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THERE’S NO DOUBT our relationships have been tested by this pandemic. Whether you’re navigating the politics of socially-distanced dates or locked down with a partner you’ve never spent so much time with, perhaps it’s unsurprising that our report on page 42 shows we’re in the midst of a sex drought. But we’ve also learned the truth about that old adage: distance makes the heart grow fonder. On page 38, four people write love letters to those they’re missing in a moving piece that’s a pertinent reminder that no one can lock down love. And if you too are struggling with loneliness and isolation, join us for one of our Grazia Support Bubble virtual sessions. Sign up for our weekly email at graziadaily. co.uk/grazia-newsletter for all the details.…

PHOTOS: GETTY IT WAS WHEN I found myself deep-googling ‘really very warm fleeces’, less than 24 hours after I’d deep-googled ‘best hiking boots for yomps’ (which led me to a charming website called CotswoldOutdoor. com for the first time in my shopping life, quite a change from Net-A-Porter, let me tell you), which in itself was less than 24 hours after I’d truly understood the point of a double-zip padded jacket (sometimes, you really do need the top half of your torso cosily encased against a forceful wind, while the waist remains open to ventilation!), around about the time I advance-texted a friend to warn her she’d deffers need a midweight beanie for our walk (though probably only wrist-warmers, as opposed to the full glove) that I understood I had,…

PHOTOS: GETTY WHEN THE DUCHESS of Cambridge participated in a virtual show-and-tell meeting with fellow parents at the end of January, she was asked to summarise home-schooling in one word. She could have gone down the uplifting route. She could have said ‘fulfilling’ perhaps, or kept things vague with ‘challenging’. Instead, she chose ‘exhausting’. While Kate admittedly has more support than most, balancing her duties as a mother to three young children with her royal responsibilities and charity work and Zoom meetings (complete with ring light) has still been an unfamiliar juggle. And yet, as the focus moves to the future (post-vaccination roll-out), and the resuming of day-to-day responsibilities, it’s clear that there will be other, less home-based tasks on the horizon, too. For Kate this will mean sending the…

IF YOU DON’T know who Allison Bornstein is, she’s cool with that. ‘I don’t want it to even look like I exist,’ she says. As a stylist, her aim is to make her clients look and feel as much ‘them’ as possible. One such client is Katie Holmes, who has captured the fashion zeitgeist without relying on loud labels or faddy trends. Her quiet approach to fashion and luxury resonates now. Her collaborative relationship with Allison has resulted in a succession of looks that are minimal and easy but never dull. ‘You can wear simple things but it doesn’t have to be boring,’ says Allison. ‘It’s about the way you wear the pieces, the way you tuck in your shirt, the collar of a white T-shirt peeping out of a…

PHOTOS: SPLASH, GETTY WHEN CARRIE returns to screens in And Just Like That..., the Sex And The City sequel, she’ll be matching her Manolos to her mask. Sarah Jessica Parker has said that coronavirus will ‘obviously be part of the storyline’ in the new show. ‘Because that’s the city [these characters] live in,’ she said. ‘And how has that changed relationships once friends disappear? I have great faith that the writers are going to examine it all.’ It won’t be the only instance of the pandemic seeping into popular culture. Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer will star in Care, set in a Liverpool care home during the crisis, on Channel 4 this summer, while Kenneth Branagh will play Boris Johnson in This Sceptred Isle, a Sky Atlantic drama about the Government’s…

BIG DEBUTS Kim Jones wasn’t the only new name on the block. From Alber Elbaz’s big womenswear comeback with his new line, AZ Factory, to buzzy American label Area’s bombastic breakout moment, the week was full of debuts. GENDER GAME-CHANGERS With women regularly appearing in menswear shows, and men appearing in womenswear shows during the ready-to-wear seasons, it was only a matter of time before the gender-mixing landed at couture. As seen at Fendi and Valentino. FASHION WITH A CAPITAL F What sweatpants? Escapism was big at Iris van Herpen, Schiaparelli, Giambattista Valli and Viktor & Rolf.…

PHOTOGRAPHS CARLA GULER ‘ONLY NOW, IN THE LAST YEAR, HAVE I EXPERIENCED REAL LOVE’ WHEN CELESTE was sent a photo of her face on a giant billboard in west London, she had to see it with her own eyes. After heading to the busy roundabout, the singer came face to face with herself, bathed in light and 12 feet high. In the video she later posted on Instagram, we saw her totter precariously on the narrow pavement, waving the album in her hands at the passing cars and HGVs. It was a portrait of pure joy, a young woman’s earnest glee at the prospect of introducing herself to the world at long last. We speak on the eve of the release of Not Your Muse , after Grazia’s socially distanced…

Hannah *  , 31 Soon after the first lockdown was announced, my husband and I started trying for our second baby. I got pregnant within a few months, but we lost the baby at nine weeks. Going to the scan on my own to be told the baby didn’t have a heartbeat, as well as having to carry on looking after my toddler with no help from grandparents or other family, took its toll on my anxiety and, consequently, my approach to sex. I feel so aware of when I ‘should’ start trying for a baby – but I’m a talker and I need to talk to process things. Being at home all the time means I am in my own head, which is really bad for me. My…

PHOTOS: GETTY. MIU MIU LEAGUE OPEN FROM 15 FEB Layer up. Wear a favourite spring dress over trousers to give it mileage now. Pep up your park walk in the latest Barbour by ALEXACHUNG collection, including wax and quilted jackets. Read Orlando . Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel – and her bohemian Bloomsbury set – was the inspiration behind Kim Jones’s Fendi couture debut. Say ‘I do’ to Erdem’s White Collection. The designer’s new bridal capsule marries the romantic and the relaxed. Smile! Alber Elbaz is back with AZ Factory, ‘beautiful, practical, solutions-driven fashion that works for everyone’. Check out the Miu Miu League pop-up at Harrods. Crystal-embellished tea dresses + sneakers = the ideal way to hit refresh.…

WE CUT OUT meat, plant kitchen gardens and avoid single-use plastic. But when it comes to our clothes, old habits die hard. How is it that we can go vegan for January, but we dump instead of mend, buy instead of borrow? One woman who has always cherished her clothes is Orsola de Castro (below), co-founder of Fashion Revolution and author of Loved Clothes Last , a new book exploring why we need to become emotionally reattached to our clothes, thinking of each garment as a long-term commitment as opposed to a short-term fling. The book isn’t a 200-page guilt-trip. Instead, it advocates for a shift in mindset. Reading it, you can’t help but reach that penny-drop moment, realising that buying and chucking can only cause more harm to the…

LAST YEAR SAW A huge shift in our beauty priorities. While make-up took a backseat for some, skincare sales spiked – with many of us investing more time and, in turn, money in the pursuit of the healthiest complexion possible. Indeed, 53% of Grazia readers are spending more time on a skincare routine compared to pre-pandemic* – and it’s hardworking ingredients like vitamin A (think retinol) and C that retailer John Lewis is expecting to see take off this year** . So far, so great. But what does that mean for our purse strings? The psychology of pricing might lead us to believe that the more you pay for a product, the better its results, but the reality is that there are plenty of affordable skincare brands out there, offering…

Look Take time to check-in with yourself. Look for physical cues. How are your energy levels? Do you need to get up and move around? Listen Practise mindful listening with yourself. Give yourself the space to be open and honest about how you feel, both mentally and physically. Feel Taking the time to acknowledge how you are truly feeling empowers us to respond with kindness and compassion to what we are experiencing. Respond In times of high stress, it’s easy to let frustrations get in the way of action. Pause and give yourself space to respond to what you really need in a thoughtful and kind way.…

Have your say… Email us at feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk ■ Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @GraziaUK REACH OUT TO HELP OUT Your article If you are lonely right now, you are not alone (8 Feb) was a reminder that a lot of people are struggling. Alongside the sometimes severe or fatal physical consequences of Covid, there are the mental health implications. The true breadth of this silent pandemic is unclear. There are the impacts for those with pre-existing mental health problems, and new impacts – economic hardship, loneliness. Getting help is not easy. Zoom sessions are not the same as talking to professionals face to face. As the writer says, a support bubble is a necessity. If we know people are struggling, we need to be there for them. I…

1. New in ANDRÉA, CALL MY AGENT We could write poetry in honour of this woman’s nose! Feel joy regarding season four landing on Netflix, yet also pre-emptive grief, because it’s the last one! 2. Up TOM OR PAUL? The new series of Celebs Go Dating hits (with Covidappropriate limitations, in the form of a mansion) and we once more contemplate the ultimate lust dilemma: Paul or Tom? Tom? Or Paul? 3. New in THE MR TUMBLE SCANDAL Mr T’s co-star, Sarah-Jane Honeywell, recently revealed she was ‘hurt’ when she got ‘frozen out’ by the CBeebies icon, after a 2016 topless shoot (which inspired the tabloid headline: CBoobies). 4. Up JENNIFER CONNELLY Season two of the unlikely but compelling Snowpiercer arrives on Netflix, thereby a) giving us another precious telly…

It’s probably for the best that we’ll never know what Samantha might do on a Zoom date, but how will the rest of the gang fare when And Just Like That... tackles the pandemic? We couldn’t help but wonder... Carrie will have a meet cute with a respiratory consultant in a socially distanced queue for brioche before realising she only fancies him when he’s wearing full PPE. Charlotte will spritz anyone in sight with hand san but will also become a dogged anti-vaxxer after a mother at the school gates shows her a video on Facebook. Miranda will self-isolate for two weeks, realise she loves it and refuse to leave the house. Then will retrain as a doctor.…

Deborah James, 39 – cancer campaigner and host of You, Me And The Big C podcast – is shielding with her husband and two children. She is deemed clinically extremely vulnerable while she receives treatment for stage 4 bowel cancer, diagnosed in 2016. She’s written her letter to her best friend, Sarah Titherington. Dear Sarah, Since we met on our first day of university, 20 years ago, we’ve lived in each other’s pockets, travelled the world, been each other’s bridesmaids and godmothers for each other’s children. And then came cancer... followed by the pandemic, which, for the first time since meeting, has kept us apart. I’m shielding, which isn’t fun, but luckily my hospital appointments haven’t been affected. But I know we’ll survive the distance. We don’t need gestures, but…

PHOTOS: EMMA CROMAN QUITE A FEW of my closest mates are not the women I had imagined would become lasting friends. The woman I sat near at work two decades ago, but didn’t truly get to know until we had both left the company. The woman I wasn’t keen on for the first few years of school, but grew close to as we hit teenage years. And the woman I used to be married to: my ex-husband. It would be disingenuous to suggest that it has not been a long and sometimes rocky path to reach the relationship that we have. But I can honestly say that it is now one of my most cherished friendships, and one quite unlike any other. We were friends for a few years before…

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If you’ve taken a lipstick sabbatical lately, we recommend putting loud mouths and bold shades back on your beauty agenda, pronto. Because trust us, nothing boosts the spirits quite like a swipe of richly pigmented red lipstick. Just ask Dior’s UK celebrity make-up artist, Nikki Wolff (of @nikki_makeup Instagram fame): ‘It’s the forever failsafe – the shade that works for everyone, every time.’ Here’s how to style it in a modern way… PHOTOGRAPHS JASON HETHERINGTON MAKE-UP NIKKI WOLFF FOR DIOR MAKE-UP BEAUTY DIRECTION & WORDS JOELY WALKER SMOOTH OPERATOR Looking to take your matte make-up to the next level? Dior’s classic Rouge Dior 999 true red lipstick now comes in a velvet texture. ‘It glides on like a dream and looks like crushed velvet rose petals,’ says Nikki. Pair with…

VITAMIN A Great for: targeting fine lines, pigmentation and blemishes – vitamin A (retinol) increases cellular turnover, promotes collagen production and ultimately re-educates our skin cells to behave like younger, healthier cells. Try: The Inkey List Retinol Serum, £9.99 VITAMIN C Great for: brightening and boosting radiance, as well as being an excellent antioxidant to help defend skin from harmful environmental aggressors, such as pollution. Try: Boots Vitamin C Brightening Sleeping Mask, £4 VITAMIN E Great for: nourishing and protecting the skin by boosting its natural defence barrier. Certain types of vitamin E help soothe irritation, too. Try: Alpha-H Vitamin E, £29…

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR FRIENDS Grazia beauty director Joely Walker gets foolproof tips and brilliant product recommendations from Candice Brathwaite (far left), Jamie Genevieve and many more in-the-know guests. Scan above or listen via your usual podcasting apps on your iPhone or Android device SCAN THIS CODE ON SPOTIFY TO LISTEN…

The Golden Globe nominations have been revealed – and the overwhelming response was… disbelief. Awards lists often stir indignation, but this felt different; implausible. Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You , about consent and the aftermath of rape, wasn’t recognised, despite being one of the most original, ground-breaking series of last year. The world was blown away by Coel’s genius and the nuance and depth of the show. The fact she’s a Black woman raises the depressingly age-old question about whose stories judges value, and is proof that awards shows aren’t always reliable indicators of cultural relevance. If they were, Coel would get every gong going.…

wax lyrical I don’t wear much make-up so, when I find something I like, I tend to rave about it. Brow Freeze is a wax that lifts your brows all day long. I’ve used it on repeat – it does exactly as promised. £23, Anastasia Beverly Hills LOVE NOTES The shirt brand loved by Meghan Markle is spreading joy with bespoke embroidery notes on the back of collars. Like a love letter you can enjoy on a daily basis. From £35, With Nothing Underneath CLASSIC POP Flownn’s latest offering, Odyssey, is the artist’s third single to be released during lockdown. Unapologetically pop-tastic, trust me when I say you’ll be happy to have it stuck in your head all day long. Available from 12 February HAIR RAISING No, I haven’t been…

IT’S A SIN WAS almost never made. It’s creator, Russell T Davies, has revealed that the drama was turned down by several major networks over several years before being commissioned by Channel 4 (cut down from the original eight episodes to five), adding in an interview that the show’s subject – the ’80s AIDS crisis – was ‘tough to talk about’ and he wasn’t sure ‘whether an audience is gonna come to [it] or not’. And yet when it aired in January, It’s A Sin’s first episode attracted an audience of 3.3 million, and since then millions more people have binged the whole series on All4, making it the channel’s biggest instant boxset ever. It’s clear there is very much an appetite for It’s A Sin after all. In case…

PHOTOS: SHUTTERSTOCK, GETTY ONE’S A HOLLYWOOD actor, the other is a politician, but last week both Evan Rachel Wood and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told the world of their shared experiences. Like 35% of women, according to the UN, they have experienced male violence. AOC was discussing the far-right’s attempted coup in Washington when she tearfully explained, ‘These folks who tell us to “move on”, that it’s “not a big deal”… these are the same tactics of abusers. And I’m a survivor of sexual assault.’ Meanwhile Evan, who has previously claimed that an ex subjected her to sexual assault and domestic violence, named her alleged abuser for the first time. Brian Warner, better known as Marilyn Manson, ‘groomed’ Wood into dating him when she was 19 and he 38, she alleged in…

SCHIAPARELLI IF THERE WAS one takeaway from the month’s couture shows, it’s that even when faced with tidal waves of change, fashion rolls on. ‘Are fashion shows any longer necessary?’ an International Herald Tribune article, published way back in October 2001, asked. Weeks before, the September 11th attacks had completely upturned the world and status quo. Editors couldn’t travel. Some fashion houses staged screenings of ‘virtual’ shows. Others sent special packages with lookbooks. There was a lot of talk about technology and how it could forever change the way people look at, think about and interact with clothes. And yet time revealed that the screen couldn’t compete with the experience of seeing a dress up close, of touching its silk, running one’s hands through the pleats. Sound familiar? So how…

IMAGE COURTESY OF BAKEDBYSTEPH.CO.UK It’s the new modern manners headache, with Millie Mackintosh among those talking about the ‘stigma and guilt’ around contracting the virus – let alone passing it on. Flora Gill tackles what to do if you might be the weakest link… IT’S A SITUATION that more and more of us are experiencing. You go on a socially distanced walk with a friend. You stay safe, take precautions. But a couple of days later you feel that dry cough at the back of your throat. Now, as a good law-abiding citizen, you have to self-isolate at home (even an eye-testing drive to an excellently reviewed castle is no excuse to leave). But, so does that friend you met. Enter the Covid apology. At the end of last year,…

‘I JUST FEEL like nothing is sexy any more,’ a friend said recently when I asked him how he was. As we stomped around our neighbourhood, wearing mittens, woolly hats and jogging bottoms, I was inclined to agree. The sexier elements of life – hotel rooms, reasons to dress up, expensive cocktails served in plush surroundings – have been missing in action for some time now. Whether you are single, casually dating, in a monogamous couple or other arrangement, it’s likely that your sex life has been affected by Covid-19. Last March, when the first lockdown was announced, it was rather sweetly suggested that all that time stuck at home might lead to a baby boom – but, unsurprisingly, it turns out that the pandemic has not acted as an…

‘LET’S DO LUNCH in spring!’ I found myself saying to a friend the other day. Because this is how we’ve started measuring the year now. In quarters , rather than week by week, like we used to. Another friend has started planning a Christmas party. I kid you not. I suppose December is something we can confidently diarise as a time when we’ll be able to enjoy physical meet-ups again. But who knows when this dystopian parody might end? One celebration that won’t escape the confines of lockdown is Galentine’s Day on 13 February: that not-so-traditional festival of female friendship where gal pals, rather than romantic partners, are cherished. But how will anyone celebrate their beloved buds this year? Wining and dining is out – gifts and cards are in,…

THE LINE-UP Monday 22 February  6.30pm How to supercharge your lockdown skincare routine Dr Saleena Zimri shares her top tips, including how to swerve ‘maskne’ (acne caused by mask-wearing) for good. Dr Zimri is a GP with a special interest in cosmetic dermatology. 8pm Make-up artist to the stars Naoko Scintu shows you how to layer products and achieve the ultimate glowing base. Tuesday 23 February  6.30pm Influencers and experts Bernicia Boateng, Chinutay and Emma Hoareau share their skincare journeys and the best beauty advice they’ve been given. Wednesday 24 February  6.30pm Decoding vitamin C and why you need it Renowned dermatologist Dr Emma Craythorne tells us why vitamin C is the ultimate addition to your skincare routine – and how best to incorporate it. Thursday 25 February  8pm Feeling…

PHOTOS: GETTY SINCE FEBRUARY 2020, Google has seen a 300% increase in searches for ‘How to get your brain to focus’. Needless to say, with global anxiety rates skyrocketing and many of us still adjusting to the boundary-blurring experience of working from home, our ability to resist distractions and concentrate on, well, anything is proving difficult. ‘We may find ourselves experiencing a host of new emotions or thoughts that can feel totally overwhelming,’ explains Andy Puddicombe, co-founder of healthcare app Headspace, which just launched The Headspace Guide To Meditation on Netflix – a new eight-part series that aims to bring meditation techniques to the masses. Andy explains that when challenging feelings become overwhelming, we often seek out distraction to avoid confronting these feelings. The emotions can act as a barrier…

JACK MONROE 32, COOK AND ACTIVIST ON DREAM LANDLADIES, SHERBET LEMONS AND SNUGGLES PHOTO: DEL MONTE/PATRICIA NIVEN I’m renting a beautiful dormer bungalow in Southend, where I live with my son Jonny. When I looked around it, I walked in and, as soon as I saw the kitchen, I told the agent I’d take it. I’ve moved house more than 20 times in my short lifetime, and most places I’ve lived haven’t had gardens. In a lot of rentals you’re not allowed to even put a nail in the wall, but my landlady is lovely. It’s the first home I’ve been allowed to wallpaper and put up shelves. It’s been a long time coming. I tend to work from very early in the morning till lunchtime, then from 7pm till…