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96 Summer dressingLet the ELLE fashionteam help
100 Free Pharrell for youSee our shoot with theman who hears in colour
118 The secret life ofKeira KnightleyThe interview that willchange your mind about her
136 Fashion’s new energySporty buys to lookforward to
164 All-natural hair23 products to try now
171 The guest editConcealer tricks that makeeveryone look better, bymake-up artist Florrie White
180 Inner youThe best sex writingwe’ve ever printed
37 First lookSee it, love it, shop it, share it
38 Wish want wearMeet your dreamsummer dress
40 ZeitgeistFestivals, beach reads andthe latest fashion collabs
44 Add to basketMatchy-matchy Dolce& Gabbana brocade
50 CatwalkA Zac Posen moment
52 #ELLEBookClubRichard E. Grant shares thebooks that shaped his life
57 The fashion directorEveryday basics neednot be ordinary, saysELLE’s Anne-Marie Curtis
59 The beauty guruLisa Eldridge’s hot-weather make-up tips
SHOPS61 See it, buy it, wear it
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Photography: Thomas Whiteside. Fashion:Anne-Marie Curtis. Hair: Luke Hersheson atJulian Watson Agency. Make-up: Sally Branka atJulian Watson Agency using Chanel Les BeigesHealthy Glow Fluid and S 2014. Manicure: AdamSlee at Streeters. Seamstress: Philippa Howden.Behind-the-scenes film: Jamie Jones. Talent:Keira Knightley. Location: jj Locations. On thenewsstand cover: Wool dress, Gucci. Diamondand white-gold ring, Chanel. On the subscribercover: Wool coat, and sequined silk-organzadress, both Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane.Leather boots, Rayne. Acetate sunglasses, Chloé.Skin: Les Beiges All-In-One Healthy Glow Fluid,£34; Les Beiges Healthy Glow Multi-Colour, £39;Le Blush Crème De Chanel Cream Blush inCheeky, £28. Eyes: Stylo Yeux Waterproof Long-Lasting Eyeliner in Marron Glacé, £19;Inimitable Waterproof Mascara in Black, £25; LeSourcil De Chanel Perfect Brows, £43. Lips:Rouge Coco Hydrating Crème Lip Colour inMademoiselle, £25. Nails: Le Vernis Nail Colourin Frisson, £18. All Chanel. On ELLE’s specialcover: Photography: Doug Inglish. Fashion:Alison Edmond. Talent: Pharrell Williams. Wooljumper, James Long. Feather headdress, stylist’sown. Chanel necklaces and all other jewellery,Pharrell’s own. Published 5 June 2014
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187 Dear MademoiselleELLE’s life guru can help
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65 AccessoriesYes, you should accessoriseon the beach. We say so
69 Five thingsReinvented jelly shoesand beach-ready holdalls
72 The trendFill your suitcase witheverything on this page
75 WorkwearEasy ways to weartailored primary tones
79 #ELLEFashionCupboardThis is ‘pre-fall’
81 How to wearThe long and shortof white shirts
STREET85 Street style
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Why beauty routinesaren’t anti-feminist
55 #GirlInterrupterEmma Forrest on beinga successful failure
109 Clever. Talented.Accomplished. Shoe loverAward-winning authorChimamanda NgoziAdichie on dressing toshowcase her personality
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READ ITTo see more highlightsfrom Lorraine’s 10 yearsat ELLE, go to elleuk.com
With cover starRosie Huntington-Whiteley at theOctober 2013issue party
‘Believing in the impossible isactuallyquitepractical, if youwantmyadvice’
Above: Pharrell1er1Left: With SamanthaCameron and TomFord at the ELLE StyleAwards 2011 – I waspregnant with myfourth child, Mabel
Above: WithKate Hudson andStella McCartneyat the ELLE StyleAwards 2008.We sat togetheragain at the2013 Awards
‘EveryTuesday,we take to thestreets forWhatELLEWears’
1010‘I’veknownRosie sinceshewasateenager.She’svery tall’
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This month, I celebrate a decade in the hot seatat ELLE. It’s been the most exhilarating andexciting 10 years of my career. I wish I couldremember all the remarkable things that havehappened under my editorship but, sadly,I can’t (this is partly due to a combination of
too many cocktails and too much coffee). But I do havea collection of thoughts on what it’s been like to work withthe best people on the best fashion magazine in the world.
‘SOMETIMES I’VEBELIEVEDASMANYASSIX IMPOSSIBLETHINGSBEFOREBREAKFAST’So said the White Queen to Alice inThroughTheLooking-Glass. It’s myfavourite literaryquote (and a delightful waytostart theday).EveryonesaiditwasimpossiblewhenweaskedJohnGallianotosprayreversegraffitiacrossLondonin the dead of night during Fashion Week to celebrate theELLE’s 25th birthday, but it happened. No one believed itwhen we asked musician Pete Doherty to illustrate theOctober 2009 fashion pages, but we did – and we wonawards for the beautiful section he created. Even IbrieflythoughtitwouldbeimpossibletoputLondonMayorBorisJohnson on a special cover to mark the 25th anniversaryof LFW. But that happened, too. Karl Lagerfelddidagreeto edit an issue (page by page) and Donatella Versace didcome into ELLE HQ (with her bodyguards) to do an editin the fashion cupboard (we had to buy a Tiffany ashtrayespecially for her). I took Rupert Everett to interview herinMilanthefollowingweek.Sobelievingintheimpossibleis actually quite practical, if you want my advice.
NEVERMEETYOURHEROESWhen you reach a position of notability, it sometimesbrings the dreams on your horizon within your reach.This is not always a good thing. I was more nervous aboutmeeting Patti Smith than anyone else I have met in my30-year career in magazines and newspapers. What wouldwe talk about, what amazing conversations would wehave? She told me I had ‘nice hair’. I said: ‘Thank you.’That was it. I wish it had never happened.
The only exception to this rule has been Mr Tom Ford.But then, in my world, he is everyone’s hero. He alwayssays the right thing, and we love him for it.
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ELLE’sRebrandingFeminismdebate inNovember 2013
‘Youdon’thave tobeanti-femininetobea feminist, doyou?’
THINGSDONTHAVETOCHANGETHEWORLDTOBE IMPORTANTWhat you wear, your hairstyle, your make-up: if it is important toyou, then it is important. To be confident and comfortable withyour own image is so powerful. When Louise Wedderburn, whosuffers from a debilitating autoimmune condition, visited ELLEin 2012 for a documentary about her daily battle to live a normallife, we were blown away by her positive attitude – but, more thanthat, it was fashion and beauty’s power to change her world thatstruckusasamazing.Herloveofclothesandmake-upwasperhapsthemostempoweringthinginherdifficult life.Iwasproudtoofferher the chance to realise her dream of coming to ELLE. Whenpeople(mostlymen)denigratethepoweroffashion,I thinkofthepositive impact it has on women like Louise. But it makes adifferenceineverywoman’s lifeandyouhavenoneedtoapologiseforthat.Youdon’thavetobeanti-femininetobeafeminist,doyou?
WHATWOULDMADONNADO?I was a teenager in the 1980s. She’s my hero – she personallysigned my 40th birthday card, which is framed on a wall at home,alongside a picture of Courtney Love hugging me tightly (right).If in doubt when it comes to making a tough decision, I havealways asked myself the above question.
‘Should I put Miley Cyrus on ELLE’s cover before anyone really
knows her name, because I have a gut instinct she’ll be huge insix months? What would Madonna do?’ So, we shot Miley’s firstUK fashion magazine cover and the rest, as they say, is history.We like making history at ELLE.
We’re the first integrated, hot-desking fashion magazine.Idon’thaveanofficeandweworkaroundaglass-enclosedFashionCupboard. This 360° way of working means Team ELLE isinnovative in a way no other luxury fashion magazine is. I like tothink it’s what Madonna would do if she were Editor-in-Chief(althoughshe’dprobablydoitinthigh-highleatherbootsandcarrya whip. I’m mostly in my running gear or McQueen shirt dress).
‘STAYHUNGRY,STAYFOOLISH’ (ASSTEVE JOBSONCESAID)We eat a lot at ELLE. I even have a Krispy Kreme Gold Card, sodeep is my love of doughnuts. And I often recite the above quotewhen people ask me how I’ve stayed in the job so long. Never stopbelieving that big thinking is possible. I suggest all sorts of never-been-done-before ideas every day (which my boss, GroupPublishing Director Meribeth Parker, cleverly filters). Some ofthem are extremely foolish. Some are great.
…ANDFINALLYI wore jeans on my first day at ELLE. I had laid out designerpieces the night before, but I decided to just be me. Now, after adecade of editing the world’s biggest-selling fashion magazine,I believe the most important thing you can be is yourself. I didn’tbecome an editor to get a front-row seat at Fashion Week, meetfamous people or collect bags and shoes. None of the successfuleditors I count as friends, or the incredible editors I’m inspiredby, went into magazines for those reasons.
The question I’m most asked is: ‘How do I become an editor?’Would-be editors who chase that lifestyle, in my experience,fail to achieve their dream. A good editor lusts after just onething: to make the best magazine possible every month.A magazine and website their readers love and look forward to.I really hope that’s what I’ve spent 10 years doing and what Iwill continue to do, because I’ve enjoyed every stylish minuteof it. Even the time we lost a cover star in an underwear storewhen her pet monkey escaped… ●
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Itwasprobablysomewherearoundthe words ‘breast reduction’ that youguessed this was not Piers Morgantalking about himself. Or maybe youdidn’t? 2006 was a long time ago; themen’sbeautyindustryhassurgedforthand I expect many of them do have‘breast reductions’ these days.
But Piers was quoting a femalefriendwhohadmovedtoAmerica.Thetwo of them were laughing about theridiculousamountofself-maintenancethat is considered vital by Americanwomen, back in the days before a listlike this would be familiar to Brits too.
It’s thekindoflistIfinddepressing.My heart lifted briefly at the idea of a‘weekly blow-out’, until I realised thatin the States this would mean a blow-dry rather than a huge roast dinnerwith trifle to follow.
But what depresses me isn’t thetreatments themselves. I’m grateful toliveinaworldwhereourpresentabilityis not reliant on God’s generosityalone. Looking good is a boost to self-esteem, and self-esteem is an aid toprofessionalsuccessaswellaspersonaland romantic wellbeing. I personallydraw the line at vein-zapping, dentalveneers and breast reductions, if onlyforreasonsofsqueamishness–butI’minarguablyhappierfortheexistenceofblow-dries, waxing and manicures.
The depressing part, for me, arethe words ‘weekly’ and ‘monthly’.It’s the regular routine I can’t manage.What intimidates me is the idea
of running a beauty schedule thesame way our grandmothers ran ahousehold: boil wash and mangle onMondays;chimneysanddoorstepsonTuesdays; making soups, stews andjam on Wednesdays…
I’ll have a manicure or a lash tint,or go shopping for new shoes, onexactly the same schedule as I wouldmake jam or scrub the doorstep:randomly, every once in a while, whenthe thought occurs to me.
Usually,it’samomentofinspirationfromanotherwoman.Afriendwill look
amazing with highlights and I’ll wantthem.AglimpseofJoanfromMadMenwillsendmescurryingtolookforsuper-fitted 1960s dresses. An advert in amagazine will fill me with a suddenyearning to paint my nails mint greenand wear three necklaces at once. Butinbetweenthosemoments,I’llhappilydo my own hair for weeks and weardifferent shades of black every day.
The word ‘happily’ is the key. Ourculture likes to divide women into twogroups: the fashion-obsessed whospend 100% of their time and moneyongrooming,ortheintellectual/frumpwhodoesn’tcareatall.That’sbecause,for dark reasons we may neverunderstand, our culture likes womentofeelguilty.Thisfalsedivisioncreatesa sense ofunavoidable guilt, either forcaringtoomuchornotcaringenough.
In depicting beauty and fashion asfull-time obsessions for ditzy girls, themainstream is able to imply that it’s
vainandtrivialtoderivepleasurefromthem at all. But why? One can’t deriveallone’spleasurefromworldpeaceandthe birth of babies; they don’t happenoftenenough.Lifeisshort,bumpyandfinite.Tostaychipper, it’svitaltoknowhowtofindjoyinsmallthingsalongtheway:anewlipstick,aP.G.Wodehousenovel,asunnyday,aperfectmushroomsoup, a great pair of sandals.
We tend to hear about beauty‘routines’ from models and actressesfor whom it’s a full-time job. Nobodymeans us to take it on as a grindingchoreourselves,anymorethanabookseditor expects us to read every newnovel: thesethingsareputoutthereasoptions on a buffet.
‘Maintenance’ is a dangerousword. I’m convinced that sporadicbeautifying is the best approach forensuring it remains a source of fun.
The only vital elements of a‘maintenance’ routine are to keep ourhair and teeth clean, our bodieshealthy, and put something on to keepthe chill out. Everything else is asprinkle of sugar – but I like sugar. I’ma perfectly bright and hard-workingwoman; I’ve got a degree and I readproper books; I also feel a surge ofexcitement from taking the lid off apot of creamy new moisturiser ortearing the tissue from a great newdress that’s just arrived in the post,and it really pisses me off if anyonethinks this dilutes my intellect.
A few years ago, I had a period ofterribledepressionafterabreak-up.Fora long time, I wore the same clothesevery day and rarely washed my hair.I didn’t care about myself or anythingelse. The first day I felt an instinctto get a blow-dry and buy somethingnew, and actively looked forward todoingthat,Iknewitwasthebeginningof the return of confidence, prideand hope. These things may be smallin themselves, but they add up tosomethingimportant.Neverapologisefor caringwhatyoulooklike; it’s abouttaking part in the world.
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THEYMADETHISSHOP ITSee what Team ELLEare buying now. Go tofashioncupboard.elleuk.com
BEAUTY SCHOOLELLE’sLisaEldridge(p59)helpsyousurvive summer shine-free.Plus, watch all her how-to videos atelleuk.com/elle-tv. Then turn to p172for the secrets to a perfect DIY pedi,just in time for sandal season.
JULY2014
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From the editors to the interns, seewhat we wear to work every week.Visit elleuk.com/style/what-elle-wears and let Team ELLE showyou how to style the trends.
‘If youobeyall the rules,youmiss all the fun’
– KATHARINE HEPBURN
EMILIANAWARECKA‘Motivated, sensitive,friendly, spontaneousand curious’ are the fivewords 20-year-old Polishmodel Emilia woulduse to describe herself.She’s ‘obsessed with thelatest Arctic Monkeysalbum,AM’ and thehighlight of her career sofar has been ‘modellingin the [a/w 2011] Célinecampaign. My Célinewallet is my mosttreasured fashion item.’What does Emilia smelllike? ‘My signature scentis Gucci Guilty Black.’She models new-seasontailoring on p136.
#ELLEBookClub pick:Infernoby Dan Brown(Bantam Press)
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STEPHANIETHEOBALDStephanie is the authorof four novels. Themost recent,APartialIndulgence, is about art,sex, money and class.She is currently travellingthe US, researching anew book on fame.Stephanie confesses tobeing ‘an aspirationalhippy’ who lives by GoreVidal’s maxim: ‘Neverpass up the opportunityto have sex or appear ontelevision.’ Read herpiece on how women inNew York are reclaimingtheir orgasms on p180.
#ELLEBookClub pick:GoingDownWithJanisby Peggy Caserta(Dell Publishing)
JEFFHAHNJeff, 24, is a Swiss/Chinese photographerbased in London, whohas shot for HusseinChalayan, River Islandand Asos. Jeff stays fitwith ‘Muay Thai – I’mtraining to become ahuman weapon’. If hecould work with anyone,he’d choose ‘Chinesesupermodel Liu Wen’.See his work on p164.
#ELLEBookClub pick:NoOneBelongsHereMoreThanYoubyMirandaJuly(Canongate Books)
EMMAHEALEYThe best gift writerEmma has ever receivedwas ‘exactly the amountof money I needed for anMA in Creative Writingat UEA’ – left to her by hergrandmother when shedied in 2008. ‘It seemedlike fate.’ Emma’s spiritanimal is a sloth – ‘I liketo be up high, and tosleep a lot. My dream isto own a tree house witha hammock in it.’ Shedescribes herself as ‘shy,impatient, curious andcreative’ and her greatestachievement is writingElizabethIsMissing– ELLE Book Club’spick of the month.Find out more on p52.
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GEMINI22MAY – 21 JUNEYour month to: Ease backHappy birthday, Gemini.This is your month –friends will want to giveyou champagne andpresents. Let them.Note that with Mercuryin retrograde from the7th, what goes forwardswill soon go back. Avoidtaking on too manyresponsibilities. Slow andsteady should be yourmantra – rushing is likelyto lead to disaster, andyou’ll have to start allover again. GroundhogDay isn’t fun minusBill Murray.Date for your diary: 11thExpect strong emotionsand big revelations fromtoday until the 13th.
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T: The Saturnhe SFORECAST: ThF : TST: TheS ersistSist iStefanie Iris WeisseisW issand Sherene Schostakerene SchostIt’s your birthday, Gemini!
CANCER22 JUNE – 22 JULY
Your month to: DecompressJune is all about innercontemplation. Indulgeyourself, Cancer. Book a yogaretreat or a spa trip betweenthe 7th and 17th, or at leastmake sure you free up yourschedule – work shouldn’tdominate, so take control.Your body and mind willthank you: expect increasedproductivity next month.Date for your diary: 27thThe new moon is in yoursign, which is great – a cosmicbirthday of sorts…
LEO23 JULY – 23 AUGUST
Your month to: Seek and findHello there, you ridiculouslysociable creature. Near the fullmoon on the 13th, romance isyour buzzword – that weekendis all about pleasure. Don’t besurprised if you bump intoold friends; they’re due tomake a reappearance afterthe 17th. A contrasting waveof spirituality hits on the28th. You could comeover all monastic by theend of the month.Date for your diary: 6thIntense excitement is ontap. Stay cool.
VIRGO24 AUGUST – 23 SEPTEMBER
Your month to: Pace yourselfChances are, you’re focusedon an important career issueright about now. But the moreyou push, the harder it may beto reach your goals, especiallyafter the 7th. Give yourselfa new assignment; one with aslower pace. Some ambitionsmight have to be put on theback-burner until July, butthat’s OK – you want a perfectoutcome, don’t you?Date for your diary: 21stAs the summer solstice arrives,your social life lights up.
LIBRA24 SEPTEMBER – 23 OCTOBER
Your month to: Jet setTravel fever rules – so booka holiday. It’s time to exploreand there’s opportunityeverywhere, plus, potentially,a meeting with a (handsome)foreign stranger. Someone youmet on a previous trip couldresurface after the 17th. By themonth’s end, you’ll be back toobsessing about your career.Date for your diary: 18thYou’re incredibly charmingtoday. Make the most of it.
SCORPIO24 OCTOBER – 22 NOVEMBER
Your month to: Make outLet’s talk about sex: it’s the keyto change now, so tune intoyour desire. Lovers can leadyou down transformationalpaths – enjoy the trip. Butbeware the resurgence of oldflames after the 17th: even ifyou reconnect with a pastlover, a longer relationshipmay not be on the cards.Date for your diary: 25thYou’re likely to be spinningaround today. Don’t let upsand downs phase you.
SAGITTARIUS23 NOVEMBER – 22 DECEMBER
Your month to: ReflectPast relationships are on yourmind. If you do feel nostalgicfor an old love, consider whatdrove you apart. After the fullmoon in your sign on the 13th,you’ll be able to put theselessons to good use.Date for your diary: 30thIf you need to have it out withyour partner, do it after today.
CAPRICORN23 DECEMBER – 20 JANUARY
Your month to: Work throughIn early June, your agenda willbe so jam-packed, you may notknow where to begin. Don’tworry, the pace slows by the7th, so you’ll be able to pushback at least one project. Thenew moon on the 27th is awake-up call for relationships– tackle things head on.Date for your diary: 2ndYour libido is sky-high. Boom!
AQUARIUS21 JANUARY – 19 FEBRUARY
Your month to: Just do itGet ready to be bombardedwith romance, creativity andlust. You’ll be inundated withideas and potential partnersthis month. Whether youfocus on tracking down a newflame or handcrafting thank-you cards, seize the moment tosucceed. A collaboration witha lover isn’t out of the questionafter the 17th, but be wary ofmixing business and pleasure.Date for your diary: 20thYou may feel agitated – go fora run to calm your nerves.
PISCES20 FEBRUARY – 20MARCH
Your month to: Look insideHit rewind on romance fromthe 7th to the 17th – intenserelationship reflectionincoming. Don’t be surprisedby emotional outbursts; they’recathartic, if inconvenient.Renewal is possible near the27th. Make a love wish list – ifyou don’t ask, you won’t get.Date for your diary: 9thYour dreams are likely toget vivid. Keep a record.
ARIES21MARCH – 20 APRIL
Your month to: NestHome and family are theprevailing themes of thisemotional, big-hearted month.From the 7th, be mindful ofchildhood issues that stillaffect your relationships.Spend time with your familyand reallybe there – healingis possible near the 27th.Date for your diary: 14thA power struggle is likely.Loosen up and breathe.
TAURUS21 APRIL – 21MAY
Your month to: Let it all outThere’s something importantyou have to say this month,and you might feel like you’llexplode unless you shout it outloud. Do it: if you stifle youremotions, especially after the7th, you won’t feel good. Thekey is to carefully considerwhat you’re going to say first– refine it to perfection.Date for your diary: 8thToday could be deeplyintense, wildly sexy – or both.
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Anightwith theeditors
THE COVER-SHOOT PLAYLIST
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KeiraKnightley
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Catherine Wood isCurator, ContemporaryArt and Performance atTate Modern. Her roleinvolves meetings withartists, curators and
press, alongside research and writing.Her spare time is spent seeingexhibitions and performances andtravelling to biennials and festivals.
The first performance I organisedwas at Tate Britain in 2003, by MarkLeckey, titledBigBoxStatueAction.He played a sound system to a JacobEpstein sculpture: part serenade, partattack. It changed my understandingof what a museum could be.
I love David Hockney’s A BiggerSplash (1967). It was the inspirationfor the showABiggerSplash:PaintingAfterPerformance, which I curated in2012. Looking at it makes me happy.
I have true admiration for Aung SanSuu Kyi and Malala Yousafzai, whohave both fought for their politicalbeliefs in difficult circumstances.And the seven-year-old girl in mesecretly still loves Darcey Bussell.
‘Keep running in your own lane.’This was advice given to me by
WOMAN OF THE MONTH Maureen Paley, a gallerist, who gaveme my first job in the art world(answering the gallery door). It’s whatI’ve tried to do throughout my career.
Build a portfolio of ways of working– mix up being employed and doingfreelance projects, so that you haveflexibility. It keeps things interesting.
Thewardrobepiecethatmakesmefeelconfident ismynavyJaegerknit,whichhasaseahorseonit. Itwasagiftfrom myhusband,AlessandroRaho.Heisapainterandoftenbuysmegreatclotheswithpatternshecanpaint.
Don’t be someone who can’tdelegate. Don’t get comfortable withthe status quo. Do trust the artist.
‘At the still point of the turningworld… there the dance is.’ Thisquote from T. S. Eliot inspires me.
Keri Hilson’s version of Turn MySwag On is the most-played song onmy iPod.
The meaning of life? Being involvedin art has taught me that meaningis what we make.
ForinformationontheBMWTateLiveeventseries,visittate.org.uk/bmwtatelive
@TATEHEAR IT To listen to thesongs from the shoot,follow ELLEUK on Spotify
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Iwas like a little girl, I was soexcited,’ says Alexa Goddardof the full ELLE treatment shereceived on her first ever photoshoot. And that was despitebeing up on a roof. In London.In chilly mid-March. ‘I kept
saying to myself: “Think of thebeach!”’ The fast-rising star betterget used to the attention, if notthe cold, because she’s got thetalent, spark and smarts to rockether to the top.
Recording demos for a decade,it was Alexa’s YouTube channelthat won her a proper fan base: hercover of Adele’sSomeoneLikeYouhas been viewed nearly four milliontimes. Certainly, it must have beena first for Chicago rapper Soulja Boyto hear his trackTurnMySwagOntransformed into a melodic power
ballad showcasing a Mariah-esquevocal range – by a 25-year-old fromHampshire, no less. ‘Some peoplewere a bit surprised that I chose thattrack,’ laughs Goddard. ‘But why not?I love a challenge.’
She is also manic on Twitter: 25,000-plus tweets and rising, with constantfan dialogue, new music shout-outsand an endearingly bonkers personalcommentary. This excitement feedsinto her music, too – her bright, anthemicvocals are driven by pop beats, destinedto soundtrack beachside all-nighters.
The good news is that all of thishas worked – like a dream, in fact. JayBrown, president of Roc Nation, sawAlexa’s covers on YouTube and sent alink to Jay Z, who called him instantlyand said: ‘Go get her.’ Now signed to thelabel, which is also home to Rihannaand Rita Ora, Goddard’s first single,titledMarilyn (as in Monroe), willbe released at the end of July. A summerpacked with festival appearanceswill surely follow, plus more shoots.
‘I describe my own personal styleas Aaliyah meets The Spice Girlsmeets Brigitte Bardot,’ she says.An odd combination maybe but,like her unusual choice of coverversions, it just works.
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BESTIVALThe line-up:Outkast, BasementJaxx, Wild Beastsand Busta Rhymes.The low-down: Runby DJ Rob da Bankand wife Josie, theirknack for curatingan inspiring line-upsets Bestival apart.4-7September,RobinHillCountryPark,IsleofWight.Win it: Readerscan win one pairof weekend tickets.
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Susan Sarandon takes a road trip with a younger woman after a crime spree… sound familiar?The Thelma & Louise icon is back, playing grandmother to Melissa McCarthy’s Tammy, who flees her cheating
husband. But how does new film Tammy compare to the legendary movie? In cinemas 4 July
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The Wrong KnickersBryonyGordon(Headline)Anyone who has gothalfway through their 20s torealise that adulthood isn’tall they’d hoped will readthis memoir of a misspentyouth howling withrecognition and helplesslaughter. Eye-poppinglytruthful and unexpectedlytouching, this is the BridgetJones reboot we were after.
Shot Through the HeartMattCain(Pan)PreviouslyChannel4News’culture editor, Matt Cainis now the closest we haveto a home-turf JackieCollins. This debut is theshamelessly fabulous storyof Hollywood’s biggest starfalling for a Brit paparazzo,fromsomeonewho knowsLAinside out.
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The Secret PlaceTanaFrench(Hodder)The thriller of the year.A boy is murdered in aboarding school, and ayear later an anonymousgirl seems to know how. Agripping mystery for thosestill pining forGoneGirl.
The Art of Baking BlindSarahVaughan(Hodder)Deliciousholidayreading.A TV show resemblingTheGreatBritishBakeOff isthe backdrop to friendship,rivalry and exposed secrets,all gorgeously told.Carb-loading withoutthe calories.
Clothes, Clothes,Clothes. Music, Music,Music. Boys, Boys, BoysVivAlbertine(Faber)Salvation for those allergicto classic beach reads:a memoir of growing upas a punk in 1970s Britain.Both an engagingfeminist take onan iconic era andan illustrated look atthe fashions that theauthor embraced.
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DESPATCHES FROM THE DATING FRONTLINETHE UNDATEABLE FILES...
FROM: LISA REICH
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SUBJECT:NICHE DATING
I can’t stop thinking about him. Myperfect man, who couldn’t be moreunsuitable: he’s the father of one ofmy best, but most fragile, friends.
I’ve resisted, but he has persisted.I get why. He’s older, has less time towaste and has always been one ofthose men who gets what he wants.
Last week, he came to meet me inthe local pub, which I’m currently usingas an office while I redecorate mine(Rectory Red, to enhance creativity).He says he’s going to give up on mesoon because it’s killing him. He simplydoesn’t get why we can’t. He likes me alot. I like him a lot. We are both single.
‘You’re dying of thirst, right?’ hesays. ‘Literally, dying.’
‘Dying, got it.’‘Your throat is raw and you need
water more than you have neededanything in your life. More than… eventhat dress you’re looking at right nowon Net-A-Porter as I’m trying to havea serious conversation with you.’
‘Sorry. Shutting down.’‘Where was I? The thirst. It hurts.
You want to… die. And then someoneoffers you a cup of the crispest, coolestwater in the world ever. You won’t getanother opportunity to have this water.What are you going to do?’
‘Drink it?’‘You’d think so, wouldn’t you?
But that’s not what you do, Lisa. No.What you do…’
He’s getting angry now.‘…What you do is you take the cup
and pour the water on to the ground,then carry on moaning to anyone whowill listen, or indeed read, about yourterrible thirst.’ With this, he gathershis coat, stands up, shoots his cuffs(love how he does that) and walks outof the bar, and for good, I think.
I sit there for ages, just feelingnumb. I did the right thing. I did. Datingyour friend’s father is wrong. Pleaseagree with me, as I can’t help feelingI have, as he said, thrown somethingprecious away.
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GET INVOLVED This month’s ELLE Book Club pick is one of the most buzzed-about debutnovels of 2014: Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey (Viking), which we’re predicting will bethis year’s Gone Girl. Read our interview with the author at elleuk.com/bookclub, whereyou’ll also find a Book Club starter pack, plus your chance to win one of 10 signed copies.
This month’s ELLE Book Club pick isElizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
READ IT
RICHARDE.GRANTTheactorandperfumer,57,onthebooksthatshapedhislife
Love In The Time Of Cholera,Gabriel García MarquezIreadthisinmyearly20s;it’soneofthegreateststoriesofunrequited love. My father drankhimself todeathaftermymotherwentoffwithhisfriend,sotheideaofbeingunabletochoosewhoyouloveresonatedwithme.
The Orton Diaries,edited by John LahrDiariesaresoilluminating,youreallygetintoaperson’sheadatthemomentofwriting.ImadeaBBCdocumentaryaboutdiaristsandmetJoeOrton’ssister.Tohearherreadingfromherbrother’sdiariesconvincedmethataperson’struevoiceisfoundinajournal.
BOOKS TO LOOKFORWARD TOThe new reads thatmust go on your list
1.Carsick: John WatersHitchhikes Across Americaby John Waters (FarrarStraus Giroux), out nowCry-Baby director Waters’tales of hitchhiking – acelebration of the verystrangest of America.2.Upstairs At The Party byLinda Grant (Virago), out 3 JulySeventies-set universitynovel from the author of theMan Booker-nominated TheClothes On Their Backs andWe Had It So Good.3. The Bone Clocks byDavid Mitchell (Sceptre),out 2 SeptemberThe mastermind behindCloud Atlas is back withanother epic and fantasticalnovel of intersecting lives.4.Reservoir OAPs by JohnNiven (William Heinemann),out 11 SeptemberThe author of Kill Your Friendstakes on ageing, swingersand the credit crunch in hischaracteristically forthrightand funny style.5.Us by David Nicholls (Hodder& Stoughton), out 30 SeptemberAfter a long hiatus followingOne Day, Nicholls is backwith a tender novel aboutrelationships and whatmakes them work.
Perfume: The Story Of AMurderer, Patrick SüskindBecausemyfriendsknowaboutmyobsessionwithsmell,they’veall boughtmethisbook.I’vecreatedaperfume[JackEDP,£95for100ml,atLiberty],soinevitablytheythinkit’s theperfectpresentforme.
Breakfast With Lucian:A Portrait Of The Artist,Geordie GreigThisbookchroniclestheconversationsbetweenGreigandLucianFreudinthelastdecadeofFreud’s life.Theartistwasobsessiveandlivedbyhisownselfishrules.I’mtheoppositetohim;Iamalwaystryingtopleasepeople.
Noddy Goes To Toyland, Enid BlytonMyfatherwasDirectorofEducationin Swaziland,wherewegrewup,andhewantedmetoreadasearlyaspossible.NoddybookswerethefirstI loved–IhadalittlepedalcarandfeltmylifeimitatedNoddy’sashedrovethrough Toyland.
Collected Poems, Philip LarkinIfindLarkin’spoetryverynourishing.Hispoemsarebleakandrootedinreality,yetalsoveryfunny.Istartedwritingpoetrywhenmyparentsgotdivorced,andIwonacoupleofprizesatschool.Istillwrite,butit’sveryprivate–onlymywifereadsit.
‘Idesire thatwebebetterstrangers.’
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THE COLUMN
Iwork as a screenwriter. My rent, for the past five years, has beenpaid not from my books or columns, but from my screenplaysales, yet not one film has been made. My scripts have attractedthe best directors in the business – Richard Linklater, DavidYates, Joe Wright; visionaries with whom I’ve spent monthsand months refining worlds. And, for reasons as pedestrian asbudget issues, unlucky as dissolution of a studio or murkyas shady financiers, my words have yet to make it to the screen.
This is par for the course in Hollywood. What is not common isforoneofthesedoomedprojectsbebasedonyourownlife.
I wrote my memoir,YourVoice InMyHead, to honour a greatman and to break a kind of curse, if you can accept invoking themystical into the realm of manic depression. The slow flayingof my story, in its (failed) transition to the screen – the directorwho left, the studio that put it in turnaround, the producer whostopped returning calls, the independent financiers who, onthe film’s collapse in pre-production, failed to pay the crew – leftme feeling as I had all those years ago when I first trapped thebad feelings in the pages of the book. Nothing felt safe any more.
There’s a celebrity death tailored, because of our own privatedemons, to particularly unnerve each of us. Whether it’s PhilipSeymour Hoffman or Amy Winehouse, there’s the tabloidheadlines, there’s the family’s awful grief, and somewhere, in themiddle, there’s the trapdoor that could open upunder our own feet. Maybe some of us think if wewear very beautiful shoes, the trapdoor (like in aHansChristianAndersenfable)will fall in love withour perfect feet and allow us to stay spinning onearth. I came to this visual as I realised, fromIsabella Blow to Alexander McQueen to L’WrenScott, what a high correlation there is betweenfashionmavericksandsuicide;bothbeingfantasies.
When Scott died, the circumstances tapped intosomething I’ve been feeling a great deal followingthe collapse of my film. It is the sense that I am asuccessful failure. For all Scott’s private jets and island holidays,despite the A-list stars photographed in her beautiful work, despitebillboards with her image on, it wasn’t enough. I saved up to owntwo pieces of her eccentric-femme luxury, with their textures andtailoring. Maybe it was all that waiting, but they felt magical. Youdon’thaveto think she was a genius to agree she was one of a kind,thepointbeingthatallseriousartistsareoneofakind.Ifyoudon’twrite or paint or stitch the images you carry inside you, they willremain inside you. I can only imagine how painful it was for Scott
#GIRLINTERRUPTERInHollywood,eventhemostoutwardlysuccessfulcanbebeautifulfailures.
EmmaForrestcountsherselfasone
to have those ideas inside her and, perhaps because of businessmatters beyond her control, not be able to get them out of herelegant head. Working in Hollywood, you learn how many greatsuccessesareconsidered‘failures’.Manycelebritieswithcosmeticscontracts have them in lieu of the film jobs they really want. Manytalented beauties have been discounted by execs when Isuggested them for roles. You’d better believe true success comesfromfamily,friendsandlovebecause,byindustrystandards,eventheworthiestofusisnotworthy.
In the other world I inhabit – publishing – my friendPorochista Khakpour endured two years ofrejection for her novelTheLastIllusion, after havingwon awards and ‘It girl’ status with her debut, SonsAndOtherFlammableObjects. ‘The interesting thingfor me was when it felt like the book was failingme, it mirrored what I believed about myself – thatI was a failure,’ says Khakpour. ‘It took me growinginto a better self in the aftermath of those yearsto be able to accept and cherish success.’ The bookisfinallybeingpublished,toravereviews.
Scott’s style was incredibly specific – herreferences spanned the art of Gustav Klimt, the
films of Michelangelo Antonioni – and now she is gone, no oneelse is going to make what she made.Her death made me realisethat everything I write of any significance is a suicide letter ofsorts, which is to say that everything is an attempt to explainmyself and my world and my secrets, in case this is the end. But itnever is the end. It always passes. If every piece of writing Iattemptis, initsownway,asuicidenote, thenIhavetostayalive–forever, I guess, until it’s out of my hands – in order to keepwritingthem.
‘If you don’t writeor paint or stitchthe images youcarry inside you,they will remain
inside you’
Pud meetsPharrell Williams
Emma’s husbandBen and Pud
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THE WIDE PANTAcne is one of those conundrumsof a label. On the catwalk, it looksrather complex and fashiony but,underneath the jazzy stuff, it doesgreat basics. Exhibit A: theseblack wide-legged pants. Perfectcut. Perfect length. Just perfect.
THE OVERSIZED CARDIGANThere’s something about anoversized cardigan that feels soright for now. Styled over a shirtand jeans, it exudes effortlesscool. And who doesn’t want that?You’ve got the ultimate dressed-down but pulled-together look
Normcore, as you may have noticed,is a word that’s been bandiedaround a lot of late. For thoseof you that don’t know, broadlyspeaking, it’s a trend for, well…being normal. In fashion terms,that means buying and wearing
the things you really need. The basics therest of your wardrobe revolves around.The ‘Standard Bearers’, shall we say, orSBs for short. Pre-fall is always awashwith SB items. These collections makeupa huge chunk of most brands’ business,so it’s no surprise that there are massesof super-wearable classics on offer.
that, depending on your lineof work and the right shoes,could sort any number ofwardrobe dilemmas.
THE PEA COATWho doesn’t love a pea coat?That was a rhetorical question.But if you answered ‘me’, thenget outta here, you fashionheathen. Or, even better, allowAltuzarra to persuade youotherwise. This is the Ferrariof pea coats.
THE PARKAThe parka is big – no,huge –news for autumn/winter, somay I suggest you get in thereearly and nab one. If you alreadyhave, get another. This McQversion is just fabulous and,for want of a sexier word, it willbe one of the most useful itemsyou will ever own. And in aunreliable world, sometimesuseful is just what you need.
BacktonormalIt’s time to embrace ‘normcore’,saysELLE’s FashionDirector.Because everydaybasics areanythingbut ordinary
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Hot, humid days can play havoc withyour beauty regime – taking youfrom greasy to creasy, via heat rashand panda eyes. I remember sittingin the beautiful Place des Vosges inParis one August, working my waythrough 20-plus blotting papers…
and still looking like a greaseball. Luckily,cosmetics have moved on since that sadday, and the battle for longer-lastingformulas is being won. The key to make-upthat stays fresh is thin, well-blended layers.It can be tempting to pile on the product tocounteract skin issues, but applying a littleless of everything and blending for longeris the recipe for summer make-up success.
WATCH ITLisa creates a poolside holidaylook at elleuk.com/elle-tv
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EYESWhen things get hot, stick tothe basics. Waterproof pencilor gel with waterproof mascarais your safest bet. If you can’tlive without eyeshadow, usea smudge-proof primer first,like Nars Pro-Prime LightOptimizing Primer, £19.50, andfinish with a light, well-blendedlayer of powder shadow. For asimpler, one-product approach,try using a Mac Pro LongwearPaint Pot (7), £15, which willprime and colour the lids inone hit and stay put all day.
BLUSHGel stains are great in humidweather, and do what they say onthe tin. The Body Shop Lip AndCheek Stain, £10, also gives lips arosy flush – apply lip balm on topfor a lasting sheen. Waterproofformulas, like Makeup For EverHD Blush (6), £21.50, are afavourite of mine for realisticcolour. If you prefer powder,theBalm InStain CosmeticsLong-Wearing Powder StainingBlush, £18.50, is a good choice.
Summer sun: great for picnics, notfor beauty. LisaEldridge canhelp
FOUNDATIONGo as lightweight as you dare,and look for long-lastingformulas. Gel-based foundationswith a velvet finish, like ChanelPerfection Lumière Velvet (1),£33, and Lâncome Miracle Airde Teint (5), £29.50, reduce theamount of powder needed asthey already contain it, and keepskin looking fresh. For extracoverage, follow with thin layersof a durable concealer like RevlonColorStay Concealer (3), £6.99.
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shoes, £399, SandroFar right: Cotton-crepe
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Tod’s. Orange leather bag,£1,360, and red leatherbag, £1,110, both Gucci
True colour
Left: Viscose jumpsuit,£360, MaxMara.Faux-leather bag, £32,Accessorize. Model’s righthand: Gold and black onyxbracelet (worn throughout),£210, Monica Vinader.Model’s left hand: Steeland ceramic watch, £305,Thomas Sabo. Vermeil ring(on index finger), £120,Monica Vinader. Gold rings,£210 each, PandoraFar left: Viscose top,£19.99, Zara. Acetatetrousers, £355, Joseph.Leather sandals, £215,Karl Lagerfeld. Gold anddiamond necklace, £175,Astley Clarke. Leather bag,£315, Michael Michael Kors.Model’s left hand: Gold-plated ring, £41, Nowseen
Subtle use ofmonochromeis a good way tobalance a block-colour look
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There’s a reasonhighlightersare yellow
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and white enamel bracelet,and gold and green onyx
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sandals, £69, Dune.Leather bracelet, £345,
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Cotton shirt, £140,Peridot London. Silkdress, £385, Joseph.Leather sandals, £225,Whistles. Acetatesunglasses, £325, Prada.Leather bag, £95, Maje
Minimalistclothes+ elaborate extras=styleperfection
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as well as artists and designers. Ifyou’re on the front row or at Frieze,you won’t be far from a pair.
The frames begin life assketches by 51-year-old Wilkinson.‘I first wore glasses aged eight,’she says. ‘I remember customisingan NHS pair with sparkly nailpolish; years later, I designed anhomage to them in glitter acetate.’
At 15, Wilkinson’s optician inher hometown of Romford, Essex,gave her a job. She studied howto be a dispensing optician atuniversity in London, thenlanded her first job with GrahamCutler and Tony Gross’s fledglingcompany, where she’s been since.
In the early days, Wilkinsonwore the Monica Chong-designedcompany uniform – a pencil skirtand jacket – and that dressed-uplegacy has stayed with her. The ›
Above: A selection of clutchbags. Below: Pairs of glassesand photography booksfill Wilkinson’s flat
When you think of glamoroushangouts, your optician probablydoesn’t spring to mind. But in the1980s, Knightsbridge spectacle-maker Cutler And Gross was theepicentre of London cool. ‘AvaGardner lived nearby and wouldcome into our shop with her dog,Morgan. She had amazing starquality,’ recalls Design DirectorMarie Wilkinson, who’s beenwith the company for more than30 years. ‘And Grace Jones wouldarrive for a chat, looking fabulous.’
Today, the brand’s high-end,handmade glasses and sunglassesare worn by Giles Deacon (canyouimaginehimsansspectacles?),CherylColeandVictoriaBeckham,
The designer’swardrobe is filledwith dresses –‘they’re a wholeoutfit in one’
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Marie’s design inspiration: 1. V&A Furniture Gallery (vam.ac.uk) ‘I love the social history – the exhibits really show how people lived their daily lives.’
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Marie’s design inspiration: 2. Geffrye Museum (geffrye-museum.org.uk) ‘It’s basically a museum about living rooms. I’m inspired by interiors.’
One thing that’s conspicuouslyabsentistrousers–Wilkinsonownsjust one pair. There was one timethat she was forced into strides– when, on a whim, she learned tofly a plane, aged 30. ‘They wouldn’ttolerate skirts in the cockpit, soI wore trousers, an orange blazerand, of course, sunglasses.’
Beforeweleave,Wilkinsongiveshertipsforchoosingframes: ‘Don’tbuy them in a rush. You need totry on lots and narrow it down.And remember, they need to workwith your whole look, not just yourface, so find a full-length mirror.’If it worked for Ava Gardner andGrace Jones, it works for us. ●
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Another collaborator wasVictoria Beckham – accordingly,Wilkinson added a simpletangerine leather bag and a neatblack blouse by the designerto her wardrobe. She admiresBeckham’s attention to the busyreality of women’s lives – theblouse has a gold stud as a topbutton so you don’t have tothinkaboutwearinganecklace.
Wilkinson’s flat is aroundthe corner from the V&A, andresembles a museum itself: themodern furniture by JasperMorrison and Matthew Hilton,and somanychairs, including anextraordinary one by Tom Sachsthat has been fashioned froma shopping trolley. ‘I love chairs.Furniture design is similarto glasses: both are aboutform and function – makingsomething practical that looksas appealing as possible.’
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This summer’s key trendsare the trickiestwe’ve seen inalong time. SowegiveyouELLEMarket&Retail Editor
Harriet Stewart’smasterclass inhot-weather fashion
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SUMMER DRESSING
▪ THE SLIP DRESSHow to style it: The barely there slip dress was a defininglpiece of the Nineties, styled with velvet chokers and
lDr. Martens. Fast-forward 20 years, and underwear-as-
iouterwear is back. Its simplicity should make it a summer
ifail-safe, but spaghetti straps are hardly office-friendly.
pA long-sleeved T-shirt or body (American Apparel has a big
pselection of colours) are quick fixes to hide bra straps. For
pevening, a silk shirt has the same effect, while simple black
psandals keep it cool and minimal.
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are quickfixes tohidebra straps’
Polyester dress,£125, Whistles.Cotton top, £6.50,Next. Faux-leathersandals, £59.99,Zara. Jewellery(worn throughout),all Harriet’s own
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▪ THE MIDI SKIRTHow to style it: The midi skirt – frumpy, unflattering anddifficult to pull off, right? Wrong. Below-the-knee isn’timpossible – an oversized biker and trainers will steer thelook away from mumsy territory; or take your cue from Cosand wear yours with ugly sandals (by ‘ugly’, we meanScandi, minimal and thick-soled) and a slogan tee. For amore feminine look, heels will lengthen legs, while a tucked-in shirt will define your waist.
▪ SHEER PANELSHow to style it: Let’s be honest, we’ve not been dealt thebest hand when it comes to wearable looks this summer. Itmay seem celestial on the catwalk but, in practice, sheerfabrics throw up myriad challenges. The devil here is in thedetail – a sheer sleeve or a peekaboo panel is all you need tonod to the trend. Avoid anything that reveals too much, andkeep it modern with clean lines and sporty accessories. ›
Linen-mix skirt,£25.99, Zara
Silk shirt, £229,Sandro. Suedetrainers, £65,New Balance
Silk-mix shorts,5, Theyskens’
Th ory. Silk-mixt £69, Cos
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▪ PASTEL PIECESHow to style them: There are some things that you should notmix with pastels. For the record, they are: frills, lace, crochhetand embroidery (unless, of course, it’s Vuitton). Instead, lookoofor boxy shapes in fuss-free fabrics – a boyish silhouette is theheperfect antidote to saccharine shades. Tailoring is your friend:nget it right and you’ll look fresh, modern and sharp, not sicklyklsweet. If you’re worried about looking washed out, punctuateayour pastels with deeper shades – berry hues and navy workkparticularly well.
▪ THE SLIDEHow t style it:
dPossibly the most confusing of this season’s
key pieces, the pool slide is no longer just for a trip to the localdlido. T ese Nin ties favourites have been a stealth trend sincedesChristopher Kane s/s 2012 embellished offering and, thisdesseason t e humble p astic shoe has been reworked bydeseveryone from Topshop to Isabel Marant, in everything fromdessatin to ponyskin. Wear with wide, tailored trousers or turned-up denim – think chic daywear, not beachwear. ●
Leather ket,£179, Zara. Polyestertop, £39, Cos
5SUMMER TIPSEase yourself into the season
Take your cue from Birkenstock– the uglier the better when itcomes to sandals this summer.
Ditch the black.If ever therewas a seasonto embracecolour, this is it.Choose natural
fabrics – comfortis key to lookinggood in the heat.
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SEE IT • BUY ITShop the summer trends welove on the high street at elleuk.com/fashion/what-to-wear
Leather sandals,£390, Marni
‘Tailoringwill keepthe lookfresh,modern
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Hit-maker.Hat-wearer.Happiestmaninmusic.Screenwriter, author andELLEcolumnist
EmmaForrest touchesdownonplanetPharrell
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The Frye Company
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you need to be lighter? No. You have the ultimate gift:the present.EF: The Happy video comes, I think, from the sameplace that made street style explode – celebrating theperson on the street in all their quirkiness. Every timeI watch it, there’s someone my eye goes to and I makeup a little short story about them.PW: The jubilance, for me, came from the assortment.It was the idea that many people share the same exactsentiment. That’s what’s so touching to me. That’s whythatsongissuchagift.Yes, Iwroteitandproducedit,butit was bigger than me. You know what I’m saying? I wasused – I know I was used. I’m constantly telling people:‘Findsomethingthat you love todo.’ Maintainyour bills,butifyouhadtodothejobforfree…wouldyoudoit?And,if you can, do the third thing, which is finding a way to
alsoservehumanityby doingwhatyoulove.EF:WhenIfirstheardyousing, ‘Clapalongif you feel like a room without a roof ’, Iwent, ‘That is how happiness feels!’ Howdid you get to that line?PW: You know, imagine you just bought thishouse. You have some furniture in storagefrom your last place. You have new ideas,things you want to do. As soon as you walkin this room, do you know where you’regoing to put the bed? You know where you’renot going to put the bed. Writing music isthe same way – you just move things arounduntil it makes sense.EF:Itendtowritebooksaboutsadnessandtry to be very specific about how it feels,because the best thing is when readers say,‘You named this complex emotion for me.’
When you can verbalise feelings for people, it means alot to them.PW: Well, that’s because we are taught at a very youngage to ignore our hunches. But there’s so much informa-tion in a hunch. A hunch is just your body’snatural reac-tiontosomething that is veryreal. It sends all sorts ofdif-ferent informationthroughyourbodyandyoufeel it.Noonehastaughtyoutolistentothosevoices.So,whenyouconnect that to synaesthesia – for me, it’s colours andsound–thenwehave[something]veryreal. It’s3Dforus.EF: Over the last year, you’ve released three songs thatcould’vecomefromdifferentplanets:BlurredLines,GetLucky and Happy. Are you able to compartmentalise?PW: Your relationship with your mother is different toyour relationship with your husband, which is differentto your relationship with your best friend. Different toa super-close friend that you’ll never let go, regardlessof who’s in your life at that moment. However, you’re ›
Pharrell Williams arrives looking more elegantthan a man wearing jeans, a sweatshirt and thatoversized mountie hat should do, and infinitelyyounger than a man of 41. Taking a cue fromhis cool, laid-back presence, the whole roomexhales. As songwriter and producer, Pharrellhas made chart magic for, among others, GwenStefani, Kelis, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears and,
of course, in 2013, Robin Thicke and Daft Punk, whoseback-to-back hitsBlurredLinesandGetLuckybecame atriumvirate when Pharrell’s solo recordHappywent tonumber one worldwide, powered by one of the greatestvideos of all time. It spawned a million online tributesand an emotionalOprah interview that itself went viral.
Pharrell is the world’s biggest creator of pop hits, buthis interviews are like jazz: answers bebopping fromfeminism to lucid dreaming, Jane Fonda toGod. I haven’t agreed to interview any celeb-rity in eight years, but when you and yourone-year-old daughter are equally fascinat-ed by someone, you can’t decline (whenshe’s brought to the shoot at the end, he cor-rectly guesses her star sign while sheadmires his Chanel necklace).
When we connect on a topic, he says:‘Have we ever discussed this before?’ likehe’s a hypnotist and we’re on stage. We’reactually alone in the guest room of thephotographer’s Hollywood home – whichis also the location for our shoot – whileHelen, Pharrell’s equally catlike model wife,and mother to his five-year-old son Rocket,peruses the clothes racks set up in the gar-den. She seems to approve of the AlexanderMcQueen, Paul Smith and Burberry on offer, but he hasbrought six versions of his now-trademarkVivienneWest-woodheadgear, just incase.
Appropriately for one who so effortlessly straddlesmusic and fashion, Pharrell has synaesthesia (theneurological quirk where one sensory path crosses withanother, so musical notes have colour, or days of theweek specific smells). But he’ll tell you all about that…
Emma Forrest: You have been working for such a longtime, as have I. Do you have a conscious memory of thefirst time you were no longer the youngest in the room?It can be startling, especially for women. For me, ithappened around 27…Pharrell Williams: No I don’t, and it’s unfortunatewomen are made to think about things like that. Doyouneed tobetaller?Doyouneed tobemorevoluptuous?Do youneed to be thinner? Do youneed to be darker? Do
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Comme des Garçons and Mulberry]. Shetold me the history of how Vivienne dated[Sex Pistols manager] Malcolm McLaren,and [wearing the hat] was an ode to himand their relationship. I remembered[McLaren’s]BuffaloGals video, where hewears the hat. I actually wore it five yearsbefore I was photographed in it, it’s just thatno one was paying attention at the time.EF: I’ve interviewed Vivienne Westwoodand what I loved about her was, for some-one who was at the birth of punk, she wasall about the importance of etiquette. Shesaid:‘Goodmannersarethelavacrustthatkeeps us from floundering into hell.’ I wasadvised to get here early, because you’realways on time.PW: I wasn’t always that way. I took a lot of
years to understand the value of things and the value ofthe people that you work with. The value of your fanswho ultimately hold you high and lift you up. We’re justhang gliders, dude, and they are carrying us around. ●Pharrell’salbum,GIRL, isoutnow
able tobethesamepersoneverytime.Right?So, yes. But there is jubilance in all of thesongs, [something]Iwasmissinginmusic. Ijust wanted to feel good again. That’s whatI was trying to do.EF: In Blurred Lines, the line, ‘I know youwant it’, especially in the context of a videowith naked women, is problematic for me.It’s not a good message. Actually, it makesmewanttocry.PW:I’m happy to talk to you. And I’m happy to have metsomeone who’s affected by it. The song was about awoman who had bad thoughts but she’s good girl. That’swhy we kept saying, ‘But you’re a good girl,’ right? So, ‘Iknow you want it’, and what we’re going to do, is we’regoingtodanceaboutit.That’swhyattheveryend,itsays,‘Shake it round, get down, get up.’ The mosaic was of abeautiful, good woman – beautiful meaning thin to plussize, plus-plus size – knowing that they have desires andthere’sawaytochannelthosedesireswithoutgettingyour-self in trouble. And a woman directed that [video] treat-ment. That was a woman’s interpretation of that song,but no one was willing to see that. They just wanted to bemadbecausetheythoughtthattheintentiontherewastoberate or objectify. Sometimes you just gotta take a stepback and ask yourself, ‘What’s this person’s intention?’EF: Your first number one as a producer was BritneySpears’ I’m A Slave 4 U. That was around the time Brit-
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ChimamandaNgoziAdichie is a celebrated,award-winningwriter.
She’s just as serious abouther fashion, tooI
am 36 years old. During my mostrecent book tour, I wore, for the firsttime on a tour, clothes that made mehappy. My favourite outfit was a pairof Ankara-print shorts, a damask topand yellow high heels. Perhaps it isthe confidence that comes with beingolder, or the good fortune of being
published and read seriously – but I nolonger pretendnottocareaboutclothes.BecauseIdo care. I love embroidery andtexture. I love lace and full skirts. I loveblack, and I love colour. I love heels, andI love flats. I love shorts and maxi dress-es and feminine jackets with puffysleeves. I love shopping. I love my twowonderful tailors in Nigeria, who oftengive me suggestions and with whom Iexchange sketches. I admire well-dressed women, and often make a pointof telling them so. Just because. I dressthinking of what I like, what fits and
flatters, what puts me in a good mood.I dress to feel myself – an idea that is noless true for being a bit hackneyed.
I like to think of this as going back tomy roots. I grew up in a world where awoman’s seriousness was not incom-patible with an interest in appearance;if anything, an interest in appearancewas expected of women who wanted tobe taken seriously. My mother madehistory as the first female registrar atthe University of Nigeria at Nsukka,heading its administrative section; herspeeches at senate meetings werefamous for their eloquence and bril-liance. As a child, I loved watching herget dressed for Mass. She folded and ›P
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‘Mymotherdidn’t approveofmy sartorialchoices, butwhatmatteredwas thatImade an effort’
twisted and pinned her ichafu until itsat on her head like a large flower. Shewrapped her george – a heavy, beadedcloth, alive with embroidery, always inbrightreds,purplesorpinks–aroundherwaistintwolayers.Thefirst,longerpiecehitherankles,andthesecondformedanelegant tier just below her knees. Hersequined blouse glittered in the light.Hershoesalwaysmatchedherhandbag.Herlipsshonewithgloss.Asshemoved,so did the heady scent of Dior Poison. Iloved,too,thewayshedressedmeinpret-ty clothes – lacy socks pulled up to mycalves, my hair arranged in two puffybunny tails.
For work, she also wore colour: skirtsuits; feminine, swingy dresses beltedat the waist; heels. She was stylish, butshe was not unusual. Other middle-class Igbo women also invested in goldjewellery, in good shoes, in appearance.They searched for the best tailors tomake clothes for them and their chil-dren. If they were lucky enough to goabroad, they shopped mostly for clothesand shoes. They spoke of grooming inalmost moral terms. The rare womanwho did not appear well dressed and
well lotioned was frowned upon, asthough her appearance was a charac-ter failing. ‘She doesn’t look like a per-son,’ my mother would say.
As a teenager, I dressed in slightlyunconventional ways thatmade me feel like myself:I once wore my brother’stie,knottedlikeaman’s, toaparty,muchtomyfriends’amusement.Isearchedmymother’strunksforcrochettops from the 1970s. I tookapairofoldjeanstoaseam-stress, who turned theminto a miniskirt. For my 17th birthday,I designed a halter maxi dress with asweetheartneckline, lowattheback,thecollar lined with plastic pearls. My tai-lor, a gentle man sitting at his marketstall, looked baffled as I explained it tohim. My mother didn’t always approveofmysartorialchoices,andperhapsdidnot understand them, but what mat-tered to her was that I made an effort.Ours was a relatively privileged life, butto pay attention to appearance – and tolook as though one did – was a trait thatcut across class in Nigeria.
When I left home to attend universityin the US, the insistence on casualnessofdressalarmedme.Iwasusedtoacasu-alness with care – ironed T-shirts, jeansalteredforthebestfit–butitseemedthatthese students got out of bed and wentstraight to class in their pyjamas. Sum-mershortsweresoshorttheyseemedlikeunderwear, and how, I wondered, couldpeople wear flip-flops to school?
Still, I quickly realised that outfits ImighthavecasuallywornonaNigerianuniversity campus would be impossi-ble now. I made slight amendments toaccommodate my new American life.A lover of dresses and skirts, I began towear more jeans. But I could not wearthe American college uniform of jeansand a T-shirt, because it felt wrong forme. Instead, I wore blouses and shirtsand spent happy Saturday afternoonsin discount stores, trying on tops. Iwalked more often in the US, so I worefewer heels, but always made sure myflats were feminine. I refused to weartrainers outside a gym. Once, an Amer-ican friend told me: ‘You’re over-dressed.’ In my short-sleeved top, cot-ton trousers and wedge sandals, I sawher point, especially for an undergrad-uate class. But I was not uncomfortable.
My writing life changed that. Shortstories I had been workingon for years were receivingnice,handwrittenrejectionnotes.Thiswasprogressofsorts, from the earlieranonymous form rejec-tions.Once,ataworkshop,I sat with other unpub-lished writers, silentlynursing our hopes and
watchingthefaculty–publishedwriterswhoseemedtofloatintheiraccomplish-ment.Afellowaspiringwritersaidofonefaculty member: ‘Look at that dress andmake-up! You can’t take her seriously.’I thought the woman looked attractive,and I admired the grace with which ›
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she walked in her heels. But I foundmyself agreeing. No, indeed, one couldnot take this author of three novels seri-ously, because she wore a pretty dressand two shades of eyeshadow.
I learned a lesson about Western cul-ture: women who wanted to be takenseriouslyweresupposedtosubstantiatetheir seriousness with an indifferencetoappearance.Forseriouswomenwrit-ersinparticular, itwasbetternottodresswell at all and, if you did, it was best topretend that you hadn’t put muchthought into it. If you spoke of fashion,ithadtobewithanapologyortheslight-est of sneers. The further your choiceswere from the mainstream, the better.Youeitherworeonlyvintage,onlyblack,only clothes that didn’t fit too well orclothes that were nondescript. The solecircumstanceunderwhichcaringaboutclothes was acceptable was when mak-ing a statement, creating an image ofsome sort to be edgy, eclectic, counter-culture.Itcouldnotmerelybeabouttak-ing pleasure in clothes.
Then a good publisher bought mynovel. I was 26 years old and eager to betaken seriously. And so began my yearsof pretence. I hid my high heels. I toldmyself that orange, though flattering tomy skin tone, was too loud. That largeearrings were too much. Iwore clothes I would usu-allyconsideruninteresting– nothing too bright, toofitted or too unusual. Imade choices thinkingonly: ‘How should a seri-ous woman writer be?’ Ididn’t want to look as ifI tried too hard, because Iwas worried about being dismissed asfrivolous. I also wanted to look older.Young and female seemed, to me, a badcombination for being taken seriously.
Once, inafleetingphaseofboldness,I took a pair of high heels to a literaryevent. But, in the end, I left them in my
suitcase and wore flats instead, eventhough they were my travel shoes andmademefeelungainly.Iwantedtowearthe heels, and would have felt comfort-ableinthem,butItoldmyself thataseri-ous woman writer was not supposed to
wear heels. An old friendsaid: ‘Wear what you wantto; it’s your work that mat-ters.’ But he was a man,andIthoughtthatwaseasyfor him to say. Men didnot have to worry aboutwhat their clothes saidabout their ability. Mendidnotfeel,asIsometimes
did while dressing up, that they had toplaya role, becomewhatthey imaginedthe world expected. Men may wonderwhat a Serious Male Writer should say,write or think; but they did not have toworry about how a Serious Male Writershould dress. Of course, my friend wasright: it was my work that mattered.Intellectually, Iagreedwithhim.Iwouldprobably have said something similarto someone else, something like: ‘Awoman should be able to wear whatev-ershewantswithoutworryingabouttheweightofassumptionsherclothesmight
bring.’ But it took years before I trulybegan not only to believe this, but alsoto live it.
My mother is now 71 years old. Shestill loves clothes. Our tastes, though,are very different. She wishes I weremore conventional. She recently lookedat me – on my way to a cocktail party inan Ankara-print jumpsuit, my Etsy-bought glass earrings, my kinky hairtucked with pins – and offered me hergold bracelet. ‘You need a little more,’she said. She would like to see me wear-ing long hair weaves and matching jew-ellery (in her world, better one real-goldset than 20 of what she calls ‘costume’;in her world, my kinky hair is ‘untidy’).She would like me to make my clothesfrom fashionable fabrics – as most peo-ple do – instead of my penchant for buy-ing fabrics that are not prestigious, butthat I find beautiful. She is gently puz-zled by my love of contrasting accesso-ries, my wearing a red dress with blueshoes. Still, I am my mother’s daugh-ter, and I invest in appearance. ●TheBaileysWomen’sPrizeforFiction2014-shortlistedAmericanahbyChimamandaNgoziAdichie(HarperCollins)isoutnow
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‘I didn’t want to lookas if I tried too hard,because Iwasworried aboutbeing dismissedas frivolous’
Right: On a booktour in 2013. Below:My parents in 2009
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Asurprising confession: before I even turnon my dictaphone, after a day spent ob-serving her in front of the camera, I likeKeira Knightley enormously. I didn’t ex-pect to like her so much. While I have ad-mired her – aesthetically and profession-
ally – I have never really warmed to her on screen or ininterviews, so I didn’t expect I would fall for her to suchan extent in real life.
It helps that she turns up for our cover shoot 15 min-utes early (average talent arrival time: 30 minutes late);that she is on her own (average entourage: three); thatshe is in and out of hair and make-up in just over anhour (average grooming time: 2 hours 45 mins); andthat we have two looks shot before lunch (average morn-ing shots: not even one). To wit: she is undemanding,easy-going and professional. This is something tocelebrate, believe me. One ELLE cover star showed upa whole day late.
Then there’s Keira’s personality. She’s funny: you don’ttypically find a whole shoot team, including the talent,howling with laughter over inappropriate celebritybehaviour on aeroplanes. She is self-deprecating: whenI comment that she’s one of the few actresseswho can ‘open’ a film, she remarks withdeadpan ease: ‘Not very well,’ and laughs.And, primarily, Keira is a girl’s girl. Girl-friends are ‘the f*cking best. Once you’ve gotthat family of women, generally speaking,it’s forever’. When discussing her friendshipswith both Benedict Cumberbatch – more ofwhom later – and his ex-girlfriend, she hasti-ly clarifies: ‘But they’re still close friends, soit’s fine.’ And she claims being dumped by agirl mate is much worse than being dumpedby a boy: ‘I swear, I still haven’t gotten overwhen that happened to me.’
And yet women – at least, those who have never mether – don’t warm to her, something Keira attributes, inpart, to her reaction to finding herself aged 18, after film-ingPiratesOfTheCaribbean, hounded by ‘around 30 guysshouting, “You’re a whore,” and sh*t like that, 24/7’. Keirawas a bookish, conformist girl (‘You get those amazinglyheadstrong teenagers – “I’ve got all the answers, the worldis wrong, I’m right” – but I was completely the opposite ofthat. Everything frightened me up until the age of 25’),and it made her cry, then erect a defensive wall signifi-cantly thicker than that of most other celebrities.
‘I know I can be very… I have an on/off switch and,when I’m doing publicity, I’m absolutely OK, but whenI’m not working and people come up to me, I’ve not gotthe head on to handle that,’ she admits. ‘I don’t give offa nice energy and that makes me feel awkward.’
She also believes that people can be pretty awkwardback. ‘I think it’s dreams and fantasies. People want you
to be a specific kind of person and if, in the flesh, you’renot, that can be tremendously disappointing. They canget quite angry, aggressive, be like: “Why are you here?”[when I’m] sitting in a park or cafe. The first time, you’relike: “Woah, what was that?” But then it makes sense;you’re meant to be living on cloud celebrity – of course,that doesn’t exist – and it can be quite annoying for peo-ple that you’re trespassing in their world. I don’t like be-ing places where people will notice that I’m an actressand they might find that either exciting or weird.’
As a result, she hasn’t always enjoyed interviewseither (‘It’s difficult not to feel completely defensive, thenyou act defensive, and people think, “Oh well, she’s thebitch I thought she was.” It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy’),but there’s no hint of wariness or bad energy today.
We are chatting over white wine in The Union Club,London’s most relaxed private members’ bar, andKeira, now 29, gives the appearance of a woman entirely,enviably, comfortable in her own skin. I really thinkthings have changed for her in the past couple of years,not only in her private life (she married Klaxons’ JamesRighton, 30, in May last year) but also professionally.Where once she tackled spiky, aloof characters in period
films like Atonement and The Duchess – aconscious choice, she jokes, because, ‘If youplay likeable parts, people think they cancome up to you on the street, and I don’tlike people coming up to me on the street’– this year, her roles are all contemporary,approachable and, well, likeable.
‘Actually, a friend of mine said of myhusband and me: “You’re a great couplebecause he makes people have a great timeand you make people cry.”’ She laughs. ‘AndI thought: “That’s so awful, maybe I need todo something a little bit more joyful.”’
‘Joyful’ kicked off in January, with Keiraplaying the ‘girlfriend role’ in action movie Jack Ryan:Shadow Recruit. Cathy was a smart, modern, Americanwoman and Keira was both believable and likeable. TheUS accent probably helped, and this autumn she’ll beplaying an American again, opposite cult actor SamRockwell, in the highly anticipated, critically laudedLag-gies. Next month, she can be seen in a truly charming,surprising, indie romcom, Begin Again. Keira holds herown as Greta, the dumped girlfriend of newly successfulsinger Dave (played by Maroon 5’s Adam Levine), whogoes on to record her own album with a drunk, divorced,recently fired A&R scout (Mark Ruffalo).
Keira sings in the film, which was agony for her, assinging in public is among her least-favourite pastimes.‘I hate karaoke. Like, I really, really hate it. I have to be sodrunk I’m nearly about to fall down before I sing in frontof anybody. It just terrifies me. But, also, among the peo-ple you go with, there will be somebody who secretly ›
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has an amazing voice, and you’re justlike, “F*ck off!”’ The last time she didkaraoke, she says, was with her friendand The Edge Of Love co-star SiennaMiller: ‘We sang a duet of IWillSurvive.’
So she plays a rock star’s girlfriendand, at the time of filming, Keira was arock star’s girlfriend. Keira bats thecomparison back. ‘In Begin Again, it’sabout success for the first time andwhat that does to a person,’ she says.‘Whereas, you know, James has beenin the band for over eight years andthey’ve won lots of awards and soldgod knows how many records. I’ve nev-er experienced being with somebodywho is [finding fame] and I shouldn’timagine that’s such fun.’
There’s a line in the movie whenGreta and Dave are in a meeting withhis record label, where she’s viewedwith commercial suspicion, and shesays: ‘Oh, I’m just tagging along.’Given that Keira is an Oscar-nominatedactress, she hasn’t been through thathumiliation while on the road withJames. ‘I mean, as far as tagging along,I do a bit, as far as it’s fun,’ she says. ‘Butno, no. I mean, I’m so careful not to bein the rooms I shouldn’t be in.’
Keira met James through a mutualfriend – ‘Not Alexa Chung [as reported],but a friend of ours called Tim.’ It wasnot an instant attraction, she says, butwhatever it was, it worked. She’s stillgiddy with happiness over her recentnuptials – repeatedly referring to her ‘hubby’ and talkingwithout reservation about the day itself. They had theirfirst dance to Paul McCartney’s Ram On; they had twoceremonies; for the first (the civil ceremony), she wore anold Chanel dress, because ‘every time I’ve worn thatdress, I’ve had a fantastic night, and if you’ve got a dresswhere you’ve always had a fantastic night, it’s worth hav-ing another fantastic night in it.’
Dress number two, not captured by the paps, wasmade for her by Valentino. ‘Would you like to see a pic-ture?’ she asks in manner of newlyweds the world over,and whips out her phone. It has long, layered lace skirtsand tiny pink flowers embroidered all over it. She wore it‘for the ceremony we had just for our friends, in a wood,because you have to have flowers on a dress in a wood.’ Inthe picture, Keira is laughing up at James, whose smile isso wide it looks like his face is going to split in half. Twohappy bridesmaids are hugging them.
I get the impression that the people who know Keira
love her a great deal. She has a ‘very small but very tightgroup of friends who’ve always been very protective’,many of whom aren’t in the industry. Benedict Cumber-batch, an old friend from the set of Atonement, famously‘joke’-punched a journalist who dissed Keira, the recol-lection of which still makes her grin.
‘When I saw him again, I said, “Did you punch a jour-nalist?” and he was like, “I f*cking did,”’ she says, withabsolute glee. ‘Everybody needs a friend like that.’ Sheacted opposite him again recently, in The ImitationGame, playing Joan Clarke, the friend and one-timefiancée of the Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing. It wasa joy, she says, not least because she didn’t have to snoghim (Turing was gay). ‘He’s my mate and urgh, urgh,urgh.’ Has she ever done a sex scene with a friend? ‘No,thank f*ck.’ Would she avoid a role if it required her to?‘I honestly think that I might, yeah.’
If Keira’s roles have moved from period to contempo-rary, from drama to romcom, she has not yet been
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offered that rite of passage for all beautiful actresses:playing ugly. She tells me she tried to ‘mess her face up’by distorting it during the S&M scenes in A DangerousMethod (for the record, co-star Michael Fassbenderwasn’t a friend before filming, though he is now: ‘I lovehim. He’s completely sensational and he makes every-one feel unbelievably at ease. Sienna Miller’s very simi-lar, a people person. She’s glorious’), but I have to say itdidn’t really work, because she is just so damnbeautiful.
She is also 100 times prettier in real lifethan on screen. Her off-camera smile iscute and goofy (if I sound like I fancy her abit, it’s because I do, and I’m straight). Inter-estingly, the fact that her big-screen beautyis different and unapproachable is no acci-dent. Apparently, certain roles are deliber-ately ‘beauty roles’ and require an actress ‘tobe stuck in a beauty lighting booth, a veryintense thing, which takes forever [and]means you can only really act in one posi-tion – and you have to keep your face in acertain place so that you’re beautiful.’AnnaKarenina, for instance, was a beau-
ty role – ‘That was essential, she’s a very vain creature’ –as was the Duchess of Devonshire in TheDuchess. Eliza-beth Bennet (Pride& Prejudice) wasn’t meant to be, butshe was in the booth a lot anyway, as ‘they ended up hav-ing to light me very specifically because of [my] acne.’
Her beauty is also the reason she’s been cast as theface of Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle fragrance for thepast seven years, as she certainly didn’t win Karl Lager-feld over with her fashion choices. Off-duty, Keira alwaysdresses down. ‘I didn’t know I was meeting him, and Iwas so jet-lagged I didn’t know what was going on. I wasin jeans and had acne – you know, the kind where noth-ing is going to cover it – so I put a hat on. I remembersomebody making a [negative] comment about it and Ijust thought’ – she whispers – ‘“I’m wearing a hat becauseI’ve got acne.”’ She has a real soft spot for Karl, who shefeels is ‘terribly impressed by the people who do make aneffort, and recognises those of us who just can’t.’ Keiraconsiders herself firmly in the ‘can’t’ category; thesedays, when she meets Karl, she’s often in dungarees.
Keira is relaxed about the future. She’s not planningon having children yet: ‘In a theoretical sense, I wantchildren, but I don’t want them now.’ When she doeshave them, she won’t be encouraging a teenage daughterto take up acting. ‘Oh, 100%, I’d absolutely tell her not to.I would 150 million trillion per cent be totally discourag-ing of [her] doing anything like that. I think you need tobe, actually, because if the kid is going to do that thenthey have to do it on their own. And I would say teenageyears should be done privately. You should be going outand getting unbelievably drunk, getting into ridiculoussituations, making mistakes. That’s what that time of
life is about and we should do that privately, one milliontrillion zillion per cent.’ She pauses, then adds: ‘Sayingthat, I don’t regret it – I wouldn’t do my life any differ-ently, but having lived through it… There was a very longtime when [interviewers] were all: “Well you’re a sh*tactress and you’re anorexic and people hate you,” which,for a teenager or somebody in their early 20s, is a verystrange thing.’
Professionally, Keira is keeping it easy. She is happy toappear in a Jack Ryan sequel if one getsmade, even if the girlfriend role is down-graded to a bit of fluff (‘That would be fine,’she whispers, jokingly); but equally, shewould love to act opposite Natalie Portmanor Scarlett Johansson. When we startdreaming up her fantasy film script, shesays the cast is ‘all f *cking girls’ because‘that’s an interesting dynamic already’, andit will be about ‘the horrendous issue of try-ing to have a baby when you can’t. I’ve seenfriends who’ve been through this, it seemslike one of the most dramatic things thatcan happen to half of the population – and,
actually, the other half as well because, my god, theunbelievable toll it takes on male partners – and thereare no good films about it.’
It bothers her that the film industry doesn’t reflectwomen’s lives enough. ‘There is an under-representationof our stories, just as there is an under-representation ofus in politics and in business and everywhere. That’swhat feminism is [to me] right now, the recognition thatwe are still not equal.’ Then, worried it appears she’s man-bashing, she adds: ‘I absolutely love guys, I love hangingaround them – well, not all of them, some of them ared*ckheads – but, you know, the ones that I love, I love. Butyou have to recognise that the playing field isn’t even yet– and it does have to be even. And you can still like clothes.’
You don’t really like clothes yourself though, do you?I ask. She laughs. ‘I don’t. I’m really not that fussed.’When she leaves (to meet her hubby for dinner), I feela bit sad. It’s been fun. ●BeginAgain is out 11 July
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Fromsleek separation to giantwaves, thisis themodernway towear loose texture
This is a suits-all look: itsmooths, adds volume,creates movement andframes your face. Plus, itembraces flyaways and evena little frizz. It’s really easy– start with a blow-dry, thencreate the big shapes.
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Best for: All hair types1. Blow-dry smoothwith a bristle brush, thensection off the top andstart tonging underneath.2. Take two-inch sectionsof hair, wrap around yourcurling tong, then releaseand pin the curl in placewith a kirby grip.3. Repeat all over, thenlet cool. Unpin, shake outand spray to hold.
Pre-styling productsAveda Be Curly Shampoo, £17,and Conditioner, £19 Containswheat protein that contractswhen dry, to help form curls.
Your styling toolGlamoriser by Richard WardProfessional Digital Auto-Curler,£74.99 A bigger barrel equalsbigger curls. This also rotatesmechanically, so no wrist-ache.
Your styling regimeCharles Worthington Volume& Bounce Thick & Full 3DBoosting Crème, £6.99 Givesa long-lasting bounce boost.
Aveda Be Curly Curl Controller,£19 Hard to beat for itscurl-taming effects.
John Frieda Frizz Ease GoCurlier Heat-Activated Spray,£6.99 Do not tong without usingheat protection first, for stylelongevity as much as anything.
Best for: Thick/frizzy hair1. Rough dry all over,then blow-dry straightwith a large barrel brush.2. Straighten largesections with irons, so it’snot too perfect. Allow tocool, then comb with yourfingers – no brushing!3. Spritz with a drystyling spray, thenmassage roots fromthe nape of your neck,around to your ears forroot lift and separation.
Pre-styling productsBumble and bumbleHairdresser’s Invisible OilShampoo, £23, and Conditioner,£25 Sulphate-free, these helppreserve condition and colour,avoid breakages and add shine.
Your styling toolCloud Nine The Original Iron,£129.95 Really effective andeasy to use, without relyingon overly hot plates.
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Shu Uemura Detail MasterDirectional Fixing Spray, £22You need serious hold for thistexture, or hair will puff out. Italso adds a soft sheen.
REF Get It Straight/241, £12.05Protects against heat andgives a smoother blow-dry.
Best for: Naturallystraight/thin hair1. If your hair isn’tstraight, blow-dry itsmooth first.2. Working in large,four-inch sections, tongthe mid-lengths of thehair, leaving the rootsand ends. Apply heat fortwo seconds only, so youdon’t get a tight curl.3. When cool, brushwith a paddle brush forshine and uniformity,then apply stylingproducts for separationand movement.
Pre-styling productsJohn Frieda Luxurious VolumeTouchably Full Shampoo andConditioner, £5.99 eachMaximize natural volumebefore you begin styling.
Your styling toolBaByliss Boutique DeepWaves, £49.99 The cheat’sway to uniform waves.Clamp two-inch sections,then brush the hellout of them for morenatural-looking results.
Your styling regimeShu Uemura Art Of HairTexture Wave Dry WorkableSpray, £22 Holds yourstyle in place whileadding natural movement.
Show Beauty CoutureCurl Enhancing Lotion,£35 A little shine will helpdefine the waves and sealthe ends.
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Pre-styling productsOjon Rare Blend Moisture-RichCleansing Conditioner, £18.50Skip the shampoo for this,and get less residue and lessstripping of the hair shaft.
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than foundations and give softer coverage with added skincare benefits. ELLE recommends YSL Beauty
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what type of concealer you use – cream, liquid or stick. If you have dry skin, you should use a liquid formula, such as
Clarins Instant Concealer, £21, while acne-prone skins should opt for non-comedogenic (non-pore-blocking) products,
such as Vichy Dermablend Ultra-Corrective Concealer Stick, £19. For normal skin types, I recommend using one
kin-irritating talc, parabens or mineral oils, such as Cover FX Cream Concealer, £23.7Targeted
ply concealer over blemishes using a small synthetic blending brush, like Hourglass No
or a precise finish. Buff your brush in small circles to warm up the concealer so it sinks i
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counteract dark circles. ELLE loves Bobbi Brown Tinted Eye Brightener, £19.50.9 Set your bas
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There are 11 naked women in aroom in a New York apartment.Ten of us are lying with our legsspread, a metal dildo in ourvagina, a purring vibrator onour clitoris and our left handstroking our breasts. ‘Your lefthand is your lover,’ a naked
85-year-old lady barks as she patrols theroom with her own massive vibrator,which sounds like a cement mixer andresembles an old-fashioned kitchendevice. I’ve accepted some unusual jour-
nalistic assignments in my time: I havetaken the Amazonian hallucinogenicayahuasca, attended a goddess workshopin Wales and a black mass in Paris. ButBetty Dodson’s masturbation masterclassis perhaps the oddest of them all.
Odd or not, could this be the next self-improvement class to come crashing outof Manhattan? Is the city that gave the
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advance. And demand is sohis year, the Bodysex Certifi-ramme was launched to trainrun their own workshopsUnited States, and the world.afarminKansasin1929,Betty
was a renegade of the second-wave femi-nistmovementofthe1960sand1970s.Shebelieved women would never be truly lib-erated until they were sexually liberated;so she held Bodysex workshops through-out the 1970s, in which women would talkabout their bodies and learn to mastur-bate, and secretly sent her self-publishedpamphlet, LiberatingMasturbation, torepressed housewives across America. In1986, her book, SexForOne, became aninstant, and international, hit. The work-shops, however, were put on the back-burner, as sheno longerhad time betweenwriting and personal appearances.
MoveoverSoulCycle, thenewmust-tryManhattanself-improvementclass is focusedpurelyonsexual
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in the company of other women isn’tunusual for me, but we’ve only been going30 seconds and Maria, a Spanish lawyer,has orgasmed already. This is followed bya cry from Ingrid, a vet from Norway, whobegins to climax with a soft, musicalmoaning as if she’s auditioning for anEmmanuellemovie. Do women reallymake that sound? Call me nosy, but partof the fascination of the workshop is learn-ing how other women masturbate.
Personally speaking, I have masturbat-ed since the age of nine. I got my educa-tion about my vulva (Betty hates ‘vagina’,as it refers to only part of a woman’s gen-itals and leaves out the clitoris) from theTampax leaflet. These days, I often takean afternoon break (I should explain, Iwork from home) to masturbate – energis-ing my body and getting rid of tension –and yet, right now, I’m feeling a little stagefright. Now that Spain and Norway (ie allthe other non-American women in theroom) have climaxed, in theory, I shouldbe up next. ‘Come on, London!’ Bettyjokes. ‘Fake it!’
Yesterday, day one of the two-day work-shop, wasn’t without its pressures either.I arrived late at Betty’s apartment toglimpse nine women of varying shapes,
Fast-forward to 2012, when a 39-year-old feminist lawyer, Carlin Ross, inter-viewed Betty for her blog. This sparkedan idea: modern women are, if anything,less connected to our sexuality and desireandmoremiredinbodyimageissuesthantheir mother’s generation, and areperhaps in dire need of Betty’s expertise.So Carlin relaunched the classes,modernised the business and now evenassists at the workshops, too.
‘Women are still struggling with posi-tive body image, orgasm and even the ideaof sisterhood,’ Carlin explains. Times mayhave changed, but it seems Betty’s mes-sage, and the need for it, hasn’t: we needto take control of our own orgasms. Mas-turbation is not a second-rate sexual activ-ity – it liberates women from what Bettysees as the yoke of romantic love. Not thatit necessarily has to be a solo performance– she also advocates couples masturbat-ing in front of each other, to teach yourpartner what you like. She is her own bestadvert, by the way: she looks amazing.
During a break in the workshop, shetells me: ‘Women were uninformed in the1970s, but today they’re misinformed,because of the internet.’ We are, she says,watching unrealistic porn, and it’s mak-ing us feel inadequate: ‘We do not teachourchildrenanythingaboutsexnow.Thatis a crime.’
BettyhashadmanyincarnationssinceshetoucheddownasanartstudentinNewYork in 1950. She married an advertisingdirector,whoshedivorcedoncesheworkedout he didn’t like sex. In the late 1960s, hersexual experimentation inspired her toconsider why women seemed to findorgasms so hard, while men seemed tohave no problem. Now, she identifies her-self as a ‘sex radical’ – ‘I’d consider havingsex with whoever turns me on’ – and has acouple of thirtysomething male lovers onthe go, though she jokes they’re a bit ‘old’forher. Actually, I’m not suresheis joking.
Meanwhile, back in class, I’m having alittle performance anxiety down here onthe carpet. I’m bisexual, so sexual activity
us to comment on how we feel about ourbodies and our orgasms. A business con-sultant, Erica, 32, says she can only comeusing her vibrator, not with her boy-friend’s penis. She’s worried that she’s‘wired wrongly’. The 20-year-old says sheejaculates when she comes but she’s notsure if she has orgasms. ‘Sandra Bullock’,41,ayogateacher, isworriedthat hervulvamight be deformed. The common denom-inator is that we all think something isslightly wrong with our sexual parts.
This is sad, and makes me wonder whywe are still so screwed up about our bod-ies. While there is a fourth-wave feministmove towards openness around femalesexuality, does that extend to true confi-dence? SexAndTheCity, with its talk ofG spots and female ejaculation, kickedfemale sexual pleasure into the collectiveconsiousness. Yet the protagonists hadto be dressed up in Manolos in order tofeel hot. Lena Dunham’sGirls is on thezeitgeist with Marnie and her series-onemasturbation scene, but the charactersstill strike me as neurotic and not partic-ularly in love with their bodies. CaitlinMoran’sHowToBeAWomanmight havebrought menstruation and self-pleasureinto the open, but it was done in that Brit-ish, nudge-nudge way that suggests we’restill deeply nervous about it all.
No time for suchmusings now,though,as Betty announces it’s time for ‘GenitalShow And Tell’, quipping that we’dbetter pay attention. ‘Look carefully now– when was the last time you saw an85-year-old snatch?’ Playwright EveEnsler took Betty’s Show And Tell idea –we all sit with a hand mirror and a lampfor easier viewing – and used it in herVagi-naMonologues show, albeit in a blanderform. Betty is in no way bland as we watchher spread her legs before us. We start offby doing a vulva massage, which,she says,is ‘like a ballet’ only with almond oil. (Sheis scornful of expensive lubricants.Throughout the weekend, Betty saysthings like: ‘I went through the sexualrevolution using almond oil,’ which ›
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sizes and ages (from 20 to 48, and mostlycorporate professionals) sitting naked,chatting in the next room, like a nudistTupperware party. There’s no offer ofa dressing room, so I just strip in the hall-way and go into the main room, which islined with glass dildos and Betty’s draw-ings of couples pleasuring each other.We sit in a circle (Betty says that we arere-enacting an ancient ritual of womensitting together, sharing experiences) andit does feel oddly moving, although I notethat some of the women – ranging froma Rubenesque 20-year-old student toMaria, sitting with her legs confidentlysplayed, to a Sandra Bullock lookalike –are taking sneaky peeks at each other’sbreasts and bikini lines. I curse myself formy shoddy shave job.
After an opening exercise, where Bettyasks us to put our fingers up our nostrilsslowly to demonstrate how gradually allpenetration should take place, she asks
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frantic feeling,like I need toshop.But nowI feel like I haveeverythingI need’
makes me feel as though we might be inthe 1960s and Janis Joplin isgoingtowalkthrough the door at any minute.)
At one point, Betty tells me to stopfrowning. But I’m not frowning, I’m expe-riencing a feeling of wonder. As I look atthe variety of vulvas that pass before themirrors, it strikes me that this is a mas-sively complex area, and one that, evenas someone who sleeps with otherwomen, I’ve never studied in great detail.Or, actually, even given much thought to.Betty quips that the male sexual area is aPenny Farthing (‘It’s just a couple of tes-ticles and a tube!’) compared to the Lam-borghinis that are women’s bits. Whenthe 20-year-old sits in front of the mirror,we see that she has a huge clitoris. ‘Woah!
That’s big, girlfriend!’ says Betty. Whenit’s my turn, I’m surprised that I don’t feeltoo self-conscious. I am told I have heart-shaped inner lips (inner lips are the bigissue when you get into vulva-gazing).Betty asks me what I want to call ‘her’(everyone has to name their vulva). I drawa blank, so Betty offers ‘Pink’ because ofthe colour. I go for it because I’m keen toput my legs back together. When we havea drink at the end of the day, one womanin the group, a kindergarten teacherwho is also taking the Certification Pro-gramme, eulogises about the art of self-love – a ‘lifeline’ for her. ‘I like to take a longtime – 35 minutes.’ Like me, she prefershands to a vibrator (Betty believes womenshould carry a vibrator around with themat all times). ‘Masturbating’s not the hardpart,’ the teacher says. ‘It’s touching yourbody and loving it that’s the hard part forlots of women.’ Once more, I feel a twingeof sadness because, I think, it’s true.
Back at Betty’s the next day, ‘SandraBullock’ says she feels incredible. ‘I nor-mally wake up with this frantic feeling,like I need to shop. But now I feel likeI have everything I need.’ So much for the‘mindfulness’ we are all being told to prac-tice these days in order to live in themoment. The other ‘m’ word seems to beeven more effective. Betty calls overCarlin to demonstrate, slowly insertinga stainless steel barbell the size of a largecigar into her vagina as she breathesdeeply. Breathing teaches you to toleratehigher levels of bodily sensations, we aretold. Then Betty tells us to ‘start yourengines!’ and lies next to me with her hugevibrator (she says you need more forcewhen you get older). It is weird lying nextto a masturbating 85-year-old lady. ButBetty looks more like 50 than 85 – a pinkglow comes over her face.
I’m distracted from the octogenarian’secstasy by the sound of Spain and Nor-way coming. I start fishing around in myhead for some suitable fantasy, then sud-denly I feel a foot on mine – it belongs to‘Sandra Bullock’. I’m worried about beingthe bisexual at the party – I don’t think weare supposed to eroticise our classmates.Still, the sensation sends a rush of energythrough my body. I decide to cast thevibrator aside and go for manual stimu-lation. Suddenly, I can visualise the cleav-age of the cocktail waitress at the bar lastnight and that starts something off. ThenNorway starts to orgasm again (or is thatstill the noise from her first one?), and
I hear the kindergarten teacher on theother side of the room (I note with reliefthat she’s using the manual method, too),followed by groans from ‘Sandra Bullock’.It’s impossible not to get pulled into thewave of sexual energy in the room.
I come, and then I hear Betty say,‘You’re not done yet, honey!’ She takes thecement mixer, puts a condom on thehead, and I see it heading towards myvulva. I think I’m being electrocuted.Then I just go with it. I don’t hold mybreath or pull back and, suddenly, I don’tthink any more. Soon I’m in outer space,having some mad cosmic orgasm. I’maware of the fact that I’m writhing aroundon the floor making this moaning soundthat I don’t even recognise. But I’mbeyond caring. We all laugh uncontrolla-bly at the end of our orgasms – somethingthat rarely happens when I do it on myown. ‘Sandra Bullock’ announces, ‘It feelslike free drugs!’ Betty retorts, ‘You’re orgas-mic! This is what people don’t know. Thisis female sexuality. We’re endless.’
Wego home feeling 10 miles high.Andit lasts.IgetanemailfromEricatellingmethat her solo orgasms are ‘much moreempoweredthanpreviousattempts’.Asforme, I’ve been reminded how much morealive you feel when you’re connectedtoyourownsexualpower.Let’sbehonest:your local Virgin Active isn’t ready to hostmasturbation workshops just yet, but thepleasurepropagandistsofthefourthwaveare gaining ground, if the waiting lists forBetty’s workshops are anything to go by.
Of course, you can join in right now,minusthe£700fee,bymakingthetimeforasolo‘siesta’.Asforme,Icamehomeboast-ing to my friends that I’m multi-orgasmic–orrather, ‘seriallyorgasmic’,asBettycallsit. So only one question remains: shouldI get one of those cement mixers? ●ThenextBodysexworkshopwill takeplaceinNewYork, 20-21 September 2014.Go tododsonandross.comformore information
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I’m falling for my best male friend.He’s funny, sweet and handsome,we’ve known each other for over ayear and I’ve been his go-to personfor girl advice. How do I point outit’s me he’s looking for, withoutmaking it awkward between us?
DEARWHYDON’T YOU LOVEME?First thought: You’ve only knownhim for a year, which is hardly anytime at all. Cheer up – this is greatnews. Anything could happen!
Second thought: Why didn’tsomething happen within a weekor two of meeting?
Third thought: Given nothinghappened when you first met, hemay always see you as just a goodfriend. Men tend not to overanalyse,whereas women dissect every text,email and phone conversation withour 45 closest girlfriends, just incase we miss any vital clues. Menare more obvious, and if he wereinterested, he probably wouldhave made a move by now.
Here’s my fourth and finalthought: Tell him you’ve met TheOne, but are unsure if the feeling ismutual. Talk about your imaginarylove interest with passion andconviction and maybe, just maybe,you’ll see a flicker of jealousy creepacross his face, at which point,you’ll know if there’s any hope.He doesn’t need to know you weretalking abouthim, does he…?
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DEARMy best friend is pretty, tall, funny and bright.We’re both single and I love hanging out with her,but whenever I meet a man I like, she goes in for thekill with him. I wouldn’t mind as much if she endedup in a relationship with one, but instead theyare just a never-ending series of one-night stands.I can’t take much more of it. What should I do?
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I’m 25 and 3st overweight. I’vetried every diet to the point ofobsession – from juice fasts tocounting points and calories – butI never lose weight. Am I destinedto be miserable?
DEARDO IT, DARLING!We all crave bad stuff – alcohol, salt,sugar, saturated fats – and the morewe deny ourselves, the louder thenaughty things call our name (tellme I can’t have bread and I’ll eat anentire loaf). The spiral of abstinencethen bingeing is hard to break, butreducing calories to almost zero isn’ta long-term weight-loss solution.
Start slowly: eat food that willnourish your body; allow yourselflittle (healthy) treats; and exerciseif your doctor gives you the go-ahead.I find long walks, dancing andrunning help to eradicate myown negative thoughts, as well asunwanted pounds.
Also, slim and miserable arenotmutually exclusive. Most peoplehave to work at staying fit; some ofus have to work even harder at beinghappy – a state of mind many take forgranted. ‘Fit and happy’ may soundunattainable to you right now, but itisn’t. You can do it.
DEARMISS IN THE SHADOWSBehind that tall, funny, gorgeousexterior probably lies a woman withlow self-esteem – although I knowthis may be hard to believe, given theshow of confidence she’s putting on.‘A never-ending series of one-nightstands’ is a sure-fire way to avoidintimacy, but her ‘I’m fabulous,funny and I can f*ck whoever I fancy’bravado probably won’t last forever.
You haven’t said preciselywhenshe goes in for the kill, so I wonderwhether you’re actually makingit clear you fancy the guy before shethrows herself at him? When I wassingle, I’d smother my love interestsin sarcasm, which wasn’t exactly‘Hey, how about it?’ behaviour. So,next time you meet someone youlike, tell her. It will be interestingto see what she does.
Or, alternatively, you could bethe best friend she could ever wishfor and put your own issues aside.Ask her how she feels about herstring of one-night affairs, becauseher need for male attention couldhave deeper emotional meaning.She may be offended and you mayfall out, but if you say nothing, it’slikely you’ll fall out anyway. Friendsstick together through troubled timesand this friend could be in trouble.On the other hand, she might behaving the time of her life – in whichcase, you’ve got to decide how muchyou want her in yours.P
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As night falls in a remote cornerof Texas, a party is hotting up ina dusty backyard. Old-school soulmusic blares and a crowd of 30people are dancing away the remainsof Independence Day. No one makesa fuss but, in the middle of it all,Beyoncé and Solange are getting theirgroove on amid the grit and chickenpoop of this small desert town.
This is Marfa, and the TexanKnowles sisters have been herebefore, enjoying its peace andfriendliness. But, this time, they justhappen to be dancing in a backyard.
‘Beyoncé and Solange were herewith childhood friends,’ says musicianand Marfa resident Tavahn Ghazi.‘They asked where the party was andwe told them we were throwing one.They turned up and we had a dance-off until the sheriffs shut us down.’
The image of Beyoncé partying insuch insalubrious surroundings isglorious. So I wanted to know whatattracted her to this tiny Texan town…
> INTO THE DESERTDriving east from El Paso, I cruisethrough sun-bleached hills near theMexican border, where turkey vulturesspread their wings and coyotes roam.Then the land flattens and the roadruns alongside a railtrack, throughthe dusty desert sprouting with cacti.
A building appears in the distance– it’s Prada Marfa, artists Elmgreenand Dragset’s roadside installation. Itsinstantly recognisable monochromesignage and smart faux shopfront – soincongruous out here – have spawnedthousands of Instagram shots.
Described by the artists as ‘poparchitectural land art’, Prada Marfawas unveiled in 2005, kitted out withshoes and bags chosen by Miucciaherself. You can’t go inside, but youcanpose in front of it – even Beyoncéposted a picture of her ecstatic leapoutside this now-landmark installation.
> NO SLEEPY BACKWATERAfter short drive, I arrive in Marfaitself – a tiny town (population: 2,000)attracting global attention.
At first glance, Marfa doesn’tappear anything special. There’sone main street with a grand old townhall, intriguing shops selling quirkyfurnishings and art, the elegant 1930sEl Paisano Hotel, a couple of stylishrestaurants (Maiya’s and Cochinealstand out) and the much-praised FoodShark truck selling Middle Easternand Mexican-inspired delicacies.
The sights ofMarfa. Below left:boutique ownerSusannah Lipsey
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Take a closer look, and you’ll noticeall the galleries, and soon discover theconcentration of artists and musicianswho live here. The place is alive withart openings, book readings, live musicand film screenings. From 2-6 July, aninternational gathering of filmmakersand cinema buffs descends for theannual Marfa Film Festival – five daysof screenings, talks and events in thisnot-so-sleepy corner of Texas.
>THE CREATIVE PULL OF MARFAThe seeds of Marfa, as it is today, weresown in the 1970s, when New Yorkconceptual artist Donald Judd boughta house here. His vision was that artshould be created for a specific place,then left untouched. Eventuallypurchasing an entire 340-acre ex-army
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With work by important artistsaccumulating in Marfa, The ChinatiFoundation (chinati.org) was conceivedin 1986, giving a permanent space fortheworkofJuddandhiscontemporaries.You’ll need at least a day to see it all:Dan Flavin’s neon tubes in the darkex-barracks; John Wesley’s flat, graphicprints; Ilya Kabakov’s recreation of anabandoned Soviet school.
Judd wasn’t the first to spot Marfa’sartistic potential. In 1955, Rock Hudson,Elizabeth Taylor and James Deanarrived to shootGiant, the first of manymovies to be filmed here (includingThereWillBeBlood andNoCountryForOldMen). But it is Judd who is largelycredited with the renaissance of whatwas, at different times, a railroad waterstop, an army base and a cattle town.In his wake, artists have flocked hereto paint, sculpt, write and make music.Marfa’s edgy creative scene, dramaticscenery and amazing light have madeit a prime location for fashion shoots– and a must-visit for A-listers likeNatalie Portman, Robert Pattinsonand Kristen Stewart.
Galleries, restaurants, shops andmusic studios spring up in the blink ofan eye. In Marfa’s community radiostation, the walls are lined with postersof musicians who’ve played in the town,including Willie Nelson, Yeasayer, YoLa Tengo, Lyle Lovett and Bon Iver.‘There’s a certain prestige to playing inMarfa,’ says KRTS Marfa Public Radiohost Jessica Lutz. ‘This is a tinycommunity, but the world comes to you.’
It’s easy to see why US creatives ditchcity life for Marfa. Susannah Lipsey leftNew York to open an eclectic boutique,Freda, here, selling art, music, vintageornaments and jewellery. ‘I thoughtMarfa might be a cool spot to spendsix months, and it turned into sixyears,’ says Susannah. ‘Freda has beena labour of love and it’s continuing toevolve, just like the town it was born in.’
> KITSCH AMERICANAThere’s high art in Marfa, but there’salso flamboyant Americana. A smallbut impressive collection of foodtrucks rock up daily around town:notably Fat Lyle’s and Boyz2Men. ›
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On my second night, the latterholds an impromptu outdoor filmscreening, which I watch with abeer before buying grilled cheesesandwiches from a tiny wall hatch atthe Museum of Electronic Wonders& Late Night Grilled Cheese Parlour(001 432 729 1804) – a tiny dinerdecked out with vintage TVs anda working 1960s 8-track player.
Americana doesn’t get much moreretro than at El Cosmico, Marfa’sboutique camping site, which offersvintage trailers and luxury teepees.There’s a vintage car show when I’min town, so I hang out among the dustswirls and refurbished pick-ups eatingdeep-fried Brussels sprouts (tastierthan they sound). Stay here if youfancy outdoor hot-tub parties and the(slim) chance of being Beyoncé’strailer neighbour – she has stayedhere, and posted pictures to prove it.
If you like solid walls with yourkitsch, the Thunderbird Hotel is agood bet, with its swimming pooland 1950s architecture. The ElPaisano Hotel, however, is the realdeal. This is where Elizabeth TaylorandJamesDeanstayedwhileshootingGiant, and a room is dedicated to thefilm, displaying posters, newspaperclippings and other memorabilia.With its airy, elegantly tiled lobby,El Paisano is old-world charmingand evocative – easy to imagine asthe backdrop for the fashion shootsthat have taken place here.
> STILL COWBOY COUNTRYHaving a drink in the Lost HorseSaloon, I meet its rangy, eye-patch-wearing owner, Ty Mitchell. He’s aworking cowboy still, despite beinga fashion-shoot veteran himself.
In a way, Ty sums up what Marfais about. He’s happiest on the ranch,he says. Appearing in fashion spreadsis just something that happens, ahazard of living in Marfa. Likewise,Ty’s disdain for the artistic meritof Prada Marfa extends to shootingat its bulletproof glass with pistol.‘I mean, what the hell! You put aPrada store in the middle of thedesert around a bunch of cowboys– what do you expect?’
> THE MARFA LIGHTSI could spend all week in Marfa’s artgalleries, boutiques and bars, but I can’tleave without seeing the famed Marfalights – mysterious orbs that appear inthe desert just outside town, attributedto UFOs or, more likely, to atmosphericdistortions of car headlights. A fewmiles into the darkness is the viewingplatform where, surrounded by stars,I see them – dancing white globes justabove the horizon.
Looking out over the empty desertbeyond the lights, I’m struck again byjust how remarkable Marfa is – a townwhere music and art flourish amongthe wilderness, cowboys shoot at artinstallations and global superstars dancethrough the night in a backyard. ●
Where to stay
El Cosmico, 802 S HighlandAve; 001 877 822 1950;elcosmico.com. Trailersfrom £90, room only.
El Paisano Hotel, 207 NorthHighland Ave; 001 432 7293669; hotelpaisano.com.Doubles from £60, room only.
Thunderbird Hotel, 601W San Antonio; 001432 729 1984; thunderbirdmarfa.com. Doubles from£70, room only.
How to get there
American Airlines (aa.com)flies direct to Dallas fromLondon Heathrow, from£590 return. Take aninternal flight from Dallasto Midland (Odessa) or ElPaso (prices from £160) andrent a car – Holiday Autos(holidayautos.co.uk) offersone week from £125. It’sabout a three-hour drive toMarfa from either airport.
Where to eat and drink
Boyz2Men, 220 W SanAntonio; 001 432 729 4422
Cochineal, 107 W SanAntonio St; 001 432 7293300; cochinealmarfa.com
Fat Lyle’s, 719 S HighlandAve; 001 432 295 2377;facebook.com/fatlyles
Future Shark, 120 N HighlandAvenue; 001 432 729 4278;foodsharkmarfa.com
Lost Horse Saloon, 306E San Antonio; 001 432 7294499; losthorsesaloon.com
Maiya’s, 103 N HighlandSt; 001 432 729 4410;maiyasrestaurant.com
Planet Marfa, 200 S AbbottSt; 001 432 386 5099
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