Table of contents for Issue 670 in Grazia

1 BLUR RED LINES THIS BEAMING multicoloured knit brings the happy vibes. Go oversized and smile! £485, Belize (EHOLzHRIfiFLHO.FRP) 2 JUMP IN THE GRAZIA fashion team has fallen for this contrast-stitch jumpsuit. Dress up with heels for an easy eveningwear update. £59.99, Mango (mango.com) 3 CITY SKIN NOT ONLY DO Dr Barbara Sturm Anti-Pollution Drops, £125, protect your skin against environmental aggressors, they’re also a powerhouse against invisible damage caused by your mobile and computer. 4 SHAPE SHIFTERS CHECK OUT Rejina Pyo’s talking-point accessories – like these architectural-heel shoes – and fall in love with the brand all over again. We’re hooked. £495, Rejina Pyo (rejinapyo.com) 5 ROSE - TINTED FLORAL PATTERNED lenses? Now that’s a way to make it feel like spring. Sunglasses, £257, Giorgio Armani (armani.com) 6 TRIPLE…

PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES. *NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY When I read this report* – released last week – I felt the tiniest bit hopeful. This was the first time I’d heard not just casual sex, but sex of any kind, referred to as something women might want, like and enjoy for its own – sexy – sake, in bloody ages. Sex’s reputation has taken a battering. A casual reading of today’s internet would give you the impression sex is awful. Dangerous and corrupting. A dark force used by men to suppress women. A crime waiting to happen. Sex has become synonymous with hotel rooms, bathrobes and abuses of power. With lust-addled comedians, and fuckboys[1] on Tinder. Laments about the intrinsic misogyny of bad sex fill blogs. Sex is, increasingly,…

RESEARCHERS AT THE University of Arizona have a lot to answer for. A new study conducted there claims that ‘queen bee’ syndrome makes some women treat other women badly in order to climb the ladder at work. Apparently, women consistently reported higher levels of ‘incivility’ from their female colleagues than from men. We put each other down, ignore one another in meetings and make condescending comments. Which is… well, really unhelpful. And not in the way you might initially think. Like most people I know, I’ve experienced ‘incivility’ – AKA rudeness – from female colleagues and bosses. (Plenty from men, too – far more, actually.) But is using an insulting, infantilising label to perpetuate the damaging stereotype that women undermine one another at work going to benefit us? I don’t…

JUST WHEN YOU thought Sex And The City 2 would forever be the messiest footnote in humanity’s history, along came Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker’s feud (now entering its 1,040th week). To recap: following the death of Kim’s brother last month, Sarah Jessica offered her condolences to her former co-star, provoking Kim to comment on Instagram that, ‘Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. Let me make this very clear (if I haven’t already). You are not my family. You are not my friend. So I’m writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your “nice girl” persona.’ Following Kim’s outburst, it appeared as if Sarah Jessica would maintain a dignified…

PHOTOS (POSED BY MODELS): PAMELA HANSON/TRUNK ARCHIVE. *NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED ‘SO, HOW ARE THINGS?’ Each time, those four words at the start of our therapy session would make me feel sick. James* was always first to answer. ‘Um, OK,’ he’d say. ‘Things are a bit better.’ We both knew this was a lie but somehow it felt like the right answer, what we thought our counsellor wanted to hear. But it wouldn’t take long before the truth would surface and a dissection of our increasing misery would ensue. When we started couples therapy, we’d been married for seven years, together for 10. It was my idea to go and I felt positive. Therapy wasn’t a last resort to save our marriage – our relationship was solid and we both…

MODEL WEARS: KNIT ZIP-FRONT JUMPSUIT, £169, WHISTLES (WHISTLES.COM), EARRINGS, £6, ACCESSORIZE (ACCESSORIZE.COM); DENIM JACKET, £24.95, GAP (GAP.CO.UK), WHITE VEST, £2.99, H&M (HM.COM), JOGGERS, £30, TOPSHOP (TOPSHOP.COM), EARRINGS, £6, RIVER ISLAND (RIVERISLAND.COM) HERE IT IS , the latest edition of the Shoespaper. Returning for its ninth issue, the collaboration between Grazia and our friends at OFFICE is bigger and better than ever and, of course, bursting with spring/ summer ’18 shoespiration, from the hottest heels to the coolest kicks. This season, we do some fancy footwork and get on-board with the show-off shoe trend, celebrate the return of the ugly trainer (trust us, it’s a big deal), salute spring’s must-have woven flats, and take a peep at what’s on Team Grazia’s spring wish list. Plus, there’s even an edit for the…

PORTRAIT: ED MILES. HAIR AND MAKE-UP: FIONA EUSTACE. STYLING: JENNIFER MICHALSKI-BRAY. KATHERINE WEARS: SHIRT, RAILS; JEANS, MOTHER; LEFT-HAND RING, MAYA MAGAL; RIGHT-HAND RING, MARCO BICEGO; BRACELET, THE POMMIER. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS: REX FEATURES, GETTY IMAGES I WAS RECENTLY introduced to the main owl from the Harry Potter films. Sorry to name drop, but my daughter, Violet Ryan, was with me. As we watched the owl perform tricks for frozen mice rewards, the trainer asked, ‘Does anyone know why this enormous bird is almost weightless?’ Violet’s hand shot up, ‘Because she’s an actress!’ Ah, only eight years old and Violet knows the pressures of Hollywood all too well. Owls’ bones are apparently hollow, but are puffed out by their feathers. Feathers can fuck off. I’ve been noticing them all over the S/S…

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PHOTOS: GETTY. *NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED Evans verdict ‘will shake women's confidence in law’ Sexual history of rape victims still being put on trial IT TOOK FOUR decades for Hesta* to find the strength to speak about the time she was raped as a child. She eventually decided that giving evidence at the trial of her rapist was worth the pain of reliving the ordeal. If he was convicted, it wouldn’t just be justice for her, but for the five other girls he’d abused. But when, without warning, her previous sexual history (an earlier rape by another man) was dredged up in front of the courtroom, she was speechless with shock. ‘I got tunnel vision and couldn’t see,’ she says of the day in November when a defence lawyer brought…

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OAK SMOKED WATER Originally created for the famously experimental chef Heston Blumenthal, oak smoked water has become a cool cheat’s way of adding a natural smokiness to any dish and is now a store-cupboard staple among many chefs. It’s made by the team at Welsh salt company Halen Môn, who smoke ordinary water in an oak smoker for four days. Smoked water gives a natural richness and depth of flavour to meat and chicken dishes, as well as risotto and stocks. You can even freeze it and add it to cocktails! Find Halen Môn Oak Smoked Water at ocado.com SMOKY BEEF CHILLI WITH HERB PEA RICE Feeds: 4-6 Preparation: 30 minutes Cooking: 1.5 hours INGREDIENTS Generous glug of rapeseed oil 1 white onion, grated 2 carrots, grated 1 stick of…

RUPERT STREET The new place to head if you’re in need of a quality eat in Central London is Rupert Street – nestled between Soho, Chinatown and Leicester Square. With Taiwanese Xu, Spanish Tapas Brindisa, NYC-inspired Dirty Bones, Indian small plate specialists Kricket and Japanese Shackfuyu (and more), your tastebuds will thank you. COWARTH PARK Get marooned at Cowarth Park and enjoy a decadent meal in the fine dining restaurant which has just been awarded a Michelin star. The five-star mansion is rumoured to be the hotel of choice for a number of Harry and Meghan’s wedding guests and is certainly apt for royalty. This is rural grandeur at its finest. dorchestercollection.com/ascot/cowarth-park PICASSO 1932 AT TATE MODERN The first solo Picasso show at Tate Modern, and one of the most…

WHO’S JUDGING WHO? Was Elizabeth Day being ironic or completely oblivious in Has the black dress protest become another way to judge women? (5 Mar)? The introductory commentary about the Duchess of Cambridge’s clothing managed simultaneously to embody reverse snobbery and to patronise ‘bored housewives’. A lot of women can’t afford the obscenely expensive clothing many magazines promote as the norm but most don’t consider ‘mid-market’ something to be sneered at. Lucia The argument was that we mustn’t criticise women for what they wear, and yet the opening paragraph judged the Duchess of Cambridge on her fashion choices, in an almost Mean Girls way. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but when the argument is against a world that constantly pits women against each other, don’t openly criticise a…

HERE’S TO KNOWING WHAT WE DESERVE What do women want? It’s a question that over 10,000 women were asked in a national survey in 1996. Fast-forward more than two decades and the survey has been repeated to find out what’s changed. What’s striking is how similar some of the answers are: we’re still asking for equal pay as well as an end to gender-based violence and victim-blaming. But there’s cause for optimism, too, because the What Women Want 2.0 survey, published last week, revealed what women believe they deserve. Instead of merely ‘wanting’ change, we expect it now. There’s an urgency to it today because we’ve called time on inequality. And that is surely a win to keep us driven.…

PHOTOS: THEURBANSPOTTER, GETTY A POLO NECK is practical. A polo neck is warm. A polo neck is, in the right circumstances, terribly chic. What a polo neck is not is noteworthy or exciting – or so you thought. This season, the polo is acquiring unexpected power status in our wardrobes, graduating from a solid supporting role to the Main Event. You could see them on the S/S ’18 catwalks: layered under rodeo shirts at Calvin Klein and with retro florals at Balenciaga, in white sequins at Céline and bold stripes at Louis Vuitton. And unlike a lot of catwalk trends, the power polo translates seamlessly IRL. At London Fashion Week in February, the street-style set kept snug by layering them under shirts and knits (Calvin Klein’s stretch cotton versions with…

PHOTOS: LMK,VANTAGENEWS.COM, REX. PRADA EXCLUSIVES FOR MARTHALOUISA.COM BY MICHAEL PUDELKA; SHOES £675 WHEN ALICIA VIKANDER was papped on holiday in Ibiza last year with abs more defined than most Olympic athletes, it was met with typical understatement online (the hundreds of comments varied from ‘Next time someone says Alicia Vikander is not strong enough to play Tomb Raider , I will just spam them with her abs’ to ‘Alicia Vikander can crush me with her abs and I will thank her’). But collective meltdown aside, the photos were also an early indication of just how intensely the 29-year-old actor had been preparing for the role of Lara Croft, previously played by Angelina Jolie, in the new Tomb Raider film. Now, in an exclusive interview with Grazia , Alicia’s trainer, Magnus…

I’M NOT ONE for sweeping statements, but there is one I stand by: at some point in life, all women have had some kind of disordered relationship with food. And, as a generation, we have never been more universally messed up than we are right now. Last month, it was reported that Millennials are heading towards becoming the most overweight generation ever* , while another recent survey found that women feel ‘most body confident’ when they’re medically underweight** . It’s not great and a lot of it is down to the confusing mixed messages we receive on a daily basis. We’re told to eat clean, then we’re told to go gluten-free – then it’s all about being vegan. And wait, do we live off detox teas or follow a juice…

PHOTOS: FLYNET PICTURES, CATWALKING.COM, REX. CATWALK IMAGES FROM TOP: CHRISTOPHER KANE, DIOR.V&A:VAM.AC.UK. SUNGLASSES FROM TOP: £215, REJINA PYO (NET-A-PORTER.COM); £20,TOPSHOP (TOPSHOP.COM); £25, & OTHER STORIES (STORIES.COM) Buy big pants, a necessar y accompaniment to spring ’s sheer dresses. Log on. You can finally buy Céline online in the UK, merci beaucoup 24sevres.com. Order chips with everything. Harry and Kim make the case for carb loading. Dress with joy. Tickets to the V&A’s exhibition Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up are now on sale. Rose-tint your outlook: pink sunnies are a shortcut to optimism.…

BEING ALEXA CHUNG must be strange. Because, for someone so famous, the question often volleyed around is: what does she actually do? Of course, Alexa ‘does’ quite a lot. She started modelling at 16, then became known to a wider audience at 22 as host of cult music show Pop World. Since then, she’s worn the hats of designer, writer, brand ambassador, businesswoman and, as is de rigueur for any Millennial poster girl, occasional DJ. She’s a renaissance woman for the Instagram generation. For someone so ubiquitous, Alexa, 34, is oddly elusive and almost impossible to pinpoint, a curious mix of spiky guardedness and disarming frankness, who can switch from bombshell to goofball with a tilt of the head. As we talk, she ricochets in and out of different voices…

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DIY DRY, ITCHY SKIN: ‘Eczema is common at this time of year,’ says Dr Mayou. Moisturise with a cream such as Cetraben twice a day, add oils to your bathwater and upgrade to a steroid cream such as Eumovate if needed. SPOTS: ‘Pimples can be treated at home if they DUHQ’W LQflDPHG RU SDLQIXO. Start with benzoyl peroxide or salicylic acid to help dry them out, and avoid overly rich creams.’ GP LOCALISED VISIBLE RASH: ‘If something isn’t responding to simple creams and lotions after a week or two, or appears to be spreading, visit your GP,’ says Dr Mayou. STUBBORN SPOTS: ‘Spots that aren’t responding to over-the-counter products may require a visit to your GP, who can prescribe either oral or topical antibiotic or retinoid creams.’ DERM ACNE: ‘LDUJH,…

PHOTOS: GIANANDREA TRAINA AGONIST: HARVEYNICHOLS.COM. ARMANI PRIVÉ: SELFRIDGES.COMSELFRIDGES.COM. BULGARI: . CIRE TRUDON: LIBERTYLONDON.COM.GUCCI: JOHNLEWIS.COM. HERMÈS: HARRODS.COM. 'BRIT(ISH): ON RACE, IDENTITY AND BELONGING' BY AFUA HIRSCH (£16.99, JONATHAN CAPE) IS OUT NOW ‘I was conscious of my otherness, of not fitting in’ AS A 14-YEAR-OLD girl in the mid-1990s, society was changing, and so was I. We mourned Kurt Cobain and celebrated Girl Power. I could never have articulated the ways in which grunge and feminism were taking already-shifting gender roles and marketing them to us, but I sensed it and I smelled of it. My first fragrance was a classic invention of the era: CK One, by Calvin Klein. It smelled fresh, rebellious, and with its scent of green tea and top notes of citrus, full of energ y and…

* NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED All too often women without children are subject to pity and questioning. But, says Julia* , not getting pregnant turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to her WAITING ANXIOUSLY for the second blue line to appear (or not) on my pregnancy test, my heart pounded. My period was five days late and I had convinced myself I was expecting. My breasts were swollen and the smell of a friend’s cigarette made me nauseous. Thomas* and I had only been together a few months after meeting online and falling silly in love. But we’d decided, on our third date, as he walked me home from a night out, that we’d forgo birth control and start trying for a baby right away. He…

PHOTO: LUCY LAUCHT Hawa Malal, Jaipur Glowing pink in the Indian sun is one of the Pink City’s most famous buildings, the ‘Palace of Winds’. Built on to the Royal Palace in 1799, it allowed royal women who lived in purdah (seclusion) to watch processions through the beautifully intricate fretwork of screened windows without being seen. They also stayed cool thanks to the breeze that flowed through the building. One of the loveliest times to view the exterior is at sunrise, when the early morning rays turn it a rich orange-pink. Do go to the top and peer through the windows for fabulous views of Jaipur – and to enjoy the breeze on a hot day.…

Red Clocks Leni Zumas (£16.99,THE BOROUGH PRESS) Timing is everything – and the release of Red Clocks couldn’t be more apt. Set in a near-future USA, where abortion is now illegal, it centres around five women’s stories and asks, ‘What is a woman for?’ Every embryo has been granted rights of life, liberty and property. IVF is banned, and unmarried women are about to be prohibited from adopting children. With both US and UK politicians openly discussing abortion rights and the Irish referendum on the horizon, the book doesn’t feel like a dystopian piece, more a thought-provoking essay. MORE NOVELS STIRRING UP ABORTION DEBATE The Mothers Brit Bennett (£11.99, RIVERHEAD) Mourning her mother’s suicide, and about to leave high school, 17-year-old Nadia Turner starts a relationship with the local pastor’s…

PHOTO: BBC IN WELSH DRAMA Keeping Faith, a husband gets up to go to work and kisses his wife and young kids goodbye, never to be seen again. In a post-Doctor Foster climate of British drama (Trauma, Collateral, even Strike), where the domestic situation of protagonists has been ramped up to tangents that shift between the ludicrous, the hysterical and back again, it manages to straddle a line between fanciful storylines and fabulously neighbourly characters of the type you might choose to hang out with rather than be ritualistically appalled by. This gripping story is a co-commission between BBC Wales and S4C, which went out in the motherland last November. Its ground-breaking backstory has been recorded simultaneously in English and the native tongue. It currently has a home on BBC…

SUPPORT IS OUT THERE My dad passed away 10 years ago at the age of 58; it was very hard and my mum really struggled (School of thought, 5 Mar). She found talking to divorcees made it so much worse as she couldn’t grieve for the retirement she was denied or the man she loved. She’s found real strength and made great friends through a social networking group called The Jolly Dollies. They’re free, national and welcome any women who have been widowed. It really took the burden off my sister and me. You can find your local branch through a quick google or Facebook search. Christine…

PHOTO: TESH/AUGUST EVERYONE makes mistakes – Britney Spears literally married Kevin Federline – and we are no different. In recent years, we’ve been guilty of eye-rolling slightly (a lot) as Reese Witherspoon’s production company has bought the rights to every book going (Gone Girl, Wild, Big Little Lies, Luckiest Girl Alive, that erotic novella your mum dashed off after mainlining 50 Shades…). At times it felt like a Hollywood star treating the literary world like her own personal game of Pokémon – Reese just had to catch ’em all. But last week, amid reports that she has 12 more book-to-screen adaptations on the way, Reese explained her decision to develop roles for the likes of Octavia Spencer and Kristen Wiig: ‘I’ve done enough for myself. I had a whole great…

1 UP LENNIE JAMES Sky’s Save Me is a dream: nuanced, smart, compassionate, unexpected. James doesn’t just star in it: he wrote it. Kudos and lust for that. 2. NEW IN OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND 101, and suing the makers of (our fave) The Feud for Catherine Zeta Jones’s portrayal of her as a bitch and gossip. The delicious, Feud-appropriate drama of this situation! 3. NEW IN TIFFANY HADDISH AND MAYA RUDOLPH Most admired double act of the Oscars, tipped as future presenters. Also, Haddish says Brad Pitt has agreed to date her next year, if they’re both still single. 4. NON-MOVER PENÉLOPE CRUZ For her Donatella in …Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, now on iPlayer. We should like her to play us, should the opportunity ever arise. 5. UP BILL…

PHOTOS: REX, BACKGRID, PA I’VE BEEN LIVING in a wonderful, surreal dream-world ever since the moment our names were called out at last week’s Oscars ceremony. Sitting at the front next to the stage, I was a nervous wreck. I went from daunted to emotional to utter disbelief to ‘Oh my god! I need to get up on stage and speak in front of 33 million people now.’ I made a promise to Maisie Sly, the six-year-old deaf star of our film, that if we won, I’d do my speech in sign language. I didn’t want her to have to look at her interpreter and take her eyes off the stage. When we were casting, we did a nationwide search to find her. We contacted all the deaf charities in…

PHOTOS: GETTY, INSTAGRAM.COM/@ALPHA_MEOWS, @MARGOTROBBIE THEY’RE THE ONLY Hollywood power couple who can claim to have co-produced an Oscar-nominated film and lived in a Clapham flat-share with four norms. But now word has reached Grazia that the pressure of awards season has taken its toll on Margot Robbie and her husband Tom Ackerley. Last week, an eyewitness at the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party claimed Tom had stormed out of the building after an apparent row. Margot – who had been nominated for Best Actress for her role in their film, I, Tonya, but lost out to Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – was left to be comforted by Isla Fisher. Before that, at the BAFTAs, a second source observed Tom sitting alone at an after-party while Margot chatted…

FANS WILL HAVE their body glitter poised at news that the Spice Girls are weighing up a long hoped for reunion, but experience tells me that this will also mean the usual grumbling and naysaying about their feminism. Last week, Mel C said: ‘We think it is a very powerful year for women in general and it seems very ftting to get our act together and be a part of that.’ But in the age of #MeToo, don’t the Spice Girls feel a little lightweight? There’s something about the pop group’s message of girl power that tends to provoke an eyeroll in the generations that preceded mine. They’re like the older sisters telling us the Spice Girls are manufactured dross and that we should be headbanging to Hole. And to…

L’Oréal Professionnel Parisian Nudes. ‘This in-salon ‘Color me French’ technique recreates the highs and lows of natural colour. It looks simple but it’s actually quite sophisticated.’ Glossier Boy Brow, £14. ‘One of my golden beauty rules is to accentuate favourite features, so I brush this through my brows.’ La Mer The Concealer, £60. ‘I don’t wear a lot of concealer under my eyes, so this is perfect.’ Lanc™me Grandi™se Mascara, £26.50. ‘You should always curl lashes before adding mascara to really open up eyes but, failing that, this does the trick.’ L’Oréal Professionnel Pro Fiber Re-Create Shampoo, £13.49. ‘My hair is so smooth when I wash it with this. It also helps prolong the results of my in-salon treatments.’…

IT’S TOUGH BEING BRITISH: forever apologising, having to maintain those stiff upper lips, not to mention putting up with an overwrought epidermis. That’s right, when it comes to skin issues, us long-suffering Brits have been handed a rather raw deal. The reason? Because our relationship with people whose job it is to cosset our complexions – namely dermatologists – is non-existent. ‘Women in this country accept a rather poor lot with their skin,’ says cosmetic dermatologist Dr Sam Bunting. ‘They often find that their local doctor doesn’t take much of an interest and they end up thinking what they have is what they’re stuck with.’ ‘In countries such as the US, Canada, France, Germany and Italy, there are 10 times the number of derms per head than there are in…

PHOTOS: PETER LINDBERGH FOR LANCôME © 2018. ISABELLA ROSSELLINI IS THE CAMPAIGN FACE OF LANCôME RENERGIE MULTI-GLOW CREAM; ADVERTISING ARCHIVE WHEN ISABELLA ROSSELLINI started working with French cosmetics brand Lancôme in 1982, it was an entirely different world. ‘It was very much “be beautiful and keep quiet”,’ Isabella tells Grazia. ‘I was to be the subject of beautiful photos but my voice was kept anonymous.’ After 14 years with the brand, including a prominent role as the face of cult fragrance Trésor, Isabella (43 at the time) was let go and replaced by Juliette Binoche, 12 years her junior. Far from naïve as to the reasons behind her departure, Isabella explained in an interview, ‘They told me they needed somebody younger. The advertising was aspirational, and even though they have…

PHOTOS: ED MILES Q ‘Three of my oldest school friends have asked me to be their bridesmaid. I’m flattered, but worried I’ll be expected to repay the favour when the time comes. I think highly of them but we’ve drifted apart and I have other close friends now. How do I navigate through this without upsetting them?’ ELEANOR SAYS: I’m assuming you’re going to go ahead and be a bridesmaid for each of them because it would bring them happiness and, in reality, saying no would probably cause a lot of hurt and you’d feel very guilty. This is a very specific context, but what you’re talking about in terms of evolving friendships and the associated expectations is interesting. During our lives we make lots of attachments – to family…

PHOTO: DEAN N BELCHER I HAVE NOT been in a room with this many awkward-looking horny people since my year 12 Valentine’s disco. And, I won’t lie, it is very exciting. I’m in a bar in East London, about to take part in a social experiment that promises to make you ‘fall in love with a stranger’. It’s based on a scientific study from more than 20 years ago, when psychologist Arthur Aron claimed he could make strangers fall in love with the help of 36 questions. The experiment ended with a wedding for the participants – and an invite for everyone in the lab. The research went viral again in 2015, when writer Mandy Len Catron tried the experiment for The New York Times and, spoiler alert, fell in…

West Cork Lauded as the new true crime podcast to get addicted to – but instead of being set in America, this one lies closer to home, in Ireland. It surrounds the unsolved murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, who was killed outside her holiday home in a small Irish town. You’ll be gripped. You, Me And The Big C You, Me And The Big C is the coolest club you never want to be a part of. The brand new podcast by BBC Radio 5 live explores life with cancer through the eyes of three 30-something women who are too busy living to worry about dying. Grown Up Land From the team behind The Guilty Feminist comes BBC Radio 4’s GrownUpLand. Each week, comedians Mae Martin (below), Bisha K…

BLÅZING a fashion trail FOR ACNE STUDIOS’ third Blå Konst collection, the cool Swedish brand gives us metallic and pastel jeans and jackets. Feeling bold? There’s also an abstract print inspired by chewing gum splodges by artist Gabriel Kuni. From £35, acnestudios.com BIG LITTLE girls’ night out THE INTERNET promptly went into meltdown last week after Marina and the Diamonds, FKA twigs, Florence Welch and Lana Del Rey were pictured dining together. Does this signal the advent of a new supergroup/cast of Big Little Lies/dream coven? Stay tuned for more info as we have it. GYM WEAR, everywhere SHE’S ONE OF Kate Middleton’s favourite designers, and now Emilia Wickstead is bringing her signature elegance to the gym in a new collaboration with activewear brand Bodyism. Expect floral hoodies and graphic…