The July issue of ELLE Netherlands is all about ‘The New Outdoors’ and taking whatever path you choose to walk. Cool girl Mara Kasanpawiro shows us creative clothes for many life journeys — layered or not, socks off, hat on.

ELLE Netherlands writes: ‘Practice what you preach’, a call to all activist hearts to stop complaining, dreading and living in anguish over our world. Instead, get going!

This large editorial is shared in two parts. See Part 2.

The ELLE Netherlands team travels to Peru for ‘The New Outdoors’, with Creative Director Esther Coppoolse joining forces with Dutch photographer Jeroen W. Mantel, on what Mara calls her “most beautiful job to date”.

The team travels to Peru in all its glory, stopping at the beach of Máncora in the Piura region in the northwest. World famous surfing spot Cabo Blanco is another fashion poses backdrop for Mara.

Just like Kuélap in the southern part of the Peruvian Amazon, where a settlement was built by the Chachapoyas, a people older than the Incas and also called warriors of the clouds, writes ELLE Netherlands.