Elle USA - 11.2019

NOVEMBER VOLUME XXXV NUMBER 3

NO. 411

actress plays a round

of word association.

By Kate Foster

106 RETINOL REBOOT

What’s next for the skin-

care MVP? Margaux

Anbouba investigates

112 GROUP CHAT:

BEST HAIR SPRAYS

By Erin Reimel and

Margaux Anbouba

114 BEAUTY NEWS

Donatella Versace’s

new suite of fragrances;

Gigi Mortimer’s fight

against blue light

116 CODE YOU

Some 26 million

people have shared

DNA with sites like

23andMe. The wellness

industry wants in. Katie

Becker reports from

the Swiss Riviera

Culture

119 THIS IS THE LAST

TIME I’LL ANSWER

THIS QUESTION

Comedian Ali

Wong sounds off

122 ALL HAIL THE

QUEENS OF THE

SMALL SCREEN

Four TV stalwarts

paving the way

for more diverse

writers’ rooms. By

Molly Lambert

124 AND THE

WINNER IS...

ELLE’s culture vultures

award fake honors

to very real films. By

Adrienne Gaffney and

Melissa Giannini

126 POWER LIST

In the steady hands

of these 12 women,

the future of film

and TV looks bright.

By Emily Zemler

128 MAKE IT FUNKY

Installation artist Lauren

Halsey is injecting

Afrofuturism into the

Los Angeles art world.

By Jesse Dorris

Perspectives

130 THE AMAZON

RAINMAKER

From the trenches of

the global streaming

wars, Amazon Studios

has found its secret

weapon: veteran

producer Jennifer Salke.

By Christina Binkley

26 CALENDAR

40 THE FEED

48 EDITOR’S LETTER

50 NINA’S EDIT

52 NEW ARRIVALS

Making the case for a

new gold standard

Front Row

59 FUTURE PERFECT

Ambush designer Yoon

Ahn talks automation

and sci-fi fandom with

Véronique Hyland

62 STAR SPANGLED

What’s American

national identity

without fashion? Two

HBO documentaries

dive in. By Véronique

Hyland

64 ALL ROADS

LEAD TO ROME

Naomi Rougeau

writes home from

the Eternal City

66 TREND:

PRACTICAL MAGIC

69 TREND: PHANTOM

THREADS

Accessories

71 THE PEAK OF CHIC

Exhausted your PTO?

Escape sartorially with

a wearable gondola

72 GLISTEN UP

Diamond jewelry fit

for Anastasia Steele

86 SCENE STEALERS

Bulgari leans into its

red-carpet fame

Shops

89 GOLDEN STATE

Sixty-plus frocks,

tunics, accessories, and

homegrown balms for

your California vacay

Beauty

99 BEAUTY GENIUSES:

RED CARPET MAGIC

Tips from the pros:

Schedule the facials;

ditch the nail clippers.

By Margaux Anbouba

102 NOVEMBER

EDITORS’ PICKS

By Margaux Anbouba

and Erin Reimel

104 ELLEWORD:

JAMEELA JAMIL

The Good Place

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