Inhaltsverzeichnis für March 2026 in ELLE

We lost one of fashion’s leading lights earlier this year. Valentino Garavani helped redefine our idea of Italian elegance with his sweeping, unabashedly feminine designs and, of course, his signature bright red. His loss is a profound one for our industry. Our spring fashion issue stars Odessa A’zion, who, after nabbing roles in not one, but two endlessly talked-about projects (Marty Supreme and I Love LA), has become a sought-after talent. A’zion possesses an “ ‘inside is on the outside’ quality that…makes her acting special,” says Sarah Paulson, who is costarring with her in a forthcoming film project. As Paulson tells writer Clover Hope, “There’s an instant intimacy with her that’s kind of rare.” For more on Odessa, keep an eye on ELLE’s social channels. And our second cover subject,…

“I feel really at home here,” says Julian Klausner. He’s speaking not just about the office he’s currently occupying, but something much more symbolic. At the end of 2024, he took over at the house of Dries Van Noten as creative director—after working there for six years as a womenswear designer. We’re speaking a few days before the anniversary of the announcement, so he’s been reflecting on year one. Slight, in a navy sweater, the 34-year-old designer is given to knitting his brow and making careful pronouncements, often bookended by the words, “Let’s say.…” But his work projects a confidence that has won him critical acclaim over just a few short seasons. He is also something increasingly rare in the never-more-in-flux fashion industry: an in-house hire who had the chance…

A nya Taylor-Joy is a fragrance person. “I wear perfume every single day,” she says. As one of the faces of the new Dior Addict fragrances, she now has three more to play with. Each scent, created by Francis Kurkdjian, Dior’s perfume creation director, was made alongside Peter Philips, Dior Makeup’s creative and image director, and pairs with a Lip Glow Oil. Below, Taylor-Joy plays a game of smell association, shares her wellness musts, and teases Dune: Part Three. What role does fragrance play in your life? Scent is one of my favorite senses. I find it a really helpful way into a character. It’s also nice that my past self can create a little time capsule for my future to enjoy. I find it to be a personal prayer…

When Jill Scott is ready to make an album, she needs to live a little first. And there’s a lot of life the neo-soul legend has lived since releasing 2015’s Woman. She’s toured off and on, starred in BET’s First Wives Club series, and guest-starred on beloved sitcoms like Black-ish and Abbott Elementary. More importantly, she’s healed herself and her family. “I’m taking time to navigate my kids’ existence and to get my mother together and make sure she’s good,” she says. “I took time to grieve my father. I’ve taken time to learn how to live better than I was before. Clearly, it’s not all divine and perfect.” She corrects herself quickly: “Well, it is divine, but it’s not all perfect. I’ve been livin’, honey. That’s what it is.”…

The Bow Blouse The exaggerated bow first appeared in Saint Laurent’s menswear collection, and creative director Anthony Vaccarello recently echoed the motif for his women’s range. The outsize detail brings a classic white shirt into bona fide fashion-statement territory. The Tweed Suit Matthieu Blazy billed his Chanel debut as “an imaginary conversation with Gabrielle Chanel.” Naturally, the house founder’s iconic tweed suit made an appearance, with a relaxed shape and deconstructed hem that brought it squarely into the present. The Romantic Earring Ribbons and ruffes get an elevated upgrade with Louis Vuitton’s winsome dress, accessorized by D’heygere’s earrings. (Fun fact: ELLE’s Fashion Special Projects Editor Paul Sinclaire first discovered designer Stephanie D’heygere’s bow earrings when she wore them to pose for a portrait, and he knew he wanted them for…

The BAG Michael Rider’s color-blocked Celine collection was a standout of the spring 2026 season. One highlight? The oversize Drop Bucket bag in smooth calfskin with vivid contrasting stripes. The EARRINGS The architectural precision of the Clash de Cartier range is made even more complex with pierced carnelian beads contrasted with 18K rose gold clou de Paris nails. The SHOE Mesh flats, meet crocheted pumps. Fashion-insider favorite Nina Christen’s ivory-colored Mandala style puts an elevated twist on the contemporary staple.…

Some of Zane Li’s designs are so confounding, it’s hard to believe they’re real. Crisp rectangles of primary colors that bend and fold sumptuously off the body. Dresses that hover as if suspended by invisible wires. On the hanger, they can be intimidating, with more openings and sleeves than the average wearer might know what to do with. “A lot of the fun part actually happens between the dressing and undressing moment,” Li explains to me from a studio in Chongqing, his hometown in southwestern China. (He now splits his time between Chongqing and New York City.) Motioning to a rack of samples, he gushes over the unexpected shapes that can emerge during fittings. Sometimes they even inspire him to go back and incorporate those ideas into the original designs.…

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A mericans have always loved teeth: Aquafresh insured America Ferrera’s for $10 million, and Tyra Banks once bragged she had 275 different smiles in her arsenal. But recently, our cultural obsession with mouths has reached new heights. Open TikTok and you’ll find—where once there were 14-step K-beauty skin care regimens—a slew of videos about elaborate “mouth routines.” Influencer Lala Baptiste’s oral hygiene routine, for one, calls for a 15-minute coconut oil pull, a Waterpik that she puts both water and mouthwash in, flossing, an electric toothbrush, a tongue scraper, alcohol-free mouthwash, and probiotic tablets that supposedly nix morning breath. Elsewhere, people are examining their tongue for health clues and turning into armchair experts on which celebrities have upgraded their veneers. Mouths are having a moment. For one thing, we see…

It’s 9 a.m. and Kayla Barnes-Lentz has already had, by any reasonable definition, a day. When I arrive at her door, about 40 minutes from downtown Austin, Texas, she begins by listing what I’ve missed since she awoke, without an alarm, at 4:50 a.m. She brushed her teeth, water-flossed, and used an in-mouth red-light device to kill oral bacteria. She completed a Pulse PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field) therapy session. She breathed with intention. She prayed. At sunrise, she walked around her gated community with her husband, Warren, to optimize her circadian rhythm. She drank a coffee with whey protein, collagen peptides, creatine, colostrum, and NAD powder. She strength-trained and rode her CAROL, an AI-powered resistance bike. She posted that workout for her 595,000 Instagram followers. She sweated in her infrared…

When Carminho crafted “Memória,” she thought the song would make her own track list. The fado singer wrote the soulful lyrics and set them to the roughly 50-year-old “Fado Maria Rita,” a standard in the Portuguese genre. Carminho then presented it to her friend Rosalía, hoping the Spanish star would hop on to feature. Carminho was shocked when Rosalía told her she wanted the song for her own album, Lux. “She asked me, ‘How important is this song for you?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know, it’s important, but songs are songs.’ We can do many songs, but we cannot force connections, love, and collaborations. That is so precious,” Carminho says. “Of course I said yes.” “Memória,” the second-to-last track on Lux, highlights an internal battle that many established artists…

DURING LAST WINTER’S DESIGN MIAMI FAIR, attendees were welcomed into Fonderia Fendi, a brilliantly yellow room showcasing the work of artist and designer Conie Vallese. Vallese had been handpicked by Fendi for the project, a celebration of the brand’s 100th anniversary. She worked with five different Italian ateliers to build the pieces, which included a vase, a room divider, a carpet, ceramic cubes, and a chair—each combining sleek design with soft touches, like floral flourishes. (You can see the work on page 73.) “It felt less like assembling objects and more like composing a shared language across materials,” Vallese says. “In the end, the installation became a celebration of togetherness as the core and force of the project. It felt like a true meeting point between my own sensibility and…

NEUE AGE Explore the world of Constantin Brancusi at an all-new solo exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, presented in partnership with the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Running from March 20 to August 9, the show is the first retrospective on the Romanian French sculptor to be held in Germany in over 50 years. Key works on display include Sleeping Muse and Endless Column. Visitors will also be able to view a partial reconstruction of the artist’s studio, on view for the first time outside of France since 1957. smb.museum. FLOOR SHOW From the Scandinavian design brand Nordic Knots comes a new collection created by Studio Mellone. Brazilian-born, New York–based designer Andre Mellone drew from his favorite design influences, including Art Deco architecture and the warm, earthy palette of…

As an American, you always remember your first international sunscreen. I had panic-booked my first cosmetic dermatologist appointment after “base tans” and years of lifeguarding had taken their toll. The doctor told me that until I got really good at sunscreen, all interventions were off the table. The problem? I hated them. When I told a friend my dilemma, she sent me to New York’s Chinatown to “find the blue bottle of Japanese sunscreen,” or Bioré UV. Confused by a sensation I can only describe as “silk water,” I applied more. It was spiritual. And in that devotion, I haven’t missed a daily application since. This created a new issue: It is illegal to sell the overseas versions of sunscreens like Bioré UV in the United States. America is an…

Before there was K-pop, K-drama, K-beauty, and K-cuisine—not to mention KPop Demon Hunters, the hit film that pays tribute to all of them—there was a girl in Toronto who had to help her second-grade teacher find Korea on a map. “I pointed it out to him, and he was amazed that there was a country in between China and Japan,” says Maggie Kang, a director of the Netflix phenomenon, whose family moved from South Korea to Canada when she was five. “It shocked me. It didn’t make me lose my pride in being Korean. It actually made it stronger. And I always thought that I would want to do something that would showcase Korean culture to the world.” Some three-plus decades later, Kang joins me by video call from Seoul,…

A WEEK AGO, ODESSA A’ZION FELT LIKE A LOSER. It was the night before this year’s Oscar nominations, and she was in Montreal, shooting her next film. By that point, A’zion had been on her first-ever awards show run for her breakout performance as the subtly savvy Rachel opposite Timothée Chalamet in Josh Safdie’s table tennis opus Marty Supreme (now A24’s biggest domestic hit), for which she scored nominations in the Best Supporting Actress category for the New York Film Critics Online and Actor Awards (formerly SAG Awards). A’zion is famously superstitious. As a kid, she tells me, she slept encircled by stuffed animals that all had to be touching and drew an alien on her pillow because she “thought the animals would protect me from the aliens.” She usually…