Fall 2021 - Fall Special 100 Year Anniversary Issue

L'OFFICIEL USA

Men’s and Women’s fashion magazine

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L'officiel USA
Marie-José Susskind-Jalou, Maxime Jalou Benjamin Eymère Maria Cecilia Andretta CHRISTOPHER BROWN Stefano Tonchi Caroline Grosso Anthony Cenname Robert D. Eisenhart III GIAMPIETRO BAUDO Joshua Glasgow Sara Ali Sabrina Abbas Jennifer Eymere Sophie Shaw
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In this Issue
“The Eyes Have It” “Jessica Chastain is one of those actors who is so good at her job that it’s easy to forget how hard the work she’s doing actually is. I was moved by the generosity of spirit she showed towards everything, from her co-stars and the
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WALK the LINE
Since 1981, Emporio Armani has been an innovator. Giorgio Armani’s collection dedicated to younger audiences has changed with the times, all the while staying true to its values of inclusion. The brand’s Fall/Winter 2021 show, aptly named “In The Moo
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L.A. Women
I moved recently to a house in a canyon in Los Angeles, which is similar in its situation to the house in which I grew up in a neighboring foothill section of the city. Like the house my parents had, this property has views on to nearby canyon ridges
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SHAPE Shifters
Fine jewelry has long drawn its prestige from the versatility of the unique pieces that lavish on the crowned heads and great figures of high society. This centuries-old tradition, common since the 1800s, has its origins in a double necessity. First,
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Color VISION
On social media, artist Lucy Bull’s landscapes read like tunedup Impressionism with shades of Mark Bradford. Or maybe late Monet lily pads on acid. In person, there is something more sinister going on. Bull’s psychedelic paintings hiss and vibrate li
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L’O Dossier
Conner Ives has captured his ideal of The American Dream in his collection of the same name. Ives’ graduate collection from Central Saint Martins takes inspiration from the women he grew up around in Bedford, New York. From “The L.A. Crystal Girl” to
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DECADE by Decade
Fashion magazines demand to be judged by their covers. A mysterious alchemy of glossy photography, inspired styling, and graphic design that somehow perfectly captures the zeitgeist, the magazine cover is at once timeless and also a precise reflectio
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The EYES Have IT
Despite the close attention it’s paid on the red carpet, fashion, for a celebrity, is typically fairly disconnected from a star’s real interior world. For the chameleonic actor Jessica Chastain, though, fashion is elemental: a true pleasure that is b
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A CENTURY OF PARISIAN Nights
According to writer and Parisian nightlife aficionado Maurice Sachs, the first dance halls opened in Paris one hundred years ago, in 1921. During the First World War, social evenings and dances were not considered proper for young women to attend, bu
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DRAWN Out
Renowned fashion illustrator René Gruau was one of the most significant figures to leave his mark on the pages of L’OFFICIEL. Often drawing comparisons to the great French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Gruau’s Japonisme-inspired use of color and
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American BEAUTY
L’OFFICIEL: You’re here today to celebrate your famous L’OFFICIEL cover shot in 1971. What does it mean to you to be able to revisit this moment in your life? PAT CLEVELAND: I’ve always lived in that moment. Arriving in Paris at 20 years old and bein
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The PAST is PROLOGUE
The lockdown in Paris during the pandemic didn’t affect the interior-designing husband and wife duo Dorothée Boissier and Patrick Gilles as much as it could have. A few months before the chaos started, the couple and their two children moved into an
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L’lookback
Animal-printed fashion made its debut during the same decade as L’OFFICIEL, becoming a fashionable addition to the closets of the elite in the early 1920s. While today animal prints can be interpreted as anything from elegant to campy, leopard, zebra

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