Table of contents for Issue 916 in Grazia

Email us at feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @GraziaUK THANK YOU FOR Why Breadwinner Wives Still Do More At Home (1 September). It made me feel less alone and less guilty for sometimes being a ‘nagging’ wife, fed up with having to do so many (read: all, except for putting the bins out) of the household chores, even though I work five days a week in a stressful job. Part of the problem could be delegation – it's sometimes easier to do a job yourself immediately rather than wait for your partner to get the hint that some help would be nice. I'm with writer Melissa Hogenboom on the need for all parties to shoulder the visible and invisible domestic load, as well as society valuing paid work…

I KNEW TAYLOR and Travis would get engaged! I called it on 23 June last year, when I watched him join her on stage for a Wembley date of her Eras tour. He did it, in the spirit of… let's call it ‘expansive generosity’. He clearly absolutely adored the attention – but he also understood he was borrowing it, briefly, from the true star of that night – Taylor Swift. And Kelce was not merely OK with relinquishing that limelight, giving it back to his girl – he was proud to do it. And that was when I knew. But, look: Taylor Swift's fiancé is not all Travis Kelce is. I mean yeah, sure, he's an American footballer, too… But what I'm actually talking about here is Kelce's status as…

YOU'VE HEARD THE saying less is more. Well in 2025, the phrase is taking on a more literal meaning: the sheer skirt. Dua Lipa, patron saint of nearly-there dressing, sported the Elif Studios asymmetric sheer skirt; Dakota Johnson gave it her own twist with a Nensi Dojaka co-ord from spring 2025; but leave it to Charlize Theron to nail sheer as the ultimate fashion look – a tailored jacket over a black long skirt by upcoming designer Jingwei Yin's label Oude Waag. Naked dressing started as an experimental red-carpet style but it has since taken on a life of its own, with lace layering, mesh panels or even chiffon tailoring. Now the sheer skirt has become the ultimate way to haute-up your everyday – dramatic enough to get you noticed,…

FOR THOSE INCLINED to wilt at the faintest hint of heat – relief is here. The air is cooler, the pencils have been restocked, and the time has come to acknowledge what we already know: it's jacket season. Not quite wool coat weather (patience), but ample opportunity to start layering. This year's offerings are pleasingly varied – funnel necks, tech fabrics, caped trenches – all giving the impression of a subtle reset rather than a wholesale revolution. By all means, keep the leather bomber and sturdy chore jacket in rotation, but a slight switch in silhouette will lend the jeans-and-jumper combination a fresher edge. Happy autumn, everyone. The Trench Cape Part Cotswolds, part city, the trench cape is the unexpected equestrian-inspired entry to the category of transitional jackets that we've…

WALK INTO ANY of The White Company's stores and you know what you'll find – candles, loungewear, bed linens, cashmere – and where in the store to find them. That goose-down duvet, grapefruit and mandarin scented room spray, the baby gift sets, silver picture frames, striped pyjamas and so on – such is the brand's consistency, its ‘lifestyle’ honed over the last three decades. The point is, you're probably not thinking of The White Company for directional womenswear, such as a cappuccino-coloured shearling coat, an oversized olive-green parka, or a chocolate satin lace-hemmed skirt. Did you even know the company made really good accessories, like the butter-soft chocolate suede hobo bag or chic black ruched-down suede boots? Well, take note, because now they do. ‘I'm definitely in my happy place,’…

1. SUPER CUTS The hunt for the illusive ‘perfect pair’ can be a lifelong journey. Our top tip? Stick to the classics. Straight leg jeans are a perennial wardrobe staple, transcending the seasons and coming to the rescue for any occasion. So where to start? ‘The Rider Loose is Lee's clear frontrunner in womenswear, combining a relaxed leg with heritage detailing that resonates across age groups,’ says Nicola Mielke, Lee's womenswear design director on the brand's best-selling straight cut style available in black or classic mid-wash blues for that vintage-y feel. And, of course, there's the inimitable Levi's 501, first created back in 1873 and still just as beloved today. Look also for vintage in classic cuts and timeless washes. 2. LAYER CAKE That flippy little sundress you've been wearing…

PREP IT ‘You do you when it comes to skincare, but where your base is concerned, a good moisturiser with grip (and sometimes a primer) is essential.’ Try: Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base [1], £54. BRUSH IT ‘You need a good foundation brush – soft, densely packed bristles – for all-over coverage and a stipple brush for light, just-like-skin application.’ Try: Hourglass Soft Glow Foundation Brush [2], £52; Kiko Cosmetics Face Stippling Foundation Brush, £15.99. SET IT ‘A light dusting of a finely milled, loose translucent powder will lock a full face in place, but use pressed powders to target areas prone to shine – you can be more precise with your application.’ Try: Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Finish [4], £39; Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder [5], £32.50.…

HANNAH WEILAND has a thing for brunch. Not the boozy, bottomless variety (she's a mother-of-two with another on the way) but a familial, homely affair where the table is piled high with bagels and hard-boiled eggs. ‘On the weekends it's my favourite thing,’ says the founder of fashion label Shrimps. Fittingly, her brand's new collaboration with lifestyle retailer Oliver Bonas, launching 9 September, is a collection of tableware centred around this weekly ritual. The 21-piece range includes a yellow and pink-striped carafe with matching glassware for fresh OJ; napkins with pretty blanket stitching; plaited placemats and crockery. The latter comes embellished with the cutest of characters: a lion named Lenny. ‘One of the first products I ever created at Shrimps was a furry bag charm called Lenny the Lion, and…

I'm sure it's not just me who has had FOMO this summer, watching what feels like your entire social media feed posting from Oasis's comeback tour. ‘It's like 90,000 people doing karaoke together,’ one of my friends said of the gigs. So what does it feel like to be a next gen Gallagher in the summer we've remembered just how iconic the band's music was? Victoria Moss spoke to Anaïs Gallagher, the daughter of Noel and Meg Mathews, for our cover story, about growing up in music's famous family. Anaïs reflects poignantly on the lessons her parents taught her and how she's finding her own way in the world. Plus, have you noticed the Easter egg in her cover look? Anaïs's Longchamp x Gloverall duffel is an homage to the…

1. Up DONATELLA VERSACE Pared down and wistful in a golden-hour selfie. Kickstarting the kind of raging aesthetic speculation we haven't seen since Kris Jenner's facelift. Looking incred, regardless. 2. Up KEELEY HAWES Giving excellent assassin-out-of-retirement attempting to wrangle her failing relationship with her adult son in The Assassin. 3. Up COCO GAUFF Now ranks third in Forbes' newly released tennis rich list – she's worth $12.2 million in on-court earnings, a further $25 million in endorsements, friends! 4. Up CHALAMET AND JENNER Apparently, rumours of the couple's demise were premature. Reunited in Budapest, where Timothée is filming more Dune, hoorah! 5. Up POLLY WALKER From Rome to Bridgerton to – most recently – Bookish. A substantial career, and yet: we have a feeling she's only just getting started. 6.…

YOU MIGHT HAVE once booked a holiday massage at your hotel's in-house spa, but have you ever considered picking a travel destination based solely on its beauty offering? That's what is now happening in Korea, the home of beauty tourism. As Kim Kardashian recently demonstrated, South Korea's capital, Seoul, ticks all the boxes for people looking for extreme beauty treatments. Kardashian documented her trip via a carousel of selfies captioned ‘#TheThingsYouDo’, in which her face is slathered, taped, massaged and masked through a series of extreme skin treatments. But she's not the only beauty tourist to head to South Korea in search of a glow-up – this place is responsible for some of beauty's biggest trends (sheet masks, snail slime, glass skin) and TikTok is awash with creators documenting their…

Model Alyssa Thomson at Hive Management Hair Maki Tanaka using Oribe Make-up Natsumi Narita using Chanel Les 4 Ombres Boutons and No.1 CHANEL Body Serum–in–Mist Casting Christie Phedon Digi op Jamie Alderman Lighting assistant Josh Bryant Shoot producer Gabriela Velasco Fashion assistant Amber Backhouse Fashion intern Sheraz Zingraffer…

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DR RACHEL BARR says that when it comes stress, our brain is always on our side even when it doesn't feel like it. ‘It's always trying to protect us – it just doesn't always get it right,’ she says. ‘Think of it as like living with a wonderfully caring roommate, who occasionally sets the kitchen on fire.’ Barr (above), who is a neuroscientist with over one million Instagram followers, has written a new book packed with science-backed ways to take care of our brains. She was inspired after battles with her own mental health and watching her mother struggle with hers. ‘Sadly, my mum didn't survive it and died in 2022,’ she says. ‘A lot of the mental health advice on social media doesn't align with what we know about…

BUILDERS THAT COME and go (or, worse, disappear altogether), elastic timelines and terrifying budget blow-outs – the renovation process is littered with horror stories. But is there a better way? Hayden Wood certainly thinks so and created the online platform Beams to bring clarity and calm to an often-fraught process. ‘I interviewed those who had renovated a property and builders who had done the work,’ he says. ‘It was like speaking to two people in a dysfunctional relationship where neither understood the other's point of view. I realised there had to be a better, less stressful way of doing things.’ Most projects, explains Wood, fall down at the start. ‘People dive in without a realistic idea of the scope of the project, drawings or budgets,’ he says. ‘This means builders…

COOL BUT COSY Minimal doesn't have to mean stark, instead switch cold concrete in favour of warm neutral linens, fuzzy rugs and low lighting. Look to The Conran Shop's latest collection, designed by Francis Sultana, that nails the brief. Think European-inspired occasional chairs upholstered with Belgian linen and sculptural marble side tables – chic. WINTER SOLSTICE Your new colour palette takes inspiration straight from the fall season: think mellow sunlight, copper leaves and conker browns. Go for richness with Dunelm's autumn/winter '25 collection of soft furnishings in tones of ochre, caramel and chocolate. The final touch? The perfect low lighting courtesy of Mater's new terracotta lamp. BRIGHT AND BOLD Inject some colour with accent pieces in paintbox brights, but expertly juxtaposed with teak or oak. Start small with kitchenwares in…

We've all been there. You're tucking into a book on your commute but can't focus. Why? Because someone in the carriage is playing music, out loud, at full volume. Now, Transport for London (TFL) is tackling this problem with posters urging passengers to ‘be considerate’ by wearing headphones while listening to music and making calls on public transport. It's a hot topic. The Lib Dems and Tories have called for fines to be introduced for so-called ‘headphone dodgers’. A TFL survey found that 70% of people described them as a nuisance. The lesson? Always plug in. Your friend's lengthy voice note about their latest relationship drama should be reserved for your ears only – not stressed commuters at the end of a long day.…

I'M STANDING UNSTEADILY on a boat, in a bay off the Adriatic Sea, in the middle of a thunderstorm. Waves lap at the windows. Clouds swirl above me. On my phone, the Italian weather service issues an ‘orange warning’. It doesn't feel very close to Hollywood. It is, in fact, a solid 6,000 miles or so from the palm trees of Beverly Hills. But it is here, in the murky waters of the Venetian lagoon, that the Oscars race truly begins. As if by the grace of the Hollywood gods, the sun emerges briefly as Emma Stones arrives in a Lapima minidress a mere 50 metres away. She's all smiles of course – a good reception for her film, Bugonia, could put her in the running for a third golden…

ZOЁ KRAVITZ HAS a long-established reputation as a cool girl – stylish, talented and enviably mysterious. Until recently, this has been quite deliberate. ‘I protect myself,’ she once explained, adding that her real personality and sense of humour are reserved for her inner circle. However, recent outings to promote Caught Stealing, her new crime thriller with Austin Butler and Matt Smith, have teased out a different side of the actor. Whether she's playing up to her palpable chemistry with Butler, stopping for selfies with fans in a custom Daniella Kallmeyer minidress or sharing jaw-dropping tales about tearing up Taylor Swift's bathroom to find her mother's runaway pet snake, Kravitz's elusive persona is melting away – and fans are soaking her up. The only child of '90s ‘It girl’ Lisa Bonet…

EARLIER THIS MONTH, Serena Williams shared a post promoting weight-loss injections and the internet promptly lost its mind in the ensuing discourse. ‘How could Serena Williams be on weight-loss drugs?!’ many asked. She's one of the most powerful athletes of our time – male or female – yet here she was, fronting a campaign for the jabs as ‘a path to health'. It already felt wrong, so when news came out that Williams' husband – multi-millionaire and Reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian – is an investor in the company that makes Ro (the weight loss jab Williams takes) I felt overwhelmed with ‘ick’. In the caption, Williams claimed to be ‘making informed choices for [her] health and body'. On the surface that may sound empowered, but scratch at the wording and…

LONDON FASHION WEEK likes to parade its ‘Made in Britain’ credentials as if stitched into the very hem of the show schedule. And rightfully so. The capital is buzzing with designers who are proof that out of creativity comes scalable business too. But what happens when a young Brit suddenly hoists a different banner – ‘Made In China’ – across the catwalks of the capital? Daniel Fletcher, the designer best known for his own-name brand of louche tailoring, has for the past 10 months held the creative directorship at Mithridate, the Chinese label with ambitions beyond its home market. In doing so Fletcher exemplifies what London does best, namely, folding international perspectives into its own restless mix and feeding them back to a global audience. When I catch up with…

EVER BEEN through a base break-up? Maybe you know the drill. You thought you found ‘the one’ a decade ago but things just aren't clicking any more. The light, semi-matte formula that once blurred your complexion to a Paris filter finish, now feels dry and chalky. Or maybe you've fallen out of love with the full-coverage foundation you waxed lyrical about in your twenties. Then there's the holiday fling we all have with a bare face or barely-there tint – you vow to keep it up long after touchdown, but the novelty fades as quickly as your sun-kissed glow and all of a sudden you're bereft and on the hunt for the next formula. Except there's no app to swipe right on, just an overwhelming array of new options that…

NOT TO RIP off Nora Ephron, but I'm starting to feel bad about my neck. Up until now my neck has been doing just fine, or rather I assume it has because, quite honestly, I forget it even exists. I am a virtuous beauty journalist in all other things but neck care. I hoard expensive neck creams with the best of intentions, but they become dust-gatherers and the most I afford the area is a cursory sweep of body lotion, my meticulously curated skincare routine rarely making it past my chin. The poor thing has been sending out distress signals, though, so it's time to up the ante. Last week I woke to the first signs of crepey-ness – a patch of shrivelling that I found unsightly. But I'm not…

What's the most common mistake people make and how do you avoid it? ‘Choosing the wrong builder,’ says Wood. ‘Renovating is often the biggest investment people make after buying their home, so the choice is critical. Too many people rely on a friend's tip or pick someone local, which can work, but it's often a leap of faith. Before committing, check their track record, experience, past projects, insurance and accreditations.’ If you're on a tight budget, what things should you do/not do? ‘Anything that involves major structural changes tends to add cost,’ says Wood. ‘Focus on surface upgrades and layout tweaks rather than moving services around. Keep your finishes consistent and simple, and be really clear about the scope of the project from the start. You can do a lot…

Well, This Is awkward by Esther Walker Mairéad runs a successful boutique influencer agency, is childfree by choice and content with her lot, but when her estranged activist sister has a life-changing accident, her niece Sunshine comes to stay, disrupting her carefully curated life. From London to Devon to Wales, Mairéad learns how to parent on the job, backed up by her hilarious best friend Dodie. Warm and well-observed. THE JUICY COMEDY The Glorious Dead by Justin Myers Acclaimed playwright and notorious hellraiser Laurie is dead, leaving behind his grieving husband Jo and heartbroken best friend Vivi. The discovery of an unfinished memoir reveals a secret life neither of them knew about, but can they trust a word this unreliable narrator has written? Either way, they must confront his not-so-palatable…

The last box set I binged… My girlfriend watches true crime 24/7 but I'm watching The Residence on Netflix at the moment. The last standout restaurant I went to… I was in Miami and I had a really great steak at a Japanese steakhouse called Gekkō. Bad Bunny is one of the owners there. The last holiday I went on… was a big family trip to a villa in Greece for my daughter's birthday. The last watch I added to my collection… A Hublot Big Bang Unico. The bright colours are great and match my style. It's something to look at, it's beautiful – and it's lightweight and waterproof, too. The last day off I had… Back when I was competing in track and field, if I got a break…