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RACHEL REEVES DOESN'T DESERVE A PILE-ON FOR SHOWING EMOTION The internet was quick to pounce when Rachel Reeves broke down in tears during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons. After a rocky week, when the Government’s key welfare reform bill had to be gutted to prevent a backbench rebellion, Reeves’ spokesperson said she had been dealing with a ‘personal matter’. Of course, the Chancellor’s tears inevitably became front page news. While scrutiny of Reeves’ policies is, of course, valid, seeing her visible distress in such a public – and hostile – environment was a tough watch. In a world where politicians are criticised for not being human enough, it raises questions about how much pressure we put on individual politicians to perform – in every sense of the…

WE’VE SAID IT before, we’ll say it again: no one does maternity dressing like Rihanna. Now pregnant with her third child, the singer and mogul has refined what’s become her patented approach to the fabulously fearless styling out of a plus one. That’s not to say she hasn’t evolved the look, however, mixing her tried-and-tested signatures developed over pregnancies one and two with a few new ‘youngest child’ touches. Exhibit A: a Fendi baguette, not the shoulder bag version but an enormous cross-body shaped like everyone’s favourite carb. (Not your typical ‘mum’ bag, that’s for sure, but a talking point nonetheless that’s actually pretty handy for stashing a decent selection of emergency snacks to stave off morning sickness.) Then you’ve got her version of the secondtrimester stretch waistband. Yes, Rihanna…

THE PIMM’S IS flowing, the strawberries and cream restocked, and we’re all still marvelling at the speed of Perricard’s serve (153mph). While we’re gripped by the tennis at Wimbledon, we can’t help but be distracted by the looks the A-list are serving: Centre Court’s royal box is the new FROW. One item has shone at this year’s championships: the shirtdress. Olivia Rodrigo led the campaign in archival Ralph Lauren in red and white gingham from the brand’s spring/summer 2000 collection. Buttoned up with a neat collar, she simply added a red Khaite bag and Karen Wazen sunglasses for a winning Wimbledon ’fit. Priyanka Chopra Jonas also chose Ralph Lauren – the current collection – sticking to classic tennis white but with a halterneck spin. This maxi is the kind you…

FOR EVERY MILLENNIAL woman with a true crime obsession (all of us, right?) the ‘cool girl’ monologue from 2014’s Gone Girl is etched into our brain. ‘Men always use that, don’t they? As their defining compliment. She’s a cool girl,’ Rosamund Pike narrates. ‘Cool girl is hot. Cool girl is game. Cool girl is fun. Cool girl never gets angry at her man.’ Prompting gut-wrenching self-reflection in many of us, its impact prevails. But Gen Z has realised that nonchalance in pursuit of earning cool points does not serve them – in fact, they’re doing the opposite instead. The ‘try hard’ renaissance was sparked after a recent viral comment from new-gen pop icon Addison Rae. ‘Everybody’s always like, “Oh, she’s trying too hard,” how about you try at all? We…

POWER PAIRING Hillary Clinton was in The White House (as First Lady). HOT COUPLES Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Moss and Johnny Depp, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, Jude Law and Sadie Frost, were the summer’s A-list couples. COURTROOM DRAMA The televised trial of American football star OJ Simpson, accused of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman, sparked a true crime obsession, with 150 million people tuning in to see the ‘not guilty’ verdict. TELEVISION GOLD Friends, which debuted the year before, became one of the most-watched TV shows worldwide. WE TOOK IT ONLINE The first ever dating website, match.com arrived; Amazon sold its first book; and eBay launched (back then it was called AuctionWeb).…

Email us at feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @GraziaUK THANK YOU FOR your continued commitment to reporting on abortion rights, most recently with your 10 Hot story A step forward for reproductive rights… (7 July). While the passing of an amendment that abolishes the prosecution of women for terminating a pregnancy at any stage is welcome, it doesn’t go far enough. This leaves a loophole where medics or partners can still be prosecuted for assisting them. Abortion must be recognised as a human right to protect our reproductive rights from right-wing extremists. It’s shocking that powerful American anti-abortion groups are using their wealth and power to try to influence UK policy. Only when women have total control over our bodies can we hope to have total equality.…

THERE’S A NEW name in town for an old vibe: conservative aestheticism. Newsweek describes it as a ‘milieu of microtrends on social media’, naming everything from #cottagecore to #tradwife to sourdough competitiveness as signifiers. Other people are getting publicly stressed about it, cos conservative aestheticism apparently represents a MAGA-loving, Trumpified pushback against feminism, toward traditional gender roles, wifeliness, soft-spoken compliance, reverence for your husband, etc. It’s expressed via the medium of how you look: classically feminine, toned and slender, nice frocks, low-key make-up; the kind of cosmetic work no one would be able to guess you’d had if you didn’t tell them – which you don’t. The skinny jab-fuelled broader cultural urge toward thinness is touted as part of it. Thin women are easier to control, to push around, of…

YOUR MINI-FAN IS constantly on charge and your mid-morning snack is an ice lolly. Yup, it’s getting hot in here (again!). And while we don’t like to complain, appropriate dressing does become difficult when it’s north of 30°. And we’re the lucky ones, with temperatures rocketing in the fashion capitals that recently hosted the menswear shows. Milan was a scorcher; Paris was très chaud. And while that might have made for a too-hot-to-handle experience for guests, it’s given the rest of us outfit ideas to last the entire summer. Stay cool!…

THE SHOCK VERDICT reverberated around the world. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, who was on trial for seven weeks for sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution, was partially acquitted after 13 hours of deliberation by a jury of eight men and four women. Found guilty only of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, Combs was cleared of the more severe charges but still faces up to 20 years in prison. After pleas to the judge from ex-partner Cassandra Ventura, who now fears for her safety due to abuse she suffered at Combs’ hands (he admitted to domestic violence, but denied coercing her into sexual acts and was found not guilty), the 55-year-old was refused bail and won’t be sentenced until October. For many, the reaction was…

HOW DO YOU rebrand a megabrand now? How do you nail an identity that cuts through the noise and balance creativity with wearability? How do you appeal to all the gens, from Boomer to Zillennial? How about make a brand feel authentic, relevant and desirable in one catwalk outing? Ask Jonathan Anderson, the new creative director at Dior. As an exercise in remastering the world’s second largest fashion brand, it was fairly genius work. Shown in Paris on 27 June, Dior Men was the first and most eagerly anticipated look at Anderson’s New Look Dior, for which he received a standing ovation. Given the brand’s size – which he compared to Coca Cola – it is by far the most challenging reinterpretation to weigh upon the shoulders of any designer…

WHEN SHE WAS a little girl, Mary Earps was aware that her love of football marked her out as different from the other children. ‘While the girls at my junior school played netball or hockey, all I wanted to do was play football and I played on the boys’ team, something no girl had ever done before,’ Earps tells me. ‘My parents and teachers were supportive. But a few of the other parents had something to say about it, like, “Why are you letting Mary play football?” I was conscious I had to fight for something and aware I was doing something out of the ordinary.’ This trailblazing continued. In the summer of 2022, Earps became one of the breakout stars of the Women’s Euro victory, and again in 2023,…

STRAIGHT-LEGGED JEANS It’s a toss-up between boot-cut and straight-leg in the world of ’90s denim, but the latter wins (by a hair’s breadth). SLIM SUNGLASSES Shades were almost exclusively slimline affairs for a no-muss, no-fuss mood. LEATHER JACKETS Right now they’re oversized with a hint of biker. Back then, it was minimalist blazer shapes all day, every day. SLIP DRESSES Think the ultimate ’90s poster woman Kate Moss in a tantalisingly see-through slip dress. Divine. ADIDAS GAZELLES Think they’re popular now? The Gazelle fandom was alive and kicking in the ’90s.…

BEING THE YOUNGEST of three sisters has been the defining facet of my identity. I have 1/3 tattooed on my pinkie and, when the harshest pain befalls one of us, we close in a circle, shutting the world out until whoever needs to can adequately heal. When I was a child, I’d ask my sisters again and again to tell the story of the day I was born: rushed to a neighbour’s for a sleepover, they peered through a window from across the street, eventually meeting me in my small bassinet that they stuffed with their own soft toys until all that was left was my milk-drunk face. I’ve never interrogated why I love this story so much; I think it’s because it’s evidence of them seeing me as I’ve…

IT WASN’T UNTIL I was packing for a hiking trip in southern Germany – somewhere between rolling up a pair of hiking socks and wedging a knit into a dry bag – that I found myself wondering: how do you hike in style? No, this is not an oxymoron. In fact, hiking has become the style set’s sensible answer to catching a break from the dizzying pace of the fashion world. Collaborations between fashion and performance-wear brands like and On and Loewe might serve as inspo to hit the trails, as do grid-worthy hotels in hiking areas (think the Fife Arms in Scotland or the Mayr Health clinic in Austria), but the craze can be traced back to the growing popularity of experience-based holidays – a trend that has prevailed…

I REMEMBER MY first fake tan vividly. It was the early noughties, I was in my late teens and word had reached Yorkshire that Victoria Beckham was buying in bottles of St Tropez to mimic a deep, long-haul holiday glow. My aunt – a regular in the beauty halls of Harvey Nichols in Leeds – made it her mission to get her hands on some and the following week my sister and I sat on the edge of her bathtub exfoliating our legs with St Ives Apricot Scrub before smoothing on the alarmingly black-treacle shade of tanning lotion. Three hours later, we stood flexing two pairs of miraculously streak-free legs, well and truly bitten by the bug. Cut to 2010 and a student budget saw me swap St Tropez for…

AS ANYONE who’s recently listed anything on Vinted can attest, the secondhand economy is no longer a niche habit, but a full-blown lifestyle. While rifling through digital wardrobes remains a favourite pursuit for many, the pandemic-era pivot to nesting in our homes has created another online obsession: vintage furniture hunting. Once the preserve of design nerds and the odd eBay enthusiast, it’s now a mass sport – complete with algorithmic wins, heartbreak losses and the odd existential scroll at 1am. And according to GlobalData, it’s a market that is expected to hit a whopping value of £1.1 billion in the UK by 2027. The appeal is obvious: haggling for vintage homeware promises the same dopamine rush that shopping for luxury vintage fashion does (IYKYK): the thrill of the hunt, the…

AS THE MUM of two young girls, I’m so grateful to the Lionesses. Their 2022 Euro win kick-started a revolution for women’s football – and for my kids has meant they’ve grown up not knowing any difference in importance between the men’s and women’s game. So, I was as excited as my 10-year-old to have Mary Earps as our cover star this issue. On page 36, she talks for the first time about her shock decision to retire – and has a message for the Lionesses as they take on the Euro 2025. Earps isn’t the only inspiring figure we’ve featured. Don’t miss our interview with Angela Rayner on page 46, either. In a week where we’ve seen Rachel Reeves lambasted for crying in the House of Commons, there’s been…

1. New in WILL SHARPE With whom we fell madly in love in the exquisite Giri/Haji; are excited to reconnect via his forthcoming role in Lena Dunham's new show Too Much. 2. Up THE GILDED AGE SEASON 3 WOMEN Carrie Coon, recently of The White Lotus, Christine Baranski, also currently of Nine Perfect Strangers, and Cynthia Nixon of… oh, you know. 3. New in THE POOP CRUISE SURVIVORS If you’ve watched the Netflix doc about a 2013 cruise that went horribly, horribly wrong… You’ll agree. Strongly. 4. Non-mover AYO EDEBIRI The Bear returns and Edebiri’s face grows no less captivating the more we see of it. Queen of the understated eye roll. 5. New in BLAISE METREWELI New head of MI6. (Referred to internally as C after Sir Mansfield Cumming,…

LENA DUNHAM SAYS Girls was all about sex, whereas her new Netflix show Too Much is about being in love. The 10-part series is Dunham’s first major TV project since 2017. (Not that she’s been resting; she has made two films and directed the pilot for genius TV drama Industry in that time.) This project, in contrast to Girls, seems less like an attempt to define and give voice to a generation of 20-somethings and their issues (inspiring a thousand think-pieces in the process) and more an effort to create the ultimate romantic comedy focused on funny, quirky people in their thirties. Megan Stalter – the scene-stealing Kayla from Hacks – plays New York advertising creative Jessica, who escapes to London with her pet pooch after a traumatic long-term relationship implodes.…

WE’RE IN FOR a hot summer, apparently: one that requires a bucket hat, shorts, a sneer and a swagger. The summer months of 2025 are set to resemble those of 30 years ago, a time of cigarettes, alcohol, sunshiiine (you know how to say it) and ordinary people enjoying not only watching rock’n’roll stars, but sort of being like them too. Britpop round two is here! This month, Oasis are filling stadiums with their sell-out reunion gigs, but it’s not just them. Pulp – who achieved their first number one album in 27 years last month – have just played Glastonbury; Supergrass have been banging through their 1995 album I Should Coco in its entirety; Garbage, Skunk Anansie and the Manic Street Preachers are all touring with great new albums;…

THIS TIME LASt year, Angela Rayner became the most powerful woman in British politics when she was appointed Deputy Prime Minister. On the campaign trail last summer, she promised to grow the economy to get public services back on track, to strengthen workers’ rights and build 1.5 million new homes within five years. So, how has she found the last 12 months attempting to do just that? ‘Busy!’ she laughs. We’re sitting in her office in Westminster, her two youngest sons, Jimmy, 16, and Charlie, 17, busying themselves on their phones while we chat. ‘The challenge for us in the first year was that every single thing was a priority and each one overlaps,’ says Rayner, 45. ‘I’m most proud of the employment rights bill in the first 100 days,…

BEACH BOUND Heading off for a week of white sands and palm trees? Ensure your pack list is a smorgasbord of itsy bitsy bikinis and beach-ready dresses in paintbox brights or sunset shades. CITY BREAK For holidays spent strolling cobbled streets, when stopping for ‘a little glass of something’ turns into a long, lazy lunch, a capsule wardrobe is key. Think easy-to-wear trousers that can be dressed up or down, light linens and chic day-to-night dresses. SUMMER STAYCATION You don’t have to travel the world for a relaxing escape. Instead, explore what’s on your doorstep, from quaint little villages to rolling hills and coastal vistas. Don’t forget your picnic prints, basket bags and (grown-up) jelly shoes. LUXE VILLA VACAY Nabbed yourself a bougainvillea-clad villa somewhere lovely? Lucky you! Pop from…

1 SUMMER SPRITZ FOR HIM Dries Van Noten Crazy Basil EDP, £230 for 100ml ‘A herbal hit of basil, rosemary and cedar, we couldn’t get enough of this scent. It’s reviving, moreish… think forest bathing in a bottle. It smells like a clean, expensive man.’ Annie Vischer, head of beauty 2 SUMMER SPRITZ FOR HER Byredo Desert Dawn EDP, £220 for 100ml ‘With warm wood notes at once softened by rose and made clean and crisp by papyrus, Desert Dawn is an achingly sophisticated summer scent -the perfume equivalent of a tailored linen suit.’ AV 3 FIRST - CLASS BASE Jones Road Just Enough Tinted Moisturizer, £44 ‘In case you hadn’t noticed, we’re in the midst of a tinted moisture revival. Jones Road is leading the charge with this, a…

LAURA JACKSON Founder, Glassette ‘I might be biased as it’s the place where I got married, but Portscatho in Cornwall truly stands out for a UK getaway. It’s a picturesque village offering natural beauty and coastal charm. Eat locally sourced food at the Hidden Hut (hiddenhut.co.uk get in plenty of walks with sweeping sea views and swim in the clear waters. A scenic ferry ride takes you to nearby St Mawes, rich in history and character. Portscatho is a corner of the world I’ll always return to.’ HANNAH WEILAND Founder & designer, Shrimps ‘Somerset is where I spend summer holidays in the UK. Rolling green fields, an abundance of flowers, art galleries and great restaurants. There’s something extra special about an art gallery in the countryside, so I love an…