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The Fall 2019 Essentials Chrissy Teigen Can't Stop Shopping


At the beginning of our interview, Chrissy Teigen asks if I can hold on for a second.

“Luna is drinking pure strawberry vinaigrette, as a beverage,” she says.

Such is life for the 33-year-old model turned best-selling cookbook author, turned TV personality, turned everyone’s best-friend-in-their-head. She juggles many roles, but take one look at her Instagram lately, and it’s clear that being a mom—and a very cool one at that—is the job she loves most.

But how has motherhood affected her everyday fashion choices?

“Oh my God, I just recently decided I’m no longer wearing things that I have to put over my head,” Teigen tells Glamour. “If I can’t step into it, I don’t wear it anymore. Stretching my arms above my head to put something on or anything crazy fitted that only has a zipper on the side, I’m like, ‘No, no, no.’ I will tailor things to add extra zippers.”

In short, comfort isn’t just key—it’s sort of, well, the only key. That leaves a lot of room to play with accessories, which she loves. “I can wear the most basic stuff, and just put on a good pair of sunglasses, a cute hat, and some hoop earrings,” she says. (And she just designed her ideal sunnies for the celebrity-favorite brand Quay Australia. But more on that in bit.)

As we head towards fall, Glamour asked Teigen to share her absolute favorite fall essentials. (“Easy, silk, nothing dresses with boots—that’s my jam.”) Read and shop on.

Wrap Dress & Scrunchy Boot Combo

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“Once every year I go into this mood where I’ll go online, I’ll be on Free People or whatever, and I’m like, ‘This is going to be me now!,’” Teigen says. When it comes to colors, her aesthetic is pretty minimal. (She says “loves patterns,” but mostly in theory—since “then [what you ordered] comes and you’re like, ‘What the—oh my God, this is crazy.’”) Her go-to styling combo for the fall? “I love an effortless, easy wrap dress [with] a scrunchy suede boot.”

Song of Style Dala Mini Dress

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& Other Stories Knee High Suede Boots

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Reformation Carina Dress Es

Reformation

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Addition Elle Wide Tall Slouch Stretch Boots

Addition Elle

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Flounce London Plus Wrap Front Satin Midi Dress

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Bella Vita Karen II Knee High Slouch Boot

Nordstrom

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Equipment Allaire Textured Long Sleeve Silk Blend Wrap Dress

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Silent D Kitten-Heeled Riding Boots

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Chrissy Teigen wearing sunglasses while having makeup applied
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Hannah Brown, a Queen, Can't Be Bothered With Tyler Cameron and Gigi Hadid


If you’re even a casual member of Bachelor Nation, then you’re probably well-versed in the current situation involving Hannah Brown, Gigi Hadid, and Tyler Cameron. The Cliff’s Notes version is this: Brown had Cameron, the runner-up from her season of The Bachelorette, over Thursday night, August 1, in Los Angeles. Romance rumors subsequently blossomed, but they were squashed when news broke Cameron went on a date with Gigi Hadid in New York City that Sunday.

Brown went on the record about this to Entertainment Tonight, saying, “I have feelings, but I’m also single and he’s single and I want to keep my options open and he can keep his options open.” Chris Harrison echoed this sentiment to Glamour, confirming that no love triangle exists because “Tyler and Hannah are not in a relationship.”

And now the question-and-answer period of this lecture is over—at least for Brown. In a new interview with Us Weekly, she made it clear she has no interest in speaking about Cameron and Hadid anymore. “I’m not going to talk about Tyler or any of that stuff. Thank you, next,” Brown told the outlet, quoting Ariana Grande’s relationship anthem “Thank U, Next.”

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What a perfect, perfect response. I mean, why should Hannah Brown give any more energy into this situation? She’s too wonderful and iconic. Roll Tide, and all that jazz.

I imagine Brown’s becoming more tight-lipped in light of reports Hadid and Cameron went on a second date Monday night, August 5. According to Entertainment Tonight, the duo and some friends went bowling in New York City followed by karaoke. Listen, that may sound fun in theory, but here’s the tea: Bowling is miserable, no matter how fancy the alley. You’re forced to wear ugly shoes while throwing around a giant, marble ball that could kill someone in a room that probably smells like stale cigarettes. And karaoke? Again, a scam! Why would you pay money to listen to your friends sing “Photograph” by Nickelback off-key? Don’t worry, Hannah, you’re not missing anything.

In fact, it looks like her Monday night plans were way better: She attended an ABC Television Critics Association event in Los Angeles wearing a dress that says, “Tyler, who?” and striking a pose that reads, “I’m an unfazed legend.”



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Dreamers Can't Be Licensed Nurses in Some States. In Arkansas, One Woman Decided to Change That


I still remember the first time I put on my white coat. It was an October night in 2017, and along with 119 other nursing students in identical blue scrubs, I’d gathered at the Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, for a white coat ceremony. With 300 friends and family members watching, we crossed the stage to receive our coats, then recited the Nightingale Pledge, vowing to devote ourselves to our patients’ welfare.

The ceremony, which marked the start of our clinical training, was simple but deeply meaningful. Afterwards, I went to celebrate with my family and friends. Since I was little, I’d dreamed of helping others. My white coat meant I’d made it. Soon I’d be a real nurse, treating real patients.

Then I got home, checked Facebook and my happiness evaporated. At the top of my feed was an article warning that the Arkansas State Board of Nursing had begun denying nursing licenses to DACA recipients.

That meant me. I’m a Dreamer, born in Mexico and brought to America at age six. I feel American, but don’t have an unrestricted legal status, so the new policy meant I wouldn’t be able to work as a nurse. Even though I was halfway through my education, there was no road forward.

As I read the article, the world seemed to move in slow-motion. In that moment, everything changed. I felt my dream shatter.

I’m the oldest in my family, and my two brothers always looked up to me. After my parents separated, my mom worked three jobs to support us. While she worked in restaurants or cleaned houses, I picked up after them, fed them snacks, and became the household second-in-command.

It was tough, but my mom never let go of her dream: to give us a good life and a good education. She succeeded: I’m the first in my family to graduate from high school and the first to earn an associate’s degree. When I finish nursing school next December, I’ll be the first to earn a bachelor’s degree, too.

That’s been possible because of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows Dreamers to work and study without fear of deportation. Getting DACA in 2012 changed my life, letting me take jobs in restaurants and other local businesses, save money, and plan for college.

Even with DACA I didn’t qualify for financial aid, scholarships, or student loans, so I worked my way through community college. My real dream was to study medicine. As a child, my eyes would fill with tears during TV ads for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, longing to help the sick children I saw. I knew I couldn’t afford medical school, but I found I could afford a nursing degree and that was close enough.

The more I learned about nursing, the more I felt sure I’d discovered what I was meant to be. Later, during my clinical training, I had a light-bulb moment while working in the emergency room, suddenly aware that I felt a sense of belonging amid the adrenaline. I knew then I wanted to be an ER nurse.

Our country needs more young people to have those light-bulb moments and become nurses. According to the Arkansas Department of Health, all but one of our state’s counties are suffering healthcare worker shortages. More than half a million Arkansans live in areas with too few primary medical, dental, and mental health workers.

Often, it’s immigrants like me who fill those gaps. Research from New American Economy shows that 27.7 percent of physicians and 15.8 percent of nurses are born abroad. Almost 14,000 Dreamers work in healthcare jobs, according to the Migration Policy Institute. But that number could be far higher. Just 11 states allow DACA recipients to gain professional licenses, so like me, many thousands of aspiring healthcare workers find it impossible to achieve their dreams.



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Sophie Turner Showed Off Her New Wedding Ring, and I Can't Get Over the Sparkle


Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas’ second wedding has been everywhere for the past week, which we’re not mad about. And honestly, it’s like all of us were there: We’ve heard all the details about her incredible Louis Vuitton wedding dress, which took more than 350 hours to make; the wedding itself; and the lineup for the week of parties in Paris and Provence before they tied the knot again last Saturday (June 30). One thing we haven’t gotten the clearest look at, though, is her wedding ring.

Back at their first wedding in May, when Turner and Jonas headed to Las Vegas after the Billboard Awards and got married by an Elvis impersonator, they exchanged ring pops in place of your standard diamond wedding rings. But, knowing that they considered their second wedding in France their more formal ceremony, it seemed like the first glimpse we had of any bling would come after this ceremony. And indeed, it has.

On Friday, Turner hit back at critics of U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team player Alex Morgan, who said that her celebratory “tea-sipping moment” after scoring a goal in the World Cup semifinals against England was disrespectful (yes, this is related). Turner’s address to Morgan was pretty great—excerpt: “And all those people that are hating on you are probably sitting at home, millennials drinking kombucha…”— but that wasn’t all that caught eagle-eyed fans’ attention. Instead, there was a pretty big sparkle in the bottom half of the screen that was distracting them.

Let’s set the scene: This is her engagement ring. It’s also massive and sparkly.

The wedding band was clearly designed to match the rest of it (peek at the bottom of the ring), and put together, I’ve never seen a sparklier ring in my life. It appears many times in the Instagram Story she posted below:

Here’s a closeup—incredible, right?



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There's a Typo in Taylor Swift's New Merch, and Fans Can't Decide What It Means


If there’s one thing Taylor Swift loves, it’s an Easter egg. So when fans noticed that a new limited-edition shirt from the singer’s merch line had a typo, they had a field day. Was it an honest mistake…or a clue about her forthcoming album?

The just-released shirts appear to have a misplaced apostrophe that makes the text read, “Your’e the only one of you.” Now, you may remember how, in her latest song, “Me!,” Swift happily exclaims, “Spelling is fun!” Now, technically, this is an issue with punctuation, not spelling. Still: Could this possibly be a callback to the single? Or did the merch just skip the copyedit stage?

A fan caught the error and alerted Twitter, writing in a tweet: “EXCUSE ME! I’ve had this shirt for nearly a month and you’re telling me it’s had a typo THIS WHOLE TIME!!”

But there’s a twist: Not every shirt features the misplaced apostrophe on it, according to BuzzFeed, bolstering the hypothesis that there might be a reason for the grammar snafu.

Still, the fans ran with it.

For most people, the whole”you’re”/”your’e” thing was more funny than anything. (“So much for ‘Spelling is fun,’ am I right?” one person tweeted.) But lots of dedicated Swifities latched onto the idea that the typo’s actually meant as an Easter egg and began putting forth ideas about what the shirt could mean.

“Your’e’ on @taylorswift13 ‘s merch is because it closely resembles ‘Urie’ to reference @brendonurie??? #ConspiracyTime,” one fan guessed.

It wouldn’t be a total surprise if it was indeed an Easter egg. As Swift revealed when she appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, she really likes leaving fans a trail of bread crumbs that offer insights about her music projects. And we’ll admit she’s gotten really, really good at them as well: She basically turned the entire EW cover into a secret puzzle by wearing a jacket with dozens of buttons on it that each provided some kind of hint about her upcoming seventh album (our eyes still hurt from trying to figure all of them out). She’s planted so many other clues recently that fans have come up with a seemingly endless list of theories about her latest release.

“I love that they like the cryptic hint dropping,” she said. “Because as long as they like it, I’ll keep doing it. It’s fun. It feels mischievous and playful.” We’ll just have to see if this is another example of her being playful or just a very public “whoops” moment.



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Who Says Plus-Size Women Can't Climb Kilimanjaro?


When Christa Singleton first climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2016, she didn’t see anyone that looked like her on the mountain. She was hiking with more than 20 other women—a range of ages and sizes—but still, she felt distinctly out of place.

As a plus-sizer hiker, it wasn’t merely the extra pounds she was carrying up Africa’s highest peak; mental and emotional baggage weighed her down with each step. “It was really mentally challenging and a big reality check. I was—by far—the slowest person, not just in our group, but on the entire mountain that week,” Singleton says. When other hikers would comment on the ease of particular trail as she struggled to move forward, she felt exasperated and alone.

Singleton at Stella Point in 2016.

Courtesy of Christa Singleton

Nevertheless, she persisted. On International Women’s Day 2016, Singleton made the final push to Stella Point, the rim of the summit of Kilimanjaro—18,885 ft into the clouds and just a few hundred feet shy of the mountain’s highest peak.

She didn’t make it to the final summit of Kilimanjaro, but Singleton was proud she had pushed herself higher than she ever thought she could. “I realized I am a beast; I got to Stella Point. That’s not nothing—that’s bravery,” she says. For the first time, Singleton started to appreciate her body, silencing the thoughts about what it couldn’t do. “Up until that point, I never gave it any credit for things that it could do.”

The climb—and the newfound appreciation for her body—had Singleton, now a 37-year-old group adventure leader for WHOA travel (an adventure travel company for women), hooked. She knew she had unfinished business on Kilimanjaro. “I really wanted to finish the last 400-500 feet to Uhuru Peak,” she says. But more importantly, she wanted to take on the challenge with women who looked like her. Instead of being the only plus-size woman on the trail, she wanted a tribe.

Singleton knew firsthand that larger-bodied women can certainly accomplish feats as outsized as climbing Kilimanjaro. But she also knew that they face unique challenges in adventure travel: finding bigger gear, carrying heavier packs to accommodate that bigger gear, and setting a more moderate pace. She wanted to do something to help make other plus-size women feel more comfortable enjoying the outdoors. So, in 2017, she founded the Curvy Kili Crew, a group of 20 plus-size women who set the goal of climbing Kilimanjaro this year for International Women’s Day.

Women of the Curvy Kili Crew laughing in the snow.

Women of the Curvy Kili Crew celebrate during a training hike.

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This plus-size Kilimanjaro climb is the inaugural adventure of WHOA plus, curated adventures for like-bodied women to travel together in a supportive and encouraging group. “It’s hard being the only fat person on the trail,” Singleton says. “We want to normalize fat hiking so that when people see someone on the trail—especially on a big mountain like Kilimanjaro—they won’t do a double take.”

Interest in WHOA plus’s first adventure was overwhelming. News of the Curvy Kili Crew spread through online plus-size travel and hiking communities; the trip sold out and amassed a lengthy wait list more than a year ahead of the climb.

Curvy Kili Crew member Diandra Oliver, 36, grew up on rivers and mountains and spent most of her life hiking and snowshoeing in northern British Columbia. But in her 20s, she stopped, intimidated by the lack of women who looked like her representing the outdoor industry. “There’s so much in outdoor culture about the solo white man on the summit,” Oliver says. “When we don’t participate, the industry can retain its thin, white, male hierarchies—we are definitely so over it.” Groups like the Curvy Kili Crew are exactly what she’s been hoping for: a place for larger-bodied, diverse, women in the outdoors.

A woman from the Curvy Kili Crew hikes on International Women's Day.

A member of the Curvy Kili Crew climbs Mount Kilimanjaro.

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Deb Malkin, a 49-year-old body-positive massage therapist from Oakland, California, joined the Crew as a way to celebrate her upcoming 50th birthday. “I cried giant, ugly tears when I signed up. Climbing Kilimanjaro was the adventure I never knew I wanted to take,” she says. But surprisingly, the biggest challenge of her big, epic, birthday present to herself wasn’t the training but managing the assumption from others that this is somehow a weight-loss journey. “Life doesn’t begin when you lose weight,” she says. “Big dreams can be planned for and achieved in the bodies we have today, regardless of size or age.”



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