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+ ANSEL ELGORT ON HIS DJ ‘SELF’, ANSOLO! + TOP 5: AUDREY HEPBURN MOVIES! + SEASON’S ESSENTIALS!
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SELENA GOMEZ ON HER LIFE’S NEW CHAPTER
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Interview. Selena Gomez talks how she feels about her (finally!) comeback.
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And here comes the winter! Beanies and fedoras by BCBG Max Azria you’re not allowed to miss.
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Moschino + Super Mario. The fashion game like you have never seen before!
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Classic is the new black. The 5 Audrey Hepburn movies you’ll never forget.
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Augustus Waters who? Meet Ansel’s DJ funny backstory and project!
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Photoshoot. Model Alessandra Baldessar takes one step ahead behind her time!
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INSIDE SELENA’S REVIVAL BY CHRIS MARTINS
‘I’VE DESERVED THIS. I EARNED IT. THIS IS ALL ME.’
The Selena Gomez supervillain “Arsyn” may have been the most unlikely of all the over-the-top characters adopted by Taylor Swift’s celebrity girl squad in her video for “Bad Blood.” “Nefarious” is not the word that comes to mind when seeing Gomez seated on the rooftop of the Peninsula Beverly Hills on a hot September day, her hair pulled back and lashes liberally fluffed. But then, speaking about the drive behind her new album, she declares: “The hate motivated me.” Gomez -- wearing a Roger Waters’ The Wall Tour tee over burnished black leather pants and stilettos -- has been discussing the gossip sites (“Hollywood Life is the worst”) that hound her almost daily. “I’m so f— ing nice to everybody, and everyone is so vile to me. I’ve been working since I was 7. I’ve been a UNICEF ambassador since I was 17. It’s so disappointing that I’ve become a tabloid story. It took away everything I loved about this business.” At 23, after a bumpy couple of years that brought big changes to her family, love life, health and career, Gomez is on a mission to commandeer her narrative. The title of her second solo album, Revival, isn’t only a marketing concept. It marks a split from the Disney empire that shaped so much of her story, from her star-making role on teen sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place to her five albums on Mouse-backed Hollywood Records (which sold a total of nearly
3 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen Music). Revival arrives Oct. 9 on Interscope, which makes Gomez labelmates with Ellie Goulding, M.I.A. and Madonna -- artists who eschew bubble gum in their pursuit of pop. First single “Good for You” is an unlikely salvo indeed, with a woozy ambience and Gomez cooing, “Let me show you how proud I am to be yours/Leave this dress a mess on the floor.” The song is her highest-charting yet, No. 3 and climbing on the Billboard Hot 100. It also features her first collaboration with a rapper, the louche A$AP Rocky, whose priapic verse pokes fun at her good-girl past. “She’s developing her sexiness,” says the Harlem MC, who didn’t recognize Gomez when he heard the demo. “I don’t think she’s there 100 percent yet. She’s probably only f— ed Justin Bieber, if that.” He snickers. “But honestly, she wasn’t looking for a No. 1 hit. She did it to excommunicate herself from her image. That’s brave.” Gomez knows her identity has been hard to pin down -- and too often hijacked by her three-year romance with Bieber. While it ended more than a year ago, the relationship keeps generating headlines, including chatter about how her name is graffitied in the background of two of his recent music videos and how his tears at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards were supposedly over her.
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Though she’d prefer to not talk about him, she can still spare a kind word for the Biebs, who has been maturing, too. “I’m proud of him,” says Gomez, sipping ice water garnished with a squeeze of lemon. “This is what I always saw in him, why I always believed in him.” Are they talking? “We’re on good terms, but no.” Does she take any inspiration from his career evolution? “No. This is my time. I’ve deserved this. I earned it. This is all me.” Gomez is clearly tired of being defined by the men in her proximity. Her weariness extends to those who assume “Good for You” caters to the male gaze. In the song’s video, she writhes and caresses herself in and out of the shower, looking happy to have the alone time. “I didn’t want a damn guy in there,” she says. “It’s about how I feel. Yes, it’s sexual and captivating, but that’s what makes a woman. We have that over guys. I love looking at women. I’d rather look at a woman than a guy.” Unlike her old Barney & Friends co-star Demi Lovato, who fought her demons to become pop’s self-help princess, and her Disney Channel comrade Miley Cyrus, who transformed the slut shaming against her into a thesis on free love, psych pop and glitter abuse, Gomez’s struggle with expectations hasn’t been obvious. “If they think I’m the good girl still, great!” she says, giving a sarcastic thumbs-up. In fact, she strongly identifies with her subversive female peers. “There’s not an ounce of me that doesn’t think that whatever they’re doing is right,” says Gomez. “I’ve been judged too much to even remotely go there. I hear them, genuinely.”
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And then of course there’s her closest friend since 2008, Swift, who detonated her “boy crazy” typecasting to become leader of a team of successful, fabulous young women. Gomez attended the VMAs as part of the ever-growing Girl Squad. “Taylor makes me feel empowered, like I can trust new people,” she says. “All of those girls are so dope. We ran around taking pictures, changing dresses, dancing -- super-cliche girly stuff, but it rocked. The way she cares about women is so adamant. It’s pulling me out of my shell.” Not that Gomez is a stranger to the world outside of the shell. In 2012’s Spring Breakers, the bleakly comic art film-turned-hit movie directed by Harmony Korine, she played a wayward, bikini-clad teen. “That [role] drew me into working with her,” says Interscope chairman/CEO John Janick. “I was blown away. I said, ‘Listen, what people see from the outside, it seems like there’s more to it.’ ” Indeed, Gomez lists her dream directors as David O. Russell, for his ability to “capture women in a psychotically beautiful way”; David Fincher, because “I like the idea of being tortured mentally”; and Damien Chazelle, who helmed 2015’s brutal Whiplash. “They could truly pull something out of me,” she says. In the meantime, “she’s having fun being CEO of her business for the first time,” says Gomez’s manager Aleen Keshishian, who points out the very active role Gomez has taken in her own liberation: “Her work ethic is something I’ve never seen. She executive-produced Revival. She co-wrote half the songs. Every visual, every marketing move, every decision is hers.”•
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YOUR FASHION GAME IS ABOUT TO LEVEL UP! BY CASSANDRA NAPOLI
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Jeremy Scott has done it again! He’s designed another collection for the iconic Italian luxury fashion brand Moschino which perfectly merges pop culture and high fashion — a design tactic that he has become famously known for, thanks to lines paying homage to McDonald’s and Barbie. “Super Moschino,” as the line has been coined, is a pairing between the design house and Nintendo. In typical Moschino style, the design collaboration is a 30th anniversary celebratory ode to Mario from the Super Mario Bros. — probably one of the most iconic characters from your childhood (I’m talking to you, 90’s babies!). This partnership makes perfect sense: What better way to celebrate an iconic figure in pop culture than with the design house known for its whimsical approach to high fashion? The collection is made up of graphic T-shirts, knit sweaters, and leather accessories and handbags in bold colors adorned with images of your favorite Super Mario Bros. characters. Act fast – if it’s anything like past collections, Super Moschino will quickly sell out when it hits stores December 5th.
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SABRINA
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ROMAN HOLIDAY
This movie is charming, heart-warming, and will have you rooting for one of three characters once you get the story. Hepburn portrays Sabrina who is in love with David (Humphrey Bogart), that is until his brother falls in love with her,
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Young and frustrated, Princess Ann runs away from the palace to see the town and be as normal as she’s never been allowed to be. Journalist Joe Bradley, played by Gregory Peck, tries to use her and get a money-worthy story but is entirely surprised by the bond they instantly strike.
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Before becoming an actress, Audrey My Fair Lady is the story of Eliza Doolittle, a Hepburn wanted to be a dancer and she poor and slightly uneducated woman who sells did plays in London until she was asked flowers when she meets a snobby linguistics to appear in a film. In this film, starring professor who insults everything she is. The proalongside the iconic Broadway figure fessor makes a bet with his colleague that in 6 Fred Astair, Hepburn was given the months he could completely transform Eliza and chance to dance and sing once again. have her pass as royalty at the next ball.
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Based off the same-titled novel by Truman Capote, this film is Hepburn’s most famous. She stars as Holly Gollightly, a party girl running from herself while at the same time trying to find herself. She meets her neighbor Fred and together they fill the film with laughs and eventually romance. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S is definetely a must see! 11 DECEMBER 2015
ANSEL OR
ANSOLO? — He tells us why the ‘epic’ nickname! —
Most people know Ansel Elgort as the doe-eyed heartthrob from The Fault in Our Stars. But fewer are aware that the 21-year-old actor-slash-producer moonlights as an EDM DJ named Ansolo. In fact, should the acting thing not work out, he’s already built an impressive career in music such as performing at Electric Zoo, headlining Pacha (the multi-level N.Y.C. nightclub that regularly books top-tier DJs), and, most recently, signing a deal with the prestigious Island Records (formerly Island Def Jam). And even though choosing a stage name to perform under is par for the course in the entertainment biz, we’re particularly intrigued by the genesis of his Star Wars moniker. So when we recently sat down with him at the Pratt Insti-
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tute, where he was speaking on a panel with his family, we couldn’t help but ask. “It was a nickname my brother gave me,” Elgort told InStyle. “When I got into DJ-ing in 2010, most DJ names were funny plays on their actual names. Tiësto’s real name is Tijs. I wanted to make ‘Ansel’ sound more epic.” Mission accomplished.•
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