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talk 50 agyness deyn
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Lynne Barber meets the model of the moment and charts her meteoric rise.
Ever wondered what inspires a designer? We take you through the muses behind the dresses.
Fashion’s First Lady Why Barack Obama’s better half, Michelle, has designers fawning at her feet.
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beauty 73 Make-Up Masterclass
Sangita Rajkumari’s step by step guide to achieve 1940’s glamour. 75 Hairstyle Masterclass
Wave goodbye to straight hair with our guide to loose curls.
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eye candy
Make the most of your eyes by matching eyeshadow to your skintone.
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the end of thin
Mimi Spencer, the author of a new book on our obsession with weight, asks if we’re finally done with dieting... 50
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es, people, we are still addicted a generous 10. It was so pathetic, I told loosely be described as diet culture, to thin. The 35,000 diet books myself. But... but... there’s no denying this is what appears to be happening. currently available on Amazon that I loved it. How could I be so A sensory shift. A mood expose our insatiable appetite for the change. shallow? So crass and hypocritical? I look tricks of weight loss, old and new. Not seismic, but certain. Look, at my little girl Lily, now six, and I dearly for example, at the Zoebots – those Thin, writes Susie Orbach in her latest hope she won’t monitor, measure and terrifying acolytes of US stylist Rachel book, is our “visual Muzak”; it’s there gauge her body in the way I have always Zoe, the ones we’ve become used on billboards, in magazines, on music to done ever since adolescence and my first seeing on the paparazzi circuit, with their videos, reading the news, selling us tussle with the zipper on a pencil skirt. huge sunglasses and clattery clavicles. toothpaste, breathing hungrily down Will she hit the blues if she hits 10st? Don’t they look oddly old-fashioned? our sensitive necks - we’ve become Will it all still matter in 20 years, or will Past their sell-by? Zoe herself seems accustomed to thin. Not slim, not we have found something more edifying suddenly grossly out of touch. When she fit, not normal. But thin. We’ve swallowed the line that thin is the peak of achievement, success made flesh (or, to be more accurate, bone). Take Kelly Osbourne’s recent comment “Suddenly everyone likes me because I’ve lost 2st. Why? Was I [horrible] before?” - or comedian Tina Fey, who reveals that she didn’t find fame until her weight had plummeted from 10st 7lb to 8st 7lb. Cheryl Cole may be the rightful darling of the day, but her lip gloss appears to weigh more than she does. (“One day a week I eat whatever I like,” she remarks from beneath all Cover Girls that buoyant hair, and you just know Beth Ditto, Adele and Michelle Obama that she means she allows herself a to occupy the tracts of time between revealed that sometimes she is so busy cappuccino, not a full fry-up with it blossoming puberty and certain death? gets to 7pm and she realises she’s only extra sauté potatoes.) These things have If anything, the signs are that we eaten “a grapefruit and some coffee”, become normal. Hands up who doesn’t may have hit a new low in our dieting I wanted to call up and say: “Haven’t fancy having a go with Alli, the new obsession: a poll recently found that you heard the news? Don’t you know diet pill that leaches fat out of your some women fear weight gain more that deprivation diets are so O-VER? system like a squeegee mop? Hey, an than cancer, which is so tragic it makes Jeez, Rach, how could you be so 2006?” upset stomach is a small price to pay for me want to weep. Where next? Where a smaller pair of jeans. Right? Even at the bleeding edge of style, else ... but up? Could it be that we’ve hit you’ll find signs of an attitude As Orbach argues, body shape - a slim switch. dirt and are ready to redeem ourselves? The most acclaimed magazine launch body, a contained shape - has come to As Barbara Ellen wrote recently: “Maybe of the year - Love, a new define us, a constant hum droning away title from the we are entering what may be termed a Condé Nast stable edited by fashion’s in the engine room of the female psyche. post-Fern era, where society has peaked, reigning monarch Katie Grand - has Even those of us who balk at the idiocy burnt itself out, criticising the female Beth Ditto as its first cover girl. That’s and banality of dieting, even we who form... In simple terms, where female Beth Ditto: 220lb and still smiling. Sure, disdain the methods, can’t help but glory fat is concerned, there is nowhere left it’s a bit of a stunt. But it challenges in actually losing weight. Just recently I to go.” While Ellen argues that the us, us mag-reading mavens, to lost a stone – and it felt like I’d achieved take off spotlight has shifted to men and their our fat goggles and see sense. Sense, something truly great. Something weight, I have a different, more hopeful such as the fact that women come in important. Girlfriends congratulated a take. Once our heroines have reached variety of shapes and sizes. Sense, such me, as if I’d just hiked to the North a tiny size, once we find ourselves at as the recognition that the defining Pole on my knees or discovered a cure rock bottom, isn’t this where a little body shape of recent years (all boy bum for asthma. As if it mattered. All I’d perspective may just start to emerge? and ribcage) is suspect and done was slim down from a cosy 12 unsound. to At the cutting edge of what may Perhaps it’s already sinking in. Adele,
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The best ways to add gloss to your locks. 80 how i shop
Tips from the top as retail queen Dounyazad Boukri talks us through her shopping habits.
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