Harper's Bazaar

Every issue of Harper's Bazaar speaks to the varied interests of the discerning contemporary woman who seeks the best for her home, career and lifestyle.

EDITOR’S LETTER • On POSSIBILITY

TIERRA WHACK • “Every time I go to the STUDIO, I’m NEVER doing the SAME thing,” says TIERRA WHACK. “It’s always new. I’m always EXPERIMENTING.”

Harper’s Bazaar

WHY DON’T YOU…? • The Month in CULTURE and STYLE

POINTED Expressions • Isabel Marant’s EBISA KITTEN HEELS are the perfect DAY-to-NIGHT staple for those ON THE GO

Grab & GO • Keep your SCHEDULE and ACCESSORIES in sync with a leather WATCHBAND and sleek TOP-HANDLE in MATCHING HUES

On the BUTTON

Lighter NOTES

Take a BOW • ALEXANDER McQUEEN’s leather ARMADILLO BOOT lends STAR QUALITY to easy knee-length SKIRTS and tucked-in JEANS with its dramatic CURVED silhouette and LACQUERED METALLIC HEEL

Perfect MATCH • Whether SCULPTURAL and SUBSTANTIAL or SPARKLING with DIAMONDS, a classic NECKLACE-and-EARRINGS demi-parure is a perennially POLISHED combo

STAR Struck • Put a PERSONAL spin on VAN CLEEF & ARPELS’s rose-gold ZODIAQUE PENDANTS by STRINGING a series of them on a SHOELACE, ROPE, or CHAIN

Running HIGH • Spring’s most SURE-FOOTED FOOTWEAR gets a LUXE UPGRADE

ORANGE Crush • PUNCH UP your warm-weather WARDROBE with a HEAD-TO-TOE assortment of polished ORANGE EXTRAS

SHOPPING LIST: Spring Statement Pieces

What you NEED to BUY NOW

VOICES IN CONVERSATION • Actor JESSICA LANGE and playwright PAULA VOGEL on their new BROADWAY PRODUCTION, MOTHER PLAY, creating and portraying COMPLICATED WOMEN, and the FUTURE of THEATER

MEMENTO Mori • JEWELRY can be deeply PERSONAL. LEAH CHERNIKOFF reflects on a NECKLACE that represents LIFE and LOSS.

Keep It MOVING • COMMUTER-CORE has become more than a VIRAL TREND, as designers meet the NEEDS of our BACK-to-OFFICE lifestyles

In the SPOTLIGHT • As part of the fifth generation in her family to live in CHARLESTON and grow up shopping on King Street, HAMPDEN owner STACY SMALLWOOD is REINVENTING how we shop with the buzziest boutique in the country.

FASHION AND CULTURE

ALL Aboard • LUXURY TRAINS offer a uniquely NOSTALGIC way to SLOW DOWN and ENJOY the RIDE

The SKINCARE Awards • FACE CREAMS and SERUMS are now as covetable as an It bag. The skincare frenzy is in hyperdrive, and the MUST-HAVE FORMULAS are both elegant and effective. Here, our definitive list of your routine’s new STATUS SYMBOLS—all selected and anointed by Bazaar EDITORS and EXPERTS.

EDITORS’ FAVORITES

REGINA’S Resolve • REGINA KING on LEARNING to LIVE with LOSS, the LEGACY of SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, and finding a WAY FORWARD

New DIRECTIONS • Spring’s BOLDEST LOOKS play with TEXTURE and VOLUME and offer fresh TWISTS on traditional tropes like FLORALS, FEATHERS, FRINGE, and LACE

The AUDACITY of LORRAINE O’GRADY • At 89, the eternally PUNK-ROCK PERFORMANCE and CONCEPTUAL ARTIST still gets a kick out of CRASHING art-world parties. Only now she’s the GUEST of HONOR.

FLOW State • When it comes to TRANSITIONAL DRESSING, a little bit of LEATHER goes a long, LONG WAY

What PADMA Wants • After almost two decades of TOP CHEF, the beloved HOST and cookbook AUTHOR is figuring out WHAT COMES NEXT

Here COMES the BRIDE

BILL SILANO APRIL 1983

REGINA KING

LORRAINE O’GRADY