The Editor

1) We Are The Champions: The Intern Issue
2) Keira Knightley: The epitome of female
3) AW12 Fashion Forecast
4) We unite for Breast Cancer Awareness month
5) AFTER DARK: Vampiric beauty
6) WOMEN OF 2013

This month’s issue of ELLE celebrates the female. Founded in a post war era of the rebirth of women, ELLE embodies the strength of women as a sex in a male dominated society, and ultimately, their right to be informed through print media. ‘We Are The Champions’ introduces our ELLE intern winners’ strategy behind the issue, reinforced by our interview with Keira Knightley as an example of what women can achieve ahead of her role in ‘Anne Karenina’, released in November. Her feisty yet gentle portrayal of women in her work can be reflected in ELLE’s ‘AW12 Fashion Forecast’- think pure and simple alongside masculine ‘I will not be taken for granted’ shapes. As we constantly strive for positive recognition in female strength we continue to unite in aid of Breast Cancer Awareness month, and what better way to look to the future than to highlight the ‘Women of 2013’? Sporting stars, emerging political figures and bloggers set to take over the fashion agenda- women will shall not be reckoned with in 2013. ‘Si elle lit elle lit Elle’, and as she reads, she will ensure that ELLE continues to be a part of her female identity, indefinitely.

Daisy Simpson

Six coverlines:
1.This is our year: The Graduates of 2012

2.Homecoming – Elle talks to Jil Sander about her return

3.The not-so-secret-anymore travel destinations to visit

4.The weird and the wonderful - beauty rituals

5.The Female Narrative – The women of our generation have broken social barriers but where are we heading and who will be next to break traditions?

6.Daydream Believers – is our constant connection with technology stifling our creativity?

Editor's Letter
To edit a magazine that I have coveted more than I have dreamt about owning the garments themselves would be an honour. Back home in the sea-side village that I grew up in, Elle magazine was my escape, a portal to the wonderful, magical world of fashion. With subscription covers plastered to my walls, I used to daydream about the life I wanted to lead whilst reading magazines from cover to cover, consuming every written word and corresponding image.

I believe I have what it takes to be the intern editor for Elle magazine, and prove to those that sniggered when the word fashion cropped up in the degree title I’m studying. Perseverance has brought me a long way geographically and mentally from my home town, and I hope it will take me even further.

Interning as editor would at the very least prove to my mother that my hoarding of Elle magazines under my bed and consequently my taking over the loft space was never in vain. No other women’s magazine comes close to Elle, it stays close to representing the real women whilst understanding that women can dream, and dream I do when picking up the latest edition of Elle.

Max Tuson

I: CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION
It's Intern Takeover Time

II: DIAMONDS ARE A GIRLS BEST FRIEND
Let Your Jewellery Do The Talking

III: BOLD, BRASH AND BRITISH
Jessie J; It's Her Turn To Talk (Cover Star)

IV: ROYAL ECCENTRIC
Revamping The Queens Signature Style

V: BOND AMBITION
Daniel Craig Chats To Elle About Skyfall, Sex Scenes And All Things Bond.

VI: IRIDESCENT INDIA
Top 10 Hotspots In The Country Of Culture

THE EDITOR'S LETTER
If you have picked up this October Issue of Elle and thought there was perhaps something DIFFERENT, fresh, and unseen about it, then I applaud you on your attention to detail because the truth is there is something different. The reason? This issue has been entirely edited by the INTERNS! - the course of whom you can meet in Children of the Revolution on page 123.
In a year that has been all about CELEBRATING being British, one-woman stands unafraid to embody her inner BRAZEN Brit - Cover star and Pop sensation JESSIE J; fearless, fun and utterly FABULOUS she says it how it is in Bold, Brash and British on page 212.
From rocking a colour block suit in Royal Eccentric - page 156 or discovering how a statement necklace can make or break an outfit in Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend - page 170, this issue of ELLE is packed with FRESH fun features to make you SQUEAL
And so my work here is done and I leave you to explore this beacon of light for the next fashion hopefuls, because one thing is clear now, the future is bright; the future is fashion and the fun has only just begun…

Alexandra Murphy