Tabla de contenidos para Issue 885 en Grazia

AS THE ELECTION race heats up, we wanted to ask the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the man vying to take his place, Labour leader Keir Starmer, about the issues that matter most to women. From abortion to the cost of living - plus what qualities they have that’ll help them lead - is it enough to get your vote? Tell us how you’re feeling about the election, by signing up to our broadcast channel on Instagram @graziauk and @thejuggleuk. I Meanwhile, one person who is apprehensive about the increasingly realistic possibility of moving into Number 10, is Victoria Starmer. On page 18, we delve into why she’s kept well clear of the election campaign trail and how she’d approach the tricky, unofficial role of First Lady if her husband…

25 JUNE 2024 “In defence of fair weather football fans Whether you’re a die-hard fan, or just there for the vibes, the Euros are the perfect excuse to head to a pub garden. However, on social media, videos have circulated of female fans criticising others for not watching the sport all year round. One TikToker said, ‘All these girls saying they are only watching the Euros for the “fit players” are not helping our stereotype.’ Plenty of men only join in football fever when there’s a major tournament, and they don’t get the same backlash. Plus, the point of the beautiful game is to bring us together, not tear us apart. So, see you at the pub - Euro 2024 Girl Summer is officially underway.”…

WAVING AND SMILING, the Princess of Wales delighted the gathered crowds when she appeared at Trooping the Colour for King Charles’ birthday celebrations. After six months out of the spotlight, it was a careful comeback after abdominal surgery and then cancer had turned her life, and that of her young family, upside down. As she stepped down from the Glass State Coach, it was a tentative first step back into public life. But this was not a signal that things are back to business as usual. Kensington Palace were quick to brief royal reporters that no decisions had been made on any future engagements over the coming months, and the princess would only attend events as and when she felt able to, with the guidance of her medical team. As…

10 HOT STORIES IF SIR KEIR STARMER enters 10 Downing Street on 5 July, he’ll step through the famous door with his wife Victoria at his side. For the public, it may well be one of the first times they’ve encountered the most elusive political spouse in recent history. ‘Lady Vic’, as she’s known among Labour staff – just ‘Vic’ to her friends and family – has been notably absent from her husband’s campaign to be PM. Despite calls for her to help ‘humanise’ him, there have been no interviews, and no photo opps of her gazing at him admiringly, her dress co-ordinated with his tie. Those who know her say she has no intention of following the script imposed on previous politician’s wives. ‘She’s extremely supportive of Keir behind…

WHEN SUKI WATERHOUSE shared a post-partum selfie – rocking a pair of disposable knickers – with her four million followers, her honesty about the roller coaster of new motherhood struck a chord. ‘The fourth trimester has been… humbling!’ she wrote when she posted the picture in April following the birth of her daughter with her partner of six years, actor Robert Pattinson. ‘The postpartum period has been filled with exhilarating joy, so much laughter, tears, soo many hormones!’ Women flooded her comments, thanking the model-singer-actor for getting real and sharing their own stories of navigating the newborn blur. ‘I don’t know if you can be prepared for all the emotional and physical changes that come after birth,’ Suki tells Grazia now. ‘A few months in I’m starting to feel a…

WHEN YOU MEET Eva Longoria, her drive is palpable. You get the sense she is very good at making things happen. Take, for example, how she manifested her latest on-screen project, Land Of Women, a six-part series for Apple TV+ starting this month. ‘I was a big fan of Ramon Campos, the creator,’ she says. ‘I told him I wanted to work in Spain and asked him to write me a show set in wine country. I told him a wish list of what I was looking for in a show and he came up with Land Of Women. Apple bought it straight away and we went into production.’ Longoria stars as a New York emptynester forced to flee to a wine town in Spain, along with her mother and…

SOMETHING GUARANTEED to strike fear into the heart of the average Brit – even more than having to strip off – is having to strip off while maintaining eye contact. And yet our collective disquiet about disrobing seems to be peeling away. According to the British Sauna Society, there are more than 100 saunas around the UK and Ireland and more than 30 of these emerged in the past six months. What’s more, the way we use them seems to be changing. Where previously we’d pick a pub or bar for most social occasions (and a sauna only for an annual Mother’s Day visit), now we’re seeing a rise in people shedding their inhibitions and replacing a boozy bender with a soak in a communal tub. ‘It’s the new form…

I blame Coachella. That, I think, is where it all soured for boho - by which I specifically mean the ’70s-via-early noughties iteration that is ingrained in the Millennial psyche. Coinciding with the rise of ‘festival fashion’ as a fast-retail category via some culturally dubious accessories, it was under the glare of the Indio sun that what had once been charmingly free-spirited quickly plummeted into pastiche (think: Manson family in Revolve). Gradually, then very, very quickly, boho became a byword for naff. It was too obvious, too basic; unsophisticated, unsexy, inauthentic, a bit much, the opposite of cool. Even as fashion plundered Y2K for inspiration in recent years, it was for the low-slung, the cropped and the trashy. What didn’t get a look in were the 2003-ish looks of Sienna…

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CERAVE Single-handedly responsible for making unsexy, sensible skincare lust-worthy. The ceramide rich, skin barrier-boosting ethos proves that when it comes to skincare, substance over style goes the distance. Stockpiled by beauty editors, over seven Cerave cleansers are sold every minute. Cerave Hydrating Cleanser, £12.50. GLOSSIER The OG social-first brand, Glossier’s no-make-up make-up aesthetic heralded a new mood in beauty. Easy to use, hard to mess up, Balm Dotcom, Boy Brow and Cloud Paint have become make-up bag staples, but it’s Glossier You EDP, £62, that has had people chased down the street to find out what fragrance they are wearing. MAC A masterclass in staying relevant, 40 years after it first hit counters the iconic make-up brand is the second most-mentioned brand on Instagram. Profits from the Viva Glam lipsticks…

FOOD GRAZIA LAST WEEK, my husband Pete and I celebrated a huge milestone –10 years of being parents. Or I should say, we celebrated what should have been our son’s 10th birthday. Our first child, Archimedes, was stillborn. A perfect little boy, whose heart had stopped beating. Reliving the days leading up to me having him – the blissful ignorance that something would or could go wrong – is hard. Now I’ll be knee-deep in washing up or bathtime with our two daughters when a wave of grief will hit me. This was when I packed my hospital bag. Or it was at this time that I was batch-cooking a ragu for the freezer. Before Archie, I was a food stylist and recipe developer, working on large shoots with lots…

The last book I read… Goodbye To Berlin by Christopher Isherwood, as research for my next project, playing the Emcee in Cabaret. I’m actually still reading it – it takes me forever to finish a book. The last song I listened to… Walk Like This by FLO. It’s the first song I put on when I’m walking out the flat. We love to see three British Black girls killing it. I saw their concert in LA last month and it was a vibe. The last box set I binged… Baby Reindeer. Wild. The last podcast I listened to… The Receipts Podcast 200th episode. I love the hosts Tolly and Audrey. I cackle with them like they’re my mates. The last beauty product I finished… YSL MYSLF fragrance – and thanks for the reminder,…

Have your say… Email us at feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk ■ Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @GraziaUK FEATURED LETTER Let’s be smart about phones Meet the man who wants to save children from their phones (10 June) left me with a sense of hope for children’s mental health. I can see were beginning to take seriously the negative impact of giving kids smartphones. But is it enough? My son is 15 and completely addicted. He is on his phone from Sam to 11pm. We gave him a phone aged 11 and I’m shocked to hear this is late for a child now. I am an outdoor kindergarten teacher and, as I watch the children play in nature, I hope this phase will last, but I fear it won’t. Alison…

1. Up. JUDE BELLINGHAM Carrying the hopes of the nation on his shoulders at the time of writing; and starring in a Skims campaign. 2. Up DAEMON TARGARYEN It’s problematic to fancy anyone in House Of The Dragon, they’re all quite evil, so we’re just going on Matt Smith’s hotness here. 3. Non-mover CHAKA KHAN Whose recent concert was described by one reviewer as ‘London’s loudest karaoke party’, which is so very much our vibe. 4. New in HOT RODENT MEN Men who look like sexy rats are the lust archetype of the summer, apparently: Barry Keoghan is a case in point. 5. Up MISS FRANCE Trolled to abstraction for winning the beauty pageant with (get this) short hair. ‘Le wokeism est devenu fou’ and so forth. 6. New in…

WELCOME BACK TO Swiftmania! Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras tour has landed in the UK, our cities flooded with Swifties from all around the world as the 34-yearold megastar plays shows in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Liverpool. Jetting off around Europe after her early summer London shows, Taylor will return on 15 August for another five sell-out performances at Wembley Stadium. By her side is her new London set, including Kate Moss, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Andrew Scott, as well as clique regulars Cara Delevingne, Lena Dunham and Haim sisters Este and Danielle, who all accompanied her on a recent night out in Notting Hill to Argentinian eatery Casa Cruz. Yes, Taylor even has time for girls’ night despite her gruelling schedule of three to four concerts a week (all double the…

Nimco Ali, activist Q: Do you consider yourself pro-choice? And if so would you decriminalise abortion? Rishi Sunak: This is an incredibly emotive issue, which is why there has long been a convention for Parliament to decide whether to make any changes to the law. It has always been treated as an individual matter of conscience so it wouldn’t be right for me to be seen to influence others by expressing a personal view. Keir Starmer: Abortion is an essential part of healthcare and I am pro choice. If we get into Government we’ll provide Parliamentary time for free votes on modernising abortion law to ensure women do not go to jail for getting an abortion at a vulnerable time. Of course, there needs to be safeguards and time limits, but…

THE FIRST TIME Sonia*, 29, tried to get her five-year-old intrauterine system (IUS) replaced, she was turned away. ‘The nurse told me Mirena coils could be kept in for up to six years and, although it hadn’t yet been licensed in the UK, the clinic had been given “special permission” to allow it,’ she recalls. ‘She explained that there was no sense putting me through a painful procedure if it didn’t need to be replaced.’ Like many women, Sonia had not had periods since using the Mirena – but a few months after being told that the device was good for another year, her periods returned, accompanied by terrible cramps. She went back to the clinic. ‘I was convinced my coil wasn’t working any more but the nurse told me…

WARM WEATHER DRESSING and linen have always gone hand in hand but, for 2024, instead of billowing shirts (although we’ll always recommend a trusty linen buttondown for when temperatures hit +20 degrees) opt for structured tops in tonal shades for a more sartorial take. Case in point, Faithfull The Brand’s striped oneshoulder minidress that looks just as good worn with tailored pants, or Whistles’ simple strapless bandeau for a cool-girl take on ‘jeans-and-a-nice-top’. Come sundown, swap out silk for linen as your new eveningwear of choice. Note Arkitaip’s cut-out maxidress in punchy tomato or Massimo Dutti’s embroidered linen wrap skirt, ideally paired with kitten heels and a red lip, and, come on, is there anything chicer than a pair of tailored linen city shorts? I think not. LINEN DOESN’T HAVE…

REMEMBER THE SKIRT? Usurped by dresses and jeans in recent years, the former wardrobe staple has a rep for being dowdy, frumpy and impossible to style. A sartorial relic, as it were. But it’s time to recalibrate your senses. From Chopova Lowena’s cult patchwork kilt – worn by every fashion editor worth their salt – to Sarah Jessica Parker in a denim skirt on the set of And Just Like That…, the skirt is hot property right now – and it’s had a high fashion spin. How has the most unfashionable of hemlines swung back into fashion, elbowing quiet luxury’s favourite wardrobe staple, the tailored trouser, out of the way? Simple. It went bold. Think sequins, fringing, beading, crochet and tie-dye. From knifepleated midis to below-the-knee A-line, a statement skirt…

THE YEAR WAS 2009. Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga were topping the charts. I was in year eight, sporting a side fringe and neon green and pink metal braces – perpetually filled with food and tearing my lips at the side. That year, high on flying saucers at a Bat Mitzvah, a boy told me that I would be ‘quite fit’ if I had a nose job, boob job and didn’t have braces. I was still quite charmed. The idea that functional devices make us ‘unfanciable’ was propagated by ’90s and ’00s pop culture. Think Drew Barrymore’s metallic smile in Never Been Kissed. Anne Hathaway’s black-rimmed spectacles in Princess Diaries. America Ferrera’s gaudy brace AND glasses combo in Ugly Betty. Braces and glasses, according to rom-coms, were ugly duckling…

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GRAZIA READ GRAZIA BOOK CLUB TAKEN FOR GRANTED by her boyfriend Adam, sent on menial errands by her boss and pushed around by her family, Jade can’t ever seem to find the words to stand up for herself. A people-pleaser and pushover, Jade feels uncomfortable speaking her mind. Until the day she comes across a script containing a scenario involving her own life. Scripted is Fearne Cotton’s debut novel (the Happy Place podcast host has also written several Sunday Times best-selling non-fiction books, including Speak Your Truth, Quiet and Calm), and she told Grazia that writing the story of Jade felt like ‘pure escapism’. ‘To dive into Jade’s world let me forget about my own worries and fears. It was pure bliss,’ she says. Jade, a 32-year-old set decorator, rents…

COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR THERE’S A THING happening on TikTok of which, for once, I thoroughly approve. It’s called Normalise Small Little Houses and is an attempt to disrupt society’s unrealistic house beauty standards. People post pictures of their messy, poky, imperfect homes as pithily shambolic rejoinders to the elegantly conceived, eternally neat Instagram house images we generally see. They take your ‘hotel bathroom’ - with its tiles ’n’ towels ’n’ freestanding bath - and they raise you their wonky grout, ugly shower curtain and battered loofah. They take your majestic kitchen island, raise you their peanut-butter-smeared worktop, last night’s washing up and an as-yet untriggered mousetrap. I approve of this - because I am living it. Living in A Small Little House that looks nothing like the ones you…

SENIOR FASHION NEWS EDITOR NATALIE HAMMOND SHARES THE PIECES ON HER NEWS FEED FOR SUMMER… BREATHE IN I love associating a fragrance with a season. For summer, Celine’s Zouzou has stolen my heart with its notes of amber, musk and vanilla. £315, Celine SUMMER DRESS OF DREAMS The Austrian dirndl is the inspiration behind the bodice of this dress, which is available in mint and this irresistibly peppy shade of bubblegum. £265, Arkitaip MADE FOR SUEDE I can definitely get onboard with this slightly more wearable take on the boat shoes trend. £112, Alohas VACAY VISION I’ll wear these chartreuse linen trousers over a bikini for day and paired with the matching top at night. £95, Rise & Fall MINI ME Maybe this teeny-weeny bag will help me cut my…

STYLE IT OUT IF YOU’RE PARTIAL to a denim short, you’re in luck. Because sweeping social media feeds and the street-style scene is 2024’s iteration of a classic: jorts! The name – a portmanteau of jeans and shorts – is by far the worst thing about jorts, which are denim shorts that hit somewhere between the mid-thigh and the knee, which makes for a surprisingly lengthening effect. The other great thing is they toe the line between looking grown-up and being hot-weather appropriate. ‘I’m thoroughly out of my denim cut-off years, but still love the effortlessness of a denim short in the summer,’ says Jane McFarland, Grazia’s associate editor, who’s been wearing a £29.99 Mango pair on repeat. (The high street has so many versions of the jort, but we…

EVER SINCE SHE thanked all of her agents’ and managers’ assistants, aka ‘the people who answer my emails’, from the winner’s podium at this year’s Golden Globes, Ayo Edebiri has always delivered a side-order of personality, skewering the idea of a media-trained actor programmed to serve up bland soundbites. Take her recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, who asked her to explain the next season of The Bear, which returns for its third outing on 27 June, without any spoilers. Taking the bait, Edebiri proceeded to fantasise about a crossover series with Shogun, the sweeping drama set in 17th century Japan, saying, ‘You have to watch it. It will make sense.’ She was side-stepping the obvious for some trademark playfulness – a pretty accurate description, it’s got…

OVER THE LAST 14 years there have been five Prime Ministers, five general elections (including this one) an EU referendum that divided the country, a pandemic and devastating global conflicts that have reverberated at home. In the last two years alone we’ve seen the economy shatter, the cost of living soar and rents and mortgages become unaffordable almost overnight. The uncertainty of the modern world has left many feeling they have no sense of security. Amid all this, women have been getting on with their lives. While debates around tax, crime, immigration and culture wars rage, it’s not what the women we spoke to worry about the most. They want to live in a country where a single woman on a decent salary doesn’t need a partner to get on…

IN THE WAKE of last year’s ‘short king spring’, another underappreciated subsection of the male population is stepping into their moment: it’s time for single dad summer. Unattached men with kids are hot property – a recent survey by dating.com found that 60% of single women are open to dating them. Of course, this isn’t new: there have always been single-dad heartthrobs in movies, from the attractively noble Atticus (Gregory Peck) in To Kill A Mockingbird to the irresistibly heartbroken Sam (Tom Hanks) in Sleepless In Seattle. Or take Jude Law as widower Graham in The Holiday: ‘I’m a full-time dad,’ he tells Amanda, played by Cameron Diaz. ‘I’m a working parent. I’m a mother and a father. I’m a guy who reads parenting books and cookbooks before I go…

IT’S A SHORE THING TRINKET COLLECTORS assemble! Never has your proclivity for picking up the odd tchotchke on your travels come in more useful than now. Because the designers have decreed souvenir-inspired seaside-themed jewellery hot for summer (and it will surely help bring a ray of sunshine). Think shell and pearl charm bracelets, mermaid earrings and necklaces, ceramics and coral-shaped pendants. The motto? The more the merrier. So, dig through your ‘memories’ box and stack up your old puka shell necklace with a diamond one - opposites attract.…

HAVE YOU EVER wondering what’s on your son’s fashion hot list? Chances are, it’s the newest brainchild of Dior menswear creative director Kim Jones and that of Massimo Osti, the founder of cult streetwear brand Stone Island – a collection fusing the best of high fashion and hype-wear. It’s definitely on ours. From £270, Dior X Stone Island WORLD, MEET Swarovski’s latest coup: Created Diamonds – a new collection of lab-grown diamonds, consisting of 19 pieces including necklaces, rings, earrings and bracelets. Lab-grown diamonds are forever, too. Galaxy Tennis Necklace, price on request CAT PEOPLE ASSEMBLE: JW Anderson’s capsule collection featuring paintings of cats (and other motifs) by Christiane Kubrick, which can be seen in Stanley Kubrick’s movie Eyes Wide Shut, was made just for you. A HOLDALL that fits…

‘CAN YOU GET ME one of those yellow tubs of moisturiser that smells like a beach holiday?’ As a beauty editor, I am used to receiving requests for in-demand products, but this message has been a repeat offender. For the last six or so years it’s pinged in from a random rotation of my 30-something friends. Yes, Sol de Janeiro’s Brazilian Bum Bum Cream is one of only a handful of items that’s reached cult status. Then, at the tail end of last year, the texts changed. But the brand remained the same. ‘Hi, it’s Marcie, can I have one of those fruity fragrance mists from TikTok?’ Marcie is 11. There are few brands whose cultural cachet runs the gamut of fashion editors, A-listers, TikTokers and tweens, but Sol de…

GO FOR CLASSIC COCKTAILS - WITH A TWIST …says Poppy Delevingne, model ‘I love entertaining at home, to catch up with friends. I style the table with bright tablecloths, flowers, candles, layered plates and glassware. I am in charge of cocktails and love making a twist on the classic Hugo Spritz – Della Vite Prosecco DOCG [created by Poppy and her sisters Cara and Chloe] with a splash of vodka, some elderflower liqueur, mint and lime makes a perfect summer blend. This summer the cocktail is available on the terrace at Wild By Tart in Belgravia, who we’ve partnered with, transporting guests to Italy.’ USE LIGHTING TO CREATE ZONES … says Lucinda Chambers, founder of Collagerie ‘The trick to summer entertaining is to make it all look, feel and taste…