Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 597 i Grazia

Ever had that moment when, out for drinks with friends, you find yourself obsessing over the bar chairs (because seriously where are they from/I need them in my life right now/whoever thought standing in a crowd was a good idea etc etc) instead of the bar list ? If so, it’s time to join the post-cool club, says Emma Straub on page 59. For those of us who used to be hip... but now get excited by dishwashers (someone else emptied it, whoop!) and early nights (sleep!). Do you feel the same? We’d love to hear. As the weather finally turns, it’s time to hunt down your winter coat. We’ve edited this season’s crop (yes, PVC is in) and on page 68 bring you the best from £22.99 (really!). Meanwhile,…

Photos: Wenn, Xposure, Christopher Polk/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank SHE ONCE COMPLAINED that ‘no one ever asks me out. I am lonely every Saturday night.’ But one person who has been keeping Jennifer Lawrence company is her ex Nicholas Hoult. According to sources in Montreal, the pair enjoyed several secret hang-outs in the city over the summer, prompting speculation that they could get back together. Jennifer was in Canada for almost three months shooting Darren Aronofsky’s new film, 6 Days, while Nick was in town doing screen tests and pre-production on the next X-Men instalment. According to one insider, ‘Jen and Nick met up several times. She was staying in a very exclusive apartment building in downtown Montreal with an underground garage, so it wasn’t hard for him to sneak in and…

Photos: Getty, Eyevine, PA, Barcroft, Flat Creek Films, Rex, Wenn I KNEW I WAS BEING STALKED by the Church of Scientology when two strangers arrived on my parents’ doorstep at 10pm on a Sunday night looking for me. It was seven years ago and my father, aware of the church’s keen interest in me, told them I’d moved to Australia (I hadn’t, I was in the kitchen). The middle-aged couple were adamant they needed contact details for me, but when Dad asked if they were Scientologists, they refused to answer him, admitting only that they were from East Grinstead, where Scientology’s global HQ is based. While this is nothing compared to what other, high-profile journalists have endured – Louis Theroux is trailed and threatened; Panorama’s John Sweeney had his hotel…

BLACK LIVES MATTER’S 9-YEAR-OLD CAMPAIGNER Zianna Oliphant delivered a powerful and tearful speech to protesters at a city hall meeting last week in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the wake of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. In it, she said, ‘We’re black people and I can’t stand how we’re treated.’ PLAYBOY MODEL WEARS HIJAB A journalist will smash stereotypes by becoming the first Muslim woman to appear in Playboy magazine wearing a hijab next month. Noor Tagouri, 22, will feature in the men’s publication wearing a leather biker jacket with her head covered. A BIG THUMBS UP Artist David Shrigley’s sculpture on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth, titled Really Good, divided opinion, with some calling it a ‘sarcastic thumbs up to Brexit Britain’. LA’S ‘HOTTEST’ NEW CLUB In true Mean Girls…

Trevillion Images. EVERY YEAR, THOUSANDS of British girls and women are taken abroad and forced into marriages against their will. Survivors often describe being bullied, shamed, abused and beaten into going along with the marriage, which is usually masterminded by their own parents or relatives. While it’s been a criminal offence since 2014, prosecutions are rare, as victims are often reluctant to speak out against their own family. This is why the Forced Marriage Unit and a number of charities work tirelessly to track the women down and get them to safety. This year, Safi* , 16, from Birmingham, received their life-saving help. These are the women who protected her – and gave her back her freedom… “SAFI KEPT REPEATING, ‘I’M A NORMAL TEENAGER. WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS TO…

1. VINYL FACTORY A high-shine coat is the fast track to new season style. Plus, they take rainproof to another level. 2. WORKAHOLICS Oversized, boyish and boxy = on point officewear. 3. BELTERS Wrap up in this season’s spin on the dressing gown shape. 4. CAPES This catwalk favourite ranged from naval uniform at Valentino to 1970s throwback at Chloé. 5. HIGH STREET HEROES Military regalia, animal print and bow-tied touches – and all under £200. 6. THE FUZZ The fluff has it, with styles from teddy bear to colour block and out-there animal prints. 7. ALL STARS Pair an all-American varsity jacket with wide-leg trousers for a grown-up take. 8. OUT OF TOWNERS Get ready to channel the gentry; fashion fell head over heels for checks this season. Photos:…

ONCE UPON A TIME, keeping warm in the big chill meant compromising on style. Not any more – every one of Parajumpers’ chic new jackets and coats is the perfect marriage of technical expertise in creating hard-wearing outerwear, combined with unparalleled design flair and exquisite attention to detail, right down to the signature removable down-padded linings and fur-trimmed hoods. The result? Beautiful, sophisticated coats built to withstand whatever the weather – and your busy life – brings on. From the super-lightweight high-performance Evolution range to the contemporary-yet-timeless Urban line with its edgy streetwear twist, there’s the perfect style for everyone, whatever your lifestyle. Winter? Bring it on! See parajumpers.it  for the full collection…

1 DAY BREAKS BY NORAH JONES A beautifully tender return from the singer-songwriter, featuring guest accompaniments from jazz heavyweights, and with smoky highlights including the sultry Flipside and the slow rolling organ on Carry On. 2 THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Emily Blunt is alcoholic Rachel, who fantasises about the seemingly perfect couple she sees from the train every day. In cinemas Friday 3 UK WOOL WEEK 2016 Mark Wool Week (10-16 October) with a night at possibly the cosiest hotel in history - Wool BnB in north London.campaignforwool.org Photos: Getty Images, LMK 4 MAMAN LE MOT Welcome to the bunker that transports you to 1943. You're a top secret agent with a job to do - once you've enjoyed a delicious three-course French-style bistro menu.aplaceintime.co.uk/1943…

CONFIDENT RETURN A hopeful entrepreneur looks in the mirror and says, ‘I love you.’ It’s the moment The Apprentice has been searching for, in which all delusions of the business bunfight being anything other than light entertainment are dropped and casting goes the full David Brent. It’s now beyond critique – a total and absolute ROFL. Begins Thursday, 9pm, BBC One HIP-HOP DRAMAS The Empire clan are back with a dazzling opener to season three. Hakeem’s jilted at the altar; Lucious is being chased by the feds; Anika and Rhonda are engaged in a rooftop barney that may or may not end in accidental homicide. Cookie is presiding over it all in a leopard-print stole, thigh boots and no knickers. What a champ. Begins tonight, 10pm, E4 MUST-SEE DOC Ava…

Photos: Catwalking.com, Jason Lloyd-Evans, Rex Features, PA, Alpha Press, Reuters IF FASHION IS A reflection of the times, what did Milan have to say about the world? Anyone thinking it might echo the constantly grim world news with gloomy clothes and sombre shows, think again. ‘Basta!’ Milan shouted from the rooftops and out it came, all-singing, all-dancing (break-dancing in the case of Dolce & Gabbana) as cheerful, colour-saturated and optimistic as it is possible for fashion to be. Milan was the equivalent of jazz hands; its self-appointed role to distract us from all things terrible. Well how else is the land of the billion-euro fashion behemoths to tempt us into buying it? ‘It’ being eye-wateringly expensive clothes. And so to Gucci’s smoke and mirrors – the set, that is. Dry…

Photos: Reuters SATURDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2016: 25,000 people gather outside Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance – me, among them. We are old, young and in-between, we are men, women and kids, we are a little damp ’cos it’s raining and a little harassed because there’s a bus strike on and we had to change arrangements last minute to get here at all – but we are here. Many of us wear black sweatshirts emblazoned with a single word: Repeal. This sweatshirt – the work of activist Anna Cosgrave – is the iconography of the movement to win abortion rights for the women of Ireland: the cause that’s brought us together today. The reason why, at 2pm, we set off on a shouty, sweary, cheery and chanty, placard-waving march through the streets…

Photos: Rex Features, PA, i-images, Splash News, Getty Images, Wire Image 3 OCCASIONS ON WHICH GEORGE AND CHARLOTTE MADE A PUBLIC APPEARANCE 3 PLAQUES THEY UNVEILED 6 YEARS SINCE KATE AND WILLIAM LAST VISITED CANADA 71 MILES TRAVELLED BY SEAPLANE (BETWEEN VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER) 6 MONTHS – HOW LONG THE TRIP TOOK TO PLAN 22 inches – the height of the totem pole presented to the couple by master craftsman Keith Wolfe-Smarch 1,000 POUNDS: THE PRICE OF KATE’S PREEN BY THORNTON BREGAZZI DRESS – WHICH SOLD OUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER 10 ROWS OF CANADIANS WHO TURNED OUT TO SEE THE COUPLE WHEN THEY ARRIVED IN VANCOUVER 30 EVENTS ATTENDED 3 OCCASIONS THAT KATE WORE NUDE COURTS... AND COUNTING…

Photos: Planet Photos, Vantage News, Catwalking.com I love how intense Brits get about The Great British Bake Off. As the years roll by, it becomes clear what is ostensibly a show about cake is actually a show about our best-case-scenario national identity. We like to think we are Bake Off: as mild mannered, graceful under fire and diverse as the contestants; as proper, posh and sensibly glam as Mary Berry; as funny/lewd as Mel and Sue; as easily slapped back into line as Paul Hollywood that time he had an affair, then apologised and went back to his missus. Bake Off Britain gives out a jolly flattering idea of this country, no? Which explains why we reacted so strongly when news broke GBBO was switching channels, leaving the BBC for…

Malika Larbi, 42, a lawyer living in Paris, was forced to marry her cousin at the age of 18. ‘Since I was a little girl, I’d imagined how my life would be. I’d go to university, fall in love and marry in Paris, where I lived. So as I packed for my family’s annual trip to Algeria when I was 18, I wasn’t afraid. I was excited to see my relatives. Halfway through the trip, we were on the way back from my aunt’s house when my parents said we were going to a wedding. I asked whose wedding it was and, without turning to look at me, they said, “Yours.”’ ‘I froze in shock in the back of the car, my world crashing down around me. I stood in…

WHEN ANGELINA JOLIE shockingly filed for divorce, one persistent rumour was her estranged husband’s love of smoking weed. Brad’s camp has remained silent about the allegations, but he has been open in the past about his use of the drug – leaving many wondering what made Angelina suddenly feel so differently. While we will never know, I can identify with Angelina – I know first-hand the deep frustrations of life with a stoner. The day I realised marijuana had ruined my long-term relationship was the day I got mugged. I’d had dinner with a friend and was walking home from the tube station, back to the flat I shared with my boyfriend of five years, John* . It wasn’t late, and the walk was short – seven minutes, max. I…

ON YOUR MARKS, GET SET for October, as iconic brand Converse introduce their new collection of Chuck Taylor All Star Holiday Nude sneakers. Rendered in pastel and muted tones and designed in collaboration with OFFICE, the collection includes the Chuck Taylor All Star Holiday Nude Gemma –boasting a super-elegant almond-shaped toe and chic, sleek femine profile. These super-cool kicks comes in four new neutral colours – tan, blush, cream and desert sand – which means you can wear them with a basic white tee and your perfect skinny jeans, dresses and, well, pretty much anything in your wardrobe. So for the ultimate in totally on-trend off-duty chic, you know where to go... Converse, our love for you goes on! Exclusively at OFFICE The Chuck Taylor All Star Gemma is available…

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Photos: Conor Sheehan 1. SKIN THIRST With a powerful concoction of avocado, apricot kernel oil and Japanese seaweed, Origins Limited Edition BCA Drink Up Intensive Overnight Mask, £24, quenches your face so you wake up with baby-soft skin. Each one sends £4 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. origins.co.uk 2. COMING UP ROSES A generous donation from every sale of Jo Malone’s Red Roses Cologne for Breast Cancer Awareness, £86, makes it money well spent. While some rose scents can feel a little old-fashioned, this is anything but. Zingy lemon, rose and comforting honeycomb make it a modern marvel. jomalone.co.uk 3. STRAIGHT TALKING No girl’s vanity should be without a pair of ghd straighteners. Purchase the limited edition ghd Platinum Electric Pink Styler, £165, and £10 is donated to Breast…

MODEL OF THE MOMENT GIULIA MAENZA @WHY NOTMODELS, MILAN Stalking her first catwalk for Versace no less, new face Giulia caught the eye of hairstylist Guido Palau, who cut her this super-cool fringe. ‘Every designer wants a model with a statement cut right now, and Giulia was the first to volunteer,’ he told us backstage. MANICURE MIXOLOGY Backstage at Blugirl, manicurist Keri Blair was asked to colour-match model nails to the citrus tangerine in the collection - she did so by mixing MAC Primary Yellow Pigment, £16, with the cult MAC Studio Nail Colour in Morange, £10, to create a chic acidic punch. OVER THE RAINBOW An exciting array of colours covered model lids (at Sportmax), lips (at Marco de Vincenzo) and brows (at Gucci), inspiring us to start planning…

AUTUMN CHOPPED SALAD Serves 1 Preparation time: 10 minutes A handful of: Halved cherry tomatoes Cooked beetroot Roast squash Diced cooked chicken Sliced radishes Diced blue cheese ½ red endive, sliced ½ yellow endive, sliced 1 tbsp walnuts 1 tbsp pomegranate seeds For the dressing (I make eno h p i for four salads which will kee n ks) the fridge for a few wee : ½ tsp Dijon mustard ½ tsp runny honey 25ml good quality cider vinegar 75ml extra virgin olive oil Sea salt and black pepper 1 Make the dressing by mixing all of the dressing ingredients together. 2 Chop all the salad ingredients (apart from the pomegranate seeds and walnuts) into similar sized pieces and then add to a mixing bowl. Drizzle with enough dressing to…

Photos: Eyevine, All Star WHEN PAULA HAWKINS wrote The Girl On The Train, she had reached ‘a low point professionally, financially and to some degree personally’, and had to borrow money from her father just to keep afloat for the six months it took to write. But now, with millions of book sales and a mega-star movie about to hit cinemas – starring Emily Blunt – Paula is living every novelist’s dream. ‘Obviously, it guarantees you a best-seller, if you put “girl” in the title,’ she jokes. ‘We used to call it Drunk Girl On The Train. Woman On The Train doesn’t trip off the tongue in quite the same way.’ So was Emily (who was pregnant when they filmed) her dream girl? ‘I was incredibly excited about Emily. To…

Anna Huix. Hair and make-up: Sophie Higginson THERE WAS A MAN, not long ago – a film trailer editor, early thirties, met online – with whom I really, really, wanted it to work. He was kind, in absolute adoration of me, and executed cunnilingus with a level of accomplished skill that leaves me half expecting to see his name on the next New Year’s Honours list. I ended it, though, not a month after we started dating. Why? My parents. My parents laugh together, so very much. They have a loving, witty shorthand built over 30 years of marriage, 10 years of courtship, and five rocky years where they almost didn’t make it. That’s the bit that has ruined me. The bit where for five years I watched them grapple…

Photo: Zoltan Tombor/Mondadori Photo LIBRA 24 Sept – 23 Oct Without being entirely secretive about it, you’ve probably neglected to disclose important information to those closest to you. Mercury entering your sign means you’ll soon see the value of becoming more open. But you must still hold back if you sense that one or two people might find it difficult to treat certain facts and figures as confidential. You owe it to yourself to maintain control over who knows what about your plans. SCORPIO 24 Oct – 22 Nov There’s a chance you’ll be able to second-guess someone’s ideas on how a particular plan should be managed. But you should resist the urge to tell everyone what you think is going on. Better to keep your…

‘AFTER MY DIVA FIT, EVERYONE LAUGHED… TURNS OUT MY TROUSERS WERE SEE-THROUGH’ Photos: Shutterstock  Who is your best friend? My dog Peggy. I got her nine years ago when I was working on Lee Mack’s sitcom Not Going Out. The costume lady had puppies. Well, her dog did. Just to be clear. What’s your biggest regret? Not keeping up sport, particularly tennis. What’s your biggest extravagance? Holidays. What’s your type? I have always fancied tennis players, so I suppose tall and lean. And into tennis. When was the last time you were embarrassed? I am a complete mix of getting embarrassed about the stupidest things but then being someone who can flash my bra at a social occasion. I was last embarrassed when I flashed my bra at a…

No doubt about it, having one B of the Hadid sisters in a show is the ultimate seal of approval, guaranteeing maximum coverage and exposure for whatever they wear. It's the intoxicating allure of celebrity (their mom is Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star and former model Yolanda Foster) combined with B their ‘real' girl accessible beauty - meaning this is who real girls want to look like, notwhat real girls actually look like. In the right corner, the bubbly blonde Gigi (who, according to sources, is as sweet and professional as can be) has G been labelled ‘girl next doorB ', but in fact resembles a Hollywood movie star - watch this space. And in the left corner, the aptly christened Bella - edgier, dark-haired, green-eyed and equally beautiful.…

‘I'm trying to make clothes that you need as well as want' THINK OF UNIQLO, and you probably think of knitwear and down coats. It’s a brand known for quality staples and quiet-but-good design rather than high-fashion aspirations. And while its new artistic director, Christophe Lemaire, might be a fixture on the Paris Fashion Week schedule, his first collection for the brand (new line Uniqlo U, in stores this week) is not a clean slate – it’s an evolution. For Lemaire, ‘It was very important that it’s not a designer collaboration. Of course I’m the head designer, but it was vital that it was Uniqlo. Not a better version, because the Uniqlo main line is great, but more sophisticated, while really being extremely faithful to the original DNA of Uniqlo.…

Photos: Mirrorpix, Fame Flynet, Splash News, Rex Features HE ONCE CLAIMED they had ‘been to the mountain top and to the gutter’ and could ‘take on anything’ as a couple. But last week, Norman Cook and Zoë Ball announced they had split after 18 years. The couple wrote in a statement, ‘After many exciting adventures we have come to the end of our rainbow. We’re still great friends and will continue to support each other and raise our beautiful children together living next door but one.’ Initial reports suggested Zoë was tired of the pair’s clean-living lifestyle, with one claiming she’d called a devastated Norman ‘boring’ before walking out. The couple famously gave up alcohol after years of partying alongside Norman’s successful DJ career as Fatboy Slim. Zoë later admitted…

Shopping: Polly Knight. Photos: Fame Flynet, GC Images, Wire Image, Xposurephotos.com WE’VE ALL HEARD OF double denim, thanks to the late 1990s/early noughties – think B*Witched sitting in a tree or Bustin (that’s Britney’n’Justin) declaring their love via chambray. For autumn/winter ’16, everyone from Chanel to Miu Miu sent denim down the catwalk. But doubling your blues is old news – it’s time to triple. Leading the charge is RiRi, spotted in New York in a mid-length, asymmetric denim dress over jeans (both Balenciaga), with boots from her epic collab with Manolo Blahnik, which debuted earlier this year (debunking the myth that denim heels are always naff). The key is not to mix tones. Stick to one wash and pile it on. Channel Gigi Hadid in a denim triad, topped…

TRUE ROCKS’ SINGLE, DIVORCED, MARRIED NAMEPLATE NECKLACES I want all of them, and I want to switch them, depending on my mood. THE SENSE SPA AT THE ROSEWOOD HOTEL, LONDON Face Place for your skin; now genius Jason Collier for your hair! THE VELVET SUIT I want one, ideally the Frame one, thanks. THE ORDINARY Cheap as chips skincare, and super-effective. PUTTING YOUR COAT ON PROPERLY We’ll be shrugging ’em down off our shoulders from now on. WEARING VINTAGE BAND TEES… If you don’t love the band. DAYLIGHT It’s waning. Alter your colourways accordingly.…

OUR PANEL CHARLIE GOWANS-EGLINTON Grazia’s fashion news and features editor has an eye for the eclectic and a pathological fear of men in flip-flops. @charliegowans JIM SHELLEY Grazia’s resident bloke writes about television, film and Man United. What he doesn’t know about chiffon is not worth knowing – literally. @jimshelley17 RIHANNA CHARLIE SAYS: That Rihanna, always playing it safe. Take a risk, Rihanna, live a little! Joking, obvs – this is fully bonkers. AND SO GOOD, amirite? JIM SAYS: Precarious doesn’t really cover it. And neither does that top. Boom, boom. Her coat isn’t going to help much either, the way she’s wearing it. Finally, weren’t those shoes in The Flintstones? YOU SAY: Only RiRi could make the dirty path look like a red carpet. J’adore! @MEEMEEWHITE AMAL CLOONEY CHARLIE…

Photos: Jason Lloyd-Evans, Catwalking.com IN THE PINK It’s the only colour to shop right now. Here’s how to wear it, wisely Gone are the days when pink was the preserve of pretty little things with pigtails. McQueen, Balmain and Chanel all sent candyfloss shades down the runway, and just a dash will brighten up your wardrobe. H&M’s fuchsia ruffled blouse takes its cue from the street-style stars and will give your favourite frayed jeans a new lease of life. If bright isn’t your bag, try baby pink; Topshop’s wrap skirt will take you nicely from office (with ankle boots) to cocktails (avec metallic pumps).…

Photos: Jason Lloyd-Evans. Conor Sheehan. Aveda: aveda.co.uk. Face inc by Nails inc: nailsinc.com. Marc JJacobs Beauty: johnlewis.com. Omorovicza: omorovicza.com. Vaseline: nationwide Where we spotted it Backstage at Calvin Klein, where real skin was decreed the complexion of the season once more. Why we love it It’s the perfect antidote to sun-stripping – the bronzing technique that fakes a glow, and monopolised summer Insta feeds. Ways to wear it Invest in hard-working skincare and go as bare as you dare. Finish with a subtle, low-slung blush, to mimic an elemental flush.…

CAROLINE BARRETT Grazia’s deputy editor As a fan of Room, I tentatively started The Wonder believing it couldn’t match its success. But it does. While a totally unique story, this novel does share all the tension and suspense of Room. It’s a page-turner and deserves the same accolades. EMILY PHILLIPS Grazia’s features and special projects editor Florence Nightingale alumni Lib is a sturdy, reliable companion to travel to the bleak midlands of 1850s Ireland with. When she is called from England to play witness to a devout Catholic family’s claim that their 11-year-old daughter has lived without food for four months, her cynicism is as plain as her freshly starched nursing garb. But as her daily visits grow more harrowing, Lib must cast her prejudices off and attempt to save…

Photos: Allstar, Eyevine Westworld is arguably the biggest show to come from American network goliath HBO since Game Of Thrones. Inspired by a 1973 Yul Brynner film where the robots in a futuristic theme park come to life, it riffs heavily on the creation myth. With the new rendering, overseen by current Star Wars overlord JJ Abrams and Jonathan (brother of Christopher) Nolan, Anthony Hopkins plays a godlike figure. In a futuristic laboratory, his assembled staff attempt to work out a glitch to stop the lunatics taking over the asylum in their theme park. Westworld is a lovingly recreated landscape in the shoot-’em-up Wild West, a place Joe Public can go on a killing and sex spree to satisfy all his (and it is mainly his, tbh) extreme desires. The…

WHO LIVES HERE? Emily Murray, of the interiors site The Pink House (pinkhouse.co. uk; @pinkhouseliving), with her husband Evan and young sons, Oscar and Zac. WHERE IS IT? Edinburgh. The house is a bit of a Tardis – it looks small from the outside, but step inside the door and it opens into a bright and spacious five-bedroom home. The only heavy work was demolishing one wall – then Emily got decorating. ‘I wanted a boutique hotel feel where each room has its own personality,’ she explains. 1. TAKE A TRIP The hallway in the basement sets the scene with fabulously psychedelic wallpaper (Prism by cole-and-son.com), the mirrored console table picking up the colour, simultaneously accentuating and blending in with the wall behind. The artwork is by Dale VN Marshall…

MY BODY, MY CHOICE I had an abortion when I was 18 (Ireland’s abortion shame, 19 Sep). I was scared, worried and in pain. The difference is, I had a choice and support from my family. I find myself in total disbelief that women in Ireland still don’t have a choice and could go to prison for it. At the time I was at university and had an abusive partner who didn’t support me. To think I would now have an eight-year-old throws me. Because of my choice, I’ve found happiness in my life. The women who travel far away from home are courageous. It’s 2016 and if we are told as women that we now get equality, then having an abortion to prevent life should be the same as…

Tattoo lovers rejoice! Tattooist to the stars Saira Hujan has collaborated with Tod’s to create the limited-edition Tattoo bag, featuring the iconic Double T clasp, now synonymous with the Italian label. Model Suki Waterhouse also stars in a short film (available on the brand’s website) showing the design process. Two similarly rock’n’roll bags and a wallet will be available in-store from December – or pre-order online now. Bag from £1,450, tods.com IN SAD NEWS, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber have split after 11 years together. In a joint statement the actors, who have two young sons, said, ‘We’ve come to the conclusion that the best way forward for us as a family is to separate as a couple.’ PROPS TO MARY J BLIGE, who interviewed Hillary Clinton for Apple Music…