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NOVEMBER 2017

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RETRO FASHION TIPS SELF CARE THAT ACTUALLY HELPS WHY YOU SHOULD BE PAYING ATTENTION TO POLITICS

16 STRONG

FEMALE ROLE MODELS ON TELEVISION TODAY

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SUIT NATALIA DYER

features keeping your head in the midst of this insanity

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the cool girl bob

this $25 hairstyle is taking effortless fashion to the next level ......................

being alone in the internet age

why do you have a front row seat to everyone’s relationships? ....................

political playground

its really not as fun as that makes it sound, but you should know what’s up....

you’re my hero, lady

television is finally cluing into the fact that we want to see women .................

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celebrities

badass big sister

you wish your sister was as cool as nancy wheeler- or natalia dyer

partying away melacholy

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Lorde finally hit a green light and brought a killer freaking album with her

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beauty and health

she’s still preoccupied

with 1985. 80s fashion could be the key to a great wardrobe in 2017 ...........

self care do care

Natalia Dyer Photographed for Coveteur Magazine, August 2017

everything is the worst

Natalia Dyer Photographed for Coveteur Magazine, August 2017

You may feel alone when looking at all of your friends “national boyfriend day” pictures, but you aren’t as solitary as you think. Find out why the internet age is the best time to be single on page 48.

it’s not all face masks and bubble baths. okay, it’s a little bit that ..................

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Natalia Dyer Photographed for Coveteur Magazine, August 2017

There are lots of ways to take care of yourself, so make sure you do it! Check out our favorite self care methods on page 18.

partying away melancholy written by: Jon Parales Four years between albums, and Lorde makes it sound as if all she did was party.

Not that she was having much fun.

On “Melodrama,” her second album, Lorde’s nights out are a swirl of drunken flirtations and reckless hookups, where she tries to forget herself but ends up more lonely and self-conscious than ever. Momentary pleasures lead to lasting regrets; trivial interactions can seem cataclysmic. It’s an exceedingly narrow slice of life, but Lorde inhabits it with feverish intensity.

The album’s opener and lead single, “Green Light,” leaps right into all her conflicting impulses: She’s furious at an ex but still struggling to let go, though, she also notes, “sometimes I wake up in a different bedroom.” Quick, bouncy piano chords, a foot-stomping beat and eager backup singers can only emphasize that she’s “waiting for that green light” of real independence — not that she’s found it yet. But the song’s joyous major chords already sound as though she’s busted loose.

Yelich-O’Connor — has presented “Melodrama” as autobiographical, summing up the time since her debut album, “Pure Heroine,” particularly “the last 2 wild, fluorescent years of my life,” she wrote on Twitter.

It’s a deeply selective account. Between albums (and between parties), Lorde was also the hard-working musician she portrayed herself as in “Still Sane” on “Pure Heroine.” She toured the world, supervised the soundtrack for “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1” (with a song of her own) and worked steadily on the songs that would follow her world-conquering debut.

Amid the party reminiscences on “Melodrama,” she also sings about a breakup that she insists was partly triggered by her growing fame: He “hated hearing my name on the lips of a crowd,” she sings. Lorde was all of 16, and clearly wise beyond her years, when “Pure Heroine” was released.

In most of the songs on that album, Lorde presented herself as a voice of ordinary teenagers, particularly the middle-class

teens in her hometown in New Zealand. She often sang about them as a shared “we,” and while they knew they were a world away from glamour or renown, on their own terms they were heroes and gladiators; Lorde’s music, overdubbing her own voice, cast them as ghostly chorales and majestic choirs. “Royals,” her career-making international hit, was a yearning repudiation of what pop and hiphop songs were flaunting for teenagers like her: “Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece,” shaping fantasies until “We’re driving Cadillacs in our dreams.” With that song, and the rest of “Pure Heroine,” Lorde became a pop star herself. would m a k e any-

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one’s head spin and give anyone second thoughts; no wonder Lorde, now 20, took so long to make a second album. She had an infinitude of choices; she had worldwide recognition and new friends like her fellow teen conquistadora, Taylor Swift. It’s a very different, more rarefied, more isolated peer group. Lorde is not remotely ordinary any more, and she’s no longer a teenager, that’s for certain. She’s really a heroine now.

one to watch GRETA GERWIG

Greta Gerwig once peed her pants during a math test. She was in seventh grade, it was a new school, the test was a placement exam and she didn’t know the rules. Was she allowed to get up? Was it O.K. to raise her hand? While she agonized, the girl next to her noticed the puddle forming. Gerwig has forgotten this child Samaritan’s name, but she will never forget what the girl did. She took off her sweatshirt and whispered to Gerwig to tie it around her waist and go to the nurse’s office. Gerwig — terrified, humiliated — did as instructed.

The next year, when Mrs. Jensen, her social-studies teacher, asked the class for submissions to a school literary journal, Gerwig wrote a story about a girl who pees her pants in class. Mrs. Jensen loved it so much that she hung it on the board.This, Gerwig explained to me recently, was the first inkling she had that she was a Writer-with-a-capital-W. We were having breakfast at Cafe Cluny in the West Village to discuss her new film, “Lady Bird,” which she directed from a script she wrote. I asked her why she submitted the pee story to the literary journal. Wasn’t she afraid that the other kids would find out what had happened? “I knew in it there was a story that was funny and sweet,” she said, gesturing over her eggs as if she were conducting them.

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she’s still preoccupied Ah, ’80s fashion. Some might say no era’s style is as equally loved and hated as the period from 1980 to 1989. It was a time filled with legwarmers, high-cut spandex, sequins galore, and lots and lots of neon. You’ve probably noticed there’s been a pretty heavy resurrection of ’80s fashion trends both on the runway and the street lately. It’s a risky look—but if you know how to interpret the style, it’s totally possible to pull it off without looking like you’re going to a costume party.

top row left to right: embellished denim, padded shoulders, white heels

bottom row left to right: sequins, mirrored sunlasses opposite: ruffles, wide belts, fuzy sweaters, high waisted jeans

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ruffles + wide belt

double whammies fuzzy sweater + high waist

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