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BEAUTY PUNK: FORGET
TRADITIONAL MAKE-UP
RULES – IT’S TIME TO
DO THINGS YOUR WAY
The COVERS Every UPFRONT STYLE

ON THE NEWSSTAND AND MONTH
SUBSCRIBER COVERS 47 Consider
FASHION AND CULTURE 61 All-black
IN FOCUS
Zendaya wears: dress, 29 Editor-in-Chief
EDITOR’S LETTER
Farrah Storr
this everything you
need to know this month, from
looks provide the
perfect blank canvas for these
Giambattista Valli Haute
looks back on a year nobody the catwalks’ many eclectic season’s glittering accessories
Couture. Platinum and
could have predicted, and moods (space-age silver, retro
diamond earrings, Bvlgari.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Micaiah
Carter. STYLING: Law Roach.
what we’ve learnt from it sailor and more) to the TV
shows you won’t want to miss
69 AStuck
VERY 2O2O GIFT GUIDE
for ideas? Celebrate with
HAIR: Kim Kimble for Kim
Kimble Haircare. MAKE-UP:
178 MY FASHIONABLE LIFE:
SIMONE ROCHA
and everyone’s favourite muse,
the one and only Dolly Parton
unique, imaginative, effortlessly
chic gifts this festive season
The designer opens up about
Sheika Daley at Six K Los
Angeles. SET DESIGN: David
Browne. PRODUCTION:
the most stylish person she
knows, collecting fashion
80 …take
MORE, MORE, MORE
this as your cue for party
history and why her collections dressing, piling on sparkling fine
Benjamin Bonnet at Westy
will always feature pearls jewellery – as much as you dare
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READS BEAUTY 155 WHAT I USE…
FULL-COVERAGE
EXPLORE
43 THE LAST CHRISTMAS
Polly Vernon reflects on the
143 IT’S TIME TO TRY…
EXTRA EMBELLISHMENT
FOUNDATIONS
Our Beauty Director reveals
165 ACHECKING IN TO…
CANADIAN COCOON
transformative experience of Take your make-up to new how to choose the perfect Take your holiday to new
leaving home, and the Christmas dimensions, adding a 3D foundation for your skin type heights at this hotel-on-stilts
she realised she’d exchanged touch with sparkling jewels – a unique, cosy retreat on a tiny
childish traditions for not only
a new outlook, but a new life
144 Prepare
BEAUTY PUNK 156 TOP NOTES
Warming scents to wrap
island just off Newfoundland
to experiment with yourself in this winter

166 INTO THE UNKNOWN
90 IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S your make-up this party From a hotel made completely of
THE PANDEMIC
Lockdown forced us to spend
season: think bold, bright looks
that work just as well over
159 THE PALETTE:
GLITTER LIPSTICKS
ice to hideaways nestled among
snowy treetops, travel across the
more time together than we ever Zoom as they will in real life Give your make-up a boost with icy plains of Swedish Lapland for
have before – Kemi Alemoru these high-shine lip colours an otherworldly escape
looks into how this is tearing
153 HAVE YOU GOT
our romatic relationships apart LOCKDOWN BODY?
Time to discover your fascia:
160 THE VANITY DIARIES:
JENNIFER GARNER
171 SOMETHING FOR THE
WEEKEND: ALDERNEY
96 ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY
The ultimate city-dweller, Sasha
it’s the key to relieving back
pain and poor posture caused
The actor lets us in on her
beauty regime, from skincare to
Get back to nature with
a picturesque break on the
Wilkins explains what drove by all that sitting down her go-to weekly hair treatment northernmost Channel Island
her to pack up her London life
and move out to the countryside
– and why the rest of the fashion
pack are following suit
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MAKING CLOTHES
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AFTER HOURS: THE AW2O
ELLE meets the designer behind COLLECTIONS ARE PROOF
the coveted pieces in every fashion THAT EVENINGWEAR RULES
editor, buyer and influencer’s ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN
wardrobe to discover what’s next
for her ever-evolving brand
FASHION
108 BOW DOWN, IT’S ZENDAYA
The award-winning actor
opens up to her Dune co-star,
Timothée Chalamet, about
adjusting to this ‘new normal’
way of life as she resumes
filming, hosting pre-pandemic
hotel dance parties and why
she’ll always find hope in the
younger generation
116 AFTER HOURS

Elegance, with a touch of
rebellion – welcome to AW20’s
playful yet decadent take on
after-dark dressing Photography, this page: Meinke Klein. Photography, previous page: Lacey.
132 CHERRY BOMB

Turn up the heat in vivid
shades of crimson and fuchsia –
best worn head-to-toe to make
the brightest of statements
December 2020
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Elle EDITOR’S LETTER
We decided to go truly sustainable. With no

shops and no one to see us for the majority
of the year, we realised the lunacy of ‘buy
What has 2020

now, wear once’. Now we’re more likely to
question how many times a week we can
get away with cashmere jogging bottoms.
TAUGHT YOU? We discovered a new clothing category.
The face mask! Who knew so much sartorial
scrutiny could be given to a piece of cloth
that makes it look like you’re about to rob
MOST PEOPLE HAVE SPENT 2O2O WONDERING HOW a bank. In March, I scoffed at the woman sat opposite me at
TO FORGET ABOUT 2O2O. After all, it effectively stopped the Chanel show, who appeared to have fashioned hers from
in March, got a slight reprieve in July, went back to a trembling a piece of black silk and white gauze camellias. Not any more…
wreck in September, then made a feeble dash for the finish from We fell in love with our faces. With no access to our ‘tweakment’
October. And so here we are, only a few weeks from the end, maestros, or the brilliant women who thread our brows, we saw
wondering not only how we got through what we actually look like. Oh, hello, lines! Hi
it, but what lies beyond. In years to come, there, little eye droop! Come in and join the
I suspect our mantra will be: ‘Rule one of “PERHAPS THE MOST party, pigmentation spot, there’s a place for you
2O2O: you do not talk about 2O2O.’ next to my massive Groucho Marx eyebrows.
We’re wonderfully adept at boxing up
USEFUL GIFT YOU We gave our breasts a break. Question: has
‘bad stuff’. Pack it away, and it will do us no
CAN GIVE YOURSELF anyone worn a bra since 23 March? Will
harm. Bad job, bad relationship, bad day at IS REFLECTION ON anyone wear one ever again? Will our breasts
work… we can deal with it, as long as, y’know, A YEAR THAT’S even play ball once we attempt to scaffold
we never have to actually deal with it. TAUGHT US MORE them up again? I think this may be what is meant
And yet, one of the consequences of THAN ANY OTHER” by true liberation… and it feels rather wonderful.
bad experiences is often perspective and Dogs make everything better. The world
growth. But, here’s the caveat: you only get discovered that nothing makes you feel as
both if you’re prepared to wade through the debris. So perhaps secure as the hot breath of a pooch in your ear. Of course, it’s
the most useful gift this Christmas is careful reflection on a year a two-sided coin. Now’s the hard part: two walks a day, copious
that has perhaps taught us more than any other in history. snacks on your food bill, a huge part of your day given to staring
So what has a year of fear and challenge taught us all? at the back of their heads and never, ever giving up on them.
Hopefully some of the following… Oh, and trees. Lockdown fever manifested itself in everyone
We appreciated people more. Delivery drivers, refuse collectors, going nature mad. I think it’s a lot to do with looking at these
supermarket cashiers… Once all but (shamefully) invisible to great big hulking things and knowing they have seen it all – war,
many of us, now justifiably seen as heroes. revolution, hot pants. And they know… This too shall p pass.
s.
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WHAT I’M HOPING TO FIND
UNDER MY TREE THIS YEAR...
Rin £250, Shirt, £85, Hair Rituel Restructuring Nourishing Earrings, £255, Shoes, £545,
ALEX MONROE X RAVEN SMITH SIAN ESTHER Balm, £86, SISLEY PARIS COMPLETEDWORKS MANOLO BLAHNIK
Question of the month
HOW DO YOU GET INTO THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT?
Editor-in-Chief, ELLE and ELLE.com/uk
FARR AH STORR
Creative Director TOM MEREDITH

Executive Editor ALICE WIGNALL
Executive Editor (Digital) NATASHA BIRD
Executive Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief and

Chief Luxury Officer LEANE BORDER- GRIFFITH
FASHION
Group Luxury Fashion Director AVRIL MAIR
Fashion Bookings Director CHLOE RIDLEY
Fashion Features Editor SAR A McALPINE
Accessories Editor MOLLY HAYLOR
Fashion Writer DAISY MURR AY
‘At Christmas time I go all-out Fashion Assistants
on the glitter: eyeshadow, earrings,
JULIA HARVEY, CLEMMIE BROWN
clothes, shoes. It’s not my usual
LOIS ADEOSHUN
style, but it feels right with
twinkling fairy lights. Plus, you Bookings Assistant WHITNEY HARRISON
look like the life and soul of the party Fashion Intern JACK O’NEILL
without having to make much of ‘In honour of my husband’s
an effort. Perfect for an introvert…’
FEATURES wine-making family, we always begin
Dress, £320, The Kooples Associate Editor/Culture Director LENA DE CASPARIS our Christmas meal with
Acting Associate Editor/Culture Director TOM MACKLIN Fino sherry and end with a glass
Features Director HANNAH NATHANSON (or three) of moreish vintage tawny port
Senior Editor K ATIE O’MALLEY from my mother-in-law’s cellar.’
News Editor (Digital) OLIVIA BL AIR Glasses, £115, R+D.LAB x Lee Mathews
at Matchesfashion.com
Features Assistant BECK Y BURGUM
Social Media Manager AMY BREWSTER
TRAVEL & LIFESTYLE
Travel & Lifestyle Director LUCY HALFHEAD
Contributing Interiors Editor JACQUI CAVE
ART AND PICTURES
Art Director ALBY BAILEY
Art Editor ZOYA K ALEEVA
Designer SONIA RUPR AH
Picture Director DIANA EASTMAN
‘Watching Christmas movies is With special thanks to NATALIE MICHELE DAVIS
my favourite part of the
BEAUTY
holiday. As Christmas Day food prep
Group Luxury Beauty Director K AT Y YOUNG
and cooking is usually spread over
two days, I save my favourite films and Beauty Editor JENNIFER GEORGE
put them on my iPad as I Beauty Editor (Digital) GEORGE DRIVER
cook. Time flies when you’re watching Beauty Assistant CHARLOT TE BITMEAD
Will Ferrell eat golden-syrup ‘Endless eating and drinking sums
PRODUCTION
spaghetti in Elf.’ up my Christmas period. No
Chief Sub-Editor CL AIRE SIBBICK
amount of lipstick has ever withstood
Deputy Chief Sub-Editor OLIVIA McCREA - HEDLEY
the gorging, until I learned to arm
Group Managing Editor CONNIE OSBORNE myself with a good lip “stain” instead.
Finance Business Partner, ELLE STACEY TOMLIN Usually liquid-based, with
Contributing Fashion Editors serious pigment that lasts. I love
Burberry Lip Velvet Crush, £24.’
SOL ANGE FR ANKLIN, JOANNA SCHLENZK A ,
JENNY KENNEDY, PAUL CAVACO, SASA THOMANN
Contributing Editors
SUSIE BOY T, LIV LIT TLE, L AUR A CR AIK, SUSIE L AU,
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HOW DO YOU GET INTO THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT?
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SOLANGE FRANKLIN
Before New Yorker Solange became a stylist, she worked in labs studying pre-
med. Determined to give fashion a go, she found an assistant job with renowned
editor Giovanna Battaglia, and is now fashion editor-at-large for Paper. Solange
styles Punk Metal on p144. WHAT ITEM DO YOU CARRY AT ALL TIMES? ‘Double-sided
tape. It’s saved hems, nails, floral arrangements…’ PROUDEST CAREER MOMENT?
‘Being nominated as a British Fashion Council New Wave Creative twice in a row.’
POLLY VERNON
Polly has been a features journalist for 25 years. She writes about returning to her Devon
hometown for Christmas on p43. WHAT’S YOUR MOST-PLAYED CHRISTMAS SONG? ‘The Power Of Love
by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. “I’ll protect you from the Hooded Claw, keep the vampires from
your door” gives me goosebumps every time.’ WHAT MAKES THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS DAY? ‘The day is
always equally sad and happy for me. But if there’s a little karaoke thrown in, I can survive.’
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MEINKE KLEIN
Photography duo Meinke ten Have and Kees de Klein met on their first day at ArtEZ
Academy of Arts in the Netherlands. They’ve since shot everyone from Robyn to Vivienne
Westwood, and campaigns including Kenzo and Tommy Hilfiger. The pair shoot After
Hours on p116 and More, More, More on p8O. WHATMAKESTHEBESTON-SETATMOSPHERE?
‘We’re scared of silence, so pray the crew’s music taste is good. Or else it’s Madonna’s
Ray of Light on repeat.’ ADVICETOYOURYOUNGERSELVES? ‘Trust your gut and keep going.’
KEMI ALEMORU
For Manchester-born Kemi, the best thing about being a journalist is meeting people she’s obsessed
with. Her interviews include Alicia Keys, Naomi Campbell and Issa Rae, and she’s currently
gal-dem’s culture editor. Kemi writes about the rise in Covid divorces on p9O. YOUR GOLDEN RULE OF
INTERVIEWING? ‘Listen. Sometimes you prep so much, you’re not actively responding.’ ADVICETOYOUR
YOUNGERSELF? ‘Love yourself and everything will fall into place. Also, stop perming your hair.’
Compiled by: Becky Burgum. Photography: Lacey, Meinke Klein,
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CLEMMIE BROWN
Ed Barrett-Bourmier, Stephanie Lavaggi.
Clemmie’s fashion obsession began as a teenager when her magazine collection

grew to 2OO+ issues. She studied Fashion and Textile Retailing at university and is now
ELLE’s fashion assistant. This month, Clemmie styles designer Rejina Pyo on p1O2.
FIRST ITEM OF CLOTHING THAT HAD AN IMPACT? ‘I was skater-obsessed as a pre-teen.
I religiously wore DC trainers with baggy jeans and chequered belts.’ BEST FASHION TIP?
‘Jewellery makes it look like you’ve made an effort. I sleep in eight necklaces for ease.’
Elle MEMOIR
THE last CHRISTMAS

AS A CHILD, CHRISTMAS MEANT UNCHANGING RITUALS AND REVELLERY. UNTIL Polly Vernon CAME
HOME AFTER HER FIRST TERM AT UNIVERSITY, AND REALISED THAT EVERYTHING HAD CHANGED
PHOTOGRAPH by DAVID SLIJPER
a t 5pm on Christmas Eve, all the town’s children would

light stubby candles and walk through the streets to
the local church, where we’d sing carols and wonder
how lucky we’d got with the presents under our tree. It was both
bewitchingly lovely – and claustrophobically ritualistic.
pastel-painted houses and cream teas. Boats bobbed and myths
about smugglers prevailed; picture postcards did not do it justice.
But, for all its serene beauty, its genteel pace and rolling, leafy
salt-of-the-earth pretensions towards cosiness, it – like all of the
British countryside of the 197Os and 198Os – could be insular,
To live in my small town at Christmas was to experience an resistant to outsiders, to ‘different’. My parents moved there with
intense, condensed, heightened version of it. It became twinklier, my younger sister and I from Brighton, before I was two. I lived
quainter; more perfectly, achingly, seasonally pretty than the in that one tiny town until I was 18 – yet I never shook the feeling
closing scenes of a Richard Curtis film. It buzzed and crackled I didn’t quite belong, wasn’t entirely wanted.
with the kind of complicated small community traditions that Though maybe it was me that never entirely wanted it. I have
stretched back centuries, half of which incorporated blood, fire always been a people person. Not in the sense that I like to serve
and extremely hard liquor, and would make a passing stranger or please; I don’t. Only in the sense that people are my drug.
fear they’d strayed into Wicker Man territory. In being a fixed point I crave them, in all their forms, the more the merrier, the more variety,
of reference on the Christmases that came before it, and all that the better. I even like people I don’t like – they’ve still got potential,
would come after, it was also suffused with a faintly chilling sense psychologies to unravel, dramas to enact. And people are in
that nothing ever changes – not really – and nothing ever will. short supply in small towns; they were in very short supply in mine.
From the outside, my childhood looked blissful. I grew up in Teenagehood struck me like sweet relief. Sure, there was
a sleepy fishing town outside Exeter in Devon. It had mudflats and the hormonal upheaval, the rapidly altering body, the violent
Elle MEMOIR
fluctuations in mood. But there was also a vast, academically ditched my Devon accent, revolutionised my wardrobe, acquired
underperforming, raucously good-humoured comprehensive new ideas about music and politics in an effort to accelerate
school a whole thrilling bus journey outside of my small town, full my journey toward metropolitan sophistication. They plucked
to the brim of people I did not yet know. And there were Saturday suspiciously at the hems on my clothes, my university clothes: the
jobs in tea shops and dosh to spend in Superdrug and – not to heavy-patterned belted cardigan from vintage emporium Rokit,
put too fine a point on it – boys, who were like people in general, the Lycra H&M leggings, the Adidas Superstars, then say, in the
in that I found them astonishingly compelling, except that boys, it accent I no longer used: ‘Is that fashionable up there, then?’
seemed, offered other possibilities still. The older I got, the further It made me feel like an outsider all over again – only this time,
behind I left true childhood, the more access I gained to a world I realised that was exactly what I was. What I’d chosen to be.
beyond my small town, the more comfortable with myself I became. I felt giddy with not caring about that, at last. Drunk on it.
The Christmases of my mid-teens meant no more candlelit As I got dressed to head to Timepiece, on the last Friday
church processions – probably for the best, given my evolving before Christmas, that triumph grew bittersweet. Just a year
atheism – and rather more in the way of underage boozing in earlier, nothing had felt more thrilling than the anticipation of this
any pub prepared to accept the blatant night. I’d been too excited to eat dinner;
lies we told regarding our birthdays. The I’d fumbled my change on the bus with
Friday before Christmas was, according nerves. But this time? This time, I dressed
to teenage tradition, spent in our favourite down. I ate dinner just fine. As I left the
club – a sticky-walled, pungent, wildly house, I felt the faint but palpable sense
adored indie joint called Timepiece. that I couldn’t be bothered.
We’d assemble in what passed for finery But I didn’t want to have outgrown
in the dying embers of the 198Os – lace the club. That place where I’d felt the
bodies under tightly belted 5O1s, with first inklings of self-acceptance, of self-
M&S cardigans casually slung over the love. Where I’d learned to bitch, flirt,
top – and make one last-ditch effort for pose and otherwise test out the tools
that year at getting off with each other. on my blossoming confidence. To have
Standing there – in that club, in those outgrown Timepiece – that seemed
clothes, on the Friday before Christmas, churlish. Ungrateful of me.
at age 17 – flirting and dancing and THE WRITER Still, from the moment I got there, and
drinking (just a bit), I felt something good Polly Vernon, in saw the club not as a secret underground
her London home
stir, or slot into place. I felt accepted. warren of sticky-walled promise, rather
a
a ramshackle joint that would do for an
nd then I left. I went to a hour or two, where the drinks tasted
big university in a big town “I SPENT THE REST watery, the music sounded tinny; and
– not as big as London, but OF THAT CHRISTMAS the conversation with school friends was
not far off. A town filled with such an OVERWHELMED nothing but reminiscing about things
extraordinary array of people, I knew BY AN EMOTION we used to do together, because we
I’d never get through them all. There I’VE SINCE IDENTIFIED weren’t doing things together anymore…
would always be more to distract and AS ‘WHO THE I knew it was over. I was over it.
inform and entertain and amuse and It felt joltingly, sweetly sad; something
inspire and horrify and charm me,
HELL AM I, ANYWAY?’ ” had ended and, while it had been
and be everything I needed them to be. replaced by something so wonderful,
Within weeks of arriving, I met there was still grieving to be done.
people I’d never be without again. People who would form me, I spent the rest of that Christmas overwhelmed by an emotion Photography: David Slijper/August Images, courtesy of Polly Vernon.
and who I’d form back, by dint of our moving into adulthood I’ve since identified as ‘who the hell am I, anyway?’. It’s borne of
together, moulding and defining each other’s experiences, the chasm between the person you could have been, had you
senses of humour, belief systems. I’d call them my friends, but stayed, and who you ended up becoming, because you didn’t.
that doesn’t do them – or the depth, breadth and significance of It’s laced with the fear you’re now a judgy bitch who’s forsaken the
our relationships – justice. It was the feeling I’d had, at Timepiece, people who truly knew you way back when, for ones who’ll buy
at Christmas – times infinity. It was falling in love with my own life. into the artifice of your adult posturing; and the relief you pushed
Three months later, when my first term ended, I went back to the boundaries, ventured into a wider world, made it work for you.
my family – to that small Devon town – for the holidays. I caught Every time I visit family in Devon, I feel it. Every time I’m shooting
a train, then a bus, and walked to my former front door through the breeze with someone unaware of where I started, and they
the streets of a place I knew ridiculously well, but that suddenly stop me to ask: ‘Is that a Devon accent?’, I feel it. Every time I spend
seemed, well, short. Like it had shrunk in the wash. A toy town. Christmas in London, with my bloke, and those (for want of a bigger
I felt gigantic, as if I had literally outgrown it. word) friends I acquired in my first university term, and I catch
I revisited the old places. I chatted with all the old people. myself not being an awkward, shy, invisible child, not carrying a
They told me I’d changed – like I didn’t already know. Like I hadn’t flickering candle through the streets of a very small town, I feel it.
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AS His DarkMaterials RETURNS FOR SEASON TWO, ITS LEAD OF LYRA BELACQUA in the BBC’s adaption
TALKS BALANCING HOLLYWOOD WITH HOMEWORK of His Dark Materials, 15-year old Dafne
WORDS by BECKY BURGUM PHOTOGRAPH by JOSEPH SINCLAIR Keen was already a hardcore fan – but of
the 2OO7 film starring Dakota Fanning
and Nicole Kidman, not the Philip Pullman
novels. ‘After I’d watched the film a few
hundred times, I knew her lines and would impersonate her constantly around the house,’
says Keen. ‘But I never read the books until after my audition.’ She is now, of course, a lover
of the books as well as the film, and Pullman’s glowing approval of her performance at the
screening premiere even brought her to tears.
Aside from basking in the approval of literary legends, it’s the powerful representation
of a young female hero that makes this role so important to her. ‘Usually all of the heroes and
leads are men. Then if there is a female lead, she’s often using her sexuality to manipulate
people,’ says Keen. ‘What’s amazing about Lyra is that she could completely be a man.’
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Lyra’s gender is inconsequential, and Keen hopes this will teach

young boys – just as much as girls – that women can be heroes, too.
1.
Growing up in Madrid, the daughter of a British father and
Galician mother, David Attenborough was Keen’s own hero. ‘I was
desperate to become a marine biologist and do exactly what he
does. But then I found out I would have to study maths.’ Acting was
a natural backup, after a childhood spent on sets with her actor
2.
1. Canary Wharf Lights,
parents – her mother is now her acting coach – and her career
London, UK The business
began aged nine on the Spanish district is getting lit this
series The Refugees. ‘I spent that entire January, with trippy
summer holiday filming and it was the installations from
best summer of my life,’ she says. Keen international artists.
still attends her state school in Madrid 2. Amsterdam Light Festival,
and acts for the pure love of it, making the Netherlands
sure projects stay in school holidays as Join the theatrical Light
HIS DARK MATERIALS
much as possible. ‘I never considered Walk this December.

KEEN AS LYRA IN
quitting school to be home-schooled, There’s even a Covid-

proof walking experience
it wouldn’t be good for my mental
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health,’ she says. ‘If a project was to
3.
massively interfere with my education,
it’s not important. It’s school all the way.’
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AND LEADS ARE in X-Men blockbuster Logan alongside
MEN. WHAT’S Hugh Jackman. Keen feared she
AMAZING ABOUT had no chance against the ‘blonde,
LYRA IS SHE classic California girl’ who was her
COULD BE A MAN”
rival in the final audition, but Jackman
and director James Mangold (The
Greatest Showman) were blown away by her confidence when
Keen was asked to spontaneously improvise a scene. ‘I learnt so
much from Hugh on set,’ she says. ‘Every Friday, he’d buy stacks
of around 4OO lottery tickets and hand them out to every single
person in the crew.’ When asked why, he told her that there are
so many vital roles in making a film that the actors will never meet 3. Field of Light, Uluru,
naturally, and this gave him a chance to get to know everyone. Australia Forget
‘That really stayed with me. Now I try to meet everyone and learn Jacquemus’ field
as many names as I can. He taught me to be humble and grateful.’ of lavender, artist
Shortly after, her first film lead came opposite The Godfather’s Bruce Munroe brings
Andy Garcia in Puerto Rico-based Ana. ‘I got to film with people 5O,OOO spheres of
Words: Becky Burgum. Photography, previous page: Joseph Sinclair/Camera Press.

who spoke my language and it was the most beautiful experience,’ solar-powered light
she says. Exploring more non-stereotypical Latin roles is high on to the Uluru desert.
4.
Photography, this page: Getty Images, Meyer Pro, Brooke Hoyer, courtesy
Keen’s career bucket list. ‘On screen, Latinos are usually the bad 4. Portland Winter Light
Festival, Oregon, USA
guy thugs and that annoys me,’ says Keen. ‘They’re represented
See the City of Roses
as stupid, animalistic, sexual and violent. It’s a form of racism.’ turn into the city of
In the future, Keen has plans to take on the theatre world. lights this February.
‘Doing Shakespeare at the Globe is my lifelong dream,’ she says.
Gosee...
‘My family are huge fans; we have three copies of his complete
works in our living room. The Globe is where my parents met, so
it’s an important place to me.’ But before that, Keen plans to attend
film school to explore film roles behind the camera, including
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way,’ she says. ‘I’ll never stop acting but I want to try everything
ISTHERE ANYTHINGMORE FESTIVE THAN
and be around kids my own age for as long as possible.’ Keen
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old girl. ‘Right now, I’m a kid and my education is my priority.’ MESMERISINGDISPLAYSFROMAROUND
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‘It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,’ says
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Zed, played by Ahmed, is a British-Pakistani
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a stepping stone for the next generation.’ Mowgli, in that we were transported by the white
imagination from our places of ancestral
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having to remain vigilant for our survival, and
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time goes on. I even ironed working at home. I’ve had a
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spend time doing your make-up aggressions of office life. It’s
– it’s something normal to do been great for my mental health.
when all around you is chaos.’ I’ve also become more confident
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ASCOVID RAGESACROSSTHEWORLD, SOTOOHASTHE NUMBER
OFDIVORCES. KemiAlemoru TALKS TO THOSE COUPLES FOR
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AS THE SAYING GOES: WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS. In March, I was marooned
in Manchester at my parents’ house as the heavens opened. A storm was
brewing outside as cases of Covid-19 surged. Because of lockdown, I found
myself separated from my partner of seven-and-a-half years by the M6; a barrier
only marginally bigger than the huge chasm that had developed between us.
We’d been a little rocky beforehand but, by May, when I managed to smuggle
myself back to London to be with him, things were looking terminal. We’d argued
about where to quarantine, how much attention we should be paying each
other in lockdown, how little attention we paid each other in normal life, both
busy filling our time with demanding jobs and social lives. But really the bigger
question that neither of us had the courage to ask was:
if we died during this crisis, would we be happy knowing
we had spent so many years shackled together?
Or was now the time to chase new experiences?
It might seem dramatic to think that a virus could “THE BIGGER
chime the death knell of what was once considered a QUESTION WAS: IF
‘forever’ relationship, but the chaos (and, let’s be honest,
the metaphysical searching that chaos has inspired) has
WE DIED DURING
resulted in time drawn on relationships across the world. THIS CRISIS,WOULD WE
As the UK shuttered in March, restrictions started to lift
in China, where reports emerged of a spike in divorce
be happy knowing
enquiries. The pandemic, it appeared, had become a WE HAD SPENT
powder keg for marriages as couples were forced to SO LONG SHACKLED
lockdown together, their lives entwined in a way that
they had never been before. It came as a stark warning TOGETHER?”
to the rest of the world, and then, much like the virus
itself, the effects began rippling to shores closer to home.
‘There is no doubt that lockdown put pressure
on relationships,’ says Sandra Davis, a partner in family law at London firm
Mishcon de Reya who has worked on divorce cases for 4O years, with clients
including Princess Diana and Jerry Hall. ‘In the early days of lockdown,
people weren’t able to engage in extracurricular activities. Without the usual
outlets, any negativity in relationships intensified and fractures already there
developed into breakages,’ she explains.
Since lockdown, she has seen enquiries flooding in, spiking in July when
restrictions eased and couples who had been unhappily living together finally
emerged. ‘We’ve been very busy. Many lawyers have stated that enquiries are
significantly higher than usual for this time of year,’ confirms Davis, who says that
recently couples have been forward-planning for potential future lockdowns
because they now know what could be around the corner: ‘People have been A year ago, Aimee felt the most settled she’d ever
taking action. I think that, in part, people who fear that there may be a second been. She and her husband of 26 years had nurtured
lockdown want to move out now, before that happens,’ she says. a long-lasting, blissful romance, travelling the
world together and talking openly about their
THE SPEED AT WHICH COUPLES ARE MOVING to dissolve their relationships – relationship. To the outside world, and indeed for
the UK saw a 42% spike in divorce enquiries from 23 March (the day the UK went Aimee, they were a ‘forever couple’. As with any
into lockdown) to mid-May, according to Co-Op Legal Services – is down to a relationship, there were fissures. At the end of last
dramatically shifting context. ‘Crises are relationship accelerators,’ explains Esther year, Aimee began to suspect her husband was
Perel, couples therapist and author of the bestselling Mating In Captivity. ‘People hiding things from her. One evening, after he’d
think, Life is short, let’s have babies or Life is short, I’m unhappy. It’s time to move on.’ fallen asleep, she looked at his phone and found
Crises also act as amplifiers. ‘We have all learned coping mechanisms. texts from a friend of hers. ‘He cheated,’ she says.
When we were young, those habits kept us safe. But in adulthood, context ‘It was a complete shock, but I didn’t want to lose
changes and sometimes those learned coping mechanisms no longer serve what we had, so I stayed.’ In the following months,
us. When people experience periods of prolonged uncertainty – such as a they tried to work things out with couples therapy,
pandemic – they turn to their learned coping style. In a romantic relationship, and she suppressed her own growing anxiety.
this can lead to increased conflict when coping styles don’t align.’ Then the pandemic hit.
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‘Partners are always delegating emotions to

each other,’ says Perel. ‘One minimises; one
maximises. One implodes; one explodes. But
in high-stress situations, that polarisation is more
intense.’ For most relationships, these periods of
high stress are surmountable. Life as a couple
involves a degree of separation: you’re not by
each other’s side all of the time. In the pandemic,
however, that polarisation was exacerbated as
couples lost a sense of freedom and individuality
within their relationships. ‘Our lives and roles are
typically contextualised by physical locations,’
continues Perel. ‘We commute, go to the gym,
go to the office, spend time at home. The past
few months have seen those contexts collapse.
Now the last boundary is the mute
button: living our whole lives at home
and at work in the same place at the
same time. We are not spending this
“FEELINGS OF DESIRE period just working from home, we’re
HAVE BEEN IMPACTED. working with home. Every aspect of
desire needs mystery, our life happens in the same location,
day after day. This can cause a
AND WHEN WE’RE number of challenges for couples –
including impacting their feelings of
ON TOP OF ONE desire. Desire needs mystery, and
ANOTHER 24/7, IT CAN when we’re on top of one other 24/7,
During lockdown, Aimee began to see more FEEL LIKE THERE’S it can feel like there’s no mystery at all.’
Rise in divorce follows end of recession , The Telegraph , February 2O14.
clearly what her marriage had become: ‘He

grew quiet and he was no longer playful NO MYSTERY AT ALL” AS WELL AS DESIRE, there is the
or interested in what he used to enjoy. His more pedestrian question of money
demeanour towards me changed drastically.’ and the division of labour, both
Covid forced them to see one another – in terms of employed work and
and who they‘d become over time – more clearly. household chores. After the 2OO8 recession there was a 5% spike in marital
‘Being together all day, every day allowed me to breakdowns, a pattern that also occurred following the Nineties recession.*
confront that,’ she says. There was no longer any Divorce specialists have put this down to the strain caused by an economic
connection, as her partner grew more and more downturn and couples being more willing to put up with marital problems if
withdrawn from their marriage. In the end, it became there is enough money. Now, as the UK looks set to plunge into another recession
too much and, as lockdown lifted, she decided – possibly a depression – financial stress and the pressure to stay in employment
to move 2,5OO miles away to live with her parents. is a key factor in relationships breaking down.
She filed for divorce shortly afterwards. ‘I’m not Work and money became an inescapable tension for Amanda and her
feeling alone,’ Aimee says, ‘I walked away because partner of 1O years, James. This year represented one of new beginnings after
I no longer had the choice to stay.’ they married in August 2O19 and decided to move to the other side of the
*
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for their young child, she now says she’s relieved

to have some breathing room from her ex-partner.
While arguments over housework and childcare
are nothing new among couples seeking a
separation, according to Caroline Elliott, head of
family law at Shakespeare Martineau Nottingham,
the huge increase in the pandemic workload and
the proximity of lockdown living has meant that
these issues are becoming more acute. ‘Juggling
everything has been a massive stressor,’ she explains.
Because of lockdown rules, which meant you
couldn’t leave the house other than to exercise or shop
for essentials, people had very small windows to liaise
with lawyers privately. ‘I had people who were calling
me on the way to the supermarket or while they were
on a walk because they were stuck in the house and
couldn’t get on the phone to seek advice,’ Elliott says.
In addition, the division of assets can take a nasty
turn – particularly as the economy nosedives
and the value of property, for example, becomes
more uncertain. This is the case for one of Elliott’s
clients, who was put on furlough in lockdown.
As her marriage crumbled, she decided to buy
her husband out of the house. But redundancy
was too much of a risk. ‘In normal circumstances,
she could borrow a bit more on the mortgage and
pay him off, but now it’s likely they will
have to sell the home,’ says Elliott.
Not all couples who have seen
their marriage break down this year are
“THIS PANDEMIC HAS facing prolonged and messy divorce
GIVEN US proceedings. The Divorce Surgery, set
country in January with their four-year-
old son, at Amanda’s suggestion. Then
PERSPECTIVE ON up by barristers Samantha Woodham
and Harry Gates in 2O18, helps couples
March came around, and things began what life is about. work towards a fairer outcome without
to shut down. ‘We were just getting YOUR MARRIAGE going to court, by pioneering a new,
settled in,’ Amanda recalls. At the height amicable ‘one couple, one lawyer’
of the pandemic, her husband contracted WAS NOT A MISTAKE, model. Business, says Woodham, has
the virus and the family quarantined for IT HAS JUST been non-stop, mostly owing to the huge
three weeks. However, the real difficulty
set in when he started back at work
RUN ITS COURSE” stress Covid-19 has had on the family
justice system – many trials have been
again; the atmosphere grew tense when adjourned and hearings are taking place
it became clear he was struggling with via video or phone call. ‘It’s such a blunt
the move. He was unhappy in his new instrument for a very nuanced, sensitive
job and, as a result, started to become hostile towards process,’ she says, adding that this court backlog has intersected with an
Amanda, who was the family’s ‘breadwinner’. Plus, increased demand for a more holistic approach to divorce proceedings;
as childcare was a 24/7 requirement, the unequal a trend started by Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s conscious uncoupling.
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labour in the house became a major trigger for ‘This global pandemic has given us all an enormous degree of perspective
arguments, with Amanda taking on most of the work. on what life is about,’ Woodham continues. ‘There’s been a big reaction against
the kind of 198Os The War of the Roses-style divorce, where you lawyer up on
WITH VERY LITTLE SUPPORT, her claustrophobic new each side and go for one another. Creating conflict for conflict’s sake is not
life soon started to unravel and she began to feel a something I think people are interested in anymore. Now, more than ever, there
growing resentment towards her husband. Two weeks is a realisation that your marriage was not a mistake, it has just run its course.’
before their first wedding anniversary, James moved According to divorce lawyer Sandra Davis, we may not even have the full
out while she was at work and sent a text asking for scale of the situation yet. Is your relationship safe, or has it just been unaffected
5O/5O custody of their son. While she was initially so far? As she says: ‘It will be at least another year before we see the extent
left feeling crushed and forced to put on a brave face to which the pandemic has had an impact on marriage.’
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Escape to
THE COUNTRY
ANOBSESSION WITH THE RURAL IDYLL IS INSPIRING MORE PEOPLE
TO ABANDON CITY LIFE. BUT WHAT IS IT ACTUALLY LIKE TO LEAVE
BEHIND YOUR METROPOLITAN EXISTENCE AND, IN SashaWilkins’ CASE,
ABANDON YOUR ENTIRE IDENTITY? PHOTOGRAPH by ED BARRETT-BOURMIER
IT’S QUITE HARD TO DRIVE A TRANSPORTER VAN when you are crying
so hard that your chest is heaving and your nose is running so much you
can’t breathe properly. I discovered this as I left my beloved London flat
for the very last time in July this year to follow the removal lorry containing
all my furniture. I was headed to the Cotswolds to start a new life in the
English countryside, at least two-and-a-half hours from London, where
Deliveroo doesn’t operate, and you can’t buy a lemon at 2am.
This isn’t the first time I’ve made a life-changing move. In the spring
of 2OO7, I uprooted myself from London, the city where I was born,
to move 3,455 miles across the Atlantic to the US. I had one bag, six
pairs of vertiginous Manolos, no permanent visa and no job offer, yet it
seemed like a thrilling adventure.
Thirteen years later, I am making a lifestyle change that seems vastly
more significant, more permanent and entirely ridiculous to someone
whose entire adult life has been spent in London, New York and Los
Angeles. On paper it doesn’t sound such a big deal compared to moving
to Manhattan but, back in 2OO7, I owned a flat in London so I always
knew that there was a return escape option if New York didn’t work out.
This time around, that flat is long gone (sold partly to fund the beginnings
of libertylondongirl.com when iPhones were a novelty, Instagram
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Prime position
FROM ATTENDING
LONDON FASHION
WEEK (LEFT) OR JETTING
AWAY (RIGHT), WILKINS
DOCUMENTED IT ONLINE
City dweller
WILKINS BUILT HER
CAREER AROUND LIVING
IN LONDON; IT WAS
INTEGRAL TO HER LIFE
didn’t exist and I had no online revenue

stream), I have relinquished my current
lease, put much of my furniture in storage,
eBayed those Manolos and committed
to a new (muddy) way of life. There’s
no going back and I am, frankly, terrified
that I am leaving behind a support
network that’s seemingly made of steel
hawsers for a fragile web constructed
from connections of friends of friends.
I have been writing online as
LibertyLondonGirl for some 14 years
“MY COUNTRYSIDE
now; what started as a random name for ESCAPE STARTED
a fledgling blog has since come to TO LOOK MORE LIKE
represent an identity rooted firmly in an
exciting London existence. I started the A SENSIBLE
website as an anonymous online diary action plan and horror movies, I posted on Instagram:
and, over the following years, have ‘Sometimes I think what I need for
developed it into a business through
LESS LIKE happiness is just a small dog and the
paid collaborations with brands (fashion A RUDIMENTARY countryside. It’s my birthday today,
shoots, sponsored posts, public speaking,
recipe development and more) and a
FANTASY” always a time for reckoning, and I’m
giving a lot of thought to the idea of
constant stream of content. Whether that moving out of London in the next year.
was photographing my urban walled I grew up in a rural village, I want more
garden, hanging out with family and space, and I’m fed up with seeing
friends, exercising my dog on Hampstead Heath, reviewing new most of my income disappear in covering London-weighted living
restaurants, buying plants at Columbia Road Flower Market or costs. (Single person living is astonishingly expensive.) I’m all ears
attending London Fashion Week, nearly everything that I wrote for any advice anyone might have to give...’
about reflected my fulfilling life in the capital. City living gave It was my most-commented-on Instagram post in five years.
me everything I wanted: the perfect combination of novelty Between people who had already made the move and those who
(access to ‘new’ everything), ease (hello, black cabs and efficient were buying into the fantasy, nearly everyone was overwhelmingly
public transport) and culture on tap. I built a life and a career positive about the idea. And every time I’ve mentioned the move
where London was integral to my identity, and everyone – from since, I had an inbox brimming with strangers offering good advice
my followers to the brands I worked with – knew that. and encouragement who were, like me, wondering about a slower,
During four months of the pandemic lockdown, my Camden more rural pace of life after years of high-octane city living.
flat was the safest of safe havens. I had a much-cherished garden,
my sister a mile away, shops around the corner (which were AND THEN, TWO MONTHS AFTER that fateful Instagram post,
always stocked with loo roll and flour) and a legion of close Covid-19 spread to the UK. My countryside escape started to
friends who lived nearby and who could be waved at from garden look more like a sensible action plan, and less like a rudimentary
gates when the isolation of living alone started to grind me down. fantasy. That London garden meant that lockdown was almost
But, much as I loved my north London life, thoughts of moving bearable, but the financial pressure was not. By the last week of
to the countryside had been nagging at me for some time. Last March, it was clear that I would have to cancel every single one
December, when global pandemics belonged solely in sci-fi of my upcoming projects: a series of sponsored literary dinners in
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Slow living
NOW SHE’S IN THE Canine friend
COTSWOLDS, WILKINS’ NATURALLY, WILKINS’
LIFE GOES AT A DACHSHUND LETTICE
MORE LEISURELY PACE ALSO ENJOYS LIVING
IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
and motorways (I will still need to get

to London occasionally), availability
(there were a lot of very affordable
two-bedroom cottages for rent) and
privacy. There are a lot of fashion
and media types in the Cotswolds, but
they tend to congregate about an hour
north of where I’ve chosen to settle.
(I can’t think of anything worse than
continually bumping into old colleagues
“I’M NOT UNDER in a local farm shop.)
And how fashion people love the
ANY ILLUSIONS countryside. In recent months, we’ve seen
THATCOUNTRY LIFE Instagram feeds flooded with a vision
of pastoral life that is both aesthetically
WILL BE A beautiful and attractively simple, free
my garden, as well as cookery lessons UTOPIA WHERE of care and pollution. Whether it’s
for private groups and a supper club the carefully curated box of organic,
series at home. Several external clients
ALL OF MY locally sourced fruit and vegetables
also put their influencer projects with me existentialproblems that Gucci sent out this summer as
on hold. That was an entire six-month, at WILL DISAPPEAR” an invitation to its Epilogue show or
the very least, revenue stream down the Jacquemus’ L’Amour SS21 collection
pan, with no replacement income. shown on a 6OOm-long wooden
Previous page, styling: Molly Haylor. Shoes, £895, Loewe; wellington boots, £18O, Le Chameau.
I think the moment I cracked was runway in a wheat field an hour

when I realised that if I lived with a outside of Paris (following on from his
partner – something I haven’t actively been seeking for years SS2O show in a Provençal lavender field), the fashion world
now – with whom I could split all the bills, I would be a depressing is increasingly inspired by a rural idyll. Some – such as Alice
£2O,OOO a year better off. That is a deposit on a house/private Temperley, who has spent the past five months renovating
pension/no credit card debt/new car/multiple Chanel handbags, a derelict Victorian mansion in her local market town in Somerset
if you are that way inclined, kind of money. to move her entire brand, including her atelier, out to the
So, with all this in mind, and a marked desire for big skies and countryside – are abandoning London for good.
a slower pace of life, I decided to up sticks to rural Gloucestershire, Just don’t get me started on the twee ‘cottagecore’ trend,
where rents are less than a third of London’s. Gloucestershire where perky barefooted girls dressed in (otherwise lovely)
Photography, this page: Courtesy of Sasha Wilkins.
wasn’t my first choice – pre-pandemic I might not have moved so O Pioneers dresses clasp perfect apple pies to their frilly aproned
far from London. I always imagined myself within sensible – and chests in country kitchens. There appears to be an overwhelming
affordable – daily commuting distance, so I could easily return belief in fashion-land that the countryside represents a wholesome
for client projects and meetings. But, with the rise of Zoom and and pure world, a Marie Antoinette-ish Petit Trianon construct
teleconferencing removing the need for face-to-face interaction, where troubles magically disappear and everything bad can
a longer commute and higher rail fare once every week or 1O be solved by a frolic in a field and a ripe peach in one’s hand.
days is a very fair price to pay for reduced rents or mortgages And here I should explain that, although I was born in London,
and a lot more space – mentally and property-wise. I spent my childhood in very rural Kent. Our best friends lived on
But what really convinced me to move to the edge of the a farm in the village, and our mothers would open the back doors
Cotswolds was quite simply a combination of access to trains in the morning, shoo us out and we would return, tired and
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WHERE the FASHION SET

ARE MOVING NOW
Charlbury, Cotswolds
muddy at the end of the day. I know my slurry from my ANYWHERE WITHIN THREE MILES OF
DAYLESFORD ORGANIC USED TO BE THE
silage, can drive a tractor (if pushed) and can identify CHOICE FOR BOUGIE LONDONERS.
most of the flowers on the verge of a country lane. NOW IT’S CHARLBURY. JEMIMA
This knowledge and love of the rural way of life has GOLDSMITH (FORMERLY KHAN) HAS A
COUNTRY PILE AND WILLOW CROSSLEY,
always been part of me, deep inside, however much FASHION’S FAVOURITE FLORIST, HAS
I have enjoyed my city privileges. Equally, I’ve always TAKEN OVER LOCAL PUB THE BULL INN.
believed that I’d live in the countryside again, because
I couldn’t imagine building a family anywhere else.
However, I seem to have forgotten to have children. Woodbridge,
db Suffolk
ACTUALLYANYWHEREALONG
Last year, I realised that I was subconsciously waiting THECOASTBETWEEN
for something that, in all likelihood, was never going SOUTHWOLDANDORFORD.
WOODBRIDGEISAFLEA-
to happen and that there was nothing to keep me in MARKETNIRVANA–SOMEOF
London anymore. THEBESTHOTELSVISITFORTHEIR
INTERIORS.RESIDENTSINCLUDE
CHRISOPHERANDTAMMY
I’M NOT UNDER ANY ILLUSIONS that country life KANEANDROLANDMOURET.
will be a utopia where all of my existential problems
magically disappear, as I skip off to drink cider at
the pub in my wellies. Committing wholeheartedly
to the pace of country life after years in the city is hard, East Kent
THE EAST KENT COASTLINE HAS SEEN A
and I would be a fool to pretend otherwise. As my SURGE IN HOUSE PRICES AS LONDONERS
friend and fellow influencer Emily Johnston – having RUN FOR THE SEA. TRACY EMIN IS BACK IN
MARGATE (ALONG WITH PETE DOHERTY)
recently moved to Hampshire from Shepherd’s Bush BUT CHICER CENTRES (DEAL, BROADSTAIRS,
– says, ‘It’s been a saving grace being out of London ST MARGARET’S-AT-CLIFFE) ARE SEEING
while in lockdown, but my current dilemma is that it’s THE BIGGEST BOOM, WITH EDITORS AND
STYLISTS NOW MAKING IT THEIR HOME.
hard to commit to the country when you
need to return to the city for work once
a week, as it does make the adjustment
just that bit harder. At heart I loved my
Forres, the Scottish
London life, and I really, really miss it.’ “I MAY NOW BE Highlands
Oh god, do I hear her. I miss being IT MIGHT SEEM LIKE IT’S A
able to see my friends at an hour’s notice, HAPPILY RENTING WORLD AWAY (THAT’S THE
daily swimming in the Ladies’ Pond on in the countrysid IDEA) BUT EVERY OTHER
PERSON IS AN EX-HACKNEY
Hampstead Heath, being at the centre HIPSTER. TILDA SWINTON’S
of, well, everything. But, while I have
BUT MY HEART WILLL KIDS ATTEND THE LOCAL
STEINER SCHOOL.
agonised over being geographically ALWAYS BE IN
and mentally so far from London, and
worried about lack of immediate access
LONDON – IT SHAPED
to people (especially those working MY PERSONALITY no. I may now be happily renting in the
in fashion, which moves so quickly), AND FRIENDSHIPS” countryside, but my heart will always
I have come to the conclusion that the be in London because that’s the place
truly inconceivable changes brought that shaped my personality, interests,
Photography: Alamy, Getty Images, Shutterstock,
about by Covid mean that everyone friendships and career. Even if my head
will be working differently for the does say that I need to be somewhere
foreseeable future. It’s clear that no one needs to be at fashion less expensive and more rural to stay sane for the time being.
Instagram/willowcrossleycreates.
week in the same way, that personal contact is lessening and I know I’ll sometimes be lonely, however many people I meet
that often digitial communication is just as effective. And all the around here, that there will be flat tyres, frozen pipes and septic
things I loved to do, which mainly revolved around being in busy tanks with which to deal. But I also know this Christmas, when
and crowded places, just aren’t possible both now and quite I open the kitchen door straight onto a frosty lawn bounded by
conceivably for the next year or so anyway. a stream, hear the running water and see my little dog bounce
Is it the beginning of a new identity for me? Am I changing around with joy while church bells ring in the distance, I will know
my name to LibertyCotswoldsGirl? The answer is a categoric that I have made the right decision for me right now.
1OO E L L E . C O M / U K D e ce mb e r 2020
xxx
x
Coat, £750, and bag,

£475, both REJINA PYO
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EDITORS CLAMOUR
to geta seat at her shows,
INFLUENCERS PAY TO
WEAR HER DRESSES, WHILE
MANY SAY SHE’S
THE NICEST WOMAN
WORKING IN FASHION.
Meet Rejina Pyo,
THE WOMAN MAKING
THE CLOTHES
everybody wants
WORDS by SARA McALPINE PHOTOGRAPHS by DANNY KASIRYE STYLING by CLEMMIE BROWN
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IF YOU WERE TO DESCRIBE REJINA PYO, you’d reach for the the bigger, the better. But I thought, I just don’t see myself being
most polite adjectives – sweet, nice or just lovely, ‘so, so lovely’, happy with something so corporate for the next 1O years.’ The
as she has been described by everyone, from former interns to Gangnam district is similar to major cities in the West, in so far
the most curmudgeonly members of the fashion press. as scale and pace go, with high-rise buildings that Pyo likens to
We meet on one of the hottest days of August, at the end Manhattan. If anything, it’s faster. ‘There are hardly any holidays,
of a marathon six-hour shoot, spread across four locations. maybe one day for Christmas and no Easter. When I came to
Everyone, from assistants to art directors, is exhausted, flush-faced the UK, I was like, Another holiday, really? ’ This might explain
and huffing beneath surgical masks in the stifling heat. Everyone why Pyo often seems so at ease, despite the fashion industry’s
except Pyo, who sits in the centre of it all, cool as a mill pond, with frantic pace, with a contagiously calm demeanour.
a smile that spreads slowly across her face, reaching her eyes. ‘There was pressure to fit in, and if you don’t fit in you’re just
If you don’t know Pyo by name, you will almost certainly a bit weird, sticking out too much,’ she says. Stick out, she did,
recognise the styles for which she has become known: easy-to- standing at 5ft 8in tall. ‘By Korean standards, I’m too big. They
wear separates, elegant ‘with a twist, a little detail’ that make only really have two clothing sizes, and a lot of [the clothing] is
everyday styles less ordinary. Those, and the puff-shouldered midi- national brands. Even the biggest shoe size is a 38. I thought I was
dresses – which have spawned a thousand high-street copycats a 38 this whole time. I’m actually a 39,’ Pyo says, laughing.
since Pyo launched her brand in 2O14, spreading virally on ‘I decided to travel on my own in Europe when I was 21 – no
social media as influencers flocked to post selfies of themselves smartphone, no internet, just a Lonely Planet guide – and you had
wearing her signature, statement-silhouette ‘Greta’ dress. to call a hostel from the train station,’ she recalls. ‘My family isn’t
Seen on everyone from Man Repeller founder Leandra really wealthy, so they couldn’t afford to send me abroad to study.’
Medine to influencer-editors Eva Chen and Kate Foley, Pyo’s styles However, a few years later, Pyo made the decision to enrol in a year-
proved to be Instagram catnip. She has amassed more than long course at London fashion school Central Saint Martins –
1OO stockists worldwide, including Net-A-Porter and Harvey where designers such as Alexander McQueen, John Galliano
Nichols, as well as a growing list of and Stella McCartney had attended
celebrity fans (with Meghan Markle as – made possible with money saved
the latest addition). Yet 37-year-old Pyo while working and the offer to stay with
almost packed it all in, after nearly going a friend based in London. ‘Coming here
broke to fund her own business. “MY TUTORS SAID in 2OO8, I never thought I would go
‘I suppose I’ve always been quite I WAS ‘TOO SOFT’. back [to South Korea],’ she admits.
independent,’ Pyo says, wrinkling her She was deemed ‘too gentle’ by
nose, then laughing, while trying to
I SAID, ‘MAYBE tutors at Saint Martins, though. ‘They
make sense of the decision she made BECAUSE I’M SOFT said, “You’re too soft, I don’t think you
to move 5,5OO miles across the globe
from South Korea to London in her early
I can get by. can handle it.” I said, “Maybe because
I’m soft I can get by. If you’re too stiff,
twenties – despite having comfortably IF YOU’RE TOO STIFF, you’re going to break.” They laughed,
established a career in her home city. YOU’RE GOING replying: “Maybe you’re right.”’ Pyo
Born and raised in the Gangnam district, went on to complete a masters in
Seoul (‘Like the song,’ she says), style TO BREAK’” Fashion, graduating in 2O11.
was very much in Pyo’s background,
with a mother who worked in fashion FASHION WAS A VERY DIFFERENT
before turning her hand to interior design PLACE in the early 2O1Os. Instagram
and art. ‘My mum had lots of different careers and interests,’ had only just launched and influencers, as we now know
Pyo explains. ‘She loved old antiques, so our house was full them, were still using blogs as their primary platform. The
of old furniture – always dark brown wood with special little internet was yet to fully revolutionise the industry, narrowing
details and random objects. I would go to friends’ houses and the gap between luxury and the average shopper looking for
see everything was new, with white Ikea furniture and modern catwalk style at a more accessible price. As a customer, your
lines. I was like, ‘Mum, why is our house like this?!’ best bet was the designer-high-street collaboration, which
It’s a mix of antique details and clean, modern lines that was arguably at its peak in the first half of the decade, with
Pyo has since made her USP (square-neck blazers with a succession of collections – including H&M with Versace,
burnished, old-doorknob-like buttons and sharp, pointed pumps Marni, Maison Margiela and Isabel Marant – setting shoppers
with sculptural heels are among her bestselling pieces). ‘I always in a tailspin, leaving shelves near-empty.
wanted to be a fashion designer,’ she says. However, that Pyo herself won the attention of H&M-owned brand Weekday
certainty still came with a few false starts. with her 2O11 graduate collection, and was invited to collaborate
After studying art at Hongik University, Pyo followed a on a capsule collection of block-coloured separates, stocked
straightforward path, working for a mass South Korean retailer. in 3O of its stores across Europe. That was quickly followed
‘In South Korea, your path is expected to be…’ She hesitates. by the Hans Nefkens Fashion Award, which included a cash
‘Whatever is considered the best you can do: a big cooperation; prize and six-month residency working on an art exhibition at
x x x x xxx
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all REJINA PYO. Rings (worn
t
throughout), Rejina’s own
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Famous fans
FROM LEFT: EVA CHEN,
MEGHAN MARKLE,
LOUISE CHEN AND
NAOMI SHIMADA,
ALL IN PYO’S DESIGNS
“PYO CARES ABOUT

the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in SO MUCH MORE
Rotterdam. While earning acclaim for her
independent projects, in the background
THAN CLOTHES, AND The designer
Pyo was also juggling a day job as the THAT’S WHAT ABOVE: BLACK JACKET,
first-ever design assistant to the London-

based Serbian designer Roksanda Ilinčić,
makes her designs £1,25O, PINK JACKET,
£55O, TROUSERS, £425,
AND NECKLACE, £295,
known for her grand, jewel-toned gowns. SO JOYOUS. THEY’RE ALL REGINA PYO
She had two options: to continue juggling CLOTHES FOR

what was becoming two full-time jobs, and elegant,’ she remembers. Foley,
or go it alone and commit to launching
GROWN WOMEN” well-connected with the world’s most
her own label. ‘Roksanda was like, “Oh important editors and influencers,
my god, that’s an amazing opportunity. invited Pyo to present a collection
Do it. When you finish, you can always at renowned independent boutique
come back.”’ But Pyo never did go back – she didn’t have to. Maryam Nassir Zadeh in September 2O16, officially entering
Hair and make-up: Michelle Dacillo using Kjaer Weis and Pureology. With special thanks to Jenius
Social and The City of London Film Department. Additional photography: Getty Images, Imaxtree.
Accessibility is a central tenet of Pyo’s brand, and crucial fashion week with her sweetly priced, artful and architectural
to her decision to start her own label in 2O14. It’s what makes styles. And a wave of influencers and fashion fans were quick
her work so relatable. ‘What I wanted was the luxury fashion to adopt her pieces – particularly those signature statement-
that I couldn’t afford. My friends couldn’t afford it either, with shouldered midi-dresses – as their uniform; style that stands out,
one piece costing an entire month’s salary. You’re scared to but at a price that is still reasonably accessible.
ruin it,’ she explains. However, if you wanted to launch a brand ‘She really appeals to women who like to make fashion
then, your best bet was positioning yourself as ‘luxury’ (ie, their own; a more individual take,’ adds Elizabeth von der Goltz,
expensive) or ‘contemporary’ (ie, more affordable ‘premium’ Global Buying Director at Net-A-Porter. ‘People probably
styles, such as Acne Studios’ denim or Theory’s suiting). ‘Stores don’t realise that a lot of [influencers] are paid to wear designer
were divided by floors – luxury on one floor, contemporary brands. But they were actually buying the pieces,’ Pyo says,
on another,’ she explains. ‘So I was meeting retailers and they her hands pressed to her chest in gratitude. New York Magazine
didn’t know where to put me. Sometimes I’d be sitting in the went as far as stating that Pyo’s ‘Greta’ dress, a full-sleeved,
trade fair showroom, wondering why nobody was stopping by. cinch-waisted style, was ‘the most popular dress at New York
You do think about quitting.’ And she nearly did, until a chance Fashion Week’ in September 2O17.
encounter in New York. ‘She cares about so much more than clothes, and that’s
what makes her designs so joyous,’ says journalist Pandora
‘IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT,’ says Kate Foley, the super- Sykes. ‘They’re for grown women who like confident, colourful
stylist and former buyer beloved by street-style cameras. ‘We pieces that they aren’t always plucking at awkwardly. I have
bumped into each other on the street in New York – Rejina is the several of her dresses that I pull out time and time again –
embodiment of the Rejina Pyo woman, and looked so effortless including when pregnant. Both times!’
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‘It’ pieces
PYO’S BAGS, FROM
SOFT TO SCULTPURAL,
ARE FIRM FASHION
FAVOURITES
The look
PYO’S PRINTED
OUTERWEAR AND
SIGNATURE CINCHED-
WAIST DRESSES ARE
INFLUENCERS’ FASHION
WEEK UNIFORM
“I FEEL BRAVER NOW.

THOUGH SUCCESS FOR PYO CAME BECOMING where she is in life. She makes the clothes
AT SOME PERSONAL COST. ‘I was women want because she wants them.
pregnant when I showed in New York,’
A MUM MUST HAVE Pyo and Bourke have since moved
Pyo says. She was about to give birth HELPED. NOTHING into their own home, a Victorian terrace
to Luka, her son with Irish chef Jordan
Bourke (who she met ‘casually, in a
really scaresme, in north London. She’s feeling more
‘homely’, with the renovations trickling
bar’ as a student, and with whom she’s AND IT’S A into recent collections: all plush cosy knits,
published a Korean cookbook). ‘It was BIT BORING IF YOU’RE wallpaper prints and heels resembling
getting really busy, and the brand was old banisters. So, what of AW2O’s
becoming recognised; lots of things PIGEON-HOLED” darker, sexier streak? ‘I was feeling that
were happening.’ So, no maternity way,’ she says, tilting her head demurely
leave. No time off to give birth. In fact, before breaking into a laugh. ‘I feel
‘I was on emails the next day,’ she says. braver,’ she adds. ‘Becoming a mum
Pyo radiates a quiet warmth, and speaks and moves with must have helped. I think nothing really pains me or scares me now.
a series of small gestures; understated, always polite, And it’s a bit boring if you’re pigeon-holed.’ Success, in the form of
with a kind, wide, bright smile and a laugh. Nothing appears to a British Fashion Award for British Emerging Talent Womenswear
be a big deal – a strand of hair in her face is discreetly waved in 2O19, surely helped with her confidence, too.
out of the way while her hand is already raised to sip water, Now with a studio near her home, overseeing her team of 14
and hardship is always modestly dismissed with a small shrug. (four of whom are based in South Korea, where, pre-pandemic,
‘You learn the hard way,’ Pyo laughs when I point out that she frequently visited to oversee production), the business is
she seems so cool under pressure. It was Luka, now three-and- steadily expanding. Pyo has an ‘It’ piece for every category:
a-half, who taught her to calm down. (That and, she adds, a shoes, handbags (with the ‘Nane’ bow-handled style gaining
steady pile of parenting and non-fiction books: The Book You attention as Meghan Markle’s choice of accessory on International
Wish Your Parents Had Read by Philippa Perry, and Outliers by Women’s Day). There’s menswear too, with Pyo launching a unisex
Malcolm Gladwell.) ‘It was hard; there were no boundaries. line of shirts in spring 2O2O, having realised she often mixes
My husband and I, his brother and his partner were in a big house her own styles with the same shirts as her husband. (She says this
that we shared, and we used the downstairs as a studio. I’d work, while readying herself to leave and changing into a sun-faded
run upstairs to breastfeed and go downstairs again,’ she says, Hawaiian-print shirt that she’d stuffed into a canvas tote prior to
comically mimicking hurrying between floors. ‘Before, I wasn’t shooting – the same shirt worn by Bourke in an image posted
able to detach myself from the brand – if anyone criticised it, on Pyo’s personal Instagram earlier that week.)
I felt like they were criticising me. It wasn’t healthy. I had to While the future is uncertain globally, Pyo remains optimistic.
learn how to protect myself from stress, as I didn’t want to pass ‘You can’t really plan anything these days,’ she says. ‘But I think
that on to my baby.’ Pyo admits there’s an advantage to treating that’s good, because we need to try and live in the moment.’ And
work so personally, though: many of her collections reflect when you’re Regina Pyo, the moment is yours for the taking.
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Bow down, IT’S ZENDAYA
SHE’S MADE THE ALMOST-IMPOSSIBLE TRANSITION FROM BUBBLEGUM DISNEY
STAR TO AWARD-WINNING ACTOR, IS SEEN AS A DARLING OF THE FASHION
WORLD AND HAS BECOME A POWERFUL VOICE FOR AN ENTIRE GENERATION.
HOW HAS SHE DONE IT, AND CAN SHE KEEP IT UP? HER DUNE CO-STAR
AND CLOSE FRIEND Timothée Chalamet FINDS OUT

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WHEN ZENDAYA WAS ANNOUNCED as the winner of the Outstanding
Lead Actress in a Drama Series – awarded for her performance in
HBO’s Euphoria – during the Emmy Awards broadcast in September,
audiences were treated to a glimpse of the 24-year-old’s home, as well
as an unexpectedly emotional response. ‘This is pretty crazy – I don’t
really cry,’ she said, brushing aside her hair and dabbing her tears.
Behind her sat her family and team, screaming joyfully. It was a scene
tailor-made for 2O2O – uncanny and semi-apocalyptic, thanks to the
hazmat-suited presenter (just out of frame) who delivered the statuette.
Zendaya recalls the moment when her friend Timothée Chalamet calls
from France for an exclusive interview with ELLE – although she jokingly
admits she worried that her family’s long celebration might cue the
dreaded awards-show cutoff music.
Zendaya and Chalamet met on the set of Dune, the latest feature
film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel about a feudal
intergalactic empire of the distant future. (Originally due in cinemas in
December, its release has now been pushed into 2O21 due to Covid-19.)
Zendaya’s character, Chani, a warrior from the planet Arrakis – home to
the Fremen and the only known source of a highly coveted, awareness-
enhancing drug known as ‘spice’ – is initially wary of Chalamet’s
Paul Atreides, the heir to an aristocratic family who’s been tasked with
taking over her home planet, but the two eventually become close.
Even though the book was published in 1965 and the film was shot in
pre-pandemic 2O19, audiences may notice parallels to our current
reality – Arrakis’ harsh climate and giant sandworms, perhaps, versus
our own heatwaves and flying ants. But Zendaya remains optimistic. She
closed out her Emmy acceptance speech acknowledging that, while
Euphoria, with its gritty depictions of teen sex, drugs and trauma, might
not always be a shining example, ‘there is hope in the young people’.
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET: We haven’t talked

since you won your Emmy. Congrats!
ZENDAYA: Thanks, man. I appreciate it.
Pretty nuts. It was a crazy moment.
“ THERE WERE PEOPLE IN HAZMAT SUITS TC: Since the show was virtual, how did
it work? Did you know in advance that
THAT WENT TO NOMINEES’ you were going to win?
HOUSES WITH [EMMY] AWARDS. SO, Z: No.
if you won, you’d grab it TC: You didn’t? So how did they get the
award there so quickly?
QUICKLY FROM THEM AND HAVE IT!” Z: There were these people in hazmat
suits that went to the nominees’ houses
with awards. So basically, if you won,
you’d grab it quickly from them and
have it. If you didn’t win, they just take
it away with them and leave.
TC: Oh, shit. [Laughs.] So you got to keep yours!
Z: Yeah. Yeah. I got to keep mine. [My assistant] Darnell [Appling]
was actually the one who handed it to me.
TC: Oh, so that’s it. Well, I’m so happy for you. I was screaming over
here when I saw it! When you had just gotten the nomination, I remember
us talking about what it was going to be like in this environment,
not having an in-person ceremony. But you killed it!
Z: Thanks, man. I was nervous about the possibility of having to get
up and speak. So I was like, ‘OK, let me just write down a few little
bullet points.’ Usually I would just go up there and say what’s in my
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heart, but everybody was like, ‘No, I think you should definitely
write something down.’ But then I worried maybe that’s bad luck
to have something prepared because, it’s like, I don’t know…
TC: You didn’t want to jinx it.
Z: Yeah, exactly. So the day of, I just wrote a little thing down
to have just in case. And that was helpful. I was very nervous, but
I’m glad my family was there.
TC: It looked like a sweet moment, full of love.
Z: It absolutely was. Everybody was there, screaming, as my family
does! We are a very loud family, and I was worried that they were
going to be screaming for too long. And the little clock would start
ticking, and I’d be like, ‘Ah, thank you.’ And then it would be over.
TC: And the guy in the hazmat suit would
come in and take it away.
Z: Exactly.
TC: What was it like to get all glammed up
and then not leave the house?
Z: That was all right with me. I got to feel “IT FEELS LIKE A VERY HOPELESS TIME.
all fancy and put on this beautiful custom I KNOW A LOT OF MY PEERS FEEL
[Giorgio Armani Privé] gown and do my
hair and makeup and then just be with enraged and exhausted
my family in the living room, which was AND TIRED OF LIVING IN A SYSTEM THAT
actually quite nice.
TC: Very wholesome.
FEELS LIKE IT WASN’T BUILT FOR US”
Z: Yeah, it was great. And we got to take
pictures in the house, so I knew I would be
happy with them.
TC: You got photo approval.
Z: Yeah, there was none of the usual ‘Ah, I hate that picture’ that’s information on what’s happening, so that I can make sure I’m using
suddenly circulating everywhere. So it wasn’t bad. It actually my platform in the most strategic way I can to help. There is so much
worked really smoothly the way they virtually transitioned people hope in young people, and when I say young people, I do mean
over to different media outlets. They really had it all figured out. myself – people my own age – but I also mean younger. These
TC: Maybe we’ll end up having Zoom ceremonies forever. really young kids are so smart and have such a clear understanding
Z: Yeah. I mean, it’s a new world. and plan for how they want this world to change. Even my little
TC: In your speech, you said that there’s hope in the young people, nieces! They are so aware and, I mean, I can take credit for some
and it seemed hope was a big part of a message that you were of that, because I’ve been schooling them. But they also have their
trying to get across. In the past year, what has given you hope? own point of view. We have discussions about [the world]. They
And what does hope mean to you? know what’s up, and they want to be part of that change.
Z: Well, my intention there was really just to be honest, because TC: Over the course of your career, you’ve given a lot of people
it feels like a very hopeless time, specifically in the US. I know hope and joy. I saw some montages on Instagram of all the work
a lot of my peers feel enraged and exhausted and tired of living you have done over the past decade, and it was really moving.
and growing up in a system that feels like it wasn’t built for us. Rue Bennett, the character you play on Euphoria, has connected
At this moment in time, it is hard to find joy and beauty in things, with so many people. And we’ve talked a lot about engagement,
and I really think that is important. Right now, we as Black people putting that voice forward. Speaking of which, you’ve been all
need to embrace joy and not let it be taken away from us. over trying to get people registered to vote.
TC: How do you embrace joy in your own life? Z: Yeah, yeah. Shit, I mean, all you can do is encourage people
Z: I experience moments of joy when I’m able to create art and and help share information.
be involved in projects that I connect to deeply, whether it be TC: Absolutely. So in Dune, our characters are up against horrible
Euphoria or Malcolm & Marie, the movie I shot during quarantine odds in a cruel science fiction world set in the distant future.
with [Euphoria creator] Sam Levinson. Another thing that gives What was shooting this film like for you?
me joy is seeing people’s responses to my work. With Euphoria, Z: Oh, man. I had a great fricking time. I felt like such a badass,
it’s been incredibly moving to see how people connected to just wearing that suit and walking around on these beautiful rock
what Sam has written. I’ve heard so many beautiful stories about formations. It felt cool and so exciting to be part of the magic.
addiction and recovery, and that brings me hope. TC: What was your favourite thing we did on break from shooting?
TC: What else brings you hope these days? Z: I guess it was the dance parties that I hosted in my room.
Z: I find hope in my peers, the people who are out there on the TC: There was a super legit f*cking wrap party at the end there.
streets doing the work – people I admire and I go to for advice and We were there with some of the cast, and then Javier [Bardem]
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When you have an idea, and you’re putting your own money
into it – I mean, I was literally using my own clothes on set and
doing my own hair and make-up – it’s hard not to get a little bit
insecure. Like, ‘Oh my gosh, am I really doing this?’ It was one
of the first times I just went for something, and I’m so grateful and
proud of it. Working with Sam, obviously, and Marcell [Rév,
Euphoria’s cinematographer] was really special, but then John
David Washington is just so brilliant and such a wonderful person.
I can’t wait for you guys to meet. I don’t know if you have already?
TC: I’ve crossed paths with him a couple of times. Man, that guy
is so talented. I’m so inspired by what he’s done in BlacKkKlansman
and Tenet. His acting, but also just his physicality in Tenet,
the way he moves across the space. And now, even the bits you
showed me with Malcolm & Marie. He’s really one of the great
actors of our time. So exciting that you guys
were able to do that. And your relationship
with Sam – man, it’s something special.
Z: Yeah, he’s cool. Like I said, I’m lucky
I’ve been able to work with cool people
“I’M LUCKY I’VE BEEN ABLE TO WORK such as yourself. I’m grateful that you’ve
WITH COOL PEOPLE. all ended up being really wonderful people
who became my friends.
I’M GRATEFUL THEY’VE ALL ENDED UP TC: The shooting for season two of
being really wonderful Euphoria may not start until early 2O21,
but I know that you guys shot a bridge
PEOPLE WHO BECAME MY FRIENDS” episode in that safe environment. But
that second season is happening, right?
And can you say anything about the second
season, or where Rue is heading without
giving too much away?
came in and we were all dancing. You have Polaroids of that Z: I can’t really say too much about the in-between episodes,
moment, right? That was a full-on dance party. OK, so we’re but I’m excited for people to see them. We’re doing a little
going to do a hard right, serious transition here. Tell me about Christmas special to check in with everybody on Euphoria, until
shooting Malcolm & Marie in quarantine with Sam Levinson. To we can get back to [the full production], which probably won’t
my understanding, before anybody was really shooting anything happen until after I get back from filming the next Spider-Man
in quarantine, you guys did it very safely. You obviously have an movie, which is pretty soon.
amazing creative relationship with him. TC: Well, it sounds like you’re staying busy, but what are you most
Z: Sam is like family to me. I talk to him almost every day and looking forward to when things get back to normal? What’s the
night. Sometimes we talk about Euphoria, and sometimes we just one thing you haven’t been able to do in the past six months that’s
talk about life or whatever. So we got this idea that we could do number one on your to-do list once it’s deemed safe?
a movie in quarantine safely with a small number of people. We Z: I don’t know – I think that things are going to stay different for
used some crew members from Euphoria who didn’t have a job quite a long time. We’re probably going to have a new normal to
because filming had stopped. I was fascinated with the idea of keep people safe and healthy, which I’m totally down for. I mean,
shooting a film with just two characters. [John David Washington I love travelling. I don’t feel super-safe travelling all over the place
and Zendaya play the titular roles.] It was like a play. It was quite yet, but I can’t wait to get back to it. I love being able to visit
challenging for all of us, because it was shot in just one space. We different places. I think that’s one of the beautiful parts of our job.
all had to quarantine together, and there were a million Covid-19 Any time I go on either a press tour or travel for work – which is
tests and nobody was able to leave the property that we were really the main reason why I travel – I try to find as many museums
staying on. But that was great, in some ways, because it allowed us and educational tours as I can. Some people think it’s boring, but
to workshop and really dig into the material while we were there. I absolutely love it. You get all this information, and you go home
TC: Yeah, I know when I was talking to you in that period, I could and you start telling people random things like, ‘Did you know that
hear how full of creative inspiration you were in that controlled this was built and…’ I just love having random facts. So, yeah, I miss
environment. I can imagine, from an acting perspective, that it was travelling, for sure. Luckily I’ve been able to work, so I’m grateful
fulfilling. There are a lot of big movies out there, but these kinds for that, being able to work safely. I do miss being able to actually
of very intimate acting opportunities can be harder to come by. go to the movies. But, you know what? All of that can wait.
Z: It was an actor’s dream. But it was also a little nerve-racking. Euphoria is available on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV
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Earring (worn throughout), model’s own
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JIMMY CHOO. White hat, £1,350, LOEWE. Palladium and crystal earrings,
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Ayaana (left) wears: skirt (worn as
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JW ANDERSON. Shoes, £853, and
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Beauty
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SOMETHING DRAMATIC HAS BEEN HAPPENING to our

bodies since 23 March. We feel creakier and rounder, our
skin gently puckered like the beach at low tide, while
our shoulders have become convex slaves to daily Zoom
calls. The deterioration has been rapid and shocking, but
the good news is, there is a remedy. Its name: fascia.
Fascia is essentially a membrane that covers every muscle,
bone, nerve, artery, vein and organ in the body. ‘Think of it like
a spider’s web that blankets every part of your insides,’ says
massage therapist and myofascial expert Antonia Curling.
In other words, fascia is a bit like cling film, holding your entire body
together. Which means that
when it comes under stress or
HAVE YOU GOT

damage, the knock-on effects
can be endless. Fixing it might
be the key to fixing the way
you move, improving the way
you feel and even changing
the way you look.
lockdown BODY?
‘Picture your muscles as LOCKDOWN HAS HAD DRAMATIC EFFECTS ON OUR BODIES, RENDERING
a bag of oranges; fascia is
US STIFFER AND SOFTER THAN EVER. SALVATION LIES JUST BENEATH
the net,’ says Niki Bird, one
of the only fully qualified THE SKIN’S SURFACE – IN A NETWORK OF TISSUE FIBRES KNOWN AS FASCIA
fascial stretch therapists in WORDS by JENNIFER GEORGE
the UK, based out of London’s
Workshop Gymnasium. ‘If the
net gets twisted, the oranges will be bruised and squashed. results are not dissimilar to a deep tissue massage: you’ll leave
Untwisting the bag means they can move better.’ Fascia damage a bit sore in places, but lighter, a bit looser. A stress-free Mr Soft.
can be caused by injury, overuse, underuse or simply dehydration. The focus doesn’t even have to be your body, because
This year’s lack of exercise – or, even worse, unsupervised connective tissue is everywhere, including your face. ‘When
exercise – has left us tight, sore and stiff. While stretching is good it comes to non-invasive aesthetics, it’s one of the most important
for recovery and physio is best for injury, neither works specifically structures,’ says Dr Galyna Selezneva, a cosmetic doctor
to relieve your fascia. The therapy Bird is trained in sits between the with a penchant for the ‘no knife facelift’, of which the fascia is an
two. Focusing on the connective tissue around joints, ligaments integral factor. In the case of Selezneva’s lifting and tightening
and muscles, she’ll push and pull limbs in various (sometimes treatments (Thermage, Ultherapy, Ultracel: all needle/knife-free,
relaxing, sometimes ouch-inducing) directions to ‘release’ it. and only mildly painful), you want to contract tissue, not relax
Results are instant – looser hips, bendier knees – and ongoing, it. ‘It sits on top of the muscle,’ she tells me. ‘If you tighten that, it
improving movement and posture over time. It’s great for builds a more robust and taught structure for the skin on top.’
treating a home-desk hunch or long-term injury, Lastly, a fascia fix can improve one of life’s
but not if you have personal space issues: least-treatable niggles: cellulite. ‘Cellulite’s grade
Bird practically climbs over you to do it. “STRETCHING MAY and appearance is often due to connective tissue
Myofascial massage is a slightly less intrusive BE GOOD and fibrous membranes creating a pull on the
way to fix your fascia. It’s a treatment that FOR RECOVERY, skin, resulting in that dimpled appearance,’ says
targets ‘restriction’ caused by trauma (physical, BUT IT DOESN’T Selezneva. ‘So treatments such as Emtone –
emotional or habitual) that puts pressure on WORK TO RELIEVE which targets skin laxity, lymphatic drainage,
connective tissue, limiting movement and causing YOUR FASCIA” fat chambers and, critically, the pull of fibrous
pain. It has similarities to a traditional massage, bands – can reduce the appearance of cellulite.’
but don’t expect to doze off… ‘We don’t use Of course massage and skin-smoothing
Photography: Herb Ritts/Trunk Archive.
oils, allowing tissue to be manipulated without any slipping over aren’t necessities in life, which is probably why it’s taken so
the skin,’ Curling says. And manipulation is the best word to long for us to take notice of our fascia: it could be seen as
describe it: pinching down the spine (‘direct’ work, to free another thing to unnecessarily worry about. Plus, treating it can
tightness), followed by kneading skin over hip bones to loosen be expensive: an hour with Bird or Curling is £12O, treatments
it, causing a short, sharp burning sensation. It’s not as deep with Dr Selezneva start from £8OO.
as getting knots out, but it feels just as thorough. There are nice But, with undeniable benefits to the treatments and a dose
parts, too, the ‘indirect’ bits – of gentle stretching and Curling of realignment and relaxation more important than ever,
rocking your body like a child on a swing to realign things. The perhaps giving your fascia a little love won’t hurt. Much…
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the matchmaking we all struggled with in the Nineties much easier. fingers comes down to preference; a good foundation works
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getting a good foundation is a piece of cake – without the cakiness. a flat-topped kabuki for quick coverage, traditionalists may prefer
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Of course, this requires both an expert eye and a versatile
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ongoing development of skills is also key.’ As for which type of filler is most suitable,
Dr Critchley says that nose reshaping, eye a qualified healthcare professional will
rejuvenation and lip enhancements are the
“Rather than decide on your treatment plan and make a
three types of filler treatments most requested exaggerating the product choice based on your area of concern
by his clientele, but emphasises that a good features, the aim and your unique facial structure. So it’s
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the individual’ s treatments to achieve your chosen results.
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ACANADIAN COCOON
Dramatically perched on elegant stilts, Newfoundland’s Fogo Island Inn is filled with cosy
furnishings, handmade by the local community, whose traditional skills include quilting, knitting
and woodworking. Each morning, wake to find a tray with coffee, tea and pastries outside
your door and, for later on, there are three wood-fired hot tubs perched on the rooftop to relax
in while watching icebergs float through the wild Atlantic waters – quite literally cool.
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Intothe FROM A NIGHT SLEEPING ON A BED OF ICE, TO SWIMMING

IN A FROZEN RIVER, Meg Honigmann DISCOVERS
THE SUB-ZERO WILDNERNESS OF SWEDISH LAPLAND
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unknown E L L E . C O M / U K D e ce mb e r 2020
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t wo women ski across the surface of a frozen

river and come to a stop next to me. Only a
slight cracking sound indicates that Arctic
waters swirl beneath us, below 3Ocm of solid ice.
They’re trussed up in layer upon layer of heat-tech
thermals, fleeces, down jackets, hats, gloves, thick
socks and boots. But I’m about to plunge my almost-
naked body into the icy depths below. Right now, the
idea seems more ludicrous than luxurious, and
the walkway to the carved hole in the ice feels like
a gangplank leading inexorably towards my fate.
THE SETTING S w e d i s h L a p l a n d
If you’d asked me last year where in the world I’d like
to travel to next, I’d probably have suggested New
York or Paris – thriving metropolises humming with
people, bars, restaurants and shops.
I’ve always been city-orientated,
impractically dressed in all seasons THE STARTING POINT I c e H o t e l
and never without a cup of coffee in Our group drove from Kiruna airport to the Ice Hotel
my hand. But after the events of in nearby Jukkasjärvi. This was the first hotel of its kind
2O2O, standing in -11°C surrounded – it’s rebuilt from scratch every year, after melting Icy landscapes
by the wilderness of Swedish Lapland, to nothing over the summer. Artists from around ABOVE: SNOW-
COVERED TREES
just 2O minutes away from the Arctic the world are invited to design rooms and suites – LINE THE BANKS OF
Circle, seems strangely comforting. from the ethereal (a frozen library) to the bizarre THE TORNE RIVER
(ice clowns above your bed, anyone?). There’s

an ice chapel, with reindeer hides strewn over pews,
a chandelier in the grand entranceway with crystals
of actual frozen water, and an ice bar. After the
tour, we stopped by for cocktails and champagne –
each, of course, served in tumblers made of ice.
At the Veranda restaurant, a stone’s throw
Frozen dreams
LEFT: THE MAJESTY OF from the main hotel, we enjoyed a 12-course tasting
THE ARCTIC BATH menu cooked in front of us on a curved larch
HOTEL. BELOW: AT -5°C,
THE ICE HOTEL’S
table. The food included local Arctic char caught
ROOMS AREN’T FOR that afternoon in the Torne river, Arctic brambles
THE FAINTHEARTED and sharp-and-sweet cloudberry doughnuts.
They’re the most desirable berries in Sweden –
but they’re notoriously difficult to cultivate, so they’re
only eaten on very special occasions.
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There’s the option to stay in ice rooms, but they’re not for the faint-
hearted. At -5°C, you sleep on a bed of ice and, trust me, you
haven’t experienced silence until you’ve slept surrounded by
walls of snow. My tip: opt for a deluxe suite with private heated Works of art
bathroom so you can take refuge in the middle of the night… EACH ICE ROOM IS
REINCARNATED
EVERY YEAR WITH
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ARTIST’S DESIGN
Next up was TreeHotel, a winding four-hour drive through fairy-
tale vistas. We paused midway for large plates of unfussy local
food in the town of JokkMokk before arriving just after nightfall.
It’s hard to say what I loved most – the otherworldly rooms,
perched high in the frozen trees, or the atmosphere created by
owners Kent and Britta Lindvall. It’s rare for a luxury hotel to feel
as welcoming as staying with relatives. As we had supper, Kent
and Britta told us stories of former guests: Kate Moss taught
Britta how to pose for photos (lean to one side and smile with
your tongue behind your top teeth); when Richard Curtis came
to stay, he looked around before calling his friend Steven
(Spielberg); when Justin Bieber booked, he ended up escaping
in Kent’s truck to the nearby river to avoid a media flurry.
An eco-lover’s dream, Treehotel uses
compostable toilets and recycled water in
its showers. The design is so enmeshed
with the environment that animals can ”THEY SAY THAT
roam freely, hardly noticing the treehouses. SECONDS IN THE
On the last day, we set off on snow SHIVERING DEPTHS
scooters, racing past untouched forests. OF THE RIVER
Our destination: lunch on the frozen river. POOL HAS THE
SAME BENEFITS FOR In the treetops
Kent was cooking when we got there, SUSPENDED UP TO 6M
YOUR HEART OFF THE GROUND, TREE
plumes of smoke and a hearty meal AS RUNNING 7KM” ROOMS HAVE VIEWS
waiting. The best bit? The local delicacy of OF THE LULE RIVER
coffee cheese (almost like putting halloumi
in your coffee – so odd, but it works).
THE FINAL DESTINATION A r c t i c B a t h

As I approached our final destination on foot, nothing could’ve
prepared me for the Arctic Bath hotel. The log-covered main
building – that floats in the summer and sits on ice in the winter
– contains the restaurant, spa and river pool. Six of the 12 rooms
are cabins on stilts; six are intriguing wooden boxes on the lake
with walkways to reach them. The interiors are the height of
Scandinavian minimalism, with pale wood and artful lighting
that reflects the Swedish principle of lagom, or ‘just enough’. Swedish paradise
ROOMS AT ARCTIC
While there, activities included a thrilling husky ride through BATH ARE EITHER Photography, this page: Asaf Kliger, Viggo Lundberg, Daniel Holmgren.
the forest, snowshoeing and, on our first evening, a flavour tour CABINS ON STILTS
with Eva Gunnare, a wild-herb specialist. But the main draw is (LEFT) OR WOODEN
BOXES ON THE
Photography, previous page: Anders Blomqvist, Asaf Kliger.
Swedish ice bathing in the pool cut into the river ice. They say LAKE (BELOW)
that seconds in the shivering depths has the same benefits for
your heart as running 7km. You warm up in the sauna until you
can take no more, then plunge yourself into the black waters.
This was how I came to be standing barefoot on icy steps.
Hesitate, and the fear becomes unbearable, so I powered on
until I was submerged. My body reacted faster than my mind.
And my body believed I was going to die. Panicking, I ran up the
steps and back to the sauna – which now felt lukewarm. ‘That
was awful! That was terrifying!’ I yelled. ‘I want to do it again.’
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Elle FINAL WORD
My fashionable life
SIMONE ROCHA
THE IRISH FASHION DESIGNER, 34, RECOUNTS A LOVE AFFAIR WITH
PEARLS, SENSIBLE SHOES AND A PARTICULAR PAIR OF BOOTCUT LYCRA TROUSERS
BOTH OF MY GRANNIES INFLUENCED MY STYLE. said I was stalking her, which I wasn’t! I love the historical elements of
My headstrong Irish grandmother wore tailored trousers; my Chinese her style, and the authenticity of her look. Some people hop around
granny wore ladylike twinsets in floral prints. But both wore practical trends, and that’s absolutely fine, but authentic style like Lynn’s is rare.
shoes, which resonates with me – grounding femininity in practicality.
PEARLS ARE ICONIC, from girls wanting to look like their mums
I WAS A WAITRESS FOR THREE YEARS AT WAGAMAMA IN by wearing pearl earrings with rugby jerseys, to women I respect
DUBLIN. I loved it, and I bought a pair of black Lycra, semi-flared like Mary Robinson, Ireland’s first female president, who wears pearls
trousers with my first paycheck. I wore them so much, they turned grey. over a rollneck. I introduced pearls into my collections nearly 1O
years ago, and now they almost feel like a logo.
THE MOST AMAZING PIECE I OWN? A COMME DES
GARÇONS LEATHER JACKET by Rei Kawakubo, although it is I HAVE A HORRIFIC RELATIONSHIP WITH MY BEAUTIFUL
difficult to manoeuvre in if I’m being honest. I can’t hug people when RINGS, as I take them off for my work and lose them, but they always
I’m wearing it. I found it at a Dover Street Market sale and nearly died. find me again. It’s an ongoing saga. I was just reunited with three of As told to: Sara McAlpine. Photography: Philip Sinden/Camera Press.
I adored the collection when I was a student, so to find a piece that my favourites: one is a cameo ring from my partner, a vintage Cartier
I could buy, I was like: Oh my god, that’s a piece of fashion history. panther ring from my parents, and my grandmother’s sovereign ring.
Things will come and go; that’s true in life and in fashion.
THE COLLECTION I’M MOST ENAMOURED BY IS SSO8
BALENCIAGA, which features sculpted neoprene floral dresses. THE FIRST THING I EVER MADE WAS IN HOME ECONOMICS:
I think Nicolas Ghesquière was the most pioneering designer of that a red taffeta, three-tiered miniskirt with black lace trim. We had to
time – he used a technical fabric and translated it into luxury fashion make a skirt from a movie and everyone made a Grease circle skirt.
by the way he manipulated it. The way the fabric mirrored the body I was like, ‘No, I’m doing Moulin Rouge.’ My teacher was furious.
but created almost like a new body – and the fact that he did it with
flowery granny prints on top – I thought that mix was just amazing. I WEAR A HUGE AMOUNT OF WHITE COTTON, BUT I LIVE
IN BLACK DRESSES FROM MY COLLECTIONS. They’re so
FASHION WRITER AND EDITOR LYNN YAEGER IS THE light against the skin, and they’re sculptural, which I love – the cloqué
MOST STYLISH PERSON I’VE EVER MET. Now we’re close fabric almost dances on the body. I’d like to be buried in the last
friends, we have a joke between us: we met in a flea market and she dress of my AW2O collection – with an ivory veil and white socks.

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