So Harry and Meghan have forked out for their own home for the first time in either of their lives. It’s a major event, knowing that the place in Montecito, California – unlike poor neglected Frogmore – actually belongs to you and you can do with it exactly what you want. You don’t have to … Read more
Scoring the very first appointment with George Northwood since lockdown began was way more exciting for me than winning the Derby. No competition. I even beat Alexa Chung: her appointment at the reopened salon was four hours later. It’s probably the first and only time I’ve beaten her at anything. It had been 212 days … Read more
Last week I headed into Mayfair, a woman on a mission. My target was Selfridges’ Beauty Hall. It might seem perverse in these times when hardly anyone sees us, but I was craving a new concealer to help with the cavernous under-eye shadows that are Zoom’s speciality. I was also curious to see what it … Read more
I am as fond of animals as the next person (well, nearly). But really Boris, zoos? Is reopening them a top priority in turbocharging our economy and giving us back our lives? I don’t think so, especially if you still can’t visit the reptile house which, as everyone knows, is the most exciting place in … Read more
Just so you know where I’m coming from, I think a great city is one that contains a Dries van Noten store, with the Belgian designer’s trademark daffodil yellow silk wallpaper, sumptuous upholstery and clothes that everyone of all shapes and ages can wear, if not afford. Antwerp is such a place. Dries van Noten … Read more
I’m not sure what was happening nine months back but all around me people seem to be popping out babies. Even the Prime Minister and his fiancee. Well not exactly popping out – many of them are long and complicated births made even more nerve-racking by coronavirus prohibitions – but it certainly feels like a … Read more
The former editor of British Vogue has said she was left feeling ‘persona non grata’ after her successor took over. Alexandra Shulman, 62, who was at the helm of the fashion magazine for 25 years, said a bitterness had emerged when her successor Edward Enninful, 48, took over in 2017. In her latest book, Clothes … … Read more