Table of contents for Issue 688 in Grazia

1 COLD SHOULDER BRING A FIERCE spin to event dressing by adding animal print to your closet. £290, Maje (maje.com) 2 SQUARE EYES BE BOLD AND swap out your cat’s eyes for the new shape of the season. £98, Ace and Tate (aceandtate.com) 3 WORKS OF ART UPDATE YOUR EAR gear with these cotemporary shapes inspired by Chinese ink paintings. £120, Ejing Zhang (modaoperandi.com) 4 PASTEL PERFECT THIS ETHEREAL DRESS is what summer romances are made for. £995, Borgo De Nor (fenwick.co.uk) 5 SPOT ON MAKE A SPLASH poolside in this polka dot one-piece. Just add SPF. £25, Weekday (weekday.co.uk) 6 SKIN WIN SWITCH UP YOUR skincare for summer with the ultra-lightweight Clinique Dramatically Different Hydrating Jelly, £31, and your face will thank you for it. 7 DUAL PURPOSE THIS…

credit-card transactions than cash transactions, I realise I’m probably the last person in the country still using cash-money. All around me, people are waggling Visas at contactless payment hubs, or winking at facial recognition technology capable of deducting the cost of a flat white via info embedded into their irises – and there I am, counting out my penny stashes on to aluminium countertops, or handing £10 notes to Millennial shop staff who initially recoil as if slapped, before taking the paper dosh from me, gingerly, their facial expressions all ‘What is this bizarre missive you proffer, and why does it bear a picture of our Queen?’ It seems there’s been an epic shift in behaviour – and everyone got the money memo, but me. ‘WHY DID NO ONE TELL…

There’s a group of Upper East Side women who are powered 24/7 by the repressed rage they feel for their husbands. All the energy they need to socialise, spend and spin seven times a week at SoulCycle comes from that simmering fury – a fury they stoke with furtive glances across the breakfast table every morning. God knows they haven’t shared a bedroom in years. When I met Melania in 2013, she wasn’t yet a fully paid-up member of the Angry Wives’ Club. We were at a book launch at Manhattan’s Carlyle Hotel. At 43, Melania was by far the most beautiful woman in the room, and when she shook my hand it felt like a statement of intent rather than a greeting. She was clear on the part she…

PRINCE LOUIS’ CHRISTENING Bepsoke Stephen Jones hat. Bespoke Ralph Lauren dress. Bespoke Cartier white gold and diamond earrings. RAF CENTENARY Bespoke Dior dress. Bespoke Stephen Jones hat. Bespoke Cartier white gold and diamond earrings. ARRIVING IN IRELAND Bespoke Givenchy sweater and Givenchy skirt, £1,200. Strathberry tote, £460. Paul Andrew heels, £474. Vanessa Tugendhaft earrings, £663. EVENING PARTY Emilia Wickstead dress, £2,000. Birks citrine diamond drop earrings, £2,632. Aquazzura shoes, £490. Givenchy clutch, £1,507. MEETING WITH IRELAND’S PRESIDENT Roland Mouret dress, £1,500. Birks Snowflake Snowstorm earrings, £9,089. Paul Andrew heels, £474. Fendi Peekaboo Essentially bag, £3,850. PHOTOS: ALPHA, I-IMAGES, CAMERA PRESS, SPLASH, PRESS ASSOCIATION VISITING CROKE PARK Givenchy suit, £2,500. Lavender Hill tee, £34. Givenchy belt, £283. Givenchy bag, £1,855. Sarah Flint heels, £268. BACK-TO-BACK engagements for the Duchess of Sussex…

PHOTOS: GETTY, FORBES, INSTAGRAM/KYLIE JENNER At just 20 years old, Kylie Jenner made global headlines last week when she was named a ‘self-made’ billionaire by Forbes, thanks to the meteoric success of her $800 million beauty empire Kylie Cosmetics (and $100 million from other earnings). It’s a staggering achievement, and one that puts her ahead of Beyoncé ($355 million), Taylor Swift ($320 million) and even Kim Kardashian West ($350 million). But the reality star’s cover sparked as much interest as it did outrage, with many disputing the idea that Kylie reached this milestone unaided. Critics pointed out that Kylie, who grew up on TV in Keeping Up With The Kardashians from the age of 10, has benefited from the connections afforded by her own fame and her famous family. Yet,…

1. Go easy on the watering Don’t kill your plants by loving them too much. Check the soil: if it’s damp, leave it. 2. Grab a devil’s ivy It’s a Pinterest-worthy vine that will thrive on neglect. I water mine every three weeks. 3. Take a good look at your garden space Working out where the sun and shade fall in your garden will give you a massive steer in what to plant. 4. Make the most of fragrant shrubs and herbs If you have sunshine, max out on lavender and rosemary. They smell divine and flourish while you learn. 5. And don’t despair if you have low light Ferns, hostas and bamboo will create resilient, evergreen coverage. 6. Think about the high-low Plant up: fill a small space by…

SILVER Don’t limit silver’s lustre to after dark. Let this season’s hottest metallic SHINE around the clock. TASSELS Western influences continue to rule. Nod to the trend with a FRINGED bag. PRAIRIE Embroidered, smocked and printed, riffs on the PRAIRIE dress are elevated to new plains this season. NECK GEAR Out with subtlety. New season necklaces are big in size – and DRAMA. LOGOS Not just for tees. Find logos on skirts, scarves, shoes and, well, EVERYTHING. SLINGBACKS Ladylike slingbacks exude ‘look at me’ drama in bright shades and QUIRKY prints. PHOTOS: JASON LLOYD-EVANS PLEATS Re-energised for the new season, the pleated SKIRT is set to be your wardrobe staple.…

MAKING SENSE OF ESSENCES News just in from Korea – the undisputed experts in all things beauty – an essence is absolutely essential to your skincare regime. As an integral part of their seven (or nine, or 10, or even the exhausting sounding 12) step K-beauty routine, the lightweight lotion sits between toner and serum. An easy way to remember the steps, if you are going to undertake them, is to apply formulas from the thinnest (your clarifying toner or acids) to thickest (good old-fashioned face cream). Slippy and watery, an essence is unique in its application too: instead of swiping around with a soggy cotton-wool pad, you pat or press it into the face from the bottom to top. And some can even be spritzed on. SO, WHAT DOES…

PHOTO: BRIAN FLAHERTY Death Valley, California Drive down Badwater Road in North America’s driest and hottest national park – in summer, temperatures can hit 49°C and little more than 5cm of rain falls annually – and you reach Badwater Basin, the country’s lowest point of elevation. Here, what looks like snow is actually salt, the crystals left behind as the little water that falls evaporates from shallow pools. Walk on the salt flats for an experience that feels out of this world.…

THE INTERNET, HIVE MIND In April they gave us Roll (Burbank Funk), their first single since 2015 album Ego Death – now the R&B outfit are reunited from their solo projects and finally give us the album. Out Friday CLIVEDEN LITERARY FESTIVAL Quick, book tickets now for what was described by Ian McEwan last year as, ‘Probably the world’s best small literary festival.’ Taking place at legendary Cliveden House in Taplow – host to the Profumo affair and, more recently, Meghan Markle the night before her wedding, speakers range from Cherie Blair to Ruth Wilson, Sarah Waters and Armando Iannucci. 29-30 Sept, clivedenliteraryfestival.org KINKY BOOTS The show that had West End audiences on their feet every night (perhaps also clutching a tissue) is going on tour. It won every major…

How To Fail with Elizabeth Day Launching this month, this new podcast by author, journalist and Grazia contributor Elizabeth Day asks eight successful people what they’ve learned from failure. It’s about learning from our mistakes and how understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger. Pitch An Audible podcast about how music finds its way into every corner of our world. It follows stories that illustrate why music is so central to our connections to each other, our history, and how we navigate the culture and the current moment. Fantasy Football Wives World Cup made you football-crazy? Every week, best friends Sarah and Ania – they live in different countries and both married men who support their rival teams – discuss their fantasy football team selections and other topics around…

GYM INSPO from Pinko IF THIS DOESN’T get you to the gym, nothing will. Pinko’s new C-Clique activewear collection puts the abs in fabulous – think leggings, sports bras and zip-up tops in high-performance fabrics and bold shades. From £85, pinko.com PRÊT À POSH ready for anything IF, LIKE OURS, your invite to Harry and Meghan’s wedding got lost in the post, fear not. Thanks to customer demand, Victoria Beckham has recreated a limited number of the mididress she wore on the big day – so at least you’ll be royal wedding-ready when Princess Eugenie gets hitched later this year. From 20 July; £1,495, victoriabeckham.com BLOOMING marvellous CARDI B LAST week revealed she had given birth to her daughter Kulture Kiari Cephus, along with a photo of herself surrounded by…

DON’T SHUT DOWN THE DIALOGUE We welcomed actor Henry Cavill’s apology for complaining that, post #MeToo, ‘wooing and chasing’ women is ‘very difficult... I don’t want to go up and talk to her, because I’m going to be called a rapist or something.’ It’s easy to say, ‘Henry, if you don’t want to be called a rapist, just don’t rape someone.’ It’s even easier to suggest men should stop weighing in on #MeToo at all. But closing down conversation is the worst thing you can do. Because if, after all our campaigning and criminal convictions, men still don’t understand the boundaries of consent, then we need more conversations, not less. We can only move forward together when we’re all in the conversation – and on the same page.…

PHOTOS: REX/SHUTTERSTOCK, GETTY IMAGES,TWITTER/DAVID WALLIAMS EVER SINCE Jennifer Aniston announced her split from Justin Theroux in February, she has maintained a low-profile (Justin, conversely, has been linked to model Petra Collins and Emma Stone and was only last week pictured out with a new ‘mystery brunette’). Now, however, it seems Jen may be finally moving on – and is embracing life, the dating scene and a rekindled friendship with a very famous ex. Last week, Us Weekly claimed that Jen is dating two men – one an ‘industry creative’, and another, a ‘tech titan’. Following the report, speculation reached Grazia that one of the men is rumoured to be Sergey Brin, the billionaire founder of Google who split from wife Anna Wojcicki in 2015. One source suggested that the pair…

‘WHO’S THAT? Can we see, Mummy! Who’s in the bath?’ A splash of water lands on my phone and I glance up. My daughters, aged three and five, are standing up in the bath, desperately trying to swipe the phone from my hands to see what I’m looking at. Reader: I was watching an Instagram story of somebody else’s kids playing in the bath. There, in one snapshot, is what parenting in 2018 can sometimes be. If you’ve ever lingered in the toilet to catch up on Twitter, or surreptitiously WhatsApped down the side of the sofa when you’re meant to be playing shops, you’ll know what I’m saying. Last week, new research linked parents’ excessive use of their phones to kids’ poor behaviour, suggesting that instead of griping about…

PHOTOS: SHUTTERSTOCK, EROTEME,WENN, INSTAGRAM/IAINDOESJOKES. IAIN STIRLING: IAINKOESJOKES.COM PERSONALITY ALWAYS WINS Everyone on Love Island is the ‘good-looking one’ in their friendship group back home, but in the villa they’re just like everyone else, so have to fall back on their personality. Have you noticed the person everyone fancies has never won? Eventually, we’re all gonna turn old, grey, wrinkly and wet the bed and nobody will care if you have half a million followers on Instagram. YOU CAN’T FAKE FEELINGS I never understand it when people say, ‘They’re faking it,’ about relationships in the villa. If you can pretend to like someone for eight weeks under constant surveillance, you should be a spy. People don’t do that. I think it’s more that they worry about other people’s feelings, so they…

PHOTOS: SHUTTERSTOCK, GETTY.*ACCORDING TO LYST.CO.UK Give the shell suit a second chance, à la Céline Dion. Searches for the throwback leisurewear are up 87%.* Get on-board with the haute short – the Dundas S/S ’19 collection is your ref. Google pics of ’70s Cher for midsummer Jacket style inspo (and don’t miss her in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) Don’t let post-World Cup blues get the better of you – sunny shades give a dopamine hit. Consider the jumpsuit for summer events. See: Stella and Amber at Centre Court. Dial up the glam poolside in a twisted hairband – part old-Hollywood turban, part sweaty fringe saviour.…

PHOTOS: LORENZO MAZZEGA/THE LICENSING PROJECT SMOOTH OPERATOR Nuxe Aquabella Beauty-Revealing Essence-Lotion, £13.49 White Waterlily from Madagascar naturally feeds skin with hydrating goodness, while oat sugars smooth the surface. MEGA MOISTURE Chanel Hydra Beauty Micro Liquid Essence, £70 Micro-droplets encapsulate the active ingredients and burst on to your skin like a soothing pat to the face. WATER WORKS L’Occitane Aqua Réotier Moisture Prep Essence, £22 Chock full of calcium-rich Réotier water, which helps skin maintain its hydration barrier, this will quench a thirsty face and lock moisture in. GOING GREEN Tata Harper Hydrating Floral Essence, £77 This spritz-on formula is 100% organic and has that signature Tata scent (green with a side of green). PORTABLE PLEASURE Caudalie Vinoperfect Concentrated Brightening Essence, £30 Organic grape water soothes, white peony extract protects, and…

Invitation To A Bonfire Adrienne Celt (£14.99, RAVEN BOOKS) Zoya Adropova is a young Russian refugee unhappily enrolled in a wealthy boarding school in the 1920s. But when she finds herself embroiled in an unlikely love triangle with fellow Russian Leo Orlov – a charming and brilliant author who she’s completely in awe of – and his controlling and calculating wife Vera, her life takes on a whole new direction. Described as part psychological thriller and part literary puzzle, Invitation To A Bonfire has already drawn comparisons to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and it soon becomes clear the outcome could prove just as tragic...…

IN APRIL, THE 46th trophy of University Challenge was handed over to Levin, McKeown, Devine-Stoneman (of course the double-barrelled one was captain) and Hazell from St John’s College, Cambridge. Yet here we are again, lined up for another bout of what is undoubtedly the least televisual television programme and, strangely, beguilingly, like some bewitching ancient potion, still one of the best. University Challenge should be anathema to TV programming in 2018. What with their astronomical tuition fees, flagrant lack of diversity and generationally no-platforming brouhaha, the intellectual arm wrestle feels cut directly against the national grain. But there’s still something uniquely magnetic about whipping back the curtains of Oxbridge’s Oz to reveal these curious Wizards. When St John’s lifted their trophy, a man barely into his twenties was sporting a…

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1 NEW IN DUMPLING FISH Never in our long history of lusting have we seen fit to put a fish in our coveted number one spot[1] . But then we met Dumpling Fish, aka the modified cuttlefish. Look at his hair![2] 2 NON-MOVER HARRY KANE’S HAIR A literal ‘non-mover’ through the course of entire football matches! We know that’s not the whole point of HK, but thought we’d pay tribute anyway. 3 NEW IN JERZY TARGALSKI The Polish professor whose cat joined him while he was being live interviewed on a news programme, climbed all over his head, licked his ear. 4. NON-MOVER SERENA WILLIAMS Last week, basically accepted she’s better than everyone else at tennis. When asked by a reporter if it was ‘difficult to be the one [everyone…

When the trumps walked up the red carpeted steps of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire last Thursday evening, it marked more than the most lavish event of their controversial first official visit to the UK. It was also a key moment in Melania’s high-profile re-entry into the global spotlight as First Lady. Since being hospitalised in May for a kidney condition, she had rarely been seen until last week, when she accompanied her husband on his visit to Brussels for the NATO summit, then to Britain. Against a turbulent backdrop of protests, a giant Trump Baby balloon flying over Parliament Square, one of the biggest ever police operations and the Government threatening to implode over Brexit, the Trumps’ four days in the UK were unlike any other visit by a world…

Their relationship appeared to move faster than any of those on Love Island. In April, news broke that show host Caroline Flack was engaged to Andrew Brady. But by last week the couple had called off their romance. According to reports, Caroline feared Andrew was cheating on her. She was said to have told friends, ‘I feel he just used me. He’s fame-hungry.’ She later said in a statement, ‘I’m sad to announce that Andrew and I have decided to part ways. Unfortunately it was not meant to be. I wish him all the best.’ It was also reported that Caroline, 38, had been supporting the 27-year-old former Apprentice star financially, but ‘no longer trusted him’. The pair met at a party at the start of this year, and Caroline…

‘The waistcoat gives off a sort of a weddingy vibe, and girls like that.’ My ex-girlfriend, Lisa, is giving me a run-down on why all the women in her office love Gareth Southgate. Southgate is no longer the ex-Aston Villa centre-back who missed that penalty in Euro ’96. He’s Mr Nice. The man whose team have been pictured on inflatable unicorns, are in quiet, long-term relationships (Southgate himself has been married for 21 years) and briefly distracted us from a total Government breakdown. His values and demeanour now epitomise many people’s ideal man. In any other line of work, appointing an intelligent, open-minded, smart go-getter to the key position in your business would be seen as a good thing. But the FA is so shortsighted, such an appointment only happened…

MAKE-UP: MARY GREENWELL FOR CHANEL USING LE VOLUME RÉVOLUTION DE CHANEL EXTREME VOLUME MASCARA AND HYDRA BEAUTY MICRO SÉRUM. HAIR: LEIGH KEATES AT PREMIER HAIR AND MAKE-UP. NAILS: MICHELLE CLASS AT STELLA CREATIVE ARTISTS.UNDER SMOKE: EARRINGS, £310, ERDEM.COM. WINGING IT: NECKLACE, £1,755, CHANEL.COM. DO THE TWO TONE: CUFF, £3,140, CHANEL.COM. H-EYE LIGHTS: EARRINGS, £585, CHANEL.COM. LASHINGS OF LASHES: SHIRT, £950, CHLOÉ (NET-A-PORTER.COM); EARRINGS, £420,SHOP.ALIGHIERI.CO.UK. BLINK: BLINKBROWBAR.COM. BOURJOIS: SUPERDRUG.COM. CHANEL: CHANEL.COM. GIVENCHY: DEBENHAMS.COM. MARC JACOBS: NET-A-PORTER.COM. SPECTRUM: SPECTRUMCOLLECTIONS.COM. TOM FORD: NET-A-PORTER.COM After seasons of barely-there everything, the catwalks’ return to full-on lashes in all their glory was a more-than-welcome one. After all, mascara is the perennial make-up tool that disguises a symphony of sins and makes you look instantly pulled together with minimal effort. Better still, Chanel have launched the world’s…

SAMBAL OELEK Chilli sauces and pastes from around the world have become the norm in kitchen pantries and this ground fresh-chilli paste that’s a staple in Indonesian and Malaysian cooking is one of my favourites. The dominant ingredient is red chilli with a splash of vinegar and salt, and it’s a great way to add a bold, intense hit of flavour to any dish. Find it in Asian grocery stores. SAMBAL OELEK PORK Feeds: 2-4 Preparation: 10 minutes Cooking: 30 minutes INGREDIENTS Generous glug of sesame oil 1 large banana shallot, finely diced 3 cloves of garlic, finely grated or minced 500g good quality pork mince Generous glug of fish sauce Generous sprinkle of white pepper 1-3 tbsp of sambal oelek 350ml chicken stock Half a bunch of Thai basil…

Panic Lauren Oliver (£7.99, HODDER & STOUGHTON) Set in the dead-end American town of Carp, Panic follows a group of students who pool their cash to offer one lucky teen the chance to get out. The plan? Whoever wins the infamous game of Panic takes the cash and runs – with life-changing ramifications for everyone involved. The Secret History Donna Tartt (£8.99, PENGUIN BOOKS) Narrated by the lonely Richard Pappin, this exceptional novel follows a group of six classics students arriving at an elite Vermont college. When Edmund ‘Bunny’ Corcoran is murdered, the story takes us on a journey to unravel the mystery – who killed Bunny, and why? Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell (£7.99, ORION) Eleanor is the new student who sticks out like a sore thumb. Park is…

THE ONE THING to know about Rebecca and Clare Hopkins – the sisters behind all-natural skincare brand Balance Me – it’s that they’re just like you and me. They used to work in finance (Clare) and marketing (Rebecca) and, through the naturally active skincare they’ve developed over the past 13 years, their aim is to ‘bring more balance’ into other women’s lives too. ‘I was working for the most prestigious French cosmetics company, but my skin was reacting to the products and aggravated by stress,’ says Rebecca, ‘so I set about finding natural solutions that would bring balance back to my skin.’ It was then the sisters had an epiphany: if they were trying to find natural skincare that restored balance and worked as hard as the most sophisticated brands,…

Terri White’s article (9 July) rang true for me in so many ways. A few weeks ago I was doing my weekly shop in Aldi and bumped into one of the parents from my school – I am a headteacher – who said they assumed I’d shop in Waitrose. Having been brought up on a council estate, the youngest of four and very aware of our lack of money, it was my mission not to let it stop me in life. My family are amazing, my parents both worked in low income jobs, we never went abroad, hand-me-downs were my everything, so now being able to afford things is still sometimes weird to me. I am very proud of my background, I think it makes me the best possible teacher…