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Suki Waterhouse: To Burberry and beyond. Watch this face Beat the chill in Bath It’s time to have a sweatshirt party!
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THE BIG ASY Soft, feminine tailoring. Meet your new suit
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p 61 Fashion, beauty, culture The A-Z of cool has landed
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High-street preview 20 new-season pieces we love Shop the sales like an editor The art of bagging a bargain What to buy today Resort pieces you must own Should you read your lover’s emails? Emma Forrest on exploring your partner’s online life Suki Waterhouse The girl most-likely-to showcases the new season. Plus, recreate her cover make-up, on p173 The 14 best beauty products on the planet The results are in for the ELLE International Beauty Awards Ditch the gym and get fit at home! Sweaty lockers are so last season, says writer Lotte Jeffs
First look Our A-Z of 2014’s best music, fashion and culture Snapshot Ellie Goulding’s Insta-world On the catwalk The future of street style Victoria Coren Mitchell Why it’s time women spoke their minds #ELLEfashioncupboard We’d like to live in it The fashion director Anne-Marie Curtis reveals her top transitional pieces The beauty guru Hangover? Whatever, says Lisa Eldridge
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Accessories Our top five bags from the resort collections 99 Workwear We reinvent the office blues 102 The edit Paler is interesting 104 Spring essentials The key pieces you need now 107 How to wear Wardrobe staples, reworked 96
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Street style The women of Bath wrap up 114 Work spy London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts 116 Closet confidential Stylist to the stars, Celestine Cooney 111
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The modern tailored suit 152 Paris, je t’aime
French style, redefined
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Rachael is the winner of ELLE’s 2013 Talent Competition 2013. She is an online journalist at STV. She’s lived in Spain, Mexico and Indonesia, and her favourite character is Sally Seton in Mrs Dalloway ‘for everything she is in her youth’. Whiskey Remorse by Del Amitri is the song most played on her iPod and one of the best presents she ever received was a Home Alone Talkboy in 1993. Read her story on p129.
STACEY DUGUID
Freelance stylist Michelle would like to raid the wardrobe of photographer Lee Miller and her favourite party dress is ‘a pink one by Roksanda Ilincic with a giant green bow on it’. She would happily listen to any PJ Harvey album on repeat and her plan B is ‘to become the next Miss Marple’. See her work on p142.
ELLE’s Editor at Large Stacey Duguid (no relation to Michelle, left) is also Mademoiselle, ELLE’s agony aunt. The best idea she’s ever had was to go on Guardian Soulmates four years ago – it’s where she met the love of her life and father of her two children. The worst idea she’s ever had was ‘to write the world’s best novel while on ecstasy, age 18’. Stacey lives by the motto ‘Live Fast, Don’t Die’. She writes movingly about her tattoos on p122. @STACEYDUGUID
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Jamie began his career making documentaries for MTV and the BBC. He has also written and directed award-winning short films, one of which, The Birdcage, won a BAFTA Film London award. His favourite film is Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin. Jamie shot the cover video starring Suki Waterhouse – watch it at elleuk.com/elle-tv.
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here is a small tattoo of a daisy on my right foot. Sitting in a very unglamorous Tooting tattoo parlour, aged 19, the miniscule flower felt like a small rebellion. I had one because it was London in the late Eighties; everyone I knew had one. A week later, I had forgotten it was there. In those days, young women getting tattoos had tiny symbols inked on their teenage skin: letters, signs, dolphins, flowers. Today I see a different trend in body art, from Cheryl Cole’s enormous rose on her lower back, to the seven new designs Cara Delevingne has had done in just a few months. The motivation for such a permanent statement intrigues me. I always ask about the reason for the tattoos I see on women, because each one tells a personal story, or signifies a life-changing moment that person felt the need to mark. I hear moving tales of love, death, success and happiness. Always intriguing, always memorable. My friend and colleague Stacey Duguid, aka ELLE’s Mademoiselle, showed me her tattoos the first week she started work at ELLE, nine years ago. Huge, dark words up her arm, a sleeve of graffiti marking troubled times, sadness and sorrow, etched along her limb, which she always kept hidden from the world. I was shocked. It was only as I got to know her as a friend that I gradually understood the reasons for her tattoos and
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the tangled emotional history they signified. Obviously, many of you will have gone through a similar roller coaster of events in your life, but the majority of you will deal with it differently; your journey less visible to those who meet you than Stacey’s. More than two years ago, Stacey, now a happily settled mum of two, began the painful procedure of removing the tattoos. It has been an extraordinary process, but one that has, finally, brought her to a place of emotional tranquility. Her exceptional piece on p122 is something I felt would touch you as an ELLE reader. I feel privileged to include such powerful writing in ELLE, because I believe the voices of strong women like Stacey need to be aired. I fear that in these times of online access – where everyone feels they can freely make cruel, rude, personal comments about individuals – women are being virtually bullied into softening their opinions. This is something ELLE columnist Victoria Coren tackles on p85. She questions whether women are becoming more subdued generally in public and asks if we are losing the ‘lion roar’. She points out that we cannot be stifled by the worry of a backlash from a minority of ignorant and rude individuals. ‘We must not have our voices corked so soon after starting to use them,’ she says, and I agree. A less strident world would be very bland indeed. It’s important that we are as fearless as ever in expressing our opinions across a broad range of subjects, and I shall be championing this in future issues of ELLE.
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Social media reach of over 80 million Twitter impressions • Picked up by media outlets worldwide including The Telegraph, Jezebel, Creative Review and The New York Times, and mentioned on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour • ELLE sent an open letter to big businesses encouraging them to sign up for the government’s Think, Act, Report equal pay initiative • The Make Them Pay campaign has prompted national debate on the pay gap • On 18 November, over 200 guests attended ELLE’s debate ‘Feminism needs a rebrand: It’s not working for anyone’. Editor-in-Chief Lorraine Candy chaired the event, at Mother agency’s London offices, with speakers including Vagenda founders Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Equalities Minister Jo Swinson, and UK Feminista activist Kat Banyard, plus a performance by award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe
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hen I launched our feminism campaign in the November issue of ELLE, I feared women had become complacent, that we had stopped caring enough about equality and the right to be heard. I was wrong. You do care – you took to Twitter in your thousands to tell us so. You were outraged at how much less you earn than your male colleagues, as our Make Them Pay campaign highlighted, and you celebrated all that is unique about womanhood by tweeting us your #imawomanand flashcards (don’t stop, we love them). Thanks to all of you, our voices reached over 80 million people on social media alone. Amazing! And they were heard; by businesses, the government, by those who can help us enact real change. I’ve never been prouder of ELLE’s readers. Please keep tweeting, talking and debating with us. As Victoria Coren Mitchell says on p85, now that we’ve finally found our voices, do not let anyone silence them. And keep following our updates at elleuk.com.
Lorraine Candy, ELLE Editor-in-Chief PRIMEMINISTERDAVIDCAMERON If you work hard and want to get on in life then – whoever you are – NOTHING SHOULD STAND IN YOUR WAY. Equal pay goes right to the heart of this. It’s about what sort of country we want to live in. As our economy turns a corner, women must share in the rewards just as much as men. So in ELLE’s campaign, WE ARE ON YOUR SIDE. In the past three and a half years, this government has battled hard – getting more women on boards, introducing equal pay audits, as well as fighting sexual discrimination in the workplace. But there’s more to do. When politicians talk about ‘women’s issues’ they sometimes sound like they’re speaking about a special interest group. This totally misses the point. Women aren’t a subsection of the population, they’re half of it. That’s why the GENDER PAY GAP IS SOMETHING WE CAN’T AFFORD TO IGNORE. Fundamentally, this is about fairness. Men and women doing the same job should get the same pay. We have got to be unashamed about pushing this issue. EQUALITIES MINISTER JO SWINSON
The ELLE campaign is brilliant because it is encouraging people to open up about their pay. It’s definitely something we should encourage women to feel confident about doing. While the pay gap is reducing a bit, it’s not reducing enough, given that we’re over 40 years on from the initial legislation that said men and women ought to be paid equally. We need to recognise that the government does have the power to impose equal pay audits – and if we do not see success through the Think, Act, Report scheme, this may be the way to make it happen.
Tweet your thoughts on this to #ELLEfeminism and watch the debate event at elleuk.com
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DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER NICK CLEGG
I am right behind ELLE’s campaign for equal pay. Women shouldask male colleagues in the same job how much they earn – I’m sure most men would want to help. This is a simple step that could have a big impact. The gender pay gap is a stubborn problem, and while progress has been made, government and businesses need to do their bit. We are introducing equal pay audits, which will force employers who break the law to change. We’re also tackling the wider causes of pay inequality. That’s why we’re ditching outdated maternity leave set-ups and allowing couples to share parental leave, so women aren’t always expected to put their career on hold.
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23 December – 20 January Your month to: Formulate a plan The new moon at the start of the month marks your best time to sit down and map out your plans for 2014 – think big. By the time the full moon arrives, on the 17th, you’re ready to retreat. Book time off and try to forget about work. The good news: the romantic phase that began in November is here to stay. Date for your diary: 18th It’s time relationships got serious.
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21 January – 19 February Your month to: Have fun It’s party time as invites flood in after the full moon on the 17th. Of course, you’ll need to go shopping for shiny things (sorry), but all that socialising will be well worth it. Meanwhile, prepare to meet a passionate new lover, or for things to be shaken up with your long-term partner (in a good way). Date for your diary: 11th Ramp up the communication: you’re a one-woman social network.
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20 February – 20 March Your month to: Stop worrying All that hard work you’ve been doing since last May? It’s about to pay off. Professionally, things are about to get clearer and more manageable. Relax and take a breather until the 17th, when the full moon brings a big business deal that means you start 2014 on a high. Date for your diary: 10th Don’t worry about your money situation, it’s set for a boost.
23 July – 23 August Your month to: Practise your communication skills The arrival of the new moon in your mental zone makes early December a prime time to set goals and alter your mindset. You’ll find it easier to get your message across too, so work extra hard while it lasts. Why? So you can have guilt-free fun when the travel bug kicks in after the 17th. Date for your diary: 31st Missed opportunities resurface.
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21 March – 20 April Your month to: Be free Restless? Put escape on your agenda and book a trip. You need to break your routine and end the year with an adventure, otherwise you’ll get cabin fever. Just don’t make any work commitments you can’t get out of. Relationships are a priority after the 7th. Date for your diary: 17th Life’s on fast-forward after the 17th as your rebellious streak takes over.
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21 April – 21 May Your month to: Embrace change Ch-ch-changes? Letting go terrifies you, but be brave. You need to commit to leaving certain things behind, so you can ring in a brilliant new year. Be careful with spending, it may get out of control around the full moon on 17th. Sounds boring, but try setting a Christmas budget. Date for your diary: 7th Blast from the past, incoming.
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22 May – 21 June Your month to: Make decisions Let’s talk relationships – romantic and work-related. This month some are ending, while others will begin. Either way, important decisions must be made. Focus on the fresh start this offers, and resolve any unfinished business. Your deadline for outing the old is the 17th, when the full moon arrives in Gemini. Date for your diary: 21st Your work routine gets a shake-up.
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22 June – 22 July Your month to: Focus on you December priorities: work and health. The energy of the new moon at the start of the month motivates you to take extra care of yourself; you know, early nights and super foods. You’ll need the extra energy after a flood of work arrives with the full moon on the 17th. Pace yourself. Date for your diary: 23rd Make relationships your priority.
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Your month to: Begin again December marks an ending, but don’t be sad. You can finally say goodbye to projects, both professional and romantic, that have – exhaustingly – spanned the last six months. The new moon at the start of the month allows you to approach things differently, while the full moon on the 17th will bring closure. Looks like you’ll be beginning 2014 in the best way possible – baggage free and ready for anything. Date for your diary: 17th Love and creativity are both heading your way.
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24 August – 23 September Your month to: Strike a balance It’s all about balancing your home and career this month. The new moon at the start of the month smiles on new projects. Just be mindful of your tendency to default to working 24/7. Give yourself a break and indulge the desire to nest sparked by the full moon on the 17th. Remember, balance is key. Date for your diary: 25th A financial shock is in store if you don’t watch your spending.
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24 September – 23 October Your month to: Start a travel diary Your desire for adventure is stronger than ever, as the new moon early in December inspires you to make travel plans for the next six months. Communication and learning are also on the agenda. Just be sure to deal with the deluge of important mail incoming around the full moon on the 17th, before you jet off. Date for your diary: 6th Romance goes haywire – expect to revisit long-term issues.
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24 October – 22 November Your month to: Think money Bills, bills, bills (and not in an upbeat Destiny’s Child-style way). Get your accounts in order and start a new budget – the full moon on the 17th may bring unexpected expenses. Your game plan? Pay off debts to start 2014 with a clean slate. Date for your diary: 7th Relax and recharge your batteries.
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These pages are your definitive FIRST LOOK, giving you unique, intimate access to the cultural and fashion scenes that matter – like this up close and personal moment backstage at Jil Sander’s s/s 2014 show, shot by Lea Colombo exclusively for ELLE. Read on and stay ahead of the game.
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After easing herself back in with a duet on Pink’s track True Love, plus a few public appearances, Lily Allen is returning from her musical hiatus with a third album. ‘There’s feminist vibes,’ the 28-year-old says of her, as yet untitled, release, expected out in March. ‘It’s empowering. It’s not some earnest “I’m a mum” kind of record.’ Lest anyone doubt her, she adds: ‘It’s the same old me with a bit of swearing, good choruses, key changes here and there. That’s it.’ Welcome back, Lily, we’ve missed you.
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Calling all day-trippers, commuters and long-haul loungers: take a tour of Etro’s new capsule collection of wallets, shoppers, duffles, trolleys, satchels and tablet covers. Developed in collaboration with contemporary Indian artist duo Thukral & Tagra, the label’s signature Paisley pattern has been reinterpreted, with the introduction of surreal pop elements that interrupt the rhythm of the pattern to reveal dreamscapes dotted with random objects and castles in the clouds. Prepare to float away. (etro.com)
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Aloha, Prada! With her resort s/s 2014 collection, Miuccia transported us to tropical climes bursting with vegetation so lush and colourful, you can almost feel the sun rays bouncing off it. Warning: This bag will seriously cheer you up. Leather bag, £1,530, and leather tag, £130, both Prada Photography Beate Sonnenberg
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Nostalgia alert: Birds Of A Feather returns to ITV this spring, with the original cast, after a 15-year break. OK, it’s not high-brow, but it will be funny.
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IS(ALSO)FORHIDDLESTON Coriolanus may not be the best known of Shakespeare’s plays, but you shouldn’t miss the new production of the dark, violent tragedy at the Donmar Warehouse. For starters, ELLE bestie Tom Hiddleston plays the lead role. And you’ll get to see him flex his muscles in a punishing, action-packed sword fight. The show’s director, Josie Rourke, says, ‘Coriolanus is one of Rome’s greatest soldiers, both a hero and enemy of the people, who is more comfortable on the battlefield than in the political arena.’ So do you want to watch Hiddleston working up a sweat? Thought so. Coriolanus, 6 December 2013-8 February 2014; donmarwarehouse.com. Or, if you can’t get tickets, seetheNationalTheatre Live film at selected cinemas, 30 Jan 2014; ntlive.com
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IS FOR J.W. ANDERSON The rise and rise of London-based wunderkind J.W. Anderson looks set to go off the chart – raising interesting questions. How will Jonathan assert his transgender aesthetic as the new creative director at Spanish leather brand Loewe? Where next for his own five-year-old label now that it has the backing (read: major cash injection) of Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH)? The answers await in 2014. THE RISE OF J.W. ANDERSON
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Before he graces the big screen as Christian Grey in Fifty Shades (see ‘X’), Jamie Dornan joins one of the hottest ensemble casts of the year in Channel 4’s New Worlds, the follow-up to 2008’s The Devil’s Whore. It’s a decadent, sensual romp about radicals and misfits fleeing post-civil war England to colonise America. Dornan’s outlaw Abe leads Eve Best across the pond, while Freya Mavor, Alice Englert, Joe Dempsie and newcomer Morfydd Clark are young idealists committing their lives to a fairer future with blood, passion and urgency – rather like an ELLE features meeting, then. With action on both sides of the Atlantic, it’s a heady mix of sex and politics. And did we mention it stars Jamie Dornan?
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Little-known fact: Riccardo Tisci’s lucky, and favourite, number is 17. Which explains why it’s also the name of the first in a new series of six unisex Givenchy watches named after prime numbers. The Seventeen, out now, is the first watch produced under Tisci’s creative direction. Along with the rest of the collection, this is a piece of serious wrist candy, tapping the boy/girl thing – think hard architectural lines and soft vintage details. Time to go shopping, we feel.
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ISFORMOVIESOUNDTRACK As a two-hander starring Joaquin Phoenix and (the voice of) Scarlett Johansson, written and directed by Spike Jonze, sci-fi romance Her was already a must-see movie. Add in the fact Arcade Fire helped score the soundtrack to the film – in which Phoenix’s character falls in love with an artificial intelligence operating system (Johansson) – including great new track TheMoonSong by Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer (and Jonze’s ex) Karen O and we’re hooked already. Incinemas 10January2014
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IS FOR ‘OH MY, KATE MOSS IS TURNING 40!’ We expect extraordinary things when Kate turns 40 on 16 January. Her 21st birthday bash was thrown by Johnny Depp in LA; the theme at her 30th was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful And Damned; and her 35th was a four-day bonanza. The countdown begins…
ISFORQUIRKYTV Just when you thought mockumentaries had become comedy’s awkward middleaged uncle, Chris Lilley returns with Ja’mie:PrivateSchool Girl on BBC3. His bitchy cross-dressing creation (who pronounces her name ‘Juh-may’) from the excellent SummerHeightsHigh is now 17 and in her final year at the exclusive Hillford Girls Grammar School, where she bullies, pouts and swears her way to disaster. As she simpers in episode one of the show, starting early 2014, ‘My name’s Ja’mie, I like to say I’m Ja’mazing!’
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In a world ruled by PR spin, where each new artist is the Next Big Thing, it’s refreshing to come across Asthmatic Kitty Records, a label with a gentler approach. New signing Lily & Madeleine, sisters from Indianapolis aged 16 and 18 respectively, are making waves with their low-key debut video, InTheMiddle, a black-and-white acoustic performance of the forlorn folk-pop song. The pair’s other tracks, including AndTonight and BackTo The River, are already earning comparisons to classic Laurel Canyon artists Joni Mitchell, Carole King, et al. Expect truly big things.
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The gorgeous girls, the boys in the bands, the art-world heavyweights and the East End gangsters – they’re all represented at the National Portrait Gallery’s David Bailey retrospective. Featuring more than 250 portraits – including a never-before-seen shot of Kate Moss – the Bailey’s Stardust exhibition chronicles the legendary photographer’s glittering 50-year career. Bailey’s Stardust, National Portrait Gallery, London, 6 February-1 June 2014
T IS FOR TASTEMAKER What does a punk knitter in Brooklyn, a spectacles-maker for Yves Saint Laurent, the showrooms of one of the Antwerp Six and the studios of Central Saint Martins students have in common? They’ve all been shot for Todd Selby’s new book, Fashionable Selby: 348 pages packed with the eclectic personalities he’s met while trotting the globe as a fashion photographer and trendsetter. With photos and watercolours of designers, models and more, his knack for capturing the most interesting people and spaces shines through. Fashionable Selby (Abrams, £22.99) is out March 2014
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Blurred Lines – no, not Robin Thicke’s misogyny-fest – but the provocative new play about gender politics created by director Carrie Cracknell and playwright Nick Payne for the National Theatre’s temporary venue The Shed. A cast of eight women play various characters, including men, to explore gender politics in scenarios ranging from offices to the sex trade. ‘The play isn’t meant to be worthy. It’s a funny way of asking the questions you might discuss with your friends,’ says Cracknell. Oh, there’s hip-hop too. ‘The tracks have some pretty hardcore, shocking lyrics, so we thought we’d give them a remix.’ 16 January-22 February2014; theshed.nationaltheatre.org.uk
1 Stop reading romance novelist Nora Roberts – I love her, but all these all the rangy, moody cowboys are giving me unrealistic expectations. 2 Consider an intervention. My mother and sister think I should leave my love life to them. ‘You’ve had 18 years of looking for a man without success. Let us try.’ 3 Stop talking so much about dogs and horses; unless, of course, I do end up hooking up with a breeder or racehorse trainer (dream scenario). 4 Start therapy again… and not quit after the fifth session when all the gentle digging finally nudges out the real reason why I’m Undateable. 5 Stop scowling at happy couples – one day it could be me PDAing in the park. I imagine nothing kills a happy mood more than a grimacing woman and her slobbering Staffordshire bull terrier. Bad love karma. Lisa x
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x IS FOR VISIONARY WOMEN ‘Women are not a genre,’ says the Birds Eye View Film Festival website, but that doesn’t mean women in film shouldn’t be celebrated. The female-focused film festival returns to champion industry icons, from directors and screenwriters, to producers and costume designers. Expect short films, panel discussions, special events, photography and Fashion Loves Film: documentaries and cutting-edge films from design houses. 8-13 April 2014, BFI Southbank and other London venues
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Like it or not, there will be no avoiding the Fifty Shades Of Grey film adaptation. The sadomasochistic sensation is being brought to the big screen by SamTaylorJohnson, so we’re hoping for an arty approach to the erotic romance. Jamie Dornan will play the domineering Christian Grey, with model and actress Dakota Johnson (daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith) slated to play Anastasia Steele. Resistance is futile. In cinemas from 1 August 2014
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Gloucestershire, land of Old Spot pigs, is on the up, thanks to the buzz surrounding local-born artist FKA twigs. The partJamaican, part-Spanish singer is setting the blogosphere a-Twitter, thanks to two universally acclaimed EPs. Tracks such as Water Me are all slow grooves and catchy dubstep beats, while her voice has been likened to Janet Jackson. With a signing to hipster record label Young Turks, and Kanye West’s producer Arca on board, we can’t wait for the 25-yearold’s eagerly expected debut album.
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Three cheers - Mayfair’s Mount Street will soon be welcoming a new addition. Christopher Kane is set to open his first flagship store on the storied stretch, alongside Balenciaga and Lanvin. Kane’s new HQ, opening late 2014, will be opposite fellow Brit Nicholas Kirkwood, and near the recently installed Roksanda Ilincic. Watch this street…
Welcome back, sherry. Thanks to a select line of cool under-the-radar sherry and tapas bars around London (think Pizarro, Bar Pepito and Barrica), your nan’s favourite post-dinner tipple is staging a comeback. Our venue of choice for 2014: Drake’s Tabanco tavern in Fitzrovia and the new Sign of the Don in the City, serving signature sherry cocktails. Chin chin.
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SNAPSHOT Award-winning singer/songwriter Ellie Goulding gives us an insight into her life on the road
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Russell Crowe and Emma Watson are at sea in Noah, a modern telling of the biblical epic, by Darren Aronofsky. Crowe is Noah, who gathers his family to prepare for an apocalypse. In cinemas 28 Mar
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NEXT Denim, but not as you know it, this soft quilted jacket is perfect for layering over spring florals. Cotton jacket, £45
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ELLE’S IPS Natalie Wansbrough-Jones, Senior Fashion Editor Only shop from the designers you’re familiar with – you’ll know the cut of the pieces and you’ll end up with something that suits you.
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Laura Larbalestier, Buying Director at Browns Buy knits and a coat now. They’ll be invaluable January-March, when stores are full of spring stock but it’s still cold out. Tiffany Hsu, Womens Designerwear Buyer at Selfridges The shoe department is our busiest during the sale. Try on shoes you love the week before, then on sale day just buy and go. Most customers shop accessories first, so head to womenswear early and it will be quite quiet.
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Helen David, Head of Womenswear at Harrods Snap up pastels, sheers and leather. They’ll be big news in s/s 2014, so while you may not want to wear them now, you’ll thank yourself come April.
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‘We must resist the temptation to make public discourse so bland and risk-free that nothing meaningful is said’ briefly, like Criado-Perez – is attacked immediately by some idiot (or idiots) online. It happens to quiz show contestants, passers-by who are interviewed on the news, or people who haven’t been on television but simply make a comment on Twitter that is widely retweeted. Male or female, if you get noticed then you will be verbally assaulted. This is as distressing for men as for women; it’s a humanity-wide problem. But what is especially unfortunate for women is, it’s only recently that we’ve had a voice to speak at all. For centuries, it was only the most exceptional women who had their
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THE WIDE TROUSER
The wide, mannish trouser has being rumbling under as a trend for quite some time now. It’s all part of the boyish mood that you may well have bought into already. But if you haven’t, then now’s the time to invest in a pair of these trousers. I love this J.W. Anderson sailor pant-style pair – wearing with a white pointed toe shoe brings them bang up to date.
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The trench is one item that once you actually invest in one, you’ll wonder how on earth you managed before. The catwalks were awash with them (no pun intended) for next season and this clever trompe l’oeil version from Maison Martin Margiela resort is great for a classic-with-a-twist take. I love the white one but it also comes in a denim-esque blue. Decisions, decisions.
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Speaking of denim, this was another trend that popped up in resort that was also writ large on the s/s 2014 catwalks. This denim skirt from Vuitton banishes all notions of high-street staple and hits just the right note of Left Bank
chic and retro cool. I love the look here, teamed with crisp blue contrast collar shirt, but I actually can’t think of much this skirt wouldn’t work with. Magnifique!
THE WHITE SHIRT
OK, so this one’s not a new idea, but it was all over the resort collections and one of the most popular items worn by editors at the shows. I confess, I’m not sure why this is, but who cares? It looks great and everyone needs at least one. This Chalayan number is top of my list, as its longer length means it can be worn in a myriad of ways. Just find one that makes you feel fabulous and, boom, you’re good to go. Gap is great for white shirts on the high street.
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Florals are always a thing come spring/summer, but this season they are A THING. Think power floral. Florals with attitude. Or FWAs for short. This Gucci maxi dress is a brilliant example: kick-ass, don’t-mess-with-me pretty. Oh, go on then.
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Don’t be tempted to pile on make-up. Use foundation sparingly, where you need to even out skin – I like Bobbi Brown Luminous Moisturizing Treatment Foundation, £32, Rimmel Wake Me Up Foundation, £8.99, and YSL Le Teint Touche Éclat, £29, which targets shadowy areas. For under-eye circles, use Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer, £21, on dark patches to lift your eyes. Cream blush looks most natural – try Chanel Blush Crème de Chanel, £27, or Butter London Cheeky Cream Blush, £17. To make eyes look as bright as possible, avoid kohls – just curl lashes before applying mascara.
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arty season = glamorous late nights and guilt-free indulgence (fun). But it also means dehydrated, blotchy skin (not fun). However, if you can’t hide in bed all day, here are a few tips and tricks to help you look like you’ve had your eight hours. For eyes to look as wide and bright as possible, lash curlers are essential, and I always use a cream blush on morning-after skin, for a healthy glow that looks the opposite of how you’re feeling. So no one will know what you’ve been up to – unless you tell them.
Use a flesh-coloured eye pencil to tone down red eyes (run it along the bottom inner rim to brighten) – unlike white liners, it looks natural. Try Rimmel Scandaleyes Waterproof Kohl Kajal in Nude, £3.99, or Stila Kajal Eyeliner in Topaz (5), £12. For lips, I rub balm all over with a cotton bud, to gently exfoliate and nourish, before starting my make-up. Lips are the first place dehydration strikes, so avoid matte textures and go for a tinted balm – apricots and pinks are good for adding colour without making you look too ‘done’. You’ll look like you’ve had a great night’s sleep – and who’s to know otherwise?
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When it comes to moisturising, be careful not to go overboard – even though your skin may feel dehydrated – or you’ll just end up looking greasy. Instead, try a light illuminating lotion to perk up tired skin. Givenchy Hydra Sparkling Instant Beauty Radiance Booster (2), £39.50, contains gentle AHA acids that brighten dull complexions, and has a soft-pink tint to give your skin a subtle glow.
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Acetate sunglasses, £48, Le Specs Leather shoes, £195, Whistles
Silver and diamanté earrings, £105, V Jewellery
Denim jacket, £54.95, Levi’s
Oh, dear trench, we’d be lost without you. Here’s how we’ll wear you now
Cotton coat, £165, French Connection
Cotton T-shirt, £50, Maison Labiche at Urban Outfitters
Fauxleather bag, £18, Monki
Cotton coat, £75, River Island Denim jeans, £95, Levi’s
Angora sweater, £180, Club Monaco
Silver-plated diamanté pendant, £59, Swarovski
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From ultramarine to ultra-smart navy, it’s time to redefine the office blues Above right: Cotton jacket, £69.95, Gap. Cotton shirt, £235, Pinko. Cotton and silk mix skirt, £245, Sandro. Leather iPad case, £205, Etro x Mirabilia. Leather and metal watch, £5,310, Omega. Gold ring (just seen), £170, Maria Black, worn throughout Right: Wool coat, £189, Pied a Terre. Cotton-mix shirt, £25.99, Zara. Gold necklace, £195, Dinny Hall. Leather bag, £790, Marni. Metal watch, £139, Citizen Far right: Viscose-mix trousers, £99, Hobbs. Leather shoes, £195, Coach
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Modernise your look by playing with proportions Above: Wool-mix coat, £2,000, Escada. Wool jumper, £123, Preen. Cottonmix culottes, £58, Topshop. Leather bag, £430, Boss. Gold-plated ring (on model’s ring finger) £85, Maria Black. Silver ring, £130, LeiVanKash Far left: Wool jacket, £395, and matching trousers, £215, Folk. Cotton top, £168, Tibi. Leather shoes, £175, L.K. Bennett. Cotton bag, £50, Ostwald Helgason for Aldo Rise. Model’s right hand: Metal triangle ring, £6.50, Freedom at Topshop. Metal cage ring, £6.50, Diva at Miss Selfridge. Model’s left hand: Rings, as before Left: Cotton shirt, £29.95, Gap. Cotton-mix jacquard trousers, as before. Metal necklace, £12, and metal ring, £8.50, both Freedom at Topshop. Leather bag, £1,170, Maison Martin Margiela
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Wool blazer, as before. Lace dress, £135, French Connection. Leather boots, £79.99, and fauxleather and metal bag, £35.99, both Zara
Wool blazer, £229, Hobbs. Cotton shirt, £35, Marks & Spencer. Cottonmix trousers, £70, Label Lab at House of Fraser. Suede and mesh trainers, £60, New Balance at Urban Outfitters. Leather rucksack, £180, Kurt Geiger
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RING Metal, £12, & Other Stories
SHOES Leather and calfskin, £285, Marc Cain
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Silk shirt, as before. Polyester skirt, £39.99, Zara. Leather shoes, £169, and shearling bag, £199, both Hobbs
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SHOES Leather, £275, Joie
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‘Everyone in the art world has their own individual style’ Antonia Blocker Associate Curator of Talks Shirt, Urban Outfitters. Shoes, Russell & Bromley. Vintage jacket, trousers, necklace and rings
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KATHARINE STOUT ‘I aim to balance functionality and creativity when choosing clothes’
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Corinne Calder Art Technician and Events Coordinator T-shirt, Urban Outfitters
Katharine Stout Head of Programme Shirt, American Apparel. Jeans, Maison Martin Margiela. Shoes, Miu Miu. Necklace, Georg Jensen. Rings, Cartier. Vintage T-shirt (underneath), watch and bracelet Beth Davies Development Assistant Vintage shirt and trousers. Glasses, Chanel
‘I love to use colour to lift my mood’
BETH DAVIES ‘One of my favourite blogs is Advanced Style – it’s so inspiring’
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Gillian da Costa Head of Director’s Office Dress, Warehouse. Shoes, M&S. Vintage jewellery
Naomi Crowther Press Officer Dress, Cos. Shoes and tights,Topshop. Earrings, Whistles. Watch, Muji
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Stylist Celestine Cooney on Genesis, grunge and sticking to your guns
It takes an especially cool girl to get away with a Genesis Invisible Touch tour T-shirt, featuring Phil Collins in all his 1980s mullet-haired glory. But Celestine Cooney is such a girl. ‘Hey, I like the graphics and the fonts!’ she protests as she unfolds the rest of her stack of vintage band tops. ‘Being a stylist is about having a strong sense of yourself and sticking to your guns,’ she says in her warm Irish brogue. ‘I’m sure about what I like.’ This singlemindedness has stood 34-year-old Cooney in good stead. One of London’s most in-demand stylists, her clients include Simone Rocha, Topshop, Warehouse and House of Hackney; she styles celebrities such as Rihanna for shoots; and
she’s the fashion director of biannual style magazine Twin. She got her big break at Dazed &Confused, assisting then-fashion director Nicola Formichetti – now artistic director at Diesel – after dropping her portfolio into the magazine’s offices on a whim while visiting friends in London, aged 23. It’s all a long way from her rural upbringing in County Meath, where she spent her days fishing, riding and stealing cider from her parents to drink in the park with her boy mates (the family business is cider production). That said, you can trace her trademark tomboy style, and
Her dressing room in her Hackney home is clearly the work of a pro
Cooney recommends: 1. Beyond Retro, London (beyondretro.com) ‘I love the fact you get years and years of seasons all under one roof. You never know what you’ll find.’
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her use of nature motifs such as horses and trees in her styling, back to her formative years. She recalls being a ‘clothes snob’ from an early age. At 11, while her peers chose Naf Naf floral dresses for their confirmation, Cooney wore boys’ bottle-green corduroy shorts and a waistcoat. After a false start studying film at university, she switched to fashion writing and styling for Irish titles, before Formichetti snapped her up and she found herself on a plane to London, carrying her 2ft-tall Jesus statue as hand luggage. (Cooney, a brilliant raconteur, has lots of hilarious stories about her Catholic upbringing.) She now lives in Hackney, in a quirky duplex where she’s converted one bedroom into a dressing room. Clearly the work of a professional, there’s a shelf for jeans, one for jumpers, and a rail purely for white T-shirts. Plus, a dedicated tracksuit area: ‘My dream outfit is a tracksuit!’ she laughs. ‘I’ll wear vintage Lakers bottoms and a pair of boots with a fine Céline knit. I love mixing sporty and high end.’ This is someone who makes grunge feel perennially current, with her signature plaid shirts, oversized T-shirts, silk slips and dark florals. Her shoe collection is a study in black clompiness: Balenciaga cut-out boots, bashed-up Vans, riding boots and studded DMs. ‘A black bag and black shoes add structure to your outfit. They root it.’ That said, she also loves a show-stopping dress and has a rail groaning with
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pieces by Stella McCartney, Christopher Kane and Balenciaga, plus a magenta neoprene gown by fellow countrywoman Simone Rocha. ‘Simone assisted me one summer years ago and we became great friends. I’ve styled her shows for the last three years. She’s brilliant with fabrics and textures.’ So what styling advice can Cooney give us? ‘Ensure you can sit down comfortably in your outfit before leaving the house,’ she tells me. She loves Topman’s oversized glasses, which she has fitted with her own prescription lenses. And, of course, she knows all the best vintage boutiques – see her picks below. With such style nous, we can even forgive that Genesis T-shirt.
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2. Sunbury Antiques Market, Kempton Park Race Course, Middlesex (sunburyantiques.com) ‘I buy a lot of antique jewellery here. I’m inspired by the history of the pieces.’
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of the heart When I was a teenager, and daydreaming what it might feel like to love and be loved, I used to fall asleep every night listening to Rumours, Fleetwood Mac’s LA diary of romantic disintegration. In life’s perfect figure eight, I now – an adult with much history, a new marriage and an even newer baby – find myself living in LA, transfixed by the lyrics of a teenage girl: Royals by Lorde. It has conquered charts worldwide for several reasons but, to me, the key is in the lyric: ‘We’ll never be royals/Let me be your ruler/and you can call me queen bee.’ Short of waking up to find we have turned into Hillary Clinton or Oprah Winfrey, the most ruthless power a woman can wield is to rule someone’s heart, even if it’s just once, even for a little while. Maybe I guessed my soulmate wouldn’t live in the same city as me, when I left London for LA, stretching my legs and my heart with a 10-year stopover in New York as a journalist. Maybe I only became a screenwriter so I would end up in Hollywood, at this particular rooftop party where we met for the first time. I had a view of palm trees at dusk and also a clear view of the three other ‘contenders’ he’d had lined up that night. As we got serious, I was there when they texted, called and emailed, asking, with increasing panic,
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where he had vanished to. I recognised that panic. I had been that girl so many times before. But in the grip of new love, it’s never enough. As a regular break in my workday, I would lose myself in the internet – specifically, his. His emails. His bookmarked history. Though the first time we met my heart boomed, ‘I know you’, I didn’t know him yet, not really. And so I surreptitiously followed this internet trail of breadcrumbs, sure they’d lead me back to somewhere. The sexy female spy, dipping from lamppost to lamppost in a trench coat and patent boots, is a staple of popular culture. But you never feel sexy when you’re investigating your rivals online. You feel the same way you do at the end of reading online gossip sites. Disgusted, unsatiated and literally wild-eyed, your bloodshot corneas testament to reading one too many articles about What Is Wrong With Gwyneth Paltrow’s Knees? Your world gets smaller and smaller – your world is someone else’s inbox, your world is the back of an actress’ knee – until there’s no light in your life but the one from the screen, and that is no light at all. This is nothing new for me, even though I was extremely late to the internet. I tested my editor’s patience, unable to figure out how to attach a document to an email, begging to be allowed to keep faxing in my stories. But once I understood how to use it, I quickly understood, yes, this is the ‘global village’ as predicted in the Sixties by philosopher Marshall McLuhan, but it’s also just a playground to make myself fucking crazy.
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I’d already watched it happen to one of my most vivacious girlfriends, who tormented herself relentlessly with stolen information – unearthed via password, call history, etc – shocking finds about affairs and prostitutes and ex-girlfriends. She never did anything about it, never left him, never unleashed a WikiLeaks of the heart. She just kept amassing her information and feeding off it, but feeding off a knowledge that was making her thinner. I, on the other hand, never found anything very exciting in any of my spy missions. In the days of Myspace – remember those? – I watched my thenboyfriend’s ex-girlfriend as if she were a faraway twinkling star, another planet I imagined might mirror my own. Since she had been his major love, why had they broken up, I asked him? ‘Because she was too tall,’ he answered, and since that was a ridiculous reason to end a relationship, I set out to find the truth. I friended her online and by the time I got her trust and she wanted to get lunch, I had ‘forgotten’ how I knew her. We had talked about Mos Def and Paul Rudd, ‘likes’ that felt random but were unifying. We soon progressed to discussing our romantic histories. The offer of lunch snapped me back into my mission, and, quite enamoured of her by now, I remembered to ask why she had broken up with her ex. ‘Oh,’ she said. ‘Honestly, he was just too short.’ I confessed to my late shrink what I had done and how crazy I felt. He made me tell my boyfriend right then, on the phone, with him in the room to support me. My boyfriend made me tell her. She was understandably upset and never contacted me again. I was mortified that I had travelled so far down the rabbit hole. It’s easy, even for sane people, to lose hours to the bizarro world of online, while Courtney Love has talked about how losing herself online became her thing after getting sober, a next best drug high. The problem is that no matter how attentive our partner is, or how attentive we are to our partner, we and they still feel, to some extent, misunderstood. In the ‘hierarchy of needs’ set out in 1943 by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow, the basic human needs are physiological: Breathing, food, water, sex, sleep. Then comes safety. Then, as we evolve, comes the need for belonging. When I didn’t trust that I belonged with any particular boyfriend, the lateral thought would keep occurring: maybe I belonged with their exes. Maybe the exes were the ones I was truly like. Despite the mutual appreciation of Mos Def, the Myspace girl and I weren’t the same, not really. It was just a trick of perspective, like when you stage a photo to make your hand look the same size as the sun. It should be noted, here, that my husband is more understanding than any other boyfriend I ever had. When he realised that I had been examining his Facebook for his exes’ profiles, he turned up that night with his laptop: ‘Keep it overnight so you can look at everything you want.’ I was flabbergasted. But not too flabbergasted to decline. Instead of furtive moments snatched while he was showering, I could follow long email chains, watching almost love stories fully unfold. I could see some endings coming as surely as when The Sixth Sense boy whispered, ‘I see dead people,’ and I turned to my sister and said, ‘Oh, Bruce Willis is dead.’ I wanted to reach back through space and
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GIRL INTERRUPTER London-born Emma Forrest was a columnist for The Sunday Times at 16 and later The Guardian. She moved to New York at 21 and published her debut, Namedropper (the first of her three fiction novels). She has interviewed everyone from Brad Pitt to Vivienne Westwood – and it was Brad who hired her to write her first screenplay, prompting a move to LA to work fulltime as a screenwriter. Her first memoir, Your Voice In My Head, is currently being made into a film starring Emma Watson. Now 36, married last year and with a new baby, born in April, Emma will be writing about love, life, friendship and how to survive in Hollywood in her new monthly column for ELLE.
time and tell these girls the shock ending on their horizon. I admonished my husband for the ones I thought he’d led on and admonished him harder for the idiots he should never have been with in the first place. The ones I thought were sweet, and he should have treated better, were the ones I deemed the most like me. All we want every time we take a risk on love is to be seen – to truly be seen. And the roughest heartbreak is when they saw you – for a year, for three months, for a week, for one night – and now they can’t see you anymore. These girls, some of whom still text their distress, want him to see them again and he can’t; it’s like in Mary Poppins when the baby twins can communicate with the sparrows and then suddenly one day they are a few weeks older and they don’t hear them anymore. That night, I read all the letters he hadn’t even bothered to open and downloaded the song by the girl who emailed, ‘Please listen to this song I wrote about you. It is important to me.’ He never did, but I listened. I keep it safe on the iPod. It has even crossed my mind to play it to him in the background during some dull, domestic moment, so he had at least heard her subliminally, and could apologise, by osmosis, for breaking her heart. These women are as much strangers to me as Gwyneth Paltrow and her knees, and yet unlike Gwyneth Paltrow, these are strangers I wish well. Though we have never met and most likely never will, I still check in on them from time to time. Who has a new boyfriend. Whose status has changed to engaged. Who got a job promotion. Two years on, my husband and I aren’t new to each other anymore, and the nights we fight it feels like, after me, there will be others and I will just be a scary ‘before’ photo. Living together, you can’t run away from each other when you argue. That’s how a fight can feel so operatic when it’s really a scene in a sitcom. ‘I was just asking!’ he’ll say, his posture slipping sorrowfully from silverback gorilla to Paul Giamatti. ‘I wasn’t meaning to hurt you in the meat of your heart!’ Which brings me back to Lorde and Royals. With great power comes great responsibility. I got to be queen bee. I got to be ruler and there are times it is heaven and times I wish I hadn’t. I had never, ever won before. I don’t know what to do with it or how to keep it safe. It is, weirdly, a far more overwhelming responsibility than having a baby, because I biologically love Pud, it is instinctual. Being good to your partner is not instinctual, not for me, not, I think, for anyone if you give them enough time for the scent to die down. That crazy scent you get from someone when you first fall, that scent that would make you follow them anytime, anywhere, a scent you’d track to the deepest recesses of the internet. Every time I work on something I care about – a book, screenplay, or this new column for ELLE – I am trying to write back to life something I feel I’ve lost, convinced that it’s somewhere in my word count, like digging through your clothes for one last T-shirt that smells of him. I’ll be here every month, holding out words, thinking of T-shirts that still smell of sex…
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1999 – DR BROOKE MAGNANTI, 38 Author of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl
Back in 1999, working in New Mexico and inspired by incredibly talented scientists, I decided to apply to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque for a PhD in forensic science. On a whim, I also applied to the University of Sheffield. When the replies came back and Sheffield made a better offer, it was a real conundrum. I chose the UK, but never imagined I’d end up staying – I hate the rain and cold. Now and then I wonder what might have happened in Albuquerque. Would I have had to work as a prostitute to help pay
A lot can happen in 12 months. Here, seven women share the details of transformative years that toughened them up, kick-started their careers and taught them about love and happiness 2013 – ELEANOR WOOD, 32 Author of Gemini Falling
I was 31 years old and a functional adult. I’d left self-destruction behind a long time ago. Then January 2013 hit. I bought my first house. I sold my first novel. My grandpa died. My stepfather – who brought me up, who I adored – announced that he was leaving my family after 21 years. It was too much. Quickly, all of the good work I’d done started to unravel. I couldn’t eat, sleep or drink; I smoked instead. I cut myself for the first time in a decade. I wrote as if I were possessed, but the
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Comedian on Man Up, airing in February Whenever I was shown pictures of proud friends’ nieces and nephews, I’d feign a rehearsed, ‘Ahh, aren’t they delightful.’ I mean, they were cute but they weren’t even my friends’ own kids. I was single, living between London and LA, slightly commitmentphobic, with no significant ties – and very happy with that. When my sister-in-law told me she was pregnant, I was over the moon, but had no idea how much becoming an aunt would change my life. Before, it was easy to pack my bags and say, ‘I’m off for a few months.’ Now I can’t bear the thought of not seeing my nephew, Zachary, for a week. It sounds clichéd, but the minute I met him, I fell head over heels and my commitment phobia turned into serious devotion. I settled in London and, in the process, found a lovely boyfriend. This little man’s arrival meant I wanted to be near my family – and set me thinking about having my own. The year he was born was the year I grew up.
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next day I could barely decipher the words. All winter, I carried around healing crystals in one coat pocket and razor blades in the other. I frightened myself. But by Easter, I realised nobody and nothing can change who you are. I could see clearly again. But I had to look backwards as well as forwards. I visited a shaman. I escaped to Istanbul with my childhood best friend. I began to write my next novel. In the summer, I had a permanent reminder, a tattoo etched across my rib cage, the cover image from my favourite Leonard Cohen album: The Future.
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for my studies? Probably not. Would I have been offered the chance to write books? Definitely not. Sometimes it feels like I’m living someone else’s dream because this wasn’t at all what I imagined I’d be doing. But if you wait around for perfect circumstances, you could end up waiting forever. I still fantasise about the blue skies of New Mexico and, when I got married in 2010, we did it in my favourite place: Shidoni Sculpture Garden in Tesuque. For my husband, it was a taste of what America’s West has to offer; for me, a reminder of what I’d chosen to leave behind. The inspiration of a lifetime, and no regrets.
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2011 – LAURA SOLON, 34
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One day in March 2011, I was crying in a cafe next to Batman. I’d moved to LA hoping to forge a career in US TV and was living in an apartment near Hollywood Boulevard – where superhero impersonators charge tourists for photos. Having just ruined a meeting with an important producer by throwing orange juice over her sofa, I’d gone to my local cafe to lunch myself better. A paunchy Batman was in there bitching to a fortysomething Superman about his divorce. Everything felt bleak. I cried blubbery British tears into my panini and tried to remember why I’d left my husband, family and friends in London for this. Yet six months later, I’d sold my first American TV script, navigated the awkward minefield of adult friendmaking, and adjusted to transatlantic marriage. I’d also bought a used Volvo from an Armenian car-salesman-slash-poet called Hamlet. That’s LA for you. That year, I was forced out of my comfort zone. Careerwise, starting again made me work harder and aspire to more. Now, I’m more open to the new and the unknown. And I’m a black belt in not spilling drinks in people’s offices.
2007 – FATIMA BHUTTO, 32 Author of The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon
When I was 25, I was working as a journalist for a Pakistani newspaper. I celebrated the coming of spring in the mountainous Kalash Valley and went on road trips to Balochistan, stopping at temples and forts along the way. I didn’t know it then, but those travels – and the many others that I embarked on that year – would heavily influence my first novel. Even though the idea of writing books was far away when I was 25 – as a journalist, I was
living on 1,000 word limits – all I wanted to do was write. I saw stories everywhere and didn’t expect anything from the universe except that it would be just and true. But I had very little peace. Not that I’m swimming in it now but, back then, the world worried me too much; I was too anxious, too rigid when it came to my definitions of what ‘just’ and ‘true’ entailed. I wouldn’t have carried all my worries around if someone had told me then what I know now, that if there is one truth to the universe it’s this: Everything is connected. We are all connected. Simple, no?
shaped ME 2005 – RHIANNON LUCY COSSLETT, 26
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In 2005, I was working as a nanny in Paris and I was miserable. My measly pay of €75 a week didn’t feel like adequate compensation for running after two rich kids, plus I’d spent two weeks’ worth of that on a pair of silver T-bar stilettos. In buying them, I was mimicking Dorothy’s silver shoes in the original The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz book (they weren’t ruby slippers, FYI), and much like her, I just wanted to go home. I returned to Paris having spent Christmas in the UK, determined to make a change. I quit my job, found a new one and a little attic room that was all mine, in exchange for babysitting some much better behaved children,
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and set about dating as many French men as possible (less positively, I also started smoking). Mystifyingly, these floppy-haired left-bank hommes found me charmante in a way British men never had. This, coupled with my independence and disposable income, gave me a new-found confidence. It was a year of drinking and dancing and sexual discovery that taught me more about what I wanted from life (and what I didn’t – I’m looking at you, Pierre) than any other year has since. If I could live it all over again, I would, in a heartbeat. Though, in hindsight, perhaps without that first of many Marlboro Lights.
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Scriptwriter and author of The Shining Girls In 2001, I came back from a year in America with my tail between my legs. I’d moved for capital-L Love and (more capitals) to pursue the dream of Making It In New York. It imploded in my face. I returned heart-wrecked, and so broke I had to move in with my dad at 25. But that year gave me perspective on what I wanted: to stop messing about with freelance journalism and write my goddamn novel. I enrolled in the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town, shamelessly pitched articles for magazines that I could cannibalise for my fiction and met the man who would become my husband (I only recognised his goodness because I’d been through so much crazy). It didn’t all magically fall into place. It took me four years to finish the book, another 10 to get a big book deal, but it was the start of it all. It made me realise that giving up isn’t necessarily failure, it’s a chance to switch gears and find a new road to where you want to be.
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Tattoos are a symbol of rebellion; a permanent statement that tells a personal story. But for ELLE’s Stacey Duguid, they served as markers of sadness and sorrow. Here, she explains the painful process to erase her past
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retend you’re me for a minute. Imagine working in fashion, yet buying the same thing on repeat – scouring the new season to see if a designer has a long-sleeved summer dress in their collection. Imagine wearing a jacket when it’s 30°C outside, or opening your wardrobe and finding no short-sleeve dresses, vests, spaghetti-strap slips or off-the shoulder anything. That has been my life for a decade, although my sartorial neurosis don’t stem from body issues (I have those too, but they’re the least of my worries). How I dress is dictated by the five detested tattoos that adorn my upper body, an indelible legacy of a brutally painful time in my life, a past existence I’m reminded of every time I look in the mirror. In my 20s, I started at the very bottom of the fashion industry, eventually ending up at Paul Smith, Giorgio Armani and Prada. I then forged a great career at ELLE, a magazine I love. These hideous tattoos have been lurking beneath the polished exterior throughout, ruining my mornings and making special occasions a nightmare. I avoid swimming pools and haven’t worn a T-shirt in a decade. How I came to be in
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TATTOOS this perpetual state of sartorial self-loathing is complicated, but perhaps I’ll start here – something bad always happened just before I got a tattoo. Aged 18, I had moved to Manchester, the city where I was born, to spend three years at art school. Or so I said. The real reason – I could barely admit even to myself – was to discover if my father, who lived there, still loved me. I hadn’t seen him for years, after Mum remarried and we moved to Edinburgh to start a new life. The miles between us hindered weekend access, and my relationship with my father eventually dwindled to nothing, leaving me bewildered and believing that I was unlovable. ‘Dad?’ I snapped down a pub payphone, weeks after arriving in the city. ‘Meet me here in an hour or forget I ever existed.’ These words drew us together for the first time in well over a decade. He was baffled by my sudden reappearance in his life – unable to fathom what had happened to the little girl with blonde pigtails. Awkwardness seeped into the air as I tried to heal the gaping wound that was our relationship: my attempt to make sense of the profound loneliness that had plagued me since childhood. The silence was tragic. He wasn’t interested in me at all. Shortly after that first meeting, I ended up in the tattooist’s chair. ‘What do you want,’ he asked, smelling of yesterday’s beer. ‘Um,’ I murmured, my gut screaming ‘leave right now’. Jittery from a weekend of all-night clubbing, I’d only popped out for some air when I stumbled upon Rambo’s Tattoos. That’s how much thought I’d given it – two seconds, to be precise. ‘How about that?’ he suggested, waving a dirty fingernail towards an image of a devil performing cunnilingus on an angel. Disgusted but undeterred, I chose the most innocuous design I could find: a small angel, flying with arms outstretched in front of her as if searching for help. ‘Where do you want it?’ Rambo enquired. I stuck out my left arm, because it was nearest body part to him. The fetid smell of ink mixed with blood and his vile breath as the needle punctured my arm. It felt like being repeatedly scratched with a sharp nail and the resulting tattoo looked like a gone-wrong cartoon character. I didn’t care that it looked awful, though; it made me a rock ’n’ roll, crazy girl. It was a middle finger to the world – an indelible ‘Fuck you, Dad’. It was around this time that life became a blur and I partied to the point of obliteration. I never made it to the second year of art school, instead returning to Edinburgh and moving in with my mum as she attempted to glue back together the pieces of her broken daughter. But I was blown into even smaller, more unfixable fragments when I started running a night at a club a few months later. I was bored in Edinburgh and, after spending a year dancing by a speaker at the Hacienda in Manchester – out of my mind, falling off podiums, as my weight also plummeted – I wanted to bring the party home. Except Edinburgh was supposed to be about recovery, resting my gaunt body and figuring out what to do with the rest of my life. Initially, I got a job at The Body Shop, but I walked out after a month without Mum knowing, pretending I was still going to work when really I was in town drinking beer and smoking. That’s when the partying escalated to full tilt. I alienated my mum by moving out after only a few months. Total carnage ensued.
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‘Men viewed my tattoos as an open invitation to touch, leer and pass judgement’
Life went on, but my feelings of loneliness remained. Aged 20, I moved to London with enough money to pay a month’s rent. This, like everything else in my life, was decided upon quickly. I was running away again – and I didn’t stop running. I moved flat, on average, three times a year: a never-ending series of bad flatmates in places I couldn’t afford and scenarios I should never have put myself in. I was working for free at the very bottom of the fashion industry by day – the career I’d always wanted – and in pubs at night. I was broke and didn’t have the friends I know now. It was a pitifully lonely existence. I was 25 when the house of cards finally collapsed. ‘It’s Mum. Grandad is dead,’ were the words that blew my flimsy foundations apart. Ralph George Hales. The man who had stepped in for my father, treating his daughter’s daughter as his own, was gone too soon, aged 75. Standing next to Mum at his funeral, I wanted to tell her what I’d been going through, that I didn’t feel OK. I longed to be her little girl, a hazy Seventies photograph of how life used to be, but my present life was all sharp angles compared to my softfocus childhood with Grandad. Four more years of loneliness led me to my next tattoo, except this parlour was the opposite of the one I’d picked on a whim 12 years before; it was where fashion girls went to get ‘inked’. My reasons for tattooing were totally different from theirs: I wanted my grandad’s name written on my arm, a daily reminder of unconditional love. This, I believed, would dull the pain of my grief, and quell the loneliness. ‘How big are we going?’ the artist asked. ‘Why don’t you decide?’ I said. He drew a huge tattoo transfer, freehand, on tracing paper – the words Ralphy Boy, my nickname for my grandfather, in jetblack swirls – and placed it on my arm. The needle penetrated the pale, soft skin and a few dramatic swoops later almost all of my right forearm was covered in exaggerated calligraphy. ‘What about some petals?’ he asked, ‘They’ll be like your tears for him.’ I nodded and watched in shock as a cascade fluttered permanently towards my wrist. ‘Beautiful,’ he whispered as he wrapped his masterpiece in protective cellophane with the care of a lover. Mute and traumatised, I forced myself to look in the mirror. It was the same me staring back – same shorts, same woolly tights, same boots and jumper. All the same – save the huge, bleeding tattoo. I had an urge to run but instead found myself agreeing to have a drink with the tattooist. I felt like his conquest, as I sat and lied about how much I loved his ‘work’. Ralphy Boy became a public line of enquiry, turning his death into a conversation starter to be discussed freely. Getting inked had made me public property. But still I went back for more. Bigger this time, too – a bright red peony across my left shoulder. As the same tattooist’s needle punctured swathes of crimson ink into my skin, I told myself, ‘It’ll look great with a little black dress and I’ll love it forever.’ But it turned out to be a trend piece – adored one season, totally out of tune the next. Aged 30 and three tattoos in, the comments became constant and unavoidable. Men who wouldn’t have approached the tattoo-free me for fear of me being ‘out of their league’ (their words, not mine) asked me out, rough fingers running over the ink, asking why, who, when? Tattooed meant ›
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damaged and, therefore, fair game. A guy’s name on my arm said I was a slut – fine for a bit of fun but not the type you’d want to marry. Men viewed tattoos as an open invitation to touch, leer and pass judgement. People assumed the tattoos had obliterated my capacity for hurt because, in their eyes, they signalled an ‘anything goes’ attitude. But, in fact, the opposite was true. The inked me was even more sensitive. The tattoos made me feel like a walking work of art, asking to be critiqued. And the critics were harsh. Strolling down Regent Street, a random passer-by asked me whether I regretted them, before shouting over his shoulder, ‘You’ve really fucked up there, love!’ Yet, a year later, I went back under the needle. I’d lost respect for my body and figured I’d started, so why stop? I was like an alcoholic having ‘just one more drink’. This time, the design – a graphic rose – was chosen at Paris Fashion Week, after seeing a tattooed girl with a similar inking on the street. ‘Like this?’ the artist asked, towering over me as I lay horizontal in his chair. I answered directly to the devil horns tattooed on his forehead, ‘Yeah, really black, but pretty and graphic and cool’, trying to articulate how I wanted it to look, but failing miserably. ‘From here to here?’ he asked, drawing a vine from my wrist to my elbow in thick marker pen, flicks suggesting thorns, and spirals for petals. It was nothing like the pretty-punk French girl’s. It wasn’t ‘littleblack-dress friendly’. It was gates-of-hell nasty. The following morning, my hangover throbbed to the beat of the pain pulsing in my arm. October sunlight tried to break through the slats in the blinds as I lay in bed, unable to move. Everything felt black inside. What had I done? I realised this was no longer about anybody else. My father was a distant memory – I hadn’t seen him since that awful day in the pub, aged 18. This was me against me. I showed a colleague at ELLE when the cellophane came off and the crust of blood had been wiped clean. Her face dropped as she said, ‘Oh my god, what have you done?’ That was the day I started wearing long-sleeved everything. I had selfharmed and, like someone who cuts, I hid my arms from public scrutiny, especially from the major players at Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci and Prada, with whom I had twice-yearly meetings in Milan. Mission self-sabotage accomplished. Even that tattoo wasn’t enough, though. It took one more to finally rid me of my addiction: not to the pain but to the inevitable feelings of selfloathing and worthlessness that followed, the anxiety that was so comforting and familiar. ‘He’s the best,’ said the receptionist of Soho House New York as she wrote down the number of the tattooist who’d created the beautiful bird on her hand. It was too late to call but I was in the city that never sleeps, so I wasn’t surprised when he picked up and told me to come over. ‘You won’t regret it,’ said the receptionist. But she was wrong. I did the instant I woke, the following day, to the familiar throb of damaged skin. This time it was on my right wrist: a bird, its yellow beak clinging to the black rose as if trying to drag it from my body. I knew I didn’t want to feel this way anymore. I stopped there, but of course the damage was done. I avoided mirrors when naked. I bought an expensive tattoo cover-up kit, a series of brushes,
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powders, sprays and sponges that would defeat the most competent of make-up artists. Reading the instructions, I realised it would be perfect for covering up a small, unwanted rose on a wedding day, not an entire arm and shoulder covered with jet black, red and pink ink. I hoped the tattoos would fade and become a part of me, like a childhood scar you stop noticing. They never did, though. My morning shower turned them luminous as the water washed over my body. I was 34 when I started seeing the therapist who finally got through to me; sick of my lonely, half-lived life, bored of the charade that was the fashionfabulous, sorted Stacey. It was the first step on a long path to recovery. Watching colleagues pick out pretty dresses to wear to the ELLE Style Awards, knowing I had to buy something I didn’t love but that covered up the ink, made me realise the tattoos had to go. The price of more physical pain would be worth it to avoid a lifetime spent hiding the emotional hurt of the past. I waited for the sharp intake of breath as I rolled up my sleeve. I scanned the nurse’s eyes for a flicker of judgment but there was none. Her camera clicked to record my tattoos at that first appointment. ‘How long until they’re gone?’ I asked. She avoided answering the unanswerable, but said they’d fade with time. ‘Are you ready?’ she asked, protective glasses on. I nodded: I was sure. My legs jolted as the laser hit my arm – even on the lowest setting, it hurt like a million bee stings. The smell of singed skin was nauseating, the pain almost unbearable. Huge sobs heaved from my chest as tears rolled down my cheeks and into my ears, mercifully dulling the thud of laser pulverising skin. I was crying for the old me, saying my goodbyes. Farewell to the girl who felt like a stranger trapped in her own body. A year later, I met the love of my life. There is no judgement when he looks at my body and I’ve finally found someone to confide in. We’ve had two children together and this has prolonged the tattoo removals, as I couldn’t go under the laser while pregnant. As I was delivering my first-born, I had to endure a conversation about my inkings. It wasn’t the nurses’ fault – she was just making small talk – still, I found it deeply uncomfortable. I’m not anti-tattoos and will never judge anyone for having them. We all have our own war stories and if you want to record them on your body, that is your right. But for me, having them removed is vital, as they no longer belong on my body. Ten treatments in and I’ve become detached from the process. It feels medicinal, no big deal. I leave with a sense of euphoria. Yet the morning after, paradoxically, feels similar to waking with a new tattoo, skin hot and uncomfortable. But with this pain there is hope and potential, a future life of short-sleeves and swimming with my children. The tattoos are fading and my body is no longer my personal punch bag. The loneliness has gone and there is no more pain. I know I am truly loved, and I am so grateful to be home. ● Stacey is ELLE’s Dear Madmoiselle life guru– see p185
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Did you feel pressure to be funny? The only time I was nervous was on the first day of shooting, because it was me stepping into a world with Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Paul Rudd and Steve Carell; comedic gods who know each other very well. So you’re thinking, ‘Was this an accident? Why am I here?’ Were they nice to the new boy? They were the most welcoming group I’ve ever worked with. Comedians can be good people or they can be bitter people who get into a pissing contest over who is the funniest. Everyone wants the best joke and to be laughed at the most. But with these guys, they were setting you up for the killer punchline above themselves. Are you funny in real life? I can be funny, but I wouldn’t call myself a ‘funny guy’. But you are the ‘handsome guy’. Do your looks limit the parts you get offered? That’s a tricky one. It has happened but, for the most part, I’m not the guy who wishes he looked any different. It’s definitely an asset more than a hindrance. We certainly don’t mind it… [Laughs] It’s been a very good thing but, now that I’m 40, there’s a realisation that I’m going to have a job of maintaining it! I don’t mind that though – it feels like the more steps you take to realising your own mortality, the more comfortable you feel in your own skin and the less you care about the small things. Physically, it’s a little more upsetting. You can’t do the things you used to. Oh, come on – you’re 40, not 100! Well, you can still do the things you used to – it just hurts more!
Are you interested in fashion? It used to be that you could wear a nice pair of jeans, shoes and a good watch, and you’d be fine. Now you have to wear a fedora and a pink suit with bright red leather shoes from Italy! It’s great because guys are having more fun with their looks, but I’m really struggling to keep up. Are you at home in shorts and flip-flops now? [Laughs] Are you asking, ‘What am I wearing?’ Well, yes. That is exactly what I am wearing! They’re nice flip-flops, though. What’s the first thing you do on a rare day off ? I go to my local pub and sit and drink with my friends for eight hours. I feel like that’s the English in me. Is that a fair comparison? I’m just assuming that’s what you all do… James in Anchorman 2
You’re pretty spot-on. Now, you often play the guy who doesn’t get the girl. Does life imitate art? I can relate to feeling like the guy who is always vying for a girl’s attention and not the clear choice. But I don’t say that in a ‘pity party’ way. In my teens, I was the guy who was getting attention from the girls because he could make them laugh. But as far as being good-looking and good at sports, I was not him. So I think it’s in my DNA to feel like I have to work harder to get a woman’s attention. You’re currently single. How could we woo you? Just hang with me in a pub! Mine’s a pint, thanks. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is in cinemas 20 December
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y father’s current wife Lydia was once his 23-year-old mistress, the bite-sized homewrecker I had watched apply lipstick in his Porsche while he packed his bags and abandoned my mother. Lydia was as new as his hair implants were back then, as new as the car that roared its turbo horsepower out of our lives with a ferocity that matched my hatred of them both. Had the Porsche exploded into a twisted yellow fireball in the driveway that day – the cherry lipstick and hair plugs all that was left behind to identify them – I wouldn’t have flinched. Four years later, I was expected to overlook the trauma Lydia had caused and the three year agegap between us, because she had mothered my sister Violet. At lunch, Lydia spoon-fed gulps of pureed food into Violet’s blubbering face at a safe distance, lest splatters of organic aubergine soil Lydia’s Jimmy Choos. Dad squinted at his BlackBerry beneath the table with failing eyes. What a stupid old man you are, I thought, rolling a cherry tomato around my plate.‘One day, you’ll have a baby,’ said Lydia in her tinkly sing-song voice, as if she were the Fairy Godmother bestowing upon me the blessing of a fertile womb. Violet gurgled folds of liquidised carrot over her chin. ‘I don’t think so,’ I replied. ‘Of course you will!’ she rubbed my arm condescendingly. I recoiled. ‘What was Hannah like when she was younger, Jim?’ Lydia asked. My dad looked up from his phone. He probably couldn’t remember – a combination of oncoming senility and having spent my teenage years bonking his trainee accountants. ‘Very well-behaved,’ he smiled. ‘Never an awkward, rebellious phase. No silly hairdos or fashions or anything.’
‘That’s lucky!’ Lydia winked at me like a children’s TV presenter. ‘I was always very naughty.’ ‘I can well imagine,’ I said. Sleeping with other people’s husbands, eh? What a scamp. Dad cleared his throat as a warning flare against any anti-Lydia tirade I might embark on. I was meant to be nice now that she was technically my new mum and not just a father-stealing antichrist. Lydia noted Dad’s reaction and sensed she was being ridiculed in a way that transcended her own limited cognitive ability. She transformed from patronising primary school teacher to cornered rodent. ‘I hope one day you’ll be as lucky as your dad and I,’ she said, nuzzling into my father’s face. ‘You will have a baby. She might even be as beautiful as our Violet.’ Lydia patted my knee. Acrid bile and evil intent rose in my throat until I blurted: ‘I can only hope. I’d love to take Violet out this afternoon, if you’d let me.’ They both looked stunned. Dad, in his desperation to bond my half sister, his wife and I, agreed without Lydia’s consent. I waved them off at the end of lunch, promising to return Violet in an hour. I rolled the stroller around the block, straight into the hairdressers. ‘Mohawk,’ I said as the hairdresser fluffed Violet’s curls. ‘For a little girl?’ ‘Mo. Hawk.’
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model-turned-just-about-everything is even playing publisher, financially backing Prowl, ‘a new underground magazine for our generation’. Prowl is edited by Lisa Luxx, a close friend who happens to be a ‘sick poet’, according to Suki. ‘Her ideas are just so great I really wanted to help,’ she adds. Lisa concurs via email: ‘[Suki’s] the tops.’ Meanwhile, Waterhouse has just finished shooting her second film role, as a hot-but-wrong temptation for the romantic lead (played by The Hunger Games heartthrob Sam Claflin) in Love, Rosie. Based on the novel by Cecelia Ahern, Waterhouse describes the film as ‘a bit Bridget Jones-y, Love Actually-ish, or When Harry Met Sally-esque. Much of it is set in 2002, so I wore a lot of crop tops: Britney stuff. Which was perfect because I loved all that back then. I had my midriff out all the time.’ I do the maths – she can’t have been more than 10 at the time. Back when she was pretending to be Britney, Waterhouse was already a lightly seasoned actress (‘I was training five hours a week’). She still goes to classes, but seems circumspect about choosing to concentrate on it over anything else on her dance card: ‘Right now, I want to be open to everything.’ Waterhouse says she has another film project in the offing, ‘something small’, but clams up as soon as she half-mentions it (I just manage to squeeze out of her that it’s a US production). This, of course, leads us neatly to a further notable entry in her roster: something private, which is nonetheless pretty public too. In February, at the ELLE Style Awards, she met Bradley Cooper. They left à deux in a paparazzi-strobed black cab, and have been an item pretty much ever since.
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y the time Cooper – who counts Zoe Saldana and Scarlett Johansson among his exes – comes up, we’ve been getting on famously for well over an hour (we’ve also had to find a quieter table; this Mayfair bar, Mr Fogg’s, is rammed). But she remains tight-lipped. ‘I don’t talk about my boyfriend because it’s boring,’ she says, firmly. ‘At least, that’s what I decided to tell you when you asked.’ Which is completely fair enough, I reply ingratiatingly. Although, does it not imply that he’s a bit boring? ‘No, that’s not right!’ she squeals, aghast. As she wrestles with how best to say the least, Suki confirms that yes, her and Cooper’s D-Day was at the ELLE do, but hotly denies reports from excited insiders who claimed to have heard him asking for her number that night. ‘They can’t have! That didn’t happen there. But we did meet at the Style Awards, I’ll give you that. Look, maybe it’s best for me to say, “I’m not one of those girls who goes on about their boyfriends.” I do think whatever I say will sound weird. But the truth is, if I start talking about him, I probably won’t be able stop. And I don’t really want to talk about him, you know?’ This really is fair enough. ›
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hat said, I duly lay off the Cooper questions, yet can’t help but note two Bradley-related events a little later. One is at the very end of the night, when her phone rings. She greets Cooper – I think I hear this right – as ‘Bubs’, murmuring huskily down her handset for a few moments. The second, much more tangentially, comes when she says: ‘I really like the idea of having kids in not too long. Not, like, now. And not next year. But in not too long.’ Suki relishes the idea of being a youngish mum, she says, so she can keep up with her kids when they’re older. Fellow models that have made motherhood work alongside their careers, like Arizona Muse and Jourdan Dunn, have inspired her. ‘I talk to Jourdan about it quite a lot. She made the decision and had her parents and agency supporting her. I think it’s the coolest thing.’ Suki’s enthusiasm for starting a family stems, most probably, from her own upbringing, which sounds like a riot. When her parents got together, her mother, Elizabeth, was a cancer nurse and her father Norman a surgeon. Perhaps uniquely, their eyes met ‘over a patient with a decaying buttock’. Suki, born on 5 January 1992 (17 years to the day after Cooper) was very nearly christened Kuki, but her parents swerved at the last moment and opted for Alice (Suki is, in fact, her middle name). Her dad took Suki rock-climbing and to karate (where she got to purple belt), and she grew up happily in Chiswick (‘I remember looking in the mirror when I was eight and thinking, “I will remember this moment ’til I die”.’). She has three siblings: 14-year-old-twins Charlie and Madeleine, and 19-year-old Imogen, who is studying drama in Oxford and has just starred in a campaign for Asda. ‘It sounds cringey but I want to help them in any way I can. But Imogen, quite rightly, wants to do it herself. It’s the same with my mates. If they’re doing something interesting I want to help,’ she says. It’s hard not to pity the poor nannies that had to deal with the gang of Waterhouse girls as they were growing up: ‘Me and my sisters were so awful. One nanny, we loved, but we hacked her email and sent her boyfriend lots of weird messages, and we once actually locked her in the toilet, too.’ ‘We’re very all or nothing,’ is how Suki characterises her family’s pack behaviour. ‘There are a lot of us, and we’re all big personalities. So we
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can be in hysterics, or someone will leap out of the car in a rage because of an argument. My dad once did that, actually. We rode home with him clinging to the bumper.’ I’d heard of Suki’s father long before she started warming the bench next to Harry Styles at Burberry. As well as being one of Britain’s best plastic surgeons, Norman Waterhouse is co-founder of Facing The World, a charity dedicated to giving life-changing reconstructive surgery to facially disfigured children. ‘I used to go into the hospital with my dad and visit the reconstruction patients – and sometimes the cosmetic ones, too,’ says Suki. ‘I’ve got nothing against plastic surgery at all. I know lots of people, young and old, who’ve had it. When the surgery is bad, that’s when you see it. The point about good surgery is you can’t see it. The important thing is not to go crazy – and not to go to a bad surgeon.’ In terms of non-invasive bang for your buck, she reckons droopy-eyelid surgery is the way to go – should you need it, of course. Suki dropped out of school at 16 (‘I was restless, and my heart wasn’t in it’) and decided to give modelling a shot after being scouted at a party. ‘My parents were like, “Fine, but you will have to earn your own way,” and now I’ve had four years of being self-sufficient.’ For a while, she says, she was ‘scrabbling about for travel card cash’, and was initially overwhelmed by nerves at castings.
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Model: Suki Waterhouse at Next Models. Hair: Tony Collins at Streeters using Oribe Hair Care. Make-up: Andrew Gallimore at CLM using the Dior Trianon Spring Collection and Capture Totale Dreamskin. Manicure: Emma Welsh using L’Oréal Paris. Set design: Cordelia Weston at Soho Management. Shot on location at 35 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8QB. With thanks to: Focus Locations. For shopping details, see Address Book.
And it must be stated that Suki was already doing very well for herself, thank you very much, before she subjected herself to the kind of attention that comes with dating a man like Cooper. ‘I try not to look at that stuff. In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it’s less than a grain of sand in a huge beach of humanity – who cares? I just want to work hard, do stuff of the best possible quality and be a great friend.’
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These are the 14 best products in the world. From the ultimate mascara to the moisturiser ELLE beauty editors swear by, if it’s in here, you need it
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Mascara
DIORSHOW ICONIC OVERCURL Dior, £23 ‘This mascara makes you forget about eyelash curlers – and helps fake the look of extensions,’ was the almostunanimous verdict of the ELLE international judges. The brush, modelled on eyelash curlers, stretches lashes as you apply the mascara. While a relative newcomer to the market – it launched in February 2013 – ELLE teams around the world think it’s streets ahead, with its volumising effect, lack of clumpiness, and inky depth of colour.
Just 14 products have been singled out as the very best performers by ELLE international beauty directors and editors from 44 countries – a major accolade. Here, we introduce the winners. Add to basket, now… Photography Beate Sonnenberg
Anti-cellulite
BODY LIFT CELLULITE CONTROL Clarins, £36 This lifting lotion goes a long way to drastically improving the texture and tone of skin. The judges especially loved the cooling, tightening sensation it left postapplication. Yes, you need to be dedicated enough to use it morning and night, but do that and you’ll find that the results are definitely worth the effort.
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Nail polish
A DIFFERENT NAIL ENAMEL Clinique, £12 After a 10-year hiatus, Clinique relaunched its brilliant nail colours in May and every international beauty team was overjoyed. Our Beauty Director Sophie described the finish as ‘almost gel-like’, while others praised its ‘lovely high shine’, ‘quick-drying’ formula. The 12 shades (from milky nudes to juicy brights) were universally loved, as was the lasting power – we went a week without a hint of a chip.
Lip colour
LE ROUGE Givenchy, £24 There’s lipstick and then there’s lipstick. Every judge was unanimous in their love of Givenchy’s Le Rouge range. ‘Like velvet,’ said the judges. ‘Intensely pigmented’, ‘easy to apply, even without a mirror’. They also adored the packaging: ‘As much a fashion accessory as a lipstick,’ said our Beauty Director Sophie. ›
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ADVANCED NIGHT REPAIR SYNCHRONIZED RECOVERY COMPLEX II Estée Lauder, £48 Our judges called this ‘beauty sleep in a bottle’. Estée Lauder’s night-time skincare classic has dominated since its 1982 launch. The serum removes cellular debris that builds up during the day and, after an update last year, now works even harder to leave skin glowing and hydrated. Don’t go to bed without it.
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YOUTHMUD TINGLING & EXFOLIATING MUD MASK Glamglow, £24.99 You may not have heard of this niche Hollywood brand, but try its cult mud mask and you’ll be hooked. Ingredients include green tea leaf, micro volcanic rock and sea clay, to give skin a deep exfoliation that refines the texture more effectively than anything else we’ve ever tried – and in just 10 minutes. The judges’ verdict: ‘Makes your skin camera-ready,’ and ‘it’s like a salon treatment’.
Hair conditioning MYTHIC OIL MASQUE
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L’OréalProfessionnel,£17.25 A clear winner in a tough category, this stood out for its ability to revive lifeless, dull hair. Packed with a blend of nourishing, moisturising oils that belie the low price tag, it leaves hair smoother and softer. We found it especially effective for very dry, coloured hair. Or, as one judge put it, ‘It’s like wrapping up your hair in a big cashmere blanket.’ ›
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Foundation
TEINT VISIONNAIRE Lancôme, £36 A genius addition to our make-up bags, this is a foundation and concealer in one. The judges loved the concealer for ‘banishing dark spots’, while the foundation was ‘amazing, silky to touch and gives skin a flawless finish’. They were also impressed by the large selection of shades, which suit skin tones across the world. A global triumph.
Fragrance
JOUR D’HERMÈS Hermès, £66.50 The panel were unanimous in their love of this light, citrussy floral fragrance, launched last spring, which manages to be simultaneously uplifting, exotic and ultra-feminine. Like lazy summer days in a bottle, according to the ELLE judges, and ‘always fashionable, like a little black dress: but be careful, it can turn into an addiction’.
Self-tanner
THE FACE AND BODY GRADUAL TAN Just how good can a self-tanner be? The answer: very. Not only does this deliver a subtle, even glow to all skin tones (without the telltale tan smell), it leaves skin velvety smooth, too. ‘Like you’ve just got back from the beach’ and ‘naturallooking and hard to mess up’, said the judges. Yes, it’s pricey, but we think it’s an indulgence you shouldn’t deny yourself. ›
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SURF FOAM WASH SHAMPOO Bumbleandbumble,£18.50 More than just a standard hair cleanser, the judges were impressed by its hybrid technology, which fuses the benefits of purifying shampoo with the hold and texture of a styling product. Comments included ‘cleans brilliantly’, ‘smells like summer’ and ‘adds natural volume and body to hair’. This is our new product of choice to create a textured base for tousled, beachy styles.
Hair styling SPRAY À PORTER Kérastase, £23 Easy, low-maintenance styling with big, longlasting results. The lightweight formula doesn’t leave hair feeling sticky or weighed down, plus in-built heat protection means your hair is shielded from the damage that styling can cause. A stand-out hairspray.
Body moisturiser IN-SHOWER BODY MOISTURISER
Unusually, the winner of this category isn’t technically a moisturiser. It’s a shower milk hybrid. And it consistently outranked its more traditional rivals on both effectiveness and affordability. Not only does it have that classic, clean Nivea scent, we promise you won’t need a post-shower moisturiser. ›
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Face moisturiser LE JOUR, LA NUIT, LE WEEKEND DE CHANEL COLLECTION
Words: Sophie Beresiner. Photography: Beate Sonnenberg.
Chanel, £60-£72 The ultimate in lowmaintenance, high-impact skincare, the winning genius of this trio of products lies in their timerelease technology. Each product is designed for various times of day, and different effects. Le Jour (day cream) illuminates skin, La Nuit (night serum) calms inflammation and Le Weekend is a stronger product created to give skin a mini detox to start your week afresh. Judges called it ‘a totally new way of taking care of the skin’ and ‘simple to use, and simple to add to your daily routine’. As a beauty team, we’re addicted and it shows – our skin looks fresher and plumper, with renewed radiance. ●
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It’s the eye make-up look of the season, on the girl of the moment. Nail it now
The ingredients Eyeshadow Primer Clinique All About Shadow Primer For Eyes, £15 Taupe Eyeshadow Diorshow Mono Eyeshadow in 760 Tweed, £22.50 Blending Brush YSL Eye Blending Brush, £31 Liquid eyeliner Diorshow Art Pen in 095 Catwalk Black, £23 Eyelash Curlers The Body Shop Eye Lash Curler, £5
Words: Joely Walker. Photography: 3 Objectives, David Vasiljevic.
Mascara Bobbi Brown Smokey Eye Mascara in Black, £22 Eraser Pen Givenchy Mister Perfect Eraser Pen, £21 Brow Pencil Rimmel Professional Eyebrow Pencil, £2.99 Lipstick Rouge Dior Lip Blush in Grege 169, £25
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The directions 1 Dab the eyeshadow primer on your eyelid using the sponge-tip applicator, then blend with your index finger for a smooth, long-lasting base. 2 Using your blending brush, apply the taupe eyeshadow over your eyelid in a soft almond shape, with soft, blurred edges. 3 Take your liner pen and sweep the nib lengthways over the back of your hand
to remove any excess liquid. 4 Start with the eye you find most fiddly. Rest your elbow on a hard surface for a steady hand, pull your eyelid to the side to get it taut, and dot your liner from the middle of the lid to the outer corner, staying as close to your lash line as possible by pushing the tip of your liner nib into the roots of your eyelashes. 5 This is a thick flick, so press down gently while you sweep the nib over the
dots in one fluid motion, to join them into a chunky line. 6 Now draw a thin connecting line to the very inner corner of your eye, where your lashes meet your tear duct. Use the tip of your liner pen for precision. 7 Next, press the liner nib into the outer edge of your lower waterline (the rim between your lashes and eye), then draw it out and up with gentle pressure to create a tapered Sixties flick. Repeat on other eye. 8 Curl your lashes and apply two coats of mascara on your top lashes, and one on the bottom. 9 Look straight ahead in the mirror and touch up any mistakes or irregularities with the eraser pen. 10 Finally, fill in your brows with a light pencil and add a slick of blush-pink lippie for a modern, fresh finish, à la Suki.
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Than Life LongWear Eyeliner in Rue Bonaparte, £19, to your lower waterline to enhance your eyes. + Benefit High Brow Lifting Pencil, £15, under your eyebrow and on the inner corners of your eyes.
Liquid eyeliner for a long-wearing pencil, like Lancôme Crayon Khôl Waterproof in Chataîgne Brun, £18.50, to create a smoother line. + Clinique Line Smoothing Concealer, £16, will minimise any under-eye lines.
Liquid eyeliner for a coloured eyeliner such as Smashbox Jet Set Waterproof Eye Liner in Deep Purple or Deep Navy, £16 each. Mascara for Butter London Wink Mascara in Indigo Punk or Inky Six, £15 each.
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your hair, push it behind your ears while it’s damp and tie the rest into a bun using Blax Snag-Free stics, £9. At the end of the day, untie your hair and shake it loose, then rub the ends together waves.
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PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE Some of my favourite products over the years have been by Kiehl’s (Crème des Corps is my hero). This new wrinkle-reducing cream has a permanent place on my bathroom shelf. It works by stimulating elastin (the skin protein that helps prevent wrinkles) production by up to 32%. This is a huge skinplumping promise. While it’s not going to rid you of existing lines, in just a few weeks, your forehead will be smoother. An investment worth making. Kiehl’s Powerful Wrinkle Reducing Cream, £42.
YOUR BEST LASHES EVER Max Factor Excess Volume Mascara, £12.99, is a product to watch. I know this because my name is Sophie and I’m a mascara addict. I try everything and this offers a wet look, jet black, lacquer effect I haven’t found anywhere else. Not to mention the fact it’s affordable, non-clumping and perfect for the spring ‘spider lash’ trend you’ll be wanting to try soon (trust me).
XMAS LIST FOR ME: Revive Youth Recruit Eye Serum, £465. One eye tested and lifted. So miraculous, I look like am suffering temporary paralysis on the other side. No joke. Start saving.
FOR HUSBAND: Seatguard Everitime Anti-viral + Antibacterial Toilet Spray, £3.79. It actually kills viruses! A world first. Am not kidding, my OCD other half will love this.
FOR BEST FRIEND: Bobbi Brown New Lip Collection, £19. Big, bold, beautiful and covetable.
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It is possible to eat, drink and stay fit over Christmas, says ELLE’s Senior Beauty Writer Amy Lawrenson
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BOOZE TRADE Alcohol = extra pounds. Here are nutritionist Henrietta Norton’s smart swaps… Swap mulled wine for a gin toddy. Still spicy and warm, but with less sugar. Swap mojito for vodka, fresh lime and soda. A vodka and soda has just 70 calories. Swap prosecco for champagne. There’s less sugar in the posh stuff.
Book classes: Booking forces you to commit, someone tells you what to do, and you’re with like-minded people. Buddy up: Make a work-out date with a friend. You’re less likely to cancel if it means letting someone down. Cut yourself some slack: Accept that December is one of the most draining months of the year, financially and physically. Scale back your fitness goals and listen to your body; believe it or not, the odd lie-in can be beneficial.
The visual reminder: Get a piece of paper, make a 31-box chart (one for each day 0f December), and stick it on your fridge. Set a realistic number of sessions you will complete. When you do a session, tick a box. Simple. Effective. Walk: ‘Walking is man’s best medicine,’ said Hippocrates. Stick this quote on your fridge to remind you that it’s OK to ‘just’ go for a walk.
Motivation iswhatgetsyou started. Habit iswhatkeepsyougoing. – JIM RYUN
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Staying motivated to exercise when the Christmas party invites start filling up your inbox is a real test of resolve. For most of us, a glass of wine will always be more appealing than the gym. So how can we keep going when there is so much temptation? You could exercise first thing when you’re barely awake, as a certain ELLE staffer does – if you can get up extra early, it’s worth a try. But for more solid motivational advice to help you through what I call the ‘exerciser’s black hole’ (otherwise known as December), I called on fitness expert and ex-athlete Tim Weeks. He told me, ‘Don’t pretend December is the same as any other month – get strategic.’ Here are his tips:
GET APPY ELLE loves the Fitocracy app. It gives you fitness ‘quests’, such as Finally 5k (a 5k run) and Park Ranger (a 30minute trail run), you get points for each one you do, and you compete with fellow users. We want to win.
The back-up plan: Book a January activity now, such as a fitness retreat. If the wheels do come off in December, you can get back on track.
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‘You tidy your house before you host a Christmas party, right? It should be the same with your body. If mulled wine and mince pies are planned for the evening, get your workout done in the morning. Christmas is about being conservative early on and liberal later,’ says Sandy Macaskill. Sandy is co-owner and trainer at Barry’s Bootcamp London
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Jane Fonda who? Workout DVDs have moved on from retina-burning lycra and leg-warmers. Writer Lotte Jeffs reckons we should all swap the gym for sweating it out in our living room…
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illian’s my main girl. But there’s also Shaun. I had a brief fling with Tony but he didn’t treat me right, so I ditched him (but occasionally go back for more). And as for Ashley, let’s just say no one makes me feel quite as good as she does. We’ve been getting breathless and sweaty together in my living room almost every day for over a year now. This isn’t an exercise in polyamory, it’s just, well, exercise. Lots of it. I’m talking, of course, about workout DVDs, hosted variously by Jillian Michaels of The Biggest Loser, Shaun T (you’ve seen the Insanity Fitness infomercial, surely?), horrible Tony Horton and his P90X regime, and lovely, lovely yoga lady Ashley Turner. I’d never got on with gyms. The ones I could afford were always in shabby leisure centres. I hated the changing rooms full of wobbly naked women who’d inevitably decide to moisturise their inner thighs right by my locker. I rarely went, and the monthly £30 direct debit would leave me heavy with guilt. I could have gone running, for free, but I didn’t have the motivation. Aside from the occasional yoga class, my fitness regime was non-existent. But in January 2012, with my 30th birthday fast approaching, I decided it was time to be the best I could be (my mother had kindly informed me that it was all downhill body-wise from there – thanks Mum), so I vowed to get fit in time for the party I’d planned in May.
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My new-found impetus to shape up coincided with my girlfriend Jen’s 30-day challenge (her goal for the month before she turned 30 was to do something new every day for 30 days). First up, Insanity Fitness – allegedly the hardest workout ever put on DVD. ‘OK, I’m actually doing it!’ Jen shouted from the living room, putting in the first disc as I slumped over my laptop Googling local boot camps. ‘You go girl,’ I shouted back. ‘Are you sure you don’t want to do it with me?’ she called. ‘Mmm hmm...’ I replied. I don’t know if straight couples have the same problem, but things can get competitive between two girls, so at first I thought it best that I just left Jen to it. Cue thumping dance music and yells of, ‘Are you ready to get INSANE?’ I poked my head into the living room. She was star jumping and spotted me staring at her from behind the door. ‘Either come and do it with me, or go away. Do NOT just stand there watching.’ OK, I thought, how hard can it be? (really, really hard, it turns out). And that, dear readers, is how I became a home fitness fanatic.
THE WORKOUT: INSANITY
The trainer: Shaun T is buff but non-threatening. His biceps shimmer with sweat. Sometimes he takes his top off. The promise: ‘A year’s worth of results in 60 days (results may vary).’
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The reality: Insanity is a set of 10 DVD workouts, each lasting between 20-60 minutes. Together, Jen and I did a workout six days a week, for two months. I still dabble in Insanity every now and then, but not as religiously. At first we would cry and occasionally be physically sick after a session. But when we took the Fit Test for the second time, one month later (where you perform a series of bodyshattering exercises and keep score of how many you can do in a minute), we had both doubled our scores. The idea behind Insanity is to work at maximum effort for short bursts. Each DVD has a different focus. I like Pure Cardio best as it’s over in 37 minutes. There’s a lot of sprinting on the spot, burpees and squat jumps. The most impressive move I learnt is a power jump, where you leap high with your legs bent and slap your thighs, over and over again. We became evangelical about Insanity and would often demonstrate these moves at dinner parties. The workouts are set in a high school gymnasium and there’s a gang of about 15 fitties sweating alongside Shaun. I hate Tanya the most. She always stands at the front and does this stupid pouty thing when she’s out of breath. I may just be jealous of how much attention she gets from Shaun.
THE WORKOUT: JILLIAN MICHAELS 6 WEEK SIX-PACK
The trainer: Jillian has sculpted her figure so that she’s as strong
as an ox but lithe like a gazelle. She’s also as irritating as a pack of those screechy little monkeys, but I kind of love her. The promise: Lose up to 5lbs a week and get amazing ‘ripped, flat abs’ at the same time. The reality: I felt bad, cheating on Shaun. But we were ready for a change and I wanted to keep up the momentum. There are two levels to this DVD but since I was INSANELY fit, I went straight for the toughest. You do 15 minutes of abs with free weights – lunging, squatting, planking – plus the more familiar sit-ups and Russian Twists, which are great for your oblique muscles (the long muscles on the sides of your stomach). Then you do the whole regime again, only faster, and by the end your abs are burning so much you have to lie on the floor and beg your partner to make you a sandwich. Jillian has two sidekicks: Basheera, with whom she flirts outrageously, and Maddie, who’s a mega babe but Jillian talks to her like she’s an idiot. The exercises are easy to follow and they really worked for me. I’ve always been slim-ish, but after three weeks I could notice definition on my stomach that I’d never had before. I do all Jillian’s DVDs now. Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism is one of my early-morning favourites. Sometimes I turn off the sound and put on Jay Z because Jillian says things like: ‘Get comfortable with being uncomfortable’, ‘This isn’t going to be a cakewalk,’ and, ‘How d’ya like me now!’ which, when you’ve been doing plank twists for 60 seconds, is pretty much unbearable. Trust me.
THE WORKOUT: P90X EXTREME HOME FITNESS
The trainer: Fitness guru (and sadist) Tony Horton. The promise: A complete 90-day fitness plan, comprising 12 workouts, designed to get you in the best shape of your life.
The reality: This man is a sadist. Some of his workouts are a whop-
ping 90 minutes long, and involve fixing a pull-up bar onto a doorframe in advance. Not good for Feng Shui or those unskilled in the darks arts of DIY. The people who do the relentlessly long workouts with Tony look like they hate him too. But if, say, you did Insanity and thought that it now seemed easy but you needed to keep punishing yourself, then Tony’s workouts are perfect. Sometimes, when I’m in a really bad mood, I’ll put on the Ab Ripper X disc and scream abuse at the TV while doing moves such as ‘Oblique V-ups’ (that’s side crunches to you and me).
THE WORKOUT: YOGA FOR WEIGHT LOSS
The trainer: Lovely Ashley Turner, LA yoga instructor to the stars
with an MA in Psychology. The promise: Develop inner strength and self-acceptance. The reality: This is a really relaxing, straightforward, easy-tofollow routine. Just looking at Ashley’s wholesome face makes me feel calm. She says genuinely inspiring things like, ‘Start to appreciate your body as an instrument rather than an ornament.’ Compared to Jillian, she’s the Dalai Lama. The workout lasts an hour and is set in a lush garden overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and is just as good as any £11 yoga class I’ve ever taken. Plus, she has taught me how to ‘smile with my eyes’. Watch out, Tyra Banks.
THE WORKOUT AT HOME VERDICT
Sometimes, during a DVD workout, Jen and I will squat jump around to face each other for shadow boxing, and crack up laughing. It’s liberating to get the giggles and be able to carry on without disrupting a class or annoying an instructor. Although sometimes Jillian will catch you out and say, ‘I’ve got eyes in the back of my head, you know.’ In the 18 months I’ve been doing my DVDs, a different one every day (I’ll do yoga on a Sunday or in the evening if I’m stressed), my fitness has improved so much I’ve even taken up running – and I enjoy it. I am stronger than I’ve ever been and, although I wouldn’t call it a sixpack, my stomach was certainly more toned in time for my milestone birthday party. I wore a Helmut Lang-esque black dress and felt great (then I got really drunk and kept making friends squeeze my biceps). Doing Insanity religiously for 60 days taught me discipline. Now these DVDs are a part of my daily routine, and alternating them stops from getting dull or repetitive. It might sound like a Jillian cliché, but they’ve changed my life – making me feel fitter and happier. My girlfriend and I realised we weren’t as competitive as we thought, and have supported and encouraged each other in our living room boot camp, plus it’s cost us a fraction of a yearly gym membership. We lost weight – though we also lost a flatmate. Poor Simon. He’d be trying to make his packed lunch in the morning with me and Jen both bounding around doing squats and power jumps and highfiving all over the place. Then he’d come home at night and we’d have turned the living room into a yoga studio. He retreated to his room. And then he moved out. We wasted no time in making his bedroom our new workout zone.
MORE TOP FITNESS DVDS FROM LOTTE’S COLLECTION
Best for toughening up: David Haye’s Box & Tone David is a championship boxer. Design your own workout by ticking the elements you want. Choose from shadow boxing, circuits, body conditioning or core strength, or do the lot.
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Best for first thing: Jillian Michaels Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism This is one of Jill’s 6-Minute Fix workouts. There’s a warm-up, then 40 mins cardio and strength training, broken into seven six-minute circuits.
Best for a challenge: Insanity Plyometric Cardio Circuit (part of set) Forty-nine minutes, including a warm-up and cool down, of non-stop strength cardio, with a 30-second water break every few minutes. Hardcore.
Best for the time-poor: Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred A 20-minute fix comprising three six-minute circuits, each with three minutes of strength, two of cardio, one of abs, and a warm-up and cool down. Three levels to choose from.
Best for hardcore stretching: P90X Stretch (part of set) If you run or cycle, do this stretching workout once a week. Good for non-yogis as the emphasis is on flexibility, not spirituality.
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DEAR LONESOME ON YOUR OWNSOME
I spent a decade feeling exactly the same way until I couldn’t stand another day of it. Exhausted from wearing a heavy coat of sadness, I decided to seek help through therapy. In my case, it was depression, but let’s look at you. In your longer letter, you say you’ve felt lonely for years; even when surrounded by people it’s still there, nipping at your toes as you try to keep up the charade of being ‘OK’. You mention you haven’t discussed how lonely and isolated you feel with anyone before – and that even writing about it took several attempts. Pretending to be something you’re not is no way to live. And finding a boyfriend, especially as you’re already having thoughts about his hypothetical ‘running a mile’, isn’t going to help. Internet dating can be a welcome distraction, but you need to work on you first, not find someone in the hope they can fill the void. Only you can fix you. You say you couldn’t afford therapy, but you might be able to get it for free through your doctor – it’s worth asking, even if there’s a waiting list. Perhaps talking about how you feel will bring some relief. Does it help to know that feeling complete takes time? It involves working through rough periods, learning from mistakes, knowing your emotional limits, and understanding what makes you feel bad and good. Even when we get to a point of feeling complete, we don’t always feel that way every minute of every day. To get on the road to happiness,
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I’m 24, have a good job, a close family, friends and my own flat, but I’m lonely and unhappy. It comes in waves – sometimes I’m fine, then I’ll have a few bad days. It’s like I’m in a bubble, going through the motions but not really living. I don’t think I’m depressed, and I couldn’t afford therapy even if I was. I’ve joined a dating site, but I worry men will run a mile once they find out I’m not as bubbly as I seem. How can I feel complete? to bring about real change, you have to be willing to move forward, so why not open up to your ‘close’ family? I imagine they’ll be there for you in a heartbeat. CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) was a lifesaver for me; there’s lots of information on the subject online. Throw your mind a lifeboat and burst the bubble of despair – there’s a whole new life waiting for you.
I used to study in another city and had three great friends. I still keep in touch with one of them fairly regularly and I try to keep in touch with the other two, but they don’t make any effort. I’m not great at phoning, but I send a text each week and get nothing back. I’ve tried for over a year. Should I admit defeat? I do love them, but being snubbed and ignored all the time hurts.
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It’s horrid being on tenterhooks, waiting for a reply to a text, desperate for the flash of a familiar name reassuring us our affection is reciprocated. With an ignored text come feelings of rejection and anger; when the anger subsides we’re left feeling, as you say, hurt, ignored and dejected. Lady, you’ve done your friendly duty, as far as I can tell, but the cruel truth is that sometimes people move on. Bow out and concentrate on the friend who does keep in touch. We all lead busy lives, but sending an occasional
text isn’t enough on its own to make a friendship grow, at least not into the kind of friendship you deserve – the big comfy cushion-type that supports you regardless of what you throw at it. Ditch the texts, emails, Facebook updates and tweets, and pick up the phone or even, get this for a weird concept, go and meet your friend for a drink. It’s amazing what some face-to-face time can do for the soul.
I’m single and in my 30s. Can I wear logo sweatshirts?
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The humble sweatshirt has reached iconic status and is totally hip right now. Given that you’re single, it’s probably best to avoid slogans such as ‘I love cats’, ‘Cats are cool’, or ‘My other sweatshirt is a cat bed’. Otherwise, yes, go for it. *Licks paws*
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In our sixth annual awards, we continue to champion our idea of the perfect place to stay: simple but stylish. There’s a rising trend for retreats like this – usually privately owned, and, whether a guest house in Uzbekistan or a wilderness camp in Namibia, all have the remote, romantic feel of a castaway’s hut on a desert island. ›
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‘Each villa has a private pool edging the bedroom, so you can flop from bed to water in about five steps’
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Above inset: dinner at The Surin on the beach in Phuket, Thailand. Above right and below: The Surin, Thailand
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The 52 villas, suites and apartments at the Sri Panwa resort feel like birds’ nests – perched high on a junglecovered hill, with killer views over the ocean. Each villa has a private pool edging the bedroom, outdoor terrace and the living space, so you can flop from bed to water in about five paces, and do your laps with a seagull’s view of the Andaman Sea. It’s contemporary, with treats at every turn – including the outdoor bath for decadent star-gazing, and iPod with full playlist and speakers. The private beach (a rarity here) lies way below, which can feel like a trip too far when you can lounge on bean bags at the Baba Pool Club. The food is exquisite, and nightcaps at Baba’s Nest – a platform at the top of the resort – provide the scenic cherry on a very romantic cake. 88 Moo 8, Sakdidej Road, Vichit, Muang, Phuket 83000; 00 66 7637 1000; sripanwa.com. Doubles from £320, B&B. Emirates (emirates.com) flies from London Heathrow to Phuket, from around £740 return @ELLETRAVELED
The Surin, Phuket, Thailand
It’s not often you get a local bar almost in the grounds of a luxury hotel, but when The Surin was built, the family dispensing beer on the beach in front weren’t turfed out. It’s an unusual set-up, but The Surin is like that: community-aware and stylish, and the owners don’t seem to mind taking the financial hit of their clientele drinking for half the price (or less) right on their doorstep. I love the rooms, too; hillside cottages with sea views, linked by treetop walkways, or swanky beach studios on the sand, with terraces to watch the sunset. Along with the hotel’s public spaces, the rooms are the work of designer Ed Tuttle – the creative brains behind the hotel’s former incarnation as The Chedi. Pansea Beach, 118 Moo 3, Choengtalay, Talang, Phuket 83110; 00 66 766 215 802; thesurinphuket. com. Doubles from £240. Emirates flies from London Heathrow to Phuket, from around £740 return
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Co-founder and Director of i-escape Mango Bay Resort, Phu Quoc, Vietnam
This eco hideaway on the unspoilt island of Phu Quoc (an hour’s flight from Ho Chi Minh City) is amazing value, and perfect if you’re in search of a chilled beach vibe. There are 40 thatched huts, with four-poster beds and open-air showers overlooking a private patch of jungle. Snorkel and kayak in the warm shallows, then ELLEUK.COM
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head up the beach for cocktails as the sun sets. I love the food, too: authentic Vietnamese dishes, such as pork in a clay pot and crab stir-fry. Ong Lang Beach, Phu Quoc, ; 00 84 773 981 693; i-escape.com/mango-bay/ overview. Doubles from £40, B&B. Vietnam Airlines (vietnamairlines. com) flies from London Gatwick to Ho Chi Minh City, from £610 return
Fazenda Nova Country House, Portugal
Below: Mango Bay, Vietnam
This farmhouse is just half an hour from Faro Airport, yet, tucked away in peaceful countryside, it feels a million miles away from the golf condos of the Algarve. There are just 10 (enormous) suites, with king-sized beds, Ren toiletries and private gardens. Outside, meander through olive and almond orchards, and relax in the hanging pod chairs in hidden corners. I love the salt-water pool – an all-day sun trap – surrounded by loungers with comfy cushions. Food is flavoursome and local: homegrown figs, fresh fish and inventive salads. The eclectic decor is equally appealing: Eames chairs and quirky objets d’art alongside traditional Balinese teak furniture. Best of all are English hosts Hallie and Tim, who share their insider tips, directing you to hidden beaches and the best seafood restaurants and local markets. Estiramantens, Santo Estevão, 8800-504 Tavira; 00 351 281 961 913; i-escape.com/fazendanova countryhouse. Doubles from around £140 B&B. British Airways (ba.com) flies from London Gatwick to Faro Airport, from around £118 return
Samara Private Game Reserve, Nr Graaff-Reinet, South Africa
We fell in love with this reserve, in South Africa’s Great Karoo, the moment we arrived. Surrounded by awesome landscapes, you can drive or walk quite close to a cheetah or rhino (if you dare), knowing that you have 50,000 acres all to yourself. You sleep in tin-roof suites that open out onto the bush, where you can enjoy tasty dinners, port and Victorianstyle claw-foot baths in the middle of nowhere – proving you can combine the wild with creature comforts. For an unforgettable experience, drive to the peak of Eagle Rock in the neighbouring mountains. It has ›
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exceptional views – you can see for almost 300km across the plains. Nr Graaff-Reinet 6280; 00 27 236 266 113; i-escape.com/samara. Doubles from £250, including all meals and game drives. British Airways flies from London Heathrow to Port Elizabeth, via Johannesburg, from around £810 return
I love this small guesthouse, which is built, in typical Uzbek fashion, around a courtyard. The owners produce lovely home-cooked food that is better than local restaurants, and rooms are traditionally decorated. The Minzifa lies in this Silk Road city’s old centre, which, with its
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Founder of Original Travel Areias do Seixo Charm Hotel, Portugal
As its name suggests, this hotel is eccentric: think quirky lighting and furniture. The best room? The Oxala Room is my fave, with its wheeled bed and log burner. Be sure to take your guitar for the nightly Fire Circle, where guests sit around a bonfire drinking Portuguese wine and eating pata negra (Iberian ham). Praceta do Atlântico, Póvoa de Penafirme, 2560-046 A-dos-Cunhados; 00 351 261 936 340; areiasdoseixo.com. Doublesfrom£220.easyJet(easyjet.com) flies from London Luton and Gatwick to Lisbon, from around £65 return
Kahanda Kanda, Galle, Sri Lanka
This is my favourite spot on the south coast of Sri Lanka – it’s pure tranquility. You’ve got yoga, massages and meditation on tap, and an infinity pool. Eight suites are dotted around the gardens and, if you can drag yourself away, you can go snorkelling and whale watching along the coast. Angulugaha, Galle; 00 94 914 943 700; kahandakanda.com. Doubles from £225, room only. British Airways flies from London Heathrow and Gatwick to Colombo, from around £570 return
El Secreto, Ambergris Caye, Belize
Secreto by name, secreto by nature, this luxurious hotel has just 13 thatched villas, all with Jacuzzis and hammocks, on a secluded beach on Ambergris Caye. Here, it’s all about pampered R&R, with the pool at the heart of the ‘action’, and hammocks over the water in which to while away warm afternoons. If more indulgence is needed, the Ikal Spa, named after the Mayan word for spirit, offers
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Samara Game Reserve, South Africa
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shopping from the market, traders ply their wares and local life carries on against a backdrop of stunning mountains reflected in the clear lake. Dal Lake, Kashmir; wildfrontiers travel.com. Doubles from £100 B&B, including afternoon tea, dinner and shikhara gondolas to cross the lake. British Airways flies from London Heathrow to New Delhi, from around £580 return. Air India (airindia.com) flies from New Delhi to Leh, from around £90 return
Above and right: Feynan Ecolodge, Namibia. Below: Kashmir, India
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trading domes and madrasas (Islamic educational buildings), is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Eshoni-Pir 63, Old Town Bukhara; 00 998 65 221 0628; wildfrontierstravel. com. Doubles from £100. Budget Air (budgetair.co.uk) has return flights from London Heathrow to Bukhara, from around £850 return. Wild Frontiers has 10-day trips to Bukhara and Uzbekistan from £1,290, including flights, internal transport and B&B accommodation
Feynan Ecolodge, Dana Nature Reserve, Jordan
Right in the heart of Jordan’s Dana Nature Reserve, this solar-powered lodge is run by the local community and is a fine example of responsible tourism. The candlelit rooms are wonderfully romantic, and the setting, in the heart of the glorious desert, surrounded by mountains, couldn’t be more remote. Plus, I love the delicious mint tea and bread, made by local Bedouin women. Dana Nature Reserve, Dana; 00 962 6464 5580, wildfrontierstravel.com. Doubles from £68, B&B. Royal Jordanian (rj.com/en) flies from London Heathrow to Amman, from around £510 return
Sukoon Houseboat, Dal Lake, India
Dal Lake in Kashmir is one of my favourite places in India. Staying on a houseboat there, while fun, has always been rough and ready, and a drop in tourism in the area over the past 20 years means many have fallen into disrepair. An exception is the recently refurbished Sukoon, now the best houseboat on the lake and the only one with a sun deck. It’s my favourite place to loll in the sun and people-watch. Women carry
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Perched in the Erongo Mountains, just two and a half hours from Windhoek, the lodge is the perfect pit stop if you’re on a driving tour of Namibia (guests are asked to leave cars at the bottom of the mountain – there’s a 4x4 on hand to drive you up). The setting is spectacular, with panoramic views over the secluded valley, and the 10 tented chalets, built into the giant granite boulders, are designed to blend in with the surroundings. The rooms furthest from the main lodge have the best views, and Room 6 has its own outdoor rock pool – great for honeymooners. Whether you’re chilling on your private deck, or tracking wildlife on foot or by 4x4, you’ll soak up the wilderness in style. Omaruru, Central Region, Erongo; 00 264 61 239199; bigsky-namibia.com/ erongo-wilderness-lodge/about-erongowilderness-lodge. Doubles from £200, halfboard,including guided mountain walks. South African Airways ( flysaa. com) flies from London Heathrow to Windhoek, via Johannesburg, from around £790 return. From Windhoek to Erongo is a four-hour drive. Self-drive options and private transfers can be arranged through sallyandalice.com
The Explorers’ Club, Western Cape Winelands, South Africa
At the heart of South Africa’s Winelands region, tucked away in the village of Franschhoek, the Explorers’ Club is a collection of four self-catering cottages. All are full of character, with vintage maps on the walls, Kenyan kikoy wraps as › Above: the market on the lake in Kashmir, India. Left: Sukoon Houseboat, India
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Above: The Map Room, Hotel Escondido, Mexico
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Long known as a surf mecca, the village of Puerto Escondido exudes an easy vibe. Hoteliers Carlos Couturier and Moises Micha, the creative minds behind Grupo Habita hotels, have collaborated with architect Federico Rivera to create a modern take on traditional palapa (opensided thatched roof) beach huts. They’ve transformed 200m of Pacific coastline into a sophisticated private paradise, with 16 beachfront bungalows made with locally sourced palapa roofs. The best bit? Flopping into the hammocks by each hut’s private plunge pool. Carretera Salina Cruz-Pinotepa, 71983 Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca; 00 1 347 768 1447; designhotels.com. Doubles from £116, room only. British Airways has return flights from London Heathrow to Mexico City, from around £790. AeroMexico (aeromexico.uk.com) flies to Oaxaca from around £200 return
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I’ve always been fascinated by Panama. Its location at the crossroads of two continents make it a blend of striking landscapes and awesome wildlife. El Otro Lado – an exclusive retreat in a remote enclave of Portobelo Bay, on Panama’s Caribbean coast – mirrors the country’s vibrant spirit. Decorated in bright colours, with local art, the interiors almost distract from the views of the surrounding jungle and the blues of the Caribbean Sea. With just five light, airy houses, this is a luxurious and laid-back
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Above: Erongo Wilderness Lodge, Namibia. Below: Jao Camp, Botswana
retreat. Set among the wildlife of Portobelo National Park and bordering incredible coral reefs and private beaches, for me, El Otro Lado offers all the best elements of Panama. Bahia de Portobelo, 23510 Portobelo; 00 507 202 0111; elotrolado.com.pa. Doubles from £300, including B&B and boat transfers. United Airlines (united.com) flies from London Heathrow to Panama City, via Newark, from £510 return
Jao Camp, Botswana
Set in the vast floodplains of Okavango, famous for its beautiful islands fringed with riverine forests, Jao Camp feels like a secret hideaway. Nine spacious tents with thatched and canvas roofs are built on raised decks for optimum views. I’ve never
seen so much wildlife up close: lions, hippos, crocodiles and rare birdlife. Hosts William and Angie will make your stay memorable and, after a day in a dug-out on the river, the Jao Spa treatments will soothe aching limbs. Jao Concession, Okavango Delta; wilderness-safaris.com/botswana_ okavango_delta/jao_camp/introduction. Doubles from £700, including full board and activities. Virgin Atlantic flies from London Heathrow to Johannesburg from around £700 return. Onward flights can be arranged through blacktomato.com ●
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