Red UK August 2022

GRACE DENT reveals the sweet taste that brings back memories of teenage summers on page 29. MY FAVOURITE SUMMER SMELL IS… Hawaiian Tropic Tropical Tanning Oil. That piña colada whiff transports me to long days of laughing by the pool. SALMA EL-WARDANY reveals why she loves the song Seasons Of Love on page 30. MY FAVOURITE SUMMER SMELL IS… The smell of jasmine in the evening. It reminds me of Cairo, where there are jasmine trees everywhere. NATALIE & NAOMI EVANS talk about their new book, The Mixed-Race Experience, on page 68. MY FAVOURITE SUMMER SMELL IS… Natalie: A barbecue! Naomi: Suntan lotion. Red is a member of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (which regulates the UK’s magazine and newspaper industry). We abide by the Editors’ Code Of Practice and are committed to upholding…

…spritzers in the garden, sweet strawberries, juicy tomatoes and charcoal-crusted chicken on repeat, hair ragged with sea salt (and looking infinitely better for it), the smell of sunscreen and a fine layer of sand in the hallway at all times. That’s what mine looks like, anyway. And every year, I am elated to be able to recreate it (my husband is less into the sand). Yours will be different but no less evocative, because that’s the thing about summer; it harnesses the senses like no other season. It’s for this reason we asked five of our favourite writers to share the ways summer is captured in their minds (page 28). From Grace Dent’s nostalgia for the taste of Fanta Limón to the song that returns Salma El-Wardany to the year she…

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Sandro elevates light blue denim by making it a co-ord set By the Sea Strolling La Croisette or poolside at Eden Roc… the timeless glamour of Coco Chanel and Grace Kelly continues to inspire. This nautical vision is the energy we’ll be bringing to every seaside resort. K.Jacques has been making sandals in Saint-Tropez for three generations…