ELLE July 2014

Tuesday, July 1 MAKE-OUT PARTY Blow Me a Kiss explores the power of lips to seduce and inspire, with more than 80 glossy images by artists such as Cindy Sherman and Mario Sorrenti. The provocative pouts of Mick Jagger and Cindy Crawford are just a couple of the famous mouths on display. Sunday, July 13 CARNAL SCIENCE Showtime's cerebral-yet-titillating drama Masters of Sex, about two pioneers in the study of human sexuality, gets busy for a second season, this time with Sarah Silverman added to the already stellar cast. Tuesday, July 15 CHICK-A-BILLY Norah Jones diehards have been catching Jones live with Sasha Dobson and Catherine Popper as Puss n Boots since 2008. Now the trio bring their powerful pipes and honeyed harmonies to their debut album, No Fools, No…

SNAP CHAT! Many thanks to our readers, who are also—now—our contributors! We asked all you burgeoning photographers and stylists to tag @ELLEUSA in your Instagram masterpieces, and here we present a few of your most inspired posts Carly Sloane // Copenhagen, Denmark // @carlyjadeslo Nicole Pagan // Puerto Rico //@leavesyoubreathless Sasha Lytvyn // New York City // @sasha_lytvyn Tatiana Tort // Los Angeles // @tatianatort Bianca O'Neill // Sydney, Australia // @alphabetponymag Dana Laquidara // New York City // @danasgotarose Michelle Min // San Francisco // @touchtastedesign "The everyday San Franciscan woman is my daily muse. The streets are full of inspiration." Crystal Vargas // Chicago // @lolita_larue Mimi Minh Nguyen // Paris, France // @mimiminh_nguyen "The woman is my friend Li Lam, a fashion designer in Vietnam. She inspires…

THE NEW SOCIALITES Anna Kendrick is funny. She's funny in the movies—exchanging rapid-fire banter with George Clooney in her Oscar-nominated turn in Up in the Air and singing naked in the shower in the nearly perfect Pitch Perfect (based on the book by ELLE's own columnist Mickey Rapkin). Kendrick is funny on Saturday Night Live, expertly sending up Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg's classic "Dick in a Box" with her "Dongs All Over the World" music video, and she's really funny on Twitter, entertaining her some 2.4 million followers with wry observations and friendly banter. ("I think how I feel about auto-tune is how girls who actually work out probably feel about Spanx.") Kendrick is also beautiful and smart, and, yes, has a great voice ("Cups" sat on the Billboard…

For ELLE's annual Women in Music Issue (May 2014), we couldn't think of a more dynamic, debated, provocative artist for our cover than the ever-mutable, social-media-exploding Miley Cyrus, who coined the hashtag #ElleYeah in her tweet about the shoot. And who better to interview the star than the journalistic teen-queen herself, blogger-cum-editor-cum-actress-cum-Broadway-star Tavi Gevinson? No one, according to our readers: Celebrity journalists typically mystify their subjects, building up the hype that surrounds them, but Gevinson is too close to Cyrus in age and has too much integrity to treat the pop star as anything other than an ordinary girl living an unusual life. —Nika Mavrody, The Fashion Spot Miley's interview in @ELLEmagazine might be my favorite yet. Love that her interviewer was around the same age. It felt so real.…

Rebecca Harrington TWITTER: @harring46. "It's ungainly. I didn't quite realize that this would be a thing." PROFESSION: Writer BONA FIDES: BA, history and literature, Harvard University; work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, and The Huffington Post; author of the novel Penelope THIS MONTH: "New Adventures in Social Stardom" (page 54) FIRST SCREEN NAME: BCKY117. "I was always one of those people who never understood that the randomly generated one was not what you had to choose." ON REPEAT: "Two Weeks Notice is the greatest movie of all time. Every line is the funniest thing I have ever heard anyone say. It's Hugh Grant at his finest and Sandra Bullock at her most funky." GUILTY PLEASURE: "I love Laineygossip.com. And I really like reviews. I love movie…

THE EARLY ADOPTER Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology & Strategy Officer, Cisco In grad school at Cornell, Padmasree Warrior found herself waiting around for a friend at a career fair. To kill time, she filled out an application for a job at Motorola. The rest of her career has been far more intentional. She steadily climbed the Motorola ranks to CTO and made the leap to Cisco seven years ago. It's her job to identify companies the tech giant should acquire and technologies it should invest in—she's the reason Cisco was at the forefront of cloud computing. But Warrior's influence extends far beyond the company's 75,000-plus employees: She has 1.46 million Twitter followers (more than just about any of her fellow tech execs), and her feed is peppered with nail-art selfies…