Table of contents for October 2019 in Harper's Bazaar

Now that you have our October issue, get ready to shop it. Look for the icon next to an item in Harper’s BAZAAR: It means the item is available to buy on ShopBAZAAR.com—the online store brought to you by our editors. We’ve partnered with the best specialty boutiques, most coveted designers, and prestige beauty brands to present the must-have fashion and beauty edit of the season, in a shopping destination that’s open around the clock and around the world.…

When labeling a pair of boots as “amazing,” certain requirements must be met: flattering shape, seasonless color, and unique details. Our custom-created exclusive Hero from emerging designer Daniella Shevel is worthy of that label. The sleek silhouette accentuates the natural lines of the foot, the classic camel shade is timeless and versatile, and the extra-long laces can be tied around the ankles for that extra flair.…

FROM THE EDITORS OF HARPER’S BAZAAR DEVEAUX “Think monochromatic looks that will live in clothes make women feel beautiful in an effortlessly cool way.” your closet for years to come. Tommy Ton’s STAND STUDIO “This Scandi label specializes in paper-thin leather jackets and faux fur coats in bright bold colors that’ll bring a smile to your face.” KHAITE “Khaite is a brand that brings functionality and fantasy to life. Designer Catherine Holstein creates pieces that cause an emotional reaction.”…

KEEP • Textured handbags • Muted florals • Tie-neck blouses RECYCLE • Pointed flats • Tiny sunglasses • High-low hemlines…

BEAUTY TIP Neutral nails won’t distract from a strong pattern.…

AT THE beginning of the classic 1980s office rom-com Working Girl, Melanie Griffith’s character arrives at the Wall Street investment bank where she dreams of climbing the corporate ladder and swaps the white Reebok high-tops she wears with a skirt suit on her morning commute for a pair of pointy black pumps. “OMG, that scene feels so dated!” says beauty entrepreneur Maria Hatzistefanis, a.k.a. @mrsrodial, as the founder and CEO of skincare brand Rodial is known to the one million Instagram followers who like her boss-lady-in-Balenciaga-Triple-S-sneakers selfies. “I always hated the implicit message that sneakers make a woman look lame.” Hatzistefanis believes that dressing for success today is totally compatible with wearing shoes once reserved for the street. “I speak at a lot of tech conferences and I wanted a…

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THE DAY I felt the lump was one of those white-hot summer days we rarely get in Vermont. My boyfriend and I were packing to go canoe camping to celebrate my 36th birthday that day, so when I casually tucked my hands under my armpits and felt a small, slightly painful bump, I shrugged it off. But when the breast surgeon slid an ultrasound probe over my breast the next month, she wasn’t smiling. An inconclusive biopsy led to a lumpectomy, then a call a few days later: “I’m sorry, Lindsay. We’ve got a little bit of cancer here.” From the surgeon’s attitude, it sounded like something that could be tackled with a few rounds of radiation and minimal disruption to my life. Unfortunately, a second surgery revealed that the…

I ORDER GUACAMOLE and margaritas, and wait for Busy Philipps in the back of a crowded Mexican restaurant in West Hollywood. I haven’t yet met the actress and author of the 2018 memoir This Will Only Hurt a Little, which I consumed in one sitting and loved for its witty “show, not tell” feminism. I’m eager to get her take on Fair Play, my systemized approach to renegotiating and rebalancing the domestic workload between couples. I was familiar with the narrative of her rocky marriage to screenwriter Marc Silverstein and how she’d often felt that the responsibility for raising their two daughters—Birdie, now 11, and Cricket, six—fell on her. But instead of dredging up the past, I was more interested in how they had improved their relationship. According to recent…

DRESS POWERFULLY, THINK POSITIVELY On Thursday, June 20, Harper’s BAZAAR, Farfetch, and The Jane Club joined forces for a panel conversation covering numerous fashion related subjects such as ageless dressing, sustainability, maximizing your wardrobe, and efficiency of time. Panelists included actress and The Jane Club Co-Founder June Diane Raphael, Grace & Frankie Costume Designer Allyson Fanger, BAZAAR Digital Features Director Olivia Fleming, and Farfetch VP Brand Marketing Alvina Patel, with moderator Lizzy Mathis, founder of The Cool Mom Co. The evening aligned with Positively Farfetch, the company’s mission to become a global platform for good in luxury fashion—empowering consumers to think, act, and choose positively by highlighting brands and products that consider the impacts on the environment, society, and animal welfare. Visit farfetch.com and janeclub.com to learn more. FASHIONABLE FOOTWORK…

Keeping up, and looking good while doing it, is a difficult task, so we’re making it easier with the ultimate tool every modern woman needs. Our editors designed an exclusive collection of premium, animal-print PopGrips that are interchangeable, multifunctional, and wildly chic. FROM THE EDITORS OF HARPER’S BAZAAR “I’m always running around the city on appointments with my phone in hand, and too often dropping it—an occupational hazard. Now that’s no longer a problem.” JADE FRAMPTON SHOPBAZAAR EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Social media is my job, so it goes without saying my phone is an extension of my arm. The PopGrip makes it so easy to carry and use.” CHRISSY RUTHERFORD BAZAAR.COM SPECIAL PROJECTS DIRECTOR, TALENT & SOCIAL “Adding this PopGrip made my phone so easy to hold and it allows me…

Second to none. Clockwise from top left: Van Cleef & Arpels timepiece. vancleefarpels.com. Bulgari watch, $7,150. bulgari.com. Cartier watch, $5,000. cartier.com. Rolex watch. rolex.com. Hermès watch. hermes.com. Patek Philippe watch. 212-218-1240. Fashion editor: Amanda Alagem…

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THE GREEN VIDEO light on my MacBook Air is my enemy. If you’re on a Zoom call with me, you’ll notice that my chin is always resting strategically on my palm. Same thing on Instagram. I’m actually pulling the skin back in a faux nip and tuck to excavate the jawline I seemed to have lost 18 months ago. Prior to this, I’d never really worried about my neck—I have plenty of other issues. But when you turn 55 or so, your neck (loose skin, jowls, marionette lines, muscle bands, salivary glands) drops one Sunday evening during Big Little Lies. Then it’s all anyone talks about: what to do, who’s done it, how it works, and how soon you can book it. A friend in L.A. recently had her neck…

IN THE MONTHS leading up to my 30th birthday, I remember feeling content that many pieces of so-called adult life were falling into place: I had a great job in London as a magazine editor, a husband I’d known since I graduated from college, and a fun group of friends. Then, 10 days before my birthday, out of the blue my husband announced he was leaving. He packed his bags the next day, and I have not seen, or spoken to, him in the six years since. In the immediate aftermath, I was incapable of feeling anything except loss, shame, and alienation. The thing is, life doesn’t pause, and your personal tragedy isn’t anyone else’s. Your friends don’t stop getting engaged, pregnant, or promoted. The bills keep coming, as do…

“Everything that occurs in our individual lives informs us. Shifting, molding, presenting the opportunities for the exact purpose to get us where we are in the present time. Whatever that may be.” “The next thing I remember is using my fingers, the small fingers of a child, to dig the pills my mother had tried to swallow out of her mouth while my father held it open and told me what to do. Something very deep inside me shifted then, and it never shifted back. My childhood was over.” Demi Moore turns up on the doorstep of my rental house in Wales in late July bearing gifts. She unloads them herself from the trunk of a black sedan, calling goodbye to a driver she’s known for two hours like it’s…

NANCY PELOSI LIKES TO SAY that her parents didn’t raise her to be the first female speaker of the House and the most powerful woman in the country. They raised her to be holy. Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., the Italian-American Catholic Democratic boss of Baltimore, and his politically savvy wife, “Big Nancy,” brought up their youngest child to always help those with less. But Washington is a hard place to be holy these days. Compassion is out of fashion. The speaker spends her time fighting for social justice, as her parents and the nuns taught her to do, in a capital bristling with lies, corruption, and racism. She’s deftly tangling with an unruly president who did not rise to the top by observing the Ten Commandments. “I pray for him all…

FEW PEOPLE embody the idea that age is just a number more perfectly than Demi Moore. A timeless talent and transcendent beauty, she’s also known to friends like Editor in Chief Glenda Bailey as a profoundly thoughtful and generous spirit, the kind of person who never forgets a birthday and who lifts up everyone around her. (“I remember on a recent holiday, Demi looked like such a complete goddess in her white bikini, and her energy was contagious,” Bailey recalls.) Her latest project is a deeply personal memoir, Inside Out, which shares captivating stories about her upbringing, marriages, and struggles to overcome addiction; and in this, our annual Fabulous at Every Age issue, she discusses the book with her friend Lena Dunham. In the revealing interview, Moore bares all—literally and…

FROM THE EDITORS OF HARPER’S BAZAAR…

Top a streamlined monochromatic ensemble with a plush oversize shearling.…

HOW MANY pairs of jeans do you really need? To answer this question, take your cue from Gigi Hadid, a girl who loves wearing the staple so much, she made “denim and boots” the dress code for her star-studded 24th-birthday party. At the April celebration, friends and family of the supermodel, including Helena Christensen, Ashley Graham, and Bella Hadid, danced the night away in their trusty blues at New York hot spot Le Chalet. Gigi herself sported the brand’s iconic STRAIGHT LEG 501s—the ur jeans style that dates to 1873—customized with a “24” patch on the right leg. Hadid has worn jeans at least 47 other times in the past year (yes, I counted), and while I won’t recommend that you invest in that many pairs, the styles she wears…

FASHION SURREAL LIFE “Between minimalism and exuberance” is how Nodaleto cofounder Julia Toledano, daughter of LVMH chairman and CEO Sidney Toledano, describes her debut line of go-go boots and platform Mary Janes that pays homage to Guy Bourdin’s provocative 1970s photographs. BOOKS FEMININE MYSTIQUE “WHY HAVE THERE BEEN No Great Women Artists?” asked a landmark 1971 essay, effectively birthing the feminist art history movement with its rallying cry to reconsider the canon. Now, Great Women Artists (Phaidon) offers a cheeky response through the stories of more than 400 artists. Spanning 500 years, this epic survey features once obscure figures like Artemisia Gentileschi, who was excluded from written accounts for centuries, as well as contemporary masters like Cindy Sherman and Marilyn Minter. Also this month, photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory’s…

WANT TO FEEL your best in the buff? Don’t stress so much about size: It’s really about looking firmer and smoother—basically, in shape. Here, the most efficient ways to get there. HIGH-TECH CHEATS “In the past five years, there’s been a boon in what we can do for the body,” says Paul Jarrod Frank, M.D., a New York dermatologist. He says that half of his days are now spent on procedures designed for below the neck. What do patients want? “Above all, tighter, more toned skin.” For example, Emtone: Newly cleared by the FDA for the treatment of cellulite and loss of skin tone, it uses thermal radio frequency to tighten skin by stimulating collagen, while mechanical shock wave therapy breaks up fibrous bands, smoothing out a rippled surface. Emtone…

MAKEUP-BAG MUSTS My number one is a concealer you can see your skin through. On my lips I like a little wash of natural color, such as a sheer berry. For a subtle glow, I use self-tanning towelettes—I’m much better about SPF now than when I was younger. DAY-TO-DATE ROUTINE I put on brown eyeliner. I need a thin, fine line, so I pick one with a felt-tip point. The second thing? Curl those lashes! Then I apply brown mascara. I finish with a deeper lip color on the middle of my lips. HAIR PROGRAM When I’m not working—woof! I brush my hair, twist it, and just pin it on top of my head. (I’ve spent too much time in front of mirrors!) But I switch around shampoos. I’ve also…

Covers Newsstand Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet, price upon request. Subscriber (statues) Dior Haute Couture dress, price upon request. Cartier bracelet and ring, prices upon request. Subscriber (columns) Chanel Haute Couture dress, glasses, and moccasins, prices upon request. Chanel Fine Jewelry ring, $365,100. Internal Armani Privé top and skirt, prices upon request. armani.com. Cartier High Jewelry earrings, price upon request. 800-CARTIER. Roger Vivier sandals, $1,050. 212-861-5371. David Yurman ring, price upon request. davidyurman.com. Givenchy Haute Couture top, bra, skirt, and shoes, prices upon request. givenchy.com. Cartier necklace and ring, prices upon request. 800-CARTIER. David Yurman ring, $9,800. davidyurman.com. Must-Haves Page 77 Brunello Cucinelli coat, $21,500. Wait List Page 86 Louis Vuitton Speedy bag, price upon request. Watches Page 88 Van Cleef & Arpels timepiece, $16,100. Rolex watch, $15,200. Hermès watch, $18,500. Patek Philippe watch,…