Table of contents for Issue 658 in Grazia

1 GET KNOTTED A SUPERSIZED KNOT gives this classic grey cocoon coat a style uplift. £130, Lost Ink (lost-ink.co.uk) 2 FRAGRAN CE FIND A HEADY cocktail of rose, black pepper, leather and plum liquor make Valentino Donna Noir Absolu, £116.50, an oppulent, sexy gift (to self ?). 3 LOVE LETTERS NOT ONLY ARE THESE alphabet necklaces elegantly chic, they’re ethically produced to support the skilled Thai artisans who make them. The ultimate guilt-free purchase… £95 each, Edge of Ember (edgeofember.com) 4 FANTASY FOOTWEAR ‘OOHS’ AND ‘AHHHS’ rang out around the Grazia office when we spied these monochrome mules with pearl heels. Santa, we’ve been extra good this year! £600, Chanel (chanel.com) 5 SMOKIN’ HOT WITH NINE SHADES inspired by rich jewel tones and burnished metallics, Bobbi Brown Caviar & Rubies…

I say one thing, then post quite another. For years, I’ve raged against the rampant narcissism of selfie-taking… yet about three months ago, I started selfie-ing, too. I now find myself in the indefensible position of knowing all the awful things I ever thought/said/wrote about why people take selfies are absolutely true (they really are just heavily filtered farces designed to make exes regret dumping you, and women you went to school with, jealous), while also getting really good at them (a pop of something red + a facial expression which suggests I don’t take myself very seriously + an amusing caption = many, many Likes!). I moan about Twitter, but check it compulsively. And I pretend I hate Instagram inspirational quotes, because I am far too nuanced and clever……

THERE IS ONE DRESS in my wardrobe which my mum thinks I look lovely in, my fashion friends think I look cool in, my boyfriend thinks I look hot in and even strangers seem sufficiently wooed by to sheepishly ask where it’s from. It is, in short, a sartorial slam dunk. The dress in question (a coral mididress with splashy abstract print, FYI) is from Rixo, the cult brand that’s gone from one-to-watch to one-to-wear at lightning speed. Even if the name isn’t familiar, chances are the colourful, vintage-inspired designs have already infiltrated some of the more stylish Insta feeds you follow. Statement pieces that are ridiculously easy to wear, bold hand-painted prints – think Matisse-style florals, glam-rock stars, Chinese bamboos – have become Rixo’s calling card and are translating…

PHOTOS: REX FEATURES IT USED TO BE that any celebrity worth her salt had a fragrance (22, if you were Britney). But if the latest make-up launches are anything to go by, owning a cosmetics brand is now the marker of success. This year, Kim Kardashian dropped KKW, Rihanna caused pandemonium with Fenty Beauty, Paris Hilton released Unicorn Mist (of course) and Kelly Rowland revealed her plans for a full line of cosmetics. With a captive audience in place, these brands were set to be big from the get-go, but one we didn’t see coming? Trinny London. Created by Trinny Woodall, of What Not To Wear fame, this 11-product-strong collection is based on one simple premise: buy less. While brands worldwide are expanding product lines and offering more colourways than…

PHOTOS: GETTY. ILLUSTRATION: BEN NEALE Excellent news, everyone – 2017 has been yet another great year for men. One of the best ever, in fact. OK, in terms of HAVING YOUR CAKE AND EATING IT, it might not have reached the halcyon heights of early medieval times, when impatient men could legally hurl their wives off cliff tops. And it can’t really hold a candle to the freewheelin’ ’60s and ’70s, when guys could guzzle booze at their desks, aggressively grab some hot piece of ass at reception and still get that promotion. But, in terms of societal development, even up against such historically stiff competition, 2017 has been EXCELLENT for men, because look at them – wandering around, being all ‘woke’. They’re changing. Growing as people. Talking about their…

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Q I’m going on safari in South Africa, and staying in Cape Town before I hit the bush. What should I see? OUR EXPERTS The writer Freelance editor and travel writer, Lauren Jarvis. Follow her @laurenjarvistravels The local Capetonian George Gawie is a guide for The Constantia Wine Tour; theconstantia winetour.co.za The holiday guru Ash Jarvis is a director of tour operator Best of South Africa Travel; bestofsouth africatravel.com TAKE TO THE AIR by Lauren Jarvis The scenery is breathtaking on the ground – and amazing from the air. My tandem paragliding flight saw me harnessed to a pilot and cruising, birdlike, over the forest, hotels and high-rises before busting some swooping, acrobatic moves over the Atlantic then landing safely on the beach below – all against the backdrop of…

AUBAINE S’MORES AT SELFRIDGES KITCHEN The French restaurant has launched a delicious pop-up at Selfridges kitchen for a limited time only. Sandwiching a marshmallow between gingerbread biscuits, guests can choose from a number of dip and sprinkle options, for added indulgence. Selfridges, London, until 31 Dec; selfridges.com A STE R Head to Aster for a taste of their Christmas menu with a Nordic hint. Think hunks of reindeer, blinis and smoked salmon. All you’ll need is a sleigh to take you home. London SW1, aster-restaurant.com STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Two years after the series was rebooted with Brits Daisy Ridley and John Boyega in the lead roles, the eighth film in the franchise arrives this Friday. The film features Carrie Fisher, again in her career-defining role of Princess Leia,…

An Unremarkable Body Elisa Lodato (£14.99, WEIDENFELD AND NICOLSON) ‘A big book about a small life’, Elisa Lodato’s novel opens with an autopsy, but is ultimately an uplifting story. When Laura finds her mother, Katherine, dead at the bottom of the stairs, the resulting medical examiner’s report tells a coldly unremarkable story, with body parts weighed and categorised. Laura is motivated to write her own version of events, filling in the life between the lines – a task that leads her to discover more about her own mother, making sense of an unfulfilled life and protesting the idea that an unremarkable body means an unremarkable life. OTHER MASTERS ABOUT MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Maria Semple (£5.99, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON) Bee’s mother Bernadette is notorious – but she’s…

PHOTO: CAMERA PRESS/ANDREW WOFFINDEN IN A CLIMATE WHERE launching new female artists is trickier than explaining Bitcoin to your nan over Christmas dinner, 2017 has belonged to Dua Lipa. In August, she became the first woman to score a UK number one single since Adele back in 2015, and last week she was announced as the year’s most streamed female artist in the UK (trailing behind were Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and someone called… Beyoncé?). An outspoken feminist, her best songs manage to be empowering without being patronising, heralding a new genre which we’re christening ‘self-care bops’. Plus, as party season erupts, her anthemic single New Rules offers a timely reminder not to hook up with your ex while home for the holidays (sample lyric: ‘If you’re under him,…

You can’t escape the unbridled joy of Christmas. And hallelujah for that! After a tumultuous year, it couldn’t be more welcome. And while 2017’s #metoo has been game-changing, isn’t it time now for #otherstoo? Buy a gift for a child in need with Cash for Kids or the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child campaign. Sport a Selfish Mother #goodtee. Download genius app ShareTheMeal. It’s not all about money. Carrying out small, everyday kindnesses makes life just a tiny bit better – the festive spirit at its best. Most importantly, why wait all year for this moment? For 2018, how about we keep it up all year round?…

FASHION BY LAURA ANTONIA JORDAN. BEAUTY BY NATALIE LUKAITIS. PHOTOS: WIRE IMAGE, GETTY IMAGES, GOFFPHOTOS.COM, SPLASH NEWS, FEATUREFLASH MOVE ASIDE ROSE GOLD. This season, colourists are perking up post-summer dye jobs with warming shades of coffee. ‘A lot of clients go really dark with their hair during winter, but now it’s all about softening your original colour with warming tones,’ says Sam Burnett, session stylist and founder of Hare & Bone salon. The idea is to add a shot of chocolate, cinnamon, hazelnut or vanilla to your hair, as you might your morning cup of Joe. So, if you’re light blonde, you could go for ‘a dusting of chocolate’ with the cappuccino. If you prefer honey hues, try the latte. Brunette? Lift your colour with vanilla-swirled mocha. And, if you…

LUBAINA HIMID, 63 Last week, Himid became the oldest winner and the first black woman to be awarded the Turner Prize. Her work, which tackles racial politics and slavery, was praised by judges for ‘speaking urgently to the moment’. The Turner Prize is at the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, until 7 January THE YBA S (Young British Artists) took the art world by storm in the 1990s with their brazen controversy and youthful irreverence. Think Damien Hirst’s shark preserved in formaldehyde. But the hottest art stars right now are all eligible for a free bus pass – and they’re women. Maria Grazia Chiuri opened Dior’s spring ’18 show with a shirt that read: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, the slogan taken from Linda Nochlin’s 1971 essay about…

PHOTOS: CATWALKING.COM, REX, ALAMY Upgrade your broadband: Céline is finally to launch an online shop next year (click-bait for afashionados). Look to Susan in Miracle On 34th Street for your style cues. Tartan and hair bows? Count us in! Sport a turban: the hot new party accessory, à la Model of the Year Adwoa Aboah. Bonus points if it’s metallic. Meet your new footwear obsession: Roger Vivier’s Victoriana booties. Alexa strikes again… Choose George! 33 years after he rocked a Katharine Hamnett ‘Choose Life’ tee, the London Gay Men’s Chorus performed George Michael’s hit Freedom in charity ‘Choose Love’ T-shirts at the Fashion Awards.…

PHOTO: ERIC RUBENS @ERUBES1 VIEW POINT Banff National Park, Alberta The winding Moraine Lake Road in the Valley of Ten Peaks gives you thrilling views of the iconic Rocky Mountains, and on either side of the road are forests of pine, but also larch – which in autumn add gorgeous colour. But you have to time it just right as autumn is a fleeting season up here, just a few weeks between the green of the alpine summer and the heavy white of winter snow that closes the road. Do make it all the way to the glacial-blue Lake Moraine that’s surrounded by waterfalls and craggy rocks for more stupendous vistas.…

1 NON-MOVER WINNIE HARLOW At the British Fashion Awards, working a vibe we fashion insiders have just decided to call ‘fluff on top, fancy down below’, which isn’t as rude as it sounds. 2 NEW IN EASY’S NOELLE Breakout star of the Netflix show, if you ask us. Absurdly beautiful, immaculately dressed; also? The actress who plays her is called Zazie Beetz! We. Know. 3 NEW IN RAK-SU X Factor winners, original-material-writers, giving us hope we’re about to see a new gen of boy band, because it’s our favourite man-genre. 4. UP J - LO Assuming we still call her that? Anyone? Regardless: she looks excellent in new Guess campaign. Props for reprising the ‘casually reclining on a piano’ pose. 5 NEW IN ERIC CANTONA Who we met to talk…

BALENCIAGA TRIPLE S ‘The wait list for this is unreal; there’s not enough to keep up with demand,’ says Browns’ womenswear buying director, Ida Petersson. Stylebop.com sold out in half an hour flat. SAINT LAURENT FEATHER BOOT Already a hefty wait list at Browns, there’s no harm joining the Saint Laurent disciples for the season’s definitive boot hit. LOEWE LOGO As Loewe hits peak logo, the basket bag and slashed tee are zooming up the lust-have charts. ‘We expect high demand for the logo raffia baskets,’ says Harvey Nic’s group fashion buying director, Anita Barr. GUCCI BUMBAG Now that the world has got its head around the fanny pack, and given that all things Gucci are major sell-outs, we figure this is the ultimate Gucci buy right now – particularly…

PHOTOS: XPOSURE PHOTOS HOTMAIL BLING Last week, recent Beyoncé collaborator Ed Sheeran revealed that the singer changes her email every week to protect her privacy (or possibly to stop Ed Sheeran emailing her). Considering we struggle to remember our various passwords for more than four hours at a time, her ability to juggle 52 email addresses a year means we can add ‘personal admin supremo’ to Bey’s ever-expanding list of superhuman abilities. All that’s left to do is release a coffee table book documenting her expired accounts (Becky_Can_ Do_One@hotmail.com?). ME, MYSELFIE & I Beyoncé’s house contains a temperature controlled digital archive containing every photo of her, every interview she’s ever done and every show she’s ever performed. Meanwhile, we can’t even get organised enough to sort out the pics on…

MAIN PHOTO (POSED BY MODEL): SHUTTERSTOCK. OHTER PHOTO: STOCKSY WE ALL DESERVE THE CHANCE TO NOT JUST HAVE A LIFE, BUT A BETTER LIFE, ONE WE WANT TO LIVE ‘WHAT’S THAT, DUCK? Free? What’s your name? Terry. No? Oh, with an i? Terri what? White. OK. Edna! EDNA! It’s Terri with an i. White. Free school meals. Free!’ It was the ritual of mortification that marked every weekday, as my name was scrubbed off the list it needed to be on. I was a ‘free school meals kid’ or, as some of my schoolmates less charmingly called it, a ‘scrubber’. I knew what they saw, what I wa s : a poor kid from a council estate with a young single mum and an absent dad. They thought I was…

SUN SEEKER MAKE A SPLASH Had your fill of leaden grey skies and goose pimples? Cash in those air miles and find yourself a heatwave. SNOW PATROL HIT THE SLOPES Jetting off for some ski action? Sportswear has never been more on trend, so there’s no excuse not to be stylish. SKI EQUIPMENT Even your gear can be super-chic – Chanel does skis, dontcha know! PHOTOS: INSTAGRAM.COM/ PERNILLE TEISBAEK, POPPYDELEVINGNE, SHIONAT RURAL RETR T EA TAKE A HIKE Long walks, roaring log fires and a pub lunch… nothing beats a (stylish) Great British staycation.…

PHOTOGRAPHS MARCO VITTUR 1 SCENT OF THE YEAR ‘When Chanel launches their first new olfactory offering in 15 years (the hiatus has seen the reincarnation of existing fragrance franchises like Allure and Chance), it’s big news. Named after Gabrielle Chanel herself and crafted by master perfumer Oliver Polge, this beauty of a brew is crafted as an imaginary “Chanel” flower using tuberose, orange blossom and ylang ylang. Wear it on both skin and clothes.’ ROSE BEER, BEAUTY & HEALTH DIRECTOR 2 HAIR HERO ‘The promise of better hair in three minutes always appeals, but it wasn’t until we slathered this on that we fell head over heels. Turns out, not all conditioners are created equal... “Smart Technology” in this one means repairing actives like antioxidants and lipids are released only…

How do you become one of the most successful women in the world? Ambition. How do you become one of the most influe ntial women in the world? Fearlessness. And Tina Brown – celebrated magazine editor, author, broadcaster and entrepreneur – has it in spades. It’s the kind of fearlessness that led her to be expelled from three of her secondary schools – once for leading 50 girls in a protest against a school policy that forbade a change of knickers more than three times a week, ‘Chanting, “Knickers out, out, out!”.’ The kind that inspired her as a fledgling journalist to burst into the office of Sir Harold Evans – then editor of The Sunday Times – while he was mid-meeting, ‘determined to get my shot’ (she went on…

MUSHROOMS Mushroom smoothies, mushroom cocktails and even mushroom coffee – these earthy vegetables have become big news for their superfood status. They are packed full of antioxidants, with porcini being a particularly potent variety. Mushrooms are a great alternative to meat, with a rich, umami flavour. Although they’re only truly in season during autumn, the dried variety works just as well the rest of the year. I like to include them in stews and pies, served with pasta or simply as a topping on toast. PHOTOGRAPHS: HAARALA HAMILTON MUSHROOM AND KAFFIR LIME LEAF WONTONS WITH BUTTERED GREENS AND CRISPY GARLIC Feeds: 4-6 Prep: 20 minutes Cooking: 15 minutes INGREDIENTS Sesame oil (used throughout) 300g chestnut mushrooms, roughly chopped 1 clove of garlic, grated 2 fresh kaffir lime leaves, sliced ½…

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Zendaya, is a bold and original musical that celebrates the birth of show business and the sense of wonder we feel when dreams come to life. Inspired by the ambition and imagination of PT Barnum, it tells the story of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a mesmerizing spectacle that became a sensation. In cinemas Boxing Day See you there WHEN 6.15pm arrival for 6.30pm screening, Thursday 4 January WHERE Central London location HOW To win a pair of tickets, email film@bauermedia.co.uk before Friday 22 December…

IN 1961, ’30s Hollywood starlets Joan Crawford ( Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) are down on their uppers. Crawford is busy applying lemon juice to her elbows (‘You know it keeps them supple’), covering her Bel Air furniture for resale and clutching a hip flask of 100-proof vodka. Davis is crawling through Broadway in a Tennessee Williams play. Her dynamic screen bile has not dimmed, unlike her career. When Crawford picks up a paperback of Henry Farrell’s What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? she spies an opportunity for career resuscitation, a chance to work with the arch enemy she secretly reveres. ‘Feuds are not about hate,’ wisely notes fellow actress Olivia de Havilland (Catherine Zeta-Jones). ‘Feuds are about pain.’ The work of Glee’s Ryan Murphy, Feud is an…

Fashion’s biggest night It’s official: Adwoa Aboah is the most popular model in fashion. Awarded Model of the Year at the Fashion Awards 2017 in Partnership with Swarovski at the Royal Albert Hall, she won the biggest cheer of the night before heading to the after-party with an A-list crowd including Jourdan Dunn and Winnie Harlow. Anna Wintour made a touching tribute to Christopher Bailey, while Naomi Campbell held back tears as she spoke of her ‘papa’, the late Azzedine Alaïa. PHOTOS: DARREN GERRISH Versace victory The fashion set dusted off their hangovers to join Donatella Versace at the launch of her new boutique in London’s Belgravia. Fresh from being crowned this year’s Fashion Icon, the designer told us, ‘It was so nice – it was very exciting. The best…

JUMPERS FOR JOY for charity THIS CHRISTMAS Jumper Day (15 December) Selfish Mother has joined forces with stars including Adwoa Aboah, Erin O’Connor and Karen Elson to create stylish slogan-emblazoned versions of the seasonal sweater. They look good and do good: 50% of proceeds from each jumper will be donated to Save The Children. £50, thefmlystore.com JW ANDERSON goes full-on for glitter WHAT YOUR WARDROBE is missing (but you didn’t know it yet): JW Anderson’s new Converse collab, dubbed Glitter_Gutter, sees wear-everywhere Chucks remixed in colourful, spangly finishes. Downtown meets disco. From £90. Available from 14 December; converse.com and j-w-anderson.com. BRANGELINA were lost at sea WHAT DO YOU DO if your marriage is in crisis? If you’re Angelina Jolie, suggest making a film together about… a marriage in crisis. Last…

LETTER OF THE WEEK SHINING EXAMPLE In response to ‘My son’s autism diagnosis changed me forever’ (11 Dec), I recently experienced that physical pain when the difference between my son and his peers was brought into plain sight, as he tries to navigate his way through his first exams. He’s 15 and has Asperger’s. He missed one exam because he couldn’t understand where he was supposed to be. But he tried, and for that I am so proud. This article reminded me how wonderfully quirky and unique my son is. How loving and caring. So what if he doesn’t shine just yet? His time will come. Much love to Sarah. We are blessed with our boys. Barbara TOO MUCH TOO SOON? There is one very simple solution to Millie Bobby…