We are grateful to have Dr. Lara Devgan, one of the nation’s top plastic surgeons, contributing to ELLE. Her latest article, on the lessons she’s learned from examining 100,000 faces, brings the kind of wisdom you can usually only get inside her Park Avenue consultation room. Her insight—that a face needs “friction,” for example, and that our fixations shouldn’t always be fixed—may reframe how you think about aesthetics.
—Sara Austin, executive editor
