When the film Dogtooth played for the first time to press and public at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, it was clear to everyone in the room that its maker harboured a perverse fascination with how we develop as human beings, and how that development can be manipulated to make entertainingly transgressive movies. That filmmaker […]
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “If you want to see the best Native American fashion, go to a grand entry at a powwow,” says designer Lauren Good Day. She’s quoting something she heard once, but it’s a fitting motto, given that it’s where the North Dakota-based […]
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No matter what your Spotify Wrapped says, music took us to more places in 2023 than Burlington, Vermont, or Berkeley, California. This year’s new releases transported us: to the dance floor, to our angsty teenage years, to the 2000s, to sweaty dance floors, or right into the middle of Barbie’s existential crisis. Here, we’re sharing […]
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While Kate Middleton has never spoken about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s strained relationship with the royal family, some British publications have run commentary from sources claiming she was a “peacekeeper” to Harry and her husband Prince William. Endgame author Omid Scobie told ELLE.com in a recent interview that there’s more to the story, at […]
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Dress, Ralph Lauren Collection, $5,990. Earrings, Schiaparelli, $1,100.Sølve Sundsbø In a black hoodie, her caramel hair corralled into a ballerina bun, Jennifer Lopez is giving her dancers a priceless piece of advice. “Part of being a great performer is being aware,” she tells them. That moment, from her documentary Halftime—which narrates her progress toward her […]
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This September, Maren Morris set fire to the country music business. Her lighter of choice? A pair of impassioned singles—“The Tree” and “Get the Hell Out of Here”—housed on an EP aptly titled The Bridge. On “The Tree,” she declares her frustrations with the industry, the place where she started her career, singing, “I’m taking […]
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Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series, who, like you (since you’re here), love books. Perhaps one of their favorite […]
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Spoilers below. When producer, writer, and actor Brit Marling was creating the new series AMurder at the End of the World, she was partially inspired by Rihanna. Surely, who isn’t? But the former star and co-creator of The OA was especially moved while writing this multifaceted murder mystery, which includes elements of sci-fi, big tech, […]
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Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series, who, like you (since you’re here), love books. Perhaps one of their favorite […]
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A woman has to stand trial after her husband dies in suspicious circumstances in Justine Triet’s compelling courtroom drama. Anyone who caught Justine Triet’s delicious 2019 film Sybil ahead of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival would’ve been less surprised when the writer-director’s formidable follow-up, Anatomy of a Fall, scooped the Palme d’Or. This is Hitchcockian […]
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