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fashionista 058 word up!: speak your mind in style.

066 fashion news 074 tee of the month: denim & supply ralph lauren 076 jeans of the month: gap

092 directory: sporty style 078 miller’s time: a celebration of the perennially cool label that is nicole miller 080 girl we heart: house of cards’ kristen connolly 082 packing heat: chanel presents your next obsession.

102 mass appeals: a tale of four cities 108 haute stuff: black and white and rad all over

beauty queen 112 quiet riot: rough meets refined

084 cult of: emporio armani 086 face value: take the acid test.

088 get this: dotty duds 090 the look: marc by marc jacobs spring ’14

on the cover jessica alba photographed by marvin scott jarrett. styled by anda & masha. hair: andy lecompte at the wall group using wella professionals. makeup: fiona stiles at the wall group. manicurist: miho okawara. photo assistants: wes klain and nicholas tooman. digital tech: brandon jones. retouching: toasty cakes. shot at siren studios, los angeles. jacket by gap, shirt by cushnie et ochs, pants by marni, jewelry by noir.

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118 beauty news 120 pure santigold: the pop artist lends her style eye to smashbox.

122 counter culture

radar fashion & features 124 boss: from global film-industry fame to an earthfriendly business endeavor, jessica alba takes on the world. by kate williams. photographed by marvin scott jarrett. styled by anda & masha 130 dark wave: seriously tropical prints. photographed by mads teglers. styled by rachael wang 142 different strokes: this season in fashion, life imitates art. photographed by kristin vicari. styled by santa bevacqua 152 hot mesh: let your spring style breathe. photographed by silja magg. styled by j. errico

164 she’s gotta have it: nymphomaniac star stacy martin dares to go where few firsttime actresses would venture. by francesca babb. photographed by roberta ridolfi 168 soft focus: ansel elgort’s role in divergent may very well make him one of hollywood’s biggest (and most reluctant) heartthrobs. by claire howorth. photographed by alexander wagner

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169 foxy lady: british pop sensation foxes’ debut full-length will be glorious. by alice price-styles. photographed by nuria rius 170 purple haze: angel haze does things her way. by melissa giannini. photographed by samantha casolari 172 love + warpaint: this band of l.a. women has dreamed up a dark and stormy new album. by emily zemler. photographed by jay hanna

174 femme bot: steering clear of the status quo is electro-pop artist femme’s m.o. by holly rubenstein. photographed by beth garrabrant 177 culture club: the month’s best art, books, movies, tech, and more 183 shopping list 184 bag check: a furry monster bag filled with frighteningly good finds. packed by dani stahl

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As our March fashion issue goes to press, we’re already thinking ahead to September—it’s a snowy Fashion Week here in New York, and we’re on the way to discover what we’ll be into this fall. But even though new trends are always presenting

themselves, the key elements of the NYLON wardrobe—great jeans, cool jackets, creative sneakers—remain constant, and this issue is dedicated to clothes you can rock for years to come.

And who better to wear them than Jessica Alba? As a fan of Sin City, I’ve been following her career, and I really admire her evolution from

actress to entrepreneur.

She also has a unique way of creating a look, and within these pages, you’ll find ideas to inspire your own take on the season. marvin scott jarrett editor-in-chief

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street smar t “Jessica joked that we gave her the Rihanna makeover,” says stylist Anda, half of the creative duo Anda & Masha. Although Alba isn’t exactly a “bad girl,” tough getups à la RiRi were the outfits du jour at NYLON’s cover shoot. Luckily, Alba was game to change up her look, and she fell hard for some of the edgier pieces. “She loved the leather hat and black shell toe Adidas for Opening Ceremony sneaks,” says Masha.

To complement the too-cool-for-school styling, makeup artist Fiona Stiles used a

light touch—“so it looked like she hadn’t tried too hard,” she explains. Stiles played up Alba’s flawless complexion with bronzer and blush, then applied a bit of brown shadow and mascara, and then defined her lips with a deep rose pencil.

Hairstylist Andy Lecompte made Alba’s strands look equally efortless. He applied thickening lotion, used a oneinch flatiron to create a slight bend, and finished with hair oil to give her tresses a tousled texture.

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Four years ago, while attending Pepperdine University, Lauren Paul and Molly Thompson began paying attention to the lasting consequences of girl-against-girl bullying and formed Kind Campaign, a nonprofit movement to bring awareness to this issue and help heal its victims through discussion.

Since then, the duo has become an Element Eden Advocate and collaborated with the brand to create empowering apparel.

The spring line features typography-centered tees and tanks that remind us of our ability to spread love in place of hatred. "If a girl could look across the room and see such a powerful message as 'Don't be a bystander,' it might inspire her," says Paul. A portion of each sale goes back to the cause. YASMEEN GHARNIT elementeden.com

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Since arriving at Diesel in 2013, artistic director Nicola Formichetti has made news with a social-media-centric approach to branding (with buzzy campaigns like “#DIESELREBOOT” and "We Are Connected") and a badass approach to design. Before he unveils his first full collection next month, Formichetti debuts the Diesel Tribute leather collection, part of his homage to the brand’s 35th anniversary. He discusses the project with Ashley Baker.

How did this range come together? I took the essence of leather from the archive and gave the pieces a modern take on the rebel look. I wanted to show a handmade feeling, as if we’ve collected these diferent parts of the history and put them all in one garment. It’s almost like a love letter.

There’s been a lot of buzz around the Reboot campaign. For me, it’s all about promoting young people with interesting voices and ideas. I’m really glad that these people [who star in the campaign] are suddenly getting all this attention, because the world needs to know about them. For the Tribute campaign, we found a mixture of models and real people whom I found on places like Tumblr. We shot the whole thing on iPhones.

What else are you working on? I’m presenting my fall ’14 collection next month in Venice. When Renzo [Rosso, Diesel’s founder] and I get together, we come up with all this crazy stuf.

We’re like two little kids, but we’re so excited to be collaborating and pushing boundaries. It's going to be super-wearable and that’s very exciting, because I’ve never done that before.

Diesel is a huge, huge company, so my collection is very big, too. It’s going to be everywhere.

formichetti shot his dogs in the collection—follow them on instagram at @tanknbambi

volcom photographed by felisha tolentino. stylist: dani michelle. hair: sienree at celestine agency using oribe. makeup: anthony merante at celestine agency using make up for ever. model: lanna lyon at m model management. shirt by volcom, bra and bracelets by luv aj, shorts and sunglasses by one teaspoon, necklace by roseark.

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In our wardrobes, there are things that we wear, and there are things that we wear out. Every girl has those few items that she consistently turns to—and may or may not pick up of the floor to sport two days in a row.

This season, Volcom presents the next set of tees you’ll never take of. Dubbed the “Lived In” collection, it includes nine pieces in three soft fabrications including sheer, rib, and slub, and ranges in silhouette from a racerback tank to a relaxed-fit long-sleeved shirt. Available in classic colors like heather gray and army green or fun hues like coral and teal, the T-shirts start at just $27—a small price to pay for a closet staple.

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All that glitters is not gold, but for those who wander into a Bebe store this month, one thing’s for sure: It’s easy to be dazzled by the rhinestone- and rivetfilled Bebe Gold oferings.

For the brand’s second high-end capsule collection, Brigitte Bogart, the brand’s EVP of design and product development, looked to the quintessential Bebe woman for inspiration. “She is your hottest best friend, the center of attention, loved and just beautiful,” she says. “This collection was designed to give our Bebe girl our most luxurious and unique pieces.” That means soft-leather rompers and high-waisted riveted shorts worthy of Vivian Ward, a silk georgette, laced-up leopard maxi dress Elvira Hancock would wear to slither down her marble stairs, and an embellished moto jacket. “She can mix and match these items and will be able to dress them up or down depending on her mood or event,” adds Bogart. Accessible and versatile—now that’s a glittering combination.

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“I wanted to get away from what I knew, so I went to London,” explains Chelsea Goldman, the designer of Skotison, a new ready-towear line based in New York, where Goldman grew up. “In London, it’s about making things as extreme as they can be, and here, it’s all about wearability.

I like to integrate those two worlds.” In her first collection for spring ’14, Goldman was inspired by B-list horror movies. “I was

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thinking about all those scream queens running through the forest in 1950s lingerie,” she says. “Strong women, but also damsels in distress.” As for the collection's name? “Skotison is an old literary term that means `to be intentionally obscure.’ Sometimes I am, sometimes I’m not—but I try.” ASHLEY BAKER skotison.com

When Maje designer Judith Milgr om decided to drum up a new jacket, she looked to a beloved basic from her youth—the K-Way windbreaker, which is practically a rite of passage for French schoolchildren. "All my frien ds had one," she explains. "It was always a fun and practical piece in ever yone's wardrobe." So the brands teamed up on a four-piece capsule collection , in which Milgrom reinvents the K-W ay signatures in new silhouettes, fabrications (leopard print, anyo ne?), and with special details like leath er trim. "I love the idea of outerwea r acting as a statement piece," expla ins Milgrom. Join the club. AB maje.com

bebe photographed by felisha tolentino. stylist: dani michelle. hair: sienree at celestine agency using oribe. makeup: anthony merante at celestine agency using make up for ever. model: lanna lyon at m model management. shirt by cheap monday, jumper by bebe, shoes by vans, neon choker by alexis bittar, shark tooth necklace by luv aj, stylist's own socks.

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fo o t fe t is h nd Arden Wohl is an old frie of mine, and apart from her well-documented love for great headbands, she also has nt orta imp r the ano in te tas ing, accessory: shoes. This spr an, she’s releasing a totally veg 13-style collection with the brand Cri de Coeur, so I the stopped by her place to get on. lowdown on the collaborati CORY KENNEDY

What brought you togeth er for a collaboration? We had talked about doing something for years.

I became frustrated wit h the vegan shoe options that were out there: Either they were beautiful Stella McCartney shoes that were very expensive or the y were very unfashionable, very inexpensive shoes. There was no hip contemporary veg an shoe company that I could wea r. We wanted to step up the CDC line and bridge the gap!

Was it difficult to source the materials for an entirely vegan shoe? Juli e and Gina have worked with vegan leathers and alternatives for five years, so they really taught me which fabrics would work for each pair .

I know Gustav Klimt was a big reference point for you—what else helped inspire the line?

Symbolism, in general, and bright floral tones.

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Where did you meet Cri de Coeur designers Julie Dicterow and Gina Ferraraccio? At a Humane Society event four years ago. I had just rid myself of anything I owned that was made of leather. I g! loved what they were doin

angel f ac e “I have so much amazing stuf that’s buried under other amazing stuf—I need to organize it a bit more!” says Behati Prinsloo of her lingerie drawer. But efective immediately, certain pieces are about to take precedence. The Victoria’s Secret Angel has been named the new face of the brand’s fabled T-Shirt Bra, which she claims makes perfect sense. “I’m a huge jeans-and-T-shirt girl,” she explains. “But you can basically wear this bra with everything. It’s really soft, and it comes in great colors.”

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HOPELESSLY DEVOTED

If you're a native or even occasional New Yorker, you’ may have seen "Love Me" (with the M shaped like a heart) tagged on walls. The romantic is none other than artist Curtis Kulig. In the past year alone, he has collaborated with Smashbox, DKNY, Kanye West, and Vans, and his newest endeavor is a collection with jewelry designer Mimi Jakobson called Me+Mi. The range includes rings, earrings, necklaces, and bracelets with Kulig's phrase and dripping hearts. "It's personal; people feel close to it," says Kulig. "Everyone gives it their own meaning." JADE TAYLOR meplusmi.com buy our favorite pieces at nylonmag.com/shop

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What was your introduction to Japanese fashion? As a model, the first show I did was Kenzo, and my first trip was to Japan, so I am quite used to working with Japanese people. This time, Mr. [Tadashi] Yanai, the owner of Uniqlo, saw my guide, Parisian Chic, and had the idea to ask me to imagine this collection.

When did you first become aware of Uniqlo, and why did the brand appeal to you?

I discovered Uniqlo in New York and I was the first one at the opening in Paris—there are pictures to prove it!

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"When I went on a trip to Bali for my yoga certification, I needed clothing I wanted to wear all day and every day over the course of a few months, and couldn't find anything that resonated," explains publicist and newly minted designer Robyn Berkley. Her collection of activewear, Live the Process, packs a style punch well beyond the gym—and it makes you look so great mid-sweat that it might even inspire you to stick around for a few extra minutes on the treadmill. AB livetheprocess.com

How did this project allow you to develop your design skills? With a lot of freedom, which is a real luxury.

You’ve been known to embrace a high-low mix.

What are your favorite designer pieces to pair with your Uniqlo looks?

With Roger Vivier boots or ballerinas, the looks become trendy and chic.

With nice accessories, one doesn’t need much.

Any plans for a follow-up to Parisian Chic? Indeed, it’s a huge success and every day my editor wants a meeting!

Actually I do have other style tips; I should do it.

But don’t repeat that.

I’m lazy!

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How does creating a book compare to a blog? I like my blog to be as mixed-up as possible, so it's a bit like a diary. But the book is much more focused. And I made sure it wasn't just the "best of" my blog.

What was your takeaway from their home s? Everyone in fashion appr oaches things from ve ry different places and finds success in their own wa ys.

uniqlo photographed by felisha tolentino. stylist: dani michelle. hair: sienree at celestine agency using oribe. makeup: anthony merante at celestine agency using make up for ever. model: lanna lyon at m model maganement. all clothing by uniqlo, shoes by sandro.

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Uniqlo is known for its inspired take on basics, and few wear basics better than Parisian style icon Inès de la Fressange.

No wonder the Japanese fashion giant tapped Fressange for a capsule collection—she’s a model (who posed topless at age 52) and an irrepressible muse to Karl Lagerfeld and countless women longing to capture her insouciance and joie de vivre. The Inès de la Fressange Paris-Uniqlo collection comprises 70-odd styles, including workwear, oxford shirting, draped dresses and blouses, and accessories.

If you’ve been pondering a complete wardrobe renovation, pay extra close attention. Fressange discusses the line with Ashley Baker.

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flower girl It’s not that we don’t love vintage—we do! we do!—it’s just that fashion technology has adv anced so much in the last, oh, 50 years.

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Gap’s Hybrid Floral Always Skinny jeans ($70) give the best of both worlds. “They were inspired by a feed bag found in an ama zing vintage store,” explains Lar issa Noble, Gap’s design dire ctor of 1969 women’s denim.

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“These look more like three-and-a-half-minute eggs,” says Nicole Miller, peering suspiciously at her breakfast. She requested the “fourminute” preparation, but even the kitchen staff at Locanda Verde, a tony Italian restaurant in New York’s even tonier Tribeca neighborhood, can get it wrong—or, more accurately, a bit off—from time to time.

Miller’s attention to detail is just one of the reasons she’s thrived in the fashion industry for over 30 years. Growing up in Lenox, Massachusetts, as the daughter of a General Electric engineer and his French wife, Miller was a budding artist who studied her mother’s fashion magazines. After college at the Rhode Island School of Design, Miller decamped for Paris, where she studied draping at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture Parisienne. Then she moved to New York and worked as an in-house designer before launching her eponymous collection in 1982.

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ultra-femme looks that were dominating the racks of the ’80s, Miller pioneered a sportier silhouette, with smocking around the hips.

Immediately, it proved popular far beyond the New York girls-about-town who were the earliest adopters of her aesthetic.

“I’ve always been about flattering the body,” she explains, dipping a piece of toast in olive oil. “I feel like the neckline of a dress has got to be magical. With sportswear, it’s more about proportion, almost like a jigsaw puzzle.”

After the success of JCPenney’s Nicole

by Nicole Miller line, the designer looked to an original love as the inspiration behind her new collection, Artelier. “I was a little bit typecast for sexy dresses,” she explains. “I wanted this to have its own identity. Artelier combines my love of art, my French background, and my couture training in a word.”

The collection is heavy on shapes like slim pants and leggings, loose-fit tanks, body-con skirts, and dresses made in graphic and painterly prints.

Mixing and matching is encouraged, so colors tend to be complementary.

“When you’re getting dressed, the hardest thing is figuring out which top goes with which skirt,” she reasons. “I’m always

thinking about those things.” Achieving a rich and complex palette is another concern. “When I first started designing, it was always cooler to wear black,” recalls Miller, who uses brights alongside jewel tones like sapphire, emerald, and garnet. “Now, it’s cool to wear color.”

Miller’s closet in her Tribeca apartment is a fashion historian’s dream—a mix of vintage and new pieces from both contemporaries like Dries van Noten and icons like Claire McCardell. “I have one McCardell piece stuck all the way in the back—it’s probably worth a fortune,” says Miller. “I always try to clear out too many black things, but I have so many

pieces I can’t part with. I give away a lot of my stuff at the office. Sometimes I envision, ‘Oh, this top would be perfect for so-and-so.’

I have everybody kind of sized up.”

Another benefit to working for Nicole Miller is the gratis, gourmet lunches: The company’s office space, in New York City’s Garment District, is retrofitted with a kitchen.

“I pick the recipes,” admits Miller, an accomplished home cook whose dinner parties at her weekend home in Sag Harbor, New York, are populated by the likes of Eric Fischl and Jay McInerney.

The culinary arts aren’t Miller’s sole extracurriculars.

In Sag Harbor, where her backyard consists of grass, sand, and the Sag Harbor Bay, she’s become serious about water sports, and is especially fixated on wakeboarding.

“In waterskiing, you just go across the wave,” she explains. “The wakeboard is more challenging. I can do the right switch—the 180—but I haven’t tried the 360. Yet.”

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When it comes to television, actress Kristen Connolly is prone to immersion. “Over the summer, when it was so hot outside that Mayor Bloomberg said, ‘Don’t go out,’ I was like, ‘Oh, too bad. I guess I’ll just have to watch Orange Is the New Black for the next two days.’” So she can totally relate to those of us who have sacrificed entire weekends to House of Cards, David Fincher’s addictive Netflix series in which she plays Christina Gallagher, a Capitol Hill staffer. In a show full of evil machinations, Connolly’s Christina is the closest approximation of a moral center. But the mood on House of Cards’ Baltimore set, she swears, is light.

“It’s the nicest group of people,” she says. “The crew is wonderful as well.

It’s kind of the opposite of the world on the show.”

Connolly grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, riding horses and swimming competitively. “It didn’t really occur to me for a long time that acting was a real job,” she says, but after college, she landed a bit part on the

mastering: One of my girlfriends taught me to make risotto. I’m still working on the timing, but it’s fun and delicious.

eating: Miya’s in New Haven, Connecticut.

My friend Bun Lai is the executive chef, and he created an incredibly creative and sustainable sushi menu. He also makes his own sake, which is awesome.

escaping: My favorite escape is going to Montclair and hanging out with my family.

And luckily, it’s close to NYC, so I get to do it often.

beautifying: Gemini 14 salon, Oribe moisturizing cream, Bobbi Brown eye shadow, and classes at the Bar Method SoHo. (Seriously, it has changed my life.)

coveting: A washer-dryer! I have no idea where I’d put it in my Brooklyn apartment, but to be able to do laundry at home is a life dream.

stylist: deborah waknin. hair: aaron light at celestine agency using oribe. makeup: tanya cropsey for bobbi brown. dress by marc by marc jacobs. bottom right: top by red valentino, skirt by topshop.

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film Mona Lisa Smile. “I had never been on a set before, and I was like a sponge.” With neither an agent nor another job on the horizon, Connolly considered law school, but with the encouragement of her mother, applied to a graduate program at the Yale School of Drama, and was accepted.

“One of the big challenges of being an actor is figuring out how to keep yourself steady in the downtime,” says Connolly, who now lives in Brooklyn. “You find things to do with your

relaxing: Hanging out with my dog, Lucy. She’s a lap dog, so relaxing is in her genes.

time that are rewarding because it can make you nuts to not be working. And then it can make you nuts to feel like you have a million things to do all at once.”

Thanks to House of Cards, Connolly is likely to feel a bit overscheduled, but when she needs downtime, she goes home to hang with her family. Her work, however, is a constant

topic of conversation.

“My family is very political and we have a lot of different views, so Thanksgiving during an election year can get a little heated,” she says with a laugh. “[House of Cards] is what you hope isn’t going on but… probably is. Well, maybe not killing people.”

wearing: My uniform is Mother jeans, a Rag & Bone sweater, and J.Crew flats. For special occasions, I love Alice + Olivia’s leather pants, and anything from Maje.

And Gap makes great (and afordable) workout pants.

drinking: Battery Harris and Greenwood Park in Brooklyn are two favorite spots. I was recently introduced to a wine called The Prisoner— it’s delicious.

listening: The soundtrack to Fly by Night, a new musical that my brother, Will Connolly, wrote with two of his classmates from the Yale School of Drama. It’s premiering at Playwrights Horizons this spring, and I cannot wait. The music is beautiful.

t a e h g n i k c a p Under Karl Lagerfeld’s command—and in the capable hands of the petites mains of the Chanel atelier in Paris—a hula hoop, an icicle, and a seashell have been reimagined as “It” accessories. So dare to think what Lagerfeld can do with the once-humble backpack? Chanel’s spring ’14 collection, inspired by the fine arts, gave him the opportunity. The runway, which was built into a temporary gallery featuring dozens of Chanel-inspired works, was awash in painterly prints reminiscent of brushstrokes and color charts. But it was in the accessory realm where Lagerfeld made his boldest statement, fashioning bags out of toile and calfskin.

Covered in graffiti, lanyards, carabiners, and friendship bracelets, and expertly shaped to achieve just the right amount of slouch, these Chanel pieces are a brilliant ode to the well-loved, brushstuffed totes that many artists carry to and from the studio.

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c ool brit an nia To say model Georgia May Jagger won the genetic lottery is an understatement.

Between her rock god father (Mick Jagger) and iconic model mother (Jerry Hall), it’s more like she snagged the Powerball prize when the kitty was up to a billion dollars. The lips! The cheekbones! The flawless cascade of glossy blonde tresses! We’d hate her, if she weren´t totally gracious and sweet. Not to mention she agreed to spill her beauty secrets, rare makeup missteps, and the best advice she ever received from Jerry. KATIE DICKENS

When did you first get into makeup? My mum always had all these diferent lipsticks and colorful makeup from Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel. I remember being quite obsessed with the packaging and the sheer amount of it. She definitely caught me wearing it. But I wasn’t really allowed to wear makeup until I was 13 or 14.

What’s the best beauty tip you’ve heard? I learned from the makeup artists backstage at Fashion Week to use a blow-dryer to heat the eyelash curler before using it. And my mum always told me red lipstick

works on everyone; you just have to find the right shade for you.

Do you have any makeup regrets? Wearing too much base was definitely a mistake I made when I was younger. And overdoing it with the powder. It ended up looking like I was wearing a mask.

What are your favorite products? I wouldn’t go out without mascara. I love the Scandaleyes one. The Kate Moss lipsticks are really good, especially the red shades. They ’re very matte, but they don’t look chalky or dry out your lips.

What’s your go-to going out look? I like to wear red lipstick and liquid liner with a ’50s flick at the end. But I get bored doing the same thing so I like to experiment, like at Rimmel’s 180th birthday party, when I did green eyes and a full-on afro.

How do you make your liner look so perfect? Always have a pointed Q-tip and makeup remover on hand.

Then you can just clean it up and fix any smudges. But it’s also about practice and a steady hand.

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1525 walnut st., philadelphia, pa 783 lexington ave., new york, ny Lush Cosmetics, the quirky, handmade British bath and body brand, began to infiltrate the U.S. market in 2003, when it opened its first store in San Francisco's Union Square. It went on to plant roots around the country, quickly gaining loads of fans (called Lushies) who couldn't get enough of the Bath Bombs, Jelly Soaps, and generous sampling program.

Lush's next step in its conquest of America is the opening of a pair of spas—one in New York City and the other in Philadelphia— above its most popular shops.

Both locations feature interiors inspired by England's Dorset countryside and coastline, meaning

cottage-chic wooden fixtures, antique teacups, and mason jars bursting with fresh flowers, all of which has the effect of making you feel right at home.

The spa's signature treatment is the Synaesthesia, a multisensory massage that involves lights, fragrances, and sounds. Other services include Validation, a soothing (read: no extractions) facial, The Good Hour, a full-body deep tissue massage, and The Comforter?, which involves the application of hot chocolate body scrub while you lie on a marshmallow-like mattress. It's basically Lushie heaven. JADE TAYLOR

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In the 1933 film Bombshell, actress Jean Harlow plays Lola Burns, a starlet beloved by the American public and besieged by wannabe suitors. In an example of art imitating life, both Harlow and her character were the first to hold the title of "blonde bombsh ell." The moniker has since evolved so the moder n embodiment tends to be more scantily clad and curvier (think Scarlett Johansson and Kat e Upton) than the original. It's the current mo del that inspired CoverGirl to create its Bom bshell collection.

The star of the line is the two-step mascara: Apply the volumizing bas e coat, then add the intensifying topcoat, and , voila—bodacious lashes. But you’ll need mo re than that to get the come-hither look. Ent er ShineShadow, a shimmery creamy eye sha dow, and Intensity Liner, a liquid eyeliner wit h a felt tip to achieve the perfect cat eye. The orig inal bombshell would have approved. KD covergirl bombshell collection, $9-$12, drugst ore.com

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fun bag s Benefit Cosmetics and LeSportsac are the newest beauty besties: They’ve teamed up to create a 72-piece collection of makeup cases, backpacks, totes, and more, dubbed “Giggle Me Gorgeous.”

The quirky cosmetic brand has fused its ofbeat sensibilities with the accessories label’s focus on functionality, so while the range is covered with pinup girls, witty phrases, and bits of baubles and frilly trim, every item is completely practical. Benefit’s philosophy happens to be “Laughter is the best cosmetic...so grin and wear it!”—which shines through on my favorite piece, the “Le Flirt Tote,” adorned with this cheeky quote: “If you can’t be good, be gorgeous.”

Needless to say, these sassy bags make a fitting home for your They’re Real! mascara and Thrrrob face powder.

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"I'm the kind of person who doesn't feel like I need to choose. Like with food, my friends call me Three Plate Molly, because I want to try everything." That meant tasking the Smashbox team with creating hybrid products, such as pencil eyeliner that has the wet-looking finish of liquid liner and eye shadows with opacity usually reserved for professional ranges. "I like wearing bright colors onstage, but they need to last and be vibrant enough to be seen from far away," she explains.

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The career of Santi White—known as Santigold to the masses—has followed an unlikely trajectory. Her first experience with the music industry was in an A&R role, but she took what she gleaned from her desk job to build a successful career as an indie-pop artist.

Needless to say, the nontraditional route is sort of her thing, and this was certainly true when it came to her collaboration with Smashbox for the Santigolden Age collection.

At one point in the process, White found herself on the floor with a glue stick and scissors, surrounded by bits of paper, creating collages that would become the packaging.

“We started this project in 2012, so I was inspired by this idea of a postapocalyptic Mayan utopia,” explains White. Her hands-on involvement is evident in those aforementioned collages that cover the palettes to the redesigned Smashbox logo that matches her signature font. She even created shades that resurrect her favorite discontinued colors.

With the Mayanpredicted doomsday as her inspiration, White covered the pieces in a snake motif that echoed the serpent deity Kukulcan and came up with shade names like Earth As We Know It and Apocalypse Now.

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Lou Teasdale, the mastermind behind Harry Styles’s iconic hairdo (along with the other One Direction members’ famous locks), was just announced as Brit brand Fudge Urban’s firstever brand ambassador.

Now, I know there are loads of questions racing through your head: “What kind of hair wax does Zayn use?” and “Does Harry use volumizer?” I can’t give you the answers, but now that the unisex styling range is finally available

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stateside, you can try them out yourself and take an educated guess. There is something for everyone, from cropped lasses who can use Surfer wax on their pixies to fans of bedhead who can achieve that tousled texture with Sea Salt spray. (Tropical beverage enthusiasts—I’m not the only one, right?— will drool over the scent of Iced Coconut Cocktail Hairspray.) In my personal fantasy, I imagine the One Direction boys sharing hair products and gabbing about how pretty I am before going on stage. I know deep inside that will never happen, but this gets me one step closer. JT fudge urban styling collection, $8-$11, target.com

Between Lady Gaga's iconic "hair bow" and Fergie's braided "headphones," Patricia Morales has proved she has a knack for making a hair statement. Her newest venture makes her creations available to the masses.

Called "Leo," her line was inspired by everything from dog collars to music. "It's designed for the person that likes to be bold, beautiful, or just cool with a street edge," says Morales. The Majesty, a crown befitting Lorde's Queen Bee, is a bejeweled chain-link tiara, which can be worn separately or doubled up for extra oomph. For hair bow options, consider the Sweet Fish, which features Mermaid Barbie wearing a gold chain, and the Azibra Crazy Eyes, so named because it's adorned with insane-looking cartoon orbs (not the character from Orange Is the New Black). Word of warning: You need pop star confidence to rock these babies. JT patricia morales leo collection, $40-$351, patriciamorales.com

From Diptyque's most popular Baies candle, redolent of black currant leaves, to my favorite, Feu de Bois, which smells like a magnificent forest, to its newest addition, Rosa Mundi, a nongirly take on the namesake flower, the French brand looks to the great outdoors when creating its scents. And so when fans of Diptyque's body care offerings demanded something to slather on their faces, they formulated a skincare range using components from Mother Nature once again. The centerpiece of the collection is the Damask Rose, which soothes and tones. Its essence comprises 84 percent of the facial water, and it's combined with purifying white clay in the cleansing powder, nourishing sweet almond oil and flower waxes in the cleansing balm, detoxifying rice and oat extracts in the exfoliating clay, and hydrating orange blossom extract in the moisturizer. The subtle fragrances are derived from essential oils that also do wondrous things for the complexion. It's low-tech stuff for a high-tech world. KD diptyque l'art du soin for the face, $55-$72, diptyqueparis.com

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Even lipstick die-hards will still reach for the gloss occasionally. Lipstick can be a bit high-maintenance (it requires precise application, a mirror, and frequent reapplication to avoid ring-around-themouth), while gloss is about the easiest piece of makeup to use and wear. Nail polish is kind of like that. Most have opaque finishes, which make for obvious chips and smudges, and are tricky to apply. Using nude shades can help avoid these pitfalls, but they can be the teensiest bit boring. The solution is what can only be described as the lip gloss of lacquer: OPI’s Sheer Tints. These translucent polishes ofer a veil of candy-like color.

Sure, you can use them like a topcoat, but they look far dreamier when worn solo. opi sheer tints top coat, $9 each, ulta.com

Most lava falls into two categories: aa and pahoehoe.

The former is highly viscous and contains cooled chunks of magma, while the latter is more fluid and flows easily.

It’s clearly the second type that inspired Lipstick Queen’s new Vesuvius collection, named after the famed volcano in Italy.

The six-shade range of liquid lipstick coats lips in glossy, molten color. Though their shiny finishes might resemble the scorching substance, what’s in them is far more beneficial, like hydrating jojoba and protective vitamin E. Slick on the Vesuvian Fuchsia and you’re guaranteed to burn brightest. lipstick queen vesuvius liquid lips, $24, lipstickqueen.com

It seemed the proverbial “cool girl” was the hairspiration for stylists at most shows during New York Fashion Week.

There were myriad interpretations, but texture was the common denominator—most models didn’t appear to know their way around a hairbrush.

Usually, this was achieved with copious amounts of dry shampoo so, while tresses had the desired look, they felt a bit crispy.

That might work on the runway, but not so much in real life. Bumble & bumble’s Cityswept Finish, a hairspray-wax-cream hybrid, solves this dilemma by creating the requisite separation and definition, but also softens and smooths strands. After all, hay is for horses—not your head. bumble and bumble cityswept finish, $29, bumbleandbumble.com

The multitasking wonder that is The Multiple began as a humble tube of lipstick: François Nars used one to color model Carolyn Murphy’s eyes, lips, and cheeks for a magazine shoot. Soon after, women began re-creating the innovative technique with the same Tangier lipstick used in the story, so Nars whipped up a single product that could be used on the entire face.

Since then, the shimmery stick has attracted a cult following, but there’s one group who’s stayed out of the scrum—the sparkleaverse. Now, they can join the monochromatic lovers with the Matte Multiple.

It’s the same much-loved product but with nary a fleck of glitter. nars matte multiple, $39 each, narscosmetics.com

There are many ways to abuse your skin, like overindulging in booze and junk food, not getting enough shut-eye, and going to bed without washing your face. If you are guilty of one or more of these ofenses, it might be time for a complexion intervention. Olay’s new Fresh Efects collection is designed for just that.

Between the exfoliating face wash, cleansing wipes, de-pufing eye gel, and soothing lotion, the range is an easy way to begin your facial detox.

Think of it as spring-cleaning for your skin. olay fresh efects collection, $2-$13, olay.com

My clear toiletry bag is often stretched to twice the allotted size the FAA dictates for carry-on liquids, because I cram it with everything, whether or not they’re technically fluids. This has turned me into a hoarder of whatever shrunken lotion, cleanser, and conditioner samples are sent my way. But my best-laid plans are thrown into chaos by my razor. The shape, size, and gooey “moisturizing” bar make packing it a drag, so sometimes I just choose to forgo shaving while on holiday. But now there is the Venus Snap, a pocket-sized razor that comes in a sleek compact, and fits quite nicely in my over-stufed pouch.

There’s oficially no excuse for vacation stubble. gillette venus snap with embrace, $10, pgestore.com

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WHETHER IT’S HOLLYWOOD, BUSINESS, OR A MOTORCYCLE, THERE’S NOTHING JESSICA ALBA CAN’T HANDLE.

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and yet here she is, ordering samosas from one of the food trucks that line Santa Monica’s Pennsylvania Avenue daily to entice the nearby office workers from their desks. “We’ll have the coconut curry—two of those—and a mango chutney…and what’s aloo chaat?” she asks, camera-ready in bell-bottom jeans, a camisole and cardigan, and Rag & Bone boots, her skin faintly glowing. The guy behind the counter vouches for it, so she orders one of those, too, and insists on paying.

It’s a beautiful day, because it’s always a beautiful day in Santa Monica. Alba’s office is located in Silicon Beach, an enclave of venture-capital-funded tech startups. The workers who congregate in the street to order Korean tacos and banh mi are wearing RayBans and Alexander Wang, and it appears that the iPhone-adoption rate is about 99 percent. One of these buildings houses The Honest Company, an eco-friendly home goods and wellness brand that Alba co-founded in 2012, and more than a few of these welldressed people milling around are her employees.

If Alba gave her name when we placed our order, I must have missed it. However, as soon as lunch is ready, the cashier softly calls out “Jessica,” and Alba thanks him graciously when he whispers that he’s thrown in a couple pieces of naan—“just so you can try it.”

Back in The Honest Company lunchroom, which is painted airy shades of blue and dotted with potted succulents, Alba unpacks the food before enlisting a colleague to help her find a bottle of Sriracha. As for the juice fast? “I never stick to them,” she says with a shrug, and digs in.

The Honest Company is neither a side business nor a vanity project.

Just over two years old and fueled by $52 million in venture capital, the company employs almost 200 people, most of whom are crammed into this office. Though she’s the president, Alba sits at a desk in the middle of a row in an open space. Granted, it’s a hot pink design, with a white leather chair, but she has no more real estate than anyone else. Mid-bite of curry, she looks up to see a group of people exiting a conference room, and her brow furrows. “Why wasn’t

I in that meeting?” she wonders, mostly to herself, and then summons over a few staffers to quickly set things straight. Make no mistake: Jessica Alba is the boss.

ALBA’S BUSINESS RESULTED from a meeting with author and activist Christopher Gavigan in 2008. Gavigan had written a book about toxins, and the subject resonated with Alba, who had allergies and often found herself breaking out or swelling up from things as seemingly innocuous as makeup or laundry detergent.

With a shared belief that nontoxic products should be both affordable and effective, Gavigan and Alba recruited entrepreneurs Brian Lee and Sean Kane to launch the company with an initial range of 17 products, which has since grown to over 60 items, including household cleaning supplies, baby products, vitamins, lip balms, and shampoo and conditioner.

“I want the products in my day-to-day life to work, but I don’t want to expose myself and my kids to toxic chemicals, and it was virtually impossible to find those,” she explains. “Or if I did, they

were all brown and boring and not cute. Things should be pretty, but they should also work, and they shouldn’t break the bank. Just looking around at the market, it became clear that you had to be wealthy in order to afford a better, healthier life for your family, and that’s not OK.” Alba points to an interloper in our lunch, a blue corn taco-looking thing that was certainly not ordered. “Are you going to get into that?” she asks. “I’m nervous— what is it?” She takes one bite, and then another.

After lunch, back at her desk, she arranges and rearranges a gift set to see just how much product she can fit into one box, excitedly shows off sample fabrics for a blanket that’s in development, and consults on colors for a lip tint.

When asked which one she likes best, she replies, matter-of-factly: “They’re all kind of shitty.” When one of her employees tries to explain that they’re vegan and made from natural red oxide, she points out that they are also “brown and tannish,” “not a cute color,” and therefore, something no one wants to buy.

Alba’s touch is evident in almost every area of the business, from the packaging design to marketing plans and office décor. For the new space, she wanted vintage tanker desks, and when no one could source them, she went on Craigslist and found them herself in an afternoon. She and Gavigan sit down with each new customer care agent that they hire and talk them through their duties, encouraging them to put themselves in that woman’s shoes. “The last thing she wants to do is call a company because her order is wrong,” she explains. “So talk to her like it’s the worst day of her life and it’s your job to turn it around.” She’s worked the phones herself before (albeit in the name of researching an acting role), but claims she’s not very good at it. As for what she’s learned about being a good boss and inspiring her employees, Alba is forthcoming. “I don’t think I’m there yet,” she says. “I’m just trying to get through it. I should think outside myself, but I’m just trying to make sure the lights stay on.”

A power outage is unlikely.

“Jessica’s different in that she dreams big—she has a 50,000foot view of big ideas and big

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inspiration, but she can actually drop down into the weeds and really identify and understand how to execute,” says Gavigan. “I’ve worked with a lot of notable people, but Jessica has an X-factor that’s really unique. I’m always surprised by her inner fire and determination.

She’s got something to prove, and she’s always working to showcase her talents and accomplish her mission and life’s purpose.”

It’s somewhat ironic that Alba might feel she has something to prove, since she’s one of the most recognizable stars in the world.

In 2000, she landed her first major role, starring in the James Cameron-developed television show Dark Angel. She played a genetically engineered superhuman and earned a Golden Globe nomination in 2001. She followed with dance-flick Honey, and action movies Fantastic Four and Sin City.

According to industry website Box Office Mojo, Alba’s collective box office gross is over $1.8 billion.

Now a household name, she regularly tops lists with variations on the theme of hot women and beautiful people (Maxim, FHM, TV Guide, Playboy, People).

More than 10 years into her career (and two kids later), Alba is still show-stoppingly, well, hot. Though this year will see her reprising her role as Nancy Callahan in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Alba has also made a conscious effort to branch out and take roles that are against type. In Stretch, a microbudget film from Joe Carnahan (Smokin’ Aces, Narc), Alba channels a tomboyish limousine company dispatch operator. In the action comedy Barely Lethal, she plays a villain opposite Hailee Steinfeld and Samuel L. Jackson, and in How to Make Love Like an Englishman, she’s a knocked-up grad student in love with a professor. “I’m not as business-oriented with my acting career as I was before. I have this,” she says, gesturing at the activity humming around her. “So now, acting can be about creativity and growing that side of me. I’ve played a lot of leading-lady types;

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they were sweet, aspirational, not terribly complicated people. I needed to make sure I had staying power, so I went after tentpole movies that were going to be big and global. I really just want to work with directors who I think are cool, and on movies that I think are fun and characters that I think are interesting, whether that’s an indie or a big movie. It doesn’t matter if it’s a lead or a small role. Here, could you take a picture?”

She hands over her phone. On her desk sits a blue-and-white vase stuffed with pink-and-white flowers.

Alba hoists it up and makes a wide-eyed grin. She photographs beautifully on the first snap, but I take two, as is custom, just in case. The flowers are a gift from Tory Burch, whom Alba had met a few nights before to talk business— specifically, over Alba’s concerns about being the only woman on The Honest Company board. The photo will serve as a thank-you.

She still has plenty to do, but there’s just enough time to get her nails done before she must go home to pack for a trip to New York to celebrate The Honest Company’s second birthday and promote The Spoils of Babylon, a satirical ensemble IFC miniseries that also stars Kristen Wiig, Tobey Maguire, and Will Ferrell. Alba plays a marine biologist named Dixie Mellonworth who nearly slaps the wig off Wiig in a fight over Maguire’s affections.

Her lab coat and cat-eye glasses don’t disguise the fact that Mellonworth is indeed a sexy scientist, and in an appearance on Jimmy Fallon, Alba deadpanned, “Her melons are worth it.”

I CLEAR A LINT ROLLER and a cardigan off the passenger seat of her SUV and we make off for the nail salon Olive & June, in Beverly Hills, where Alba is evidently a regular. As she settles into a chair in the back, relishing a rare moment when the only decision she’s making is what color to paint her toes (she settles on dark green), the change in her energy is palpable.

In recent years, acting has become Alba’s escape, where playing a fictional character is a welcome break from the multitude of roles she already plays in her daily life. “I don’t have to be a boss; I don’t have to be a wife; I don’t have to be a sister,” she says of the compartmentalizing that happens when she arrives on set. “I can just be somebody else completely, and there’s something really liberating about that. There are no rules, no boundaries. I’ve always been such a control freak about everything, since I was little, and I was always so responsible. It’s been liberating to be able to play someone who’s a badass or promiscuous, because that’s the opposite of who I am. I don’t have a choice—I have to just dive in. It’s like a drug or something.

When you connect with a complete stranger, and you’re both playing someone else and having an argument, or laughing—there’s something really neat about creating these genuine, intimate moments.”

Patrick Wilson, her co-star in Stretch, knows this firsthand.

“Jessica is comfortable in her own skin, and easy to get along with.

That helps when you’re forging a relationship in about five minutes,” he says. “Luckily, we felt very

comfortable with each other so we could establish a rapport right away. She came in with tons of thoughts, questions, and character work she had already done. She was ready to roll.”

Alba’s return to Sin City was another immersive experience. “I wore wigs, I wore prosthetics, I had a scar on my face,” she recalls. “[Nancy] is a mess—she’s an alcoholic—so it was a really dark headspace to be in.” Prep for the film was physical—running, dancing, shooting, and archery—and in a way, it was a continuation of the stuntwoman training Alba received as a teenager on Dark Angel. “It’s nice to be able to use my body in a way that other people can’t,” she says. “It’s another tool.” That background, incidentally, has made her a badass in real life. “I know how to ride a motorcycle,” she admits. “I can do wire work like you see in circuses. I can shoot and load a gun, and I can disarm someone who has a gun. I know how to fight, too.”

Alba leans back in the pedicure chair. “In this last year, for sure, I had the most fun,” she says of her acting projects. “Now, I don’t feel like I have anything to lose.

Before, I was so fearful of failure and judgment that I was scared to put myself out there. You don’t have to be a robot. You don’t have to be appropriate all the time.

I used to be so hard on myself whenever I would act out, like if I had a little too much to drink and said something inappropriate to somebody—or to an entire party.”

She smiles. “But you have to realize that as long as you don’t make a habit of it, tomorrow will be here, and everything will be OK. And as much as you think other people are defining you, it really doesn’t matter what they think.”

Her nails are bone dry, but Alba is in no particular hurry to leave. She lingers in the chair as the late afternoon sun turns everything golden, a hue that seems made for her, reflected in the highlights in her hair and the bronzer shimmering on her cheeks.

So much has changed since she first arrived in Hollywood, she concedes. Although, she adds, laughing, “I can probably still wear midriffs.”

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BAPTISM BY But when that role is in a two-part film called Nymphomaniac, helmed by lightning-rod director Lars von Trier, and involves an array of prosthetic sex organs and porn doubles, it’s less of a debut and more of a career’s worth of uncomfortable moments crammed into one production. Stacy Martin wouldn’t have had it any other way.

“I was very familiar with Lars,” she says, cradling a coffee in an East London café not far from where she lives. “I knew his work and his aesthetic.”

While modeling her way through college, she met casting director Des Hamilton, and because, in Martin’s words, “he’s bonkers,” he recommended her to von Trier. “I read the script, and I could tell it was amazing, so when I met him, I got really coy and stupid,” recalls Martin. “I couldn’t act cool. I’d been up since 3 a.m. to make the flight over, so I’d barely slept. I was a bit delirious, so I never thought I’d get it. Maybe I should do that before every audition.”

Though Martin is French, you’d be hard-pressed to tell by listening to her Brit-tinged accent, courtesy of an English mother and the five years she’s spent in London since finishing school. Easygoing and self-effacing, Martin laughs as she recalls her

earliest awkward phase. “My dad is a hairstylist,” she says. “He shaved my head when I was a child. Apparently it strengthens your hair. I looked like a boy until I was three.” Of course, all’s well that ends well when you exit puberty a dead ringer for Jane Birkin.

So perhaps it wasn’t a coincidence that von Trier tapped her to play one version of the film’s protagonist Joe, a character portrayed in later adulthood

by Charlotte Gainsbourg, Birkin’s daughter.

“It was pretty mind-blowing being around all these amazing actors,” says Martin of her Nymphomaniac co-stars, who also include Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, and Shia LaBeouf. “I was worried because Shia is from Hollywood, and I didn’t know what Hollywood actors were like. He might be mental! And he’s had a lot of experience. I didn’t want anyone in the cast to feel like I didn’t know what I was doing. But he was really supportive and so happy to be working with Lars. He gave everyone energy.”

Since American audiences first got a look at Volume I at a secret Sundance Film Festival screening in January, Nymphomaniac has garnered reactions both laudatory and pearl-clutching. According to Martin, early European response has been overwhelmingly supportive. “One of the first things we did was a Danish press junket, and everyone was so positive,”

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One thing that’s hard to argue with is Martin’s skill and poise in portraying Joe. For all of the phony body parts and adult film star stand-ins, there was no room for bashfulness on set, and no escaping the rumor mill speculation regarding just how simulated the film’s sex scenes actually were. “Neither Shia nor I were willing to actually have sex on screen, obviously,” she says adamantly. “Everything was set in place for us to have a porn double, a prosthetic vagina, special effects. We’d be sitting around in restaurants, saying, ‘You know the penis scene? How are we going to do that?’ And you forget that there are people around you! But that’s what’s so great about the film; as actors, we could be ourselves and commit to an amazing project, but we were protected as human beings and, speaking for myself, as a woman. To be able to marry both of those was genius.”

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Practically speaking, Ansel Elgort is ready to hit the rock-climbing gym this afternoon, where he likes to dangle and swing from handhold to handhold.

Metaphorically, the 19-yearold actor is straddling a rapidly narrowing chasm between relative anonymity and megastardom. After playing sensitive prom king Tommy Ross in last fall’s Carrie remake, his first screen gig ever (“no TV, no student films,” he claims), Elgort appears in this month’s Divergent as Caleb, brother to protagonist Beatrice, played by Shailene

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Woodley. Then, in June, Elgort will star as Augustus Waters in The Fault in Our Stars (again with Woodley, this time as her lover). By the time Jason Reitman’s Men, Women, & Children comes out late this year, Elgort just might be the next cult-worshipped heartthrob.

Elgort seems aware that widespread notoriety could be just around the corner, but he’s not interested in fame for its own sake—he wants the

laurels. He’s distinctly New York City—it’s where he grew up—and he’d rather you not know exactly where in Williamsburg he lives, or which gym he’s headed to, just in case you decide to show up outside the door one day. He’s worried about coattail riders and vampires of fortune, and resolutely surrounds himself with anti-Hollywood matter, like a DJ roommate and a girlfriend whose name he refuses to supply. If Elgort is impossible to star-strike, it’s in part because he grew up among them. His father is the renowned fashion photographer Arthur Elgort, and his mother, Grethe Barrett Holby, is a new-wave opera composer. Ansel’s older brother Warren is a film director, and his sister Sophie, the eldest sibling,

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Familial support has meant everything to Elgort, he says, and his father is the source of the single best piece of career advice he’s received to date. “He told me, ‘Work hard at what you love and the money will follow.’” That could mean tracing a career path similar to one of Elgort’s idols: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Matthew McConaughey, or Ryan Gosling. “I like to find an arc,” he says, “and I love leading men who can character act.” Elgort’s role in Divergent appealed to him because, he says, Caleb is so dynamic.

But the potential pitfalls of screen glory occupy his mind for the better part of a long walk around SoHo in 12-degree weather. Elgort’s reticence seems genuine; he doesn’t read the tabloids and he doesn’t care what his colleagues are up to outside of their work.

“There’s something wonderful about having a normal life as a human being,” says Elgort, who claims he has yet to be recognized on the street.

But 145,000 people (and counting) follow him on Twitter, and another 8,400 are fans of @ansolo_music,

his EDM persona. House music is on Elgort’s short list of creative-arts talents.

At LaGuardia High School, from which he graduated in 2012, Elgort dabbled in everything, and still does. Music, theater (two years ago, he starred with Alexis Bledel in Regrets, off-Broadway), dancing (“I didn’t really love it”), and miniature painting.

Not itsy-bitsy bowls of pears, but painstakingly colored creatures, which then become game pieces.

On the Internet you can find pictures of the little monsters that Elgort has dreamed up.

And you can also find the name of his girlfriend— although there’s nothing scandalous to report.

“I hope I never have a relationship that’s in the tabloids. It would cheapen it. What does fame have to do with loving someone?” asks Elgort. “You see couples who are geared toward being publicized.

I want the world to see my work, but I don’t care about the world knowing who I’m in love with.”

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from a small town in england to pop domination, louisa rose allen is ready to woo the world

FOXY LADY “She was a hot mess,” says Louisa Rose Allen, setting her mug down with enough force that some coffee sloshes over the rim. She lowers her voice, as if revealing a dirty secret: “Thing is, I kind of enjoy how she was just a bit unhinged.” Allen, better known as Foxes, the Bambi-eyed electro-pop phenom behind such hits as “Youth” and “Let Go for Tonight,” is seated at a small round table inside Café Oto in London’s lively Dalston district. She’s describing Jenny from Forrest Gump, a film she claims to have watched hundreds of times over the course of her 24 years.

Like Jenny, Allen dreamed of escaping her small town to become a singer, and while growing up in Southampton, U.K., she jokes that she was “that annoying kid who ran around the house singing Disney songs.”

Thanks to some steering from her mother and older sister, this fandom evolved into a serious appreciation of artists like Patti Smith and Björk. At age 18, Allen considered following her friends to cosmetology school, but again, her sister stepped in and convinced her to attend music school in London instead.

Taking a chance as a teenager is now paying off big-time for Allen, who first rose to fame for her emotive vocals on Zedd’s Grammy-winning “Clarity” and Fall Out Boy’s “Just One Yesterday,” and then her own euphoric single “Youth.” Her debut full-length album, Glorious, is out March 3. “I feel so ready to jump in,” she says. “I remember Pete Wentz saying to just make sure you take every moment in. You’ve got to enjoy it while it’s happening, as it might not happen tomorrow.” But behind her seemingly meteoric ascent were “loads

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of setbacks,” the singer admits. “When you achieve success in the end, though, those moments make you appreciate it more.” And in spite of her increasing fame, talking to Allen is like talking to one of your best friends, indulging in Girlsstyle rants about modern life: “Recently, I’ve tried to take a bird’s-eye view down instead of being stuck inside my own head,” she says. “But it’s such a hard thing to do.”

High emotions run throughout Glorious’ electro-ballads, which were all penned in a bedroom in Kentish Town in northwest London. “Everything I write is coming from something that happened to me,” she says. “I try to keep it honest.” The title track is about “not giving up and the ability to see beauty and the positive in things,” she says. “It was the last song I wrote, and in a way it summed up the whole process. A lot of creative people have something a bit broken about them. But I think that’s actually the beautiful part.”

It’s clear that the girl from Southampton who wanted to see the world is doing just that. She shares a recent story about visiting California’s Venice Beach: “I was holding a bottle of vodka and getting, like, three tattoos at once.

It felt so free and fun.”

But most of all, she’s just thrilled to be living her dream. “If I was playing on the side of the street, getting pennies,” she says, “I would still do it.”

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Angel Haze talks like she raps, dryly and at a wild clip, pausing only to point out when she’s joking and when she’s dead serious. Every so often, a word like “career” will stick to the roof of her mouth like peanut butter. Placing “music” before it makes her even more uncomfortable, as her primary goal is to help listeners feel less alone in the world, and, in her mind, once she contemplates how to sell something, it immediately becomes a gimmick.

“I was homeless a lot as a kid,” she says, staring out the window of a black Town Car her record label has provided for the day. “I realized early on how little the world cares about that sector of humanity. I genuinely care about people.

I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t. I could obviously be doing something a lot easier with my life.”

The car pulls up to New York’s La Esquina taqueria. A decent-size lunch crowd has formed inside, but it doesn’t take too long for us to finagle a booth.

A few patrons do a double take at the sight of the rapper and her friend, model Chrishell Stubbs. Though she’s by no means short, Haze looks petite next to Stubbs, and just as pretty, her wavy ombré softening a semiintimidating shoulder-width stance.

Once seated, Haze opens up about her decision to leak her own album. Republic Records wanted to release Dirty Gold, her debut studio full-length, this month, but that wasn’t soon enough, so she uploaded the tracks to SoundCloud last December and tweeted the link. “I wanted to keep my promise to my fans for new music before year’s end,” she says.

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“I didn’t mind waiting, but it gets overwhelming when you have kids who write you, like, ‘I need this,’ and you know you’ve got stuff just waiting there. You don’t want to let it stagnate to the point that they just give up.” Her label pulled the tracks down but eventually agreed to make Dirty Gold available as a digital download. (The physical album is still slated for spring.) Meanwhile, Haze has continued posting a steady stream of freestyle covers, from “Same Love” to “Black Skinhead,” “Wrecking Ball” to “Summertime Sadness.”

Born Raykeea Wilson in Detroit in the summer of 1991, Haze was raised in a strict Greater Apostolic Faith-following home roughly five miles from where Eminem grew up.

“Detroit was terrible,” she says. “It’s, like, unimaginable now, but when I was a kid, it was…suspect.” As was her religious upbringing. “You couldn’t wear pants or earrings or makeup, and you couldn’t get your eyebrows done or your nails done or anything that would feed into the vanities of the world,” she says.

More crucially, she couldn’t listen to secular music or talk to anyone outside of the church. “The pastor would say adultery is a sin, and he’d be having sex with my mom, his wife, this other lady, and a 15-year-old girl.

Where do you draw the line? What’s really wrong? I’m grateful for the experience—it taught me to think for myself because people can lead you any which way.”

Her family left Detroit and the church when Haze was 10. They moved a few times, eventually settling in rural Virginia, where Haze binged on music, starting with New Radicals’ “You Get What You Give,” a song she remembered from movies she’d seen as a kid. Haze didn’t stick to a specific genre. “It was more about expression and lyricism,” she says. Her rapid musical discovery was fueled by lyrics sites that recommended new artists, and one day she came across a forum called rapbattles.com. “I read the text

battles and learned about metaphors, similes, and wordplay, and I tried to apply them to what I was writing,” she says, pausing to take a sip of her Coke. “Learning how to flow basically meant understanding what staccato was and how to be in the pocket. I’d just sit there all day trying until I got better.” She admits it’s not as exciting as Eminem’s teeth-cutting days at The Shelter in Detroit. “I wish,” she says. “That’s a better story than being a nerd.”

Haze’s didacticism and intellectual curiosity, however, are exactly what inform the battle-ready rhymes on Dirty Gold. The album has an Internet-y “everything all the time” feel but also a cohesive, edited gloss, thanks in part to producer Markus Dravs, who’s worked with Arcade Fire, Björk, and Mumford & Sons. “I told my label that I needed someone who was really militant and structured, so Markus had me on a strict schedule,” says Haze. “That helped me develop certain skills; I went from not singing at all to singing on half of the album.”

Like Haze in conversation, Dirty Gold swerves from a straight-up party vibe to life-affirming tenderness in an instant. The clashing beats and aggro brags on “Echelon” make way for a seriously heart-tugging hook courtesy of Sia on “Battle Cry.” Dravs encouraged Haze to capture the phases she was going through during the process of recording as they were happening. “I’d gone to a strip club, met this girl, and ended up spending, like, $20,000 in one night—I was so wasted,” she says. “It was such an alternative world from what I was used to. I went from living in a basement in Virginia, being the most sheltered child ever, to going out into the world all alone and just seeing everything for what it was.”

Haze refuses to subscribe to binary ways of thinking, possibly because she was introduced to almost all of the world’s possibilities

at once. “People ask me all the time, ‘What’s it like to be a Native American-African woman?’ And I’m like, ‘That doesn’t define me—that just happens to be the race of my parents when they fucked and made me,’” she says. “Inside, there’s no ethnicity or color to your feelings. The only levels that humans genuinely connect on are through our emotions and thoughts. I don’t use specific pronouns when speaking about love.

It doesn’t matter to me.”

Stubbs hides a snicker behind her taco, but her eyes betray loving amusement at her friend’s Haze-isms.

And she’s not alone in her awe of the artist’s boundless ambition. It’s impossible to peg the artist: One minute she’s holding her own against A$AP Rocky, Joey Bada$$, Driicky Graham, and Childish Gambino in the annual BET Awards cypher; the next, she’s getting a private preview of the new collection from Helmut Lang creative directors Michael and Nicole Colovos. On Twitter, she alternates between peddling diss tracks and sharing inspirational quotes. During a 2012 NYLON TV interview, she professed her love for Chipotle and her desire to become a neurological surgeon in practically the same breath. Both still apply.

“I struggled to get a B in math, so I’m probably going to be a pretty average doctor,” she admits with a laugh. “I wouldn’t come to me, but I’m totally going to pursue it.”

Right now, though, she’s got to play some shows in Milan, Berlin, and Paris. Then it’s off to Los Angeles to shoot a video for “Battle Cry” and back to Europe to promote the single. “I knew if I put the record out early it would mean I’d have to do a shit-ton of work,” says Haze. Even before she did it, her label was on to her. “They were like, ‘Go ahead so long as you understand that putting your album out prematurely means you’re not having a fucking day off next year.’ I was like, ‘That’s fine.’”

One can safely assume she wasn’t planning on taking one anyway.

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Three out of four members of Warpaint are sitting beneath a monument to Johnny Ramone in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The fourth, drummer Stella Mozgawa, is leading a swan she’s befriended through some tall grass. Mozgawa and her bandmates—singerguitarist Emily Kokal, singer-guitarist Theresa Wayman, and bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg—are opening for James Blake at the storied graveyard/ venue in a few hours, and hanging out with them is sort of like being invited to a secret meeting filled with asides and insider references that you’ll never understand. This palpable sense of closeness is also evident on the moody, ethereal indie-rock tracks that make up their self-titled

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second album—they’ll be previewing a few of them tonight before a spellbound audience.

But right now, we’re discussing how they got here. Kokal, Wayman, and Lindberg formed Warpaint in 2004, rotating through several drummers before securing Mozgawa on the eve of recording The Fool, released in the fall of 2010.

“We made The Fool before we’d toured,” says Kokal.

“Then we were on the road for two and a half years— there is a real ‘before’ and ‘after’ with what it was like to record as a band that hadn’t toured and one that had played so many shows together.”

The group started working on Warpaint early last year, spending several weeks in a house in Joshua Tree, California, writing and recording demos. They generated nearly 40 ideas, most of which weren’t complete songs. “We just started playing something,” says Kokal. “If it resonated, then we kept going. At the end, we put it all together like a patchwork quilt. It’s in our nature to be feelingbased and just play what we want to hear.”

The actual recording was delayed by nearly a year so the band could work with Flood, the British producer responsible for albums by U2, Depeche Mode, and PJ Harvey. They were not interested in compromise—it was either work with Flood or produce the album on their own.

“PJ Harvey’s songs cut through to sonics that are acceptable on a mainstream level but also still have their demo feel,” says Wayman.

“We can record ourselves, but having someone who has years and years of

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experience mic-ing drums and recording to tape just seemed really irreplaceable.”

While writing, there was no real thread between the tracks, but after what Lindberg describes as an “intense” process, the songs began to flow together naturally, offering more space and pauses than The Fool had, building an overall tone that is both lovely and melancholy.

“Every time I listen to the record now, it’s all about love, the whole thing,” says Mozgawa. “I don’t think it was even conscious.”

Everyone nods, but Kokal interrupts to clarify: “Just love in general, not necessarily relationships.

Love in some form or another.”

The absence of a thematic goal at the outset allowed their intuition to make a statement. “We hang out so often that we’ve interwoven our ways of thinking,” says Wayman.

“So it makes sense that even if we don’t have a conscious concept, our subconscious would create one together.”

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For Femme, Bettinson wanted to combine masculine hip-hop beats with catchy, feminine hooks and harmonies that embodied the spirit, charm, and sass of ’60s girl groups. Bored by the current crop of what she calls “bland hit-factory pop tunes,” she began penning tracks that paid homage to that earlier era, while hanging on to a 21st-century bass line.

A Goldsmiths grad like Katy B and James Blake, the 25-year-old takes DIY to the extreme when it comes to her own music. So far,

she’s written, recorded, and produced a string of blissstomp electro-pop singles, and shot and edited a series of saturated, luxe-punk videos.

The end result is reminiscent of early 2000s electroclash, her “Fever Boy” a sweet—and PG-13—update to Peaches’s “Fuck the Pain Away.”

Even though Bettinson handles every step of the music-making process herself, she casts her creative group of friends to act in her stylish videos. “You know how when you were a kid, you’d get your girlfriends together and make up dances and perform them for anyone?” she asks. “That’s essentially what we do every

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weekend.” Which isn’t to say her art is not being taken seriously—especially by the fashion crowd. Without even an EP under her belt, she’s soundtracked two Stella McCartney collections as well as an adidas campaign. When it comes to Femme’s signature style, Bettinson says she finds most of her source material while combing Tumblr for images tagged “retro future,” and that typically she follows the “more is more” theory.

“All of those tinfoil outfits and colander hats that are very space-age in an amazing ’60s way—I get a lot of mileage out of that,” she says.

Femme is not Bettinson’s first foray into mid-century style, however. If her “Beauty School Dropout”-esque ’do looks familiar, there’s good reason. Half a decade ago, she fronted the experimental rock band Ultraísta alongside famed producers Nigel Godrich and Joey Waronker of Atoms for Peace. But these days, all of her artistic energy is devoted to developing Femme—and steering clear of the status quo. “I’d rather play to 20 people for the rest of my life, believing in what I’m doing and having fun than be up there singing someone else’s song, wearing some god-awful clothes that I didn’t choose,” she says.

“That’s my worst nightmare.”

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But despite the fashionworld partnerships, idealized beauty is never DeTar’s aim. “For me, it’s fun to make new friends and get inspired by what other people’s lives are like. So I use artists and musicians as subjects, mainly,” she says. “They’re looking at it from the same perspective as I am. It’s not about ‘What do I look like?’ It’s more, ‘Why don’t we go out there and make something really beautiful?’” The great outdoors makes for a formidable muse, too.

“Nature really takes paint well,” says DeTar. “Right now, I’m obsessed with candy-colored forests with diferent-colored trees everywhere.”

MALLORY RICE

Why are the Spice Girls so polarizing?

L: There’s something that made us really attracted to the idea of saying “Girl Power!” and doing karate kicks—and that’s kind of enough when you’re in eighth grade and about to be really depressed. But I’m sure Eve sees all this diferently.

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Leonora made a Leonardo DiCaprio shrine. Is there a Gen X equivalent?

E: I sort of had an ironic shrine to Keanu Reeves when I was in college.

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If you’re looking for a deep dive into Generations X and Y girlhood, there’s nobody better to help you sort through the nebulous overlap of Dr. Martens and foam platforms than a certain pair of pop-culture-obsessed sisters. Born 14 years apart, Eve Epstein (former Daily Candy editor-in-chief) and Leonora Epstein (a BuzzFeed editor) have joined forces to create X vs. Y: A Culture War, a Love Story, a new anthology of essays and infographs juxtaposing the two generations’ most meaningful references from the ’80s through the aughts. Here, the L.A.based siblings make interviewer Kelley Hofman swoon over their respective nostalgia—and really crave Dr. Pepperflavored Bonne Bell Lip Smacker.

Was there a diference in the way you developed a sense of what you liked?

E: The great thing about Leo is that she has always been more confident in her taste than I ever was.

L: That’s all thanks to the Spice Girls, by the way. Girl Power.

E: Which I will never understand.

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Leonora (Gen Y): I feel lucky because Eve gave me a great cultural education in music and fashion. I loved borrowing her clothes, whether it was an X-Girl shirt or a floral Betsey Johnson dress. I remember one shirt she had with a glitter iron-on that said kiss, as in the band, and when I was 12 I thought, “Oh my God, that’s the cutest thing ever—‘Kiss’!”

That’s obviously really embarrassing now.

Eve (Gen X): She had no idea it was a reference to a band.

For me, it was fun because Gen Xers like to tell other people what they should like.

E: For all we know, the Spice Girls of today is Miley Cyrus, but you’re not just going to love things in the same way.

The older you get, the harder it is to connect with those things critically. You can’t see it the way you did when you were 12.

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Teen sleuth series Veronica Mars retained its cult following despite being canceled in 2007, and for years, the show’s creator Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell lobbied production studios for a feature film. Alas, it was all to no avail—until they took the idea to Kickstarter.

Thanks to the show’s loyal admirers, the campaign was an enormous success and the movie will hit theaters this month. Here, Bell chats with Lisa Mischianti about their Hollywood coup.

stunningly dressed window into the mind of an auteur—less a director's latest film, and more the continuation of a career-long idiosyncratic vision.

Don't ever change, Wes. As if there were any danger of that.

DAVID WALTERS

Why do you think the series has such a zealous fan base? I’ve always thought it was part magic and part luck, but I guess it’s because Veronica is such a confident outcast. Not fitting in is a very relatable feeling, and she’s this queen of the disenfranchised. Veronica says what you wish you had said in high school.

Were you surprised that the Kickstarter campaign was such a success? I was floored that as many people rallied as hard as they did.

I’ve always had confidence in our fans, but I was certainly shocked when we tripled our goal.

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It's not without an abundance of hype that the polarizing Lars von Trier rel eases Volume 1 of his two-part film project, Nympho maniac, this month. Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg as Joe , the film follows the selfdiagnosed sex addict as sh e recounts her erotic past to a stranger (Stellan Skarsgar d) who finds her beaten in an alley. Most of her stories are presented in flashback, wit h newcomer Stacy Martin pla ying the younger Joe. The film has been long discussed for its rumored graphic sexual co ntent—and, o

spoiler alert, tho se rumors are true—but Nympho maniac's real surprises have lit tle to do with fornication. Most surprising is the film's sense of humor (in particular, a scene featuring Uma Thurman's charged yet comical performa nce as the scorned wife of one of Joe's lovers) and its tan gents into decidedly nonsexu al territories like fishing strat egies and Fibonacci numbe rs. Pervs beware—promises of nudity may bring you to the theater, but you'll end up stay ing for less salacious reasons . MR

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Initially I was nervous that I wouldn’t be able to find her as comfortably again.

After the first few months of shooting a television series, the character just becomes instinct. But about five minutes into the first scene with Jason Dohring, who plays Logan, it was like, “Oh, yeah, this is it.”

What can longtime fans of the show expect? Almost the entire cast of the series appears in the movie, and there are a lot of special subtle details written in there for fanboys and fangirls—because we know they’re smart enough to pick up on them!

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Only 25 percent of computer programmers are women—and since the ’90s, that number has declined. Video games have diversified from consoles to mobile apps, but the gap in that field is even worse—women make up just 4 percent of game programmers.

Brooklyn-based Nina Freeman wants to change that. She grew up loving the fantasy and romance of games, Japanese animation, and comics.

But as she entered her early twenties, she found her former playground to be unfriendly to women. Mainstream games still ofer relatively few nuanced female characters—sexualized female bodies and the “princess in distress” are the norm.

“After college, I started to write poetry, and I realized that storytelling and writing were two things I really needed in my life,” says Freeman.

“Games were also something I needed—all were ways of expressing myself and exploring my identity.” So she decided to teach herself how to code. One of her games, Ladylike (nominated for an Independent Games Festival award), is inspired by tense conversations in the car with her mother, and features “cootie catchers, nude Barbies, and food shopping.”

Today, along with cofounders Jane Friedhof, Catt Small, and Mei Chan, Freeman runs Code Liberation, a program of free workshops in C++ and other programming languages for women.

Last September, Code Liberation began ofering a series of classes for girls in eighth and ninth grades. Says Freeman: “I really want to encourage girls to make games that I never had myself.”

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Try a miniature flask necklace embossed with whiskeyloving grandma (I can tell that you are!). Or what about a trucker hat that reads i just broke up with my bf, let's make fun of him together right after you read this in Comic Sans? Honestly, you don't even have to order the item. Just design it and post the image to Facebook, then laugh with your friends about the sort of idiot who would actually wear it. I'll be far away, crying in an adult onesie covered in Broken Social Scene lyrics.

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What did you like about working with a familiar story like “Snow White”?

It was actually weirdly stressful, but a good kind of stress. With “Snow White” there is this theme of the ways that women can disappoint each other. You have the stepmother and the stepdaughter, and for me, it became about how a younger woman can see an older woman as her future and an older woman can see a younger woman as her past. They both think that the other should know what to do and so they go through life with this strange scrutiny.

This is your fifth book, but you’ve been featured on various lists for being a “young novelist.” Do you feel like one? No! I feel like an old, old lady.

I guess that’s good in a way, because normally around publication time I’d get really nervous, and now I just don’t.

But writing is still hard every time. I’m always complaining [laughs].

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There has been no shortage of digit al publishing platforms attempting to secure their footing while the book industry endures its growing pains, but Atavist Books, formed by media moguls Barry Diller and Scott Rudin with former Picador publisher Frances Coady, caught the attention of many when it announced that its first fiction ofering would come by way of the Pulit zer Prize-short-listed MacArthur Fellow Karen Russell. Her novella, Sleep Donation, will be available for download on March 25, and throughout 2014, one new book per month will follow. The impressive talent roster doesn’t stop with Russell, either: April’s release is an “enhanced digit al novel” made collaboratively by writer Chris Adrian and app developer (and former McSweeney’s publisher) Eli Horowitz. Atavist’s promise to take full advantage of the format are certainly exciting, but fear not, paper snifers—the publisher will ofer print versions of many of its books, too. MR

You’re currently based in Prague. What brought you there? I chose it on a whim, actually. I was living in Cambridge, and I just wanted to live somewhere else. I had been going around— Paris, then Toronto, and then Cambridge—and I

didn’t know much about this part of the world. I didn’t expect to stay. I just ended up falling in love with the place. I went from not knowing much to suddenly being really into Czech composers and writers and so on.

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Lorrie Moore, the author whose work was first published at age 19 thanks to a contest in Seventeen magazine, has reached a level of belovedness in her now decades-long career that is normally bestowed upon the long gone.

The name of this page, for instance, is not-so-discreetly dedicated to her first collection, Self-Help. Since that book was published in 1983, Moore has tirelessly reported on the lives of girls and women with a kind of ultra-specific insight that has acted as both something grand—"the most irresistible contemporary American writer!" said The New York Times of her—and, if you're talking to her devoted readers, incredibly

intimate. Her latest collection, Bark, includes eight stories that are both serious and funny in Moore's typical fashion, but with characters that are a bit more hard-edged than readers may be used to—many of them, it seems, are somewhat less amused by their own unhappiness than the protagonists we've met before. But don't let that deter you. Moore, of course, explained this best at the New York Public Library last year.

"The idea of likeability belongs in the world of entertainment, not art," she said. "' Like' is the wrong word. A younger generation has substituted ' relatable,' as in ' Is this character relatable?' a word which makes me cringe, but may be closer to the proper concept, as it involves movement toward a person rather than passing judgment while standing apart." MR

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Since publishing her first book in 2005, Helen Oyeyemi has gained notable admirers (like Aimee Bender) and numerous accolades (like a place on Granta’s list of “Best of Young British Novelists”) for her imaginative work.

Here, Oyeyemi discusses her latest novel, Boy, Snow, Bird, an inventive retelling of the classic “Snow White” tale, featuring Boy, a New York City runaway-turnedwife and mother of two, her daughter, Bird, and stepdaughter, Snow.

Were you more interested in weaving in visual elements or actual plot points—or did you just let things happen? I always get excited to take a motif and embroider upon it. So with mirrors and thinking about the way in which a retelling of “Snow White” could be modern, it would be the way that the heroine (or anti-heroine, as I think of Boy), challenges the mirror. In the original story, the mirror makes this proclamation and nobody asks, “What are your sources? What is the basis upon which this girl is the fairest of them all?”

I think the way in which Boy is modern is that she has these questions.

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monsters, inc. toys, $14.50, disney; houndstooth five pack, $13, emi-jay; necklace, $1,950, chanel; color icon glitter single in spiked, $1, wet n wild; jewel charm spray in omnia coral eau de toilette, $48 for .84 fl. oz., bulgari; universal purse spray, $35, juliette has a gun; lip tar matte in rollergirl and mannequin, $18 each, obsessive compulsive cosmetics; matte multiple in siam, $39, nars; polka dot crystal slant in signature red and neon pink, $45 each,

tweezerman; keychain, $800, fendi; take me out liner in notorious and roller derby, $4 each, hard candy; get big! lashes triple black mascara, $4, essence; 11 de-stress, $29, 21 drops; nail lacquer in lavender diamond, $25 each, azature; velvet touch blush shade 01, $22, japonesque; being sexy silver glitter hairspray, $9, rusk; big bold volume by the lash mascara, $5, nyc new york color; beach sexy broad spectrum spf 25 spray, $15, victoria’s secret; body powder brush, $40, anna sui; moisture surge extended thirst relief, $49.50, clinique; high voltage classic cream hair color in sunshine and mystic heather, $14 each, manic panic; illuminating concentrate 1-pack, $25, clé de peau beauté; sunglasses, $450, dior.

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