contributors
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E JEAN CARROLL
@EJEANCARROLL1 Our Us-based advice columnist (see p166) has also been a contributing editor for Esquire, a writer for Saturday Night Live and says she’s enjoyed “the normal amount” of husbands
On my playlist: I just got home from a road trip and listened to only female singers. Aretha! Beyoncé! Adele! Tina! Missy! Madonna! Lady Gaga! Janis! Britney! Nicki! Iggy! I danced so much in my seat I was exhausted when I pulled into a motel each night.
On my reading list: Right now, I’m into PG Wodehouse and the Marquis de Sade. And every day I read the old and new testament of Jane Austen.
On my to-do list: I don’t do to-do lists. I love doing nothing. Only when I’m doing nothing can I really enjoy myself.
On my wish list: I wish Dickies coveralls came in more colours – I’d buy one in lilac.
On my bucket list: I’m living my bucket list – in a little cabin on an island (about the size of a mattress) in the Wawayanda Mountains of New York with my dog Lewis Carroll, my cat Vagina T Fireball and other assorted animals that visit from time to time. I would also love to hike in Australia. On my blacklist: Do you have to ask? That idiot Donald Trump has been on my blacklist since he was elected President!
KEIREN STREET
@KEIRENSTREETHAIR The world-renowned hairstylist, whose biggest career highlight has been directing international fashion shows for Toni Maticevski and Alice Mccall, put his skilled hands to work on this month’s First Look pages
On my playlist: I’m living for the French band Phoenix. They did an amazing cover of Whitney’s “No Woman”. Just genius.
On my reading list: I always go back to The Book Of Joy, co-written by the Dalai Lama. It puts everything in perspective.
On my to-do list: To eat the Dover sole while people-watching at Scott’s in London. And cull my shoe closet – it’s bursting.
On my wish list: An update for my session kit and more shoes.
On my bucket list: Spending a week at Italy’s Hotel Il Pellicano and imagining I was there in the ’70s with all the glam set. On my blacklist: Waste! We use far too much plastic.
LAUREN SAMS
@LAURENSSAMS ELLE’S new features director (and author/mum/coffee addict) forgot about multi-tasking – for a few days at least – to indulge her inner solo explorer on p162
On my playlist: My running/ gym playlist is pure ’80s hair metal – Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi, Poison, Def Leppard. Something about a screaming dude in leather pants really revs me up.
On my reading list: I’m desperate to read Sloane Crosley’s new book of essays, Look Alive Out There. She’s such an incisive, observant, laugh-out-loudfunny writer. I’m obviously insanely jealous of her God-given hilarity.
On my to-do list: Write my next book. Any day now…
On my wish list: A new pair of leather leggings. All that hair metal is getting to me.
On my bucket list: Getting my full licence – I’m on my Ps (it’s a long story).
On my blacklist: Singleuse coffee cups really grind my gears. Get a Keepcup, people!
FILOMENA NATOLI
@FILOMENA_MAKEUP She’s worked with A-listers such as Elle Macpherson, Lara Worthington and Hailey Baldwin, so the makeup guru was the perfect person to take on our epic rising-stars cover story on p54
On my playlist: It’s always a mixed bag. This week I’ve been listening to SZA and Daniel Caesar.
On my reading list: The last book I read was The Goldfinch and I really enjoyed it. I’ve been too busy to commit to a book since but I’m hoping to read Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion on my next holiday.
On my to-do list: Going to Saint Peter in Sydney’s Paddington for dinner and printing and framing photos from my travels. On my wish list: A large-scale art print, the perfect “dad” sneakers and anything from Céline’s SS18 collection.
On my bucket list: I’d love to visit Mustique and Round Hill hotel in Jamaica.
On my blacklist: Anything overdone bothers me, such as “Insta glam” makeup and super-long nails.