Innholdsfortegnelse for No. 44 - June 2024 i L'OFFICIEL USA

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Dimes Square—a microneighborhood at the very bottom of New York’s Lower East Side—has become the place to be for a certain twenty-something, downtown crowd dressed in Bode button-downs or vintage tees, sipping pét-nats on a Friday night. Just off the square on Orchard Street sits the Suzie Kondi store. Its clean white exterior and wide windows house a rack of rainbow-hued, terry cloth sweatsuits, the type that represents a look of an era when many Dimes Square inhabitants were still in diapers. During the early aughts, the tracksuit—pioneered by Los Angeles label Juicy Couture—became the de facto uniform of celebrities like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. But the bright bell-bottoms and zip-up sweatshirts eventually faded in popularity, replaced with more streamlined, minimal athleisure looks: Lululemon leggings and fitted black matching…

Although they have yet to share the screen or the stage, actors Victoria Pedretti, 29, Myha’la, 28, and Molly Gordon, 28 all have one thing in common: theatrical roots. Pedretti is in the midst of her Broadway debut as Petra Stockmann—the daughter of a doctor villainized by his small Norwegian town—in Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, opposite Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, and studied theater at Carnegie Mellon with Myha’la, who appeared in a touring production of The Book of Mormon before stepping in front of the camera. Similarly, Molly Gordon, who appeared in an Off-Broadway production of Alice by Heart in 2018, has made a splash in film and television. Young but experienced, these three women are beyond the precipice of influence. Pedretti’s work in Netflix’s You…

The first tree of more than 500,000 planted for the reforestation of Oasi Zegna dates back to 1929. The immense natural reservation project in Italy extends across 100 square kilometers between Trivero, Biella—where Ermenegildo Zegna’s wool company, Zegna, first began production in 1910—and Valle Cervo. Founded in 1993, the Osai Zegna nature preserve, which invites visitors to hike, bike, and bird watch, reflects Zegna’s fondness for the environment, and aims to enrich the land surrounding its wool mill. Today, the project finds new life and inspiration in the pages of Born in Oasi Zegna, published by Rizzoli, with the creative direction of Laura Decaminada and written by Chidozie Obasi. The book, which documents Zegna’s century-plus connection to nature and preservation, was presented in April at the company’s headquarters during Milan…

The Cannes Film Festival is the spirited kickoff for L’OFFICIEL’s annual Entertainment issue, a deep dive into who will capture our attention this summer, and why. Norwegian-American actor Kristine Froseth chats with L’OFFICIEL ahead of walking the famed Croisette to discuss her latest film, Oh, Canada. The festival, known for drawing the brightest talent from around the world, is also the perfect place to bear witness to the marriage of film and fashion. For this issue, we trace the force of fashion in Luca Guadagnino’s filmography, and check in with designer Andreas Kronthaler, who has steered the cherished Vivienne Westwood label—a recent red carpet favorite—to success since the iconic founder’s passing. For those dreaming of their own trip to Cannes and the delightful villages on the Côte D’Azur this summer,…

There’s something about summer that calls for a juicy read. Inevitably, one title turns into the read of the summer, the book your friends can’t stop talking about over drinks or posting about on social media. Remember how inescapable the acid green cover of Emma Cline’s The Guest was in summer 2023, or the way the title of Jennette McCurdy’s memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died, dominated conversations in 2022? There are plenty of exciting releases lined up for the season, but if you simply can’t choose, we picked five that deserve a spot in your TBR pile (that’s “To Be Read” for those not deep in BookTok and Bookstagram), from romance novels and a literary thriller to a buzzy memoir and an essential biography. They’re so good, you might…

The Scarlet Lounge experience starts before you even set foot in the door. As soon as your footwear touches the steps to its sunken entrance on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 83rd Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, an employee—dressed fittingly in a sheeny black paisley blazer, a (scarlet) red shirt, and a black hat straight out of the 1920s—greets you excitedly. Is this a time machine? Scarlet Lounge, owned by actor Michael Imperioli, his wife Victoria Imperioli, an interior designer, and restaurateur/manager Jeremy Wladis, is certainly going for an experience comparable to entering a time machine—one that comfortably transports you to peak Art Deco, with gentle reminders of the modern world. Plush velvet and graphic gold accents, combined with a black and white print of the New York…

Three-time Grammy Award–winning 29-year-old rapper Megan Thee Stallion (given name Megan Jovon Ruth Pete) is in the midst of an ongoing metamorphosis. Just like she revealed on her Billboard No. 1 diss track, “Hiss,” released earlier this year to sheer pandemonium, Megan is shedding toxicity in her life. Over an ominous piano riff, the Houston, Texas, native takes subliminal shots at the challengers to her peace, rapping, “I’m finna get this shit off my chest and lay it to rest/Let’s go!” The self-funded track off her new production company, Hot Girl Productions, showed Megan was moving with a renewed sense of self. Fans have been charting the Southern superstar’s ascent, from battling in local ciphers to topping the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Megan shot to fame in Spring 2020 at…

In March, Kristine Froseth, 28, was at SXSW to debut Desert Road, Shannon Triplett’s acclaimed indie thriller that follows a twenty-something (Froseth) who’s just wrecked her car along an abandoned highway. As the protagonist seeks help, regardless of which way she heads, she finds herself repeatedly ending up right back where she started. In May, the Norwegian-American actor will attend the Cannes Film Festival, where Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada makes its world premiere. The film is an adaptation of Russell Banks’ novel Foregone, which tells the story of a man named Leonard Fife, one of 60,000 who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Between Schrader and the film’s ensemble cast—Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman, and Michael Imperioli—Froseth will stand in good company on the red carpet. She’s…

Andreas Kronthaler—an Austrian with training as a goldsmith—met Vivienne Westwood in 1988 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he studied industrial design and she taught fashion design. He joined the British punk fashion icon in London, they marked the beginning of their artistic collaboration with their Spring/Summer 1991 collection “Cut & Slash,” and they married in 1992. Following Dame Westwood’s death in December 2022, Kronthaler became creative director of the brand, where he continues to execute her vision. The brand is much loved by new generations [over the past several years, the orb-pendant pearl necklace has become a big TikTok trend], and is preparing for a series of international events this year, including a jewelry exhibition that will debut in China, and then move to Europe. L’OFFICIEL…