Spring 2021 - Women's Spring Fashion Issue

L'OFFICIEL USA

Men’s and Women’s fashion magazine

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PUBLISHERS Marie-José Susskind-Jalou, Maxime Jalou CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Benjamin Eymère GLOBAL DEPUTY CEO Maria Cecilia Andretta CONSULTING GLOBAL CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER Stefano Tonchi CHAIRMAN CHRISTOPHER BROWN GLOBAL CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER Anthon
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In this Issue
MAKEUP ARTIST “Red Alert” “Olivia Malone and I created a world of glamour met with masculinity for a lip story showcasing Dior’s new Rouge Dior collection.” STYLIST “Searching Time” “We wanted to capture all sides of Sienna Miller in this story—a mor
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Ready-MADE In France
Marcia began with a tube dress, the now-famous TchikiBoum, designed with cut-outs down the side and meant to be worn with nothing underneath. The brand’s founder, Emma Reynaud, first pursued a career as a ballet dancer and then as a model, before bec
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RED Alert
Before becoming a master couturier, Christian Dior dreamt of many wondrous things: astrological projections, fresh-cut flowers—a fixture of his upbringing on the coast of Normandy—and, of course, feminine beauty. He deviated from just about every ass
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Wild ROSE
There is nothing quite so elegant as a bouquet of roses. With I Only Love Wild Roses, Cartier’s latest olfactory collection, perfumer Mathilde Laurent seeks to rethink the archetype of the flower as a symbol of delicate femininity and rediscover the
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SUZANNE LINDON Sees Herself
Suzanne Lindon fiddles with two tiny pendants hanging from her neck. Handmade by the delicate Italian brand Merù Gioielli, one portrays a blue pansy flower, the other a stripper with the motto “Good Luck.” Barely visible, these little gems nod to the
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FORCE of Nature
It is said that in the early ‘60s, when Kenzo Takada left his native Japan and, after six months of travel, arrived in Paris, the first thing that he did was dance the night away. It was a moment of endless possibilities for the young designer. Even
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Fiction & REALITY
Linda Caridi expresses herself with a mix of grace and enthusiasm. The actress possesses a natural elegance, and clearly does not fear the vulnerability required by a theatrical monologue. L’OFFICIEL: How did you become an actress? LINDA CARIDI: I pl
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Lost At The Arts & CRAFTS Table
We are living in a post-industrial world—or at least that’s what my hair stylist, an amateur astrologist, tells me. People are going back to their hands, he says, because of a recent rare eclipse of Saturn and Jupiter. I nod obediently in the sink; b
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L’100
When this magazine was published for the first time, in 1921, a World War had just ended, and a battle against a deadly virus had finally been won. The Roaring Twenties were beginning, and art in all its forms was blossoming. Paris was at the center
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Searching TIME
A year into our second lives as indoor cats, Sienna Miller is wearing Uggs. To be clear, the American-born, British-raised actress has always been a champion of the contentious, shearling-lined shoe, but now that a new era of the Frankensteinian boot
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The Dreamer
When Walter Chiapponi enters a room, he creates a vortex. Slender and snappy, he moves gracefully through space as if he doesn’t place his feet on the ground. Hailing from Milan, the designer was named the creative director of Tod’s in October 2019,
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Re:WIND
PLAY IT AGAIN. These days, the past is worth more than the present. You can hear it as Taylor Swift and Bob Dylan play new versions of their songs: old successes remixed and remastered. Incubated in the flatness of the Internet, where the world is no
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La Parisienne According To Madame D’Ora
Though considered a visual medium to contemporary eyes, the fashion magazine was not always inextricably linked with photography. The early days of L’OFFICIEL were marked mostly by words, as flowery prose described collections alongside technical fas
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Building BLOCKS
Nearly 50 young designers and architects work for Pierre Yovanovitch in his Parisian agency, located in an 18thcentury building next to the Grands Boulevards. The headquarters of a global operation, the interior designer’s office is a beehive of crea
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WINDOW SHOPPING In Disguise
My therapist recently described a certain sect of my family as stuck in an inner drama of excess and deprivation, ricocheting between poles of queasy abundance and harrowing lack. I would describe my family life more as a comedy, but I wrote it down
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Over The Past Century, Silver Has Been A Bold Standard-bearer Of The New And Revolutionary.
From Art Deco-inspired evening wear to Sci-Fi futurama, silver has made a splash across the pages of L’OFFICIEL throughout the magazine’s 100-year history, but its cultural significance has evolved, too. During the 1930s, silver meant glamour. While

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