Elle UK – March 2022
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Welcome at Elle UK Magazine March 2022 Issue
We talk a lot about beginnings and endings, in fashion, in stories and in life. And it’s easy to understand why. They are simple to understand, and precise about what’s going on.
There’s a satisfying clarity to declaring that while one trend, idea or moment is over, another has just arrived. New starts are exciting and, although reaching the end of something can
be painful, there is at least the definitive full stop to let us know where we are. We turn the page and the next chapter is there, waiting for us to dive in.
But what about those times that don’t cleave to the narrative in that way? Those fuzzy, indistinct, in-between times that don’t feel like a beginning or an end, though they may hold the seeds of both?
It feels like we’ve all been in such a place for almost two years – I can’t be the only one who, in spring 2020, was desperate to know when the pandemic would be ‘over’. But we all know now that, like so much in life, it’s been a case of sudden reversals and a snakes-and-ladders feeling of going right back to the beginning, just when you thought you were at the end.
There’s something to be said for the times that come between one thing and another, though. They teach us about the value of patience, about how much we can take from one moment, and howwe can always detect the echoes of the past in the future, no matter how far-off they seem. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, you can detect some of that in this issue. On p48, Charmaine Wilkerson explores how her family history reverberated in the present, changing the course of her life. And on p86, Abigail Bergstrom reflects on the value of flash in-the-pan friendships – those people who weren’t there at the beginning, and won’t be there at the end, but cause ripples in our existence nonetheless.
In our fashion shoots too, starting on p110, we can see how this season’s designers have taken inspiration from the past to create looks that seem to have been beamed in from the future.
And I loved sitting down with our cover star Nicola Coughlan (p98) as and she was also in a period of anticipation, looking forward to Bridgerton series two making its feverishly awaited return to our screens.
I’m in my own in-between time, holding the reins at ELLE before our new Editor-in-Chief, Kenya Hunt, joins us in a couple of issues’ time. While I’m doing so, the team and I will keep making a magazine for everyone who knows that sometimes true beauty isn’t what’s past or what’s to come, but in the moments in between.
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