Maggie Gyllenhaal

ELLE: This isn’t the first time you’re starring in a film that deals with female sexuality. What’s the draw for you?
Maggie Gyllenhaal: I think everybody’s interested in sex and sexuality. I think it’s a part of being human, and film is an interesting place to explore that, especially because I think sex has been explored in film in a way that’s very unreal and very much based in fantasy. When I see sex scenes in movies that are real and free, like my own experience of sex, they’re so much sexier. I guess it’s a nod of subtle feminism to be able to express it from a woman’s points of view what real sex is like—where it isn’t like you’re wearing a black demi-cup Victoria’s Secret bra and it’s lit perfectly and you’re arching your back—it’s not like that!

ELLE: Is it difficult to find films with really great Coach Outlet Online, strong female leads?
MG: It’s so funny, there are so few good movies being made these days, so when there’s a good one, everybody wants to do it. Think about the actresses who you think are good; so many of them play strong, female, sexual, interesting characters. And all of us are like, “I’ll do that one!” Because there are so few. But I do find that there are a few actresses who are my age who I really respect and admire. I find as I get older, even though there’s some level of competition, it gets divided up pretty evenly. Like, “Oh that one she’s gonna do, and this one I’m gonna do.” You go through different phases of being more wanted or less wanted Coach Outlet Online, but I find it kind of goes up and down and shifts and [is] based on things that are kind of out of your control!

Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal in 'Hysteria'. Photo: Liam Daniel, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

Let Your Ear Cuffs Do the Talking

For the spring 2012 Odyssey collection the unexpected comes in the form of ear cuffs with so-called “unicorn mane” fanning out like sunrays, snakehead-shaped earpieces with a dangling chain long enough to double as a necklace, and armpieces molded like a spine and spanning the length of the forearm. Nature is a constant reference Coach Factory Outlet, but not in the way we typically think of when it comes to accessories. As Nordli-Mathisen puts it, “My view is that nature’s own designs can never really be topped, but you can present these shapes or structures through new materials, or in a new scale which reveals a beauty that we might not have noticed before.” For her, it’s adding a bit futurism into each, as she “like[s] to think of these pieces as the distant past and the distant future colliding and becoming present—the pieces are very organic and almost like artifacts in texture, yet their shapes feel more futuristic.”

A jewelry designer who doesn’t wear earrings isn’t sacrilege, it’s inspiration—at least, it is for Bjørg Nordli-Mathisen. Since launching her label Bjørg in 2004, the Norwegian designer has made a name for herself with 100-percent natural pieces often featuring big Coach Factory Outlet, beautiful stones. But for spring, she ventured outside of her comfort zone and created complex ear and armpieces (to just call them earrings or bracelets wouldn’t do them justice). “Earrings have always struck me as the most conventional and dull pieces, as there are certain limitations,” says Nordli-Mathisen Coach Factory Outlet, adding, “To be brutally honest, this [collection] stems from a longing to do something radically different and something I myself would like to wear. We are always searching for new ways that one can wear [earrings] and doing them on a scale that is perhaps unexpected and that adds something new and makes them feeling interesting.”

Photo: Bjørg Nordli-Mathisen