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fashionista 028 ruff + tough: go for the frill.

034 fashion news 039 jeans of the month: ag adriano goldschmied 041 tee of the month: young & reckless 044 factory girl: topshop never fails dani stahl.

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beauty queen 048 cory’s corner: psychic experience 049 now trending: acid wash jeans 050 face value: super serums 052 get this: oui bit french

070 after the gold rush: gilded accessories made for your mane 076 beauty news 078 the look: rodarte spring ’14 079 counter culture

054 directory: pastels perfect for the cold 062 mass appeals: design duos 066 haute stuff: finds for the season of love

on the cover vanessa hudgens photographed by aaron richter. styled by j. errico. hair: thomas dunkin at the wall group. makeup: katey denno at the wall group using burt’s bees. manicurist: casey herman at kate ryan inc. using chanel le vernis. photo assistants: ross thompson and brad ogbonna. retouching: kate coats for blue space co. shot at go studios, new york. shirt by hugo, bra by fausto puglisi, leggings by louis vuitton, necklace by dolce & gabbana, rings and bracelets by fallon. this page top right: pari ehsan at the paola pivi exhibit ok, you are better than me, so what? at galerie perrotin, new york. photographed by tylor hou.

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112 run lola run: zoë kravitz will trick you into listening to her new band, lolawolf, if she has to—and she knows you’ll like it. by melissa giannini. photographed by isa wipfli

fashion & features 080 miss bliss: vanessa hudgens can hang with the hippies, be one of the boys, and school you at soulcycle—and that’s all after proving she’s a serious actress. by ashley baker. photographed by aaron richter. styled by j. errico

088 inside out: this spring, the bra top is back in a big way. photographed by silja magg. styled by martha violante

114 looking good: jonathan groff shines in hbo’s anticipated new series looking. by ashley baker. photographed by shane mccauley

096 the reflektors: foiled fashion never looked so sweet. photographed by jason nocito. styled by james rosenthal

116 back in black: dee dee penny presents a deeply personal third album from the dum dum girls. by devon maloney. photographed by ted emmons

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119 culture club: february’s best art, books, movies, tech, travel, and more

106 up + at ’em: azealia banks puts herself out there. by jeff weiss. photographed by bella howard 110 we love lucy: vampire academy’s lucy fry is the next big thing to come from the land down under. by emily meyer. photographed by david shama

127 shopping list 128 bag check: start seeing red. packed by dani stahl

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As we go to press on the February issue, the single-digit temperatures in New York are making all of the spring clothes on these pages an especially welcome sight. Our cover subject, Vanessa Hudgens, wears them well. She last appeared on our cover in 2011, and it’s been cool

to watch her evolve as a dramatic actress and take on projects like her new film, Gimme Shelter.

Meanwhile, our roving factory girl, Dani Stahl, went to London to report on the Topshop Unique fashion show. It’s always one of the best scenes at London Fashion Week, and I look forward to experiencing it again in a few weeks. Not only is London one of my favorite

cities in the world, it’s a great place to discover new designers and check out the latest offerings from classic brands.

Meanwhile, I’ve been spending a lot of time in L.A., working on some really exciting incarnations of NYLON TV. Stay tuned. marvin scott jarrett editor-in-chief

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rock steady Vanessa Hudgens is a style chameleon.

When she’s walking the streets of New York, she looks every bit the cool city girl.

While taking in a set (or 20) at Coachella, Hudgens goes for fullon boho regalia. So when fashion director J. Errico decided to turn the actress into the proverbial NYLON girl, it didn’t take much to make it happen. “She loved all the leather and sequins,” says Errico.

“And she was like a kid in a candy store with the accessories— she just piled on the Hermès bracelets and Fallon rings.” Some of Hudgens’s favorite pieces included a pair of Ashish

shorts and studded Dr. Martens, which she nicked from the shoot (with Errico’s blessing). The beauty look was equally rebellious: Makeup artist Katey Denno darkened Hudgens’s lids and painted her mouth bright red, thereby crushing the old no-bold-eyewith-bold-lip rule.

Hairstylist Thomas Dunkin played of the inspiration and gave Hudgens chic rocker locks. Her thick, naturally wavy tresses were treated with two diferent-size curling irons, thickening cream, and a generous helping of hair spray.

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c ontributor s allen wood hairstylist, nyc created the coifs seen in the beauty story “after the gold rush” (page 70).

jeff weiss writer, l.a. interviewed azealia banks for “up and at ’em” (page 106).

“there’s an old biggie line about people saying that he was nice, but that it was ‘on the low.’ that’s sort of how it is with azealia banks. she’s earned a reputation as a quick-to-attack diva, but in reality she’s incredibly sharp, well-read, and eager to dispense opinions on any topic—not out of malice, but through genuine interest.” twitter handle: @passionweiss latest discovery: the ’70s jazz-fusion band cymande travel plans: cambria, a little village on california’s central coast playing on repeat: darkside’s psychic online fixation: babylonfalling.tumblr.com and my website, passionweiss.com compulsively reading: autobiography by morrissey secret skill: offensive rebounding sartorial signature: garish faux-fur coats

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aaron richter photographer, brooklyn shot vanessa hudgens for “miss bliss” (page 80).

“vanessa’s shoot was hours and hours of dancing to kanye and disclosure.” hails from: st. louis twitter handle: @richterfit latest discovery: scandal—omfg travel plans: i wish! playing on repeat: chance the rapper online fixation: the nba’s twitter compulsively reading: everything norman mailer has ever written mode of transport: a hoverboard secret skill: making coffee sartorial signature: my glasses

“like a magpie, i’m keen on anything metallic or sparkly, so this hair story featuring gold accessories felt like a match made in heaven. i love the idea of taking a simple style and turning it into something special by adorning it with a beautiful accent piece.” hails from: seattle instagram handle: @allenthomaswood latest discovery: hot whiskey and chai, tom ford’s sahara noir fragrance, and solange travel plans: st. john at the coldest point of the new york city winter, texas to style a bride for her wedding on a 700-acre ranch in may, and i’ll vacation with wild ponies in the outer banks this summer. playing on repeat: my stereo is locked on the classic rock station. online obsession: exotic shorthaired cats on instagram compulsively reading: jhumpa lahiri’s the lowland mode of transport: weather permitting, i bike to work (13 miles round-trip)—otherwise, the subway. secret skill: i grow a major secret garden every summer that completely engulfs my entire patio in vines and blooms. sartorial signature: pacific northwest lumberjack meets viking—a plaid flannel, hiking boots, beard, wild hair, stacked gold and silver bracelets, and my comme des garçons oversized black backpack

martha violante stylist, nyc masterminded the looks in the fashion feature “inside out” (page 88).

“there were so many bra tops for spring—it was fun to research them and then figure out different ways to wear them!” hails from: chicago latest discovery: tokyo bopper, one of my favorite stores in tokyo travel plans: new orleans and l.a. for work, chicago and florida with the family, and tokyo for the shopping playing on repeat: my boyfriend’s spotify mixes online fixation: nytimes.com and style.com compulsively reading: the new yorker and photo/ art books for inspiration mode of transport: uber sartorial signature: flats— being comfortable when i am running from city to city, meeting to meeting, and shoot to shoot is always important. and there are tons of great brogues and flat sandals for spring!

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the archives of samples and images from the past and found vintage items online.” And really, history has long been a part of Guess’s appeal, particularly with its years of iconic ad campaigns. “Each of those images brings nostalgia and a smile to our fans, almost like playing an old song,” explains Ernster. “That’s the magic of Guess.” LISA MISCHIANTI guess.com

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The union of beloved streetwear brand Stussy and avant-garde jewelry designer Jules Kim is a collaboration to be anticipated by style-philes and feline fiends alike. The range of accessories and apparel was inspired by the culture of Jamaica, particularly the Lion of Judah, a symbol of Rastafarianism. "My boyfriend, photographer Alessandro Simonetti, shot some images of the last Passa Passa street party in Kingston, and I was fascinated by the rawness and real happiness in people's faces," explains Kim. Her unique aesthetic channels Jamaica's wild beauty into golden and gem-encrusted jewels, like a lion double-finger ring, and tail-shaped fingertip nail ring, as well as two muscle tees emblazoned with a king of the jungle.

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“There was so much of the same out there,” says Ch loé Gordon, who designs the new accessories and rea dyto-wear collection Bea ufille with her sister, Parris.

“Impeccable workmans hip seemed only to be availab le at an incredibly elevated price point.” Their spring '14 oferings—inspired by the Renaissance and '70 s California skateboardin g culture—evoke a filtered on-Instagram, desaturate d fantasy with muted pas tels, antiqued-print silk chifon s, and hardware-encruste d lambskin leather jacket s.

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guess: photographed by isa wipfli. stylist: skye stewart-short. hair: shinya nakagawa using kérastase paris. makeup: daniella shachter at workgroup using nars cosmetics. fashion assistant: sophie perkins. model: catalina at img. all clothing and jewelry by guess, shoes by alice + olivia. stüssy: photographed by alessandro simonetti.

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Denim & Supply Ralph Lauren has produced almost everything one needs, wardrobe-wise, except for shoes— until now. This month marks the brand’s debut of footwear, and true to form, it’s infused with an earthy, vintage-y vibe with a hint of big-city exploration. Expect bandana-print flipflops, leather sandals with Western details, and chunky heels with bronze studs— all of which nod to Americana, and will be sold at Macy's as well as Denim & Supply stores.

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If eBay is any indicator, stylish shoppers are still very much in the market for retro Guess gear. Lucky for these label loyalists, the brand will be releasing the Originals Collection, a denim range that reintroduces its most beloved classic looks that pair with the line’s signature polka-dot print, black-and-white gingham pattern, eyelet fabric, and patchwork details. The oferings draw direct inspiration from the most quintessential old-school Guess designs while updating them with a more contemporary fit and modern denim technology. “The research process was really fun,” says chief design oficer Sharleen Ernster. “I went through

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Richard Chai’s new capsule collection for Andrew Marc has every leather jacket a girl could, and should, dream about. “I like layering them in new ways, or pairing them with unexpected pieces like a fluid, draped dress,” says Chai. But the good times aren’t strictly limited to leather oferings. The collection includes silk button-downs and tech twill pants in black and white that could easily be used as the building blocks of your spring wardrobe—especially since they have leather trim. ASHLEY BAKER andrewmarc.com

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New York-based multimedia artist Baron Von Fancy has lent his creativity to everything from bow ties to socks to waterfalls, and his new collaboration comes in the form of phone cases, tanks, and fleece. Von Fancy—also known as Gordon Stevenson—has adapted his concept of airbrush-style scribbled catchphrases and conversation snippets for Juicy Couture’s spring '14 collection.

The 29-year-old artist describes the common thread between his aesthetic and Juicy’s

as “fun, playful, cheeky, and sometimes even a bit kitschy.” The range's stark white pieces with hot pink spray-paint accents feature maxims tailor-made for nice girls who like stuf, including a leather tote labeled “emotional baggage.” Von Fancy, who showed his artwork at Colette in Paris last year, believes the phrases “belong to the objects and make them more than they would be without their designs.”

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Thirty years ago, David Yurman turned an industrial motif, the cable, into the cornerstone of a fine jewelry collection.

Now, to celebrate the anniversary of the famed Renaissance Cable Bracelet, Yurman’s son, Evan, has worked with his father to reinterpret the classic in limited-edition variations that incorporate everything from brightly colored aluminum to pave diamonds. “I believe in the purity of materials,” says Evan Yurman. “Aluminum is not only pure—it can be easily manipulated into a number of shapes and colors. I focused on creating two palettes— saturated and ‘powder’ tones, which were inspired by the colors of the gemstones we use in our fine jewelry collection.” One in every color, please. AB davidyurman.com

andrew marc: photographed by isa wipfli. stylist: skye stewart-short. hair: shinya nakagawa using kérastase paris. makeup: daniella shachter at workgroup using nars cosmetics. fashion assistant: sophie perkins. model: catalina at img. all clothing by andrew marc, ring by bones and feathers. illustration by esra røise.

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m ate ri al wit ne ss Whether she’s performing in sneakers or donning jumpsuits on the red carpet, British singer Rita Ora has emerged as a new kind of sporty-cool style icon.

It’s a no-brainer, then, that Madonna and her daughter Lola Leon have recruited the pop star as the latest face of their Material Girl line. Ora phoned from the spring '14 campaign shoot in Miami to discuss her new gig with Liza Darwin.

There are some '90s trends we severely regret (e.g., light-up sneakers, the overload of butterfly clips, and yes, the dreaded bowl cut). But there were also some major takeaways, like colorblocking, checkers, and animal prints.

Enter the new collab from online fashion mecca ASOS and the athletic-wear professionals at Puma, who have teamed up this season to create a serious '90s revival. Zip-up hoodies revamped with fur and zebra print, sweatpants with grafiti embroidery, and that signature Puma logo all come together in a collection that gives of a Kawsmeets-Dionne from Clueless kind of vibe.

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What’s the coolest part of being the face of Material Girl? Well, I wear most of it! I also just love how it’s vague in terms of age groups; it’s cool for people in their twenties, or with younger teenagers. There are so many options to choose from, and I love the patterns.

What’s your favorite piece from the new collection?

I’m wearing a jumpsuit now that’s definitely my favorite. It’s black with a corset top, so you can dress it up or down easily. I’m obsessed with jumpsuits.

How does your onstage style relate to your closet in real life? I try to keep the same style going, no matter what hour of the

day or my plans. I just love feeling like I’ve made an efort with my outfit— getting dressed feels like an adventure for me.

What’s your number one styling tip? I get all of my drama from hair and makeup, so that means I can keep it simple with clothes. White T-shirts and high-tops are really all you need. I have so many pairs of sneakers because I wear them all the time.

What’s on your Material Girl playlist? Today we’re listening to ‘70s disco and it’s amazing. A little Donna Summer always makes people smile.

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Although the Johannesburg-born desig ner Alexis Barrell launched her label in London in 2010, it's just now touching down on American shores. For spring '14, she was inspired by cult films Point Break and True Romance and a road trip on the Pacific Coast Highway. "I was wear ing a lot of old-man shirts," she recalls.

The collection that ensued is a mix of rewo rked Hawaiian button-ups, '60s-style swim shorts, leather hoodies, oversized T-shirts, and crop tops nodding to '90s surf culture. Anyone up for silk-andneoprene eveningwear? JESSICA BUMP US alexisbarrell.com

rita ora: courtesy of material girl. tee of the month: shirt by young and reckless. photographed by isa wipfli. stylist: skye stewart-short. hair: shinya nakagawa using kérastase paris. makeup: daniella shachter at workgroup using nars cosmetics. fashion assistant: sophie perkins. model: catalina at img.

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So many message tees, so few days of the week. But the idea behind Young & Reckless’s cotton “Funds” T-shirt is one we can relate to more often than not.

This clever riff on Cyndi Lauper’s girl-power anthem is an especially provocative conversation starter when our funds are depleted for good reason. (“Well, I spent two weeks’ salary on Hedi Slimane’s Saint Laurent biker boots. But can you believe this shirt only set me back $26.50?”) Naturally, you can wear it with jeans, but we also love it with a fully styled look—statement skirt, printed snapback, and serious gold jewels—so it’s very clear that your hard-earned cash has been used for noble purposes. AB

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Emoticons are the hieroglyphics of the 21st century, so what if you could wear a bauble version of your favorite?

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(More grown-up pieces include necklaces and rings with gilded talons wrapped around gemstones.) JT alisonlou.com

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You best set your iPhone alarm extra early for February 9, because on that blessed morning, another delicious Target collaboration is going live online. Peter Pilotto for Target is a 62-piece collection of dresses, separates, clutches, and swimwear dreamed up by Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos, the London design duo. The brand, which caught the fashion

world’s attention when it won the Emerging Talent prize at the 2009 British Fashion Awards, has become a go-to for digital print-crazed style stars like Sienna Miller, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart.

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In all likelihood, you spent the month of January mostly stationary—recovering from the magical but also soul-crushing holiday travel season, shunning the snow, and agonizing over the new season of Girls. We don’t judge, but society beckons.

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For way too long, Topshop was sort of a fashion unicorn—its name uttered only when my best friend, Charlotte, would come back to New York after visiting her family in London.

“Who made that?” I would ask, admiring her look.

“Oh, Topshop,” she would respond with a shrug. So on-trend, so affordable, so hip, but in a cool way, not a wannabe one.

Needless to say, my first visit to London was practically Topshop-themed.

I was taking summer school classes at Cambridge, and when I could pull myself away from the racks, I also checked out almost-asiconic sights such as Big Ben and Madame Tussauds.

My first prolonged visit to the city happened in 2007, when NYLON put together a London issue. Every day was scheduled around my daily Topshop run: Kate Moss’s collection was on sale at the time, and during every visit, I managed to find another gem to add to my growing collection, many of which I still wear.

After 10 days of immersion, I finally had a feel for the

city, and the store map of the brand’s Oxford Circus flagship permanently etched in my memory.

These days, I go back regularly for London Fashion Week, and naturally, I need to be behind the scenes at the spring Topshop Unique show. In true Factory Girl fashion, last September, I hit up the Oxford Circus flagship within hours of landing at Heathrow. It’s a fashion lover’s amusement park, filled with floors and floors of clothes and accessories. You can get a blowout, manicure, and if you’re so inclined, even a piercing. I have to find a cute outfit for the show, of course, so I settle on a pair of loose-fitting cropped

trousers and a lime green mohair sweater with star appliqués. I complete the look with an oversize leather moto jacket—clearly, the best piece from the Meadham Kirchhoff capsule collection.

The next morning, I head to Topshop HQ in central London. The brand started in 1964 as a kaleidoscopic shop-in-shop at a nowdefunct British department store. Today, Topshop makes clothes, shoes, accessories, and great makeup, actually—especially the lipsticks and nail polishes—and lucky for all of us, it’s sold at 440 stores in 37 countries around the world. For the spring ’14 collections, it sponsored the British Fashion Council’s NEWGEN program, which means that they are underwriting the fashion week shows of designers like Simone Rocha and Sophia Webster.

As models go about their fittings in one of the brand’s many conference rooms, I take a break to chat with Kate Phelan, Topshop’s creative director and contributing stylist to British Vogue. (She served

as co-fashion director there for many years before joining Topshop in 2011.)

As I was coming up in the fashion industry and starting to read magazines from all over the world, British Vogue was a bible for me (enter angelic chorus here). I wanted every single thing shown in its pages; it was just so NYLON! That cool mix of high and low that Phelan does so well is perfectly suited to Topshop.

She walks me through the collection, which is full of graphic prints, earthy tones, an alluring hippie-dippy element, and a lot of blue.

The inspiration is the day after the big night out—on a far-flung beach, naturally.

Unfortunately, the warm vibe inside Topshop HQ does not radiate into the streets outside. The next morning, it’s raining—go figure—as I make my way to the gardens of Regent’s Park for the show. The buzz backstage, where I

film a spot for NYLON TV, is deafening. But the front row, where I soon take my seat, is much more serene.

I crane my neck to see why the paparazzi are going crazy across the runway, and when the crowds part, there she is—Kate Moss.

My icon! I shouldn’t be that surprised, but I can’t help but spend most of the runway show experience (looks one through 17, anyway) staring mostly at her. Like Topshop, Moss is one of those institutions that always feels new, fresh, and special. A fashion unicorn at its finest.

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master craf ts at raf simons’s dior, the feminine mystique is alive and well. by maura kutner walters. illustrated by natalie lines

Since Raf Simons ascended the creative throne at Christian Dior, tops are wispy, skirts are statement, and trousers are slim. The historically minimalist designer has a refreshingly different vision of the legendary label and the women who wear it—one consisting of pants under gowns, clashing colors, and busy bubble skirts—and if the reception he’s received from the fashion world is any indication, he’s onto something.

The Belgium-born, artobsessed Simons has brought a jolt of frenetic energy to the brand after being named successor to John Galliano in April 2012.

While his debut couture collection had strong ties to the architectural yet feminine shapes that were hallmarks of Mr. Dior’s New Look (think nipped waists, Bar jackets, and full skirts), two seasons later Simons is forging his own Dior. He’s creating clothes for a new tribe of women who are just as discerning as traditional devotees, but also a little bit wild.

Christian Dior was one of the preeminent couturiers in Paris before he introduced the New Look, his revolutionary take on ready-to-wear, in 1947, bringing some long overdue glamour to the masses of postwar Paris. “We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of womensoldiers built like boxers,” wrote Dior. “I drew womenflowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.” Simons has effectively created a new New Look—one reflective of our time. He has introduced lean suiting, statement outerwear, and psychedelic

riffs on the famous A-line silhouette. But make no mistake: Simons is not scrapping the trademark elegance of Dior. He’s simply showing the next generation of women how to make it their own.

Recent faces of the brand’s campaigns—Charlize Theron, Marion Cotillard, Natalie Portman, and Jennifer Lawrence—are the ultimate versions of the new Dior girl.

They’re serious actresses, the kind who take on dark, twisted roles, chop off their hair on a whim, win Oscars, and yet remain exceptionally private.

The same red carpet queens clamor for Simons’s otherworldly haute couture.

At the 2013 BAFTA Awards, Marion Cotillard’s bright yellow silk bustier dress had a revealing panel sliced across the skirt to reveal the tops of her legs. The gray knitted evening dress Jennifer Lawrence wore to the Los Angeles premiere of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was this year’s smartest take on the nakedbut-not trend, oscillating between transparent and opaque with layers of folded fabric. It’s this fool-the-eye craftsmanship that makes Simons one of the industry’s

most intriguing designers— and it’s what captivates the fashion cognoscenti season after season.

Meanwhile, Simons’s python bags and pointy ankle-strap pumps have become ubiquitous among the street-style set, with sartorial stars both refined (French First Lady Valérie Trierweiler) and rebellious (The Misshapes’ Leigh Lezark) pairing his sumptuous accessories with crepe blazers and skimpy crop tops. No matter the length of her hemline, the new Dior woman wants you to do a double take.

Her cotton shirtdress has a smattering of crystals on the back, her Bar jacket may moonlight as a minidress, and her heels are spiked.

She is not immune to the power of the shock factor.

She can’t be bothered with a lot of makeup—a slick of mascara or a bold lip will do—and she usually throws her hair up in a messy bun.

(Witness J.Law’s barefaced ad campaigns.) The new Dior woman carries a quilted, chain-handled bag over her shoulder and balances its ladylike form with an oversized gray coat. Her look falls somewhere between polished and provocative.

You’ll know she’s a member of Raf’s club by the neon rosebud patch stitched on her blazer, a nod to Mr. Dior’s love affair with flowers.

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Singer-slash-model Sky Ferr eira has a history with hair: Her grandmother raised her in a house that doubled as a salon. "She used to chase me around hold ing a brush in an attempt to detangle my hair," recalls Ferr eira, who was recently named the face of Redken's redesigned line and spanking new stylers. Though she had long hair for most of her life, recently, she's beco me more experimental, debuting a chopped-off coif to lots of online buzz. Now, her tresses are in the capable hands of Redk en creative consultant Guido Pala u.

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For Jo Malone style director Charlotte Stockdale, the day can be summed up in four dreamy vignettes that, in turn, have been translated into a quartet of candles.

The first is Lavender & Lovage, an olfactive interpretation of waking up in a tangle of scented sheets with fresh herbs by the bedside. Green Tomato Leaf is reminiscent of mornings spent plucking the ripe fruit from the vine. Sweet Almond & Macarons nods to an afternoon of nibbling on French confections and sipping vanilla-tinged tea. Incense & Embers evokes an evening of lounging in front of a roaring fire. So, basically it’s the perfect day. KD jo malone just like sunday candle collection, $65 each, jomalone.com

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Ask any makeup artist to name the one tool that makes the biggest impact appearance-wise, and they’ll usually endorse a lash curler.

Sure, those metal clamps can make you look like Bambi in about T-minus 10 seconds, but when you’re trying to cram 20 minutes’ worth of makeup application into the space of five, that’s one step that usually falls by the wayside. So for those who lack the time to dig out the curler, there is Physicians Formula CC mascara, which does the work for you. A trio of natural ingredients gives you the bended efect without the efort, while also making your lashes look long and lush. physicians formula organic wear 100% natural origin cc curl+care mascara, $10, drugstore.com

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The amount of new beauty products that hit shelves every year is mind-boggling. I know, because I scope out each and every one. So when any particular item sticks around, it’s worth noting, especially when it remains a cult favorite for over 80 years. The product in question: Elizabeth Arden’s Eight Hour Cream. In all those decades, the original formula hasn’t changed, but it’s been adapted to include hand, body, and lip treatments.

The latest iteration is the Nighttime Miracle Moisturizer, a blend of skin-softening emollients, gentle exfoliants, and antioxidants, which work while you snooze. Slather it on before bed to wake with a dreamy complexion. elizabeth arden eight hour cream skin protectant nighttime miracle moisturizer, $39, elizabetharden.com

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in a so-bad-it’s-good, no-no-no motion. As the lyrics of Thomas Jack’s “Book a Shake” sharpen, Anthony bellows, “Out of the saddle!” and she lunges toward the handlebars, her legs even blurrier than before. This is Hudgens’s happy place. Throughout the 45-minute session of push-ups, jumps, and crunches that all, improbably, happen while pedaling, Hudgens’s performance is a technically correct yet personalized interpretation of Anthony’s choreography. “I’ve considered signing up to be an instructor, but not in a ‘fuck acting’

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way,” she says afterwards. “Just because it’s fun. But I don’t think my manager would like it.”

In the merciless light of the unisex locker room, even the back-row slackers are sweatdrenched, but after a quick face scrub, Hudgens is good to go to lunch. I offer a dab of my moisturizer. “Can I have some?” a pudgy fortysomething dude asks Hudgens flirtatiously, even though it’s not exactly hers to give, before pinching some from my pot. She smiles while wriggling into a gray loose-knit sweater, shapeless black overcoat, and knee-high, fur-covered boots.

Outs ide on onc e-in dus tria l, now con do-h eav y Ken t Ave nue , not far from the apa rtm ent of her boy frie nd, The Car rie Diar ies’ Aus tin Butl er, the afte rnoo n is gray and ding y, and sno wfla kes are drif ting lazi ly tow ard the pav eme nt. Afte r pas sing a plac e haw king $10 “sin gle esta te and sing le orig in” cho cola te bars with thei r own flav or prof iles , Hud gen s duc ks into the yog a cen ter whe re she wou ld like to lunc h. The re’s a pillo w-s trew n alco ve ove r the juic e bar whe re we are sup pos ed to sit on the floo r, but I am spa red, bec aus e they aren ’t serv ing yet. “I kno w ano ther plac e,” she prom ises , lead ing me to a che ery littl e veg etar ian rest aura nt nam ed Blis s. It’s bare ly noo n, but the plac e is fille d with the unc onv enti ona lly emp loye d, and the only tabl e left is a rick ety two -top nea r the kitc hen . “I love fres h juic e— it gets me so

high,” says Hudgens, settling down and ordering one, along with a sexless plate of kale, brown rice, and seitan.

The juice-swilling, hippie-dippy greens-eater before me isn’t the most well-known version of Vanessa Hudgens. That would be the Disney queen with over two million Instagram followers, a shameless love of selfies (“It’s the girly-girl me”), an Old Hollywoodthemed 25th birthday party, a Bongo campaign, and an angsty romantic past with her High School Musical co-star, Zac Efron. Self-reinvention is something of a part-time job.

The current wave of public image transformation began last spring, when Hudgens starred as a murderous coed-gonewild in Harmony Korine’s 2013 opus, Spring Breakers, which you loved (if you’re under 35) or hated (if you watch The View). “You hear what you want to hear,” she says of the Breakers backlash. “If you’re not into something, be open about it. If you don’t like me, I don’t care.”

Hudgens’s performance in her new film, Gimme Shelter, will silence the critics who suggested she was going for cinematic shock value in Spring Breakers. As Agnes “Apple” Bailey, Hudgens plays a pregnant teenager who flees her maternal home—a methden motel—and tries to survive on the streets. “It was the first time I really stepped out of my comfort zone, physically and material-wise,” she says. “I’m a little afraid of myself when I watch it.”

Gimme Shelter is based on the stories of young women living in Several Sources, a New Jersey residence for young mothers that was once the home of its founder, Kathy DiFiore. Ron Krauss, the film’s writer and director, spent a year living among its residents and their children while writing the script. “I originally wanted

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to cast an unknown—I didn’t believe a Hollywood actor could play this role,” he says. When Hudgens auditioned, he claims he wasn’t familiar with her starmaking work on Disney. “But in the end, I put about 15 to 20 girls—some actresses, some unknowns—on a plane to meet the real girls who lived at the shelter, just to affirm my idea of using Vanessa. They didn’t know who she was, but they picked her as well; they thought she was most like them.”

To research the role, Hudgens spent two weeks living in the home, where she gave herself a dismal bowl cut and gained 15 pounds strictly by, she swears, “eating lavishly” and carbo-loading on pasta. (She’s lost it all, probably thanks to joyless meals like this one.)

Many Young Hollywood types would politely decline such an unflattering proposition, but Hudgens, in all iterations, is eager to work the camera.

“I loved looking in the mirror and seeing myself with short hair and bad skin and tattoos,” she says, fingering the diamond-encrusted om pendant that hangs around her neck.

“The uglier I could make myself, the more giggly I would get on the inside.”

Playing Apple’s drugaddicted mother, Rosario Dawson witnessed Hudgens’s metamorphosis firsthand. “I’m really almost taken aback at just what an intense experience [the film] is,” she says. “It’s a very real and very raw performance.”

Dawson happens to have the same manager as Hudgens, so the two had met several times before filming began, and she first learned of Gimme Shelter

when the trio was touching down in Cannes on a private jet. “To see Vanessa shut down and cut [herself] off was painful to watch. But I’m glad she was able to go there—and that she wanted to. You see something like High School Musical and it’s very easy to think that maybe you would never see those kids do a performance like this. Vanessa has been very clear and very specific that she wants to be a great actress, and you can see that commitment in her work.”

Krauss, for his part, claims to have never really met his leading lady. “She was always in character,” he recalls. “I didn’t even call her ‘Vanessa’ while we were filming—she was always ‘Apple.’ Months later, I read this story online about Vanessa smoking a cigarette and fighting with some paparazzi guy. And I thought, ‘Oh my God—she’s still in character.’ It must have taken a while to get back to herself.”

Pus hin g the sea wee d aro und on her pla te, Hud gen s pon der s her ima ge. “I don ’t thin k it’s ‘go od gir l gon e bad ,’” she say s of the sto ry line asc rib ed to her in the wak e of a cer tain und erw ate r sex sce ne (wi th Spr ing Bre ake rs co- sta rs Ash ley Ben son and Jam es Fra nco ). “I thin k it’s mo re ‘gir l gro win g into a wom an and bei ng pas sio nat e and tak ing cha nce s.’ I hav e so mu ch wor k to do, and I thin k I wil l alw ays fee l tha t way. The re’ s this quo te: ‘Ble sse d unr est tha t kee ps us ma rch ing ,’ and I fee l like tha t’s how it wil l alw ays be for me .

Yea h, I’m jus t goi ng to con tinu e to pus h my sel f and try har der and sta y tru e to wha t I wan t, but it’s alw ays a str ugg le.”

Her religious life is also undergoing a transformation. “I grew up Catholic, and then got really far away from that, and thought I was an atheist,” she explains, obediently finishing the last few bites of her kale. “Then I started to open up to spirituality and seeing the magic and beauty behind everything. Fairly recently, I started going to church, and building that relationship. It’s been the most impactful and beautiful thing that’s ever happened to me.” She attends services at Hillsong, a Pentecostal megachurch with branches in Sydney, Kiev, Cape Town, and New York.

“I know God’s plan for me is bigger than anything I could ever plan for myself,” says Hudgens. “It allows me to not worry about the future or what other people think and just to be present and enjoy and try to shine as much as I can.”

It’s possible she has such broad appeal because she’s not afraid of being all things to all people. When she’s wandering around Coachella in eyelet pajamas and a flower crown, Hudgens is a credible bohemian.

When she’s describing her on-screen threesome as “just the weirdest thing ever” to Jimmy Kimmel, gold manicure glinting as she gesticulates adorably, she’s the perfect male fantasy.

Case in point: “One night in Cannes, we went to all these different parties, and we were dancing until the sun came up,” recalls Dawson. “It was one of those epic nights where you end up sleeping all day, exhausted and shutting the curtains like a vampire. We were walking barefoot back to the hotel in the morning, and there were all these paparazzi, and it was not a cute look [for us]—running makeup, matted hair, dirty feet from walking barefoot as we snuck back into the hotel.”

After offering to take care of the bill, Hudgens shrugs on her overcoat, and wraps her scarf around and around and around her neck. As she exits the café and weaves her way through the crowd on Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg’s main thoroughfare, the sunlight appears to be draining from the sky. When asked about what’s on the horizon, Hudgens breaks into a grin: It’s a broad comedy called Kitchen Sink, which concerns small-town teenagers (Hudgens, Ed Westwick, and Chris Zylka) who are fighting a zombie/vampire takeover attempt. “It was a riot,” she says, adding that her character is something of a hippie.

“But then her life takes a turn, and she turns into an enchanting vixen.” Sounds familiar.

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BAN KS 'S A S T I Q U E ... ...but there really isn’t a mystique,” explains Banks, barely.

“No, there’s definitely a mystique, but I’m trying to hold on to it—trying to keep some secrets a secret.”

Secretive maybe not the first word that comes to mind to describe the 22-year-old Harlem-raised rapper, fashion muse, oral sex enthusiast, and occasional mermaid impersonator.

For example, last night she met Dave Chappelle at Kanye West’s Yeezus tour stop in Los Angeles and came up with a slew of new ideas. And then she passed out on her couch, facedown, still clothed, makeup caked. In her own words: “I gives no fucks.”

But she’s trying not to say these things in interviews, to reserve that candor for Twitter, or at least conversations that take place past noon. At the moment, it’s not even 11 a.m., and Banks is in blue-green pajamas. Her copper-streaked bangs are slightly fluffed, her makeup halfway re-applied prior to a photo shoot, and she’s attempting to explain her newfound awareness of the power of leaving some things unsaid. “It’s hard because I’m always so excited about everything,” she says. “When you hear this album, you’re going to be like, ‘Holy shit, Azealia Banks has gone somewhere else.’”

She’s referring to Broke With Expensive Taste, her longgestating Interscope Records debut, planned for an imminent release. “I’m mad turnt up all the time. Sometimes I just want to be like, ‘Hey…guys!’” She says this last part with a friendly wave, as though she’s personally addressing her 360,000-plus Twitter followers. It’s a gesture innate to someone born to be famous, or at least raised in the theater.

Before sealing her first record deal at 17 years old, Banks attended New York’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School (of Fame fame), acted in a few off-Broadway musicals, and worked as a Starbucks barista. On a whim, she uploaded some demos to Myspace; within months, she nabbed a Diplo co-sign and a record deal with XL Recordings. Shortly thereafter, she moved to London to cut an album.

“I needed a way to make money, and my music started popping off,” she explains. “I didn’t want to file some financial aid papers to borrow money to go to school to learn some shit, and immediately pay it back.”

When the XL relationship soured in 2010, Banks ditched the “Miss Bank$” pseudonym for her birth name and moved to Montreal, then back to New York. Schemes to pay the rent included stripping and selling key chains at a Manhattan dance club. But once she uploaded the “212” video to YouTube in September of 2011, her days of anonymity were over.

If you aren’t one of the 60 million-plus who saw Banks, a.k.a.

Yung Rapunxel, rhyming about getting her “cunt eaten” in jean

cutoffs and a Mickey Mouse sweater, stop reading this article and go watch the video. It was as if Lil’ Kim had a daughter who loved Lolita and avant-garde London bass music. NME named her “2011’s Coolest Person.” Interscope handed her a lavish contract.

“It’s weird being 20 years old and having a million dollars given to you. I had a lot of fun touring the world and had some really horrible times, too,” says Banks. As in her music, her accent toggles between bialy-thick Noo Yawk and an upper-crust British lilt. “I just want to be more poised. I’m taking myself a bit more seriously now.”

She’s lived in Los Angeles since signing with Interscope— the relatively affordable rent being more amenable to her luxe tastes—and it’s unclear whether the bad times are a veiled reference to the innumerable squabbles that have uncomfortably played out on social media. The short list includes Lady Gaga, T.I., A$AP Rocky, Nicki Minaj, Perez Hilton, and Lily Allen. The tiffs threatened to overshadow her music, which quietly broke ground with its fusion of deep house, dancehall, slick uptown New York street rap, R&B, and contemporary dance music. “Azealia Banks is dangerous,” she says with a mischievous laugh. “Life is all perception. That’s why I say whatever the fuck I want.”

A long enough conversation with Banks, though, reveals that her biggest problem isn’t an absence of mystique, but rather a lack of a filter. With only a half-functioning internal censor, she’ll opine freely about the sociological treatises she’s reading (The Bell Curve and The Mis-Education of the Negro), racist masquerade balls in Italy, conspiracy theories, the Santería religion, and the overbearing corniness of most major label rap music. She’s blessed with a scythe-sharp intellect and has an impulsive streak that frequently gets her in trouble. But one senses that this same curiosity fuels the relentless eclecticism of her music.

When it comes to her forthcoming debut, however, she turns uncharacteristically coy, only divulging that she turned in an ostensibly finished version a few weeks ago. Banks’s label then requested that two tracks be reworked. “It’s like having a girlfriend who loves and takes care of you but might not like the way you dress,” she says, explaining the major label dance. “So sometimes you’ll get dressed up for her because that’s what she likes.” She lifts her forearms to reveal tattoos she got at 17. One reads “patience” and the other reads “perseverance.”

“I’m not going anywhere,” says Banks. “I’m always putting new music out. I’ve been allowed a lot of time and space to create and figure myself out and do what I want. I have another surprise for this project, too, but I can’t talk about it yet.” Long pause. “But I want to.”

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LUCY It’s late afternoon in Los Angeles, and Lucy Fry is starving. Settling onto a couch in a makeshift dressing room, she digs into a Greek salad while stylists, publicists, and two French bulldogs buzz about. Out of costume and in a black and white summer dress and cardigan, the 21-year-old Australianborn actress is doing an impressive job of tuning out the chaos around her. “Are you hungry?

We can share,” she offers. It’s only after I decline (twice) that she resumes her meal.

In addition to being generous with her snacks, Fry is also something of a budding talent. She’s making her U.S. big-screen debut in Vampire Academy (out Valentine’s Day), based on the bestselling paranormal YA series. She understands enough to anticipate the skeptical reactions—“not another vampire movie”— but Fry points out that what attracted her to the project in the first place was its unconventional approach: fangs with a generous side of tongue-in-cheek. “We’re quirky teenagers who just happen to drink blood,” she assures. “We don’t take ourselves too seriously.”

Fry started acting when she was 14, and later joined a physical theater company in her native Brisbane. Growing up, her extracurriculars ranged from writing to water polo, ancient history to art, but it was always performing that best suited her. “I loved the release of it, and loved that there were no limits to what you could do,” she says. At 18, she was cast as a surfing alien on an Australian TV show called Lightning Point. (American audiences may know it by its decidedly more literal TeenNick name Alien Surf Girls, a title that even she can’t say with a straight face.)

Next she channeled her inner Ariel in the hit series Mako Mermaids.

“Fantasy is one of my favorite genres,” explains Fry. “I love that you can be something completely absurd and wonderful, and it gives you a lot more creative license— you’re not human so you can be anything.”

In Vampire Academy, that means playing Lissa Dragomir, a Moroi princess whose teen angst is exacerbated by psychic abilities including the powers of healing and resurrection. “Lissa’s very human, but she’s got superpowers from

her vampire magic that make her a little bit unstable emotionally,” says Fry. The film shot in London, and on her days off, she explored the city’s old playhouses, taking in as many shows as she could, including Othello at the National Theatre, which tipped off a newfound appreciation of Shakespeare. She envisions herself on stage one day, and while her dream role used to be Juliet, these days she’s thinking more along the lines of Lady Macbeth—“something a little bit dark and crazy.”

With alien, mermaid, and vampire checked off the list, her range will be tested in the upcoming Australian indie Now Add Honey, opposite Portia de Rossi; Fry plays, wait for it, a human being. (An American pop singer whose life changes drastically when she’s sent to stay with family in suburban Melbourne, actually.) And what was it like to portray a regular girl at long last? “Well, she isn’t really a regular girl,” Fry interjects with a laugh. “She’s an L.A. child star.” We stand corrected.

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zoë kravitz’s musical hobby just might catch up to her acting career—whether she wants it to or not.

On a crisp night in early November, Lolawolf make their live debut at New York’s Mercury Lounge. A single chord reverberates as the band’s frontwoman steps forward, slightly hidden under a slouchy black sweater and long bangs. She shuts her eyes, clutches the mic stand, and sings her first line—a little off-key, but not a catastrophe. The second one’s better, delivered directly to a group of vaguely famous-looking fans air-kissing their way to the front: “I could stare out your window and fuck you tonight.”

The fans whistle, the singer smiles, and the room—now wrapped in a fuzzy blanket of synth strains, guitar squalls, and electronic drums—sways.

A few weeks prior, Lolawolf were just another mysterious, blog-approved buzz act, swirling an intriguing mix of glistening ’80s pop and unsettling darkwave. But tonight the secret is out: Something of a Brooklyn supergroup, the band is made up of members of Reputante fronted

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Seated in NYLON’s SoHo offices a few hours before the band’s inaugural show wearing faded skinnies and an even slouchier top than the one she’ll change into later on, Kravitz looks, understandably, exhausted. In addition to Lolawolf’s self-titled EP, she has several films coming up—including next month’s superhyped Divergent. But the 25-year-old jumps into action when the opportunity arises to tease her band’s bassist, James Levy, and keyboardist, Jimmy Giannopoulos, for being eight years her senior.

She claps her hands and mutters, “dirty old men” before exploding into laughter. The band’s drummer, Raviv Ullman, 28, a.k.a. Phil of Phil of the Future fame, also runs Lolawolf’s label, Innit Recordings.

Shrouding their identities was Kravitz’s idea. She didn’t want anyone to listen to Lolawolf—or worse, not give it a chance—simply because of who she was, having already experienced eye rolls with her first band, Elevator Fight, for being an actress-turnedsinger and the child of a popular musician. “I just wanted people to listen to the music,” she says.

“And then you can trick those who’d already said nice things, like, ‘Too late!

You said you liked it!’”

Lolawolf started like so many other bands: as a group of friends, bored, looking for something fun to do.

“We were walking down the street in Williamsburg and heard that Joe Jackson song—‘Is She Really Going Out With Him?’—from a car,” Levy says. Kravitz mentioned that she thought it might sound cool sung by a woman. Within 10 minutes, she was in Giannopoulos’s apartment, laying down vocals, changing the song’s key, making it a touch darker.

A short while later, Kravitz was in Los Angeles, filming The Road Within, in which she plays a girl suffering from anorexia. “It was a really intense role, and I wanted something to do when I wasn’t shooting,” she says. She asked the guys to fly out, and every night for a week they’d meet at film executive Bruce Cohen’s house behind the Chateau Marmont (the American Beauty and Silver Linings Playbook producer also happens to be Kravitz’s godfather). “We’d bring all of our stuff to this beautiful, empty house where we were too scared to touch anything, and we would record,” she says.

They wrote a song per day, without any preconceived notions of what would come of it. “I don’t have an R&B voice and I can’t do riffs,” says Kravitz.

“For me, it’s more about being honest.”

And with veracity came range, in both her lyrical content and delivery, from the detached monotone of “Drive” (i.e., the “fuck you tonight” song) to the raspier, “Oh shit, you’re actually leaving” despair of “Xplode.”

Back at the Mercury Lounge, Lolawolf end their set with an extended jam. The crowd cheers as a tambourine-slapping Kravitz performs silly dances in a futile attempt to distract her band from the steady, upbeat groove of “Give Me More.”

The song’s sentiment appears to be shared by the audience, though Kravitz’s bashfulness returns when it’s time to say good night—an adorably awkward “sorry!” whispered into the microphone. But earlier that afternoon, she’d made a promise: “If people keep on responding, we’ll keep playing. If not, we’ll just keep to ourselves.”

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they’re so intimate,” says Groff. “In some ways, I feel more comfortable in those scenes than others.”

Looking films in San Francisco, which Groff admits is “pretty dreamy”; he lives on a jasmine-scented street and rides his bike to the set. Before he knew the city well, he recalls, “San Francisco felt like the gay Oz—a place where you can be whatever you want. The fairy tale I have of it—men with handlebar mustaches—isn’t really there anymore, but there’s still something magical.”

Groff experienced a similar sense of wonder entering the world of David Sedaris in Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s 2013 film C.O.G., where he played a disenchanted prep schooler who comes of age while toiling in the bowels of the Oregon apple industry. At the film’s Sundance premiere, Groff, forever at your service, interrupted his first-ever conversation with Sedaris to track down a Diet Coke for his mother, who was likely the lone educator in a room swarming with Hollywood cognoscenti. Sedaris demanded an intro, and 45 minutes later, Sedaris and Mrs. Groff were still deep in conversation, while the former scribbled notes furiously.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God—is my mom going to be one of your characters?’”

Groff recalls with a laugh. “And David said, ‘She’s absolutely fascinating. She must be the shortest gym teacher in all of Pennsylvania.’”

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When Jonathan Groff orders a turkey burger and a Diet Coke, he is terribly polite about it, probably because it wasn’t all that long ago that he was a struggling actor working for tips in a restaurant on the edge of Times Square.

“I was a great waiter,” he declares, dunking a French fry in ketchup at the Mercer Kitchen in downtown New York. “You have to be a shape-shifter.

Some tables want to talk, some want to flirt, and some don’t want anything to do with you. I learned how to connect to what people want.”

That approach has served Groff well both in and out of the dining room. In late 2005, he scored his first big part: the co-lead, alongside Lea Michele, in a little show called Spring Awakening that quickly became the toast of Broadway. “I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was three, and we went to Disney World when I was four, which was a very

transformative thing,” explains Groff, 28, of his nascent taste for theatrics. He grew up in what he swears is “a house in the middle of an Amish cornfield” in rural Pennsylvania, where his father trains and races horses and his mother taught P.E. “We had to shovel horse shit and mow lawns,” he reminisces. “From age three to 10, it was romantic—running through fields and building tree houses. From 10 to 18, it was not fun.”

During Groff’s senior year, he was cast in a tour production of The Sound of Music, and soon after, he moved to New York. Spring Awakening led to a Tony nomination, and, most recently, television roles on Glee and Boss. Now, he’s starring in HBO’s new series Looking, which industry circles are referring to as Girls-for-gay-guys-in-San Francisco. “I love that, because I fucking love Girls and I’ve seen every episode at least once,” says Groff. “In reality, Looking is a halfhour dramedy about a group of friends, and other than that, there aren’t many similarities.”

Groff’s character, Patrick, is a lovelorn video game developer just barely on the right side of 30 who spends his office hours surfing OkCupid. “I’m not quite as awkward as Patrick in relationship settings,” Groff deadpans. (From the looks of his previous relationship with Zachary Quinto, which was heavily chronicled in the tabloids, definitely not.) “I think I have more game—I think, I hope—but I certainly relate to those first moments when you’re with someone and you don’t know how to connect, respond, or eat.”

The series’ opening scene shows Patrick on the receiving end of an aborted act of fellatio—one of many saucy moments that will transpire this season.

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Dee Dee Penny is full of advice tonight. It’s chilly outside, but in the dimly lit lobby of New York’s Ace Hotel, the Dum Dum Girls mastermind exudes warmth in a tiny faux-fur coat and blood red lipstick. Over whiskey gingers, she offers tips on everything from choosing a health insurance provider (Freelancers Medical offers free yoga!) to scoring cute, limitededition luggage (she’s currently eyeing a Beatlesprint Heys case on eBay).

“I’m just passing it on,” she says, happily sharing the wisdom she’s gleaned from half a decade of Dum Dum Girl-dom.

It’s a lot of positive energy for a self-described introvert, and especially surprising if you haven’t checked in with the gothpop outfit since their last LP, 2011’s Only in Dreams, which found Penny wrestling with allconsuming grief after her mother’s death. If this is the case, you may want to download End of Daze, the 2012 EP that led the band out of the gloom, as well as the feedback-fueled Haunted Hearts tracks— Penny’s collaboration with her husband, Crocodiles frontman Brandon Welchez. Also of note: the almost jaunty theme song for Cartoon Network’s Beware the Batman, which Penny, a lifelong

Justice League fan, wrote this past summer.

While touring for Daze, the frontwoman began conceptualizing Dum Dum Girls’ third album, Too True, stopping in at her Upper East Side loft to demo some tracks during a nine-day break. Back on the road, she noticed that something felt very wrong.

Turns out, her ambitious touring schedule had inflicted serious damage to her vocal cords. A doctormandated break forced her to pause and truly consider where she wanted DDG to go next.

“I stopped playing in other people’s bands and started Dum Dum Girls to have 100 percent creative control, and to really explore that as much as I could,” says Penny, now 31. “The unfortunate reality is—and I don’t think it’s an ego thing—the more people you bring into that process,

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the less control you have over the final product.”

Post-recovery, Penny finished writing Too True by herself in her bedroom— exactly how and where the project began back in 2008—without input from the Dum Dum Girls touring band of Jules Medeiros

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(guitar), Sandra Vu (drums), and Malia James (bass). When it came time to flesh out the tunes, Penny called on longtime studio collaborators, Sune Rose Wagner of the Raveonettes and legendary girlgroup producer Richard Gottehrer. And the results are an epic, ethereal statement that dips and dives between surfy artnoir, classic girl-group pop, and ’80s dance groove. While instantly familiar, the mishmashes are so varied that even Penny can’t decide whether the album is “more Patti Smith or Pat Benatar.”

Lyrically, Too True is the sound of selfacceptance, Penny says, of finally coming to terms with those things you can’t change, and learning to be confident in spite of them. “Sometimes the realest stuff you experience isn’t good,” she notes,

pointing out the album’s name (an abbreviation of title track “Too True to Be Good”). “The things I’ve learned about myself in the past five years, 80 percent of them are horrible, but I’ve gained something from knowing myself a little more fully.” She downs the dregs of watered-down whiskey from her glass and offers one last bit of hard-earned insight: “Sometimes you have to see yourself as a work in progress, as someone who has good intentions but makes mistakes.”

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NYLON has had ele ctronic duo Phantogram on repeat since hearing their 2010 debut rec ord Eyelid Movies. In fact, we’re so into this band that in December we partnered with Smashbox Cosmetic s to host their show at Terminal 5 in NYC. Now, we’re eagerly anticipating Phantogram’s new full-length album Voices (available February 18), which promises to deliver more of the airy voc als and echoing beats that have beco me the group’s signature sound. Ge t your copy of Phantogram’s Voice s from the band’s site, phantogrammu sic.virb.com.

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After both working in the tech industry and dating a handful of hopeless creatives, Tegan Gaan conceived of the idea for Gigit, a new online platform that aims to make booking live shows a painless process for musicians and venues, all the while encouraging music lovers to chime in and help promote their favorite acts. Mallory Rice catches up with Gaan to chat about the start-up.

What’s your elevator pitch for Gigit? The idea is to simplify booking live music. It’s twofold: It’s a marketplace, because hiring live music is a pretty painful kick in the balls, whether it’s massive or up-and-coming.

On the other side, it’s a bit more quixotic. I had a lot of creative friends trying to book [their bands] through traditional ways and getting stoked on, like, free drink tickets and it bothered me.

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He said, “I heard you know a lot of bands. They should come over and we’ll pay them.” So I was like, “How do you actually book an artist?” and I was appalled to see all these shitty sites where you would do that.

And there’s a groupie component, too? It has started as a soft launch, but you can expect it to be [fully operational] at SXSW, for sure. I got this crazy castle in downtown Austin that’s walkable from the venues.

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Can you feel it? Love is all over the WWW! Sure, Tinder’s convenient when you’re stranded at a New Jersey Olive Garden desperately looking to bone, but I’m talking about L-U-V here. The real deal. Though <3s are everywhere online, finding real romance on the Internet is hard. For starters, there are catfishers.

Catfishing, coined by the documentary-turned-MTVshow, is when a person fabricates an identity on the Internet to start a romantic relationship. Example: that Channing Tatum look-alike you’ve been flirting with over Facebook? He’s actually a 50-year-old man who lives alone with his pet snake.

Maybe he even is the snake?

I once had an Internet boyfriend. I was a young lass all over the Web, so it made sense to crush hard on a dude with a cool ’net presence. Problem was, he lived several states away!

Before we met IRL, video chats and Gmail already had us in constant contact.

When we had the opportunity to hang more in person, he was exactly the dude he said he was, sans the Skype glitch pixels.

And that, my reader, is why I’m qualified to train you in Catfishing Self-Defense.

Here’s a quick and digi-dirty guide to making sure it never happens to you. One: If all his FB friends look like Gossip Girl extras, he is fake. Two: If he won’t video-chat with you, he is definitely fake.

Three: If he’s a prolific, funny, intensely good-looking young man who’s a Pulitzer winner and a talented rock star to boot, then, yeah, that sounds absolutely legit. Go get him, girl!

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We meet Sarah Emerson at the Scope art fair in Miami Beach, where her work is being displayed in Red Bull’s “Canvas Cooler” booth along with 12 other artists from around the country. Emerson’s cartoonish depictions of natural landscapes—often invaded by ominous, dark imagery—can be found in mural form in Atlanta, where she lives, as well as in exhibitions throughout the South. But “Canvas Cooler” is the reason that her work has been summoned to the world-renowned art fair. The competition calls for local artists to use Red Bull minirefrigerators as canvases, which are then displayed in

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The artists with the most compelling results are invited to display and sell their work during Art Basel.

Several past participants have found opportunities through that exposure—Los Angeles’ Gregory Sif has now collaborated with Helmut Lang, and Chicago artist Hebru Brantley has sold pieces to Jay Z and Lil Wayne. “It’s a tool, that sweetness,” says Emerson, of the sugary first impressions her work often makes.

“Everything [in nature is] really quite beautiful, but there are things happening underneath that are around us all the time.” This month, Red Bull will start its 2014 Canvas Cooler project, inviting artists to beautify their surroundings—yes, even appliances!—for yet another shot at making it to Miami Beach. MR

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To fans of the Great White Way, Elaine Stritch is a legend. And a survivor. A fixture on Broadway since the 1940s, Stritch is a former drinker—she calls herself a recovered alcoholic—who is still addic ted to her work. In this documentary, which follows Stritch as she approaches 87 and mounts a new solo show, the focus is not on why Stritch matters. Instead, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me zeroes in on the indignities of getting older. Still feisty and irreverent, Stritch is, nonetheless, struggling.

She forgets her lines, and deals with diabetes-induced meltdowns.

Too honest to deny what's happening, she summarizes it this way: ”I've been in the theater so long that I'm now dealin g with how the end of pretend is going to be.“ If this docum entary had delved deeper into that issue—of how one handl es retirement when one's work is one's life—it might have been more interesting.

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the lunchbox Every day Mumbai’s dabbawalas transport thousands of midday meal pails to ofice buildings and back home with renowned accuracy. But The Lunchbox revolves around a rare mistake. In an attempt to save her fizzling marriage, neglected young housewife Ila (Nimrat Kaur) tries to reach her husband’s heart through his stomach by sending him a special, painstakingly prepared lunch. The food, however, is accidentally delivered to Saajan (Irrfan Khan), a curmudgeonly widowed claims department worker who will retire to a lonesome existence just after he trains his chipper young replacement (Nawazuddin Siddiqui). When Ila realizes the error, she includes an explanatory note in the lunchbox the next day, thus beginning a correspondence that blossoms into a friendship between the two strangers. Along with the recipes, they start to share their most intimate disappointments, fears, memories, and hopes, allowing this accidental encounter to become a moment of joy in their otherwise melancholic lives. (Most touchingly, Sajaan’s attitude toward his spirited pupil shifts dramatically as a result .)

Ultimately, the film conveys an achingly poignant tale of love that is true, albeit chaste and unlikely, and a unique meditation on the way in which food connects us. LM

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In August of 2010, a 14-year-old Dutch girl named Laura Dekker set of in a boat on a mission to be the youngest person to sail around the world alone. Director Jillian Schlesinger helped document Dekker’s trip, by both filming from a distance and providing equipment and guidance for Dekker to capture the 27,000-mile, two-year journey herself—resulting in the remarkable new film Maidentrip. MR The tone of the film is less triumphant than I expected. When we were making it, we really strongly felt that aspect, and it’s been interesting to see how it plays so positively for a [big] audience. There’s something about watching it alone that makes those [darker] parts come through a little bit more.

It’s a very positive journey, but it’s also so dificult—no matter what—searching for self at that age.

How did you find out about what Dekker wanted to do? When she was 13, I read an op-ed piece in The New York Times with the headline “How Young Is Too Young to Sail Around the World Alone?” It was around the time she announced her plans and the Dutch government intervened.

She’s not fond of journalists. How did you convince her to allow you to be part of the trip?

It was definitely a gradual process. I put a lot of efort into sending her an initial proposal. I had this idea of who she was and wrote the proposal with that in mind. It was very fortuitous that she happened to be that exact person on the other end— just a tenacious, fiery kid, who had the skills and the fortitude to do this incredible thing. I reached out to her as a fellow adventurer, someone doing something crazy and daring for the first time—she hadn’t sailed around the world alone and I hadn’t made my own film.

By the end of the trip, did you draw any conclusions about whether it was a crazy thing to do?

We all take risks every day. And less conventional risks are looked at as more dangerous. In theory, every day that I get on the subway there could be an accident. There are risks built into your daily experiences, but there aren’t a lot of people setting of on a boat alone.

I thought, “Was this the right path for Laura?” and I think, for her, it was.

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Gina Frangello’s A Life in Men spans continents, telling the story of two best girlfriends, Mary and Nix, who embark on a Greek holiday together after Mary learns that she is sufering from cystic fibrosis. What follows their trip is not exactly what either girl had envisioned while snacking on salty sardines in the sun. Here, Frangello discusses her ambitious, heartfelt novel. MR The book is called A Life in Men, but Nix sets Mary in motion.

What is the book’s most significant relationship?

There’s no question that Nix is Mary ’s greatest influence. But between the loss of Nix and the

Did anyone try to get you to pitch the book as, like, “Eat, Pray, Love—with death”? No, thank God [laughs]. I was worried about that. One of my fears, honestly, is that men will think the book doesn’t apply to them.

In fact, many of the characters whose views we get are men. It’s not just a girl power book, but a book about human relationships.

Was there a location that you loved writing about? Except in the last part, each location is somewhere I’ve spent a

The book deals with how a person reacts to finding out that their time on earth is limited. You must have asked yourself that question. I don’t have a life-shortening condition, but I have thought about it. Literally a month after [the book] was sold, my best girlfriend was diagnosed with cancer, and she died four months later. It was interesting that I had written a template for some of the things I was about to go through—in terms of missing a friend, renegotiating life without this person. It’s not a gift to have, knowing your time is limited, but how many people just assume they have until they’re 85 and there’s no particular urgency to the day?

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