Table of contents for November 2018 in ELLE (2025)

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at the Brooklyn MuseumThis knockout retrospective, up through February 3, offers the chance to view 150 pieces—paintings, prints, sculptures, and performances—created by 60 black artists between 1963 and 1983, a period of vibrant innovation, resistance, and awakening.Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings at the GettySome of the 110 images in this traveling exhibit by Mann (right, in 1998) present her family, as always, and some probe the violent racial history of the South. All are arresting, gorgeous, and essential. It opens November 16 at this L.A. museum.The Salon Art + DesignThis New York–based fair takes over the Park Avenue Armory between November 8 and 12, featuring over 50 booths from galleries around the world, with work by artists such as…

LADY GAGAPhotographed by Ruth Hogben and Andrea GelardinGaga wears Marc Jacobs and necklace by Hearts On Fire. For her makeup look, try Infallible 24 HR Eye Shadow in Amber Rush, Infallible Lacquer Liner 24H in Blackest Black, Voluminous Original Mascara in Blackest Black, and Colour Riche Shine Lipstick in Glossy Fawn. All, L’Oréal Paris. (Styled by Nicola Formichetti, Tom Eerebout, and Sandra Amador; hair by Frederic Aspiras; makeup by Sarah Tanno; manicure by Miho Okawara; produced by Gabe Hill at GE Projects.)SARAH PAULSONPhotographed by Zoey GrossmanPaulson wears Valentino Haute Couture and earrings by Ana Khouri. For her makeup look, try Brow Stylist Shape & Fill Mechanical Pencil in Brunette, Infallible Pro-Last Waterproof Pencil Eyeliner in Black, Voluminous Lash Paradise Mascara in Blackest Black, and Colour Riche Lipstick Lipcolour in Saucy…

Sexy. California. Glamour. Those three words, which greet visitors to Mary Alice Haney’s e-commerce site, have become a calling card for one of Tinseltown’s most trusted names in fashion. They’re also the foundation of an aesthetic for which Haney is unapologetic. When the subject is broached of the Time’s Up–fueled black dresses at last January’s Golden Globes, Haney is quick to shut down the notion that the evening signaled a shift to more demure red-carpet dressing: “It would be a sad state of affairs if women felt that that’s what this was about.”Having spent 15 years as a fashion editor and the go-to stylist for everyone from Jane Fonda to Reese Witherspoon, Haney knows better than most what women want to wear. Five years ago, she launched her eponymous collection…

Since his arrival at Tiffany & Co. nearly two years ago, Reed Krakoff has made quite the splash, whether it’s selling $1,000 sterling silver soup cans or flower-bombing New York City bodegas with bouquets of paper flowers in Tiffany blue. As it happens, the brand has a long-running history with another, lesser-known, blue hue. When a unique azure mineral was discovered in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro in the late 1960s, Tiffany named the stone tanzanite and immediately introduced it into the brand’s lineup. For the Color Theory collection, Krakoff celebrates the full spectrum of this rare gem, custom-cutting each stone to amplify the gradation from light to dark. The overall effect is equal parts sci-fi (think Amazon Alexa’s blue halo) and pure science.Styled by Wendy Schelah at Halley Resources;…

Facialist Joanna Vargas, whose clients include Julianne Moore and Maggie Gyllenhaal, offers 30-minute sessions in her RevitaLight LED bed (at left) in her spas. Its collagen-boosting, inflammation-reducing powers have proven so popular with celebs, some have purchased machines for at-home use ($75,000). And that’s not the only device they’re making space for. After hearing her A-list clients rave about their OxyHealth Vitaeris 320 hyperbaric chambers ($21,900), Shani Darden, who works with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Chrissy Teigen, considered getting one herself. “It’s supposed to speed up healing and keep you young forever,” she says. “It helps with everything—stress and maintaining glowing skin.”Clockwise from bottom left: Roderick Angle; Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock; courtesy of the brand; Jon Patterson/Studio D; Charles Sykes/Invision/AP/Shutterstock; Dan MacMedan/WireImage; courtesy of the brand…

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RAMI MALEK RELIED ON AN UNEXPECTED PROSTHETIC TO get into character as Freddie Mercury in the long-awaited biopic Bohemian Rhapsody—specifically, “having some slightly larger chompers in my mouth,” he says. “If you ever watch him being interviewed, you can see how often he’s trying to cover up his teeth.” For years, Mercury, who was born Farrokh Bulsara to Indian parents, “was called Bucky by the other schoolkids. It tells you a lot.”Imagining an insecure version of the flamboyant Queen front man is almost as hard as visualizing Mr. Robot’s hoodie-clad Elliot Alderson—the role that earned Malek an Emmy—in Mercury’s bone-tight leather pants. Malek, too, is introverted, making the 37-year-old perhaps a less obvious candidate than, say, the scenery-gobbling Sacha Baron Cohen, who was originally cast in the role. But Malek…

Lara Trump loves to tell a story about Donald Trump and ice cream. Years ago, her then boyfriend, Eric Trump, had taken her to the US Open but hadn’t told her that his dad and his dad’s wife, Melania, would be there as well. She was feeling insecure and unprepared—and annoyed at Eric—when Donald, then a big-time TV star, got up and offered to get her a cone. “He was like, ‘I’m getting ice cream. What do you want? What kind do you like?’ And I was like, Oh, this is so normal. I don’t know why it made me feel so much more comfortable, but it did.” We’re talking over breakfast at Jean-Georges in New York’s Trump International Hotel & Tower, and Lara, 36, whose appearance has a slightly…

TELEVISION IS TURNING OUT THE most creative, inclusive storytelling today, and writer/producer Shonda Rhimes deserves a good chunk of the credit. When Scandal debuted in 2012, its glamorous, if polemical, fixer Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) was the first black woman to lead a network drama since 1974. In the years following, ABC launched How to Get Away With Murder, Quantico, Fresh Off the Boat, Black-ish, and its spin-off, Grown-ish—all of which center on people of color. For almost half a decade, ABC’s Thursday nights—from Grey’s Anatomy to Scandal (now replaced by Station 19, also executive-produced by Rhimes) to How to Get Away With Murder—have been reserved for Rhimes, a creative force whose headstrong heroines have drawn an average of 8.6 million viewers each week (and helped the megaproducer net two…