Elite model Caroline Brasch Nielsen makes a timely appearance celebrating the red-white-blue liberty colors associated with French nationalism — and American, too — thanks to our first Revolutionary War ally. Barbara Gullstein styles Caroline in Napoleonic goddess fashions with a strong sensual undercurrent lensed by Signe Vilstrup. ‘Viva la France’ for Elle France January 2015 appears on the day a million people swelled the streets of Paris, embracing the power of the pen and free speech in the fashion capital of the world. / Hair by Mette Thorsgaard; makeup by Sine Ginsborg