Table of contents for Issue 915 in Grazia

Email us at feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @GraziaUK YOUR ARTICLE Kate pulls back from peace-making (4 August) resonated so much with me. I became estranged from part of my family when my mum was diagnosed with cancer and sadly passed away 13 years ago. After spending endless hours poring over blame issues and possible resolution, I decided to let it go. People fall out and grow apart – acceptance can be the right choice and can bring so much relief. I now savour the present, look forward to the future and enjoy my life, valuing those I share it with, most importantly my husband and son. Life is too precious to waste. Marie…

1. New in THE 'IBIZA FINAL BOSS' Jack Kay, 26, was spotted on a dance floor two weeks ago, went viral, and has now released a single, is going on tour and is said to be in talks to appear on Big Brother. 2. Non-mover SPACE APATHY On hearing Katy Perry went into space, Mariah Carey said, ‘Wow, all right Katy.’ 3. New in LOLA TUNG FROM THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY Very much a drama intended for teens, but that has never stopped CoL. BTW, we are Team Conrad. 4. New in KAREN LODERICKPEACE The Real Housewives Of London is here (sample jibe: ‘You need a facelift!’). KLP came to London to study fashion, married West Bromwich chairman Jeremy Peace, built a business and now lives in a six-storey…

WE DIDN’T NEED the Lionesses to win the 2025 Euro (as if we ever doubted they would) to know that Brit girls do it differently. And by different we mean refreshingly better. If we do, ahem, say so ourselves. Every summer has its icons but 2025 goes down as the year we fell back in love with our favourites for their ability to dress, yes, but equally – if not more – for their vibe. These aren’t just women we’d like to emulate style-wise, we’d like to hang out with them while arguing over the league table of summer’s most hun bevs: is Aperol more basic than Whispering Angel? Please, we have time. While we can quite happily leave the aesthetic tropes of the noughties revival behind us, we’re utterly…

WHERE ONCE THE name Pamela Anderson may have brought to mind a tousled blonde in a red swimsuit, running across a beach in slow motion, today the image is more likely to be of a bare-faced, softly spoken woman in billowing linen and runway-level restraint. We’ve been witness to a kind of cultural alchemy. Because against all odds Pamela Anderson has done the unthinkable: she’s rewritten her own mythology. Unlike most icons – who are usually embalmed in the look that made them famous – Anderson has pressed delete on the Playboy playbook and emerged as something altogether more surprising. Not sexless, but soulful. Not diminished, but distilled. It all started with Pamela, A Love Story, her 2023 Netflix documentary and reclamation project, a retelling of her life – in…

1. SHOWSTOPPER SHIRTING The season ahead sees basic blouses evolve into something supersized and statement. Think silk, chiffons and lace with big boho sleeves, oversized cuffs and all tied up with pussy bows. Note Max Mara’s soft green version complete with its very own brooch. 2. THE HAMMOCK HANDBAG Relax! This season’s favourite bag shape is the curvy, slouchy, hammock. While there’s always a time and place for something sharp and shiny, this style has a more ‘throw on and go’ persona, managing to look both squished and stylish at once. 3. PRECIOUS CARGO Two of this year’s biggest trouser trends – horseshoe jeans and cool-girl cargos – join forces to create an easy-to-wear hybrid. Key to this trend? The cut: ensure they’re suitably oversized and narrow at the ankle.…

RELAXATION 001 Skincare Relax Acu-Patch, £25 for 60 Cooling on application, these offer a herbal blend of the adaptogen dendrobium, chrysanthemum, and antiinflammatory cassia seed, said to alleviate tension and restore calm. MOOD BOOST Kind Patches Dopamine Patches, £12 for 30 With 5-HTP, lion’s mane and rhodiola, these ‘happy patches’ (in an optimistic shade of yellow) promise to support the body’s natural production of dopamine and serotonin. IMMUNITY Barrière Hello Sunshine Clean Vitamin D3 Patch, £10.49 for 36 These deliver 4000 IU of vitamin D3, your daily quota for boosting immunity, alongside vitamin K2 to aid absorption (consult a doctor before relying on them solely). SLEEP Ross J Barr Sleep Patches, £15 for 10 Now a cult buy, fans say these herb-infused patches containing costus root, prunellae spica, wild jujube…

AS A NATION we really throw ourselves into a bank holiday weekend. Particularly the August bank holiday, the cherry on the cake of summer. The Brit Girls we celebrate on page 36 – led by their patron saint, Sienna Miller – know the value of a Good Time. They’ve been rocking red carpets and festival fields, squeezing every last drop of fun from the summer. Not only our style stars of the season, they’re women who we’d love to go for a pint with. Another woman we admire, Pamela Anderson, tells us all about her whirlwind summer (page 42) and we bid a heartfelt farewell to the one and only Carrie Bradshaw. All good things must come to an end, and if summer’s crescendo is giving you pangs, take heart…

MOST OF US have to make a few compromises on our annual summer holiday, whether that’s turning a blind eye to the leaky shower or spending an unplanned 14 hours hanging around Palma airport. It’s fine – we get it – it’s still a week or two off work and we’re grateful to go anywhere. But no such trade-offs are required if you’re on one of this summer’s seemingly never-ending celebrity trips, many of which have been documented in glorious detail on Instagram (we’re happy for you, as we endure being splashed by a stranger’s children. Honestly we are!). THE IBIZA ICON Why spend summer in the UK when you’re Kate Moss? The model’s been in Formentera and Ibiza since mid-July – exactly as we expect. She’s been seen with…

A SUMMER ABROAD with best pal Kate Hudson, a major deal for her indie production company and critical acclaim for her role in ‘surprise’ box office hit Materialists, Dakota Johnson is living all of our post break-up fantasies. Quietly splitting from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin in June, after eight years together, Johnson, 35, is ushering in a new era of her life in the most envy-inducing of ways. It all started with her press tour for Materialists, her palpable chemistry with co-star Pedro Pascal making for many a viral video. Johnson’s comedic quickness has always been criminally underrated – her dry wit perhaps more suited to British audiences than Hollywood – but it was their playful, insult-laden friendship that made a mark on the masses online. Overnight, Johnson became the…

‘I think she’s forgotten that she has two kids.’ ‘She’s either at a party/concert or in a bar/pub or celebrating with friends… Always with alcohol in hand.’ ‘Where are this woman’s children?’ These were just some of the comments aimed at actor Sophie Turner after the 29-year-old shared photos of herself – shock, horror, set fire to the pitchforks! – attending an Oasis concert with a friend. Turner – who has two children, Willa, five, and Delphine, three, with her former husband Joe Jonas – hit back by commenting, ‘Ah, I’m so sorry. Sometimes I forget some people can’t think for themselves. So… get this… there’s this crazy thing called shared custody. Maybe, just maybe, they were with their dad that day.’ Maybe there were, maybe they weren’t. Does it…

WHILE THIS summer hasn’t been given a trend bat signal (brat signal?), there has been an obvious cultural shift. Obvious being the key word. Money being another. Jane Birkin’s original Birkin recently sold at Sotheby’s Paris for £8.6m. The Row’s £670 rubber flip-flops were a status flex. Harrods went viral for selling £150 melons. Naomi Campbell and Janelle Monáe were on the maiden voyage of the Luminara, the Ritz-Carlton’s new ultra-luxe superyacht (complete with a Michelin-star chef and Cartier boutique). At Louis Vuitton’s after-party for Pharrell’s June show, guests played Monopoly (Margot Robbie is working on a film version of the capitalist-utopian boardgame); while, in the cinema, Brad Pitt and Damson Idris spun around the globe in F1, the elite, high-stakes sport of the yacht-haves. Whatever your feelings on the…

1. KEEP IT SIMPLE Take the fuss-free route by using this easy outfit formula: a no-frills T-shirt dress + a pair of strappy sandals (and a fresh pedicure). Just add your favourite shades. Simple but sophisticated, it’s the perfect throw-on-and-go outfit that still makes you look put together. 2. EMBRACE CITY SHORTS These deserve a place in everyone’s warm-weather repertoire. Worn slightly above, on or just below the knee, a pair of longline shorts (see COS’s wrapfront styles or Lou Lou’s sharp, tailored version) possess the power to look just as smart as suit trousers. Elevate basic vests and cami tops with the simple addition of a heeled sandal, mule or, in this case, stacked clogs. 3. UNBUTTON YOUR BUTTON DOWN The trick to making this work when you’re not…

PICTURE IT. your skin is sun-kissed, freshly moisturised and silky. Your hair is air-dried to perfection. It’s been a relaxed day – you read half a book and drifted off by the pool. Perhaps you did some early morning yoga or walked the length of the beach. And now? You’re on the balcony, a crisp glass of wine within reach as you lay out your skincare. Life is good. Really good. There’s something about holidays and the feelgood habits we adopt, the rhythms we fall into, the overthinking we put on pause. Typically, they disappear in a puff of smoke the moment we touch down, but what if there was a way to hold on to them? To lend that holiday glow some staying power? GOLDEN HOUR 2.0 Mimicking a…

I TAKE AN always-on approach to SPF, as any skincare know-it-all worth their salt should. When it comes to my face, that is – I don’t mean to say that I’m slathering on a head-to-toe layer of Soltan come the bleak midwinter. We all have our limits. But while sun-flushed cheeks à la Dua Lipa may be the selfie look of the moment, like the Hotter Than Hell singer herself, I prefer to apply mine with a decent cream blush rather than skipping vital SPF reapplications in the name of a real-life glow. Flashback to my twenties and it was a different story. I was a factor 15 girl through and through. I figured it was a good middle ground, a means of ticking the don’t-burn box while leaving the…

Professor Steele works using a ‘calm inbox’. ‘I have an OOO message which explains that my inbox is checked in the morning and the early afternoon and that’s it,’ she says. ‘It helps manage expectations as to when I will respond.’ Another approach to emails is to follow the Four Ds. ‘Do it – that is, answer the email if it takes fewer than two minutes; defer it if it will take longer, but schedule a time to respond; delegate it if it’s not for you or someone else can do it; delete it if it’s not relevant,’ says Steele. ’With meetings, if I’m in one with the camera off, trying to do something else, then I know it’s not the best use of my time as I’m not doing…

FINALLY, CATCALLING AND STREET HARASSMENT ARE BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY A pilot operation in Surrey has seen female police officers posing as runners to tackle catcalling and harassment. The scheme, part of Surrey Police’s Jog On campaign, saw officers in running clothes jog through known harassment hot spots, leading to 18 arrests. It’s alarming that police should even have to do this. But for women, it’s a relief that this sort of intimidation is finally being taken seriously. A study by the University of Manchester found that 68% of women have experienced some form of harassment, including being wolf-whistled and even followed, while out running. We deserve to exercise in public and in peace.…

FLIP-FLOPS WITH trousers, dresses over trews and lace aplenty: while most of the fashion set are still horizontal somewhere in the Med, at Copenhagen Fashion Week they’re already pounding pavements and FROWS, wringing every ounce from their wardrobes. The street style didn’t disappoint, proving that the run-up to fashion month in September is no dress rehearsal. In Copenhagen, fashion is worn like a good joke – seriously thought-out, yet breezily delivered. Where else do showgoers serve looks that offer unfiltered joy that you could plausibly wear? It’s time for some Nordic nous.…

DENIM TRENDS CAN never truly be called new, rather it’s a return to the spotlight for one style. Case in point, indigo denim, seen on the fall runways at Prada, Sportmax and Tory Burch. These deep blue jeans – inspired by Japanese selvedge styles – have emerged as the breakout stars for A/W ’25. Think of them as the more grown-up, smarter big sister to your baggy mom jeans. Want in on the action early? APC’s new Japanese denim Sailor jeans or COS’s sellout straight legs might just be perfect. As well as jeans there are jackets, skirts and waistcoats in a chic indigo wash. Sacai x Levi’s sculptural selvedge jacket is denim perfection, while Massimo Dutti’s wide-leg trousers and bustier top offer a sophisticated take on double denim. H&M’s…

Dakota Johnson’s new movie Materialists (in cinemas now) is not your conventional romcom. From the director Celine Song – behind 2023’s gut-punching Past Lives – while Johnson’s matchmaker heroine is embroiled in a classic love triangle trope (with Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal, lucky her), the tone is more thoughtful, serious and emotionally incisive than your average romp. It’s part of a wave of anti-romcom movies that may have a couple at their centre but upend the usual clichés to deliver something far more subversive. Take last month’s release, Oh, Hi!, starring Molly Gordon (Claire from The Bear), which sees a romantic mini-break turn into a hostage situation when her situationship casually mentions he’s not looking for anything serious. Then there’s Together, starring IRL couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco,…

Take a close look at any modern wellness enthusiast and chances are you’ll spot a patch at work. Whether discreet or branded to be noticed, these souped-up wellness stickers are designed to do everything from help us unwind and sleep better to bounce back from a hangover or boost energy levels, all via a cocktail of carefully chosen ingredients delivered through the skin. Welcome to wearable wellness. This year Google searches for ‘transdermal patch’ jumped by 70% and this spike in interest has coincided, if not caused, a surge in new launches. And their presence is only set to grow – industry forecasts predict the global market for wellness patches will expand by 4.7%, reaching £8.16bn by 2035. We get the hype and the allure of the quick fix of…

SO, YOU’VE SPENT the summer sipping pickled margaritas, weekending at festivals and escaping it all on holiday. Work has felt less intense: the inbox quieted and the diary emptied as everyone else enjoyed the summer. But now September looms with its backtoschool feeling (even if you don’t have kids) and, while it’s not as gloomy as January, the return to work can be tricky. How to deal with feeling blue? Perhaps do as the French do and lean into la rentrée – in France the return to the office is the time to look forward, with resolutions made. ‘September is a great time to think about what you want to achieve in the last quarter of the year. Are you on track or have your goals changed?’ says Professor Catherine…