Table of contents for Issue 681 in Grazia

How many SUNDRESSES have you bought this summer? I just acquired MY 54TH, and, let me tell you: this one is The Dream! I definitely just Won Frocks! It is broderie anglaise, ergo virtually see-through but in a cute, faintly prissy way, sloppy, fally down off the shoulders-y with seven ruffled tiers, maxi (so I’m bound to trip over it every third step), and white (so I’m bound to pour coffee down it on its first outing ). If I’m honest, it’s more than a tad reminiscent of sundresses Nos. 17 and 33, but let’s not dwell on that, because right now: I could not be happier! No. 54 is so damn perfect for wandering through the back streets of Juan-les-Pins while carrying a straw basket filled with macarons and…

A CURE FOR TRUMP fatigue might finally be on its way. Netflix has announced the news we’ve all been waiting for: the Obamas are coming to a (small) screen near you. And about bloody time. While details remain relatively scarce, it’s been announced that the former POTUS and First Lady have entered into a multi-year agreement with Netflix, to produce ‘a diverse mix of content’, including the potential for scripted series, docu-series, documentaries and features. The 44th President explained that, through the pair’s production company, Higher Ground Productions, he and Michelle ‘hope to cultivate and curate the talented, inspiring, creative voices who are able to promote greater empathy and understanding between peoples, and help them share their stories with the world’. And we can’t help but feel like that is…

IN FASHION, details can make a huge impact – and the difference between something being ‘meh’ or major. And so it is that we’ve come to crave boat necks right now (except we’re calling them bateau – everything sounds better in French, non?). Wide, high necklines that follow the collarbone and finish at the shoulders, they’re a subtle but effective switch-up. The beauty of the bateau is that they perform the double whammy of being both of-the-moment and easy (revealing the décolletage and shoulders is universally flattering ); the perfect nod to summer, if you’re not quite optimistic enough to shed sleeves entirely yet. An elegant upgrade from those Bardot tops, which are now ubiquitous summer wardrobe fodder, the bateau neck is also known as the Sabrina. Why? A nod…

When INTERVIEW magazine’s founder Andy Warhol declared that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, he underestimated the raw power of his own branding wizardry. The magazine of his making, which launched in 1969, managed almost five decades. Last week, the sad news of its closure was announced. Interview was the grande dame of independent publishing. Its first slogan declared the magazine ‘the crystal ball of pop’, a tenet to which it remained mostly loyal. Its influence will reverberate forever. The debt of gratitude the venerated British indies i-D and The Face owed Interview - by transposing graphic, sexy, high-fashion NYC glamour to UK counterculture – hardly needs pointing out. At its lengthy peak, first under the editorship of Bob Colacello, then Ingrid Sischy, Interview offered readers…

FASHION NATALIE WANSBROUGH-JONES MODEL Shahira Yusuf at StormCASTING DIRECTOR HollyScott Lidgett CASTINGASSISTANT Chloé MedleyHAIR & HIJAB STYLING Susanne LichteneggerMAKE-UP Natsumi Naritausing Nars DIGITALASSISTANT John MunroLIGHTING ASSISTANTS ScottArchibald and Matt WalshFASHION ASSISTANTS Charly Suggett, CassieWalker and Conor Bond shahira Yusuf isn’t like other models. For a start, she took to Twitter – as opposed to Instagram, the supermodel favourite – to announce her arrival in the fashion world. ‘I ain’t no Kendall Jenner, but I’m a black Muslim girl from East London that’s about to finesse the modelling industry,’ she posted in November last year, accompanied by photos of her in elegantly modest tailoring and an updo hijab. It quickly went viral, and the 20-year-old City & Islington college student found herself at the centre of a whirlwind of retweets, fandom…

I MUST CONFESS, the only reason I arranged an interview with Ralph & Russo for our Luxury issue – aside from the fact that I’m fascinated by the world’s fastest growing luxury brand – was to find out one thing: were they, or were they not, doing the dress? By the time you read this, Meghan Markle’s Givenchy wedding gown by Clare Waight Keller has been appraised by approximately 1.4 billion TV viewers worldwide, with around the same amount of column inches dedicated to its every detail. However, when I meet the Australian-born, London-based duo, Tamara Ralph (creative director) and Michael Russo (her life and business partner) in April – three weeks before the wedding – the pair are odds-on favourites, with Erdem, Stella McCartney and Christopher Bailey also in…

YOU KNOW how healthy your hair looks and feels when you’ve just been to the hairdressers? Well now, thanks to syoss, you can get the professional treatment at home every day – at a fraction of the price. We all know that blow-drying, straightening and colouring can wreak havoc on your hair – but we still do it, of course! Now you can get your gloss back with syoss’s simple three-step rescue ritual. The salon-quality range’s shampoo, conditioner and serum are all infused with syoss’s unique SalonPlex technology – a bonding innovation famously used in salons – which helps to repair broken bonds within the hair shaft, restoring dry, damaged locks to their former gleaming glory. Exclusive to Tesco (pop it on your shopping list!), syoss has now added styling…

RUNNING saved my life. I know that sounds dramatic, because when I read those words I can barely believe them myself. As a sufferer of obsessive compulsive disorder with a long history of depression, there were many things that were going to save my life – a career, the right man, a baby, 16 pints of lager after work – but running was not one of them. If you’d told me 18 months ago that running was going to change my life beyond recognition, that it was going to give me the things I had always dreamed of – sanity, and the ability to accept myself – I would have asked you if you’d been drinking and then ordered some booze myself. But do you know what? Running did save…

Do a budget Calculate your income, minus expenses, and work out what you have left over. Update your tech Apps like Starling Bank and Yolt allow you to categorise your spending habits, set alerts and track transactions in real time. Set realistic goals Use an app like Unsplurge to encourage you to save. Share resources Find a group where you can share money worries and advice. Outsource If you can, invest in a virtual PA to chase invoices, or a tool such as Xero that sends your invoices.…

The best time to visit the Great Barrier Reef is June to October. Up north, temperatures are more comfortable and there is less rain. The closest airport is Cairns, however, there are no direct flights from London (stop-offs include Sydney or Brisbane) but it is well-connected within Australia. Travelbag offers two nights at the Pullman Cairns International Hotel, two nights at The Great Southern Hotel Brisbane, two nights at the Oceans Resort and Spa Hervey Bay and two nights on Lady Elliot Island from £2,024 per person, including return Qantas flights from London and flights from Hervey Bay to Lady Elliot Island; travelbag.co.uk. For more, go to queensland.com…

1984 George Orwell (£8.99, PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS) If you read this book at school, it’s worth reappraising now – its terrifying plot and details make compellingly uncomfortable reading in 2018. Set in Airstrip One, we follow Winston Smith, a worker for the Ministry of Truth, as he begins to question the world around him. Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro (£8.99, FABER & FABER) A heart-wrenching novel, as beautiful as it is strange and distressing – the characters live in a world not meant for them, ‘carers’ designed to be organ donors. Science-fiction in plot, the themes of mortality, love, friendship and growing up still strike a chord with anyone who reads it. The Road Cormac McCarthy (£8.99, PIC ADOR) A brutal and savage story of a father and son…

WHEN THE REFORMATTED Love Island returned in 2015, it was watched by a paltry half-million viewers an episode. Clearly, those loyal fans told their mates what magic was unfolding before their eyes. Last year’s final – in which Amber Davies and Kem Cetinay were pronounced homecoming king and queen of the orgiastic Majorcan love-nest in a cut-throat viewer vote-out – was watched by four million. When it returns next Monday, Love Island will do so as a twice-nominated BAFTA winner. During season one, Love Island’s irrepressible madame d’amour Caroline Flack had to switch between hosting shifts on The X Factor to what was then considered the lowlier gig on Island. By her own admission, given an alternate twist of career fate she could easily be a contestant on the…

ACNE STUDIOS’ family values ’90 S MODEL Tasha Tilberg, her wife Laura Wilson and their six-year-old twins Bowie and Gray are the stars of Acne’s new Modern Family campaign. The foursome were shot at their Canadian home to celebrate the launch of the second Face Motif collection. All together now, ‘Awww.’ Available 31 May, from £35; acnestudios.com GALLAGHER BOYS roll with it LOOKING AT THESE two lads, Some Might Say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Liam Gallagher’s sons – Gene (far right), 16, from his marriage to Nicole Appleton, and Lennon, 18, whose mum is Patsy Kensit – were pictured at a Rolling Stones gig with half-sister Molly, 21, with trademark brows and full of swagger, like Gallagher brothers from the good old days. KATY & ORLANDO…

AS GRAZIA WENT TO PRESS, Irish people were still flocking to the polls to vote in the referendum on whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Irish constitution, which makes abortion illegal in almost all circumstances. As we crossed our fingers for the result, we were moved by the galvanising power of thousands who campaigned for a yes vote – from those sharing their (often epic) journeys #hometovote, to groups like ‘Grandfathers for Yes’ (no you’re crying ). A special mention to our longtime comedy heroes, and now actual heroes, Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan (above, centre), who worked tirelessly over recent months to give the campaign visibility around the world, and who last week created a hilarious video featuring other ‘Irish Comedians Abroad’, such as Roisin Conaty, Chris…

We all know it’s possible for our periods to synchronise when we spend a lot of time with close friends, or notice our high spirits sink when we’re around someone anxious, stressed or low. Now, research confirms we do catch the emotions of the people we spend time with. Psychologists are calling the phenomenon Emotion Contagion, which means we transfer our feelings to each other by mimicking those we interact with. But instead of quarantining ourselves away when we’re sad, it shows how capable we are of relating to each other and empathising. So let’s use this to lift each other up. If stress is highly contagious, surely enthusiasm and happiness are too?…

THE DUCHESS OF SUSSEX is one week into her new royal life in Britain and settling in just grandly – even conforming to the royal rule of wearing beige tights (à la K-Middy) as she joined Prince Charles’s 70th birthday celebrations last week. But sources in Hollywood tell Grazia that, while the new duchess is now, of course, living in the UK, Meghan, 36, still holds a special place in her heart for her native state of California and has been house-hunting for a Malibu-based property for herself and Prince Harry, 33. ‘It seems Meghan doesn’t want to cut all ties with where she grew up,’ said a Hollywood source. ‘She’s still super-close to her mother, Doria, who lives in LA, and she has many friends there still, so it…

Sesame Street (2009) After Michelle recorded an episode about healthy eating and nutrition with Elmo and the Kids, she declared it was ‘probably the best thing I’ve done at the White House’. Between Two Ferns (2014) Zach Galifianakis’s talk show saw Obama trade hilarious insults with The Hangover star in a bid to reach young viewers and encourage them to sign up for health insurance. It has received a record 23 million views to date (and was all thanks to Bradley Cooper, who introduced the pair). Running Wild With Bear Grylls (2015) Barack and Bear face the Alaskan wilderness together in this incredible episode focused on climate change. From the funny (who knew the former POTUS was terrified of bears?) to the surreal (Obama tucking into a half-eaten wild salmon…

Define your success Maybe you’re chasing the wrong type of success. Define what success means to you and, once you have a definition clear in your mind, you’ll be focused and less likely to compare yourself to others. Grow your network People make the world go around and, if you aren’t connecting with enough of them, you’re doing your career a disservice. Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn are all valid platforms to grow your network and keep those relationships warm. Bring your personality to work Your expertise, experience, personal style… all this and more make up your personal brand. Know who you are and spend time working out exactly what your brand can do for others and how to communicate it succinctly. Accept advice We can’t excel alone. There are so…

IT’S TIRING, ISN’T IT? The swiping, the messaging, the weary certainty that Ben, 34, a 6ft tall ‘creative’ is in fact 37, 5ft 9in and creative only with the truth. Dating apps are the natural home of the sociopathic liar, who bugs you again and again when you don’t reply, or whose profile photo is so old that you turn up to meet him and think he’s sent his dad. Terrible banter, requests for nudes and a middle finger when they don’t come through, then, worse still, the dates themselves: sitting through two hours of someone’s life story and halitosis, going to block them as soon as you’re in the cab home, only to find they got there first. Oh well, what does it matter? He’s nobody, just a face…

THE BLAZER Everyone’s go-to tailoring piece isn’t just for the office. Transform yours with embellished accessories. STYLE NOTE Sharpen up summer dresses by layering up THE MOM JEANS Team this season’s on-trend denim shape p with hot tonal shades. STYLE NOTE Go bold and opt for statement accessories PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES THE WHITE SHIRT This timeless wardrobe classic, teamed with clean tailoring and statement accessories, is given a new lease of life. STYLE NOTE Wear with XL shades – instant glamour guaranteed THE MIDI SKIRT The length is here to stay and it’s more versatile than ever! STYLE NOTE Add tassels and woven accessories to master modern summer romance…

THE BIGGEST trend in the beauty world right now? Clean Beauty – naturally derived products free from unnecessary synthetic ingredients, such as parabens and micro-plastics. And it’s something we’re happy to get on-board with. After all, why include chemicals that could have a detrimental effect on our bodies – and the environment – when there are amazing natural products that do the same job, and more? It’s something that Holland & Barrett is blazing a trail on. As the UK’s leading clean beauty retailer, it has already banned parabens (a preservative) from all its stores and stocks almost 2,000 beauty products online at hollandand barrett.com. So there’s something to suit every need and budget – meet five of our favourites and say yes to Clean Beauty… See the full range…

THINK ‘REHAB’ AND you might think white padded rooms, social services and the type of people who shouldn’t be raising kids. The Priory is an addiction rehab clinic and mental health hospital, reportedly for stars like Kate Moss. It’s a place for burned-out party animals, isn’t it? My experience, walking through those infamous doors at six months pregnant, couldn’t have been more different. I have suffered with anxiety since I was a little girl – diagnosed at 18 after my first foray into therapy. Anxiety is that annoying ex who keeps hanging around when you want to move on. It emphasises every negative thing you’ve ever done and turns positives against you. Eleven years passed and, even with a loving husband, I was convinced he was going to leave or…

VIEW POINT Lake Como, Italy When staying on the shore of this iconic lake in northern Italy, the thing to do is take a water taxi to dinner. The Venetian-style boats (try taxiboatvarenna.com) are a super-glam way to travel. Skim across the waves, the breeze in your hair and, around you, spectacular views of forested hills dotted with quaint villages, beautiful villas – including, of course, George Clooney’s – and in the distance, the towering Alps. Fabulous.…

GOOSEBERRIES Strawberries and blackberries may grab most of the headlines, but I really love gooseberries. This classic British soft fruit is tart and vibrant green when eaten early in the season, softening and sweetening as we reach the summer months of June to August. Rich in vitamin C, it is commonly used in baking and is excellent in pies, crumbles, tarts and jams, but although it’s mainly used in desserts, it also pairs well with fish and other seafood dishes, so don’t be afraid to use it differently. FIND ANNA AT ANNABARNETTCOOKS.COM AND INSTAGRAM @ANNABARNETTCOOKS QUICK PICKLED GRAPE AND GOOSEBERRY MACKEREL SALAD Feeds: 2-4 Preparation: 20 minutes Pickling: 30 minutes INGREDIENTS Pickled gooseberries and grapes: 200ml white wine vinegar 100g caster sugar 130g red grapes, halved 130g gooseberries, halved ½…

Nobody Panic The hilarious and brilliant Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates launch their brand-new podcast – formerly The Debrief Podcast, helping you deal with modern life. Useful and funny in equal measure. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry with Eddie Mair BBC presenter Eddie Mair brings you a 15-20 minute podcast with the latest updates from the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire. Important listening, the pod includes analysis from BBC correspondents, regular expert contributors and people involved directly with the fire and the tragic events that unfolded. Grazia Life Advice We had to shout ourselves out, didn’t we? Subscribe now to get the best guidance around from the likes of Dolly Alderton, Maya Jama (below) and Tanya Burr. Released every Tuesday (like your favourite mag), we get inspirational guests to…

WORK’S TOUGH , your bank account’s haemorrhaging money and you’ve realised you’re never going to break in those new shoes.You need a hit of your favourite comfort films – the ones that make you laugh, make you cry and, when they end, you want to watch them all over again. Well, Sky Cinema has got you covered, so get the girls round and make a date with your sofa. For straight up belly laughs you can’t beat Will Ferrell’s ’70s Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, whose giant ego is threatened when a woman joins the team. Or how about poignant tears with your lols, with Brit classic Love Actually? Sing your heart out and share Sandy’s pain in the inimitable Grease, and get ready for the power ballads of…

BRINGING US TOGETHER Thank you for your royal wedding issue (28 May). Without wanting to sound gushy, it was brilliant to witness a part of history. The couple, dashing Harry and a beautiful, elegant Meghan, looked so in love. It would have been hard for even a disinterested person not to have been touched by their immense happiness. The ceremony was emotional, sentimental yet modern and glitzy. I loved how a multicultural nation just lit up with happiness. Manis TRULY BEAUTIFUL Just read Anna Silverman’s Whatever Happened To The Sisterhood? (28 May) about the abuse suffered by Laura Tenoudji on Instagram following her appearance on the red carpet at Cannes. Radiant, happy, confident, stunning – those are the adjectives that spring to mind, a bit like Meghan at the weekend.…

1. UP JANET JACKSON Owned* (*how the young people say ‘was triumphant’) last week’s Billboard Awards, with a medley of greatest hits – all we ever want any pop star to do, ta all the same. 2. NEW IN REVEREND MICHAEL CURRY We don’t really Do God – but we do Do highly charismatic delivery of a sermon on Love. We also Do unanticipated scene stealing. Top marks! 3. NEW IN TINA DAHELEY Long-time fave of ours, funny and sharp. Really enjoying her on BBC Breakfast; got some Twit grief for her hair, which is daft, it’s the very definition of luxuriant. 4. NON-MOVER CARDI B Repeatedly proving herself amusing, rogue and generally mesmerising. This week, we honour her work in new vid for Be Careful, in which she plays…

The world was won over by her elegance, poise and quiet dignity as she sat alone in St George’s Chapel and watched her only daughter marry a prince. But Doria Ragland was at the centre of speculation last week as to whether she would be participating in a documentary with the Queen of American showbiz, Oprah Winfrey (below left). The social worker and yoga instructor was spotted visiting Oprah’s £70 million Santa Barbara ranch for six hours just weeks before the wedding, and the women were reportedly seen chatting after the ceremeony. And while royal aides last week denied that Doria would be appearing on television with Oprah, sources say that Ms Winfrey has very much taken her under her wing. ‘Oprah is offering Doria invaluable advice on her new-found…

WHILE 19 MAY was a career-defining day for Givenchy’s Clare Waight Keller – the woman behind Meghan Markle’s triumph of a wedding dress – she wasn’t the only designer catapulted into the spotlight. With an audience of 23 million in the UK alone, this was one of, if not the biggest fashion event of the year, with guests’ outfits (almost) as eagerly discussed as the new duchess’s. Move over Met Ball. If one theme emerged among the best-dressed, it was the dominance of female designers – a fitting welcome to the new Duchess of Sussex, whose bio on the official royal family website features the quote, ‘I am proud to be a woman and a feminist.’ The day might have belonged to Waight Keller, but with Meghan’s evening dress to…

TAYLOR SWIFT practically invented the term #SquadGoals, before killing it off when many labelled her group of A-list pals an elitist clique and it all got a bit Mean Girls . But last week, insiders told Grazia that having spent the last year off-grid with her British boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, the 28-year-old singer is ready to reassemble the squad – but with only a select few original members. ‘Taylor is doing things differently this time around,’ an insider told Grazia . ‘She doesn’t want it to look like an exclusive club again and is keen to scale things down. She’s been selectively reaching out to famous friends and carefully piecing together a new circle.’ At the forefront of Taylor’s streamlined in-crowd is Selena Gomez, 25, with whom she reunited on…

HOUSED IN AN hôtel particulier in Paris’s 8th arrondisement, the Artcurial auction house is known for its art, design and furniture sales. This month, it hosted a sale of Ritz furniture; next month it will oversee a Van Gogh auction. But, last week, Artcurial welcomed a new crowd of bidders: a young international crowd (from France, China and America), clad in the latest garb from Palace and Gucci. ‘I’ve never seen a room like that for a sale inside a traditional auction house,’ says Elizabeth Paton, European styles correspondent for The New York Times . ‘It was a new and eager trend-led crowd in an old luxury world setting.’ ‘For a lot of people, it was their very first time,’ says Fabien Naudan, Artcurial’s vice president. So why the hip…

LOG ON, LOG OFF, read this, breathe like that, listen here, you must go there – modern life can feel like a barrage of people telling you what to do. But where do you turn for advice you can really trust? With that in mind, Grazia is today launching our brand new podcast, Grazia Life Advice, where we interview women worth listening to and ask them to pass on the six best (and one worst) pieces of advice they’ve ever been given. Want to know Dolly Alderton’s top tip for writing her best-selling memoir? How Emma Barnett prepped for her interview with Theresa May, when the Prime Minister admitted she’d cried on general election night? What Maya Jama does to start the day off right? Or how Natalia Vodianova believes…

I’ve got serious déjà vu. In 2002, I interviewed Elizabeth Hurley in this very room at Kensington’s Blakes Hotel. It was 11 weeks after she’d given birth to her son Damian – now 16 and about to take his GCSEs. She had just come through the eye of a media storm over the DNA paternity test involving her former boyfriend Steve Bing, the American film producer and business tycoon. And it was eight years after her most famous former boyfriend, Hugh Grant, was arrested with a call girl on Sunset Boulevard. As she told me then, ‘I seem to live permanently in some god-awful soap opera. I just wish I could at least edit the script.’ But her real life has been the stuff of soap opera, from her 2007…

* FIND A FULL LIST OF STOCKISTS AT LINKSOFLONDON.COM. WITH THANKS STUDIO I AT SPRING STUDIOS For those times when you want to feel extra special, diamonds are the answer. Of course! And Links of London has just the ultra-luxe selection of jewellery you want – hell, make that need – to let you shine. The beautiful new Splendour collection, for example, was rather fittingly inspired by sparkly stars – to be precise, the gothic stars found throughout Westminster Abbey. Designed to be worn both day and night, the finely crafted earrings, dainty bracelets, statement rings and delicate necklaces all feature a star motif. In 18-carat gold vermeil with stunning diamonds, the eye-catching jewels can be worn individually, stacked for dramatic impact with sterling silver and 18-carat rose gold vermeil…

ALICE TEMPERLEY FASHION DESIGNER Charlotte tilbury hollywood Flawless Filter, £30 A big part of my morning ritual is about what I don’t do: I don’t have the time or patience to apply a full face of make-up, nor do I like foundation, especially one with a thick consistency. I’ve dabbled with them in the past, along with stacks of highlighters and copious concealers, but never found my perfect fit. One that lets my skin feel bare, but with the slightest touch of coverage. Then came my A/W ’18 show rehearsal, when myself and inimitable make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury were searching for a flawless, healthy summer look for the models to wear down the runway. We were playing around with different themes when Charlotte took Hollywood Flawless Filter – her new…

The Water Cure Sophie Mackintosh (£12.99, HAMISH HAMILTON) For fans of The Girls and The Handmaid’s Tale, this is a strange and eerie novel, set in a future where mystery prevails, women are not safe in their own bodies and desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. It’s the story of sisters Grace, Lia and Sky, who up until now have been kept safe from the toxic world, and the three hungry-eyed strangers who come to find them, trailing destruction in their wake. A hypnotic story about the brutality of love.…

BLOODY BIG BRUNCH A brunch with a difference – you pay for your Bloody Marys with sanitary products. Held at Shoreditch’s The Book Club, all products received will be donated to women suffering period poverty across the UK. Charity Hey Girls (a buy-one-give-one sanitary pad enterprise) will be on hand if you’d rather make a contactless donation. A brunch is planned in Manchester later this year. 2 June, instagram/ bloodybigbrunch PLUM + SPILT MILK Ditch your dry sandwich and bottle of water next time you’re waiting for your train and head to (fancy and delicious restaurant) Plum + Spilt Milk. Serving up seasonal menus in the heart of Kings Cross St Pancras, there’s no excuse for rumbling tums on your journey home. plumandspiltmilk.com FIELD DAY This year’s festival is impressively…

Shiny, happy people Poppy Jamie’s launch of her new app, Happy Not Perfect, was quite the affair! The London Philharmonic Orchestra, a soundbath and guided meditation for guests – all before 11am. The app aims to help manage anxiety and bust the stigma around talking about mental health. ‘I feel like I’ve just given birth!’ said Poppy. Potent Ivy Over to Chelsea for a glorious outdoor party on a perfect summer evening at The Ivy Chelsea Garden’s annual summer bash. It being the royal borough, all anyone could talk about was a certain wedding, and we drank far too much champagne and hooted with the ever-hilarious Henry Conway. Blast from the past Darius was also in attendance – and was charm personified.…

INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN I’m so inspired by the fantastic female role models that have come to the forefront in recent months (many of whom feature heavily in Grazia!), and I feel 2018 is the year that female celebrities are really making the most of their platforms to take a serious stand. Fearne Cotton’s candid Happy Place podcasts (‘Talking is vital to my mental health’, 21 May) delicately unfold conversations with celebrities to help people open up about their own struggles. And Natasha Devon’s ‘Good mental health at work is more important than a pay rise’ (21 May) touched a chord with me so much that I’ve started conversations at work to put myself forward to be trained as a Mental Health First Aider. Natalie…