Elle USA - 09.2019

TERENCE

CONNORS

@terenceconnors

Photographer and

videographer

Provenance:

Grew up between

Manhattan and Paris

Now: Montauk, New York

This month: Photographed

“Paris Match” (page 330)

Bona fides: BFA, film,

School of Visual Arts; has

worked on campaigns

for brands such as

Sonia Rykiel, Tommy

Hilfiger, Polo Ralph

Lauren, and Jo Malone

First gig: Videographer

for a Paris skateboard

shop at age 15

Movie on repeat: Éric

Rohmer’s 1967 French

film La Collectionneuse

Lesson learned: Find

something you love, and

you’ll never work a day

in your life. “I find myself

on jobs saying, ‘This trip

is so fun,’ and clients will

look at me like, ‘This isn’t

a trip. This is work.’”

Parisian haunt: La Chaise

au Plafond in the Marais

district. “It’s a little

restaurant with outdoor

seating, and it’s good

for people watching.”

CONTRIBUTORS

Introducing five standout artists behind our most

ambitious issue of the year. By Zoe Bean

DAYNA EVANS

@DaynaEvans_

Writer

Provenance:

Philadelphia

Now: Brooklyn

This month: Wrote

“Think Big” (page 348)

Bona fides: BA, creative

writing, New York

University; has written for

the New York Times, GQ,

and New York magazine

First gig: Sales

associate at PacSun

Reading: Braiding

Sweetgrass: Indigenous

Wisdom, Scientific

Knowledge and the

Teachings of Plants, by

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Movie on repeat:

2011’s Fast Five

Current inspiration: Teen

climate-change activists,

like Greta Thunberg

Power source: “Having

a community of women

around me makes

me feel powerful.”

Best habit: “I wake up

really early, [which is when]

I do my best writing.”

Past-life persona: A surfer.

“There’s something about

San Diego and beaches—

even though I’m not a

nature person at all.”

Upcoming: A nonfiction

book (currently in the

proposal stage) about the

history of women and their

relationship with bread

THERESA HAYES

@theresahayesofficial

Model

Provenance:

Brooklyn

Now: Los Angeles

This month: Stars in “Paris

Match” (page 330). “While

we were having lunch,

my 1998 Louis Vuitton

backpack was stolen, along

with my passport, a little

point-and-shoot camera,

and my journal. I cried for

two minutes, wiped

my tears, and went on

with the shoot.”

Bona fides: Modeled

exclusively for Louis Vuitton

for three seasons (2016–

2018); has since walked

the runway for the likes of

Paco Rabanne, Valentino,

and Zimmermann

First gig: Sales associate

at the Hollister on

Fifth Avenue

Reading: The Untethered

Soul: The Journey Beyond

Yourself, by Michael A.

Singer; The Energy of

Money: A Spiritual Guide

to Financial and Personal

Fulfillment, by Maria

Nemeth; and The Four

Agreements: A Practical

Guide to Personal Freedom,

by Don Miguel Ruiz

Movie on repeat: The

Matrix. “I honestly feel like

Neo these days.”

Past-life persona: “A bird,

[maybe] a black hawk.”

Upcoming: A coconut-wax

candle line, Blessed By T

JESSICA TESTA

@jtes

Reporter

Provenance:

Phoenix

Now: Brooklyn

This month: Wrote

“The Revenge-Porn

Warrior” (page 260)

Bona fides: BA,

journalism, and MA,

mass communication,

Arizona State University;

former national reporter

for BuzzFeed News

First gig: Cashier at a

pool supply store. “I’d

talk to people about pH

levels and chlorine.”

Reading: Random Family,

by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Movie on repeat:

Annihilation. “It was, like,

all women. There was only

one man, and it was Oscar

Isaac, which was allowed.”

Recent splurge: A blue

wedding dress from

Brooklyn designer

Samantha Sleeper

Current inspiration:

The female Democratic

presidential candidates

Dream subject: Christine

Blasey Ford. “If you’re

reading this, give me a call.”

Past-life persona: A

museum curator. “But that’s

such a pretentious answer!

Maybe I was a goldfish.”

Upcoming: An Oxygen TV

adaptation of her 2018

BuzzFeed News article

“The Case Died With Her”

PETER PHILIPS

@peterphilipsmakeup

Makeup artist

Provenance:

Antwerp, Belgium

Now: Paris

This month: Styled and

created the makeup palette

for “Lip Service” (page 302)

Bona fides: Studied

graphic design at ESA

Saint-Luc Bruxelles and

fashion at Royal Academy

of Fine Arts Antwerp;

currently Dior Makeup’s

creative and image director

First gig: Cleaning

his grandfather’s

charcuterie shop. “From

five or six years old,

we were all helping.”

Movie on repeat: Anything

by Alfred Hitchcock

Lesson learned: “My

generation was told the

sky was the limit, that you

could do anything you

wanted. We’re paying

for that now. I wish we

had been more careful

with the environment.”

Past-life persona:

A gardener on an

English estate

If he weren’t a makeup

artist: “I’d design furniture,

chandeliers, tables, chairs,

ingenious storage.”

The

Talent

PHILIPS: COURTESY OF DIOR AND RICHARD BURBRIDGE; REMAINING IMAGES: COURTESY OF THE SUBJECTS.

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