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Have your say… Email us at feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk ■ Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @GraziaUK HOME BIRDS The truth about moving home in your thirties (6 Mar) took me back to my thirties, when I left my then boyfriend and went home to my mum. She was over the moon when I asked if it was OK to come home. That precious year spent with my lovely mum was so special. Adult time together with parents is uniquely different than the growing up years. Now that Mum is gone, I wholeheartedly agree with writer Laura's neighbour: I too would do anything to spend time with her again and I'm so glad I got to have that special year at home with her. Marie Star letter TOXIC OFFICES On Polly's…

I'VE HAD A WEEK off! Or rather, a new boss - one who has fierce style and high standards… Donatella Versace! ‘There aren't many people I'd hand over to edit the fashion pages of Grazia, but DV - as her team refers to her - isn't like most people. In the decades she's spent leading Versace she's dressed everyone from Michelle Obama to Miley Cyrus and, in the process, has become an icon herself: as famous for her platinum blonde hair as her perfectly-cut tailoring. So, in the week Donatella took her catwalk show to Hollywood and won the Oscar red carpet, it made sense to ask her to reflect on what fame means today. Over the weeks we've worked on this, I've seen her laugh over memories of supermodels…

21 MARCH 2023 Abortion access is basic healthcare - not a crime In Poland, human rights activist Justyna Wydrzynska has been convicted of ‘helping with an abortion’ and handed an eight months’ community service for helping a woman - in a relationship involving domestic violence - to access abortion medication. It s a scenario that belongs in a dystopian Margaret Atwood novel, not the 21st century. Meanwhile, last year, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark ruling that made abortion legal in the US. Helping a woman access safe abortion care should never be criminalised, so we have to keep fighting for reproductive rights to stop life imitating Gilead.…

SORRY TO GO IN on a bald expletive, but F**K ME. ARE YOU F**KING KIDDING ME WITH THIS NEW TIKTOK FILTER? Bold Glamour uses AI to dramatically alter the appearance of those using it - to raise cheekbones, shave flesh off jaws, widen eyes and otherwise ensure it conforms with some f*king algorithm's idea of physical beauty. And it's so… I was going to say ‘good’ at it, but that implies approval, while I have none, so let's go with: ‘cruelly competent’. It's so cruelly competent, no one can tell if they're looking at filtered images or a person who's mush naturally looks like a robot programmed by a Kardashian's idea of pretty. Is this how the movement to diversify beauty ends? With machine-generated homogeneity? Is unreality the new reality?…

1. Up EMMA RADUCANU Back to being brilliant at the Indian Wells Open. Her + the Lionesses = make us proud to be British x happy to be women. 2. New in KEN SEMA The Watford midfielder who gave a pitchside post-match interview with the stammer he's had since he was six, and became a viral hero. ‘It's a normal thing to do,’ he said. 3. Non-mover DAVIDE LOVE ISLAND Booted out of a restaurant in the Maldives for being ‘inappropriately dressed’, ie, shirtless, which we'd have thought, in the case of Davide, was not so much of a problem. 4. New in ORCA THE LAGOTTO ROMAGNOLO Technically busts our age limit rules - she's just four - but she's a dog, so we think it's fine. Best in show…

GRAZIA FASHION AND BEAUTY ASSISTANT RENÉE WASHINGTON PICKS HER SPRING FAVOURITES OH SO FRENCH Iced cardamon meets bergamot. If there's one perfume you need right now… it's this. Sisley L'Eau Rêvée d'Hubert, from £85 LUXE HOLIDAY WARDROBE It's never too soon to start planning a vacation - and when it comes to your packing list, Longchamp's new summer collection should go straight to the top. From £170, Longchatrip TIE IT UP Make like the Copenhagen style set and use a scarf to pep up your outfit. £250, Herno FOR CULTURE VULTURES Wear your art on your sleeve - with a Rene Magritte reproduced on your watch. £91, Le Fils De L'Homme By René Magritte x Swatch STAY PAMPERED This cream is a must-have for your nails. Plus, it smells just…