InStyle - Dec/Jan 2022 by Lawrence Ambrocio

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Reese Witherspoon OWNING IT

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126 SHE’S GOT THE POWER Reese Witherspoon in a Thakoon shirt, a Versace skirt, a Bulgari necklace, an Almasika bracelet, and Roger Vivier slingbacks. Photographed by Emma Summerton.

FEATURES 118 CALL ME MARTHA New pals Martha Stewart and Martha Plimpton discuss their shared nature and name 120 NOW & THEN Actress Christina Ricci on finding her own style after three decades in show business 122 ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHLINES Comedian Nicole Byer has built a career on accepting failure and laughing through it all 126 SHE’S GOT THE POWER After a near billion-dollar sale of her female-focused company, Hello Sunshine, Reese Witherspoon embraces her impact and continues her mission to champion women

136 T TIME Actress and fashion magpie Tessa Thompson’s self-assured style keeps her in high demand 148 THE OPTIMIST Apple CEO Tim Cook looks back on his time spent with the company and the importance of leading with compassion 152 MAKE IT UP With a fresh and creative take on glamour, Raoúl Alejandre is revolutionizing the beauty industry 160 THE GIRLS WEAR DIOR Reimagining the iconic French brand through a feminist lens, Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri showcases her designs on Zoey Deutch, Jurnee Smollett, and other women who inspire her

170 VIVA LA RITA Hollywood legend Rita Moreno reflects on her groundbreaking career and her return to the screen in the new West Side Story 172 SO FINE Showstopping jewelry that’s worth a splurge this season 178 JOANSING Model and advocate Joan Smalls turns the streets of Paris into her own personal runway with looks from Balmain, Louis Vuitton, and more 186 THAT’S HOT Kate Hudson, Ciara, Gabrielle Union, and other fashion and film stars share the time they felt most “fire” 193 GIFT GUIDE Shop the best and brightest holiday offerings

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T TIME Tessa Thompson in a Giorgio Armani tuxedo, shirt, and bow tie, and her own ring. Photographed by AB+DM.

110 THE PLACE: BUDAPEST Nanushka founder and creative director Sandra Sandor shows us around her Hungarian hometown 111 MY ANCHOR: SOFT SPOT Our market and accessories director, Sam Broekema, draws inspiration from a cool, handcrafted art masterpiece 112 TABLE FOR TWO: BAKING BUDDIES Cookbook author Dorie Greenspan and fashion designer friend Peter Som whip up a sweet treat 114 SPOTLIGHT: CONNIE BRITTON The White Lotus star shares her pop culture picks

BADASS WOMEN 116 VICKI AKEN The Afghanistan country director for the International Rescue Committee on her vital work in the war-torn area

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 16 EDITOR’S LETTER 18 CONTRIBUTORS 20 FEEDBACK 22 MY LIKES 224 WHY I LOVE... This portrait of my father, by Jennifer Coolidge

COVER CREDITS From left: Reese Witherspoon: Dolce & Gabbana bodysuit and shorts. Bulgari necklace (top). Almasika necklace and bracelet. Ring, Witherspoon’s own. Gap shirt. Chanel pants and suspenders. Bulgari necklace (top). Almasika necklace. Photographed for InStyle by Emma Summerton. Styled by Julia von Boehm. Hair: Adir Abergel. Makeup: Kelsey Deenihan. Manicure: Yoko Sakakura. Tessa Thompson: Christopher John Rogers gown. Jennifer Fisher hoops. Gianvito Rossi sandals. Photographed for InStyle by AB+DM. Styled by Katie Mossman. Hair: Lacy Redway. Makeup: Nina Park. Manicure: Stephanie Stone. Elaine Palacio Mosquera: Gucci dress and headgear. Photographed for InStyle by Anthony Maule. Styled by Ron Hartleben. Hair: Shin Arima. Makeup: Raoúl Alejandre. Manicure: Yukie Miyakawa. Natalia Vodianova: All clothing and accessories, Dior. Photographed for InStyle by Trisha Ward. Styled by Konca Aykan. Hair: Annesoﬁe Begtrup. Makeup: Andreea Ali. Joan Smalls: Louis Vuitton coat. Bettina Vermillon boots. Photographed for InStyle by Chrisean Rose. Styled by Sandy Armeni. Hair: Hos. Makeup: Hila Karmand. Manicure: Chloé Desmarchelier.

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160 THE GIRLS WEAR DIOR Natalia Vodianova in a Dior dress. Photographed by Trisha Ward.

EDITOR’S LETTER

ell, this is exciting. Finally, a double December/January fashion-palooza issue! Dear reader, how I have longed for this. At the end of the year, as we careen toward a more hopeful and healthy global future, all we wanted to do here at InStyle was make beautiful, joyful images—lots and lots of them—with women we admire. If I’ve achieved anything as editor in chief thus far, I hope I have created a community. When I started at InStyle in 2016, I coined the term “Everybody’s In.” Reading the magazine should make you feel better, not worse. It’s not “aspirational” (I’ve never cared for that word); hopefully, it’s inspiring. Not “empowering” (I find that a little patronizing) but powerful. Few encapsulate this more than our cover star, Reese Witherspoon. Yes, she has been a Movie Star for 30 years, but it’s her role as founder of Hollywood production company Hello Sunshine that has allowed her to bring many other women along for the ride. Much was made when it sold for nearly $900 million in the summer, and Witherspoon is rightly beyond proud. “Female audiences are big business,” she tells CBS Mornings’ Gayle King. “Female filmmakers are big business. You can’t ignore half of the population of the world and say that they don’t economically matter; they do.” And how she has proved that. The rest of our December/January ensemble proves it too. The legendary Rita Moreno is not only an icon but should be a life coach. The transcendent Tessa Thompson, magnetic in everything from Westworld to the new drama Passing. The girls wearing Dior—among them Zoey Deutch, Jurnee Smollett, and Natalia Vodianova—showcase the feminist spirit of the brand’s creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri. One of the most super of supermodels, Joan Smalls, brings her wham-bam glam to Paris. All the creative forces who drive culture forward (hello, Michaela Coel) can be found in our “Voices of Style” package. Then there’s the insane imagination of makeup artist Raoúl Alejandre, whom I met on November’s Zendaya cover shoot and immediately commissioned for a glamorous portfolio. And finally, an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook. He is as calm and kind as the Internet is not, and he has made it his life’s work to give us the tools to enhance ours. How we use them, of course, is up to us. Enjoy the issue, and to my dear team, have a lie-down.

Clockwise from top: Reese Witherspoon in a Dolce & Gabbana bodysuit and shorts, a Bulgari necklace (top), an Almasika necklace and bracelet, and her own ring. Elaine Palacio Mosquera in a Gucci dress and headgear. Natalia Vodianova in a Dior dress. Joan Smalls in a Louis Vuitton coat and Bettina Vermillon boots. Tessa Thompson in a Christopher John Rogers gown, Jennifer Fisher hoops, and her own ring.

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FROM THE PAST YEAR,

What Will You “The silver lining of spending more time at home. It allowed me to start my family and see the world in a new way through the eyes of my daughter.” KELSEY DEENIHAN Makeup artist, “She’s Got the Power,” p. 126

“The growth I’ve experienced. I’ve become more confident in myself and my work. It’s such a great feeling.” RICKEY THOMPSON Comedian, “The Hype Man,” p. 94

Launching my own brand, Beginning Is Now, and starting the next big chapter of my life.” BROOKE SH I ELDS Actress and entrepreneur, “My Style,” p. 78

“Finding a sense of community with my peers and the mutual gratification of creating beauty with our images.” RON HARTLEBEN Stylist, “Make It Up,” p. 152

“Learning that you can’t let anyone make you feel like you’re not worthy of your dreams.” H O S H O U N K PAT I N Hairstylist, “Joansing,” p. 178

In the middle of a pandemic we pivoted, we overcame, and in some instances, we even thrived.” G AY L E K I N G Co-host of CBS Mornings, “She’s Got the Power,” p. 126

“Understanding what matters most, prioritizing time with the people I love, and not sweating the small stuff.” S A B R I N A B E D R A N I Makeup artist, “The Girls Wear Dior,” p. 160

CONTRIBUTORS

Remember? “How my granddaughter looked when she tasted her first birthday cake. Delight is unforgettable.” D O R I E G R E E N S PA N Cookbook author, Table for Two, p. 112

Getting the chance to redirect my creativity into cooking and painting.” S A N DY A R M E N I Stylist, “Joansing,” p. 178

“To always invest in yourself and to constantly keep working on your mind, body, and soul.” ETIENNE ORTEGA Makeup artist, “Fierce & Festive,” p. 98

“Getting back into the world and being able to create content again.” VI N CE NZO D I M I N O Photographer, Table for Two, p. 112

The power of choosing yourself, even when it’s uncomfortable for others.” YA S M I N E C H E Y E N N E Writer and podcast host, “Redefining Wellness,” p. 92

“Hugging my parents after being separated for over a year was special.” T R I S H A WA R D Photographer, “The Girls Wear Dior,” p. 160

“Getting to sign the book deal for my first monograph.” RYA N P F L U G E R Photographer, “The Optimist,” p. 148

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feedback How pretty is @anyataylorjoy on the cover of this month’s InStyle magazine? The Queen — @GODDESS_KELLY17

LOVE IT. I love it every time she takes a step further from her “pretty doll-esque” image. I can’t wait to see her push herself more fashion-wise. — @DIONTALKTOME It takes more than a social media crash to stop me from sharing the fascinating @anyataylorjoy — @STELLAJEAN_SJ_ Steve Martin and Martin Short in Dolce & Gabbana trenchcoats and Ralph Lauren ties. Short in a Versace shirt.

Anya Taylor-Joy.

Styling a few of my favorite things — @STUDIO .WHATWOULDREADO

SUNNY DISPOSITION

I LOVED the September issue! Thank you for featuring Jennifer Aniston. Her warmth and kindness are encouraging. The Steve Martin and Martin Short article just made me so happy. I love their relationship and their humor, which is something I feel like we can all use right now! — JILL JONES, Birmingham, Ala.

ARTISTIC EXPRESSION

@martinaﬁlippella Can we talk about how stunning @tommy.dorfman looks in her ﬁrst cover pls

@labyrinthof collages More collages, what’s new

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@portiswasp1 In Bloom

The good sis and iconic bootstress Tommy Dorfman wearing Chanel, Marni (!), Marc Jacobs (!!), Prada (!!!) and Loewe (!!!!) for @instylemagazine’s Beauty Issue — @EVANROSSKATZ

Just saw the cover photo of Tommy Dorfman for InStyle and just melted a bit… — @THESCARLETWIT11

Tommy Dorfman in a Chanel dress, Harlem’s Heaven Hats hat, and NeverNot earrings.

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SWEET REMINDER

The September feature about Tom Ford’s affinity for donuts is the greatest thing I have read in a long time. I found myself simultaneously cracking up, nodding in agreement, and scratching my head (the iconic Tom Ford eats three donuts per day?!). I am also obsessed with donuts and have a similar childhood memory of Sunday morning donut shop runs with my father and sister. As a matter of fact, the place was called Tom’s Donuts. How ironic and delicious is that? Thanks for such a simple yet delightful read in these days of constant chaos. My deepest condolences to Mr. Ford and family on the loss of Richard Buckley.

Tom Ford.

— LEENA HAMDI , Chicago

FELINE FRIEND

In response to “Tom Ford Swears by the ‘Doughnut Diet’ ”

Well I mean if @tomford says so who are we to disagree? — @LADY_GLAZE_DOUGHNUTS

Easing into this new week with a good fashion magazine, a cozy blanket, and a lot of self-care.

Why I Love MY CAT, CARINO by J UDITH LIGHT

I’ve always been an animal lover. Growing up, I had a dog, but my husband, Robert [Desiderio], wanted a cat when we got married [in 1985], so we’ve had cats almost all our married life. Our first kitty got unexpectedly sick, and we lost him rather quickly. Our second one lived until he was 17. And now we have an amazing British shorthair, Carino, who is a frisky 21-year-old. I remember the first time we brought him home, it was like he knew our house already. He went right in and found his own little spot in one of the bedrooms, and that’s the exact same place he’s most comfortable in all these years later. His name means “little dear one,” which is so fitting. And he’s such a beautiful cat—he has these bright, expressive gold eyes and soft gray fur. But the real beauty is in his energy. Now, I’m not some crazy cat lady, but I do believe that animals have intuition. I think they’re here to help us learn. And one of the main things Carino has taught me over the past two decades is how to not just age but mature gracefully. In life we’re always doing things—we’re working, we’re racing around, we’re on the phone or on the

computer, but every time I look down at Carino, he reminds me to pause, take things in, and just be. There’s a contentment about him, a peacefulness, and he has a constant appreciation for everything around him. We’ve been through so much together. Robert and I don’t have children, so throughout all the jobs and the changes and the ups and downs that make up a marriage, Carino has been there to comfort us. He has a heart condition now, so he isn’t as mobile as he used to be. But when I’m away shooting, Robert is a saint and goes above and beyond to take care of him. He gives him his medicine every day and puts special drops in his water and powder in his food. The other night we were worried about him, so we made a bed on the floor and slept next to him to make sure he was OK. It has been hard to see him get older, but I’ve decided to reframe my sadness around it because I want to make sure that I’m not showing him my sorrow but instead giving him back all of the love he has given to us over the past 21 years. He’s so much more than just a pet: He’s our family.

Light stars in Impeachment: American Crime Story, out now on FX, and Tick, Tick…BOOM! on Netflix Nov. 19.

@JudithLight thank you for this beautiful article in October’s @InStyle magazine! I love the name and adorable face! It’s the most purrfect reminder from a sweet cat! — @CATLADYSAB, via Twitter

GET IN TOUCH Via email Send a message to letters@instylemag.com. (All correspondence may be published and edited for clarity or length.) Via Twitter Tweet us @InStyle to share your thoughts. Via Instagram Tag us using the hashtag #InStyleMagazine with your favorite moments.

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MARVELOUS MONICA

Thank you for the interview with Monica Lewinsky. Cheers to her for not only telling her story but also for co-producing FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story. Indeed, times are changing for the better. — LYNN

This @MonicaLewinsky smile is EVERYTHING. — @SOURIS

O’HEARN WAGNER , Newport Coast, Calif.

*Love* her. She is such an impressive human being, and an example of so many good things—work ethic, resilience, grace, humor, intelligence. Thanks for doing this interview! Will deﬁnitely be watching this show. — @LAUGHJACK15 , via Twitter

What a way to end the week… To this day, I don’t know if I ever actually do this manifestation thing right, but I vividly remember always having “be in a magazine” written on my list. I can’t even really put it into words and I think I’m still in shock but today was wild. Thank you so much @instylemagazine October feature, baby! — @ELLEDEJESUS, featured in Readers’ Choice Awards Monica Lewinsky.

my likes REESE WITHERSPOON ON WHAT KEEPS HER INSPIRED

Witherspoon in a Greta Constantine jumpsuit and Harry Winston earrings, watch, and bracelet.

BEAUTY ESSENTIALS?

Biossance Squalane + Vitamin C Rose Oil and Squalane + Elderberry Jelly Cleanser. Biossance Squalane + Vitamin C Rose Oil ($72) and Squalane + Elderberry Jelly Cleanser ($28); sephora.com.

STYLE ICONS?

“Tyler, The Creator; Grace Kelly; and Jane and Judy Jetson.”

ON SET Witherspoon—in a Dolce & Gabbana bodysuit, Bulgari necklace (top), and Almasika necklace and bracelet—gets a hand from hairstylist Adir Abergel while posing for photographer Emma Summerton at our Los Angeles shoot.

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FAVORITE ARTISTS?

“I love Elizabeth Peyton and Agnes Martin.” Elizabeth Peyton: Dark Incandescence, by Kirsty Bell, Rizzoli New York, $75; amazon.com. Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances, by Arne Glimcher, Phaidon, $125; phaidon.com.

See behind-the-scenes video from our cover shoot at instyle.com/witherspoon

Sophie Ratner Jewelry ring, $2,000; sophieratner.com. Jennifer Meyer necklace, $1,150; jennifermeyer.com. Jennifer Fisher hoops, $250; jenniferﬁsherjewelry.com.

CHARITY YOU SUPPORT?

Girls Inc.

In CELINE BY HEDI SLIMANE at the 2020 SAG Awards in L.A.

DRAPER JAMES CELINE

TOM FORD

“Any woman who runs for office–we need more female leadership in the world.”

MICHAEL KORS COLLECTION

BADASS WOMAN YOU ADMIRE?

“I like Jennifer Fisher hoops, Jennifer Meyer necklaces, and Sophie Ratner rings. I also wear my mother’s signet ring with her initials; it reminds me of all the women who cut the path I’m standing in.”

STELLA MCCARTNEY

JEWELRY STAPLES?

GO-TO DESIGNERS?

“Michael Kors, Stella McCartney, Celine, and Tom Ford. And for everyday, Draper James.” TOP RED CARPET MOMENTS

In CALVIN KLEIN COLLECTION at the 2015 Golden Globe Awards in L.A.

In NINA RICCI at the 2007 Golden Globe Awards in L.A.

CHARACTERS WHO INFLUENCED YOUR STYLE?

“After playing Tracy Flick [in Election], I realized I don’t look good in sweater-vests, so there are none in my closet. And whenever I wear pink, I think of Elle Woods [in Legally Blonde].” FIRST DESIGNER SPLURGE?

In OSCAR DE LA RENTA at the 2016 Academy Awards in L.A.

“A Marc Jacobs sweater. I bought it at his original SoHo store in New York.”

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STAR TURN

If Wolk Morais’s latest collection feels boldly cinematic, the effect is not a coincidence. “We were inspired by the tradition of updating Shakespearean plotlines for contemporary audiences,” explains Brian Wolk, who co-founded and runs the brand with fellow designer Claude Morais. “We thought of Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream when creating this poison green look.” Like the rest of the collection, the striking three-piece number was made from repurposed material (discarded fabric sourced from the attic of a costume shop near the label’s studio in Hollywood). “It was tossed aside as ‘damaged goods’ because the dye had faded with time,” says Morais. “But we instantly fell in love with its age-inflected ombré effect.” Wolk Morais three-piece suit ($3,400), shirt ($550), bodysuit ($1,200), and tie ($175); wolkmorais.com for information. Sergio Rossi x Elizabeth Stewart shoes, upcycled from Stewart’s closet.

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Hair: Lucie Doughty and Noogie Thai. Makeup: Leibi Carias. Model: Anna Sophia Moltke for Wilhelmina.

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THE START

Totally Lit Celebrate the 200th anniversary of Louis Vuitton with a lively new novel, Louis Vuitton: L’audacieux, by Caroline Bongrand, based on the adventures of the maison’s namesake founder as a young man. Éditions Gallimard, $62; at select Louis Vuitton stores.

Puma tank ($40, available Jan. 5) and jacket ($375, available Dec. 29); puma.com.

Perfect Fits

Commissioning custom clothing might sound complicated, but industry vet Patricia Voto (her CV includes stints at Altuzarra and Brock) is making the process easy. Her new venture, One/Of, is releasing breezy limited-edition silhouettes crafted from deadstock materials and made to order based on your exact measurements. One/Of by Patricia Voto top ($1,190) and skirt ($990), both made with repurposed materials; shoponeof.com.

Listen Up Should you ﬁnd yourself in Massachusetts soon, stop by Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum to take in this special exhibition from the Cartier Foundation of Contemporary

Slam Dunk

While mega-stylist June Ambrose assumed the role of Puma’s creative director only last fall, she’s a longtime fan of the brand. “Years before taking this position, I’d use their suedes [sneakers] at shoots,” says Ambrose, who unveils her ﬁrst designs, the High Court Collection, for the sportswear behemoth this season. Her inspiration? “When creating these pieces, I considered the lifestyle of women and how integral movement is to our wardrobes: Everything is meant to work for all of the positions that we inhabit and the many races we run in our lives every day.”

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Art and bioacoustician Bernie Krause. “The Great Animal Orchestra” is an immersive installation featuring more than 5,000 hours’ worth of recordings of natural land and marine environments. (Nov. 20–May 22)

Clean Jeans

The chicest sustainable denim to shop this season. FRAME The blues company joins forces with Earth-friendly denim mill Candiani to introduce a line made with microplastic-free dyes, degradable and biodegradable yarns, and recycled metals. Each item includes a QR code detailing its environmental impact.

Frame pants (made with 100% organic cotton), $238; frame-store.com.

Nice Accents Drawing on her love of vintage

TU ES MON TRESOR Since relaunching last year as a premium denim purveyor, this industry favorite has stood out for its impeccable ﬁts, responsible manufacturing (everything is produced by experienced craftspeople in Japan), and frequent use of organic cotton. Tu es mon Tresor pants (both made with 100% organic cotton), $355 (net-a-porter .com) and $349 (tu-es-montresor.com).

objects and all things French, designer Clare Vivier creates playful, wear-with-anything jewelry for her beloved Clare V. collection.

Midheaven Denim x Cynthia Rowley Collab pants (available in sizes 25–38), $298; midheaven denim.com.

MIDHEAVEN X CYNTHIA ROWLEY Sourcing fabric from the greenest textile mill in the world, the two labels introduce a leggy limitededition pair of ﬂares in extended sizing.

On model, from top: Clare V. studs ($75), necklaces ($95 and $125, also worn as a bracelet), and charms ($55 each); clarev.com. Clare V. necklace ($145), studs ($75), and charm ($55); clarev.com.

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Faux Real

Vegan leather gets the downtown-cool treatment in an after-party-worthy capsule collection from Still Here. Stella McCartney top (made with Reﬁbra technology), $825; stellamccartney.com.

Top Notch Stella McCartney revisits the Hanes tank she customized for the 1999 Met Gala (worn here by actress Liv Tyler and the British designer) with an eco-friendly

Still Here jacket ($325, stillhere .nyc) and pants ($350, net-aporter.com), both made from recycled polyester.

update, re-creating the style entirely with Reﬁbra, a material made from recycled textile ﬁbers.

C LOS E T C L A SS I C

Kallmeyer

You won’t ﬁnd bright colors or trendy cuts within this label’s thoughtfully made line. But its elegant, season-transcending pieces still turn heads.

Fabletics sports bra ($45), joggers ($55), jacket ($70), and onesie (below, on Vanessa Hudgens, $70), all available in sizes XXS–4X; fabletics.com.

Kallmeyer New York blazer ($610), top ($395), and dress ($590), all crafted with ethically sourced materials; kallmeyer.nyc.

Step Up Krost & Fila sneakers, $118; ﬁla.com.

Socially active streetwear brand Krost continues its partnership with Fila. On tap this time? An

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Think of Fabletics’ striking new velour creations (complete with a campaign starring Vanessa

understated unisex version

Hudgens) as an of-the-moment

of the athletic wear giant’s

update to the velvet tracksuits

retro Renno sneakers.

Plush Stuff you wore in high school.

JW Pei bag (made from recycled plastics), $129; jwpei.com.

its oﬀerings with rings and bracelets that

Modern Icon

spell out ad astra (“to the stars” in Latin)

Y2K logomania gets a refresh in

Color Code Indie jeweler Common Era rounds out

with the ﬁrst letter of each gemstone. Common Era necklace (made with 90% recycled gold), $950; commonera.com.

handbag brand JW Pei’s latest launch, an assortment of purses emblazoned with the Chinese character fei, which translates to both “extraordinary” and “not conforming to.”

Get into Gear

Outdoorsy mainstay Eddie Bauer teams up with The Great on everything you’d want for a camping trip—ﬂeeces, duck boots, puﬀer vests—but way cuter.

The Great x Eddie Bauer pullover, $135; eddiebauer .com.

On the Rise For its inaugural Elevate program,

subscription fashion service Stitch Fix is working with six up-and-coming brands run by people of color (Diarrablu, Busayo, Kahmune, Marcus Alexander,

The Great x Eddie Bauer boots, $170; eddiebauer .com.

Sarep + Rose, and Chloe Kristyn) to grow their businesses through funding, mentorship, and promotion. From left: Busayo blouse ($250) and dresses ($475, $375, $328, $350, and $425); stitchﬁx.com/shop-elevate.

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Badass Basics

For InStyle’s latest collaboration, our editors have teamed up with Parisian mainstay Ba&sh to make our favorite wardrobe staples (a ﬂoral dress, an oversize blazer, and a waist belt) even better with luxe fabrics and a little bit of leopard print. From top: InStyle x Ba&sh dress ($260), blazer ($375), and belt ($135); ba-sh.com. On models, from left: Ba&sh skirt ($445) and boots ($425 and $540); ba-sh.com.

On models: Calzedonia tights, $15; calzedonia .com. Roberto Coin earrings (approximately $2,300) and bracelet (approximately $6,500); robertocoin.com.

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SHINE BRIGHT Nothing says party time like gleaming and glamorous extras

Brunello Cucinelli blazer, $4,995; at Brunello Cucinelli SoHo boutique, 212-334-1010. Tiffany & Co. Schlumberger bracelet and rings; tiffany.com.

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Calzedonia tights, $15; calzedonia.com. Dolce & Gabbana bracelet (top, $1,124) and shoes ($845); at select Dolce & Gabbana boutiques. Roberto Coin bracelet, $6,500; robertocoin.com.

Gucci gown; gucci.com. Calzedonia tights, $15; calzedonia.com. Jimmy Choo shoes, $950; jimmychoo.com.

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ON DEMAND

Valentino dress and Valentino Garavani shoes; at Valentino boutiques. Jimmy Choo bag, $650; jimmychoo.com.

ON DEMAND

Aliétte jacket ($1,595) and pants ($895); alietteny.com. Roberto Coin bracelets; robertocoin.com. Prada shoes; prada.com.

ON DEMAND

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Voices of Style As 2021 comes to a close, we celebrate the creatives and luminaries who drove culture forward by CH A R LOT TE COLLINS , JENNIFER FER R ISE , and A LISON SY R E T T 38

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s Michaela Coel

If the actress’s riveting performance in HBO’s I May Destroy You didn’t make you a stan, then her Emmy win for the series (which she also wrote and directed) will: Dressed in a neon Christopher John Rogers gown, Coel delivered a stirring acceptance speech about facing your demons and turning them into meaningful art. “Write the tale that scares you, that makes you feel uncertain, that isn’t comfortable,” she told the audience. “I dare you.”

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The Game Chan THESE FUTURE-FACING DESIGNERS ARE SPARKING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY, EQUAL REPRESENTATION , AND WHAT QUALIFIES AS HIGH FASHION. (OH, YEAH, AND MAKING IRRESISTIBLY GOOD CLOTHES.) Piccioli (right) with Zendaya at her September birthday celebration in Venice.

Pierpaolo Piccioli Beloved for his lively and optimistic approach to designing, the Valentino creative director has repeatedly delivered the kind of fashion we want coming out of a global pandemic: bold, beautiful styles that make us dream about getting dressed up. The cherry on top? Seeing his vibrant creations in the wild on everyone from Zendaya to a posse of A-list fans at the Met Gala (Whoopi Goldberg, Carey Mulligan, and Normani, to name a few).

Telfar Clemens The rabid demand for Clemens’s vegan leather Shopping Bag (aka the “Bushwick Birkin”) in 2020 pushed his Telfar brand, which he launched in 2005, to an entirely new level. But this year the streetwear virtuoso solidified his industry status thanks to collaborations with major brands like Converse and Ugg. “I think it’s cool that people are discovering me now,” says Clemens. “I’ve been doing what I wanted to do with passion and creativity for the last 15 years, and I’m happy it’s starting to move out of a fashion space and affecting more people.”

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gers Becca McCharen-Tran

A look from Schiaparelli’s fall/ winter 2021–2022 collection.

The pioneering founder of inclusive label Chromat on the state of diversity in fashion. What positive changes have you seen in the industry lately, and what work still needs to be done? When I started Chromat in 2010, it was difficult to find plus-size, disabled, and trans models—even models of color—at agencies, so it’s great to see that diverse casting is the bare minimum at this point. Now the conversation has shifted to who is behind the camera and behind the scenes. It’s imperative to include decisionmakers [with different perspectives]. Your recent collaboration with Black trans-femme filmmaker and artist Tourmaline offers swimwear with something for everyone [pictured above]. How did the collection come together? Bathing suits have been a huge focus for Chromat because of the power that a single garment has over how people feel about themselves. We want to turn something fraught with insecurity into a piece that celebrates all body types. [For this collection] we focused on swim skirts, monokinis, shorts, and swim bottoms with soft package pouches, and matching bikini tops for girls who don’t tuck, trans femmes, nonbinary people, women, men, and everyone embracing Collective Opulence Celebrating Kindred. There’s a range of coverage options so everyone has something they feel comfortable in. As Tourmaline put it: “In a moment when so much in the world is showing us what we don’t want or need, it’s more important than ever to have swimwear that allows us all to bring our full selves to the party.”

Lady Gaga in custom Schiaparelli Haute Couture at the presidential inauguration in January.

Daniel Roseberry

Lizzo, Bella Hadid, Lady Gaga— all the buzziest celebrities have worn Roseberry’s striking creations for Schiaparelli this year to great fanfare. But even without the clout of his clientele, the couturier’s work stands on its own as high art, thanks to a combination of daring surrealist references and gravitydefying silhouettes. Left: Roseberry at the finale of his spring 2021 Schiaparelli Haute Couture show.

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Gabriela Hearst Since starting her namesake label in 2015, she has quietly built a reputation for making Earth-friendly luxury pieces. Now, as the newly appointed creative director of Chloé, she’s bringing her thoughtful sensibility to a larger stage by reinventing the storied French maison’s feminine aesthetic (think more free-spirited than frilly) and pushing for sustainable practices (the brand just became B Corporation–certified, a designation that requires rigorous inspection of a company’s social and environmental impacts).

Reed with Iman (in his design, produced with the support of Dolce & Gabbana) at the 2021 Met Gala.

Hearst at her debut Chloé show in March.

Harris Reed

The alum of London’s prestigious Central Saint Martins has earned acclaim for taking a gender-fluid tack toward his opulent and romantic runway collections (and, this fall, a joint launch with British jeweler Missoma). He’s also gathered quite the crew of admirers, including Solange, Harry Styles, and legendary model Iman. 42

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Grace Wales Bonner In an era of overexposure, the notably press-shy founder of Wales Bonner most often lets her work—a meticulously researched mix of traditional European tailoring and Afro-Atlantic influences—speak for itself. The message we’re getting? That we want pretty much everything she puts out.

Rich Fresh The tailor, designer, and self-made man is relatively new on the scene, but with his grit and talent for structured fits, he’s sure to become a household name. Your brand Henry Mask has been spotted on celebs including Jennifer Lopez, Demi Lovato, and LeBron James. Did you expect it to become such a sensation? My brother and I had a conversation right when the pandemic hit about creating a [mask] company. No one else thought it was a great idea, but I expected it to be a success from Day 1—which is why I invested so much into it! We’ve gone through a lot of ups and downs, but it’s exciting to know you’ve built something with family. How do you hope to shape the future of the industry? As a Black man in luxury fashion, changing the notion of what luxury designers look like is a big responsibility for me to have. My story isn’t one with a benefactor or conventional schooling; it’s an underground story of what determination can produce. The industry isn’t limited to fashion students and traditional designers; it’s open to anyone bold enough to put their stake in the ground and say, “This is what I intend to do.” With your breakout success in the last few years, do you feel you’ve “made it”? I’m just getting started. Richfresh and Henry Mask are baby businesses. I’ve announced myself, and I’ve made an impact, but I still have so much more to do. Fresh at the Richfresh “Romance the Jewels” womenswear show in September. Bode (left) with Lorde at the Met Gala in September.

Emily Adams Bode The brains behind Bode consistently sets the standard for green fashion by producing her collections in small batches from repurposed vintage textiles. And while officially billed as menswear, her gender-fluid pieces are championed by all sorts of fashion lovers: Just look at Lorde, who was inarguably one of the Met Gala’s bestdressed guests this year in a custom Bode jacket, skirt, and headpiece.

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And Just Like That…

…THE L ADIES OF SEX AND THE CITY ARE BACK, TURNING THE STREETS OF NEW YORK INTO THEIR OWN PERSONAL RUNWAY (AND MAKING US FEEL LIKE IT’S 1998 ALL OVER AGAIN).

here’s a veil of secrecy around the plot of the upcoming HBO Max reboot And Just Like That… (premiering in December), but one thing’s for sure—the looks will not disappoint. This go-round, longtime Sex and the City costume designer Patricia Field handed over the reins to protégés Molly Rogers and Danny Santiago, who helped bring Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda into 2021. Here, they offer a sneak peek at some of the fashion fun to come.

The Internet has been buzzing for months about the styles in the reboot. Are you ever surprised by the reaction? MOLLY ROGERS: I feel like we’re under a microscope

sometimes! But the immediate large-scale judgments are a part of social media life now. We do what makes us happy in the fitting room bubble. I just wish more things could be kept as surprises. DANNY SANTIAGO: We stay focused because we know how the costumes will serve the story. Fans get excited when they see the outfits photographed, but we really can’t wait for them to see how the looks play out when the show airs. You both worked with Patricia Field on the original SATC show and films. How have you continued her vision yet still put your own spin on things? MR: I’ve been working with Pat since 1984, so I’ve received

her magic through osmosis. There was a hugely successful blueprint, which we brought forward for the times we’re in and where the girls are in their lives. The biggest lesson I learned from her was to always keep your eye on the energy in the street. DS: Pat mixes vintage, high-end, and no-name designers, which is the same approach we take. It doesn’t matter how much something costs, it’s whether you feel a connection to the color, the fabric, and the silhouette. How have the characters’ looks evolved? MR: We’re in a post-pandemic Zoom life in the city, so

Carrie has a more vintage, recycled vibe this time around, and she has her archive to pull from. Miranda’s life is changing, as her hair certainly has, so her wardrobe became more relaxed. Charlotte is still the constant and the touchstone for everyone. DS: We wanted to show just how stylish women of every age can be. Even if the characters and their personal looks

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have shifted, they haven’t lost any of the whimsical flair. What moments are you most excited for fans to see? MR: There’s a color that Carrie wears

that she’s never put on before, plus a lot of cool nods to archive pieces and a very special evening stroll. DR: We got really creative with the returning cast and all the new characters. People will love the diversity and inclusivity, which we were proud to reflect in the styling. Everyone gets their time to shine! —JENNIFER FERRISE For a behind-the-scenes look, follow @andjustlikethatcostumes on Instagram.

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ELLA EMHOFF Since attending the presidential inauguration in a bejeweled Miu Miu coat to support stepmom Kamala Harris, the fashion design student has become a rising style star. Recent additions to her CV? A contract with IMG Models (Balenciaga, Stella McCartney, and Lacoste have all recently booked her for gigs), a turn at the 2021 Met Gala, and a knitwear collaboration with downtown-cool brand Batsheva.

Gomez as her character Mabel in Only Murders in the Building.

Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Cynthia Nixon on the set of And Just Like That… in N.Y.C.

SELENA GOMEZ Along with running her vegan and cruelty-free makeup line Rare Beauty, the singer-actress gave us one of the year’s must-watch shows: the charming Hulu series (and true-crime spoof) Only Murders in the Building. At this rate, we can’t wait to see what she comes out with in 2022—although we’d happily accept more of the same.

CASSANDRA PETERSON Known for her sultry portrayal of iconic horror hostess character Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, the actress made headlines this fall when she opened up about her girlfriend of nearly two decades after years of worrying what fans of her sexy alter ego might think.

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Hello, Lovers AFTER MONTHS OF UNCERTAINTY, ROOTING FOR THESE ADORABLE CELEBRITY COUPLES BECAME A WELCOME DISTRACTION.

Michael B. Jordan and Lori Harvey

Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum

Ben Aﬄeck and Jennifer Lopez

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JILL BIDEN

Sure, there’s no contest for announcing your pregnancy in the best possible way. But if there was…rapper Cardi B, who revealed her bump to the world by wearing a bedazzled bodysuit with a sheer cutout panel for her BET Awards performance, would unequivocally win.

We’ll never know whether Dr. Biden’s studded “Love” blazer— worn to join her husband for a meeting with British prime minister Boris Johnson—was a subtle rebuke to Melania Trump’s infamous jacket emblazoned with the phrase “I really don’t care. Do U?” Either way, we appreciate the positive change of pace.

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Rihanna and A$AP Rocky

Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde

THE WHITE LOTUS CAST From cringe-funny dialogue to all the caftans, there’s so much to love in HBO’s hit dramedy about privileged guests at a Hawaiian resortÑmost of all the riveting ensemble of actors (including Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Sydney Sweeney, and Murray Bartlett) who carried the series.

LEWIS HAMILTON Because most emerging brands can’t aﬀord to attend the Met Gala (tickets are reported to cost anywhere between $35,000 and $275,000 per table), the British Formula One race car driver footed the bill for an entire table at the event and ﬁlled it with three on-the-rise Black designers (Theophilio, Kenneth Nicholson, and Jason Rembert) and other creatives of color.

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Models of the Moment

THE RUNWAY IS THEIR PL ATFORM, AND THEY USE IT TO MAKE A STATEMENT.

Quannah Chasinghorse The 19-year-old shares how she uses her platform to highlight Indigenous excellence. How did your Met Gala look [below] come together? Designer Peter Dundas had the beautiful gold dress, and my mom and I had the great idea of asking my auntie Jocelyn Billy Upshaw, former Miss Navajo Nation, to borrow some of her silver and turquoise jewelry. It worked out so perfectly! I’m honored and blessed to have been able to showcase Indigenous art at such a big event.

Emily Ratajkowski In between giving birth to her first child, Sylvester, in March and making a triumphant return to the runway in September, Ratajkowski found the time to finish her first book, My Body. “My beliefs around feminism evolved in my 20s, and I wanted to take a hard look at why and how,” she says. What followed was a series of frank essays that break down our culture’s commodification of women. “It sheds light on the complicated, nuanced relationship that I and many other women have to their sexuality and power. My hope is that they recognize their experiences in my own.” Metropolitan Books, $26; us.macmillan.com.

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What do you want people to know about your work as a protector of Indigenous lands? It’s not easy and is often exhausting to constantly try to break down stereotypes and prove to the world that Indigenous people are more than what we are painted to be. We carry so much traditional knowledge and strength, yet we are silenced and pushed out of conversations that inﬂuence our future. I’ve worked really hard, and I’ve put myself out there for the greater good of my people and the world. Looking ahead, what are you ambitious for? I’m ready to see much more Indigenous representation in all spaces: fashion, politics, film, music. I love being a part of the growth and change in our industry. Indigenous people for generations have been very vocal about the challenges we face, yet we are just starting to get attention in mainstream media. I want to see people in powerful positions making space for Indigenous voices.

Aaron Rose Philip The Antiguan American model, who made her New York Fashion Week debut this fall, is leading the charge toward a more inclusive industry. You killed it on the Moschino runway. What did that moment mean to you? It was everything I’ve dreamed of. I feel humbled and grateful that Moschino and Jeremy Scott were the people I could share it with. For years, all I’ve wanted was to see a model gracing a major runway using a wheelchair or mobility aid, and now I get to say that was me! It’s important that it’s not just a singular moment, though, but the start of a more inclusive reality in fashion.

Karen Elson After two decades of feeling unprotected by modeling agencies, Elson made the bold decision this spring to represent herself, claiming full ownership of her fashion future. “I had to stand up for my values, even if I took a hit in the business,” she says. “Now it’s about women taking charge.”

What has the reaction been like? I was shocked by the outpouring of love. When Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell congratulated me on Instagram, I cried. What advice would you give another young disabled model who dreams of making it in fashion? Have faith in yourself. Be assertive and persistent about your goals. And just keep going, because if you stick your neck out for long enough and stay true to yourself, people will see you.

NAOMI OSAKA The tennis champion sparked a much-needed global discourse about caring for the mental health of elite athletes when she dropped out of the French Open to address anxiety and depression and admirably opened up about her personal struggles in an essay for Time magazine.

MOSCHINO

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VERSACE BY FENDI

It’s tough to say where we’ve enjoyed watching the actor more: on the red carpet (where he delivers a perfect blend of sportswear and skinny suits) or in his stretch of Oscar-contender ﬁlms—The French Dispatch, Dune, Don’t Look Up—this fall and winter.

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Clockwise from far left: Thede as Chris; Ashley Nicole Black as a party host who claims her jumpsuit is vintage; Thede in the “Get Your Life” sketch; Thede in the “Last Supp-her” sketch with co-stars Skye Townsend and Black.

Laughing to the Top

WRITER, ACTRESS, AND COMEDIAN ROBIN THEDE ON CREATING SPOT-ON CHARACTERS (AND BRINGING THEM TO LIFE) FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF HER HIL ARIOUS SKETCH SHOW.

hen Robin Thede debuted A Black Lady Sketch Show on HBO in 2019, she set the bar high for herself. But fortunately for us, Season 2 of the acclaimed comedy series—which Thede both writes and stars in—didn’t disappoint. She continues to embody a whole host of astutely rendered characters, proving there is no role, on camera or behind the scenes, that she can’t take on and masterfully execute. There have been some great costume moments this season. Which was most memorable to you? The robes

from “The Last Supp-her” were decadent and heavy! I was surprised by their weight, but they were so beautiful and helped us transform. The hair, makeup, and wardrobe are key to locking into our characters fully. Of all the characters you did, which felt like the biggest transformation? A guy named Chris who can’t give a

straight answer to any question! He’s a simple man, but a

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complicated part for me to play given the three hours of hair and makeup and the complete voice and posture changes I had to make to be believable. Lots of my girlfriends have told me how much he reminds them of their exes, so I think it’s convincing! What has been the most rewarding part for you about creating this platform? Being able to look around at our

cast, writers, production team, and crew and see so many Black women and people of color who are dedicated to making sure that we are creating not only this Emmywinning show but also long-lasting opportunities for folks to thrive in this industry far beyond it. What’s your goal for the show in the future? Continuing to expose the audience to more hilarious Black women comedians and writers. We are a small but dynamic team, and all of us are better now than when we arrived, due simply to working in an environment that actually values us and our talents! —CHARLOTTE COLLINS

Leading Ladies OUR FAVORITE PERFORMANCES THIS YEAR? POWERFUL ACTRESSES PL AYING EQUALLY FORMIDABLE WOMEN. 1

1 ANDRA DAY A transfixing portrait of jazz singer Billie Holiday and sultry 1940s-era costumes—what’s not to love about Day’s star turn in The United States vs. Billie Holiday? 4

2 KRISTEN STEWART Considering her own fraught relationship with the paparazzi and ability to pull off a fancy blazer, the actress couldn’t have been a better choice to take on the role of Princess Diana in the movie Spencer. 3 SARAH PAULSON AND BEANIE FELDSTEIN We all remember the drama of former president Bill Clinton’s extramarital affair in the ’90s. But this pair, who respectively play civil servant Linda Tripp and intern Monica Lewinsky in Impeachment: American Crime Story, make it feel totally new.

4 JESSICA CHASTAIN You don’t need to know a thing about evangelist television personality Tammy Faye Bakker to thoroughly enjoy Chastain’s portrayal of her in The Eyes of Tammy Faye—and the parade of sparkly, shiny, and satiny looks she serves in the process. 5 JENNIFER HUDSON When it came to casting the lead in the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, it’s easy to see why producers went for Hudson: Few other actresses have the presence and vocal chops to convincingly embody such an icon. 6 LADY GAGA Even if House of Gucci weren’t full of major fashion and family drama, we’d stream it just for Gaga’s take on Italian socialite Patrizia Reggiani, complete with a rich, syrupy accent.

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Queens of the World

RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE SEASON 13 FINALIST GOTTMIK AND ALL STARS SEASON 5 WINNER SHEA COULEÉ KNOW THAT DRAG’S MAINSTREAM TAKEOVER IS MORE THAN A MOMENT.

ith several spin-offs airing in the U.S., nine international editions, and 24 Emmys over a 12-year run, RuPaul’s Drag Race is an empire on course for global domination. Gottmik, the first out trans man to compete on the program, and Shea Couleé, who snatched the crown after a season’s worth of impeccably executed looks inspired by Black beauty, are more than ready to lead the charge. The show has led to abundant opportunities for both alumni, each of whom recently sashayed their way onto Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty runway after their respective seasons aired. Here, they discuss how drag has given them a conduit for personal expression and a platform to embrace diversity and representation across industries. SHEA COULEÉ: When I first started, drag was something

that you had to go out to see in person. Now, with RuPaul’s Drag Race, it comes right into your living room and onto your phone. There are so many different types of drag, and it’s much more accessible. Drag Race has allowed us queens to become better and more realized because we’re exposed to so many different types of art. GOTTMIK: I started out as a celebrity makeup artist, so I was doing editorials all the time, and I remember when [Season 7 winner] Violet Chachki began pushing that boundary of being like, “I’m a fashion doll, and I’m going to be mainstream.” Queens started showing up to events like Paris Fashion Week and coming on to the editorial scene, and it inspired me to take drag more seriously as an artist because it was a reality where both of my worlds could collide. SC: I love being in this space where I can express different styles through Shea. I can be soft and femme one moment, and then be really hard and Grace Jones, painted head-totoe with a high-top, the next. My brand is Black femme excellence—anything that’s Black, feminine, powerful, I’m here for it. G: I gravitate toward this punk rock aesthetic because it’s gorgeous and inspires me, but also because that’s what queerness and drag is, that punk statement of “I’m here; I’m queer; and I’m taking up space unapologetically.” Now that I’ve medically transitioned and am comfortable with who I

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am outside of Gottmik, I can use my drag persona as art, as opposed to a vessel to figure out gender. It’s fun to push the limits of my artistry every day rather than needing Gottmik to figure my life out. I definitely have been on a journey with her. SC: Seeing the power that style has to change the way others react and treat you when you step out into the world has given me so much confidence. Fashion lets me literally turn myself inside out. It allows me to bare my soul and show people how I see myself. I feel naked both literally and figuratively if I can’t express myself through clothing and makeup. When I put those lashes on at the end and turn to the side, I see that little profile, and I’m like, “There she is!” G: I always say if you’re into your makeup before you put lashes on, that means it’s going to be a gorgeous beat! And I agree—to me, fashion is a language. It’s the way that I personally want to communicate. We’re blessed as dope drag queen artists to speak that language extremely well. SC: It truly is a language. The majority of all communication is nonverbal, so what am I saying by what I put on without having to open my mouth? G: It’s crazy to me that I can translate what I stand for into a look with drag. I want to be a voice for the LGBTQIA+ community, and I can put that into an outfit, like subtly wearing the trans flag colors or being a little more naked and having my [transmasculine top surgery] scars out. To have mainstream designers reach out and support that, I’m so honored to be a part of it. SC: What I’m most excited about with drag entering mainstream media and culture is building equity and longevity in the entertainment, fashion, and beauty industries. I want to come in not only as a guest artist but as somebody with staying power and a seat at the table. More brands are embracing drag artists, but I always want to be careful of not being tokenized and to be truly respected for the work we do. I want to see drag queens in positions of power, like creative directors for labels and things like that. G: Hell, yes. Activism and equality are where my passions lie. I’m excited to partner with mainstream designers and amazing artists because a lot of them have been playing with the whole genderless moment in fashion for a while now, blending masculine and feminine styles, and who else in the entire world can do that better than drag queens? SC: It’s a blessing to be in rooms with people I admire and

Fashion allows me to bare my soul and show people how I see myself.” —SHEA COULEÉ, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 5 winner

respect. I have to remind myself, “You’ve always wanted this. You always said you’d be here. Don’t act shocked now that you are. Own your shit!” I look forward to continuing to chase my dreams, and they’re always changing. Drag Race has become this beautiful platform for multihyphenate artists—because I feel like that’s what drag queens are, to show people you don’t have to be just one thing. RuPaul says to color with all the crayons in the box. We do, and we show people that that’s OK. —CHARLOTTE COLLINS

Left: Gottmik at Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 3; Shea Couleé at Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 2.

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Super Stylists

THE PROS BEHIND THIS YEAR’S MOST MEMORABLE CELEBRITY LOOKS PROVED THEY CAN TACKLE ANY OCCASION — FROM RED CARPETS TO VIRTUAL CEREMONIES — AND MAKE IT FASHION.

Wayman + Micah The duo responsible for Regina King’s stunning wardrobe is dream team Wayman Bannerman and Micah McDonald, who went into this past year with the goal of bringing some levity through their clients’ fashion. “We felt it was important to lift the mood,” says McDonald. “Whether through color, silhouettes, or accessories, we wanted to exude joy.” The pair’s favorite look out of all they styled in 2021 was King’s futuristic one-shoulder Louis Vuitton dress at the Golden Globes (below), which they felt perfectly captured the actressdirector’s essence. “The gown was beautifully structured on her body yet felt cool and eﬀortless,” says Bannerman. “It was like armor but still oozed femininity, mirroring Regina herself.”

Law Roach

Above: McDonald (left) and Bannerman with model Adut Akech.

“I want to use my platform to amplify voices and inspire young creators who look like me,” says Roach, who describes himself as the only Image Architect. The showstopping red carpet styles we live for from mega clients Zendaya and Kerry Washington are testaments to his talent for crafting headline-making looks. The quintessential Roach-styled client? “Someone playful who loves the art of fashion and is not afraid to take risks.”

Jason Bolden

This year’s InStyle Awards Voice of Style honoree aims for fashion that surprises and delights.

Erivo at the 2021 Venice Film Festival.

Between working on looks for stars like Cynthia Erivo, Yara Shahidi, and Angelina Jolie, you’ve had a remarkable year. What does it mean to you to be named the 2021 Voice of Style? It means more than just being celebrated. For me, this is an opportunity to bring attention to people who look like me and who’ve always been told that style and fashion are unattainable for us. This is a mirror of reﬂection to show people that they can see themselves.

KACEY MUSGRAVES When Texas senator Ted Cruz left for a tropical vacation in the middle of a severe snowstorm, the singer (who released her soulful album Star-Crossed this fall) had an epic response: selling cheeky “Cruzin’ for a Bruzin’ ” T-shirts to beneﬁt relief eﬀorts in the state.

How do you want your clients to feel through styling? I try to dress people with an angle of joy. Happiness depends on what happens to you, but through all things you can still ﬁnd joy. No matter what someone may say about their aesthetic, they’re joyful. Looking ahead to 2022, what are you excited for? Leaning back into what fashion means to me, which is this imaginary journey and creating these episodes of fantasy in my mind.

Musa (left); Lil Nas X at the 2021 VMAs.

Hodo Musa

As the lady behind some of Lil Nas X’s biggest wardrobe wins, Musa knows how to make a fashion risk pay oﬀ. A few highlights? The rapper’s jaw-dropping lilac VMAs outﬁt, as well as the styling and creative direction for his debut album Montero, an instant classic not only for the bops but also for the music videos’ scandalously sexy ensembles.

OUR BEST FRIENDS Watching the beloved cast of the enduring ’90s sitcom reminisce 17 years post-wrap was the comfort viewing we didn’t know we needed.

U.S.A. GYMNASTS We’re in awe of the composure and bravery Olympic medalists Aly Raisman, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, and Maggie Nichols showed while giving heartbreaking testimony in a Senate hearing about convicted sex oﬀender Larry Nassar.

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Amanda Gorman

“It’s very important to me that my role goes beyond being a face or name attached to a brand,” says the poet of her partnership with Estée Lauder. In September, Gorman was named its global changemaker and curator of its Writing Change initiative. She sees a strong connection between language and beauty. “The way that I choose to present myself visually is an extension of my voice,” she says. “What is poetry if not an expression of beauty?”

CHLOÉ ZHAO Zhao had a lot to celebrate this year, becoming the ﬁrst woman of color to win an Oscar for best director, as well as leading the massive Marvel movie Eternals. We also applaud her always quirky personal style, including this ﬂeece jacket covered in pictures of adorable puppies that proved to be her lucky charm on the set of Nomadland.

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Mikayla Nogueira Thanks to her sunny disposition, candid advice, and unapologetic glamour, the beauty influencer was one of the pandemic’s biggest breakout TikTok stars. You just launched your account in 2020. At what point did it go from being a hobby to a full-time job? When I joined the app, I had no followers online, and no one knew who I was. But my first video went viral and immediately changed my life. I knew it was my moment, so I took advantage of it by posting every day. By August 2020, I was faced with a very difficult decision: stay in graduate school [or pursue my dream]. That same month, I was offered my very first beauty contract. That was a turning point. I quit my job at Ulta Beauty, dropped out of school, and moved into an apartment where I created my first beauty studio. How has your content evolved from when you started? From the beginning, I did not want to be a beauty guru stuck in one category. So in both my current videos and my earliest ones, I do it all: fashion, skin care, dating, makeup. I share everything. TikTok has created a different breed of influencer: People care about who a person is deep down. Are you genuine? Are you authentic? Whether I am sharing a cooking video or a beauty tutorial, people watch because they feel a connection.

Tommy Dorfman

While the actress gave forthright interviews to both InStyle and Time magazine this year about her experience as a trans woman, it wasn’t news to fans following her open documentation of the process on social media. “I think in the end, hopefully, it made others feel safer and more empowered to live their truth, whatever it may be,” says Dorfman of her generous decision to share so much of her transition publicly. “Of course, the attention at an incredibly intimate and vulnerable point in my maturation was sometimes a challenge—but one I’m learning and growing from and grateful for.”

Tarana Burke

The founder and activist behind the #MeToo movement was ﬁnally ready to tell her story on her own terms this fall with her powerful memoir, Unbound. “The last several years, people have tried to piece things together on their own, but it was important that they hear it from me directly,” she says. “I hope it builds empathy for folks, connects them to the larger themes of trauma and resilience, and sparks some serious conversations for survivors and those who love and support us.” Oprah Book/Flatiron Books, $29; us.macmillan.com.

Hannah Einbinder The Emmynominated Hacks star reflects on her breakout year and what she learned from co-star and comedy idol Jean Smart. What was the best part about playing your character, Ava? She lives her life unfiltered, and as someone who constantly wants others to be comfortable, I loved all of the wild stuff she would say. What was the biggest thing you took away from working with the legendary Jean Smart? I can’t stress this enough: She really taught me how to act. Just watching her was a master class on all the physical, mental, and emotional nuances of the job. How has your life changed since the premiere? Well, my day-to-day look is best described as 1970s male gym coach who is getting a divorce, so walking outside and having people recognize me in that sort of getup has been character-building, to say the least.

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Birkenstock shoes, $130; birkenstock.com.

Holiday The Label skirt (available in sizes up to XXXL), $118; holidaythe label.com.

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Herno jacket, $780; herno.com.

Daily Paper jacket, $280; dailypaper clothing.com.

PRO TIP Keep the casual vibe going with a slouchy knit cap.

RETRO PUFFERS Old Navy jacket (available in sizes up to 4XL and made partially from recycled polyester), $70; oldnavy.com. Heron Preston beanie, $170; at Nordstrom.

The Great. x Eddie Bauer jacket, $390; eddiebauer.com.

POLISHED FAUX FUR Kate Spade New York coat, $598; katespade .com.

Apparis coat (sustainably made with KOBA bio-based faux fur), $500; apparis.com. Kendall Miles Designs boots, $895; kendall milesdesigns.com.

PRO TIP To dress down the elegant style, add knee-high boots. BRANDON MAXWELL

SNUGGLY, SOFT, AND SUPERCHIC, THIS WINTER’S BEST OUTERWEAR SILHOUETTES CHECK ALL THE RIGHT BOXES.

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INSTANT STYLE

Alo coat, $398; aloyoga.com.

Rails coat, $388; rails clothing.com.

PRO TIP This sleek ﬁt looks particularly cool with preppy loafers.

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CLASSIC CAR COAT

Undra Celeste New York coat (made from organic wool), $895; undracelesteny.com. Chelsea Paris shoes, $350; shopbop.com.

BURBERRY

Henning coat (available in sizes 12–26), $995; henningnyc.com.

PRO TIP A sparkly party clutch plays up the eveningwear feel.

Unreal Fur coat, $549; unrealfur.com.

Kate Spade New York bag, $268; katespade .com.

ELEVATED ANIMAL PRINT

Stand Studio coat, $775; matches fashion.com. A.L.C. coat, $695; alcltd.com.

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INSTANT STYLE

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12 1 Lee pants (made with Repreve recycled fibers), $65; lee.com. 2 Fvermeulen earrings, $100; fvermeulen.com. 3 Off-White sunglasses, $413; farfetch.com. 4 Naya Rea trenchcoat, $730; nayarea.com. 5 Whistles shirt (made with 100% BCI cotton), $159; whistles.com. 6 Selena King rings, $215 (left) and $190; selinaking.com. 7 J.Jill sweater, $89 (sizes XS–XL) and $99 (sizes 1X–4X); jjill.com. 8 Fossil watch, $129; fossil.com. 9 Cuyana bralette (made from traceable fibers certified by the Responsible Cashmere Standard), $145; cuyana.com. 10 DeMellier tote bag, $375; shopbop.com. 11 Naturalizer loafers, $130; naturalizer.com. 12 Sandro shirt, $340; us.sandro-paris.com.

LITTLE LUXURIES Tie your outﬁt together with these striking designer scrunchies. Sophie Buhai scrunchie, $220; at Nordstrom.

Prada scrunchie, $320; prada.com. Casablanca scrunchie, $63; casablanca paris.com. Fendi hair bands, $270/2; fendi.com.

Tory Burch scrunchie, $128/3; toryburch .com.

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INSTANT STYLE Sylvia Toledano cuﬀ, $365; at Moda Operandi. Aurélie Bidermann bracelet, $529; farfetch.com.

SCULPTURAL CUFFS

Completedworks cuﬀ, $475; completedworks.com.

Bloom Jewelry bracelet, $110; maisonorient.com.

Auvere necklace and ring; auvere.com. Soko studs, $78; shop soko.com. Shyla ring, $85; libertylondon.com.

Anne Klein earrings, $22; dillards.com.

COCKTAIL RINGS Ammanii ring, $360; ammanii .com.

Kenneth Jay Lane earrings, $125; kenneth jaylane.com.

Mer’s ring, $105; mers .com.tr.

BUTTON EARRINGS

L’Enchanteur earrings, $420; lenchanteur.co.

Treat Yourself

Valére ring, $165; moda operandi .com.

These wear-forever jewelry investments are destined to become heirlooms.

CHUNKY GOLD CHAINS

Serendipitous Project necklace, $250; serendipitousproject.com.

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Paco Rabanne necklace, $490; matches fashion.com. Uncommon James necklace, $68; uncommonjames.com.

Fallon necklace, $225; bergdorf goodman.com.

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My Style LOUIS VUITTON

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THE ADMIRER

EMILIA JONES: Elle, you nail it on every red carpet. I’m always

looking at photos like, “What did she wear?” Thanks for doing this. ELLE FANNING: Thank you for choosing me. I’m often asked about my style crush, but I’ve never been someone else’s. I know we haven’t met, but you’ve worked with my sister, right? EJ: Yeah, I played a young version of Dakota’s character in Brimstone when I was 13. And it turns out she and I have the same birthday. EF: That’s crazy. Also, on Coda, you worked with the same composer I worked with on Teen Spirit, so we have a few degrees of separation. We’re getting closer to meeting—I sense it! EJ: I hope so. I love every look you’ve worn. They’re all fun and young and charming. Your style mirrors how you are in real life. EF: It’s nerve-racking to take risks, but I’ve always been daring— and I never want to lose that quality. Even in junior high, I’d go to school in things from Opening Ceremony and thrift stores that most girls weren’t wearing. I was carefree and felt great expressing myself, but sometimes people would be mean. If I wore crazy eye shadow, there would be rude comments. EJ: People can be so judgmental. I’m still kind of new to all of this, but I feel like I’m getting more adventurous with my style. EF: You have to test the waters—fashion is very theatrical. I’m happy that I have photo memories of my style evolution. BELLA FREUD EJ: I wore a Peter Pilotto dress to the Venice Film Festival when I was 14, and it was a piece of art [bottom, left]. I was so nervous, though, because it was the first time I’d ever walked in heels. EF: Venice was my first time wearing heels too. I was 12 and had just worked on Somewhere with Sofia Coppola. She taught me a lot about fashion and got me a Marc Jacobs dress for the premiere. That was a big moment for me. EJ: I feel like so many young actors try to dress older. I think it’s better to enjoy the short time of just being a kid. EF: Yeah, and you can’t take it too seriously. I used to steal Dakota’s clothes quite a bit when I was young. I never got away with it because there would be paparazzi photos of me wearing

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It’s nerveracking to take risks, but I’ve always been daring—and I never want to lose that quality.” THE CRUSH

GUCCI

—ELLE FANNING

something of hers; then I’d get an angry phone call. [laughs] But I’ll never forget the first time Dakota asked me for shoe advice. As a little sister, that was monumental. EJ: My mom is super honest. She tells me the truth even if I don’t want to hear it. [laughs] And my stylist, Ryan Hastings, encourages me to wear what makes me feel confident. EF: You want to feel good, always. I loved all of my looks when I was a jury member at Cannes [in 2019]. My Dior hat moment at the premiere of Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood was a favorite [bottom, right]. I like to mix in some old-school nostalgia; I love the ’40s and ’50s. EJ: I used to be very into ’80s fashion. Lately I’ve been loving Louis Vuitton, because I’m a tomboy but I enjoy GUCCI dressing up. I can wear cool trousers one day and a short skirt the next. It’s the best of both worlds. EF: Gucci is my No. 1 right now. Alessandro [Michele] designed a spectacular Golden Globes dress for me this year [near right]. Taking photos in my living room felt glamorous. [laughs] I got to keep that dress, and I also have the green one from the Maleficent premiere [top, left]. I take inspiration from every film I do, and I was like, “If I’m playing a princess, I’m going to be a princess on the red carpet.” EJ: It’s amazing that you kept those. I was obsessed with a Louis Vuitton leather jacket I wore recently, and they ended up giving it to me. I love leather jackets—I have a great one from AllSaints. EF: I’m a big jacket girl too. I got this green and blue checkered one on Brick Lane when I was 13, and I’ve worn it to death. I also love the simplicity of The Row. Zoë Kravitz wears a ton of The Row and always looks good. I actually want everything Zoë Kravitz wears—red carpet, street style, all of it. Maybe she can do one of these chats with me next. [laughs]

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Good Looks WOMEN WE WANT TO DRESS LIKE RIGHT NOW

Zara dress (made with 60% Lenzing EcoVero viscose), $50; zara.com.

Karl Lagerfeld Paris pants, $110; karllagerfeldparis.com.

Tove dress, $1,085; tove-studio.com.

Serendipitous Project ring, $150; serendipitousproject.com.

Staud bag, $250; moda operandi.com.

In Dolce & Gabbana pants and bag

THE GIRL GONE GLAM

Sydney Sweeney

Kendall Miles sandals, $435; kendallmiles designs.com. Nroda glasses, $200; nroda.com. Gabriel & Co. earrings, $440; gabrielny.com.

Known for teen queen roles in HBO hits The White Lotus and Euphoria, Sweeney spends a lot of screen time in Gen Z–approved crop tops and denim. In real life, however, the actress opts for youthful pieces that feel more polished: See her run of perfect party dresses from this summer or the breezy mix of streetwear and suiting she wore in Venice this August.

In Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello

Michael Michael Kors blazer, $295; michael kors.com. Holiday The Label skirt (available in sizes up to XXXL), $116; holidaythelabel.com. In Prada

Skechers sneakers, $95; skechers.com.

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INSTANT STYLE

Hanifa dress (available in sizes up to 2XL), $249; hanifa.co.

Avec Les Filles coat, $189; aveclesﬁlles .com.

In Valentino Simon Miller bag, $190; simon millerusa.com.

THE SCENE-STEALER

Jennifer Hudson

The singer-actress promoted her much-anticipated Aretha Franklin biopic (Respect) this summer by hitting the road for press appearances around the country. Her wardrobe? A string of edgy and unforgettable outﬁts, including the bold cutout black trench, bra top, and hot pants she wore for a performance on Good Morning America (top right).

Schutz heels, $118; schutzshoes.com. Uncommon James hoops, $48; uncommon james.com.

Undra Celeste New York dress, $455; undra celesteny .com.

In Roger Vivier shoes

Anna Sui dress (made to order), $504; annasui.com.

Sammy B top, $325; sammyb designs.com.

Kate Spade New York bag, $348; katespade.com.

Neon Hope sunglasses and chain set (not shown), $210; shopmcmullen.com.

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Paris Texas boots, $651; farfetch .com.

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INSTANT STYLE Ben-Amun necklace, $520; ben-amun .com.

In CH Carolina Herrera

Le Monde Beryl headband, $170; lemonde beryl.com.

Wilfred for Aritzia blazer (made from Lenzing EcoVero ﬁbers), $228; aritzia.com.

Lauren Ralph Lauren dress, $175; ralph lauren.com.

THE CLASS(IC) ACT

Helen Mirren We’re never surprised to see the actress look elegant on the red carpet. But she exceeded even our high expectations at this year’s Cannes Film Festival by showing up in clean, simple silhouettes, bold mega jewels, and expertly executed headbands.

Staud dress, $450; staud .clothing.

Maison Vaincourt belt, $500; shopmcmullen.com.

Cami NYC top, $176; caminyc.com. Guess watch, $150; guess.com.

By Far shoes, $435; byfar.com. Mansur Gavriel bag, $495; mansurgavriel.com.

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Studio One Eighty Nine shirtdress (made with ethically sourced cotton and available in sizes up to 3XL), $575; studiooneeightynine.com.

In Dolce & Gabbana

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If there’s one thing you can expect from this actress’s red carpet appearances, it’s fashion worth talking about. So it comes as no surprise that she’s a close collaborator with daring, maximalist label Gucci. “I love the [brand’s] boldness,” explains the star, who exclusively worked with the house on a run of showstopping looks for this year’s Cannes Film Festival. A highlight? The stunning crystal-beaded number (right) she wore to the premiere of her movie After Yang. “I am humbled,” Turner-Smith said on Instagram about the event. “But I am not humble about these photos, because goddamn do I look [good].” 2021: In a CHRISTOPHER JOHN ROGERS skirt for the U.K. television premiere of Anne Boleyn.

2021: In GUCCI at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

2020: In a WOLFORD dress and GUCCI coat at the Soho Hotel in London.

2019: In SALVATORE FERRAGAMO at a movie screening in N.Y.C. 2020: In GUCCI at the EE British Academy Film Awards in London.

2020: In a GUCCI dress and TORY BURCH coat outside BBC Radio studios in London.

2021: In GUCCI at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

2019: In LOUIS VUITTON at an event for the brand in Beverly Hills.

2019: In BALMAIN at the Governors Awards in Hollywood.

2021: In GUCCI at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

2019: In GUCCI at the brand’s show in Milan.

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INSTANT STYLE

My Style ACTRESS AND ENTREPRENEUR BROOKE SHIELDS ON HER ICONIC FASHION MOMENTS AND CURRENT OBSESSIONS

BEAUTY STAPLE I’m more of a lip balm person than a lipstick person. I especially love this one. Laneige Lip Glowy Balm in Berry, $17; sephora.com.

UNFORGETTABLE FILM The thing about [being in 1980’s] The Blue Lagoon was that there weren’t any real clothes, just threadbare rags that we tied around ourselves. There was something liberating about not having a strict wardrobe.

Daily Uniform My go-tos are a well-tailored blazer, a T-shirt, great-ﬁtting dark jeans, and Gucci loafers. It’s basic but clean, and I always have fun with accessories. Anine Bing blazer, $349; aninebing.com. Paige jeans (available in sizes up to 34), $219; paige.com. Gucci loafers, $830; gucci.com.

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HOLIDAY STREAM

My Netﬂix movie A Castle for Christmas is that feelgood watch I think we’ll all crave after a rough year. It’s an absolute rom-com: Think fun and fantasy in a castle in Scotland.

ESSENTIAL ACCESSORIES I’m a big jewelry stacker; I like to layer. I grew up hearing my stepmother’s bracelets clanking, and my mom used to wear rings on almost every ﬁnger. Cartier bracelet, $7,500; cartier.com. Verdura cuﬀ; verdura.com.

Career Highlight

CONFIDENCE BOOST I was never one for taking [bikini selﬁe] photographs because it felt selfindulgent. But my children said, “Mom, you look good in that bathing suit. Take a picture!” Having them encourage me to celebrate my body at this age was a turning point.

Choice Carryall

I have a big Hermès duﬀel—I literally can carry everything in it. And if I’m not allowed more than one bag [when traveling], I can ﬁt my purse in there too. Hermès bag, $9,650; hermes.com.

RISING TALENT As a board member of the New York Academy of Art, I’m constantly being introduced to new artists. Nicolas V. Sanchez’s work is so lifelike; he uses pen and ink. He’s really delightful.

[When my Calvin Klein jeans ad came out in 1980], advertising was launching into this idea that campaigns could be more than just the traditional. You can’t ever set out to do something iconic; it either strikes the zeitgeist at a certain time or it doesn’t. You never know what’s going to hit, and we got lucky.

PERFECT PRODUCT I’ve become rather addicted to vitamin C serum. It brightens my skin. Drunk Elephant C-Firma Fresh Day Serum, $78; drunkelephant.com.

Red Carpet Highlight PLAYLIST PICK

I’m kind of in a Harry Styles phase, to be honest. He’s motivating!

My 2018 Met Gala look wasn’t over-the-top; it was just beautiful lines, understated makeup, and simple hair. [Designer Zac Posen and I] didn’t go for “wild,” and I liked it because it was authentic to what we felt…and it had pockets!

PASSION PROJECT The idea of women ﬁnding the resilience and strength to start new chapters and embrace who they are moved me to create my lifestyle website, Beginning Is Now. The site features a variety of graphic Ts (pictured) inspired by old photographs that I liked and by personal vintage items that mean something to me. It’s a nod to the past but also the future. Beginning Is Now T-shirt, $68; beginningisnow.com.

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NOT SURE WHAT TO WEAR OUT ANYMORE? WE’VE GOT A FEW FOOLPROOF IDEAS

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Party On

INSTANT STYLE

Statement Sparkle Sure, you won’t be the only one wearing sequins and crystals at holiday get-togethers. But this season’s slinky, disco-fabulous options are guaranteed to stand out. Marina Rinaldi skirt (available in sizes 12–24), $595; marina rinaldi.com. Souk + Sepia sunglasses, $29; soukandsepia.com.

French Connection dress, $248; usa.french connection .com.

Antonio Melani top, $99; dillards .com.

The Essentials DRAPEY CAMISOLE MINIDRESS LEGGY TROUSERS BEJEWELED BANGLES STRAPPY HEELS

So-Le Studio earrings, approximately $296; so-le-studio .com. NL The Label set, $189; nlthelabel .com.

Dorothee Schumacher dress, $580; dorotheeschumacher .com. Adore Adorn bangle, $575; adoreadorn.com. Tory Burch sandals, $348; toryburch.com.

Cult Gaia bag, $518; cultgaia.com.

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Polished Velvet Few fabrics exude luxury like this plush material, especially in black and rich jewel tones. Make it feel extra festive with a few oversize rhinestone accents.

The Essentials SMOKING JACKET

Antonio Melani dress, $169; dillards.com.

VICTORIAN INSPIRED TOP COCKTAIL RING DRAWSTRING BAG MARY JANES

Pretty Ballerinas ﬂats, $349; anthropologie.com. Hunting Season bag, $493; farfetch .com.

Sewit Sium ring, $275; sewitsium .com.

Frame blazer ($628) and pants ($368); frame-store.com.

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ALESSANDRA RICH

INSTANT STYLE

Kate Spade New York necklace, $128; katespade.com.

Echo scarf, $49; echo newyork .com.

Try It With: Headbands LADYLIKE PIECES GIVE THE LOOK BLAIR WALDORF VIBES (IN THE BEST KIND OF WAY).

Autumn Adeigbo, $72; autumn adeigbo .com.

Marciano dress, $198; marciano.com. Simone Rocha earrings, $385; mytheresa.com.

Tory Burch, $148; tory burch.com.

Lauren Ralph Lauren top, $110; ralphlauren.com. Loeﬄer Randall, $65; shopbop.com.

Lisou pants (for every garment sold, ﬁve trees are planted), $385; lisou.co.uk. Lele Sadoughi, $45; shopbop.com.

Unique Vintage blouse (available in sizes up to 5X), $48; unique vintage.com. Sarah Flint, $175; sarahﬂint.com.

Pīferi shoes, $558; browns fashion .com.

RedValentino, $195; at RedValentino boutiques.

Rebecca Taylor skirt, $325; rebeccataylor.com.

April & Alex blazer (made from deadstock fabric), approximately $580; apriland alex.co.uk.

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INSTANT STYLE

Bold Black and White

BALMAIN

The stark color contrast works well on equally dramatic silhouettes. Our go-tos? Anything that reminds us of the ’80s.

April & Alex coat dress (made with deadstock fabric), $505; apriland alex.co.uk.

Alessandra Rich earrings, $485; alessandrarich.com.

Vera Bradley sunglasses, $68; verabradley.com.

Paco Rabanne hair clips, $341 each; farfetch .com.

Mother jumpsuit, $295; mother denim.com.

Lauren Ralph Lauren belt, $45; zappos .com.

Self-Portrait dress, $495; self-portraitstudio.com.

Brooklyn Bleu bracelet, $218; brooklynbleu .com.

The Essentials TUXEDO BL AZER PUSSY- BOW BLOUSE SLEEK JUMPSUIT CHUNKY GOLD BRACELET SLINGBACK SHOES

Ramy Brook pants, $385; ramybrook .com. Eloquii blouse (available in sizes 14–28), $80; eloquii .com.

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J.Crew blazer (crafted in a Fair Trade Certiﬁed factory), $348; jcrew.com. Michael Michael Kors slingback ﬂats, $154; farfetch.com.

Body-Con Ruching Elevate the aesthetic from club kid to evening chic with elegant drop earrings and pointy-toe mules— or even the perfect pair of sleek, sporty slides.

Hope For Flowers by Tracy Reese dress (made with biodegradable textiles), $265; hopeforﬂowers.com.

Roxanne Assoulin earrings, $75; roxanne assoulin .com. Cult Gaia mules, $398; cultgaia.com.

PrettyLittleThing top (available in sizes 12–26), $30; prettylittlething.us.

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The Essentials CL ASSIC LBD

Simon Miller skirt, $215; simonmiller usa.com.

LONG -SLEEVE SHIRT MIDI SKIRT CRYSTAL JEWELRY

House of CB dress, $149; houseof cb.com.

STREAMLINED SHOES

Éliou ring, $130; moda operandi .com. A.L.C. top, $295; alcltd .com.

Harley Viera-Newton x Ancient Greek sandals, $310; ancient-greek-sandals.com. Bôhten glasses (made with reclaimed wood), $200; bohten.com.

Mistress Rocks skirt, $51; mistress rocks .com. House of Want clutch, $78; houseofwant.nyc.

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Ethereal Draping Take note, romantics: Floaty tulle and ﬂuid silk silhouettes strike the right balance between sophisticated and fairy-tale sweet. Whistles dress, $459; whistles .com/us.

Cynthia Rowley skirt, $245; cynthia rowley.com. Rosantica earrings, approximately $310; rosantica .com.

The Essentials SHEER TOP BALLERINA SKIRT

ALBERTA FERRETTI

PUFF-SLEEVE DRESS SHINY SHOES GLITTERY CLUTCH

Aminah Abdul Jillil sandals, $465; aminah abduljillil .com.

House of Aama shirt (made to order and available in sizes up to 4XL), $250; houseofaama.com.

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Alessandra Rich headband, $355; matches fashion .com.

INSTANT STYLE Oscar de la Renta pin, $290; at Neiman Marcus.

Eﬀy Jewelry earrings, $207; eﬀyjewelry.com. Maje dress, $415; us.maje .com.

RedValentino blouse, $475; redvalentino .com. Lelet NY hair clips, $150/3; net-a-porter.com.

Oma The Label ring, $89; omathe label.com.

Cinq à Sept top, $165; neiman marcus.com.

Nanushka top ($645) and skirt ($845); nanushka .com.

Guilhermina mules, $98; anthropologie.com. Nina Shoes bag, $68; ninashoes.com.

Try It With: Lacy Bras THESE DELICATE DESIGNS ARE JUST THE THING TO LAYER UNDER SLIGHTLY SEE-THROUGH PIECES. Savage x Fenty bra (available in sizes up to 46DDD), $45; savagex.com.

Understance bra, $72; understance .com.

Kye Intimates bra, $90; kyeintimates .com.

Liberté bra (available in sizes 32C–38H), $94; liberte.co.

La Perla bralette, $215; laperla.com.

Cuup bra (available in sizes 30A–36H), $68; shopcuup .com.

Araks bralette, $41; araks.com.

Montelle Intimates bra (available in sizes 32C –40H), $59; montelle intimates.com.

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OLD-HOLLYWOOD UPDOS ARE BACK As awards shows and fancy parties once again took place in real life, stars leaned hard into the classics with a procession of foreverelegant sweeping updos. At the Emmys, Anya Taylor-Joy rocked a center-parted platinum confection; at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ opening gala, Halle Berry and Riley Keough were impeccable in chic loose buns, while Laverne Cox sported a regal braided crown.

HALLE BERRY

ANYA TAYLOR-JOY

LAVERNE COX

RILEY KEOUGH

DYEING FOR OLIVIA RODRIGO’S MUSIC VIDEO HAIR Rodrigo released three massive songs this year, and their accompanying videos, all with radically different looks, set off countless trends. From the ’90s/early-2000s flower snap barrettes in “Good 4 U” to the double ponytail in “Drivers License” to the clip-in pink hair extensions in “Brutal,” she sent Generation Z scurrying to the mall.

Megan Thee Stallion’s Thermal Mani

It’s always a thrill when Megan Thee Stallion posts a “new $et” of nails—like a dripping-blood design for Halloween—but her brilliantly imaginative Instagram nailﬁe of thermal heat imaging against a cobalt blue background pretty much melted the Internet.

HELEN MIRREN SLAYS THE RUNWAY All hail the dame! Mirren, 76, made international headlines after she undulated down the catwalk at L’Oréal’s Paris Fashion Week show in an embellished black suit, platform heels, and a ﬁerce beauty look of pale peachy lips and on-trend graphic black cat-eye liner.

LILY-ROSE DEPP

CARDI B

THE NEW GUARD OF GLAM Please welcome Marcelo Gutierrez and Jared Henderson. Gutierrez brings an edge of sexiness to the boundary-pushing makeup he’s created for the likes of Lily-Rose Depp and Troye Sivan. Among his avant-garde signatures are splatters of saturated color and Swarovski sparkles. Henderson is the magical wizard behind some of this year’s most innovative hair looks, like Cardi B’s luscious sculptural blond waves at Paris Fashion Week.

NAOMI CAMPBELL

AMBER VALLETTA

Hailey Bieber’s Peel & Stick Eyelinerwhen

KATE MOSS

Mrs. Bieber ignited Instagram this summer she posted a picture of her winged peel-andstick eyeliner in irresistible neon metallic colors. (And yes, that was Kate Hudson with doublewing liner decals aﬃxed to her shimmery gold lids on our March cover.)

SHALOM HARLOW

OG SUPERMODELS In a history-making runway event, a glittering roster of ’90s supermodel legends walked Fendi and Versace’s joint Fendace show during Milan Fashion Week. Amber Valletta, Kate Moss, and Shalom Harlow all stunned with swept-back wet-look hair and gleaming silvery makeup; Naomi Campbell closed the perfect procession with a metallic smoky eye.

Mullets Make a Comeback

Whether you like it or not, the reimagined hipster hairstyle came roaring back this year. Lil Nas X rocked a long, wavy mullet, while Miley Cyrus sported a shaggy fringe. Doja Cat went for more of a soft-serve mullet with choppy bangs to complement her sultry eye situation.

LIL NAS X

DOJA CAT

PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS

MILEY CYRUS

GABRIELLE UNION

THE SURGE OF “SKINIMALISM” The natural-skin look became main-feed fodder on Instagram this year. We loved Gabrielle Union’s glowy minimal-makeup selﬁe showing a sweet sprinkling of freckles and Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s fresh-faced shot that garnered heart emojis from husband Nick Jonas.

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Redefining WELLNESS FANCY SPAS AND EXPENSIVE FACIALS AREN’T THE ONLY WAYS TO FIND INNER PEACE. THESE TWO PROS ARE MAKING SELF-CARE MORE ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL BY MAYA ALLEN

Yasmine Cheyenne Professions: Mental health advocate, writer, and creator of The Sugar Jar Podcast, which features impactful conversations centered around self-healing. Self-Care Mantra: “Being willing to choose yourself, even when it’s unpopular.” Her Wellness Journey: Cheyenne joined the U.S. Air Force when she was 19, and one of her roles was victim advocate for her base. “I supported mostly women and children who’d been victims of abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence,” she says. “To help them cope with the trauma they’d been through, I connected with other organizations across the country for support. I saw how community and access to resources made it all possible. The seed to help others heal was solidified in me from that moment.” How She’s Democratizing Wellness: “When I started teaching and going through my healing work, so often I was the only Black person in the room,” says Cheyenne. “It was a struggle for me to afford the services, and I wanted to be able to take the tools into my real life, not just experience them while on a retreat or in a workshop.” Now Cheyenne is committed to narrowing the wellness gap through one-on-one coaching, keynote speeches, and providing access to free mental health programs online. Meanwhile, her podcast espouses useful information about the importance of establishing boundaries. Her Advice for Staying Sane in 2022: Incorporate achievable habits into your day, like scheduling time offline, going for a walk, or audio journaling on your phone’s voice notes app, one of Cheyenne’s favorite free activities. “You can say anything you want, share things that you might be afraid to admit to someone else, and even do it while you’re driving or on the train,” she says. “Either go back and listen to it later or delete it, but after giving yourself that freedom of expression, you’ll feel so much relief.”

Golde Cacao Turmeric Superfood Latte Blend, $29; golde.co. Asutra Scrub the Day Away Exfoliating Body Scrub in Invigorating Eucalyptus, $25; asutra.com.

Osmia Lip Repair, $22; osmiaorganics .com. Supa Mega Immunity Rescue Tincture, $35; supamega foods.com.

Lalah Delia Professions: Spiritual wellness educator, best-selling author of Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power, and founder of VibrateHigherDaily.com, an online community and mental health mentoring program. Self-Care Mantra: “Learn how to take your power back.” Her Wellness Journey: “After many rock bottoms, which included domestic violence trauma, rape, down-spiraling as a result, a health crisis, and a suicide attempt, I decided that I would use my life for a higher purpose,” Delia says. After taking the time to heal personally, Delia developed a passion to help others to do the same. “I use the various gifts I’ve acquired through my formal years of training to do wellness and spiritual work in a creative and visually comforting way.” How She’s Democratizing Wellness: Her wildly popular book is about breaking old, useless habits and forming new ones that serve each individual. And Delia’s blog is a one-stop shop for tips on well-being, virtual classes, guided meditations, and peaceful playlists. Delia, who has over half a million Instagram followers, hopes to continue to create a new standard and culture of diversity in the wellness industry. “We have to lead with proactive resistance to all old systems of exclusion that show up as modern-day segregation and elitism,” she says. “And not remain silent when representation does not exist in any collective space we are in.” Her Advice for Staying Sane in 2022: Delia deﬁnes self-care as a sacred practice of coming home to ourselves. “There’s always a porch light on to welcome us back. You just have to listen closely for the directions leading you there,” she explains. A simple habit she encourages is pausing to check in with yourself throughout the day: “Notice any ways that your mind, body, or environment are signaling imbalance or for you to slow down, drink more water, eat or drink less of something, have a healthy meal, reach out to someone, take a break, spend time in solitude, go into nature, dance, or listen to music.” In fact, Delia credits dancing as a powerful way to transform how you’re feeling: “It’s a free somatic practice that not only physically moves the body but also moves emotions and stagnant energy.”

*Germs that cause bad breath and early gum disease. Use as directed. ©Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. 2021

BEAUTY BADASS

the hype man SOCIAL MEDIA SENSATION AND NEW YSL BEAUTY AMBASSADOR RICKEY THOMPSON IS CELEBRATING THE BEGINNING OF HIS “GROWN AND SEXY ERA”

Beloved for his candor, Rickey Thompson keeps his 5.3 million-plus Instagram followers coming back thanks to contagious viral videos that are full of laughter, dancing, sass, and style. After first making a splash on Vine as a teenager in 2013, the content creator now showcases his talents on YouTube and TikTok in addition to Instagram. Thompson’s feel-good influence has landed him major fashion and beauty campaigns, the latest as one of the new faces of YSL Beauty’s Nu Collection. Here, he shares his secret to unapologetic confidence and radiant skin.

Starting Point

My earliest beauty memory was when I was 14 and started to get into my personal skin-care journey. I used to watch YouTube tutorials on how to get a natural glow or keep my skin clear. I was like, “Wow, there is a lot that goes into this whole beauty thing!” Now I’ve learned that the secret to keeping my glow is to drink a lot of water, use sunscreen daily, heavily moisturize, and not stress.

Bold Moves

I’m 25, and I want to feel that. So I told myself that I really want to go for this grown and sexy era of my life. I was like, “You know what? Let’s just shave my hair off and see what it looks like.” I dyed it a different color, which is stepping out of my comfort zone, but I love it so much. It’s brought me this newfound confidence. When I get my hair cut, I always feel my hottest. [laughs]

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I don’t have to try so hard or follow somebody else’s life; I can just be myself.”

Rise & Shine

I change up my routine, but my mornings [typically consist of] going for a workout followed by eating something healthy like an acai bowl or avocado toast. Then I take a shower and start my day with a brainstorm.

Make It Happen

Why should beauty be held to one standard? We need more openness.”

Fashion Fantasy

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1 Supergoop! Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40, $34; supergoop.com. 2 Summer Fridays CC Me Vitamin C Serum, $64; summerfridays.com. 3 Youth to the People Superfood Cleanser, $36; youthtothepeople.com. 4 YSL Beauty Nu Bare Look Tint No. 19, $38; yslbeautyus.com. 5 Ole Henriksen Cold Plunge Pore Remedy Moisturizer, $46; sephora.com.

Ever since I was young, I told myself that one day I would work with YSL Beauty. I ﬁnally manifested that and became part of their latest Nu Collection. My go-to product is the YSL Beauty Nu Bare Look Tint because it’s very natural and light. It is ﬁtting that the products I am obsessed with showcase diversity; I think that is what the beauty world needs today. Why should beauty be held to one standard? We need more openness.

My mood-booster is retail therapy. If I’m feeling low about myself, I buy outﬁts that will make me feel amazing. I love dressing myself in my imagination and building it around a scenario. I picture when I am going to wear that outﬁt, and it always comes true.

Glam Goals

My ultimate beauty crush is Rihanna. I love that woman and everything she does. I could not stop staring at her [2021] Met Gala look. After she arrived on the carpet, no one else mattered to me.

Real Talk 4

Authenticity is key. There is always going to be someone who doesn’t like you, but ignore that. When I started showcasing my life online and got a lot of positive feedback, it gave me conﬁdence. By just being me, more people enjoy what I do. I don’t have to try so hard or follow somebody else’s life; I can just be myself. I’m always unapologetically me, and I never hide it.

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BEAUTY TALK

THE MODEL TURNED ENTREPRENEUR DISCUSSES HER NAMESAKE LINE, ROSE INC, AND HER PASSION FOR CREATING PRODUCTS THAT PUT YOUR SKIN FIRST

BEAUTY

ou grew up on a farm in England. How did your upbringing shape your perception of beauty?

I had a very sheltered childhood. We never discussed the way we looked. No one ever told me, “Oh, you look pretty.” Instead, I was asked to go outside and grab a chicken, pick up its eggs, muck out the horse [stall], and cut a tree down. Those were the activities that were celebrated. Meanwhile, when I spoke to my American girlfriends, they were all cutting their hair to look like their favorite pop star! [laughs] What was the transition like when you started modeling as a teenager? I was often really frustrated

because I like to be in control. I’ve always had a hard time modeling or acting because you’re basically waiting for the phone to ring. It forced me to be proactive and entrepreneurial, and to think outside of the box. Tell us about launching your ﬁrst makeup and skin-care collection. As someone who has acne-prone skin but is also a

makeup fanatic, I believe that the two should be able to work together. I thought, “What are the four products that make me feel polished and put-together in an instant?” I never leave the house without at least brushing up my eyebrows; I always want a bit of a cheek moment; I definitely need a concealer; and nothing would be complete without a little bit of a lip. For skin care, my Rose Inc AHA clarifying toner is ideal for those with acne because it acts as a gentle daily exfoliator. The brightening serum is a plumping, rejuvenating primer meets moisturizer that feels indulgent. I’ve also used the iS Clinical Active Serum and the Dr Dennis Gross Skincare Alpha Beta Universal Daily Peel for years because they’re game changers. What’s baby No. 2 been like for you? For me, the second time around, there’s a lot less anxiety. I feel much more relaxed with the changes that are happening to my body, which were really overwhelming the first time I got pregnant, because you are just looking at yourself like, “Oh my gosh, things are moving up and down.” [laughs] Now I understand that I need to give my body time. As you grow older, regardless of having children, you just become so much more aware that physical beauty can be fleeting. True beauty lies in the person that you are and the way that you make people feel in your presence. Your Instagram feed is carefully curated, but how do you deal with the messy days in real life? It’s funny you say that because

I guess my Instagram is just the best bits, like everything else on social media. I think it’s important to always remind ourselves of that when we are in a wormhole [on the Internet] and starting to feel a bit depressed, because it happens to everybody, including me. At least once a week in the evening, I put my phone in a drawer, lock myself in my bathroom, and have a mask-and-bask moment with a long shower. I love a good night’s sleep as well. As a mom, those moments are few and far between, so sometimes snuggling up in bed at 9:30 p.m. and putting on Curb Your Enthusiasm, with the lights off by 10 p.m., is my form of self-care. —MAYA ALLEN

True beauty lies in the person that you are and the way that you make people feel in your presence.Ó

ROSIE’S MUST-HAVES Rose Inc Skin Resolution Clarifying Toner ($32) and Blush Divine Radiant Lip & Cheek Color ($30); roseinc.com.

Biba de Sousa Calming Zinc + Sulfur Mask, $52; bibalosangeles.com. iS Clinical Active Serum, $138; dermstore.com.

Dr Dennis Gross Skincare Alpha Beta Universal Daily Peel, $88/30 treatments; sephora.com.

Shu Uemura Art of Hair Silk Bloom Restorative Shampoo for Damaged Hair, $49; sephora .com.

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GET GLOSSY A sheer wash of color is a great way to make a subtle statement. Bonus: This balm keeps lips hydrated for hours on end.

MAGIC MATTE The light-reﬂecting powders in this formula make for a multidimensional ﬁnish.

Gucci Rouge de Beauté Brillant Glow & Care Shine Lipstick in #508 Diana Amber, $42; sephora.com.

Charlotte Tilbury Limitless Lucky Lips in Berry Lucky, $34; bloomingdales.com.

SUPER SATIN Jojoba oil and vitamin E give this tint a lightweight feel without sacriﬁcing the strong color payoﬀ. Lune+Aster PowerLips Lipstick in Shade Strong, $22; bluemercury.com.

SET STAPLE Makeup artist Ai Yokomizo used this exact red, which is formulated to stay vibrant, on model Halimotu Shokunbi for this shoot (opposite). Shiseido ModernMatte Powder Lipstick in Exotic Red, $26; shiseido.com.

GO GLITTER ’Tis the season to add some shimmer to your look by reaching for this sparkly rose hue. TRÈS CHIC Instead of the traditional bullet, these squared edges allow for easier, more precise application.

Dior Dioriﬁc The Atelier of Dreams Collection in #074 Rose d’Hiver, $40; dior.com.

YSL Slim Velvet Radical Matte Lipstick in Shade 21, $39; yslbeautyus.com.

FAN FAVORITE This transfer-proof pigment, in the brand’s iconic Ruby Woo shade, won’t feather or fade throughout the day. MAC Cosmetics Ruby Boo Powder Kiss Liquid Lipcolour, $27; maccosmetics.com.

To keep lipstick from smudging, apply a little bit of concealer around your lips.Ó —ETIENNE ORTEGA, makeup artist and Deck of Scarlet brand ambassador

HIGH SHINE This luxe mix is one of Ortega’s go-tos because it delivers the perfect combo of gloss and color. Deck of Scarlet Threeway Solid Lip Oil in Peach Sands, $28; deckofscarlet.com.

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Elemental GIFTS

Astrologer Susan Miller has teamed up with InStyle to curate a limited-edition collection of giftable beauty boxes inspired by the four elements: ﬁre, air, earth, and water. What’s inside? An assortment of daily go-tos that she tailored to each zodiac sign. “Fire signs don’t like complicated routines and prefer quick, easy-to-use products,” explains Miller of the practical yet chic selections, including Mented Liquid Lipstick and Humphreys Witch Hazel + Aloe Toner. Air signs, on the other hand, favor science-backed launches such as the eﬃcacious HanHoo Blemish Patches and Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Pink Dream Body Cream. “Earth signs especially love natural formulas,” she notes, which applies to the eco-friendly ingredients in Dr. Paw Paw Rich Mocha Balm and Natura Brasil Maracujá Hand Cream. Last, according to Miller, water signs gravitate toward pretty packaging and alluring scents, making the dreamy Liquid Metallic Eyeshadow and Sun Bum CocoBalm Lip Balm by E.L.F. Cosmetics (a brand famous for the fragrance of its products) must-haves. Whether you’re shopping for yourself or a loved one, the perfect gift could be written in the stars.

AIR Gemini, Libra, Aquarius FIRE Aries, Leo, Sagittarius EARTH Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn WATER Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

The Cosmic Collection: InStyle x Astrology Zone Beauty Box, $35; thebeautyseason.com/instyle.

DRY SKIN RESCUES COMBAT COLDWEATHER WOES WITH THESE NOURISHING MOISTURIZERS.

HANDY HEALER This blend of sandalwood and argan oil not only keeps your hands and cuticles feeling smooth, but the fragrance also soothes nerves. Klur Surrounding Surfaces Aromatic Repair Hand & Cuticle Oil, $44; klur.co.

BODY BALM Parched skin is no match for this drugstore staple, which has been reformulated to include all-star ingredients such as niacinamide and avocado oil. Cetaphil Moisturizing Lotion, $12; walmart.com.

BEAUTY CHAT

Eco-conscious presents have never looked so chic. Our editors share their favorite holiday picks.

“With just one sweep, MOB Beauty Volumizing Mascara leaves my lashes looking extra full. Plus, the sleek packaging is reﬁllable and made from postconsumer recycled material.” $29; mobbeauty.com. “Topicals Slick Salve Ointment is a multipurpose balm that comes in a stylish reusable compact. What really won me over is its versatility: I can apply it to any dry patch.” $16; mytopicals.com. —ADELAIDE GIESEY, beauty assistant

“Glossier Monochromes allows me to easily swap out eye shadow shades because each compact is reﬁllable and recyclable.” $22; glossier.com. “As a ’90s baby, wearing The Lip Bar ‘Low Key’ Liquid Matte Lipstick feels so nostalgic. This brand has long been ahead of the curve in creating cruelty-free cosmetics with a bold color payoﬀ.” $13; thelipbar.com. —MAYA ALLEN, beauty director

HAIR REPAIR Cooler temperatures can leave you with brittle curls, so lather on this hydrating treatment once a week to seal in moisture. Hask Curl Care Intensive Deep Conditioner, $6; ulta.com.

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SCAN FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS.

La Dolce Vita

For Italian hotelier MARIE LOUISE SCIÒ, there’s no place like home by K ATE BR A NCH photographed by STEFA N GIF T TH A LER

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ou could say I have a thing for ceilings,” says hotelier Marie Louise Sciò, CEO and creative director of the Pellicano Hotels Group, which includes luxury retreats such as Mezzatorre on the island of Ischia, the legendary Il Pellicano in Tuscany, and La Posta Vecchia, a 17thcentury villa outside of Rome that once was her family’s private residence. “I spent my entire childhood looking up at these incredible hand-cut wood ceilings in a house that was built on Roman ruins.” Now Sciò, who is also the visionary behind the Italianfocused fashion and lifestyle site Issimo, has a similar perspective from inside her nearly 4,000-square-foot duplex apartment near the Tiber River in Rome’s center. The building features original 13-foot-high coffered ceilings dating from the 15th century that are painted in gold and green, ornate parquet floors, and a view from her living room window of Castel Sant’Angelo, a grand mausoleum that was constructed for Roman emperor Hadrian circa 130 a.d. These pieces of history, she says, “do so much of the talking, I didn’t feel the need to load

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the house up with stuff I don’t like.” That’s why, along the white walls in her main sitting area, Baroque paintings in gold-brushed frames share space with modern-day pieces by the likes of Italian artist Gianni Politi. Across the room, dozens of art and design books, from Sciò’s days studying architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design, are piled atop two rare consoles by 1960s Italian architecture collective Superstudio. Directly behind them is an ancient-looking built-in wall console, which shares the same shade of pale olive green trimming with the ceiling. In it lies Sciò’s extensive record collection, which she started growing at age 15, as well as countless DVDs, including what’s currently on view in the downstairs screening room: 50 Years of Janus Films, a hard-to-ﬁnd collectors’ box set of international art-house classics. “My life’s passions and interests are splashed all over the house,” says Sciò. “It’s great to live with no fear.” However, the room’s pezzo forte, which guides its playful decor, is a multicolored abstract rug by Spanish artist Patricia Urquiola for Cc-tapis, a Milan-based contemporary furniture and design company. The rug’s undeniable personality—the contrast of gradate, pastel-colored cylindrical shapes creates a three-dimensional effect—is furthered by the decision to accent it with small circular tables that double as stools, by famed 20th-century Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass. Like geometric pieces atop a children’s board game, the mobile seats make their way around the room depending on the time of day and the type of activity. “I do yoga in the center of the room with my teacher in London over Zoom,” says Sciò, explaining why she didn’t opt for a coffee table. “After dinners, we dance a lot on this rug.” The striking combination of ’70s furniture, designer pieces, antiques, and rock-and-roll paraphernalia (vintage band posters as well as three separate surround-sound systems can be found throughout the house) might appear to some as a collection of contradictions. But many of these objects, most of which were crafted in Italy, have been handpicked by Sciò for a speciﬁc reason, she says. “Everything I have in my home tells a story—my story.”

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ECLECTIC CURRENT A colorful mix of Italian-made showpieces feels timeless yet modern.

Cc-tapis Rotazioni rug; issimoissimo .com.

La DoubleJ vase, $490; ladoublej.com.

Bordallo Pinheiro platters, $75/2; matchesfashion .com.

Kartell side table, $430; store.moma.org. Salvatore Ferragamo sandals, approximately $1,040; issimoissimo .com.

Les Ottomans tray, $123; matches fashion.com.

Issimo x Percossi Papi earrings, approximately $1,392; issimo issimo.com.

Kartell side table, $430; store.moma .org.

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The designer in her Budapest home. Nanushka coat, $1,295; at Nanushka, 929-4714805.

THE PLACE 4

Budapest

NANUSHKA FOUNDER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR SANDRA SANDOR GIVES US AN INSIDER’S GUIDE TO HER HISTORIC HOMETOWN WHY YOU SHOULD GO Budapest, Hungary, where I was born and raised, is a place like no other. I love the way it juxtaposes the old-world and modern elements of Europe. One of its best characteristics is how each neighborhood feels diﬀerent: The 1st district is full of traditional cobblestone streets that lead to magical lookout points on both the Buda and Pest [west and east] sides of the city. And if you are interested in architecture, consider a long walk through the 13th district to admire its Bauhaus buildings. WHERE TO STAY AND WHAT TO EAT I recommend The Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace (1) for its beautiful views of the famous Széchenyi Chain Bridge (2), the Hungarian National Gallery, and the castle district. And the newly restored Párisi Udvar (3), an old bazaar turned hotel, is a very special spot for both Hungarians and tourists. One of my favorite restaurants is Déryné—order the túrógombóc [cheese dumplings] for a real treat! Felix

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Kitchen and Bar is the perfect brunch destination, and Gerbeaud café (4) has fantastic desserts. Rosenstein oﬀers amazing traditional Jewish-Hungarian cuisine, and I suggest Dobruma (5) for its aromatic Middle Eastern food.

WHAT TO DO A thermal bath is a must in any season! Gellert Spa (6) and the Széchenyi thermal baths have lovely indoor pools and outdoor spas that are heated in the colder months. I also enjoy the local vintage shopping: A Saturday-morning go-to is Ecseri, an old ﬂea market just outside of town. My Nanushka boutique (7) and café are also worth a stop. You’ll ﬁnd the latest collections alongside specialty beauty and lifestyle products, such as oneof-a-kind ceramics handmade right here in Hungary. WHAT TO PACK In winter, be sure to bring chic, cozy layers and a versatile day-to-night coat.

MY ANCHOR

Soft Spot Market and accessories director Sam Broekema complements his collection of vintage-inspired objects with groovy artwork made from fuzzy chenille stems

Broekema in Paris.

Cartier watch, $2,740; cartier .com.

Hermès mug, $145; at Hermès stores.

Armitano Domingo plate, $320; armitanodomingo.shop.

“My wonderful friend Greg created this piece entirely by hand using pipe cleaners. I love its bold colors, its threedimensional texture, and how the image feels out of focus. It looks like it could be from another time in the way it recalls handicrafts from the late ’60s and early ’70s—and I’m a sucker for anything that reminds me of that era.” Portrait, by Greg Domres (approximately 18" x 14" framed), $1,400; contact the Amanda James Gallery at 561-270-7832 for information. La Souﬄerie x Nickey Kehoe candles, $75 each; nickey kehoe.com. Chairish vase, $1,495; chairish.com.

Mateo bracelet, $1,650; net-a-porter.com.

Chairish bowl, $825; chairish.com. Bunny Mellon Style, Gibbs Smith, $60; gibbs-smith.com.

Mode Living place mats, $56 each; mode-living.com.

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Baking Buddies

DORIE GREENSPAN AND PETER SOM MAKE AN UPDATED VERSION OF A SWEET PARISIAN TREAT

BY K E R RY D I A M O N D PH OTO G R A PH ED BY V I N CE N ZO D I M I N O

hen Dorie Greenspan opens the door of her Upper West Side apartment, the celebrated baker and author of 14 cookbooks discovers that she has a personal-style soulmate in fashion designer and culinary aficionado Peter Som. Som and Greenspan in her The two are sporting trim haircuts, round glasses, N.Y.C. kitchen. and blue shirts, although Greenspan is also wearing her signature Hermès scarf, tied just so. “I’ll change before the photo shoot,” Greenspan says with a laugh. The idea was to create something sweet that his wealthy clients Within moments, they are chatting like old acquaintances, could enjoy with no crumbs—et voilà! The bite-size baked good having discovered a mutual love for interior design, baking, and was born. “He wanted it to be as rich as the people who ate it, Paris. The two are as compatible as chocolate and peanut butter, which is why there’s so much butter. How would you describe it?” or in today’s case, white chocolate and matcha, the star ingrediGreenspan asks. “It’s a little cake, like a madeleine,” says Som. ents of the pistachio-matcha financiers that Greenspan is Once all the ingredients are combined, the financier dough going to show Som how to make. While Som has made a name has a unique, almost bouncy, texture, which results in a finished for himself over the years with his elegant, feminine designs product that is light but chewy. As they move to the glaze, Green(worn by the likes of Michelle Obama and Beyoncé), he’s been span reveals a trick much-loved by pastry chefs: melting chocoshowing off his kitchen chops as of late, sharing his culinary late in the microwave. A bit of matcha powder (don’t use the creations on his website and social media accounts and most expensive kind, counsels Greenspan) mixed into the liquid working on a Pinterest food show called Flavor Chase. white chocolate tints the glaze light green and provides a subtle “I’m such a huge fan,” he admits to Greenspan while flipping bitterness. A sprinkle of crushed, freeze-dried raspberries through her newest release, Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & adds a pop of bright pink “and some nice acidity,” notes Som. Simple, which features today’s recipe. “I have your cookbooks; “White chocolate is a fabulous ingredient because it takes I’ve made your World Peace Cookies, your carrot cake—I could on flavor and color so well,” explains Greenspan. “By itself, it’s go on and on.” not that interesting.” “It plays well with others,” suggests Som. As legend has it, the financier was invented by a pastry chef in Greenspan nods, smiling at her new friend. “Where have you the 1800s who had a shop across from the Paris stock exchange. been all my life?”

PISTACHIO-MATCHA FINANCIERS MAKES 28 FOR THE FINANCIERS 1½ sticks unsalted butter ¾ cup sugar ¾ cup shelled unsalted pistachios

¹/3 cup all-purpose flour ¹/3 cup whole wheat flour 1½ tsp matcha powder ¼ tsp fine sea salt 6 large egg whites, at room

temperature, lightly beaten 1½ tsp canola oil Pinch of matcha powder FOR THE GLAZE Freeze-dried raspberry 8 oz. white chocolate, powder coarsely chopped

TO MAKE THE FINANCIERS 1. Heat the butter in a small saucepan over medium until it comes just to a boil. Keep the butter warm. 2. Put the sugar and pistachios in a food processor and pulse until the nuts are finely ground. 3. Add both flours, matcha, and salt, and pulse a few times to blend. 4. Transfer to a medium bowl, then pour in the egg whites and combine gently with a flexible spatula until thoroughly blended. 5. Gradually incorporate the butter. Cover and refrigerate for at least 3 hours and up to 3 days. 6. When ready to bake, center a rack in the oven and preheat to 400º F. Butter and flour mini-muffin tins with cups that hold 2 tablespoons of batter each. 7. Spoon the batter into the tins, filling the cups almost to the top. Bake for 13 to 15 minutes, or until the sides are deeply golden and the tops have crowned. Remove from the oven and wait 4 to 5 minutes, then flip onto a rack. Let cool completely. TO MAKE THE GLAZE 1. Mix the white chocolate and oil together in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave. Keep the heat low and check often. (You can also use a double boiler.) 2. Immediately mix the white chocolate with a little matcha (don’t use too much, or the color will get too dark and the taste too bitter). Dip the tops of the financiers in the glaze, letting the excess drip back into the bowl, then set on a rack. Sprinkle with crushed-up freeze-dried raspberries before the chocolate dries. Refrigerate for about 30 minutes to set the glaze.

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Connie Britton THE WHITE LOTUS STAR SHARES HER CURRENT POP CULTURE PICKS

THEATER The Nutcracker (1) “We would frequently spend Christmas in New York City when I was growing up, so when I think about the holidays now, that’s what comes to mind. With the return of live performances, I’m dreaming of the New York City Ballet’s version of The Nutcracker—but I hope people can enjoy local productions in their towns too.” The Magic Flute and Cinderella “The Metropolitan Opera in N.Y.C. is doing some abridged operas specifically for younger audiences. These are two of the shows coming up in December.”

MOVIES Sing 2 and Spider-Man: No Way Home

(2) “Most of my entertainment lately revolves around my 10-year-old son, Yoby, and we’re pretty excited for both of these.” West Side Story (3) “I saw a stage production of this when I was young, and it inspired me to become an actor. Steven Spielberg has directed an adaptation that will be thrilling to see, particularly with its ethnically appropriate cast, music on a Spielberg scale, and a relevance at this moment that will hopefully resonate with kids all over again. Also, Rita Moreno is in it—enough said.” House of Gucci (4) “You had me at Lady Gaga. And Gucci.”

BOOK Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (5) “Stacey Abrams has written a children’s book, and I’m just as excited to read it myself as I am for Yoby to read it. Inspiration from my girl crush!”

TV Colin in Black and White (6) “I am so happy

Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick joined forces to explore Colin’s upbringing [in this Netflix series]. It’s another one I look forward to sharing with my son, and one that I imagine will be inspiring and illuminating to many.” 2

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Tick, Tick…Boom! Based on a musical by Jonathan Larson, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature directorial debut follows an aspiring theater composer (Andrew Garfield) in the midst of a quarter-life crisis. Robin de Jesus, Mj Rodriguez, and Ben Ross also star. (Nov. 19, Netflix) Nightmare Alley A former carnival worker (Bradley Cooper) teams up with a corrupt psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) to scam the rich in Guillermo del Toro’s noir thriller. (Dec. 17) Cyrano Too self-conscious to send love letters to the woman of his dreams (Haley Bennett), wordsmith Cyrano de Bergerac (Peter Dinklage) helps another man win her heart in this musical drama. (Dec. 31, select theaters) Bruised In the first film she’s directed, Halle Berry portrays a disgraced former MMA fighter staging a comeback who suddenly finds herself responsible for the 6-year-old son she had abandoned as an infant. (Nov. 24, Netflix) Don’t Look Up After discovering a comet set to destroy Earth, a grad student (Jennifer Lawrence) and an astronomy professor (Leonardo DiCaprio) embark upon a media tour to warn mankind. Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, and Timothée Chalamet are among the cast. (Dec. 10, select theaters; Dec. 24, Netflix) The Lost Daughter Inspired by an Elena Ferrante novel, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directoral debut centers on a college professor (Olivia Colman) forced to reckon with her past as she becomes obsessed with a woman (Dakota Johnson) and her young daughter during a Greek vacation. (Dec. 31, Netflix) The Unforgivable Sandra Bullock plays a newly released prisoner searching for the sister she left behind as she reenters a society that won’t forgive her violent past. Viola Davis, Jon Bernthal, and Vincent D’Onofrio are also featured. (Dec. 10, Netflix)

READ Miss Dior: A Story Atlas of the Heart: Feel Your Way Peter Marino: of Courage and Mapping Meaningful Through: A Book The Architecture Couture Justine Connection and the of Poetry In her of Chanel A behindPicardie details the Language of Human first series of the-scenes look at the life of Catherine Experience Drawing poems, musician 25-year partnership Dior, the Resistance on two decades of Kelsea Ballerini gets between Chanel and fighter, concentraextensive research, candid about body architect Peter tion camp survivor, Dr. Brené Brown image, sexuality, Marino, showcasing and gardener explores 87 emotions and finding her the modern design who inspired her and experiences that confidence as a of 16 of the fashion couturier brother define being human and woman in today’s house’s most luxe Christian’s fragrance, shares an actionable world. Ballantine retail locations. Miss Dior. Farrar, framework for building Books, $25; Phaidon, $125; Straus and Giroux, connections. Random penguinrandom phaidon.com. $40; fsgbooks.com. House, $30; penguin house.com. randomhouse.com.

Swan Song A terminally ill man (Mahershala Ali) grapples with pursuing an experimental solution that could shield his family from grief in this sci-fi drama starring Glenn Close, Naomie Harris, and Awkwafina. (Dec. 17, theaters and Apple TV+)

Call Us What We Carry Presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman’s debut collection tackles history, identity, and erasure while delivering a timeless message of hope. Viking Books, $25; amandagorman books.com.

Going There Katie Couric leaves no stone unturned in her tell-all memoir, reflecting on the highs and lows of four decades in journalism and sharing new details about her life outside of the spotlight. Little, Brown and Company, $30; littlebrown.com.

Bulgari Magnifica: The Power Women Hold A celebration of jewelry through the feminine lens, this book (edited by Tina Leung) commemorates Bulgari’s new collection dedicated to trailblazing women, with text contributions from Mia Moretti, Amanda Nguyen, Noor Tagouri, and more. Rizzoli New York, $95; rizzoliusa.com.

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BADASS WOMEN

Vicki Aken PROFESSION

Afghanistan Country Director

for the International Rescue Committee LOCATION MANTRA

Kabul, Afghanistan

“Anything boys can do, girls can do better.”

Why She’s Badass After overseeing humanitarian aid programs for war-torn regions like Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Syria, Aken was well prepared for her current role with the IRC helping Afghans affected by confl ict. Her work for the past five years has involved setting up and supporting programs to ensure that people have access to the range of necessities threatened by war and political instability, including food, water, education, emergency cash, and health care—“all of the things people need just to live,” says Aken, whose sense of duty supersedes her concerns about living in a hot zone. “[Kabul] was the first place I ever had to use an armored vehicle and safe rooms, so that was an adjustment,” she says. “You hear bombs go off, occasionally indirect fire. But it just becomes a part of your day-to-day life.” The most frightening moment of Aken’s career was in August as the Afghan government fell to the Taliban. “I didn’t sleep for three days, because we were trying to figure out how to keep everybody safe,” she says. The U.S. embassy contacted Aken with an opportunity to evacuate, and while thousands sought refuge abroad, she decided to remain. “I have a staff of 1,700, and they can’t leave,” Aken says. “Once I made the decision to stay, I felt like a thousand-pound weight had been taken off me. I could finally sleep again.”

Aken, left, in 2018 at a program in the Helmand province; right, speaking in a 2020 interview.

about immersing herself in a society with different customs and resources. “Once you survive that, you realize you can probably live in any context and take on any role,” she says.

Team Huddle On her most challenging days, Aken draws strength from friends in her line of work, who have dubbed themselves the Kabul Feminist Fight Club. “Quite often we might be the only female voices in the room,” says Aken. “We still see the day-to-day sexism even in the international humanitarian community. Wherever I’ve worked, I’ve had a group of amazing women to talk to. Whether it’s just to have a glass of wine and a bitch session or to conspire about how to change things behind the scenes, I get my energy from them.”

Starting Off Strong Growing up in a small Wisconsin

Fixed Focus Aken was heartened to see support for the

town where “everyone takes care of everyone else” fostered a sense of community in Aken, who was drawn to humanitarian work early on. Her desire to expand her horizons was fueled by an experience at a world affairs camp when she was 16. “This was in the 1980s, so I met Palestinians there when the image that most Americans had of them was hijacking airplanes,” she says. “One kid said, ‘When someone hijacks an airplane the whole world hears about it, but when someone hijacks your entire country, no one cares.’ That made a huge impact on me.” She went on to enroll in the Peace Corps, which sent her to the Polynesian country of Tonga, and though she was humbled by bouts with dengue fever and dysentery, she gained a wealth of knowledge

resettlement of those who ﬂed in August, but she urges people to remember that evacuees make up a small portion of those in need. “Only a fraction of the people left; there are 40 million still here,” she says. “If the world turns its back on Afghanistan, what motivation is there for the new government to provide the stability the international community is interested in? We have to show that progress can be made here as long as we stay engaged.” The work has been more exhausting than ever, but Aken remains driven. “Protection work is one of the hardest things you can possibly do, but it’s also one of the most meaningful,” she says. “I can’t think of anything I like more. I am in my dream job.”

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FEATURE

Call Me MARTHA WHAT’S IN A NAME? TWO ÜBERSUCCESSFUL MARTHAS — MARTHA STEWART AND MARTHA PLIMPTON — PICK UP THE PHONE TO FIND OUT BY S A R A H C R I S T O B A L

ne crisp fall afternoon, domestic goddess extraordinaire Martha Stewart and esteemed actress Martha Plimpton realized they have a lot in common. Though it was their first time speaking to each other, they soon bonded over gardening, dogs, and the art of upholstery. They also discovered that they might be tangentially related by marriage. Personal approach to social media is one area where they differ: Save for the occasional “thirst trap,” Stewart, 80, keeps her accounts intentionally anodyne, while the 51-year-old Plimpton, currently being heralded for her role as a grieving mother in the film Mass, is “pretty political” on her feed. No matter; their shared can-do spirit is at the heart of their Marthahood. Hello to you both. Thanks for doing this! MARTHA PLIMPTON: Hello! Very nice to meet you,

Martha! It’s a very exciting moment for me. MARTHA STEWART: Me too! I have a brother-in-law called Randy Plimpton who professes to be related somehow to the Plimptons. Are you the same Plimptons who were in Long Island? MP: I am! Absolutely. We’re all related, yeah. MS: We’re probably related by marriage. MP: Oh, how great! Look at that! How familiar are you with each other’s work? MP: Obviously, I’m very familiar. Although I just learned

about [the newly launched e-commerce site] Martha.com. Now I’m looking at it, and I’m certain that I’m going to be completely broke by the end of this afternoon. MS: I saw you in one of your first big movies, The Mosquito Coast [1986]. I love that movie. That’s when your face imprinted in my brain; I never forgot it after that. You have a very sweet face. MP: Aw, thank you! I love that movie too. What does it take to be a successful Martha?

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Martha Stewart and Martha Plimpton.

MS: Well, for me, I am so busy that it’s almost too busy. I have

a personal documentary that I’m working on with [filmmaker] R.J. Cutler. I have a huge number of archives, and to make a documentary that brings in current events along with my life is very hard. Then I have an autobiography to write; I have a company to run; I have TV shows. I have way more to do than any one human being should at the same time. Then I realize I haven’t had a vacation in two years, and I haven’t really relaxed for a hundred years. It’s crazy. What about you, Martha Plimpton? I remember you were voted hardest-working actress at one point. MP: Well, yes. I’m not anywhere near as busy as Martha

I saw you in one of your first big movies, The Mosquito Coast…. That’s when your face imprinted in my brain; I never forgot it after that.” —MARTHA STEWART

Is there something you might want to learn from each other? MP: Absolutely. I’d love to learn about farming, because I’ve

gardened, but I’ve never farmed. And sewing. I don’t know the first thing about sewing, and I’d love to be someone who could sew. I think that’s an incredibly wonderful skill to have. MS: Really, huh? During COVID, we did sewing, we did knitting, we did upholstery, you know, all kinds of little projects. I haven’t forgotten how to do any of that stuff. MP: Upholstery, that’s an amazing thing! I hope to get a little travel trailer so I can drive with my dogs rather than fly because it’s so traumatizing, and I would love to be able to reupholster my travel trailer. MS: That would be fun. Maybe this could be an episode of a show. MP: Maybe it could! DIY, make your own travel trailer. Martha Stewart, were you ever inclined to act? MS: What I can learn from somebody like Martha Plimpton

is maybe how to be an actress. Although people say I could act, I have never really acted except in a few little TV commercials and stuff. But I would like to be in a full-length movie. That’s one goal I would really like to achieve. I would like to be an actress playing a part at some point. MP: We can certainly trade tips anytime. Happy to do it. Stewart, nor do I wish to be. I’m very happy, particularly now. It sounds so corny, but when I turned 50 [in November 2020], something clicked. I stopped giving a shit about anything but being happy and living the life I want to live. Certainly, there are things I want to do that I haven’t done, and there are days when I feel frustrated or like I’m not doing enough, but ultimately, I am living my best life right now. I’m working and traveling. I have three beautiful homes and wonderful friends. I certainly can’t complain. Would you both consider yourselves ambitious, then? MS: Well, of course, I’m very ambitious. I like having a

stack of projects. I like to be very, very busy. That said, I think I’ve “been there, done that” a lot, and now I just wonder if that’s not the end-all. There are a lot of other things to do rather than being ambitious. MP: I would agree with Martha. Yes, I feel I am ambitious, but maybe not in the typical sense. I’m not an early riser, necessarily. I have hopes and aspirations, but at the same time, there are a lot of actresses who are sort of multifaceted in their work: They’re producing; they’re writing; they’re directing. I think of myself more as an interpretive artist. I don’t need to be in control of every single aspect of the industry. It’s more of an organic kind of thing. A desire to stay moving and try new things.

It’s like Trading Places, Martha edition! You both have pets. Martha P., you have two dogs. How many animals do you have now, Martha Stewart? MS: Oh, about 350. [laughs] Those are the ones that I know

about. And then all the wild animals, like birds and stuff. So, we have a lot of animals on my farm. They would all come into my house if I let them! But there must be a certain amount of separation. My Chow [Chow] dogs would probably kill the geese. MP: Do each of the animals have names or only some? MS: No, only the dogs and the cats and the horses and the donkeys. You don’t name chickens. Naturally. How would you each describe your personal style? MS: I am a very simple dresser. Until I started doing a daily

television show, I had very few clothes. I had one closet, and it was a small closet. I remember being invited to a holiday party early on in my marriage in the 1960s and realizing there was nothing that I could possibly wear. I started to cry. MP: Awww! MS: Then I ran down to 38th Street [in N.Y.C.], and I bought a piece of beautiful raspberry red peau de soie silk and made myself a dress. At the time I had a friend whose aunt owned a shop on Park Avenue, and she would buy the patterns from Balenciaga and Lanvin in Paris and then loan them to me. I made a beautiful square-necked (CONTINUED ON PAGE 218)

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FIRST PERSON In my mid-20s, I started wearing things that felt good. Until that point, I was told I had to be different from who I was; we weren’t encouraged to be ourselves back then. Everyone was supposed to look the same and be less specific, so I tried to be as commercial as possible. I didn’t want to appear goth since that wasn’t popular in Hollywood, but that didn’t work because everyone seemed to classify my style at the time as goth anyway. Today pop culture doesn’t expect people to conform. If you don’t want to go the route of surgery, fake teeth, and extensions, you don’t have to. You can be real. Certain projects have come along when I really needed a change, like The Addams Family [1991], The Opposite of Sex [1998], and Buffalo ’66 [1998]. But it was never my goal to play edgy characters. If you’d asked me in my 20s who I wanted to be, I would have said Sarah Michelle Gellar. I auditioned for rom-coms a lot in the early 2000s, but I’m just not believable at saying “I love you” on camera. I have different specialties, and you need to hire the right craftsman for the right job. When I did Monster [2003] at 22, it was difficult for me to wear a hideous wig and no makeup. But now taking on a character free of vanity is liberating. In my new show, Yellowjackets, I play a woman named Misty who is not at all sexy. There was no ego involved in creating her, and it’s funny to see people aghast at how you’re willing to look. I once caught a younger actress on set looking at my overdrawn lips like, “Is she actually going on camera like that?” [laughs] At 41, I finally feel like an adult, and it’s incredible. What matters most to me is having a fulfilling life and a happy family. Based on my own experience, I don’t think I would ever let my kids go into AFTER THREE DECADES IN HOLLYWOOD, ACTRESS acting as children—I wouldn’t want to CHRISTINA RICCI HAS FINALLY HIT HER STYLE STRIDE expose them to the judgment of the whole world before they’re able to handle it. Once they’re mawas totally discombobulated by the idea of being ture, fully formed adults, they’re welcome to make that a famous person early on in my career. I wasn’t decision on their own. Although the different aspects of comfortable being photographed, especially on fame can be frustrating at times, I’ve never considered the red carpet. I’d hear about people like Robert leaving acting behind. I love the glamour of it all—getting De Niro, who didn’t always have to do press, and dressed up, having my hair and makeup done, flying all think, “Why can’t that be me?” It was difficult to over the world to fashion shows. Even after 30 years, have confidence in outfits I put together myself. nothing compares to walking onto a set and feeling like Eventually I figured it out, but it was trial by fire. a movie star. —AS TOLD TO SAMANTHA SIMON It can be a struggle to show who you are through your style as you’re growing up, especially when you’re not 100 percent sure of that yourself. I’ve played characters for Yellowjackets premieres Nov. 14 on Showtime. work all my life, so the last thing I want to do is look like From left: something I’m not. To this day, I have so many fashion reRicci in 1998, 2002, grets. I remember going to a premiere after a photo shoot 2009, 2017, in 1998—I had intense makeup on and decided to wear a and 2020. wild cape from Anna Sui. It must have been dark in my apartment, because when I stepped outside, my publicist said, “Oh, no. We shouldn’t have done the crazy makeup and the crazy cape.” At the event, other actresses tried to make me feel better by saying my look was “kind of Bowie-esque,” which was nice. But I was still horrified.

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The ﬁrst week of school was great. My second week of my freshman year a kid brought two guns into my school and planned to, and I quote, 'kill as many children' as he could."

— Emma Nees, School shooting survivor

GUN VIOLENCE SHOULDN'T BE PART OF GROWING UP. School shootings are preventable when you know the signs. Learn more at sandyhookpromise.org/teenagedream Paid for by Sandy Hook Promise.

FIRST PERSON

Rolling with the Punchlines

WHEN REALITY FALLS SHORT OF EXPECTATIONS, COMEDIAN NICOLE BYER RELIES ON SL APSTICK HUMOR AND WHITE WINE TO GET HER THROUGH

his is controversial, but I’m going to say it: I’m not loving our half-emergence from quarantine. It’s real shitty! I thought that post-vax we’d all be having hot girl everything, but it’s been pretty…tepid. The “My fall plans vs. the Delta variant” meme was the perfect illustration of our dreams deferred. Building a career in comedy has been a master class in how to handle facing failure, negativity, and all kinds of stuff that can beat you down. It was the perfect prep for tackling pandemic life. I’m very funny to some people, and others are like, “You idiot! I hate you.” I’ve come to understand that’s ﬁne, because my checks clear. What I’ve gathered from dealing with mess-ups and setbacks is just to live in the moment. If you can be present instead of looking to the future to align perfectly with your expectations, it’s harder to be crushed. I’m proud of what I’ve been able to accomplish in the pandemic, between my Emmy nominations for Nailed It! and shooting a stand-up special. I didn’t do it consciously, but a lot of my brand of comedy has come to rely upon jokes about failure. With Nailed It!, you watch adults try their hardest to make something good and then they reveal this thing that appears as if a child could have made it. On Wipeout, our viewers tune in to see contestants give an obstacle course their absolute best effort, and nine times out of 10 they get smacked in the face—that resonates with people! In my stand-up and podcasts, I’ve gravitated toward material on failed hookups and relationships, because truly everyone can relate—they’re not just my own stories, they’re everyone’s. Also, who wants to hear someone brag about how amazing their life is?

Byer ﬁlming her stand-up special Nicole Byer: BBW (Big Beautiful Weirdo); left, on the couch with her dog Clyde.

If you look hard enough, you can always ﬁnd some sort of silver lining even when it seems like things have totally fallen apart. I’ve learned a lot about myself during the pandemic. My therapist told me, “You’re going to look back on this time and miss it,” and I was like, “You fool, you’re wrong!” Because at the end of the day, it would be kind of nice to not remember it at all. But it turns out she wasn’t totally off. I’ve learned that I don’t love being alone, but I have come to like it. I can drink two bottles of wine and if I take an Advil and have a glass of water, I will not be hungover. I thought at this point I’d be hooking up with a bunch of dudes, but I’m still on my couch drinking sauvignon blanc by myself—and that’s OK! Finding humor in crappy experiences has always been a therapeutic way for me to process them, and by now I’ve had so much practice that I can stare down my failures and laugh. And whenever life’s disappointments completely overwhelm, comedy offers an escape; even at my lowest, I can turn on the TV and watch someone get knocked down off a giant obstacle course.

I’m very funny to some people, and others are like, ‘…I hate you!’ That’s ﬁne, because my checks clear.”

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—AS TOLD TO CHARLOTTE COLLINS

Byer’s stand-up special Nicole Byer: BBW (Big Beautiful Weirdo) is on Netﬂix December 7.

Dec. /Jan. Out with the old, in with the extra

Elaine Palacio Mosquera in a Gucci dress and headgear. Seymoure gloves. Gianvito Rossi mules. Photographed by Anthony Maule.

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she’s got the power Having made the leap from actress to mogul, REESE WITHERSPOON now knows true success means bringing all the ladies with her

by GAY LE K ING , co-host of CBS Mornings

photographed by EMM A SUMMERTON styled by J ULI A VON BOEHM

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hey share a mutual pal in Oprah Winfrey, but “we don’t have a great meet-cute story,” jokes Gayle King about her initial introduction to Reese Witherspoon. Over the years, they have gotten to know each other through corporate gatherings, private dinners, and, of course, regular interviews. (In 2019, King was even the subject as Witherspoon and her Morning Show co-star Jennifer Aniston were the ones asking the questions for a CBS Mornings segment.) When it was revealed this past summer that Witherspoon had sold her female-focused production company, Hello Sunshine, for around $900 million, King was among the first to salute her. “That was a big friggin’ deal,” said King during this talk for InStyle. “When I read it in the paper, I stood up and gave you a round of applause.”

GAYLE KING: What’s it like to be a badass? Own it, Reese! REESE WITHERSPOON: I’ve said this to Oprah before,

but LeBron James doesn’t go, “I’m kinda sorta good at basketball.” He’s like, “I’m the best there ever was.” So, yes, I do think I’m very good at what I do. I’ve been doing it for 30 years. I know what I’m doing. Give me the ball. GK: You raise such a good point. Men never shy away from saying “Yep, I’m good,” and women are always like, “Oh, thanks.” RW: Another important difference is that women have humility. I have no problem saying to people, “I don’t understand what you’re saying, can you please explain it to me?” Self-doubt is a good tool. You shouldn’t know everything. Turn to somebody, but advocate to learn more and do better. GK: Yeah, so many people, women especially, don’t want to think they’re not smart or that they don’t understand. You don’t have a problem with that. RW: I’ve dealt with those types of biases for a long time in our business. Actresses, they’re infantilized. People don’t talk to them about money or deals; they say, “Oh, don’t worry about that, we have that.” Not empowering someone with information is a form of control. So at a certain point in my career, I kind of took back the reins. I finally picked up the phone and said, “I’m not excited about this one part of my deal,” and my agent was like, “Well, let’s change it.” Sometimes you have to pick up the phone. Don’t assume. You don’t know the answers. GK: And sometimes, what’s in print can be totally misconstrued. You were recently

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on the cover of the Time 100 Most Influential Companies issue, and the article says you’ve transformed your role in Hollywood from movie star to business leader. Was that your intention when you started Hello Sunshine [in 2016]? RW: It was right about the age of 34 when I really started to look around my business and saw a lack of female leadership at the top, top levels. Women were not in decision-making positions, whether it was a green-light committee on a studio or owning their own media companies. You can look at Oprah and Ellen [DeGeneres], but beyond that, I’m hard-pressed to think of a woman who owns a very robust media enterprise. GK: Ava DuVernay. We can put Ava DuVernay. RW: Ava DuVernay, yes. And I think there’s a whole lot of other women who are doing incredible work—Mindy Kaling, Lena Waithe, Kerry Washington. Basically, women should be in a place where they are very prolific in every aspect of the industry, not just acting. GK: Not only have you started a thriving company, but it was widely reported that you sold it for just under a billion dollars. Is that the number you wanted? Or did you have to negotiate? RW: Oh my gosh, yes! It was two, maybe three months of negotiations on the phone all day. Calls at one o’clock in the morning. I didn’t know a lot about private equity. I’d never sold a company in my life. [Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine’s CEO Sarah Harden will continue to oversee day-today operations and remain significant equity holders.] I learned so much. I was really clear about what women’s stories mean in a marketplace. So it had to be a number that signified that it’s big business because women are big business. Female audiences are big business. Female filmmakers are big business. You can’t ignore half of the population of the world and say that they don’t economically matter; they do. GK: I like that after two months of negotiations, that final number had a whole lot of zeros. What was it like for you to get the check? Did you go home and say to [your husband] Jim [Toth], “Holy shit, look what has happened?”? RW: I cried. I cried, and I thought about my grandma, and I cried more. I thought about all of the women who haven’t gotten these opportunities, and I just feel really lucky that I’m standing in a path that other women created for me. [Starts crying] Sorry. GK: Reese, I’m not trying to make you cry, but I was so proud and so happy for you. RW: Thank you. I grew up in a military family, so it’s about how you serve others. This is the way I do it. By hopefully making art more equitable and accessible.

I do think I’m very good at what I do. I’ve been doing it for 30 years. I know what I’m doing.”

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I’m 45. I know who I want to spend time with and who I don’t.” GK: Yeah, but you got to call your mom, though. RW: I did! The thing that’s great about my mom is she’s like,

“That’s nice, honey. Can I come over for dinner? And I don’t eat fish.” She just loves that I’m happy. That’s all that matters to her. Success and monetary success, they’re great, but she knows the real things in life that make you happy are family and a sense of giving back. That’s the real metric of success. GK: And we can tell what your family means to you. Your husband, your three children… RW: My first, most important priority is my kids. If I told you how much space in my brain they take up every day—do you even think they know, Gayle? I don’t even think they know. GK: No, they don’t. People always love watching you and Ava together, because, honestly, nobody can deny that she is your daughter. Do you enjoy the reactions you get from people when they see you two together on social media? RW: Well, I love being mistaken for her because it makes me feel so young. I’m so proud of her. She really rolls with it. I’m sure it’s not easy looking exactly like your mother. GK: Reese, stop it! When Mama looks like you, it’s very easy. RW: Oh, you’re sweet! We talk to Zoë Kravitz a lot. Because she and her mother [Lisa Bonet] look exactly alike, so whenever Ava is frustrated, I go, “Call Zoë, text Zoë, she knows what to talk about.” I mean, that’s another motherdaughter combo that’s like identical twins. GK: Does Ava want to be in the entertainment business? And if you’re giving her advice about navigating fame, what is it? RW: It’s an odd situation because I didn’t grow up famous. So she’s living an experience that I did not have, and so are my sons. We are lucky enough to have friends who grew up in Hollywood and can help give them advice on how to navigate. Ava is so down-to-earth. She wants to do great things in the world. She’s studying and learning and trying to find herself. It’s a big thing in life to try different things and figure out what is really your path. GK: Well, right now your path is The Morning Show. I love this show. I see so much realism in how it’s done, and I see that some of it is for television. It makes me think morning TV is quite treacherous. RW: Maybe you know a little bit more than I do, Gayle! I did run into [Good Morning America co-anchor] George Stephanopoulos and he was like, “I’m not sure that this is totally accurate.” And I was like, “It’s a TV show!” We definitely take liberties. There’s a lot of fiction there, but some parts of it feel like they could be anybody’s workplace, you know? GK: There are some liberties, it’s true. I get what George was saying. There are some other things that are dead-on. Is there a broadcaster who serves as [your character] Bradley Jackson’s main inspiration? I love this girl! She goes from

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“I’m so happy to be at this job” in Season 1 to telling the boss “Fuck you” in Season 2. RW: It was great to play this character who was so excited to be invited to the party; then by Season 2 she’s entitled, she’s a brat, she’s advocating for herself but maybe not in the most professional manner. It was fun to play somebody so different from myself. I’m a team player, but that is not Bradley. GK: So, she’s so the opposite of you? RW: Professionally, yes. GK: I think it was in Episode 2, she says, “Life just turns out to be a series of disappointments with just enough time in

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between them for the next one to catch you by surprise.” I wrote that down! Did that line resonate with you? RW: I love that line so much. I said to the writer, “I’m taking my time delivering this line, because it is a doozy.” I also have a line in Episode 9 that’s really good too about cancel culture and how we don’t give people grace to be human and to be genuinely apologetic and remorseful. The writing on this show is so good. GK: I want to go back to the first question: Is there a broadcaster who serves as your main inspiration for your character? RW: Well, you!

GK: Uh, let me tell you something: If I said to the boss at

CBS, “Fuck you, and I’m going to call in sick for the next month,” I swear to you I’d be in Times Square looking for a cab. Taxi! So, who is it really? RW: I don’t know! I think there’s people who have understood that they should not be treated poorly and have decided not to go to work because they didn’t want to be treated poorly. Look, people know their power; people know their influence. There’s an entire new world order too. GK: A lot of times women don’t know their power. RW: We weren’t allowed to exert (CONTINUED ON PAGE 218)

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Over dinner at Bar Centrale, a Theater District haunt in New York City, Tessa Thompson is discussing the scope of her work and how she processes it. Typical interview fare. Then comes the unexpected analogy to Sisqó. Back in the ’90s, she was visiting her dad, Chocolate Genius Inc. musician Marc Anthony Thompson, at a hotel when she realized that the R&B star and his group, Dru Hill, were staying there too. The famed “In My Bed” quartet had rolled up in an SUV blaring their tunes at full volume. “It was cool,” Thompson says, admiring the levels of selfaffirmation. “I don’t typically Sisqó around the things I’m in. If I watch them, I’ve got like one viewing, you know?” No matter; the rest of the world has its eyes locked on Thompson, 38, even if she has become adept at blocking out the collective glare. (In truth, she considers herself “an analog girl in a digital world”—à la Erykah Badu—and secretly wishes she could throw her phone in a lake somewhere.) The growing curiosity that swirls around her is a by-product of her undeniable talent, diverse filmography—the Marvel superheroine Valkyrie; a civil rights leader in Selma; a defiant artist-activist in Sorry to Bother You; a calculating boss lady turned robot in Westworld; a woman born out of Janelle Monáe’s vagina pants in the music video “Pynk”—and her ability to transmit an IDGAF attitude when it comes to any speculation about her personal life or style choices. Thompson’s creative swagger is something to behold. Take for example her look at the 2019 Met Gala: How many women do you know who can successfully pair a frilly Chanel couture frock with a 7-foot-long braid wrapped in latex? When mentioned to Thompson, she laughs. “Why not? For me, it’s a character. If you play a lot of villains, people wonder if there’s something sinister about you. In the same way, if you have a latex whip for your hair, people assume that your personal life is a lot more festive than it actually is, which I think is the case with me. They might be sorely disappointed. The only person I’m currently sleeping with is my dog, Coltrane, every night.”

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Fashion, she says, is an armor that allows her to simultaneously play and project. In her day-to-day life, Thompson feels no different than anyone else. “We all live in public,” she says. “We’re followed in public whether we want to be or not. But if you’re a known figure, you exist inside this space where people might try to have ideas and perceptions about you. Which to me is the price of admission.” For her fans, these flashes are their perceived window into the enigmatic ins and outs of a thespian who chooses not to be constrained by the humdrum step-and-repeat expectations of Hollywood celebrity. Thompson doesn’t necessarily mind the memes, like an innocuous moment with good friend Zoë Kravitz at this year’s Met Gala— “That’s my dog!”—or sweet ones with Coltrane, her actual pup. In May, a candid snapshot of a supposedly illicit exchange with director Taika Waititi and his girlfriend Rita Ora following an all-night party in Australia prompted viral whispers about a possible romantic dynamic. The world, pent up by pandemic living and perhaps a horny desire to live vicariously through them, had to know: What was going on there? To which she responds: “Nothing, is the answer. Much to everyone’s chagrin.” If you really want to know what Thompson is about, watch her films. “Hopefully, the work offers the most insight into who a person is,” she says. “At least that’s how I want my work to be, more than anything else I might do.” Born in California and partially raised in New York, Thompson got her start at the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, starring in the tragic comedy The Tempest in 2002. Three years later she began a string of steady television roles on shows like Cold Case, Veronica Mars, Hidden Palms, and Heroes. By 2009, she had transitioned to film with breakthrough performances in Mississippi Damned and, a year later, For Colored Girls. This eventually led to a trip down blockbuster lane with the sword-wielding Valkyrie in three Marvel films (her third, Thor: Love and Thunder, directed by Waititi, comes out in July), as well as

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Agent M in Men in Black: International and Bianca, a hearing-impaired singer and the wife of Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed, in the Creed films. These days she’s got her pick of the litter when it comes to projects and can currently be seen in Passing—Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut—co-starring Ruth Negga and André Holland and based on the novel by Nella Larsen. Thompson plays Irene “Reenie” Redfield, a fair-skinned Black woman from Harlem who occasionally infiltrates the Caucasian world. Shot in black-and-white, the scenes are as tense as they are intimate. Simple gestures—the lowering of a hat to shade features, the application and reapplication of powder—serve to show the fraught particulars of interacting within white society at that time. Thompson deep-dives into research before taking on a role. For the 2020 romantic drama Sylvie’s Love, which is set in Harlem in the 1950s and ’60s, she turned to vintage women’s fashion magazines to get a grasp on the mindset of that era. “So much of what we think about ourselves is what we’ve been told about ourselves,” she says. “So to

interesting.” That also seems to reflect how Thompson approaches the expectations that come with being celebrated not just for her performances but for her radiant offscreen presence: embracing ambiguity and fluidity, and charting a path that is entirely her own and not adherent to any formal rubric of how to navigate stardom. “I really have a problem with strict binaries when it comes to anything,” she laughs. “That’s tough for me.” The “work” for her is not limited to projects she has a speaking role in: In January, Thompson launched her production company, Viva Maude, which she is kicking off by executive-producing adaptations of the books Who Fears Death and The Secret Lives of Church Ladies in collaboration with HBO. Most recently, Viva Maude announced it would be developing Raven Leilani’s best-selling debut, Luster. “I really wanted to start actively developing projects that I’m not in. Because, frankly, I don’t belong in every narrative,” Thompson says. “One of the North Stars for me is optioning roles that have not existed before for Black, brown, and queer bodies.” Thompson is also acutely aware of her unique positioning as a light-skinned Black woman and how that standard of beauty can unintentionally disrupt desired social progress, which she hopes to proactively address with her production company. “I feel really grateful as a Black woman that I get to play a lot of different parts and change the aperture a little bit around what we can be. But I also acknowledge and respect that there are so many Black women who look at me and don’t feel represented and don’t feel seen.” Throughout the course of the pandemic, Thompson spent a lot of time alone (as she prefers) mulling over these themes. Part of her new routine involved committing to firmer boundaries with the Internet, less screen time, less posting on Instagram, and deleting Twitter altogether. She aims for eight hours of sleep when she can—although, she admits, it’s not typical—and has found time to reinvest in simpler pleasures, like supporting her favorite bookstore, the Reparations Club, located in the L.A. neighborhood where she grew up. “I love what I do,” Thompson admits. “I don’t like being the center of the discourse when it’s around my personal life or when things are in the press that I know are untrue, but it feels like relatively speaking it’s a small price to pay. I sometimes wish that people would remember that a performer they see in the media might be playing a character at any moment. This idea that they know you is faulty.” Before we wrap up, I mention that her brand of celebrity means she’s a favorite of Internet message boards. “What they do or don’t do is cool,” she says. “I don’t mind that; get me on those boards.” There is a very long one dedicated to you and those vagina pants, I say. “Oh, well, yeah, that makes sense.” n

“Hopefully, the work offers the most insight into who a person is. At least that’s how I want my work to be, more than anything else I might do.” delve into history, you feel like you’re excavating. And to be making something in the style of how those noirs would have been shot at the time, but to be doing it as Black women, it’s really just a dream.” The actress points out that while Passing is centered around race, it is also an exploration of the multitude of constructs that are defined for us. “I would argue that if you looked at photographs of women who passed all throughout history, you would look at those women as Black women still,” she says. “I could never pass. But it’s about the ways in which we pass all sorts of things. And Irene, while someone who looks like she’s living very happily as a dutiful Black woman and mother and wife, is not. She’s not content with the confines of domesticity.” These complex characters are Thompson’s favorite to engage with, she says: “Work that asks more questions than it answers—I typically think that means something

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O the optimist

CEO of Apple for the past decade, TIM COOK is the first to acknowledge that with great power comes great responsibility. Here, he shares his “North Star,” how he’s building his legacy, and why we should put the phone down and go for a walk by L AUR A BROW N

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he air at Apple Park, in Cupertino, Calif., is so fresh, you’d think Apple made it. Here, in a ringshaped building around which one can walk in an infinite loop, is the heart of the world’s communications, the maker of people’s tools for modern life (the iPhone alone surpassed a billion active devices earlier this year). Before the low-key Tim Cook, then a VP at Compaq, joined the company in 1998, he met with Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs said to him, “I want to change the world.” Cook, as so many of us have since, signed up. Cook, CEO of Apple since 2011 (his tenure started two months before Jobs’ death), enjoys walking, infinitely. To clear his head of his immense influence, to make himself feel smaller. The week before we met, Cook had taken to the famous Steve Jobs Theater stage and released the iPhone 13 models, a ninth-generation iPad, a new iPad mini, a Series 7 Apple Watch, and new workouts on Apple Fitness+. A few weeks later, he announced a new Apple silicon-powered MacBook Pro, a HomePod mini in three new colors, and next-gen AirPods. This is in addition to Apple’s initiatives involving the environment, racial equity, education, accessibility, and, most important, privacy, which is top of mind for its customers and the most challenged, perception-wise. Cook isn’t in the business of poking at tech rivals or social media behemoths, but in a 2021 speech, he obliquely criticized unethical data collection practices: “The end result of all of this is that you are no longer the customer. You are the product.” It’s quite the task to prioritize humanity in a field that so often strips us of it, but this is Cook’s mission.

LAURA BROWN: You’ve said that when you go hiking, it

makes you feel “inconsequential.” How much do you enjoy that, given your incredible…consequence? TIM COOK: [laughs] I think it’s good for all of us to feel insignificant, and there’s no better way to do that than to be out in nature and in the national parks, which I dearly love. I find it very grounding, relaxing, and a way to clear the mind like nothing else quite does. It’s a palate cleanser. LB: How do you calm your brain? TC: I religiously exercise, so that helps me a lot. It’s an hour when I really turn everything off. I don’t sit and do my email and text when I’m working out. It’s a way to block all the distractions. LB: How do you reconcile your immense influence? TC: You don’t let it freak you out. And it’s important to not overthink it. It’s a privilege to lead this company, and because there’s an intersection between my values and the values of the company, it’s a natural place to be, as opposed

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to being the square peg in a round hole. LB: What gets you hopped up like a kid? TC: Oh, seeing shiny new things. The things that we’re working on that some people think are impossible, and the things in the design studio that haven’t yet seen the light of day. And then also getting feedback from customers about what they’re using our products for, like making a movie, taking a photograph, or using them for health care. LB: When you’re on your hikes, are you a step counter? TC: I’m a step counter. LB: How many steps are you doing? TC: Well, a good day for me on the hiking trail is, you know, 20-plus thousand. But in a normal day, unfortunately, not as many. Sometimes I do have walking meetings. LB: Do you pick up the pace and they go, “Oh, boy, there goes Tim”? TC: [laughs] The more I think, the slower I walk. LB: I read the letter you wrote on the recent 10-year anniversary of Steve Jobs’s passing. When you think of him now, what comes to mind? TC: Of course I think about the large product announcements, et cetera, but more than anything, I think about the casual discussions. He would stop by my office every day on the way out. Not even really thinking about him as a boss; I was thinking about him as a friend. I miss that dearly. LB: The last two years have been beyond challenging on all playing fields. How do you stay steady when you see things that enrage you? TC: It’s having a North Star and staying laser-focused. If you do that, you don’t get blown side to side as much and you’re able to turn down the noise of everyday life. The pandemic and a number of things have been challenging, and that has been hard on everybody. But we kept saying over and over, “What are we doing here?” We’re here to make the best products in the world that enrich lives and help in some way. You become more flexible as well. We’ve all had to be Gumby in the last couple of years. We had to learn how to work in a different manner, along with dealing with the hardship of seeing people go through the disease itself and losing people. It’s been horrendous, but keeping focused helps. LB: Have you always been a good Gumby? TC: I’ve always tried to be because it’s important—the world changes, you adapt. We’ve been reminded that we’re not in control of our destiny. I’ve always prided myself on not getting too rigid—challenging myself that I shouldn’t be doing things a certain way just because I’ve always done them that way. LB: I want to talk about young Tim. Has anybody ever called you Timbo? TC: Oh, yeah, of course. LB: Tell me about your childhood. You’re a calm person— were you a calm child? TC: I was probably less calm than I am now. I came from a humble beginning, and it was great being in a loving family. I lived in a rural area, and so the reach (CONTINUED ON PAGE 218)

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aoúl Alejandre’s fascination with beauty began while he was growing up in Los Angeles. “Like most queer people, I was in a process of self-discovery,” he says. “When I was 6 years old, I would lock myself in my mom’s bathroom and just explore and play with cosmetics. So makeup is part of my identity; it’s not just something that I do.” By his early 20s, Alejandre had also become interested in fashion styling and was figuring out which avenue to pursue. He ended up moving to New York in 2017 for a relationship that didn’t work out, but the cross-country trek paid off in other ways when he decided to do makeup professionally. “I always have this intuition to follow anything that I love,” says Alejandre. “I thought, ‘I’m going to take advantage of this thing and test it out.’ ” Within a year of the move, he counted R&B sensation SZA as a client, and his roster now includes Zendaya, Lil Nas X, Willow Smith, and Euphoria stars Barbie Ferreira and Alexa Demie. This past August, the 27-year-old Alejandre made history when he was named Valentino

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Beauty’s first global makeup artist. “To be a person of color, specifically a Mexican artist, and have the opportunity to speak with [Valentino creative director] Pierpaolo Piccioli, who I have so much respect for, felt like a major accomplishment,” says Alejandre of his new role. “Everything following that moment has felt very natural. It’s almost like this was meant to happen.” Imaginative, unconventional glamour through a colorful spectrum of shapes and designs has become Alejandre’s calling card, and this shoot was conceived with a rock-androll spin. “I wanted to do this crystallized Kiss punk look [p. 153] but still give it a feminine touch,” Alejandre says. “I grew up listening to Siouxsie and the Banshees, and I’m still so inspired by their music videos.” His references may be decidedly retro, but Alejandre’s work represents a more contemporary and bright future. “The beautiful thing about right now is we’re all pushing ourselves creatively to be more experimental,” he says. “It’s makeup—you just make it up as you go.” —MAYA ALLEN

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Jurnee Smollett All clothing and accessories, worn throughout, Dior.

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Zoey Deutch

When Maria Grazia Chiuri was hired away from Valentino in 2016 to give Christian Dior a shot of relatability, there was much made of her being the first woman to lead the heritage Parisian couture house. It was good for the press release, but five years into her tenure, we’re seeing what’s become of it. Of course, Chiuri’s plan all along was to sell. And clothing sales, often the lowest-performing category at a luxury house after perfume or makeup or accessories, have soared under her watch, eclipsing fragrance for the first time in 2019. “I’m so obsessed with her suits; I want to live in them,” says actress Zoey Deutch (photographed here), echoing the sentiment of her Maria Grazia shootmates—all of them true believers Chiuri. in Chiuri’s grounded, wearable, accessiPhotographed by Laura Sciacovelli. ble Dior. Chiuri had a more ambitious agenda than the bottom line, though. She wanted to turn LVMH’s leading brand behemoth into a feminist messaging machine. She hasn’t exactly been stealthy about it. From that first spring 2017 show, led by boyish, buzz-shorn model Ruth Bell, Chiuri leaned into comfort over sex. The iconic Bar jacket lost its corsetry and loosened up. Models walk her runways in flat sandals, stompable boots, and kitten heels. Chiuri’s accessories are usable and sporty as well as things of beauty with design bells and whistles. The Book Tote, a simple square shopper, is one of her favorite pieces, and this season it’s entirely embroidered. For those who prefer to simply read in black-and-white, there is the T-shirt. In that initial collection, it was emblazoned with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s mantra, “We Should All Be Feminists”—a manifesto that went immediately viral. To this day, it hasn’t stopped circulating. (A recent sighting was on Penélope Cruz in Pedro Almodóvar’s latest Oscar bait, Parallel Mothers.) Chiuri had to fight for that shirt, an unusually direct state-

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ment for a high-fashion runway. “Our CEO at the time didn’t want to sell it,” she says. “He said, ‘Dior is not a T-shirt company. We are a couture company!’ I said, ‘Yes, but a T-shirt is a contemporary piece of the wardrobe. And I use a T-shirt because if you want to send a message, you can’t write on top of a jacket—it’s not believable.’ It was not an easy discussion. I had to convince him to do a small run and give the money to charity. We produced a tiny amount. Most of those T-shirts you see around the world now are fake!” But they still keep coming down the runway, one for almost every show, highlighting the work of other women Chiuri wants to echo, including 1970s Italian feminist and art critic Carla Lonzi (“I Say I”) and author Robin Morgan (“Sisterhood Is Global”). There have been collaborations with art legends like Judy Chicago (2020’s spring couture), Claire Fontaine (her neon signs blared anti-patriarchy slogans at the fall 2020 ready-to-wear show), and choreographer Sharon Eyal.

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For Cruise 2022, pieces from which are photographed here, Chiuri hired illustrator Christiana Soulou to sketch sporting women into a delicate print. Athletics was a theme of the season, and the overall inspiration was Greece, both ancient and modern, as well as the first whisperings of (what turned out to be temporary) deconfinement. Toga dresses abounded with a nod to the radically reconstructive work of the feminist anthropologist Marija Gimbutas, author of The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe. If the suits have been disturbed by the faint odor of burning bras, they can’t pretend Chiuri didn’t warn them. “I said in my first interview for Dior that my idea was a feminist idea,” she says. “I think femininity can be a trap. What interests me is community work in fashion.” That means not only top-line collaborations but frequently seeking out female-led ateliers all over the world when her collections incorporate different traditions of handicraft. Because if you’re going to sell right-on slogans to women willing to pay hundreds of dollars for a T-shirt, supporting less fortunate makers in the process should be part of the deal. Chiuri was a client from Day 1 of the Chanakya Atelier in Mumbai,

ers still dream on these incredibly skinny models,” she says. “It can be very difficult to change the stereotype. I have to say, ‘Please, this arm is not believable! It won’t fit anybody!’ ” Chiuri is intent on building the brand for women with something to say, and those women are responding in kind. “Maria Grazia has reimagined the conversation between femininity and masculinity and how it is explored through fashion,” says actress Jurnee Smollett, who, before this shoot, last wore Dior at the Emmy Awards, where she was up for her role in Lovecraft Country. “It was my first time being nominated and the first time wearing Dior Haute Couture. It was a classic design, but in Maria Grazia’s hands it became unique and innovative. I was floored by the intricate details and felt like a goddess in it.” Supermodel Natalia Vodianova has been a big supporter since Chiuri’s first day at the house, never missing a show. “She was given an incredible platform at Dior, and she owned it as a designer, but she uses it to celebrate in the name of all women around the world,” Vodianova says. This has been the biggest payoff for Chiuri at a 9-to-8 job where weekends are frequently burned on planes visiting factories and far-flung ateliers. “I’m very linked with women in general,” she says. “I really think that I have to work in a way that I can give service to the women around the world, so that when they come to us, they can find something to help them feel well. That when they wear our jacket, they feel well. That when they wear our shoes, they walk well. It’s beauty too. I don’t like that to be beautiful, you have to be uncomfortable. I think it’s so ridiculous. This is the secret, very simple: I don’t want to wear something that I feel does not empower me.” Critics have not always been kind about Chiuri’s vision, though it wouldn’t be the first time that fashion’s professional opinionators have completely missed a juggernaut. Pragmatism is hard to get rhapsodic about in column inches, even if it’s the animating spirit for Chiuri. She believes it was the same for the house’s namesake, who favored corsets and petticoats. “If you read The Little Dictionary of Fashion by Mr. Dior, you would see he was very practical,” Chiuri says. “You have to choose a bag that’s black, you have to choose shoes that are black, that can work for day and evening. Also his color palette. It’s gray, black, blue.” Not to put too fine a point on it, though: Chiuri’s most recent show was an homage to the mod 1960s, with acid-bright colorblocking and miniskirt suits. Even studious nerdy girls like to swing. Chiuri herself works hard not to take the gig so dead seriously. “When a designer arrives at a house like Dior with this huge history, it can be heavy. But I come from Rome. I arrived here at 52, with a long career and big experience. And so, it’s very interesting for me to look at the reference, to transform, to give it a completely new sense. I like fashion; it’s a territory where you can play. It’s like a game.” n

“I don’t like that to be beautiful, you have to be uncomfortable. I think it’s so ridiculous.” whose artisans she most recently hired to hand-stitch, using 150 different embroidery techniques, tapestries based on a drawing by artist Eva Jospin for the fall/winter 2021–2022 haute couture show. In turn, the atelier, in conjunction with its School of Craft, offers training to low-income women looking to rise to master artisan status, normally a man’s position. But there have been stumbles. In choosing diverse references for her collections, Chiuri has been criticized for appropriating different cultures. An ad featuring the very Caucasian Jennifer Lawrence in a collection clearly inspired by Mexican design was pilloried on social media. In 2019 Chiuri responded by enlisting her daughter, Rachele Regini, who has degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London in art history and gender studies, to head up a cultural brain trust for Chiuri and her design team. They’ve done three sessions so far to get more savvy on the expectations of a broader customer base and the importance of sustainability. It doesn’t come as second nature, Chiuri admits. She nixes propositions from her team all the time that don’t pass the real-world smell test and has hired slightly more realistic Italian size 40 fit models. “Some young design-

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Jurnee Smollett Smollett: Hair: Nai’vasha for The Wall Group. Makeup: Vincent Oquendo for The Wall Group. Production: Octopix.

Viva La

RITA

Returning to her West Side Story roots, Hollywood legend RITA MORENO proves her star still burns bright

as told to JENNIFER FER R ISE

ntertaining has always been in my bones. As a 4-year-old child in Puerto Rico, I would boogie my little behind off whenever my grandpa put on a record, and he’d laugh and applaud. When I was 5 [in 1936], my mother and I moved to America. My mom had a friend who was a Spanish dancer, and when she saw me bopping around our New York City apartment, she said, “I think Rosita has a gift.” So she took me to the studio to work with Paco Cansino, a dance teacher who had great fame in Latino circles because he was Rita Hayworth’s uncle. He taught me some steps and eventually took me to a nightclub in Greenwich Village, where we danced and played castanets together. Of course the audience was enchanted. How could they not be? There I was, this little girl with big eyes twirling around as fast as I could. It was my first performance, and I knew I wanted more. I became enamored with movies after that—I loved the giant screen and the wonder of it all. I’d pack a sandwich for lunch, get to the theater at 10 in the morning, and stay until 3 in the afternoon. It was joyous fun. I remember thinking, “How amazing would it be if I was up on that screen and people from all over the country would pay 25 cents just to see me? What could possibly be bad about that?” In those days, there weren’t really any actresses that a Puerto Rican girl could look up to, so my role model became Elizabeth Taylor. It didn’t occur to me that her skin was lighter or that she had violet eyes. We were around the same

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age, and she had such huge success, so my mom and I bought a waist cincher and did my hair and my eyebrows like hers. Sure enough, when I got a chance to meet Louis B. Mayer of MetroGoldwyn-Mayer Studios fame, he said, “My God, she looks like a Spanish Elizabeth Taylor.” And I got signed on the spot. I accepted whatever parts were offered to me because there weren’t many roles for Latinas back then. Instead, they’d ask me to play a Native American or an Indian or an Arabian. I did the best I could with each role, but it was frustrating. Whenever I did find a role I’d be good for, they wouldn’t even consider me. I was always underestimated. And when you hear someone say over and over that you don’t have value, you eventually start to believe it. My friend Marlon Brando, who I was going with at the time, said, “You really need to see a therapist,” which, of course, is hilarious, because it was one loony telling another loony, “You need help.” But he was absolutely right. And boy, was it life-changing. It helped me define my self-respect and figure out who I wanted to be in this industry. The other thing that helped was getting the part of Anita in West Side Story. Anita was Latina and proud of it. She had such a sense of dignity and always spoke up for herself. I had never experienced that before. Playing her inspired me to find my voice, and that is something that has stuck with me forever. When I won the Oscar for West Side Story [becoming the first Latina to receive an Academy Award], it was truly the moment I realized that people were cheering me on. I barely got any fan mail back then because (CONTINUED ON PAGE 222)

Moreno in Hollywood in 1954.

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Cartier Sixième Sens High Jewelry necklace. 1017 Alyx 9SM dress.

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Van Cleef & Arpels ring. Lou de Bètoly top and skirt. Grooming: Katiuscia Pezzullo. Manicure: Eri Narita.

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Model and advocate JOAN SMALLS turns the streets of Paris into her personal catwalk photographed by CHR ISE A N ROSE styled by SA NDY A R MENI

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P Lanvin coat, top, pants, and mules. Cartier earrings and ring.

Paris is a city with particular meaning for Joan Smalls. “It’s where I broke through,” says the Puerto Rican model, recalling the gig that launched her career: a place in Givenchy’s spring 2010 haute couture show. “That was one of the most memorable moments I’ve ever experienced.” It was an opportunity she had to fight for. “The first time I went to Paris was many years ago, and I had to use my own money to fly out there and put myself up,” she says. “No one wanted to represent me [internationally]. I went to open castings in person and was declined by everyone except for one small agency.” And while Smalls’s fortunes have certainly changed—this past fall her Fashion Month included plum spots on the Boss, Burberry, and Max Mara runways—she’s never forgotten how she worked her way to the top. “Looking back, I appreciate what I have that much more because of what it took to get here,” she says. “It wasn’t handed to me easily. I had this hunger in me to achieve more and not just settle for what I was given.” Smalls pours that same tenacity into raising awareness for the issues she cares about, including mental wellness (she has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and is passionate about the importance of seeking therapy when it’s needed) and educating women about reproductive health options (she recently made the decision to freeze her eggs for the second time at age 33). The model, who donated 50 percent of her wages to Black Lives Matter efforts in the second half of 2020, also helped launch the new #ChangeFashion initiative in February. Now she’s working with the organization on an inclusion rider for the fashion industry, which will act as a contract provision to hold companies accountable for diverse hiring. “Inclusivity is often seen as the optics of casting a model [of color], but it’s not the behind-the-scenes,” she explains. “Our goal is to take a 360 approach to everything from production to catering.” Between advocating for industry change and juggling high-profile jobs—her recent campaigns include Ralph Lauren and David Yurman—Smalls is sure to be very busy in 2022. But if there’s one part of her jam-packed schedule she’ll always look forward to, it’s one more trip to Paris. “It has such a special place in my heart,” she admits with a smile. “It’s like the mecca of fashion.” —ALISON SYRETT

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Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello jumpsuit. Cartier earrings. BEAUTY BEAT As a finishing touch, give your style some extra body by spraying OGX Bodifying + Fiber Full Big Hair Spray ($9; ulta.com) across strands.

Burberry dress. Cartier High Jewelry earrings. Hair: Hos for The Wall Group. Makeup: Hila Karmand for One Represents. Manicure: Chloë Desmarchelier for Blend. Production: Octopix.

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HOT In a litany of looks, one always stands out. Hollywood and fashion stars share the time they felt “fire” by JENNIFER FER R ISE and SA M A N TH A SIMON

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Emily Ratajkowski

I love living in New York City, because you can hit the streets and immediately show off your look. When I get dressed in the morning, I get to decide who I want to be that day. Sometimes that means wearing an oversize suit and sneakers; other times it’s a dress and heels. That’s when I appreciate fashion the most—when it helps me feel like my best self.

Gabrielle Union

The hottest I’ve looked in a while was at my seventh-anniversary party this year in Paris. Yellow is my favorite color, so I chose this Cong Tri minidress. I wanted my look to pop and also feel like a celebration of our love. I was obsessed with how short and corseted it was—it gave me the snatch of life! It was the end of an amazing night of surprises that my husband [Dwyane Wade] planned for me, and I felt as amazing as the experience.

Heidi Klum

I’ve worn some incredible looks, but the one that made me feel my best was the Valentino couture gown that I wore when I married Tom [Kaulitz, in 2019]. The moment I put it on, it was like the romance I was feeling inside was showcased on the outside. I loved the off-the-shoulder silhouette, the voluminous sleeves, and the intricate embroidery that Pierpaolo [Piccioli] created. I decided not to get ready with hair or makeup artists that day because I just wanted to look like me, in the most beautiful gown, marrying my Tom.

Gillian Anderson The 2017 Golden Globes was one of those rare events when the dress, clutch, shoes, hair, makeup, and conﬁdence all came together. This white tulle Jenny Packham gown with a full skirt and crystal-encrusted neck was Old Hollywood glamour, yet still comfortable, eﬀortless chic. I wish that was always the case! I felt like a million bucks.

Sydney Sweeney

I’ve always imagined Venice as this picturesque storybook place, so for my ﬁrst time there this year, I wanted a dress that captured that feeling. This beautiful custom Dolce & Gabbana gown was a dream. It had this sheer mystery to it; if the wind hit just right, it would pick up the train and show off the sexy slit. I felt like a glamorous Italian princess.

Yara Shahidi

I don’t think about being hot in typical terms; it’s about feeling most like myself. The ﬁrst look that comes to mind is a tweed Helmut Lang suit I wore in 2018. I celebrate most big moments in a suit—it’s what I feel most powerful wearing. Having such a beautifully ﬁtted one that also complemented other things I love about myself, like my curls, created this beautiful amalgam of exactly who I am.

Ariana DeBose

Laverne Cox

When I closed the Il Honoré show at New York Fashion Week in 2019, so much of who I am came together. As a Robyn song played, I walked down the runway and created so many amazing shapes with this Zac Posen dress. The response from the crowd was incredible. It was also one of the ﬁrst completely plus-size shows at NYFW, and I was so inspired by the powerful women around me. It was a perfect storm where art met fashion met purpose.

Honestly, I very rarely feel hot. But I nailed it at the 2018 Tony Awards. It was one of my ﬁrst red carpets, and Prabal Gurung graciously styled me. We wanted to celebrate the show I was nominated for, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, and this gown checked all the boxes. Beautiful color. Sparkle. Party in the back. I didn’t take home the trophy, but since I felt 100 percent conﬁdent, I had already won.

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Kristin Chenoweth

My mom always said, “If you feel pretty, you sing pretty,” and I certainly felt beautiful in this beaded Balmain romper. It’s comfortable, it’s sexy, and both men and women love it, if you know what I mean. I can also easily sing in it for concerts. When you’re jumping around onstage, you don’t want to worry about a shirt coming untucked or pants falling down. I wore it for my ﬁrst performance back in front of a live audience after a year and a half, and I felt so much joy that day.

La La Anthony

My most memorable look was the silver sequined Alexandre Vauthier gown that I wore to the ﬁnal season premiere of Power [in 2019]. I loved the classic silhouette and wore my hair in a high ponytail to complement it. The best part was that my son, Kiyan, was my date. He got all dressed up in Dolce & Gabbana to walk the red carpet with me. It was also the ﬁrst time I ever let him watch an episode of the show!

Storm Reid

For my ﬁrst Met Gala this year, I paid homage to [singer] Lola Falana. Lola was someone who took risks. She once wore a gorgeous pink feather skirt onstage, so I sent the image to my stylist Jason Bolden and Ms. Prada’s team, and the rest is history. Every detail, from the color to the feathers, was what I envisioned. It also showed oﬀ my newly chopped blond hair. The entire look was liberating. 190

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Kate Hudson

I don’t know if it’s my body shape or the way they make their dresses, but many of the hottest looks I’ve worn have been by Versace. Their designs just feel like a second skin. Some of my favorites have been the sheer black gown that I wore to the 2005 Skeleton Key premiere, the shimmering gold dress at the 2012 Venice Film Festival, and this gorgeous white gown with side cutouts at the 2015 Golden Globes. My looks are always indicative of what I’m feeling on the inside, so when I’m feeling ﬁery? Bring on the sexy Versace.

Ciara

For a recent dinner, I wore a silver mini slip dress from my LITA by Ciara collection, paired with a La Perla silk robe. It was one of my hottest looks—sexy, ﬂattering, and hugging my curves in all the right places. Fashion is one of the ways I express myself, so it feels incredible to wear something I designed and know other women can have that exact same feeling.

Keke Palmer

When I was around 15, I wore this purple leather Elise Overland dress to the 2009 Kids’ Choice Awards. I loved that it was wholesome yet still ﬂirty. I was ready to show off a more mature side and be like, “Hey, I’m growing up!” Looking back, it is quite the precious statement I was making. But it was a very speciﬁc start of my metamorphosis from child to woman.

Jennifer Hudson

One of my most glamorous moments was when I was photographed for InStyle’s August [2021] cover. [Stylist] Law Roach pulled inspiration from my life outside the spotlight, and the team captured the Jennifer who hasn’t really changed since she was a teenager. It was authentic and sexy and made me feel proud of my journey. Nothing is more glamorous than that. — ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY GLYNIS COSTIN

Hailee Steinfeld

Right before I performed at the 2017 American Music Awards, I wanted to go out on the carpet in something that made me conﬁdent. I felt like I could take on the world in this Mugler suit. The structured shoulders were to die for (and made for a great over-the-shoulder moment), and the slicked-back hair with a sultry eye was the cherry on top. It was a huge night for my music career, and I’ll never forget it.

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Ven Store blanket, $226; ven-store.com.

White + Warren beanie, $165; shopbop.com. Gucci Vernis À Ongles in 712 Melinda Green, $30; nordstrom .com.

Cuyana sleep set, $145; cuyana.com.

Bruichladdich Black Art 9 whiskey, $650; bruichladdich .com. & Other Stories cardigan, $179; stories.com.

Sold Out NYC socks, $30; soldout.nyc.

Apple Watch Series 7, from $399; apple.com.

Furtuna Skin Restorative Ritual Set, $236; furtunaskin .com.

Citizens of Humanity jacket, $1,500; citizensofhumanity.com.

8.6.4 bag, $138; 864 design .com.

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Casper pillow and eye mask gift set, $119; casper .com.

Dyson Special Edition Supersonic Hair Dryer, $430; ulta.com.

Third Crown bangle set (pre-order), $530; thirdcrown .com. Caes sweater (made from eco virgin wool), $323; net-a-porter .com.

Brandon Blackwood NYC tote bag, $485; brandon blackwoodnyc .com.

For the

Warp + Weft jumpsuit (made with eco-friendly sustainable methods and materials), $108; warpweftworld .com.

MINIMALIST

OAD x CW Pencils tote, $85; mpatmos.com.

Kule sweater, $298; kule.com.

Chloé AirPods Pro case, $440; farfetch.com.

Isabel Marant sweater, $875; saksﬁfthavenue.com.

RéVive Skincare Rénewal Collection, $250; reviveskincare.com.

Net-A-Porter 25 Days of Beauty Advent Calendar, $350; net-a-porter.com. D E C 2 02 1 / J A N 2 02 2 I n S T Y L E

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Candylab ice cream van, $18; candylabtoys.com.

Sir/Madam DIY cat and watercolor set, $40; shopsirmadam.com.

Kido Beautiful Faces puzzle, $17; kidochicago.com. Izipizi Junior Sun sunglasses in #D Red, $40; izipizi.com/en.

Minted children’s apron by Kristie Kern (with custom leather name tag), $36; minted .com.

For the

Hey Gang coats for mother ($225) and child ($98) with option to customize; theheygang.com.

LITTLE ONES Kiko + GG reusable bubble wand set, $25; us.kikoandgg.com.

Nathan & Co. 34-inch cotton dolls, $50; nathanandco.com.

Djeco play tent, $80; burkedecor.com.

Global Goods Partners stuﬀed brontosaurus (each purchase supports women artisans and their families), $38; globalgoodspartners.org.

Donna Wilson DIY Loch Ness Monster kit, $38; beachplumcompany.com. Bearaby Nappling weighted blanket (made with organic cotton), from $139; bearaby .com.

Milk Teeth shirt, $28; shopmilkteeth.com.

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Jack Rabbit Creations Surf’s Up Dude magnetic van, $42; jackrabbit creations.com.

Impala Skate roller skates (made with PETA-approved vegan materials), $120; impalaskate.com.

Wild Child Hat Co. hat, $25; wildchild hatco.com.

Ububba embroidered sweatshirt set, $36; ububba.com.

Lovely Littles sweater ($57) and bloomer ($32); lovelylittles .com.

Kahiniwalla cone rattle (beneﬁting women artisans in rural Bangladesh), $9; kahiniwalla .com.

LEGO Education SPIKE Prime Set, $340; education .lego.com.

Yarrow Goods shirt (hand-printed with eco-friendly inks with a puﬀy embossed eﬀect), $28; yarrowgoods.com. Nili Lotan sweatshirt ($65) and sweatpants ($74) for babies; nililotan.com.

Alimrose sequin crown, $14; smoochiebaby.com.

Maileg Princess and the Pea Mouse, $55; mailegusa.com.

Treasury: 50 Stories from Brilliant Dreamers, by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, $40; barnesandnoble.com.

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Saint Laurent T-shirt, $420; ysl.com.

Golden Grooming Beard Trim Bundle, $50; golden groomingco.com.

Globe beanie (made with organic cotton), $30; us.globebrand.com.

J.Crew vest, $128; jcrew.com.

Muur travel kit, $115; muur.nyc.

PXG unisex jacket, $485; pxg.com.

Buck Mason shirt, $65; buckmason.com. Misc. Goods Co. playing cards, $15; misc-goodsco.com.

Subu slippers, $55; village soccershop.com. Heron Preston belt, $175; heronpreston .com.

Eastpak camo bag, $27; us.eastpak .com.

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Alfred Giraud Voyage whiskey, $180; alfredgiraudwhisky.com.

Raen Myles sunglasses, $140; raen.com.

Yeti bag, $150; yeti.com.

For the

FINE FELLOW Hamilton watch, $3,295; hamiltonwatch .com.

Humanrace Routine Pack, $100; humanrace.com. Music Is History, by Questlove, Abrams Books, $30; amazon.com.

Woolrich Barrier overshirt, $595; woolrich.com.

Aether hoodie (made from partially recycled cashmere), $595; aetherapparel.com. Bevel Body Essentials Bundle, $30; getbevel.com.

Gucci Guilty Pour Homme eau de parfum, $128/89 ml; macys.com.

Kiehl’s Men’s Ultimate Age Fighters, $65; kiehls.com.

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Weak Knees hot sauce, $14 each; bushwickkitchen .com.

Art Boozel: Cocktails Inspired by Modern and Contemporary Artists, by Jennifer Croll, Chronicle Books, $19; amazon .com.

Mah-Ze-Dahr Bakery panettone (wrapped in a tea towel), $49; mahzedahrbakery.com.

For the

HOME LOVER DM/BX Piccolo Bowl by Jeremy Anderson (made to order from the artist’s studio for Design Miami), $1,600; designmiami .com/shop/ dmbx.

Estelle Colored Glass decanter, $185; shopmcmullen.com.

Fable ceramic carafe set (sustainably made and every sale contributes a meal directly to a youth in need), $90; fablehome.co.

Baina x Binu Binu towel and soap set, $88; binu-binu Colombiana: A Rediscovery of Recipes .com. & Rituals from the Soul of Colombia cookbook, by Mariana Velásquez, Harper Wave, $33; amazon.com.

Hudson Grace paperwhites ($42) and red amaryllis ($48) in bulb vase; hudson gracesf.com.

Le Creuset round Dutch oven pot, $445/9 qt.; lecreuset.com.

Hem x Siri Carlén throw, $319; hem.com.

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Sir/Madam brass colander, $143; shopsirmadam .com.

Actually Curious conversation cards, $25; actuallycurious.com. Pineapple Collaborative olive oil, $34; pineapple collaborative .com.

Morihata Ha Ko leaf-shaped, scented Japanese burning papers, $58; bloomist .com.

Tom Dixon tank jug ($170) and tank low ball glasses, ($100/2); tomdixon.net

Michele Varian porcelain vase, $140; michele varian.com.

Aarke Carbonator 3 sparkling water maker in gold, $249; aarke-usa .com.

Nespresso Vertuo Next coﬀee and espresso maker, $169; nespresso.com.

Gstaad Glam, by Geoﬀrey Moore, Assouline, $95; assouline.com.

Caraway cookware set, $445; crateand barrel.com.

…And That Lucky Dog

1Gummi small dog bowl, $15; shopbop.com. 2 Found My Animal upcycled denim rope leash (a percentage of sales supports animal welfare and rescue organizations), $62; foundmyanimal.com. 3 Grounds & Hounds Coffee Co. Snow Day Winter Roast organic coffee (20% of every sale benefits at-risk dogs through animal rescue and welfare organizations), $15/12 oz.; groundsandhounds coffee.com. 4 Zoomies cocktail chew toys, $16 each; zoomiesnyc.com. 5 Ubuntu Life Red Love Dog Collar (supports sustainable employment in Kenya with proceeds benefiting a medical center for disabled children), $58 each; amazon.com.

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GHD Unplugged Styler, $299; ghdhair.com/us.

Soko necklace, $78; shopsoko.com.

Alex Mill cardigan, $155; alexmill.com.

Goldie LeWinter sweatshirt ($150) and sweatpants ($150); goldietees .com.

Loopy Mango hat knitting kit, $60; loopy mango.com.

TooD Beauty BioGlitter, $26; tood beauty.com.

Polo Ralph Lauren x MLB Collection cap, $90; ralphlauren .com.

Shashi necklace, $136; shop shashi.com.

Saint New York x Jrue Holiday candle (a percentage of sales is donated to the JLH Fund, $65) and deodorant ($24); saintnewyork .com.

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Pela iPhone 13 case (compostable and eco-conscious), $50; pelacase.com. Aviator Nation hoodie, $189; aviatornation .com.

EM Cosmetics Lip Cushion Capsule Collection, $110; emcosmetics.com.

Banana Republic jacket (made with recycled materials), $300; banana republic.com.

Slip Moonlight Duo large scrunchies, $45/2; slip.com.

EcoTools Sleigh All Day Full Makeup Kit, $50; ulta.com.

French Connection sweater, $148; usa .frenchconnection.com.

OPI Nail Lacquer in Confetti Ready, $11; opi.com.

For the

COOLEST TEEN Nintendo Switch OLED model, $350; target.com.

About-Face Fractal Glitter cosmetics bag, $19; aboutface .com.

Auvere alphabet stud earrings, $195 each; auvere.com.

Wireless Express mini boombox with Bluetooth, FM radio, and LED dancing speakers ($85) and Sing-A-Long Karaoke microphone ($55); neimanmarcus.com.

Coach sweater, $395; coach.com.

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Lord Jones Sugarplum Hemp-Derived CBD Gumdrops, $35; lordjones.com. Filoro boilersuit (made with Sustainable Fiber Alliance–certiﬁed yarn), $350; ﬁloro.com.

Hyperice Hypervolt 2 massage device, $299; hyperice .com.

Lexon Design mini Bluetooth speaker, $50; lexon-design.com. Moon Juice Supers Set, $75; moonjuice.com.

For the

WELLNESS BUFF Maison Labiche beanie, approximately $44; maisonlabiche.com.

The Arrivals jacket (made from 100% post-consumer textiles), $220; thearrivals.com.

Molekule Air Mini air puriﬁer, $399; molekule.com.

Stretch: Seven Daily Movements to Set Your Body Free, by Roger Frampton, Pavilion, $24; amazon.com.

LARQ self-cleaning water bottle, $95/17 oz.; livelarq.com.

Agolde sweatpants, $178; intermixonline .com.

FaceGym x Sephora Full Face Sculpt Kit, $75; sephora.com.

Droplette microinfuser, $299; droplette.io. Unplug meditation app, $70/year; unplug.com.

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Golde Make Your Matcha Kit, $48; golde.co.

Breville 3X Bluicer Pro, $400; williamssonoma.com.

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Sarep + Rose tassel, $30; sarepand rose.com.

Chouquette Dr. Fauci Fan Club Chocolates, $15/5; chouquette.us.

Octaevo paper vases, $23 each; gretel home.com.

Finds

UNDER

$50

Draper James x Lands’ End nightshirt, $50 (sizes XS–XL) and $60 (sizes 1X–3X); landsend .com.

Chillhouse Chill Globes Ice Massage facial tool, $42/2; chillhouse .com.

Jayson Home taper holder, $26; jayson home.com.

Sip & Sonder coﬀee beans, $24/12 oz.; sipandsonder .com.

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Alder New York soap ($13) and soap dish (made with plant ﬁbers, $20); aldernew york.com.

Crate & Barrel stovetop popcorn popper, $35; crateandbarrel .com.

Supreme ball, $20; stadium goods.com.

Vahdam India Weekend in Paris tea sampler, $40; vahdamteas.com.

Boy Smells Figurare candle, $39; boysmells .com.

Craighill key ring, $20; craighill.co.

Susanne Kaufmann Bath Oil Trio, $43; susanne kaufmann.com.

Toﬀ & Zürpel beeswax food wraps, $32/2; threebales homesupply.com.

KagesKrayons unicorn crayons, $12/7; etsy.com/shop/ kageskrayons.

Smith Street Books Who Said That? game, $25; amazon.com.

Georg Jensen dice case and dice, $39; lennoxandharvey.com.

Finds

UNDER

$50

Ban.do We All Deserve Love puzzle, $20; bando .com.

Siblings scented candle kit (sustainably made), $24; siblings.co. Pattern x MAC Holy Grail set, $35; ulta.com.

Sugarboo & Co. XO mug, $18; sugarboo andco.com.

Kiehl’s Merry Masking Trio, $40; kiehls.com.

XO Marshmallow S’mores Kit for 2, $10; xomarshmallow.com.

Faace Mini Hero Mask Collection, $39; thedetoxmarket.com.

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The John Derian Sticker Book, Artisan, $35; johnderian.com.

Hay candles, $35/6; store .moma.org.

Pandora Jewelry earrings, $45; us.pandora.net.

Caribbean Craft handmade papiermâché bowl (sales support and employ communities of Haitian women artisans), $45; caribbean-craft.com.

Malin + Goetz In Good Hands set, $22; malinand goetz.com.

Uniqlo jacket, $30; uniqlo.com.

Jonathan Adler kangaroo match strike, $44; jonathanadler.com.

Hot Cool Tokyo rainbow rubber bands, $14; hotcool tokyo.com.

Gentlemen’s Hardware kitchen multi-tool, $33; amazon.com.

Miss Maude’s Après Ski chocolate bar (includes 8 ﬂavors), $15; barof chocolates .com.

About-Face Fractal Glitter Brow, $21; aboutface.com.

Mia + Finn toiletry bag, $34; miaandﬁnn.com.

Ellis Brooklyn Fully Booked rollerball fragrance set, $48; ellisbrooklyn.com.

Brass Monkey You Complete Me puzzle, $8; galison.com.

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able to see these places before they’re gone.

GK: I’m fascinated too by your book club. How did

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dress with a cinched waist and a sort of puffy skirt, and that’s what I wore to the party. MP: Oh, how fabulous! MS: It was fabulous! But I would say that I’m more classic in my choice of clothing. Shirts—work shirts, khaki shirts—jeans, and well-fitting slacks are kind of my thing. MP: Yeah, you always look so elegant, and, obviously, it works on you. My tastes are pretty much the same. I’ve gone through a few phases. I grew up in the ’80s, which is unfortunate, style-wise. The clothes were not particularly attractive—it was big sweaters and Air Jordans. I don’t think I ever had any particular style until recently. I like very well-fitted slacks with wide legs and a high waist. And button-down shirts. I have a favorite store that I like to shop at in London called Toast, and they basically make my uniform. Just boxy but very chic. When it gets cold, I go to Walker Slater, and I get my tweed jackets and my vests. And I can’t take the heels anymore. MS: I love wearing high heels and high shoes; I wear high platforms. Also, after I discovered Hermès, Brunello Cucinelli, and The Row, I sort of went for those clothes.

MP: I’m going to my mom’s house in Oregon. We’ll

that come about? RW: Oprah has paved the way for people to be more literate and to celebrate the joy of reading. I just started posting books on Instagram that I was reading, and then people started making fake book clubs on Facebook that said these are Reese’s book picks. And I was like, “Wait, I didn’t recommend that book.” So I had to make it official, and since then it’s just taken off. We don’t have an imprint; we’re not making money off of selling books. It all goes into literacy programs. GK: Yeah, but it’s even better when you find a book you love and could make into a movie. RW: By the way, next year, we have the Where the Crawdads Sing movie coming out; we have the Daisy Jones & the Six TV show. We have another show called From Scratch on Netflix with Zoe Saldana. It’s going to be a big year for Hello Sunshine. Which makes me so happy! GK: You have a lot of things on your plate. Are you looking for more stuff to do? RW: No! I love what I do, but I don’t need any more. I’m so good. GK: What are you most looking forward to as we start the new year? RW: More time with people I love. I’m 45. I know who I want to spend time with and who I don’t. And that is one of the great things about getting older—it just clears out so much space. I want to be with my mom, my kids, and the people who fill my tank. And everybody else, I wish them well. n

You both have public Instagram accounts, and Martha Stewart, you will post about thirst traps, which brings me and the rest of the Internet much joy. MS: I don’t necessarily post all the time about thirst

traps, but people like to see a woman like me looking good. And it’s really flattering. When I see a picture that looks especially great, I post it. As a result, I don’t like to post any pictures of me looking bad, and I don’t like to post pictures of other people looking bad either. MP: I’m dubious, but I also semiparticipate [in social media]. I quit Twitter ages ago just because it was a total time suck and an energy destroyer. I had no use for it. But I still do Instagram. I post pictures of things I like or things that have something to do with my charity, A Is For, which is about abortion rights. I think it’s important to talk about abortion openly and remove some of the stigma that surrounds this subject, because too many people are afraid to even talk about it. It’s health care, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. Lately I’ve also been posting a lot of stuff about getting vaccinated, so I am pretty political on my page. I don’t often read the comments; there are trolls who come on, and I just block them. No time for you! MS: As an actress you can say whatever you want, and you’re not going to lose too much. But as the face and founder of a major magazine, it’s hard for me to take a political stance on anything, so I don’t do that. You don’t want to lose 50 percent of your readers. But I want people to know that I care about humanity; I care about the well-being of as many people as possible; and I care that we pay attention to these signs all around us pointing to disaster. MP: I agree 100 percent. We’re not all Jeff Bezos with a bunch of spaceships that we can go and colonize Mars with. This is it. You know? MS: Jeff Bezos is never going to Mars. MP: You know what I mean. We’ve only got this one planet! MS: For the holidays, I’m trying to figure out how we can go to Antarctica and see the beauty of that amazing place. I’ve been already, but I want the [grand]children to see it before it melts. We plan our vacations to get to places before they are no longer the place that I remember them to be. My favorite trip was the Galápagos [Islands] until 20 years later when I took my grandchildren—it was a totally different place, and they were very disappointed, as was I. So, I want to get to places before they’re disappointed. It’s hard because the world is changing so quickly. MP: I think that’s very wise of you and a very loving thing to do, to make sure that they’re

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get a tree, decorate it with antique ornaments, fire up the 78 player, cook, and hang out with the dogs. It’ll be boring, and I’m really looking forward to it. My mother and I, we’re all about Christmas. We’re kind of like Christmas fascists. MS: Sounds like a good time! [laughs] n

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power. Let’s just be clear: Until fairly recently, no one was listening to anything a woman said, and then with the emergence of social media, women have a voice that is undeniable. Women are also hyperaware that they are the buying majority. They hold the purse strings. They also consume much more media than men. When you’re talking in terms of my business, it only makes sense to cater to an audience that consumes more than anyone, right? The economics are just so empirical that you can’t not listen to women anymore. Enough is enough. GK: Enough is enough, I get it. I want to talk about Legally Blonde. Twenty years later, we’re still talking about Elle Woods. What do you love about that character? RW: Her optimism and her underdog status are really appealing. What does it mean that she’s made a life and a career for herself, but she’s still dealing with systemic gender issues? And it’s the same with Tracy Flick [from Election]. There’s a new Tracy Flick book coming out in June, so it’s something that we’ve been thinking about. Who is she in this moment; what has changed for women in 20 years and what hasn’t? We’re still not paid the same. We’re still fighting for basic human rights. We’re still fighting for our constitutional rights. GK: You also have a lifestyle brand, Draper James. When you’re wearing or designing for Draper James, what is it that you want for that person? RW: When it comes to getting dressed, there’s so much noise in the world; I just want to streamline it and make it easy for people. As women, we have other things to concentrate on. We have got to get down to business, Gayle! Additionally, in my 30s, I learned to accept my body for what it is. This is what looks good on it. It will never look good in that thing over there with all the fabric and the bows and the ruffles. It just won’t. GK: I’m still learning this lesson, because I’ll see somebody walking down the street looking good in a dress and I’ll say, “Whose dress is that?” I’ll get the dress, and it looks like crap on me. When am I going to learn that just because it looks good on her it’s not going to look good on me? RW: I fall into that trap all the time. I look at somebody and go, “She looks so good in that.” And I realize, “Oh, she’s tall. I’m only 5 foot 2; it will not look that good on me.” GK: I’m the reverse. I’ll try on something and go, “Oh, she’s shorter than I am. Now I look like a fool. I’m trying to be a little too cute.” RW: I’m like a mushroom that grows in somebody’s shade. GK: Never the look I’m going for. RW: No. GK: You always look so great on the red carpet, Reese. I know it varies from occasion to occasion, but what’s your general approach? RW: Just classic style. I love designers. What they do is so incredible. Stella McCartney and Phoebe Philo and Tom Ford and Michael Kors—these people are incredibly skilled and gifted at what they do, and I’m sort of trying to showcase their work while also talking about my work.

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was not a long one. There was no Internet at the time. Adventure was sort of restrained, in a way. But I always wanted to connect more broadly with the world, and that led me to be the first person in my family to go to college. LB: What did they say when you left? What did your mom help you pack in your bag? TC: You know, being from the South, you drink a lot of sweet tea. And I think I got jugs of sweet tea to take with me. My parents were supportive. They were also probably wondering if it would work out. LB: When you first arrived on campus at Auburn University, did you feel like, “This is where I’m meant to be”? TC: I felt like I belonged there. I was taken immediately by the campus, the camaraderie of the students, and the social environment that revolved around the football team, the Auburn Tigers, and seeing the games. I loved that. LB: When did you start setting your radar on the workforce? TC: My radar wasn’t set for decades thereafter. What was set was I grew up in a family where hard work was expected, so I started throwing papers [a newspaper route] when I was 13. LB: How good is your arm? TC: It’s pretty good. I could hit the doors. LB: If I get you one, could you fling it and hit an Apple Park window? TC: I just might. LB: There is a straight line when you think about it. [Apple] is now the first thing in the news every morning. You have flung the proverbial newspaper at all of us, and we race to pick it up. TC: [laughs] Full circle. LB: How ambitious were you in the early years? TC: “Ambitious” is not a word I would use to describe myself at that time. I saw my father’s work. He was in the shipbuilding business, and it was very cyclical. You’d work for a while, and you’d be laid off. And I didn’t want this for myself. There was a consistency that he didn’t have that I wanted, and then when you combine that with curiosity

and the desire to work hard, things happened. The ingredients were there. LB: Was it also about not wanting to leave yourself vulnerable? TC: Yeah, I think that’s very true. And, you know, it also helps you stay humble. LB: Are you glad you didn’t grow up with money? TC: I’m glad I grew up the way I did. A lot of people don’t have a loving family, and I had one, so in a way that makes you rich by itself. I wouldn’t trade my childhood. LB: You first walked through the Apple doors in 1998. What was the time stamp back then? TC: It was pre-iMac. Steve had just come back to the company [from NeXT] in ’97. He turned over the entire executive team and opened a search for operations. I came out of that search. I would’ve never thought about joining Apple. Apple was widely viewed to be going out of business. [Dell Technologies CEO] Michael Dell said if he were the CEO, he would shut it down and give the remaining money to the shareholders. LB: ’Sup, Michael? TC: Honestly, he just had the courage to say what everybody else thought. And so people thought I was nuts. I didn’t have any intention of taking the role. But I flew out. I thought, “I get a chance to meet Steve Jobs. This is pretty cool!” Within minutes of the discussion, I’m thinking, “I want to do this.” LB: What was the conversation like? TC: There was obvious chemistry, and I was meeting with someone who looked at the world so differently than the CEOs I had known. He wasn’t driven by money or power. He was driven by doing great work that made a difference in people’s lives. He wanted to change the world. I thought, “This is incredible.” And suddenly it dawned on me that while I had loved to work for a long time, I’d never loved the work. LB: Right. You’d just done it. TC: The day I came into the Apple office, there was a picket line of customers who were protesting because Steve had just decided to kill the Newton device. They had signs out front. They were hooting and hollering. When I crossed the picket line to get in the building, I was thinking, “I’ve been involved in thousands of product announcements and withdrawals. We’d put them in our lobbies and say, ‘Come look at the product,’ and even the employees didn’t come.” [laughs] Nobody cared! LB: In your first conversations with Steve, when he said, “I want to change the world,” did it ever strike you as hyperbolic? TC: I believed it. It was clear he was passionate about it. He was throwing all of himself into doing this, and he wanted to work with people like that. I looked at the issues that Apple had at the time and thought, “I can help.” Being part of the resurrection of a great American brand was an incredible thing. LB: With your own iPhone, do you constantly think about all that it took to exist or do you just go, “Oh, I got a text from Gary”? TC: No, I’m still amazed. Take this year’s phone: Cinematic Mode. I’m in awe of it. Who would’ve thought you can shoot and then subsequently change the focus or the depth of field? LB: I like to do it with my cat. All that technology came down to my cat on a bed. TC: [laughs] But it’s pretty spectacular that you can do that, isn’t it? LB: What are your most used apps? TC: Oh, I use a ton. Probably the one that I actually use the most is email—our Mail app. We’re very Mail-oriented at Apple. LB: That seems incongruous, actually. I thought you’d be sending lasers or something. Is it the formality of it or just as a record? TC: No, I wouldn’t call it formal at all. It’s just how we correspond

with one another, and customers reach out to me across email as well. LB: What has been the most glorious note you’ve received from a customer? TC: Getting notes from people who found out they had a heart issue and being told by the cardiologist that they would have died if it weren’t for the Apple Watch alerting them that they had A-fib or whatever the circumstances might be. I get those daily. It fills your tank up. I get random stuff too, like, “What pair of shoes did you wear at the last keynote?” Which were these, actually [points to black suede Nike sneakers]. LB: You’ve got jazzy, colorful socks. You’re more of a neutral-tone gent, but are socks where you go nuts? TC: Oh, I’ve got a whole drawerful. I love to go crazy with the socks. LB: When did you last wear a suit? TC: We’re really casual. The last time I wore a suit was for a government meeting. I was in the White House, actually. We were talking about cybersecurity. It’s a really important topic. LB: How fluid do you think your workings with this administration will be, and is there a difference—I would assume there is—from the last one? TC: With each administration you find things they are focused on that intersect with yours. Then you try to amplify each other. The biggest challenges that we all face are things that require the public and the private sector to come together. Things like climate change—we’re very much in sync with the [Biden] administration on that. But it’s not going to be solved by government alone. It’s not going to be solved by companies alone. Cybersecurity is another one. This is not something that’s going to be solved by one company. LB: How diplomatic are you if you’re with someone you really don’t agree with? TC: I’ve never felt like when you meet with or talk to someone that you adopt their views or their values by interfacing with them. I mean, I’m a gay man, and you know the period that I grew up in, so there were lots of times when you were meeting with people who had very different views about you. LB: In the South, yeah. TC: I’m a big believer in even more communication when you don’t agree. Generally, you find things that you do agree on if you stay at it long enough. But it’s hard sometimes. LB: You told Kara Swisher on the New York Times podcast Sway that in 10 years you’ll likely not be at Apple. Can you get your head around that yet? TC: It’s hard for me because I’ve poured all of myself into this for 23 years. I don’t think I will get my head around it until after I do it, to be honest. Because you’re kind of running and running. It’s like, and I mean this in a positive sense, being on a treadmill incline. You have to keep going or you fall off the other side. [laughs] But I think I’ll always be doing something. I’m not one to kick back on the sofa and watch daytime soaps. LB: Tim Cook becomes a Days of Our Lives addict. Is there such a thing as a typical day for you? I hear that you rise freakishly early. TC: It is freakishly early. But do I have typical days? The truth is no. The common thread is I do rise early; I try to work out; I spend an hour or so on email, usually customer email. LB: What are your evenings like? If you go out for dinner, what’s your thing? TC: Oh, I love sashimi. I could eat it every night. LB: Any rice? TC: No rice. Just sashimi. LB: You just sit there with raw fish? TC: I don’t even dip it in anything. I like the full flavor of the fish. LB: So you go on, like, sashimi benders? Do you have sake with it? TC: [laughs] No, usually wine. I like a chardonnay.

Well, it’s California. Otherwise, you’d be evicted. What is your perfect night? TC: A perfect evening would be low-key. Maybe watching Apple TV+. LB: That has a great slate. One of your Morning Show stars, Reese Witherspoon, is on this issue’s cover. TC: Reese and Jen [Aniston] and the whole cast have done an unbelievable job. We love them to death. And The Morning Show has a reason for being. It’s dealing with delicate subjects in a way that is really engaging. I’m watching Season 2 of it right now, and Ted Lasso is also winding down. LB: That’s basically Ted Lasso’s success: “Let’s make people feel good, because they feel like crap.” TC: It’s amazing, isn’t it? People get tired of negativity after a while. You want to see something positive. You want to believe in something. That show hit right when it should. It was like a prescription. LB: Right into the veins. How much creative input do you have on these shows? TC: Sometimes I’ll interface on the upfront, where we’re buying something, but I’m not a director or producer, and so people who do that for a living are doing that. LB: When Oprah comes here, do you feel like you work for her too? TC: Of course! Everyone works for Oprah. [laughs] But I’ve been to the set of The Morning Show and the set of See. I went to the Ted Lasso premiere for Season 2, so I’m active. LB: Do they all suck up to you? TC: [laughs] They’re the celebrities. I’m just me. LB: Do they say, “Hi, Tim, do you want my Emmy? I got it for you!” TC: We are so proud of the Emmys. I think we had 35 nominations. LB: At home, are you ever messy? Or is there just rice-less sashimi and beautifully folded socks? TC: No, I’m not totally organized. I have a little bit of chaos and clutter here and there. Not enough for it to get in my way, but a little bit. LB: That’s a lovely distillation. What value was instilled in you as a kid that has most stuck with you? TC: I believe in treating everybody with dignity and respect, so that’s the core of my foundation. That’s my bedrock. And my values are decency and fairness and kindness. That’s what I’d like to be known for—hearing people out, believing in a positive intention, and not becoming cynical. LB: To all the kids who get lost in their phones, what would you say to them? TC: Well, you have to understand that technology doesn’t want to be good. It doesn’t want to be bad either. It doesn’t want to be anything. It’s in the eye of the user and the inventor, and technology needs balance, like anything does. You could eat the healthiest food, but eat too much of it and it has a bad result. LB: Like fish. TC: Like my sashimi. [laughs] But technology is like that too. And, of course, you don’t want to just mindlessly scroll, so I would caution people to be the master of their technology. Technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. And I would use our tools— we’ve thought deeply about this, and so we have things like Screen Time and Focus. LB: Screen Time terrifies me. TC: We all have a habit of underestimating how much we use technology. I know I did. LB: What does your Screen Time tell you on an average day? TC: Too much. [laughs] But I’ve taken actions on my phone. I’ve cut out a great deal of notifications, so you can change the number of times that you’re distracted. LB: I say this with all sincerity, and I’m curious if you agree: I’m very glad I grew up without the Internet. What do you think? TC: Well, I grew up in a rural area, and I think I would have loved to have LB:

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my Latino community didn’t know where to send letters. But when my name was announced at the Oscars, I heard that my neighborhood in New York went up in smoke. People were screaming “She did it!” out of their windows. What they were really saying was, “We did it.” And that made me feel marvelous. Fame is ephemeral, though; it comes as quickly as it goes. But you can’t let that frighten you. Because no matter how tough it gets sometimes, performing is the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do. That’s why I’m still doing it all these years later. It’s my version of the American dream. And when people tell me how much West Side Story or Singin’ in the Rain or The Electric Company means to them, I still find it astonishing. I was at an event the other day, and Angelina Jolie came up and said how happy she was to meet me—I damn near peed my pants. [laughs] In this business you never know who is watching or what could be right around the corner. So when Steven Spielberg called to tell me that he was remaking West Side Story and asked if I wanted to be in it, I couldn’t believe it. I thought, “How am I still functioning in this business long enough to see a remake happen almost 60 years later?” [laughs] But Steven and [screenwriter] Tony Kushner wanted to get it right and to correct the original film with respect to the Hispanic characters, so I knew it was in good hands. Tony wrote the character Valentina just for me, and she’s the heart of the film in a lot of ways. Being back on that set was a wild full-circle moment for me. What’s crazier is that the film comes out the day before I turn the big 9-0. And just for a few minutes, I wish my mom were alive to see it. She would’ve never believed it. And I think she’d be proud that I’m still dancing, whether it’s onscreen or just around my house to Bruno Mars. Why stop now? Moreno is a star and executive producer of West Side Story, out Dec. 10.

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Why I Love THIS PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER

by JENNIFER CO OL ID GE Art has always been incredibly important to my family. My great-grandfather was a painter, and my grandfather was an artist and a sculptor, so I was raised with a deep appreciation for great work. For some reason, I’m most obsessed with old portraits. I have them all over my house. It’s like I was born in the wrong era. But this particular picture of my father, Paul, is my favorite. It was painted in 1923 by a female artist my family knew in Milton, Mass. My father was just 3 years old at the time. It’s funny that he looks like a little cherub because he was actually a troublemaker as a kid. [laughs] But what I love most is that it captures the very beginning of one of the greatest human beings I’ve ever met. My father went on to do so much in his life. He grew up during the Great Depression, he served in World War II in the Pacific, he manufactured supplies for boats, he became a pianist who played a little grand piano on his sailboat, and in the last 30 years of his life, he was a huge environmentalist. He was charismatic, smart, funny, and extraordinarily kind. He used to joke that the only thing I inherited from him was his absentmindedness. [laughs] I may have gotten his dry sense of humor and his square face too. But he was everything to me. When I was growing up, the painting was hung in our family’s dining room, so I looked at it often, always admiring the beautiful details, like his fluffy, curly hair and the perfect reflection of the bowl in the table. You can’t really see what he was eating, but my father had cereal and berries every day for his entire life, so I’m pretty sure I know what was in

there. Truthfully, I would do anything to be sitting at that table with him today. He passed away when he was 95, and when my three siblings and I met to decide what we wanted to keep from the house, this painting was my ﬁrst choice. It means more to me than anything else. I brought it to my home in New Orleans, and it ﬁts right in, like it was meant to be up on my wall. Whenever people come over, they ask about it, and I always smile and say, “Oh, yeah, that’s just my dad.”

Coolidge stars in HBO’s The White Lotus (out now) and the Netﬂix ﬁlm Single All the Way (out Dec. 2).

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