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Keeping up with the Obamas
What the world’s most famous family is up to now
yoga. rave. repeat Introducing the detox retox
the pre-fall edition
What to buy now
Plus: cool wine clubs
The fashion brains behind Rag & Bone ...and how to be a man, by the late, great aa gill
Margaret Qualley Introducing cinema’s new indie darling
contents 4 Barbie and bagels in CAPITAL GAINS 6 Laura Craik gives two fingers to fat shaming in UPFRONT 8 Our MOST WANTED is Marni’s collage printed tote 10 Grayson Perry is feeling merry in FLASHBULB 12 Be on top of the shops with our PRE-FALL FASHION EDIT 15 GO CHILL AND GO HARD, from Formentera to Ibiza 18 Sunshine yellow and stud muffins in STYLE NOTES 20 Knit-cessories and an ode to the V-neck in MEN’S NEWS 23 What the OBAMAS did next
COVER Margaret Qualley photographed by Blair Getz Mezibov. Styled by Nicky Yates. DIOR dress, £5,800 (dior.com)
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rumpus room ‘You can’t beat the views of St Paul’s and the Thames from the riverside terrace at the Mondrian’s chic 12thfloor Rumpus Room.’ Matt Hryciw, chief sub editor
30 Good golly, it’s MARGARET QUALLEY 37 The late AA GILL on the five stages of man 39 The man who built RAG & BONE 44 Get your face primed for pre-fall in BEAUTY 51 GRACE DENT adores Westerns Laundry 53 TART poach summer sweet apricots
Here are the ES team’s top five rooftop bars
55 Clubs for millennial winos in DRINKS 57 Go totally tropical in HOMEWORK
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ACE HOTEL ‘City views? Check. West facing? Check. Effortlessly cool DJs? Check. Sundowners don’t get much better than this.’ Andy Taylor, acting art editor
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Queen of HOXTON ‘The rooftop at the Queen of Hoxton is transformed twice a year into a summer or winter hangout. This summer? It’s a Neverland adventure…’ Helen Gibson, picture editor
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Ham yard hotel ‘Ham Yard’s rooftop is spectacular, complete with a kitchen garden and beehive. It’s usually just for hotel guests but this summer on selected dates they are opening it up to the public.’ Lily Worcester, lifestyle assistant
sisu ‘Sisu is a new Nordic-inspired oasis at the Marble Arch end of Oxford Street, with its own novelty coinoperated Negroni machine!’ Wendy Tee, acting art director
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sweet home
obama Casual cocktail parties, SoulCycle classes and late-night drinks with Branson. The Obamas might have left the White House but they’re still making waves on the DC social scene. Denver Nicks gets the inside scoop
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n a recent Saturday night in north-east Washington, DC, fashionably dressed guests whispered amid the quiet clatter of cutlery in the dining room of Masseria, an intimate, elegant Italian restaurant and one of the US capital’s hottest culinary offerings. At wooden tables surrounded by walls of exposed rock and brick, those present kept their phones in pockets and handbags — there were no photos allowed that night — and did their best to let two of the most famous people on earth split a bottle of wine and a romantic late-night meal in peace. Barack and Michelle Obama are repeat customers at Masseria, and knew they could entrust their menu selections to the chef, which they did, enjoying a large serving of pasta, plus dry-aged steak with red Oprah wine sauce. Winfrey Masseria is in a part of Washington that had a decidedly rougher edge a decade ago and was not the sort of place you’d expect to find a former President and First Lady at a Michelin-star restaurant. But then Barack and Michelle Obama are not a normal former President and First Lady. As presidencies go, the Obama administration was the embodiment
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George and Amal Clooney Barack and Michelle Obama at the White House
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Independent
spirit
Actress. Dancer. Coyote feeder. Margaret Qualley is hardly your typical celebrity offspring. Andie MacDowell’s daughter tells Johanna Thomas-Corr about facing down her demons, starring with Ryan Gosling — and being the film world’s new indie darling
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t’s a sweltering hot day in Los Angeles and, in a bohemian café in the understated neighbourhood of Echo Park, Margaret Qualley is telling me how she spends her free time. ‘We call it coyote hunting but actually it’s more like coyote nurturing,’ says the 22-year-old actress and model of her habit of cruising around Hollywood with her sister, Rainey, and feeding the city’s prairie wolves. ‘My sister and I are pretty dorky, so we drive around at night in her car listening to old Disney songs and feed the coyotes cans of wet cat food, which I’m sure is a terrible idea. Meanwhile, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty showtunes are playing in the background. It’s a big night for us,’ she laughs. Despite the heat, the star of HBO’s dystopian drama The Leftovers is wearing a high-collared white blouse underneath a grey jersey sweater and a jacket. ‘I’m such a grandma,’ she laughs. Still, her normcore attire does nothing to disguise her rather regal beauty. She has inherited the luminescent complexion of her mother, actress Andie McDowell, and soulful eyes of her father, a former Gap model turned rancher and property developer named Paul Qualley. Her pale skin, full lips and tiny gap between her front teeth combine with her wry selfmockery and slightly awkward manner to give her the geeky charm of a character from a Wes Anderson movie. In fact if you were to storyboard a Hollywood indie darling for 2017, you might come up with something a bit like Qualley. The former ballet prodigy had an early role opposite Ryan Gosling (playing a rebellious teenager who gets kidnapped because she resembles a porn star in the hilarious police caper The Nice Guys); became an internet sensation thanks to her free-spirited dancing in a Spike Jonze-directed viral ad for Kenzo World perfume;
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and more recently, won Sundance Film Festival plaudits for her performance as a shy teenage nun in the convent drama, Novitiate. Her upcoming projects include two Netflix films: Io, an indie sci-fi drama starring Danny Huston in which Qualley will play a girl racing to find a cure for what led to Earth’s destruction; and Death Note, a supernatural thriller based on the Japanese manga comics in which she stars alongside Willem Dafoe. But Qualley has a few quirks you couldn’t invent in a million years. Aside from the coyote feeding, she tells me, ‘I’ve recently fallen in love with bees so I’m trying to save them. I’m investing in an apiary!’ She may have attended the Met Ball this year wearing a striking white gown with sculptural sleeves by Prabal Gurung, but Qualley insists that mostly, her life hasn’t changed since she first found success in The Leftovers. The series, which ran from 2014 until this year, saw her take a leading role as Justin Theroux’s jaded teenage daughter. She attributes this to the fact that she lives with Rainey, 27, a sultry blues singer and sometime actress who recently bought a house around the corner from the coffee shop we’re in now. ‘She’s my idol, my best friend in the whole world. I wanted to be close to her so I live in her guest bedroom,’ Qualley says, sipping her iced tea. ‘We have a puppy together. His name is Books — he is adorable. I think I would find being in Hollywood intense if I had more of a social life but all I do is stay indoors with my sister and play with our puppy, watch movies.’ Still, she can’t escape her own buzz. Midway through our conversation, a dude in a hipster fedora appears at our table to declare that her deranged three-minute dance solo for Kenzo (released last summer) was ‘the coolest commercial out there’. It may be a fragrance commercial, but ‘My Mutant Brain’ has been a strong calling card. Choreographed by Ryan Heffington (known for his music videos for Arcade Fire and Florence + The
DIOR dress, £14,000 (dior.com)
my london
adwoa aboah as told to dipal acharya
Earliest London memory? Rollerblading in Hyde Park with my dad and sister, aged about seven. We’d do it every weekend. I had to rollerblade for a recent Love shoot and I still had it.
Home is... New York, but in London it’s my mum and dad’s in Ladbroke Grove.
Best piece of advice you’ve been given? Mum said, ‘Manners are the only things in life that are free.’ That’s always carried me. Best meal you’ve had in London? At the River Café (above), for my 23rd birthday. It’s got the best truffle pasta and chocolate cake.
Favourite shops? Palace for skate stuff (right), Dover Street Market — it’s just stunning there and it’s got lots of Comme [des Garçons]. And Westfield because it’s great for Christmas shopping; you can get it all done in one go. If you had to be locked in a building overnight, which would it be? The Aquarium. Think about how beautiful it would be to turn off all the lights and be down with all the fish and the sharks!
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The model adores Trellick Tower, wants to fill the capital’s streets with blossom and would love to spend the night at the Aquarium Biggest extravagance? That’s easy — clothes. Take my birthday outfit from Miu Miu. I don’t know why it was so expensive. It was basically just underwear. What are you up to at the moment? Planning a big event for online social platform Gurls Talk in London for early July and I’ve just finished shooting a new Gap campaign with Edward Enninful. I’m so proud of his Vogue appointment.
Last play you saw? People, Places and Things. It was my story being told on the stage — and the story of so many people I’ve met. What would you do as Mayor for the day? I would plant loads of blossom trees on every road. They only put them on the really big double-fronted window streets but they make such a difference. I think they should go on all the streets.
Favourite club? Before it closed, it was Lotte Andersen’s club night Maxilla. It was round the corner from my house and it was complete carnage. Just dancing non-stop. Last album you downloaded? Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. — I am just obsessed with him (left). He is 2017’s Tupac. He’s a poet and an all-round amazing man. Who is your hero? Gloria Steinem. I’ve got so many. Women are my heroes. Adwoa Aboah stars in Gap’s latest campaign ‘Bridging The Gap’, directed by Edward Enninful
Douglas Segars for Gap, Rex, Alamy
Most romantic thing someone’s done for you? Someone did take me to the last ever dog races in London recently. It was freezing but he’d planned ahead and brought me a jumper. I thought that was quite sweet.
If you could buy any London building which would it be? Trellick Tower (right) is the most beautiful building in England. I’d live there.