Innholdsfortegnelse for The CUT - September 2024 i New York Magazine

I’M WRITING TO YOU AT THE END of August as this issue’s pages are being sent off to the printer, between pacing to the tune of Beyoncé (Cowboy Carter, specifically) and staring down everything one last time. First, I want to say thank you. For reading, for laughing and commiserating with us, and for engaging because I know you don’t have to. You are the reason we continue to push the Cut forward. It’s surreal to already be in my fourth year as editor-in-chief of the Cut. In these past 40-plus months, the team has evolved, and so too has what it means to create a modern magazine that is responsive to what women and femmes care about most and, of course, want to read. The Cut’s first solo issue…

The fall 2024 runways featured an unusual amount of layering—and not just the throwing-a-cardigan-over-a-tank kind. Serious layering: slipping high necklines under jackets, piling on pairs of textured tights, and sliding bright gloves over a coat’s sleeves. In case any of that sounds intimidating, we’ve put together a helpful guide for trying it out yourself. FUR COLLARS To create a look like the ones featured at the Courrèges show, start with a tight hoodie or balaclava, then put a faux-fur-trim (ideally leather) jacket on top. HIGH COLLARS Begin with a classic collared shirt buttoned all the way up. A colorful one will pop against a neutral coat and gold jewelry. SLUNG SWEATERS If you want to try a maximalist shawl look, tie a jersey sweatshirt across your body diagonally rather than…

As she enters the deserted tea shop in Soho, Chloë Sevigny is carrying a large cardboard box containing vintage Margiela boots from the RealReal, a giant pink neoprene tote, and a boxy black Loewe purse. Her long beachy-yellow hair is down under a CANNES ’69 ball cap, and her crisp sky-blue oxford is buttoned all the way up over black hot pants so short you can’t see them under the shirt. She’s wearing really, truly, absolutely no makeup. She’d be camera-ready except her eyes—red-rimmed with incipient tears—are a dead giveaway that something isn’t right. “I dropped the kid at camp, crying, screaming he didn’t want to go in,” she says as she settles onto the stool next to mine at the counter. “So it was very challenging, part of why…

There are two things that make women happy,” Usher Raymond IV tells me. He is neither overconfident or condescending about this; he is just sharing industry secrets, the knowledge with which he’s been able to build his 30-year career. The first is undivided attention. “Onstage, if you’re willing to come from the audience and speak to one woman, the entire room is living vicariously through her,” he says. His approach springs from the fundamentals of the good ol’ days of R&B, when a man would put on a freshly pressed suit and run a hot comb through his hair before he dared sing to a lady. It’s a trick young Usher picked up from watching The Five Heartbeats, the 1991 Robert Townsend movie loosely based on the rise and fall…

RARE BEAUTY Selena Gomez › When we asked beauty editors for their favorite celebrity beauty lines, the name that surfaced most often was Gomez’s Rare Beauty. “Lots of the products are actually good,” says one editor. “It’s almost transcended being a celeb line, since Selena is involved just enough to be associated with it, but it can really exist without her.” Several editors mentioned having Rare Beauty on repeat in their routines—not only the viral liquid blush but also the mascara and foundations and everything else. Others note that the design caters to non–makeup experts. “You don’t feel like an idiot using the products,” another editor says. BLAKE BROWN Blake Lively › Too little, too late seemed to be the consensus on Blake Brown. “Blake Lively’s time to do a…

I remember really looking forward to the fitting. I had booked it for the end of March 2023, right after the fall shows. It had been a great season for women’s suits, from Prada’s ironic approach, which drew on nursing and military uniforms, to Saint Laurent’s sternly tailored classics, but the one I personally liked was by Proenza Schouler, the label of the Americans Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez. Made in a robust black gabardine, the suit had full-cut trousers and a longish jacket with wide shoulders and a slightly curved waist. As soon as I got home from the collections, I called Proenza about ordering it. I was invited to come in to have my measurements taken. This felt like a lark, for despite my access to designers and…

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IN POLITE SOCIETY, AS DEPICTED ON HBO’s The Gilded Age, proper etiquette is a foundational requisite for social acceptance, and petty gossip can make or break you—standards that Morgan Spector, who plays the fictional new-money robber baron George Russell, knows very well. At the Morgan Library & Museum, the actor strides toward J. P. Morgan’s desk in the titan of industry’s familiarly ornate study; it resembles the one he sits at when in character as a loving but ruthless railroad tycoon. He’s just learned that Morgan once had a secret shelf of dirty books, the type of gossip that would have sent any of the fussy socialites on the drama series into an early grave. Spector, however, is delighted. “Oh my God,” he says. “What smut was J. P. Morgan…

THE 1 TRAIN HAS been hijacked. A heroic passenger in Guess jeans and UGGs pats down the steel walls of her subway car, determined to break into the conductor’s cabin and activate the emergency brakes before the train careers off the tracks. She fiddles with dials, rummages through under-seat compartments, and wriggles her right hand into a mysterious hole that conceals a lever inside a metal labyrinth. Her whale tail plays peekaboo as she inspects things and then straightens up again. Though the clock is ticking, the woman appears unstressed. She moves with the glazed, indifferent look of a teenager playing Candy Crush under the table at a mandatory family function. The woman is PinkPantheress, the quasi-anonymous British artist and TikTok sensation who introduced normie Americans to the U.K. underground…

ARIES We all know you’re motivated the most by your independence, but this fall, think about opening yourself up to that special whoever. Romance, friendships, even professional collaborations can be enhanced over the next several weeks thanks to the sun’s movement through Libra—amplified by a powerful solar eclipse on October 2. Consider how you can make every connection a win-win. TAURUS As the solar eclipse in Libra on October 2 barrels through the area of your chart associated with health, wellness, and scheduling, you’re juggling more than you can handle. With all those obligations on your to-do list and in the back of your mind, you barely have time to chill. Because you’re an earth sign, it’s essential you feel stable and grounded, so maybe decline a few RSVPs. GEMINI…

MIKEY MADISON PEERS into her iPhone, where she’s browsing miniature horses available for adoption. She’s partial to Silver, a gelding in his mid-teens with a Targaryen-blond mane. Before becoming an actor a decade ago, Madison was a competitive horseback rider. The 25-year-old comes from a long line of equestrians with extended family that includes cowboys and a Marlboro Man. “I’ve always been more of a lone wolf,” she muses. “I think that had something to do with wanting to become an actor, to have that deep connection with other people.” It’s late July, and we’re drinking iced vanilla lattes on the patio of a café in the San Fernando Valley, where Madison grew up. “I’m curious about people,” she says, smiling in that disarming, doe-eyed way that makes her performance…

The Girl-About-Town She’s on her third party of the night, and she’s got four shows tomorrow. Somehow, she doesn’t even look tired. Or maybe dark circles just look chic on her. Guess that’s why she’s the “It” girl and you’re not. The Dude Who Can’t Get In (But Swears He’s on the List) He’s run out of people to text and is asking the PR intern at the door if she “knows who he is.” This poor fellow is stuck in a nightlife ouroboros: The more (and more loudly) he insists upon his insider status, the more he proves that outside is right where he belongs. The Early Career Style Writer Armed with a Notes-app list of fluffy questions— “If you were a shoe, what kind would you be?”—she’s diligently…