L'OFFICIEL USA

Before they were ruling over House Mormont at the tender age of 11 or surviving the apocalypse with Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey was just a kid in Nottingham who loved to act. Now, at 19 years old, they’re the star of what’s already being referred to as one of the biggest shows of 2023. Despite their age, Ramsey seems to have cracked the code on having a career that appeals to even the hardest-to-please of audiences. Maybe it was their epic death as Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones; witty toe-to-toe repartee with Andrew Scott as Catherine Called Birdy’s sharp-tongued titular lead; or their latest role in The Last of Us as Ellie, a foul-mouthed 14-year-old desperate to get her hands on a gun. Or, maybe it’s the fact that, like…

There has been much written on capturing the effortlessness of the “French Girl.” As the founders of Destree, Géraldine Guyot and Laetitia Lumbroso are helping women around the globe achieve the elusive style. Logging onto our Zoom call, the duo are wearing chunky gold baubles that reflect the sensibility of Destree—unique but distinctly wearable, with a Parisian sensibility. Art—both contemporary and classic—has long served as the central inspiration for Guyot, who studied Contemporary Arts at Central Saint Martins and has headed up the creative side of Destree since its founding in 2016. “I come from a family of art collectors and grew up in a very creative environment,” she says. It’s reflected in her own designs, but also in the ways that she has chosen to collaborate with creatives across a…

Hair: It’s something that everyone has in some way, shape, or form. From body hair to facial hair to hair hair, it remains a crucial part of identity. Just as clothing and accessories trends speak to different classes, subcultures, or generations, what’s on our heads (and bodies) can be just as telling. As explored in the latest Musée des Arts Décoratifs exhibition, Des Cheveux et Des Poils (“Hair and Hairs”), hairstyles, color, and a lack of hair have all played silently potent roles in society for centuries. From coiffeur Léonard Autier’s laboriously elaborate poufs for Marie Antoinette, to the world’s first celebrity hairdresser Monsieur Antoine and the garçonne cuts of the Roaring ‘20s, to the politically charged Afros of the ‘70s, hair was and remains a form of social capital and…

ART Spring heralds another turn in the cycle of rebirth and reinvention. This issue of L’OFFICIEL Art features a generous sampling of artists, icons, and new talents who are claiming their spots in the creative sequence. While the drama of Paris’s Couture Fashion Week is usually reserved for the runways, Doja Cat had something else in mind for her first visit to the shows this past January. The musician has been inverting and subverting the public’s perception of her since she first arrived with her viral 2018 hit “Mooo!” An artist in her own right (she also paints, but that is just for her own enjoyment, for now), Doja speaks with L’OFFICIEL about that red Pat McGrath–ified Schiaparelli look, the new music she is working on, and her now bonafide status…

This past January, Doja Cat sat front row at the Schiaparelli Spring 2023 Couture show with her skin—from head to toe—covered in tens of thousands of red crystals. The result was magnetic. You couldn’t take your eyes off of her, even though she was sitting next to fashion legend (and Elsa Schiaparelli’s granddaughter) Marisa Berenson, and near Kylie Jenner, who was wearing a realistic faux lion’s head on her gown. In that moment, Doja Cat transformed from mere pop star into a bonafide fashion superstar. Not content to rest on her Schiaparelli look, at the Viktor & Rolf show two days later, the singer’s beauty look consisted of unconventionally worn false eyelashes, which formed eyebrows, a mustache, and a soul patch. It was a wink to those who had suggested she…