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WELLNESS January 2018

S P EN CE R V ROO MA N . P RODUCE D BY W ES O LSO N FOR CON N ECT TH E D OTS. COV E R LOOK: SET D ESIGN, MARY H OWAR D. D ETAILS, SEE IN TH IS ISSUE.
ZOE G HE RT NE R. FAS HI ON E DI TOR : CA MI L LA NI C KE RSON . HA I R, JI MM Y PAU L FO R BUMBLE AND BUMBLE; MAKEUP, D ICK PAGE. SET D ESIGN,
A PLACE IN THE SUN
MODEL KIRSTY HUME (LEFT) IN LOUIS VUITTON AND HER DAUGHTER, VIOLET, IN PRADA.

14 with anywhere disorder, Gina of calm in self- 82 Cover Look


Masthead workouts and Rodriguez comes defense workouts. Game On Silver Surfer
a thirst for learning out swinging. Catherine Lacey Ditch the heels and Actress Lupita Nyong’o
20 new things. Alexis By Abby Aguirre joins the fight club try chic new athletic-
Editor’s Letter wears a Dior jumpsuit
Okeowo reports influenced sneakers and skirt. Pomellato
22 62 70 earring. Tacori rings.
Up Front 48 Second Chance The Pet Set 88 To get this look, try:
Good Vibrations An accident nearly In the self-care Sleep Walking Teint Idole Ultra
Katja Blichfeld Longwear Foundation
suffered for years How better to cost model Aya industry, pets are The most coveted
complement a well- Jones everything. welcome. Chloe luxury of all? A in 555 Suede CC,
from anxiety, until Teint Idole Ultra
a reckoning with balanced lifestyle After a yearlong Malle investigates proper night’s sleep
than with fun, recovery, she’s back the hype—and the Wear Camouflage
her identity finally Concealer in 510
made her whole easygoing fashion? on the catwalk. healing potential 90
By Leslie Camhi Strike a Pose Suede C, Color Design
56 76 5-Pan Eyeshadow
28 Spring is looking Palette in Sienna
V LIFE Losing Phil 64 Let’s Get lighter, stretchier, Sultry, Monsieur Big
Your insider top- Philip Seymour A Place in Physical and more no-fuss Marker, Monsieur Big
five guide to living Hoffman’s partner, the Sun Outdoor Voices than ever Mascara, Les Sourcils
well in 2018 Mimi O’Donnell, Kirsty Hume is taking over Définis in 06 Noir, and
talks to Adam has returned to the fitness- 96 L’Absolu Gloss in Nuit
39 Green about modeling, radiating apparel world. By Index & Joir. All by Lancôme.
Point of View the devastation a lit-from-within, Robert Sullivan Hit the road to the Hair, Vernon François
of addiction Earth Mother glow wild Southwest with for Vernon François;
40 80 all things romantic, makeup, Nick Barose
Move It! 60 68 Milking It nomadic—and for Lancôme.
Lupita Nyong’o, star Fighting Shape Punch Drunk Tamar Adler gorgeously mystic Photographed by
of Black Panther, Years after being In these volatile investigates the Mikael Jansson.
keeps life fresh, body diagnosed with an times, women are wide world 104 Fashion Editor:
free, and spirits light autoimmune finding a sense of alternamilks Last Look Tonne Goodman.

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Letter from the Editor
TOTAL REFRESH
LEFT: COVER STAR LUPITA NYONG’O IN A DOLCE
& GABBANA JUMPSUIT, PHOTOGRAPHED BY
MIKAEL JANSSON. BELOW, FROM LEFT: MODELS
ASHLEY GRAHAM (IN A BALMAIN DRESS)
AND DILONE (IN A PACO RABANNE TOP AND
SHORTS). PHOTOGRAPHED BY SEAN THOMAS.

Above & Beyond

FAS HI ON ED I TOR : JO RD E N BI CKHA M . HA I R, REC I N E; MA K EU P, JE N M YLES. P RO DUCED BY CLEVELAND J ONES FOR 360 PM. D ETAILS, SEE IN TH IS ISSUE.
WHEN WE FIRST STARTED WORKING ON THIS ISSUE Ashley has been a terrific role model for showing that
several months back, the idea was to shine a light on well- women don’t have to conform to some ridiculous standard
ness—to look at the many ways we’re now seeking health, of thinness to be beautiful or to have a career. Of course, that
calm, and an alignment between ourselves and the increas- hasn’t always been the case in the past, and Ashley has spo-
ingly fraught and pressured world we exist in today. (So fer- ken out about this in direct and straightforward terms. That
vent is the interest in the subject that, in the office, we started kind of honesty and transparency is, thankfully, becoming
to jokingly refer to wellness as the new religion!) And indeed: crucial to living our lives authentically, and for another shin-
You’ll find plenty of profiles of strong, independent women ing example of this I urge you all to read the remarkably
who are leading the charge to transform our lives, whether in moving essay that Mimi O’Donnell has written. Mimi was
the arenas of fitness, health, and activism, or with a particu- the partner of the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, and
larly personal sense of heroism. she narrates her love for a man who dearly loved her back
As the weeks progressed, though, that latter aspect took while he—and she—dealt with the addictions that would, in
on greater urgency as more and more women began to speak the end, claim his life.
out about the awful situations and harrowing experiences Lastly, our cover star, Lupita Nyong’o, whom I am
they had to endure because of the actions of men who used always thrilled to see in Vogue. Lupita may have become
power and position to subjugate and abuse them—physically, part of our Vogue world, but she is also most definitely of
mentally, and sexually. It soon became obvious that wellness the world: a global star who constantly shuns the obvious
is about far more than our desire for the experiential change trappings of fame, instead using it as a platform to high-
of meditation and a cool new exercise class—it’s part of a light her values and what’s fundamentally important to her.
sea-change moment for women, who are rising up to assert Returning to our wellness theme: Lupita was game to try
themselves and take charge of their lives. all of the new and unexpected places that one can exercise.
Fashion, the mainstay of what we do here, has not gone Yet in the end she—along with all the other women featured
unchanged by this, and that can only be a good thing. I’ve here—underscores that if one wants to truly find a sense of
written in the past about the despairing state of the runway wellness and confidence, it comes from that most expected
shows, which until recently featured an appalling lack of of places: oneself.
diversity. But things are changing. I’m delighted to see far
more women of color walking shows—at long last—and less
emphasis on the way-too-thin. Many of the best models are
refusing to be pawns in the fashion game but are instead find-
ing their voices and leading by example. I think of Adwoa
Aboah, Cameron Russell, Slick Woods, Paloma Elsesser,
and, of course, Ashley Graham.

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UpFront

LOST AND FOUND


THE AUTHOR,
PHOTOGRAPHED
BY BENJAMIN
VNUK, IN A
BOTTEGA VENETA
DRESS. EARRINGS
BY BALENCIAGA
AND BELADORA.
DETAILS, SEE IN
THIS ISSUE.

GIRL, INTERRUPTED
For years High Maintenance cocreator Katja Blichfeld suffered S IT T I N G S ED I TOR : T ESS HER BE RT. H A I R, TA K AS HI YUSA ; M A KEUP, A LLI E S MI T H.

from anxiety and mysterious physical ailments—until a reckoning


with her identity finally made her whole.

I
t was early 2009, President Obama was in the White up a television pilot about a grown man still living with his
House, and optimism was in the air. I’d just turned parents. Within months, we were sharing a Brooklyn apart-
30 and knew something good was about to happen to ment, living in a blissful cloud of pot smoke and domesticity.
me. At a barbecue in Los Angeles, where I was living We got married quickly. I adored his irreverent humor, and
and missing New York, I met a gregarious man in our creative synergy held my tendency toward anxiety at bay.
flip-flops and a seventies ski jacket, with a promise of I felt a sense of security with him, a sense of family—though
adventure in his eyes. Ben turned out to be an actor in town we were in no hurry for children. It was working together that
from the East Coast. We bonded over our love of sketch com- gave us joy and excitement. We made a couple of low-budget
edy and marijuana. A couple of nights later, we were sitting shorts, and one day, on a bike ride across the Williamsburg
on his friend’s porch, watching the night sky and dreaming Bridge, we came up with an idea for High Maintenance, a

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series about New Yorkers connected by a weed-delivery guy, to blow down and my dog would run away. Other nights,
played by Ben. I’d been working as a casting director and im- my thoughts would turn existential and I’d fixate on dark
mediately roped in friends as well as actors we’d seen perform notions and the idea of sin.
in plays and wanted to know better. I’ll never forget the rush I grew up in a suburb of Long Beach, California, a quiet
of hearing an actor speak the words I had written when we port town where The Queen Mary is docked. My parents
shot the first episode in a Brooklyn hotel room. moved there from Denmark in the 1970s for my father’s
Before long, critics were paying attention—even as our work at a shipping company. Our neighborhood was home
married life began to lose its footing. Ben and I were now to a hodgepodge of communities, from Orthodox Jews to
spending nearly all our waking hours together, and there Mexican immigrants. It was the evangelical Christians who
was an airlessness between us, a sense of codependency, recruited my lonely immigrant mother to join their Bible-
which brought strain. We started bickering, falling into study group. At age five I was speaking in tongues, and I
a loop of arguing and crying and making up. Then we’d was baptized in a backyard swimming pool. My parents
smoke pot to numb the pain and return to goofing around sent me to an evangelical school where we were taught that
and writing scripts. being nice is better than being honest, and being gay was a
Sometimes we would take camping trips and have a magi- transgression against God. When my favorite uncle came
cal time, only to find ourselves fighting again back home. Our out to my family, I sobbed, devastated that he was going to
coping mechanism was to treat our discord as fodder for the suffer an eternity in hell.
show. Everything is copy, as Nora Ephron said. We were hap- Meanwhile, my grade-school friends and I occasionally
piest on set, when we were creating together. made out on playdates. When my mother discovered us,
A couple of years into High Maintenance, when we had she’d scold me, but I didn’t think kissing made anyone gay.
signed our first script deal with a cable network and I should It was simply misbehavior, I thought, and became some-
have been celebrating, something inside thing of an expert at rationalizations—
me shut off. One day, I could barely get inventing stories to restore my calm.
out of bed and I couldn’t stop crying. I’ve I escaped my first Lying to ourselves is something we all
struggled with depression and anxiety all marriage and went on do—we tell ourselves that our job isn’t
my life, but this was different. Ben and my tedious, that one more glass of wine at
best friend, Russell, called a therapist and as ever, dating men the end of the night won’t hurt. Sur-
practically dragged me to her office. Be- whom I never loved rounded by messages that my desires
tween doses of Wellbutrin and my regular
sessions, I was able to function. And yet a
sleeping with, sleeping were wrong, I constructed blind spots
and prisms. “Self-deception remains
sense of dread lingered in the background with women I never the most difficult deception,” Joan Did-
of my thoughts like white noise. allowed myself to love ion once wrote in this magazine. “The
Around this time, Ben was becoming charms that work on others count for
something of a Brooklyn celebrity. When nothing in that devastatingly well-lit
we rode the subway or went out for dinner, people would ap- back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: No
proach him, and I stood off to the side. He was the face of our winning smiles will do here.” In my case, however, I found
professional partnership, while most of my work happened ways, over and over again, to fool myself. I never made it a
behind the scenes. Had I been in a healthier mind-set, his point to hold myself accountable.
recognition wouldn’t have bothered me. After all, establishing In junior high school, when one of my friends and I
Ben’s acting career was part of what we’d originally set out touched each other in the dark, I told myself I was just prac-
to do. Yet I started to feel invisible. One night I went out with ticing for a boyfriend. She and I kept carrying on, laughing
a filmmaker I’d met at a party. We talked about a potential until we lost our breath, staying up late watching videos from
collaboration over more drinks than I like to admit. It was Blockbuster. My sophomore year I took up with a boy, a
late when we left the bar, a cold spring night. Instead of going handsome water-polo player from my church youth group.
home, I followed her into her taxi, and for the first time in five I gave myself over to the relationship with no hesitation,
years, I found myself in bed with a woman. excited to be a normal teenage girl. The only thing that failed
to excite me was the sex.
I wish I could say my behavior surprised me. What was I didn’t tell anyone what we were doing, not even my
surprising, though, was that even though I cheated on my closest friends. At my school, “good” girls were the popular
husband with a woman, and even though my first sexual ones. Our homecoming queen was an honors student who
experiences were with girls, and even though I had had spent school breaks helping children in impoverished coun-
encounters with women in my 20s, I still considered the tries. I remained quiet and let my shame fester, eventually
episodes to be aberrations. I believed my indiscretion was manifesting as recurring stomach pain that no doctor could
a mistake and blamed too many margaritas. It was more diagnose. My mother accompanied me on endless appoint-
palatable to me that way. ments, where I was instructed to stay away from coffee and
You might say self-acceptance has never been my strong spicy food to temper the burning. This charade would go
suit. But struggling to feel comfortable with the natural on for nearly two decades. I became extremely well versed
order of things goes back as far as I can remember. As a in antacids.
child, I would lie in bed churning with worry. If the wind Once I left high school, it became clear to me that people
was blowing, I’d become convinced that the gate was about would accept my attraction to women so long U P F R O N T> 2 6

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UpFront Sexual Healing
as I presented it as a fetish, a penchant for the forbidden. The their dynamic and sex to be. I chalked it up to craving “femi-
men I dated—even a man I was married to for a blink during nine energy” in my life, whatever that meant, and resumed
my early 20s—took my predilection in stride. In fact, some talking about whatever else was on my mind—the week’s
of them seemed to like it. grievances. My therapist told me to slow down, and suggested
There was a moment during my first marriage when I I explore the thoughts I’d just put to her.
questioned whether my so-called curiosity was something Ben and I stayed close to each other’s side as we finished
more. I had fallen for a woman I met on the Internet, and shooting the first season of High Maintenance for HBO. But
I turned to my mother for advice. By this time she had dis- then, at the end of the summer, we tried a prolonged separa-
tanced herself from the church, gravitating toward medita- tion. He went to Burning Man, and I took off on a road trip
tion and yoga. No, she said confidently. I know you. You’re across the country. I savored the silence and the space. I was
just an escapist in a bad marriage. This sounded right, so I beginning to understand what I needed to come to terms
escaped the marriage and went on as ever, dating men whom with. My suspicions grew at the end of the trip, when I went
I never loved sleeping with, sleeping with women whom I out to dinner with a straight, married woman I follow on
never allowed myself to love. Instagram. Nothing happened between us, but I felt a kind of
My physical problems persisted and I was on and off longing, one I knew all too well. My story—the one I’d been
antianxiety medication until I discovered a different remedy. telling myself—was becoming ridiculous.
It wasn’t the same after our separation. Ben and I realized
we couldn’t carry on as we had been, and I told him I wanted
to be with women. He was angry—if not altogether surprised.
He struggled with the same question that everyone else asks,
or wants to ask, when I tell them my story. Why did I block
this out for so long? Why did I run from myself until the age
of 37? I wish I had better answers. I have gay friends whom
I love and admire. I’m surrounded by people with liberal
values like mine. Repression is blinding, is all I can say. Self-
acceptance impossibly hard. It can take a lifetime.

L
ast winter, shortly after coming out to my
friends and family, I tapered off my anti-
depressants and started openly seeing women.
I was on a date with another woman when
I met Adele. She was our waitress, and she
seemed to glow from within. When she came
over to our table, she had a smoky voice and a daffy quality
that reminded me of Lucille Ball. The restaurant was busy,
but Adele kept drifting back, regaling us with a morbidly
hilarious story about a dead neighbor. It turned out she was
a writer and from New Orleans. At the end of the night, we
CALIFORNIA GIRL
BLICHFELD (ABOVE) WAS RAISED IN A SUBURB OF LONG BEACH, all exchanged phone numbers.
CALIFORNIA, IN AN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN HOME. Nearly a year later, I’m still falling for Adele. We share a
fondness for eavesdropping on strangers, and we wear each
Marijuana started as a nighttime habit, something to do other’s clothes. What we have reminds me a little bit of the
when I was watching television. Then I began experimenting beautiful little lesbian relationship I had with my friend in ju-
with it during afternoons and even mornings, eventually be- nior high. We would roller-skate and laugh and share clothes
coming a very functional—if somewhat miserable—stoner. and have sex that we felt too guilty about ever to address.
I didn’t tell Ben about my indiscretion with the filmmaker It’s a grown-up version of that, minus the shame and guilt.
at first. When I finally confessed, a few weeks after it hap- I remember the good times with Ben, and I know he does
pened, he was devastated, not so much by what I’d done, but too. We now live only a few blocks apart. We still share a car,
that I’d lied to him about it. an office, and a television show. There are days we spend
So I put a lid on things even as my maladies ballooned fifteen hours in each other’s company, and mostly the time
COU RT ESY OF KATJA BLI C HFE LD.

and I became convinced I was severely physically ill. It wasn’t has been peaceful. Work is always where we are at our best;
just my stomach. My mouth hurt, and I was experiencing if we argue, it’s far less often, and we’ve improved at taking
a sensation of electric sparks throughout my body. I self- a breath first. He’s begun dating and moving on with his life.
diagnosed—I had neuralgia! Or possibly an STD! Over the I feel lighter and healthier than I ever have.
course of a year I went to several doctors, and they all told The other day I walked into my therapist’s office, and I
me there was nothing wrong. could sense her watching me as I took off my coat. “I feel like
Eventually, I made an offhand remark one day in therapy I just got a glimpse of you as a child,” she told me.—AS TOLD
about feeling jealous of lesbian couples, and what I imagined TO LAUREN MECHLING

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1 Off-White c/o Burton x Vogue


In early 2016, Virgil Abloh dropped by the Vogue
offices to discuss, among other things, the lack of a chic
snowboarding wardrobe for women. Two years later,
Abloh and Vogue are on the eve of launching a women’s
performancewear capsule with snowboard pioneers Burton.
Maternal Instincts
Products and practices for conscious
The ten-piece collection includes signature Off-White styles, mother-child coupling.
like a cropped puffer and a mock turtleneck, made for
shredding through uncharted backcountry—and around 1 Tummy Time 20-minute guided
the most fashionable après-ski locales.—SELBY DRUMMOND Hatch, the brand of chic meditations that help raise
wardrobe pieces for emotional and physical
2 Koché x Paris Saint-Germain before, during, and after awareness so you can
Koché’s Christelle Kocher is as familiar with Paris Saint- pregnancy, is entering the better connect with your
Germain’s soccer stars as she is with the incredible beading beauty space. “It’s fun and body, your baby, and,
and embroidery that she uses for her label. That makes the functional,” founder Ariane most important, yourself.
partnering of the two for spring—which sees players’ tees Goldman says of the
cut up and combined with silk, lace, and Swarovski crystals first-to-market belly sheet 4 Click, Eat, Love
mask that targets stretch A new wave of meal-
for dresses and tops—a major score.—MARK HOLGATE delivery services is
marks. It anchors this
month’s eight-piece line of disrupting the $7 billion
3 Vetements x Umbro all-natural body-care and baby-food industry. Little
Typical of Demna Gvasalia and Vetements, the results of aromatherapeutic oils. Spoon, which just went
this pairing are playful without ever denying its origins. That national, features fresh,
means Umbro—an English soccer label worn on football 2 Power Hour algorithm-driven organic-
terraces the world over—is now transformed into skinny- “There’s no reason you food plans that provide
strapped long dresses emblazoned with the label’s diamond- should limit yourself to pediatrician-backed
shaped logo, with the same insignia also cut up, Dada-style, yoga just because you’re nutrition for optimal
on baseball caps.—M.H. pregnant,” says certified development, not to
pre- and postnatal mention “peace of mind—
corrective-exercise and extra time!” says
4 Nike Cortez x A.L.C. specialist Joanie Johnson, cofounder Lisa Barnett.
When Nike approached A.L.C.’s Andrea Lieberman— explaining why she
whose Cortez collection dates back to the seventies—to cofounded New York’s 5 Mix Master
create an exclusive crossover trainer, it was, the designer FPC. The new prenatal- Prioritizing your own
says, “a no-brainer.” The spring collection—in shades of fitness studio focuses on postpartum nutrition
ivory, blush, and dark gray suede accented with snakeskin specific muscle groups to is similarly essential.
and brass hardware—is simply underscored with a aid in labor and delivery for “It’s important to build
reimagined swoosh and engineered into Nike’s iconic a strong, conditioned body yourself up again,” says
throughout pregnancy herbalist Daniela Turley,
silhouette.—RACHEL WALDMAN
and postpartum recovery. who recommends Sun
Potion’s ashwagandha,
5 Puma x Selena Gomez 3 Get App-y the restorative Ayurvedic
The first drop of Selena Gomez’s Puma collaboration,
BOTTOM: COURTESY OF HATCH.

For all the stress, anxiety, root powder traditionally


much like the singer’s own style, plays with easy vibes of doubt, and restlessness served to new mothers
all degrees, including slouchy, sexy separates made for around fertility and in India, blended with
layering, from just-threw-this-on joggers and hoodies motherhood, there’s honey—and hot goat’s
to barely there crop tops in shimmering blush—and, of Expectful. The new milk. “It’s easy to digest
course, the coolest kicks. “It’s pieces that you know are subscription-based and high in calcium and
going to look good together, so you can do whatever app prescribes ten- to protein!”—CELIA ELLENBERG
you want,” she says. “That’s a beautiful thing.”—R.W. GENERATION NEXT
THE WORLD OF MINDFUL MOTHERHOOD IS
BUMPING. RIGHT: HATCH MAMA’S QUICK-
DRYING BELLY OIL. TOP: MODEL CAROLINE
TRENTINI AND BENOAH, PHOTOGRAPHED
BY MARIO TESTINO, VOGUE, 2017.
VL IFE
Vısual
Vıtamins
For sustenance that
doesn’t come in a capsule
or a class, head to these
uplifting exhibitions.

1 Rio to Paris
Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral did

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her time in Parisian Cubist boot camp,
but she ultimately developed an earthy,

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landscape-infused style all her own—
and inspired an entire “cannibalist”
manifesto urging Brazilian artists to
digest other countries’ traditions. Nearly
130 works from the artist arrive at
MoMA this February.

2 Glitter-à-Go-Go
The sumptuous, textured abstractions
of Howardena Pindell (materials
deployed include glitter, talcum powder,
and hole-punch scraps) arrive at the
Museum of Contemporary Art in
Chicago in February. After an accident
in 1979 left her with short-term amnesia,
Pindell turned toward broader cultural
concerns, reflected in this sweeping
survey of her five-decades-long career.

FIGURE PAINTING
ABOVE: TARSILA DO AMARAL’S PAINTING
ABAPORU (1928) WOULD INSPIRE THE
“CANNIBALIST” MANIFESTO OF BRAZIL.
RIGHT: A TRIO OF VIBRANT WOMEN IN BAYA
MAHIEDDINE’S UNTITLED WORK FROM 1992.

3 Delayed Debut
Orphaned at five and entirely
self-taught, Algerian artist Baya
Mahieddine had her first exhibition
in mid–twentieth century Paris at
the age of sixteen. Flamboyant,
surreal, and supersaturated,
Mahieddine’s work caught the eye of
Pablo Picasso, with whom she later
collaborated. She’ll have her first-ever
North American show in January at
NYU’s Grey Art Gallery. A R T> 3 2

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4 Light Saver 5 Body Art
This month, Pioneer Works Geoff McFetridge got his start as
in Brooklyn’s Red Hook the art director for the Beastie Boys’
neighborhood will host Anthony short-lived Grand Royal magazine,
McCall’s giant light sculptures— but these days he’s busy collaborating
think 30-foot cones, outlined with The New Yorker, Penguin Books,
with laser-like beams that and filmmakers like Spike Jonze. (He
gradually shift over time, making designed fictional logos and subway
you reconsider the boundaries maps for Her.) Half Gallery will show
between sculpture and cinema, his buoyant, corporeal paintings in
light and space. February.—CHLOE SCHAMA
SUIT UP
GEOFF MCFETRIDGE’S CONTINUOUS GIRLS, 2014;
A HARMONY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN AND FINE ART.

From Grunge to Green


How five models have embraced wellness.
1 1 Amber Valletta
Valletta may be currently “obsessed” with
Body by Simone dance/workout classes,
Biologique Recherche products, and
Sakara snacks, but for this eco-conscious
model, “cultivating a healthier spirit and
mind, along with a healthy body, is what will

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bring about real change in our society.”

2 Danielle Zinaich
“Everyone is different,” says Zinaich, a
homeopath whose own regimen includes
craniosacral therapy, seeing a shaman,
and sessions in her infrared sauna. Among
her simpler practices: dry brushing
for lymphatic-system stimulation and
taking Hyland’s Bioplasma tablets.

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3 Rosemary Ferguson
“Helping your body cope with your lifestyle
by giving it the nutrition it needs is the best
3 4 thing you can do,” says Ferguson, now a
nutritionist. Her go-tos: the Headspace app,
Elixir tea, and head-clearing jogs.

4 Tasha Tilberg
“Whenever I’m feeling stressed, I get
outside,” says the model mom and grape-
grower, who also meditates, practices
asana yoga, drinks matcha tea, and utilizes
Mountain Rose Herbs essential oils.

5 Angela Lindvall
“So much of our world is focused on the
external,” says model/entrepreneur
Angela Lindvall, who aims to generate
life-force energy from within. A devotee
of kundalini yoga, she sees interest in
“sacred sexuality” heating up—and
recommends reading Lover’s Path to
Enlightenment.—LAIRD BORRELLI-PERSSON

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2 Treat Yourself
Forget microcurrent facials. Gua
GROUND SUPPORT
ERYKAH BADU, IN A DRESS BY THE ROW, AT HOME Sha uses a flat smooth-edged piece
IN DALLAS, WHERE PLATINUM RECORDS MINGLE of rose quartz or jade to sculpt
WITH A KALEIDOSCOPIC MIX OF TALISMANS.
contours with elongated strokes
“while relaxing muscle tension
and improving circulation,” says
Sandra Lanshin Chiu, founder of
Treatment by Lanshin in Brooklyn.
For an additionally balance-restoring
pampering session, multitask your
next self-care treatment on a negative-
ion-emitting Amethyst BioMat
at Manhattan’s Space by Mama
Medicine wellness collective.

3 Can You Dig It?


India, Brazil . . . Arkansas? “There
are hundreds of acres of giant crystal
beds growing out of the earth there
like sprinkles,” says holistic health
practitioner Kalisa Augustine, who
handpicks her energy-enhancing
pieces for clients such as Parker Posey
and French actress Mélanie Laurent
from a third-generation mine in the
Ozarks, where many sites—including
Twin Creek in Mount Ida—are open
to the public.

4 Spread the Love


The quartz clusters Cleopatra was

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Mineral Spirit
rumored to bathe with for youth
preservation are now powering all
manner of natural skin-care products.
California-based Aquarian Soul’s
Chaparral and White Sage Healing
With purported healing and energizing benefits, crystals Oil is bolstered by reparative green

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are influencing everything from music to meditation. aventurine, while the forthcoming
Noni Radiant Eye Oil from Miranda
Kerr’s Kora Organics glides on with
1 Rock Star a rose-quartz applicator for a smooth
“There is Erykah Badu the finish (and good vibes).
entertainer, Erykah Badu the lover,
the friend, the mother. And then 5 On a Roll
there is Erykah Badu the healer,” the Rashia Bell and Elizabeth Kohn’s
46-year-old soul hit-maker says from conscious interior-design collective,
her home in Dallas, which is dotted the Cristalline, provides chakra-
with the same quartz crystals she clearing services for intimate spaces—
wears around her neck and carries and now faces. The duo recently
in her pockets. But these revitalizing introduced a double-sided rose-quartz
stones are more than mere decoration beauty roller at Barneys to depuff
to the third-degree Reiki master and skin and reduce fine lines, says Bell,
certified doula. Badu uses them to who will launch the tool in treatments
connect to her songs—and to her at the Spa at the Four Seasons
audience as she tours ahead of a new New York Downtown this month.
box-set release later this year. —KATE BRANCH
VL IFE
Nice Recovery 3

A new crop of exercise classes


turns down the dial to focus
on repair, rest, and relief.
1 Breathe Easy
Yoga Nidra targets the state of
consciousness between sleep and
wakefulness, a mind-set you can now
achieve at Love Yoga’s Venice Beach 5
studio with an hour of breathing 4
exercises and guided rest.

2 The Home Stretch


SoulCycle unclips from the bike at
SoulAnnex, an intimate space in
Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The Align
classes help regular riders stretch,
lengthen, and heal overworked muscles.

3 Hold Steady
Woom Center, New York’s go-to for yoga
and sound therapy, has debuted Woom
Rest, its least physically strenuous
class, which uses props and restorative
poses to balance the body and mind.

4 Peaceful Warrior
NoHo newcomer Box + Flow puts

Head Trip
a Zen spin on the pugilistic
phenomenon. Classes begin with
shadowboxing and end with a sequence
of shoulder- and hip-opening poses.

5 Class Act A guide to mindful traveling, where all roads lead to chill.
Taryn Toomey’s The Class has a
reputation as the hardest workout from 1 Guiding handpicked by founder
Spirit Kristina Roth).“We want experts guide intrepid
coast to coast. The new Restore
SuperShe island to be touritsts up Omani
version soothes the nervous system “Mindful travel isn’t a rejuvenating, safe mountains, and chefs
by incorporating yoga and meditation a new idea—we used space for women,” says will journey alongside
into Toomey’s tough and tested to just call it ‘travel,’ ” Roth. “No distractions.” the culinary-minded
moves.—MICHAELA BECHLER says Sara Clemence, through South India.
EASY DOES IT whose new book, 3 On Mute
LOW-IMPACT WORKOUTS ARE HAVING A MOMENT. Away & Aware: A Field Get thee to the Umbrian 5 From the
PHOTOGRAPHED BY BRUCE WEBER, VOGUE, 2015. Guide to Mindful Travel escape Eremito for a Source
(Dovetail), refashions
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taste of convent calm. On Asheville’s No


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the Grand Tour Eremito offers fasting Taste Like Home


of Europe for today’s retreats, 50-hour silent foraging tours,
digitally addicted meditation workshops, wild-food experts
Daisy Millers. accommodations lead scavengers
modeled on hermit cells, through the Blue
2 No Man’s and communal dinners. Ridge Mountains of
Land North Carolina, where
An 8.4-acre, ten-cabin, 4 Like a Local they learn to identify
luxury, women-only Those in search of the chaga mushrooms,
private island off the road less Instagrammed mimosa flowers,
Finnish coast debuts this can look to Naya dandelion roots, and
spring for constituents Traveler. The platform other edibles. A “find
of the networking offers interest-focused dining” experience, as
group SuperShe (a tours led by native founder Alan Muskat
collective of creatives doyens: rock-climbing puts it. —LILAH RAMZI

VOGUE.COM
January 2018

We l l &

G OOD January is for optimists. It’s the time of resolutions


and headlines promising “NEW YEAR, NEW YOU.” And this
drives us nuts. Because good health and radiant happiness—
WELLNESS, essentially—should always be our guiding
principle. It’s a complex ambition involving mental and physical
rigor, cutting-edge nutrition, HEAPS OF SLEEP, and the ability
to endure hard luck and heartbreak. From a STYLE point of
view, though, it’s relatively simple: Choose clothes (and kicks)
that are made responsibly, that move with you no matter how
far or how fast you leap, and that make you smile. GET HAPPY,
basically, which is your right—every day and every month.
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Move It!Lupita Nyong’o, star of the upcoming Black Panther,
keeps life fresh, body free, and spirits light with anywhere workouts
and a thirst for learning new things.
Alexis Okeowo reports. Photographed by Mikael Jansson.
READY,
STEADY
Retaining a childlike
sense of buoyancy
by stretching and
staying flexible helps
Nyong’o prepare
for the characters
she plays. Dolce &
Gabbana jumpsuit.
Fashion Editor:
Tonne Goodman.
On
to be a person who doesn’t trust easily and wants to determine
the motivations of people who enter her life. “She’s very in-
quisitive in the way she works; she’s very detailed,” Chadwick
Boseman, her costar in Black Panther, says. “She probably
has the most organized script I’ve ever seen: The pages are
color-coded with Post-its and notes. On set, she’s not going to
let the camera operators, the cinematographer, or the director
go without answering the questions she has.”
Pole-dancing is a decidedly stark change from the mixed-
martial-arts training Nyong’o underwent for her role in the
movie, which premieres next month. Black Panther, which
Nyong’o calls “brave for an action film,” is based on a Marvel
character that debuted in 1966. She plays Nakia, bodyguard
and love interest of the young leader (Boseman) of an ad-
a fall afternoon in Manhattan that still feels like the burning vanced African kingdom named Wakanda. The country has
days of summer, Lupita Nyong’o and I are in a bare, wood- never been colonized, and its traditions have matured without
floored studio called Foxy Fitness, learning how to pole- interference. “For me, as an African who lives outside Africa
dance. Dressed in a dusty-pink sports bra and a matching and wrestles with that dichotomy of tradition and modernity,
wrap skirt over cream shorts, Nyong’o groans half-jokingly this is almost healing,” she says.
during the strenuous warm-up, then scrutinizes her pole with Ta-Nehisi Coates, who wrote a vivid Black Panther spin-off
seriousness. Each time our instructor, competitive champion comic in 2016, describes it as “the fulfillment of some sort of
Ashley Fox, shouts out a new, seemingly impossible move, I deep wish that extends throughout the black diaspora to show
wearily wilt against mine, and Nyong’o bursts into laughter. that we are human, that we are beautiful, that we can be bad-
Our lesson was Nyong’o’s idea. I was sur- asses, too. We’ve occupied such a servile
prised by the suggestion; exotic dancing place in film and TV,” he continues. “It’s
with a magazine writer is not something nice to see that flipped.” Nyong’o agrees.
I had imagined would be of interest to “Lupita could “The little Kenyan child in me leaped for
someone who maintains her privacy with break it joy because it’s such an affirmation,” she
unerring vigilance. A male friend of hers, says. “What colonialism does is cause an
Nyong’o explains, once visited her in New down on the dance identity crisis about one’s own culture.”
York and wanted to go to a strip club. floor,” says a The advance footage I saw was thrilling:
They picked one in midtown (“It was a Nyong’o, Boseman, Danai Gurira, Angela
fancy club,” Nyong’o says), and she was former classmate. Bassett, Michael B. Jordan, and Daniel
amazed at the acrobatics of the dancers. “She was a ball Kaluuya in a world of black African pride,
“It was incredible and sexy, and I thought, strength, and cool. In one scene, dressed in
I need to learn how to do that.”
of exuberance that a sleek, fitted green print dress, Nyong’o
After class ends, Nyong’o changes into would keep slips easily into combat, grinding her high
a deep-V-neck floral dress from Reforma- heel into an adversary.
tion, slips on dramatic cat-eye sunglasses,
the party going” Before filming began, she spent up to
and strides onto the street. She is self-pos- four hours a day for six weeks in boot camp
sessed, a woman who walks with her back with her castmates. “Chadwick had a live
straight, her shoulders set back, and her gaze fixed directly in drummer come in as we worked out, and it was so cool—it
front of her. It’s the kind of pride that many African women changes your sense of internal rhythm,” Nyong’o tells me.
share: a sense that they own the ground on which they are “My character fights with anything: guns, spears, ring blades,
walking. “She’s very careful as a person, about her words, shoes, glass.” Nyong’o’s appreciation of working out started
about how she moves through space,” her friend, screenwriter when she was a child watching her aunt exercise to Jane
Ben Kahn, tells me. From the moment Nyong’o entered Hol- Fonda videotapes at home in Nairobi. She now has a trainer
lywood, with her Oscar-winning, star-creating turn in 2013’s come to her apartment in Brooklyn several times a week, and
12 Years a Slave, her poise was striking. physical training plays a significant part in her preparation for
Before we even meet, Nyong’o decides to interview me first. every new role she takes on. Flexibility is more important to
Too many journalists end up impersonally grilling her over her than exertion, so that she can stay “fluid and open.” She
lunch, she tells me over the phone, and as a result, she wants does plenty of stretching, drinks a lot of water, gets regular
to know some things about me so that we can have an actual massages, and takes Epsom-salt baths. She tries to avoid
conversation. In our pre-interview, I discover our mutual love anything that results in tension or bulk.
of the clothes of Nigerian fashion label Maki Oh, and our Her physical practice stems from a broader desire to pre-
shared, slightly unhealthy obsession with Game of Thrones. serve something essential about herself. Nyong’o, who is 34,
“I’m not caught up, though, so I can’t talk about it. I’m in the wants to remain childlike, she explains, so that she can feel
dark and blissfully so,” she says, laughing. “I like to spread it buoyant and unabashed about who she is. “That’s why I
out so that it can live with me for longer.” like to try new things, like pole-dancing” or mastering new
She has thoroughly researched me: She knows the places I languages and accents, and learning the ukulele for her next
have lived and the kinds of stories I have written. She seems role. “I value not being good at things, because children are

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not good at things.” She is about to leave for Australia to begin insider-outsider status in America. As a woman raised in an
preproduction on an independent comedy/horror film called African country, she had other concerns before she ever had
Little Monsters, directed by Abe Forsythe, in which she plays to consider the implications of race. “Growing up Kenyan,
a kindergarten teacher. Right now, she is in the period of self- we are used to wishing for more than what seems available,”
doubt she usually experiences when starting a new project, she her friend Odera tells me. “So we are aware that we will have
says, “feeling like a total rookie.” to push harder—what will you bring to the table?”
When Nyong’o was growing up in Nairobi, she was known In Nyong’o’s case, the answer is: a lot. She is moving
for her playfulness. (Obsessed with plaid, she was “the oddest- ahead with the screen-adaptation rights she optioned for
dressed member” of her family, she recalls.) “She was very Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah—a love
smart and clever, but also very naughty,” her childhood friend story about a young Nigerian couple who take separate
Belinda Odera, a lawyer who practices in Nairobi, tells me. paths before reuniting. Nyong’o will star as the headstrong
Nyong’o kept a book of lyrics to their favorite pop songs in protagonist, who finds herself becoming a popular blog-
class, and carried around a snake preserved in formaldehyde ger in America, and she is also delving into the production
to scare people. Years later, at the Yale School of Drama, process. “Americanah is close to actually rolling camera—it’s
her friends appreciated those same qualities. “Lupita could about time,” Nyong’o says. She will be making the film with
break it down on the dance floor,” her former classmate the production company Plan B, which was cofounded by
Lileana Blain-Cruz says. “I remember her running around, a Brad Pitt, her costar in, and a producer of, 12 Years a Slave.
ball of joy and exuberance that would keep the party going.” As for the stage, she is waiting to find a play that excites her
Nyong’o performed in productions helmed by Blain-Cruz, as much as her last project, Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed. “I am
now an Obie Award–winning director. “In her acting, she a theater baby first and foremost,” she says. “It may pull me
could go to the crazy places, and that was always impressive,” back sooner than I think.”
says Blain-Cruz. Boseman describes her mischievous provo- From Nairobi, with stints living in Amherst (where she
cations of Black Panther’s director, Ryan Coogler. “She com- went to Hampshire College), the Mexican city of Taxco
piled this whole list of ‘Cooglerisms’ that we (where she spent time learning Spanish), and
would all repeat and make fun of,” he says. New Haven, Nyong’o is still mulling the con-
cept of home. When she first moved to New
An acute sense of self, and resulting unwill- “I got such a York, “I had the mattress on the floor for so
ingness to bend to please others, has some- head start in this long, my mom was like, ‘Buy a bed. You are
times made Nyong’o appear aloof to fans alive now, and you need a bed now. Accept
and prickly to journalists. Her way of car- industry,” your existence as it is in the moment,’” she
rying herself seems to arise not only from says Nyong’o. recalls with a laugh. So she bought a bed
self-protectiveness but also from a certainty and dug into Brooklyn: eating local, going
of her worth. Amid news breaking this fall “I don’t think of to farmers’ markets, finding out who her city
about Harvey Weinstein, the prominent what I don’t representatives are. Nyong’o is also relishing
Hollywood producer who is alleged to have her free time, listening to podcasts (she loves
sexually harassed and assaulted dozens of have, I think of “On Being” and “The Business”), going out
women, Nyong’o wrote an explosive op-ed
for The New York Times. In hauntingly lucid
what I do” for oysters with friends, cooking (“I like to
make salads,” she says), checking out fashion
prose, she described being harassed by the (Off-White is her current favorite), and laugh-
producer, who claimed he was interested in ing at the comedy of Russell Brand.
her work and repeatedly propositioned her when she was a A few weeks after our lunch, Nyong’o and I meet up again.
student. “What I am most interested in now is combating the It is early October, and she has just returned from Sydney.
shame we go through that keeps us isolated and allows for She is wearing an olive-green beret with a bright-red star that
harm to continue to be done,” Nyong’o wrote. “Now that we she bought in Cuba. It gives her an air of fierceness; she says
are speaking, let us never shut up about this kind of thing.” it makes her feel rebellious. Nyong’o and I are riding in a car
The piece is both assured and moving: striking for both the on the way to a photo shoot, and she leans back into the seat,
story she tells and the vulnerability she so plainly shows. appearing both tired and restless. As we move through streets
Post pole-dancing, over lunch in a nearby hotel—gluten- crowded with taxis and people, we talk in a shared shorthand
free carrot tartare (hers) and sausage-laden butternut squash about her time spent filming in Uganda (for Queen of Katwe)
(mine)—I ask Nyong’o about her vulnerabilities, such as how and studying in Mexico, places where I have also lived and of
she navigates the risks of being pigeonholed as an actress of which she has fond memories. She laughs when I ask about
color. She rejects the question on its premise. “I got such a her dating life. “You can ask, but you definitely won’t get an
head start in this industry that it is not in my best interest answer,” she responds. “There have been rumors and rumors
to look for struggle. That’s such a powerless place for me to and rumors about my love life. That’s the one area that I really
think about: what is working against me,” she says. “I don’t like to hold close to my heart.”
think of what I don’t have; I think of what I do, and use that Before she disappears from the car, she tells me that she has
to get the next thing.” She is adamant about protecting her just been in talks to star in a buddy comedy for Netflix with
creativity. “It’s a finite reservoir, so it’s important that I safe- Rihanna. She is feeling exhilarated and defiant. “I am here. I
guard it with my life.” am happy to be here,” she says, tilting her head, immersed in
Nyong’o chooses to savor her blessings and concentrate thought. “I know this industry was not made for me. But I’m
on fighting for what she wants—a perspective enabled by her not going to apologize for being here.” 

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LANDMARK
MOMENT
Making her way
through The
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
Nyong’o steals
the scene. Céline
dress. Christopher
Kane earrings.
Atelier Swarovski
by Christopher
Kane bracelets.
Giuseppe Zanotti
sneakers. The
Museum Workout
choreographed by
Monica Bill Barnes
& Company with
Monica Bill Barnes
and Anna Bass.
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TAKING THE REINS
”She makes it look effortless,” says Black
Panther director Ryan Coogler, “but
Lupita is one of the hardest workers I’ve
ever met.” Calvin Klein 205W39NYC
dress. Faris earrings. Christian Louboutin
ankle boots. In this story: hair, Vernon
François for Vernon François; makeup,
Nick Barose for Lancôme. Set design,
Mary Howard. Details, see In This Issue.
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55
LOSING
PHIL
When Philip Seymour Hoffman succumbed
to a drug overdose in 2014, his death was one of
thousands sweeping the country. His partner,
Mimi O’Donnell, reflects on the di≈culties—and
devastation—of addiction. As told to Adam Green.
Photographed by Anton Corbijn.

T
he first time I met Phil, there was in-
stant chemistry between us. It was the
spring of 1999, and he was interview-
ing me to be the costume designer for
a play he was directing—his first—for
the Labyrinth Theater Company, In
Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Even though
I’d spent the five years since moving to
New York designing costumes for Off-Broadway plays and
had just been hired by Saturday Night Live, I was nervous,
because I was in awe of his talent. I’d seen him in Boogie
Nights and Happiness, and he blew me out of the water
with his willingness to make himself so vulnerable and to
play fucked-up characters with such honesty and heart.
I remember walking into the interview and anxiously
handing Phil my résumé. He studied it for a few moments,
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then looked up at me and, with complete sincerity and admi-


ration, said, “You have more credits than I do.” I felt myself
relax. He wanted to put me at ease and let me know that we
would be working together as equals. After the meeting, I
called my sister on one of those hilariously giant cell phones
of the time, and after I had raved about Phil, she announced,
“You’re going to marry him.”
Working with Phil felt seamless—our instincts were so
similar, and we always seemed to be in sync. Though there
was clearly a personal attraction, both of us were involved
with other people, so we fell in love artistically first. Over the
AFTER next two years, we continued to work together—I designed
THE FALL the costumes for everything he directed—and, along the way,
Director and I was invited to become a company member of Labyrinth,
producer Mimi of which Phil was the artistic director. As an ensemble, we
O’Donnell focused
on her three children produced Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, which put us on the
when they lost map. Then, seven years to the day since I’d moved to the city,
their father, Philip 9/11 happened. It was disorienting to be finding our place as
Seymour Hoffman,
the world seemed to be collapsing around us.
four years ago.
Hair, Ilker Akyol; When Phil and I weren’t collaborating, we would see each
makeup, Cyndle other at meetings, readings, rehearsals, or any number of the
Komarovski. Details,
see In This Issue.
Sittings Editor: 57
Andrew Mukamal.
endless parties the company threw. It was a fertile, exciting our son, Cooper. I remember the doctor cutting the umbilical
time—we were all young, at our best and healthiest, and we cord and handing the baby to Phil. We hugged and kissed and
were all in love with theater and with one another. Before cried—he was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen—and
every event, I’d think, Oh, God, I hope Phil’s there. And if he Phil beamed with uncontainable joy. Then, wearing scrubs,
wasn’t, I was disappointed. It wasn’t so much that I wanted he started to carry Cooper toward the door to take him to our
to date him. It was that I thought, You’re so attractive on families in the waiting room. The midwife had to stop him
every level that I want to be near you as much as I can. and explain that he couldn’t just walk out of the O.R. with a
In the late fall of 2001, we both found ourselves single, and newborn in his arms. He was so proud and over the moon that
I heard that Phil had been asking around about whether I had he couldn’t wait to show his son to the world.
a boyfriend. He invited me to dinner at a little Italian restau- My memories of Phil are overwhelmingly of a sweet and
rant in the East Village, and afterward we went to a tiny gal- gentle and loving man, which is not to say that he didn’t have
lery nearby and looked at photographs taken on 9/11. I think a temper, as anyone who knew him well will tell you. He
what was going on in both our heads was: Do we feel this way was a sensitive person, and he was incapable of masking his
outside work? And it instantly became clear that we did. But anger. He would never sit and stew, or leave an argument un-
we were cautious. It felt all-encompassing. I loved working resolved. One night, when Cooper was five months old, I left
with Phil, and I was falling in love with him, and I didn’t want him alone with Phil for the first time to join a friend who had
to lose the experience of being his collaborator if we broke up. invited me to a Marc Jacobs show. When I returned, Cooper
After our second or third date, I said to Phil, “I don’t want was crying—he wouldn’t take the bottle and had been bawl-
to just see you casually and see other people. I want to be with ing the entire time. Phil yelled, “You are never leaving the
you.” He immediately said, “Yeah, I’m all apartment again. I don’t have breasts! I
in.” One afternoon not long after that, we can’t feed him!” Then he handed me Coo-
were walking in the West Village and ran per and stormed out onto our balcony for
into a couple we knew. As we stood talk- A snapshot of a smoke. A few minutes later, he slunk
ing, their four-year-old son started riding
his scooter off the curb toward the traffic.
how things back in, and we both started laughing.
The growth of our family coincided
Without missing a beat, Phil reached out were before they with the rise of Phil’s career. I was preg-
and with his big, beautiful hands guided
him back onto the sidewalk, patted him
changed nant with Cooper during the filming of
Along Came Polly and Cold Mountain,
on the head, and said, “You’re good, bud- would look like this: and when he was born, Phil was rehears-
dy.” It was gentle, it was firm, it was kind. We were living ing for Long Day’s Journey into Night on
At that moment I thought, I’m having Broadway. While he was wrestling with
children with this man. It was a done deal. in theWestVillage. his identity as an actor and whether he
From the beginning, Phil was very We had three could carry entire movies, Capote came
frank about his addictions. He told me along. Phil overcame his hesitancy about
about his period of heavy drinking and healthy kids. Phil’s portraying a man whom he physically
experimenting with heroin in his early career was couldn’t resemble less. That film, in which
20s, and his first rehab at 22. He was in he transformed himself so astonishingly,
therapy and AA, and most of his friends skyrocketing was the game changer. He won every ma-
were in the program. Being sober and a jor award, including the Oscar, while I was
recovering addict was, along with acting pregnant with our second child, Tallulah.
and directing, very much the focus of his life. But he was She was born in 2006. Willa arrived two years after that.
aware that just because he was clean didn’t mean the addic- Our loose rule was to never spend more than two weeks
tion had gone away. He was being honest for me—This is who apart as a family, and Phil insisted on it with a kind of ur-
I am—but also to protect himself. He told me that, as much gency. We had babysitters, but Phil refused to hire a full-time
as he loved me, if I used drugs it would be a deal breaker. au pair. More than once, I found myself asking, “You want
That wasn’t an issue for me, and I was happy not to drink, to bring the baby to what?” Or “You want us to come to
either. Phil was so open about it all that I wasn’t worried. Winnipeg in the winter while you’re shooting?” And he’d say,
A New Year’s Eve date made things feel official. Phil was “Just bring him. We all need to be together.” As our family
looking for a new apartment and asked me to come along. grew, he remained adamant about it. “Can’t we leave the
One day in the spring, I told him that I wasn’t going to renew little ones home, and you and I and Cooper——?”
my birth control prescription, and he simply said, “Good. “No. We’re all doing it together.”
Don’t.” I was 34, which felt old at the time, and I told Phil When I look back at how close we all were, I wonder
that it would probably take a while to get pregnant because whether Phil somehow knew that he was going to die young.
of my age. As it turned out, it happened almost instantly. He never said those words, but he lived his life as if time was
I remember calling my mother and telling her, “Hi, Mom, precious. Maybe he just knew what was important to him
I’m pregnant and, oh yeah, I have this new boyfriend.” Her and where he wanted to invest his love. I always felt there was
response was “When do we get to meet him?” plenty of time, but he never lived that way. I now thank God
Phil and I were both thrilled, and, soon after, we moved he made us take those trips. In some ways, our short time
into an apartment in the West Village together. Early one together was almost like an entire lifetime.
morning in March 2003, I went into labor, which went on If I were to take a snapshot of how things were before they
for 40 hours before I was finally given a C-section, delivering changed, it would look like this: We were living in the West

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RARE TALENT
The exceptional leading man Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose death in 2014 dealt a heartbreaking
blow to American cultural life. Photographed in 2012 by Anton Corbijn.

Village. We had three healthy kids. Phil’s career was skyrock- an addict, though at the time I didn’t fully understand that
eting. He and I were still collaborating on theater and films, addiction is always lurking just below the surface, looking
and I had started directing plays. We had wonderful friends. for a moment of weakness to come roaring back to life.
We had money. We were both so aware, since we came from Some of what Phil was going through was common
middle-class backgrounds, of how much we had. His mantra to men in their 40s, such as the pangs of finding yourself
was: We have it to give. And he did. Phil was endlessly gener- middle-aged and feeling as though you’re losing your sexual
ous with his time and energy and money, whether it involved currency (something many women experience at a much
something as serious as paying for a friend to go to rehab or younger age), or seeing your friends’ marriages fall apart in
just having coffee with an intern, meeting a writer struggling the wake of infidelities. Other things were more specific: His
with a play at midnight, or showing up for a babysitter’s non- longtime therapist died of cancer, which was devastating,
Equity showcase. He knew that it meant something because and he had a falling out with a bunch of his AA friends. Phil
of who he was. He was never comfortable with celebrity, but had a love/hate relationship with acting. The thing he hated
he knew how to use his fame so that something good could most was the loss of anonymity. He was making film after
come of it. Labyrinth, of course, got the bulk of his time, film—we had a big family and had bought a bigger apart-
but he would do a benefit reading for almost anyone who ment—and AA started to get short shrift. He’d been sober
asked. He became a fixture in our neighborhood, a familiar for so long that nobody seemed to notice. But something
figure strolling the sidewalks smoking a cigarette, walking the was brewing.
kids to school, or sitting with us eating ice cream outside our The first tangible sign came when, out of nowhere, Phil
favorite coffee shop. I couldn’t have imagined a better life. said to me, “I’ve been thinking I want to try to have a drink
Twelve-step literature describes addiction as “cunning, again. What do you think?” I thought it was a terrible
baffling, and powerful.” It is all three. I hesitate to ascribe idea, and I said so. Sobriety had been the center of Phil’s
Phil’s relapse after two decades to any one thing, or even life for over 20 years, so this was definitely a red flag. He
to a series of things, because the stressors—or, in the par- started having a drink or two without it seeming a big deal,
lance, triggers—that preceded it didn’t cause him to start but the moment drugs came into play, I confronted Phil,
using again, any more than being a child of divorce did. who admitted that he’d gotten ahold of some prescription
Lots of people go through difficult life events. Only addicts opioids. He told me that it was just this one time, and that
start taking drugs to blunt the pain of them. And Phil was it wouldn’t happen again. It scared C O N T I N U E D O N P A G E 9 8

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Fi g h t i n g
Shape
Years after being diagnosed with
a discouraging autoimmune disorder,
Gina Rodriguez comes out swinging.
Abby Aguirre tries to keep up.
Photographed by Anton Corbijn.

Have you ever thrown a punch?”

H
asks Gina Rodriguez. She and I
are standing in the garage behind
her beachy-modern bungalow in
Westchester, the pleasantly un-
assuming neighborhood on the
West Side of Los Angeles where
she lives with her boyfriend,
the actor Joe LoCicero. A late-
October heat wave is gripping the city, and I am wilting
along with the Halloween yard decorations on Rodriguez’s
street. The garage, snug but pristine, houses a treadmill, a
large weight-lifting rack, an area covered in padded flooring,
and—hanging ominously from the ceiling in one corner—a
massive black punching bag.
I have never thrown a punch. Rodriguez, on the other
hand, grew up around boxing. Her father, Genaro “Gino”
Rodriguez, a former boxing official—he once refereed a
fight for eight-time world champion Manny Pacquiao—
taught Gina and both of her siblings how to box as young
kids on the Northwest Side of Chicago. (The only art in
the garage is a large mixed-media graffiti collage featuring
an old black-and-white photo of her dad in the ring, dukes
up.) It has proved a useful skill in Hollywood: Later, in an
impromptu #MeToo moment, Rodriguez will share that,
seven years ago, a male director invited her over to “read
his pilot”—air quotes hers—and she rebuffed his advances
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by punching him in the jaw.


But I knew none of this. So when Rodriguez first suggest-
ed a boxing class, I had imagined a trainer barking orders as
we shadowboxed our way through an hour of light cardio. It
is now clear that I had it all wrong—Rodriguez is the trainer.
She tosses a pair of boxing gloves and punch mitts at my feet.
Though Rodriguez, 33, has just wrapped a long day of
shooting Jane the Virgin, the hit C O N T I N U E D O N P A G E 9 9

TESTING THE WATERS


“I rejected the fact that I had a disease,” Rodriguez says
of her initial reaction to her Hashimoto’s diagnosis.
Here the actress stands tall in an Alexander Wang jacket and a
Coach 1941 top and dress. Casadei boots. Hair, Thom Priano
for R+Co; makeup, Susie Sobol. Details, see In This Issue.
Fashion Editor: Phyllis Posnick.

61
Second
Chance A Jet Ski
accident nearly
cost the rising
French
model Aya Jones
everything.
AYA JONES REMEMBERS NOTHING
Miraculously she Even before the crash, she wasn’t accus-
of the accident that changed her life. It survived and, tomed to sharing casual snaps from her pri-
was August 27, 2016. The Paris-born after a yearlong vate life on Instagram. Aya is très pudique,
model and her then boyfriend were enjoy- a French phrase that means at once “shy,
ing the last days of a three-week vacation recovery, modest, and reserved.” In France the trait,
in Thailand. She was piloting a Jet Ski is back on the increasingly rare in our show-and-tell-all
through crystalline waters off the coast culture, is traditionally considered a virtue.
of Ko Phangan, a tiny island ringed with catwalk. As I marvel at the graceful, self-possessed
white sand beaches and notorious for its Leslie Camhi young woman sitting across from me at
monthly Full Moon Parties, which attract lunch, who has emerged with body and
hordes of all-night revelers. reports. soul—and career—intact from a trial that
The next thing she recalls is waking from might well have shattered anyone else, it
a morphine-induced haze in a private hos- occurs to me that this reserve might be one
pital in Bangkok. Her mother, who had flown in from key to her incredible resilience. In any case, after the accident
Paris; her brother, two years older, who had cut short his her Instagram account went dark for weeks, with her 86,000
vacation in Australia to be with her; and her boyfriend, who fans wondering what had become of her.
had fished her broken body out of the Gulf of Thailand,
explained what had happened. A speedboat ferrying hotel Aya Jones, a Parisienne, grew up in the city’s Eleventh Ar-
guests to the beach had hit her Jet Ski, puncturing her lung rondissement, amid the neighborhood’s hubbub of West and
and stomach, fracturing her arm, leg, pelvis, and cranium. North African immigrant cultures. For 25 years her family
After an emergency operation on the neighboring island of has run a restaurant, A La Banane Ivoirienne, where her fa-
Ko Samui, she had been transferred by plane (flying at low ther cooks the cuisine of his homeland, the Ivory Coast. The
altitude because of her cracked skull) to Bangkok, where family still lives nearby. As teenagers, Aya and her brother
more operations would follow. She had just emerged from often helped out, serving on slow nights during the week.
two weeks in intensive care. The fact that she had survived Years of dance classes—first ballet and later jazz and hip-
at all was a miracle. hop—helped hone the young girl’s innate suppleness and
“My first thought was the unfairness of it all,” the model, refined physicality. Swimming and gymnastics strengthened
now 23, said over lunch at a macrobiotic restaurant in SoHo. her. (All of these would later play a role in her recovery.) She
A faint shadow passes over the soft beauty of her heart- was fearless, too, her floor routines in gymnastics filled with
shaped face, with its bee-stung lips and the widely spaced “perilous somersaults,” her mother, Béatrice, recalls on the
eyes that give her the look of a wild fawn. “I thought, Why phone from Paris, “that would make me catch my breath.”
did this happen to me; why was I in that place on that day? In fact, despite her angelic, doll-like beauty, “I was always
And then I had a very strong feeling of revolt,” she says. “I a bit ballsy,” Aya admits, laughing. “Later on, I loved the
wanted to fight and get over it.” thrill of risky sports—Jet Ski, zip-line, all-terrain vehicles.
A few close friends, from the fashion world and be- Well, I’m done with those now.”
yond, had sent messages for her birthday on September She’d just finished high school and was planning to study
5, unaware that Aya was then on a respirator, struggling nursing when, while she was out shopping with a friend on
to breathe. A couple of weeks later, she was able to text the Rue de Rivoli, a modeling scout spotted her. After that,
back, telling them she’d had an accident. The whirl of things moved quickly. New York–based casting director Ash-
Fashion Weeks in New York, London, Milan, and Paris, ley Brokaw put Aya in Prada’s spring 2015 show in Milan.
with their fittings, shows, and parties that had determined It was a grand debut. “People really look to Prada for new
the rhythm of her young life for several seasons, was hap- faces,” Brokaw recalls, “and everybody took notice of Aya.”
pening without her. What makes a particular set of C O N T I N U E D O N P A G E 9 9

Photographed by PatrickDemarchelier
MODEL
BEHAVIOR
Jones, 23, baring
a leg scar, tells her
story of recovery.
Saint Laurent by
Anthony Vaccarello
blouse. Hair, Shon;
makeup, Diane
Kendal. Details,
see In This Issue.
Fashion Editor:
Phyllis Posnick.
A PLACE
in the

Kirsty Hume has returned to modeling,


radiating an enviable lit-from-within, Earth Mother glow.
Photographed by Zoë Ghertner.

O
n a recent fall morning, Kirsty Hume looked north toward Marin County, where she briefly
Hume wakes up early and boils studied permaculture at the Regenerative Design Institute in
water for tea. Today it’s oolong, an Bolinas before settling in Topanga, with its twisted canyons,
aromatic black varietal that reminds sage-scented air, and wild succulents. The landscape has
her of her childhood, sipping hot helped her return to a mission for wellness that she began at
beverages on winter mornings when 21, when she dabbled in yoga and superfood juices. At that
the mountains on Scotland’s south- time, these were considered fringe elements of a health craze
west coast turned green from rain. more focused on private island spas, four-figure facials, and
In cool weather, she’ll also occasion- transformative personal trainers with hopeless waiting lists.
ally drink chai spiked with medicinal mushrooms—chaga Hume laughs. “As we go through life, we find ourselves on
and reishi for immunity and longevity—and a splash of certain paths that just kind of happen organically.”
freshly made almond milk. Home for her now is Topanga This mind-set has hopped a generation to thirteen-year-
Canyon, the beatnik Brigadoon that has become a refuge old Violet, a carbon copy of her mother’s limbs, lips, and
for Los Angeles’s bohemian set. Tucked into the hills above hair, who spends two days a week at her Topanga school
the Pacific Coast Highway and the flash of Malibu, this is mapping changes in the environment. It has also informed
where the 42-year-old moved with her daughter, Violet, two Hume’s recent dedication to studying the medicinal prop-
and half years ago. Once Hume finishes her elixir, she’ll often erties of plants through a program at her local outpost
set out on a hiking trail in the State Park a few paces from of Vermont’s Gaia School of Healing. And then there’s
her front door. “It wakes up my senses and brings everything her passion for making bespoke salves and digestive bit-
back into equilibrium,” she says. “I feel more alive.” ters designed to calm the nerves and realign the body’s
On Michael Kors’s spring runway, Hume looked particu- systems, a preoccupation that often fills her days. Fol-
larly vital in a blue tie-dyed bias-cut slip dress and flip-flops, lowing her graduation in June, Hume’s morning routine
her signature corn-silk waves rustling just past her waist. The now includes a full-body application of Essence of the
designer’s archetype of sun-kissed Earth Mother with beach Sun, a custom blend of calendula-, ginger-, and citrine-
adjacency is Hume in her element. There was that other life, infused oils. There is also an Essence of the Moon blend—a
though, in Manhattan’s high-glam nineties, when she logged tension-easing mix of linden-, jasmine-, and violet-leaf
time as a Victoria’s Secret angel, a Versace bombshell, and infusions—that Hume uses in the evenings to wind down.
a face of Chanel cosmetics. Hume moved to Woodstock in The apothecary-style bottles have already found a following
upstate New York after five years on the nonstop fashion on social media. A recent Instagram post garnered dozens
circuit, which helped her arrive at an inalienable self-truth: of comments from followers requesting samples, including
“I am not an urban creature.” Even the open-air ocean-side one from Amber Valletta: “I want some!” wrote Hume’s
sprawl of L.A., where she relocated in 2001 with her former fellow supe, with a few heart emojis for good measure.
husband, the actor Donovan Leitch, did not do it for her. —MACKENZIE WAGONER

EMBRACEABLE YOU
Hume and her daughter, Violet, hold tight to spare beauty rituals—and breezy floral dresses. Violet (NEAR RIGHT)
wears a Sportmax dress, $1,265; Sportmax, NYC. Hume (FAR RIGHT) wears a Miu Miu dress, $2,875; select Miu Miu boutiques.
Fashion Editor: Camilla Nickerson.
AROUND
WE GO
Easy, ethereal
micro-florals are
perfect for a sunset
spin. On Hume:
Philosophy di
Lorenzo Serafini
dress, $2,295;
Barneys New York,
NYC. On Violet:
Chloé dress; Chloé
boutiques. Michael
Kors Collection top,
$595; select Michael
Kors stores. In this
story: hair, Jimmy
Paul for Bumble and
Bumble; makeup,
Dick Page. Details,
see In This Issue.
“As we go
through life,
we find
ourselves on
certain paths
that just kind
of happen
organically,”
says Hume
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PUNCH Enough with
the yoga and
mindful
breathing. In these volatile
times, more and more
women are finding a sense
of calm in self-defense
THE ONLY WAY I EXERCISE REGULARLY workouts. Catherine Lacey
is by lying to myself. These are not small joins the fight club.
lies; they’re not motivating affirmations
or vacant mantras—no. They’re brief Photographed by Anton Corbijn.

DRUNK
but intense fantasies that I am an en-
tirely different person. I took samba
classes for a year, masquerading as a
lighthearted woman who could dance
without self-consciousness. To coerce
myself into hotel workouts, I pretend
I’m under house arrest, wrongfully ac-
cused and vengeful as I do push-ups Combat-based exercise aligns per-
on my fists. fectly with the fitness industry’s focus
The most satisfying of these delu- in recent years on strength building
sions is the one in which I am a pro- rather than weight loss. Gisele Bünd-
fessional fighter, training as if my life chen trains with mixed-martial-arts
depends on it. This began in late 2015. fighter Tateki Matsuda; Olivia Munn
With the looming election already (who once flatly told Vogue, “I hate
stressing me out, I walked into a small yoga”) now posts Instagram videos of
gym where punching bags swayed in her Tae Kwon Do drills. When Gigi
the sweat-heavy air. As the instructor Hadid was grabbed by a stranger after
began shouting commands—right a runway show in Milan, the model
hook, left jab, left hook, right jab—I summoned her self-defense skills to
paused for a moment, holding my fists throw an elbow to his face. Demi Lo-
at attention, before I went ballistic on vato recently got her blue belt in Bra-
that bag. I caught the instructor giving zilian jujitsu. “This is not boxercise,”
me a mystified look, but it didn’t mat- Lovato’s trainer, Jay Glazer, tells me.
ter whether he was impressed or just “We’re teaching violence.”
amused. I was a prizefighter, a nasty Though MMA has long been male-
woman, a Million Dollar Baby. I left dominated in its athletes and audience,
the gym drenched, sore, and ebullient. the gender disparity has rapidly shrunk
That was back when I thought the since the Ultimate Fighting Champi-
American political climate couldn’t onship, the largest international or-
become more hostile, when we didn’t ganization for the sport, introduced a
know the Hillary-Bernie debate was female division in 2013. If being (or at
a string quartet on a sinking ship. We least feeling) dangerous is the new fit-
now live in a prevailing state of anxi- ness aspiration, then our current role
ety; according to a report that the As- models can be found in those rapidly
sociation for University and College expanding ranks. “Fighting helped me
Counseling Center Directors published learn that I can’t let my emotions take
in March, this is the seventh year in a over,” Rose Namajunas, the UFC’s
row that the disorder has surpassed new strawweight champion, tells me.
depression as the main reason college All martial arts, but in particular ju-
students seek therapy. This past fall, jitsu, Namajunas advises, “teach you
too, we bore witness to a deluge of how to get comfortable in uncomfort-
women’s shocking tales of sexual ha- able situations.” She showed the world
rassment and assault. With so many of how comfortable she has become
us feeling destabilized, is it any wonder this past November, when she ended
that boxing gyms and dojos across the Joanna Jedrzejczyk’s years-long win-
nation are seeing a significant swell in ning streak with a swift and shocking
attendance, especially among women? knockout. C O N T I N U E D O N PAG E 1 0 0

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S ET D ES IG N , BE T TE A DA MS FO R M A RY H OWA RD STU D I O.

P HOTO G RA P HE D AT QUA D ROZZI ST U D IOS, I NC.

ALIVE AND
KICKING
In a Heroine Sport
sports bra and
Reebok shorts,
strength-and-
conditioning coach
Courtney Roselle
strikes out. Hair,
Thom Priano for
R+Co; makeup,
Stéphane Marais.
Details, see In
This Issue.
Sittings Editor:
Phyllis Posnick.
Pet
The

Set As
emotional-
support status
for dogs
and cats gains
traction,
seemingly
every airplane,
fashion show,
and nail salon is
suddenly
an animal house.
Chloe Malle
investigates the
hype—and the
healing
potential.
Photographed by
Steven Klein

GONE TO THE DOGS


At a growing number of luxury spas,
four-legged friends are not just
tolerated; they’re catered to, with coat-
enhancing oil rubs, butler service, and
à la carte–menu items. Model Guinevere
van Seenus wears a Proenza Schouler
jacket and skirt; Proenza Schouler, NYC.
Fashion Editor: Phyllis Posnick.
TRAINING DAY
The wellness craze
has jumped species,
causing an uptick
in everything from pet
massages to freshly
made meal–delivery
services. Van Seenus
wears a Dolce &
Gabbana bustier top,
briefs, and shoes;
select Dolce &
Gabbana boutiques.
Goyard pet collar
and leash on dog.
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T
Phyllis. Anytime she veers from
her typical ten-block radius along
the eastern perimeter of Central
Park, her bug eyes become even
larger than usual, and any friend-
ly stranger who leans down to say
hello is met with a disdainful re-
coil. To successfully argue that
the eleven-year-old cavachon is a nurturing crutch would
demand herculean creativity, not to mention chutzpah. This
is the assumption, however, when Phyllis and I enter the
Parker Meridien, where three of the hotel’s basement-level
beauty retailers—Tenoverten nail salon, the blowout main-
stay Drybar, and Blushington makeup studio—welcome us
without question. Phyllis is my mother’s dog, so today I am
multitasking pet-sitting duties with a long-standing manicure
appointment, and both of us are pleasantly surprised when
not an eyebrow is raised at the sound of Phyllis’s own nails
clacking across the tile. My manicurist, Gladys, even offers
her a peticure, but the dog demurs with a nervous lip quiver.
Tenoverten is just one of the many human beauty estab-
lishments likely to accept four-legged friends as guests (when
in doubt, call ahead). And these are not just croissant-size
purse inhabitants; one regular at the chain’s midtown loca-
tion always brings her 65-pound greyhound, the dog’s sleek
head eye-level with the Christian Louboutin lacquers on the
manicure tables.
Whereas Toto’s accompanying Dorothy all the way to
Oz may have seemed like a curious anomaly, now it would
be strange if Judy Garland had traveled without the cairn
terrier, thanks to the glut of easily obtainable Emotional
Support Animal letters; after spending mere minutes filling
out a questionnaire on certapet.com, I was informed that I
am an excellent candidate for an emotional-support animal
and that I could get a therapist’s evaluation and, if deemed
fit, a confirmation delivered in 48 hours for $150. From
Cara Delevingne’s husky mix Leo, a regular at Claridge’s in
London and front row at Chanel couture, to Hector, Thom
Browne’s wirehaired dachshund (who prompted the line to
stock dogwear), pets have become a tolerated extension of
their owners, accompanying them everywhere they go. It was
only a matter of time before spas and resorts followed suit.
These latest animal-friendly bastions go out of their way
to offer cosseted companions an experience as luxurious as
the ones enjoyed by their human escorts. At Las Ventanas
al Paraíso in Cabo San Lucas, pets receive their own cabana
and can choose from the “Canine Delights” menu presented
to them by the “dog butler” on hand for walks and mas-
sages. The Inn by the Sea in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, has an
equally diverse room-service menu, including homemade
Meat Roaff and their signature dish, K-9 ice cream, a soy
milk–based honey-and-vanilla confection topped with dog-
bone crumble. Spa options are just as robust; Pennsylvania’s
Nemacolin Wooflands Pet Resort & Spa offers blueberry
facials, hot-oil treatments for dull coats, and mud baths to
soothe parched skin. (À la carte nail grinding and tooth
brushing are also on offer.) In an age when wellness is the new
luxury, it is perhaps unsurprising that the time, energy, and
money people are spending on their own well-being should
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BY K I RST IN MC MI LLA N . D O G GROO ME R, ERA NA FE RRO NE .
S ET D ES IG N , A ND R EA STA N L EY. P RO DUCE D BY CA ROL I NE

GROOM SERVICE
With animal interactions
said to increase levels of
the so-called love hormone
oxytocin, a well-coiffed poodle
can be both emotional salve
and sartorial twin. Van Seenus
wears a Saint Laurent by
Anthony Vaccarello dress
and sandals; Saint Laurent,
NYC. Chloé necklace. In this
story, hair: Garren of Garren
New York for R+Co; makeup:
Yadim. Photographed at
110 North Mapleton Drive.
Details, see In This Issue.
GET A GRIP
THIS PAGE (CLOCKWISE
FROM TOP LEFT):
AcroArmy’s Dave Olivier,
Nicole Cenia, Oliver
Donaldson, and Andrew
Phillips, all in Outdoor
Voices. Nike training
shoes. OPPOSITE:
Outdoor Voices founder
Tyler Haney in Outdoor
Voices leggings.
Fashion Editor:
Alex Harrington.
L E T ’ S G E T
P H Y S I C A L
THOUGH OUTDOOR VOICES IS TAKING OVER
THE FITNESS-APPAREL WORLD,THEY’RE NOT ABOUT
WINNING. THEY’RE ABOUT PLAYING THE GAME.
BY ROBERT SULLIVAN. PHOTOGRAPHED BY SEAN THOMAS.
IT’S
hard to keep
up with Tyler
Haney on her
morning walk
in Austin, Texas,
with her dog,
Bowie, a con-
fident Havapoo who, like Haney, is
happy to be out on the Ann and Roy
Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail. The beau-
tiful green space along the Colorado
River is filled with people of all ages
and levels of athletic expertise. “That’s
what’s so beautiful about this walk,”
Haney says. “It’s democratic.” Haney
is doubly excited when she spots one
woman after another wearing her
clothing: the apparel made by Outdoor
Voices, the local clothing company that
Haney founded and runs. “Look!” she
says. “She’s wearing OV!”
Though this particular Austinite
is wearing ash-colored OV leggings,
what’s most exciting to Haney (who
herself is wearing an OV top and an OV
stretch-crepe track short) is what the
woman is not doing: Rather than seem-
ingly setting out to break the Texas state
record for the mile, this 30-something
woman is simply, to use a favorite
phrase at OV, doing things, getting out,

“WITH SO MANY OTHER BRANDS, IT’S


being active and happy. “With Nike
and so many other brands, it’s really
about being an expert, being the best,”
says Haney, 29. “With OV, it’s about ABOUT BEING THE BEST,” SAYS
how you stay healthy—and happy.”
Since the company’s founding
HANEY. “WITH OV, IT’S ABOUT HOW
in 2013, its growth has accelerated YOU STAY HEALTHY—AND HAPPY”
with the lithe ferocity of a 100-meter
sprinter: 800 percent in 2016. Outdoor
Voices has eight retail stores in four business degree from Parsons School she spent a year studying fabrics, I
states, with another five planned for of Design. It was in early 2013, during knew we could work together.”
the coming year, all of them aimed an internship at a fashion incubator, When Haney finally managed to
at people who are, sure, active, but that she went out for a run simply to make the first prototypes—a crop top
who are not defined by it. The fashion clear her head, and in her tight-fitting with a high neck and racer back and
world has noticed—Mickey Drexler, and brightly colored running clothes an ankle-length legging, both in sane,
formerly of J.Crew, now chairs the suddenly had the notion that she was fashionable grays, a combination now
board at OV, which joins a recently dressed—there’s no other way to put known as an OV Kit—friends insisted
emerging group of small companies it—wrong. “I just thought, Wait—I’m on having their own, and soon a com-
in the fashion world that have been not a track star!” she says. pany was born. The name comes from
making big strides in an athletic world She immediately began researching her childhood, where her mom would
once dominated by behemoths like and hunting down fabrics from mills. encourage her to use an indoor voice
Nike and Adidas. Agile start-ups like The goal: a technical fabric that didn’t while the kid in her just wanted to be
Aday and Heroine Sport have been look and feel technical. “It had to start outside all the time. “I thought, What if
adding design know-how to sports with the fabric,” she says. I built a brand around something peo-
bras and sweats, just as District Vision It was this fabric-first approach ple loved—a recreational Nike that’s all
and Koio have done for, respectively, that attracted the early attention of about staying healthy and being happy
sport-specific eyewear and sneakers. A.P.C.’s Jean Touitou, now a col- doing it?”
Tall and quick, Haney ran hurdles laborator with and backer of OV. Haney and I hop in her car for
in high school in Boulder, Colorado, “It sounds obvious, but the image a drive, the stereo playing Frank
and even dreamed of the Olympics be- is always the cream, the sweet spot,” Ocean—who, Haney says, is an OV fan
fore heading to New York instead for a Touitou says. “But when I heard that thanks to his C O N T I N U E D O N P A G E 1 0 1

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DON’T LET
ME DOWN
Outdoor Voices
pieces are built for
functional movement.
OPPOSITE: Haney in
a Givenchy dress.
Céline earrings. In
this story: hair, Tamas
Tuzes; makeup,
Jen Myles. Details,
see In This Issue.
P RODUC ED BY A N ASTAS I A B LA DES FOR 3 6 0P M
M I L K I N G I T
Would that be camel or flax with your coffee?
A health-minded Tamar Adler investigates the wide, wild world of alternamilks.
Photographed by Grant Cornett.

I
t appears as though a lunatic toddler is blancmange. The Chinese have been drinking soy milk since
planning a bender in my kitchen. My at least 82 a.d.
eight-foot-long cherrywood island is a What is new is the sheer number and variety of substitutes.
fracas of milk—containers and cartons Which leaves one wondering—what qualifies as “milk”? It is
and glass jugs and tins of powder illus- a question hotly debated in the halls of Congress. The dairy
trated with mammals that aren’t cows. industry has lobbied for its description— “lacteal secretion
Behind them is a jumble of brightly . . . obtained by the complete milking of one or more hoofed
printed Tetra Paks filled with extrusions mammals”—but they’re up against history and etymology.
of grains and nuts and tubers and seeds. Milch, in Middle High German, was simply affixed to ani-
A single container of cow’s milk mals that produced it, not all of them hoofed—as in “milch
stands, somewhat awkwardly, alone. camels” from Genesis 32:15. And my 1913 Webster’s Un-
Why? Because cow’s-milk consump- abridged provides “1. A white fluid secreted by the mammary
tion in this country has plummeted—7 glands of female mammals. . . . 2. A kind of juice or sap, usu-
percent in 2015, an 11 percent further ally white in color, found in certain plants. . . . 3. An emulsion
drop expected by 2020—and I’m about made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds. . . . 4. The
to taste my way through the wild and woolly world of alter- ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.” David Katz, M.D.,
natives. Almond milk may be the lait du moment, having seen founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research
sales in this country rise 250 percent from 2012 to 2015. But I Center, whom I contact for help, more or less shrugs. “Milk
have assembled soy, rice, cashew, coconut, macadamia, and is named for the role it plays in diets,” he says, “just as burgers
pea. I have convened camel, sheep, horse, and goat. I could are called burgers, whatever they are made from.”
have gathered many more—a cause for some celebration. Earth is home to more than 5,000 species that produce
Cow’s milk is appallingly resource-intensive to produce, milk—too many to try, so I must begin winnowing. Hooded-
and its reputation as a nutritional mainstay has eroded to seal milk, I learn, is over 60 percent fat—akin to clotted
near-shibboleth status. Controversial reports have linked it cream. Whale milk is about half as rich. Reindeer milk, 23
to autism and multiple sclerosis. Noncontroversial ones have percent. Buffalo, from which the best mozzarella comes, is
drawn connections to aggravating other autoimmunities. In over 10 percent. These all sound delicious, but milking seals
the quantities we have long been advised to consume it, cow’s and whales is an organizational nightmare. Plus, none of
milk can create unwanted bacterial inflammation in our gut these milks has been shown to have any special health or
flora. And tests in T. Colin Campbell’s China Study showed environmental benefits, so why bother?
that caseins, which make up the largest group of protein in Donkey’s milk, on the other hand, has a great following
milk, turned on cancer-gene expression on rats. Turned it on? in European circles, particularly in the allergic community.
Like a light switch, it seems. Pope Francis was apparently raised on it. Pierluigi Orunesu,
I myself am among the lactose intolerant—a group whose founder of a Swiss-based company named Eurolactis—the
symptoms were recorded long ago by Hippocrates, Galen name sounds like a nemesis from a James Bond film—tells
of Pergamon, and in the early 1900s by a Swedish doctor me that donkey’s milk is near-identical to human milk and
named Wernstedt, who suggested our condition be named hypoallergenic. Plus it was the secret of ancient beauties—
“idiosyncrasy.” I share my idiosyncrasy with 65 to 70 percent including Cleopatra, Poppaea Sabina, and Napoleon’s sister
of adults worldwide. Meanwhile, my sixteen-month-old Pauline, who all bathed in it.
suffers from a cow’s-milk allergy—probably to its proteins, It allegedly fights psoriasis and eczema. Lait de jument—
though it’s impossible to discern—and for the year I nursed mare’s milk—comes with similar claims. I order some, in
him, a soupçon of cow, goat, or sheep dairy in my diet trig- powder form, from a French company under the expres-
gered days of tortured squalling. sive portmanteau Chevalait. I learn from the evangelical
Alternatives to cow’s milk aren’t new. Almond milk in CEO of the Camel Milk Cooperative that milch camels
particular dates back to the thirteenth century but is probably produce a universal elixir, one that has been shown to help
more ancient. It is the main ingredient of that shape-shifting prevent diabetes, ameliorate symptoms of autism, and can
Arab dish of almonds, rosewater, and capon that became be digested without trouble by C O N T I N U E D O N P A G E 1 0 2

BEYOND THE COW


A selection of animal and plant milks: from donkey 3to horse, oat to soy to hemp, all available online
or at good health-food stores. Prop stylist, Noemi Bonazzi. Food stylist, Michelle Gatton.
GAME
ON
CAN YOU KICK IT?
YES, YOU CAN—DITCH
THE HEELS IN FAVOR OF
SOMETHING MORE FUN
WITH THE SEASON’S
CHIC NEW ATHLETIC-
INFLUENCED SNEAKERS.
PHOTOGRAPHED BY
ERIC BOMAN.
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THROW A FEW PUNCHES,
SKIP ROPE, OR SIMPLY
HIT THE STREETS IN A
SHOE THAT’S ATHLETIC IN
SPIRIT AND ELEGANT IN
DESIGN. THIS PAGE: STELLA
MCCARTNEY SNEAKERS,
$625; STELLAMCCARTNEY
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VIVIER SNEAKER, $775;
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FASHION EDITOR:
VIRGINIA SMITH.
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THE FAST LANE
WHETHER YOU’RE
SWINGING, LIFTING,
OR JUST BOUNCING
AROUND TOWN, ADD
SOME INTRIGUE—OR
SOME SPEED—TO
YOUR STEP WITH
TRICKED-OUT
TWISTS ON CLASSIC
SILHOUETTES. THIS
PAGE: DIOR SNEAKER,
$890; SELECT DIOR
BOUTIQUES. OPPOSITE
PAGE: VALENTINO
GARAVANI SNEAKER,
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BOUTIQUES.
READY, STEADY
A JACQUARD FLORAL
OR AN EXAGGERATED
HIGH ARCH STAMPED AT
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OTHERWISE ORDINARY
ATHLETIC SILHOUETTE TO
SOMETHING YOU CAN WEAR
ALL DAY—AND ALL NIGHT—
LONG. THIS PAGE: LOUIS
VUITTON SNEAKER, $1,100.
SELECT LOUIS VUITTON
BOUTIQUES. OPPOSITE PAGE:
RAG & BONE SNEAKERS,
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MOMENT OF
THE MONTH

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SLEEP
WALKING
The most coveted luxury
of all? It just might be a
proper night’s sleep. What
Shakespeare called the
“balm of hurt minds, great
nature’s second course” is the
ultimate defense against dark
under-eye circles and darker
thoughts—and scientists
have recently discovered an
inverse correlation between
hours of sleep and inches
of waistline. During waking
hours, we’re drawn to fashion
that could whisk us away to
never-never land, from Prada’s
embellished pajama-inspired
set to a vintage-inspired
glitter-and-lace-adorned slip
dress from Coach. The house’s
creative director, Stuart Vevers,
was inspired by the idea of
a vintage negligee a girl might
find in her grandmother’s
wardrobe. “It’s easy to throw
on,” Vevers says, “and after a
night on the town she might
certainly fall asleep in it.” Life,
after all, is but a dream. 

WAKE-UP CALL
FROM FAR LEFT: Model
Hannah Ferguson wears
a No. 21 chiffon dress
($1,150) and sequined
slip dress ($1,723);
numeroventuno.com.
Dries Van Noten earring.
Model Birgit Kos wears
a Prada top ($2,980), pants
($2,620) and necklace;
select Prada boutiques.
Model Yasmin Wijnaldum
wears a Coach 1941 slip
dress, $1,200; select
Coach stores. On all: Prada
shoes. Hair, Odile Gilbert;
makeup, Stéphane Marais.
Details, see In This Issue.
Photographed by
Patrick Demarchelier.
Fashion Editor:
Tonne Goodman.
S T R I K E A

AHEAD OF
THE CURVE
BIKE SHORTS ARE
POISED FOR A
COMEBACK—AND
WE’RE HEAD OVER
HEELS ABOUT IT.
MODEL IANA GODNIA
WEARS A FENTY
PUMA BY RIHANNA
BIKINI TOP ($75)
AND SHORTS ($180);
PUMA.COM. OFF-
WHITE C/O JIMMY
CHOO SANDALS.
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LOSING PHIL should move into an apartment around peace or relief, just ferocious pain and
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 59 the corner. It helped us maintain a little overwhelming loss. The most difficult—
him enough that, for a while, he kept his distance but allowed us all to be together as the impossible—thing was thinking, How
word. much as possible—he still walked the kids do I tell my kids that their dad just died?
Phil went into rehearsal for Mike Nich- to school, and we still had family dinners. What are the words?
ols’s production of Death of a Salesman, In the fall, Phil finally said, “I can’t do A loving swarm of friends and family
and he threw himself into it with his usual this anymore,” and he went back to rehab. carried me through those early days, but
intensity. Willy Loman is one of the great We decided I would bring the kids, then even so they felt miles away. They can’t be
tragic roles of twentieth-century theater, five, seven, and ten, to see him for a family there with you. There were a few people I
and Phil gave one of the rawest and most visit. We sat in a common room, and they knew who had gone through something
honest performances of his career. It asked asked him questions, which he answered similar. We would get together, and I
a lot of him and it exhausted him, but it with his usual honesty. He never came out wanted to say, Please don’t go, because
had nothing to do with his relapse. If any- and said, “I’m shooting up heroin,” but he you get it. From others, I received a lot
thing, doing seven shows a week kept him told them enough so that they could get of well-meaning advice, such as “Just get
from using, because it would have been it, and they were just so happy to see him. out more” or—I kid you not—“Craft.”
impossible to do that on drugs. Though It was hard when we left, because they all Literally two weeks after Phil died, some
he continued to drink after evening shows, wanted to know why he couldn’t come fellow parents asked me to show up on
he was otherwise clean, and as the days left home with us. But it felt healthy for us to a Friday morning to man the stall where
in the show’s limited run wound down, I deal with it together, as a family. they sold school paraphernalia. And after
began to dread what would happen when When Phil came back in November, the fifth person suggested I should start
it was over. he wanted so badly to stay sober, and for running, I lost it. “I don’t want to fucking
After the show closed, Phil didn’t have the next three months he did. But it was run,” I said. “I want to jump in the river
any work lined up for a while, so he had a a struggle, heartbreaking to watch. For and kill myself.”
lot of time on his own, and he very quickly the first time I realized that his addiction When I finally did decide to run, it was
started using again. It was all prescription was bigger than either of us. I bowed my always at night by the Hudson. The darker
stuff, though I don’t know where he was head and thought, I can’t fix this. It was and rainier it was, the more violent the
getting it. Again, I realized instantly, or at the moment that I let go. I told him, “I water, the better. I couldn’t get enough.
least I suspected. can’t monitor you all the time. I love you, Something about the extremity of it, the
“Are you taking pills?” I’m here for you, and I’ll always be here for closeness to death, was weirdly comfort-
“No, I don’t do that.” you. But I can’t save you.” ing. If I wanted to jump, it was there.
“Well, you’re dozing off.” I guess that was also the moment I What got me out of bed every morn-
“I’m tired. I’m not sleeping well.” made the decision I had deferred while ing and kept me alive, of course, were my
As soon as Phil started using heroin looking up at Freedom Tower back when kids. I had no choice: They needed me,
again, I sensed it, terrified. I told him, Phil had first started using. It’s difficult to and I loved them more than anything in
“You’re going to die. That’s what happens stay in a relationship with an active ad- the world. I would hit moments when I
with heroin.” Every day was filled with dict. It feels like being boiled in oil. But I felt, I’m done. I’m so done, but then I’d see
worry. Every night, when he went out, I couldn’t abandon him. I just had to figure their faces, and right away it would be-
wondered: Will I see him again? out: How do I live with him? And how do come, OK. I can do this today. They were
I was getting all kinds of advice—every- I do it without caregiving or enabling, and keenly aware that I was now their only
body was fumbling in the dark. Some peo- in a way that protects the kids and me? parent, and Willa, my youngest, obsessed
ple told me to get the kids away from him. Some time in January, Phil started iso- about it, asking, “If you die, how are
The urban historian Lewis Mumford once lating himself. He was in Atlanta filming people going to know how to find us?”
said, “In the city, time becomes visible.” The Hunger Games. I called and texted It was almost a year before I could go
When Phil started using, Freedom Tower him and said, “I’m here to talk.” At that out at night without the kids’ going into
was almost finished—a new building in point, we had started to shift things over a panic. When I forced myself to make a
the footprint of the World Trade Center. to me financially, because Phil knew that few tentative forays into the world, within
I remember walking along the Hudson when he was using he wasn’t responsible. an hour there would be a phone call and
looking at it, and realizing that our whole We began making plans to set up another I’d be on my way back home.
relationship spanned the fall of the twin rehab as soon as the movie wrapped, but I Even as I started getting out more, I
towers on 9/11 to the rise of the new tower knew we had a difficult path ahead of us. couldn’t bring myself to go to the theater.
in its place. I thought, I’ll make a decision It happened so quickly. Phil came home Phil had been my favorite person to go
once the building is finished. I felt like I from Atlanta, and I called a few people with. He was so enthusiastic and open and
was drowning, and it gave me something and said that we needed to keep an eye generous—he was floored by actors all the
to hold on to. on him. Then he started using again, and time—and at the end of any play, I would
Phil tried to stop on his own, but detox- three days later he was dead. look over and he’d be crying. So, for a long
ing caused him agonizing physical pain, The circumstances of Phil’s death were time, theater was out of the question. I
so I took him to rehab. In some of the so public—people around the world knew knew that, whoever was sitting in it, the
conversations that we had while he was he was dead an hour after I did—and ev- seat next to mine would feel empty.
there, Phil was so open and vulnerable ery detail, from the days leading up to his It’s been almost four years since Phil
that they remain among the most intimate overdose to his funeral, were, and remain, died, and the kids and I are still in a place
moments of our time together. Within a all over the Internet. And so I need to keep where that fact is there every day. We talk
day or two of returning, he started using the rest of that awful time private. I had about him constantly, only now we can
again. At home, he was behaving differ- been expecting him to die since the day talk about him without instantly crying.
ently, and it was making the kids anxious. he started using again, but when it finally That’s the small difference, the little bit
We both felt that some boundaries would happened it hit me with brutal force. I of progress that we’ve made. We can talk
be helpful, and tearfully decided that Phil wasn’t prepared. There was no sense of about him in a way that feels as though

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there’s a remembrance of what happened “I rejected the fact that I had a disease,” mind that she would slay the interlude.”
to him, but that also honors him. We talk she says. The subsequent Hashimoto’s In the midst of all this, Rodriguez has
about his bad sides and his good sides, diagnosis prompted a similar head-in-the- somehow found time to develop Latino-
what he did that was funny and what he sand response, one that, on the surface, focused TV and film projects through her
did that was crazy, and what he did that resembled something like body positiv- production company. “I want to put wom-
was loving and tender and sweet. We open ity: “I went against the current by saying, en and Latinos in front of, and behind,
up, and it brings us together and keeps his ‘Hollywood has to accept me because I’m the camera,” she says, to “control what
spirit alive. curvy, and that’s just the way it is,’ ” she there’s a lack of, versus just feeling helpless
This fall, after a long campaign by my says. “But I wasn’t accepting me.” about it.” To this end she has sold four
kids, I agreed that we could get a fam- It was LoCicero’s influence that sparked TV shows to major networks, including a
ily dog. They had their hearts set on a her eventual metamorphosis, Rodriguez timely sitcom to the CW, called Illegal. The
French bulldog, and after some research says. The two met on the set of Jane— comedy is based on the true story of its
we found a breeder and picked out a you may recall his appearances first as Ecuadoran-born writer, Rafael Agustin,
puppy, a girl, whose picture was so cute a male stripper dressed as Don Quixote who grew up in the U.S. and was class
it was almost insane (and I’m not a dog and then as Prince Charming—but didn’t president, prom king, and an honor-roll
person). The moment we made the deci- start dating until the summer of 2016, af- student at his American high school when,
sion, Cooper said, “She’s going to die. ter running into each other at Wild Card in the course of applying to college, he
Dogs don’t live very long, so we’re going West, the boxing gym in Santa Monica. discovered that he was undocumented.
to see her die.” In her birth and in her Rodriguez had just finished shooting An- Although the series is “very funny, very
coming to us, we were also mourning her nihilation, Alex Garland’s forthcoming lighthearted,” Rodriguez says, the goal is
death. Something about that felt right, science-fiction thriller with Natalie Port- serious—to “create empathy.” Much of
knowing that everything you meet or love man and Jennifer Jason Leigh. “She’s a the animosity directed toward immigrants
is going to die. I was in awe of my kids bulldog,” Rodriguez says of her character is based on fear, she says. “Art can shatter
that they were able to hold both things in in the film. She put on fifteen pounds of that fear.”
their heads at the same time. That’s who muscle for the role, and when she returned When she can, Rodriguez still puts in
they are now. And it hasn’t stopped them to L.A., she didn’t feel like herself at all. time at Wild Card West, the gym where she
from loving this little creature (her name A few months into their relationship, and LoCicero reconnected in the summer
is Puddles) scampering around our apart- during a hiatus from Jane, Rodriguez and of 2016. It’s owned by Peter Berg, who
ment. None of them wants to hold back. LoCicero went to Phuket to study Muay directed Rodriguez in Deepwater Horizon.
They’ve given their hearts to her, without Thai for a month, and Rodriguez credits She and Berg first sparred in New Orleans
hesitation or reservation. the trip with instilling in her a greater sense while on location for the film and trained
They’re all in.  of control. “This is what I look like when together for the rest of the shoot. “She’s a
I fight,” she says of the killer shape she got formidable boxer,” Berg tells me. He could
FIGHTING SHAPE into in Thailand. “This is what I look like see she was legit when he witnessed her me-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 61 when I don’t.” thodically wrapping her hands. But for the
CW comedy that has delighted audiences She began to take a proactive approach. first three rounds of their initial match, he
with its screwball reinterpretation of a Last May, as she was preparing to shoot held back. “She resented that.” By the end,
Venezuelan telenovela, she is brimming Miss Bala, a forthcoming remake of the “I forgot it was the lead actress of a film
with energy. Her blows land with a speed Mexican film about a beauty-pageant I’m directing. Like, I’m in survival mode,”
and force I can only faintly imitate. By the contestant who becomes embroiled with Berg says. “Gina can fight.” 
time she’s done with me—more mitts, plus a Tijuana drug gang, Rodriguez revamped
five sets of weight-bearing squats—I am her diet under the guidance of nutritionist SECOND CHANCE
spent and wobbly. The line from When Shauna Faulisi. “The focus for Gina is to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 62
Harry Met Sally . . . comes to mind: “I’ll support her gut,” Faulisi says, noting that features speak to our moment? For Fran-
have what she’s having.” a good portion of one’s immune system çois Nars, it was Aya’s air of innocence,
Rodriguez wasn’t always the picture resides in the GI tract. According to the combined with untold reserves of strength,
of inexhaustible stamina. In 2014, she Mayo Clinic, there is no evidence that a that made him cast her as the face of Nars
was running upwards of 20 miles a week specific diet will reverse changes caused Cosmetics for fall 2016. “It was a total
training for a half marathon, but it was by Hashimoto’s. But because fatigue is look,” he said of the campaign, which had
having no discernible effect on her body. among the condition’s strongest symp- Aya sporting a gigantic Afro and chan-
Part of the reason, she would soon learn, toms, eating to maximize energy can go neling a young Diana Ross—a vision of
was a tricky autoimmune condition called a long way toward mitigating its effects. empowered black beauty, at once up front
Hashimoto’s disease—a syndrome re- Rodriguez needs the endurance. In ad- and meltingly mysterious. “Much of the
lated to hypothyroidism in which your dition to Jane, Annihilation, Miss Bala, and inspiration came from the seventies,” Nars
immune system actually attacks your two animation projects—she is the voice said, “but Aya made it very fresh and new,
thyroid gland. Although you can have of Una in Ferdinand, a remake of Walt very accurate for today.”
one without the other, Hashimoto’s is the Disney’s 1938 classic Ferdinand the Bull, Just months after those pictures were
most common cause of hypothyroidism: and of Carmen Sandiego in a forthcoming shot, she lay in the hospital in Thailand,
More than 10 percent of Americans have Netflix reboot—she recently recorded a needing every ounce of her strength, and
some level of the Hashimoto’s antibodies rap track for “Almost Like Praying,” Lin- all the support of her close-knit family, to
in their system. Women are roughly five Manuel Miranda’s relief song for victims sustain her. Her mother, a retired physi-
to eight times more likely than men to of Hurricane Maria, which destroyed her cal therapist, was constantly by her side.
develop thyroid conditions. grandmother’s home in Puerto Rico. The “During the whole year of her recovery, I
Rodriguez was diagnosed with hypo- two met in New York, back when they never heard her complain,” Béatrice recalls,
thyroidism in college and got on medica- were “just two Latinos trying to make it,” “except when her brother left Thailand
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quell a dark mood, attacking a punching Purina might not be the best choice,” she she helps take the focus off them. She’s a
bag replicates that plate-breaking feeling says. Akner cites the rise of fresh pet food– great desensitizer.”
without the waste or cleanup. My desire delivery services, such as the Farmer’s Dog Lehman confirms that animal toler-
for release has recently flared up, spurred and Ollie; at Ollie’s inaugural Pupsgiving ance in the salon has certainly shifted.
by a totally unforeseen divorce and a spell dinner this past November, the turkey feast “We’re like Europe; everywhere you go on
of academic nomadism that has had me served to bipedal guests was derived from Madison Avenue now you can take your
breezing in and out of college towns. the ingredients used in the company’s new dog,” he says before recalling a client who
Shortly after moving from Chicago turkey recipe, which was simultaneously used to come to his salon years ago, petri-
to Oxford, Mississippi, to be the visiting prepared for pet guests in red-and-white fied that the resident Italian greyhounds
writer at the university, I began looking china dog bowls. would relieve themselves on her cognac
for a boxing gym, but I doubted that a But all this effort may better serve the Birkin bag. “That would never happen
near-violent workout would suit the mild owner than the animal. I understand that, today,” says Lehman; a Goldendoodle is
feminine sensibilities that I remembered for many, ensuring the comfort of a pet— the new Birkin bag.
from growing up here. I imagined the and having its comfort in return—is irre- I am only allowed to pet Ana in the
shadowboxing aerobics of the nineties placeable, as is the convenience of traveling direction of her hair growth, so as not to
and early aughts, a room of bored women with them. (Although taking the Hampton derail her mise en plis, and as I sit down to
blithely punching the air. Jitney with Phyllis—who is not only al- have my own curly strands blown straight,
But the students at Oxford Fitness lowed on the coach in a carrier but fawned I can’t help asking what products she uses
Kickboxing are not there to play, and over by passengers—is the opposite of to achieve such silkiness. “Everyone is
most of the instructors compete in pro calming if you forget her Dramamine.) always asking that,” Lehman says with a
or amateur fights put on across the state. “When I have her with me, I don’t have spin of the round brush, name-dropping
Forty punching bags loom in a grid in the to worry about leaving her alone or with her favorites from Vertu’s line. “They wish
center of the hangar-size gym, space that a cat sitter, which is the source of most they could look as good as her!” 
proves crucial once the other students— of my anxiety anyway,” says Last Week
many of them the seemingly demure Tonight writer Juli Weiner, who has trav- LET’S GET PHYSICAL
sorority sisters I see around campus— eled to Los Angeles for the Emmys with CONTINUED FROM PAGE 78
begin striking. Their bandage dresses and her Persian, Pajama. Whether that means (recreational) interest in climbing. (He’s
smiles are replaced with boxing gloves Pajama should be allowed on a plane—or also an investor in the company.) The
and brutal uppercuts. in a spa—remains a question, as every- decidedly anticorporate headquarters in
Seeing these young women unleash one seems to have an emotional support– East Austin, our next stop, consists of one
a torrent of strikes with narrowed eyes, animal horror story. Who can forget when large white-and-plywood-accented room
I remembered something Winston had that purported “service” marmoset bit with desks everywhere, along with dogs
said to me during our call: “Most learn- a Target employee in 2015, fanning the and music. The staff looks a lot like the
ing comes from the body up to the brain flames of the debate on social media? 20-to-35-year-old city-based customer
rather than the other way around.” My But the reciprocal nature of human- they are designing for—someone who’s
fellow fighters were enacting a power pet wellness is real, according to Steve interested in working hard, but not too
they already possessed. No longer will Marsden, D.V.M, N.D., a veterinary and hard, before finding a great place to hike
women be hospitable to a fault. All over naturopathic doctor who runs one of the on the weekends. In a little cove designated
the country (yes, even in Mississippi), world’s only shared animal-and-human as the art department, designers are sur-
female ferocity is afoot.  holistic medical centers, in Alberta, Cana- rounded by inspirational images that draw
da, with his wife, Kären Marsden, D.V.M., deeply on the seventies and eighties, a time
THE PET SET C.V.A. “It’s a common experience to see when people got their aerobics in aerobics
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 74 a pet’s and its owner’s health status inter- classes, bodies were softer, and happy was
include canine, feline, porcine, and even twined. If the owner is not doing well, that cool. On the bookshelf is the 1977 classic
leporine members. (I can direct you to not will affect the animal and vice versa,” says The Complete Head to Toe Exercise Book.
one but two bunny acupuncturists, should Steve Marsden, whose dual treatment cen- The big news in the art department has
you be in the market.) ters used to be in the same building; due to to do with color, initially anathema, more
New York–based holistic veterinarian increased demand, the human facility has recently loved—in moderation. “There is
Tracy Akner, V.M.D., C.V.A., who special- moved across the street. (The reception so much color in nature,” says women’s
izes in veterinary acupuncture, Chinese area—and Chinese-herb dispensary—re- design director Alexa Day Silva, her field
herbs, and cold laser to help repair tissue mains communal.) guide to wildflowers conspicuously near-
while reducing pain and inflammation, Phyllis drooling on the marble next to by. (Color, like clothing design in general,
says those who seek her out these days are me at Drybar in no way enhanced my seems to be in Haney’s genes: When she
better educated than they were ten years blowout experience. But I do enjoy visit- was a kid, her dad screen-printed T-shirts,
ago: “There’s so much more information. ing Ana, the Maltese at Sharon Dorram while both her mom and her aunts made
It’s people who think, I’ve evolved in my Color at Sally Hershberger salon on New extremely colorful clothes. “Their youth-
life to realize that the pills my doctor gives York’s Upper East Side. On a recent after- ful spirit is a lot of the personality of OV,”
me may not be the best treatment for me noon, Ana (after Pavlova) was presiding Haney says. “The whole spirit is about
in the long run—so why wouldn’t the same over her domain while her father, stylist growing up in Boulder with people who
apply to their pet?” Akner, who recom- Tim Lehman, saw his regular clients. “She make things.”)
mends a homemade diet for pet patients really does provide emotional support,” Lunch is at June’s All Day, a restaurant
that maximizes antioxidant-rich vegeta- Lehman explains, adjusting the tissue pa- run by Haney’s boyfriend, Larry McGuire
bles and meat, says that the whole-foods per secured with rubber bands that pro- (the couple make a point of spending ev-
trend and gluten-phobia has been a gate- tects the Westminster Best of Breed 2017 ery weekend together, no matter how far
way for this change in mind-set. “I used to champion’s pristine white hair from break- Haney’s travels may have taken her in
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times). Later, Haney takes a meeting MILKING IT milking machine for cows and sheep. It
about an upcoming dog jog. While other CONTINUED FROM PAGE 80 is a beautiful royal blue and has a 1,440
companies host 10Ks for humans, OV lactose-intolerant children. Camel’s milk RMP piston.)
focuses on events that are more social contains five times the vitamin C of cow’s Once I’ve chilled the animal milks and
than grueling: casual running clubs, yoga milk and plenty of immune-boosting im- mixed the milks that have arrived en pou-
events, a dreamed-of large-scale fitness munoglobulins. I order six pints—$12 dre, it is finally time to taste. There is no
festival—and, in this case, a jog at a nearby per. I also find camel colostrum from a formal model for this—does one need a
golf course with your dog. The meeting is company called Camilk, for $70 an eight- spittoon? Does one rinse glasses between
interrupted when somebody’s puppy bites ounce bottle. It contains stratospheric rounds? And how to cleanse one’s palate?
into the cable of the projector displaying levels of immune boosters, plus high I settle on a new glass for each sip, and
the planning progress. “When does our concentrations of vitamins B and D. I instead of soda crackers, I supply a very
inflatable dog get here?” Haney asks. vacillate, brooding about the well-being large plate of chocolate-chip sea-salt cook-
At the end of the day, most of the of newborn camels robbed of colostrum. ies. I corral my husband and an innocent
office shows up by the river for a game By the time I muster the coldheartedness, couple who are spending the weekend in
of flag football. A guy from engineering Camilk is sold out. (I later receive an email our guesthouse.
makes an excellent throw while Ellery from the company explaining that it sells Everyone perches on stools and regards
Hollingsworth, a former pro snowboard- only unused, excess colostrum from camel the first sample: store-bought soy. We’ve
er, tells me she applied to OV because she mothers.) I get sheep’s milk from a cream- decided to rate each as one would wine, by
wanted to work for a woman who was ery called Haverton Hill in California and appearance, aroma, and taste. I’ve added
shaking up the apparel industry. “I was goat’s milk from Windsor, Vermont. a column for nutritional content. From
interning at Nike when I heard about OV For plant milks, I withdraw to the store our notes the soy is “milky, creamy, a little
and Tyler, and I was like, Oh, man, that of a local biodynamic farm and let boxes brown, with likable viscosity, not too leg-
girl!” says Hollingsworth. When the boss fall into my shopping cart like dominoes. gy.” It smells “nice, lightly sweet.” The taste:
carries the football a good 40 yards, joy- More nut and grain milks arrive over the “a little sweet, a little vegetal. Like food.”
ously, suddenly you can see her running following days—from California, Con- The homemade version brings to mind a
hurdles in high school. Why hurdles?—or, necticut, Sweden, Queens. I also get a wonderful healing broth—and I momen-
for that matter, why take on the biggest Joyoung soy-milk maker with timer ($229) tarily wonder why we ever milked any-
apparel companies in the world? and a SoyaJoy soy-milk and soup maker thing but soy. Almond milks—six different
“I get bored without obstacles,” Haney ($130)—in case homemade turns out to ones—are next. I immediately wish for a
tells me after the game. “It’s boring without be best. (For the record, for only $497 spittoon. One, blended with pistachios and
things to jump over.”  one can purchase a Happybuy electric hazelnuts, from an Italian company called

In This Issue
NYC. Earring, $345 for NYC. On Wen: Burberry $750; select Nordstrom
pair; farisfaris.com. Ankle September Collection stores. Sandals, $640;
boots, $1,395; Christian sandals, $795; us.burberry Barneys New York, NYC.
Louboutin, NYC. In this .com. 52: On Gale: Belt, 55: On Ferguson: Earrings,
story: Manicure, Deborah $395. Earrings, $1,195; $670; Céline, NYC. Alexis
Table of contents 10: Céline Schira for Christy Lippmann. Tailor, Leah Saint Laurent, NYC. Sandals, Bittar bangles, $195–$245;
On Hume: T-shirt, blouse, Rilling Studio. Up front 22: Huntsinger. $650; alexanderwang alexisbittar.com. Jennifer
and shorts, priced upon Dress, price upon request; .com. On Graham: Dress, Fisher cuffs, $795–$995;
request; select Louis (800) 845-6790. Earring GOOD VIBRATIONS price upon request. jenniferfisherjewelry
Vuitton boutiques. On (on left), $495 for pair; 48: On Koella: Burberry Earrings, $1,550; beladora .com. On Hartzel:
Violet: Shirt ($1,770) and balenciaga.com. Earring September Collection .com. Sandals, $595; Earring, $585 for pair;
shorts ($1,030); select (on right), $1,800 for pair; earring (on left), $995 for alexanderwang.com. On jenniferfisherjewelry.com.
Prada boutiques. Manicure, beladora.com. pair; us.burberry.com. Dilone: Top ($12,690) In this story: Manicure, Kylie
Betina Goldstein. Tailor, V life 28: Manicure, Yukie Roxanne Assoulin earring and boots ($1,390). Kwok for Essie. Tailor, Céline
Susie Kourinian. Cover Miyakawa. 34: Dress, (on right), $120 for pair; Boots at Just One Eye, Los Schira for Christy Rilling
look 10: Jumpsuit and $2,990; matchesfashion roxanneassoulin.com. On Angeles. Earring, $145; Studio.
skirt, priced upon request; .com. Robert Lee Morris Guérin: Earring, $75 for pair; rjgraziano.com. 53: On
select Dior boutiques. cuffs, $75–$250; kennethjaylane Skriver: Earring, price upon LOSING PHIL
18K rose gold–and–white robertleemorris.com. .com. On Montero: Dress, request; similar styles at 56–57: Bottega
topaz earring, $3,800 Khalama Design bangle, $6,995. Earring, $120 closerbywwake.com. On Veneta coat, $5,400;
for pair; pomellato.com. $110; khalama.com. for pair; roxanneassoulin Sampaio: Earring, price (800) 845-6790.
Platinum-and-diamond .com. 49: On Elsesser: upon request for pair; Commando bodysuit,
rings, $4,720–$31,990; MOVE IT Earring (on right), $585 for altuzarra.com. 54: On $74; wearcommando
tacori.com. Manicure, 40–41: Jumpsuit, price pair; sejewellery.com. On Karlsson: Coat, $6,800. .com. L’agence pants,
Deborah Lippmann. Tailor, upon request; select Dolce Hartzel: Earrings, $495; Agmes earring (on left), $225; lagencefashion.com.
Leah Huntsinger. Editor’s & Gabbana boutiques. 44– Balenciaga, NYC. 50: $590 for pair; agmesnyc Manolo Blahnik shoes,
letter 20: On Graham: 45: Dress, $6,800; Céline, On Moore: Walt Cassidy .com. Gala Is Love earring $745; neimanmarcus.com.
Dress, price upon request; NYC. Earring, price upon Studio earring (on right), (on right), $190 for pair;
Balmain, NYC. Beladora request for pair; similar $225 for pair; waltcassidy The Most Beautiful Thing FIGHTING SHAPE
earrings, $1,550; beladora styles at christopherkane .com. Faris earring (on left), in the World, Cincinnati. 60–61: Jacket, $1,695;
.com. On Dilone: Paco .com. Bracelets, $899 $225 for pair; farisfaris. Brooch, $225; marteau.co. alexanderwang.com. Dress
Rabanne top and shorts each; atelierswarovski com. On Montero: earrings, Sandals, $650; sergiorossi ($1,250) and top ($250);
($12,690); Barneys New .com. Sneakers, $1,295; price upon request; select .com. On Rosa: Vest and similar styles at coach.com.
York, NYC. RJ Graziano select Giuseppe Zanotti Hermès boutiques. 51: belt, priced upon request. Boots, $1,240; casadei
earrings, $75–$145; boutiques. 46–47: Dress, On Fraser: Shoes, $1,650; Earring, $325 for pair; .com. In this story: Tailor,
rjgraziano.com. Tailor, $6,900; Calvin Klein, similar styles at Balenciaga, ippolita.com. Bracelet, Cha Cha Zuctic.

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Mand’Or, includes 23 grams of sugar per prompts the best notes of the afternoon. roux become five carefully labeled bécha-
serving—more than half a can of Coke. Horse’s milk is roundly rejected as better mels. As I sauce five gratins de pâtes aux
The Blue Diamond brand almond milk for making bath soap. But goat’s milk, tast- herbes et chanterelles (baked noodles with
(which I bought unthinkingly for my twelve ing like fresh chèvre, is very good. Donkey’s mushrooms), the kitchen fills with tanta-
dairy-free months of nursing) is “grayish,” milk, that nectar of popes, has a pleasant lizing and unfamiliar aromas. My tasters
“smelly,” and “tastes like salty wastewater.” barley aroma (once the scent of tin blows reassemble, and we go through them one
Quinoa milk is muddy, thin, and reminis- off), is incredibly sweet, and conjures, for at a time. The oat-milk gratin is unsettlingly
cent of the liquid left in the pot after cook- one florid reviewer, “earth milk.” (Don- empty. We set it aside. A gratin made with
ing quinoa. Tiger nut—not a nut but a little key’s-milk “Nutella,” sent to me as a gift pea milk tastes as though it was made with
sedge tuber—is very sweet and very beige, by Orunesu, is delightful.) Camel’s milk is milk from a cow. The innate sweetness of
with tiny particles floating throughout and luminescent, as though lit from within, and donkey’s milk produces something that
a faint savor of rubber. Flax milk (“pearly salty as lassi and immediately vitalizing. tastes conclusively like the Jewish pudding
white,” “appropriately thick”) is tasteless. With my husband and guests contorted called noodle kugel—fine if that is what
This offends my husband, who likes to sew. on or under furniture, seemingly unable you’re after. The sheep’s-milk gratin is di-
“Who would do this to flax?” he asks. “Just to move, I tally results. Five milks rise to vine, but, I recall, sheep’s milk has all of the
make linen.” The wife of my captive couple the top like Jersey cream: Ripple pea milk, allergens of cow’s milk.
perceives of a mouthful of hemp milk “a Oatly oat milk, donkey’s, sheep’s, and cam- Best of all is the camel’s-milk gratin,
prominent, insistent absence.” Macadamia el’s milks. (Oat milk, it should be noted, is which has a musky, desert-wind qual-
milk is “sour and terrible,” but Ripple’s not as nutritious as cow’s milk. Pea milk is ity. It reminds me of a yogurt dish I once
Original pea milk “tastes nothing of pea,” close. Pea protein is not complete but seems ate in a cave in Cappadocia. Next time I
is “delicious,” and has an impressive nu- to produce as near a nutritional substitute plan to serve it with a tangle of fried on-
tritional profile. Oatly oat milk divides us, to cow’s milk as plants can.) I attempt to ions on top, as they would in Turkey. My
but its lead supporter (me) is vocal. Dirty persuade my tasters to try reviving lattes imagination gets the better of me, and I
glasses pile in the sink, itself aswirl with made with the finalists, but my husband begin to fantasize about salty camel yogurt,
white, looking, through my milk drunken- needs to run a sudden errand. Our houseg- herbed camel ice cream, perhaps dolloped
ness, like an Andy Goldsworthy installation uests consider cutting their weekend short. on camel risotto. My reverie is cut short
of ephemeral art. Which is fine, because a better way to by a reminder of my lactose intolerance.
I pour walnut milk from a Queens-based appreciate a milk than latte is a traditional Better not, I think, sighing. I surrender my
dairy called Elmhurst. “Brown like choco- béchamel—milk lightly thickened by a serving of camel (with its trace amount of
late milk,” I write, smells “amazing,” “like roux—used to sauce a classic gratin. I get lactose) and content myself with a gratin of
maple syrup,” and tastes “incredible.” It back to work. Five little flour and butter noodles and pea. 

SECOND CHANCE ($3,695), briefs ($3,695), .com. Tailor, Haley at Jimmy Choo boutiques. pair; matchesfashion
63: Blouse, $2,890; Saint and heels ($1,295). Pet Stitched. 77: Givenchy 91: Céline earring (on right), .com. On Kang: Earring,
Laurent, NYC. collar ($520–$565) and dress, $4,120; Givenchy, $500 for pair; Céline, NYC. $500 for pair; Céline, NYC.
leash ($495); Goyard NYC. Top ($70) and RJ Graziano bracelet, $95; Sandals, $248; torysport
A PLACE IN boutiques. 74–75: Leather leggings ($85); rjgraziano.com. Atelier .com. 95: Earring, $208 for
THE SUN dress with ostrich-feather outdoorvoices.com. 78: Swarovski by Christopher pair; andresgallardo
66–67: On Violet: Dress, sleeves (price upon request) Dress, $4,120; Givenchy, Kane bangles, $899 .com. Sandals, $995; select
$6,295. In this story: and sandals ($1,395). NYC. Earrings, $530; Céline, each; atelierswarovski Jimmy Choo stores.
Manicure, Betina Goldstein. Necklace, $410; Chloé NYC. 79: On Donaldson: .com. Dinosaur In this story: Manicure,
Tailor, Susie Kourinian. boutiques. In this story: shorts ($65); and leggings Designs bangle, $105; Yuko Tsuchihashi. Tailor,
Manicure, Denise Bourne ($85); outdoorvoices.com. dinosaurdesigns.com. Céline Schira for Christy
THAN THE AUTHORIZED STORE, THE BUYER TAKES A RISK AND SHOULD USE CAUTION WHEN DOING SO.

PUNCH DRUNK for Chanel. In this story: Manicure, Yukie Cara Croninger bangle, Rilling Studio.
ME N TI O N ED I N I TS PAG ES, W E CA NN OT GUA RA N TE E T HE AU TH EN T IC I T Y O F ME RC HA N D I S E SOLD

68–69: Sports bra, $115; Miyakawa. $400; caracroninger.net.


BY D I SCOUN T E RS. AS IS A LWAYS T HE CASE I N PU RCH AS I NG A N I TE M FRO M A N YW HE RE OTH ER

Saks Fifth Avenue stores. LET’S GET PHYSICAL Alexis Bittar bangle, $245; INDEX
A WO R D ABOUT DI SCOUN TE RS W HI LE VOGU E TH OROUG HLY RESE A RCH ES T HE COM PA NI ES

Shorts, $50; reebok.com. 76: On Olivier: Muscle tank MOMENT OF THE MONTH alexisbittar.com. Sandals, 96–97: 1. Necklace, price
In this story: Tailor, Cha Cha top ($60) and leggings 88–89: On Ferguson: $248; torysport.com. upon request. 5. Blouse
Zuctic. ($85); outdoorvoices.com. Earring, $635 for pair; 92: Top and shorts, also at isabelmarant.com.
On Cenia: Muscle tank Neiman Marcus stores. priced upon request. 6. Bag, $2,725. 7. Bracelet,
THE PET SET top ($60) and leggings On Kos: Necklace, $1,850. Earring, $199 for pair; $7,000. 13. Boot, $2,495.
70–71: Jacket and skirt; ($85); outdoorvoices.com. On all: Shoes, price upon atelierswarovski.com.
similar styles at Proenza On Donaldson: T-shirt, request; select Prada Dinosaur Designs bangle,
Schouler, NYC. Céline $65; outdoorvoices.com. boutiques. In this story: $105; dinosaurdesigns LAST LOOK
earrings, $500; Céline, NYC. On Phillips: Muscle tank Manicure, Anatole Rainey. .com. RJ Graziano bangle, 104: Slingbacks; select
Michael Kors Collection top ($60), shorts ($65); Tailor, Sami Bedioui. $85; rjgraziano.com. Prada boutiques.
sandals, price upon and leggings ($85); Sandals, price upon
request; select Michael Kors outdoorvoices.com. On all: STRIKE A POSE request; area.nyc. 94: On ALL PRICES
stores. 72–73: Bustier top Training shoes, $55; nike 90: Sandals, $1,085; select Borges: Earring, $365 for APPROXIMATE

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Prada slingbacks, $890


Printed with punchy comic-book graphics by Brigid Elva (one of nine female artists showcased in Prada’s
latest collection), these pointed-toe slingbacks are crafted for today’s superheroines: empowered women.
It’s rather fitting, then, that Miuccia Prada thought to equip them with a sartorial quick-change option.
Feeling more street than sweet? Swap out the removable polka-dot bows for versions in jet black—each pair
comes with an alternate set. Think kitten heel—but with all the attitude of a stiletto.
PHOTOGRAPHED BY ERIC BOMAN

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