Month: February 2021

Imagine teleporting into one of your favorite movie universes, and you’ll have some idea of how KiKi Layne feels right now. “It hasn’t fully hit me,” the 29-year-old actress says of playing opposite Eddie Murphy in Coming 2 America, the sequel to his 1988 comedy. Her eyes widen behind her glasses. “Like, ‘Yo, this is
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As a single person living through the pandemic, let’s just say it’s been a long time since I’ve touched another living being other than my dog. I’m not at all happy about this state of affairs, but I have found one balm for physical contact, one source of who-cares-about-the-news mind-numbing pleasure. A book version of
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COURTESY PARFUMS CHRISTIAN DIOR When I first met Dior master perfumer François Demachy in 2019 at a fragrance launch event in New York City, I was utterly starstruck—his hands (and nose) were part of a formative part of my teenage years. At age 14, my dad had taken me shopping at Neiman Marcus to choose
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Despite it being New York Fashion Week when we speak, Kaia Gerber has all the time in the world. “It’s crazy to hear that it’s even fashion week right now,” she says, when I point out that digital shows and presentations are already going live. Pre-pandemic, she would normally be hopping from plane to hotel
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You’re probably familiar with Kayla Itsines’s SWEAT app and its popular HIIT and strength workouts. Last fall, SWEAT unveiled new yoga and barre workouts, perfect for people who want to built strength with low-impact training. Now, the company has launched a new 10-day Pilates program, available starting Feb. 22. The program offers traditional mat-based Pilates
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Justine Carreon remembers the first pair of sneakers she latched onto. “I wore the same pair of slip-on Vans every day of my sophomore year in high school,” ELLE’s senior fashion market editor shares. The combo she wore on repeat: a pair of workman jeans, a studded belt, and “not-so-vintage” band tees sourced at the
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Photography by Ryan Faist.Here, the JUNO Awards rising star talks about self-acceptance, fighting the urge to seek external validation, and what it was like to go viral with “Princesses Don’t Cry” on TikTok. By Jennifer Berry Date February 22, 2021 Facebook Twitter Aviva Mongillo, a.k.a. CARYS, had been acting in projects like CBC’s Workin’ Moms,
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U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois Kevin J. Miyazaki/Redux Imagine what it must have felt like to be Rep. Lauren Underwood, the youngest Black woman in Congress, on the day when the halls of our nation’s Capitol building were stormed by an angry mob of white supremacist election deniers, some of whom sought to hang
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