Innholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2021 Entertainment & Fashion i L'OFFICIEL USA

Greg SWALES PHOTOGRAPHER “Smelling the Daisies” “For this story with Katy Perry in her hometown, I wanted to capture her raw and natural. We only used daylight and timed each shot according to the sun.” Rebecca RAMSEY STYLIST “For the Love of Fashion” “The shoot was such a great day—Laura Harrier is incredibly collaborative, and every person on the team brought a dynamic energy. They played so well off one another.” Huy LUONG PHOTOGRAPHER “Frames of Reference” “The world does look different through designer sunglasses.” Maura EGAN WRITER “Easy Living” “I stumbled upon Comporta 10 years ago when a friend told me about this quiet beach town close to Lisbon. I was going for a day trip but I ended up spending a week, because even though everyone was fabulous…

Whether emerging from an ocean swim or a dip in the pool, there’s a certain effortlessness to the resulting glistening skin and water-slicked hair. Before drying off, consider embracing the damp look favored on the runway this season by Versace, Chloé, and more. To imitate water-splashed dewiness, apply a flexible hold gel to towel-dried hair. Concentrating the product on the roots and combing through will create a sleek, modern look, while incorporating it evenly from roots to ends and tousling it with your hands produces a more laid-back, beachy effect. For the face, the key is to prep the skin with as much moisture as possible, layering toner, serum, and a face cream underneath glow-enhancing makeup like an illuminating primer and liquid foundation. Going bolder, add gloss to your lips,…

Mere days before the world went into lockdown, Willow Smith locked herself inside a 20-foot box at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art for 24 straight hours. She did so in the name of performance art, inviting guests to silently watch through a glass pane as she and her frequent musical collaborator, Tyler Cole, cycled through what they described as the “eight stages of anxiety.” For many, the COVID-19 pandemic will be remembered as a time when our collective mental health was shaken. But for the youngest child and only daughter of actors Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, the unheralded period of chaos that defined 2020 will stand out as the crucial time when she finally learned how to properly manage many aspects of her own anxieties. Smith’s MoCA installation…

L’OFFICIEL: You were born in the post-industrial Belgian city of Charleroi. How has architecture influenced you? NICOLAS DI FELICE: It’s not the architecture of Charleroi that inspires me, but rather its harsh, dark side, which is also popular and very lively. I love this city for its contrasts. What inspires me in my work is precisely the contrast between Charleroi and Paris. If I had to keep an image of my childhood, it would be those car trips where we went from a field as far as the eye can see to a club in a hangar whose façade was lit up with a bright neon pink. El Dorado, in a Las Vegas spirit. L’O: Did your interest in fashion originate with MTV? NDF: We didn’t have access to fashion…

Staring into Katy Perry’s pixelated eyeballs through the screen, where she sits in the backyard of her Santa Barbara home, I’m compelled to call her dichotomous. For I’ve witnessed two very clear versions of her over the years. There’s Katy Perry, the church kid turned cartoonishly larger-than-life pop star, who has made a career of smashing records (including scoring five No. 1 singles from one album, a feat equalled only by Michael Jackson), fashioning the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show ever, and becoming the most-followed woman on Twitter. And then, there is Katheryn Hudson, who first revealed her truest self to the world in the 2012 documentary, Part of Me, which followed the singer throughout the exhaustive 124 sold-out shows of her California Dreams tour. With her marriage imploding and…

I LOVE the WAY that CLOTHING CAN TRANSFORM YOU into SOMEBODY ELSE. I just WANT TO GET DRESSED! I’m SO SICK OF SWEATPANTS; I’M READY to GET FULLY GLAMMED UP and BE SO EXTRA FOR ANY OCCASION. My VINTAGE PIECES ARE SPECIAL TO ME BECAUSE I LOVE TO FANTASIZE about THE STORY BEHIND A PIECE of CLOTHING. I really ADMIRE WOMEN WHO embody STRENGTH, BEAUTY, and CONFIDENCE IN WHAT they WEAR. HAIR: Nikki Nelms MAKEUP: Nina Park MANICURIST: Zola PRODUCTION: Dana Brockman VIEWFINDERS PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Suze Lee VIEWFINDERS DIGITECH: Maria Noble PROPS: James Rene PHOTO ASSISTANTS: Kendall Connorpack, Alonso Ayala, and John Batchine STYLIST ASSISTANT: Jade Study PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Chris Olsen MOHAMED BOUROUISSA…

“In our business things go from zero to 100 quite quickly,” says Emily Beecham. And surely she would know. The British actress had been in production nearly non-stop up until the compulsory pause caused by the global pandemic. Spending quarantine at her home in Hackney, London, the initial shock eventually gave way to a moment to “breathe and enjoy things that don’t usually get to be enjoyed.” For Beecham, that meant making time for music, but also pining for her other passion of watching live theatre. “It makes you look at something with a whole new lens or perspective that you’ve never used before,” she reflects. “It wakes you up. I love that.” An admirer of film and theatre from an early age, Beecham enrolled at the London Academy of…

Unpacking swim suits from winter storage often represents the arrival of summer after a long time without the sun. From the one-piece to the bikini, swimwear has been a vital topic within the pages of L’OFFICIEL since its inception in the 1920s, showcasing the It girls of the moment as they splashed through the beautiful beaches of the Côte d’Azur. In 1946, the bikini made its debut—thanks to French automobile engineer and fashion designer Louis Réard—and shook up more than just the swimwear industry. Th ese barely-there garments represented the dawn of a new age for women in the 1950s and ‘60s and reflected a slowly changing social climate of freedom in which women felt more liberated to wear what they liked. While swimwear helped to free the female figure,…

MODEL: Kacie Hall FABBRICA MILANO HAIR: Serena Polh MAKEUP: Greta Agazzi PHOTO ASSISTANT: Eleonora Tinti STYLIST ASSISTANT: Maria Alessia Simonte…

HAIR: Andy LeCompte MAKEUP: Kali Kennedy TAILOR: Sam Ososki PHOTO ASSISTANT: Montrell Hull…

STEFANO TONCHI: You have often collaborated with Maripol, but never before in such a close partnership. How did you meet and how was this collection born? MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI: I was obsessed with [Maripol] back in the day. I had all of her books. I wanted to know her since my time at Valentino. When I arrived in New York, my only goal was to meet her, but I didn’t know how. By chance, at a dinner with Blondie [Deborah Harry], I was speaking about my passion for Fiorucci, for Maripol, and for her outfits, and she said to me: “I’m a friend of Maripol’s!” and called her immediately. We spoke to each other on the phone, and we met the next day. I was a super fan—she was a…

Before there was Adut Akech, Naomi Smalls, Naomi Campbell, or even Grace Jones, several models of color laid the important groundwork, breaking through longstanding racial barriers. Towards the end of the 1960s, cultural tides were turning, and more diverse faces began taking their rightful places in popular media. Although iconic performer Josephine Baker was recognized for her popularity in France throughout many early issues of L’OFFICIEL, it was not until 1969, when Sandi Collins began her work with the magazine, that Black models became a consistent fixture in editorials. Yet despite her watershed work with the magazine, Collins’ name—and those of other pioneering models of color—has been left out of much of fashion’s history. In June 1970, Collins would make history as the first non-white cover model for L’OFFICIEL. Dressed…