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THE COVERS NICOLA COUGHLAN
On the newsstand cover: Nicola wears dresses, both Molly Goddard. Shoes, Neous. On the subscriber cover: Nicola wears coat, Max Mara. Photography: 0HLQNH .OHLQ Styling: Aurelia Donaldson. Hair: 1DR .DZDNDPL DW 7KH :DOO *URXS XVLQJ /HRQRU *UH\O Make-up: /XF\ %XUW XVLQJ /DQF{PH Nails: Michelle Class. Fashion assistant: *UDFH &ODUNH
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THE NOW, THE NEW, THE NEXT
In this month’s fashion and culture round-up: comedies on the big and small screen, bold prints, haute hoisery, new music and what Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney did next
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Acting Editor-in-Chief, ELLE and ELLE.com/uk ALICE WIGNALL
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LOTTIE LUMSDEN
Hearst’s luxury talent director studied classical civilisation at university before a magazine internship got her hooked on the industry. She has worked on numerous titles, interviewing the likes of Margot Robbie and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. Now, Lottie books ELLE’s talent, including this month’s cover star Nicola Coughlan (p98). MOST MEMORABLE INTERVIEW? ‘Speaking to Kim Kardashian in a shopping centre car park.’ HOW TO BREAK INTO MAGAZINES? ¶*HW DV PXFK experience as possible and stay in touch with everyone.’
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CHARMAINE WILKERSON Charmaine worked in broadcast news before becoming an author. Her debut novel, Black Cake, ZDV DFTXLUHG LQ D ÀHUFH QLQH ZD\ DXFWLRQ DQG LWV 79 ULJKWV KDYH EHHQ VQDSSHG XS E\ 2SUDK She shares how a family recipe inspired the book’s plot on p48. MOST UNUSUAL WRITING HABIT? ‘I write best standing up at my kitchen counter. It keeps my mind refreshed.’ THE BOOK THAT CHANGED YOU? ‘Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy left me with my mouth open.’
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LARRY KING
:LWK RYHU \HDUV· H[SHULHQFH KDLUVW\OLVW /DUU\ KDV ZRUNHG ZLWK HYHU\RQH IURP *LJL +DGLG WR &DUD 'HOHYLQJQH +H VWDUWHG D KDLUGUHVVLQJ DSSUHQWLFHVKLS DW 7RQL *X\ aged 15 and now owns two salons, a haircare line and is Dyson’s global ambassador. Larry creates the looks for A Cut Above on p141. BEST HAIR TIP? ‘Sexy hair moves when \RX UXQ \RXU ÀQJHUV WKURXJK LW VR LW·V DOO DERXW JRRG KDLUFXWV DQG PD[LPLVLQJ KDLU health through quality products.’ MOST SURPRISING THING IN YOUR BAG? ‘Corners of cardboard boxes for holding hair in place to set with a clip.’
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Scouted over Instagram from her hometown of Lagos, Shade made her runway debut for Fendi aged 24 and has since worked with Miu Miu, Ahluwalia and more. Shade models SS22’s brights in Colour Vision on p110. MOST VALUABLE FASHION LESSON? ‘Virgil Abloh taught me the importance of staying true to myself.’ BEST ADVICE? ‘“Do your best to thrive and never take no for an answer,” from Naomi Campbell.’
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JULIA DIAS Watching heavy metal music videos as a child kickstarted Julia’s obsession with set design. 6KH VWXGLHG ÀQH DUW VFXOSWXUH DW WKH *ODVJRZ 6FKRRO RI $UW EHIRUH FUHDWLQJ VHWV IRU PXVLF videos and, later, the fashion industry. Now, she works with the likes of Loewe and Erdem, and has created the sets for Colour Vision on p110. WHAT’S YOUR CAREER HIGHLIGHT? ‘Shooting a Miu Miu campaign with Bella Hadid in Barcelona. She was so lovely and offered to carry my assistant’s bags when she saw her struggling.’ ADVICE TO YOUR YOUNGER SELF? ‘Start doing yoga now. Carrying furniture and toolkits up and down stairs takes its toll.’
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WORDS: BECKY BURGUM. PHOTOGRAPHY: MEINKE KLEIN, JENNY BROUGH, PETROS, ROCHELLE CHEEVER.
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Elle EDITOR’S LETTER
BETWEEN ONE
thing and another
Dress, £475, JOSEPH
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“Endings can be PAINFUL, but at least the full stop lets us know where we are”
Athenean fragrance, £110, HEELEY
NTH ON MY RADAR this MO Siesta scented candle, £39, LA MONTANA
Dress, £695, VINCE
PHOTOGRAPHY: DIMA HOHLOV.
We talk a lot about beginnings and endings, in fashion, in stories and in life. And it’s easy to understand why. They are simple to understand, and precise about what’s going on. There’s a satisfying clarity to declaring that while one trend, idea or moment is over, another has just arrived. New starts are exciting and, although reaching the end of something can EH SDLQIXO WKHUH LV DW OHDVW WKH GHÀQLWLYH IXOO VWRS WR OHW XV know where we are. We turn the page and the next chapter is there, waiting for us to dive in. But what about those times that don’t cleave to the narrative in that way? Those fuzzy, indistinct, in-between times that don’t feel like a beginning or an end, though they may hold the seeds of both? It feels like we’ve all been in such a place for almost two years – I can’t be the only one who, in spring 2020, was desperate to know when the pandemic would be ‘over’. But we all know now that, like so much in life, it’s been a case of sudden reversals and a snakes-and-ladders feeling of going right back to the beginning, just when you thought you were at the end. There’s something to be said for the times that come between one thing and another, though. They teach us about the value of patience, about how much we can take from one moment, and how we can always detect the echoes of the past in the future, no matter how far-off they seem. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, you can detect some of that in this issue. On p48, Charmaine Wilkerson explores how her family history reverberated in the present, changing the course of her OLIH $QG RQ S $ELJDLO %HUJVWURP UHÁHFWV RQ WKH YDOXH RI ÁDVK in-the-pan friendships – those people who weren’t there at the beginning, and won’t be there at the end, but cause ripples in our existence nonetheless. In our fashion shoots too, starting on p110, we can see how this season’s designers have taken inspiration from the past to create looks that seem to have been beamed in from the future. And I loved sitting down with our cover star Nicola Coughlan (p98) as and she was also in a period of anticipation, looking forward to Bridgerton series two making its feverishly awaited return to our screens. I’m in my own in-between time, holding the reins at ELLE before our new Editor-in-Chief, Kenya Hunt, joins us in a couple of issues’ time. While I’m doing so, the team and I will keep making a magazine for everyone who knows that sometimes true beauty isn’t what’s past or what’s to come, but in the moments in between.
Watch, £2,970, CARTIER
Lipstick, £33, CHANEL
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Home
COOKING NO ONE WOULD GUESS their value. A recipe scribbled in
pencil. A cow-shaped oven glove. A blue-glazed ceramic pie dish. Seemingly innocuous items from the kitchens of my mother and stepmother. My two mothers. The women who took turns raising me in different periods of my childhood in their blended households. My mothers’ upbringings could not have been more different, though sometimes they seemed similar in the telling. Small-town Jamaica versus small-city New England. 3DUHQWV ORVW GUHDPV JLYHQ XS VRPH ZLVKHV IXOÀOOHG %RWK formed families with men from other cultures. Both are gone now, but they live on, in part, through the workaday keepsakes whose value no one would guess. The ceramic dish makes me think of fruit pies, and summer barbecues, and autumn leaf-raking parties amid the burnished red of fallen leaves. The kitschy oven glove with its imitation-quilt cow makes me smile. The mother who gave it to me never liked it, but I did. It had belonged to a beloved
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aunt and, by giving it to me, she kept it in the family. The recipe, written on lined notebook paper by my other mother, did more than bring back memories. It eventually stepped off the page and worked its way into the broad landscape of my imagination, inspiring the title of my debut novel, Black Cake. The recipe includes instructions for making a rum-soaked fruitcake, or black cake, as many Caribbeans would call it. When a younger relative texted me to ask for the recipe, I started thinking about inheritance and how we choose to keep some things closer to our hearts than others – especially in a multicultural family like mine. We know that food helps to build connections between people. But people migrate, marriages break up, people remarry, strangers move in together. Food can also play a role in anchoring individuals, families and entire cultures amid change. Sharing a family recipe can carry the same weight as sharing a piece of heirloom jewellery or an ancestral home. E L L E .C OM / U K M A RC H 2022
PHOTOGRAPHY: RONAN MCKENZIE/KINTZING, COURTESY OF CHARMAINE WILKERSON.
Writer Charmaine Wilkerson on how a family recipe inspired her debut novel, Black Cake
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Especially if a recipe, a language all its own, is all a person has left to give. In my novel, the traditional Caribbean fruitcake symbolises family bonds and memories in the face of VLJQLÀFDQW ORVV EXW DOVR D PXOWLFXOWXUDO history. Black cake is a descendant of Christmas pudding, but has evolved over time into something unique and more tropical in the blend of its key ingredients. It is the quintessential Caribbean cake for celebrations. It makes me think of holidays and weddings. It is a source of joy. But it is also the offshoot of a less-than-sanguine past. The recipe for black cake serves as a reminder of the ways in which we gloss over the complicated stories behind E L L E .C OM / U K M A RC H 2022
certain foods, from the famed Mediterranean diet (which exalts the tomato that came from South America) to the sometimes-tortuous history of sugar and rum (whose presence in Western diets and economies were propelled, early on, by colonialism and forced labour). In families, too, nostalgia can give way to the kinds of stories that people would prefer not to tell, like my own mothers’ memories of abandonment, miscarriage or the true cause of a loved one’s death. Many families have stories like WKHVH DQG ZKHQ WKH\ ÀQDOO\ HPHUJH WKH\ RIWHQ GR VR LQ WKH kitchen, at the table, over a meal, or with a glass in hand. Sometimes, enough years have gone by that such stories become a source of mirth, like my long-sober uncle’s occasional ‘when I was drinking’ stories. He always had us in stitches. Or, as in the case of the matriarch in Black Cake, some people reveal nothing until after they have gone. My novel is not autobiographical, but the emotional currents that run WKURXJK DQ\ ZRUN RI ÀFWLRQ RIWHQ OLQN EDFN WR UHDO OLIH emotions we have experienced, or heard about, or read of. I have no recollection of my mother and father living together before their divorce. I only recall them arguing later, over longdistance telephone lines, year after year. But I almost always remember my stepparents being part of my life. It is part of my shape-shifting sense of family and home. Together, the two couples who called themselves my parents formed a loose clan of ruptures and alliances. Together, and despite everything, they were part of a greater, though somewhat bruised, whole. Those old kitchen items aren’t the only things I’ve inherited from my parents. But it may very well be their domestic, ordinary nature that has wedged them so solidly into my emotional genome. They keep me anchored to a sense of having come from somewhere and belonged to someone. One’s sense of family and home may shift over time, but it remains embedded in our hearts and our sense of self wherever we go. Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson is out now
“Food can play a role in anchoring INDIVIDUALS, families and entire cultures amid CHANGE”
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THE NOW, THE NEW, THE NEXT
Bag, £490, EMPORIO ARMANI
Bag, £4,215, CHANEL
BLUMARINE
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VERSACE
PARIS HILTON
Bracelet, £590, MOSCHINO
Boots, price on request, DOLCE & GABBANA
A QUICK GLANCE AT THE SS22 RUNWAYS AND YOU’D BE FORGIVEN FOR CHECKING THE CALENDAR: ARE WE SURE IT’S NOT ACTUALLY 2OO2? MIDRIFFS ARE OUT, BODY GLITTER IS ON AND THERE ARE ENOUGH BUTTERFLY MOTIFS TO KEEP PARIS HILTON HAPPY. THE Y2K MOVEMENT SHOWS NO SIGN OF ABATING, SO REV UP THE TIME MACHINE: WE’RE GOING BACK TO THE NOUGHTIES.
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ANASTACIA
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BALMAIN
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SHOPPING: GRACE CLARKE. PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES, IMAXTREE, BRITNEY SPEARS PHOTOGRAPHED BY MARK ABRAHAMS FOR THE ELLE UK SEPTEMBER 2003 ISSUE.
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ALL EYES ON… Sydney Sweeney
Don’t let her knack for playing painfully aloof teens fool you: the Euphoria star is ready d_éSXQb] 8_\\ig__T gYdX XUbésavvy ambition @8?D?7B1@8I* 1=I 81BB9DI 1E7ECD
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a common thread to some of TV’s must-watch shows: 24-year-old Sydney Sweeney. She’s earned a reputation for playing characters masking their vulnerability with a big whiff of ‘I-don’t-give-a-sh*t’ detachment, and this month she’s back in the new series of Euphoria, the JHQHUDWLRQ GHÀQLQJ VKRZ WKDW SURSHOOHG KHU WR VWDUGRP Also starring Hunter Schafer and Zendaya, it drew headlines – along with mass viewers and Emmy nominations – for its gritty and graphic portrayal of modern teenage life. ‘As well as being beautifully shot, the characters and their storylines are so deep,’ Sweeney says, when asked why the show has resonated so much. ‘So many people can relate to RU OHDUQ IURP WKHVH H[SHULHQFHV ,W·V D EHDXWLIXO DUW SLHFH ÀOOHG with meaning.’ For those who have forgotten – in the threeyear wait for the follow-up – Sweeney plays Cassie, a popular, insecure teen who becomes the target of relentless slutshaming. ‘We started off with Cassie at a real low point.
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IF LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE, WE COULD ALL DO WITH A DOSE. GET READY TO LAUGH ALONG WITH NEW TV AND FILM RELEASES
WORDS: BECKY BURGUM. PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATT CROCKETT, AVALON. RED, BBC/BONAFIDE, PARAMOUNT PICTURES AND GETTY IMAGES.
These are serious times, but somehow that makes us more ready than ever to have a smile put on our faces. Fortunately, these women are here to do just that. On television, Nicôle Lecky brings her acclaimed one-woman-play Mood to BBC Three. Told in part through songs, Lecky plays 25-year-old wannabe singer and rapper Sasha, who dreams of becoming a major recording artist. She falls into sex work to make ends meet, but it’s as funny as it is profound. Plus, comedian Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck returns for a second series. Having decided WR SXUVXH D UHODWLRQVKLS ZLWK ÀOP VWDU 7RP -HVVLH PXVW GHDO ZLWK the real-world consequences of her grand gesture. Co-written by Sex Education producer Siân Robins-Grace, it stars comedian Michelle 'H 6ZDUWH DV WKH ÁDZHG DQG UHODWDEOH 1DWDVKD ZKR ZDQWV ULG RI her new child. On the big screen, The Lost City (out 25 March) sees Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum team up for a hilarious jungle adventure. Think Robert Zemeckis’ classic Romancing the Stone, as a reclusive romance novelist gets swept up in a kidnapping while on a book tour with her cover model. Feel good and fun, guaranteed.
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CONNECTING THE DOTS ABOVE: LAUREN PERRIN WEARING HER OWN SCARF DESIGN. RIGHT: MATCHING SHARPIE KILTS AND GLOVES. BELOW: MILEY CYRUS IN PERRIN’S BLUE POLKA DOTS
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It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment that designer Lauren Perrin went from MEET THE DESIGNER MAKING HOSIERY HAUTE niche to need-to-know. Maybe it was when The Crown star Emma Corrin wore a pair of button-covered tights for her W magazine shoot. Or perhaps when Harry Styles wore not one but two pairs of her gloves? Or was it when Alva Claire wore Perrin’s 1970s wallpaper-inspired tights and gloves for her ELLE UK cover shoot in July last year? Whenever it happened, the 26-year-old has well and truly arrived. After growing up in Biarritz in France, and a three-year stint in Paris studying menswear, Perrin moved to London. Without speaking a word of English, she started working as a styling assistant, and it was during her time on sets that she came up with the idea for her business. ‘I saw what stylists really wanted all the time – funny tights and funny gloves.’ 6HHLQJ D JDS LQ WKH PDUNHW DQG ZDQWLQJ WR IXOÀO KHU RZQ FUHDWLYH DPELWLRQV 3HUULQ LQYHVWHG DOO KHU VDYLQJV LQWR KHU ÁHGJOLQJ EXVLQHVV hand-making bold hosiery for stylists. ‘At the beginning, I sent the samples to people I worked with, which was a bit awkward,’ she says. But her instincts were right, and she is now stocked by boutiques Ssense and 50m. ‘I hoped it would take longer for tights and gloves to get trendy so I’d have more time to prepare,’ she says, laughing. Made with a strong, soft jersey with high-stretch, the pieces are durable and comfortable – but what makes them stand out are the patterns. Many incorporate 1970s-inducing shades of browns, yellows and reds. ‘The inspiration was Bridget Riley’s Op Art,’ says Perrin. ‘She’s amazing.’ While growing the business is vital, Perrin insists she’ll make all her pieces in the UK, ensuring they are affordable and produced sustainably. ‘As it stands, you can create tights from recycled materials, but you can’t print on them. But my factory recently said they might be able to make this happen – I’ve ordered some prototypes in recycled nylon. I’m hopeful.’ Next, Perrin plans to expand. ‘I already have a cocktail dress, a skirt and a few tops – it’s between a couture and ready-to-wear collection.’ If her current trajectory is anything to go by, expect to see her expanded range everywhere – and soon.
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Elle UPFRONT THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS
by Jessamine Chan Struggling mother Frida Liu is sent to a sinister re-education camp after one lapse in judgement. ([DPLQLQJ UDFH SULYLOHJH DQG WKH pressures of perfectionism, it will resonate with fans of &HOHVWH 1J·V Little Fires Everywhere.
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by Dolen Perkins-Valdez This story of two young Black sisters sterilised without consent in Alabama will stay in your mind. Perkins-Valdez’s QDUUDWLYH WKRXJK WUDJLF EULPV ZLWK KRSH as one woman refuses to be silenced.
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Flashing skin is nothing new. Slit skirt? Tick. Side boob? If we must. But the latest on-show erogenous zone is that Y2K favourite: the belly button. You heard us right. This VSULQJ WKH KRWWHVW ÁHVK WR ÁDVK LV IURP WKH EUD OLQH WR the pelvic bones, as seen on runways from Miu Miu and Maryam Nassir Zadeh to Coperni, Collina Strada, Isabel Marant and Giorgio Armani. Midriff-shaking pop stars Britney, Christina, Shakira and Destiny’s Child are to thank for this, as the penchant for early millennium style grows in popularity. If you actually remember the Noughties and the thought of baring all is no longer for you, try wearing a mesh top or bodysuit underneath the look.
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How low can you go? High waists may have ruled our wardrobes for the last decade, but now the low-slung waist is EDFN :HDU ORRVH FXW DQG ZLGH OHJJHG as seen at Etro, Coperini and Valentino, DQG JLYH MXVW D ÁDVK RI WKH ERWWRP RI your belly. Did someone say All Saints?
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MYTHERESA’S FASHION BUYING DIRECTOR, TIFFANY HSU, OPENS HER LITTLE BLACK BOOK TO SHARE THE BEST SPOTS IN HER BIRTHPLACE
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LEAF THROUGH I love the Yue Yue
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bookstore, it’s inspiring and exciting all at once. I could spend hours there exploring every detail.
the original Din Tai Fung restaurant – it serves the best dumplings in the world! Then have a mango ice-cream on the same street.
MIDNIGHT SNACK Raohe Street Night
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galleries and has an emerging art scene. I love AKI Gallery, Each Modern and the National Palace Museum. LIKE A LOCAL For an authentic trip, go
to the Thermal Valley in Beitou. It’s a natural hot spring in the mountains.
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gold mining town built in the hills [east of Taipei]. It still has all the old wooden huts covered in lanterns and is known for the great tea houses. Also, the famous market scene in Spirited Away is said to be inspired by this town. TIME OUT Go to Villa 32 for a zen time
and a lovely afternoon tea. It’s a hidden getaway in the mountains. Because it’s a small boutique hotel, you feel like you are the only one there sometimes.
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CULTURE HIT Taipei is full of great
IN BLOOM One of my favourite places is
Yangmingshan National Park, especially during cherry blossom season. ALL NIGHT LONG If you like dancing, go
to Pawnshop nightclub’s techno nights. THROWBACK STYLES I love Banana Cats
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WORDS: DAISY MURRAY. PHOTOGRAPHY: LISANTO/UNSPLASH, MAREN WILCZEK/UNSPLASH, ANDY WANG/UNSPLASH, GETTY IMAGES.
EASTERN PROMISES CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: THE BEITOU THERMAL VALLEY; THE YANGMINGSHAN GARDENS IN CHERRY BLOSSOM SEASON; RAOHE STREET NIGHT MARKET
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THESE HYPED ARTISTS WILL TAKE OVER YOUR PLAYLISTS FROM NOW UNTIL SUMMER
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The debut album to download is Jamaican reggae singer Koffee’s Gifted, the follow-up to her Grammy-winning EP Rapture. Listen out for singles featuring Jorja Smith on the Beyoncé-approved sister duo Ibeyi’s new album Spell 31. MOBO-winner Mahalia will release her second album, with uplifting tracks from AJ Tracey and Rico Nasty. While Bree Runway – who has fans from Lady Gaga to Doja Cat – releases single Pressure in the lead up to her summer album. Plus, Self Esteem is the gig to get tickets for now: she plays her biggest shows yet on a UK tour in March – empowering pop has never sounded so good.
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MAX MARA
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style WHAT TO WEAR & HOW TO WEAR IT
HEAVY metal FROM FINE DETAILS TO ALL-OUT EMBELLISHMENT, TURN TO METALLIC ACCESSORIES FOR A LOOK THAT PACKS A PUNCH Rings, price on request, all DIOR. Glove, stylist’s own
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ON the CUFF INTRODUCING SS22’S HERO BAG – ELEGANT AND SURPRISINGLY PRACTICAL, YES YOU SHOULD WEAR YOUR WALLET ON YOUR WRIST
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FRESH prints BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO CLASSIC JACQUARD, PAIRING IT WITH UTILITARIAN BASICS AND GLITTERING SILVER
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VALLEY girl GIVE THE 199Os CLUELESS AESTHETIC A 2O22 UPDATE, REFRESHING PREPPY PINK TWEED WITH A FLASH OF GOLD
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OVER easy EGG ON YOUR… SHOES. BECAUSE, WHY NOT? LET THESE VIBRANT YOLKS ADD AN UNCONVENTIONAL TWIST TO SLEEK SANDALS
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OPPOSITES attract BE THE OPPOSITE OF PREDICTABLE, TOUGHENING UP A REFINED BAG WITH SUBTLY STUDDED CUFFS – WEAR UP YOUR ARM FOR ADDED INTEREST
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Photography DIMA HOHLOV Styling GEORGIA MEDLEY Shopping GRACE CLARKE
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All hail the return of the mini skirt: dress it up, dress it down, dress it any way you like – it’s time to make an entrance THIS PAGE Crop top, £720, skirt, £580, shoes, £90, bag, £1,800, belt, £380, and socks, £120, all MIU MIU. Shirt, £119, FRANKIE SHOP. OPPOSITE Top, £135, and trousers, £410, both SPORTMAX. Skirt, £80, LACOSTE
Elle STYLE Bottle, £40, MORE JOY
Jacket, £209, GEOX
GOOD SPORT THE TENNIS SKIRT IS A SURPRISINGLY VERSATILE PIECE: PAIR WITH ACTIVEWEAR FOR DAY, OR LAYER OVER TROUSERS FOR AN ELEVATED EVENING LOOK
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Bag, £140, ISABEL MARANT
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Jacket, £680, GIORGIO ARMANI
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TAILOR MADE THE SKIRT SUIT GETS AN UPGRADE IN DENIM OR LEATHER, AND REINVENTED VIA AN OVERSIZED BLAZER AND SPORTY SEPARATES – THE SS22 WAY TO DO SMART CASUAL
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Rose gold earrings, £3,050, POMELLATO Jacket, £510, TOTÊME
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THROW it BACK YOUR REFERENCE: THE Y2K CLUB ERA. THINK SHORT-SLEEVED SHIRTS WITH A SHEEN, THE CLASSIC CORSET AND A SKIRT THAT CHANNELS CARGO PANTS – GET READY TO PARTY
THIS PAGE Cardigan, £150, MANORS. Skirt, £40, WEEKDAY. Shoes, £455, LONGCHAMP. Hat, £35, and bag, £55, both JUICY COUTURE. Belt, £340, KNWLS. Socks, £7, CALZEDONIA. OPPOSITE Top, £390, GIORGIO ARMANI. Printed top (worn underneath), £1,200, and skirt, £430, both MISSONI. Boots, £652, GIA BORGHINI. Earrings, £165, bracelet, £295, and bangle £410, all GIOVANNI RASPINi. Bag, £188, BIMBA Y LOLA. HAIR: Zateesha Barbour at LMC Worldwide using Bumble and bumble. MAKEUP: Francesca Brazzo at The Wall Group. MODEL: Adual Akol at Storm Management FASHION ASSISTANT: Georgia Rodi
NEW uniform TAKE YOUR CUE FROM 199Os SCHOOL DAYS, PAIRING PLEATED SKIRTS WITH GREY CARDIGANS – PINK JUICY COUTURE ACCESSORIES PROVE YOU’RE IN THE COOL CLIQUE
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Earrings, £250, SWAROVSKI
Bracelet, £300, LOUIS VUITTON
Bag, £1,900, GIORGIO ARMANI
Skirt, £175, GANNI
Shoes, £130, VAGABOND
Hair slide, £150, SIMONE ROCHA
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MICRO LENGTHS DON’T HAVE TO MEAN FLASHING ALL THE SKIN: TURN TO THIGH-HIGH BOOTS OR LONG SLEEVES TO BALANCE THE LOOK, AND LET BOLD ACCESSORIES BRING THE GLAMOUR
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Forever
FRIENDS? Long-term friendships enrich our lives, but what about the ones that blaze bright, then fizzle out? As Abigail Bergstrom contemplates the end of such a relationship, she finds joy in transience
Photography WE ARE THE RHOADS
Elle READS
A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE LEFT MY LIFE RECENTLY. She hasn’t died or anything,
she just doesn’t want to be friends anymore. I can’t say why for sure. Perhaps lockdowns pushed us apart, or we outgrew one another – or maybe the friendship was exactly how it was meant to be: intense and inevitably WUDQVLHQW $V WKH DQFLHQW &KLQHVH SKLORVRSKHU /DR 7]X ZURWH ¶7KH ÁDPH WKDW EXUQV WZLFH DV EULJKW EXUQV KDOI DV ORQJ · $P\ DQG , VXUH ZHUH RQ ÀUH 7KLV IULHQGVKLS ÁLQJ ZDV DQ XQULYDOOHG FRFNWDLO RI DGUHQDOLQH ZH SROLVKHG one another’s sentences as we discussed the book we’d just read, laced with dopamine hits of frantically messaging back and forth late into the night, and ÀQLVKHG ZLWK D NLFN RI R[\WRFLQ ZKHQ VKH·G VKRZ XS DW P\ SODFH WRWH EDJ ÀOOHG ZLWK JURFHULHV LQVLVWLQJ VKH FRRN PH SDVWD DIWHU D SDUWLFXODUO\ WRXJK day. But on some level, perhaps I always knew the relationship would be – OLNH PDQ\ WKLQJV LQ OLIH ² ÁHHWLQJ <HW LW·V OHIW PH IHHOLQJ VWXQJ Julia Samuel is a leading psychotherapist and author who focuses a lot of her work on change and transience. Her forthcoming book is called Every Family has a Story: How we Inherit Love and Loss. She tells me, ‘There is a lot of pain, sorrow and distress from female friendships that come to an end.’ She suggests this links directly to narratives constructed by the media and the way it’s projected on screens. ‘The culture is informed by TV shows DQG ÀOPV ZKHUH D JURXS RI ZRPHQ DUH DPD]LQJO\ FORVH WKH\ VXSSRUW HDFK other through all life’s phases and they have all the fun. But of course, where you have people, you have complexity.’ Dr Sophie Mort, clinical psychologist and bestselling author of A Manual for Being Human, says these narratives speak to ‘they lived happily ever after’ scripts: ‘Think of the lobsters and the penguins of the world who mate for life, and the elderly couple, who were childhood sweethearts, holding hands – they have been the poster children for romance. The romantic notion of permanence is what most of us grew up with and is the idea many of us believe we should strive for. These ideas come from society. They shape what we think we need, but in reality transience is not a bad thing.’ The reality is that we have different types of friendships with different types of women in different times of our lives. But if longevity is most prized in platonic relationships, then anything other than a decade’s worth of nights out, late-night phone calls, in-jokes, drunken confessions and expensive city breaks seems, well, pointless. My short-lived intense time with Amy taught me that passing friendships should be celebrated for what they are, rather than seen as some kind of IDLOXUH ZKHQ WKH\ À]]OH RXW 7KHVH DUH WKH IULHQGV you make when you become a new parent and want to latch on to an NCT mum who will also moan DERXW WKHLU EDE\ DQG WKHLU VHOÀVK UHVLVWDQFH WR VOHHS or that colleague who has learnt to monitor the subtle ÁXFWXDWLRQV RI \RXU PRRG DQG NQRZV H[DFWO\ ZKHQ \RX QHHG D .LW.DW RU SHUKDSV LW·V WKH ZRPDQ \RX PHW RQ DQ ,QWHQVLYH 6SDQLVK HYHQLQJ FRXUVH ZLWK ZKRP \RX ÀQG \RXUVHOI drinking red wine late into the evening and planning a month in Madrid together that you both know is never really going to happen. These relationships can get deep, niche or codependent very quickly. There’s an inbuilt unsustainability to them – but isn’t that part of the charm? The French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote, ‘Modernity is the transient, WKH ÁHHWLQJ WKH FRQWLQJHQW LW LV RQH KDOI RI DUW WKH RWKHU EHLQJ WKH HWHUQDO and the immovable.’ If we embrace them, transient friendships are an important half of our social lives. But this is easier said than done because,
“There’s an INBUILT unsustainability to these relationships – but isn’t that part of the charm?”
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as we opened another bottle of red, laughing at Holly’s latest escapade, like the dog she’d rescued that day using her dressing-gown belt. And yet, when I moved out, it came to a natural end and none of us had any expectations for it to continue. ‘I don’t think I ever really thought about how long the friendship was going to last, but you never really do, I suppose. It moved on naturally, because you moved out. I think the relationship would’ve been a completely different one if we weren’t living next door to each other.’ Rebecca is very positive about transient friendships. She says, ‘I think we should be more accepting. Things can be perfect for a certain time and then it’s healthy to let go.’ I seek out more women who’ve had positive experiences of temporary friendships and I stumble across Margot, a 40-year-old graphic designer, at a party. She says, ‘Over lockdown, my neighbourhood WhatsApp group became a real lifeline. Someone I’d never met before asked the group if anyone could print something for them and I offered. As soon as I opened the door to this person, I felt the thrill of a connection. Immediately, I realised he was a fabulous individual who worked in fashion and, having been starved of seeing my friends for so long, we ended up having a meaningful conversation on my doorstep. We would go for weekly walks – I am almost twice his age, but it didn’t matter – and we shared our life stories. It felt like I was E L L E .C OM / U K M A RC H 2022
reminding myself of who I was when we spoke. ‘Once the world opened up again, our walks stopped and we rarely messaged. We still live opposite each other and pass each other in the street with a quick hello. We served a purpose for each other at the time and there is an unspoken agreement that neither of us need that kind of intimate relationship now we can connect with our real friends again.’ Julia Samuel says, ‘We know from UHVHDUFK WKDW HYHQ D ÀYH PLQXWH FKDW ZLWK the person you buy your coffee from can be an important connection. A relationship that lasts a number of days, weeks or months can be meaningful and feed your sense of self and your sense of belonging, as well as expanding and changing your view. Longevity isn’t the be all and end all.’ Throughout my adult life, I’ve shared PDQ\ VLJQLÀFDQW PRPHQWV ZLWK SHRSOH who ended up being minor characters: FROOHDJXHV ZKR ZHUH P\ FORVHVW FRQÀGDQWHV wrapping arms tightly around me as I grieved; ZRPHQ LQ ÁDWVKDUHV ZKR NQHZ HYHU\ intimate detail about my sex life and now probably couldn’t remember my middle name. I’ve been giving these connections the back bench, treating them as substitute players who were just warming the seats for the real thing, but I’ve been wrong about them, restricting myself from accepting the real depth of that encounter and what it offered, because it eventually ended. Dr Mort tells me that some humans deal in transience more than others, but ‘these sorts of relationships can be profound, even life-changing. The ending of the connection does not negate the importance of it. And not all endings DUH IRUHYHU · ,I , FDQ UHPDLQ RSHQ WR WKH ÁXFWXDWLQJ QDWXUH of friendship, who knows who might be around the corner, ZDLWLQJ WR IRUP D QHZ WHPSRUDU\ DQG OLIH DIÀUPLQJ ERQG" She explains, ‘Almost everything in our lives is impermanent: KXPDQV GR QRW OLYH IRUHYHU HPRWLRQV ULVH DQG IDOO ÁRZHUV bloom and wilt. We hate to admit it, but it’s true. When we are able to recognise that almost everything is transient, we can appreciate each moment in our life for what it actually is. We can enjoy the bloom of each temporary bud and be delighted should someone stick around longer than we expected.’ I think about reaching out to Amy, but in the end I don’t, because our ending is simple. Not everyone is meant to stay in our lives forever and this doesn’t degrade the friendship, LWV UHOHYDQFH RU LWV VLJQLÀFDQFH 6RPHWLPHV VSHFLDO SHRSOH are only meant to have cameo roles, so instead it’s time to bed in with the most loyal and steadfast chum of all: I choose to befriend transience. Abigail Bergstrom’s debut novel, What a Shame, is out now
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E V I L O T W a O t i H v e c l o d a l IN THE WINTER OF 2O18, MARIE-LOUISE SCIÒ looked over her
bucket list and decided to get to work. Item number one: collaborate with Birkenstock on an ‘elevated’ rendition of the German sandal. Item number two: launch a pop-up shop. On a boat. Floating in the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Item number three: open one of the most acclaimed hotels of the decade. Within four months, she had succeeded on all fronts. This should give you some idea about exactly who Marie-Louise Sciò is. If you look beyond the warm smile, and the old The Rolling Stones T-shirt she wears to our interview (admittedly beneath a much-loved orange Gabriela Hearst jumper), this is an individual who makes magic happen. Although you may not know her name, you will almost certainly be familiar with her brand of sorcery. If you’ve ever wondered why stripey towels felt like the must-have accessory of last summer, or why Ischia suddenly seemed like the hottest place to be, then you can thank this 44-year-old Italian. On paper, she is a hotelier, overseeing the Pellicano Group of hotels, which include Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, La Posta Vecchia in Ladispoli and The Mezzatorre in Ischia. They are boutique hotels in the truest sense of the phrase: small, GHWDLO RULHQWDWHG DQG OX[XULRXV ZLWKRXW DQ\ ÁDVKLQHVV 7KH\ are hotels where the world’s great and good go to escape life. But to say she is just a hotelier is to misunderstand her truest talent. Instead, she is one of the world’s great tastemakers: someone who has the ability to start trends, help guide the cultural gaze in new, exciting directions and make you want – nay, need – everything she touches. $V IRU WKDW EXFNHW OLVW ,O 3HOOLFDQR ZDV RQH RI WKH ÀUVW companies to collaborate with Birkenstock, and certainly the only hotel brand to do such a thing, creating a pair of beautiful UDIÀD VDQGDOV WKDW VROG RXW LQVWDQWO\ ,·YH ORVW FRXQW RI IDVKLRQ editors who lament not placing their order at the time). Her pop-up shop was a 1930s yacht in conjunction with Matchesfashion that sailed for over three weeks between the hotels in Tuscany, Rome and Ischia. And The Mezzatorre was one of the most dazzling hotel openings of the last 10 years. , ÀUVW KHDUG DERXW WKH 3HOOLFDQR *URXS WKURXJK WKH Birkenstock connection and it struck me as odd that a hotel was in the business of making beautiful shoes. Then,
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I thought no more about it. Some time later, fashion stylists, editors and designers I knew started to whisper about corners of Italy I had hitherto never heard of. Finally, the Instagram IHHGV RI FUHDWLYHV ZKRVH VW\OH , DGPLUH VWDUWHG WR ÀOO ZLWK alluring images of poolside scenes – each one of them, upon investigation, revealing themselves to be a Pellicano hotel. A year later, I checked in to see what all the fuss was about. It is a true art form to sell a lifestyle, and Sciò is very good DW LW 6KH GRHVQ·W KDYH WR WDNH RXW D VLQJOH DGYHUW WR ÀOO KHU hotels; instead, she ensures they are talked about in the right circles, posted on the most aspirational social feeds, and remembered by the most discerning of guests. ‘MY MUM AND DAD BOTH HAD GREAT TASTE,’ she tells me over
a glass of white wine in London’s Charlotte Street Hotel. ‘My mother was very charismatic. If there was an eclipse and you could only see it in Mexico, she would throw a party there. She suffered a lot with her eyes, but that wouldn’t stop the party. Instead, she would wear an eye patch and make it SDUW RI KHU RXWÀW · This is how it is with her. You’ll be sat listening to her sing-songy voice, carried along by the lilt, until she drops into conversation an anecdote or story that is too fabulous not to make you stop in your tracks. (Another one: ¶, RQFH FDPH KRPH RQH GD\ WR ÀQG P\ PRWKHU LQ D EODFN leotard doing Tai Chi with Pavarotti in the living room.’) Her father is the renowned businessman Roberto Sciò, who fell in love with the Il Pellicano hotel after courting 6FLz·V ÁDPH KDLUHG PRWKHU ¶+H ZDV OLYLQJ LQ ,WDO\ P\ PXP was American,’ she says. ‘So he started taking her to the only place he knew where they spoke English, which was Il Pellicano, because it was founded by an American and English couple. They went weekend after weekend. When the owners decided to sell, my dad bought it to protect it in some way. Then he sort of left it.’ Il Pellicano had always attracted a beautiful crowd: models, movie producers, as well as some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, including Charlie Chaplin. The family would spend summers at the hotel, where Sciò remembers watching scenes of unadulterated glamour from the wings. ‘It was very much a grown-up’s world, so I saw the whole thing from behind a rosemary bush. I was sneaking out in my pyjamas at night. On Friday evenings, there would be a gala around the pool, with candles everywhere and a band.’ E L L E .C OM / U K M A RC H 2022
By the early 2000s, Sciò had graduated from The Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied architecture, and did a stint working in real estate and interior design. When her father asked her to try her hand at redoing one of the rooms at Il Pellicano, she reluctantly agreed. ‘I did a bathroom, then, I suggested the whole place needed some freshening up.’ He asked her to take on the job. She said no. Instead, she agreed WR KHOS ÀQG D GHVLJQHU ZKR FRXOG ZRUN RQ WKH SURMHFW ‘I interviewed many interior designers, but all of them were going to introduce their style and it was going to be all about them and not about the hotel. So I thought, I’m probably going to screw it up, but I’ll do it. I suppose I did it for the same reason my father bought the hotel. I knew the essence of the place, and I knew I wanted to protect it.’ Sciò also knew Slim Aarons, the lauded US photographer who chronicled the immaculate lives of the jet set in the late 20th century. She remembers him staying in Il Pellicano when she was a child, snapping away from the sidelines. ‘I was a little girl, around eight years old, and I remember him running around and having dinner with my father and he used to pay my dad in cameras. He came every year because it was the place in the 1980s. So, I got his number from my dad and I called him and told him I needed to remember what it was like. He told me he had sold his archive to Getty. So, I went to London and I found boxes and boxes of his images of Il Pellicano.’ PARADISE FOUND LEFT: THE DELUXE SUITE BATHROOM AT HOTEL IL PELLICANO. BELOW: THE @??<é1D D85 =5JJ1D?BB5 <??;C ?ED D?éD85 GLIMMERING SEA
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enriched. That they have experienced a bit of magic but also love. I want people to smile at something; maybe it’s a book WKH\·YH DOZD\V ZDQWHG WR UHDG DQG WKH\ ÀQDOO\ IRXQG LW LQ D bookcase in our hotels. I curate the books. So, I asked a friend of mine who is a very good writer, “What are the 50 books that everyone wants to read but don’t have the time?” I have DVDs, too. Who has them anymore?! I’m never going to take WKHP RXW EHFDXVH \RX FDQ·W ÀQG UHDOO\ JRRG ÀOPV RQ VWUHDPLQJ Staying true to a place’s soul is what Sciò does best. VHUYLFHV :H KDYH HYHU\WKLQJ IURP WKH VLOHQW ÀOP Sunrise: At Il Pellicano, she did it by managing to keep the older, The Story of Two Humans, to Lars Von Trier’s Dogville. I want loyal clientele happy, while bringing in a new crowd. And to create lots of little vibrations. We, as hoteliers, have the she has done the same at another property, La Posta, responsibility of people’s time and that’s really precious. Vecchia – Jean Paul Getty’s old palazzo, which is a 30-minute +RZ \RX ÀOO WKDW WLPH LV LPSRUWDQW · drive from Rome. Most recently, she has turned her hand to Fashion designer JJ Martin has known Sciò for over The Mezzatorre, a gem of a hotel on the Ischian coastline. a decade. The two met at a dinner in Milan, when JJ, herself ‘I wanted people to feel like we had blown a respected tastemaker in the world of fashion, was struck by the dust off something that already the other woman’s warmth and energy. existed,’ she says of her approach to The ‘I think everybody feels it,’ JJ says. ‘I adore Mezzatorre, which required four months the unique spaces she creates and the of ‘heavy make-up’ before its relaunch in chic parties she throws. But mainly, it is 2019. (Last summer, it hosted a Max MXVW KHU SUHVHQFH 6KH·V D URFNHW ² DOZD\V MARIE-LOUISE SCIÒ SHARES Mara Cruise show across the entire hotel.) on the search for excellence, but above all, EVERYTHING SHE LOVES WITH US … So, what has she done exactly? EHDXW\ DQG MR\ ,W·V WKH IXOO ,WDOLDQ SDFNDJH ,W·V KDUG WR SXW \RXU ÀQJHU RQ LW 7KH but wrapped up in her American nointeriors are beautiful, no doubt, but nonsense, let’s-get-it-done attitude. Favourite beauty product: not excessively so. There is an honesty She’s very unique in that way.’ AUGUSTINUS BADER CREAM, OR TATA to the rooms, a simplicity that might Over lockdown, and with the hotels HARPER FACE OIL WASH even disappoint a crowd used to the shut, Sciò went about bringing her own ÀYH VWDU JOLW] LQ &DSUL ² DQG WKDW·V MXVW EUDQG RI ,WDOLDQ MR\ DQG JRRG WDVWH WR WKH Favourite stationary: PINEIDER how she likes it. masses with her lifestyle website, Issimo. Favourite restaurants: IKEDA IN ‘If you think about it, Posta Vecchia, 2Q WKH VLWH \RX FDQ ÀQG 3HOOLFDQR·V LONDON, LE VOLTAIRE IN PARIS, OMEN Mezzatorre, Pellicano, they’re not in towels and ashtrays (which have IN NEW YORK, IL LUOGO DI AIMO E Rome or Capri. They’re in secondary a knack of going missing from guests’ NADIA IN MILAN destinations, or at least they were. I like bedrooms) but also hundreds of other things that are not obvious. So when we Italian-made accessories. Favourite hotel: DEETJENS INN, opened in Ischia, everyone was like, “Why ‘Issimo is a search for quality. I wanted BETWEEN LA AND SAN FRANCISCO. are you opening there?” And instead, to do something that was an extension of What’s on your bedside table: I thought: Why would I open in Capri?’ the hotel; a sort of container of everything SOMETHING BY ITALO CALVINO Detail is her thing. Despite being the I’m curious about. We are about to sell an creative director and CEO of the hotel ROLYH RLO FDOOHG ´1XRYRµ ZKLFK LV WKH ÀUVW Watching: THE DOCUMENTARY group, she still does the playlists for each two weeks when oil comes to press. It has 1971: THE YEAR THAT MUSIC destination herself. She spent close to two a completely different colour and taste. CHANGED EVERYTHING KRXUV ÀJXULQJ RXW KRZ ZLGH WKH JROG It’s a real luxury.’ Secret address: CINETECA DI stripe should be on the paper cups that As we get ready to leave the bar, I ask BOLOGNA, IT HAS ONE OF THE guests use to drink their rosemary-infused KHU RQH ÀQDO TXHVWLRQ ¶:KDW PDNHV JUHDW LARGEST FILM ARCHIVES IN THE WORLD water. She chose the now-famous pink taste?’ She stops. parasols in Mezzatorre because they ‘Hmmm…’ There’s a long pause before Instagram account: match the exact colour of the Ischian VKH ÀQDOO\ DQVZHUV ¶,W·V DQ HOHJDQFH RI CELESTE BARBER sunset, so that when you look out to sea the soul, I think,’ she says. ‘It’s a softness, Drinking: MARTINI (VODKA) they disappear into the distance. a gentleness. It’s about being curious.’ Style crush: STYLIST ROBERT ‘I’m in the business of making people And with that, she heads out into the RABENSTEINER. HE HAS BOTH AN feel something,’ she says. ‘In some way, London night, still thinking of ways to INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR ELEGANCE I want people to come away feeling make the world more beautiful.
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BODY and soul Yes, sex sells, but the SS22 runways offered up something far more subtle By MARLOWE GRANADOS WHEN OSCAR ISAAC KISSED HIS WAY UP Jessica Chastain’s arm
at the Venice Film Festival in September 2021, he awakened a sea of starved onlookers. Those few seconds on the red carpet roused the public’s thirst, and they now knew what they’d been missing. The moment tapped into a larger conversation about the dearth of true sensuality in popular media – you’d be hard-pressed to come up with anything from the last few decades that resounds with a true sensual nature. There are not too many modern moments that could compare to WKH VORZ EXUQLQJ ÀUH LQ (GLWK :KDUWRQ·V The Age of Innocence, ZKHQ 0DGDPH (OOHQ 2OHQVND WRXFKHV 1HZODQG $UFKHU·V NQHH with her fan: ‘It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like D FDUHVV · :KDUWRQ ZULWHV 2U WKH KLJK RFWDQH SDLULQJ LQ Singin’ in the Rain, with Cyd Charisse’s green-fringed dress seductively echoing her movements while she playfully blows smoke in Gene Kelly’s angelic face. The same holds true for fashion, where even the overtly body-conscious clothes of the past few seasons have lacked WKDW HOXVLYH DELOLW\ WR HQWLFH 7LN7RN VWDU 6HUHQD 6KDKLGL $.$ @glamdemon2004, known for her alluring manner and dulcet voice, tells me that this absence of sensuality can be chalked up WR D ODFN RI VXEWOHW\ ¶:H·YH IRUJRWWHQ ZKDW ZH DFWXDOO\ ZDQW WR VHH IURP RWKHU SHRSOH 1RW YXOJDULW\ RU LQKXPDQ ERG\ proportions or trendiness or potential for virality, but more nuanced things,’ she says. ‘There’s power in subtlety.’ $V D FXOWXUH ZH DUH IDU WRR LQYHVWHG LQ WKH QDNHG ERG\ DV a symbol of sex, when the journey of how we clothe ourselves, and our movements wrapped in fabric, can really be what
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ignites the senses. When I look to my closet for answers, the one piece that stands out is a vintage DVF wrap dress. Simple in its shape and made of slinky silk-jersey, its legacy is owed to the effortless way it gently holds the body’s curves. Whenever I wear it, I feel attuned to my form. With no zippers or buttons, there’s a freedom to it that gives me the ability to be bold or gregarious in the face of whatever the night holds. Then there is the simple knot at the waist that ties the dress together, that with one pull could unravel the whole thing. That is what sensuality is. It should invite the imagination – suggest what could happen. For spring/summer 2022, designers were keen to bring that vibrant pulse back. There were hints of the body everywhere at Prada, from the boned waists of the dresses to the tails of miniskirts billowing out behind the models, mimicking the movement of their hips. The most effectively seductive pieces in the collection were sweaters with the outline of the breasts built in, reminding us of what it feels like to wear knits over bare skin on a cool day. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ show notes referenced the tension between the clothes and their wearer, pointing out that ‘their architecture is inherently tied to the body, and therefore to seduction’. Jonathan Anderson experimented with draping at Loewe, citing Renaissance painter Pontormo as inspiration. There were dresses held up by the smallest strap that looked like no machine had passed through the fabric for something as crude
as a seam – they appeared, instead, as though they’d landed on the body by divine chance. The dance of push and pull was present in the translucent breastplates of his closing looks, offering cheeky nudity offset by a high neck and cape-like sleeves that transformed the pieces into sophisticated objects, analogous to sculpture (the most intimate of mediums, as it has so much to do with touch). And at Versace, the foulard safety pin held together dresses and jackets, all at risk of coming undone. As we’re all overwhelmed with an excess of information, it’s natural that our heads turn for only the most outrageous and salacious things. Over time and through overexposure, this numbs our senses. ‘Ostentation is not the way to maximise sex appeal or humour or even entertainment. We’ve forgotten about the way clothing feels on our body, the practicality, the personal touches,’ 6KDKLGL VD\V 7KH ÀQHU GLVWLQFWLRQV are often what make life worth living ² DQG GHÀQLWHO\ ZKDW PDNH ZHDULQJ clothes so pleasurable. When we are used to everything being served on a platter, we lose our curiosity. Our culture is focused only on what is revealed, when all the intrigue is in what’s hiding. The spring/summer collections were an exercise in reinvigorating our nuanced senses. And fashion lovers are ready. Liane Wiggins, head of womenswear at Matchesfashion, notes that we saw designers ‘understanding that people want to be in touch with themselves and feel joy once again’. After all, we must get dressed to undress. Why not take our time?
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“Characters feel like your friends. So it’s like SAYING goodbye to a friend I’ll never see again” &KULVWPDV ZKHQ WKH ÀUVW VHULHV DLUHG LV WKDW WKHQ LW ZDV just an interesting-looking trailer with the name of uber-producer 6KRQGD 5KLPHV DWWDFKHG 1RZ LW·V D JOREDO SKHQRPHQRQ $QG the fact that, at the end of series one (spoilers ahead, though if 82 million people have watched it and you haven’t, perhaps it’s WLPH WR JHW LQYROYHG LW ZDV UHYHDOHG WKDW WKH HQLJPDWLF /DG\ :KLVWOHGRZQ ² WKH DFLG QLEEHG GLDULVW ZKR FKURQLFOHV WKH FRPLQJV DQG JRLQJV RI /RQGRQ VRFLHW\ IRU KHU FODPRXULQJ UHDGHUV ² LV QRQH RWKHU WKDQ ZDOOÁRZHU 3HQHORSH )HDWKHULQJWRQ DV SOD\HG E\ 1LFROD &RXJKODQ 6R QRZ QRW RQO\ LV VKH SDUW RI RQH RI WKH ELJJHVW VKRZV RQ (DUWK VKH·V DOVR LWV FHQWUDO D[LV the point around which all the other plotlines turn. ‘Oh, you’re going to love it,’ she says. ‘I came back [from 'HUU\ ZKHUH VKH ZDV ÀOPLQJ Derry Girls] to watch a screening of episode one with the cast. And at the end we were shouting and cheering and jumping up out of our seats. Which doesn’t happen. But it was like, Oh, this is even better.’ It’s hard to remember now what a glorious surprise Bridgerton was when it arrived just over a year ago. Even readers of the eight-part novel series by Julia Quinn (which are IXQ IXQQ\ TXDVL IHPLQVW 5HJHQF\ URPDQFHV HDFK FHQWULQJ RQ WKH VHOI DFWXDOLVDWLRQ ² DQG PRUH LPSRUWDQWO\ WKH ORYH OLIH ² RI RQH RI WKH HLJKW %ULGJHUWRQ VLEOLQJV RU IDQV RI 6KRQGD 5KLPHV (responsible for Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal) couldn’t have
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“No, I don’t know. I’ve done things before that people thought was going to be huge and it hasn’t worked out.” But I just had that instinct about it.’ $QG QRZ VKH·V ORFNHG LQ ² IRU DV ORQJ DV Bridgerton keeps UROOLQJ SUHVXPDEO\ WKH ZKHHOV RI /DG\ :KLVWOHGRZQ·V FDUULDJH will too. As well as that (more spoilers here), her love life LV WKH IRFXV RI RQH RI WKH QRYHOV ² WKH WKXV IDU SODWRQLF FRQQHFWLRQ EHWZHHQ 3HQHORSH DQG &ROLQ %ULGJHUWRQ LV ZHOO established, but in the book series they become (much) more WKDQ IULHQGV ² VR VKH·OO JHW KHU RZQ VWHDP\ VH[ VFHQHV WR ULYDO the Duke of Hastings and Daphne in the library (or in the folly, or on the desk, or on the stairs or, oh if you must, in bed). ¶2K JRG \HV LW·V JRLQJ WR KDSSHQ :H >VKH DQG /XNH Newton, who plays Colin] used to joke about it, really inappropriate jokes, like, “Wouldn’t it be funny if we did this when we do it?” And then as time goes on it becomes more real. Now it’s not funny anymore! Everyone’s like, “You’re JRLQJ WR KDYH WR NLVV /XNH On the lips!”’ Does she know how long she’s got until she has to face the music, so to speak? ‘I do. I do know. I’ve been told. Yeah.’ 6KH SUHVVHV KHU OLSV WRJHWKHU DQG ZLGHQV KHU H\HV WKH perfect picture of someone very well acquainted with the non-disclosure clauses in her contract. Of course, alongside the joy of being part of a show loved around the world, there is also the life-altering aspect of suddenly becoming incredibly IDPRXV 5LJKW RQ FXH D \RXQJ man stops by our table to tell Nicola he ‘loves’ Bridgerton.) E L L E .C OM / U K M A RC H 2022
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Dark pink dress, £1,100, and pale pink dress (worn underneath), £3,200, both MOLLY GODDARD. Shoes, £470, NEOUS
‘Being famous is like being a dog on the Tube,’ she says. ‘It’s exactly the same energy. When you get on, everyone looks at you. Some people are so smiley, while some are afraid of you and don’t want to go near. Some people touch you without asking. I can still do the things I want to do, obviously, but it is different. ‘I went to the pub with my friend a while back and it was like being an animal at the zoo. People just watching and looking. And I remember one time I was taking my Invisalign [brace] out, and this person was staring me right in the eyes, which was quite weird. But, honestly, most people are so, so lovely.’ If that seems like an almost ludicrously well-balanced answer for someone who has gone from relative obscurity to sky-high recognisability, with a short-pit stop at medium-sized British sitcom levels of fame, that seems to be how Coughlan rolls. At 34, she’s older than the characters she plays, has experience of ups and downs, including a period working part-time in an optician back at home in Galway while still trying to make it as an actor and, probably most importantly, knows why she does the job she does. ‘I do think it feels like real-life magic,’ she says. ‘I used to be obsessed with The Wizard of Oz. And I’d watch it – and I was only four, so I didn’t know what it was – but I was like, I want that. I don’t know what that is. But I want to do that.’
words ‘Real Housewives’ in the title), Instagram accounts to follow (@bigdirtyfry, which does a daily round up of the best Tweets of the day, so you don’t have to go on the site yourself, ‘Because if Twitter was a party, I would leave’). You can see why she attracts people – why she’s DM buddies with Kim Kardashian, and how she achieved what so many of us dream of: becoming actual best friends with Jonathan Van Ness. ‘Queer Eye had just come out and I had a hoodie made with his face on it,’ she says. ‘I put it on Instagram, and he saw it and sent me a message. Even then, he was still working in a salon in LA and they didn’t know [if the show was going to be a success]. He said that seeing someone on the other side of the world with his face on something made it feel real. And then we met up in New York in 2018 and just hit it off. We’re very similar. We exist on the same plane.’ As a good person who likes good people, it’s not surprising that Coughlan’s plans for the future focus most on good experiences. ‘I just want to work with people who are considerate and open and just love what they do and want to make great things,’ she says. ‘I have an allergy to GLIÀFXOW SHRSOH ,·YH OLWHUDOO\ KDG VWUHVV UDVK IURP WKHP %XW I think a lot of it comes from real toxic masculinity. I met D \RXQJ DFWRU UHFHQWO\ ZKR KDG EHHQ ÀOPLQJ D VKRZ DQG KH said that [when the director called “action”] the main actor actually threw a chair across the room into a bunch of extras. He was like, “It was amazing, because it’s what he needed to get into the scene.” And I was like, “It’s a pile of sh*t.”’
“Being famous is like being a dog on the TUBE. It’s the same ENERGY, everyone looks at you” And that feeling is clearly still in her. ‘On set there’s the moment when they call for quiet just before rolling. And everyone there is silent. There’s something about that I just love. And then on Bridgerton, walking into a ballroom, with hundreds of extras, all in custom-made clothes and the wigs and hair, it does feel like being transported back in time. It gives me joy, genuinely. ‘Whenever people say they want to get into this industry, I’m like, you’ve got to want it so badly. Because if you don’t, you’d be mad to do it, absolutely mad. I barely saw my family last year EHFDXVH RI ÀOPLQJ 7KHUH·V D ORW RI VDFULÀFHV WR EH PDGH ,Q my twenties, I never went on holiday. I was so broke. So I never want to sell people this ideal that it’s all wonderful and fun. It’s hard work. But it’s amazing. I wouldn’t do anything else.’ At her heart, it seems, Coughlan was and remains a SXUH HQWKXVLDVW 6KH RYHUÁRZV ZLWK ORYH IRU HYHU\RQH IURP Lin-Manuel Miranda (he recorded a question for her Ask Me Anything video that she shot for ELLE.com/uk – ‘I started FU\LQJ ZKHQ , VDZ LW · VKH VD\V WR KHU WLQ\ /RQGRQ ÁDW ¶, OLYH in a literal shoe box’). You can’t come away from a conversation with her without a list of new podcasts to listen to (start with Dead Eyes), TV programmes to watch (anything with the
She’s more than ready for things to change: ‘I think television – not just television, the world – has been so male-centric for so long. And, like with anything, we just want something refreshing and new – let’s just try that. But I get so much of, “Oh, my wife likes that.”’ But 82 million people is an awful lot of wives, and Bridgerton, with its centring of female pleasure and perspective, is certainly not old-school. Sometimes things that divert us change the world just as much as things that depress us. For now, though, time’s ticking on and there are things to do: Derry Girls WR ÀQLVK JRRGE\HV WR VD\ DQ HSLF $PHULFDQ holiday to go on (New York, Texas, Hawaii, New York again, catching up with JVN high on the itinerary), more writing, SHUKDSV VKH FR ZURWH KHU ÀUVW SRGFDVW Whistle Through The Shamrocks – a very funny send-up of Irish drama tropes – with her friend from drama school, playwright Camilla Whitehill, last year), and making good things happen – both in the dreamy world of Bridgerton and in the here and now. This is only the beginning.
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“You’ve got to want to be in this industry badly. If you don’t, you’d be MAD to do IT. But it’s AMAZING. I wouldn’t do anything else”
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THIS PAGE Coat, £1,120, MA X MARA. Shoes, £970, SAINT LAURENT BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO. Sca rf, price on request, EDWINA IBBOTSON. OPPOSITE Jacket, £4,687, and shorts, £1,590, bot h VERSAC E
THIS PAGE Top, £640, and skir t, £305, bot h ALBERTA FERRET TI. Boots, £1,020, VERSAC E. OPPOSITE Jacket, £2,450, and skir t, £1,150, bot h DIOR. Shoes, £980, PRADA . HAIR: Tom my Taylor at Stella Creative Art ists using GHD Helios Professional Ha ir Dryer and GHD Platinum+ Styler. MAKEUP: Pamela Cochra ne at Bridge Art ists using MAC Cosmet ics. NAILS: Chisato at Caren Agency using Orly. MODELS: Ha nna h Thatcher at Select London and Shade Ak inbobola at Youth Models. SET DESIGN: Julia Dia s at The Wa ll Group. FASHION ASSISTANT: Grace Cla rke
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Utility style enters eveningwear territory, thanks to a thoroughly impractical makeover – prepare to make an entrance
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THIS PAGE Brown jumpsuit, £2,615, black shoes, £970, and blue gloves, £400, all SAINT LAURENT BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO. OPPOSITE Jacket, £675, ISABEL MARANT
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GOING ABOVE & BEYOND THE SURFACE
UGH O R B Y N N E J Photography Words GEORGE DRIVER Hair LARRY KING Styling AURELIA DONALDSON
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AMAZING GRACE AN ODE TO THE ONE AND ONLY GRACE JONES: LARRY BRINGS THE BUZZ CUT INTO 2022 WITH A CLEVER SPIN ON THE FLAT TOP. ‘FROM THE FRONT IT LOOKS LIKE A CUT, BUT IT’S AN ILLUSION,’ SAYS LARRY. ‘I PINNED THE HAIR INTO A BUN AT THE BACK AND SHAPED THE REST INTO A FAUX FLAT TOP USING THE DYSON SUPERSONIC HAIR DRYER’S STYLING CONCENTRATOR, £30, TO GET THAT REAL TIGHTNESS AND DEFINITION IN THE SIDES.’ ZERO COMMITMENT, MAXIMUM REWARD.
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SERIOUS STRUCTURE THE SKY IS LITERALLY THE LIMIT WHEN IT COMES TO STATEMENT-MAKING HAIR . LUCKILY, THAT DOESN’T MEAN SACRIFICING SHINE. HERE, LARRY KING USES A WIDE-TOOTH COMB ATTACHMENT TO STRETCH OUT AND SHAPE THE HAIR – MINUS THE HEAT DAMAGE. THEN, FINISH BY USING THE DYSON SUPERSONIC FLYAWAY ATTACHMENT, (£30) ‘TO HELP YOU GET A SMOOTH, SYMMETRICAL LOOK FOR THAT SCULPTURAL FEEL.’
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RIGHT ANGLES CONTRASTING TEXTURES ARE KEY TO CREATING LARRY’S CUBIST BLOW DRY. ‘SECTION OFF THE HAIR WITH A SHARP SIDE PARTING, THEN USE A ROUND BRUSH TO LIFT THE HAIR INTO PLACE, GETTING VOLUME IN 1DéD85 B??DC 1>4 EXAGGERATING THAT SQUARED-OFF TOP,’ SAYS LARRY. RUN MOUSSE THROUGH THE ENDS BEFORE DIFFUSING DRY TO ENTICE OUT ANY CURLS ?Bé=?F5=5>D
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IT’S A WRAP BRAID YOUR WAY TO SHAPELY HAIR WITH PILES OF PLAITS AND PERFECTLY SHORN POM POMS. HERE, LARRY USES EXTRA-LONG EXTENSIONS WRAPPED AROUND EACH OTHER BEFORE STRAIGHTENING THE ENDS FOR 1é6<1G<5CC @?;5B STRAIGHT FINISH.
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Elle BEAUTY PIN UP ROCKABILLY QUIFFS REACH NEW HEIGHTS, THANKS TO BUNDLES OF MORE-IS-MORE CURLS. ‘THE SECRET IS TO GET THE TEXTURE INTO THE HAIR BEFORE YOU BRING IT UP INTO THE QUIFF,’ SAYS LARRY. GIVE HAIR A BOOST WITH A SPRITZ OF VOLUMISING SPRAY, THEN USE THE DYSON CORRALE, £399.99, TO CREATE LOADS OF CURLS. TWIST THE BACK, PIN IN PLACE AND GATHER UP CURLS FOR A MODERN AND MOVABLE TAKE ON A CLASSIC.
Jacket, £525, REJINA PYO. Hoop earring, £645, POND LONDON. Stud earring, model’s own. MAKE-UP: Phoebe Walters. NAILS: Edyta Betka at Of Substance. MODELS: Kyesha St Claire at IMG Models, Lorelle Rayner at Elite London. FASHION ASSISTANT: Grace Clarke E L L E .C OM / U K M A RC H 2022
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THE DIRECTORS’ CUT
TikTok trends Two beauty journalists, two very different approaches. ELLE’s beauty directors George Driver and Jennifer George give us the lowdown
THE TREND HOPPER George Driver
Cynics may argue that I’m too old to be trawling through TikTok videos for beauty tips from teenagers, but, among the make-up madness, every now and then there’s a new tip or product that’s genuinely useful. I promise! Jenn is totally on the money when it comes to 99 per cent of ‘tutorials’ being, at best, blatantly photoshopped and, at worst, dangerous, but scroll for long HQRXJK DQG \RX·OO ÀQG WKH RGG JHP RI JHQLXV While I won’t be applying my foundation with a jade roller, I’ll happily go to TikTok for blusher techniques. Past me might have suggested the classic ‘apple of the cheek’ application. Now? I’m all about the ‘higher the better’ TikTok method – dab it on the tops of your cheekbones and up to your temples. The look is all lift, lift and more lift. Having spent hours on the app, I’m now convinced my blusher, bronzer and highlighter all need to be applied up to my eyebrows – brows that are currently feathered to the gods, by the way, thanks to the platform’s new hype product, got2b’s brow wand, which glues hair in any way you please. The demand for TikTok content to be attentiongrabbing means that the simple-but-good can be overlooked, EXW ÀOWHU RXW WKH LQWHQWLRQDO H\H EDJV DQG OLS ZLQJV DQG LW·V there. When Dr Jart+ launched its Cicapair cream, rosacea sufferers everywhere (including me) rejoiced. Based on sound colour-correcting logic and skin-soothing tiger grass, it really works. A TikTok trend was born, and deservedly so. Whether a temporary dabble with neon eyeliner or a more permanent addition to your routine, always apply \RXU LQQHU WUHQG ÀOWHU ¶9LUDO· LV QRW V\QRQ\PRXV ZLWK JRRG Interrogate, test and trial, then leave the rest... to the rest. DR JART+ Cicapair Tiger Grass Color Correcting Treatment, £37
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It’s laughable that I’m writing about TikTok considering I don’t have a particularly active account. I do, however, occasionally take a nosy glance at the app to see what the ¶NLGV· DW PRVW LQÁXHQFHUV FRXOG actually be my children) are up to when it comes to make-up. There’s no denying the impact of this platform. Even if you’ve never downloaded it, you can bet that the brands you love have – and are watching it closely. However, due to my age or scepticism, I’ve come to the conclusion that most of the trends are trash. The burnt tip of an almond is being used as an eye-liner and fake tan as FRQWRXU $Q LQÁXHQFHU ZDV KRVSLWDOLVHG IROORZLQJ D ¶',< freckle’ trick that involved a needle and ink. And forgive me for shouting, but lube is being used as a primer?! In case you haven’t guessed, I’m not down for a ‘hack’. I’m here for easy application and saving money, sure, but today’s products are so good, so clever, that most TikTok tricks are unnecessary click-bait. But what I do enjoy are the snippet-length product UHYLHZV 5HYLHZV RI PDNH XS WKDW DUWLVWV LQÁXHQFHUV DQG high-street-shopping beauty fans are genuinely loving; that go ‘viral’ because they do what they say on the tin so well. Some aren’t even new, like Clinique’s Black Honey lipstick (the shade launched in 1971), which has seen a resurgence due to its soft-berry hue that suits everyone (including me). 7LN7RN DOVR EURXJKW 5()< LQWR P\ OLIH D EURZ EUDQG founded by a social-media model. And, thanks to my ‘For <RX· SDJH ,·YH IRXQG D 0D\EHOOLQH PDVFDUD WKDW EHKDYHV DV beautifully as my designer favourite. I was dubious, but SURYHQ ZURQJ ² KDSSLO\ LI D ELW EHJUXGJLQJO\ LQÁXHQFHG
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Pretty in pink
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What’s even better than a cordless hair styler? A metallic pink one, naturally. Try the Dyson Corrale straightener in Fuchsia and Bright Nickel, £399.99 CE VER SA
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Perennial pencils
House plants? So 2021. Sprout Browliner, £9.95, is plantable after use. Simply pot it and wait for beauty (in the form of VZHHW ZLOG ÁRZHUV WR JURZ
Air de parfum
The eco-newcomer disrupting the fragrance LQGXVWU\ LV WKH ZRUOG·V ÀUVW VFHQW PDGH IURP« air. CO2 is turned into impurity-free alcohols, PL[HG ZLWK QRWHV RI RUDQJH SHHO ÀJ OHDI jasmine and violet, and then bottled into Air Company Air Eau de Parfum, £160 for 50ml.
Beauty BAROMETER Our guide to the on-the-up products to try and the off-the-wall trends to avoid Wo r d s by H a n n a h T h o m p s o n
The laundrette
Cheat the ‘change your pillowcase every two days’ rule and still avoid bacteria build-up transferring onto your face with the Mela Clean Silver Pillowcase, £50, a fabric made skin-friendly thanks to its use of silver-powered antimicrobial Ionic+ technology.
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While the relaxing effects of CBD might have carried us through lockdown, CBG is the new-kid-on-the-block cannabinoid that induces a grounding and focused feeling, rather than chilling you out. We’ll try anything to cut down on the incessant coffee runs.
Concrete jungle
No garden? No problem. Let Diptyque’s herbarium of ÁRUD LQVSLUHG FDQGOHV EULQJ nature indoors without getting your hands dirty. Diptyque Artichaut Candle, £60.
Crypto cosmetics
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Pick me up
The sweetest smell of ALL A new wave of subtle yet evocative fragrances aims to emulate the intimate warmth of human skin
Elle BEAUTY WE ALL HAVE A UNIQUE SCENT – that natural cocktail made up
of our body chemistry mixed with the products we use on our skin, hair, laundry and more. It’s the subtle but distinctively ‘you’ smell left behind on a T-shirt, or on your bed sheets. If you think RI D WUDGLWLRQDO IUDJUDQFH DV \RXU ¶RXWÀW· WKHQ D SHUVRQDO VFHQW LV more like lingerie: detectable only during intimate contact. To catch a whiff, you must come near. Recognising the potential appeal of bottling a scent so inherently alluring, beauty brands have begun experimenting with fragrances that either attempt to mimic the natural smell of human skin or use ingredients that take your individual elixir and amplify it. The result: a burgeoning category of eau de parfums and toilettes referred to as ‘skin scents’. Not unlike a tinted moisturiser or lip balm, or a styling product that plays up your hair’s natural texture, these understated fragrances aim to make the most of what you have naturally. Most skin scents are soft, lightweight formulas that cling close to the body, similar to how our own natural aromas behave. Tania Sanchez, co-author of Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, describes them as something, ‘light enough for people to think of not as perfumes – separate entities travelling along with you – but as somehow part of you, emanating from you… I suspect most rely heavily on slow, dry-down materials like musks, woods and ambers and less on very IRUZDUG LGHQWLÀDEOH PDWHULDOV OLNH EHUU\ QRWHV KHDY\ ÁRUDOV RU JUDSHIUXLW · Skin scents are also typically gender-neutral, and most could be described as warm, inviting, sexy (but not heavy) and clean (but not sterile). Some fragrance experts suggest one reason skin scents are currently so appealing is because they pay homage to intimacy, something many of us lacked thanks to social distancing. ‘[The pandemic] put restrictions on being with other people and limited our ability to get very close to someone,’ says Dr Rachel Herz, a neuroscientist and an expert in the psychological science of smell. ‘So getting this secret hint of somebody’s presence provides an added layer of intimacy that has a psychologically meaningful dimension at
this particular time. People are emerging from deep social isolation and want to connect emotionally, socially and intimately. Skin scents can help give us all those things.’ How can a perfumer conjure something so personal? Some blends, such as Glossier’s You, £45 for 50ml EDP, or Le Labo’s AnOther 13, £141 for 50ml EDP, include notes like musk and pink pepper, which infuses the scent with a soft spiciness that’s surprisingly similar to the smell of human skin. Other skin scents XWLOLVH ÁRUDOV EXW WKH\ GR LW LQ D VXEWOHU ZD\ WKDQ \RX·G ÀQG LQ traditional fragrances. By/Rosie Jane’s Rosie, £42.50 for 50ml EDP, uses just a whispery hint of rose to give the fragrance a velvety plushness suggestive of warm, damp skin, while Glossier’s You complements its piquant pink pepper note with just a touch of iris to make the blend a bit cosier. The secret weapon in a skin scent like Molecule 01 by Escentric Molecules, £72 for 100ml EDT, is an ingredient called Iso E Super, which PDJQLÀHV RWKHU QRWHV $ORQH ,VR ( 6XSHU smells slightly woody and is almost imperceptible. But spray it on bare skin and suddenly it can intensify your own natural scent. ‘We discovered that Iso E Super, the only [perfume note] ingredient in Molecule 01, creates an individual aura for each person who wears it,’ says Geza Schoen, master perfumer and founder of Escentric Molecules. Schoen suggests it was this unique characteristic that helped Molecule 01 become one of the brand’s best-sellers, as many people have been craving an opportunity WR H[SUHVV WKHLU LQGLYLGXDOLW\ DV ZHOO DV ÀQG D IUDJUDQFH WKDW·V DQ alternative to mass-market, generic scents. 6NLQ VFHQWV FDQ DOVR EH GHHSO\ VH[\ 6HFUHWLRQV 0DJQLÀTXHV by Etat Libre d’Orange, £85 for 50ml EDP, uses aldehydic notes (also a key component of Chanel N°5, which is responsible for the classic scent’s soapy, clean characteristic), mixed with musk and sandalwood, and marine ingredients such as salty seaweed. The effect is erotic and bold, but not overpowering. And the thing that links all skin scents? They’re best smelled up close.
WORDS: TYNAN SINKS. PHOTOGRAPHY: ANGELA MARKLEW/THE LICENSING PROJECT.
“People are emerging from ISOLATION wanting to connect. Skin scents can help”
LOUD & PROUD KEEPING THINGS QUIET NOT FOR YOU? RAMP UP THE INTENSITY THEN, WITH THESE FIVE HEADY HEAD-TURNERS
FLORAL
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DOLCE & GABBANA Dolce Lily, £66 for 50ml EDP
TOM FORD Private Blend Ébène Fumé, £178 for 50ml EDP
GUERLAIN Shalimar Millesime Vanilla Planifolia, £89 for 50ml EDP
DS & DURGA Grapefruit Generation, £148 for 50ml EDP
GIVENCHY Enflammé, £175 for 100ml EDP
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Make friends with your SKIN Do you and your complexion need counselling? We’re here to help. No need to break up – just stop those breakouts
We live with it every day of our lives. We scrutinise it, insult it and can be fairly irresponsible in how we treat it. And often it will have a freak-out on us at the worst possible time. Is it any wonder that we aren’t always on the best of terms with our skin? Over the pandemic-addled months, we were parted from facialists, skin doctors, cosmetic counters and anyone else who may help our skin feel calm, happy and well-balanced. We threw a barrage of seemingly helpful cures at it, making time for weekly seven-step sessions and using every tool in the beauty box. But was it too much? Overloading our skin with new regimes and products, and following bad advice, can be a major source of irritation, but genetics and hormones also play a big part in the way it behaves. Meanwhile, stress, diet and pollution all play a role in exacerbating skin issues – so until someone devises psychotherapy for our skin, here are some easy ways to work on the relationship, whatever the issue.
IF YOUR SKIN IS IRRITATED…
Soothe with cica
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While the promises of a new active ingredient, such as retinol and vitamin C, can tempt us into slathering it on our face with reckless abandon, RXU VNLQ FDQ RIWHQ ÀQG WKH VXGGHQ LQWURGXFWLRQ overwhelming, resulting in redness, peeling or worse. That’s where microdosing can save the day. As Dr Jonquille Chantrey explains: ‘Microdosing involves using products that contain an active ingredient but in a lower concentration than VFLHQWLÀFDOO\ UHFRPPHQGHG · ,QFRUSRUDWLQJ WKLV lower percentage of active ingredients into your routine allows you to reap the skin-renewing effects, but at a slower pace and without side-effects. This makes it a safer way to apply your products if you fall into the sensitive skin category, or have found that overzealous product use has sent \RXU VNLQ LQWR RYHUGULYH ¶7KH SURGXFW , PRVW frequently microdose is retinol, as there LV HYLGHQFH WKDW LW FDQ VWLOO EULQJ EHQHÀWV DW 0.025% strength,’ says Dr Chantrey.
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Acne treatments can often be as much of a trial as the acne itself, whether it’s over-the-counter antiseptic creams that leave your skin drier than D EDG ÀUVW GDWH RU GXG SURGXFWV ZKRVH FODLPV YHUVXV RXWFRPHV OHDYH much to be desired. Thankfully, technology coupled with accessibility has improved the options available for treating acne, namely lightemitting diode (LED) masks. Once only available in clinics, these space-age looking tools became a mainstay of our beauty routines during the pandemic, and thanks to their effective results, haven’t left since. ‘Our skin cells have receptors for LED like they would for any other topical ingredient,’ says dermatologist Dr Dennis Gross. ‘Receptors are doorways that allow ingredients to “enter” inside a skin cell and enact change. Blue LED connects to the receptors on acne-causing bacteria, causing them to self-implode, without harming the good bacteria or surrounding skin. The most commonly seen red LED light reduces the LQÁDPPDWLRQ DQG UHGQHVV DVVRFLDWHG ZLWK DFQH · :KLOH /(' PDVNV require commitment (most will recommend a quick, daily session), unlike topical skincare, you can start seeing the effects in as little as WKUHH WR ÀYH WUHDWPHQWV 7R DFKLHYH RSWLPXP PDVNLQJ HIÀFLHQF\ 'U Gross recommends looking for a device with a blue-light wavelength of 415nm, and always using the mask as the second step of your routine (after cleansing) on clean, dry skin, to ensure the rays penetrate the skin properly.
SEE THE LIGHT FROM LEFT: DR DENNIS GROSS DRX SPECTRALITE FACEWEAR PRO, £430, CURRENTBODY SKIN LED LIGHT THERAPY MASK, £279, FOREO ESPADA BLUE LIGHT ACNE TREATMENT, £129
IF YOUR SKIN IS DULL…
Peel away the debris
Using a ‘skin-stripping’ peel to reset your skin may sound counterintuitive, but bear with us. Because, although the term suggests something sinister, a peel shouldn’t leave you red raw and exposed at all. Used correctly, it will remove debris, renew the surface, and reveal a glow. All safely, and brilliantly. ¶$W KRPH SHHOV ZKLFK DUH IDLUO\ VXSHUÀFLDO use a chemical solution to stimulate and accelerate the removal of dead skin cells via a controlled “injury” to the skin,’ says facialist and skin expert Katharine Mackenzie Paterson, ‘It might sound scary, but it’s actually much more gentle than some forms of manual exfoliation, such as scrubs.’ The magic lies in the acids (another worrying word, we know), skin-safe chemicals, such as glycolic or salicylic acid, that silently slough away at congestion and old cells to dislodge or dissolve them, allowing the ‘fresh’ skin to bloom. They can feel potent, but not painful – an important difference. ‘As they start working and causing SRVLWLYH LQÁDPPDWLRQ LW·V QRUPDO WR IHHO D WLQJOLQJ sensation and see some pinkness appear,’ says Paterson, ‘but if things get itchy, or burning, it’s best to err on the side of caution and remove the product straight away.’ Stronger at-home options often come with a ‘neutralising agent’ to calm and replenish the skin straight away. The results? ‘An instant and ongoing glow,’ says Paterson, who adds that with regular use they can also help to smooth scarring, blur pigmentation, and reduce wrinkles.
THE BIG REVEAL FROM LEFT: ELEMIS DYNAMIC RESURFACING PEEL & RESET, £70, IS CLINICAL ACTIVE PEEL SYSTEM, £75 FOR 15 DOSES, DR DENNIS GROSS OVERNIGHT TEXTURE RENEWAL PEEL, £79
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IF YOUR SKIN IS BREAKING OUT…
SEE THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY
ESCAPE plan Running on empty? These dreamy spas, from far-flung getaways to secret staycation spots, will help you reset and refresh
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Kisawa Sanctuary Natural Wellness Center MOZAMBIQUE
LOCATION Just 14-kilometres off the coast off
Mozambique, this sun-drenched retreat is accessed via a private boat (taking around 35 minutes) from Vilankulo Airport. VIBE The mood here is all about achieving wellbeing through the unity of mind, body and soul – all while helping you reconnect to nature and your inner self. (Don’t worry, wind chimes and dreamcatchers are nowhere to be seen.) THE CONCEPT The striking architecture of the spa is inspired by the island’s traditional thatched houses. Inside separate domes – privacy is HYHU\WKLQJ KHUH ² \RX·OO ÀQG D VWDWH RI WKH DUW Japanese Iyashi sauna that uses infrared heat to promote healing, and a steam hammam, along with three therapy rooms with spaces for sunrise and sunset yoga, pilates and meditation. UNIQUE FEATURE .LVDZD LV WKH ZRUOG·V ÀUVW 3D-printed retreat. The incredible eco structure is made from sand-and-seawater mortar. TREATMENT TO TRY Don’t miss the 5 Element Ku Nye – Kisawa’s unique wellness ritual using essential oils to encourage deep relaxation of the nervous system, as well as lymphatic drainage and healing of the chakras. kisawasanctuary.com
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LOCATION Along the Seine, steps
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LOCATION In the snazzy Salamanca district of
Madrid (Louis Vuitton is tucked behind the hotel; Gucci next door), the newly refurbished Rosewood outpost is a polished and preened rebirth of this 1970s building. Although central in the city, the site has an oasis feel to it, with towering 30-metrehigh cedar trees in leafy grounds. True relaxation really starts, however, when you enter the venue’s recently built spa. THE CONCEPT This is not your clinical, stark white, austere kind of spa. Dark wood walls and Turkish marble cocoon you, and holistic wellness lurks around every neutral-toned corner. An authentic hammam takes central stage – a homage to Madrid’s Muslim past and a place to ‘purify the body and calm the mind’ with Moroccan rituals and orange-blossom-water-scented remedies. UNIQUE FEATURE One of the spa’s star offerings takes place mostly outside. The ‘El Retiro Journey’ – designed to reset, revive and reground – is a guided walk through the city’s historic park, topped off with a ‘foot-washing ritual’, and leg and foot massage. TREATMENT TO TRY You might think bay leaves are best for a slow-cooked ragu, but here they’ve inspired a signature treatment, the Bay Leaf Ritual, which utilises the indigenous plant and it’s wellness properties (it’s rich in Vitamins A and C, and detoxifying magnesium). The leaf is incorporated into an array of multisensory aspects, including a bay-infused foot soak, body scrub, massage and detoxifying tea. rosewoodhotels.com
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from the Louvre and a short walk from Le Marais, inside Paris’s Cheval Blanc hotel, a new art deco-inspired boutique with 72 rooms and suites. VIBE A serene, luxurious sanctuary amid the urban bustle. THE CONCEPT The spa, designed by Peter Marino, immerses guests in the world of Dior, with specialised services and beauty products – from a skin-care line (Professional Solutions) to a boutique offering an exclusive Dior x Cheval Blanc fragrance and colour collection. Marino’s intention was to create a space that felt like a cosy Parisian apartment – and he succeeded. UNIQUE FEATURE Each of the six treatment suites pay homage to an aspect of Christian Dior’s life: the feather-themed decor in the Mitzah Suite nods to Mitzah Bricard, Dior’s long-time muse, and the English garden-inspired environment in the Granville Suite has been designed to evoke Dior’s childhood home, Villa Les Rhumbs in Granville, France. TREATMENT TO TRY Slough away dead skin cells and boost radiance with the Dior Sapphire Crystal Micro-Abrasion, which makes use of exfoliating beads coated LQ ÀQH VDSSKLUH SDUWLFOHV The treatment’s intensity is customisable – so it’s safe for all skin types. chevalblanc.com
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LOCATION The northern tip of the Spanish island
of Ibiza, overlooking Cala Xarraca Bay. The spa is part of the Six Senses Ibiza resort, which has 116 guestrooms and suites, 17 townhouses, four restaurants, shopping, and an ever-changing line-up of entertainment and adventure outings. VIBE A healthy yet indulgent respite with breathtaking views. THE CONCEPT In addition to traditional services like manicures and massages, the spa provides age-defying programs in its Rose Bar, as well as DQ HQWLUH ÁRRU GHYRWHG WR ZDWHU DQG KHDW WKHUDS\ complete with a double hammam, infrared sauna, steam room, and caldarium (a hot plunge pool). UNIQUE FEATURE The Rose Bar combines modern science with ancient rituals to create treatments that will make you look and feel youthful. Guests undergo diagnostic testing to assess their current health, then receive a plan (devised by a doctor) that may include: IV infusions, cryotherapy, pulsed electromagnetic ÀHOG WKHUDS\ 3(0) DOWLWXGH WUDLQLQJ GLHWDU\ counselling, and an array of spa treatments. TREATMENT TO TRY 0LQG <RXU %UDLQ D RQH GD\ programme that will help improve brain functioning and clarity via yoga, meditation, exercise, nutritional advice, brain games, massage and more. sixsenses.com E L L E .C OM / U K M A RC H 2022
FDSLWDO 7KH VSD LV SDUW RI WKH (',7,21 KRWHO which has 253 rooms, a series of bars, a restaurant DQG QLJKWFOXE 7KH VHYHQWK ÁRRU URRIWRS KDV SDQRUDPLF YLHZV RI WKH PRXQWDLQV WKH 1RUWK Atlantic Ocean and the capital’s old town. VIBE 'RZQWRZQ JODPRXU PHHWV ,FHODQGLF simplicity, with a cliché-free nod to local history. THE CONCEPT 3UH SDUW\ SDPSHULQJ WR KHOS \RX recharge before an evening of revelry at the hotel’s buzzed-about new nightclub, Sunset. There are three treatment rooms for facials, massages and breathing exercises, as well as a hammam, steam room, sauna, and a plunge pool for hydrotherapy. UNIQUE FEATURE The spa bar encourages Champagne, moss-vodka infusions and snacks – such as volcano bread with black lava salt – before you dip into the thermal pools. TREATMENT TO TRY 3XULI\ WRQH DQG UH EDODQFH your skin with the traditional Icelandic Total Renew Ritual – a personalised facial and detoxifying algae wrap. editionhotels.com
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DAY 1 Check into the quirky and art-laden Romeo hotel, one of Naples’ few truly luxury properties, with a Michelin-starred restaurant, rooftop pool and rooms with views across the harbour. To acclimatise to the city’s pace, take the funicular up to Vomero, high above the bustle of the town. Stop for lunch at the award-winning Osteria Donna Terasa, where you’re served whatever the owner and her daughter make that day. Next, potter back to Romeo via Via Dei Mille, a street lined with designer shops and elegant coffee houses, like Caffetteria Etoile. For dinner, head to Mattozi L’Europea around the corner – a traditional trattoria where the food is classic and the waiters are all twinkly-eyed. BETWEEN SEA AND LAND ABOVE: BOATS IN A MARINA IN THE BAY; RIGHT: HOTEL ROMEO’S ROOMS OFFER PANORAMIC VIEWS
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Head to Christmas Alley, otherwise known as Via San Gregorio Armeno, where you can buy hand-painted Christmas decorations all year round.
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DAY 2 Start with a swim in Romeo’s rooftop pool, where you can watch the cruise liners dock gently into the bay. Next, head to Mercato Pignasecca, the daily market, stocked full RI IUHVK ÀVK YHJHWDEOHV OHDWKHU VKRHV DQG Italian linens. Try sfogliatelle (a classic 1HDSROLWDQ SDVWU\ ÀOOHG ZLWK ULFRWWD in the city’s best pasticceria, Armando Scaturchio, before wandering to Napoli Sotterranea – the ancient underground city upon which Naples is built. Later, XQZLQG ZLWK DQ DSHULWLYR LQ 3LD]]D %HOOLQL
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THE GREAT BEAUTY CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: TAKE A SUNSET DIP IN THE ROOFTOP POOL; A BOAT TRIP TO THE COLOURFUL TOWN OF PROCIDA; SERMONETA SQUARE IS STEEPED IN HISTORY
Today, either take a boat to the colourful island of Procida, only a 30-minute ride away (much of The Talented Mr Ripley is ÀOPHG KHUH RU KHDG WR 3RVLOOLSR 7KLV LV Naples’ answer to London’s Chelsea, with EHDXWLIXO EDURTXH YLOODV FOLQJLQJ WR WKH FOLII tops that you can see on the 4km stretch of road from Largo Sermoneta to the top of Posillipo, where you’ll be stunned by the SDQRUDPLF VHD YLHZV 7KHQ LW·V GRZQKLOO to the indoor market, Toretta, with a late lunch at Cibi Cotti Nonna Anna, which VHUYHV GHOLFLRXV ÀVK GLVKHV DPLG WKH EXVWOH of the market traders.
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THE DETAILS WE LOVE A living
room/bar serves cocktails with a local twist (try an Old Fashioned made with Kentish rapeseed oil). A clever use of colour, from navy-blue walls to burnt-orange furnishings, complements the sea views.
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WHERE The Albion House Hotel
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Ramsgate is the lower-key version of trendy Margate, and the clifftop Albion House Hotel embodies quiet luxury with style. Built in 1792, the house retains gorgeous original features like a spiral staircase and window alcoves, while the chic rooms have sweeping views of the harbour and sandy beach.
BOOK AHEAD A table at The Dining
Rooms at Albion House is one of the hottest tickets in all of Kent. 6HUYLQJ ÀVK WKDW·V RIWHQ ODQGHG LQ the harbour in front of the hotel, meat from a Broadstairs butcher, bread from a bakehouse in Ramsgate and vegetables grown throughout Kent, the elevated brasserie-style menu is as local as it gets.
WHY GO? According to Ben Irvine, who DON’T MISS Positive Retail on
Addington Street is a pre-loved-clothes store where second hand is never second best. The founders, Anna and Dani, were in retail for decades before setting up their own shop. They work with sellers across the country to ensure they are stocked with the most coveted pieces. When we visited, we had our eye on an Isabel Marant soft-gold puffer on sale at a fraction of the original price.
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Smart cruise control with ‘Stop and Go’ means that, whenever your speed changes, you’ll still maintain a safe distance from other vehicles. It’ll even start automatically if the car ahead moves within three seconds of stopping. We also love the wireless phone charger in the central console.
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owns the hotel with his wife Emma, you can’t beat Ramsgate’s seafront. The town is also full of music-industry types: singer Nadine Shah lives locally, as does the promoter Mags Revell, while model/ poet Kai-Isaiah Jamal recently stayed at The Albion. As well as cool shops like Potters, for plants, pottery and designer homewares, and Simply Danish, for mid-century furniture, it is the listed beach that’s Ramsgate’s real draw.
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ELLE FASHION Enchanté Communication - Global Fashion Brand Feature of the Year Interview with Jonq-Jin Kuo from Vivvant London
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“It’s a gentleman’s world. Vivvant, the shoe brand everybody should be talking about” Inspired by the quintessentially British gentleman, Jonq-Jin Kuo swapped numbers out for a degree in Fashion Marketing and the tropical temperature of Taipei for the rainy streets of London. After gaining experience behind the scenes, working for Tom Ford at Selfridges, Jin took his knowledge to the streets and quickly gained notoriety with his successful fashion blog in mandarin. With one door closing - his fashion blog - another opened, leading to an exclusive book deal to publish ‘Just Like A Londoner’, a guide to achieve the stylish London-look, classic yet modern. After observing, altering, and teaching men how to dress, it was time to give them the basics to do it with and so, Vivvant was born. Moving to London was not as much of a culture shock, as it was a vestimentary one. London is known for its clash of historical and state-of-the-art architecture. Jin observed this juxtaposition EHWZHHQ ROG DQG QHZ DQG VDZ KRZ WKLV ZDV UHÀHFWHG LQ KRZ WKH way Londoner’s dress. “It’s wonderful and it became my muse,” says Founder Jin. “People in Taipei mainly dress for comfort, it’s hot and humid so somebody wearing a suit for pleasure, not for work, is something you barely see. It seemed like a whole new ZRUOG , VDZ VXLWV LQ VR PDQ\ GL൵HUHQW VW\OHV DQG IDEULFV HDFK SDLUHG ZLWK D GL൵HUHQW NLQG RI VKRHV RU ERRWV ,W ZDV VRPHWKLQJ I had never seen before, was completely fascinated by and desperately wanted to completely immerse myself in,” says Jin. Vivvant translates to living, shoes are meant to be worn and lived in. They stand for comfort, style and impeccable quality. “Originally, I wanted to open a tailoring shop, but from a practical point of view, this didn’t make much sense as a novice in the industry.”says Jin.
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Luckily Jin’s love for suits was matched with his love for footwear. “No matter where in the world you go, men do and will keep buying GL൵HUHQW VW\OHV RI VKRHV QR PDWWHU WKHLU MRE IDVKLRQ VHQVH RU MRXUQH\ in life. We want Vivvant to be right there with them.” says Jin. “You have to pour all your passion into a project, otherwise, it’s not sustainable. Whenever I doubt myself or start overthinking, I tend to hold on to one of my proudest moments, which was the ¿UVW WLPH VRPHERG\ DVNHG PH ZKHUH , ERXJKW WKH VKRHV , ZDV wearing. It’s little moments like these, that keep me grounded and inspire me to keep pushing Vivvant forward,” adds the Founder Jin. For Vivvant, style is synonymous with quality, to ensure the shoes are produced to the highest grade of craftsmanship, they work with a small family-run business in the epicentre of leather goods: Italy. “Choosing the right shoemaker was one of the most tedious tasks, after visiting many places across Portugal, Spain and Italy, I found a highly-skilled family-run business in Florence. I’m very proud that as a young brand our shoes are enlaced with years of experience, says Jin” Vivvant creates shoes for any occasion, however, this doesn’t mean one shoe all occasions. “We currently sell four styles of boots and one trainer; these can all easily be dressed up or down. For LQVWDQFH E\ DGGLQJ UXEEHU VROHV WR ERRWV WKHVH FDQ HDVLO\ ¿W ZLWK both jeans and suits, making them versatile while ensuring you’re still dressed immaculately,” says Jin. The Founder’s – and editor’s ± SHUVRQDO IDYRXULWH LV WKH 7UXFNHU %RRW FRQ¿UPLQJ WKDW WKHUH aren’t enough boots fashioned in navy and proving that navy boots are a must-have item every fashionable gentleman needs in 2022.
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When designing - or looking for - the perfect shoes, Jin, tells us we need to look for a balance between comfort and beauty, and WR QHYHU VDFUL¿FH RQH RU WKH RWKHU ³)URP DQ DHVWKHWLF SRLQW RI view, there is no right or wrong but when you look at the quality, WKDW¶V ZKHUH \RX FDQ WHOO WKH GL൵HUHQFH DQG WKDW¶V ZKHUH D WUXH VKRH faux-pas lays. You can have the nicest design, but if the quality of leather or vegan leather is subpar, the entire shoe is ruined.” As for the future, Vivvant will be expanding its market East, introducing the classic gentleman design to an Asian clientele. His home audience in the UK can expect to see more styles of shoes hitting the racks as well as camera bags, the perfect accessory for any Londoner, and far beyond. Vivvant proves to be the British answer to the Italian craftsmanship and luxury of Cuccinelli, and we can wait to step in his shoes. Enchanté Communication PR & Advertisement Director: Xavier Tan Jiang Hoe Fashion Editor: Lupe Baeyens Founder of Vivvant London: Jonq-Jin Kuo Shoes Collection: Vivvant London For more information, please visit: Vivvant Website: www.vivvant.co.uk Vivvant Instagram: @vivvant Instagram: @houseofenchante Email: info@enchantecommunication.com Website: www.enchantecommunication.com
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MY MOTHER’S UNCONVENTIONAL STYLE MADE ME COVET THE SIMPLE LIFE. She had a circle of cool friends who went against the mainstream in the Sixties hippy era. I was conscious that we stood out for dressing unusually, so ordinary clothing seemed exotic to me. I was obsessed with my school uniform.
I SPENT MY FIRST PAY CHEQUE ON A PAIR OF CHARLES JOURDAN BOOTS. They were burgundy leather and made me look like a soul girl. I paired them with grey school trousers , IRXQG LQ MXPEOH VDOHV ,·YH DOZD\V ORYHG GUHVVLQJ VOLJKWO\ like I was in a convent, but with a glamorous shoe.
WEARING BOYS’ SHIRTS MADE ME FEEL POWERFUL. It started aged eight when a friend lent me a gingham shirt. I refused to take it off for weeks because I felt it gave me PDJLFDO SRZHUV 7KHQ , WXUQHG WR MXPEOH VDOHV WR ÀQG FULVS ER\V· shirts; wearing them created a sense of togetherness for me.
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