Harper's Bazaar USA 05.2021

BEAUTY Fashion’s is Personal DREAM SEASON Precious Lee Rianne Van Rompaey The Extravagant Hailey Bieber WISDOM of Liu Wen ISABELLA Adwoa Aboah ROSSELLINI on WHAT IT means How to Get the TO THEM BEST SKIN of Your “It’s a LIFE continuous JOURNEY to LOVE yourself.” Hailey Bieber



Fashion’s BEAUTY DREAM is Personal SEASON Precious Lee The Extravagant Rianne Van Rompaey WISDOM of ISABELLA Hailey Bieber ROSSELLINI Liu Wen How to Get Adwoa Aboah the BEST SKIN of Your LIFE “I think EXTREME EMOTIONS are Beautiful.”

BEAUTY Fashion’s is Personal DREAM SEASON Precious Lee Rianne Van Rompaey The Extravagant Hailey Bieber WISDOM of Liu Wen ISABELLA Adwoa Aboah ROSSELLINI on WHAT IT means How to Get the TO THEM BEST SKIN of Your LIFE “If all beauty LOOKS the SAME, it’s NOT INTERESTING. We just have to BE OURSELVES.” Liu Wen

Fashion’s BEAUTY DREAM is Personal SEASON Precious Lee The Extravagant Rianne Van Rompaey WISDOM of ISABELLA Hailey Bieber ROSSELLINI Liu Wen How to Get the Adwoa Aboah BEST SKIN of Your LIFE on WHAT IT means “BEAUTY is TO THEM very much LINKED to my FEELING HAPPY.” Adwoa Aboah









THE BEAUTY ISSUE B MODEL: JULIA NOBIS; HAIR AND FLORAL HEADPIECE: BOB RECINE FOR RODIN; MAKEUP: DIANE KENDAL FOR ZARA BEAUTY eauty, it has been said, is only skin deep. But that notion of beauty barely scratches the surface. Beauty is an elemental part of fashion, the clay that designers reshape and remold each season into newer and ever more vital visions. Beauty is bound up in identity, with who we are and how we feel on a deeper, more profound level. It’s a ritual, an art, a way of seeing—something that reveals itself all around us if we just open ourselves up to looking for it. This issue explores beauty from a wide range of perspectives, from the best products and practices to make you feel most like yourself, to how we all reckon with beauty in a more personal way. The common denominator is that there is none—beauty means something different to each and every one of us, and how we see it and our individual relationships with it are wholly our own. During the past year, there have undoubtedly been moments when the world has seemed like a place bereft of beauty, ugly even. But then something happens to make us realize that it’s not, that even in times of darkness there is a beauty in the ways that we are all connected that never goes away. Spring is a season of renewal—this year maybe more so than in others. We wish you a healthy, happy, and beautiful one. Photograph by DANIEL JACKSON / Styling by SAMIRA NASR Veil, Eric Javits. See Where to Buy for shopping details. BAZAAR



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EDITOR’S LETTER Chanel jumpsuit and blouse. I have always believed that our differences are our gifts, our RIANNE VAN ROMPAEY: CASS BIRD. FASHION EDITOR: SAMIRA NASR. HAIR: ORLANDO PITA FOR ORLO PLAY; MAKEUP: ROMY SOLEIMANI FOR BOBBI BROWN. superpowers. What makes someone beautiful to me is what also NASR PORTRAIT: TERRY TSIOLIS. SEE WHERE TO BUY FOR SHOPPING DETAILS makes them unique. One of the aspects of pre-pandemic life I miss the most is walking down the streets of New York City and seeing all the different, beautiful faces rushing past me. Our cover stars—Precious Lee, Hailey Bieber, Adwoa Aboah, Liu Wen, and Rianne Van Rompaey— are some of the most sought-after models in fashion. But they are also real women with real aspirations and real insecurities, and together represent a fuller picture of beauty. Beauty is not singular; it exists in each and every one of us. As Precious Lee tells our features director, Kaitlyn Greenidge: “I know I’m beautiful. I really don’t need anyone to tell me that. But you all need to tell other people that look like me that they’re beautiful too.” For this issue, we set out to look at beauty from all angles: the beauty that exists in representation; the beauty of family; the beauty found in art and in the process of creating it; and the more literal pleasure derived from a beauty routine that makes you feel good in your skin. In our Voices section, Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri and author Isabel Allende discuss the role that finding beauty has played in their work, especially during the pandemic, which has taken a deep toll on women in creative fields. Artist Betye Saar—at the peak of her powers at 94—got together with her three daughters for a conversation about how they came to view beauty as a family full of creative women. And in a powerful essay, writer Torrey Peters explores how encountering representations of beauty that we connect with can change the way we think about ourselves. Elsewhere, Daniel Jackson captures some of the most dramatic looks from one of the most vital—and beautiful—couture seasons in recent memory, while the eternally stunning Isabella Rossellini talks to Angelica Jade Bastién about how her own relationship with beauty has evolved. The issue’s music director, the legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who held an impromptu concert for people waiting in line at a vaccine distribution center in March, curated an entire playlist around the theme of beauty. Beauty is also a gift we give to ourselves. When I was 13, my dad took me to a Clinique counter to buy my first skin-care products. Since then I have never (or almost never) gone to bed without completing my nighttime skin-care routine. As I have gotten older, it has certainly evolved to include a new array of products (hello, Augustinus Bader, Biologique Recherche, and Retrouvé). But my routine remains a comforting constant. Some days it is the one thing that I am able to do for myself. I hope you hold fast to those things that create beauty in your life. 05/2120 B A Z A A R







P L AY L I S T ALBUM COVERS (FROM TOP): MASHROU’ LEILA, IBN EL LEIL: COURTESY MASHROU’ LEILA. DOLLY PARTON, JOLENE: COURTESY SONY MUSIC. ERIC VLOEIMANS, JEROEN VAN VLIET, AND KINAN AZMEH, LEVANTER: V-FLOW. JACQUELINE DU PRÉ, A LASTING INSPIRATION: COURTESY WARNER INTRODUCING THIS ISSUE’S MUSIC DIRECTOR CLASSICS. YO-YO MA, ENNIO MORRICONE, AND ROMA SINFONIETTA, YO-YO MA PLAYS ENNIO MORRICONE (REMASTERED): COURTESY SONY MUSIC YO-YO MA FEATURED TRACKS 1. “TAYF (GHOST)” Mashrou’ Leila 2. “EARLY MORNING BREEZE” Dolly Parton 3. “JISREEN” Eric Vloeimans, Jeroen van Vliet, and Kinan Azmeh 4. “SONG WITHOUT WORDS,” OPUS 109 (1995 REMASTER) Felix Mendelssohn, performed by Jacqueline du Pré with Gerald Moore 5. “GABRIEL’S OBOE” Ennio Morricone, performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Roma Sinfonietta FULL PLAYLIST IN MARCH, RENOWNED CELLIST YO-YO MA GAVE AN IMPROMPTU PERFORMANCE AT HIS LOCAL VACCINATION CLINIC IN THE BERKSHIRES AFTER RECEIVING HIS SECOND DOSE. Throughout the pandemic he held virtual concerts for hospitals and played pop-up shows for frontline workers from a flatbed truck with pianist Emanuel Ax. “Humans are inventive,” Ma says. “We find other ways to reach out when we can’t be physically close together.” He curated a playlist around this issue’s theme of beauty—a notion that, for him, centers on human nature and how we connect with one another and the natural world. “By playing the cello, I’m interpreting what I think, feel, and touch through my hands,” he explains. “This playlist unites all of that.” Along with a rendition of Felix Mendelssohn’s “Song without Words,” by “blazing comet” cellist Jacqueline du Pré, it includes “Gabriel’s Oboe,” by Ennio Morricone, which “makes you feel glorious—the world opens up, the sun is shining, and you’re looking at the most beautiful vista”; “Early Morning Breeze,” by Dolly Parton, who “always maintains the voice of hope and generosity”; and “Tayf (Ghost),” by Lebanese band Mashrou’ Leila. “It’s about the ghosts of the past,” says Ma. “It represents the courage and resilience of a people who find beauty amidst wars, bombs, and chaos.” HB 6. “EURASIAN HOOPOE (UPUPA EPOPS),” from Bird Songs. 7. “MEHCINUT” Jeremy Dutcher. 8. “BLEWU” Angélique Kidjo. 9. “SUMMER TIME (LIVE)” Andrea Motis & Joan Chamorro Quintet featuring Scott Hamilton. 10. “ARAHURA” Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams. 11. AGRIPPINA, HWV 6, ACT 2: “OGNI VENTO” George Frideric Handel, performed by Joyce DiDonato with Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d’Oro. 12. “WE COULD FLY” Rhiannon Giddens. 13. “RAIN FALLING FROM THE ROOF” Wu Tong, performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott. Listen to Yo-Yo’s full playlist exclusively on Apple Music. 24 TEXT BY ARIANA MARSH / PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK MANN BAZAAR



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CONTRIBUTORS ON WHERE THEY LOOK TO FIND BEAUTY LESLIE ZHANG AMY TROOST CASS BIRD RENELL MEDRANO TROOST: DARREN HALL. BIRD: FREJA BEHA ERICHSEN. MEDRANO: SELF-PORTRAIT. FAROLFI: JASON KIBBLER. SALINAS: JOANNA McCLURE. COHN: ANDREW BLYSZAK. ALL OTHERS: COURTESY THE SUBJECTS PHOTOGRAPHER PHOTOGRAPHER PHOTOGRAPHER PHOTOGRAPHER Liu Wen Hailey Bieber Rianne Van Rompaey Precious Lee Page 128 Page 122 Page 110 Page 116 “I find true beauty in the “Beauty is everywhere, “I find beauty in what radiance and enchantment sometimes overwhelmingly “‘Self-forgetting and some people might of Mother Nature, from the so. It’s hard not to see it— connection, the meeting of in each other, in strength, not find beautiful. Growing dewdrops of spring time and timelessness.’ up in the Bronx made to the rains of summer.” in compassion. In the Paraphrased from the essay me look at flaws as natural world, and in the on beauty in David Whyte’s beautiful. Everyone and layers of the city.” book Consolations.” everything around me is inspiration.” ANGELICA JADE BASTIÉN FULVIA FAROLFI HORACIO SALINAS ALISON S. COHN WRITER MAKEUP ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHER DEPUTY FASHION NEWS “Isabella Rossellini’s “Isabella Rossellini’s “Best. Skin Care. Ever.” EDITOR AND WRITER “The Future Is Fungi” Eternal Flame” Eternal Flame” Page 91 Page 83 Page 148 Page 148 “I look to find beauty in the “My search for beauty starts “For me, beauty is everywhere. “I’ve always loved a line from everyday, simplistic pleasures from within, with kindness I think the minute you start Rachel Carson’s Silent and honesty, self-love looking for it is when you get that remind me of the joy into this forced narrow Spring: ‘Those who contem- that comes with being alive— and respect for other humans perspective that you can plate the beauty of the earth of any race, shape, or gender. never get out of.” find reserves of strength that like fresh sunshine on my face, holding my cat, With an open heart, will endure as long as life I look for beauty where colors lasts. There is something a lush meal, or basking in the laughter and voices collide in a surprising way, infinitely healing in the where shapes form in repeated refrains of nature— of those I love.” puddles and clouds, where the assurance that dawn a subject with a beautiful soul comes after night, and spring inspires me to create.” after winter.’” 36 B A Z A A R