in and invited me to join. But I wasnt interested
in playing chess or making friends with the other children
they teased me for being dirty so I fought with them. All
I wanted was the cup of porridge.
There is no word for chess in my local language, Luganda,
which is ironic because it is chess, a game that consists of
just a board and 16 pieces, that saved my life. When I went
back home that day and told my mother, she was not happy
with me. She thought chess was another form of gambling,
like all the other games people played in the slum, and she
warned me not to go back.
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As told to: Hannah Nathanson.
But I did. The next day, I slipped away from my mother

and went back to the church to get some more porridge.
I behaved better and didnt get into any fights so Coach
Robert sat me down with Gloria, who was five years old,
and asked her to teach me how to play. She went through
the names of the pieces, which fascinated me. My favourite
piece, even now, is the queen. She moves across so many
different lines, which makes her the strongest player
on the board. The Queen of Katwe: A Story Of Life, Chess,
And One Extraordinary Girls Dream Of Becoming A
Grandmaster became the name of the book that sports
journalist Tim Crothers wrote about me in 2012. We settled
on the name together with Coach Robert because by that
time, I was moving all around the world playing chess and
becoming a stronger player with every move.
The first time I realised I was going back to chess club
for the game, not just for the food, was when I won my first
game against a boy called Joseph Asaba. He used to be
able to beat me in just six moves using a tactic called Fools
Mate. After two weeks, I got tired of being beaten like that
so I asked Coach Robert how I could survive the opening
the first moves in a chess game and he told me how to
defend myself. When I went back to play him I managed
to win and he was so ashamed that a girl had beaten him
that he pushed the board over in protest and sobbed.
Boys were thought to be stronger than girls at everything
but my chess style was quite aggressive, so I suppose
I played more like a boy.
Thanks to Coach Robert, we started travelling to fancy
boarding schools in Kampala, Ugandas capital, to play in
tournaments. It was very rare for children like us to leave
the slums; we started to meet children who were much
more exposed to life than we were in Katwe. We couldnt
even communicate through language because we could
only speak Luganda. Our common language was chess,
spoken across the board. When we got to the boarding
school, everything was new for us; we didnt know how
to use the toilets, they had to show us. And when we were
given our own dormitory with beds, we ended up sleeping
together on the floor because thats the only way we knew.
At 11 years old, I became Ugandas Junior Girls National
Chess Champion and, when I got the prize money, I gave
it to my mother. She was so happy because we still didnt
have enough money for food. The biggest change in my life,
since going back to school and travelling the world through
chess, was being able to build my mother a house that is
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CHESS IS LIKE LIFE: YOU

HAVE TO PLAN AND BE
ABLE TO STRATEGISE
IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE
WHAT YOU WANT. I NEED
TO ENVISION MY NEXT
MOVES AND LOOK AHEAD
not in the slums, where she now lives. She is the strongest
woman I know; I admire how hard working she is despite
all the difficulties weve faced.
The first time I left Uganda, I went to Sudan to play
in Africas International Childrens Chess Tournament
with two other children from the outreach programme,
Ivan and Benjamin. The three of us, children from the
slums, boarded a plane and we couldnt believe what
was happening. When we took off, I remember asking,
Are we on our way to heaven? We stayed in a hotel and
I slept in a room alone for the first time. I could never have
imagined the world I was visiting. I felt like a queen.
Against all odds, we won the tournament and took
home a trophy that was bigger than all of us. None of us
had wanted to leave the hotel, we wanted to stay where
there were flushing toilets and we didnt have to worry
about going hungry. When we got back to Katwe, we faced
a lot of problems. It was hard to readjust and go back to life
in the slums. I tried to forget everything, forget all about
the other children and how much they had and knew
compared to us.
What I liked most about the game of chess was that
it involved thinking. You have to think a lot about your
options, of which there are so many, if you want to win.
In life, its the same. You are faced with a lot of decisions
and you have to be confident that youre going to make
the right one. If you dont, you find yourself swimming in
the mess. In chess, you also have to have a plan and to be
able to strategise in order to achieve what you want, just
like in life. And you have to have a dream, like when Im at
the chessboard and I need to envision the next moves
and try to look ahead to what I want to achieve.
Im now in my last year at St. Mbuga Vocational
Secondary School in Kampala and taking my final exams.
Before I started playing chess, surviving the day was my
one aim. But now I have a plan ahead. When I leave school
Id like to study law so that I can fight for the rights of the
kids from slums like Katwe. As for chess, Id like to become
a grandmaster. But I still have a long way to go and many
moves to play, both on the chessboard and in life, before
I do that.
Queen of Katwe is out in cinemas from 21 October
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FASHION DESIGNER AND ENVIRONMENTALIST VIVIENNE WESTWOOD,
75, SHARES THE BOOKS THAT HAVE SHAPED HER LIFE
Words Bibby Sowray
The Devils Of Loudun

by Aldous Huxley
To me, Huxley is the greatest
English writer of the 20th century.
He made me change intellectually.
I would never have become the
person I am or have the mind that
I have had I not read his work.
This is a riveting account of
politics in 17th-century France:
anybody who wants to know what
Europes about should read it. You
have to be a fit reader but
dont let that put you off.
Often when Im reading
I dont quite absorb the
message, but I carry on
and try to work it out.
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The Grapes Of Wrath

by John Steinbeck
This book is about love and
helping each other. Its beautiful
and monumental, and it follows
the people who were ruined by
the Dust Bowl a period of severe
drought and dust storms in the
US during the Thirties. Steinbeck
travelled and lived with the
migrants and wrote their stories
down within six months. It tells
you so much about the US at that
time, the suffering of the people
and how they were exploited.
I love the characters in this
book. The protagonist Tom Joad
is a real hero for me: hes willing to
sacrifice everything for the people
because he sees how theyre
being treated and he believes in
democracy. The lesson I take from
it is the potential to grow with your
experience, to be open to it and up
for it, and to stick your neck out.
THE LESSON IVE TAKEN

FROM THE GRAPES OF
WRATH IS TO GROW WITH
YOUR EXPERIENCE, BE
OPEN TO IT AND UP FOR
IT, AND TO STICK YOUR
NECK OUT
The Master And Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
This is the last full book I read. It
has a Faustian theme to it, which
I enjoyed because I want to rework
Faust to explain climate change
how Mephistopheles, the fabled
Faustian demon, would be in the
media so at the moment my
reading is focused on that.
Its about a time in Russia
when people disappeared
without a reason and
nobody asked where they
went. Its also about magic
and the devil; its stunning
but hilarious as well.
Stoner by John Williams

My husband Andreas is a great
reader. He recommends things
to me that I probably wouldnt
choose and he bought me Stoner.
It was written in the Sixties but
unexpectedly became a bestseller
in 2013.
Some people think its sad that
the protagonist, a farm boy who
goes on to have an undistinguished
career as a teacher, doesnt
recognise his full potential, but he
does because he was absolutely
true to himself throughout his life.
It is the most amazing account
of a human being and Ive never
seen such a testimony to the
genius of the human race. Its
easy reading but still incredibly
important and profound.
The Story Of The

Stone by Cao Xueqin
This was my most
important reading
experience. Its as if I have lived
two lives my own and those of
the characters. I read it until I fell
asleep whenever I had the time.
Its one of Chinas four great
classic novels and was written
in the 18th century. It charts the
decline of an illustrious Chinese
Buddhist family. At the centre
is Jia Baoyu, who is born with a
magical jade in his mouth, but it
also contains probably the most
romantic heroine of all time,
his love interest Lin Daiyu. The
things they say to each other
and the things that they do!
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BLURRED LINES / Amalia Ulman

WITH INSTAGRAM AS HER CANVAS, THIS ARTWORLD PHENOMENON HAS CONVINCED HER
FOLLOWERS SHES AN ESCORT, AN UNHINGED EX,
AN OFFICE DRONE, AND AN EXPECTANT MOTHER.
WILL THE REAL AMALIA ULMAN PLEASE STAND UP?
Interview Molly Langmuir
he 27-year-old conceptual artist Amalia Ulman

was born in Argentina, raised in Spain, attended
art school in London, and now lives in Los Angeles
in a sparsely furnished one-bedroom apartment.
When I meet her there in early May, white gauze
is draped over the trundle bed, white daisies sit in
a vase next to it, and six clocks on the wall show five time
zones (none of them LA). Mounted in the middle of the
bedroom is the metal pole Amalia uses to practise pole
dancing, often to Bulgarian choral music. Where the pole
meets the ceiling, cracks spread through the plaster like
a neural network.
Amalia has a pet pigeon named Bob and an ancient
white Volvo named Alice; on a recent rare holiday, she
went to North Korea. She describes herself as having the
personality of a librarian, but was once a circumstantial
whore, as she puts it after art school, struggling to
support herself, she spent five months as an escort.
Yet even as the facts of her life form a series of unlikely
juxtapositions, they also fit rather neatly into the outline
of a specific, if narrow, trope that of the quirky artist.
That is exactly the type of dichotomy shes drawn to: the
blurred lines between personality and performance, life
and lifestyle, are the frequent focus of her art, which over
the last few years she has often delivered via Instagram.
Is this the rst Instagram masterpiece? wondered
a 2014 article in The Telegraph, after Amalia appeared
to shapeshift on social media from cute girly-girl to
narcissistic sugar-baby to wellness-oriented green
juicer an is-she-or-isnt-she story arc that viewers
later learned was a performance entitled Excellences
& Perfections. Her genius is that she can understand,
dissect, and embrace extreme polarities, says James
Fuentes, the New York gallerist known for representing
emerging artists. She does this in both her life and her
art. The boundary between the two is porous.
On a desktop calendar, Amalia tracks her ovulation
and her show schedule (she says her creativity and her
cycle correspond). Since Excellences & Perfections
was featured in two major London 2016 exhibitions,
including the Tate Modern where it was presented
alongside the work of Cindy Sherman (to whom Amalia
is often compared) and Marcel Duchamp, the calendar
has been increasingly packed. This month, Amalia
appeared at Frieze London, followed by solo shows
at Pariss New Galerie, at the London gallery, Arcadia
Missa, and next year at James Fuentes Gallery in New
York. In 2013, Amalia was in a Greyhound bus accident
Above: Images from

Amalias latest Instagram
performance, Privilege
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AMALIA APPEARED
TO SHAPESHIFT
ON SOCIAL MEDIA
FROM CUTE
GIRLY-GIRL TO
NARCISSISTIC
SUGAR-BABY IN AN
IS-SHE-OR-ISNT-SHE
STORY ARC
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that left her in chronic pain. Yoga

helps when I visit, she invites me
to go with her to the daily class she
takes across the street. Endure,
the teacher says a few times. Endure
here. Its not unlike the request
Amalia makes through her art.
She takes on beauty, gender, power,
money all forces that structure our
lives and shape our assumptions, yet
often remain unquestioned and
reects them back to us, tweaked just
enough to become readily apparent,
like a fun-house mirror that instead
of warping the world, allows you to see
it more clearly. How would Amalia
like her work to make viewers feel?
Uneasy, she says. Uneasy with the
world as they know it. I think thats
my favourite feeling.
In Excellences & Perfections,
Amalia explored not only how
authenticity and identity are
distorted in the social media echo
chamber but what this means, in
particular, for women. The irony
is that in using her appearance to
reveal how we judge women who
use their looks to get ahead, Amalia
shot her own career into overdrive.
As Fuentes puts it, Most other
artists cant fathom messing around
with half the things Amalia does.
malia had her rst show at
16 in a gallery in Gijn, the
city in northern Spain where
she grew up. By the time she
moved to LA in 2014, two
years after graduating from
Londons Central Saint Martins with
a bachelors degree in ne art, shed
created everything from installations
featuring the sentimental sayings on
cheap mugs to wire sculptures. She
launched a $50 (38) lingerie set
a choker, a vest top and briefs on
to which Swarovski crystals were
stuck, spelling out the words upper,
middle and lower. But long before
Excellences & Perfections, Amalia
realised shed been playing a role
online. I had been this clich of
an arty girl, which is so fetishised by
certain people. So I thought, What
if I transform myself into something
that is not allowed in the art world?
At rst her followers posted happy
faces and requested tips on platinum
hair. But after about two months of
I THOUGHT, WHAT
IF I TRANSFORM
MYSELF INTO
SOMETHING THAT
IS NOT ALLOWED IN
THE ART WORLD?
Photography: Instagram/AmaliaUlman.
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Left and above: Amalia

honed in on the internets
obsession with authenticity
via social media, blurring
the lines between life and art
near-daily posts, Amalia uploaded

an image of herself with a guy, his face
obscured, captioned Dont be sad
because its over, smile because it
happened. After the break-up, her
poses became more explicitly sexual,
her captions more aggressive:
Reasons I wanna look good / for
myself / for myself / to plant the seed
of envy in other bitchs hearts / for
myself, she wrote. In response, the
comments became harsher. Followers
critiqued her dancing (on a video of
Amalia undulating her hips to Iggy
Azalea, whom she was, in fact, coming
to resemble) and her growing vanity
(Youre beautiful but borderline
boring. #kindawhiney!).
This escalated as she hinted
she was working as an escort,
photographed her bandages after
an apparent breast augmentation
(#frankenboob lol), then posted
two videos of herself red-faced
and crying. Que coo puta mierda?
was the rst comment, roughly
translated as What the fuck is this
shit? This about summed up the
response of the art world at large.
A gallery Amalia had worked with
advised her to stop posting, believing
she was sabotaging her career. I used
to take you seriously as an artist until
I found out via Instagram you had
the mentality of a 15-year-old hood
rat, wrote one follower. But on Amalia
went, next documenting clean living
shots of tea and avocado on toast,
a meditation sele (#thankful
#gratitude #grateful #namaste
#healthy) followed by a single white
square, then silence.
By that point, ve months had
passed and shed acquired 90,000
followers, though many transpired
to be fake accounts bought by artist
Constant Dullaart as part of a project
that claimed to highlight the art
worlds supercial attention culture.
Even Amalias close friends didnt
know what to think.
In October 2014, Amalia appeared
on a panel at Londons Institute of
Contemporary Arts, announcing
that it had all been a performance
intended, in part, to demonstrate how
easy it is to manipulate an audience
through images. How is a female
artist supposed to look? Amalia
asked the crowd. How is she
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WHATEVER I DO HAS
TO DO WITH MY OWN
INSECURITIES. MUCH
HAS TO DO WITH
WANTING TO BE A
TYPE OF WOMAN I
DIDNT FEEL I WAS
ALLOWED TO BE
malia grew up working class,

the only child of parents in
a volatile relationship, and
never had the luxury of
playing around as an artist,
then going home, she says.
Her parents divorced when she was
16; she helps support her mum,
whom she describes as a Portlandia
character but has no relationship
with her dad, a tattoo artist.
After graduating, she went on
the dole and struggled to produce
work. (Its hard to make art with
no material, no anything, she says.)
Finally, she posted an advert on
a sex-work website and got 200
responses. Sitting in a cafe after
our yoga class, she puts her head
in her hands. Oh God, she says. It
was so depressing. Id looked for a
job for two years. The first time was
relatively easy. But some men, she
soon discovered, were prone to
offering dresses instead of cash,
trying to make the interaction less
transactional. One guy took Amalia
to Monaco and, mixed up on drugs,
convinced himself she was his
girlfriend and refused to pay her at
all. Things worse than that occurred,
too. Though you cant talk about
them, she says, because whatever
happened, people assume its your
fault. She stopped in late 2013, after
the bus accident, but by then had
conceptualised a piece that would
explore the theatre of femininity,

and peoples complicated responses.
Shed done plenty of research, after
all. Youre straight-up performing,
she says of being an escort. Id spend
all day getting ready. The premise
that identity is more prescribed than
innate, that taste and class are linked,
that gender is performed these are
not new ideas. But Amalia forged
new ground by using Instagram as a
medium, making peoples comments
the affirmations, the derision, the
judgement, the jealousy as much
a part of the performance as the
photos. Amalias studio is on the
17th floor of an office building in
downtown LA; in the lobby, her name
is listed between a law office and the
consulate of Lebanon. Upstairs, in a
small, brown room with a vertiginous
view, is a red curtain, scarlet flowers
and a wig, all props in Amalias second
Instagram performance, which she
plans to finish this month.
Bob the pigeon appears frequently
in the new piece, Privilege, along with
references to pregnancy and office
culture. Numerous videos show
the artist reflected in the building
elevators mirrored doors, saying,
Its been a looong day. Privilege
takes corporate blandness and the
obsessive nature of pregnancy chat
rooms as a starting point but is more
than just a critique. Its based upon
Amalias insecurities, she says, but
now theyre those of a slightly older
woman. Im wondering if I can be
an artist and also have kids, you
know? she says during my visit in
May. Because if youre a good artist,
youre supposed to be a shitty mum.
As the summer progressed, the
series became increasingly surreal. In
one video, she appears in a clown shirt
with the American flag superimposed
on her face, and she unleashes a tirade
about the citizenship of her unborn
baby, inspired, she said later, by
real-life Twitter user @rjoyourjoy1919,
an ardent Donald Trump supporter.
If it all sounds a bit strange, it is.
And judging by the comments, at
least some of her 121k followers still
believe the fiction shes creating.
One wrote in July, How many more
months??? Cant wait to see the baby!
As with anything on social media,
though, its hard to know if theyre
any more earnest than she is. Q
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Photography: Instagram/AmaliaUlman.
supposed to behave? How do

we consume images, and how
do they consume us? Are we
judgemental? Maybe? Or not at
all? Or absolutely yes? Shed stuffed
her bra with socks to fake the boob
job; had temporary fillers in her
face; bought clothes that she
couldnt afford, then returned them.
She isolated herself, telling only a few
people about the piece, along with
some museums shed previously
interacted with, to protect her work.
I knew some people wouldnt believe
that it was a performance, she says.
I have enough experience as a
woman in the art world.
And it was true. Some didnt.
Amalia says now that one male
artist shed told about the concept
lamented the effect LA was having
on her. Why didnt she escape that
toxic life, he said, and become his
muse instead? Afterwards, some
still assumed that the whole thing
had been a ruse to get sexual
attention she was too coy to
acknowledge she wanted. Others
suggested she couldnt have really
understood what she was doing
that it was too accessible, too
banal to be art.
Her supporters dismiss these
arguments out of hand. Its like
how people originally said abstract
expressionism wasnt art, says
Fiontn Moran, an Assistant Curator
at Londons Tate Modern. Her
work is continuing the investigation
others, especially female artists,
have done into how women are
represented in mass media. Whats
new is that now, because of social
media, mass media includes
everyday people creating their
fantasy selves.
But what is perhaps most
intriguing about Excellences &
Perfections is that the persona is
not entirely fake. Amalia had been
an escort. She does enjoy spas and
fashion and shopping at Whole
Foods. Her work could be seen
as satirical, but shes inhabiting
something she understands to some
degree, Moran says. Or, as Amalia
puts it, Whatever I do has to do with
my own insecurities. Im implicated.
Much of that piece had to do with
wanting to be a type of woman I didnt
feel I was really allowed to be.
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IF YOU AGONISE ABOUT WHAT YOU TALK ABOUT WITH A PARTNER, ITS
TIME TO STOP. WE MAY BE A GENERATION OBSESSED WITH COMMUNICATION
BUT LANGUAGE IS MORE INSTINCTIVE THAN YOU THINK. THE NEW YORKER
WRITER LAUREN COLLINS EXPLAINS HER RELATIONSHIP
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tep away from the keyboard.

In the end, it really doesnt matter
whether you reply now or three
days later, like or heart the post, @ or
DM. You wont seem like a loser if the time
stamp is 6:57am. Using full stops does not
suggest you are bad in bed. Just bang out
the first thing that comes to mind. Turn
off spellcheck. Throw in some Xs. The
person on the receiving end of your
message, whoever they are, isnt going
to be swayed by your choice of adverb.
Short of using an aubergine emoji, I am
telling you: you cannot screw this up.
What makes me so sure that how you
say it is more important than what you
say? Why am I an evangelist for getting
hyper-articulate women to loosen up?
Alors: it was the experience of falling in
love with someone with whom I didnt share
a native language. Eventually having to
learn his convinced me that if loves gonna
happen, its gonna happen, whether you
can blow his mind with a perfectly crafted
text message or not.
I met Olivier at a party. Technically, I was
a crasher, if by crasher you mean someone
who was not invited by or even known to
the host. I was 30. I had arrived in London
exactly 24 days earlier, having fled a
happyish but stagnating life in New York.
Taking pity on a newcomer, a friend of a
friend had invited me to tag along with
her for the night. The theme of the party
was wine and cheese. I had gotten my first
passport when I was 19. I couldnt have
pronounced fourme dambert if Grard
Depardieu had been plopping great gloopy
wedges of it into my mouth himself.
For some reason I still dont know
exactly why I made a beeline for Olivier.
I think I thought he somehow looked
European, activating my adult-gap-year
fantasy of becoming a sort of romantic
locavore. (It was either the strong nose
and the hooded eyes, or the shirt he was
wearing that, I regret to report, read Lets
rock spelled out in boulders, that gave off
a continental air.)
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I was in a bold mood. I introduced

myself and asked him where he was from.
France, he said. A village about an hour
outside Bordeaux. Im from Wilmington!
I said, as though he would obviously be on
a first-name basis with a random beach
town in North Carolina.
Crazily enough, he was: hed once
travelled there, while studying in California,
for a classmates wedding. Other than
that, Olivier and I had absolutely zero in
common. I was American. He was French.
I was a writer. He had a PhD in maths. If Id
been pressed to claim a hobby I might have
said, not very ambitiously, reading. He was
obsessed with aviation and had a pilots
license. He traced aerobatic moves in the
air as we continued talking, for longer than
one might have thought. I remember the
conversation, for some reason, turned
to drugs and I was impressed imagine
knowinghowtosaypotheadinasecond
SHORT OF USING
AN AUBERGINE
EMOJI, I AM TELLING
YOU: YOU CANNOT
SCREW THIS UP
language?Eventually,Olivierannounced
that he was tired and had to go. He took
my email address and sent me a message
containing nothing but hello in the subject
line. A fairly unpromising start, in this era
of slaved-over Instagram captions and
Tinder profiles written by committee.
As bicultural correspondents go, we
werent exactly Anas Nin and Henry Miller.
Nin, a novelist who was fluent in three
languages, received countless letters from
writer Miller that described their intense
feelings as so: Were in Seville and then in
Fez and then in Capri and then Havana,
he wrote. Were journeying constantly, but
there is always a machine and books, and
your body is always close to me and the
look in your eyes never changes. People are
saying we will be miserable, we will regret,
but we are happy, we are laughing always,
we are singing. We are talking Spanish and
French and Arabic and Turkish. We are
admitted everywhere and they strew our
path with flowers. They saw their affair as
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an opportunity, their differences as

a superpower rather than a handicap.
On our first date, we were admitted to
a pub, where our path was not strewn with
flowers but cigarette butts, and then to a
Chinese restaurant. I loved his sharp mind
and his understated sense of humour. He
was emotionally elegant in a way that struck
me as very French. But I had no idea what
life with someone from another culture, and
another language, would entail. A lifelong
monoglot, my main takeaway from high
school Spanish was the word sacapuntas
[pencil sharpener] I was ignorant of the
risks and rewards of loving someone across
a language barrier. Olivier was a skilled
English speaker, but we couldnt finish each
others sentences. We were lucky, actually,
if we got the gist of the first halves of them.
As we got to know each other, I experienced
this as a sort of liberation, a free pass
from the expectation of being clever and
well-informed and always having something
HE WAS EMOTIONALLY
ELEGANT IN A WAY THAT
STRUCK ME AS FRENCH.
I HAD NO IDEA WHAT A
LIFE WITH A MAN FROM
A DIFFERENT CULTURE
WOULD ENTAIL
to say. When the time came for me to
meet Oliviers French-speaking family,
I didnt have to sing for my supper, or even
speak for it. I could just be. The gaps in
our communication seemed like proof of
the primal authenticity of our connection:
imagine being loved by someone to whom
you couldnt properly speak.
Eventually, lust in translation gave way
to love in translation. Olivier and I, like all
couples, went from googly-eyed idealism
to the nitty-gritty everyday. Amid the
chaos, it was often hard to read each others
signals. Olivier told me that always speaking
to me in English felt like touching me with
gloves. In addition, when trying to say that
Id accepted delivery of a gift his mother had
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sent to our apartment, I told her that

Id given birth to a coffee machine.
A professional communicator, I was
tongue-tied in my personal life. I finally
faced up to it: I had to learn French.
Id tried before. A year or so into
our relationship, I had enrolled in an
evening class at the Institut Franais du
Royaume-Uni in South Kensington. There
were maybe 10 of us: me, a South African
who was dating a Frenchman, a Korean
who was dating a Frenchman, a Turk who
was dating a Frenchman, a Swede who
was married to a Frenchman, and so forth.
Intellectual curiosity is dead. Or at least,
I can attest, its a non-starter when it comes
to adult language learning. The only people
desperate enough to spend their Thursday
nights conjugating third-group verbs were
the wives and girlfriends of an assorted
bunch of Gallic men who, judging from the
collective evidence, couldnt be understood
until you understood their language. With
each of us mangling the language in our
own unique way, I quit somewhere between
Je mappelle [I am] and Jai dans mon
sac [I have in my bag].
In our parents day, most people ended
up with people who were very much like
them. Even marrying outside of ones
religious denomination was enough to raise
eyebrows: my maternal grandmother was
known to comment on the fact that four of
her five Protestant daughters had married
Catholics. Today, 8.8% of British marriages
include a foreign-born spouse*. We pick
and mix across increasingly meaningless
gender, race, religious, and cultural barriers
with relative ease. We have babies with
incredible skin tones and improbable
names. The interestingness of our lives,
for the most part, makes up for their
occasional lack of context.
This was six months into our marriage,
and living in Switzerlands francophone
Geneva where Oliviers job had moved,
my lack of French bothered me in a way
that earlier it hadnt. I signed up for
another class and got serious: flashcards,
notebooks, listening to the radio at top
volume every single morning until I at long
last understood, one glorious morning, that
the presenter was talking about un nid des
oiseaux chanteurs [a nest of songbirds].
After the nest of songbirds test, my

confidence rose. One night, I heard Olivier
talking on the phone to his brother, and
it was as though someone had turned up
the volume on the previously muffled
soundtrack to my life. Elle nest pas trs
mobile, he was saying [Its not very mobile].
Four years after that night at the party,
I was hearing Oliviers real voice for the
first time. Even more miraculously, I soon
discovered mine. One night, I found myself
sparring with Olivier over his refusal to take
more than a week of holiday a year. Cest
idiot! I barked [Its silly! ], willing to sound
like one myself, if it meant getting through
on an emotional level. I felt like a different
person in French more credible, somehow,
its formal locutions and regimented
syllables buttressing my arguments.
I also felt, by virtue of having bothered,
like a properly loving wife.
We live in Paris now and have been
married for three years. Im fluent in
French, which is to say that I speak it well
enough to know how many mistakes Im
constantly making. Im 36. I doubt my
French will ever catch up to Oliviers
English. Our daughter is set to overtake me
at approximately two-and-a-half years old.
The other day I looked up hanneton, a word
I saw in an article, and the dictionary came
back. confusingly, with cockchafer. Still,
not having the language for all those years
made me realise that words arent the tools
of seduction I once thought they were. It
made me learn to love, as a transitive verb,
rather than simply trying to articulate my
love, the common noun, all the time. And
having it now makes me realise that if being
able to communicate doesnt bring us
together then it keeps us together, trying
to tune into each others needs and desires
through all the static. We translate inside
languages as much as we do between them.
It doesnt matter what your birth certificate
says, or how you say fourme dambert:
at some point, every couple has to put
cleverness aside and learn how to talk. Q
Lauren Collins is a staff writer at the New
Yorker. Her new book, When In French: Love
In A Second Language (4th Estate, 12.99)
is out now
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Vegetables have undergone a 21st-century rebrand and meat is no longer
mainstream. Forget tired clichs about bland tofu dishes, says lifelong
herbivore Nell Frizzell. Today, anyone whos anyone is vegetarian(ish)
nless youve sat down to a bowl of lukewarm soya,
the colour and consistency of wet soil, cooked over
a paraffin stove, on a campsite, as those around you
tuck into sizzling sausages, you will never truly understand
the horror of being a vegetarian in the Nineties. Until
youve bitten into another near-raw lump of aubergine at
a meat-smeared barbecue, or smiled sourly as youre told
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to just pick out the bacon by your waiter, youll never

understand how far weve come. When Cara Delevingne
posts pro-vegan propaganda photos on Instagram and your
Facebook feed is littered with former party girls getting high
off their allotment crops, you know vegetables are sprouting
a new social status. When Berlin sex shops start selling
vegan whips made from old bike inner tubes and Stella
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NEW VEGETARIANISM
McCartney soundtracks her Fall 2016 show with the Im a

vegan, bitch! chorus from Snaxxs Get Yo Tofu On, suddenly
the tambourine-waving, patchouli-scented lentil-fest of your
childhood seems a long time ago.
I was brought up in a no-meat-and-eight-veg household
where brown rice was the norm and aubergines were treated
with much reverence. Both my parents are vegetarian not
enormously strict but ethical in their eating. So I grew up
cooking vegetarian food and thinking of meat as something
that should be eaten rarely and responsibly. I was enjoying
hummus, avocado, kale, quinoa, pumpkin seeds and beetroot
long before I could tie my own shoelaces. We were making our
own bean sprouts on the windowsill when Michael Jackson was
still number one. Then, of course, university happened, dinner
parties happened, work happened, boyfriends happened and
I found myself sliding away from my vegetarian roots and simply
eating whatever was put in front of me.
But eating vegetarian, if not actually being vegetarian,
has now hit the mainstream. Pret A Manger has a veggie pop-up
in Londons Soho that proved so popular it has extended its
four-week tenure indefinitely and sales are up 70% on last year.
I recently stood in the snaking queue with my avocado and egg
sandwich on rye and the dairy-free chocolatey coconut bite (a
bestseller), while standing behind a suit-clad businessman
scanning the dating app Happn, and it dawned on me just how
much the tectonic plates of vegetarianism have shifted.
According to NatCens British Social Attitudes survey,
published at the beginning of this year, 29% of Britons now
say they have reduced the amount of meat they eat in the past
12 months, while 44% claim either to not eat meat, to have
reduced the amount of meat they eat or to be considering doing
so. The reasons for this shift are manifold; all those #eatclean
Instagram posts full of superfood, super-status ingredients
such as quinoa, kale and chia seeds make the prospect of a
sausage roll the colour of a prosthetic leg seem less appetising.
Celebrity chefs, including Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and
Anna Jones, have turned vegetables into television stars and
littered Instagram with pictures of berry-topped porridge and
more cauliflowers than you can count. High-profile caterers
such as Tart London and The Cellar Society regularly dish up
vegetarian feasts for celebrity parties, while Padma Lakshmi,
Kate Moss, Gwyneth Paltrow and Mary McCartney have all got
behind the Meat-Free Monday movement. Our phones are
rolling rallying cries of vegan breakfast bowls, mushroom and
egg ramen, fruit smoothies and foraged vegetables. No wonder
more and more of us are heaping our fridges, plates and
pantries with beautiful roots, leaves, seeds and squashes.
The internet age means we are better informed than ever
before about what eating meat actually means on a global
scale. In the face of climate change, financial insecurity and
overcrowding, it seems less than sensible for half the world to
be eating animals while the other half starve. And the evidence
isnt very palatable. According to a recent expos in New York
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Magazine, almost a third of the worlds arable land is used to

grow animal feed, rather than food for us, while the carbon
emissions from producing just a kilogram of lamb are the same
as driving a car for 90 miles. The food scares of the last three
decades, from salmonella to BSE, made us appreciate that most
meat is mystery meat untraceable, untrustworthy and
unsustainable. Even traceable meat is produced in such
high-intensity conditions that you see pigs spending their lives
standing in the dark on metal grid floors, while chickens are
forced to grow so quickly they often haemorrhage, giving their
meat the delicious-sounding green muscle disease. Not to
mention the World Health Organisations report last year,
which classified red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans
adding fuel to the existing fire that links animal protein with
increased mortality. Suddenly chowing down on a hot dog
seems as illicit as a B&H Blue Superking behind the bins
of a plastics factory. And probably about as much fun.
ll of which must be music to the ears of my poor,
beleaguered parents who spent most of the Nineties
hiding vegetables in cheese sauces, getting creative
with soy sauce and swearing blind to the imperceptible
difference of veggie burgers. But, just as our sexual preferences
are far more fluid, our food identities are now no longer just a
matter of to meat, or not to meat. We re meat minimalist; weve
incorporated being vegetarian into a low calorie 5:2 lifestyle,
we eat meat as a treat or, put simply, we are vegetarian(ish).
I genuinely think people want to eat more veggies and be
more healthy, regardless of whether theyre vegetarian,
pescatarian, or any of the other definitions out there, Jamie
Oliver, who is a vegetarian on average three days a week now,
tells me. Dont get me wrong, I love meat and I still eat it, but for
a sustainable future it has to be about quality over quantity. You
can use vegetarianism as an excuse to have a few days off, then
buy higher-welfare meat and sustainable fish. It is suddenly
aspirational (as all the glossy pictures on Instagram will testify)
rather than hypocritical to be vegetarian some of the time.
We no longer have to berate ourselves for falling off the
wagon by eating a bacon sandwich in the small hours of the
morning after a heavy night out. Or, in the case of ELLEs
Fashion Features Editor Kenya Hunt, breaking a two-and-ahalf-year vegetarian run after gutting an antelope with her
bare hands (she was on a writing assignment in Colorado) and
feeling her stomach growling uncontrollably. In this world of
what prominent campaigner Brian Kateman has called
climatarian and reducetarian (he supports a much more
relaxed conversation around meat rather than all-or-nothing),
it may be possible to eat some meat, without giving up entirely
on a healthier, more ethical, more sustainable life.
Way back in 2009, the author of Eating Animals, Jonathan
Safran Foer, wrote: Do I think there is any chance in the world
that half of Americans will be vegetarians in 10 years? I would
say there is virtually no chance in the world of that. Do I think
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there is any chance that half of the meals eaten in America

will be vegetarian in 10 years? I think there is a good chance
of that. For the first time ever, I am starting to agree.
As well as a food trend, it is also tempting to see the new
vegetarianism as a lifestyle trend; and the second wave of clean
eating. A sort of eat clean, eat cleaner for the post-die-hard
generation. When I stopped eating meat it completely changed
how I felt in myself, says Anna Jones, author of A Modern Way
To Eat, which has found a place in the kitchens of even the most
committed meat eaters. I felt lighter and brighter but the main
thing was that I felt much more excited about cooking. For
Anna, what she calls her flying under the radar thing is exactly
what shed hoped to achieve: that her food, which has been
noticed by the fashion set, is healthy and delicious. That it
also happens to be vegetarian is a bonus.
I have also noticed in my own friendship group that the
move towards meat-free eating often goes hand-in-hand with
a more gutsy, celebratory life. My friend Jess, who smashes
through actual ice with a hammer so she can swim in lakes
throughout the winter, has been vegetarian for nearly
a month. Pick a British pea, grown in May, and that will be as

delicious, as luxurious a dish as you can find, he tells me. Better
ingredients make better food. And that approach rolls into
awareness of ethical issues, sourcing issues, food wastage.
Without thinking or really noticing, we had six vegetarian dishes
out of 11 on our menu this week. Bruno Loubet, the head chef at
Grain Store, has swapped beef steaks for ox heart tomatoes,
partly out of health, partly born from the joy of eating food
grown on his own allotment: Weve been conditioned into
thinking that if it doesnt have meat or fish, then it isnt a meal,
Bruno tells me. But we can be reprogrammed. Instead of having
a lot of meat and bit of veg on the side, we can move to having
a lot of vegetables and maybe a little bit of meat on the side.
Never one to say no to a little bit of meat on the side,
I wholeheartedly agree, banishing from my memory a recent
encounter with a particularly phallic, deeply unappetising
currywurst on the shores of Lake Wannsee in Berlin. I mean,
sure, Id been cycling for 10 hours, nothing was open, I still had
50km to go and so, suddenly, faced with the prospect of eating
a sausage or fainting, I paid my two Euros and bit the wurst.
Were on a high-energy protein kick with post-run nut-butter shots,

hunks of sourdough bread, bowls of goji berries and smashed
avocados all downed in an exercise-induced sweat haze
a decade; my friend Katie, a bicycle courier and speed cyclist,
hasnt eaten meat for years despite covering hundreds of
miles by thigh every week. That clich of the wan vegetarian
slouching in cardigans and complaining about the cold is long
gone. Now were on a high-energy protein kick with post-run
nut-butter shots, new foods, hunks of sourdough bread, bowls
of goji berries and smashed avocados all downed in an exerciseinduced haze.
There is also, of course, a health element to this fruit and
veg revolution. A recent study published in the JAMA Internal
Medicine journal found that substituting eggs for plant protein
led to a 19% reduction in what they charmingly call death risk,
while eliminating unprocessed red meat saw a drop of 12%.
And, putting environmental and moral reasons aside for a
moment, isnt that the point of all this really? We are now so
obsessed with prolonging our lives as much as humanly, and
inhumanly, possible, that we will do anything to live longer.
At the heart of this new vegetarianism, argues James Lowe,
head chef at Lyles, and founding member of The Young Turks,
is (perhaps unsurprisingly) vegetables. James has a thing about
vegetables. Like, a serious thing about vegetables. People think
luxury is lobsters, caviar, beef fillets. But you can get those
things at any time of the year; you can only get asparagus for
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Despite prominent male cheerleaders such as Marcus

Eaves, Nigel Slater and Yotam Ottolenghi, the trend for
veg-heavy living seems to have particularly taken root among
young women. It is us who document so much of our lives
through social media, who look to other cultures for inspiration,
who feel free to build an identity beyond the monochrome
of meat and starch, who have taken the carrot baton and run
with it. For young Instagram food stars such as Rosie Birkett,
eating vegetarian offers a creative challenge as well as a
healthy dinner decision. There is something so satisfying
about taking something humble like a potato and using it in
a clever way to make a delicious dish, says Rosie. People are
more clued-up about and interested in food full stop, and thats
whats driving this.
I, too, have come a long way from the soya slops and sosmix
(yep, vegetarian sausage mix) surprises of my youth. These
days, I describe myself as British vegetarian; vegetarian when
it is polite and possible to be so. If a friend cooks me chicken at
her house, I will eat it happily; if an elderly relative serves up a
plate of sausage rolls, who am I to say no? But leave me to my
own devices and I will trip lightly through a multicoloured world
of every vegetable turned plump by sun and soil. I neither want,
nor miss nor buy meat. Ive got too much on my plate already. Q
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m sitting in my trailer with my mom in Toronto, Canada,

where were shooting the sixth season of US TV drama, Suits.
This in itself is a novelty: my mom is sitting in my trailer, on
a show in which I am a lead character, and that has a viewership of more than 1.7 million. Its surreal. We never would have
dreamed that this would be my reality. Our reality.
Just a year ago, I was in a van heading back from Gihembe
refugee camp in Rwanda. I was there as an advocate for UN
Women; I had a week of meetings with female parliamentarians in the citys capital, Kigali, celebrating the fact that 64%
of the Rwandan government are women the first in the world
where women hold a majority. I was also speaking with grassroots-level female leadership at the refugee camp just outside
the area. Driving back on the dusty roads that day, I received an
email from my managers asking whether Id attend the Baftas.
I had never been and had always romanticised it. A high-end
jewellery company was going to fly me in, dress me in the fanciest of gowns, and I would travel straight from Kigali to Heathrow, London, to the make-up chair and on to the red carpet.
My brain, heart and spirit couldnt shift gears that quickly,
from the purpose-driven work I had been doing all week in
Rwanda to the polished glamour of an awards show. No, my
heart said. And it wasnt a soft whisper; it was a lions roar.
I looked out the car window and saw a world of verdant beauty
that had been riddled with genocide and unrest only 22 years
ago, but had recovered with a decisive choice to overcome. The
rolling fields, the goats and thump-thump of the ground as we
drove to me, it was bucolic bliss. It was love at its core. And in
that moment, my gut said no because while my two worlds can
coexist, Ive learned that being able to keep a foot in both is a
delicate balance. No, they are not mutually exclusive but guiding my heart through the swinging pendulum from Hollywood
fantasy to third-world reality is challenging in its own way.
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In an exclusive essay for ELLE,

star of TV show Suits Meghan
Markle writes about how she
reconciles two worlds from the
dusty streets of the developing
countries where she works as
a UN advocate, to the privilege
and glamour of Hollywoods
red carpets. This is
HOW TO BE
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Additional photography: Getty, Instagram/meghanmarkle.
ELLE ESSAY
it gives people an escape, a catalyst to laugh and to balance the

realities of life. Plus, my gig as a working actor is the hand that
feeds me. Without that, I could never be the hand that feeds another at this level. Were it not for my show and website, I would
never have been asked to be a global ambassador for World Vision or an advocate for UN Women, both of which are honours
I relish. While most become star struck by A-list actors, youll
Reflecting on where I came from helps me to apprecionly see me in awe of leaders effecting change. Politician and
ate and balance what I have now. I was born and raised in
diplomat Madeleine Albright, UN Secretary General Ban KiLos Angeles. My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist
moon. These are my heroes. These are my celebrities.
and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting
When I gave a speech for International Womens Day, and
director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with
Ban Ki-moon led the standing ovation, I thought, This right
eyes open to sometimes harsh realities. We spent time travelhere is the point. To use whatever status I have as an actress
ling to remote places, taking trips to Oaxaca in southern Mexito make a tangible impact. Ive never wanted to be a lady who
co where I saw children peddling Chiclets candy for a few extra
lunches; Ive always wanted to be a woman who works. And this
pesos to bring home.
type of work is what feeds my soul. The degree to which I can do
My father worked behind the scenes of a soap opera and a
that both on and off camera is a direct perk of my job.
sitcom, surrounded by multimillion dollar budgets, and crew
There is a myth that those who do humanitarian work have
lunches that included filet mignon and enough sweets to make
a saviour mentality, but the relationship is reciprocal. I returned
you think you were at Willy Wonkas chocolate factory. Twenty
to Rwanda earlier this year as Global Ambassador for World
years later, I would ask my show executives to ensure that our
Vision and met a young girl named Claire, who was on the third
extra filet mignon and sweets aplenty were donated to a soup
hour of her walk to bring her father medicine. I was struck by
kitchen Id been volunteering at. And they said yes. My parents
the steadfast nature in which she did it. There was no other opcame from little so they made a choice to give a lot: buying turtion, so she powered on. These simple acts of grace are the most
keys for homeless shelters at Thanksgiving, delivering meals to
powerful anchor to whats important. And in the entertainment
people in hospices, giving spare change to those asking for it. Its
industry, often riddled with superfluous
what I grew up seeing, so its what I grew
up being: a young adult with a social conWith fame comes opportunity, demands, my barometer of what is valuable is validated on these trips. Not to
sciousness to do what I could and speak
but also a responsibility to
mention, when I share my photos with
up when I knew something was wrong.
share, and to focus on pushing my friends, they note that I never look
Sitting in a school classroom when
happier than I do when I am on field misI was 11 years old, a dish-washing liqthrough glass ceilings
sions. Its a different smile than the one
uid commercial came on a TV with the
for the paparazzi it doesnt require any retouching.
tagline, Women all over America are fighting greasy pots
With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responand pans. The boys yelled out, Yeah, thats where women besibility to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers
long. In the kitchen. My little freckled face became red with
and more on pushing through glass ceilings. And, if Im lucky
anger. I went home and wrote letters to feminist civil rights
enough, to inspire. A truly impactful moment for me was when
lawyer Gloria Allred, plus a kids news programme host, and
a teenage girl, Emily, shared a letter saying my aid work inspired
Hillary Clinton (our first lady at the time). They all pledged supher to do a humanitarian trip to Costa Rica; shes there as I write
port. A few months later, the commercial was changed to Peothis piece. I check her Twitter updates and see myself in her, reple all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.
membering my days volunteering on LAs Skid Row when I was
I spoke about this in a speech I gave for International Womher age. I see what Emily is doing and I think yes. This incredible
ens Day with UN Women. A testament to the fighting spirit
young woman has decided to be the change she wishes to see in
I had as a girl, and the responsibility I now feel as a woman and
the world. Whatever small part I had to do with that is the most
as an actress. The moment Suits became successful and I realaffirming and humbling part of my life. Q
ised people (especially young girls) were listening to what I had
to say, I knew I needed to be saying something of value. This is
also, in part, why I started my website, thetig.com. I knew that
girls were checking it for fashion tips, but by including thoughtful pieces about self-empowerment, or featuring dynamic womFrom left:
en such as the Pakistani poet and writer Fatima Bhutto, I was
Meghan on the
hoping to integrate social consciousness and subjects of higher
red carpet and
value than selfies. A subtle means to pepper in what matters.
her 2016 trip
And dont get me wrong the entertainment industry matters:
to Rwanda
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AND ISNT AFRAID TO TURN ANYTHING INTO A JOKE
As told to Hannah Nathanson
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MEET BRIDGET EVERETT, THE 6FT-TALL ALTERNATIVE
THE STAND-UP
AMY SCHUMER CALLS HER MY FRIEND, MY HERO.
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld declared her

one of the greatest live performers I have
ever seen in my life, and I have seen them
all. Sarah Jessica Parker is such a fan she
had a part written for her in the first Sex
And The City film: you may remember
her as the drunk party girl applying to be
Carries assistant (I never went to bed
last night but I type like a motherfucker).
Alt-cabaret provocateur, Bridget Everett,
44, from Manhattan, Kansas (nicknamed
The Little Apple), had performed in New
York City for more than a decade, but
really hit the big time after appearing in
several episodes of Inside Amy Schumer.
Now, shes a star in her own right with a
stage show that combines cabaret with
candid songs, comedy and a lot of nudity.
She introduces her show with the caveat
Some of you might not know me but you
wont ever fucking forget me. And shes
right. Here she unveils the stories behind
her best zingers.
IM THE YOUNGEST OF SIX: Bridget, Brock,
Brian, Brooke, Brad and Brinton, which is
so ridiculous. People thought we were all
pretty wild, but I thought of us more as smalltown Kennedys. My parents should have divorced before I was born, but they had me
as a sort of Hail Mary to try and keep the
family together, so it was already kind of
rocky terrain when I came in. There was always verbal warfare at home and, since I was
the youngest, I couldnt keep up. Our fights
would be full of wicked take downs and
I would usually end up in bed in tears
because they would make fun of me. I had
one front tooth so they would call me Fang.
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The thing that gave me the edge was that I had the voice.
My siblings could all sing but I was the star of the show and
that gave me a seat at the table. Some of my fondest memories are of us huddling around the piano, either my brother
or my mum would be playing, and we would all sing Lionel
Richie. So that, I suppose, is how it all started.
AM I WEARING A BRA? NOPE, DONT NEED ONE. Next question.
I always go on stage barefoot and braless. When I first started performing the only thing I could find that was splashy
enough to wear was from House of Deron Beyonc and
her mum Tina Knowles clothing line. They were on the
seventh floor of Macys in New York, which also had a
McDonalds on it. People would see me there and just be
like, OK fat girl, get your cute dress then go and grab some
french fries. We know thats the real reason you came.
I decided it wasnt really my style so I teamed up with my
friend, the visual artist Larry Krone, and he made me my
first tearaway muumuu dress. I didnt want to wear a bra or
any shoes with it, I just wanted it to be like my mum, walking
around the house comfortably naked.
Larry really encourages me to celebrate my body. And
by body, I mean my tits. We have a lot of names for the
costumes: theres titty top, quilt queef, pussy dress and
pussy flowers. There arent a lot of fun, flowing clothes
out there for a big girl that dont make you look like youre
matronly or that youve given up. Ive still got one foot in the
game and I wanna play.
WHEN AMY [SCHUMER] AND I TEXT EACH OTHER, its not even
like, Hey, do you want to get a drink? Its like, Rombauer?
[a vineyard in California]. The first time I met Amy, she
told me to lighten up and I immediately liked her. We were
performing at the same comedy festival in Montreal in 2010;
Im usually a bit of a shut-in at those big festivals because
there are so many people. But Amy was in her element and
she just suggested we grab some wine and go party. We
went off like a rocket ship and have been friends ever since,
we even call each other sister. Most people have an agenda
theyre always trying to get something and go somewhere
with it but Amy just wants to build people up and I needed
that in my life at that point, starting out in comedy in my late
thirties, so it was perfect timing for me.
When it comes to being funny, we help each other out
and I appreciate her honesty. If Amy is on tour with me, she
stands at the side of the stage, so when I hear her laugh
I know to keep that part in. When were together, well talk
about boys, careers, thigh gaps, or whatevers making
us laugh. At the moment, were obsessed with TV show
The Bachelor. The problem is that the show is such a lifeguzzler; neither of us has the time to watch three hours of
TV, but theres always time for The Bachelor.
MY MOTHER COULDNT BE HERE TONIGHT but if she was
she would tell you that there are three things in life
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BFFS
Amy Schumer and
I live very near to each
other in New York so
we sometimes power
walk around Central
Park because physical
fitness is first for us.
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Amy always asks me

about my mum Freddie,
and my great dog,
Poppy. Poppy is a big
part in all of our lives,
but she cant keep up on
our walks so we dont
take her.
When were not
walking were watching
The Bachelor or The
Bachelorette but
sometimes we just go
to the cinema, sneak in
a little wine and watch a
Brad Pitt movie we dont
give a shit about.
Im aware some people will make a

narrow-minded judgement about me
because of my size and what I have
to say. But I want everyone to feel
like theyve been given a big hug at
the end of my show. Its not meant to
make anyone feel like shit, but some
people have to feel like shit when
they see a 6ft-tall woman with her tits
hanging out that dont pass the pencil
test anymore. Hey, theyre not what
they used to be, but theyre mine.
HAS ANYONE BEEN SINGLE BEFORE?
Ive been working at that shit for 39

years now. Say you go away for the
weekend with a load of couples and they invite you because
youre the funny one. Then two by two, just like Noahs
ark, they disappear and then all of a sudden there are no
bedrooms and theyre like, Thats OK, shell just sleep in
the yard
Theres no room for just one funny friend when Im
hanging out with Amy and other comedian friends, such as
Nikki Glaser and Rachel Feinstein. Everybodys hilarious.
We usually pass around the spirit stick like in Bring It On,
and everyone takes a turn to tell a story. Rachel has a story
about a hard-drinking ex-boyfriend that I cant hear enough
times and I have one about a movie star I had sex with that
they love to hear over and over again.
THE LABEL FEMALE COMEDIAN IS SHITTY but people just
want to lump you into a certain category. I really like that
when Serena Williams was asked whether she considered
herself to be one of the greatest female athletes of all time
she said, I prefer one of the greatest athletes of all time.
The truth is that I am part-singer, part-cabaret performer,
part-comedian and so if anyone wants to put me in any one
category, it makes me feel a little uneasy.
I feel like I have a unique female voice that Id most
accurately describe as tits with a heart of gold that people want to hear. When Im out there, I definitely feel that people are getting something from me that they arent getting
anywhere else. Globally, theres been a boom in women
making comedy; there are so many outlets. Ten years ago,
it was just Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox but now
theres a whole rainbow of people getting a shot. And that
is no bad thing. Q
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Photography: Mandee Johnson, AmySchumer/Instagram.
that matter: living large, loving large and

Barry Manilow.
My mum Freddie is accidentally funny
and a real inspiration for my shows. She
would walk around the house completely
naked or go to the grocery store without a
bra, in her pyjamas and slippers. Her sense
of humour, and the pain that she felt
through her very messy divorce, is a balance of something that I can really relate
to. That immediacy of the humour and the
hurt thats what I really get and its
what I want to put across when Im on
stage. I want it to be all the colours of the
rainbow: funny, outrageous and tits, but
then also the pain.
I even wrote a song for my mum called
Titties. When we were growing up we called
her Beaver Tails because she has these
long, flat, low-hanging titties. She always
thought it was so funny, so when she was
diagnosed with breast cancer I wrote a celebratory song about all the different types
of titties out there. Theyre just tits and its
just your body. I hope my song encourages
people, not just women, to embrace that.
I ONCE DRESSED UP IN A LADY GAGA meat
dress, sucked down a hot dog, threw all the
meat into the crowd and ended up naked.
Im a risk taker, but its hard to go wild on
stage these days, maybe because the audience can film on their phones. I used to do a
show called Our Hit Parade, where Id play
covers of songs in the charts at the time.
Thats when the Lady Gaga meat dress
scenario happened. I have no boundaries, physical or otherwise; the most outrageous thing Ive done yet is shave my
pussy on stage. I wasnt doing it in a vulgar
way, but in a sort of nuanced, tender way.
I thought of it as part of a broader message
about womens bodies. There are so many
restraints and rules; my message for women, and for anybody, is to just relax and enjoy yourself.
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Sex can be life-changing,

self-affirming and
sometimes completely
underwhelming
THREE WRITERS SHARE THEIR STORIES
OF TRANSFORMATIVE SEDUCTIONS
AN ANTI-CLIMAX BY RACHAEL COMBE

It was summer. I was 15; he was 17. We were virgins
in love, alone in the woods, kissing on a picnic
blanket. We had been talking about having sex
for almost a year, spending all of our free time in
his basement, his car or these woods, making out,
our clothes coming off inch by inch, week by week.
He had a condom his older brother had given him.
We decided to unwrap it. Just to look at it. Then we
decided to put it on. Just to see how it worked. And
then, and then, and then Oh. It was over. We had
sex. Then we went to a milk bar and ate ice cream.
Id been led to believe that sex was the worst
thing I could do that it would wreck my life and
possibly kill me. Id bleed and be ushered into a
whole new world of scary adult problems.
I hit puberty in the late Eighties, the moment
heterosexuals realised they, too, were at risk
of HIV, but before the public was well-informed
about the virus. Fear-mongering about the dangers
of sex to girls is tradition, but AIDS gave fresh
ammunition to the slut-shamers of the day (not
that we had that term back then), and it made us
girls more open to listening. Exactly how intimate
you had to get to contract HIV was an active topic
among my friends. Could you get it from kissing?
From oral sex? From hand jobs? I mean, what if
he came on your hand and you had a paper cut?
It didnt matter that the boys we were thinking
about giving handies to were also inexperienced
virgins. What if that hot guy in maths class touched
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a girl at school camp when he
had a cut, and that girl had HIV,
and now he was infected? We
were always told that when
you fooled around with a boy,
you were fooling around with
everyone hed fooled around
with, and everyone theyd fooled
around with and so on, until the whole world had
their tongue down your throat, like you were some
sort of drugged-up swinger.
Making matters worse: I was Catholic, and
so was my boyfriend. I started worrying about
being an unwed mother at age six, after my
Sunday-school teacher taught us about the virgin
birth. (The idea that God would mess with you
like that freaked me out. I mean, hes God. He
made the whole world; why the heck did he have
to involve poor Mary at all to make Jesus?)
In some ways, the sexual environment during
that narrow slice of time, which happened to span
my whole adolescence, had more in common with
the sexual mores of the colonial era than with the
times that immediately preceded and followed it.
The Seventies had free love and the Nineties had
sex-positive feminism, but all we had in the Eighties
was Madonna and now I think about it, she never
shut up about Catholicism and AIDS. I was an
A-grade student, a hypochondriac and a Godfearing gal. And yet there was my boyfriend, as
adorable as if drawn by a Japanese manga artist,
and with the blond hair, unwavering devotion and
soulful eyes of a golden retriever. Id held out, but
he was so hot and I was so in love. I brushed my
teeth the night after losing my virginity, stared at
my reflection and thought how strange it was that
I looked the same; that life went on and my teeth
still needed brushing. There was no punishment,
no awful consequence. It was both exhilarating
and disappointing. I wasnt different; he wasnt
different. Just a different part of our bodies had
touched. It was like having the curtain pulled back
on everything I believed about Gods wrath, and the
beginning of the end of my Catholicism.
A few years and a few boyfriends later, I came
across a quote by Yeats: The tragedy of sexual
intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
Thats about right, but its also the comedy of
sex. For better or worse, it doesnt change your
essential self, your value as a human and thank
God! That would take all the fun out of it.
ELLE/NOVEMBER
A FRENCH EDUCATION BY LS HILTON

Lezza was an abusive term at school when I was growing up during
the late Eighties, but I dont think anyone really knew what it meant.
It seems extraordinary, looking back, but being gay wasnt something
anyone seemed to think about. It wasnt exactly that people were
prejudiced, more that it simply wasnt part of the everyday landscape.
Elton John was still married to a woman, there was Boy George but
he was a pop star, and the groundbreaking gay kisses on popular
soaps that were instrumental in changing British peoples perception
of homosexuality were several years in the future.
It seems quaint now, but my generation of teenagers mostly got
their information about sex from books furtive thumbings of our
parents copies of D.H. Lawrences Lady Chatterleys Lover, or the
racier goings-on in bonkbusters by authors like Jilly Cooper. Id read
revolutionary lesbian texts like Radclyffe Halls The Well Of Loneliness,
and mile Zolas Nana, but I still didnt have any idea of what lesbians
actually did. Sex education at school consisted of an agonising science
period when poor Miss Griffiths had to demonstrate unrolling a
condom on a test tube, but I dont recall that same-sex relationships
were even mentioned.
So when I met Aurelie on a beach in France when I was 17, I had no
idea what was happening to me. I had lost my virginity well, mislaid it,
really to a boy and Id had a serious boyfriend, so I considered myself
sexually sophisticated. But when I saw her for the first time, in a navy
jumper over black bikini bottoms, dark blonde hair piled up with perfect
Parisian insouciance, I was entirely unprepared for the great wave of
lust that crashed over me. Proper, dry-mouthed, knee-trembling lust.
Aurelie was sitting next to a guy who worked in the restaurant where
we all hung out, so I thought maybe the radar had been diverted, but no,
the lust was definitely throbbing at her, in a desperately confusing way.
She knew, of course. There was a
crowd of us, all working over the
AURELIE DIDNT
summer in the small seaside town,
SAY MUCH, SHE JUST
SMOKED AND STARED. and wed meet every afternoon on
the beach between shifts. With her
HER EYES WERE TIPface bare of make-up except for a
TILTED AND LAZY,
slash of poppy lipstick, her bohemian
LIKE A SPOILT CAT.
silver earrings and just-so mens
DO YOU WANT TO
GO TO BED WITH ME? 501s, Aurelie seemed like the acme
SHE ASKED SUDDENLY of sophistication. Next to her I felt
like an ungainly child, not helped
by the fact that I blushed like a traffic light every time she spoke to me.
But at the end of the summer, when I was headed to Paris to study, she
suggested we meet up at her mothers flat.
Aurelie lived near Paris famous Pre Lachaise Cemetery in a
high-ceilinged, 19th-century building. She had her own little apartment
above her mothers and the afternoon I arrived, there were several
ladies enjoying tea in the drawing room. To me, it was like something
out of a novel. We sat on the windowsill, smoking and looking out
at the Paris skyline. I had planned to suggest we go for a walk in the
cemetery to see Oscar Wildes tomb, but what had seemed like a clever,
intellectual outing on the way over on the Mtro now seemed hopelessly
naive. Aurelie didnt say much, she just smoked and stared. Her eyes
were tip-tilted and lazy, like a spoilt cat. Below, we could hear the
teacups and the quick rap of French conversation.
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Do you want to go to bed with me? she asked suddenly. She

knew the answer, even if I didnt. Aurelie took off her clothes slowly,
as unselfconscious as if she were alone. Then she lay on the bed and
smiled. So are you coming?
That was how I learned what girls did with girls. It was strange
and wonderful and surprising, mostly in that it taught me so much
about my own body. We went to bed every afternoon for about a
month, as the endless tea parties rattled on below. Then one day,
I arrived as usual, and Aurelies mother told me calmly that she had
gone back to university. I never saw Aurelie again, but I had a lovely
time in Paris with my broken heart, fulfilling all the chain-smoking,
poetry-writing clichs as only a 17-year-old can.
I decided in the end that I prefer sex with men, but never say
never. I loved Aurelie for her physical generosity, for the lessons
she taught me about pleasure and for the poignant beauty of those
languorous Parisian afternoons. Its very seldom that your own life
feels like a movie, but in terms of pure romance, it was the most
perfect sex of my life.
Maestra by LS Hilton (Zaffre Publishing, 7.99) is out now
BEYOND THE BIKINI WAX

BY LIZZY GOODMAN
We met at a mutual friends birthday dinner.
I was 28 and post-break-up. James, as Ill call him,
was an artist in his forties. Seated next to each
other, wed been making conversation about
things he loved that I wanted to be able to say
I loved, like composer Paul Bowles and the Htel
du Cap, when he casually said, I know exactly
how you need to be fucked. I looked around,
sure someone else had heard him. (No one had).
Then I blushed. Then I met his gaze.
For the next few weeks, we texted back and
forth. I was baffled by his blend of authority and
vulnerability. Hed describe in
ID LOST MY VIRGINITY explicit detail what he wanted
10 YEARS EARLIER BUT to do to me, then admit that
UNTIL JAMES, I HADNT I made him nervous, as if
REALLY HAD SEX. confidence and openness were
I DIDNT NEED TO GO one and the same. He liked me.
THROUGH THE He didnt hide it. But he had no
MOTIONS BECAUSE plans to be my boyfriend, and
I WAS ACTUALLY, I didnt want him to play that
TOTALLY OVERCOME role either. He was too weird, too
wild, too not-of-my-world for the
long run. And yet I felt completely invaded by him.
The next time we saw each other was at an
album release party. I told myself I didnt care
if he showed up, even as I dressed for him: my
leopard-print, super-short silk Diane von
Furstenberg wrapdress, suede Chlo platform
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boots, lots of eyeliner. I felt him walk in the door.

He asked me to walk him to the newsagents for
cigarettes. I wasnt ready yet, I kept saying in a
manic stream-of-consciousness rant as we made
our way down the block. He listened attentively,
said nothing and then, when we were safely out
of view of our friends, grabbed both my wrists in
one hand, shoved me into the shallow doorway of
some grimy apartment building and slid his other
hand up my dress. After that, it was on. We slept
together for the better part of a year.
When it began, I was one person; by the time
it ended, I was someone else. Id lost my virginity
more than 10 years earlier, but until James,
I hadnt really had sex. I mean, I had, but with a few
exceptions I approached it like everything else in
my life: something to analyse, get good at, master.
I avoided internet porn in my adolescence, but Id
still got the message that what I needed to be good
at sex was a rigorously groomed bikini line, a toned,
tanned body and the ability to chastely moan.
James wouldnt stand for that kind of soft-core
posturing. With my arms pinned behind my waist
and his hand firmly gripping the back of my neck,
I didnt need to go through the motions of being
dominated because I actually was totally overcome,
physically and, by extension, emotionally. He met
my relentless stream of chatter with bemused
silence, and in response I shut up, on the outside
and inside. The voice in my head that nattered on
during sex, wondering if my stomach looked fat in
this position or if that noise I just made was gross,
faded away. And because of his willingness to tell
me what he wanted in bed all the while radiating
alpha authority, I too started to be accountable for
my desires. I had to show up and be myself rather
than impersonate a girl having sex on Melrose Place.
It reframed my perception of sex, from slick and
stylised to rough and ragged, and the notion of
being good in bed. We parted when the chemistry
faded, about eight months in, and I wondered what
mark hed left on me. Id never loved him; Id known
hed leave my life as quickly as he entered it. That
was part of the thrill; since I didnt want him to be
my man, I could try on a rowdier version of myself
without feeling obliged to keep her. But a switch
had been flicked. Before James, I thought good sex
was about control, but it turns out for me its about
release. The more I let go, the more he wanted
me; the more I enjoyed myself, the more powerful
I became. Q
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Photography: Lukasz Wierzbowski.
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or find your own

quiet power
WHOEVER YOU CHOOSE
TO BE TODAY. OWN IT
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STAR
The unbreakable Amy Adams

I cant Lean In any more. I just want to
fall back. And theres such a great thing about release
Interview Emma Brockes Photography Liz Collins Styling Anne-Marie Curtis
AMY ADAMS IS ON A STOPOVER IN NEW YORK, en route from the

Toronto International Film Festival to her home in Los Angeles
and, without her husband or six-year-old daughter by her side,
is in that slightly giddy state travelling solo brings on. When she
walks into the bar of a downtown hotel, dressed in a casual black
suit and white shirt, it is with the stealth of someone expert in
avoiding attention. She then plops down, exhales loudly, and orders a large gin and tonic.
This version of Amy chatty, informal, unguarded and game
is the one we are familiar with from her movies; the qualities for
which people loved her in Junebug and Enchanted and that leavened more hard-bitten roles in American Hustle and The Fighter.
It is an openness often wrongly identified as naivety but that, on
closer inspection, turns out to be a kind of guilelessness brought
on by the 42-year-old actors resolve not to be warped by success.
By her own admission, she doesnt play the Hollywood game of
self-advancement and cynicism. When you see people who behave that way get what they want, and youre trying so hard to
play by the rules, its tricky. At the end of the day, I cant live with
myself if Im mean but neither is she a pushover. She calls herself
a pragmatist who doesnt see the point of unnecessary drama
but will fight hard if she has to. I let a lot slide because I have a slow
burn, she says. And because Im not aggressive, people think Im
joking when I say something doesnt work for me. Im fairly easy
going, but and she looks momentarily steely people know
where I stand. Amy is, perhaps, able to indulge the softer side of
her nature because, with five Oscar nominations and some of the
most memorable film roles of the last decade to her name, she
has never been in more demand as an actor. In her two new films,
Arrival, and Nocturnal Animals, she respectively plays Dr Louise Banks, an internationally renowned linguist hired by the US
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military to communicate with aliens, and

Susan Morrow, a disenchanted gallery owner looking back over an unhappy life. The
first film, directed by Denis Villeneuve and
co-starring Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker, sounds like a sci-fi movie but is in fact
a meditation on time, grief and the nature
of humanity, in which Amy plays the kind of
sympathetic role she does best.
While in Nocturnal Animals, directed by
Tom Ford and co-starring Jake Gyllenhaal,
Amy plays against type as a brittle, disappointed woman trapped in a lifeless marriage.
Of the two roles, it was this she found the greater stretch as an actor. The characters sheer
emptiness was a challenge; how does one
animate a vacuum? I felt connected to her
journey but not to her, says Amy, until
I realised that she didnt like herself. And then
I started to have understanding for her character and stopped judging her.
SUSPENSION OF JUDGEMENT is the starting
point for any actor approaching a role but, in
Amys case, it is also a personal philosophy.
She grew up as the middle child of seven in
a Mormon household in Castle Rock, Colorado. Her parents divorced when Amy was
11, and the family left the church, but she has
retained a moral vigour that, by Hollywood
standards, makes her seem practically otherworldly. Amy recalls arriving in LA for the first
time in her mid-twenties, wanting to make it
as an actor and being hopelessly unprepared
for what she calls the darkness. When I realised that people use other people, I was devastated. At one point, I walked to the 7-Eleven
to get a Slurpee and this car took a right turn
and almost hit me. And he was like, Watch
out you blonde bitch! I remember standing
there with my Slurpee and crying. I thought,
why are people so mean here?
As a teenager, Amy wanted to go into
medicine (she once shadowed a doctor in
the A&E for a role in the TV show Dr. Vegas,
and says, I realised that the way he evaluated
a patient was almost the same as I would evaluate a character). But without better grades at
school, she couldnt hope to win a scholarship
to college, and her parents father in the military, mother who worked in a gym didnt have
the money to pay for tuition. I just had to look
at what I could do. I wasnt very good at school
I was decent, I didnt fail, but I didnt excel.
B-grade students dont get scholarships. So
I just started working as a dancer and kept making decisions that

let me continue doing it.
For several years, this meant serving an apprenticeship dancing on the regional dinner theatre circuit, similar to the old repertory theatre system in Britain. Although she struggled with insecurity when she auditioned, Amy tended to be successful, so after
a few years she began to think, Oh OK, I can do this. In 1999, she
won a role in the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous with Kirsten Dunst
and Kirstie Alley. She moved to LA and her film career began.
It was another three years before Amy had a breakthrough
role as Brenda Strong, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me
If You Can. In the meantime, she met her husband, actor and artist Darren Le Gallo, whom she describes as the perfect emotional
counterweight to her pragmatism. Hell kill me for saying this, but
hes not very practical. Hes an artist. He paints and does music.
Above all, he is secure about his wifes fame. Hes awesome about
what I have to do in this job. Still, when one half of a couple is
a movie star, it must put a strange burden on their relationship.
I think it helps that everybody likes him better than they like
me. Its true! Its one of our arguments. Hes so nice.
The promise of Catch Me If You Can to deliver other acting offers
failed, something for which Amy blames herself. For almost a year,
she choked, flubbing every audition she attended. I was horrible!
I was so upset and mad because I couldnt show up for myself.
What did she do in those auditions that was so bad?
It wasnt what I did, it was what I didnt do. I just didnt live up to
my potential. I was too concerned with what I thought I should be,
as opposed to what I was. It wasnt until I let that go She trails off
to indicate that its a mindset shes still working on. Surprisingly,
turning 40 helped. Where many actors seek to downplay their
age, Amy says, I think I say it at every interview. Im really proud
to have made it this far and to feel this happy about it.
I ask if its hard to compete in an industry with women who
look like, say, Charlize Theron, and she bursts out laughing.
I gave up wanting to look like Charlize when I was, like, 12. I have
short legs, Im athletic, I have pale skin that reacts to cold and
hot and moisture. You just have to accept who you are. In those
comparisons, I always lost. She shrugs. I realised it was a pointless pursuit. I can only do my best.
It is an admirable attitude, one that Amy says comes from looking at the example of other women she respects. Not for being
good actors, but as good activists, or mothers. I have a six-yearold daughter I dont want to teach her that shes only valuable
to a certain age. Among these, she lists Tina Fey, Meryl Streep
and Judi Dench. Im so obsessed with Judi Dench. She has so
much life and so much beauty. And the twinkle and the sparkle
and the vibrancy. Were not judging her by the standards of youth
but by the standards of spirit and character. All these things
I project onto her; I dont know her at all! But I love her so much!
She shrieks with laughter.
ONE ADVANTAGE OF AGE is being able to lobby more forcefully
on ones own behalf. Amy is not confrontational. She is, she
says, the quiet, weird person at the party, who cant speak
to more than one person at a time. (Her husband, on the
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other hand, is the life and soul. Hes extremely social, outgoing and curious. I feel
like Im just tired and antisocial.). Equality of
pay between men and women in Hollywood
is something she believes in wholeheartedly,
but thinks its more complicated than the
headlines allow. Although her agents will be
mad at me for saying this, I feel like I wouldve
acted for free, you know what I mean? And
I feel incredibly grateful.
But youre so talented, I reply. Why should
you feel grateful?
I feel grateful because gratitude sets you
up. Gratitude is not the same thing as being naive or settling. Its being in a position
I never thought Id be in I never thought Id
travel out of the US. I was not raised with expectations of myself that were that grand.
So Im grateful for these experiences that
I can share with my daughter.
That doesnt mean you should be a sucker
about money, I say.
No. I know.
People in your business can always
pay more.
I suppose. She looks uncomfortable.
What stops you from asking?
The negotiation comes to a standstill and
I have to make a choice, which a lot of women
do. I can walk away. But I choose not to.
She laughs. Now Im stuck with that
statement. What she means is that these
issues are difficult and tied up with other considerations. This is an issue not just about
womens pay; we need to work on how women
are viewed in society and then the pay will be
reflected in that.
Have you ever turned down a job because
they didnt come up with enough money?
No. Never. Right now, my time is more
important to me. So thats what I negotiate
because any time Im working, Im not spending with my daughter.
When Aviana, her daughter, was three,
Amy decided to make a radical change to
the way she worked, not in terms of hours,
but of attitude. This was during the making
of American Hustle, which she says, was the
most intense filming experience to date that
compromised her downtime at home.
Id be distracted and left with my character
or an experience from the day. Even though
I was present with my family, there was a part
of me that was still wrapped up in myself, and
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I didnt like that. I couldnt figure out what to do, but when it got
crazy, it became clear. The answer was to separate life and work.
In that period, did your husband say, this isnt working?
No, because I think I was pretty good at faking it up until then.
I suggest that this is precisely the fear non-actors have of being
involved with an actor: that you never know when theyre faking it.
No, not like that. But you wouldnt know that I was distracted.
I wasnt fully enjoying my time on set because I wasnt at home and
I wasnt fully enjoying my time at home. I just felt thin. My expectations of myself were so high. I needed to allow myself to be flawed,
both at work and at home, and accept that Im not perfect and am
not able to do it all. Theres that book Lean In did you read it?
Yes, I say.
And Im like, oh, I cant Lean In any more. I just want to fall back.
And theres such a great thing about release. And it doesnt mean
Im giving up anything. I love the message of the book, I dont want
to make a political statement, but you know what I mean. I was
putting in so much I cant do it all.
You need to be gross sometimes.
Im gross a lot.
THE PERSON WHO TAUGHT HER THAT ITS OK for life to be messy
was the late Nora Ephron, who directed Amy in Julie & Julia,
a slight movie given real heft by the dual performances of Amy
and Meryl Streep. Of Ephron, she says, I was intimidated by her.
Im not as sophisticated. She was so smart, such a smart wit, and
Im so flawed. She gave an amazing voice to women allowed us to
be perfectly imperfect.
Still, Amy continues to struggle with certain kinds of messy
environments. I ask if there is a connection between the fact that
she has chosen to have one child and the size of the family she grew
up in. Yes, she says emphatically. If theres a lot of chaos or noise
or conflict, I get very anxious. I can manage it now, as a grown-up,
but the family chaos I grew up in caused me a lot of anxiety.
She occasionally worries about Aviana not having siblings,
but also luxuriates in the fact that she knows shes my number
one. Hillary Clintons run for president has been tremendous, she
says. It is beautiful to get to tell your daughter that a woman is
running for President. I get emotional. England has had female
leaders for generations, but we have not had that. She doesnt
know anything about Trump, other than that its a hotel weve
stayed in in New York. Oh, and she asked me why hes orange and
why hes so angry!
Even Aviana is able to detect a certain innocence in her mother. She defines herself differently to me and I like that, says Amy.
She said, mum, Im more rocknroll than you. Youre not very
rocknroll. And I said youre right! Amy laughs uproariously.
So, does she feel powerful, heading towards her mid-forties?
I dont know if I feel powerful as an actress, but I feel powerful
as a mother, and more powerful than I did in my twenties. I dont
know what that means for my career thats yet to be seen. The
steely look re-enters her eye. But as a woman, if I lose something
because of the honesty of who I am, then I dont care. Q
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VIBRANT THING
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THIS IS SO MUCH MORE THAN A CATWALK COMEBACK: ITS A BEAUTY REVOLUTION.

CURLS ARE YOUR ROUTE TO INDIVIDUALISM. WEAR THEM YOUR WAY
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IMAAN HAMMAM
and a 23% growth in sales of curlenhancing conditioners. Imagine how

different those statistics would have
looked 10 years ago when most of us
were hell-bent on eradicating the
slightest kink in pursuit of the pokerstraight look. Credit should be given
to the AW16 catwalks and models
such as Mica Arganaraz, Imaan
Hammam and Frederikke Sofie for
cementing curls as the years biggest
hair trend, but what sparked it in the
first place was much more organic.
When theres such a huge shift like
this on the catwalk, its almost always
reacting to the times, and the times
today are all about social interaction
and immediacy, explains Syd Hayes,
Babyliss frontman and the curator of
the hairstyles on the previous pages.
It would be far too coincidental for
so many fashion houses to champion
natural curls all at once by taking
inspiration from anywhere else other
than the girl on the street. Its how
we interact now. This makes sense:
searching for more ways to assert our
uniqueness in a world of filters and
face tuning apps, we gravitate
towards a hairstyle that celebrates
rather than disguises quirks and
this trickles back down to us via all
the usual channels. It trickled down
fast: this season, the curl revolution
settled in so comfortably that
designers cast models specifically for
their curls, and hairstylists were even

handing the reigns to the models,
asking them to dry/style/tweak their
own. Meanwhile, #CurlyHair has
notched up 9m posts on Instagram
while #StraightHair has just 3m.
High demand equals speedy
supply, so were in the middle of
a massive spike in the number of
curl-friendly formulations hitting
the shelves all of which are a far
cry from the heavy-duty creams
that contributed to our crunchy curl
options of the past. These products
feature advanced formulations with
ingredients such as hyaluronic acid
and collagen to offer unparalleled
condition and control. Its not just
products getting in on the action;
Selfridges recently launched the
UKs first Cuts for Curls service
dedicated to girls with curls.
You dont have a head full of natural
curls? No bother. Anyone with any
hair type can embrace a wave when
armed with the right tools. The key
is to find a curl type that works for
you and make it your own, says Syd.
Experiment and play around until you
find one that reflects your personal
style. But regardless of whether your
curl is natural or customised, youll
get the same feel-good results. Its
near-impossible not to be buoyed up
by a hairstyle that is bouncy by its very
nature. Here come the curls.
MICA ARGANARAZ
FREDERIKKE SOFIE
he ELLE beauty team makes

the trends its business. We
arrive on the fashion frontline
season after season to fight our way
around tiny backstage areas, carefully
attuned to every hair flick and brow
tweak, following super-stylists as if
they were our messiahs. And for these
few weeks they are, since they form
the next six months of our fashion
knowledge, our style cognisance.
Except, not so much lately. There
has been a notable shift in influencer
versus influenced, and it all started
with the girl on the street.
Today, the models who come
in for their catwalk turn are the ones
calling the beauty shots, and our
conversations backstage are
suddenly quite different: Were
embracing hairs natural texture.
Wait. What? No twisting up into a
nouveau-Eighties romantic punk?
No school-esque French girl double
pony? Nope. Were just amping up
what they come in with. Every girl is
different, say the hairstylists. And
lo, the curl revolution is upon us
and its spreading, too.
Everywhere from the shop
shelves to our social media feeds,
curls have never been more prevalent.
No strategically teased, laboredover ringlets here. Instead, its heads
of naturally quirky, characteristic
curls that have stolen the limelight
and inspired a new age of beauty
that puts individuality first.
To prove our point, a survey
by Redken claimed that 80% of us
would now wake up with curly hair
if we could, whereas only 16% would
choose straight. Over the past year,
feelunique.com reported a 10%
increase in curl-styling products
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Words: Joely Walker. Photography: 3 Objectives, Jason Lloyd-Evans.
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If you knew it took your skin
30 days to recover
from one nights drinking,
WOULD YOU
YOUR HANGOVER SAYS MORE ABOUT YOUR SKIN THAN YOU KNOW.
WRITER HANNAH BETTS FOUND OUT THE HARD WAY
Photography David Abrahams
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Beauty
Additional photography: Shutterstock.
ometimes, when I was drinking, my skin would

look good for a while. The next morning, my
complexion would boast a fetching plumpness. My lips would be pertly swollen. And,
given how these things so often pan out,
I might have had a post-coital glow. I came to
regard this as a pickled prettiness.
Wow, Id think, things could be a lot worse. Give it
a couple of hours and they invariably were. The plumpness would have given way to a bloated greyness, my
pout deflated into bleeding cracks, a parched yet acnethreatening stubble rash emerged, and jet rings set in
around my hollowed eyes.
And it happens for a reason, says Dr Jairo Rodriguez, New York-based nutritionist to the fashion pack.
Alcohol is one of the worst, most aggressive compounds in destroying your skin. I always joke with patients, If you want to get older, go ahead and drink!
Only the older a boozer gets, the less funny this is.
London dermatologist Dr Michael Prager tells me:
Alcohol is basically sugar, with 50% more calories. A
gram of fat has nine kilocalories, carbohydrates have
four-and-a-half, and alcohol has seven. Sugar causes
glycosylation (the attachment of sugars to proteins),
ageing cells and tissues through higher levels of insulin,
changes in the DNA and tissue oxidisation. This impacts upon cells in a multitude of ways: it can cause free
radical damage, and reduce cell proliferation and collagen production, slowing everything down.
Alcohol is also a diuretic: it dehydrates you. You absorb nutrients less successfully and crave salt. In women it changes their hormones, creating higher levels of
testosterone, leading to things such as spots and the
taking on of a masculine guise, with a diminished waist,
barrel-like middle, a bloated face, skinny legs and hair
loss. Nice.
Dr Prager sips green tea even when at Londons
Dukes Bar, home of the martini. So many women come
and see me in their thirties to ask my advice about ageing, he eye rolls. I point out that drink is sabotaging
their looks. Then, in their forties, they come back in a
panic. There are things that I can do [Dr Prager is
known as the Karl Lagerfeld of injectables]. However,
the damage is done.
According to LA dermatologist Dr Harold Lancer,
complexion guru to Scarlett Johansson, Victoria Beck-
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FOR MY FIRST
WEEK ON THE
WAGON, I WAS
A NOT-SO-HOTMESS: RED
FACED, SPOTS
SPROUTING,
MY NOSE
SHINY WITH
DETOXING GUNK
ham and Kim Kardashian, it can

take our skin up to a month to
get over a single hangover bad
news as the party season lurches into gear. When you have a
hormonal jolt caused by a sugar
fest lets say, a pizza party
theres salt, dairy, carbohydrates and alcohol, he explains. It will take about 30 days for that to calm down.
Celebrities dont have chefs to control their weight
they have them to control their skin. When theyre on
active filming, there is zero alcohol. Does this mean you
cant periodically have a glass of red wine? No. It means
you cant have three glasses. Meanwhile, he says of the
traditional post-hangover fry-up: You might as well
paint blemishes on your face. Small wonder that those
with serious skin goals choose to renounce booze.
Personally, after a lifetime of resplendent carousing,
I stopped drinking two years ago because I couldnt
sleep. Then, I realised I had an alcohol problem. However, the only thing other people noticed was the effect
on my skin. Despite drinking only the half-bottle-anight that many women consider normal more, obviously, when I was on a roll the impact was seismic.
For my first week on the wagon, I was a not-so-hotmess: red faced, spots sprouting, my nose shiny with
detoxing gunk. I got conjunctivitis, my tongue was permanently furred and my eyelashes fell out. However,
compliments about my skin started pouring in after
seven days.
By day 10, I was happy to answer the door sans slap.
Two weeks in, my cheekbones looked supermodel
sharp. Three days later, a man at a party mistook me
for 19 (19!) years younger. After a month I glowed, my
face had lost its booze bloat, and even my nails were
stronger. I also ditched the stone-and-a-half I had put
on in six weeks after a spectacularly boozy summer.
At this point, I happened to run into Dr Prager, who
took one look at me and declared: My God, Betts,
youve stopped drinking! Renouncing the mothers
ruin was the best thing I have ever done for my appearance. Other than hopping into a time machine and
preventing a lifetime of sun exposure, nothing is ever
going to have the same impact. No serum, no facial, no
superfood. (Sorry.)
Going on the wagon may be standard in La-La Land.
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A 90 minute collagenstimulating laser
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A 105-minute reboot
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A 60-minute IV drip
containing vitamins, trace
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The theory is that, by
bypassing your digestive
system, absorption occurs
with instant effect.
Polisher with Fruit Extracts (26); the

fruit enzymes exfoliate even if you lack
the energy to scour. Id then deploy
a Sisley Eye Contour Mask (81.50) for
a hydration hit. The Guerlain Midnight
Secret Late Night Recovery Treatment
(69) sleep in a jar worked its magic,
although I used it pre-make-up, not the
night before. Becca Shimmering Skin
Perfector Liquid (34) supplied fauxdewiness, panda eyes were concealed
with Bobbi Browns Creamy Concealer
(19.50), and a constant lip balm supply
was always to hand. Where a hangover
once needed flat Coke, now it wants coconut water, which is rich in electrolytes.
Nutritionist Vicki Edgson advises: Being hydrated is the key to skin repair.
Drink water and avoid excess caffeine,
which dehydrates it further. Have cinnamon or cayenne pepper in hot water
these are antioxidants, which can protect the organs and immunity.
Olive, walnut, pumpkin- and hempseed oils are rich in omega-3, -6 and -9
to help repair skin-cell damage. Avoid
red meat fish and eggs are the best
animal proteins for reducing drink damage, being rich in choline that supports
the liver.
Dr Bunting favours wholegrain toast
and honey as her morning-after restorative. She also proposes an antioxidantrich green juice containing leafy spinach,
stomach-settling ginger and vitamin Arich carrots. And, no, youre not allowed
a vodka shot in that. Q
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DAMAGE LIMITATION The clearer the drink, the less vicious

the hangover. Think vodka, gin and tequila rather than rum or
scotch. Or enjoy a glass of red wine, which features resveratrol,
a potent antioxidant.
One drink each evening is preferable to binge drinking as the liver has
problems metabolising big hits of alcohol. If youre having more than
one, then take it with food and have a glass of water between drinks.
Nutritionist Ian Marber recommends: Before you go to bed, eat a
couple of mouthfuls of plain yoghurt, some diluted apple juice, and
a 200mg magnesium tablet. A little protein and fat helps to balance
glucose levels, while magnesium helps to offset the adrenalin hike
that can wake you at 4am.
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Photography: 3 Objectives. *drinkaware.co.uk/alcohol-facts
Here in boozy Britain, it continues to be

viewed as a puritanical move too far.
Government guidelines released in January this year proposed no more than 14
units a week the equivalent of about
seven 175ml glasses of wine*. Experts
also suggest a three- or four-day gap between bouts to give the system a break.
Skin-salve-wise, Harley Street dermatologist Dr Sam Bunting, heroine of
YouTube channel Dr Sam In The City,
counsels: However excessive the night,
try to remove make-up, even if that
means micellar water on a cotton pad.
Then use a retinoid, which will lessen the
effects of alcohol by stimulating skin to
renew and repair, leading to a brighter,
glowier complexion than you deserve.
Intensify hydration in the morning
by applying a moisturising sheet mask
the occlusion effect encourages the ingredients to penetrate more effectively.
If used straight from the fridge, it will
have the added benefit of reducing redness. Keep make-up light and dewy, apply brightening eye drops, and you may
just get away with it.
My personal kit based on 30 years
hard partying featured water, liver-easing milk thistle tablets, and face wipes by
the bed in the hope I had some motor
control. Next morning, Id whisk my
trusty Clarisonic Aria (155) over my
skin, plus Bobbi Browns Soothing
Cleansing Oil (32). If this was too much
effort, Id apply a mask of Origins Never
A Dull Moment Skin-Brightening Face
Beauty Movement
CRYSTAL CLEAR
This kind of healing is so much more than ohm-ing
over your rose quartz. Now it helps your skin, too
Photography Jess Bonham
A DECADE AGO, MOST OF US

would have scoffed at the idea of
using crystals to realign our energy
for better skin, but the wellness
boom has made us less sceptical and
heralded a new wave of gemstonebased products. However, new age
brands cant take all the credit these
stones have been used for beautifying
and healing for centuries. Why?
Crystals vibrate at an elevated
frequency, promoting increased
cellular energy and microcirculation,
explains Kristin Petrovich, Founder of
holistic-meets-biotechnical skincare
brand Sjl. This helps direct energy
to specific areas of need, allowing for
maximum performance and benefits.
And while youre at it, let your skincare
boost your mind, too: Using the
correct gemstone helps to balance
and stabilise our moods, adds
Co-Founder of Prismologie, Fatima
Al-Sabah, whose products incorporate
crushed gemstones. Spiritual skincare
just stepped up, and we want to reap
the good vibes.
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meditation. Give me a pen and

paper, my favourite music and a
good cup of tea, and for a couple
of hours or so the world is quite
a nice place.
ANTHONY
TURNER
DREAM JOB
International session stylist and backstage

legend, Anthonys creative flair and
attention to detail know no bounds
(although hes extremely modest about it).
No wonder hes the go-to for designers
from Erdem to J.W.Anderson
PROFESSION (AS ON PASSPORT)
SIGNATURE SKILL
Hairstylist. My bags often get

searched at the airport, and its
always amusing to see the face
of the official who opens up
my wig bag.
Im inspired by artists such as

Mark Ryden, Vania Zouravliov
and Ray Ceasar, and their
influence very frequently trickles
into my work. I also make a killer
cheese and beans on toast!
To be designing hairstyles for a

movie Pans Labyrinth comes
to mind. I could flex my creative
muscles and get carried away with
the absolute fantasy of it all.
PLAN B CAREER
When I was younger, I really
wanted to be a horror-movie
director. I was that kid who sat at
the back of the class with long
hair over my face, doodling bats
on the back of textbooks. Gothic
theatricality filters into my work.
BIG BREAK
Being taken on by the prestigious
Art Partner agency. To be
included on a roster of insanely
talented photographers such as
Glen Luchford and Mario
Sorrenti, whose work I would tear
out and stick on my bedroom wall
when I was a teen, is quite
overwhelming. My agent Ayesha
really is my fairy godmother.
Compiled by: Joely Walker. Photography: Instagram/AnthonyTurner.
CURRENT JOB
As a full-time session stylist, my
day-to-day involves everything
from creating hair looks
backstage at fashion week to
advertising campaigns and
magazine editorial shoots.
I work with the most incredibly
inspiring people, from designers
and photographers to stylists,
make-up artists and models, so
every day brings new challenges
and opportunities.
Above: A gothicinspired hairstyle

sketch by Anthony
(@anthonyturnerhair)
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CAREER HIGH
The moment that was a real
milestone for me personally was
having the pleasure of working
with Cate Blanchett. She is
someone I hugely admire.
INDUSTRY IDOL
Guido [legendary hairstylist], of
course! I followed him as a stylist
from a young age, and
I wouldnt be where I am without
him. Working with him was one
of the best times of my life.
Clockwise from top:

Anthonys work
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Girlacne, a make-up artist I was

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(@girlacne). Insanely talented.
HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

Drawing is my main hobby. Ive
been doing it for as long as I can
remember, and it acts as a form of
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Sophie Says
CHEMOTHERAPY. The bastard. As if
Photography: Seb Engelmann, Graham Walser at Hearst Studios.
cancer wasnt bad enough already, I also

had to lose every hair on my body, to varying
degrees of acceptance. Legs: WAHOO!
No more waxing, flippy summer skirts at
the drop of a hat! Bikini line and underarms:
Likewise! Arms: Hmm, kind of strange.
Slightly prepubescent,
a big deal for me itll grow out. Of course, I work
in an industry where hair is big business, huge.
but OK, I can deal.
Eyebrows: oh well, there are eyebrow pencils and
skills in my remit for that. Eyelashes: woah. Wait.
What? I cant stick false lashes on with nothing to
anchor them to? Bigger focus on lips will partially
compensate. Head: but, but but my hair is my
thing. Its how people describe me first. Sophie
Beresiner? You know, long, curly brown hair?
Its my comfort blanket, my style versatility,
my, well, my beauty. And Im going to be without
it for the foreseeable future.
I went all in and shaved it off before the risk of
clumps gathering sadly on my pillow presented
itself. I didnt look in a mirror for a good few days
and when I did, I just did not look like me. I totally
felt like me, but for that reason my reflection
gave me a shock every time. But what is more
important? The me I know about the constant,
familiar, stubborn, internal me? Or the changeable
image of me? It took me a good while to realise it,
but losing all my hair at 31 years old taught me a
very important lesson: I am not defined by my hair.
Now, five years later, I have a much more
transient relationship with it. Were not hugely
committed to one another. Yes, we like each other,
but I can be on my own if I have to. The boss making
me dye it bright orange for a feature, say, is never
TRY IT OUT NOW SKINCEUTICALS (MY FAVOURITE)
Sophie
Beresiner
ELLE Beauty
Director
@ElleSophie
So imagine my surprise at getting a call from ghd.

Hi Sophie, we wondered if youd be interested in
working with us and Breast Cancer Now on a
video tutorial campaign about hair loss through
treatment? Me: ghd? Dont you need hair to use
ghds? But then I remembered how I had relied on
the mini straightening wand to tackle my own curly
crop when it finally reappeared. How I alternated
between sleeping in a head wrap and
then teasing lengths of it with tongs once I WENT ALL IN
AND SHAVED IT
it was a little longer. How I learned to
OFF BEFORE THE
cheat eyelashes and draw on a happy
RISK OF CLUMPS
eyebrow where, had there been hair, it
GATHERING SADLY
wouldve been distinctly frownier.
ON MY PILLOW
So years later, I imparted my trialPRESENTED ITSELF
and-error wisdom for the ghd pink
campaign, showing my model Alex how
to map her eyebrows and smudge kohl on
her lashline to suggest lash-shadows.
This was an opportunity to put my beauty
knowledge to its best ever use. Women who live
with cancer and its image-altering effects do not
suddenly haemorrhage all style or interest in it, so
where YouTube vloggers and the NHS (for all its
brilliance, eyelashes come way down the priority
list) fall short, its OK to worry about your looks
in a time of illness, and this is the place to do it.
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CHANEL
TRIAL
A TREND
THETREND
Anotherday,another
internethaircraze.
Denimhairhasquickly
gainedcultstatus
anditssuccessisall
downtothedetail:less
marinemermaid,more
multi-tonalshadesof
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stippledwithsubtle
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THERESULT
DENIM HAIR
Itsmuchmorewearable
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LOralProfessionnel
dye.Ivealready
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DIFFICULTY RATING: 3/5
Compiled by: Joely Walker. Photography: Getty, Jason Lloyd-Evans, Instagram/KylieJenner, Instagram/LouTeasdale.
AS SEEN: ALL OVER OUR SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS
Instagrams latest hair obsession will have

you donning double denim in an entirely
different way. And, when done right, its one
of the most flattering bold hair colours going
THETRIAL
ELLEsSeniorDesigner,
ElizabethCooneysays:
Intriguetempered
withfearledmetoa
consultationwithatop
colouristatPercy&
ReedwhereIdecided
onasemi-permanent
ombreeffect:dark
rootsblendedwithcool
ashentipsandpeppered
withbluehighlights.
ELLE/NOVEMBER
Anyone brave enough

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Bleach Super Cool
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LOral Professionnel
Srie Expert Vitamino
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has successfully
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The aim is to keep my

colour from fading for
as long as possible,
so Im washing my hair
every other day with
Percy & Reed Really
Rather Radiant Divine
Shine Shampoo, 14,
and Conditioner, 16.
Then I follow it with
Wella Colour Protection
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Creating a specialised
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Maybelline NY Bricks
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Having tried a lot

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A lipstick-foundation
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If you like everything

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La Mers The Powder,

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Compiled by: Sophie Beresiner, Joely Walker. Photography: 3 Objectives, Jason Lloyd-Evans.
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Beauty Directory
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Charles, you had

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Show Beauty Sublime

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Your scalp needs

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Were calling it:

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ELLE/NOVEMBER
Like a quinoa and

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lemon oil make this
rose interpretation
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Rag & Bone does

pretty androgyny
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its branching out into
perfume with new
scents that embody
that aesthetic pleases
us greatly. We love the
smokiness of Encens.
This smells like the

fanciest bonfire party
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tree trunks and smoky
embers. Obviously,
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Rag & Bone Encens, 95
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26 Tenebrae, 140,
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Youll assume this is

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FRAGRANCE
Fresh, fruity, musky, mossy
Tom Ford has
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drawn to the fresh,
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of green fragrances,
which range from
deep, grassy and
smoky to mossy,
light and lingering.
Photography: 3 Objectives, Jason Lloyd-Evans.
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If original Modern
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go-to, consider this
your evening scent.
Creamier, darker but
with the same musk
and jasmine base.
The perfume
equivalent of wrapping
up in a Bella Freud
slogan jumper,
wearing this will result
in a similar influx of
compliments. Thank
the mood-boosting
mix of uplifting neroli,
warming oud and
soft sandalwood.
Este Lauder Modern

Muse Nuit, 70 for 50ml
Fruity at first sniff

(thatll be the
raspberry), it then
gives way to a much
muskier base that
works equally well
with jeans and a biker
jacket as it does with
sharp tailoring.
Bella Freud Close To

My Heart, 95 for 50ml
at Fenwick
Coach The Fragrance,

49 for 50ml, 69 for 90ml
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Beauty Directory
As close as youll
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pore blurring, oil
controlling and
skin perfecting.
Not only does this
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satisfying to use. Mix
the powder with water
until it turns into a
slightly fizzy foam,
and slather on.
Origins Rituali Tea
Matcha Madness
Revitalizing Powder
Face Mask, 30
Clinique PepStart Hydroblur

Moisturizer, 24.50
Shiseido is known
for results-driven
formulas, so this
advanced antiageing, tech-savvy
formulation is exciting
stuff. Expect betterlooking skin as a
prerequisite.
Shiseido Bio-Performance
LiftDynamic Cream, 90
SKIN & BODY
A proper cleanse
sets your face up for
everything you apply
after, so you want
to make sure youre
doing it right. This
uses grapeseed oil
to gently get rid of
everything you want
gone, while leaving
skin feeling lovely
and silky.
Simple Hydrating
Cleansing Oil, 6.99
Gently nuture and nourish
Bobbi Brown Extra

Repair Nourishing
Milk, 54
Fun fact of the day:

most recycled plastic
is rejected by
manufacturers
because of the green
tint from milk bottle
caps. Thats why all
Soaper Duper has
embraced the green
shade. Environmentally friendly, this also
leaves skin so supple
youll want to bulk buy.
Soaper Duper Fruity
Green Tuberose Body
Lotion, 8.50, at Liberty
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Sarah Chapman
Skinesis Lash
Boosting Eye
Cleanse, 32
The original sleep

spray is equal parts
cult classic and
godsend, so we
needed no convincing
with this diffuser,
which radiates
droplets of the same
sleep-inducing oils
into the air. Q
This Works Deep
Sleep Super Blend, 18,
and Diffuser, 55, each
sold separately
THIS WORKS SLEEP SPRAY IS

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Instant benefits and

long-term gains? We
like the sound of that.
Rapidly hydrating, this
works on boosting the
skins natural repair
process over time, too.
An eye make-up
remover that
conditions lashes and
brows so they grow
thicker and healthier
is the work of the
beauty gods. Or,
rather, super facialist,
Sarah Chapman.
Fit Notes
GET COMFORTABLE WITH BEING

UNCOMFORTABLE. OK you put the hours
Photography: Georgia Devey Smith.
into your workout and it has paid dividends. You

got good at it. Feels great, doesnt it? But taking
it to the next level feels even better. I wont lie: it
will hurt and that not-good-enough feeling might
start creeping in, but pushing your limits is vital.
Until you do, youll never know your full potential
cheerleader. Find a mantra that works for
in fitness or in life.
you I use, I can. I am. I will. I do. Repeat it in
your head as you push through the hardest
During the course of any workout regime, you will
part of your workout.
plateau. Stepping up the pace, weight or intensity
3. Acknowledge it Learn to embrace sore,
might feel like the last thing you want to do but, by
wobbly muscles and sweat. Heck, feel thankful for
doing so, you teach your body that discomfort is the
them. That burn is your body noticing youre putting
key to breaking your fitness barrier.
in extra effort. Once you realise that youre feeling
During the Olympics, you didnt watch the
it and still going, you can push through it.
athletes finishing in breathless heaps and think,
Acclimatising yourself to
Well, that looked like a cakewalk! They
discomfort gives you the tools to
got to the start line after years of testing WHEN YOU STOP
both their bodies and their mental
TELLING YOURSELF manage tough situations in your
everyday life. By achieving something
limits, and, importantly, allowing
YOU CANT DO
themselves to fail. So what stops us
THINGS, YOU LEARN you never thought you could fitnessfrom doing this? Were scared of not
YOUR POTENTIAL IS wise, all of a sudden its a lot harder
to make excuses when it comes to
being good enough. But you will never
TRULY LIMITLESS
other things you find challenging.
know your true potential until you
When you stop telling yourself you cant do
experience difficulty. So how do you do this? Read on:
something and become more willing to take risks,
1. Baby steps Dont try to do too much too soon.
you learn that your potential is truly limitless.
Aside from that being a pretty sure path to failure,
Our whole lives are set up for us to be
youre also likely to injure yourself. If you want to
improve your half-marathon time but all your training comfortable. Theres an app for everything now,
to eliminate excessive effort for even the simplest
sessions are steady-paced distance runs, add speed
task. But I challenge you to bet on yourself,
and work with sprint intervals and hills. Find a
take the risk, push a little harder and go a little
beginner-level workout and build it up.
further. Dont deny yourself the opportunity
2. Its all in the mind Your brain will always give
to find out exactly how amazing you can be.
up before your body does, so you have to be your own
3 THINGS THAT HAVE INSPIRED ME 1. I AM NOT YOUR GURU,
Bangs AKA
Muireann
Carey-Campbell
ELLEs Fitness
Columnist is a
spinning instructor
and fitness blogger.
Read more of
her motivational
writing at
elleuk.com
A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SELF
-HELP AUTHOR TONY ROBBINS HITS YOU RIGHT IN THE FEELS. 2. GOOD VIBE TRIBE TANK TOP BY SPIRITUAL
GANGSTER, 35. 3. GREEN MACHINE PROTEIN SHAKE FROM BOOM CYCLE THE PERFECT PICK-ME-UP.
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Fit Notes
WORK IT OUT
Team ELLE tests the
latest workouts and gives
you an honest verdict.
This month: Animal Flow
Words Natasha Bird
The kit
Sweat bands, contour-hugging
leggings and no-budge tops:
this is the workout gear you
need to release the beast
1. BANGS BACK HEADWRAP,
20, LULULEMON 2. SUPERIOR
WORKOUT CROP TOP, 50,
SWEATY BETTY 3. HIGH LINE
LEGGINGS, 70, MANDUKA AT
YOGAMATTERS 4. REFLECT
800ML WATER BOTTLE, 26,
KLEAN KANTEEN 5. ULTRA BOOST
SHOES, 169.95, ADIDAS BY
STELLA McCARTNEY
WHAT IS IT? Think yoga, but more primal.
Ingredients (serves two)

1 mango (fresh or frozen)
1 frozen banana
1 avocado
1 large handful of spinach
200ml almond milk
Suggested toppings: coconut
flakes, seeds, nuts, granola,
dried or fresh fruit
Method
Place the ingredients into a
blender and whizz until smooth.
Pour into two bowls, add
toppings and eat. If you want to
drink it, add almond milk until
you get your desired consistency.
1.
2.
3.
4.
DO YOU NEED TO BE SUPER FIT TO DO IT?
Team ELLE picked up the moves pretty

quickly, and the routines were simple and
instinctive. If youve done pilates or yoga
before, and the odd press-up, youll be fine.
IS IT ACTUALLY ENJOYABLE? Lets be frank:
we had to pretend to be monkeys in one of
Londons busiest parks. But once you block
out tourists stares, its easy to get into the
athleticism and acrobatics of the whole thing.
BEST THING ABOUT IT? Its hard not to feel
happy when youre rolling around in the grass
doing cartwheels and crab walks.
AND THE WORST? At points it felt like an
am-dram improv class.
Compiled by: Fern Ross. Photography: Ester Grass Vergara, Graham Walser at Hearst Studios.
Soul food
YOGA TEACHER, PERSONAL
TRAINER, WELLNESS
BLOGGER AND LULULEMON
AMBASSADOR ANNIE CLARKE, AKA
MINDBODYBOWL.CO.UK, SHARES
A POST-WORKOUT RECIPE: MANGO
AND AVOCADO SMOOTHIE BOWL
With moves such as basic beast (on all fours

with your knees slightly off the ground) and
scorpion (a downward dog but with one
leg stretching upwards, bent at the knee),
the animal-esque postures are designed to
increase flexibility, mobility and strength.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? 16 a class at
Local Motion in Wandsworth, London.
HOW DOES IT WORK? Animal Flow is all about
continuous movement, leveraging your
body weight with your core muscles and
transitioning into a series of key positions
while staying close to the ground.
WHAT DOES IT DO? This one is a great
all-rounder. The more you do it, the more
physically aware you become: strong and
coordinated with better posture.
5.
WOULD YOU DO IT AGAIN?
I might not adopt the Animal Flow

lifestyle, but Id happily give it
another go.
For more information and
to find your nearest class,
visit animalflow.com
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ITS HARD NOT

TO FEEL HAPPY
WHEN YOURE
ROLLING AROUND IN
THE GRASS DOING
CRAB WALKS
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very year, I have a tantrum over my tax return. To the casual observer, I may look like
a grown-up but even when you have a job, a
bank account and youve started using eye
cream, youre capable of kicking off when
your emotional response goes beyond reason punching a pillow, pounding the treadmill
until it shakes, sobbing into your MacBook Air.
Tax, I have realised, is my trigger. It presses all my
childhood-fear buttons: maths, making a mistake,
getting in trouble with some distant authority.
I cant trace these triggers back to my parents,
so I guess I acquired them at primary school. It was
an oddly old-fashioned school for the Nineties, run
by a Maggie Thatcher lookalike called Miss ByrneCooper. There was a draconian emphasis on being
neat, obedient and ladylike. Anything rowdy, eccentric or messy was unwelcome we even had to
walk in a genteel and orderly fashion. Maths was
the one subject that didnt come naturally to me.
I hated not being good at something. Most of all,
I feared getting told off.
Psychologists call this kind of recurring baggage
our Inner Child. Its the fragile, vulnerable part of
us that adapted to fit our childhood, and repeats
those patterns into adulthood. She may whisper
in your ear that you need to be a good girl to be
accepted, sabotage a job interview by convincing
you to get drunk the night before, or destroy relationships by demanding incessant reassurance.
We all sit on a spectrum of how far our Inner Child
E
Photography: Sonny Vandevelde.
Whether its the spoiled brat

demanding attention or the
perfectionist seeking reassurance,
theres a six year old in all
of us, and accepting her might
be the secret to happiness
Words Francesca Hornak
ELLE/NOVEMBER
279
dominates our adult behaviour, depending on how

our needs were met in childhood. If we had secure
childhoods, were unlikely to be dogged by a tricky
Inner Child. If not, she may still drive the bus. And
I want to know how I can make this work to my advantage, personally and professionally.
I start by putting my tax phobia to psychologist Glenys Yaffe, author of Self-esteem And Your
Inner Child. Your fears might well fit with the Inner Child model, she agrees. What we call our
Inner Critical Parent stems from our childhood
environment usually our parents but also teachers. This might have been via blatant criticism, or
it might have been our subtle awareness of expectations. Or the good girl may have learned that she
got approval through doing well at school. In your
case, the external authority figure has now been
replaced by your own critical internal authority, so
you experience your Vulnerable Inner Child in the
form of anxiety when you do your tax.
Looking at it like this, I can see other ways that
my school shaped me, despite mostly happy times
there. It was a bubble of privilege, so much so that
it wasnt unusual to be collected by a driver. Knowing no better, I thought I was odd for breaking this
mould. I remember coveting my classmates diamant-studded underwear when we changed for
gym, and pulling off my hand-me-down, grim grey
vests from my brother before they could be seen.
One even had a mortifying ink stain. Im sure this
sense of not measuring up made me preoccupied
with pristine femininity for years afterwards. As a
novice journalist, I wrote about fashion and beauty
despite my heart not being in it. I thought the key
to alluring men was to be immaculate (down to perfect underwear). It wasnt, of course, but it didnt
even stop me when my first boyfriend said, I dont
want the perfect girlfriend, I want you.
Still I know that, comparatively, I got off lightly.
One of my dearest friends lost her father when she
was 10. Not surprisingly, her romantic relationships with men have been shaped by a fear of the
man vanishing. Sometimes, she chooses someone she isnt into, so theres less at stake. It doesnt
take Freud to see how a bereaved Inner Child rules
her heart. Another friend acknowledges that
feeling like a disappointment to her parents has
hampered her career, making her deliberately
underachieve to meet their low expectations. Another suspects that her distant mother has made
her ultra-needy testing friendships by sending
SOS texts at 2am, or crying on third dates to see
how the man responds. Not very well, as a rule. But
the Inner Child can help as well as hinder.
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CHILDS PLAY
How to make your Inner
Child work for you by Susan
Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst
VULNERABLE
In childhood, you may have
experienced criticism or
neglect that left you feeling
weak. As an adult, tap into
this Inner Child to see why you
may overreact to criticism or
seek approval. Focus on your
strengths, not flaws, and aim
to get rid of that harsh inner
voice as you shore up your
sense of self-worth.
CREATIVE
The Creative Inner Child is
unbounded by daily life. If, for
example, you were a musical
child, but now find you cant
play without sheet music, try
banging out a tune you know
well. Give yourself the freedom
to improvise, channel the
Creative Inner Child and tap
into your talents.
SPIRITUAL
The practice of mindfulness
comes naturally to children
but as adults we forget how
much of our past we bring to
bear on whats going on in the
moment. To return to your
spiritual Inner Child, stop and
examine each experience for
what it is, instead of the way
you expect it to be.
PLAYFUL
As adults, we dont play with
the kind of abandon we did as
children. Free yourself from
your preoccupations and sit
down to play with a young
child, or find someone to play
frisbee with. By immersing
yourself in play even for a little
while, youll be able to return
to your obligations with
a renewed spirit.
Our Creative Inner Child is important, says

Yaffe. If we can retain a childs immersion in creativity and focus on the task itself rather than the
end product, we get greater enjoyment. Our Playful Inner Child is our sense of fun. Its important in
work, friendships, intimate relationships and sexuality. Our Spiritual Inner Child is our experience
of awe: appreciating beautiful music or nature.
Being present enhances our appreciation of living.
My theory is that the years between seven and
10 hold the key to adult happiness. At that age
we are fully formed, but puberty has yet to quash
our enthusiasms with self-consciousness. For me,
aged nine, my pride and joy was a huge, meticulously furnished dolls house. Every day I arranged
it with an obsessive, all-consuming delight, oblivious to time, pins and needles and the homework
I should have been doing. But in my teens, I abandoned the dolls house and replaced it with things
I felt I should enjoy parties, drinking, smoking,
water-skiing anything to prove I wasnt that cautious little girl immersed in her miniature world.
A decade later, I moved into my first flat. It was
a revelation. As I did it up, all alone, I felt the same
giddy joy that I had arranging my dolls house all
those years ago. I also realised that I hadnt felt
this happy in years. It was only then, at 27, that
I let my Inner Child back in. I finally accepted that
I prefer a weekend to myself, seeing friends oneon-one or just hanging pictures, to a party. At 31,
I wrote a book, having previously shunned fiction as less glamorous than magazines, and
finally felt fulfilled at work. No surprise, considering I was always writing stories as a child, but its
not necessarily about re-enacting our childhood
hobbies. Its just that, if you can find adult equivalents of your childhood passions, theyll probably
make you happier than Instagram, Tinder, yoga or
whatever it is you feel you should enjoy today.
All of which reminds me of the day, aged 11, I was
summoned to the headmistresss office for a little
talk. Francesca, she said. Id like to discuss your
habit of leaving things to the last minute. I know
it serves you well now, but in future, youll need to
be more methodical. She had a point. Doing all my
homework at 5am was rash (if quite Sheryl Sandberg). It worked for me then, and has continued to
work ever since. So Im afraid, Miss Byrne-Cooper,
I still havent taken your advice. Ive just finished
writing this at 6.50am, and Im wearing a grubby
T-shirt of my husbands. So much for pristine
femininity. Maybe some things never change.Q
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Photography: Sonny Vandevelde.
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Photography: The Alcatel Fashion Theatre at The Clothes Show/Justin Glynn.
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TRAVEL
MADE IN TAIWAN
On a road trip around Asias off-the-radar
island with her younger sister, Miette L
Johnson found that rugged adventure and
an alluring new culture were just what she
needed to see their relationship in a new light
B
Above: Food
vendors in Kenting.
Top: The dizzying
Central CrossIsland Highway
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ye-eeee. My kid sister is getting

smaller and smaller, dangling
from a piece of string above the
river valley that leads to Lisong.
As I watch her repel down the escarpment,
the old rope tightening and slacking, I
wonder if what were doing is stupid. What
if something really bad happens, like in
a 127 Hours sort of way? If she were to slip,
our last mortal exchange would be a South
Park reference. Id have to explain to our
parents why we were scrambling deep
into the mountains of central Taiwan,
unburdened by safety measures. I know
this particular endeavour seems risky.
But prior to this, we had almost driven
straight off a cliff. So in the moment,
it didnt seem like that big of a deal.
It takes 21.5 hours from my flat in
London to get to my sister Courtneys
apartment in southern Taiwan. For
most of our adult lives, Courtney and
I have lived worlds apart from each other.
Toronto and Montreal, Brooklyn and
London, South Korea and Amsterdam.
Now she lives, along with her partner
Jenner, almost a day away in Kaohsiung.
And Ive spent a disproportionate amount
of time trying to get to her.
As far as Asia goes, Taiwan lies slightly

off the beaten track; a less obvious choice
among the full-moon parties of Thailand
or Indias eat/pray/love exoticism. A
diplomatically complex relationship
with mainland China (180km across
the Taiwan Strait), coupled with our
inaccurate western perception of it as
an industrial, smog-pumping behemoth,
its easy to understand why its been off
our travel radar. But unmarred by global
tourism,its climate, free-thinking attitude
(universal surage, freedom of the press),
otherworldly landscapes and beguiling
culture make it an enchanting little island.
Kaohsiung is Taiwans second most
populated city after Taipei, and the
unocial scooter capital of the world;
locals whizz around town with entire
families haphazardly balanced on
two wheels. The blend of old world
architecture, towering, earthquake-proof
condos and neon lights give the town
a futuristic feel, but its life as a port city
Top and above:

One of the many
winding curves of
Central CrossIsland Highway
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Travel
Left: Taroko Gorge.
Below: Sun Moon
Lake temple. Right:
A Taiwanese sunset.
Far right: Kaohsiung
Lotus Pond
Photography: Getty, Miette L Johnson.
Above: Kaohsiung
potstickers
(dumplings);
Below left: The
giant Buddha at
Fo Guang Shan
Memorial Centre;
Below right: Sun
Moon Lake
keeps the vibe friendly. People here are

curious about outsiders, and appearance
in particular; at 5ft 9in tall, with long
blonde hair and grey eyes, I feature
heavily on the iPhones of Taiwan. The
inquisitiveness is charming and goes
both ways; there is an openness to the
Taiwanese character that makes for
interesting, if at times comical, exchanges.
Its easy to see why my sister, after initially
planning on teaching here for 10 months,
has stayed for more than three years.
When we were little, Courtney and
I created our own worlds in the ravines
behind our house in suburban Toronto,
Canada. The youngest of three girls, she
was so sweet; she looked like a movie baby,
with blonde ringlets and blue eyes. I was
older, street smart (read: less adorable),
and Courtney looked up to me. I watched
out for her, from the time I gave her
chickenpox so we could stay home from
school together, through to university
where she met Jenner during her first
year, so he now feels like part of the family.
Even from afar wed

OTHERWORLDLY
managed to maintain the
LANDSCAPES
sibling pecking order, but
AND BEGUILING
something happens when you
CULTURE MAKE
spend long swathes of time
TAIWAN AN
apart. By being uninvolved in
ENCHANTING
the daily minutiae, its easy to
LITTLE ISLAND
miss someone moving on from
one phase of life to another.
On the back of Courtneys scooter,
clinging to her waist as she glides through
hectic traffic, she is totally in control and
I am not. Out on the open road, we speed
past the enormous Buddha at the Fo
Guang Shan Memorial Centre and into the
Maolin National Scenic Area. She laughs
off my nerves as we zip over a pedestrian
bridge, suspended high above a rocky
riverbed, down through the paths that
lead to Cingren, known locally as Lovers
Gorge Waterfall. After a short hike,
we arrive at a beautiful sliver of water,
cascading 50m down into a deep indigo
pool. And just like that, shes shown me
something new that shes discovered, not
the other way around.
Strolling through Ruifeng Night Market,
past stalls selling stinky tofu (dont)
and tiny fried eggs in paper bags (do), I
observe Courtney and Jenner from a few
paces back. Id spent the afternoon with
her primary school class of 20 and they
blew my mind. They were so bright, funny,
and engaged and my little sister; my
Top: Miette (right)
and younger sister,
Courtney. Above:
Chilling at Lovers
Gorge Waterfall
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little sister teaches them. Now Jenner

is ordering food in Mandarin, rattling
away like babys first words were, Ni hao.
(Thats hello). Who are these grown-ups?
Halfway through my stay, the three of
us set out on a road trip from Kaohsiung
to the scenic Provincial Highway 61 that
leads down to the southern tip of the
island. On our right, the sea is blinding
in the sun; to the left the mountainside,
dense with tropical jungle, is visible
through the heat haze. The trip to Kenting
takes around two hours, and the ride is
easy. Baishawan is a pretty white sandy
beach where local boy, director Ang Lee,
filmed scenes for the movie, Life Of Pi.
We spend the day watching the waterAbove: Taipeis
shy
Chinese and Taiwanese stand at the
skyline. Below
oceans
edge, with trousers rolled up just
left: A roadside
food feast. Below
below the knee, daring to dip their toes
right: Silks Place
in the South China Sea. Some still cling to
exterior
an ancient superstition that malevolent
ghosts will drag them under if they enter
the water and they get a real kick out of
three foreigners swimming out of our
depth. As the sun sets, the waters change
from electric cerulean
to blush to black, and we
LOOKING ACROSS
wander the back roads to
THE VALLEY,
the Ipanema Surf House, run
I SEE A FIELD OF
by a Brazil-loving Taiwanese
MOUNTAINTOPS.
surfer named Max, and a
I WONDER HOW
favourite among western
MANY HALLOWED
expats for 12-a-night
PLACES ARE HIDDEN beach breaks. In the lot
AMONG THEM
behind our room theres
another house, with a sort
of metal frame tacked to the side covered
in tarpaulin. A light inside casts a glow
on to the pavement. We can hear people
chanting, while the silhouette of a little girl
plays with the shadow of a dog. As the only
guests, we have the porch to ourselves
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Left: Kaohsiung
Lotus Pond; Below:
Jenner in Taroko;
Right: Lisongs hot
spring; Inset: Cloudcovered Central
Cross-Island
Highway
and we sit sipping wine as we would after

a long summers day at the lake in Canada.
Heading out of Kenting, the road
takes us down around the tip of the island
and up towards Hualien. The Provincial
Highway 11 is flanked by dramatic cliffs
and jewel-toned sea, the colour of which
deepens when storms roll in. Wild weather
can make this route nerve-racking,
particularly during typhoon season (May
to October). Heavy rains wash out roads
and the occasional rockslide tumbles
into traffic. On our way to the old, hotspring town of Zhiben, we hit a stone and
it tears a hole in the fuel line. Somewhere
between the car breakdown and the next
day, fuelled by countless Taiwan Beers,
we will spend 2.5 hours on the side of a
highway, be towed 40 minutes by rope,
spend an hour up to our necks in Zhibens
hot-steam barrels (mixing booze and
heat is clever, no?), running down a pitch
black highway in search of a 7-Eleven, eat
something squiggly with bits in it, and
argue over which Beatles song to perform
for an audience of confused truckers.
The antidote to the sickness that
followed lay 60km further up the coast
in Chenggong, a wharf town with the
freshest seafood in Taiwan. Tuna sashimi,
the punch of wasabi and cool crunch of
shredded radish bring us back to life.
The next morning, we turn into the
mountains for Taroko Gorge. One of the
worlds most beautiful and dangerous
roads, the sheer scale of the environment
is arresting. The road clings to the side of
jagged cliffs, high above the fast-moving
rivers of the gorge. Theres only one luxury
hotel in Taroko, Silks Place (silksplacetaroko.com.tw, doubles from 190 a
night), and I have booked it. After a dip
in the rooftop hot tubs and a decadent
east-meets-west feast, we head to our
room and push our beds up against the
floor-to-ceiling windows; its as if we are
camping in the wilderness.
Above: A secret
beach in Kaohsiung
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Photography: Courtesy of Silks Place/Calvin Chen,

Miette L Johnson.
People come to Taroko mostly to

explore the canyon on foot. The arduous
hike to Lianhua Pond atop a steep
mountain takes about two hours and
brings us close to nirvana and near
nakedness as we strip off layers in
the jungle heat. Out of respect, we are
careful not to disturb the pond waters,
considered sacred by some, lest its spirits
punish us for interfering with the perfect
harmony. Looking out across the valley,
I expect to take in all of Taiwan. Instead,
I see a field of mountaintops, extending
in every direction, and I wonder how many
hallowed places are hidden among them.
I turn back to ask Courtney, but shes at
the far edge of the pond with Jenner. After
a decade of adventures together, were
close. But now theyre engaged, I cant
help but feel jealous of their oneness.
For a fleeting moment, I wonder if theyd
rather be alone, without me.
Taiwans Central Cross-Island Highway
ranks highly on my list of nausea triggers.
Almost 200km from Taroko in the east,
to Taichung in the west, it climbs
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endlessly, winding up to above the

cloud line and takes at least eight hours
to cross, if the roads are even open.
Cautious drivers are fine, but blind
corners, speeding trucks and landslides
add a whole other layer of anxiety. After
hours crammed into the back seat, I cant
decide if the butterflies in my stomach are
motion sickness or my niggle from the
hike that wont go away. Maybe I am
excess baggage. Even here, Im relegated
to economy, while Courtney and Jenner
sip champagne in first class. OK, maybe
not champagne, but they are definitely
hogging the Pringles up front.
Eventually, we arrive at Hehuanshan;
a 3,416m-high mountain. It is beautiful,
and from here, I think I really can see all
the island. As we approach its summit
above the clouds, our car just stops. We
roll backward, picking up speed towards
the cliff edge; Jenner jerks the handbrake
and we shudder to a halt. Engine out, we
can do nothing but roll backwards, down
the curving road to a layby, while Courtney
and I direct him, within inches of the sheer
drop. Jenner saves us. Or we save us. And
then a local really saves us, somehow
starting the engine and driving our car
to the peak, where he leaves us in neutral
to let gravity take us the rest of the way.
After our descent into Lisong valley,
we clamber over boulders to reach the
hot spring. Courtney reaches for Jenners
hand, and he helps her down into the river.
Watching this, I get a happy-and-sad
heartache. Its hard to share my sister,
to know theres someone else to guide
her and keep her safe. Then again, Im still
here. It takes a few close calls and brutal
hangovers to get it right, but somewhere
deep in the mountains of Taiwan, I find
a new way of being an older sister. Q
Above: Scooters
dominate in
Kaohsiung. Below:
A mist-obscured
Central Cross-Island
Highway. Below left
and inset: Taroko
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FINCA DE ARRIETA,
LANZAROTE
Where: Lanzarote is
all about the beautiful
landscape: rich black
lava fields filled with
bright green plants,
whitewashed houses,
tiny churches, deep
caves, wild beaches
and, of course, the
(dormant) volcano.
Stay: A small,
self-catering, off-grid
eco resort of yurts,
huts and cottages,
Finca de Arrieta has
views of the mountains
behind and the sea in
front. We were in the
spacious eco yurt, with
a kitchen, dining area
and shower room, plus
a gated outdoor deck
surrounded by huge
plants, bright flowers
and tall palm trees,
leading to the white
stone pool.
Whats hot? Theres
a communal area
designed for lounging,
with books, a guitar
and space for yoga
classes. Each room

has a kitchen with
an oven, and you can
buy basics on-site
and collect eggs from
the fincas chickens.
Too chilled to cook?
Order in from local
restaurants or take
a short walk to lovely
fish tavernas. Further
afield, artist Csar
Manriques work is
all over the island.
Finca de Arrieta,
Calle Diseminado,
Haria 35542, Arrieta,
Lanzarote; 0034 928
826720; lanzarote
retreats.com/eco.
Doubles from around
84, room only.
easyJet (easyjet.com)
has return flights to
Lanzarote Airport
from London Gatwick,
from around 120
A private garden at
Finca de Arrieta
DUE SOUTH
LANZAROTE/MOROCCO/CYPRUS/DUBAI
Were putting off autumn for as long as we can
I
Above: The seafront
of Arrieta, Lanzarote
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used to hate autumn. To me, it signified the End

Of Fun. It was the Sunday night of the seasons, or
the seasonal equivalent of the second of January
(the worst day of the year, surely?), when people
say treasonous things like theyre looking forward to
getting back to normal, post-holidays. I never wanted
to get back to normal.
Autumn meant the end of adventure, the end of
months spent backpacking around wherever I could
afford. The end of the excitement of the unknown,
of picking up summer jobs abroad in bars or youth
hostels or vineyards, spinning out my meagre travel
money by any means possible. And particularly the
end of those exquisite, intense brief encounters that
flare up out of nowhere and end on a high, because
one of you is always heading back to the airport. And
now, even though I dont get those months of travelling any more, I still want to eke out my favourite season to postpone that end-of-summer melancholy for
as long as possible and fly south like the swallows.
LA SULTANA
OUALIDIA, MOROCCO
Below: Finca de
Arrietas huts.
Right: La Sultanas
peaceful beach
Where? Oualidia is
a southern Morocco
fishing village around
two hours drive from
Casablanca, known
for its oysters, pretty
lagoons and road-lesstravelled vibe.
Stay: Just outside the
village is La Sultana, a
fortress-like building
with 12 rooms,
including one in a
treehouse, looking
over the lagoon and
a peaceful stretch of
beach. Inside its all
grand archways,
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ANASSA, CYPRUS
Words: Chris Caldicott, Heather Gwyther, Billie Bhatia, Viet Tran, Imogen Van Zaane. Photography: Chris Caldicott, Viet Tran.
Above: Whitewashed elegance

at Anassa
domed windows and

pale interiors, with
a Jacuzzi on each
rooms terrace that
is filled with filtered
lagoon seawater.
Whats hot? Go
flamingo watching,
take surfing lessons,
swim in one of two
ionised pools (infinity
outdoors or indoor
heated), or treat
yourself to a Royal
Hammam treatment
at the spa. Food-wise,
nothing beats sitting
on the jetty with a
platter of oysters, and
a glass of El Mogador.
La Sultana Oualidia,
Parc Huitres N3,
Bled Galla, Oualidia;
+212 524 388008;
lasultanahotels.com.
Doubles from 251,
B&B. Royal Air Maroc
(royalairmaroc.co.uk)
flies to Casablanca
from London Gatwick,
from around 209
return. For more, go
to visitmorocco.com
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Where? In Cypruss
unspoilt Akamas
peninsula, on the
remote north-western
tip of the island, youll
find beautiful
Chrysochous Bay,
where temperatures
are still hitting 22C
well into November.
Stay: The temple-like
Anassa may have 175
rooms, suites and
villas, but it feels more
like a boutique hotel,
with its cream-onwhite dcor and
sun-bleached stone
walls. Whitewashed
villas are dotted
among gardens of
pink bougainvillea,
lavender and cypress
trees, while the tiny
orthodox church and

outdoor taverna create
a village feel.
Whats hot? Its all
about relaxation here,
with three pools (one
indoors), a brilliant
Thalassotherapy spa,
and pristine rows of
white beach loungers
set up by dawn, when
the sea is mirror-calm
and already warm
enough for a dip.
Anassa, 40, Alekou
Michailidi Road, Neo
Chorio 8852, Cyprus;
+357 26 888000;
anassa.com. Doubles
from around 280, B&B.
Two-night packages
from around 474pp,
B&B, including return
British Airways
(ba.com) flights and
private transfers
Above and below:

Old-fashioned
elegance at the
Brasserie Quartier
in St. Regis Dubai
THE ST. REGIS, DUBAI

ITS ALL GRAND
ARCHWAYS,
DOMED WINDOWS
AND PALE
INTERIORS, WITH A
JACUZZI ON EACH
ROOMS TERRACE
THAT IS FILLED
WITH FILTERED
SEAWATER FROM
THE LAGOON
Where? Dubai might

be a bit bling for some,
but with guaranteed
sun, designer shops
a-go-go and desert
thrills, its a no-brainer
for a quick escape.
Stay? Here, opulence
is king and in that
respect the St. Regis
wont disappoint, with
234 lavish rooms and
suites (including the
913sq m Sir Winston
Churchill Suite with its
rooftop pool), ornate
architecture, marble
floors and some
serious chandeliers.
Whats hot? Being
part of the new Al
Habtoor City complex
means St. Regis
guests get to use all
pool facilities across
the W and Westin, too.
And dont miss the
HERE OPULENCE
IS KING, WITH
ORNATE
ARCHITECTURE,
MARBLE
FLOORS AND
SOME SERIOUS
CHANDELIERS
full body massage
that ends in a
sensational shower
experience. Tropical
thunderstorm
button? You got it.
April showers? No
problem. And did we
mention the butlers?
Well, every room has
one, of course.
The St. Regis Dubai,
Al Habtoor City,
Sheikh Zayed
Road, Dubai
+971 4 435 5555,
stregisdubai.com.
Doubles from around
250, room only.
British Airways
(ba.com) has return
flights from London
Heathrow to Dubai
from around 540
Top left: Cypress

trees line the
gardens at Anassa.
Left: The spas
outdoor pool at La
Sultana Oualidia
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THE LOOK
With its contemporary
Mayan styling, earthy
tones, exposed wood
that looks like it drifted
in from the sea, high
ceilings and templelike interiors, Nizuc
attracts a stylish
clientele. Bag one of the
44 ocean suites and
youll find ample space,
with a deep bath on a
raised platform open
to the room, so you can
soak in the tub while
watching the waves.
Upgrade to one of
the 29 villas and youll
also get a private patio,
dipping pool and
palatial bathroom.
Just a 15 minute drive

from Cancns airport
makes this one of the
worlds speediest
transfers. Cancn can
be a bit spring break
so head an hour in the
other direction for
boho Tulum, with its
Mayan ruins and
Ibiza-style beach scene,

and spot dolphins at
eco-marine park and
world heritage site Sian
Kaan. Between Nizuc
and Sian Kaan is Xel
Ha, a natural water
park all swooshing
through caves and
rope-swinging over
water. Touristy, but
the most fun ever.
THE SPA
HOT
HOTEL
NIZUC RESORT AND SPA

YUCATN / MEXICO
Above: The resorts Caf
de la Playa restaurant.
Below: The blissful
adults-only pool
GETTING THERE
British Airways (ba.com)
has return flights from
London Heathrow to
Cancn from around 606
THE VIBE
Undiscovered areas
of the Yucatn
Peninsula are thin on
the ground now that
the Riviera Maya is a
swanky hotel hotspot
and nearby Cancn
is package-holiday
central. But Nizuc
Resort and Spa has
nabbed a quiet corner
on a ribbon of land
with a peaceful
protected lagoon
on one side and the
twinkly Caribbean
on the other.
It is surprisingly
chilled for a resort of
303 villas and suites,
but then with 109
pools (purified by
reverse osmosis,
so no dehydrating
chlorine), 29 acres
of gardens and
mangroves, and a
long, bleached-white
beach, there is more
thanenoughhideaway
space for everyone.
THE FOOD
If you never left the
resort you wouldnt
get bored of the food,
with six world-class
restaurants including
Peruvian, Asian and
a beachside grill.
Menus range from
tuna tataki to pizza,
and if youre here with
a significant other,
theyll sort a candlelit
dinner on the beach:
clichd, but a starlit
treat just the same.
Wellbeing is a big
deal in the Yucatns
upscale hotels, with
ancient rituals
practised alongside
the usual pampering.
Nizuc has Mexicos
first Espa spa, a
30,000sq ft haven
where you can try
anything from algae
body wraps to cellular
enzyme facials. The
Nizuc Life Program is
all holistic health with
fun-but-good-for-you
stuff such as kayaking
and sound meditation.
NIZUC RESORT AND SPA

Blvd Kukulcan Mz 59 Lote
1-03 Km 21.26, Punta
NIZUC, 77500 Cancn,
Quintana Roo, Mexico.
+52 998 891 5700,
nizuc.com. Doubles from
470, room only
Top left: One of Nizucs

29 villas. Top right: La
Punta Grill and Lounge.
Above: Nizucs lobby
WHATS HOT ELLE Fashion Assistant Felicity Kay loved that Nizuc offered to unpack all her luggage. The resort runs free boat trips to
the Museo Subacutico de Arte (Underwater Museum of Art the worlds first) where you can snorkel among the artificial reefs in the
form of artworks by Karen Salinas Martinez and Roberto Diaz Abraham in the Mesoamerica (the worlds second-largest barrier reef).
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Words: Susan Ward Davies. Photography: Quentin Bacon.
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THE FASHION EDIT
BRAVE+TRUE
A stunning new collection imbued with the spirit and aesthetic of its Australian
design. Think soft suedes and leather, beautifully draped basics, stunningly
soft knitwear and covetable fur pieces to wrap yourself in this season.
Be winter ready with a luxe palette of moss, fossil, charcoal and warm white.
The brave+true range is imbued with the essence of adventure and discovery.
Don't be afraid to try a new direction and pick an uncharted path.
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PUBLIC DESIRE
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SAMPSON & CHRISTIE

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HEALTH & BEAUTY

SHINE YOUR LIGHT!
Beauty Bakerie Cosmetics Brand,
a cruelty-free brand well-known for
their smudge-free, vegan, liquid matte
lipsticks (better known as Lip Whips)
has announced that this autumn we can
expect them to add a new product to their
menu their So Icy illuminator. Coming
in five colours, it promises to leave you
with an incandescent glow as you go from
ordinary to extraordinary after one stroke
of your brush. Leaving a prismatic effect,
youre sure to glow in any lighting. The
packaging alone is to die for but it is what
happens once the cap is removed-the
imparting of a fine, luminous powder that
will complement the structure of your
face, your eyes oryour dcolletage.
To find out more, visit BeautyBakerie.com
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ITALIAN FASHION LABEL ENNEMENOUNO
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conveys a return to exacting sartorial workmanship, Mediterranean luxury and sensuality together with
a unique, unconventional creative vision. Based on experimentation and stylistic originality, the result is
a mysterious and contrasting world of sensations and textures, at once provocative, elegant and chic.
Demure, structured and bold silhouettes adorned with captivating embroidered designs and striking
prints form the brands signature style which, season after season, celebrates innovative aesthetics
with a passion for detail.
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@ennemenouno on Instagram
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GILY ILAN
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The perfect gift for the holidays and the best way to keep warm yet in style this winter.
A young and innovative accessories label founded by ceramic and textile designer Gily Ilan.
In her Tel Aviv based studio, Gily designs artisanal scarves and necklaces in limited editions.
A unique knitting technique and original one of a kind magnetic clasps that elegantly seal each
piece in the collection, have enabled this fast growing label to be coveted by fashionistas from
Japan to NY.
We ship our items world wide

Visit our website WWW.GILYILAN.COM and on Instagram @GILYILAN to learn about our collections,
design philosophy and just to be inspired .
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NOMI
CONTACT
Nomi is a clothing company based in Brooklyn with a passion for bold design, sustainable
practices and a belief in the importance of embracing ones unique identity. We also like color,
glitter and bows, please! We collaborate on our designs, with Normandie designing textiles and
Michon sewing each garment with love.
Nomiwear.co
Instagram: @nomiwear
Shirt modeled by rapper @flapjak_ick
Photo courtesy of @stetsonhayes_
MUSTARD STUDIOS
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Mustard Studios, where 60s cool meets 70s chic.

Resulting in a modernist effortless style, with classic silhouettes and a British aesthetic.
Mustard boasts British made clothing, mindfully produced in small batches.
(Photographer: Liz Rose Ridley, Model: Lauren Marshall)
enquiries@mustardstudios.co.uk
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WOOD TIME FASHION
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Founded in 2014, Wood Time Fashion is a Berlin based wooden watch brand re-conceptualizing
classic design through contemporary streetstyle perception, creating harmony between
sustainability, art and precision. Simple but special. Natural, like all urban-ers do.
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LAVENDER & SLATE
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Founded by Stephanie Dabrowski in 2016, LAVENDER & SLATE, is a boutique accessories brand
based in New York City with an eco-friendly focus. Inspired by the beauty of nature, the debut
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