Table of contents for Issue 659 in Grazia

1 GLITTER BUG A SHOW-STOPPER OF a dress. Make an entrance in full-on sequins. £99, Miss Selfridge (missselfridge.com) 2 LOW-K EY PARTY A PERFECT PARTY look for the girl who doesn’t do sparkle. T-shirt, £27, trousers, £255, shoes, £79, all & Other Stories (stories.com) 3 GIVE YOUR EAR A HUG MASTER SUBTLE bling with black rhodium and Swarovski stones. £40 each, Rosie Fortescue Jewellery (rosiefortescue jewellery.com) 4 GOOD TO GLOW GET THAT covetable #glassskin glow with L’Oréal Paris Glow Drops Highlighting Fluid, £9.99. Tap it on to cheekbones, your brow and Cupid’s bow. 5 THE LBB FOR YOUR LBD THE LITTLE BLACK boot is an essential – try a jazzy heel. £135, Geox (geox.com/en) 6 SKIN SWOT MAKE LIGHT work of smoothing, moisturising and calming your skin with Dr Frances Prenna…

Former Facebook vice president for user growth, CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA, said recently that he felt ‘tremendous guilt’ for helping the company addict – sorry, attract – two billion users. ‘We have created the tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works,’ he said. His were strong words, foretelling certain sociological and psychological downfall; I mean, assuming they’re valid – but are they? Oh, don’t ask me! I don’t know! I’m not on Facebook. Never have been. Never will. I could pretend this is because I’m so smart I foresaw the issues Palihapitiya exposes the first time I ever heard about Facebook, which was in 2008(ish), when my mate Simon told me all the young people were doing it. But I’d be lying. My actual response was, ‘A…

PHOTOS: CATWALKING.COM WHEN PICKING THE perfect plus-one, they must be both dazzling and dependable (sparkling conversation won’t compensate for flakiness). But while this rule is a no-brainer when it comes to companions, this festive season we should also apply it to accessories. Maybe it’s the Meghan Markle effect, or perhaps it’s all those episodes of The Crown we’ve gobbled up, but we’re opting for accessories with princessy propriety (blunt speakers might call them ‘grannyish’; take it as a compliment). Think crystal-cluster brooches and lace opera gloves! Think fluffy stoles and hair bows! Think pearl hair clips and block-heel booties! Are they dazzling? Absolutely. Are they dependable? Surprisingly so. Think of them as your wardrobe Fairy Godmothers, ready to reinvigorate a tired little black dress. And these accessories have mileage way…

1 ADWOA ABOAH GRAZIA’S GIRL OF THE YEAR 2017 has been Adwoa’s year. A passionate advocate for positive change, the model has championed young designers. Highlights were disco-ready Halpern and frothy Molly Goddard. At the Met Gala, she wore student Conner Ives over big name houses. We salute you Adwoa. 2 ALICIA VIKANDER THE MODERN MUSE Swedish Alicia pulls off even the most glam pieces with enviable Scandi ease. With stylist Victoria Sekrier, the Oscar-winner has honed a look that’s equal parts movie star and girl-next-door. A muse to LV’s Nicolas Ghesquière, she often reps the French maison’s collections. 3 CÉLINE DION THE ICON The Canadian crooner gave us one reason to be cheerful in 2017: her endlessly entertaining, unabashedly fun wardrobe. ‘She’s such a fashion girl, if I’ve ever…

ON THE DOUBLE Two ‘tails’ are often better than one! ‘Divide blow-dried hair into two sections and French-braid from the front hairline, tying off each plait with a customised velvet ribbon,’ says international session stylist – and creator of these looks – Syd Hayes. ROSE GOLD SYD PIN, £65; SYD HAYES & KARL KARTER DIAMOND HAIR PIN, £2,500 – FOR FULL CREDITS, SEE FINAL PAGE KNOT NOW Syd advises that clean, slippery hair is a no-no when doing fine braids – leave it a day after washing : ‘They need some grip.’ Once your plaits are done, add in a braided pony piece to the top of the head, twisting it into a bun and covering the join with a stack of scrunchies (they’re back!) and accessories aplenty. BANG ON…

PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES, ©ANDREIA PERESTRELO WHEN I MET 38-year-old clothes shop supervisor Andreia Perestrelo, a month after her family’s escape from the 21st floor of Grenfell Tower, she and her husband Marcio Gomes told me they’d loved living there. Six months on, she says, ‘I don’t think I’ll ever be able to go into a tower again in my life.’ But for 10 happy years, Grenfell was a community and they’d made a beautiful home in their flat with fabulous views across London. In the aftermath of the fire, Grenfell became a symbol of injustice and poverty, so it was interesting to hear a different perspective. As a correspondent for Newsnight, I’d reported on the disaster from the very first horrifying morning. As the tower continued to burn, I spent…

OUR EXPERTS The writer Sara Lawrence is a journalist and travel writer. Follow her on Instagram @sazlawrence The owner Judith Volker is director of Hotel Tannenhof, winner of ‘Austria’s Best Ski Boutique Hotel’. The CEO Jane Gottschalk owns cool ski and sportswear brand Perfect Moment (perfectmoment.com). QI want to book a week’s skiing at St Anton, Austria – give me the lowdown! HIT THE SLOPES by Sara Lawrence The nearby resorts of St Christoph, Stuben, Zurs, Lech, Warth and Zug are all covered by your lift ticket (1 day adult pass, £47; six days, £242), so in a week’s stay it’s almost impossible to exhaust the opportunities offered by the 87 lifts on these mountains. Plus the Flexenbahn gondola lift now links the St Anton side of the Arlberg to…

Oxford English Dictionary – we love your work. You’ve brought us ‘post-truth’, ‘selfie’ and even an emoji ( ) as your words of the year. But for 2017, we have a bone to pick. You crowned ‘youthquake’ the winner, because of ‘the impact of the country’s young people on its general election’. And while, yes, they no doubt helped Labour to a better-than-expected result, the Government didn’t exactly change. So let’s call it what it was – a youth-ripple. However, there was a quake this year. And this one didn’t shudder, it took down – big powerful men, with big powerful careers. So OED, we’d like to nominate a brand-new word: womanquake. Anoint that your number one!…

PHOTOS: AVALON, MIRRORPIX, WENN, ZUMAPRESS.COM WELL, THANK GOODNESS for that, eh? Lovely, smiley Toff has won I’m A Celeb . Get some ginger beer in! It’s time to celebrate a posh person on telly who hasn’t been portrayed as a total moron. Because posh people are generally baddies, aren’t they? In film, on TV and in the newspapers. Just look at David Cameron, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Captain Hook from Peter Pan (Hook went to Eton, FYI, like the other two). If you have a posh accent and went to a posh school, the assumption is often that you’re a baby-eating monster who belongs in prison. But while slumming it in the jungle, Toff rolled up her sleeves and showed this isn’t always the case. She ate spiders, she let pythons…

Has anyone ever seen Tonya Harding and Margot Robbie in the same room? Probably, because they look absolutely nothing alike. But that didn’t stop the actor being cast as the figure skater in I, Tonya (out 20 Feb). And Tonya’s not the only one set to benefit from some Hollywood polish next year… PENÉLOPE CRUZ PLAYING DONATELLA VERSACE IN AMERICAN CRIME STORY In a move that we’re sure made perfect sense to Donatella, Penélope has been cast to play her in The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. (FX, January) PHOTOS: GETTY IMAG KRISTEN STEWART PLAYING SAVANNAH KNOOP IN JT LEROY The woman who posed as gender-queer teenage literary hoax JT LeRoy was no doubt delighted to hear that the razor-cheekboned face of Chanel was…

Jo Loves Christmas Trees, £55 – all the nostalgia of festive evergreen without the needles in your cashmere socks. Cowshed Winter Candle, £38 – a comfort-blanket of a scent, which blends Siberian fir tree notes with Scandi spices. Elemis Soothing Glow, £27.50 – fans of Pro-Collagen Cream can enjoy its scent (lavender, eucalyptus, geranium) in candle form. No22 Bookshelf, £38 – imagine being ensconced in Charles Dickens’ library: leathery, dusty, and delicious. Fornasetti Profumi Aperitivo Candle Scented with ‘Otto’, £140 – a Simian-theme, cheeky yuletide scent? Why not! Neom Limited Edition Perfect Peace, £30 – melt away Christmas shopping angst with mellow myrrh and peppy lime peel. Diptyque Holiday Collection Fiery Orange Candle, £28 – like a cosy hearth with zesty clementine thrown in. YSL Le Vestiaire Des Parfums Saharienne…

SPORTING GLORY JUNE’S LOUIS Vuitton x Supreme collab was peak hype. Frenzied demand continues even now, with pieces going at exorbitant resale prices on consignment sites. A one-off phenomenon? Not really. In 2017, streetwear redefined what luxury looks like. Vetements and Gosha Rubchinskiy continue to nail an ultra-cool, post-Soviet aesthetic, and Rihanna’s Fenty line has helped Puma’s profits leap by a whopping 92.2%. Off-White’s ascent is similarly unstoppable, with Selfridges reporting the Virgil Abloh-helmed American brand’s sales are up 275% year on year. Retailers predict the brand’s S/S ’18 collab with Jimmy Choo will sell-out fast. On your marks… UNCOOL FASHION! ISN’T IT IRONIC, you spend the whole time trying to be cool and then it turns out that the coolest thing you could be this year was, well, uncool?…

JANUARY Michelle Obama’s face sums up how 99.9% of the world felt when racist misogynist Donald Trump was inaugurated as US President. FEBRUA RY Becks is a Palace regular, popping in for his OBE, then Victoria’s OBE and for Harper’s birthday party. But he was furious to miss out on a knighthood, branding the honours committee ‘unappreciative c**ts’. MARCH It was TV gold when Prof Robert E Kelly’s live interview via Skype was gatecrashed by his children. First he was seen trying to hand them off, before his wife unceremoniously bundled them out. APRIL Pepsi challenge? The company was forced to withdraw its crass, racially tone-deaf ad starring Kendall Jenner after it was accused of trivialising the Black Lives Matter movement to flog more fizzy pop. MAY Trump’s 41.3m Twitter…

IT WAS QUITE a moment: 10pm, 8 June, 2017, when the exit poll flashed up on screen and we realised that, in politics at least, everything had changed. For Theresa May, a win on paper actually delivered a series of losses: chipping away at her mandate on Brexit, devastating her authority and stripping her of a Parliamentary majority. At Guardian HQ – where I was ensconced, ready to write a rolling version of the next day’s newspaper splash – there was an excited reaction. We knew that this was unfolding into one of the great – and bizarre – news stories of our times. For Labour, it was an eyeopening experience that didn’t remove Jeremy Corbyn’s critics, but muted them. A man who’d struggled at the helm of a deeply…

PHOTO: JANNI LAAKSO VIEW POINT Henningsvær, Norway Blanketed in snow, the colourful buildings that line the harbour of this picturesque village can just be seen, flashes of bright red and orange amongst the white. Henningsvær is renowned for its beautifully preserved architecture and is one of the most popular villages in Norway’s Loftoten archipelago – seven islands so far to the north-east of the country that they are within the Arctic Circle. Many of the buildings house cafés, restaurants and galleries; behind them, steep granite mountains create a dramatic backdrop and amazing views. From Henningsvær, drive west and explore the rest of this stunning archipelago.…

THE ONE YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO SEE IS… THE MINIATURIST Jessie Burton first started writing her modern literary classic The Miniaturist in 2009. ‘I don’t think I wrote the book with it as a TV experience in mind,’ she says now. ‘But let’s just say that when it got optioned, I wasn’t reluctant about the idea.’ Her debut novel, a million-plus seller around the world, is the tale of Nella (Anya Taylor-Joy), an 18-year-old woman sent into a marriage in 17th-century Amsterdam who builds a spookily prophetic world in a doll’s house gifted by her new husband, Johannes (Alex Hassell). Jessie’s compelling, dark tale has just been turned into the jewel in the crown of the BBC’s Christmas schedule. ‘My mum and dad always get the Christmas R adio Times,’…

PHOTO: MARCO VITTUR What better way to indulge than with two decadently delicious collections from luxury Belgian chocolatier Godiva’s range of seasonal treats? Bursting with tantalising textures and innovative flavour combinations, Godiva’s Truffle Delights, will take truffle lovers on a unique culinary journey they won’t forget – from passion fruit and pink pepper and black tea and ginger to blood orange and grapefruit, all encased in either intense dark or creamy milk chocolate shells. Meanwhile, for the Gold Discovery collection, Godiva’s esteemed chef chocolatiers worked with designers to create an exquisite range of unique shapes, designs and flavours; crafted from carefully selected, premium ingredients, including the delicious new innovation, blond chocolate. SUBSCRIBE TODAY AND RECEIVE: Two boxes of Godiva chocolates Free delivery to your door or instant download to your…

LETTER OF THE WEEK PUTTING THE PLANET FIRST I felt it was important to express my support for ‘I won’t have children because of climate change’ (11 Dec). I don’t discuss this view – which I share – as I think others will get angry/defensive. I don’t want to tell anyone how many children to have, but believe it is the single biggest thing anyone can do to reduce individual environmental impact. I have taken the decision as an empowering choice. While having children is still presented as the ‘valid’ or ‘natural’ choice, my view can be difficult to hear and discuss. But the only way to change that is to talk about it. Thank you for giving me more courage to discuss my choice openly. Jayne #WOMENSPREAD THE LOVE…

1 UP MIA KANG Commodities trader turned Muay Thai boxer turned model for Amazon’s Iris & Lilly lingerie line. Reminds us very much of ourselves. 2 NEW IN DOUG JONES Won the senate seat for Alabama, stopping Roy Moore (accused of sexual misconduct, doesn’t think women should vote) from getting it (maybe it’s the voters of Alabama we honour?) 3. NON-MOVER JOHN BOYEGA Virtually a permanent Lust feature, as The Last Jedi promotional bandwagon rolls on. This week, we honour him for suggesting rumoured Star Wars cameos by Wills and Harry had been cut. 4. UP RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO Icons of ’80s theatre/ cinema, ditched by the Royal Court, who abandoned a revival because of sexual harassment allegations, which got conflated with the themes in the play –…

IF THE LAST few weeks have been an endless slog of stocking up on gifts for loved ones (and perhaps even not-so loved ones), then the starting pistol of the January sales – which, yes, actually begin in December – is the perfect excuse to treat yourself. And with savings of up to 60% immediately, it would be rude not to. Of course, even the most eager shopper would admit that the sales can be, ahem, overwhelming (our advice: wear flats, pack water, travel light – or even better, do it all online from the comfort of your own home) and a discount can send a normally level-headed shopper loco. To remedy that, we’ve rounded up some of the best picks for you – the ones that you won’t regret…

PHOTOS: INSTAGRAM/ASHLEY GRAHAM, CATWALKING.COM, GETTY IMAGES, ©L’ORÉAL #YOURSTRULY WE’RE LIVING in the age of personality. Aesthetic ‘perfection’ used to be what drove engagement on Instagram but, these days, what people are responding to – and more deeply connected with – is authenticity and diversity. They want to be shown something real, not just the highlights. Of all the different cultural categories, fashion probably has the most potential to be overly produced and filter-ised, but designers, models and stylists have beome some of the most original voices on Instagram. Model Ashley Graham is a great example of the power of being herself. Of course, she’ll post super-glam shots, but she’ll also put up a picture where she’s wearing a bikini with the caption ‘Nope, I’m not going to hide my cellulite.’…

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PHOTOS: ED MILES Q ‘In theory, I look forward to Christmas; seeing relatives, eating a lot and having an excuse to sit in PJs all day. However, I have begun to slightly dread it. I live with anxiety and manage it well most of the time, but the forced conversations in confined spaces seem to trigger worse and worse anxiety every year. How can I make it feel easier? ELEANOR SAYS: My friend, we are singing from the same hymn sheet. For all its bacon-wrapped, steadying-yourself-on-the-kitchencounter-with-a-midday-prosecco-headrush glory, Christmas can be a ripe old recipe for anxiety. I have a vivid memory of seeing my mum open the patio doors one year when my siblings and I were small and completely giddy, taking gulps of cold air. I get it now.…

PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES EVERY NOW AND then a brand comes along that makes us wonder what the heck we did before it existed. A brand that both perfectly captures the zeitgeist and, more importantly, makes our hectic lives that little bit easier. But who’d have thought that 2017 would belong to pop’s best-selling bad gal. Dubbed one of the best inventions of the year by Time – thanks, in part, to its 40 shades of foundation – Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty ushered in a new era of inclusivity and diversity and we couldn’t get enough of it. Two years in development, the range sold out within minutes of its 6.30am Harvey Nichols launch when 8,000 shoppers descended on the store. And the queues continued to stretch round the block (one Gloss…

PHOTOS: GETTY, EVENING STANDARD/EYEVINE SOMETIMES I WAKE up at night and I can still feel the vibration, choking in my chest, that roaring as the whole world shook. I’d never heard a bomb detonating before. I had no idea what it would sound like. Now it feels like I’ll never forget. As Ariana Grande finished her encore on 22 May and my sister Sophie and I got up to leave, Salman Abedi exploded his bomb in the foyer. We heard it – we felt it – but we didn’t understand what it meant. There was silence for a full five seconds as everyone looked at each other – and then suddenly there was chaos. People started screaming and running. Grown-ups my parents’ age were crying. I didn’t know what was…

PHOTOS: SHAYAN ASGHARNIA/AUGUST, GETTY WHEN HOLLYWOOD’S GIRL of the year is a 50-year-old woman, that’s cause for celebration. And we are very much on-board with celebrating Laura Dern. She was deliciously close to the edge as a frenzied alpha mum in Big Little Lies, and fully owned the Twin Peaks reboot with a cigarette in one hand and martini in the other. She tops off 2017 with a pivotal role (no spoilers here!) in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, sparking the hashtag #SpaceDern. And despite being Hollywood royalty, she’s refreshingly carefree, having the BEST TIME EVER at the premiere, Instagramming lols pictures posing with Stormtroopers in her Alexander McQueen gown. When recently asked about getting older, she declared, ‘It’s amazing, because now I really don’t give a shit,’ before adding,…