Elle is a worldwide lifestyle magazine of French origin that focuses on fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's best-selling fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she" or "her."
Adele has appeared on the cover of the magazine twice.
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2009[edit | edit source]
Adele first appeared in the March 5, 2009 issue of the magazine. She was photographed by Thomas Whiteside. Though she did not appear on the cover of this issue, a photograph from the photoshoot was used as one of the covers for Elle's April 2013 "Women in Music" issue.
Some of the footage taken from the photoshoot, including a brief video of Adele playing piano and singing "Cold Shoulder," was released through People magazine's social media.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
2013 "Women in Music" cover[edit | edit source]
2011[edit | edit source]
Adele again appeared in Elle in 2011, this time gracing the cover of the May 2011 issue of the magazine.
Other appearances[edit | edit source]
March 2011[edit | edit source]
In March 2011, Elle published an interview with Adele in which she discussed her then-new record 21, which can be read here.
There are plenty of trophied twentysomethings who can drum up an achy love song. But there are few young artists channeling the emotional heft of Etta James' "I'd Rather Go Blind" or grasping Aretha Franklin's nirvana-reaching levels of gospel and soul like 22-year-old Adele. Her double-Grammy-winning 2008 debut, 19, chronicled a fallen relationship with such intensity that we actually felt heartbroken too, no matter our relationship status. On her Rick Rubin–assisted follow-up, 21 (each album is named for her age when she wrote it), the south London native, who XL Recordings discovered on Myspace in 2006, manages to out-emote even herself, with more weighty breakup tunes—such as the bittersweet piano ballad "Someone Like You," in which she wishes an ex "nothing but the best" for him and his new wife. She's not quite so resigned on the rousing disco-gospel single "Rolling in the Deep," a screw-you blast to the one who wronged her. How is it that soul music mines a broken heart so well? It must be tough to get gutsy with Rick Rubin in the room. How did you meet? Is there a love song from the past year that you wish you'd written? Sounds like you've got a rap career in your future. |
September 2011[edit | edit source]
A photograph taken during Adele's photoshoot with Q in June 2011 was used for the September 2011 cover of Elle Quebec.