Table of contents for Issue 734 in Grazia

ON PAPER, SUMMER dressing sounds a breeze: a dress, a pair of sandals and you’re good to go. But the reality, I find, is often quite different. How to break out of wearing black? Find a holiday dress that will also work outside of annual leave? Or an appropriate and comfortable summer work outfit? It’s tricky territory – and our current changeable weather just adds another layer of complication. So, welcome to our Big Summer Shopping Special, where the fashion team have scoured the shops for the best items out there right now. Including, sadly, a raincoat! @hattie_brett / feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk…

“We must take reality TV stars’ mental health seriously Just a week after entering the Love Island villa, Sherif Lanre, 20, was kicked out for ‘breaking the rules’. ‘Which rule?’ viewers clamoured to know. But Sherif and his family stayed tight-lipped, as did the show’s producers, citing their ‘duty of care’ to him. He returned to London with the paparazzi on his trail, his life altered after even such a short stint on the show, with millions of us now desperate to discover what went on. Yes, Love Island is based on gossip and rumour, whispers and conjecture. But if we are to respect the mental health of its contestants – which is crucial, given the suicides of two former participants – we must respect their privacy, too.”…

IRINA SHAYK AND Bradley Cooper appeared to weather one of the biggest storms in their relationship earlier this year, when he was romantically linked with his A Star Is Born co-star, Lady Gaga. At the time, amid all the Hollywood talk, Irina remained resolutely by his side – even after that emotional Oscar performance of the song Shallow, which led to thousands of tweets urging Bradley and Gaga to kiss as they sat at the piano. Four months later, however, and it seems that the chatter surrounding Bradley, 44, and his ‘intense relationship’ with Gaga was simply too relentless and humiliating for Irina. She has now moved out of the Los Angeles home she shared with her boyfriend of four years, taking their two-year-old daughter Lea De Seine with her…

Right now, the future of our country – who will become our next PM – is being decided by a small group of mostly old white men. And we could be stuck with their choice until 2022, when the next general election is due. As Grazia goes to press, there are currently six men in the running for the Tory leadership, including Dominic ‘feminists are now among the most obnoxious bigots’ Raab, Boris ‘some measure of inequality is essential’ Johnson, and let’s not forget Michael ‘this country has had enough of experts’ Gove. Both women (Esther McVey and Andrea Leadsom) were knocked out last week, as the candidates are whittled down to two by their fellow Tory MPs (79% of whom are men) via a series of ballots. The lucky…

I HOPE lAST WEEK marked a turning point for lesbians. Because after years of straight men telling me to ‘stop making a fuss’ because ‘no one cares any more’, this image of two bloodied young women after a homophobic attack on a London bus, which went viral, has demonstrated that we are not, in fact, making a fuss. The women – Melania Geymonat, 28, and her girlfriend Chris, 29 – were beaten in the early hours of 30 May by a gang of boys after refusing to kiss in front of them (police have arrested five teenagers in connection with the attack). Then, in a separate incident in Southampton, two women acting in a play about an LGBTQ+ couple were hit by stones thrown from a car. At 30, I’ve…

IT’S REMARKABLE that the Wallace Collection is still considered to be one of London’s hidden gems. So impressive is the museum’s art collection that those in the know return again and again to wander the sumptuous 18th-century rooms of Marylebone’s Hertford House. One of those repeat visitors is Manolo Blahnik, probably the world’s most famous shoe designer, whose studio is a stone’s throw away. ‘Always, always ! Not now, but always!’ he says effusively of his own evergreen obsession with the collection. And now he’s graduating from visitor to exhibitor, with the opening of An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahnik, a show of his own masterpieces (for that’s exactly what his fans would describe them as). ‘Of course, I’m excited – it’s in my town, in my country of adoption. It’s…

I know from experience that media attention often consumes you, and spits you back out as content. I’m tired of being someone else’s content. As I’m returning to Italy, only one outlet bothered to ask me if I might want to write something, in my own words, about why I’m doing this. That outlet was Grazia . I’ve made the decision to remain mostly silent about my trip because I want my speech at the Italy Innocence Project’s event – about wrongful convictions and trial by media – to speak for itself. I know that whether I choose to give an interview or not, hundreds of outlets will be framing my journey back with their own lens and their own conclusions. They are going to tell the world what it…

IN MY LIVING ROOM, there’s a photo of Claudia and me together that I love. It captures us on one of our frequent nights out in York, looking confident and carefree as we drank wine. We shared a similar sense of humour and were always laughing. If you’d told me when she first went missing that, a decade on, I still wouldn’t know what happened to her, I wouldn’t have believed it. At first, I expected her to be found within days. Days turned to weeks, weeks to months and now, we’re 10 years on. I still think about her every day. I look at that photo and wonder: where are you Claudia? When she vanished on 18 March 2009, we’d known each other for over two years. We’d met…

DID YOU KNOW THAT the average home can be up to five times more polluted than the air outside¹? Given that we spend 90% of our time indoors, that’s pretty shocking. This indoor pollution is one of the issues Clean Air Day – this year on 20 June – is highlighting. The aim is to spread the word about the causes of air pollution and what we can do to make the air that we breathe cleaner – including in our own homes. While most of us understand the impact of vehicle emissions on air quality, we’re probably less aware of indoor air pollution. So where does this come from? Well, some everyday items can be culprits. Toxins are produced when you cook with your gas stove or oven, while…

CATE UNDERWOOD WAS 18 years old and pregnant when she first started working in fashion – as a photographer – in her home city of Kiev, Ukraine. ‘I took my daughter on set with me and I would breastfeed her in my breaks,’ she remembers. Cate was taking test shots of would-be models for a Parisian agency at the time and, naturally, it only took one trip to the city of lights to get signed up herself. That was eight years ago and modelling in Paris was very different: ‘Old school with very strict parameters, less open-minded than now,’ she says, referring to the industry’s belated search for diversity. She went on to spend her early twenties in London’s Hackney, which she remembers with particular nostalgia. ‘I looked like a…

HOLIDAY SEASON calls for happy clothes and upbeat colours. And right now, you’ll find everything your capsule beach-holiday wardrobe needs at John Lewis & Partners, your one-stop summer fashion shop. This season’s collection pops with a kaleidoscope of shades, from sunny yellow to zingy lime green and hot coral, on everything from sundresses to essential accessories. The colours are designed to be easily mixed and matched – a win for travelling light. Find your perfect bikini or one-piece in the new John Lewis & Partners swimwear collection – fun, fashionable and super-flattering, thanks to clever details such as multi-way strapping and adjustable waistbands. See you on the beach! To help you get summer-ready, John Lewis & Partners’ Personal Stylists are on hand to curate the key pieces that are perfect…

JOSEPH HEllER’S Catch-22 is one of those books bibliophile straight boys check off their list of life accomplishments by the age of 18. To maximise audience for the TV rendition of Heller’s complicated satire of life in wartime, executive producer George Clooney and his directing partner, Grant Heslov, appear to have turned it into the most homoerotic tale ever told. Come for the bombs dropping, stay for the Bruce Weber fashion shoot aesthetic. It is the story, mostly, of Commander Yossarian (Christopher Abbott: Marnie’s first squeeze in Girls), an army dude stuck in a battle off the coast of Italy who would rather be anywhere else. He attempts to escape combat, first by sleeping with his boss’s (Clooney’s) wife, then by making repeat trips to the doctor with fictitious illnesses.…

PHOTO: MARCO VITTUR. FOOD STYLING: NENA FOSTER @NENA.FOSTER.FOOD ONE HOlIDAY IN NICE, my enthusiasm for staring up at palm fronds against blue skies while mindlessly munching socca and drinking wine led to my husband getting heatstroke. I’m not a good nurse (or person) so I didn’t let this stop me. By the last night he was thoroughly unwell, unable to hold down the Coca-Colas I doggedly insisted would see him right. A quick disclaimer, then, before we continue: enjoy socca in the blazing sunshine at your own risk. Look after your loved ones. France excels at peppering a day of drinking with snacks (and selling the maximum amount of wine). Nice, in particular, has a whole suite of sunny, salty tricks up its sleeve: pissaladière (caramelised onions, anchovies and black…

Makes 3 pancakes INGREDIENTS 175g chickpea (gram) flour 350ml lukewarm water ¾ tsp fine sea salt 2 tbsp olive oil Black pepper More olive oil METHOD 1. In a mixing bowl, whisk the flour, salt and several twists of black pepper to combine. 2. Make a little well in the middle and pour the water in gradually, whisking as you go and incorporating more flour along the way, until you have a smooth and very loose batter. 3. Whisk through the two tablespoons of olive oil. 4. Heat your oven to 240°C. Coat the bottom of a 23cm cake tin with olive oil (about two tablespoons) and put the tin in the warming oven. Let the batter sit while you do this. 5. When the oven and tin are hot,…

ASK THE EXPERT How to sell your stuff online (and actually make some money) Katherine Ormerod, writer, consultant and author of Why Social Media Is Ruining Your Life I used to be a car-boot sale person, but everything changed with the designer resale market. I first sold something on Vestiaire Collective about six years ago and I use eBay too. Even though there’s a verification process on these sites to ensure authenticity, there’s an initial scan that buyers can do themselves. I always want to see the serial number, if there is one, the label and the hardware (where you’d find the stamp of a brand), so make sure you take pictures that include those detail shots. Upload between five and eight pictures. Take them in natural light against a…

I’d really like to be that person who loves going home after a long, hard day to have a bath. But that’s not me. It’s just not the way I was born. I’ve just come back from Los Angeles and I haven’t seen my friends in a while, so I like to come home, put on a pair of heels and go out for drinks in Chelsea. I love a glass of pale rosé – it really kicks off the night. I often come home expecting to have one glass and somebody tells me that they’re out and I’m like. ‘Great – so am I!’ But if I have stayed in, I’m in bed by about 9pm. I like to have a bath, put on a face mask, watch some…

DIVERSITY DILEMMA People have been calling for greater diversity in the types of bodies the dating show presents (‘Love Island was right not to put a plus-size woman in the opening line-up’, 10 June). But the contestants already attract criticism for their – almost perfect – figures. What would happen to the ‘bigger’ contestants? I don’t want to see toxic fatphobia played out on my screen, thanks very much. One guy has already been demonised because he isn’t tall. Heaven forbid! Kymberley Yetton THE LAST RESORT ‘My friend should have been allowed to die by euthanasia’ (17 June) was very thought-provoking, but I’m not sure I agree in the case of children. Mental health problems affect about 1 in 10 children and young people and are often a direct response…

OK EVERYONE, you’ve had your fun – but it’s time you all stopped using emoji. I mean: all of you, and all of them – and now. Emoji are facile, ugly, ineloquent and crass, cliché, saccharine, dishonest and babyish, and at some point over the last year their usage has become so oppressively widespread as to imbue them with a tyrannical quality. ‘It’s like, if I don’t respond to every last WhatsApp anyone ever sends me with a s***-ton of emoji – smiley face, kissy face, cartwheel lady, TWINS! – I’m being actively rude,’ said my friend Alex, who loathes emoji, despite being quite young. Emoji are awful. Let me tell you why (using actual words, in a sequence, never once substituting any for a crude visual of an eggplant,…

YOU’VE PROBABLY avoided shorts like the plague since your pre-pubescent gymnastics classes. This is because, according to scientific evidence, you either have to be a) a supermodel, b) a popstar, or c) a MAMIL (that’s middle-aged man in Lycra) to pull them off. Until now. They were out in force on the street-style set at last week’s Men’s Fashion Week, the shops are packed with them and, suddenly, your wardrobe of skirts seems ever-so-slightly passé. Can shorts really be back? Margot Robbie and Charlotte Gainsbourg would say ‘yes’. Both actors wore what we’re calling ‘fashion’ shorts – black leather and brief, by Saint Laurent – to premieres late last month. Chloë Sevigny chose cropped sports shorts for the Cannes Film Festival, which looked like the kind of PE kit you’d…

SUKI WATERHOUSE has been sitting in the basement kitchen of an East London townhouse, waiting patiently and quietly for Grazia’s photo shoot to begin. Nursing a cup of tea, she seems something of a wallflower. But when the hair and make-up teams have finished, and the photographer picks up her camera to begin, Suki is asked if she has any preferences for what music is played while she poses. ‘Busta Rhymes,’ she answers. ‘Or maybe Missy Elliott.’ The music begins and she is suddenly dynamic. It was inevitable that Suki would catch the eye of the modelling industry. And that, like many before her, she would move into acting. But unlike many of her predecessors, she has intertwined her mainstream work in commercial films like Insurgent and this year’s Detective…

PHOTOS: ALPHA, SHUTTERSTOCK Shop consciously. Net-a-Porter’s new Net Sustain platform is a considered (and stylish) edit of brands with environmental and ethical credentials. Scream! Moschino’s Resort 2020 collection was an homage to Hollywood horror. Embrace la dolce vita. Dolce & Gabbana’s molto glam Pre-Fall ’19 collection now goes up to an Italian size 54 (UK 22). Go EAST. The hippy-lite high-street store is back – just in time for a boho summer. Be nice to your mum – she might let you borrow something. It’s working for Courteney Cox’s daughter Coco. Get Slick. Ms Woods has joined forces with The Kooples for a sassy new sneaker collection.…

CALIFORNIA SKATER TEES, SURF SHORTS AND TIE-DYE ARE CALI GIRL ESSENTIALS. BE SURE TO PACK A BUCKET HAT TOO BEAUTY BUY Bumble & bumble Surf Styling Leave In, £23 FOR BEACH WAVES WITHOUT THE CRISP TEXTURE, THIS CONDITIONER SOFTENS AND PROTECTS HAIR FROM HARMFUL UV RAYS. RIVIERA WHEN IT COMES TO YACHT-HOPPING, A NAUTICAL PALETTE AND STRIPES ARE DE RIGUEUR BEAUTY BUY Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Body & Hair Spray, £28 BE VACAY-READY WITH CRISP APPLE, FRESH JASMINE AND SWEET ROSE SPRAYED TOP TO TOE. IBIZA MAKE PACO RABANNE’S DISCO GODDESS YOUR MUSE. CHAINMAIL, SPANGLES AND MOVIE-STAR SHADES ARE YOUR GO-TOS BEAUTY BUY Drunk Elephant Umbra Tinte Physical Daily Defense SPF30, £30 THIS LIGHT SPF-MEETSTINTED-MOISTURISER GIVES SKIN A NATURAL GLOW THAT WILL SEE YOU THROUGH THOSE POOL PARTIES. MOROCCO…

PREJUDICE PERSISTS I was pleased to read Daniellé Dash’s article (Love Island shows diversity can’t stop prejudice, 17 June). As a biracial woman, I feel fair representation and white favouritism are an important (however uncomfortable) conversation we all need to have if we actually want to shed our prejudices. Biracial, black and brown people can internalise white ideals in order to navigate society or ‘fit in’ and white people can be oblivious to white supremacy while unknowingly benefiting from it. I will definitely not be watching Love Island until we as a society change the way we see and treat ethnic minorities. Mohini Barr…

1. Non-mover NAOMI CAMPBELL Last week revealed it had: ‘taken me a long time to feel right in my body’, which is strange, because it took us approximately two milliseconds to feel pretty damn good about it.* 2. Non-mover RIZ AHMED IN ECRU At LFW Men’s, looking sharp. (NB: we’re always slightly relieved to see him out and about and thus no longer imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, like he was in The Night Of. Just us?) 3. Up DAVID GANDY IN CORD At the Belstaff presentation. Luxe-cas, or maybe: cas-luxe; and how are we spelling ‘cas’ again? Point is: he pretty. 4. Up ZOË KRAVITZ Papped in New York, on set for the Hulu version of High Fidelity. We haven’t seen stoop hang-out work this fine since…

PHOTO: EVA K SALVI I’M A 39-YEAR-OLD beauty journalist six years into a happy marriage – and yet I’m definitely in a life situation I never imagined for myself. I’m sure my husband didn’t foresee our current circumstances either, but the good news is that he’s the kind of man who will not only dive headfirst into a marriage with a cancer survivor, but also embrace a surrogacy arrangement in the States to try and create the family we always wanted. I’d say the emotional roller coaster we have been on would, by this point, have made most people get off and puke behind a bin. There was a story in the papers recently that conveniently linked the beginning of my own infertility struggle with – I hope – the…

IF YOU’VE HAD A HOLIDAY-FLING HEARTBREAK (OR WANT TO BREAK IT AFRESH), TRY... SWEET SORROW DAVID NICHOLLS (£20, Hodder & stougHton, out 11 July) Charlie Lewis is on the verge of being a man, only he’s not that sure he’s up to the job. It’s the ’90s, he’s 16, and just a timid teenager from a small town. And now he’s fallen in love. No one has quite the same knack of combining tenderness with laugh-out-loud humour, but Nicholls is at his very best here. IF YOU LOVE STYLISH NOIR DRAMA LIKE BABYLON BERLIN , TRY... THE HIDING GAME NAOMI WOOD (£14.99, Picador, out 11 July) Anyone who read Mrs Hemingway will know how Wood can recreate a time and a place with all its glamour and…

PLACES YOU won’t find this season’s It bag: on the runway, on the red carpet, perched on its own chair at a fancy restaurant. Places you will: on an airport carousel, tucked into an overhead locker on a plane, piled high on a hotel baggage trolley. And of course, all over your Instagram feed. Luggage is having a moment. Formerly the unsexy, sensible sister of the more frivolous bags we really wanted, recently the practical purchase has begun generating a buzz of its own. Consider Rimowa’s new colourful cases, Globe-Trotter’s old-school trollies, or Crash Baggage’s deliberately dented designs; what was once a means to an end has become an event in itself. The ones you’d be hard pressed to avoid, however, are by Away. Founded by Jen Rubio and Steph…

Joely Walker, health & beauty director Statement sandals, overpriced swimwear and Love Island on repeat can only mean one thing: summer has officially landed! Well, at least the weird sort-of summer we’re accustomed to in Blighty. So, I’ve dedicated this week’s haul to six of my new-found favourites that will help get you through the (please God!) warmer months in style – from fragrance to foundation and more… PHOTOS: GIANANDREA TRAINA. STOCKISTS: BAREMINERALS: BAREMINERALS.CO.UK. BECCA: SPACENK.COM. JOHN FRIEDA: BOOTS.COM. NUXE: UK.NUXE.COM. SALVATORE FERRAGAMO: DEBENHAMS.COM. SISLEY: SISLEY-PARISCOM Body oils don’t get much better than Nuxe’s cult formula and this summer there’s a new scent in the line-up - Huile Prodigieuse Florale, £29.50, which smells so damn dreamy it doubles as a subtle fragrance too. There’s SPF and then there’s Sisley SPF…

DIVANI PALACE ACROPOLIS An amazing location, pool and in the summer months, a rooftop restaurant with Insta-perfect views. ROOMS FROM £180PN; DIVANIACROPOLISHOTEL.COM. FRATER & SOROR New hipster restaurant with cool cuisine (think shrimps with pimento dressing, orange and nori seaweed); they know how to mix a mean gin cocktail too. @FRATERANDSOROR. ANAFIOTIKA Whitewashed houses and cottages covered in bougainvillea – the spirit of the Cyclades islands in Plaka, Athens’ oldest district. ANAMESA Covetable concept store that stocks cutting-edge Greek labels. Do indulge in coffee and tart in the café. ANAMESASPOT.COM. STAVROS NIARCHOS CULTURAL CENTRE Striking architecture, exhibitions and festivals; try yoga in the gardens by day and ballet or opera by night. SNFCC.ORG/EN. LUKUMADES The place to go for traditional Greek doughnuts stuffed with sweet delights such as chocolate praline…

Catch up on Thatcher: A Very British Revolution While the Tory leadership race descends into a parlour game concentrating mostly on the length of Boris Johnson’s hair and who took what drugs when, this exemplary BBC documentary series examines the last Conservative conviction politician. In even-handed and mesmerisingly raw detail, Maggie’s legacy is exposed on a slab. Let’s call it an introductory lesson to how call-centre Britain happened. BBC IPLAYER Watch live The Women’s World Cup How free-spirited, exciting and teeth-chatteringly tense is football, when you strip it of the absurdities of extreme capitalism and male vanity? How ace is it to watch a British team sport elevated by spirit alone? England face a hotly tipped Japan in their final group play-offs, in the glare of primetime BBC. Expect fireworks.…