Sommaire pour May 2026 de Harper's Bazaar UK

My fashion icon is… Jennifer Aniston, or Phoebe Philo in her Celine days. The items in my wardrobe that I couldn’t live without are… my Prada loafers. They are the first expensive thing I ever bought and are still my favourite. My best fashion investment is… my collection of Chanel jackets. I’ve been buying them for about 20 years and never give them away. They don’t go out of style and make me feel put together, even when I’m wearing jeans. The pieces of jewellery that mean the most to me are… my engagement ring and my charm necklace. My style signature is… classic, comfortable and a little boyish. At my dream dinner party… my husband would serve caviar with cucumbers as an appetiser and cook pasta with baby clams. For…

During Paris Haute Couture Week in February, Chaumet opened its archive to editors for the first time, showcasing an extraordinary 1910 tiara with articulated wings that was once owned by the art patron and heiress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Winged motifs have been part of Chaumet’s precious offering since the turn of the 19th century; Whitney’s headpiece, which morphs into two brooches, inspired a similar design in the maison’s latest high-jewellery collection, Envol, that features near-navy Madagascan sapphires accented with a vivid dégradé of blue enamel. It transforms into a jewelled mask as well as clips, while a matching necklace can be worn in multiple surprising ways.…

WHEN WE THINK CONSCIOUSLY ABOUT OUR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT, how often – if ever – do we factor in our technology use? Yet, this is a consideration we ought all to have in mind. ‘Deciding to do a search using AI should be no different from deciding whether or not to take a flight,’ says Sam Goodall, the CEO of Cambridge Cleantech, a company that helps to scale up green technology. Because the simple truth is that both hardware and software can have enormously damaging effects on the planet. We know by now that power stores, such as the batteries within our laptops and smartphones, are ecologically problematic. But a less obvious source of potential harm is an online tool: an AI chatbot or a Large Language Model (LLM). These depend on…

DELIA LACHANCE WAS WORKING AS AN interiors journalist at a glossy magazine in Germany back in the early Noughties when she first came up with the idea for Westwing, the online homeware platform she launched in 2011. ‘As an editor, I was surrounded by incredible design pieces, but there were surprisingly few places where people could actually buy them,’ she recalls. ‘While fashion was easy to shop online, interiors really weren’t.’ Galvanised by the example set by e-commerce brands such as Net-a-Porter, she embarked on the project of creating a website that would function as a ‘shoppable magazine’, featuring inspirational content such as photo-shoots of designer homes alongside products. ‘Working in magazines taught me to see interiors as stories – and that’s not just about furniture, it’s also about atmosphere, emotion…

Cottage gardens may originate from rural workers’ plots as long ago as the 16th century, but their nostalgic style couldn’t be more appropriate today. They tick all the boxes modern-day gardeners strive for, being full of edible ingredients for food-mile-free harvests, and rich in plants and wildlife but, above all else, they’re beautiful, flower-filled spaces. No wonder so many of us try to replicate the aesthetic at home – myself included, so I jumped at the opportunity to visit and write about 17 incredible cottage-style gardens across Britain, from East Lambrook Manor and Great Dixter to lesser-known gems. Here are five lessons I learnt from my grand tour. 1 IGNORE THE RULES Don’t be constrained by stuffy design tenets. Pay no attention to the advice to plant in groups of…

Set to change the cultural face of London, the capital’s much-anticipated V&A East museum – sibling to South Kensington’s 170-year-old institution – finally throws open its doors this month, with the aim of celebrating east London’s creativity past and present. Here, its director Gus Casely-Hayford picks six of his favourite objects in the new Why We Make galleries – spaces showcasing an everchanging range of design, art, fashion and craft created with purpose. All galleries at V&A East (vam.ac.uk) open on 18 April. WALTHAMSTOW FOOTBALL CLUB HOME SHIRT WITH ‘YARE’ DESIGN (2023) ‘We have some glorious examples of William Morris pieces in the V&A collection. Mark Clack, the founder of the Walthamstow artist collective Wood Street Walls, initiated an amazing collaboration between the borough’s football club and the William Morris…

In the 1990s, Diana, Princess of Wales, was regularly seen sporting a pair of Tod’s Gommino loafers. Their low-key elegance punctuated her wardrobe, and they are now the springboard for the brand’s spring/summer 2026 collection. The signature pebbles have been reimagined in metal as well as inspiring the delicate perforated design that appears on the new iteration of the loafers. Meanwhile, elegant stitching makes for dynamic details on the jacket and handbag seams. Leather, Tod’s hero material, takes centre-stage in the form of meticulously crafted garments, including the T Timeless handbag. Elsewhere, tops, dresses, skirts and overcoats patterned with stripes evoke the enduring glamour of summers by the sea.…

Inspired by a mosaic that adorned the floor of Christian Dior’s childhood home in Granville, Rose des Vents is a beloved pillar of Dior Joaillerie. Now, more than a decade after its launch, the collection has been enriched by the artistic director Victoire de Castellane, with new pieces introducing colour for the first time. A tribute to Dior’s passion for magical thinking, Rose Céleste adds moon and sun symbols to the eight-pointed star, all adorned with gemstones in vibrant hues: green and orange agates, sapphires, garnets, pink opals and turquoises, along with golden mother-of-pearl.…

Designed by Ariana Grande with Swarovski’s global creative director Giovanna Engelbert, this capsule collection is a shimmering ode to flora and fauna. Dragonflies, butterflies and flowers are embellished with multicoloured stones and delicate crystal pearls, inspired by the shifting light and iridescent hues of the aurora borealis. ‘We wanted to make something that brings more colour, wonder and playfulness into our everyday lives,’ Grande says of the collaboration, her second with the brand, ‘as well as reminding us to appreciate the beauty that constantly surrounds us.’…

I joined Women’s Aid in 2021. It was the week that Sarah Everard was murdered by a serving police officer. No matter how bad things get at work, I remain motivated, because everything we do is to prevent domestic abuse and support survivors. My alarm goes off at 6am. I always start the day by reading the news because everything that happens in the wider world, economically, environmentally or in terms of tech innovation, has an impact on women’s rights. All my commitments for the week ahead go into my big paper diary. I look at what I need to get out of each day – what I hope to achieve for the organisation, for women, for the people we serve – and identify pressure points in my schedule. Life is busy,…

SHAME STUDIOS X FURNISHING FUTURES In partnership with Furnishing Futures, a charity that equips domestic-abuse survivors with furnished houses, Shame Studios has released an edit of 14 rugs. For each one sold, another is donated for use in these homes. shamestudios.com LIBERTY X IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUMS Inspired by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who found solace in sewing while imprisoned in Iran, Liberty has joined with Imperial War Museums to produce fabrics (some donated to the charity Fine Cell Work) that evoke creativity in confinement. libertylondon.com HAINES COLLECTION This interiors brand sources its fabrics from surplus stock to reduce the UK’s annual 900,000 tonnes of textile waste. Plus, it donates a percentage of profits to a roster of environmental charities. hainescollection.co.uk…

IT BEGAN WITH A KEY. I COLLECTED IT, ALONE, FROM THE ESTATE agent’s office on completion day, strung out from the long drama of buying my first home, anxious in case the little Suffolk cottage I’d only been inside twice would turn out not to live up to my memories. When its key was produced, I thought at first that it must be a joke or a symbol, like those huge cheques that lottery winners pose with for photographs: a piece of iron as long as my hand and weighing as much as my iPhone, its cold, grey shaft about as thick as a pen. It wouldn’t have looked out of place in a cathedral door. But that was only the start of it. As I moved cautiously around a house…

I blame Little Grey Rabbit. The picture books I read as a small child – which also included the Flower Fairies series and Milly-Molly-Mandy – all indoctrinated me from an early age with a certain idea of the perfect garden. It had variegated borders bursting with hollyhocks, delphiniums and foxgloves. It was sprinkled with poppies and cornflowers and edged with fragrant bushes of lavender and rosemary. Fat cushions of thyme nestled on mellow brick paths, and rambling roses foamed over obligatory white picket fences. As a student at Oxford, my ideas became a little grander but didn’t essentially change from this romantic idyll. I simply added Robin Lane Fox’s garden designs at New College to my moodboard, incorporating a noble magnolia grandiflora and ranks of almost-black Queen of the Night…

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Let Melanie C transport you back to early-1990s Costa Brava – when she was still in her pre-Spice Girl era – with her epic new dance album Sweat, out on 1 May. It was there that she discovered raving, and while some lyrics draw delicately on her personal challenges, an infectious sense of what she calls ‘work-out-video energy’ is in every song. Fusing her inimitable vocals with synths and the odd Diana Ross sample, the pop star has fulfilled her wish to make ‘a joyful record at a dark time’.…

Anne Hathaway has given me a reading assignment. It’s a letter the footballer Gabriel Jesus, who plays for Arsenal, published in December on the sports-media platform The Players’ Tribune about his recovery from a devastating ACL injury that sidelined him for most of the year. Jesus writes about how fatherhood and being in the moment with his young children helped him get through the brutally long rehabilitation process and how he has come out the other side feeling stronger and more grateful than he ever could have imagined. Hathaway and her family are big Arsenal fans (she played football growing up). The letter was passed around in their group chat, and she wants me to read it before we speak. There’s something about the notion of being able to embrace…

Altruism is a bit baffling to economists. To try to understand it, they, along with psychologists, carry out experiments called the Dictator Game, in which a ‘dictator’ is asked to split (or not) a sum of money with a randomly selected and anonymous recipient. In the cold world of logic, the economists would expect the ‘dictators’ not to transfer anything. And yet they do. But they are more likely to do so if they are women. A recent large-scale Dictator Game experiment of more than 1,000 participants at Jaume I University in Spain observed that, while the most common decision for men was not to share anything, women tended to split the money 50/50. Overall, they gave away 40 per cent more than men. Money tends to be a signal…

BEST SMOKY SHADOW Create a smouldering haze across the lids with this opulent palette of smooth, blendable shades. BEST LIP TREATMENT This hydrating product mirrors your lips’ natural texture with its soft finish, adding a fine layer of colour enriched with extract of black-rose oil. BEST STATEMENT EYESHADOW Conceived by Louis Vuitton’s cosmetics creative director Pat McGrath, this chic compact has four elegant hues. BEST CLASSIC LIPSTICK A silky texture that envelops the lips in velvety red, with reflective packaging inspired by Gabrielle Chanel’s Rue Cambon apartment. BEST LIP SHIMMER A petite balm keyring that lends a healthy, translucent colour to the lips. For extra charm, add your initials. BEST FACE POWDER This soft-matte bronzer uses luminescent pigments to smooth the complexion while giving a radiant sheer veil. BEST FOR…

SYLVAN SCENTS With its creamy, cashmere softness, sandalwood is always popular. Prada’s new iteration, Infusion de Santal Chai, featuring citrus and cardamom, feels like a breath of fresh air. For something more sensual, try Essential Parfums Orange x Santal, an accessible new brand aiming to democratise haute perfumery by teaming up with leading noses. Bare essentials The best skincare routines are simple but smart, with stripped-back ingredients in the latest hi-tech formulas. I’m refreshing my regime with new antioxidant-rich serums by Alumier and Sisley, and Alastin’s collagen-boosting Restorative Skin Complex. HEAD TO TOE This wellbeing trio – including a body spray to ease stress, marine-collagen supplements for added vigour and a body serum to tackle skin concerns – has elevated my routine. SAVE FACE This summer, maintain good beauty habits…

The Italian countryside is incredibly welcoming and beautiful. Last year, I was filming You, Me & Tuscany in the province of Siena from May through to August, so I got to see the scenery change. There are endless fields of rolling green wheat that turn gold as you get to summer. There’s a part in Gladiator when Russell Crowe’s character runs his hands through one of those fields – I visited the exact spot south of Pienza, where we were shooting, and stopped to do the same. I stayed in the tiny village of Lucignano d’Asso, at an old farmhouse called Borgo d’Asso. It has been restored as a collection of high-spec apartments with custom, locally made furniture. When I’m working, I need privacy and quiet to get my head together, and…

It has been a busy year for Harper’s Bazaar’s membership club Privé. We came together in January for an energy-boosting wellness breakfast, then put our resolutions on pause at a decadent Burns Night supper. In February, members had exclusive access to the Baftas after-party, before convening in March for our International Women’s Day gala and visiting Tate Modern in April to hear an intimate conversation with Tracey Emin. Join now to gain access to all our upcoming events, featuring a dinner fit for royalty, a glamorous summer soirée and a special weekend away… APPLY FOR MEMBERSHIP OF HARPER’S BAZAAR PRIVÉ Our exclusive community of dynamic women brings you inside the magazine for invitation-only dinners, elegant parties, art and literary events and high-level discussions. Scan the QR code to find out…

1 THE LITTLE BLACK JACKET Whether you dress it up or down, you’re bound to find yourself wearing this Tory Burch design on rotation. 2 THE MATCHING SET Give a masterclass in monochrome dressing in Toteme’s cowl-neck shirt and trousers, both in a soft off-white shade. 3 THE SPRING COAT Lighten your palette but stay cocooned in this versatile piece, which can be worn buttoned up or as a cape. 4 THE PATTERNED COVER-UP Bring nature into your wardrobe courtesy of Etro’s exquisite floral-print coat. 5 THE WAIST-CINCHER Silver or brown, woven or braided, with tassels or a buckle: how you tie your outfit together is up to you. 6 THE TEXTURED TOP Tap in to the season’s trend for tactility with Tod’s embroidered leather jacket, best paired with oversize…

Cartier presented its high jewellery in Paris alongside archival Cartier Collection gems, perfectly illustrating the synergy that always exists between the maison’s historic and contemporary creations. The latest chapter in the En Equilibre collection is simple and striking – though, of course, this exercise in control illustrates exquisite savoir-faire, the jewels placed in each piece with almost imperceptible settings. The pièce de résistance is the Splendea necklace, which brings together 34 perfectly matched diamonds – already an exceptional feat – then enhances them in a pure ribbon of light.…

‘KNOWLEDGE IS NEVER A WASTE,’ SAYS SYLVIA EARLE, THE MARINE scientist whose understanding of the ocean is rivalled by few. Over a seven-decade career, the 90-year-old has led more than 100 expeditions, logged over 7,000 hours underwater – and set records that have reshaped how we explore sea life. In 1979, Earle became the first person to walk untethered on the ocean floor, 1,250 feet beneath the surface off the coast of O‘ahu, Hawaii. Encased in an armoured diving suit that could sustain 600 pounds of pressure for every square inch, she spent two- and-a-half hours exploring the seabed alone. The feat not only proved that the limits of underwater technology could be pushed further, but also earned her the moniker ‘Her Deepness’. It was one of many firsts set by…

What makes a house a home? For some, it’s the art on the walls; for others, a perfectly plumped cushion or a cookbook propped up on an easel. For me, it’s my collection of magazines, proudly displayed on the bookshelves as a monument to the power of print. The point is, an interior is personal, which is why I envisaged this special section not as an instruction manual for designing your home, but as a set of viewpoints belonging to tastemakers I admire. You’ll find inspiration from an artist duo’s Bloomsbury townhouse and a designer’s Cotswold manor; recommendations of little-known antique stores from which to source hidden gems; and ideas for how to recreate a cottage-garden aesthetic in a small space. So, whether you’re planning a full-scale renovation or just…

Luke EDWARD HALL ARTIST AND DESIGNER ‘John Cornall Antiques in Warwick (johncornallantiques.com) specialises in folk art and country furniture. He always has such wonderful things for sale, from elegant Georgian dressers to Transylvanian spoon racks and old English pub signs. The thread that runs through his stock list is a sense of atmospheric, curious charm.’ Nina CAMPBELL DESIGNER ‘Shopping is my sport – mainly for clients now, rather than myself. If you’ve got a nose for an antique, you will find good choices wherever you go. I stop by the Decorative Fair in Battersea Park (decorativefair.com) twice a year. Tetbury is excellent, too – it has a whole street of antiques shops.’ Cordelia DE CASTELLANE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, DIOR MAISON ‘I trust the eye of Lila K Antiques (@lila_k_antiques) at the…

YOU CAN TELL THERE ARE ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE BEFORE YOU EVEN step through the door of the Georgian townhouse in central London that Gary Hume and Georgie Hopton have called home for the past 16 years. The clue is right there on the doorstep in the form of a colourfully patterned mosaic titled Two Palettes Entwined – a tribute to the couple’s shared creative outlook. Inside, the house feels as characterful as its dramatic entrance would have you expect: a moody-hued living-room punctuated with vivid splashes of colour – chairs upholstered in bright yellow; an oval-shaped hand-tufted rug featuring collaged motifs of foxes – leads through to a light and airy kitchen that looks out over a lovingly tended garden. The Bloomsbury-esque prints on the walls and furniture feel fitting for…

OVER THE PAST DECADE, MICHAELA YEARWOOD-DAN HAS MADE A name for herself as one of Britain’s most exciting contemporary painters. Her exuberant canvases – layered with poetry, ceramic petals and thick swathes of kaleidoscopic colour – tackle far reaching and complex subjects, including race and religion, queer identity and romance, with striking optimism. Now, as her first solo institutional exhibition opens in the UK, she reaches a new career milestone. ‘I’ve come a long way in a relatively short space of time,’ she says. ‘But it feels like I’m in control, which wasn’t necessarily the case at an earlier stage.’ Yearwood-Dan got her foot in the door of the art world just two years after graduating from the University of Brighton with a fine-art painting degree, when she left her…

SPRING IS A TIME THAT CALLS US TO THE NEW; BUT WHEN IT COMES to what you choose to read, it can be gratifying to discover that real freshness is often found in the voice of experience. I was thinking that as I considered four books appearing this month, each very different, but all from women who, across decades, have forged their own paths and made discoveries along the way. The Things We Never Say is Elizabeth Strout’s eleventh book; her first novel set in Massachusetts rather than Maine (£18.99, Viking, out 7 May). There’s a sly – and rather meta – appearance from Olive Kitteridge, one of her most beloved characters, but only because this tale’s protagonist, Artie Dam, has himself read Strout’s book. It’s 2024 and Artie, 57, would…

‘The essence of modern architecture, modern thought and modern movement.’ This is how Harper’s Bazaar described the visionary couturière Elsa Schiaparelli when she was at the peak of her career in April 1932. Schiaparelli, whose legacy as the leader of avant-garde style in interwar Europe is celebrated in a spectacular new exhibition at the V&A this month, founded her brand – now re-established in the heart of Paris – in 1927. She quickly caused a sensation with her witty trompe l’oeil knitwear and sartorial surrealism. ‘Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art’ not only celebrates the designer as a mistress of innovation, but also explores the little-known British chapters of Schiaparelli’s life and career, and how these were entwined with Harper’s Bazaar in significant ways. Elsa Schiaparelli was born in Rome in 1890,…

I AM FLOATING, WEIGHTLESS AND WARM, LULLED BY gentle waves rocking my body to and fro in time with the binaural beats streaming through my headphones. On my head is a Neurovizr, created by a neurologist, flashing light at my closed eyelids. I’m entranced by what I see: pink geometric forms swirling and merging, pricked with sparks of electric blue and scarlet, and the occasional dazzling flare of gold, like a planet detonating across the night sky. This isn’t my first brush with psychedelia. Years ago, at university, I found myself at a party in intense conversation with a cartoon Mickey Mouse nobody else could see; it was not an experience I was keen to repeat. I’ve since steered clear of mind-altering substances. The multisensory immersion I’m undergoing at Vidavii, a…

Fruit-inspired compositions are a major fragrance trend this year, with perfumers turning to succulent berries, creamy bananas and crisp apples to create joyful scents that evoke cocktails at sundown and springtime picnics. The house of Jean Paul Gaultier is embracing the crowd-pleasing category with Divine Couture – a vibrant, energising waft of fruity amber that is guaranteed to lift the spirits. ‘This is a perfume of striking contrasts,’ says its creator Quentin Bisch, who has worked on the Divine range since the original launched in 2023. ‘We wanted to bring colour to the initial breath, with bright and juicy raspberry meeting the meringue heart.’ The result is a fragrance whose sweetness feels airy and smooth but never cloying. Jean Paul Gaultier perfumes are known for their strong sillage, and Divine…

Directors, silver-screen darlings, two real-life dames and one fictional duke swept into 5 Hertford Street on the night before the Baftas for the 26th annual dinner hosted by the film impresario Charles Finch and Chanel. The glorious Georgian townhouse soon saw home-grown talent, including Kristin Scott Thomas, Akinola Davies Jr and Joe Alwyn, mingle with their peers from across the pond. As ice-cold martinis circulated, the Best Actress nominee Kate Hudson sang the praises of springtime in England and had a joyous reunion with her California neighbour, the British-born Minnie Driver, who was calming her nerves ahead of presenting an award at the ceremony. Patrick Dempsey emerged through the front door with a charmingly self-deprecating smile in response to a crowd member’s cries outside of ‘Welcome to London, Dr McDreamy!’…