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VOLUME 25 ISSUE 12

ON THE COVER
106 CAMILA CABELLO
Inside her world

112 GREAT ESCAPE

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28 WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT
DECEMBER

40 POINT OF VIEW
Michelle Obama opens up
to Oprah Winfrey about
women running for office,
couples therapy, and her
memoir, Becoming

42 WHAT I LOVE ABOUT ME

Vancouver locals
embrace their eclectic
personal styles

46 BEHIND THE COVER

101 IDEAS
52 Trim the tree? Spruce
up your closet instead.
This holiday season, give
yourself the gift of cheery
sweaters, metallic shoes,
and slinky kimonos.

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@WORK
87 TOP OF THE MORNING
Savannah Guthrie and Hoda
Kotb, the first-ever all-female
anchor team of NBC’s Today,
reflect on the year since
Matt Lauer’s departure

NEWSFEED
95 50 MOST POWERFUL
MOMENTS FOR
WOMEN IN 2018
From Christine Blasey
Ford’s courageous
testimony to Beyoncé’s
triumphant Coachella
performance to Emma
González’s searing gun-
control advocacy, women
went big, brave, and bold
in captivating the nation

@PLAY
99 She played a subservient
teen in The Handmaid’s
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her own against the boys;
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FASHION &
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106 CAMILA UNDERCOVER
She’s scored big-time
awards, set a record with
a billion-plus Spotify
streams, and performed
in two simultaneous world
tours, but Camila Cabello’s
biggest win in 2018 was
finding her voice
112 POINT BREAK
Crisp cuts and cozy
combinations are your
new off-duty uniforms for
your seasonal escape
124 SHE’S GOT GAME
Women are taking hold of
the controller in the world
of video gaming
128 WHERE DID ALL MY
GIRLFRIENDS GO?
After the cozy quarters and
24/7 camaraderie of college,
young women entering the
workforce are struggling to
make friends

IN EVERY ISSUE
32 MARIECLAIRE.COM
36 EDITOR’S NOTE
38 WHAT YOU SAID
132 SHOPPING DIRECTORY
133 THE SHRINK IS IN
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WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT
DECEMBER
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, SEE, HEAR,
AND TALK ABOUT RIGHT NOW
1. ART APPRECIATION
Palm trees and 268 galleries? Sign us up
for the 17th edition of Art Basel Miami
Beach, which debuts on December 6
and boasts exhibition themes ranging
from postcolonialism to pop culture.
2. BEACHY KEEN
If a holiday getaway is in your
future, consider Dioriviera, the first
swim-centered capsule collection from
Dior’s artistic director Maria Grazia
Chiuri. With a toile-emblazoned
two-piece; a striped, tasseled towel; and
more, it’ll make elevated shoreside
dressing feel easy.
3. STAGE PRESENCE
The Broadway bio-musical The Cher
Show turns back time, telling the iconic
entertainer’s story through the diferent
phases of her life and decades-long
career. Opening on December 3, it
features 35 megahits, like “I Got You
Babe” and “Believe.” Come for the
jukebox fun, stay for the sequins.
4. AULD LANG SYNE
On January 1, ring in 2019 with a toast to
an exciting, galvanizing, uplifting year.
5. FIT TO PRINT
You can finally have a Kehinde Wiley
work in your home—kind of. January 15
marks the release of Black Refractions:
Highlights From the Studio Museum
in Harlem, a guide to one of the world’s
most significant collections of African-
American art. Featuring pieces by
Wiley, Wangechi Mutu, and others, the
tome debuts in conjunction with
a traveling exhibition.
6. BY THE BOOK
Attention, Aaron Sorkin fans: The
writer and producer of The West Wing
is behind a much-anticipated new
stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic
novel To Kill a Mockingbird, opening
December 13. The play represents the
first time the Pulitzer Prize–winning
story will be performed on Broadway.
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7. LADY JUSTICE
In a time when all eyes are on the Supreme
Court, a biopic about one of its most
legendary members, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
hits theaters. On the Basis of Sex, out
December 25, stars Felicity Jones (complete
with a Brooklyn accent) as a young Ginsburg
working the early, groundbreaking case
that jump-started her celebrated career.
8. TRUE TV
After a three-year hiatus, True Detective
returns to HBO on January 13. It
follows detective Wayne Hays—played
by Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali—as he
investigates the disappearance of two
children in the Ozarks. If you loved the
show’s first season, don’t miss this return
to its southern-Gothic roots.
2
9. GOOD CHEER
The recent record R.O.S.E. isn’t all we get
from beloved British artist Jessie J. In a
newly released holiday album called This
Christmas Day, she brings her signature
combination of R&B, pop, and electro beats
to a party-approved take on the season’s
COUNTERCLOCKWISE
classic tunes. FROM TOP:
Checkerboard (2018),
THE COMPANIES; 3: HARRY LANGDON/GETTY IMAGES; 4. SILVER
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10. MARCH ON by Pepe Mar, from this
year’s Art Basel Miami
Beach; a tote from
Get ready to hit the streets: The Women’s
the Dioriviera capsule
SCREEN COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES; 6: STOCKSY
March returns on January 19. The previous collection; Cher, seen
marches have served as a powerful forum here in 1978, the subject
for people to make their voices heard, with of a new Broadway
musical; raise a glass to
impassioned speeches and impactful 2019; Black Refractions:
posters. So be sure to attend this year; Highlights From
there’s so much to speak up about. the Studio Museum in
3
Harlem, which hits
shelves in January; Mary
Badham and Gregory
Peck in the 1962 film
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a Mockingbird, which
arrives on Broadway
this season
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FIRST Christine Blasey
Ford is sworn
in before
the Senate
Judiciary
Committee on
September 27.
E D I TO R ’ S N O T E
THE GOOD NEWS
Almost no other story puts me in as good a mood as our annual
roundup of the year’s most powerful moments for women
(p. 95). From Emma González’s fist raised high after the tragic
shooting of her high school classmates in Parkland, Florida,
to the steady hands of Southwest Airlines pilot Tammie Jo
Shults, whose emergency landing of a damaged aircraft saved
148 lives, the actions of the women we highlight this year—and
every year—move me profoundly.
Would you believe that when we began putting this story
together for the first time, for 2016, we anticipated updating
it online with the pièce de résistance—the inauguration of our
country’s first female president? Faced with the surprise plot
twist of Donald Trump’s election, we contemplated scrapping
the whole story. But there were so many other inspiring
moments to celebrate that year (like Serena Williams’s 22nd
Grand Slam title or the passing of the Survivors’ Bill of Rights
Act) that we couldn’t face trashing it. In fact, we quickly
realized there was never a more important time to shout
about women’s accomplishments from the rooftops.
The need to do so has become more urgent every day since.
The Women’s March, the largest international protest the world
has ever seen, kicked of 2017. Then 2018 began with more than
300 women in Hollywood announcing the $13 million Time’s
Up Legal Defense Fund, which supports sexual-harassment and
assault survivors seeking justice. (The fund has since grown
to over $22 million and has recruited 792 lawyers to respond to
more than 3,600 requests for help.)
Is it unfortunate that some of these moments are born as a
response to very bad things? Of course. For me, the single most
36 MA RI EC L A IR E .C O M Holiday 2018
FROM TOP:
Naomi Osaka
celebrates
at the U.S.
Open; on
election night,
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez
watches as
she defeats
a 10-term
incumbent in
the primary for
New York’s 14th
Congressional
District.
powerful moment for women in 2018 was the four-hour
testimony of Christine Blasey Ford on September 27. Appearing
before the Senate Judiciary Committee, she gave voice to the
roughly one in six American women who experience sexual
assault in her lifetime. Brett Kavanaugh’s swift confirmation to
the Supreme Court in the days following felt like a blow
for women, but Ford’s courage made an indelible mark on
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our national conscience and spurred women everywhere to
demand more and better from their elected leaders. As I write
this, the results of the midterm elections are unknown, but you
can bet we are celebrating the record number of women
running for office. If I learned anything from watching the
Kavanaugh hearings, it was that we need more women and
people of color sitting behind that giant senatorial desk making
decisions about the future of the country. Here’s hoping that by
the time you read this, we’ll have elected at least a few more.
What I really learn from publishing this list, and from
covering the remarkable women we highlight in Marie Claire
all year, is the very real potential for one person’s actions to
change the world. Not listed here are hundreds more moments,
great and small, playing out on the global stage or in your
own life, that add to our forward march. The 50 moments we
chose this year remind us of how much we’ve done and
how much more we have to do. We hope the list serves as both
inspiration and a challenge. Maybe next year you’ll be on it.
Anne Fulenwider
EDITOR IN CHIEF
annefulenwider@marieclaire.com
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WHEREVER YOU’RE TALKING
ABOUT MC, WE’RE
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OUR SEPTEMBER 2018 ISSUE
America, the Beautiful
@bittamostofi: Leaving Texas after an intense
week helping immigrant mothers and children
seeking refuge. Needed to unwind and bought a copy of
@marieclaire with @zendaya. This issue is dedicated
to immigration. All of it. Thanks @AnneFulenwider for
shining a light on these amazing stories.
@TaniaLaryssa: “They tell their stories of creating
success out of sheer will.” Love @marieclaire for
this feature on women immigrant founders and CEOs,
including the amazing @reshmasaujani.
I always appreciate that your content brings up
important issues related to women, poverty, and global
dynamics. I have to write to comment on the letter from Zendaya in
Max Mara
the editor in the September issue. As a critical consumer on the
September
of media, it is so important for me to add to her letter: cover
Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, but that’s discounting
the fact that the early settlers and immigrants were
settling on already inhabited land. To say and applaud
the “America” of immigrants without acknowledging Warm The Zendaya Zone
indigenous and First Nations’ rights to the land is a
reinscription of colonialism and perpetuates negative
Fuzzies Della Maharaj: Zendaya is a lovely, intelligent,
successful young lady and a positive role model
historical context. I am a loyal sub- for other young women.
—Jillian Raymond, Tahoma, California scriber of Marie
Claire and I love the Jen Sun: Zendaya and Janet Mock? Yes, please.
Editor’s note: Absolutely right, Jillian. Thank you for magazine. I have to
pointing out our omission. commend you for

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foundations or groups were mentioned in the articles— mal lover, I’m not a @marieclairemag
Clara Lionel Foundation, Emerson Collective, and Girls fan of fur and the
Who Code. Could you devote a section of your magazine, fact that such a high-
maybe next to the Shopping Directory, with a list of P.O. fashion magazine is
boxes or street addresses for the foundations, so that advocating cruelty-
interested readers can send materials, questions, or free garments makes @staryabos: I finally
comments to them? —Charles E. Moncy Jr., my heart sing. found my Apple Pencil so I
Plymouth, Massachusetts Thank you! celebrated by drawing
—Barbara Ann @zendaya’s new cover
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issues, we will include contact info on organizations
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THE MAKING
OF MICHELLE
IN HER NEW MEMOIR,
BECOMING, THE FORMER FIRST
LADY TELLS HER STORY
Long before she had established
herself as a powerful advocate for
women and girls, Michelle Obama
was an overachieving youngster in
Chicago trying to find her way in
the world. In her memoir, Becoming
(November 13; Crown), the former
first lady reveals the triumphs and
disappointments behind her rise to
show “how a girl from the South
Side found her voice.” On the eve of
its publication, Obama sat down for an intimate
conversation with Oprah Winfrey and Hearst
magazine editors. Here are some highlights:
ON HER CHOICE OF LAW AS A CAREER…
In the book, I take you on the journey of who
that little striving star-getter became—which is
what a lot of hard-driving kids become: a box
checker. Get good grades: Check. Apply to the
best schools, get into Princeton: Check. Get
there, what’s your major? Uh, something that’s
going to get me good grades so I can get into law
school, I guess? Check. Get through law school:
Check. I wasn’t a swerver. I wasn’t somebody
that was going to take risks. I narrowed myself
to being this thing I thought I should be. It took
loss—losses in my life that made me think, Have
you ever stopped to think about who you wanted
to be? And I realized I had not. I was sitting on
the 47th floor of an office building, going over
cases and writing memos.
ON GOING TO COUPLES COUNSELING…
I feel vulnerable all the time. And I had to learn
how to express that to my husband, to tap into
those parts of me that missed him—and the
sadness that came from that—so that he could
understand. He didn’t understand distance
in the same way. You know, he grew up without
his mother in his life for most of his years, and
he knew his mother loved him dearly, right?
I always thought love was up close. Love is the
dinner table, love is consistency, it is presence.
So I had to share my vulnerability and also learn
to love diferently. It was an important part of
my journey of becoming. Understanding how to
40 MA RI EC L A IR E .C OM Holiday 2018
TOP AND ABOVE: Michelle
Obama at an event with
Oprah Winfrey, magazine
editors, and Harlem Village
Academy students in New
York City, 2018. RIGHT: The
cover of her new book.
become us.…And a lot of the reason I share this
is because I know that people look to me and
Barack as the ideal relationship. I know there’s
#relationshipgoals out there. But whoa, people,
slow down—marriage is hard!
ON DECIDING AS A FAMILY TO RUN
FOR PRESIDENT…
I knew that Barack was a decent man. Smart as
all get out. But politics was ugly and nasty, and
I didn’t know that my husband’s temperament
would mesh with that. And I didn’t want to see
him in that environment. But then on the flip
side, you see the world and the challenges that
the world is facing.…And I thought, Well, what
person do I know who has the gifts that this
man has? The gifts of decency, first and
foremost, of empathy second, of high intellec-
tual ability. This man reads and remembers
everything, you know. Is articulate. Had
worked in the community. And really passion-
ately feels like “This is my responsibility.” How
do you say no to that? So I had to take of my
wife hat and put on my citizen hat.
ON BEING THE FIRST BLACK FAMILY
TO SEEK THE PRESIDENCY…
We felt the pressure from the minute we started
to run. First of all, we had to convince our base
that a black man could win. It wasn’t even
winning over Iowa. We first had to win over
black people. Because black people like my
grandparents—they never believed this could
happen. They wanted it. They wanted it for us.
But their lives had told them, “No. Never.”
Hillary [Clinton] was the safer bet for them
because she was known. Opening hearts up to
the hope that America would put down its
racism for a black man—I think that hurt too
much. It wasn’t until Barack won Iowa that
people thought, Okay. Maybe so.
ON HER MESSAGE FOR WOMEN RUNNING
FOR OFFICE…
I would tell them you have to give yourself a
break. And that’s just not for women running
for political office. As women, we hold ourselves
to unreasonable standards because we have
to, you know? We fall into the trap of having to
do it all and worrying about being perfect. And
I think for women who are going into politics,
they’re gonna take that energy in there, and
they’ve got to learn to leave some of that aside.
Because men don’t feel the need to be perfect.
I say men have failed up. Women don’t seek
out opportunity if we don’t think we’re perfectly
aligned. There’s so many women who would
not consider being a governor because they
don’t have the exact right credentials or they
haven’t done this long enough. Whereas men
OBAMA: CHUCK KENNEDY; BOOK JACKET: MILLER MOBLEY
go, “I’m smart, I can do it.” They have learned to
fail and to fail often and to move past it. So I
would just say to the women running for office,
politics is hard, it requires great compromise,
and you can’t please everybody. So, don’t try,
just go in and do the right thing. Remember
why you were elected and why you wanted to
run, and hold true to that. Don’t become a slave
to holding the office; become a person who’s
there to make change.
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go-tos. I’m all about a glow!”
Anastasia Vedmedenko
“I’m very low-maintenance. Short
hair just suits my personality.”
Vancouver her home—and knows all the cool
spots in town. Good eats: For a cheap bite,
I always go to El Furniture Hastings Warehouse
(warehousegroup.ca), where everything on the
menu is $6, plus the playlist is bomb! Fine art:
I can’t wait to see the fashion displayed at
Guo Pei: Couture Beyond, which is showing at the
Vancouver Art Gallery (vanartgallery.bc.ca).
Retail therapy: One of the best places to shop is
F as in Frank (fasinfrankvintage.com), a vintage
store where you can find designer brands like
Gucci, DKNY, and Tommy Hilfiger. Outdoor
adventure: My favorite spot to chill is Burnaby
Mountain Park (burnaby.ca) because it has an
amazing view of downtown at night. Must-do:
This winter, I’m going to the Ballet BC’s Royal
Winnipeg Nutcracker (December 7–9; balletbc
.com) at the historic—and beautiful!—Queen
Elizabeth Theater. Also, for fans of holiday lights,
the Capilano Suspension Bridge (capbridge.com)
puts up a festive display during the season.

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“It’s important for me to bring
my heritage and culture into my look.
That’s why I love color.” Alexis Young
“I thrive on change. That’s
why I loved this hairstyle;
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FIRST

DOLCE &
GABBANA
TOP AND
PANTS

BEHIND THE COVER

Camila CABELLO
THE SINGER-SONGWRITER GETS BACK TO NATURE
AT HER NASHVILLE COVER SHOOT
HOMETOWN: Havana, Cuba. CURRENT RESIDENCE: Miami. AGE: 21. ROLLED IN: The singer-songwriter, fresh off a night
performing alongside Taylor Swift, brought her mom to the set, located on a farm near the outskirts of Nashville.

PHOTOGRAPH BY SOFIA SANCHEZ AND MAURO MONGIELLO

MUSIC CITY: Camila’s mom played DJ, choosing an eclectic mix of country and ’90s remixes from Camila’s iPhone. SCENIC ROUTE:
After the shoot, Camila headed east to Walland, Tennessee, for some R&R at Blackberry Farm, a 4,200-acre resort in the Great
Smoky Mountains. BEAUTY ROUTINE: “Camila is a no-frills kind of girl,” says makeup artist Allan Avendaño. “She’s so beautiful
without makeup that adding just a subtle hint of earth tones and depth made her look like an elevated version of herself.”
After setting the singer’s complexion with foundation and a light dusting of powder, Avendaño blended soft matte-brown shadow into
the lids, extending it past the outer corners to elongate the eyes before applying two coats of black mascara. Brow mousse
and a moisturizing tinted lip balm polished the look. Camila’s hairstyle was inspired by an iconic beauty moment: Cindy Crawford’s
bombshell blowout in the classic Pepsi ads of the ’90s. To achieve the same lift and volume, hairstylist Peter Savic blowdried
her hair with mousse, then teased strands from the roots and set the style with hairspray. FOLLOW: @camila_cabello.
—Sara Holzman & Taylore Glynn
FOR EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES FOOTAGE, GO TO MARIECLAIRE.COM/CAMILA-CABELLO

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Photograph by HAO ZENG

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THE ROBE + BELT

Seek out a patterned style and cinch it with some rhinestones
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(800) 550-0005. BAG $378, Michael Michael Kors; michaelkors.com. 2. ROBE $2,250, Johanna Ortiz; at Neiman Marcus, (888) 888-
4757. BELT $510, Suzi Roher; suziroher.com. 3. ROBE $595, Fleur du Mal; fleurdumal.com. BELT $78, Kate Spade New York;
katespade.com. 4. ROBE $1,500, Marie France Van Damme; net-a-porter.com. BELT price upon request, Attico; net-a-porter.com.

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wall with Society6 framed
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There’s no time like the present. Power
through your gift (and wish) list with a few of our
favorites from Marie Claire. Happy Gifting!

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Fit for the ultimate
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list, Cosabella’s Bralette
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is cut in a soft,
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application with the
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Make a sweet
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nights at the office that last a full
and impromptu year.
adventures, this
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your style @work
and @play.

LIGHT IT UP.
Spoil the self-care senses with
the enchanting fragrance of a
Linnea’s Lights®

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: RESERVE BY LL: WHITE SAGE $40, Linnea’s Lights; linneaslights.com. ELITE PALM BRUSH-MINI $52, Artis; artisbrush.com. NEVER SAY NEVER
CURVY SWEETIE BRALETTE $55.50, Cosabella; cosabella.com. LARGE ALLYN TOTE $345, Dagne Dover; dagnedover.com. NICA SLIM JACKET IN EVERLASTING WITH
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Society6; society6.com. LUXE SWEATER $325 & LUXE SCARF $150, AETHER; aether.com. DELEÓN AÑEJO $49.99, DeLeón Tequila; deleontequila.com.
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ACE IT

Preen Home; preenbythorntonbregazzi.com.

IN SILKY PAJAMAS

WITH A SPOT OF TEA

IS FRIGHTFUL, SPEND

TOP $1,980, Fendi; fendi.com. TIGER PILLOW $1,250, YELLOW

TRAY $1,150, Gucci; gucci.com for stores. FLORAL QUILT $1,200,
AND SUMPTUOUS BEDDING,
WARM WISHES
YOUR MORNING SNUGGLED UP
WHEN THE WEATHER OUTSIDE

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Photograph by PAMELA COOK

FROM TOP: PINK

GOLD & DIAMOND
BRACELET WATCH
price upon request, Piaget;
piaget.com. GOLD
TIMEPIECE $2,075, Fendi;
fendi.com. MULTICOLOR
WATCH price upon request,
Rolex; rolex.com for stores.
SERPENT SECRET WATCH
BANGLE price upon request,
Bulgari; (800) BULGARI. GOLD,
DIAMOND & MOTHER-OF-
PEARL WATCH price upon request,
Omega; omegawatches.com. MINI
GOLD WATCH price upon request,
Dior; (800) 929-DIOR for special order.
LEOPARD-PRINT WATCH $2,450, Style Hack
Dolce & Gabbana; (877) 70-DGUSA.
RUBY & DIAMOND BRACELET WATCH
Don’t shy away
price upon request, Cartier; (800) from non-
CARTIER. GOLD & RUBY TIMEPIECE (on traditional details
tray) price upon request, Van Cleef & Arpels; like rainbow gem-
(877) VAN-CLEEF. VELVET STACKED
JEWELRY BOX $1,050, Aerin; aerin.com. stones or a leopard-
print strap.
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Lemon; at
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(212) 736-5306.
SHOES $695,
Tabitha
Simmons;
tabithasimmons
.com. CHAIR
$2,600, Gucci;
gucci.com
for stores.

TIGHTS $15, Hue; hue.com. SHOES

$790, Bottega Veneta; (800) 845-6790.
Style Hack
CHAIR $2,600, Gucci; gucci.com Try it with sky-
for stores. high heels or
flats. It works
either way!
TIGHTS $9, TIGHTS $44, Falke;
Gipsy; gipsy bloomingdales.com.
ALL THAT GLITTERS

tights.com. SHOES SHOES $100,

$850, Chanel; Sam Edelman;
(800) 550-0005. samedelman.com.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAMELA COOK/STUDIO D

STUDY GUIDE

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 PHOTOGRAPH BY PAMELA COOK/STUDIO D; MODEL: CLAIRE AT PARTS MODELS; PROPS: GLASS WITH ROSÉ (LEFT) AND GLASS WITH WHITE WINE (FAR RIGHT),
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2019 WHEN THE
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Style Hack
Just because it’s a
wintry look doesn’t
mean you can’t
add a splash of
a sunny hue.

THE CLIQUE

HERE TO
SLEIGH
WHETHER YOU GO
GLITZY OR COZY,
RULE YOUR HOLIDAY-
SWEATER PARTY BY
COMMITTING
TO A COORDINATING
PHOTOGRAPH BY HAO ZENG

ENSEMBLE
FROM LEFT: JACKET & SKIRT prices upon request,
TOP $690, SHOES $890, BAG $2,490, JACKET $4,800,
PANTS $1,890, EARRINGS $1,500, BOOTS $2,680, BAG
$1,790, Gucci; gucci.com for stores.

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SPECIAL DELIVERY
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JACKET price
upon request,
TIGHTS $225,
SHOES $850,
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It was Savannah Guthrie’s job to tell us. After more
than 20 years of hosting Today, Matt Lauer was out.
On November 29, 2017, Guthrie appeared to be
struggling to reconcile the alleged abusive actions of
her friend and coanchor, the upheaval of her work-
place, and the fallout from the #MeToo movement,
televised in real time. In NBC News chairman Andy
Lack’s words, which Guthrie read live on air moments
after she heard the news herself, “We received a
detailed complaint from a colleague about inappro-
priate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt
Lauer.… While it is the first complaint about his
behavior in the over 20 years he’s been at NBC News,
we were also presented with reason to believe this
may not have been an isolated incident.”
Guthrie’s voice wavers in the footage. She had to
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about the guy who’d been sitting next to her for over
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loved. “I was terrified,” she tells me nine months later,
in her office at the famed 30 Rock building in Midtown
Manhattan. “Terrified to think of who would possibly
sit next to me [in Lauer’s place], and could I hold this
show? I didn’t think so. In fact, I knew I couldn’t.”
But in video of that moment, Guthrie looks to her
left and Hoda Kotb is there; she grabs Kotb’s hand,
and it’s like she’s clinging onto a railing. She seems
Kotb (right) steadier. “When it was Hoda,” Guthrie says, “I was so
officially
joined happy. Like, ‘Oh, I have this partner. I don’t feel
Guthrie as a scared anymore. We can do this together.’ ”
permanent
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after Lauer’s reported behavior: In case of
emergency, break glass ceiling.
In their first year as cohosts, Guthrie and
Kotb have maintained the consistency of a
successful show—Today ranks number one
with the coveted younger demo of adults ages
25 to 54—while making history. Although
viewership is 62 percent women, everyone
I spoke to on staf carefully maintains that
Today is not a “chick show.” They’re on the
tightrope with us, balancing our
desire to celebrate the accomplish-
ments of women while wishing
gender didn’t matter so much.
Executive producer Libby
Leist, the first woman to run
Today’s lucrative 7 to 9 a.m. slot
(in January, Guthrie replaced
Lauer’s right-hand man—Don
Nash—with her right-hand
woman), insists, “Today skews a
little more female, but we
certainly don’t produce it that
way. It’s everything you need to
know to start your day, and your
gender is not specific to that.
In the 8 o’clock slot, we do
parenting and lifestyle stories
that may be more female-
friendly, but I think any parent
can watch a back-to-school segment and
learn what notebooks to get their kids.”
The process of selecting what stories will
help Americans of all genders start their days
happens in the glam room. Kotb is resplen-
dent and Guthrie en route to resplendence,
with rollers in her hair and crescent-shaped
hydrating masks plastered under her eyes, as
they have their morning meeting with Leist.
A giant digital clock broadcasts the hour:
6:15 a.m. All three women have been up for at
least two hours, and Leist gives the rundown
of the show while Guthrie edits teleprompter
copy on her cell. Kotb describes a segment
she’s about to film at a church that experi-
enced a devastating hate crime. Guthrie starts
throwing out taglines. “The real story of
amazing grace,” she rattles of. “If they can
forgive that, what can you forgive?” The
meeting feels like a Rube Goldberg machine
put into motion while still being assembled.
“One of us can be having a hard day,”
Kotb says, “and by the time the show is over,
you’re fully charged.” Guthrie adds, “You lift
each other up.”
Yet their styles—how they secure and prep
for interviews—could not be more diferent. “I
interview celebrities all the time, and I don’t
have anyone’s phone number,” says Guthrie.
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“Hoda’s like, ‘Oh, Tom Cruise. I’ll text him
back later. Anyway!’ ”
“Bullshit,” Kotb objects, with her signature
humility. One of her favorite self-efacing
anecdotes is her origin story: In 1986, Kotb
borrowed her mom’s car with the intention of
driving around until she got a job in local
news, traveling to ever smaller markets
before finally being accepted by the 28th
news director she interviewed with. (She
often leaves of the rest of the tale: She
IT FEELS LIKE
THE ONLY WAY
FORWARD AFTER
MATT LAUER’S
REPORTED
BEHAVIOR: IN CASE
OF EMERGENCY,
BREAK GLASS
CEILING.
ABOVE:
Script notes
from Today’s
October
1, 2018,
episode.
RIGHT:
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Kotb discuss
the FBI‘s
investigation
of then–
Supreme
Court
nominee Brett
Kavanaugh.
wound up at a CBS affiliate in New Orleans
before getting poached by NBC to be a
Dateline correspondent in 1998.)
The fact that Kotb tends to get what Leist
calls the heart-on-her-sleeve interviews—for
instance, in January, she conducted moving
interviews with gymnasts who were sexually
abused by former Michigan State University
sports doctor Larry Nassar—makes sense. She
regularly opens up about her own struggles,
like a breast-cancer diagnosis in her early 40s
(she’s now in remission) and deciding to adopt
her daughter after being inspired by Sandra
Bullock (who, yes, texts Kotb).
Anyone who has seen Guthrie, who gradu-
ated magna cum laude from Georgetown Law
in 2002, dissect a subject’s talking points will
not be surprised to hear her describe her
approach like a deposition. She gets up at
2 a.m. the day of challenging interviews—like
her conversation with James Comey, who she
spoke to in April—reads, watches, and listens
to previous interviews, and maps out ques-
tions. Then she maps out the person’s poten-
tial responses. Then she maps out what she
calls a counterargument for each one. “It’s not
emotional for me,” the former NBC News
White House correspondent says.
When it comes to discussing Lauer and the
efects of his departure on the
workplace culture of Today, Guthrie
says NBC seems like “it’s trying to do
things as an institution to make sure
that people who have complaints or
need to be heard know where to go.”
Kotb drily notes, “It wasn’t as if
someone wrote a policy that said, ‘No
more boinking under the desk.’ ”
“We didn’t know that was a
thing!” Guthrie adds, throwing her
hands up in an office decorated with
countless framed photos of her
husband and children. A copy of one
of the two best-selling children’s
books she’s cowritten sits on her
desk. (Kotb has also authored a
children’s book, which was adapted
into a song by Kelly Clarkson.) It is
impossible not to imagine the
nearby office, once occupied by
Lauer, in which a former NBC
employee says Lauer pressured her
to have sex. It’s equally difficult to
imagine either of the women sitting
in front of me using their consider-
able power in the same way.
But why this works, Leist says,
isn’t because Kotb and Guthrie
are women. “Hoda brings every-
warmth and her attention to what makes
everybody tick. She was in the news
division as a Dateline reporter for so long
and traveled all over the world, covering
the 2004 tsunami and the Iraq War.” As for
Guthrie, Leist explains, “She’s a political
expert. She blends her legal skills and her
Washington knowledge to make an incred-
ible interviewer and newsperson—and
somebody who is hilariously funny.”
That combination allows Kotb and Guthrie
to guide us through the chaotic news cycle
with grace and humor. Will exposure to
women (literally) running the show start to
warm Today’s nearly four million viewers to
the idea of women leading other things—like,
perhaps, America?
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Michelle Obama is unveiled at
the National Portrait Gallery;
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painted President Barack
Obama’s portrait, are the first
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prayers, then it’s time for
victims to be the change that
we need to see,” she says.
7 FEB 24: Oakland mayor
Libby Schaaf, thwarting ICE,

warns of imminent immigration

3 JAN 23: Rachel Morrison, direc-

tor of photography on 2017’s
Mudbound, is the first woman 6
to receive an Oscar nomination
for Best Cinematography. Parkland, Florida,
Emma González
4 JAN 25: Pizza Express says it
will stop using plastic straws speech at a gun-
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10 MAR 20: The Citadel, the Military
College of South Carolina,
announces Sarah Zorn as the first
woman in its history to serve
as regimental commander, the
highest-ranking cadet officer,
leading the 2,350-student corps.
11 APR 5: Ellen Stofan, the former
chief scientist at NASA, is
named head of the National Air
and Space Museum.
12 APR 14: Coachella (er, Beychella)
will never be the same. As
the first black woman to headline
the music festival, Beyoncé
(below) plays a 27-song set to
100,000-plus concertgoers that
includes five Balmain costumes
and more than 100 dancers.
It’s the most-watched live-
streamed performance to
date, with 41 million viewers.
APR 16: New York
Times reporters Jodi
Kantor and Megan
Twohey win the
Pulitzer Prize for
Public Service for
exposing Harvey
Weinstein’s
decades of sexual
harassment and
assault in
Hollywood.
(The prizes are
awarded by
Dana Canedy,
the first woman
and the first
African-
American to
administer
the prizes.)
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14 APR 17: Southwest Airlines
pilot Tammie Jo Shults com-
pletes an emergency landing
after one of the plane’s engines
explodes and blows a hole
in the cabin, saving 148 lives.
15 APR 19: Cardi B breaks the
Guinness World Record for
most simultaneous Billboard
U.S. Hot 100 entries by a
woman by
having 13
tracks on the
list at once,
following the
release of her
album
Invasion of Privacy. The
album also debuts at number
one, making her the fith
female rapper in history to top
the famed chart.
16 APR 19: Illinois senator Tammy
Duckworth casts a historic
vote with her newborn daugh-
ter, Maile, by her side. The
Senate had to first change its
outdated rules barring mem-
bers from bringing newborns
onto the Senate floor.
17 APR 26: Bill Cosby is found
guilty of drugging and sexu-
ally assaulting Andrea
Constand in 2004. After the
verdict, Constand tweets,
“Truth prevails.” In September,
Cosby is sentenced to 3 to 10
years in prison.
18 MAY 5: Backstage Capital CEO
Arlan Hamilton announces a
$36 million fund to invest in
black female founders; in 2017,
just 2.2 percent of $85 billion
in VC funds went to women.
19 MAY 7: LaToya Cantrell is sworn
in as mayor of New Orleans,
the first female mayor in the
city’s history; now, Louisiana’s
three largest cities—Nola,
Baton Rouge, and Shreveport—
are all led by black women.
20 MAY 9: The Associated Press
reports that women make up
a majority—60 percent—of
commencement speakers at
the U.S.’s top colleges for the
first time in at least 20 years.
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primary in
Georgia’s gubernatorial race,
making her the state’s first
black female nominee for
governor. If elected, Abrams
will be the first black female
governor in U.S. history.
22 MAY 25: Stacey Cunningham
puts a chip in the glass ceil-
ing over Wall Street when she
becomes president of the
New York Stock Exchange;
with Cunningham’s promo-
tion, and Adena Friedman as
head of Nasdaq, both of the
world’s largest stock
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez
watches the
election returns
on the night
of her victory.
exchanges are now women-
led for the first time.
23 JUN 5: Democrat Deb
Haaland wins her primary in
New Mexico, likely making
her the first Native American
woman in Congress.
24 JUN 14: London Breed is
elected mayor of San
Francisco, a first for an
African-American woman.
25 JUN 18: Ava DuVernay, direc-
tor of A Wrinkle in Time, joins
the “$100 million club” of
directors with films surpass-
ing $100 million in earnings;
DuVernay, the only black
female director to achieve
26 JUN 19: Jennifer Lee, the
Oscar-winning screenwriter
and codirector of Frozen, is
named chief creative officer of
Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Anna and Elsa would be proud.
27 JUN 26: In a major upset,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a
28-year-old running her first
campaign, ousts 10-term
incumbent representative
Joe Crowley in New York’s
Democratic primary.
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who touched her butt goes
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me,” she berated the man,
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with sexual battery.
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Mexico’s elections, taking 51
percent of the senate and 49
percent of the house. Mexico
is now ranked fourth globally
for gender parity in legislative
representation and the only
country with an elected sen-
ate that is majority female.
30 JUL 4: Therese Patricia
Okoumou protests the separa-
tion of migrant families at the
U.S.-Mexico border by climb-
ing the Statue of Liberty’s base
and refusing to leave until “all
the children are released.”

Sandra Oh in
a scene from
Killing Eve
31 JUL 8: MC contributing editor
Janet Mock writes and directs
an episode of FX’s Pose,
becoming the first trans
woman of color to write and
direct a television episode.
32 JUL 10: Judge Dolly Gee of the
U.S. District Court for the
Central District of California in
Los Angeles rules the Trump
administration cannot detain
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migrant children and their
families indefinitely.
33 JUL 12: Sandra Oh is nomi-
nated for an Emmy for Lead
Actress in a Drama Series
for BBC America’s thriller
Killing Eve; she’s the first
Asian actress to be nominated
for the award.
34 JUL 20: Photographer Susan
Unterberg outs herself as the
person who, for 22 years, has
been anonymously awarding
female artists over age 40
$25,000 grants. She has given
away $5.5 million in total.
35 JUL 23: Elin Ersson, a Swedish
university student, prevents
the deportation of an Afghan
asylum seeker by refusing to sit
son’s life,” she says.
36
the sacred Muslim site
around Mecca for non-
Arabic speakers with-
out Internet access to
help reduce the likeli-
hood of a stampede.
37 AUG 6: Beth Wilensky,
a law professor at the
tweets about donating
some of her family’s airline
miles to reunite a three-year-
old and his dad, who’d been
separated at the border, to
extended family. Her tweet
prompts fellow frequent
fliers to pledge 28 million
miles to migrants.
38 AUG 7: Rashida Tlaib wins the
Democratic primary in
Michigan’s 13th Congressional
District, securing her place
in history as the first Muslim
woman elected to Congress,
as she is running unopposed
in the general election.
39 AUG 9: The New York Times
reports that First Lieutenant
Marina Hierl makes history as
the first woman to lead a
Marine Corps infantry platoon.
40 AUG 19: In her first competi-
tion since winning four gold
medals at the 2016 Olympics,
Simone Biles becomes the first
woman to win five all-around
titles at the U.S. national cham-
pionships. Her uniform is teal
(the designated color for
sexual-abuse survivors) to
signify she stands with the
gymnasts who, like herself,
were abused by Larry Nassar.
41 SEP 4: Boston City Council
member Ayanna Pressley
defeats 10-term representa-
tive Michael Capuano in the
Therese
Patricia
Okoumou
stages a
protest at
the Statue
of Liberty
on July 4.
Naomi Osaka
celebrates at
the U.S. Open
at Arthur
Ashe Stadium
in Flushing,
New York.
and attempted to sexually
peted for $607,800, while the
assault her in high school,
women’s pot was $303,900.
setting off a national fire-
SEP 8: Naomi Osaka, the half-
43 Japanese, half-Haitian rising storm.
star in tennis, defeats Serena
Williams in the U.S. Open 48 OCT 2: Canadian physicist
Donna Strickland is jointly
final, becoming the first athlete
awarded the 2018 Nobel
representing Japan to
win a Grand Slam Final. Prize in Physics; she’s the first
woman in 55 years, and the
44 SEP 13: State primaries ahead
of the 2018 midterm elections
third in history, to win the
physics prize.
in November end with a
history-making 235 women
winning nominations
49 OCT 5: Nadia Murad, the
25-year-old Yazidi woman
for the House and a record- abducted by ISIS in 2014,
setting 22 women securing shares the 2018 Nobel Peace
bids for the Senate. There are Prize for work to end sexual
also a landmark 16 female nom- violence. She will donate her
inees for governor, and more $500,000 winnings to her
than a third of all female
nominees are women of color.
charity, which helps Iraqi
women.
#RepresentationMatters
SEP 17: Amy Sherman-Palladino,
50 OCT 7: Taylor Swift urges her
45 creator of Amazon Studios’
112 million Instagram follow-
ers to register to vote, as
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, does Rihanna two days later
makes Emmy history as the first to her 65 million followers;
woman to be awarded for com- more than 434,000 people
edy writing and directing in the
same year.
register in the next five days,
65 percent of whom are
under age 30. Way to use
46 SEP 26: Meghan Markle causes
an Internet firestorm for your platform for good!
daring to close a
car door by herself— Meghan
a break in royal Markle closes
protocol that shows a car door by
herself, a
how she is redefining break in royal
the monarchy. protocol.
47 SEP 27: Christine
Blasey Ford bravely
testifies before
the Senate Judiciary
Committee, alleging
then–Supreme
Court nominee Brett
Kavanaugh groped
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CRAZY RICH ASIANS STAR
GEMMA CHAN JOINS
THE ROYAL COURT IN MARY
QUEEN OF SCOTS
By JU L IA F EL S ENTH AL
There’s so much fighting over women’s
bodies in Mary Queen of Scots. It feels …  efort in World War I. They’ve been literally
familiar. Every scene is about power. You see
two women trying to [wield it] in diferent
ways. Mary embraces her feminine side and
Elizabeth [I] is almost trying to be like a man.
It’s so relevant right now. How much weight
does a woman’s voice carry compared to a
man’s? We’ve seen that so starkly revealed.
It’s also interesting that this is a British
period film—they’re traditionally very
white—but the cast is quite diverse. I would
never have expected to get cast in a film like
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Gemma Chan
appears in
December’s
Mary Queen
of Scots.
this even five years ago.
I was warned when I left
drama school that a lot
of the U.K.’s film and TV
output is period drama,
and there was absolutely
no way [I’d get roles]. I
said yes to this partly in
defiance of what I’d been
told. On the stage, it’s a lot
more accepted. I think
Hamilton was described as
“America then” played by
“America now.” This is
“England then” portrayed
by “England now.” It’s
about time.
You play Bess of Hardwick,
a member of Queen
Elizabeth’s court. Do you
think we’ll ever see a non-
white Elizabeth? You know,
if John Wayne can play
Genghis Khan, who
knows? Watch this space.
What was it like having
such a women-centric cast and crew for this
film and the upcoming Captain Marvel?
Working with two female directors in the last
year—Josie Rourke for Mary Queen of Scots
and Anna Boden for Captain Marvel—you
really do feel an energy diference. No
screaming, no dick-swinging. Just working
together to get the best out of the scene.
Crazy Rich Asians begins with a scene of
vile racism in ’80s England. How does that
track with your experience at that time as a
British person of Asian descent? I was rela-
tively lucky that outright racism toward me
wasn’t frequent. But statistics of hate crimes
against Asians are alarmingly depressing. I
think there’s an issue with how history is
taught. [For example,] I wasn’t aware that
140,000 Chinese men were part of the Allied
airbrushed from history: There was a huge
mural painted in Paris to commemorate the
forces that contributed to victory, but when
the Americans joined the war there wasn’t
room, so they painted over the Chinese.
Rumors are swirling about a Crazy Rich
Asians sequel focusing on your character,
Astrid. I don’t know much other than that
they’re working on the script. I would love
for there to be an exploration of her back-
story. There’s a lot if they want to go there!
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SOUND
THERAPY
ON HER DEBUT EP, RISING
LONDON-BASED ARTIST MINKE
KNOWS JUST WHAT TO SAY
By M E H E R A B ON N E R
You know that feeling when you listen
to a new song and realize it just gets you?
Welcome to all of Minke’s music. After
the success of her addictive hit single
“Gold Angel” in 2017, followed by
“Armour” and 2018’s “Maybe 25,” the
British artist brings us her debut EP—a
mix of moody vocals and soaring guitar
solos with lyrics that are highly relatable.
“The most magical moments in songs
come when you’re just being really
honest,” Minke says. “And you’re looking
inside yourself and staying true to the
sounds and songwriting you love.”
The release is packed with music
equal parts dancy and chill, a melodic
journey through experiences we can all
speak to—whether it’s navigating the
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going through the “angry stage” of a
breakup, or spending too much time on
social media. And considering what a
year it’s been, finding music that makes
you feel seen is a straight-up relief—
which is probably why Minke’s songs are
often described as empowering. “I can
only give my truth,” she says. “And if
that’s relatable, I’m so proud and happy
that’s the case.” It certainly is: She’s
singing to all fraught millennial souls—
and delivering killer riffs in the process.
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THE DREAMERS
BY KAREN THOMPSON WALKER
(RANDOM HOUSE)
A mysterious outbreak
engulfs a West Coast college
campus: One by one, people
are falling asleep and not
waking up, trapped in a
continuous slumber. Doctors
can’t find a scientific expla-
nation. As panic overflows
into the surrounding town,
the National Guard is called
to help enforce a quarantine
in an attempt to contain the
chaos of a rapidly spreading
inexplicable disease and
the increasingly frantic
population of those still
awake. You’ll be mesmerized
by this well-constructed,
vividly drawn exploration
of loss and meditation
on the concept of dreams
versus reality.
RADIANT
SHIMMERING LIGHT
BY SARAH SELECKY
(BLOOMSBURY)
In this cheeky satire that
deftly pokes fun at self-help
culture, Lilian is a cash-
strapped, childless
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fortysomething trying to
build a social following for
the pet-aura portraits she
paints (and that no one really
wants). Her cousin is a popu-
lar lifestyle guru who has
rebranded herself as “Eleven,”
a glamorous purveyor of
marketing smarts, leadership
skills, and spiritual rebirth—
all of which she promises
Lilian can have too if she just
moves to New York and signs
up for Eleven’s overpriced
seminar. And it works!
Lilian’s life totally changes!
But is it for real? You’ll laugh,
you’ll cry, and you’ll cringe at
how much of your social-
media-obsessed self you rec-
ognize in these pages.
NORTH OF DAWN
BY NURUDDIN FARAH
(RIVERHEAD)
Dhaqaneh’s parents have
largely disowned and dis-
avowed their jihadist son
who abandoned his life and
family in Norway. But when
he kills himself in a suicide
bombing, they grudgingly
decide to take in his widow
(who is finding solace in
Islam) and two teenage
MOVIES
WHAT WE’RE
WATCHING
THE FILMS TO KEEP ON YOUR
RADAR RIGHT NOW
BIRD BOX (NETFLIX)
Ocean’s 8 alums Sandra Bullock and Sarah
Paulson together again in a movie? Yes, please!
Adapted from a 2014 novel of the same name,
it is set in a postapocalyptic world where the
population has been decimated by a mysteri-
ous force that kills anyone who sees it. The film
follows a woman named Malorie (Bullock) and
her two children as they make the dangerous,
blindfolded journey along a river to the last
possible sanctuary. Stream it on December 21.
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
(ANNAPURNA)
In his first film post-Moonlight, director Barry
Jenkins brings a James Baldwin novel to the big
children (who definitely
welcome their newfound
screen on November 30. Set in ’70s-era Harlem,
it tells the story of Tish and Fonny, childhood
freedom). This is a political
friends who fall in love and hope to marry but are
novel that is also a family
torn apart when Fonny is imprisoned for a crime
drama—a searing, necessary
he didn’t commit. Not long after, Tish learns
story about identity, xeno-
she is pregnant. Starring impressive newcomer
phobia, and family loyalty
KiKi Layne as the lead (and featuring perennial
from a Nobel Prize nominee.
fave Regina King), this is a strong follow-up to
Jenkins’s Oscar win.
THE WATER CURE
BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH
(DOUBLEDAY)
VOX LUX (NEON)
Over the course of an almost-20-year arc, this
Written in lush, unhurried
drama follows troubled pop star Celeste, who first
COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES
prose, this dystopian tale
rises to prominence after surviving a major trag-
centers on three sisters living
edy as a teen. In theaters December 7, the film
in isolation on a remote
features a striking performance from Natalie
beach with their mother,
Portman in the lead role—and a soundtrack with
whisked there by their father,
original songs by Sia—as it powerfully explores
who claimed he wanted to
the modern fame machine.
protect them from the vio-
lence of men and the outside
world. The girls are subjected
to abuse and psychological
mind games, taught
to fear men, and forced to
perform rituals to “cleanse”
themselves. Then one day
their father suddenly disap-
pears, and shortly thereafter
three strange men arrive on
shore and alter the course of
their lives. This Man Booker
Prize–nominated novel is Tish (KiKi Layne)
and Fonny
intense, atmospheric, and (Stephan James),
deeply unsettling. the lovers at the
center of If Beale
Street Could Talk
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Cabello loves to explore. Whenever she visits a new city (which is a lot
these days), she likes to run out and check out all the cool restaurants
and shops, ride all the rides at the nearest theme park, and “go on,
like, a crazy mountain adventure.” However, exploring new cities like
a maniac while you’re also in the middle of two giant world tours (one
with Taylor Swift and one to promote her own debut album, Camila)
can present problems. For example, back in May, Cabello had to can-
cel a performance due to dehydration. Now, in August, at her doctor’s
insistence, she is trying very hard to chill. Stay in her hotel and watch
movies on her day of. Do a face mask. Relax. “I realized if I don’t take
days of, I will actually die,” says Cabello, 21. “Or collapse, so I’m trying
not to go too crazy for the rest of the tour.”
It’s late night in Pittsburgh, and she’s just finished singing “Shake It
Of” with Swift and Charli XCX at Heinz Field. Fresh from the shower
and dressed in a hoodie and sweats, her long dark hair combed over
her shoulders, Cabello curls up on the couch, tucks her white-socked
feet beneath her, and continues: “It’s hard, though. I’m at this point in
my life when I’m so happy—it’s hard to say no.”
Anyone who’s heard Cabello’s sultry monster hit “Havana” (which,
let’s face it, is everyone) knows she’s had a heck of a year. Camila won
Cabello the Artist of the Year award at MTV’s Video Music Awards, and
she also won for Video of the Year (for “Havana”). She picked up four
American Music Awards in October, including New Artist of the Year.
She’s pretty sure things are finally cool with her former bandmates
in the girl group Fifth Harmony (after a controversial breakup two
years ago). She’s in love with her boyfriend, British relationship coach
Matthew Hussey. She just bought a house for herself and her family in
Miami. Oh yeah, and “Havana” is now Spotify’s most-streamed song by
a solo female artist in its history, with more than a billion streams.
As Swift recently told a crowd in Miami, “She’s killing it right now,
and she will continue to kill it. But beyond that, she’s one of the most
wonderful people I’ve ever met in my entire life.… She’s such a won-
derful, incredible, honest, generous, graceful, hilarious, enthusiastic,
childlike, and yet mature person, and I’m so happy she’s on this tour.”
It’s enough to make you hate her—except Cabello is not really
someone it’s possible to hate. The child of Cuban-Mexican immigrants
who fled Cuba when she was six, she grew up in Miami (her mom
sold shoes at Marshalls; her dad washed cars), dreaming of audition-
ing for the Disney Channel. She hugs everyone she meets. She spends
much of her free time hanging out with her 10-year-old sister, Sofia.
Up until last year, the two shared a tiny lavender-and-pink bedroom
with, as Cabello says, “Mickey Mouse all over it.”
When she was growing up, Disney World was not so much a place for
Cabello as her personal North Star. It’s where her mother told her they
were going when she loaded her onto a bus from Mexico City to emi-
grate to Florida. It’s also the place that made Cabello want to perform.
“My friends and I all wanted to be on the Disney Channel growing up,”
she says. “We all wanted to be singers.” The fact that Cabello actually
grew up to be a singer, however, still seems pretty miraculous because,
for most of her childhood, Cabello sufered from intense stage fright.
In order to understand Cabello properly, you have to understand,
first of all, that she is very shy—and also that she is a natural exhibi-
tionist. Cabello loves nothing more than the idea of baring her soul,
of sharing her deepest secrets with the world, but she also hates the
idea of doing it in front of anyone she actually knows. “I had intense
performance anxiety as a kid,” says Cabello, who arrived in the States
speaking zero English and blasted her favorite pop songs from her
boom box at school in an attempt to attract kindred spirits.
But she also really needed to sing. So she practiced by doing karaoke
to Britney Spears and Hilary Duf albums in the basement. Sometimes
Cabello sang to a friend over the phone. Sometimes she sang through
the closet door to her grandmother, but if that door opened, forget it.
It was over. “I’m an introvert,” explains Cabello, who once turned down
an ofer to star in her middle school’s musical because the thought of
singing in front of her whole school froze her heart. “I love any activity
where I can observe and not necessarily be a part of it.”
Except, of course, when she’s in the middle of the spotlight in a
tiny shimmery dress, dancing in front of thousands of people. “Basi-
cally, there’s the me that I really am, on the inside, which is the nerdy
one—the kind of introverted, shy one—and then there’s the sexy, overly
confident one, doing great dance moves and being super sassy.”
Cabello’s irresistible video for “Havana” nicely showcases these
two sides of her personality. With her enormous liquid-brown eyes
and voice that swings efortlessly from a deep, smoky growl to a
breathy high pitch, Cabello is a temptress with a sense of humor, a
geek unafraid to make fun of herself. The girl comes alive in front of
the camera or when she’s up on stage in a packed stadium. She has
what Simon Cowell calls the X factor, which is why, in 2012, when
she was 15, Cabello convinced her parents to spend the money for her
quinceañera celebration to drive her and the rest of the family to North
Carolina to audition for Cowell’s show.
“There’s way less risk performing or exposing yourself to
strangers than there is in your own town or school,” says Cabello, who
felt trapped and miserable inside the inhibited persona she’d created
for herself. “On The X Factor, I kind of became the person that I wanted
to be. In interviews, I was super goofy and confident. I look at videos of
myself from the first performance, and I’m winking and pointing. I was
dying inside—literally, my hands were shaky, my voice would be flat all
over—but I was like, I just have to just go for it.”
Cowell knew magic when he saw it. Though she was rejected
initially, he brought Cabello back as part of Fifth Harmony—which he
first conceived as a sister group to One Direction. By now, the world is
familiar with what happened between Cabello and Fifth Harmony.
To put it bluntly, Cabello wanted more. She hated the groupthink and
compromise of being creative with four other people (not to mention a
herd of number-crunching A&R execs). She felt pressure to be sexy in a
way that she was not ready for, pressure to go along with the band,
pressure to worry more about hurting people’s feelings than about
making the best music she possibly could. “I would try to kind of rebel
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It began in August 2014, when Internet trolls launched a
series of harassment campaigns—including doxxing,
hacking, and warnings of death and sexual violence on
social media and IRL—targeting female video-game
creators, players, and journalists. After a lengthy blog post
written by an ex-boyfriend of video-game designer Zoë
Quinn claimed that her romantic relationship with a game
reviewer had influenced his critique of her game (in
reality, he’d never reviewed her work), Quinn and her
family were subject to an onslaught of relentless threats.
Other industry insiders, like media critic Anita Sarkeesian,
as well as game-makers who came to Quinn’s defense,
quickly became targets too. And that was probably the last
major story anyone, outside of gamers, heard about
women and gaming.
A BRIEF As the Gamergate drama unfolded, Anna Kipnis, a
39-year-old AI and game-play programmer at video-game
HISTORY OF development studio Double Fine Productions in San
WOMEN Francisco, remembers thinking, All those young women that
IN VIDEO 1986
GAMES SAMUS ARAN ’s
A FEW
FEMALE
gender is revealed at
Metroid’s end, after 1991
P R OTAG O N I S T S most players assumed
she was a he.
WHO’VE
B R I G H T E N E D we’ve been trying to encourage to join us are going to see this,
THE SMALL and they’ll be like, “Oh, God. What am I signing up for?”
SCREEN OVER It’s a marketing problem, Robin Hunicke says. Based in
THE YEARS San Francisco, Hunicke, 45, is cofounder and CEO of indie
video-game studio Funomena. “When you see games in the
news, what you’re hearing about is player behavior that’s
hostile toward other players, or there’s some tangentially
related violence that’s happening, or there’s a giant banner
on the side of the bus for a game where the guy stabs the
other guy in the face.”
But dig a little deeper and you’ll realize the video-game
industry isn’t as much of a boys’ club as its loudest trolls
want you to think. In the U.S., 45 percent of gamers are
women, according to the Entertainment Software
Association’s 2018 Sales, Demographic, and Usage Data
report. And women aren’t just playing—they’re creating too.
Ironically, it was the Gamergate attacks that inspired
women to consider carving out a place for themselves
within the industry. “More people have started paying
attention to creators who don’t look like this stereotypical
idea of who’s making games,” says Naomi Clark, 42, a game
designer and professor at New York University’s Game
Center. “Today, about half of applications are from women,
both in our master’s and undergraduate programs.”
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The women’s restroom line at San Francisco’s Moscone
Convention Center during the 2017 Game Developers
Conference, an annual multiday event that attracts 28,000
video-game-industry professionals, is another barometer of
a larger sea change in the industry. “It was long,” says Jane
Ng, 31, a senior environment artist at video-game studio
Campo Santo in San Francisco. “Not just a two-minute
wait. I was like, ‘Oh my God! There’s a big line.’ And
everybody looked at me like I was crazy. That was really
good too, because it’s like, ‘Oh, you all don’t even know this
is amazing. You’re all new here. I’m so happy.’ ”
WOMEN IN GAMING isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. “There
was a period in the industry’s history when there were more
women involved, during the ’70s and ’80s, when the
adventure-game genre was quite prolific,” explains London-
based story designer Rhianna Pratchett, 41, whose credits
include the latest Tomb Raider series. Then came the girls’
game movement of the 1990s.
“When women started to come onto the scene as creatives
in the ’90s, they started to create games that little girls might
want to play,” says Katie Chironis, a 27-year-old senior
narrative designer at Riot Games in Los Angeles. In 1996,
Mattel released Barbie Fashion Designer, a CD-ROM game
that let girls create and print outfits for their dolls and that
netted $14 million in sales that year. Shortly after, Purple
Moon, a game company that helped pioneer the genre,
Street Fighter’s
1996
CHUN-LI paved the
way for the future
of female fighting
The now-iconic
LARA CROFT first
in the digital ring. appeared as a
tomb raider
with Barbie-esque
proportions.
launched Rockett’s New School, a computer game that
followed a junior high schooler navigating her way through
friendships, classes, and general teen-girl drama. Cofounder
Brenda Laurel shared what inspired her to launch Purple
Moon during a TED talk in 1998: “Why hasn’t anybody built
any computer games for little girls?” Laurel asked the crowd.
“It can’t just be a giant sexist conspiracy. These people aren’t
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that smart. There’s $6 billion on the table.”
Not everyone was enthusiastic about Laurel’s approach.
“The people involved in that movement were completely
well-meaning, but it felt a little bit like ‘Well, if we make it
pink, they’ll come,’ ” says Amy Hennig, a 54-year-old industry
veteran who worked on Eidos Interactive’s Legacy of Kain:
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Soul Reaver and Sony Computer Entertainment’s high-selling
Uncharted series. “It felt like corralling girls into too small of a
space to me.” Despite its initial success, Purple Moon
shuttered and sold its remaining assets to Mattel in March
1999. Around the same time, advances in 3-D graphics
sparked the explosion of first-person-shooter games; the
industry never looked back.
Until now. Today’s games—from big-money franchises like
Tomb Raider, Star Wars, and Horizon Zero Dawn to beloved
indie games like Firewatch, Night in the Woods, and That
Dragon, Cancer—feature more female protagonists, diverse
characters, and narrative-driven action than ever before,
appealing and accessible to novice and professional gamers
alike, all thanks to an influx of women in the industry’s indie
game space.
Big-name games with splashy production and marketing
budgets—which typically involve shooting bad guys, stealing
cars, or a one-named plumber determined to save a princess
from a dinosaur—are known as AAA games. (Games with
smaller budgets are AA, A, B, and so on.) They’re published by
household-name development studios like Electronic Arts,
Nintendo, and Rockstar Games and raked in a record $36
billion in the U.S. last year, significantly eclipsing Hollywood’s
2017 stateside box-office revenue of $11.2 billion.
Indie video games don’t have—or need—such budgets.
Platforms like Unreal Engine and Unity, development
software that ofers free or low-cost services, can turn anyone
into a one-woman game-development studio. When the high
barrier of entry is removed, says Chironis, there’s more room
for new creators. “Some of the people, especially some of the
women, who are doing the most interesting work right now
do not come from strictly technical backgrounds,” she adds.
Kiki Wolfkill, 49, who oversees the megasuccessful Halo
franchise as head of Microsoft’s 343 Industries in Seattle, says
indie designers often drive new trends in the industry. “You’re
seeing a lot more women building games that are appealing
to a whole diferent audience,” she says. “The ecosystem itself
is changing.”
For example, PrinceNapped is a character-driven mobile
2003
Beyond Good and
Evil’s JADE ‘s noble
missions and realis- 2013
tic sizing resonated
with women gamers.
video-game puzzle that smashes a classic cliché: Players
rescue the prince, not the princess. It has attracted both
genders and was created by Ker-Chunk Games, a
development studio with three female cofounders. Or Dream
Daddy, a 2017 game designed to simulate real-life dating
through players’ choices and cocreated by then-19-year-old art
student Leighton Gray. Wired dubbed Dream Daddy—whose
main character, a widowed queer single father, moves to a
town conveniently populated by attractive single dads—“the
game of the summer” just weeks after its release, and Gray
later landed a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2018.
“What has been striking to me is the diference in
perspective that you get when you invite a diversity of people
into a certain space,” says Kim Belair, 32, a Montreal-
based scriptwriter for games like Assassin’s Creed and the
upcoming Neo Cab. Scriptwriters like Belair craft all the
words you see and hear on screen, including dialogue
between characters, how other characters react to your
player’s movements, background noise, and more. “Things
that are my everyday experience as a woman, and as a woman
of color, are things that the white dude I work with isn’t
actively ignoring, but he just doesn’t have the experience,”
Belair says. “When I play Tomb Raider, there are certain
moments that I know resonate with me because I am a
woman. They are narratively powerful to anyone who plays it,
but it’s a diferent thing. You feel a certain kinship to it. Like,
‘This is a feeling I have experienced because of my gender.’
Representation can be innovation.”
LIKE SO MUCH of the tech sector, the video-game industry
remains male dominated. For many women working in the
space, there’s a sense of self-imposed responsibility to
encourage more women to join their ranks.
Laila Shabir, 32, founded Girls Make Games—which has
hosted game-development workshops for girls in over 50
cities around the world—after starting her own game studio
with her husband, a semiprofessional gamer. “It was
impossible to get women to join,” she says. “Pretty much
every job posting that we put up, we got hundreds of
twentysomething boys saying that this was their dream job.
I think we literally got three women to apply.” Girls Make
Games encourages middle-grade and junior high girls to
focus on the character, her motivations, and her backstory
when developing an idea; empathy tends to play a key role in
game-making for girls.
But visibility remains a challenge for women in the
industry. Jade Raymond, the Montreal-based founder of EA’s
Motive Studios, makers of Star Wars: Battlefront II, was lead
producer and the cocreator of the first Assassin’s Creed game
at Ubisoft, which the 43-year-old describes as “the kind of
game that I love, one where you get to blow shit up.” She
The Last of Us’s
ELLIE, an openly
2017
gay teen, helps IDEN VERSIO
her crew navigate
a postapocalyp-
tic world.
leads Star Wars:
Battlefront II, one
of last year’s best-
selling games.
recalls the backlash from many male gamers she received
after launching: There was no way Raymond was the lead of
the project, they wrote on gaming sites. She must just be the
face. Other people are doing the actual work.
After that experience, she avoided the spotlight until, while
helping open Ubisoft’s Toronto studio in 2009, she heard from
women, many fresh out of college, who’d been hired to join
the team. “I got a lot of notes saying that seeing me in that role
on Assassin’s Creed was really inspiring and made them
believe that they could have a good career in games,” she says.
“It made the industry seem less scary.”
Siobhan Reddy, director at video-game-development
studio Media Molecule in the U.K., has always been someone
who prefers to be in the background. But around five or six
years ago—just before Gamergate erupted—she read a study
supporting the idea that seeing people like themselves in posi-
tions of power helps individuals recognize their own
potential. “I made more of a point to be more present and for
the women within the studio to be present. It was important
for people to see that we were a studio that had visible
women,” Reddy, 39, says. “And our applicants did change.”
“There’s still a ways to go,” she adds. “I don’t think we get
gold stars just yet.” But it’s about time the industry levels up—
and women are here to play.
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 WHERE DID ALL MY
GIRLFRIENDS GO?
EVEN IN OUR HYPERCONNECTED
WORLD, TRUE FRIENDSHIPS
REMAIN ELUSIVE FOR YOUNG
WOMEN LOOKING TO REBUILD
THEIR COLLEGE-ERA SQUADS
By Maggie Bullock

M
agazine art designer Susanna Hayward, 24, refers to
the period when she first moved to New York as
“the dark times.” She’d call her parents back home
in Missouri and report, “I’m shoulder to shoulder
with people every day, but I am so lonely. I have no
one to talk to, and everyone is on their phones.
Everyone already has a life.”
“How to find friends in adulthood” is a common
enough problem that it pops right up as a Google search term. But
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the dilemma may be most keenly felt by recent college grads, who
are often relocating to new cities and starting over in every sense
and are also accustomed to the easy social immediacy of college
life—where it’s not “Let’s grab a drink sometime” but “Let’s go out
tonight.” After you spend four years conveniently sardine-packed
next to people your own age, the process of making friends in
adulthood can feel excruciatingly slow, if not altogether impossible.
“When you get out of college, you’re like, ‘I just spent four
years meeting people every day. I am so good at making
friends,’ ” Maggie Dolan says with a laugh. But when the
25-year-old moved to a town just outside of Seattle last year
and started her first real job, in a bank branch populated by
“sweet and nice colleagues—just not on the same page,”
reality struck. Holy crap, she recalls thinking. This is a
little harder than I thought it was going to be.
“It’s something that people don’t really bring up,”
says Korrie Merley, 24, who moved to Minneapolis in
2016 for a job in PR. “You don’t want to say, ‘Oh, I
don’t feel like I have many good friends.’ But once
I’ve mentioned it, people go, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re
dealing with that too?’ ”
This difficulty coincides with a moment in
life when a wingwoman has never felt more
necessary—and with a moment in the
culture in which young women are
increasingly certain that the support
system they need is not romantic but
platonic. And, crucially, female. When
industrial designer Millie Parkinson
moved to Brooklyn last year, “I was
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 this postcollege thing by myself. I needed someone to
commiserate with about how scary it was to move to a new
place. I just needed to know that this existential and career
anxiety wasn’t just me being creepy.”
Is this just an age-old dilemma for young people restarting
in an unfamiliar place? Partially, yes. But it also feels very
much of the here and now. For one thing, it could be chalked
up to being one more way technology has irreparably altered
how (and how often) we interact. When Claudia Williams, 23,
moved to Boston last summer to take a job as a junior
copywriter, she quickly picked up on a widespread “burning
desire” to Netflix binge after work, as well as an epidemic of
last-minute rain checks—perhaps, she posits, because when
people are getting constant low-level social contact all day
“RIGHT NOW, I WANT TO FIND MY BRIDESMAIDS,
NOT MY HUSBAND,” SAYS MELISSA STUDACH, 23.
long via text and DM, “what’s left to discuss at the end of the
day?” Seattle’s Dolan points to another reason to stay home
and stream: Entry-level jobs don’t leave a lot of cocktail
money lying around. “There’s so much I could do at home to
keep myself entertained,” she says. “Why go out?”
Plus, it has become all but unimaginable to walk up to a
stranger and say, you know, hello. “I wonder if [making
friends] used to be more meet-cute: You see someone reading
a book that you’d also read, and you approach them in real
life,” Brooklyn’s Parkinson ponders, in the tone of someone
contemplating a light jog on Jupiter. “I’m convinced people
think approaching someone in real life is too intrusive, too
intense, like someone has ulterior motives.”
Hayward (who works at Marie Claire) still remembers the
one who got away: After she hit it of with a sales assistant at
a boutique, “I almost said, ‘Can I get your number so we can
meet up?’” she says. “There’s just such a stigma about asking
a person out on a friend date. I thought it would be weird to
be like, ‘Hey, do you want to hang out sometime?’ ”
Friend-making is a kind of courtship. It has an etiquette
and rhythm within which lie any number of opportunities for
awkwardness. Say you vibe with a girl at a dinner party, says
recent NYC transplant Melissa Studach, a 23-year-old writer
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and social-media manager: “You don’t know if she has her
established friend group and is interested in adding to it.”
“We have 500 guides for what to do if he breaks up with
you or what to do if he won’t say ‘I love you’ back,” says
Kayleen Schaefer, author of Text Me When You Get Home, a
book about female friendship, “but zero guides for ‘I asked
her to hang out but she said no, but she might really want
to.’” At speaking engagements for her book, the question of
how to make those friends never fails to arise. What Schaefer
tells attendees is not earthshaking. “Repeated interaction,”
she says simply. “That’s the only way it will grow.”
Earlier this year, University of Kansas associate professor
of communications Jefrey Hall managed to quantify this
repetition. In a joint study—one of 355 adults who had
recently relocated and one of 112 freshmen students—Hall
established that it takes 40 to 60 hours of interaction for an
acquaintance to become a casual friend, 80 to 100 hours to
move from casual friend to friend, and 200-plus hours to hit
bestie status. (That doesn’t mean you’ll grow to love everyone
you spend a lot of time with; years into a job, some work
colleagues will always be just…colleagues.) That goes a long
way toward explaining why college relationships can feel life
altering after one marathon weekend and why in adulthood,
when you might see a potential friend for a few hours every
few weeks at best, friendships can feel so dissatisfying.
Schaefer notes that it also explains why people tend to have
so few friends outside of their worldview and social strata:
“The people you see every day—that’s how you make friends.”
Finding the people you want to be around and coming up
with a nonweird way to be around them for 80-plus hours?
That takes ingenuity and openness—saying no to Netflix and
yes to pretty much everything else: “drink and draw” art
classes, “stitch and bitch” quilting circles, every kickball-
league invitation that bounces your way. Yes to after-work
drinks, yes to charity work, maybe even yes to a new job even
if you already have one.
Last spring, someone from Studach’s former sorority
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posted on Facebook about a summer job opening at one of
the gourmet snack stalls at Smorgasburg, the tourist-mobbed
weekend Brooklyn food fest. On the company’s Instagram
page, Studach “saw these fun people looking like they were
enjoying their work, but also each other.” So every weekend
last summer, she spent hours doling out balls of flash-fried
cookie dough to hipsters in droves—and accomplished her
goal of meeting people. Dolan also tried the weekend-job
approach, picking up a Sunday shift at a local Irish pub. But
two months in, she threw in the towel. “I just didn’t fit in,”
she says. Eventually, she found that taking up a new hobby—
that old rule from Making Friends 101—can work. In woodsy
Seattle, “the minute I bring up that I like hiking, I immedi-
ately have something in common with somebody.” One hiker
leads to another, et voilà: a squad.
In Boston, Williams grew tired of ogling local Instagram-
mers who seemed to be living her best life: sipping lattes at
cute cofee shops, shopping at cute thrift stores, reading cute
books. So she started DMing them. A lot of them. Of the 30 or
so women she pinged (“Hey, I just moved to Boston, let me
know if you want to get cofee!”), most wrote back, “Oh my
God, let’s do it!” and never materialized. Then she found
Maeve. In photos of Maeve’s bedroom, she spotted a fireplace,
vintage velvet textures, antiques; at the very least, Williams
figured, this girl was her interior-design soulmate. On their
Among the
first friend date, cofee led to dinner, which led to drinks, over reasons
the course of which “I told her things that I wouldn’t tell a some find it
challenging
guy on a first date,” Williams says with a laugh. to find friends:
technology
When Parkinson ran into an acquaintance from college at that obviates
a sample sale with a friend, she asked how they met. Bumble the need for
social contact,
BFF, they reported. Parkinson was “a little skeptical that you little dispos-
could really find your friendship OTP”—Snapchat-speak for able income for
socializing, and
One True Pairing—on an app, but she gave it a shot. Thing is, idealized bonds
“I swiped left so many times that Bumble told me I ran out of in pop culture
hard to replicate
people to swipe.” She did reach out to a few people, but most in real life.
of these repartees fizzled before they ever actually met. But
two girls made it all the way to IRL—and one of these was
city—that’s where I’ll meet my BFF.’” Problem is, this
Maggie. “A lot of what we talked about was this freaky
line of thinking is remarkably similar to previous
transition into adulthood and how it’s scary to go it alone,”
generations’ certainty that their 20s would serve up
Parkinson says. The two women are now roommates.
Mr. Right and to their panic when that perfect

C
person failed to appear. Does it even need to be
ould the very idea of the OTP be the culprit here? stated that believing you must find that perfect
In truth, the women interviewed for this story anyone can be a trap? “Rather than motivating us
are not sitting home alone on Saturday night. to find better friends, [this
They have people; they just don’t have their pressure] often leads to
person. Once or twice a week, Hayward meets up settling—choosing people
with a group of college acquaintances who also who are not the most
landed in New York to grab drinks or go to an art uplifting or supportive,”
opening. But these are “friends by association,” says Kate Leaver, author of
she says, and there’s a whif of survivalism underlying these The Friendship Cure. Yes,
arrangements. “It’s mostly to avoid loneliness,” she says. “I “our 20s are peak friendship-
just want to make girlfriends that I can lie around in making years,” she says, but
pajamas and watch TV with, not ones to talk about work or “it’s OK if it takes the full
who can only relate [because of] our college majors.” decade to find the people who
From Sex and the City to Girls to Insecure and even make you feel like the best
2 Dope Queens, there’s no shortage of pop-culture models for version of yourself.”
the kind of relationship these women are seeking—the kind “Be patient”: Was there ever
they think they’re supposed to have. Studach is missing, she a harder piece of advice to
says, the Abbi to her Ilana. The Broad City girls’ bond, she follow? For Hayward, it was a
says, “is so natural. I feel like they don’t even make plans to weekend gig at DO, a cookie-
meet up somewhere; they just know the other one is going to dough shop, that ultimately saved
be there and show up. They’re so in tune with each other.” her from going of the deep end.
This high-visibility moment for female friendship is in “It ended up being one of the best
some ways a story of marriage—or, rather, of not marrying. things I’ve ever done in New York,”
Women may be waiting longer to choose a partner, but we she says. Before the company
need a support system as much as ever, especially when became the Instagram hot spot it is
moving to a new place. Almost every woman agreed that, due today, she’d spend a slow Saturday talking with coworker
in part to the (shame-free) instant gratification of hookup Caroline, a fellow New York newbie, freshly arrived from
apps, it’s much easier to find a guy these days than a true, North Carolina. Hayward remembers the moment she felt
deep friend. “I have no interest in committing myself to one the first spark: After telling her about the trailer for an
man at this point. I’d much rather have it be a friend than a obscure, artsy movie, Caroline said, “I would be so interested
significant other,” Studach says. “Right now, I want to find my in seeing that.” Nervously, Hayward managed to squeak out,
bridesmaids, not my husband.” “Would you like to go see it after work?” Caroline said yes,
Girls grow up watching “BFF duos conquering the world numbers were exchanged, and the rest is history. Now they
together, partying till 4 a.m., meeting cute boys,” says joke about that day. “Remember when I asked you out for a
Williams. And if you didn’t find that soul mate in high school friend date?” Are they OTPs? Maybe. One thing’s for sure:
or college, “you think, ‘Oh, when I’m 22 and move to a new Hayward is keeping the side gig.

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pants—which was allowed. Nobody ever put a
gun to my head and was like, ‘You have to do
this.’ But it was definitely moving in a certain
direction and there was a group mentality, so
you have to do it.”
So Cabello went back into hiding, hol-
ing up in hotel bathrooms, feverishly writing
lyrics while she was touring, and quietly col-
laborating with people like Shawn Mendes
on the hit “I Know What You Did Last Sum-
mer” and Machine Gun Kelly on the hit single
“Bad Things.” You can imagine how well that
went over with the other Harmonizers. But
the songs just kept pouring out. “Camila is
exactly what you see and know of her,” says
Mendes. “She puts up no walls and hides be-
hind nothing. She is 100 percent authentically
her.” Looking back, it all seems inevitable. The
time had come for Cabello to break out. And
of course her fellow bandmates weren’t going
to like it. And of course, eventually, it would
all blow over. “I think that we’re all good now,”
says Cabello, some vestigial sadness register-
ing in her eyes. “I saw Normani [Kordei] at
the Billboard Awards, and we kind of mutually
came up to each other. She’d performed that
night, and so I was like, ‘Oh, how was it?’ She
said, ‘Oh, I was so nervous.’ And I was like, ‘By
next year you’ll be totally fine. You’re killing it.
I’m so happy for you. I’m so excited to see what
you do with your music.’ I told her, ‘I just want
you to know, I really hope we can all move on
from everything, and I’m genuinely happy for
the other girls, and I hope you tell them I wish
you the best.’ And she was like, ‘I’m so proud of
you.’ It felt like everything is totally fine.”
For Cabello, the experience of going solo
seems to have been mostly a huge relief. That’s
not to say creating Camila was all flowers and
light; there were still plenty of suits crowding
around, trying to tell her what to do, and the
song “Havana” was a nightmare to write. Ca-
bello worked on it for five months. Eventually—
in a moment of pure fairy-godmother-style
magic—Pharrell Williams got in touch with
Cabello’s producer Frank Dukes and asked to
work with her. “It was my birthday, and I was
like, ‘We have a chorus for this song, but I can’t
figure out the rest,’ and he just came up with the
melody for the verse we needed on the spot.”
By the end of the day, the song was basically
finished. But nobody at the record company
wanted to make it a single. “They were like,
‘You have to make it faster. You have to add
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production. Radio isn’t going to get it. It’s a cool
song, but it’s not your single.’”
Swift, however, had other ideas. “She was
like, ‘People on the outside are never going to
think about the story that you want to leave
behind,’” Cabello recalls. “‘That’s yours, so you
have to always protect that, because to other
people it’s a song, but for you it’s something
personal.’” When “Havana” topped the charts
in over 23 countries, she learned a very impor-
tant lesson: “You just have to trust yourself. I’m
never going to be like, ‘This is a huge song.’ But
I really liked it, and that’s what matters.” It was
a similar story, Cabello says, with the album’s
second single, “Never Be the Same”—an impas-
sioned torch song that she’s visibly proud of.
“When I finished writing that song, I got the
biggest song-ecstasy,” she says. “I was like, ‘I
made something that sounded like the inside of
my brain: the track, the words, the melody. This
is what the inside of my brain sounds like.’”
Cabello may or may not have written “Never
Be the Same” about Hussey, but she freely ad-
mits that the worst thing in the world is when
he’s in the audience at her concerts. “Any time
he’s there, I get super nervous. I stutter or my
hands are shaky,” she says, a rosy flare coming
into her cheeks. The pair met on the Today
set, but this is the first time Cabello’s actually
named him or discussed him in public. “It’s
annoying, because we’ve been together for
kind of like a long time now, but every time,
I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I have to talk now.’ ”
Otherwise, though, Cabello is completely
nuts about Hussey. “He’s so similar to me,” she
says. “In person, we’re just weird and silly and
stupid together. He makes me the happiest
I’ve ever been in my life.” Thankfully, Cabello’s
family also approves of Hussey, because she’s
with them pretty much constantly. “I’m super
attached to my family,” says Cabello, who still
sleeps in the same bed with her mother and
sister when she’s not with Hussey and can’t
imagine not living with them. Her mother ac-
companies her whenever she performs. You
get the sense that Cabello’s family grounds
her and reminds her of what’s important in
life—but also that she’s increasingly aware of
the importance of pleasing herself.
When asked about rumors that she’s going
to star as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s upcom-
ing West Side Story, Cabello says, “I don’t think
so. I feel like this has been the first year and a
half of me getting to know myself. I have this
confidence now that I haven’t had before, of
listening to myself and not really doing brain
damage on ‘Should I release this song?’ ‘Should
I do this this way, or should I do it that way?’
‘Am I the way this person sees me, or am I the
way I see myself?’ ” Instead, Cabello says, she’s
been locking herself away again, exploring
ideas and writing lyrics and thinking about
a new album. “I know exactly who I am, and
I know what I want to do,” she says, smiling,
“and I’m just not ready to give up that voice for
something else right now.”
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issue, we misidentified Catherine Racowsky
as the incoming president of the College of
American Pathologists (CAP); she is actually
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The SHRINK Is IN
OUR RESIDENT PSYCHIATRIST UNLOCKS THE KEYS TO STICKING TO
RESOLUTIONS AND PRIORITIZING A NEVER-ENDING TO-DO LIST
Q: I want to start the new
year off on a great foot.
Any recommendations?
After a busy and perhaps (overly)
indulgent holiday season, radical
change might feel like the answer.
Before you embark on a period of
punishing deprivation, consider a
former patient of mine who lost
more than 10 pounds after going
on a green-juice diet for the first
two weeks of January. She was
thrilled about the weight loss
but ravenously hungry and in a
terrible mood the entire time. A
few weeks later, she had regained
all the weight…and then some.
Cast in a broader framework, it’s a
metaphor for what so many of us
experience when we try to make
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a long-term change. In the short
term, it’s easy. In the long term,
not so much.
Crash diets aside, how can
you make behavioral changes
that help you start the year on
the right track and that are
also sustainable? Psychologists
Barbara Fredrickson and Michael
Cohn explored this question
by following a group that had
participated in a short-term study
on the benefits of meditation.
In the initial seven-week study,
regular meditation was shown
to increase feelings of love, hope,
gratitude, and sense of purpose
for pretty much everyone. Then
Cohn and Fredrickson followed
up 15 months later. A number
of participants continued to
meditate and reported feeling
better as a result, but others
had stopped. What made the
diference? According to their
findings, those who enjoyed
meditating early on in the study
were more likely to be meditating
one year later. The findings
suggest that the trick to long-term
behavior change is that you must
connect with it. For anything to
stick, there must be interest in
the first place. So instead of fixing
a flaw, consider doing more of
something that comes naturally
and that you enjoy. If you love art,
make a resolution to visit a gallery
or museum once a week. If you
like reading, join a book club.
Whatever change you want
to make or skill you hope to
master, begin with something
that feels right. Enthusiasm is the
gatekeeper of endurance.
Q: I manage to get all
the little things done but
push the more important
items—scheduling a
mammogram and having
a conversation with my
boss about a raise—to the
back of my mind. How can
I better prioritize?
A new study published in the
Journal of Consumer Research
sheds some light on why
seemingly urgent tasks all too
often take precedence over more
important ones. Researchers
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Q&A
found that people typically choose
to complete tasks that have short
deadlines and repeatedly put of
ones that don’t have an expiration
date. The more critical a task
feels, the more attention we give
it, even if the reward is minimal.
These urgent tasks dominate our
thoughts and consume our energy,
which might explain why we
rush to a store whose sale ends in
hours but don’t set aside time for
that conversation with the boss.
The limited time frame hijacks
our attention and negatively
impairs our ability to make good
decisions. Moreover, this efect is
even more pronounced in people
who already feel super busy. So
how can we make better choices?
1. Schedule what matters:
Carve out specific periods of time
to do what’s important. Block of
time each week to do things that
are meaningful to you and that
matter in the long run for your
health, family, and friends.
2. Pause: Before tackling an
item, ask yourself, “Is this really
important?”
3. Look forward: Shift your
attention away from deadlines
and toward outcomes. Will this
matter one year from now?
4. Set limits: Avoid spending
too much time on unimportant
stuf like email and social media.
5. Think big picture: Create
a weekly work/life check-in to
ensure that your daily choices
reflect your priorities.
When you put your values
front and center, you transform a
full schedule into a fulfilled life.
SAMANTHA BOARDMAN IS
A CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR IN
PSYCHIATRY AND AN ASSISTANT
ATTENDING PSYCHIATRIST AT WEILL
CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE IN
NEW YORK AND THE FOUNDER
OF POSITIVEPRESCRIPTION.COM.
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THE COHOST OF THE VIEW AND STAR OF THE

COMEDY NOBODY’S FOOL ON FEARLESSNESS, HER
AUDIOBOOK HABIT, AND SCHOOLING HOLLYWOOD
1. IF I WEREN’T AN ACTOR, I’D BE: A shrink or a lawyer—one of the two—
because you have to be able to tell good stories when you’re a lawyer,
and you have to be able to listen and know a bad story when you’re a shrink.

2. BEST CAREER ADVICE I’VE GOTTEN: Came from Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel at the beginning of my career
when they both said to me and my mother, “Make sure you enjoy this ride.” It’s important. Lots of people
will try to stop you from having a good time, but the very first time is always wonderful, so enjoy it.

3. THE THREE QUALITIES THAT GOT ME WHERE I AM TODAY: Talent, luck, and humor.
4. CHANGE I’D LIKE TO SEE IN MY INDUSTRY: The fact that people get older seems to be a shock to the industry.
I wish that they’d get over that. I’d like them to stop being surprised that someone has gotten older and smarter.

5. HOW DID YOU MAKE YOUR FIRST DOLLAR? I worked in a morgue.

6. WHO DO YOU ADMIRE AND WHY? I admired my mom because she made me fearless,
and that is a trait you have to have if you are going to do what I do.

7. LAST THING I BINGE-WATCHED: Castle Rock on Hulu.

8. BOOK THAT LEFT A LASTING IMPRESSION ON ME: Well, the truth is—and this is going to sound crazy, but there
is an amazing book called Toddlers Are A**holes (It’s Not Your Fault) [by Bunmi Laditan], and it is wonderful. It left an impression
on me because someone is telling you the truth about toddlers, and it’s fun, and I love it. That’s the last one that did.

9. SONG THAT ALWAYS MAKES ME CRY: “Nessun Dorma,” by Puccini.

10. SONG I’D WANT PLAYED AT MY FUNERAL: “Always,” written by Irving Berlin.
11. IF I COULD LIVE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, IT WOULD BE: Greece.
12. WHAT EVERY WOMAN SHOULD TRY ONCE IN HER LIFETIME: Not giving a rat’s butt what other people
think of her. That’s the thing you should try in your lifetime.

13. ONE THING I’M EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD AT: I think I’m good at seeing a bigger picture.
14. ONE THING I’M EPICALLY BAD AT: Hiding my feelings. Apparently, everything is on my face.
15. SOMETHING BETTER IN THEORY THAN IN PRACTICE: Throuples.
16. STORE I CAN’T LEAVE WITHOUT BUYING SOMETHING: Audible Books. You get hurt
trying to interrupt me while I’m listening.

17. THE THREE QUALITIES I THOUGHT I WANTED IN A PARTNER: Heart, humor, and truth.
18. THE THREE QUALITIES I KNOW NOW MATTER: Integrity, trustworthiness, and laughter.
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19. ADVICE TO A WOMAN WITH A BROKEN HEART: Clearly, you can do better.
20. RELATIONSHIP ADVICE TO MY YOUNGER SELF: No, you never have to get married.
21. THE CRAZIEST THING I DID FOR LOVE: Got married.
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Tiger’s Nest Eau de Parfum, $295. 13. OLIKA Birdie Hand Sanitizer
Spray in Eggshell, $9. 14. MARC JACOBS Le Marc Lip Frost Lipstick in
Diva, $30. 15. JENNIFER BEHR Leopard Scrunchie, $98.

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BEAUTY
Having a Moment
LIQUID JEWELRY
This season, glittery nail
polishes are stealing the
spotlight from flashy cocktail
rings. Smith & Cult’s lacquer
features rose-colored paillettes
suspended in an opalescent
base. OPI’s version lays down
a shimmery wash of gold
flecked with metallic particles.
And the tiny silver and gold
stars in Dior’s topcoat say
“festive” without veering into
Christmas-sweater territory.
1. DIOR Diorific Top Coat
Midnight Wish in Lucky Star,
$29. 2. ALEX WOO X SMITH
& CULT Nailed Lacquer in
A Little Lovely, $18. 3. OPI
Metamorphosis Nail Lacquer in
This Changes Everything, $11.
3 INTERNATIONAL FIND:
1 as a tiny apothecary in a gor-
2
Best-Case
Scenario
Everyone’s favorite line
of ’90s beauty organizers
(Caboodles, duh) is revamp-
ing and expanding with
a new collection that puts
all the decluttering power
of the original tiered tackle
boxes in more luxurious
packaging. Nostalgists need
not worry: The brand’s iconic
marbleized train cases are
still available too.
CABOODLES
Small Train
Case, $65.
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VANITY FILES
THE LATEST IN HAIR, MAKEUP, AND
FRAGRANCE By Jennifer Goldstein
OH BOY
Chanel has long defied
gender norms—in the 1920s,
the house designed with
jersey, a fabric traditionally
reserved for men’s underwear—
and the tradition continues
with its new cosmetics
collection, Boy de Chanel.
Although the lightweight
foundation, blendable brow
pencil, and matte lip balm
were created with men’s skin
in mind, women who want
the no-makeup makeup look
are also snapping them up.
In case there was any doubt,
gender lines in the beauty
world are oicially blurred.
CHANEL (from left) Boy de Chanel
Eyebrow Pencil, $40, Foundation, $65,
and Lip Balm, $38.
BEAUTY PASSPORT
LAUREN
NAPIER
WHO: Makeup artist
and founder of Lauren
Napier Beauty
WONDER DOWN UNDER:
“My friend is Greek-Australian,
and when we went to Australia
on holiday, we used olive oil
as an all-purpose moisturizer
the entire trip. My legs and
shoulders were glowing.
It even kept my heels smooth
after running on the gorgeous
Perth beaches.”
“I discovered charcoal teeth-
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whitening powder in Dubai.
It looks macabre, because
your mouth turns black while
you’re brushing, but it works.”
TOP SHOP: “I live for Oh
My Cream [en.ohmycream.
com] in Paris. It started out
geous neighborhood, and
it’s bloomed into a handful of
lovely shops with exquisite
natural beauty products.”
DREAM TRIP: “I really want to
visit Casablanca to try a bath
with the nourishing and detox-
ifying local clay. It’s supposed
to leave your skin radiant.”
FLIGHT PLAN: “Natura
Bissé Oxygen Perfecting Oil
Mist smells divine and is
hydrating in flight. And I
never leave home without a
pack of Flaunt by Lauren
Napier [above]; they’re TSA-
approved cleansing wipes
that nourish, refresh, and
weigh practically nothing.”
Well-Nourished
Weleda Skin Food has been around for
100 years—plenty of time for the homeopathic
moisturizer to gain near-mythical status
with makeup artists who love its skin-healing
benefits almost as much as its dewy finish.
Now, for the first time, the calendula-based
formula is available in other formats, includ-
ing a lip balm, a body butter, and a lighter
version of the moisturizer (above) for those who
have oily skin—or prefer a less-reflective look.
WELEDA Skin Food Light Nourishing Cream, $19.
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MAD
A
H TTER
From mouse-inspired millinery to makeup worthy of a princess,
this season’s Disney renaissance has reached a fever pitch. Here, the grown-up
way to indulge in the happiest place on earth. Photographs by ALEX JOHN BECK
 FOREVER YOUNG
This whimsical headpiece
subverts classic Mickey ears
with iridescent details and
a sophisticated veil.
HEADBAND,
$450, GIGI BURRIS
MILLINERY.

ON EYES:
L’ORÉAL PARIS
VOLUMI-
NOUS LASH
PARADISE
LIQUID
EYELINER
IN BLACK.

Beauty Editor: Erin Flaherty Fashion Editor: Julia Gall By Taylore Glynn

Holiday 2018 M A RIECLA IRE.CO M 11

 BIBBIDI
BOBBIDI BLUE
Glossy powder-
blue eyeshadow
is an on-trend
take on Cinderella’s
iconic gown. Lean
into the fantasy
with a romantic
cherry-hued stain
that’ll last well
past midnight.
ON EYES: COVERGIRL
EYE ENHANCERS
1-KIT SHADOW IN
STERLING BLUE. MILK
MAKEUP FACE GLOSS.
ON LIPS: DIOR
DIOR ADDICT LIP
TATTOO IN RED.

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 OFF TO
NEVERLAND
Take a cue from
Tinkerbell with
a manicure we’re
dubbing “the
Pixie Dust”: Paint a
stripe of superfine
glitter polish from
tip to top knuckle
for sparkle that’s
equal parts
playful and posh.
SWEATER, PRICE
UPON REQUEST,
DISNEY X OPENING
CEREMONY.

ON NAILS:
MORGAN TAYLOR
PROFESSIONAL
NAIL LACQUER IN
FAME GAME.
ALL EARS
Wispy, youthful tendrils
complement a lighthearted head-
band. Twirl face-framing strands
around a large-barrel curling
iron for off-kilter movement.
HEADBAND, $410, GIGI BURRIS MILLINERY.

ON HAIR: HOT SEXY HAIR SUPPORT ME

HEAT PROTECTION SETTING HAIRSPRAY.

FOR STORES, SEE SHOPPING DIRECTORY.

Hair: Bok Hee for Oribe at Lowe & Co.

Makeup: Eric Polito for Dior Beauty
at Art Department
Manicure: Tee Hundley for Chanel Le
Vernis at MAM-NYC
Model: Julia Cordova at Muse NYC
Casting: Urban Productions Casting

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FAIRY-TALE
ENDING
The fluttery,
hyperfeminine
lashes of our
favorite illustrated
heroines are
swoon-stirring and
easy to imitate:
Rock a set of faux
fringe or apply two
coats of lengthen-
ing mascara on the
top and bottom.
HAT, $410, GIGI
BURRIS MILLINERY.

ON EYES: SEPHORA
COLLECTION FALSE
EYELASHES.
BEAUTY
CAN
SKINCARE
KEEP
YOU SANE?
WRITER GINA WAY
SAYS HER MULTISTEP
REGIMEN GOT HER
THROUGH A DIVORCE.
AND EXPERTS THINK
SHE’S ON TO SOMETHING.
M
y morning skincare routine is
reminiscent of the first scene of
Mommie Dearest, in which Joan
Crawford prepares an ice-water
face bath and then starts in on
her systematic beauty ritual.
First, I spend three minutes
rinsing my face with cold water, then I
apply a hyaluronic-acid toner, followed by a
salicylic-acid serum on my nose and chin and
finally an eye gel. Phase two, post-shower,
involves a diferent serum, followed by two
types of sunscreen and eye cream. Suffice
it to say my regimen can last through the
majority of a Law & Order: SVU episode.
I’m not alone in my ablutions. In fact, by
some women’s standards, I’m low-maintenance.
San Francisco style writer Jessica Egbu’s
morning routine has seven steps (one involves
a refrigerated rose-quartz face roller), but she
says it’s streamlined compared to her p.m. pro-
gram, which involves double-cleansing, toner,
an essence, and a sheet mask. “Sometimes I’m
touching my face for what seems like almost
an hour,” she admits. Kelly Stevens, a physical
therapist in Chicago, multimasks (with the
clay, hydration, sleeping, and lip varieties) as
part of her routine. “It’s my pampering wind-
down at the end of a long day,” she says.
With the rise of K-beauty and an increasing
amount of social-media content devoted
to complexions (#sheetmaskselfies
#skincaregoals #selfcaresundays), skincare is
much more than a matter of hygiene these
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days. “It’s become a trend. It’s an actual hobby
for a lot of women,” says Josie Howard, a San
Francisco psychiatrist. But it’s simplistic to
dismiss this trend as another sign of our cul-
ture’s penchant for self-indulgence and vanity
because there’s something deeper going on.
For me, it’s about control. When I was going
through a divorce, my routine kept me sane.
It was one of the few things I could count
on. Every liquid layer I put on comforted me
like a soothing security blanket. To this day,
my beauty ritual remains an efective coping
mechanism. “A skincare regimen can be very
calming, and the physical act of facial massage
can help lower your heart rate,” says Amy
Wechsler, a New York physician who is double-
board-certified in dermatology and psychiatry.
“When someone is depressed or anxious, a
routine provides a sense that they have control
over their skin, their body, and consequently
part of their life.” It also delivers solace; 15
percent of women say they use skincare for
comfort, and 11 percent do so to relax, accord-
ing to a 2017 survey of 1,295 women in the U.K.
Howard likens it to an exercise program: “It’s
a healthy, empowering habit. These days, the
news can be so anxiety-provoking, but creating
a daily ritual makes you feel grounded.”
That’s certainly the case for Jude Chao, a
Face time with a
mirror—and a few
skincare products—
can be therapeutic
for many women.
marketing director (she details her skincare
obsession on the blog Fifty Shades of Snail)
who struggles with depression. “Sticking to my
routine has improved my mental health more
than hours of therapy could. It’s helped to
lessen the severity and length of my depressive
episodes,” Chao says. “Purposefully patting and
massaging things onto my face forces me to be
present twice a day.”
Of course, as with any habit, there’s a
potential to veer into dangerous territory.
“Some people cross the line by obsessing in
a magnifying mirror, picking at their skin,
or using harsh ingredients to the point of
irritation,” says Wechsler. “But, in general, an
elaborate routine isn’t a bad thing if it doesn’t
interfere with your life in a negative way.”
Howard has a litmus test for this. She asks
patients questions like “Do you feel anxiety or MAXIMILIAN RIVERA/THELICENSINGPROJECT.COM
panic if you can’t complete your routine?” and
“Is your goal to take care of yourself or achieve
some unrealistic goal of perfection?” The latter
could make anyone feel bad about herself.
But that’s never been the case for me. Going
through my ritual at the beginning and the
end of each day is an uplifting meditation that
gives me a feeling of purpose, satisfaction, and
optimism. I’m doing something proactive, and
I can literally see the glowing results.
BEAUTY
The Beekman
Mansion was built
in 1802.
F I E L D G U I D E : S H A R O N S P R I N G S , N E W YO R K
1
MILK MADE
The only thing more popular than goats is their vitamin-rich milk.
Jennifer Goldstein shares a farm-to-face beauty secret.
Humans have been raising goats for 10,000
years, but all of a sudden they’re everywhere:
cutting the grass at Google headquarters,
doing yoga with Khloé Kardashian, wander-
ing onto subway tracks and getting rescued by
Jon Stewart, and wearing duck costumes while
sleeping in shopping carts. (That would be
2 Polly, one of the special-needs goats featured
on @goatsofanarchy.) The beauty world is
obsessed too. Celebrity aestheticians Kate
Somerville and Angela Caglia both make
moisturizers with goat’s milk. And the ador-
Brent Ridge able domesticated descendants of the ibex are
and Josh Kilmer- the star attraction at the Sharon Springs, New
Purcell’s upstate
New York farm— York, farm of Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-
and a few of its Purcell, founders of the Beekman 1802 brand.
resident goats
It’s autumn, and the couple—no slouches
themselves, winning The Amazing Race in
2012—have invited me for a harvest dinner on
the lawn of their Georgian-Federal mansion,
which was built for state senator William
Beekman in 1802 (hence the company name).
Ridge is trying to explain how they started
making soap in 2009 after losing their corpo-
3 rate jobs in New York City, but the livestock
keep interrupting. At the moment, the entire
herd is bleating and running frantically
around their nearby pen. Ridge looks over
his shoulder. “One of them probably stepped
on a branch and scared herself,” says Ridge.
“They’re such divas.”
They’re Internet-famous too. “Do not get me
started on the goat cam,” says Ridge, laughing.
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The couple installed a camera in their barn
in 2014, and fans are hooked on the 24/7 live
stream. “If one of them lies down too long,
people call customer service freaking out. Once,
someone sent out the local police to check on a
goat because they thought it was dead.”
Didn’t I tell you goats were popular?
The obsession is justifiable: Their milk
is loaded with lactic acid, a dermatological
wonder that gently exfoliates, can help reduce
signs of aging like spots and sallowness, and
can increase skin’s ability to retain moisture.
Small farms all over New York make soap with
it, and in winter, when farmers’ markets are
almost bare, you can still find booths selling
versions from local purveyors like Harper Hill
Farm, Shamrock Creek Farms, and Alpine
Made. The ingredient has even caught on
in Korea, where brands like TonyMoly and
Daycell use it in moisturizers. But Beekman
1802’s goat’s-milk beauty range is extensive,
with more than a hundred products. Its first
creation, a fragrance-free soap the founders
used to hand-wrap in the foyer of their house,
is still one of the most popular. “People with
sensitive skin love it,” says Ridge.
As he and Kilmer-Purcell clear away dinner,
they tell me they’re always dreaming up new
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BOOGICH/GETTY IMAGES; STANISLAV OSTRANITSA/GETTY IMAGES;
ideas for their brand, which now include a
quarterly magazine, home goods, furniture,
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and more. As if to prove the point, Kilmer-
Purcell brings out dessert, a homemade
hazelnut-apple tart with pear caramel accom-
panied by chèvre, a wheel of their ash-coated
“Blaak” goat cheese, and stoneware cups with
a digestif. What are we drinking? Beekman
1802 goat’s-milk stout, naturally.
1. BEEKMAN 1802 Hand Care Trio, $47. 2. ANGELA CAGLIA
Soufflé Moisturizer, $110. 3. KATE SOMERVILLE Goat Milk
De-Puffing Eye Balm, $38. 4. BEEKMAN 1802 & MACKENZIE-
CHILDS Covent Garden Love Your Neighbor Caddy Set, $75 (with
gift box). 5. ALPINE MADE Holiday Spice Goat Milk Soap, $8.
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Beauty Myth:
Natural
products don’t
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Natural beauty combines
the best of nature and
science to create products
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able to unlock the beauty
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The Burt’s Bees® clinical
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Burt’s Bees® Liquid Lipstick
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Beauty Myth:
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don’t have vivid colors
The intense colors found in various plants
and flowers give inspiration to the bright, bold
hues of Burt’s Bees® products. Nature is the
original colorist, and chemists can extract
gorgeous pigment from natural sources. Burt’s
Bees® Liquid Lipstick delivers bold, smooth,
full-coverage color in a long-lasting formula.
Mineral-rich pigments supply color, while
conditioning Shea Butter, Apricot Oil and
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Beauty Myth:
Natural products are
too expensive
Don’t spend a fortune on natural
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everything costing under $20.
With Burt’s Bees® All Aglow
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Packed with nourishing Jojoba
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lips and cheeks, while the natural
shades give the perfect pop of
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Burt’s Bees® All
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Beauty Myth:
Natural products
smell super strange
Natural products can sometimes
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not a good one. However, like
synthetic fragrances, you could love
one brand and hate another. The
right chemist can create a pleasing
scent that isn’t overwhelming, by
using natural oils and ingredients.
Burt’s Bees® Goodness Glows
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best nature has to offer, to provide
a unique formula with a light scent.
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treatments. Starting
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these fitness-fueled important to choose
mini vacays will an exercise program that
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Still wondering what to make of all
the crystals you see on Instagram?
A new book from wellness editors
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Treat Yourself
The best massages come at the hands of others—
until now. TheraGun may look and, frankly,
sound like a power drill, but its ergonomic design
and selection of massage heads make it the
ultimate personal massager. Use the percussive-
therapy device (Read: This gives you a vibra-
tional pounding, not a gentle kneading) before
workouts to warm up muscles and boost
circulation or post-exercise to alleviate tightness
and dissolve knots. Good work indeed.
THERAGUN G2Pro Professional Massager, $599.
NEW CRUSH
Happy hour just got health-
ier. FitVine is a nutrition-
minded, California-based
winery offering everything
from smooth pinot noir and
oaky chardonnay to crisp
rosé. The vino goes through
an extended fermentation
period, and the finished
spirits have less sugar, so
they top out at a slim 120
calories and 3.9 carbs per
serving, less than traditional
wines. Plus, FitVine’s
winemakers avoid GMOs and
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I love doing box jumps
because they make me
feel taller.”
GENDER NEUTRAL:
“When I started doing
HIIT workouts years
ago, women’s regimens
were all cardio and no
strength training, while
men’s were weight-
lifting and no aerobic.
I wanted to create a
space that utilized both
types of workouts so it
was accessible and not
intimidating to anyone.”
OFF-LIMITS: “I don’t
cook or eat foods with
chemicals, such as
artificial sweeteners or
cooking sprays. But I’m
not afraid of calories,
fats, or carbs.”
BALANCED DIET:
“Breakfast is my favorite
meal. I’ll normally do a
Greek yogurt, fresh fruit,
and sometimes a side
of bacon. And margaritas
are my guilty pleasure;
they’re a big joy in life.”

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MIND MONEY ON MY
Throughout her marriage, Tatiana Boncompagni was content to leave
family finances to her husband. When the relationship
ended, she realized the true cost of her ignorance.
I first met Max while visiting my sister in New York over Memorial Day
weekend, and a friend suggested I give him a call. He was tall with blue
eyes, blond hair, and the confidence aforded by a silver-spoon boarding-
school upbringing. But there was also something vulnerable about him.
Maybe it was the way he kept playing with the window in the cab to the
trendy restaurant he’d picked that made him seem sweet. Boys hadn’t
paid much attention to me as I was growing into my looks, and I re-
member thinking, Wow, I’m making him feel nervous? Over sushi and
vegetable tempura, we discovered we had a few things in common: We
both had non-American mothers and siblings we didn’t get along with
and had gone to Georgetown. I opened up to him in a way I never had
to anyone. He listened and made me feel understood, seen, appreciated.
Over the next two years, one during which we dated long-distance
(he drove a Mercedes; I traveled via Peter Pan bus), he wooed me with
glittering society benefits and champagne-fueled nights dancing in sky-
high heels that cost far more than my weekly take-home as a reporter at
According to a
2012 National
Council on Family
Relations study,
disagreements
about finances are
a leading cause
of divorce.
a small Washington, D.C., newspaper. (Some I bought myself, some
he did.) There was a ski trip to St. Moritz, scuba diving on the
Great Barrier Reef, go-cart racing and karaoke in Vienna. He kept
an airy prewar apartment in Midtown Manhattan with a closet full
of British shirts and Italian suits. I lived in a tiny studio rental, and
my clothes came from the racks at Dafy’s.
I wanted in on Max’s world, but not just for the material upgrades.
My logic was this: His family would ensure that nothing bad could
ever happen to him, so if I were with him, nothing bad could ever
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happen to me. I’d been flying so long without a safety net of family
support or money, I figured that if I tethered myself to him, I’d have
the benefit of his.
Eventually I moved to New York, where I worked at a legal magazine,
lived in a one-bedroom apartment with two roommates, and spent
weekends with Max. I received two proposals, one after the other. The
first was a career-making opportunity at a TV network back in D.C. Max
said we couldn’t make it work long-distance again—and The financial imbalance in our marriage was ultimately
that he wanted to marry me. I turned down the job and what led to its downfall. We tried couples therapy and sepa-
instantly regretted it. A week later, Max proposed with ration. When both failed, I asked for a divorce. It wasn’t just
three carats and a bottle of vintage Pol Roger. I said yes. about money. It was also because whenever I raised issues
It should have been the happiest time of my life, but about our relationship, I felt dismissed. Fundamentally, our
I couldn’t shake the feeling of having betrayed myself. I priorities were diferent.
saw a psychiatrist who put me on meds for depression Asking for a divorce felt like jumping of a ledge. Not
that made it hard for me to form complete sentences. because I was afraid of being alone but because I didn’t
My best friends staged an intervention (“You aren’t happy,” know how to take care of myself. In my initial consult,
they said), but I went ahead with the wedding anyway. my divorce attorney asked what I usually spent in a
I thought I was madly in love. Within a year, at 26, I month, what was left on the mortgage on our four-
became pregnant with our first child. bedroom Upper East Side apartment, how much was in
There would be three, and I took care of them while my retirement accounts. I knew none of the answers. I had
Max built an energy-brokering and lighting business. My a checking account with a few hundred dollars and an old
own income, from writing freelance articles and novels, Roth IRA with a couple thousand. Other than that, I
was tiny compared to his, so to pay the housekeeper or for hadn’t saved a penny. I felt ashamed.
child care, he wrote me checks. I paid for groceries and Meanwhile, I secretly began hoarding juice boxes and
other essentials with a credit card he’d given me. I was mac and cheese and, insanely, beauty products. It was like
not on his bank account and never saw any of the bills. I was preparing for a zombie apocalypse—and a beauty
I had my own card I paid that was for
personal expenses like clothing, derm
appointments, nights out with girlfriends, MY DIVORCE ATTORNEY ASKED WHAT
his Christmas gifts. But when it came to I USUALLY SPENT IN A MONTH,
joint finances, I was totally ignorant.
It was disempowering, yes, but I liked WHAT WAS LEFT ON THE MORTGAGE,
not having to “worry” about money like I HOW MUCH WAS IN MY
had to growing up. Throughout high
school in suburban Minneapolis, I sold RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS. I KNEW
chocolates at the local mall for pocket NONE OF THE ANSWERS.
money. Right before my senior year, my
parents—who fought often—sold our house and decided to pageant. The divorce had triggered my fear of poverty and
divorce and move to their respective hometowns. I chose forced me to face my own complicity in the money
not to go with either of them, instead living with friends dynamics that had destroyed my marriage and my self-
and throwing myself into my studies. So eager was I to esteem. I needed to take responsibility for giving away my
make my own way in the world, I graduated from college power. Had I not enjoyed those fancy trips and the coun-
on a near-full-ride financial scholarship in three years. try house? When was the last time I’d worried about the
I had never been one of those girls who dreamed of the price of an entrée?
white picket fence and a house full of babies, but when The first few months without our joint credit card
Max came along, ofering me shelter and security from the were stressful. He wrote me monthly checks based on his
storm that had been my life, it felt like I was being rescued. determination of my needs, and I had a small stream of
Because I’d been shortchanged the experience of being income from writing, personal training, and other free-
taken care of as a child, it makes sense that I sought that lance work. But because I’d never seen my bills, I didn’t
out. But here’s the thing about being saved by someone know if what I was depositing every month was enough
else: You lose faith in yourself in the bargain. to cover my children’s and my expenses. I was so fearful
My thunderbolt moment, if you can call it that, was of spending any money, I tried to make the grocery bills
delivered beneath a cloudless sky at our 100-acre farm as low as possible and didn’t go to the doctor when I got
upstate. It was another Memorial Day weekend—11 the flu. It took about six months to realize that I could
years into the marriage—and I asked Max to write get by on less—and be just as happy. No: happier. The
checks for the children’s summer camp. Standing between anxiety eased, and I was no longer plagued by heart pal-
a pair of evergreen trees, he informed me that he wanted to pitations and nausea. And it turns out that I’m mighty
renovate our apartment instead. Since he made the finan- good at saving money. I watch every dollar I spend, read
cial decisions, his priorities took precedence. personal-finance blogs, keep detailed expense accounts.
From that day forward, I began to push back. I demanded My living standards aren’t what they used to be. I sold of
to have a say in how we were spending our money. I got a designer handbags and stopped indulging in the luxuries
full-time job as a magazine editor. But I still did all of the of before, like boozy group dinners with girlfriends. But
housework as I’d always done—loading and unloading the being an adult, able to do the math of what really pays
dishwasher, getting up in the middle of the night to tend to a of (hair color: yes; taxis: no), allows me to look in the
sick child, washing and folding the laundry, packing lunches, mirror and not feel like a hypocrite when I tell women
chaperoning field trips or going to holiday parties at school. they should know their worth.

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