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CONTENTS 62 MARKETPLACE
It’s all about colour
Photographs: Winnie Au, Luca Campri, Sascha Heintze, James Nelson, Frankiewicz & Rozniata, Siduations ON THE NEWSSTAND COVER 27 EDITOR’S LETTER 45 NOSTALGIA SELLS clashes: lilac and green
Eighties denim, Nineties to blue and brown, with all
Romee wears: Wool-mix Editor-in-chief Anne-Marie check, Noughties logos: shades of red in between
dress, £10,600, wool-mix top Curtis on new beginnings whatever the decade,
(worn underneath), £1,600, throwback looks are in 67 TRY THIS: CHECKS
34 10 THINGS Long layers, big patterns,
both Louis Vuitton. 48 MOOD BOARD NEWS varying textures – there’s
Drink super-charged more than one way to
ON THE SUBSCRIBERS’ COVER coffee, wear slippers The dad trainers you’ll pull off winter checks
outside and snorkel with want, the collaborations
Romee wears: PVC hat, £920, sharks: all in our top-10 you’ll obsess over, and the 69 12 OF THE BEST…
polyester jacket, £1,745, and metal pursuits this month watches you’ll lust after …high-neck blouses – be it
a bow, a frill or a flounce
and crystal necklace, all Chanel. 36 GUEST LIST 52 MAGICAL THINKING
Photographs: Laurie Bartley. Tarot is having a moment. 70 TIED AND TWISTED
Stylist: Anne Christensen. Meet the talented creators Stacey Duguid consults the Soft pastels made cool
Hair: Panos Papandrianos for who helped put together experts to see what we’ll with knots and belts
this month’s issue of ELLE be wearing in 2018
Bumble and Bumble at The Wall 78 MY WORLD
Group. Make-up: Ayami Nishimura 39 LOVE LETTER 56 WESTERN American model Arizona
Tassels and chains, studs Muse invites us in to her
at The Wall Group using Chanel Balmain creative director and stones: seek style Mad Men-esque London
Neapolis: New City and Blue Olivier Rousteing writes inspiration from the desert home, full of eBay finds
Serum Eye. Manicure: Roseann a love letter to his friends
Singleton at Art Department 82 HARLEM RENAISSANCE
using Chanel Le Vernis in Camelia 154 P.S. Meet Lena Waithe,
Donald Glover and Ava
and La Crème Main. Our parting shot: cleanse DuVernay, just a few of
Local production: Urban NYC your make-up bag, the big names shaping the
refresh your soul and new age of black cinema
embrace the new year
84 CULTURE ROUND-UP
What to eat, read, see
and listen to this month

87 ELLE BOOK CLUB
Literary editor Marta
Bausells on her top reads

88 MOTHER!CONTENTS 121 THE WORLD’S 139 WHO, WHAT,
ELLE content director BEST BEAUTY BUYS WHERE: 2018
Hannah Swerling reports Photographs: Laurie Bartley, Gus & Stella, Gilles Bensimon, Patrick Waugh
on the evolving notion of It’s that time of year: the Travel-industry experts
what it means to be a mum international ELLE beauty give their insider tips on
awards are here, as voted all the trends happening
92 MEET THE NEW by 46 editors worldwide next year, including:
LIFE COACHES eco-hotels in Cambodia,
Hit refresh on your life with 127 I AM MADEMOISELLE space tourism, road trips in
the help of a gut therapist, Pakistan, and hotel rooms
career psychic, hormone Our columnist discovers that double-up as gyms.
fairy and book doula the joy of no-needle botox Plan your escape now

97 ON: HAVING BIG FEET 129 MOOD BOARD
Daisy Buchanan loves The best beauty buys,
shoes, so she’s learnt to from skincare to hair
love her size-eight feet
132 LESS IS MORE
100 WHAT ROMEE
DID NEXT ELLE beauty editor
We get to know Romee Joely Walker goes on
Strijd, the eternally a quest for perfect skin
optimistic Victoria’s
Secret Angel 136 BEAUTY SHELFIE

110 DENIM ON DENIM A curated bathroom shelf,
Forget the Canadian brimming with regimen-
tuxedo – this is next-level enhancing products
denim. Stiff, distressed
and selvedged meets tulle, 137 SOPHIE SAYS
fishnets and frills to give
it some modern attitude ELLE beauty director
Sophie Beresiner tackles
your skincare dilemmas

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The new year is frlDooI‘tAIoNmdnkROeetLbvhtWINareearcGc’kt,s.
always a time
of fresh starts
and good in-
tentions, often
involving giv-
ing up some-
thing. Whether it be alcohol, sugar,
or whatever your personal ‘bad
habit’, a fresh beginning often im-

plies swearing off things and, in the

process, denying ourselves many of astrological sign, sartorial choices

life’s little pleasures. and all. As a Leo, I will apparently

And while the notion of self- be favouring leopard print and red —

improvement is not a bad thing, fun — but both, hopefully, life- both of which are things that sit very

perhaps rather than focusing on enhancing rather than dimin- far outside my comfort zone. But in

subtracting something from our lives, ishing. Whether you want the spirit of trying new experiences,

we should all be looking to add to learn to host a podcast I’m going to give both a go.

something instead. So, for example, (find out how in our Play sec- That exciting feeling of newness from – denim is one of

this year I am diving in and taking a tion, p84) or master some is one of my favourite aspects of the year’s biggest trends.

proper meditation course after dab- Bob Fosse dance moves (just the new year. And this issue is filled My personal favourite is

bling with it occasionally – partly to me?), whatever your heart with it, including Hannah Swerling’s the Seventies-style jacket-

declutter and slow my mind down, desires, go with it. exploration of life’s ultimate fresh and-jeans look from Dior,

but also to take time out for myself, Speaking of self-im- start (as in the birthing of new life) in but there is something for

away from the clamour and de- provement, life coaches Mother! (p88), an insightful series of everyone to try.

mands of everyday life. My other have been part of the self- stories questioning what motherhood Meanwhile, Joely

intention is simply to make more time help lexicon for some time means now, and also examining why Walker’s illuminating

for friends in the coming year. So, now, but Laura Craik’s one in five women are child-free. piece on skincare asks,

a little self-improvement and a little foray into the new breed of On the fashion front, our Denim ‘Do you have lazy skin?’

specialists (p92) – from gut on Denim shoot (p110), lensed by the It turns out we all might.

therapists to hormone fairies (yes, it’s a iconic Gilles Bensimon and styled by After you read this piece,

thing) – is both entertaining and intrigu- Melanie Huynh, shows you all the you’ll realise that, when

ing. Who knows, maybe a book doula ways to wear fashion’s freshest of- it comes to your beauty

is all that is keeping you from penning ferings. And there is a lot to choose regimen, sometimes less

that bestseller? really is more.

And in our feature Magical Think- So, in short, try a bit of reinven-

ing (p52), Stacey Duguid consults tarot tion this January. As The Incredibles’

Photograph: Kai Z Feng guru Elaine Mary Collins and legend- Edna Mode put it: ‘I never look back,

ary astrologer Shelley von Strunckel to darling. It detracts from the now.’ And

discover what the year will hold for each from the new, too. Whatever that in-

volves for you, here’s to 2018 – and

being more ELLE.

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@kenyahunt

If deputy editor and

@arizona_muse fashion features

Model Arizona director Kenya could
says that it’s almost
impossible to pick have dinner with
her greatest ‘pinch
me’ career moment: anybody, it would
‘From my first
campaign with be ‘Grace Jones @boris_peianov
Prada to working
with David Bowie for her fearlessness, According to
on the Louis Vuitton BuzzFeed, illustrator
campaign, I’ve had Joan Didion for her @laurie_bartley Boris’s spirit animal
the opportunity to is a Shiba Inu dog,
work with incredible @annechristensen storytelling and ‘A young visionary but he reckons it’s
photographers and Michelle Obama for can get over- actually a phoenix:
designers.’ Arizona’s Stylist Anne her overall power influenced. Try to ‘I really love new
career began when Christensen says and grace.’ Prior to avoid that sensory beginnings, clean
her godmother that if she were a joining ELLE in 2015 overload and stay slates and major
introduced her to cocktail she’d be a as acting content true to your personal changes.’ Starting his
Next model agency. negroni:‘bittersweet’. director, Kenya, spirit and voice’ career 10 years ago
She had her first Starting her career born in Germany and – that’s the advice as an architect, he
season in 2010 and as a window dresser raised in Virginia, photographer Laurie says that art was
has gone on to walk in a secondhand was global style would give aspiring always his number-
for the likes of store, she went on director of Metro creatives. Having one passion, and he
Chanel, Topshop to work as Grace International. Starting studied photography has managed to
and Ralph & Russo. Coddington’s her career at Jane in Norfolk, he then merge the two in the
Born in Tucson, assistant at American magazine in New moved to London work he produces
Arizona, she says Vogue for four years York, the best and began assisting today. Specialising
the one fact not before becoming an professional advice portrait and fashion in digital content
many people know editor. ‘Grace told she’s ever had was photographers and collage, Boris
about her is that me shoes were the from friend and before becoming says that he is
she was a real most important part mentor Bethann first assistant to currently inspired
tomboy growing of a look. Meaning Hardison: ‘Don’t be Rankin: ‘I was by the black and
up and loved riding they defined the afraid to take risks fascinated with light, white Scandinavian
her horse, Ebony, in look, which defined and make the most which I’d experiment menswear
the desert. Arizona the picture.’ After of every platform with in any spare time campaigns that
features in My World working for The New you have.’ Kenya I could find.’ He has surround him in
on page 78. York Times and T writes about the since worked on Copenhagen, where
Magazine as fashion fashion world’s campaigns for Diesel, he lives. Describing
love for nostalgia Jean-Paul Gaultier himself as mellow,
on page 46. and Net-a-Porter. whimsical and
Laurie shot Romee empathetic, Boris
Strijd for our cover illustrated Meet The
New Life Coaches
director, she’s now story on page 100. on page 92.

a freelance stylist Words: Rachel Macbeth
living in New York.
See Anne’s work

JAISNTSHUUEAERYon page 100.





love letter

BALMAIN CREATIVE DIRECTOR OLIVIER ROUSTEING ON WHY
FRIENDSHIP IS ONE OF THE GREATEST LOVES OF ALL

Photograph: courtesy of Olivier Rousteing

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Photographs: Imaxtree, Rex Features

VERSACE SS18 mo
OFF-WHITE SS18

MOSCHINO SS18

THE LOOKS, FACES, PLACES, VERSACE SS18
LABELS AND HAPPENINGS MOSCHINO SS18

IN FASHION THIS MONTH BURBERRY SS18 Edited by

KENYA
HUNT

Cotton hat, BURBERRY SS18 The icon Plastic
£195, MICHAEL KORS SS92 phone
CRCAWINFDOYRD case, £30,
BURBERRY KAIA GERBER, 2017The original ‘Super’ is
CINDY CRAWFORD, 1992having a renaissance,FIORUCCI
Cotton and this time she’s
sandals, STELLA McCARTNEY SS18brought her mini-me
daughter, Kaia Gerber.
£595,
BURBERRY MOSCHINO SS18

T e piece Cotton jacket, £724,
MOSCHINO
CHAETCEK
Silk scarf, £55,
Once ridiculed, FIORUCCI
Burberry’s signature
tartan is back where it
belongs: front and
centre, head to toe.

Cotton
jacket,
£995,
BURBERRY

FENDI SS18 EMPORIO ARMANI SS18 Silk jacket, £2,460, and silk
GUCCI SS18 trousers, £2,200, both VERSACE
GUCCI RESORT SS18
MIU MIU SS18 The detail

The look Leather bag, VERSACE SS18 THGRROAWPHBICACS K
£2,590, FENDI Minimalist branding
FLOORGEOVESR makes way for bold
Nineties graphics, such
From Fendi’s Fs to as Versace’s iconic
Gucci’s Running G, baroque print.

old-school logos Leather
loom large in the shoes,
coming season. £1,600,
VERSACE

Gold-plated earrings, Suede bum bag,
£89, UNODE50 £885, GUCCI

shocking murder, the show doubled as a retrospective of his

DREW BARRYMORE, 1989 work, featuring many of his most iconic prints and pieces from

the early to mid-Nineties: the Warholian pop-art print, embla-

zoned with the faces of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, the

gold and black swirls from his graphic Baroque series, the

Photographs: Getty, Imaxtree, Rex, The Advertising maximalism of his Animalia collection, and the bejewelled
Archives, Graham Walser at Hearst Studios
OSCAR DE LA RENTA SS18 leather jackets from his iconic autumn 1991 show. ‘It all com-
CALVIN KLEIN
ARCHIVE, 1980 bined to create the most literal representation of this era to

OFF-WHITE SS18 Style tip date,’ says Lisa Aiken, retail director at Net-a-Porter.
The nostalgia started in dribs and drabs: a wave of familiar
DREUNLEIMS
CD logos on handbags in Christian Dior’s spring and fall col-
lections. And in Gucci’s cruise 18 show, the return of the GG
monogram in the house’s red, green and brown colourway.

Acid-wash, paint- BALENCIAGA SS18 That same collection included an homage to the famous Eight-
splatters – bad-taste ies bootlegger, Dapper Dan, a man largely responsible for
denim is good again, making logomania a streetwear thing by co-opting the logos
and revelling in its of Italian luxury brands. And then during the men’s 18 season:
a most clever revival of the original Burberry check, when Go-
former glory.

sha Rubchinskiy collaborated with the brand for his show.

The women’s collections doubled-down on the idea, with

Burberry rolling out even more check on coats, Fendi debuting

vintage-looking bags covered in the brand’s inverted Fs, and

Miuccia Prada reviving the ‘It’ bag of the Nineties, her black,

Leather trainers, nylon carryall. It may not have made for the most agenda-
£64.95, REEBOK setting fashion, but there’s no doubt it created a feel-good

balm in a year’s worth of nonstop news that covered devastat-

ing natural disasters, sexual harassment and mass violence.

The nostalgia wave

isn’t limited to fashion –

’s happening in pop cul-

re, too. TV and cinema

2017 looked very Eight-

IF YOU’RE A XENNIAL, as I am, the spring SELLS s, with remakes of Won-
collections may earn a special soft spot der Women, Blade Run-
with you. The clothes seemed made for ner and Star Wars. Even the new shows
had an old-school patina, such as Netflix’s
Glow, about women pro-wrestlers, or the

that micro-generation of people aged be- second series of Stranger Things, which fol-

tween 30 and 45 – too young to identify Words by lows a gang of mystery-solving kids, both

with generation X, too old to count as a KENYA HUNT set in the President Reagan years. Patrick
millennial, but with a decent amount of dis- Metzger, author of The Nostalgia Pendu-

posable income to spend on a dress. lum, says this is nature running its course:

In my case, I saw my childhood and pre-adolescence flash ‘The driving factor seems to be that it takes around 30 years for

before my eyes during the spring shows. Supermodels, lo- a critical mass of people who were consumers of culture when

gomania, head-to-toe checks, George Michael, My Little Po- they were young to become the creators of culture in their

nies, bubble skirts, cycling shorts, jelly shoes — and all on the adulthood,’ he says. ‘People who were young 30 years ago

runways. So bad, it’s good. But no matter what year you were suddenly have liquid assets, so companies market the culture

born, there’s an entertaining appeal in this, whether you’re rec- of their childhood to them.’

ognising the old or discovering it as new. In a way, it makes sense that so many designers are pulling

Fashion is having a love affair with nostalgia, from the clas- out bestsellers from the archives at a time when luxury fashion

sic Nineties-era tartan at Burberry and grunge references at as a business is at a crossroads. From a retail perspective, Lisa

Miu Miu, to Eighties acid-washed, bad-taste denim at Stella says the shift makes sense: ‘It’s not a surprise that several

McCartney and metallic jumpsuits at Isabel Marant. There was brands now champion the approach of evolving their collec-

a sense of wistful reminiscence for simpler, pre-smartphone tions season on season, offering repeat styles to provide cus-

THELMA AND times, and it surfaced through the return of familiar trends and tomers with pieces that have longevity to invest in. Nostalgia,
LOUISE, 1991
designers reviving their greatest hits. as a trend, speaks to the millennial customer who didn’t experi-

It’s telling that the most memorable runway moment of ence it properly the first time round.’

2017 was a throwback: original supermodels Cindy Craw- In fashion, nostalgia is a no-brainer, when the life cycle of

ford, Naomi Campbell, Carla Bruni, Claudia Schiffer and He- trends gets shorter and the price gets higher. There’s comfort in

lena Christensen reuniting for a Versace show to recreate an investing in the long-game, spending on pieces that have with-

iconic 1992 moment from founding designer Gianni’s heyday stood time. Let’s just hope that in this moment of looking back-

at the house. Recognising the 20-year anniversary of Gianni’s ward, fashion doesn’t lose sight of the thrill in the new.

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Rubber trainers, £750, traDianedrs Born in Colombia, Daniela Lopez
LOUIS VUITTON The Eighties’ resurgence in Osorio, 24, is a Victoria’s Secret
fashion has brought with it the model and the face of Gap and
Leather-mix trainers, £216, Maybelline. Think of her as the
COMME DES GARÇONS ‘dad trainer’. Chunky-soled, next in line to the throne of current
bulky and downright ugly, commercial queens Taylor Hill
NIKE AIR MAX it’s the shoe stored in the
depths of a garage, in a box and Emily Ratajkowski.
Polyester trainers, £280, labelled ‘old stuff’. Well, E M O J I : ‘Always the little
ADIDAS X RAF SIMONS monkey that covers his eyes.’
unfathomable as it may S O N G : ‘If I need to bring the
Alter nappa trainers, £450, seem, they’re back. What energy to set, I play Bruno Mars.’
STELLA McCARTNEY started in small, street-style F O O D : ‘Bandeja Paisa; it’s
waves on the men’s circuit a Colombian dish of meats, rice,
is about to become one of eggs, avocado, beans and
the season’s biggest trends, plantain. No one cooks
thanks to Balenciaga’s Triple
S offering. The sneakers have it better than my mum.’
also infiltrated luxury fashion F A V O U R I T E S C E N T : ‘There
houses including Prada, Louis was a jasmine tree that used to be
Vuitton and Gucci. Wear outside my bedroom window in
with cropped trousers and Colombia – it smells like home.’
S P I R I T A N I M A L : ‘She’s not
a vintage denim wash. an animal, but can I have Rihanna?
Matching headphones She is so free and unapologetic.’

not necessary, but
encouraged. BB

Leather trainers, £415, LOUIS VUITTON
TOD’S Words: Billie Bhatia. Photographs: Imaxtree,
Rex, Graham Walser at Hearst Studios
Polyester-mix trainers, £209,
SANDRO

2017 was the year of @EMILIFE @YOUVEGOTNOMALE @JOOLEELOREN
Insta-stars @Diet_Prada Emanuele Ferrari has earned Sebastian Tribbie has a wit so Illustrator Julie Houts creates
and @Siduations, but himself a rep for homemade outfit sharp, he’s gained cult status for imaginary fashion characters –
recreations: Kim in Balmain versus his hilarious memes, including but with such attention to detail,
if you want even Emi in your dad’s chess boards. a high-profile gig with Gucci. you’ll swear you know them.
more fashion fun for
2018, these are the
accounts to follow. BB

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AW17
SS18

VALENTINO AW17 CHANEL FUTURISTIC SILVER
ERDEM SS18VERSACE FINALE GOLD
MARY KATRANTZOU
pPieufcfe CÉLINE FORTIES BLUESS18
The bubble hemline, VICTORIA BECKHAM ICED LAVENDER SS18
the voluminous pouf made
SAINT LAURENT MARC JACOBS HONEY YELLOWSAINT LAURENT
EMILIA WICKSTEAD famous by Cristobal HERMÈS MELLOW WHITEAW17
Balenciaga in the Fifties SS18
A new year, a new rainbow of
and Princess Diana colour stories to explore. 2018
fangirls in the Eighties, will be a bright one, if the runways
is having a revival of the
glitziest kind. Thank Saint have anything to do with it.
Laurent (the archival pouf),
Mary Katrantzou (the ALEXANDER McQUEEN GOTHIC BLACK
sport glam pouf), Emilia MOLLY GODDARD VIRGINAL WHITE
Wickstead (the regal
pouf), Valentino (the fluid

pouf) and Erdem
(the Queen Elizabeth-
inspired pouf), among

a growing list of
others. Think of the
dress as the next step
forward in fashion’s
enduring love affair

with glamour.
Heels required.

AW17
SS18

JIL SANDER POWER-RED SUIT
EMPORIO ARMANI CANDY-PINK TAILORING

Nothing quite sums up our SS18
desired mood for 2018 like AW17
the slogan on this bag, a
standout in Christian Dior’s MIU MIU FOREST MOSS GREEN
installation of its Lady Dior SIES MARJAN MINT
Art series. Created with the
renowned poet John Giorno,
each bag is emblazoned

with words to live by.

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