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
ESPERANZA SPALDING • Introducing This Issue’s MUSIC DIRECTOR
Harper’s Bazaar
BVLGARI IS SERPENTI
WHY DON’T YOU…? • The Month in CULTURE and STYLE
ERAS Tour • PRADA’s spring ACCESSORIES draw from a vivid pastiche of DECADES and INFLUENCES, including an archival 1996 LOAFER and SANDAL, a futuristic VISOR HAT, and a timeless EAST-WEST BAG—pieces that throw it BACK and propel you FORWARD
Fine PRINT • MARKET MEMO: LONG PATTERNED DRESSES
Rain or SHINE • MARKET MEMO: TRENCH COATS
Follow SUIT • Give your TAILORED LOOKS a LUSTROUS and MODERN lift by topping them off with a silky FLIGHT JACKET and chunky METALLIC BANGLES
GOOD Fortune • VAN CLEEF & ARPELS’s Palmeraie Merveilleuse NECKLACE is a GLITTERING HOMAGE to the TROPICAL SCENERY of the classic novel TREASURE ISLAND, with a 47.93-carat EMERALD CABOCHON—nature’s ultimate BOUNTY
Best BUDS • Add a fanciful FLOURISH to your SPRING WARDROBE with a STATEMENT BAG featuring a FLORAL pattern, handle, or motif
Winding HISTORY • One of BULGARI’s most iconic TIMEPIECES uncoils its latest REINVENTION
Team WORK • FENDI and RED WING have JOINED FORCES to CREATE the season’s most luxe UTILITY BOOT
THE BAZAAR • SHOPPING LIST: TRANSITIONAL ESSENTIALS
POLITICS of GRACE • Representative SARAH McBRIDE, the first openly TRANS MEMBER of CONGRESS, reflects on how her experience with LOVE and LOSS taught her to pursue CHANGE from a PLACE of COMPASSION
MARKET Memo
VIVA Las Vegas • DEREK C. BLASBERG talks to filmmaker GIA COPPOLA and the one and only PAMELA ANDERSON about how destiny (and Coppola’s determination) brought them together for their new movie, THE LAST SHOWGIRL
BUCKLE Up • The ACCESSORY is no longer just for HOLDING your PANTS UP. Sometimes it’s NOT EVEN for PANTS at all.
Don’t Call It a COMEBACK • FASHION AND CULTURE
TURKISH Delights • Let artist LAILA GOHAR be your GUIDE to ISTANBUL’s countless WONDERS
What you NEED to BUY NOW
REPAIR Your HAIR • THE ART and SCIENCE of LOOKING and FEELING Your Best
EDITORS’ FAVORITES
TOUR de FORCE • ZOE SALDAÑA has lit up some of the most OTHERWORLDLY sci-fi epics of our time. But with her PERFORMANCE in the musical EMILIA PÉREZ, she finally gets to REVEAL the very HUMAN SOURCE of that POWER.
SPRING Forward • A look at some of the KEY PIECES from the new FASHION SEASON, as worn by a CAST of TALENTED TRAILBLAZERS and INTREPID INDEPENDENTS who routinely show us that for those who commit their HEARTS and MINDS to it, ANYTHING is POSSIBLE
How I Learned to STOP WORRYING and LOVE the BOT • After my HUSBAND LEFT ME, I brought an AI BOYFRIEND to our couples resort vacation to STAVE OFF GRIEF. Then I learned many WOMEN are using AI to SUPPORT the heavy lifting of INVISIBLE and EMOTIONAL labor in their DAILY RELATIONSHIPS.
ARCHIVE • PETER LINDBERGH, MARCH 2007