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Topics being uncool People Who
Dont Have
Youve got one life. 45 Denim Period Sex love who you love,
Live it! How to: Every Day Alanna Lauren and see more
Quit your day job Your size and Greco wants to badass women 142 Where the
and move to Bali your style are stop the shame onscreen Women Were
(page 148) here, in our fall On the twentieth
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Australian
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This month, were forever.
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54 We Made page 162!)
Plus-Size Jeans!
Glamour editor
Lauren Chan
Fashion designed an 66 Dior and Me
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Our guide to 58 Twice? Nice! A sneak peek Hair & Makeup
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52 Shop the Look 64 The
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Color My Hair
Wellbeing
One blogger is
99 What Before-
tired of being
and-After
called brave for
Pictures Dont
going gray
Tell You
Those weight-
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loss images
Average Lipstick
never reveal the
Try out next-
whole story
generation
metallic
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and balms
Superfoods
from the continent Plus: daring
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that brought
Gym Makeup Alessia Cara
you avocado
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toast
has words for
anyone who
thinks its vain
Life 112 Want Your
Boss to Say Yes
90 Beauty
Adventures 105 A Girl, a Guy to Flextime?
in Japan & a Coma These pros can
What Glamours Emily V. Gordon help with that
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about skin care by Nanjianis love 114 This Is My Job bold bag
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twists and turns principal; she
may also be a
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Talk Everything 28 @Glamourmag

Else You
CARA: BRAIN HIGBEE. BAG: COURTESY OF BRAND. DELEVINGNE: PATRICK DEMARCHELIER
117 Life With ISIS 33 A Woman
& After ISIS Need Made This
Photojournalist Thanks to the
Erin Trieb met 24 From Me to You handiwork of
the women of Abigail Ybarra,
Mosul, Iraq, as 26 Friends of rock legends
they broke free Glamour found their sound

ON OUR COVERS Cara Delevingne was photographed in Paris by Patrick

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PRODn Paris . Cover 1: Prada top, skirt (BTW, those femme fatale prints were pulled from
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 From Me to You

Random Acts of
Courage
Editing this issue reminded me: Were all braver than we think.

Such a Gutsy Girl!

Yeah, thats
not me. Im at the
uick: Whats the bravest thing youve bottom of the
ever done? page in the floatie.
If you drew a blank, I get it. Most of
usyou amazing firefighters and heroic
soldiers excepteddont think of our-
selves as particularly courageous on a daily
basis. After all, heres a list of things Ive
never done and never will do:
Skydive
Bungee jump
Drive a race car (or, in fact, drive any car
over 80 miles per hour)
Quit my job and move to Fiji (although see
the women on page 148 who have)
You get the picture. Im not a classic taker of
risks, especially the physical sort. If you look
closely at the image on the bottom right, of me
swimming in the Amazon, youll see Im grip-
ping a pool floatie. (There were piranhas!)
On the other hand:
I single-handedly sold the house I grew up
in at age 19.
I hitchhiked through California one sum-
mer on a whim.
I wrote a letter to Gloria Steinem at age
23, telling her I thought she should hire
me to edit Ms. magazine. (She didnt take
the bait.) think they suck at politics. For that reason, its powerful to
I almost gave birth alone in a moving taxi in New York City remind ourselves that everyone fails, all the time, and life goes
but still had the presence of mind to tip the driver when he on. Duckworth herself lost her first race for Congress but then
screeched up to the emergency room to throw me out. ran again and won; you may now address her as Madam Senator.
JUMPING: EYEEM/GETTY IMAGES. LEIVE: COURTESY OF SUBJECT

I was born shy but can now talk to pretty much anyone about
pretty much anything.
In other words: We all get wherever we are in life through
little acts of bravery. And as I edited this issue, I was struck by
how very many ways there are to show our mettle, from per-
sonal ones (our cover star, Cara Delevingne, chose to be open
about her sexuality at 22) to the almost superhuman (witness
the dedication of conflict-zone photographer Erin Trieb and
the astonishing Iraqi women she profiles on page 117).
Much has been made of how women may avoid taking risks
because were more afraid of failure than men are. As war hero
and public servant Tammy Duckworth once observed to this
magazine, When men [running for office] lose a race, they
think the electorate made a mistake. When women lose, they
But its also powerful to remember that were probably guts-
ier already than we give ourselves credit for. Risks, after all,
come in all shapes and sizes. Make your own list of accomplish-
ments and then sit backin a pool floatie if necessaryand be
impressed by it.
Life is, as the Pinterest memes say, available for a limited
time only, subject to change without notice, and (this is the
good part) the sole responsibility of the recipient. That would
be you, and I think youre freaking fearless.
Cindi Leive, editor-in-chief
@cindi_leive

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Whats the
Biggest Risk Youve

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Ever Taken? Our August contributors are
Because I photograph
in regions of conflict,
I take big risks regularly.
Its scary, but the
idea of looking back
seriously gutsy. and thinking what could
have been is much
more frightening.
Erin Trieb, who
photographed Life With
ISIS & After ISIS, page 117

Going to a concert in Paris with

my best friend at age 16. We
had enough money for the flight
and tickets but not the hotel. It
was so fun! Ive been on crazy
Afrodita Dorado, left backpacking trips
and accepted
Competitive horse jumping; jobs in which I had
every time you get on the horse, zero experience,
its a risk, so when it works, its but honestly the
the most beautiful thing. answer is probably
Kenya Kinski-Jones, center having kids. Best
Moving to New York with decision of my life.
barely any money. But it was Melissa Maerz, who
right for my career! wrote the tribute to
Ebonee Davis, right; she and the Lilith Fair on page 142
other two models work the
seasons new denim on page 152

Starting my YouTube
channel. It really
wasnt the thing for a
professional makeup
artist to do at the time.
But I believed strongly
in the future of digital,
so I took a leap. I left college and
Lisa Eldridge, the decided to give my
makeup artist who modeling career my
created Cara all. Now Im getting
Delevingnes cover look educated in ways
college couldnt offer!
But I do hope to finish
school one day.
Paloma Elsesser, who
shows off her style in
Outfits for Days, page 60

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 @Glamourmag

The Power of
Bare Glamours June issue was
about owning your outer
and inner beauty. Cover star
Priyanka Chopra led the way.
OMG this photo
shoot will be
the death of me,
@syel_in wrote
on Instagram.

I love @priyankachopra! So proud of you for sharing your L OU DER FOR T HE

experience of overcoming insecurities & loving yourself FOL K S I N T HE BACK
@ms_slaysalot, via Twitter So much YES!
@sophiabush, via
@priyankachopra is on the cover of @glamourmagI wish Instagram
middle school me could see this. @pmantha08, via Twitter
Wow, Janet [Mock]. Beau-
Seeing @priyankachopra in @glamourmag front cover in tiful and gutting. @settle
small town of Illinois makes my heart proud. @humdono _us, precious, via Twitter
via Twitter
My daughter is 10 years old.
And Elsewhere in the Issue Shes taller and heavier than
In her editors note, Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive wrote her peers and already wor-
that our Bare Issue intentionally contained absolutely no instruc- ries about body image. Its
tions for getting a bikini body (Do you have a bikini? Do you heartbreaking. But when
Love that
have a body? Great! Youre done!). Instead, our stories featured she gets down on herself, Im bag and that

insight from women including Janet Mock, Ashley Graham, and
Patricia Lockwood on what it means to bare yourself physically
and emotionally.
BRAVA! Groundbreaking (crazy to have to say that at this day &
age, but its true)! @amandakraemer, via Instagram
WHERE HAS YOUR GLAMOUR BEEN?
Trekking 42 kilometers in
Peru all the way to Machu
Picchu! We hiked the Inca Trail
and camped for three nights
along the way, a lifetime dream
adventure for us both.
Rachael Foggo, far left,
and Robyn Blackburn,
both 42, New York City
Gone someplace special with
your Glamour? Send or tweet us a
photo! See details at right.
CHOPRA: SEBASTIAN KIM. PRING: FRIDA MARKLUND. FOGGO AND BLACKBURN: TSVETA MILANOVA
going to show her the June confidence.
issue, especially Nothing
but Bags [above]. That model has a tummy! And stretch marks!
Thank you for including photos of beautiful women who are not
skinny. Jen Nelson, Federal Heights, Colo.
Ive been so impressed with Glamour in the last few months.
Youre addressing issues beyond lipstick and hair color. Im in
my midthirties, and although I love lipstick, my friends and I are
searching for help with the issues were facing: how to negotiate
raises, manage people, be politically active. This is the kind of
magazine women need. Jeannine C., Seattle
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 A Woman Made This

A Quick
Lesson in
Rock
Herstory
Meet Abigail Ybarra, 81, the unsung
guitar guru integral in honing
Hendrixs and Claptons sounds.

In 1958, 23-year-old Abigail Ybarra got a job hand-winding

guitar pickups, the sensors that turn string vibrations
into electrical signals, for 90 cents an hour at the California
factory of legendary manufacturer Fender. When I started,
there werent many women working there, Ybarra, now
81, says. They needed my hands because they were
smaller and quicker. Though her peers found the work
of coiling ultrafragile magnetic wires to be tedious,
she enjoyed experimenting with wire tension and
shapes. Her pickups became so hypersensitive to
chord changes that Jimi Hendrix, Joan Jett, and
Eric Clapton all started to request her guitars
for live performances. (After training her
own replacementJosefina Campos, one
of many undercelebrated women who have
done this kind of technical work over
the decadesshe retired in 2013 at age 77.
GUITAR: COURTESY OF FENDER. YBARRA: FENDER/ABIGAIL YBARRA

Keith Richards owns the last guitar

Ybarra helped build.) When you look
at the artists from the sixties and
seventies who requested Ybarras
guitars, says NPR producer and rock
journalist Allyson McCabe, their
guitar tone is unmistakable. Shes
called the Queen of Tone because
she literally helped
change the tone
of rock music. Cue
Why His Guitar Gently Weeps the kickin solo.
Abigail Ybarra, right, helped build Faran Krentcil
this Fender Telecaster for
former Beatle George Harrison.

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Glamour
Everything were binge-talking about this month
Made These!
Converse
sneakers,
customized
by East Village
Shoe Repair
in Brooklyn

Wait,
n o p e , i t s n o t # T B T.
Me g a - pl a t f or m s a r e
having a renaissance.
And whether you prefer
just a little (Gigi Hadid is loyal to her
almost-two-inch Ash lace-ups) or a
whole lotta lift (Ciara gets down with

Platform
four-inch chunky-striped Guccis),
theres an easy way to make the look
your own. In search of my own perfect

Sneakers Are
pair, I went to Brooklyn to find Boris
Zuborev, the cobbler who became a
local legend after an on-the-rise Chlo
Sevigny modeled the trend in Sassy

Back?
in 1992. (Zuborevs East Village Shoe
Repair has collaborated with the likes
of Marc Jacobs, Rihanna, and
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Drake.) The Gucci platforms are hot
now, Zuborev says, but the first time I
made platform sneakers was for nineties
club kids. We used to take Converse and
get them hiiiigh. The shoes, I mean!
To get my own Converse low-tops hiiiigh Brave New Heights
(see previous page), he applied eight lay- A London showgoers
ers of rubber foam sole to the bottom of rainbow Guccis,
each sneakertwo half-inch pieces for left, and blogger
Chiara Ferragnis
each stripeand secured the whole stack
own design, above.
with Jet Set, an adhesive. Worry not:
Just because these babies were made in
Brooklyn doesnt mean you cant get the
look in Boise. Zuborev says any decent
shoe repairer can source stackable rubber
foam soles from their wholesale supplier
(and a call to The Shoe Guy repair shop

INSTARIMAGES.COM. ORA: SWAN GALLET/REX. MONAE: DAN MACMEDAN/GETTY. HILTON: JEFF VESPA/GETTY. TIARA: COURTESY OF CLAIRES. STEVE MADDEN PLATFORMS, $70, STEVEMADDEN.COM
in Boise confirmed this). With labor, the
DIY mission should cost you between $70

PLATFORMS, FROM LEFT: COURTESY OF STEVE MADDEN. VICTORIA ADAMSON/BLAUBLUT-EDITION.COM. PIXELFORMULA/SIPA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK. WILLIAMS: JULIEN REYNAUD/ABACA/
and $150 total. Not bad for one-of-a-kind
shoes that will up your fashion cred,
right? Faran Krentcil

Hail the Queens From

above left: Maisie Williams,
Rita Ora, and Janelle Mone
rule the look; far left, Hilton
in her Tink-Barbie stage.
Join the Party Icing tiara, left
($10, icing.com)

Platforms arent the only back-in-the-day
comeback. Tiaras are popping up every-
where from fashion runways to the
festival circuit. We asked Paris Hilton, OG
tiara enthusiast, to explain the lasting
Oh,
appeal. Take it away, Paris.
myself or with my sister and find these
really cool pieces. I didnt even have a styl-
ist; I just wore what I loved. I probably have
over 200. I keep them in these glass crystal
cases with the light coming in. When I was
in that Tink-Barbie stage, I wore them all
the time, but Ive evolved in the past few

and Tiaras Ive been wearing tiaras my whole life. I

think I was born with one on. I love being
years. The looks no longer about that little
tiara I used to wear. Its more like a crown

Too?! feminine and sparkly and confident, and

Yes, says Paris Hilton, who
never stopped wearing em.
when you wear a tiara, you feel even more
that way. You feel like a princess. I see so
many people wearing them now, but back
then, no one wore tiaras. Id go to [cult New
York City stores] Patricia Field and Hotel
Venus or other random little places by
or a headband that looks like a tiara. And
now its only for special occasions, like a
birthday, New Years, a wedding, a rave
maybe. Coachella. But I would definitely
say that you shouldnt wear a tiara to a
funeral. That would be very inappropriate.
as told to J.H.

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Everything Is
25 This Summer Im turning 25 soon, so naturally I assumed
2017 would be my year: the Year of Chris. But
while planning a parade in my own honor, I
uncovered something startling: You could
almost say pop culture in its entirety came from
the summer of 1992. There was A League of
Their Own, Penny Marshalls unexpected
blockbuster about girls playing baseball like
dudes. Mary J. Bliges debut, Whats the 411?, hit
stores, and her hip-hop verses layered over soul
tracks changed how we define mainstream
music. (Youre welcome, Drake.) Twenty-five
years ago we also got Cole Sprouse, the lispy kid
from Big Daddy turned Riverdale standout;
Super Mario Karts first solo female character,
Princess Peach; the Mall of friggin America;
oh, and our first intro to a would-be First Lady
named Hillary Rodham Clinton. Yup, the cul-
tural goodies from 92 are pretty legit. So cheers
to you, my birth-year brethren. Youre all
invited to my parade party. Christopher Rosa

Born in 92
All celebrating the Big 25: Who
knew Mary J. Bliges first album
and A League of Their Own
are the same age as (clockwise
from left) Cara Delevingne,
Demi Lovato, Frances Bean
Cobain, Karlie Kloss, Selena
Gomez, and Cole Sprouse?!

Haim Doesnt Want to Be

Cool
how we play them,
Alana, center left,
tells me. If anyone even
tried to change us, we would
be like, F-ck you, no. Este, far
After sisters Este, 31, Danielle, 28, and Alana left, who often fields criticism for
Haim, 25, released Right Now, the first track her bass face, is done internalizing the
from their long-awaited sophomore album, feedback. When I was conscious about the
Something to Tell You (out now), New York magazine way I looked, my playing suffered, she says.
asked a question: Is it corny to like Haim? (Said my Guys [make faces] all the time. And people are
best friend when she was sent the link, I always worry like, Oh, hes really feeling the music. But the second a
about this.) We rarely hear this about female soloists, but woman does, it just feels like, Shes not pretty-looking, so
when you get an all-female band together, their cool factor is I dont like it. Shes got a point: Family band Kings of Leon
suddenly questionable. (Never mind that Haim writes and makes music that is both endlessly listenable and undeniably
coproduces its own music and has a Grammy nod.) Thankfully, emotional, but we dont worry about whether liking Sex on Fire
Haim itself has zero interest in chasing cool. We make the music makes us corny. We just know how it makes us feel. Lets give Haim
that we make, write the music that we write, play our instruments the same courtesy, shall we? J.H.

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Thandie Newton:
goddess gown,
emerald eyes,
no-fuss nails
The 3 -Minute
Interview
It used to be hard to separate
Ansel Elgort from the sweetly
arrogant teens he played in hits
like The Fault in Our Stars and
Divergent. But as a mild-
mannered getaway guy in Kevin
Spacey and Jamie Foxxs goon
squad in Baby Driver, Elgort,
now 23, is embracing man-
hoodand the wisdom that
comes with it. Hell explain
GLAMOUR: So whats it like to
play a dude named Baby?
ANSEL ELGORT: Im excited for
everyone to call me Baby! But my
girlfriend, Violetta, isnt thrilled
about it. Shes like, Now I cant
call you that anymore.
GLAMOUR: You two met in high
school. Whats changed since?
AE: Recently shes been excited
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The hands of Sarah
Paulson, Leona
Lewis, and Megyn
Kelly go polish-free.
that her ballet company is doing
well. When she comes home
glowing with confidence, thats
attractive to me. As you grow up,
you realize all the little details of
what makes you like somebody.
GLAMOUR: Is it hard for you to
play the strong and silent type?
AE: No, because Ive been that
guy. Sometimes Im talkative, but
sometimeslike when Im in a
room with Jamie Foxx and Kevin
SpaceyI let them do the talking.
GLAMOUR: You can tell usdid
they ever give you a hard time?
AE: Obviously you get made fun
of for being the young person
sometimes, but guys always give
each other shit. Its our way of All Grown Up
not needing to talk behind each Elgort eyes
others backs. Jessica Kantor new horizons.
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Good Jeans
The author,
We Made Plus-Size Jeans!
wearing Glamours
superdenim in
3x1s New York
City factory.
3x1 jeans ($255,
sizes 1424, 3x1.us).
Eloquii blouse
($60, sizes 1424,
eloquii.com).
Eriness earrings
(eriness.com).

Armed
with your
wishesand
complaints
a t a recent dinner party, my
fianc caught me undoing
the top button of my jeans at
the table. Maybe not my fin-
est moment, but it was that or
turn down a second helping of
gnocchi. (Which was not going to happen.)
Truth is, that fashion adjustment is com-
mon for me; Ive never found a pair of jeans
made to fit my round-through-the-middle
shape. Instead Ive had to settle for ones that
fit my legs but cutsometimes painfully
into my belly.
I need an ankle length that doesnt
ride up because its too small through
the calf.
As for style, women told me they crave
the vintage-looking straight-leg cut pop-
ping up all over Instagram, not the skinny
jeans that have reigned supreme in the
plus-size market for years:
I want straight legs that arent skin-
tightand dont look like I spent half
an hour squeezing into them, please!
Its time for stiffer denim that doesnt
rip in the thighs. Ill pay any price.
Glamour editor
Lauren Chan After that I asked my friends who wear Where do I find looser, nonfrumpy,
above a size 12 whether they have similar boyfriend-esque jeans?
designed a new denim woesand received a resounding While many brands do make plus-
denim option yes. A few comments I heard: size denim, most dont fulfill the above
for women sizes I cant find jeans for my proportions; my requests because they focus only on
waist is a size 22, but my legs are an 18. ber-stretchy skinnies that feel, IMO,
14 and up. Can someone make a waistband that like leggings. I get it: Bigger bodies carry
Read and buy! smooths my stomach? Im over covering weight differently, and stretch fabric best
it up with long shirts. ac com modates those differences.
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 Fashion / Style Your Size
Denim Test
Chan in one of
the runner-up
prototypes.
But they often sacrifice quality. From a
garment-construction standpoint, stretch
denim doesnt have to fit perfectly because
the material is so forgiving, says Scott
Morrison, founder of luxury denim brand
3x1. According to Morrison, 100-percent-
cotton denims, found in most vintage
jeans, are much more rigid than todays
blends. That can create an on-trend look
but poses fit problems for curvier frames.
Still, this is 2017we have driverless cars,
for Gods sake!there must be a way to
improve options, and I wanted to make it.
So with my friends requests in mind,
Morrison and I set out to create a better
mousetrap. Why him? Through its
bespoke program at the store in New York
City, 3x1 is able to make personalized jeans
in any size. We open the door for anyone
to come in and play designer, he says. We
once made a pair with a 60-inch waist. I
went through that programs steps to cre-
ate a perfect pair for youwell, us.
We started with three prototypes.
Each was the cropped straight-leg every-
one told me they coveted, designed to fit
women who are widest through the waist
and made with 98 percent cotton and 2
percent spandex. (Id suggested we make
a jean with 100 percent cotton legs and a
stretch-denim waist but was quickly shot
down. You cant create a Franken-jean
made out of different fabrics, because
they each shrink at different rates, Mor-
rison explained. Wherever those two
pieces of fabric joined, there would be
some gathering.)
Each of the samples had different fit
solutions. The first had a fully elastic
waistband, but once I tried it on (above), I
saw that the gathering Morrison warned
against created an odd pouf. The second
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had elastic panels inserted where the take in the rest. You can also add a but-
pockets would be, like maternity pants; ton extender (from amazon.com) for
though they felt amazing, they slid down more room in the waist.
after a few laps around the store (and we Cut too-long hems with scissors, then
decided anything inspired by pregnancy pull out some of the weft yarns (the
silhouettes could be insulting). Third was white fringe) for effect.
the sample we crowned the winner. It had Keep your favorite pair from stretching
a contoured waistband that pulled in at out by washing and machine-drying
the high hip with an interior compression jeans every two wears, or spray the
panel over the lower abdomen, to smooth insides with starch, then iron for a
and ensure the jeans stay upright. stiffer look.
The best part: You can now buy our Im down with however you get your
superjeans at 3x1.us! And if youre not into hands on (butt in?) your perfect jeans. Just
them? My feelings wont be hurt. But I do be prepared for compliments!
insist you learn these denim tips:
Buy for your biggest part (generally Lauren Chan is Glamours fashion
your waist or hips) and have a tailor features editor. Follow her @lcchan.
The Jeans We Created for You
and the details youll love about them.
Hidden compression
panel for smoothing
Straight- Enlarged
cut hips belt loops,
for wide pockets, and
waists J-stitch for
aesthetically
pleasing
proportions
Channel seam
to protects
against rips
3x1 jeans
($255, sizes
1424, 3x1
.us, while
Stiffer supplies last)
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98-percent-
cotton fabric
that sits
away from
the leg
(unlike
spandex)
Shorter-than-average crop that both Raw hem
petite and tall shoppers can wear for style points
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HAIR: REBECCA PLYMATE AT ART DEPARTMENT; MAKEUP: JOSEPH CARRILLO AT K ATE RYAN INC. LOCATIONS: DIMES, NEW TOP JEWELRY, COMING SOON, THE BUTCHERS DAUGHTER, THE SILL
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muse, and face outfits. But they can be too Here, I combine overalls orange in the shoe.
of Nikes first simple on their own, with a mesh top and a nylon And the T-shirt and bustier
plus-size line, so I sometimes tie shirts
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wind breaker. I would
wear this at nightsince
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Citys summer earrings; theyre a really barbecue with friends. my boyfriend.
easy way to spruce up Augusta Sportswear jacket Tucker skirt ($295,
heat with seven a neutral outfit. ($23, augustasportswear.com) Tucker, NYC)
chill looks. Vince dress ($275, vince.com)

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I am really into red, white, and
blue together because its
such an ode to summer. This
high-waisted gingham
is classic, but mixing it with
a skin-baring halter gives
good balance.
Glamour x Lane Bryant pants
($70, lanebryant.com)
Friday
Camo is like a color to meits
all about balancing the feminine
with the masculine, like
with this sheer top. And I added
this mustard beret that I
got in Paris!
Carhartt WIP jacket
($148, carhartt-wip.com); ATM
Anthony Thomas Melillo tank
top ($98, atmcollection.com)
Saturday
Track pants under a
mesh dress are great for
a day of running errands
but I could take off the pants
and put on a black high-
waisted swim bottom for an
event at night.
Augusta Sportswear pants
($25, augustasportswear.com)
Sunday
Adding some pointy
heels and a ladylike bag
to this look means I can
take the casual outfit
into nightits really
authentic to my style.
Gap jeans
($90, gap.com)
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Fashion / News Flash

Star-Kissed Mules
Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia
Tordinis Attico is known
for its beautiful robes and
dresses, but at their fall pre-
sentation in Milan I made a
beeline for these velvet mules.
I want to wear them with
cropped flared jeans to work,
and a long, cozy sweaterdress
at night. Florence Kane, Our
fashion news director
Fall
Favorites
Fashions Love Letter to England
I fell in love with Sarah Burtons Alexander McQueen
day bag, inspired by the Wishing Tree in Cornwall,
England (google it!), the moment it went down the runway.
Then the recent tragedies in England made it seem
prescient; yes, its an investment piece, but it makes me
think of love and hope. Elissa Velluto, accessories director
Attico mules ($845, Alexander McQueen bag ($2,090, alexandermcqueen.com)
Saks Fifth Avenue, NYC)

Rebel Denim
Comedian Rebel
The New Wilson launches her
Strong Suit new fashion collection,
I found a new in sizes 14 to 24, this
appreciation for month. As a 14, I did
pantsuits as a the happy dance over
Hillary Clinton how well the pieces
supporter last year. actually fit me. My
And while I usually first purchase: this
stick with standard LOL-inducing jacket.
black, when I Lauren Chan,
saw Phillip Lims fashion features editor PHILLIP LIM: YANNIS VLAMOS/INDIGITAL.TV. ALL OTHERS: COURTESY OF BRAND.
new in-your-face
bubblegum-pink
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version, I knew Glamour

I wanted to make editors give
it mine. Theres
something to
you a sneak
be said for embrac- peek at the
ing whats long season to
been considered come.
masculine and
reclaiming it with
an unapologetically
feminine color.
Perrie Samotin,
deputy online editor
Rebel Wilson x Angels jacket
3.1 Phillip Lim blazer ($119, nordstrom.com)
($725) and pants ($550,
31philliplim.com)

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Fashion / The Accessory Edit
On Point! Edited by Elissa Velluto

Gucci ($980,
gucci.com)

Zara ($50,
zara.com)

The new
Mary Janes
are one
part classic,
one part
sexy.
In other
words:
perfect
party
material.

Prada (prada
.com for stores)

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Fashion / Insider

Picture Perfect
The setting in Upper Las
Virgenes Canyon Open Space
Preserve. Left: Iglehart with
Rashida Jones.

Dior
and Me

JONES AND IGLEHART: CINDI LEIVE. BALLOONS: JUSTICE APPLE. APPLE: ANTOINE SPIGNARDO. PINTO, CHIURI, AND BELLE: STEFANIE
Well, us, actually. Jillian Davison

KEENAN/CONTRIBUTOR/GETTY IMAGES. MODELS: K ALAIDJIAN/BFA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK. POLAROID FRAME: GETTY IMAGES

and Sasha Iglehart give you
a look at the wonderfully OTT
Christian Dior cruise show. Desert Roses Diors
Chiuri, center, with Freida
Pinto, left, and Camilla
Belle. Left: Photographer
our Instagram feed Justice Apple captured
may have been full the show for Glamour.
of snapshots from the
Christian Dior cruise
2018 show back in May
outside Los Angeles; it
was a social media dream,
after all (those hot air bal-
loons! Solange! Rihanna!
The clothes!). But what was
it like to witness the first cruise
collection presented by Diors
artistic director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, in
person? Two Glamour editors took that California Dreams
trip out West. Our team stayed in
JILLIAN DAVISON, fashion director: Every- Santa Monica, and
one kept talking about how we were in Dior gave us rides on
Calabasas, a.k.a. Kardashian country, but the Ferris wheel there.
Left: The collection
all signs of that kind of suburbia eventu-
was inspired by cave
ally dropped away. We were in the hills. paintings, Georgia
SASHA IG LE HART, deputy fashion direc- OKeeffe, and tarot
tor: Yes, that was for sure. Wed been card artists.

66 glamour.com
Fashion / Insider

Best Western More than 800 guests

turned out to see the show. Right: A
models pretty prairie braid.

Night Light Solange,

below, had a message
for fashion about be ing
T he loc ati on wa s
inclusive: F-cking alm ost like an ex plo
hil ls, says Davis on rers ca mp in the
keep at it. We see it, we of the lan ds ca pe
at the sh ow.
see the change.

MODELS ON RUNWAY, DETAIL, JEEPS: JUSTICE APPLE. DAVISON: SARAH HARRIS. KNOWLES: CHRIS DELMAS/STRINGER/GETTY IMAGES. RIHANNA: STEFANIE KEENAN/
warnedno stilettos, and dress warmly.

CONTRIBUTOR/GETTY IMAGES. DIOR SAUVAGE: K ALAIDJIAN/BFA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK. INVITATIONS: COURTESY OF DIOR. POLAROID FRAME: GETTY IMAGES
And the clothes echoed the setting; the
show was timed to sunset to really ref lect
the environment.
J I LLIAN: Maria Grazia Chiuris collection
was so in spired. She repeated her full-
skirted look from previous seasons, but the
embellishments really caught my eye. The
feathered dresses were standoutsand the
fringed pieces! They moved so beautifully
in that light.
SASHA: There were so many fun little details,
like the Jadior shoelaces on the sneakers
J ILLIAN: And the food trucks and mini hot
dogs, burgers, and cakes. And then Solange
performed after the show.
SASHA: It was dark by that time; she con-
gratulated Maria Graziaand thanked the
fashion industry for making strides to rep-
resent women of all different backgrounds.
That got major cheers.
J I LLI A N : In that white lace and with her
backup singers also in white, they were a
female force up there. Looking back on the
trip, I love how Maria Grazia took her typi-
cal Dior girl to another world. And I want to
shoot one of those feathered dresses!

All Terrain Guests were

transported to the show
in ATVs. Left: Rihanna
on-theme in her Georgia
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Fashion / The Accessory Edit Edited by Elissa Velluto

Think Small Our favorite new-season bag?

These boxy, too-tiny-for-your-phone
minis. Bring on the tech detox!

Furla bag ($178,

furla.com)

Eddie Borgo
wristlet ($390,
eddieborgo.com)

Valentino Garavani
minaudire ($895,
valentino.com for stores)

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 CANT COOK? NO PROBLEM.

e a t b a si c a l l y.com @bas ically A new b ra nd f ro m B o n A p p ti t L i ve Jul y 18

 Beauty
Edited by Ying Chu

Hey, Bright Eyes

Pair magenta with powder
blueworked for Bella Hadid on
the Oscar de la Renta runway.

Our Most-Loved
HADID: JASON LLOYD EVANS/ART PARTNER LICENSING

Hair & Makeup

Looks for Fall
Stolen straight from
backstage at the shows.
By Jennifer Mulrow

glamour.com 73
Beauty / Try the Trends
TEAL SWIPE

Two-Toned Eyes LOral Paris Infallible

Paints Eyeliner
in Intrepid Teal
($10, at drugstores)
Play with makeup, play with color, urges makeup artist Tom Pecheux at Oscar de la
Renta. Good goal! But to keep it wearable: Use a creamy gel or liquid liner (like one of
these) in two contrasting colors and apply each shade in distinct sections. No blending!

OSCAR DE LA RENTA
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
POP OF YELLOW
BYBLOS

BYBLOS
Make Up For
Ever Aqua XL Ink
Liner in Lustrous
Yellow ($24,
sephora.com)
BABY BLUE ACCENT
Marc Jacobs Beauty
Highliner Matte Gel Eye Crayon
in Deja Blue 57
($25, marcjacobsbeauty.com)

The just-went-for-a-swim look can be intimidating, but its actually

Slicked Hair easiest to do on dry hair: Spritz roots with a light styling spray and
comb hair back with fingers, creating an easy texture at the crown.

GIAMBATTISTA VALLI
SPORTMAX

SPORTMAX

WET STYLER
Color Wow Dream
Coat Sealant ($28,
colorwowhair.com) WARM SHIMMER
Too Faced Papa
Dont Peach ($30,
toofaced.com)
Peach makeup warms up any skin tone.

A New Neutral Go full monochrome and apply the color

IMAXTREE.COM. STILLS: JOSEPHINE SCHIELE

everywhereon eyes, lips, and cheeks.

BIBHU MOHAPATRA

TALBOT RUNHOF

DELPOZO
TRACY REESE

PEACHY GLOWIFIER
By Terry Sun Designer Palette in
74 glamour.com Savannah Love ($82, barneys.com)
Beauty / Try the Trends

Looks easy, righta simple ponytail? These get style points cause

Low Ponies they sit way down by the nape of your neck. For an extra-polished
look, use a drop of silky oil at the ends for shine.

ACNE STUDIOS
MULBERRY

MULBERRY
AIGNER
SHINE ENHANCER
Nexxus Oil Infinite Hair Oil
BERRY TINT ($20, nexxus.com)
Clarins Instant Light
Lip Comfort Oil
in Candy
($26, clarins.com)

Rosebud Lips
For a fresh stained lip, dab on a sheer raspberry shade or a saturated gloss
and use fingers to blend out. Per Grace Lee, makeup artist at Public School,
its meant to look as if youve been out all day and [havent] touched up.
ERIN FETHERSTON
PUBLIC SCHOOL

EMPORIO ARMANI

ANDREW GN
PORTS 1961

ANNA SUI, BLUMARINE: GETTY. ALL OTHERS: IMAXTREE.COM. STILLS: JOSEPHINE SCHIELE
CARNATION STAIN
Chanel Rouge
Coco Lip Colour
in Jackie
($37, chanel.com)

Blast hair with dry shampoo and use a boar-bristle

Brushed Volume brush to gently separate strands for a vibe thats

very forties, says Garren, hairstylist at Anna Sui.
BLUMARINE

ROOTS REFRESHER
Philosophy Amazing
Grace Dry Shampoo
($24, ulta.com)
CHRISTIAN DIOR

SONIA RYKIEL
ANNA SUI

VOLUME BOOSTER
Christophe Robin Detangling
76 glamour.com Hairbrush ($97, sephora.com)
 Beauty / Love Your Hair
Tip: Prep hair with
a curl cream to
control flyaways
on a classic
topknot,
right.

I love twisted
styles that still let
me honor my
natural curls.
Anastasia Walker,
@neoncomplex
Tip: Stack three
small buns for
a faux-hawk Tip:
effect, left. Twirl hair
into a low ponytail,
left, and tie
two strands into a
bow over the elastic.

Your Hair Lookbook

Twist it! Glamour staffers rock knots for any texture. By Jennifer Mulrow

MAKEUP: JENNY K ANAVAROS FOR SISLEY PARIS

Tip: Tie a loose
half-back knot,
right, and pin ends
under for a Im
seamless obsessed with
finish. the double-knot
pop-star look
[ below].
Kate Friedman,
@katealexa
Tip: Braid three
sections back
into a twisted bun,
left, and hold
with a hair
tie.

Tip:
Secure
three tightly
wound sections at
the nape of your
neck, bottom right,
with bobby pins.

Photographs by Lexie Moreland

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Beauty / Its My Thing

No, I wont color my hair

But blogger Ty Alexander is over being called brave for that decision.

t here hasnt been a day

since my twenties that
people dont question
me about my gray hair. The
one comment that bothers
me the most: Youre so brave!
I could never do that. This
is usually followed by And
youre so young! Im 40 now, but I was almost entirely gray at
25, and most people just cant wrap their head around someone
being young and gray. But, for the record, my color is 100 percent
pigment, does cool things
when you layer other colors
on top, creating a highlighted
effect. But the chemicals in
the dyes along with the heat
styling I was doing were
too damaging, and my hair
started falling out.
So at 25 I fully embraced my color. Ive seen a lot of women
who end up fighting the natural process because, in some way or
another, society tells them aging is bad. Think about it: So many
my own, not from a bottle, and Ive always been proud of it. products on the shelf encourage women to cover their grays
My love for gray started early because of my mom; she was (though a few silver-care lines, like the ones here, are thankfully
my idol. When I think back to my first memory of cropping up). And when Rihanna dyed her hair gray
her, she was in her thirties, and I can picture a few years back, it popularized the color but led
her shiny, glorious silver hair vividly. Peo- even more people to think that anyone young
ple would swarm herat the mall, in the and gray must be dyeing it. I found myself
supermarketand I would watch in constantly explaining my natural color,
SILVER MAINTENANCE:
ALEXANDER: GORGEOUSINGREY.COM. STILLS: JOSEPHINE SCHIELE

awe. Gray hair runs in our family; most
of my aunts and uncles and cous-
ins have it too. There was actually
a part of me that used to think, If I
dont turn gray, does that mean Im
adopted? Then, at 14, it happened:
my first silver hair. It was a bit
shocking at first, but also like a rite
of passage, a realization that I was
going to be as beautiful as my mom.
All that positive reinforcement
stayed with me. I never wanted to
cover up my gray, but I did experiment
with a lot of different hair colors in my
early twenties. The gray, which has no
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Silver Toning Conditioner ing an encouraging Today show
($18, ulta.com)
segment on gray hair, I started a
blogging project about my jour-
ney and called it Gorgeous in
Grey. Ive connected with so many
women, both young and old, whove
decided to start really owning their
color. When I think of themand,
of course, my momI dont see some
defiant act of bravery; I just see beau-
...AND A CLEANSER tiful hair. as told to Janell M. Hickman
Oribe Silverati
Shampoo
($46, oribe.com) Hickman is a freelance writer in Brooklyn.

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Beauty / Insight

Why Im for Gym Makeup

Elissa Velluto has a few words for anyone who thinks its vain.

m akeup at the
gym ispolar-
izing. Google
it, and youll find all sorts of
shouty, opinionated articles
on why women do it (makes
me feel good!), why they
to the classic brand. Know
that this is not your Insta-
gram, going-out makeup; the
vibe is natural and low-key.
So if youre suddenly inter-
ested in giving gym makeup
a go, here are my best tactics.
shouldnt do it (its a little You can do more or less from
shallow), and just exactly here, and I wont judge.
what it does to your skin
(breakouts and smeared 1. Only use breathable

STILLS: JOSEPHINE SCHIELE. MODEL: ASHLEY TURNER AT SUPREME MODELS. HAIR: THOMAS DUNKIN AT BRIDGE
ARTISTS; MAKEUP: STEVIE HUYNH AT BRYANT ARTISTS; MANICURE: GINA V AT ARTISTSBYTIMOTHYPRIANO.COM
mascara). Personally, Im a complexion products.
gym-makeup wearer through and through, always have been: While Ive always liked a little something to cover undereye
I studied ballet for 15 years, where warming up in blush and circles and curb redness, traditional long-wear foundations
liner is the norm. make me break out after exercise. Swap in fragrance-free
Thats why the stereotypes around women who wear makeup stuff that doesnt irritateIm into the CliniqueFit version at
while exercisingthat theyre not that serious about their left; its so lightweight it feels like Dri-Fit for your faceand
workout, that theyre looks-obsessed (as one New York Post apply only where needed.
columnist recently wrote)kind of piss me off. I actually push
myself harder when Im feeling good about what I catch in 2. Keep your workout flush going.
the mirror. But I do think differently about what Dabbing a little color on my cheeks and lips
makeup Ill wear while sweating, which is why gives me an instant boost. Just keep the
the new trend of specific non-pore-clogging for- shades in the same color family to make the
mulas meant to be worn before, during, rosiness look believable, not painted on.
and after exercising makes sense to MAKEUP FOR SWEATING
CliniqueFit Workout
me. (Its an outgrowth of the concept of Makeup SPF 40 ($30) and 3. Avoid raccoon eyes.
athleisure: clothing that works at the Post-Workout Neutralizing Its never a good look. Waterproof mascara
Face Powder ($29, both
gym, and then lunch, and maybe for some seems like an obvious fix, but certain
exclusively at Ulta)
shopping later.) Fitness-oriented makeup formulas can read too evening. Clinique-
products already out there include SportFX Fits Workout 24-Hour Mascara passes
Performance Powder and Bronzer Com- the test: It lengthens and darkens in a
pact Duo and Rae Cosmetics Climate tinted-lash wayplus its not going any-
Control Moisturizing Mineral Tint. where. I like it on nongym days too.
And beauty giant Clinique has just
launched CliniqueFit, the yoga- Go to glamour.com/lipstick to see Glamour
loving, cycling-enthusiast sister line editors put gym makeup to the test.

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 Beauty / Girls in the Beauty Dept.
Beauty Adventures in Japan

The Japanese Way

Skin care is an art in
Japan! My tools: facial
massagers and
Shiseidos new line.

I went east to try out the

over-the-top typical Japanese
skin care routineheres
t wo minutes, 17 seconds. Thats how long I spend on my skin
in the morning. This involves splashing my face with tepid
water, haphazardly blotting it with a towel, then applying
moisturizer and finally a BB-creamsunblock cocktail using
my fingers. At night things get a little more involved (eye makeup
remover, cleanser, a whirl with a Clarisonic brush now and then,
toner, face oil), but still my routine might take five minutes max, for a
total of seven minutes a day devoted to my skin. Pretty typical, right?
what I learned. By Ying Chu I should qualify that: pretty typical for an American. In Japan
COMPOSITION: JOSEPHINE SCHIELE; STYLIST: SARAH DAWN HAMLIN. CHU
AND K ANEKO: COURTESY OF YING CHU. ORIGAMI PAPER: GETTY IMAGES

some women spend three or four times this on their complexion,

using upwards of 16 products in a sitting. As a beauty director Ive
always been in awe of this level of commitment. So when I got the
chance to join Shiseido on a journey to the companys homeland to
experience Japans latest skin care advances firsthand, I was in.
My goal while I was there: to live a true Japanese routine. So
before packing my bags, I asked Shiseido to introduce me to Maki
Kaneko (@mtmmaki), 32, a Tokyo-based blogger who could swap
regimens with me and teach me her over-the-top ways. I liked
Kaneko because were both in our thirties, were both reporters, and
were both new(ish) moms to boys under two. Her routine, I thought,
My Skin Guru cant possibly be that outrageous.
Thats me on I thought wrong. The first night in my Tokyo hotel, Kane-
the left, with kos products arrive at my room: a human-being-sized shopping
Japanese bag spilling over with serums, tools, and masks, accompanied by
blogger Maki instructions for how and when to use them. I can hardly wait to play:
Kaneko. There are luxurious creams and oils, a microcurrent facial roller
with silver massage balls (pictured above right on tray)handy for
90 glamour.com deflating puffy eyes after a 13-hour flightand an enormous
Beauty / Girls in the Beauty Dept.
My Spa Pit Stop
Hanging out at the
onsen (Japanese
thermal bath) at the
Amanemu Spa

Kleenex-style box of citrus-avocado sheet masks (Kaneko does

at least one mask a day). I fill my tub and cycle through Kanekos
nine nighttime steps. All in, it takes me roughly 27 minutes. My
face does look surprisingly glowy, rosy even. But now its mid-
night. Departure is at 7:00 A.M., the products are all over my
bed; how am I supposed to fit everything into the single rolling My Day Essential
carry-on I have with me? I set my alarm for 5:45 to make time for Shiseido Future
Kanekos seven daytime steps, but in the morning I hit snooze Solution LX Total
twice, skip the sheet masks, and end up leaving them in my room Protective Emulsion
in a mad packing frenzy. Its official: Im already failing. SPF 20 ($260,
Many hours on the bullet train later, we reach the Amanemu shiseido.com)
Spa in Shima, where I get my formal lesson on Shiseidos inno-
vations. The new line is called Future Solution LX, and its built
around the healing benefits of a green herb called enmei, which
Shiseido lauds for its ability to smooth lines and zap brown spots
when blended with green tea and sakura leaf extract. In total
there are seven new products; five are part of Kanekos rou-
tine and hence mine (among them: a balancing softener, for a
postcleansing step that makes babylike skin achievable for
grown-ups, and a rich-not-greasy night cream). This turns out My Beauty Food
to be the most Zen leg of the trip. I hang out in thermal baths and In Japan, beauty
get a sublime facial that leaves my skin bouncy and bright. I feel starts with what you
happy and confident, and vow to give up makeup, a convenient eat, so I tried the
healing enmei herb in
excuse to ditch Kanekos makeup remover before we move on.
food and tea, right.
Next: Mount Koya, where we stay in a monastery (that sells
Asahi beer in vending machines; U.S. hotels, take note!) and I
learn that Id rather meditateor sleepthan spend an extra 30
minutes on my skin. I unload the toner and oil cleanser.
When I return to Tokyo five days later, I finally meet Kaneko
face-to-face. At this point Ive (regretfully) dropped four of her
products, but she, apparently, has gained one: My routine was
too bare-bones for her, so she sneaked in an extra night cream. My Happy Place

ORIGAMI PAPER: GETTY IMAGES. STILLS: JOSEPHINE SCHIELE. ALL OTHER IMAGES: COURTESY OF SUBJECT
She also has an enthusiasm for my Clarisonic and exfoliating A pair of handcrafted
toner (the tingle! I felt it working!), and I realize that, while Ill porcelain tools are used for
never be able to fit in her whole routine, a little more time spent the massage in the Yutaka
enjoying my own care would be beneficial to mind and skin. facial treatment (at select
Back home in New York, I use the very American practice Shiseido counters in
August)and its bliss!
of multitasking to pull this off: I start applying the balancing
softener while warming my sons milk, using a face roller while
binge-watching Billions, masking while writing this story. Im
up to 12 minutes a day, and I think Kaneko would be proud.
Skin Care Swap

My American A.M. P.M.

Routine:
1. Splash with water 3. Sunblock and 1. Eye makeup remover 3. Exfoliating toner
7 minutes 2. Moisturize BB cream 2. Foaming cream 4. Clarisonic treatment
a day cleanser 5. Face oil

Kanekos A.M. P.M.

Japanese 1. Foaming cleanser 5. Facial rolling 1. Eye makeup remover 6. Evening mask
Routine: 2. Toner massage 2. Oil cleanser 7. Facial rolling massage
3. Skin softener 6. Day cream 3. Foaming cleanser 8. Night cream
25 minutes 7. Sunblock
a day 4. Morning sheet 4. Toner 9. Eye and lip contour
mask 5. Skin softener cream

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Feb. Oct. March

2013 2016 2017

What Before-and-After
Pictures Dont Tell You
Side-by-side images of weight loss are addictive to scroll through.

b
But let the women in them tell you what you cant see.
As told to Bari Lieberman

efore-and-af ter photos Im not. Im fat. (The photo above on the

have become a f ull-on
social media phenomenon.
It was never left was taken around that time.) I couldnt
believe Id said that to her, and I didnt
But these kinds of images
can never really show you a
about having a want to go on feeling like I wasnt taking
care of myself. So I started making sure I
start point and an end point to anyones perfect body. was moving more each day, I cleaned up
weight or health journey. Theyre just Joanne Encarnacion, 33, my diet, and I lost the weight. I felt good,
part of a storyoften a lifelong one, with and I wanted to see what I could do next.
ENCARNACION: @GOFITJO

San Jose, California (above)

ups, downs, and U-turns. Glamour asked
three women with widely viewed before-
and-afters to share the real deal on their
personal odysseys and what they learned
that we all should know.
About four years ago I set out to lose the 20
pounds Id put on during my second preg-
nancy; my older daughter had told me I
looked beautiful, and Id responded, No,
I began working out harder, doing more
strength training, and eating even less.
I didnt take rest days. When I posted my
after photo (middle), people said I was an
inspiration, which should have been
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motivating for me. But I wasnt happy,
at least not in the way I wanted to be.
I had no balance in my life. Its heart-
breaking to look back and think that
I couldnt enjoy playing with my kids
because I was so concerned about the
love handles I thought I had. So last
year I changed my views. The most
important thing, I realized, isnt my
weightits staying true to who I am. I
have stretch marks. I have loose skin.
Im never going to be perfect. When I
shared this part of my story, it turned
out that my failure was even more
inspiring to people. Sure, on my lat-
est photo (previous page, right), some
people have said, So you got fat. But
thats OK. I bounce back because I
know Im the happiest Ive ever been.
I can cope with my anxiety, my mar-
riage is stronger, Im a better mother,
and I found a new career path as a
health coach. I spend more time with
my kids, and Im present for it. To the
negative commenters I say: Fitness
doesnt have to be one thing. My goals
arent to get more and more defined
or lose weight; I want to be fitter and
happier as a whole. Ive learned I cant
evaluate fitness using someone elses
definition of health. And you cant
evaluate someones health by look-
ing at a photo, either. No ones opinion
about my body matters besides mine.
I lost sight of whats important: Its
not how I look. Its how I feel.
People body-shamed me.Michelle Spindler, 32, Boise, Idaho
July March
2015 2017
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Jan . March
2017 2017
I didnt think Id
still be dealing with criticism.
Amanda Roberts, 24, Temecula, California
About a year after I had my daughter, in early 2014, I reached my heaviest weight of 330
pounds. I had back pain, and I wasnt able to be the mother I wanted to be, so under the
advice of my doctor, I received bariatric surgery. After about 18 months I lost 150 pounds.
I had all this excess skin, so much that I thought Id done something wrong, because no
one else was talking about this part of their weight loss. I later realized its entirely normal.
Because Id started with unrealistic expectations, I decided to document my journey first on
Tumblr and then Instagram (@mandas_muffintop), hoping that my photos, like the two
above left, would make other people feel less alone. It was painful: When I was plus-size, peo-
ple told me I was unhealthy and looked terrible; with these pictures some people made fun
of my loose skin (saying things like Your stomach looks like an old man). After I got surgery
to remove the excess skin (right), I thought that would be the end of the criticism, but now
people come at me asking how I could be body positive if Ive had skin-removal surgery. I did
it to improve my quality of life: I dont have to worry about moving my skin around to sit. Of
course Im body positive; how else could I put myself out there like this? Sometimes I think it
would be easier if I shut down my Instagram, but then I remember the positive feedback Ive
gotten. My followers tell me they feel more comfortable in their body because of me. I want
people to love themselves no matter what stagebefore, after, or in betweentheyre in.
Until two years ago, I was a smoker, I ecstaticuntil I read some of the com-
drank, and I didnt eat well. I was a crash ments. People said I looked better before,
dieter and would look in the mirror and put I looked sick now, and I must be unhealthy.
ROBERTS: MANDAS_MUFFINTOP. SPINDLER: @CHELLESPINDLER
myself down. I wasnt happy with where For two days I obsessed about reading the
I was emotionally, and Id heard work- posts. I was so confused and hurt. I knew
ing out could help with that. Then I found I had made healthy changes in my life. I
Kayla Itsines community online and was reminded myself that people didnt know
inspired by the supportive women there. that I used to eat poorly, drink, and smoke.
I signed up for her plan and went from I focused on the mental progress Ive made
years of not exercising to logging six work- too, something people cant tell by look-
outs a week. I was stronger and treating ing at a photo. One person implied I was
myself with more respect. I was proud of romanticizing anorexia but later reached
what I had accomplished, so I decided to out to me and apologized; she said she
post some before-and-after photos (far didnt realize I was a real person. I thanked
left, from my dieting days, and left, after her. That apology meant a lot to me. People
I started working out). The next day Kayla will always say judgmental things. Im not
featured my photos on her accounts. I was doing this for them, but for me.
Wellbeing / Eat, Drink, Repeat
Aussie Invasion
o
h, Australia. Youve given us
the Hemsworth brothers, Kylie
Minogue, Nicole Kidmanand
so many of the pretty food trends
on our Instagram feed, from acai bowls to
avocado toast. Its our lifestyle, explains
Australian health and fitness guru Emily
Skye. We live in such a beachy, active,
health-conscious country. As her 2 mil-
lion Instagram followers know, Skyes got
a knack for scouting whats nextso we
got her prediction on the ingredients well
soon see trending stateside. The answer?
Turmeric, sorghum, and pitaya. We asked
Chicago nutritionist and chef Sara Haas,
R.D.N., to work them into recipes:
Turmeric Lemon Latte
Turmeric may seem like an odd thing to
put in a hot drink, but I love the flavor,
says Skye. Plus, it has been used medici-
nally for a long time, says Haas; research
shows it can help reduce the risk of diabe-
tes, depression, IBS, even acne. Wellness
types love these lattes as a jitter-free alter-
native to coffee. Haas adds lemon peel to
brighten the earthy flavor of the spice.
cup plain unsweetened almond milk
cup light coconut milk
1 tbsp. peeled and grated fresh
turmeric, or to 1 tsp. ground
turmeric
tsp. (or to taste) turbinado sugar
or honey
1 two-inch slice lemon peel
In a small saucepan, whisk milks with tur-
meric and sugar. Add lemon peel, bring
to a boil, then reduce heat; simmer for 15
minutes. Strain and serve warm. Serves 1.
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Three about-to-be-huge
superfoods from the continent that
brought you avocado toast.
By Shaun Dreisbach
Tahini-Lemon
Sorghum Salad
Sorghum tastes better and has a nicer
consistency than quinoaits going to be
a super-sought-after grain, Skye predicts.
Plus, its gluten-free.
cup sorghum, rinsed
(find on Amazon or in the rice aisle)
1 cups water
1 tbsp. tahini
1 tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp. grated lemon zest
1 tbsp. plus 1 tsp. fresh lemon juice
1 clove garlic, minced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
cup diced tomatoes
cup diced cucumbers
2 tbsp. chopped red onion
2 tbsp. chopped fresh dill
2 tbsp. chopped fresh mint
Place sorghum and water in a medium
saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat;
simmer, covered, 50 to 60 minutes,
until tender and chewy. (You can make
it ahead, or make extra for future use by
doubling the sorghum and water; refrig-
erate up to four days.) Drain and cool.
Meanwhile, make dressing: In a medium
That mega-pink color
comes from pitaya.
Breakfast goals!
bowl, whisk tahini, olive oil, lemon zest
and juice, and garlic. Season to taste with
salt and pepper. Add sorghum, tomatoes,
cucumbers, onion, and herbs to the bowl;
toss to combine. Serves 2.
Tropical Pitaya Bowl
Australians adore pitaya for breakfast.
Pitaya, a.k.a. dragon fruit, is a step up
from acai, says Skye. It packs more vita-
min C and iron, and it can help good gut
bacteria flourish. You can find fresh pitaya
at most supermarkets or buy frozen packs
at Whole Foods.
3 oz. fresh or frozen pitaya
BOWL: NATTAYA WORRAKITPOONPOL OF @NATTYSPANTRY.
(also called dragon fruit)
ripe banana
cup frozen pineapple chunks
cup coconut water
Place the pitaya, banana, pineapple, and
coconut water in a blender, and puree
until smooth. (If using fresh fruit, you
may need to add a few ice cubes to get the
right smoothie consistency.) Pour into a
bowl, and add toppings: cup granola,
berries, sliced almonds, or hemp seeds
work great (see above: intricately cut
banana flowers optional!). Serves 1.
 A Girl, a Guy
& a Coma
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail
Nanjianis love story has
Hollywood-level twists and turns.
(Which is probably why it inspired
a movie, The Big Sick, out now.)
Here, their real life drama.

w hen Kumail and I met, I

had no idea that hed be
the love of my life. I had
no idea that we would go
through a ton of breakup-worthy dilem-
mas, including family expectations,
cultural differences, and health scares. I
had no idea that our meeting would even-
tually be dramatized in a movie. I just
thought he was cute and funny. Im going
to try and tell you about our relation-
ship, but Im guessing Kumail is going
to butt in too.
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We met 11 years ago at a stand-up

show in Chicago, where he was a come-
dian just starting out and I was working
as a therapist. Onstage, he asked a ques-
tion of the audience, and I woo-hood
Emily and Kumail Today
because no one else was responding Weve made a pact to
OK, yes, that question was Is anyone else live in the moment, says
here from Pakistan? and Im from North Gordon, 38, here with
Carolina, but still! I was helping! Nanjiani, 39.

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The real Emily,
near right, on the
set of The Big Sick
with Zoe Kazan,
center, who plays
her in the film
Kumail butting in here: You werent helping. You were distract-
ing for a couple of reasons. ;)
We met that night, and within a couple of weeks we were dating.
I asked you out, you said no, then you texted me for a platonic
dinner. After, we kissed on the sidewalk outside a falafel
restaurant.
To be fair, I initially said no because I was trying not to date any-
one, but something about Kumail made me miss him even though
I barely knew him. He wasnt like other guys I datedI tended to
go for meek men whom I could steamroll because I thought that
was easier than being in a real relationship. Kumail didnt let me
run his life, and that intrigued me. But he wasnt perfect.
OBJECTION!
He was a commitment-phobe, but his phobia had a twist: His
was cultural. His parents were expecting him to participate in
an arranged marriage and were sending him photos of potential
brides the whole time we were dating.
I had been deflecting them for years, but by this point they were
ramping up their campaign and getting more insistent. I couldnt
imagine marrying someone they found for me, but I also couldnt
imagine defying my parents. I felt like there was truly no solution.
He was open, saying he couldnt fall in love with anyone, so he
set weird parameters to our relationship, like the two-day rule,
meaning we couldnt hang out for more than two days in a row. He
was also wary about going out of town with me or calling me his
girlfriend on social media.
We did beat Halo 2 together, though, so I dont think we were
missing anything major.
We had fun together and approached life similarly, even though
we were from opposite corners of the world. Once, at a restaurant,
someone said something ridiculous about where germs really
come from, and Kumail and I exchanged a look that encompassed
an entire conversation. Id never had that kind of connection with
anyone before.
I felt the same way. I was terrified and didnt know what was
going to happen, but I couldnt stop.
At the same time, even though it felt like he was falling for me,
there was a constant stream of objections playing in my brain.
Occasionally Id bring up this deadlock. Our relationship had no
chance at a future, but we really liked each otherso now what?
Arguing wouldnt help, so I tried discussing it with him. A lot.
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Kumail plays
himself: The movie
feels like another
step in our very
nonstandard
journey, says Emily.
I remember shushing you when my parents called. I felt bad.
Kumail would tell me that it was complicated, and I would
sigh, with a childish desire to be good enough to make him
stand up to his parents. I tried to be understanding of his fami-
lys wishes, even though the rebellious American girl in me would
occasionally suggest he tell his parents to stay out of his business.
Thats how I rebelled against my parents, but I was raised here in
the States, with a different set of values. Here youre supposed to
rebel against your parentsits part of growing up.
We dont have the narrative of rebellion against parents in
Pakistan. Thats not part of growing up. Generally, parents live
with the oldest son and his family their whole lives.
In retrospect, how egocentric was it for me to think that his
familys traditions had anything to do with me? He wasnt feed-
ing me a line; he had been grappling with his familys expectations
well before we met. We never came to any resolution because it
wasnt really our issue, but his own.
And then I almost died.
I had been sick with flulike symptoms for a while and getting
diagnoses and medications that didnt help. When I woke up one
day unable to catch my breath, I was rushed to a hospital in respi-
ratory distress. I called Kumail to tell him, and thats the last
thing I remember clearly. I became so ill I had to be put in a medi-
cally induced coma. Kumail had to be the one to call my parents,
whom he had met once as my friend Kumail, and tell them their
daughter was very sick.
Not a fun phone call.
I was hospitalized for about a month, eventually diagnosed with
a rare condition called adult-onset Stills disease, which causes the
organs to become severely inflamed. I had to have lung surgery.
I remember seeing you lie there and thinking, If she ever gets
out of this, I want to marry her. Then the words if she gets out of
this struck me. If. How could I think that?
Kumail spent every day with my parents, and when I was
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finally participating in the world again, my entire life changed.
I had almost died, and my body was a numb, weak mess that I
barely recognized. I had to spend weeks strengthening my mus-
cles enough to be able to walk or dress myself. It took a while to
emotionally catch up to the severity of what had happened too, but
I realized I never questioned whether or not Kumail would still
be there. I knew his heart, even if his mouth had been say-
Life / You, Me, We
ing typical commitment-phobe things. We had the toughest part is fleeting and we must live it to the fullest, or anything like that.
down, which was connecting with each other, and the cultural But looking back, clearly some part of me had processed that.
differences we could work out over time. Being sick teaches you Our wedding was at City Hall, followed by a formal Muslim cere-
patience, apparently. mony attended by our families a few weeks later. The ceremonies
One other result of Emilys being sick is I told my parents were intimate and romantic but also felt like a public declaration of
about us while she was in the hospital. I had to tell them. I was what we already knew: We were in it for the long haul.
just too tired not to. Disappointing them suddenly wasnt the WE GOT MARRIED!
scariest thing in the world. It was the second scariest. I had been As newlyweds we decided to make another big change. Kumail
avoiding their phone calls all week. I just couldnt deal with it. wanted to try stand-up full-time, and I had always wanted to live
Then, one night after a particularly rough daymight have in New York, so thats what we did.
been the day the doctor casually mentioned, She might have leu- We quit our jobs and moved to New York because I wanted to
kemia, before strolling out of the roommy mom called and I pursue comedy as a career. How ill-advised was that?!
told her everything. Her immediate reaction was to take care of We were dirt poor when we moved, with most of our meager
me. She said shed f ly out that day. I told her not to, of course. salaries going toward rent and health insurancewe couldnt
But my parents called multiple times every day until Emily was skimp on that!
out of the hospital, checking on the woman whom their son was We still played video games, just not Mortal Kombat because it
in love with. The whole thing was too intense for Emily. Rip-
has been a process, but I real- ping out someones lungs isnt
ized I didnt give them enough as appealing while your own
credit. Your parents are chang- lung surgery scar is healing.
ing and growing just like you. About five years after my ill-
Nobodys ever done. Anyway, ness, we started talking about
seeing how distraught I was turning our love story into a
over Emily made them under- movie. Wed trade scenes wed
stand how I felt about her and written and balk at how events
that they basically had to were portrayed. Slowly we
accept her. Which they did. My came to a deeper understand-
grandfather even wrote a poem ing of each others point of view.
rhyming Emily with family. It One night from the hospital
helped that Emily is so damn comes to mind (this isnt even in
likeable. the movie; its a bonus scene!):
My health scare scared us Kumail stayed overnight with
both. It sounds clichd, but its me, and he brought movies and
clichd for a reason: I realized was so excited. For him, it was
how scary it could be to have Im still falling for a happy, weird date night. For
her, says Kumail.
your life disappear and have the me, I was in pain and embar-
people you care about not know rassed about how difficult it
how important they are to you.
I had been this tough, cool girl, I remember thinking, was for me to take a bathroom
break. Essentially, the hospi-
but suddenly I was crying out tal time when Kumail and my
of gratitude, holding my par-
ents hands, telling friends how
If she ever gets out of this, family were the happiestme
being off the respirator and
much I loved them. And when
it came to Kumail, I didnt care
I want to marry her. awakewere when I was most
confused and terrified.
where our relationship was We understood we experi-
going anymore. I cared about where it was in this moment. Kumail enced a major shared event in our lives in very different ways. We
and I had endless conversations about his guilt for not real- realized wed never truly know what it felt like for the other person,
izing how sick I had gotten and my guilt for not letting him see but that realization in itself was big.
how sick I was. I was afraid I wasnt worth being around if I was Writing the script, we had more tough conversations. We
difficult. I promised to be honest about my health if he prom- argued some. We cried. We laughed more.
GORDON AND NANJIANI: COURTESY OF SUBJECTS

ised to not think it was only his job to keep me well. My condition
is managed with self-care and treatment, so it will never be as
bad as when I was hospitalized, but the possibility of relapse still
frightens us years later.
I still find myself looking at her too long when she coughs. What
signs did I miss? Could I miss them again? Im trying to not let
every cough mean something massive. But I do think and worry.
A few months after I got out of the hospital, Kumail and I
decided to get married. We tried to pretend that it wasnt related to
my being sick, but of course it was.
Yeah, I dont remember a specific moment when I thought, Life
And were back to playing Mortal Kombat! At some point,
months and months after this whole ordeal, we decided to give it
a shot again. And this time Emily didnt flinch. She won! But only
because I let her. Least I could do. Marriage is a compromise.
Now weve been married 10 years. These days were working
constantly. We still play video games and watch horror movies. Its
a high-pressure, sometimes stressful time, but weve seen worse,
and weve made a pact to live in the moment. So we are.
Emily V. Gordon is a writer and producer, and Kumail Nanjiani
is an actor on Silicon Valley. They cowrote The Big Sick, out now.

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Life / The Provocateur
o
Regarding People Who Dont
Have Period Sex
Alanna Lauren Greco is determined to stop the shame.
ne recent Sunday morning I was leaving
the apartment of a guy Id been casually
seeing. Putting on my shoes, I noticed a
brownish spot on his bed, no doubt the
result of our having sex the night before
while I was on my period.
Want me to wash your sheets? I offered.
Nah, he replied. Ill take care of it.
Honestly, thats probably the hottest thing a guys ever
said to me.
Period sex isnt exactly mainstream. I dont know
any TV show or movie where both parties are
into it (in I Love Dick its too much for even
a middle-aged man to handle), and Id
never discussed it with friends until I
told them about the sheet incident.
Many of them admitted they bang
while bleeding only in serious
relationships; most said they opt
out altogether because of the
mess, and one had been trau-
matized during a hookup after
a guy noticed her tampon and
made a comment about chunky
marinara. Another summed it
this way: Getting blood all over
is off-putting. I was stunned. How
much blood are we talking about? Is
it actually so much a towel wont pre-
vent mattress stains? How nice are your
sheets? Are they really more important than
having an orgasm? Youre not painting each other
with menstrual blood, anyway; usually itll only coat his
shaft. Throw down a towel, orif the flow is too heavy or
you arent about the cleanuphead to the shower instead.
Team, this isnt the dark ages, when women on their
periods were thought to be sullied and sent into isolation,
forbidden from even touching the same cutlery as men.
And while weve made it from those sad times to tampon
ads with ladies in white skirts triumphantly hitting ten-
nis balls, the stigma persists. We spend our menstruating
lives trying to hide our periods existence (see the ninjalike
tactics used to conceal tampons en route to the bath-
room). But if Im now supposed to be able to climb Mount
Everest while my uterine walls are shedding, why cant I
reverse-cowgirl (or at least missionary)?
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My theory: Most period-sex aversion relates to period
shame. Its one thing to nix it when you have terrible
crampstotally get it, see you in a week. But its another
to avoid sex because you think menstruating makes you
undesirable or is embarrassing. I suspect mess objections
are about women wanting to be a perfect, uncomplicated
partner. Period sex forces a hookup to see you as more than
a sexy sex person: You turn into a real person with real
bodily functions. But if a guy thinks those functions make
you too much trouble, maybe dont f-ck him? Imagine if
you got pregnant or an STIsomeone icked out by
periods probably cant help you through that.
Speaking of guys: I asked their feelings
on the subject too. Period-sex resistance
generally boiled down to Ew and
Periods are scary/not my problem.
(One told me, Two equally hot
girls, but a dude knows one is on
her period. Hell pick the other
nine out of 10 times.) Bros: Not
seeing vaginas as having any
purpose besides your pleasure is
dehumanizing and rude. Do you
think its OK to be grossed out by
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female body fluid while were sup-
posed to be A-OK with your, ahem,
body fluid on our chests, butts, and,
for the daring, faces? (Note: Jizz also
stains, and Ive never heard of a guy lay-
ing down a towel to spare the sheets.)
Ill concede if a guy is a germophobe or faints
at the sight of blood, he can get a period-sex pass.
(Obviously sex should be enjoyable for all involved.) But
Paint the
Town Red to the others: Get with the program. Also, dont you dare
Just kidding think of periods as an excuse to expect a blow job.
its not that And to period-sex-reluctant ladies: Some woke men
messy. are willing but assume we arent. I just figure shell say
no, one guy told me. So the first step to getting laid with
O.B.s in your bag: Approach with confidence. Second:
Disclose sometime before P in V.
So if you arent currently a period-sex haver, ask yourself
why. Internalized shame? Asshole partner? $1,000 sheets?
Make some changes. You deserve to have sex whenever
you damn well please.
Alanna Lauren Greco is an assistant editor at Glamour.
Life / Ask a Boss
Want Your Boss to Say
Yes to Flextime?
Let Anna Auerbach and Annie Dean, cofounders of the job board
Werk, help you get that win. By Wendy Naugle
When Annie Dean, 31,
returned to her job as a cor-
porate real estate attorney
after having a baby, she hit a
wall. I had billion-dollar
deals on my plate and a
10-month-old I never saw,
she says. My life had funda-
mentally changed, but my
ambition had not. You think
you can work through it, but
there is no way when the
structures arent set up for
you to succeed. After she
found a new job (and had
another baby), the question
of how to solve that problem
kept nagging at her. She con-
nected with Anna Auerbach,
34, a former McKinsey con-
sultant and also a new mom,
and together they launched
Werk, a job board that posts
opportunities across the
country that have flexibility
baked in, with the goal
of keeping more women in
the workforce. These
trailblazersfast talkers
who finish each others
sentencesshare advice on
how you can find a sane, suc-
cessful schedule. Their rules:
Flexibility isnt a
perkand shouldnt
involve a pay cut.
ANNIE DEAN: As we were
launching Werk, we realized
there is no standard defini-
tion of flexibility. We decided
it means any modifications to
a full-time role that increase
the compatibility between the
needs of an employer and an
employee. The time of day you
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Meet the Bosses
If all else fails, create your own flexibility hacks: Manage your
calendar ruthlessly, says Auerbach, left, with Dean.
are working, where your butt
is when youre doing the
workthose should be flexi-
ble. But if youre performing a
full-time role, just with those
modificationswhether its
unconventional hours or a
work-from-home dayyou
shouldnt be paid less.
ANNA AUERBACH: Historically,
flexibility has been associated
with a pay cut because it was
treated as a perk. You asked
for something special; its a
give-and-take. But thats a
misunderstanding of flexibil-
ity! Companies get more
research shows that workers
with flexible schedules are
more effective, more produc-
tive, less likely to quit. They
just work harder because
theyre happier.
Make it all about
the business.
ANNA: Self-reflection is step
one; it helps you figure out
how you work best.
ANNIE: Have a glass of wine
and write down: What does my
[typical] day look like? What
objectives do I have? What do
I need [to reach them]?
ANNA: And then position
any request for flexibility as a
business-first negotiation.
This is not just about you as a
person. A business exists to
create value for shareholders.
You have to put it in those
terms always.
ANNIE: Sell it to the company
in a way that shows how it will
increase their bottom line.
And dont have the conversa-
tion in a crisis moment. I hid
my second pregnancy until
I was seven months. Then one
day I was late to work after
getting off the subway twice
to throw up in a trash can.
I was like, I can no longer hide
this. I went into the partners
office, crying. But you want
to be forward-thinking and
say: My life is changing;
here is how it will impact my
business schedule. I have
anticipated meeting those
needs in x, y, and z ways.
Always communicate.
ANNA: Once you get a flexible
schedule, the burden is on you
to overcommunicate. [The
world] still operates in a struc-
ture that is about face time.
People think if they see you,
then youre doing work. Send
an end-of-day or end-of-week
summary of what you did.
ANNIE: Constantly provide
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feedback; itll prove how good
you are at your job and build a
culture where people can rely
on arrangements like this.
And, dont let anyone
flex-shame you!
ANNA: There will always be
naysayerswe call it flexibil-
ity shaming.
ANNIE: Sometimes you have
to sit somebody down and
be like, I want to let you know
why Im doing this. We need
to have these uncomfortable
conversations...
ANNA: ...and we need
companies to make these
policies open [so] theyre
less misunderstood.
Life / Working It

This
Is My Every day I
Get to school around
7:30 A.M. Im greeting

Job
Nadia Lopez, 40, is a
middle school principal
in a crime-ridden
neighborhood. She may
also be a superhero.
scholars, observing classes,
talking with parents, maybe
even teaching. I call our
students scholars because
I want them to know theyre
learning even when they
leave. I like to wear our
colorspurple, black, or
gray. If I expect the kids to
wear uniforms, I should too!
How things have
changed
With the money we received,
we bought more computers
and can pay for college
visits and fund our summer
program. What didnt
change? Poverty. Some kids

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own only the clothes we give
them, or the only meals they
eat are at school. But they
win trophies for athletics and
academics; they have clubs.
Im teaching them that they
can do anything.
Im a Brooklyn native who became a teacher over 14 years ago. Ive seen children from disenfran-
chised communities be treated like they dont have value. So in 2010 I opened my own middle The hardest part
school, Mott Hall Bridges Academy, with 24 students in one of New York Citys poorest neigh- about my job
borhoods, Brownsville, Brooklyn. My staff, my scholars, and I are faced with lack of funding and You become a parent, a
mentor, a psychiatrist, a
gang violenceduring dismissal its not uncommon to hear gunshots, and many of our kids have
home provider. People think
incarcerated family members. Two years ago I was feeling burned-out. Im a single mom, and I leaders are superhuman, but
wasnt spending enough time with my teenage daughter, Cenn. I prayed in my office and asked I need support too. I have
God to reveal my purpose, and that night I found out that my scholar Vidal Chastanet had been to be inspiring, even though
featured on the Facebook page Humans of New York, and that hed said I was his biggest influ- I get overwhelmed and
ence in life! The post went viral. My mother said to me, And you thought you werent making a exhausted. But I show up;
difference. After that, Vidal and I went on Ellen and Good Morning America and were invited to at the end of the day, no one
the White House; a fund-raiser for my scholars received $1.4 million. I felt like Brownsville was can say, Miss Lopez didnt
finally being given a voice. Its now two years later, and with more than 200 students, my job isnt come to school cause she
done. I want to keep inspiring my kids to pursue their dreams. didnt want to.
My best work
advice
At another job, I took on
a main role when both
principals went on maternity
leave. I didnt have a title,
but I became someone
people could trust. Be self-
motivated, be solution-
oriented, and be a team
playerthose are qualities
of a leader. Leadership
never requires a title; it
requires action. as told
Making Change Lopez, above, to Jessica Militare
meeting President Obama with
her student, and right, celebrating
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Talk Edited by Liz Brody

Life With ISIS

& After ISIS
For nearly three
years, women
in Mosul, Iraq,
were stifled
by terrorist rule.
Photojournalist
Erin Trieb met
them as they
broke free.

Miami, near right,

and Hojran
on their phone
10 days after
liberation. Top,
the girls with
Hojrans mother,
dressing the way
they were forced
to under ISIS. glamour.com 117
Talk / In the News
H
ardly any acronym strikes more horror in
American hearts than ISIS, the extremist
group that boasts of bombing teens at con-
certs, driving trucks into holiday crowds, and
beheading journalists. But in 2014, when most
of us were first learning of ISISs signature
savagery, women in Iraq were already well-
acquainted: The militants were at their door.
It was June of that year when ISIS captured
Mosul, a city of 2 million thats the second
largest in the country, in a move intended to
establish a caliphate or Islamic state. Vir-
tually overnight, according to reports, its
gunmen roamed the streets, and religious
police lurked in the alleyways. Women, who
had worked as doctors and dentists and freely
gone to school, were forbidden from studying
and allowed outside only if shrouded in black
clothevery speck of skin, including their
eyes, covered. A forgotten glove or veil was
suddenly punishable by beating with a stick.
Feeling the Sun
Hojran, in blue,
and Miami,
center, in pink,
rejoice with
family at being
able to bare
their faces.
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Many families lost their livelihoods and their
men to prison; phones and the Internet were
banned. Worse, these injustices were shad-
ows of a much darker violence. ISIS has been
a horror story, man, said one woman who
managed to flee the city. Wed see corpses
cut in two [on the street]. It was normal for
children to play with severed heads. Theyve
turned our neighborhoods into ghost towns.
Nearly three years later, the terror lock-
down has taken its toll on Mosuls civilians;
Iraqi forces rallied to liberate the city last
October, but the situation remains deadly. At
press time the massive liberation operation
was still inching along, with U.S. air support,
winning block by block even as ISIS soldiers
staked themselves out in peoples yards, using
the families as human shields. When photo-
journalist Erin Trieb, 35, arrived in Mosul for
Glamour in mid-March, neighborhoods were
erupting in gunfire, and bombs screamed
from the sky. Residents were terrified that
ISIS would come back and retaliate. But Trieb
wanted to know what it felt like for women to
taste their first moments of freedom. These
womens stories were so much more harrow-
Wearing Colors
ing than I expected, she says. They had hit
For the first time
rock bottom, were starving to death, trauma- in three years,
tized. And yet, defiantly, they survived. Here Miami and
she tells the stories of three women just begin- Hojran dont have
ning to enjoy their independence. to dress in black.

A Time to Celebrate Dancing and
playing music were crimes under ISIS.
After being liberated, we acted silly and
sang, says Hojran of her neighbors.
We thought wed
be burned alive.
On a block of crumbling houses in west Mosul
this spring, I met two cousins: Miami Fares,
18, and Hojran Adnan, 16. I saw the girls wav-
ing from across the street, motioning me over.
They invited me in for tea and began telling
me what life was like before ISIS. Miami had
been in school, and Hojran stayed at home
with her parents. Both girls loved to dance
and take selfies. When ISIS came three years
ago, we learned quickly there were no jobs, no
schools, no work, Miamis mother told me.
Hojran and Miami spent their days inside
going out could mean being confronted by
militants. They can cut your head off if you do
anything wrong, Hojran said. And this was
no exaggeration: I learned of many families
whose relatives were beheaded for break-
ing ISISs rules, like owning a cell phone. But
when the cousins did leave the house, they
would often lift the black veil that concealed
their eyes if they thought they were safe from
militants and the Hisbah, the ISIS religious
police. If I got scared, Miami said, Hojran
would tell me, ISIS wont do anything to you;
they can go to hell. The more we spoke, the
more I realized how courageous these girls
are. Its uncommon for teenage girls in Iraq to
speak their minds freely. Hojran and Miami
were fierce, as were their opinions.
In February the Iraqi army finally reached
their neighborhood. But liberation did not
come quickly: ISIS was positioned in their
front yard. During the fighting, the fam-
ily took cover in a basement for 10 days. We
thought theyd burn us alive, Hojran said.
When I met the girls, it had been only a week
since theyd come out; their neighbors were
throwing a party. As they played music, sang,
and danced for the first time in three years,
every act of freedom felt new. We let out three
years of anxiety! said Miami. Hojran said,
laughing, We cant even describe it.
While life without ISIS means a return
of certain liberties, the cousins know there
are still limits. Even now if I want to visit a
friend or walk down a street alone, my family
wont allow it, said Miami. But a boy can do
whatever he wants. Why is it like this in our
culture? We want to remove these restric-
tions. We want to live a normal life.
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 Talk / In the News
I had my baby as the planes
were striking.
Ghofran Ammar Diab, 19, had been walk-
ing all night when I met her. ISIS came
and destroyed our lives, she told me.
You should have seen the state we were
inthe hunger, the poverty. The worst of
her ordeal had started almost half a year
earlier: At five months pregnant, shed
traveled with her husband from her village
about 20 miles outside Mosul into the city
for a maternity checkup. While he waited
outside the clinic, fighting erupted. When
Ghofran came out, people were running
everywhere. Amid the chaos, she shouted
her husbands name but could not find
him. Ghofran went from street to street,
knocking on doors, asking for help. Finally
a woman named Sahar took her in.
I lived in Sahars house for four
months, thinking Id never see my family
again, Ghofran said. With ISIS forbid-
ding phones, she could not even call them.
Everyone at the house suffered from the
food shortages. My only meal each day
was tomato paste Id mix with water,
Ghofran said. Id just cry, thats how
hungry I was. Toward the end of her preg-
nancy, starving and desperate, she and
Sahars two young sons ventured out and
found a house occupied by ISIS militants.
Once it was empty, Ghofran smashed a
window and crawled inside. The only food
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she could find was a packet of powdered
drink mix. She grabbed it and ran, but first
she sought revenge: I just started smash-
ing their dishes, throwing things out the
window, even flipping over a table out of
spite, she said. It was difficult to imagine
this tiny girl raging against her persecu-
tors. The packet she stole contained 10
grams of orange-flavored sugar, which she
made last four days. When I asked if shed
been afraid, she said, Not one bit. I was
happy to destroy their belongings.
When Ghofrans contractions started,
Iraqi forces were bombarding ISIS posi-
tions nearby; warplanes f lew overhead.
Unable to get to a hospital, they hurried to
Sahars sisters house a mile away, where
a neighbor assisted with the birth, cut-
ting the umbilical cord with a
kitchen knife. I was in so much
pain I couldnt think, Ghofran
said. The baby weighed less than
three pounds. Ghofran named
her Naba, the great news.
Ghofran and Sahar had tried
to escape their ISIS-held neigh-
borhood before, but they had
run into snipers. The families
ahead of us were killed, she said,
so we turned back. Ten days
after Nabas birth, they tried
Coming Home
Ghofran, center, carrying
her newborn baby on the way
to reunite with her mother.
Fighting had separated the
family for four months.
again. This time, after walking hours in
the rain, they made it to safety. Ghofran
was so weak that Sahars daughter carried
the baby.
I met Ghofran as she was almost home;
she had not seen her mother for four
months. ISIS had imprisoned her father
and likely killed her husband. But her
mother was anxiously waiting. Ghofran
had kept herself and her baby alive amid
immense chaos and hardship. When I
asked how she had endured, she said her
reason was Naba.I wonder how she came
to life under such danger. It was a miracle.
She is our hope.
Erin Trieb (@erintrieb) photographs
womens issues in the Middle East. To
help women in Mosul, go to rescue.org.
Girl Power I want Naba to go to school so she
can choose whatever she wants to become,
says Ghofran; when Glamour checked on Naba
in June, she was thriving.
 Your Life, Your Terms
Turn the page to meet women
following their dreams, tuning out the
haters, and generally winning.
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 Damsel in Distress?
Please.
Valerians not saving
Laureline at any point,
says Delevingne of the
male and female
characters in Valerian and
the City of a Thousand
Planets. They save each
other, which is beautiful.
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Cara Delevingne wants you to be who you are, love who you love, and
watch more badass women doing their thing onscreen. She tells
her friend Adwoa Aboah all about the Delevingne Doctrine.

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Attitude Adjustment
Each of us has to look at
why we cannot feel good
about ourselves often enough
to celebrate ourselves,
says Delevingne. Its
a self-confidence thing.
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a dwoa Aboah and Cara Delevingne are at The Bowery
Hotel in New York City reminiscing about old times.
Though Aboah, 25, cant remember the first time she
met Delevingne, 24, she does know one moment long
ago when her friend made a lasting impression. You were walk-
ing around on the street in London in a cardboard box, Adwoa
remembers. The two, then teen models, had just finished a day
of castings when Delevingne found the box lying around, poked
eyeholes in it, and put it on over her head. The prank totally killed.
Delevingne, of course, grew up in London. Shes from a prom-
inent family: Her grandmother Jane was a lady-in-waiting to
Princess Margaret. Though Delevingne studied drama in high
school, she wound up following her older sister Poppys exam-
ple and began modeling at 16. In 2011 an 18-year-old Delevingne
landed her first major gigwalking Burberrys fall runwayand
by 2012 shed been named Model of the Year at the British Fashion
Awards. Over the next few years, she started trends (bushy brows),
landed magazine covers (Vogue), and consistently ranked as one
of the worlds top-paid models (in 2014, 2015, and 2016). But Dele-
vingne, in time, found her way back to her passion: acting. After
making her debut in the 2012 film Anna Karenina, she landed
a lead in Paper Towns in 2015 and joined a star-studded cast in
2016s Suicide Squad. This summer shes front and center in Luc
Bessons sci-fi film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
But back to the box incident: What has endeared Delevingne
to friends like Aboah, more than 40 million Instagram fans, and
big brands like Rimmel London is her idiosyncratic personal-
ity. Her motto is Embrace your weirdness. Shell stick out her
tongue or cross her eyes in photosand share them. Delevingne
also isnt afraid to get real: At 22 she talked about her attraction
to both men and women. She dated musician Annie Clark (stage
name St. Vincent) for a year and a half, a relationship that taught
her what love wasreal love. In a rap battle with James Corden
and Dave Franco, she joked, Ive hooked up with hotter girls than
both of you combined. And many women identify: I love Cara
Delevingne, one fan wrote on Twitter. Her openness about her
sexualityhelped me accept myself. Last year she took on another
stigmatized issue, depression, talking about her own diagnosis in
a series of interviews. Mental illness goes unseen, she said, but I
dont want it to be unheard.
Delevingnes feminism goes deeper than words: She knows
that many of her fans are teen girls, and she wants to break down
barriers for them. She chose Valerian in part because of how her
character, Laureline, a special operative tasked with saving the
universe from a dark force, is represented. She goes headfirst into
battle and saves her partner, Valerian, as much as he saves her.
Delevingne is also hosting a girl-power docuseries with global
sports brand Puma this summer, releasing a coming-of-age novel
about teenhood this fall, and working with the U.N. Foundations
Girl Up campaign, recently visiting Uganda to advocate for girls
education. Shattering barriers? Embracing authenticity? Say-
ing what she thinks? Thats the Delevingne Doctrine. She tells
Aboah all about it, starting with some in-the-vault memories.
ADWOA ABOAH: Whats the most fun weve ever had together?
CARA DELEVINGNE: When we went to see Kelis at Glastonbury. We
lost everyone
ADWOA: And we found ourselves in the dance field at Kelis.
CARA: Or driving to Burning Man, our first time. We had no idea
where we were going. The girl who drove was pregnant and blind.
ADWOA: She wasnt wearing her glasses, was she? What Ive real-
ized is a lot of our first times have been together.
CARA: The first time we had sexIm joking. Kidding!
ADWOA: Thats not real. [Laughs.] We havent had sex. What do
people get wrong about you and me?
CARA: Everything? Nothing. I dont know. I tend not to dwell on the
things people say. Ive learned how bad that is for your well-being.
ADWOA: [People call us] model best friends, but we were friends
before. What Ive always been grateful for in our friendship is that
we expect absolutely nothing from each other, just friendship.
CARA: You get paranoid that people are going to make friends with
you for a reason, that they want something from you. But never
have I ever thought anything other than that we love each other.
ADWOA: Yeah, exactly. [My question list says] you made the trans-
formation from modeling to acting a few years ago. How did it feel?
CARA: I hate this question. The word transformation is odd.
ADWOA: I bet you do. I always have people go, So youre acting
now? But actually I went to university for it. It feels like, You once
again think Im some dumb model that now wants to be an actress.
CAR A: Exactly, right. I always say, modeling is something I do,
whereas acting feels more like what I [am]. I have felt better than
I felt in years, and thats purely from doing what I love. Especially
because, while Ive been doing this film [the upcoming Life in a
Year], Ive been sober. Being completely clean and clearheaded has
been so helpful with getting into character.
ADWOA: Its been two years since Paper Towns. Youre in another
I tend not to dwell on
things people say. Ive
learned how bad that is
for your well-being.
leading role in Valerian. Do you feel more established?
CARA: Its not like, Oh, Im more established; its like, Im doing
a Luc Besson film. I grew up loving his films. Meeting him, I
thought, Ill be professional. Instead I was like, Im such a big fan!
ADWOA: Thats endearing. So many exciting things are going on in
your life, yet its all still exciting. You have to keep that flame!
CARA: Oh, yeah. But that also depends on how happy you are: Some
days you can do the coolest thing, and you couldnt care.
ADWOA: I have to work on sitting in each accomplishment
CARA: Instead of being like, on to the next!
ADWOA: At my poetry reading everyone said, Well done. It kind
of annoyed me. They were being nice, but I was like, Theyre lying.
CARA: Isnt that the weirdest thing when you get pissed off [at a
compliment]? Personally I take it as they are 100 percent lying. A
man said to me, Paper Towns is my favorite movie. I thought, I
do love that movie, but I know youre lying. He was a 35-year-old
man! I was confused: Does he just want to see if I believed him or
not? I just said, Its my favorite movie too.
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ADWOA: Its a massive inability to take compliments.
CARA: I think each of us has to look at the root of the issue as to
why we cannot feel good about ourselves often enough to cele-
brate ourselves. Its larger than whats happening in the moment of
receiving a compliment. Everyone has to figure out why they dont
agree with whats being said. Its a self-confidence thing.
ADWOA: Yeah! OK, lets talk about Valerian. You play Laureline.
What about the character attracted you to the project?
CARA: Shes a badass. She and Valerian are basically the only peo-
ple on Alpha, the city of a thousand planets, and we have the task
of keeping the planets safe. Valerian is all brawn, no brains. Laure-
line does the intelligent work. She makes sure he doesnt f-ck it up.
ADWOA: Did you have to train for this film?
CARA: We trained every day. Ive never been so strong. You want to
feel like you could actually kick a massive alien down! I meditated,
I practiced yoga, I ate well, I slept a lot. You cant embrace anything
wholeheartedly without a clear head.
ADWOA: Luc said you were perfect for the role, which makes sense
with how you described Laurelineyou are badass.
CARA: Hes lying.
People were like,
So youre gay.
Im like, No, Im not
gay . Im fluid.
ADWOA: Hes not. How do you think you won him over?
CARA: He told me, I need to know that, if I was to consider you,
you would give me everything, that we have complete trust. In the
audition process I realized how much Inot wasnt trusting him,
but was like, Is he judging me? Do I look really stupid?
ADWOA: Yeah. That embarrassment. It holds you back completely.
CAR A: It has to go. I had to get clearheadedand learn how to
trust. It starts with trusting yourself first, then you can begin to
trust other people. Luc made a safe environment. And I wouldnt
leave until I got it right. He liked the fact that I was just relentless.
ADWOA: What example do you hope Laureline sets for women?
CARA: Laureline did the job as [well] as Valerian. Hes not saving
her. They save each other, which is beautiful.
ADWOA: Rihanna is in the movie. What was it like with her on set?
CARA: Ive seen her work in the studio, in concert, in meetings. But
to see her act was incredible. There was a moment where Luc was
trying to make her cry, to be emotional. He was like, Imagine that
you get told that your song hasnt gone
to number one and your performance
is really bad. I knew she wasnt going
to give a shitthats not the way to get
into her emotion. And she literally said,
Aboah and Delevingne at
Glamours 2016 Women of
the Year Awards gala
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Youre kidding me? I couldnt care less. That was funny. Luc said
we were similar in that, once the trust was there, we became clay
he could mold.
ADWOA: That makes sense. Youve been working with the U.N.
Foundations Girl Up. What has been the most powerful experi-
ence for you thus far?
CARA: Going to Uganda. What those girls want is so simple, an
education. And with this Puma docuseries, I met a woman in
Toronto who does classes for women in self-defense. She asked
me, What is your strongest weapon? I said, The fists? The
head? The elbow? She said, No, your voice. I was like, Wow,
I feel so stupidthis is what Ive been trying to talk about! She
said, Run at me. I ran at her. She was like, Stop! with so much
intention I flew backward. She told me, You do it. I did, and I
felt so strong.
ADWOA: One of the girls I work with through [my girls initiative]
Gurls Talk emailed me the other day: Im thinking Im attracted
to women. You started talking about your sexual fluidity publicly
when you were only 22.
CARA: When you were only 22. Thats old to me.
ADWOA: Thats what I mean, this girl is 15.
CARA: I know 13- and 15-year-old girls who are like, I dont know
if I like a boy or a girl yet. I havent decided. And its like[imag-
ine] if I was able to comprehend [that at their age]. I am very
happy how sexuality has become easier and freer to talk about,
especially for kids.
ADWOA: What happened when you spoke out?
CARA: Once I spoke about my sexual fluidity, people were like, So
youre gay. And Im like, No, Im not gay.
ADWOA: During Fashion Week many young women [were] in
same-sex relationships. They would be like, Im surrounded by
the most beautiful women. Theyre not gay; theyre not straight.
But people would be like, Oh, shes a lesbian now.
CARA: A lot of the friends I have who are straight have such an old
way of thinking. Its So youre just gay, right? [They] dont under-
stand it. [If] Im like, Oh, I really like this guy, [theyre like], But
youre gay. Im like, No, youre so annoying!. Someone is in a
relationship with a girl one minute, or a boy is in a relationship
with a boy, I dont want them to be pigeonholed. Imagine if I got
married to a man. Would people be like
ADWOA: She lied.
CARA: She lied to us! Its like, no.
ADWOA: You just shaved your head. Did you do it for Life in a Year?
CARA: Yes. No, I did it because Im gay. [Laughs.] I didnt. Im not
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gay. I am. Im not. Im fluid! I like fluid.
ADWOA: Im whatever I want to be. When I shaved my hair, I did it
on a whim. How did it feel to shave yours?
CARA: Totally liberating. But it does feel like people read my mind
more. I feel like people see my thoughts.
ADWOA: You have nothing to hide behind.
So whats next? Where do you hope to be
in five years? Well still be friends.
CARA: Whats next? Just living life. Who
knows? For the first time, Im happy with
not knowing.
Adwoa Aboah is a model and the founder
of the girls initiative Gurls Talk. Follow
her on Instagram @adwoaaboah.
Caras Future
Whats next? Just living life.
Who knows? says Delevingne.
For the first time, Im happy
with not knowing.
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Meet Gorpcore
Yes, thats actually the
name of this trend. The term
is a hybrid of normcore and
gorp, which is the name of the
much-loved trail mix, and
its all about rocking clothes
that work for the outdoors
into your everyday stylelike
these bold pants, which
you can wear for climbing or
just to brighten your mood.
Unravel bodysuit, $251, pants.
New Balance jacket (worn around
waist), $85. Artdenouer bracelets,
$68$252 each. L.L.Bean socks,
$20. Stuart Weitzman boots, $535.

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Mountain wear is a thing in fashion
right now! Heres how to do it (even
if youre not heading for the hills).

Outward Bound
More is more with this look.
Were talking sporty vest
over zip-up windbreaker over
flannelpaired perfectly
with shorts.
Tory Sport vest, $178. DSquared2
jacket, shirt, key chain. Arcteryx
beanie, $35. Larose cap, $155.
Madewell scarf, $13. Patagonia hip
pack, $29. Topo Designs belt, $39.
Aigle boots, $279.

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Sock It to Me
Now, lets talk about
shoes. Boots? Yes.
Birkenstocks? Definitely.
Sparkly kicks? They
work too, over socks.
Topshop Boutique sweater,
$360. The North Face
windbreaker, $80. Unravel
jacket (on ground). Coach
1941 sandals, $225.

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Embrace the Elements
Fashion prediction: This
fall everyone will be
piling on the layers and
textures. Mix knits with
shearling or even a sleek
and sporty windbreaker.
DSquared2 vest, green belt,
key chain. M Missoni sweater,
$695. Forever 21 windbreaker,
$35. American Eagle
Outfitters shirt, $40. Madewell
scarf, $13. Orly Genger by
Jaclyn Mayer orange rope belt.
Hestra gloves, $180. To keep
lips smooth and hydrated,
try Aquaphor Lip Protectant +
Sunscreen ($4, Walmart).

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 Laid-back Luxe
How to make a full-on
mountain-mama outfit
appropriate for a city slicker?
Let a little lace peek out.
Isabel Marant sweater.
Cotopaxi windbreaker, $80.
Y/Project jacket. Sacai skirt,
$960. Coach 1941 boots, $450.

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Fleece Is the Word
Your favorite pullover? Find
it in the back of your closet
and wear it again and
again. Prime gorpcore!
No. 21 jacket, $608. Arcteryx
windbreaker, $399. DSquared2
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 Fresh Start
This is exactly how model
Janice Alida (@janicealida)
arrived on set. Ever since
I first cut my hair short in
2012, she says, Ive
thought about going back!
Palmer//Harding shirt.

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 How short should she go? Superstar hair guy Garren gives her
(and you!) four power-cut options. By Ying Chu
This is a story about haircuts. Normally in the magazine world, Glamour and Vogue covers for over four decades. Hes also given
models rarely want to lop off 15 or so inches of hair for the sake of a designers and celebs (remember that boyish-but-feminine pixie on
few photos (spoiler alert: Wigs or extensions are involved in most of Victoria Beckham?) their most memorable crops and is one of the
the stories youve seen). But when Janice Alida, 28, heard who was guys behind cult-y, cool product line R+Co.
doing the cutting for this story, she leaped at the chance to sit in his If youre even considering going shorter, start with the inspo on
chair: With Garren, Im like, Do whatever you wanthave fun! these pages and go for it. Alida didsee her final look on page 141.
And who can blame her? Garrens been styling supermodels And dont overthink it, Garren advises; a cut can always grow and
like Christie Brinkley, Linda Evangelista, and Karlie Kloss for morph into something else beautiful. Its hair!

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 Rock, Refined
How to modernize a
rumpled shag? Pair with
taupe eyeshadow and
a black mascara like
Neutrogena Healthy
Lengths ($8.50,
at drugstores).
Calvin Klein 205W39NYC
dress, sleeves.

Look 1: The Long Shag

This is my homage to Patti Smith and the legendary hairstylist coarse with a soft wave, other hair types can do this look too. For
John Sahag, says Garren, who used a razor (no scissors!) to shape medium to thick hair, use a styling cream like R+Co Jackpot ($25,
Alidas look here. Tell your stylist its a top-heavy shape with an randco.com) when damp, then mess things up with fingers. For
intentionally stringy bottom, he says. And while Alidas hair is fine hair, add weight with a texturizing shampoo first.

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 Wave Runner
Play off the swoop of your
hair with graphic liner. Try
Chanel Stylo Yeux
Waterproof Long-Lasting
Eyeliner in Fervent Blue
($33, chanel.com)
Jil Sander Navy coat.

Look 2: The Angled Bob

Garrens muse for this look? Bianca Jagger. To nail the shape, anchor it with a clip on the opposite side, and air-dry. (You can clip
ask your stylist to go shorter on the sides and longer in the back and smooth out bangs this way too; a diffuser can speed the pro-
so it creates a sexiness around the face, he explains. Styling this cess.) Just skip this look if your hairs fine and thin, he warns: Itll
soft wave is easy: Apply mousse to damp hair, part it on one side, hang like curtains without any movement.

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 Face-Framer
This cut brings all the
attention to your eyes. To
light them up, try LOral
Paris Lumi Liquid Glow
Illuminator in Ice ($13, at
drugstores) in a C-shape
on brow- and cheekbones.
Gucci tank top, blouse.
Mateo New York earrings.

Look 3: The Graphic Bob (with Bangs)

Most women dont think they can do short bangs; not true, says texture), cutting blunt sides and bangs with a razor, then shaping
Garren. Just do something graphically interesting. For his take, the ends with scissors. For fine hair, stick with scissors (to avoid
Garren channeled early film star Louise Brooks (for the angled split ends) and use a lot of product: Garren likes R+Co Badlands
shape and bangs) and, believe it or not, Raggedy Ann (for the Dry Shampoo Paste ($28, randco.com) to make the hair swell.

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 Pretty Short
Pair a boyish cut with a
rosy finish on eyes and
cheeks. Try Chanel Ombre
Premire Longwear Cream
Eyeshadow in Silver Pink
($36, chanel.com).
Balenciaga coat. Repossi
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Erin Handa at MAM-NYC; hair
color: Andr Viveiros at Serge
Normant; production: D+V
Management.

Look 4: The Cool Pixie

A big selling point with this cut: It takes 30 seconds to style. All it texturize fine hair; if you have a lot of cowlicks or pin-straight hair,
needs is a bit of shine serum added with your fingers (to keep puff- go longer with bangs to avoid a spiky effect. Also, no need to cut too
iness at bay) and youre set. But know that this pixie is most ideal often. Send a photo to your stylist before going in, adds Garren:
for medium-thick hair with a slight wave or curls. Use products to Ill tell my clients when they actually need to trim it!

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 Where the
Wom
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 Crowd Pleaser
Paula Cole playing to a
sold-out audience in
George, Washington,
in 1997

men Were

Before there was Gaga or Taylor, before

pussy hats or Beyoncs girls in formation,
there was an epic all-female music festival
created by women fed up with sexism. As we
mark Lilith Fairs twentieth anniversary this
summer, Melissa Maerz explores the secret
history of this very 90s movement.
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 Theres Something
About Sarah
Lilith Fair cofounder Sarah
McLachlan at her music

i
studio in West Vancouver
in April 2017. Below, from
left: Tracy Chapman,
Suzanne Vega (both
backstage), and Paula Cole
in the back of a limo in 1997
in George, Washington.

magine many of the countrys most influential women BONNIE RAITT (singer): Promoters
all gathered together to stand up for gender equality on felt in pop and rock you couldnt
a national stage. There are stars performing before a put women on the same bill.
massive crowd, Planned Parenthood booths (along TERRY McBRIDE (CEO of Nettwerk
with protesters), and reporters from news outlets analyzing what Music Group, McLachlans long-
this event says about the state of womens rights. Sounds like a scene time manager, and a cofounder
from the Womens March on Washingtonbut it actually occurred of Lilith Fair): Sarah had writers
20 years ago this summer with the debut of Lilith Fair, a music fes- block, so I was trying to get her to
tival designed to give women the same lucrative touring gigs as do a couple of weeks of summer
men. Cofounded by singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, this mul- shows and enjoy herself. She put
ticity tour broke new ground, from the all-female talent lineup that a challenge to us. OK, Ill do it if
promoters said would never work, to the controversies it ignited in you can put together a show thats

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the media about race and feminism. Here McLachlan and some of all female artists.

her fellow Lilith performers talk candidly about a cultural move-
ment lauded by fans for its feminist ideals and lambasted by critics
for its lack of diversity. And a new generation of performers reflect
on the legacy of Lilith Fair and why their own fight for equality in
the music industry continues.
Im thinking of having a
kind of girly show next year.
The 1990s were a strange time for women musicians. On the one
hand, the singer-songwriter movement was ushering in young
female stars like Tori Amos, Tracy Chapman, and McLachlan.
But women still had to fight harder than the guys for radio air-
time and touring slots. In 1996, McLachlan was 28, still climbing
the charts with singles from her breakthrough album, Fumbling
Toward Ecstasy, and struggling to write the follow-up, Surfacing,
which would become her best-selling record. Searching for inspi-
ration, she organized a mini festivala gathering that would
ultimately morph into Lilith Fair.
SARAH McLACHLAN (singer, cofounder of Lilith Fair): We looked
around [at other tours] and thought, Wow, theyre just full of men.
And yet theres all this amazing music being made by women right
now. So why is that not being represented?
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M c L A C H L A N : I thought, L ets
ask a bunch of gals if they want to do some shows. We did three
shows. The biggest one [in Vancouver] was like 10,000 people. We
thought, Holy crap!
SUZANNE VEGA (singer): It went really well except for one of the
truck drivers had a run-in with police. The truck was impounded,
including all of our equipment. We were playing [outside of San
Francisco] and had to postpone to the next day.
McBRIDE: Sarah had a great time and said, Id like to do that next
year.
McLACHLAN: I got to listen to all these amazing women every night
and be part of a bigger community. It felt really good.
VEGA: At the end of that tour, I got this lovely note from Sarah, say-
ing, What a great run. Im thinking of having a kind of girly show
next year. That girly show turned into Lilith Fair.
MARTY DIAMOND (talent booker and a cofounder of Lilith Fair): We
knew we had something. Sarah felt women didnt have a real pres-
ence in Top 40 radio and wanted to build that spirit up a little bit.
McLACHLAN: Id never felt an ounce of sexism from any of the guys
at my record label. The first time I felt sexism was the pushback
from radio stations [in the midnineties]. Theyd say, We added
Tori Amos this week, so we cant add you. Or: We added Tracy
Chapman this week, so we cant add you. And Im like, Were

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 doing completely different [things]!
VEGA: Its not as if anybody was as blunt as that to me, but I knew
the quota of male-to-female artists [on the radio].
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO (singer whose new album, Ventriloquism,
will be out this fall): I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-
dominated. [If you had two women playing together], it became a
shtick. It becomes a girl group, and it has to be something cutesy.
Thats hard to contend with.
McLACHLAN: We made the plan to do it full-on the next summer.
And promoters were saying, You cant put two women on the
same bill. People wont come. I was like, Well, weve done it! So
you can either support us or get left behind.
McBRIDE: It was a foreign concept to most promoters.
McLACHLAN: I put together a huge wish list, then I handed it off
and said, OK, go see whos in, whos gonna say yes.
McBRIDE: The first year was difficult. Lilith hadnt been proved.
The agencies were like, Im not going to put my megastar there. I
dont believe its going to work. No ones going to show up.
McLACHLAN: Paula Cole [said yes immediately]. Lisa Loeb. Emmy-
lou Harris was in like a dirty shirt right away.
McBRIDE: It was really difficult to get a country headliner, an urban
headliner, and a pop headliner.
McLACHLAN: I was talking to a friend about the concept and said,
I need a name. She goes, Have you heard the story of Lilith?
In Hebrew mythology Lilith is Adams first wife, before Eve. He
asked her to lie beneath him, and she said, No, were equal. She
left, and she was made into a cautionary tale. I thought, Perfect
protagonist! Obviously words are important to me, and Lilith on
its own didnt seem like enough. I loved the play on words of fair
being the sort of old-fashioned fair, and fair being equal.
AMBROSIA HEALY (publicist for Lilith Fair): I dont know that peo-
ple thought Sarah was crazy, but it was a new idea for certain. I
remember sitting down with her team to figure out the Lilith Fair
mission statement. The intent was to create an inclusive and sup-
portive community based on the celebration of women in music.
McL ACHL AN: Terry really wanted corporate sponsors. I said, I
want them to do something for the community. We wanted to
CHAPMAN, VEGA, COLE : MERRI CYR
leave something beyond the music, which is [why we donated] a
dollar for every ticket sale to a local womens shelter.
McBRIDE: Those checks were sometimes the difference between
the shelters staying open or closing down.
SHERYL CROW (singer whose new album, Be Myself, is out now):
The fun thing about it was, it redefined what the [DJs and] pro-
moters believed about female touring. It immediately sold out
everywhere.
Go to Glamour.com Get video interviews with Sarah McLachlan and Alessia Cara, plus more on the state of women in music.
McLACHLAN: Lilith was just this beautiful idea where women could
all come together and be stronger as one united force. We didnt
have to compete [with one another]. We came from a place of love,
joy, and a need to create.
The violence and disrespect that could loom at
any other concert was just absent.
Before Lilith Fair began, the most well-known female-driven
music festival had been the Michigan Womyns Festival, a
radical-feminist gathering. So Liliths 35-city tour, featuring
McLachlan, Crow, Tracey Chapman, Jewel, and more than 60
other female acts, was unprecedented. At the first show in George,
Washington, Lilith drew 27,500 fans (most of them women), a
few vocal critics, and an SNL parody featuring a character
named Cinder Calhoun singing a song called Sausage of Pain.
CROW: One of the things that made me so excited was that I was
not only going to get to see people I wanted to see play but getting
to build a relationship with the people during the summer.
VEGA: I was the first one on the main stage [at the Gorge Amphi-
theater]. It really felt like a momentous occasion. My first song
was Rock in This Pocket, a David and Goliath song from Davids
point of view. I felt like, This is a rock at the head of the main-
stream corporate thinking.
INDIA ARIE (singer whose new album, SongVersation: Medicine,
will be out this summer): I wasnt signed, and I was known only in
the Atlanta music scene. So I really wanted to do Lilith Fair [when
they asked me].
SKYE EDWARDS (lead singer of Morcheeba): My understanding was
that it was all solo female artists. And I was obviously a female, but
I was in a band with two guys. So [when they booked us] I kind of
felt like, What the hell? They want us? How do we fit in there?
ANN POWERS (music critic): My first impression was, there was
a field full of women music fans, sharing blankets, sunbathing.
And there was this overwhelming feeling of safety and con-
fidence. No one was going to wolf-whistle or cop a feel as you
walked by or shove you down to get to a mosh pit. Here was a
space where the violence and disrespect that could loom at other
concerts was absent. That was as important to me as the per-
formers onstage.
CROW: You would be surprised at how many guys were there [in the
audience] too. It really wasnt just all women.
DIAMOND: I saw a bunch of college-age guys, and I said, Why are
you here? They said, Dude! This is where the girls are!
NDEGEOCELLO: Touring with all women was communal. I didnt
have anyone barking at me at sound check. I know that
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sounds stereotypical. But maybe its [also] because Sarah is
Canadian. It was just like a really chill vibe, you know? Im sure
if I did a festival with Courtney Love as the head, that would be
a different vibe.
ARIE: [Folk singer Victoria Williams] had some sort of a neu-
rological disease. [Williams has multiple sclerosis.] She had
tremors in her body. She was standing by the side of the stage,
and Bonnie Raitt said, Hey, you want to come out? And she
walked onstage with a harmonica and started playing. I remem-
ber thinking, What is this lady going to do with this harmonica?
Her hands are shaking! She played beautifully.
H E ALY: Everybody f lew out to Washington State to cover this
thing. Lorraine Ali was there to do a big feature for Rolling Stone.
Christopher Farley and David Thigpen came from Time maga-
zine. VH-1 and MTV were there with crews. This is the middle of
nowhere, two hours outside of Seattle.
LORRAINE ALI (music journalist): I remember at the time think-
ing, in my snarky, rock-critic-y way, Why does this have to be so
crunchy and folky? How come you dont have Courtney Love or 7
My First Lilith
i
by Lena Dunham
ve always loved art that is created for and
by women. When I was a little woman
perusing the video-rental store, the first
question I would ask about any VHS tape
was, Are there ladies in it? I was interested only
in paperbacks whose covers depicted groups of
teen girls curled in a union of smiley, hushed
chatter (holler, Baby-Sitters Club!). As soon as
I was old enough to advocate for my own music
choices, our car rocked out to Wilson Phillips,
Joni Mitchell, and the first cassette I purchased,
Alanis Morissettes Jagged Little Pill. Which is
why, at age 11, when I heard a group of girls at
theater day camp (all far cooler than I, despite
the words theater day camp) discussing the
upcoming Lilith Fair and its all-woman lineup, I
knew I had to be there. So I did what any utterly
friendless dreamer wearing a Hola From Mex-
ico T-shirt as a dress would do: I lied. Oh, Lilith
Fair? Yeah, I have tickets. Tons of tickets.
I rushed home and admitted to my mother
the yarn I had spun. Not only did I not have tick-
ets; Id never even been to a concert nor had I
heard of any of the acts that would be perform-
ing. In my mind a festival was a town gathering
where elderly women sold jam and gourds, and I Will Remember You
welcomed autumn back again. Lena with her mother,
What happened next was either a test case of photographer Laurie Simmons, amazing it felt not to watch hawkeyed over her
terrible parenting or the deepest kindness imag- and sibling Grace at
inable. My mother told me lying wasnt coolbut Lilith Fair in 1997.
she also wanted me to be able to face the camps
most in-the-know clique. The July 24, 1997, Lilith Fair in Hart-
ford, Connecticut, was sold out, but using the services of some wily
scalpers, my heroic mother acquired four tickets.
Despite my best efforts to bond with the other camp kids, I
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Year Bitch or Elastica? Why isnt Lauryn Hill or Missy Elliott on
this? Going in, [a lot of women at Rolling Stone] had reservations
about Lilith because it was taking the most passive thing in popu-
lar music that women were doing and putting it forth as the united
front of women in music, and it wasnt united at all. It wasnt inclu-
sive of everything that was going on, and it wasnt showing the
innovation in music.
POWERS: Do I remember specific ways that Lilith was covered that
were sexist or just unfair? Well, nicknames like Breast Fest were
certainly unfortunate!
McL ACH L AN: All of a sudden [the press was casting me as] the
daughter for the new feminist revolution, and Im either too femi-
nist or not feminist enough, depending on who was firing the
questions. And every day it was like, Why do you hate men? Why
dont you have men on the bill?
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN (lead singer of the all-male band Tool): I
asked our booking agent to request an offer to play. He did. They
declined. I wanted the thank you but no thank you letter to
frame. Never got it.
had no friends to invite to the show. We arrived
while the first act was still setting up on the
main stage: my mother, her assistant Helen (a
dead ringer for Courteney Cox in a white belly
shirt and acid-wash jeans), my five-year-old sib-
ling, and me (with baby bangs and a collection
of friendship bracelets I made for myself). We
wandered the parking lot, where I took stock of
all the shaved heads, tattoos, and armpit hair
oh, the armpit hair! At this amphitheater I was
witnessing as many ways of being a woman as
there are women. When the music started, as
I remember, with Paula Cole taking the stage
in a f lurry of goddess force, I stared more at
the concertgoers than the acts themselves.
Everyone was spinning, arms wide toward the
heavens (a.k.a. the smoggy sky of industrial New
England) and laughing with abandon, enliv-
ened by the beauty and safety of the collective
we became. Women pranced, stretched, bowed,
rolled in the grass, ate churros, kissed with
tongue. My younger sibling Grace danced in tiny
brocade overalls and would later tell me it was a
pivotal moment in their understanding of them-
selves as gender f luid. Helen was in her early
thirties, impossibly cool and tan on our gingham
blanket, nodding along. My mother realized how
children the way she had been trained to do in
male-heavy environments.
And me? I didnt care about running into the
cool girls anymore. As Tracy Chapman sang later that night: I
had a feeling I could be someone, be someone.
Lena Dunham is a writer, actor, and director.
 NATALIE MERCHANT (singer-songwriter whose album, The Natalie
Merchant Collection, is out now): [The questions] were exhaust-
ing. I thought, Were just people making music, you know?
McLACHLAN: I grappled with the fact we were being so successful
[while] people were saying negative things or trying to pull us
down. We got a lot of flak for being a white-chick folk fest. [Only
two of the headlining acts were women of color: Tracy Chapman
and India Arie.]
McBRIDE: We knew the media would come at us hard for that. And
we tried, but I think you
should question the artists
who said no.
McL AC H L AN : That was not
for lack of trying. We asked
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of back-to-back tour stopsand a more diverse range of musi-
cal styles, including artists Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott, and
Erykah Badu.
McLACHLAN: Lilith was becoming this crazy-big phenomenon that
everybody was so excited about.
McBRIDE: It became easier [to book artists] in years two and three.
McL ACH L AN: [The second year] we had to show managers and
record labels that we could be diverse and still make it work as a
festival.
POWERS: The second- and third-stage artists were always my
favorites. I saw so many people for the first time at Lilith.
NDEGEOCELLO: When Erykah Badu played, I had to hold her baby
for the first two songs. She was like, Here, hold Seven. I have to

everybody. go on.
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E DWAR DS : I didnt pick up McLACHLAN: [Erykah] was pretty quiet. I mean, she was intimidat-
on [the lack of diversity]. Im ing, holy crap. Shes like a queen, very regal.
a black woman fostered by CROW: I used to go out and watch other bands. Chrissie Hynde and
white parents. I live in Sur- I would put on these hats that had wigs attached to them, and we
rey, [England,] and theres would go sit out front and no one would recognize us.
not many black people. I McL ACHL AN: When I first met Chrissie, she was pretty aloof. A
dont feel like a black art- little bit older, very established, rock n roll, right? And she was
ist. Im a singer-songwriter like, You little folk bitches! So the last night, I had a hot-pink tube
that happens to be black. top on, and I thought, I need to (continued on page 160)
P OW E R S : In truth, Lilith
wasnt a genre- spanning
womens music festival. It
was a singer-songwriter
festival focused on women. The question is,
Why is the category of singer-songwriter cast
as white?
ALI: I had taken the [tour] bus down [from
George, Washington] to the next stop [in
Salem, Oregon] with [jazz artist] Cassandra
Wilson, and she was upset because they put
her on the second stage. She was unhappy
about it, and she was justified. Most of that
bus ride was spent talking about how she got
f-cked over. The more I think about it, the
Cassandra Wilson thing probably was cut
along color lines too.
M c L AC H L A N : That was the thing we had to
defend more than anything else, more than
our feminism, more than our choice to have
just women. It was: Why you dont have more
black artists, more R&B artists, different kinds
of music, representing everybody?
A R I E : I know why they called it the white-
chicks folk fest, but I love that music.
McL ACHL AN: I dont think Perry Farrell was
taken to task for those things [when he put
together Lollapalooza]. We were doing some-
thing that really hadnt been done before,
so anytime theres anything new happen-
ing, there is the desire to tear it down or find
holes. Especially if youre trying to do some- Passing the Torch
thing good. It pisses people off. Alessia Cara, whom
Sarah McLachlan calls
Lilith was this great vehicle for the the future of Lilith Fair.
discovery of women artists. Says Cara, We see
women supporting
Lilith earned $16 million gross in 1997,
other women because
making it the most successful touring festi-
of things like Lilith
val that year. So by 1998 many more artists Fair. Above: Lilith Fair
wanted to perform. There were three months memorabilia.

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 Generation
Nomad
We all talk
about quitting
our jobs and
traveling the
world. But a
growing number
of women are
living the
dream. Meet
the roamers.
By Amna Shamim
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 My brother tells every-
one Im homeless, and
hes not wrong. I make a
fine income, but I work
Shamim
on a laptop and live out of
in Lima,
Peru a suitcase, moving from
town to town, country to
country, wherever Im in the mood to land for a while.
It started in October 2014. I was going through a rough
period in New York Cityroommate problems, feeling
stuck at work, a terrible breakup (bad things come in
threes). The plan was to take a breather and explore the
world for a few months. But the break from my life turned
intomy actual life. Through a guy I met in Malaysia,
I ended up joining a Slack group for people known as
nomads, and just like that, I discovered a whole subcul-
ture of women who choose to be location independent,
work remotely, and call no single place home. One of
them, Eunji Choi, was earning a ton and having the time
of her life. The way that she had put whats right for her
ahead of what society thinks she should do really inspired
me. So after I figured out how to support myself remotely,
I took to the road.
There are definitely more male nomads than female, but
there are more of us every day. It does take self-motivation
to work when your office is a caf looking out over a gor-
geous beach in Varadero, Cuba, which (hi!) is where Im
writing this. But minutes after Im done, Ill be splashing
around in that crystal turquoise water. Thats a happy hour
that was hard to come by in my former life in the city.
As Ive roamed21 countries and countingIve asked I feel as safe traveling alone as I would in the United States.
and answered many questions about this lifestyle, so let me
cover some of the most popular:
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Do you have a home base?
No. Ive learned that my home isnt a place (although I do
use my moms Pennsylvania address for passports and vot-
ing) or the objects insideif only because I cant bear the
thought of having more stuff to schlep around!
How much stuff do you actually have?
All my belongings fit into a single suitcase and a backpack;
they include a foam roller, yoga mat, snorkeling mask,
and Kevin, my stuffed-animal alligator who doubles as a
pillow. (In fact, I recently added Sam, a dragon, because
Kevin was lonely.)
Do you work?
Yes. The same is true of all my nomad girlfriends. We pay
our own way, and some of us are even saving money. Ive
found I can earn anywhere from $100 to $10,000 a month
through writing and digital marketing for U.S. companies.
And from rent (you can get a hotel room in some parts of
Asia for $200 a month) to food ($5 amazing taco meal,
anyone?), everything is cheaper on the road. Plus, with the
Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (which U.S. citizens can
get if they spend at least 330 days over 12 months in other
countries), my taxes are much lower. Once I pay off some
medical bills in the next few months, I should be able to
start saving.
How do you deal with health issues?
About those medical billsonly five months into my trav-
els, I was in a motorbike accident in Vietnam involving
bad brakes, a blue truck, and, thank God, a helmet. I ended
up with a fractured skull and brain bleed and spent nearly
a week in a local hospital. After seeing a great neurosur-
geon in Singapore, I visited my family to reassure them I
was OK, and then I got back to Thailand as fast as I could
to recuperate. It was a painful way to learn that unless
you add on adventure coverage, travel insurance usually
wont pay for something like this. I have it now.
When it comes to less urgent matters, were constantly
trading advice in our lady-nomad Slack groups on femi-
nine issues like finding tampons in Cambodia or going for
an IUD because the Pill is a pain to get on the road.
How often do you move?
My average time in a place is between three and six weeks,
and I go back to the States about once a year to see friends
and family. Often I just cant wait to leave again.
Is it dangerous?
Im just careful, like not walking on dark streets by myself
at night. My family has access to my itinerary on TripIt so
they can keep an eye on me.
Is dating on the road hard?
In a word, yes. I wish I were better at taking advantage
of the (for once!) in-my-favor ratio of guys to girls in the
nomad community. Theres a Facebook group for loca-
tion-independent singles, but actual dating is tough. That
said, Ive had some righteous f lingsI spent a few days
with a great guy drinking and eating our way around Bue-
nos Aires, but we didnt hook up until an hour before he left
for the airport (because Im an idiot). Another man I met
in Asia I would have loved to date seriously, but it didnt
happen, in part because he settled down for his job and
Im a nomad!
And I wouldnt trade that for anything. So much has
changed from when I started, from my Spanish fluency and
chopstick skills to being so much more open-minded and
confident. Best of all, Ive made friends with other nomads,
like these four women (including Eunji), who are some of
the most badass and inspirational ladies Ive ever known.
Turn the pageIll let them speak for themselves.
Amna Shamim, 33, is a location-independent writer who
also does marketing for cannabis companies in the U.S.
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 I spend Everything
350 days a I own
year on fits in a
the beach. backpack.
Eunji Choi, 32, software engineer Ellie Day, 23, software engineer
SHOW N ABOVE IN: Catalina Islands, Costa Rica SHOW N ABOVE IN: Angkor Wat, Cambodia

I used to be the quintessential New Yorker. Five years ago I
was a software engineer at a subsidiary of AOL. I bought high-
heeled shoes and bags, went to clubs, had the social calendar that
makes people anxious. I was that person.
Most of my life now is spent in flip-flops. Ive been in about 20
countries and wont go anywhere under 77 degrees. Im happy at
105 if theres an ocean nearby. I love Rio and Barcelona because
theyre major cities on the coastgood food, museums, and night-
life, plus a friendly, laid-back Latin culture. And Ksamil, a little
village in Albania, has an unbelievably gorgeous beachfront with
a couple of tiny islands you can swim to (OMG, Im craving Alba-
nian doughnuts just talking about it). Often I go to the beach all day
and spend evenings working remotely at my full-time job at a U.S.-
based company, Splice, which makes digital tools for musicians. If
I didnt have the pricey habit of going business class on long flights,
Id be saving more. As it is, I put away a few hundred to a thousand
dollars every month and contribute to my retirement account.
I carry an eight-inch knife. We nomads joke about the weirdest
I am a super-minimalist. I travel with only a purse [above] and
small backpack, which isnt even full. It holds my MacBook (for
my freelance work), my Kindle, iPhone, batteries and chargers,
toiletry bag, sleep mask, and my inflatable neck pillow. As for my
clothes? Usually they are on my back.
I can walk on a plane wearing my entire wardrobe. All my
clothes are made of very thin wool by Icebreaker. They keep me
cool when its 90 degrees and warm when its cold. Usually Ive got
one outfit on while Im cleaning the other (you can wash this wool
in the sink, and it dries really quickly). But when its freezing, Ill
layer everything I have: two shirts, two pairs of leggings, a skirt,
wool socks, wool shoes, and a shawl. Its amazingly insulating.
I love my office. Whenever I get to a city, I use my Work Hard
Anywhere app to find coffee houses and local spots where you can
plug in and get Wi-Fi. Its one of my favorite things to do because I
get to see places I would have walked right past.
Im cautious but havent had problems. Ive been a nomad for
three years and lived in 12 countries. I always know in the back of

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thing we travel with. For some people its a surfboard. For me its
a chefs knife. Ive honestly never thought of it as a weaponI
love to cook, so I also pack a honing steel, herbs and spices (saf-
fron!), and silicone oven mitts.
And I pack 13 bikinis and counting. I check two bags and carry
on a thirda lot for a nomad. Aside from the cooking gear, Ive got
a few books, a plushy bunny named Felix, and a teddy bear named
Toby (he has his own Instagram handle, @tobytheteddybear).
Then, on top of the bikinis and flip-flops, which Im in 98 percent
of the time, I also lug wedges and spike heels, because when youre
going to a fancy party, a girl needs footwear!
my mind that in some places, if someone found out I was part of the
LGBTQ community, that could be an issue. But thats true of living
in the United States too.
This is my home. My parents divorced when I was in the third
grade, and I moved around a lot growing up. Back then I didnt see
it as a good thing, but now its a positive. I flew more than 100,000
miles last year. Ive seen amazing fish while snorkeling in Thai-
land, worked from a caf in a converted art museum in Singapore,
and volunteered for Women Who Code in between. When you sep-
arate the comfort of your home from a physical locationand find
it within yourselfa lot of really cool things can happen.

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Obviously, being flexible on dates can lower
WHAT NOMADS KNOW your airfareour nomads use sites like
secretflying.com and Scotts Cheap Flights
Budget-minded tips from newsletter. Also in big cities, you can often save
the ultimate experts by flying into a suburb or nearby town.
Plan some layover relief. What keeps me
sane traveling, says Ellie Day, is having access
to the airport lounges, which I get free through
my credit cards. Theyre quiet, and I can often get
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I never
feel
lonely.
Pauline Kucharew, 28, Web developer
SHOW N ABOVE IN: Salar de Utuni, Bolivia
I do what we call slow travel. Right now Im working for the
goal-setting site Bucketlist. (I earn $45,000 to $65,000 a year,
and so far Im breaking even.) Ill spend more than a month in one
place and take weekend trips to explore other parts of the coun-
try. Ive lived in five countries over the year and a half that Ive
been a nomad. I definitely have a thing for Latin culturestop on
my list being Seville, a beautiful Spanish city with great old
architecture, delicious restaurants, and awesome weather. Often
I stay at a hostel first, make friends with locals, and through
them find someone with a room to rent. Thats much cheaper
than a hotel or Airbnb, which Ill do for many of my short trips.
Heres my one horror story. I went out for a few beers with a
nomad meet-up group in Thailand. People joined us, somehow I
got separatedI think my drink was drugged because I blacked
outand ended up on the side of a street. Luckily, a tourist found
me. My credit cards were stolen and money withdrawn from my
bank, but otherwise I was safe. A relative wired me funds until the
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bank reimbursed me. Im a lot more cautious now.
Ive also had some life-changing moments. I spent a week
sweating in the Bolivian jungle doing a shamanistic cleanse. There
I was, in a wooden hut, detoxing from salt and sugar, devoid of stim-
ulation, and alone with my thoughts. I came out so clearheaded.
Some of the realizations I had in there (too personal to describe!)
have gotten me through stressful situations. When youre con-
stantly seeing new things, your eyes open. You cant help but grow.
Its easy to make friends. Ive had a few relationships on the road.
Now Im going out with a guy I met in Spain. (I hope to show him
around my hometown, Toronto, this summer.) I may want a family
someday, but I also want to keep exploring the world while I can.
SKIP THE HOTEL
Some of these roamers favor hostels. But for local flavor with
more privacy, try homeaway.com, where you can rent
everything from a villa with a pool in Pattaya, Thailand, (about
$78 a night) to a thirteenth-century castle in Pcy, France,
that sleeps 18 ($120 a night per person).
My
expenses
for a year
were
$11,623.
Mandy Moore, 43, software developer
SHOW N ABOVE IN: Oaxaca, Mexico
Some might call me the O.G. of nomads. Ive been on the road
for nearly nine years and lived in more than 50 countries.
Im a wanderer at heart. As soon as I got my drivers license at 16,
I took off on a solo road trip. In 2002 I settled in Washington, D.C.,
with a good job as a consultant to Congress, but after three years I
felt stuck. I taught myself how to build and monetize websites and
started getting freelance clients. Once I was consistently making
$600 a month, I went to Mexico, where I figured I could live on
that. It was only supposed to be for a year, but now I am still travel-
ing the globe, and I dont see it stopping anytime soon.
When I told people I was spending under $12,000 a year
they said, You must be dumpster-diving for food. So I started
posting every receipt on my blog, Vagabondette. I save a lot: One
thing I do is find house-sitting gigs where I care for the owners
pets (which I love and cant have on the road) and pay absolutely
no rent. I can make $12,000 on one good freelance projectand
I might have anywhere from three to 10 a year.
I have so many favorite places. I fell in love with Sarajevo.
There is nothing better than sitting in the Old Town, sipping
a cup of tea, watching the people. Its set in a green valley with
a tragic history you can see all around you. Everyone is amaz-
ingly friendly, and I can eat my weight in cevapi (a meat dish) and
krempita (dessert).
What do I miss? The last time I was in London, I saw a group of
friends arriving for a party and felt a pang of homesickness. I do
sometimes miss dinners, wine tastings, and nights out with my
close buddies. But Im also living a life I love. So when I get those
pangs, Ill message my friends, have a chat to catch up, and soon
all is well again.
LIVE LIKE A LOCAL
Our renters often email the owner beforehand to ask
where to eat, shop, and hang out, says HomeAway travel
expert Melanie Fish. Buying food at the local market
[and] cooking a few of your meals at home can reduce costs
and give you a more immersive experience.
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 Denim
Always
The new way to wear
tough denim?
With something sheer.
Let models Kenya
Kinski-Jones,
Ebonee Davis, and
Afrodita Dorado
demonstrate.
Photographs by Victor Demarchelier
Fashion editor: Jillian Davison

Into the Deep

A structured dark
denim jacketlike
the one Afrodita,
25, wears here
can take you from
day (with jeans
and a tee) to night
(with a skirt and
heels) in a flash.
Gap jacket, $70.
In-House Atelier top,
belt. Brunello Cucinelli
skirt. Jennifer Fisher
hoop, $275 for pair.
Alexander Wang ball
earring, $395 for pair.
Ben-Amun by Isaac
Manevitz brooch,
$395. Off-White c/o
Virgil Abloh boots.

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All Dressed Up
Going out? Try replacing
a tee with a megawatt top.
My style is luxury rock,
says Ebonee, 24, far right.
I dress like a musician
because thats how I feel
in my soul.
On Afrodita: Off-White
c/o Virgil Abloh top, belt.
ASOS jeans, $61. Carbon
& Hyde choker. Martine Ali
silver necklace, $150. On
Ebonee: Matthew Adams
Dolan jacket, $660, jeans,
$490. In-House Atelier top.
Kenneth Jay Lane long
earring, $120. Jennifer Fisher
circle earring, $295 for pair.

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Mix Masters
When it comes to style,
says Kenya, 24, here, Im
attracted to masculine and
feminine pieces. Pairing
a gauzy top with denim
anything definitely applies.
Y/Project jacket, jeans, $850,
belt, $370. Sami Miro Vintage
bodysuit, $210. Ben-Amun by Isaac
Manevitz earring, $195 for pair.
Jovana Djuric long earring, $365.
Alexander Wang boots, $850.
Opposite page: On Kenya: Frame
jacket, $349. In-House Atelier
top. Cosabella bra, $85. Jovana
Djuric hoop, $175. Oscar de la
Renta earring, $435. On Ebonee:
Balenciaga jacket, $995.
Annelise Michelson hoop, $415.

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Balancing Act
Liven up classic silhouettes,
like straight-leg jeans
and a blazer, with fresh
patchwork denim.
Dries Van Noten coat, pants,
$950. Titika Active shirt,
$68. Cosabella bra, $85.
Dior beret. Jovana Djuric
hoop, $175. Erickson Beamon
earring, $253. Martine Ali
bracelets, $150, $200.

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Double Take
Id never worn denim on denim
before, but I loved this look, says
Kenya, right. For a Canadian
tuxedo, less is more. Pro tip:
Matching washes and hues keeps
the effect streamlined.
On Ebonee: Stella McCartney jacket,
top, $880, jeans. Maria Black earring,
$162. R.J. Graziano brooch, $85. On
Kenya: Calvin Klein Jeans Established
1978 shirt, $495, jeans, $495. Calvin
Klein 205W39NYC turtleneck, $295.
Sorelle hoop, $230. Ben-Amun by Isaac
Manevitz earring, $195 for pair.

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Its a Cinch
Afroditas rule for jeans:
Look for a high waist, she
says. It always works. The
style is very 2017 in an
exaggerated shape and
faded black.
Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh jacket.
Soma bodysuit, $68. Isabel
Marant jeans, $435. Ambush
key earring, $450. Kenneth Jay
Lane earring, $120. Jennifer
Fisher ring, $265 for set of two.
In-House Atelier belt.

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Role Reversal
Unexpected is always inflip
your favorite jacket and wear
it backward.
On Ebonee: Levis shirt, $55.
Carhartt WIP jeans, $135. Cline
pendant, $820. Off-White c/o
Virgil Abloh boots. On Afrodita:
Sacai top, $645, skirt, $815.
Kenneth Jay Lane earring, $120.
Dries Van Noten boots, $650.
Go to glamour.com/magazine
for more shopping information.
Models: Ebonee Davis, Kenya
Kinski-Jones, and Afrodita Dorado,
all at The Lions; hair: David
Von Cannon at The Wall Group;
makeup: Justine Purdue
at Streeters; manicures: Rica
Romain at LMC Worldwide.

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Lilith Fair
(continued from page 147) do something
to freak her out. So I went out onstage,
and I f lipped her my boobs. Her drum-
mer dropped his sticks. I brought Chrissie
Hynde to her knees!
M E R C H A N T: I saw all of these perfor-
mances from the side of the stage. I
remember Erykah Badu. I remember
Meshell Ndegeocello. I remember run-
ning to see Morcheeba every night. And
Sinad OConnor was amazing.
A S H W I N S O O D (drummer and Sarah
McLachlans then husband): We all wor-
shiped Sinad OConnor.
M c L AC H L A N : Oh, Sinad, that brat!
[Laughs.] I remember I had food poison-
ing right before the show. So Sinad went
out there and [told the crowd], Oh, Sar-
ahs backstage puking. Its probably from
morning sickness. Then there was a big
rumor that I was pregnant. The bugger.
VEGA: I remember seeing Missy Elliott in
her [inflatable] suit, running up the aisles
going, Yall better show me some love
because its really hot in here!
McLACHLAN: We got to hang out with all of
these amazing musicians from all of these
other bands, you know?
R AITT: On the last day of Lilith, my tour
manager went out with some of the male
crew to the thrift stores and bought
sundresses for all the crew, and did the
load-in and load-out in work boots and
sundresses. They came out at the end of
Whats Going On and did a chorus line
like the Rockettes. For the men to be in
dresses with no explanation was badass.
SOOD: Christina Aguilera was just break-
ing [in 1999]. She was playing on this
little village stage at Lilith. And watch-
ing someone like that for the first time
someone whom nobody had heard of
my jaw was just on the floor.
LIZ PHAIR (singer-songwriter): One of the
most vivid memories for me was joining
the other performers onstage at the end
of Sarahs set for a communal song [at the
end of the night]. The impact of sharing
a musical moment with iconsexcep-
tional artists whose voices Ive loved and
new artists Id discovered on tourleft
an indelible impression on me. Imagine
blending your voice with voices so familiar
to you and looking out into the darkness,
where people were waving lights and
singing along, and you get a sense of the
exhilaration of the moment.
POWERS: Lilith was a great vehicle for the
discovery of women artists, something
that wasnt so easy when women werent
being included on other festival bills.
HEALY: Sarah changed popular music for
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a few years. Lilith came out during a time
when all the music was male-dominated.
Then it went the other direction, where
it was all women. Suddenly, if you were a
male rock band, you werent getting the
same attention on the radio.
I dont want you here, so you
can go outside and picket.
The summer of 1999 featured more R&B
acts, the small-stage debut of Christina
Aguilera, and a surprise performance
from Prince. But suddenly the same things
that made Lilith a successincluding its
goal of catering to all womenstarted to
work against it.
McLACHLAN: After three years we were at
our peak. [Lilith Fair] was changing the
way the industry was looking at women.
[They started to see] us as a force that they
didnt see before.
POWERS: Sheryl Crow played [in Jones
Beach, New York], and she rocked so hard
during her set. Its the best set Ive ever
seen from her. She covered Sweet Child
o Mine and invited Chrissie Hynde and
Meshell Ndegeocello onstage to guest
the camaraderie of the tour was clearly
pushing her in great directions.
SOOD: I was playing percussion in Sheryl
Crows band. At that time Prince was hang-
ing out with Sheryl and would show up
at her shows. Earlier in the day, we heard
Prince was coming to the show, and then
Sheryl had gotten us all together and said,
Hey, so were gonna do a little rehearsal
in the dressing room. And at this point in
Princes career, he was going by The Art-
ist. So we all go to Sheryl Crows dressing
room, and we put a superband together to
do her song Every Day Is a Winding Road
that Prince was going to play guitar on. So
I get into the dressing room, and there he
is in a gold lam suit from head to toe. Hes
wearing gold seven-inch heels. And Sheryl
introduces me: This is Ashwin. Ashwin,
this is The Artist. He looks at me, and the
only thing that comes out of his mouth is
You must be The Husband.
T E G A N Q U I N (singer-songwriter of the
band Tegan and Sara): Sara and I played
in 1999. Lilith Fair came to Edmon-
ton that year, and we played on a village
stage. We got a 20-minute set. It was
pouring rain, and there was a woman
sweeping huge pools of water. [Laughs.]
There was no one there.
SARA QUIN (singer-songwriter of the band
Tegan and Sara): I was thinking, Well, this
is where the people would go if we were
even remotely popular. [Laughs.]
TEGAN QUIN: We were genuinely excited. A
bunch of our friends and my mom stayed
afterward and watched all the big acts. I
mean, it was really exciting.
McL ACHL AN: At some point we had, like,
133 [acts] out on the road with us. So there
was always a drama. An artist wasnt
showing up or something was happening.
It was a crazy, frenetic day every day.
K AREN EDEN (lead singer of Eden A.K.A.,
which will release a new album this fall):
It [became] a little more corporate. I have
photographs of us standing around differ-
ent booths.
M cB R I D E : Sarah was a big supporter of
Planned Parenthood, and there was push-
back [against their booths] in certain
parts of America.
McL ACHL AN: One of the biggest lessons I
learned was, You cannot be everything for
everybody. I tried! And I realized that I
will continue to fail if I try to please every-
body. Which is kind of where I got to when
pro-life [activists] were picketing [our
booths]. I finally stood up and said, You
know what? I dont agree with you, and I
dont want you here, so you can go stand
outside and picket. Sorry, its my festival,
and I get to choose.
McB R I D E : For three years Lilith was the
biggest traveling festival inside North
America.
EDEN: But in 1999 the Latin-music thing
came on board. Ricky Martin exploded.
Suddenly it was all about J. Lo. So the
singer-songwriter vibe that Sarah made
so popular had had its day. It was still a
great turnout, but it had a different energy.
McL AC H L AN : Everybody wanted more.
I was like, No, now is the time to
stop. Lets leave on a high note. I was
exhausted. The record label wanted a
new record. I said, Ive been on tour for
three years! Ive got to go home. And I
have to have a life. People have been
having babies and getting married and
divorced, and Ive missed it all. Thats
the price you pay.
Lilith could still happen today.
And it probably should.
In the decade that followed the final
year of Lilith Fair, pop and hip-hop acts
largely replaced singer-songwriters on
the charts. Music festivals exploded in
popularity, thanks in part to newcom-
ers such as Coachella and Bonnaroo.
In 2010, after repeated requests over
the years from artists and fans alike,
McLachlan agreed to headline a revival,
but it failed to meet expectations.
SA R A Q U I N : The original Lilith Fair, it
was something my mom and her friends
were excited about. I was a punk teen-
ager taking drugs and going to raves. I was
not listening to that music. When Sarah
approached us about doing a few shows in
2010, we were like, Sure, sign us up. But I
want to be included in all the festivals.
McL ACHL AN: I was finishing a record [in
2010]. I left it completely to [Terry and
Marty] to organize.
M c B R I D E : Concert tickets were down
and it wasnt just Lilith. The venues had
become very difficult, with add-ons that
drove a $25 ticket to be a $50 ticket.
McLACHLAN: All those women who came to
see us now had mortgages and three kids
and werent going to stand in a hot field for
$150 all day. It flopped, and I take respon-
sibility for that. It hurt when the press
would say, Your ticket sales suck, and
nobody cares anymore.
MERCHANT: But Lilith could still happen
today. And it probably should.
McLACHLAN: Lilith could work today, but
Adele, Taylor, or Beyonc would have to
spearhead it. And when it comes to the
ugly financials, artists arent getting as
much money [from a festival] as they
would if they went out by themselves.
ALESSIA CARA (singer): I was one year old
[when Lilith began]. I heard about it as I
got older, and I started watching inter-
views with all these great women that I
looked up to, and Sarah McLachlan was
one of them. Now we see women sup-
porting other women, which is because of
things like Lilith Fair.
McL AC H L AN : I love Alessia Cara! I met
her [at the Juno Awards], and I said, You
should be so proud of yourself for being
such a great role model. The things you
believe in, my girls are hearing it, and it
really helps, because its a tough time for
girls right now. I have to pull down pic-
tures of my daughters ass off Instagram
every other day. Its like, Honey, is this
what you want the world to see? Because
thats what they are seeing. You are f-ck-
ing smart, and you are a leader. Show me
that on Instagram, you know?
KATE NASH (singer whose new EP, Agenda,
is out now): I think we definitely need
all-female festivals because most of the
festivals are predominantly male. It hasnt
changed.
SARA QUIN: Pitchfork did a survey of 23 of
the top festivals this year, and 74 percent
of the bills are men.
POWERS: Top 40 has changed somewhat,
because there are so many major women
stars, but its not as much as youd think.
When I recently looked at the Top Radio
Airplay chart, there was one woman in
the Top 10: Alessia Cara. Theres only one
[female] rapper, Nicki Minaj, who gets
significant airplay.
BANKS (singer): Lilith Fair was an attempt
to bring social change through cultural
activities that empower women. That
would definitely hold up today.
SARA QUIN: I dont know. I look at a lot of
festivals and think, I dont want to pee in a
trough, and I dont want to wait for 45 min-
utes for a bottle of water, and I dont want
to stand next to bare-chested people and
mosh and be sweaty. The only kind of fes-
tival I want to go to is where I dont have
to touch anyone, and I can be in a cold,
sterile, modern environment and watch
music. I basically just described my office,
where I streamed Coachella last weekend.
POWERS: I think a new festival should be
led by young women, be diverse at its core,
and be more confrontational than Lilith.
I see a bill with Solange headlining, with
Angel Olsen, Anohni, Jamila Woods, Hur-
ray for the Riff Raff, Xenia Rubinos, the
rapper NoName. This is fun!
Women should be able
to ask for what they want, and
be supported, without being
the damsel.
Despite global stars like Beyonc, Tay-
lor Swift, and Adele selling out stadiums
around the world and pushing their per-
sonal brand of feminism, the performers
say the sexism Lilith Fair was designed to
combatand the racism it ignoredstill
permeates the industry.
SZA (singer-songwriter whose album Ctrl
is out now): People write you off as being
emotional because youre a woman. But
if you were a man and passionate, youre
either a d-ckhead or like, Wow, you have
so much power, I want to be like you.
CARA: People dont care what men wear or
how they look. Unfortunately for women,
[the music industry] is very visual and
objectifying. The objectification of our
bodies and using our bodies to sell things
needs to change. A lot of this marketing
stuff comes from men, so we definitely
need [more] women behind the scenes.
ARIE: When youre a black woman, you deal
with both racism and sexism. I did a song
with John Mellencamp, and I heard him
say [in a 2017 interview] he left his label
because someone there said, I dont know
how were going to get him on the radio
when hes doing this music with these
n----rs. I was like, Whoa. You dont always York Times, Wired, and Rolling Stone.
see [racism] as blatant as this all the time,
but thats what the music industry is like.
EDWARDS: When I was releasing my first
solo record in 2006, I was told by the A&R
guy in the U.K., Theyre not going to play
it. The box has been ticked by Corinne
Bailey Rae. They already had a black
female artist with a British accent.
BETHANY COSENTINO (songwriter, singer,
and guitarist of Best Coast): I shouldnt
have someone roll their eyes at me
because I asked where the plug is on a
stage Ive never been on. It sucks to feel
like a monitor guy is giving you attitude
because he thinks youre just some dumb
girl that doesnt know what shes doing,
and then you see your [male] bandmate
ask the same question and he gives him a
straightforward answer.
NAS H : Youre treated like a child some-
times. Youre talked down to, and the
attempt at control is quite strong.
SZ A: We should let women be multifac-
eted. Women should be a boss without
being [labeled] arrogant or being a bitch.
They should be able to ask for what they
want, they should be reinforced and sup-
ported without being the damsel. You
should be able to have no limits.
TEGAN QUIN: Ever since we started in this
industry, we were told you never want
too many women on the same bill. You
dont want women opening for you. Peo-
ple encourage you to stay away from being
pigeonholed as a female artist who only
plays for women. Sarah did that at the
height of her career, and that was a pretty
bold move.
RAITT: Theres a generation of women that
dont remember Lilith, and it needs to
be remembered. It wasnt just about the
music; it was crossing all kinds of issues
and causes, and the whole vibe of it was
so powerful. Remember that Lilith Fair
was revolutionary.
McL ACHL AN: I was raised with a mother
who told me that I wouldnt succeed,
that I wasnt good enough. Even at the
pinnacle of my success, shed come to a
show, and thered be, like, 10,000 people
screaming. And shed say, I just dont get
it. I think she had so little faith in her-
self and her abilities as a parent that she
couldnt imagine any offspring of hers
could do so well. And all that did was
drive me to push back. If someone says,
You cant do this, Im like, F-ck you!
Oh, yes I can, and I will.
Melissa Maerz has written for The New
Additional reporting by Ilana Kaplan.
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