aMUSE Magazine Issue 02 June 2012

ISSUE 02 JUNE 2012

The new fashion power list

WHO MAKES THE CUT?

Jubilee style

FLY THE FLAG IN FASHION

18 LESSONS IN LIFE FROM

THE OTHER

QUEEN ELIZABETH

Plus: ERIN O’CONNOR’S NE W LIF E / POPPY DELE VINGNE’S FASHION INSPIR ATION / BIP LING’S ECLECTIC APPE AL / AND TOPSHOP’S TOP GIRL

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Contents J U N E 2 012 Left: Topshop’s Kate Phelan; Top right: St Vincent Below right: Alexa Chung Below left: green bag £1,802.24, Roger Vivier; red sunglasses, £265, Pollini

Regulars

Columnists

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AMUSE REVIEWS All the Capital’s finest fashion, art, film, music, restaurants, books and shows

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SADIE & IRIS Our mother & daughter columnists debate the romance of the school trip

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OBJECT OF DESIRE What’s caught our eye this month?

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A MA N ABOUT TOWN Nick Cox dives into cocktail hour

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THE FAST FASHION FIX Poppy Delevingne is fashionably late

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UNNATURAL BEAUTY Bethan Cole seeks a new fragrance

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MY TOP SPOT Bip Ling joins the Breakfast Club

Fashion & Beauty

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TRAVEL • News: Peruvian palaces, private islands and caravans in Provence • Sheer escapism in the Grenadines • Volcano dodging in Lanzarote

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WHAT TO WEAR FOR THE JUBILEE Go patriotic in red, white and blue

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SHOPPING Beach-perfect bikinis for summer

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TRENDS Sport: the very best in sporty chic Camp classics: go glamping this summer Pyjamas: be a lounge lizard White: monochrome magic

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BEAUTY Coral: a fresh face for summer SPFs: skin-protecting creams Body oils: to moisturise and smooth

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INTERIORS • Turn a bachelor pad into a family home • News: Roberto Cavalli’s cushions

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FOOD • News: the capital’s top teas • The 15-minute meal by Florence Knight

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THIS MONTH’S MUSE Anya Hindmarch on Mrs Thatcher

Features 31

THE ONES TO WATCH The 26 hottest fashion talents in the capital, as nominated by Roland Mouret, Karl Lagerfeld, Zandra Rhodes...

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A MODEL BEAUTY Erin O’Connor has looks, brains and a conscience

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HIGH FASHION TO HIGH ST How Kate Phelan jumped ship from Vogue to Topshop

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ELIZABETH III Elizabeth Hurley’s life lessons

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THE NEW BEAUTY GURU Teresa Tarmey’s talent for pampering

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A N ANGEL AT MY TABLE How Nicola Horlick is haunted by the loss of her daughter, Georgie

On the cover Elizabeth Hurley wears Mirror silk kaftan in black

by Elizabeth Hurley Beach, £235, from Harrods and elizabethhurley.com

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EDITOR’S

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LISA POTTER-DIXON

Make-up artist Lisa Potter-Dixon, spends her time making up models for Matthew Williamson and PPQ as well as for our Jubilee shoot, or creating new looks for Benefit Cosmetics and predicting trends for the new season.

My muse: I have four – my sisters. I love watching the constant changes they make to their looks and their lives. We’re all so different but also so similar and our one main connection is our passion for creativity.

FLORENCE KNIGHT

Our new food writer, tasked with giving you recipes you can make in 15 minutes or less, is the head chef of Polpetto. She began her kitchen career as an assistant baker to Richard Bertinet and began at Polpetto in 2010 where she has won acclaim for her osteria-inspired Italian menus.

My muse: Duncan Basterfield, executive head chef at Rhubarb catering company. His faith in me inspired me to put all I can into my work and life.

NATALIE SILVERTON

An award-winning beauty journalist, Natalie has chatted over tea with Naomi Campbell and swapped fashion tips with Andie MacDowell. For this issue she’s interviewed Erin O’Connor about her evolution from gamine model to international icon.

My muse: Josephine Esther Mentzer – aka Estée Lauder, who said “if you want to be successful, you’ve got to work hard, stick to it and you’ve got to believe in what you’re doing.”

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hank you all so much for your incredibly warm welcome for our first issue of aMuse last month. You confirmed what we all thought – that London’s crying out for its own fabulous monthly glossy.

And never more so than this summer when the eyes of the world are turning to the capital as we celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and then the Olympics and Paralympics later in the season. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II may have turned down the invitation to be our June cover girl (her schedule was a bit busy, apparently), but we have the best alternative possible in the incomparable form of Elizabeth Hurley.

And I’m not sure even we could have persuaded the Queen to pose in a bikini.

Talking of bikinis, Irina Shayk, Christiano Ronaldo’s girlfriend, is something of an expert on the subject seeing that she’s a world-famous swimwear model – and we’ve got her talking undies. Plus we’ve the pick of the hottest beach looks for the summer, and a choice of the best beaches to wear them on – St Vincent and the Grenadines, anyone? If you’re not a bikini kind of girl, we’ve got the top trends of the season, and a selection of all the best fashion, music and shows the city has to offer. All that plus Erin O’Connor, Bip Ling, Nicola Horlick and Polly Delevingne.

Dive in and happy reading...

Sasha Slater sasha@amusemagazine.co.uk

Contributors

NICK COX

As fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar Nick Cox has sung show tunes with Scarlett Johanssen and sailed down the Nile with Christian Louboutin. Between styling Paris Hilton and fashion directing a luxury women’s wear store in Moscow he somehow manages to find the time to edit thegroomingguide.com, run a successful antiques business and work for glossy magazines in Rio and Sao Paolo.

My Muse: David Niven, for his style, and self-depreciating sense of humour.

SADIE FROST

Sadie Frost is an actress, film producer, fashion designer, mother, and one half of aMuse’s columnists with 11-year-old daughter, Iris. This month Iris goes off on her first school trip and Sadie cringes at her own recollections. Sadie is doing a one-woman show at the Soho Theatre, Touched Like a Virgin.

My muse: my mum. She looked as beautiful as Jean Shrimpton in the 60s, as sexy as Bardot in the 70s, as rock and roll as Kate Bush in the 80s and as cool as Patti Smith in the 90s.

Sasha Slater Editor sasha@amusemagazine.co.uk Hicham Kasbi Art Director hicham@amusemagazine.co.uk Stephanie Hirschmiller Deputy Editor stephanie@amusemagazine.co.uk Polly Glass Features Assistant polly@amusemagazine.co.uk Arabella Preston Beauty Editor arabella@amusemagazine.co.uk Fran Mullin Fashion Assistant fran@amusemagazine.co.uk Contributors: Caroline Boucher, Bethan Cole, Nick Cox, Sadie Frost, Lisa Grainger, Lydia Slater, Victoria Moore, Lorelei Marfil, Valentina Tiurbini, Florence Knight 0207 866 8102 @amuse_mag facebook.com/amusemagazine Stephen Murphy Publisher stephen@amusemagazine.co.uk Christian Price Commercial Director christian@amusemagazine.co.uk Advertising Consultant: Debra Davies 0207 866 8101 Printer BGP Colour Management: David Ladkin

NADIA FOSTER

Nadia Foster has been working in top London salons for 10 years. She has won Session Stylist of the year and Colourist of the Year. Nadia has worked in New York for Cosmopolitan and coloured Pixie Geldof’s hair for Vogue. In 2011 she and her brother, Drew, opened Foster London, a hair and beauty salon in E1. She styled the hair for our patriotic Jubilee shoot.

My muse: My mum, she has cheekbones you can rest a cup and saucer on and she’s always ahead of the trend.

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GUINNESS IS GOOD FOR ISSY Classic outfits, avant-garde pieces, an absolutely unlimited budget... There’s no denying Daphne Guinness has amassed one hell of a wardrobe over the years. And now, 100 select items from this treasure trove are to be auctioned at Christie’s in aid of the Isabella Blow Foundation which will support new fashion talents. If you’re size zero, very bold and are able to endure every discomfort a McQueen armadillo shoe could throw at you, go along and place a bid.

THE DAPHNE GUINNESS COLLECTION auction in aid of the Isabella Blow Foundation is on 27 June at Christie’s South Kensington, 85 Old Brompton Road, SW7. Public viewing at Christie’s is 23-27 June. christies.com

ASCOT GOES POP The rules for the Royal Enclosure this year have been tightened up to the last inch but maverick milliner Piers Atkinson has got it covered: “When the rules came out I must admit I did rush over to my smallest hat with a tape measure and we’re safely within the remit,” he told us.

From 1 June he’s running a dedicated pop-up space in the Front Room at the St Martins Lane Hotel selling his brilliant designs (worn by Anna dello Russo and Lana del Rey) alongside a special ‘while you wait’ service.

Atkinson will also be hosting a series of evening events including a talk with Zhandra Rhodes and a hat-box making workshop with Fred Butler. stmartinslane.com

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MCQUEEN’S SHOES up for auction at the Guinness sale

GUESS CORSET, £75

LACROIX BUBBLE DRESS for auction

GUESS WHO?

PIERS ATKINSON TAKE A BITE HAT, £395

Claudia Schiffer made her mark back in 1986 with that gorgeous cropped corset for Guess. We’ve since ogled her in scores of fashion campaigns, Love Actually and even in a Westlife video (remember ‘Uptown Girl’? Don’t deny it, you know you do...). Now she’s appearing as the face of Guess in their new 30th anniversary capsule collection, comprising 15 limited-edition pieces, including flower-print jeans worn

by Drew Barrymore, and stonewashed denim shorts favoured

by Eva Herzigova.

Available all June in selected Guess stores, guess.com

PIP PA’S P O S SE We envied her bottom and bought her LK Bennett wedges but Pippa Middleton fever is set to soar as her great friend, Parisian aristo Arthur de Soultrait, otherwise known for his fashion label Vicomte A, has launched his flagship store on the Kings Road.

What we don’t expect: the future queen’s sister to be spotted hitching another lift in a convertible with a Gallic lawyer brandishing a replica gun at the paparazzi.

What we do expect: classic polo shirts, monochrome t-shirts and dresses just perfect for Wimbledon 2012.

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UNDER THE WIRE WITH IRINA SHAYK Russian glamourpuss Irina Shayk, 26, has been going out with mega-star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo since 2010. All WAGs must perforce cultivate a serious bikini body and none more so than Shayk who has appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and met her beau on assignment for Armani. In a move away from swimwear, she’s now the face (and curves) of the new Intimissimi underwear campaign. It’s hardly surprising, then, that she says she feels “like a girl who knows everything about bras...” aMUSE: So, Irina, what makes the perfect bra?

IS: It feels like a second skin - it’s very important for us women to find our perfect bra. I mean, first thing in the morning, what do we do? We put on our bra. So it has to be something that makes us feel comfortable, sexy, stylish and modern. aMUSE: What’s your favourite bra?

IS: Simona from the Intimissimi collection. It’s a black silk push-up bra that gives a little cleavage but not too much. If I had to wear one bra for the rest of my life it would be this one; I can use it for the gym or the red carpet. aMUSE: Is there any kind of underwear you’d never dream of trying on?

IS: Not really no. I mean, last year I even did an advertising campaign for menswear which was really successful because men like to see women with men’s underwear. So I can wear anything and feel comfortable in it. aMUSE: Can you remember your first bra?

IS: It was so uncomfortable but I didn’t care – I was so excited to have my first bra. aMUSE: Name three underwear staples that every woman should own...

IS: A push-up bra for extra cleavage, a lace bra that’s very romantic, and a very casual nude that you can wear under anything. intimissimi.com, 020 7479 7791

ME R INGUE M A DNE S S Nothing is so style-free as a wedding, what with those pastel bridesmaids’ gowns.

Right? Wrong. Richard Nicoll, he of the ultra-sleek colour-blocking leather, has teamed up with Topshop to launch a bridalwear collection called Blushing Brides.

Available at Topshop stores in Oxford Circus, Selfridges and Brompton Road, £90-350, topshop.com

BE A GOOD SPORT RICHARD NICOLL FOR TOPSHOP, £170

Olympic fever and luxury vintage fashion aren’t exactly obvious bedfellows. But luxe e-boutique Atelier-Mayer is set to launch an exclusive collection of sporty 60s-style dresses, jewels and quirky accessories as a stylish homage to the Stratford jamboree. atelier-mayer.com

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ONO YOU DON’T Once described by her late husband, John Lennon, as “the world’s most famous unknown artist”, Yoko Ono, 79, has always cultivated a reputation for inscrutability. But she’s just launched Smile – a project inviting people to send her images of their grins. “All of the smiles that are collected will be kept by the Serpentine Gallery as a record for the planet Earth,” she says.

If you find this utterance opaque, here are some other pearls of wisdom: “Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.”

“Everybody’s an artist. Everybody’s God. It’s just that they’re inhibited.”

YOKO ONO, Serpentine Gallery, 19 June9 September, serpentinegallery.org

Ever wondered what moss and seaweed concentrated in salt water, encased in cured skin, looks like?

Christian Kerrigan, will be exhibiting striking close-up photos of his V&A installation, Chemical Garden.

VOLUNTARY ACTION ISLINGTON, 200A Pentonville Road, N1, view by weekday appointment, Elinor.

Hopson-Hill@vai.org.uk, Until end of June, vai.org.uk

OH LA LA...

WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN

Ancient artefacts and mythical images inspire the beautiful jewellery that can be seen here.

HEMMERLE, Masterpiece, Royal Hospital, Chelsea , SW7, 28 June-4 July

Top-end risqué art? From a revered photographer, whose published titles include Shooting Sex and Love Dolls Never Die? Oh go on then.

The ultra-hip but slightly dirty minds at the Little Black Gallery have teamed up with the widow of the late Bob Carlos Clarke to compile a unique show of hitherto unseen pictures.

You can even pick one up for yourself, and add some serious spice to your lounge/bedroom wall/ office.

BOB CARLOS CLARKE: One Offs, Little Black Gallery, Park Walk, SW10, until 30 June, littleblackgallery.com

© THE ROYAL COLLECTION 2012; JOHN BODKIN, DAWKINS COLLUR; ESTATE OF BOB CARLOS CLARKE; YOKO ONO

A CHEMICAL GARDEN

Feel like royalty at Buckingham Palace. As curator Caroline de Guitaut says: “It is entirely appropriate that a sumptuous display of diamonds – a stone which carries associations of endurance and longevity – should be mounted here to mark the Jubilee...”

DIAMONDS: A Jubilee Celebration, Buckingham Palace, 30 June-7 October, royalcollection.org.uk

T HE A R T OF P OL I T IC S Some of the most beautiful pictures in the country are hidden away in Whitehall offices and parliamentary storage rooms. At last, highlights of the Government Art Collection are going on show at the Whitechapel Gallery. It’s a chance to glimpse the pictures that have to stare down on select committees 99 per cent of their time, poor things.

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THE SUSPENSE SIREN

Proving that she’s got a lot more to offer than the ‘Mary-Kate and Ashley’s little sister’ tag, Elizabeth Olsen is rubbing shoulders with Hollywood legends Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver in Spanish-American thriller Red Lights. She unnerved us in Martha Marcy May Marlene, scared the beejezus out of us in Silent House, and now she maintains the tension as assistant to a veteran psychologist (Weaver) in this tale of paranormal investigation. Watch with friends, and keep the lights on.

RED LIGHTS, out 22 June, momentumpictures.co.uk

THE NEW LEADING LADIES

THE BIG FISH

She’s been a junior demon in The Devil Wears Prada, cavorted in a crinoline in The Young Victoria, and fished for salmon in the Yemen, and now Emily Blunt is climbing further up the Hollywood ladder with Your Sister’s Sister. Sibling rivalry, emotional twists and complicated friendships unfold as Iris (Emily) invites her grieving buddy Jack (Mark Duplass) out to their isolated family retreat, where her sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) has also come to stay. With many scenes improvised, and Ms Blunt on top form, it’s a must-see chick flick.

YOUR SISTER’S SISTER, out 29 June, studiocanal.co.uk

QUEEN FOR A DAY

She’ll be gracing our screens in Anna Karenina later this year, but right now we’re excited about Alicia Vikander’s new regal role in A Royal Affair. In devastatingly beautiful queenly attire, the 24-year-old Swedish actress plays Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark, in this rendition of the most dramatic love affair in Danish history. Downton Abbey meets The Other Boleyn Girl in Sweden.

A ROYAL AFFAIR, out 15 June, aroyalaffairmovie.com

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A N X IOUS MOME N T S New Zealand-born songstress Ladyhawke (aka Pip Brown) has been a little quiet since her critically-acclaimed 2008 debut. Clearly, it’s left her refreshed, as her forthcoming LP, Anxiety, is a fabulous indie pop pièce de résistance. The single ‘Black, White and Blue’ exudes retro classiness with a Debbie Harry vibe but a very current drive. Play at a summer BBQ , with Pimms.

ANXIETY is out 4 June

YOU GOTTA HAVE FAITH There’s a yearning quality to Paloma Faith’s second album, Fall to Grace, that takes her a step away from her performance-heavy 2009 debut.

Emotionally it’s considerably more raw, and while the characteristic, nostalgic cry of her voice remains, a range of new influences have fed their way in.

Dancey beats, shuffling rhythms and bluesy force make for an intriguing mix.

FALL TO GRACE is out 28 May

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Just when you thought it was impossible to come up with a fresh approach to healthy eating, Kelly Hoppen’s daughter Natasha Corrett and top nutritionist Vicki Edgson produce this colourful, absorbing guide/recipe book. Its philosophy? ‘The alkaline approach’, which advocates eating from all food groups, in their purest forms. Yes, it does endorse a fair few alfalfa sprouts and kelp. But fear not – appetising, creative dishes are the end result. Try the sweetcorn and broad bean fritters.

No, really, we mean it.

HONESTLY HEALTHY, Natasha Corrett and Vicki Edgson, £20, published by Jacqui Small, 11 June

Why: It’s tiny – smaller than a paperback – and so ideal for a commute. More importantly, it is, quite simply, a fantastic read. Set in 1831 in rural USA, feisty 15-year-old farmgirl Mary tells the story of how she learns to write, and the horrific consequences that follow.

Think The Colour Purple meets Flowers For Algernon – powerful and evocatively written.

THE COLOUR OF MILK, by Nell Leyshon, £12.99, published by Penguin, 31May

LITERARY LONDON One Day In The City

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How’s this for bookworm heaven? A jam-packed day of talks, performances and readings covering the best in London-inspired literature, and all free of charge.

Keep an eye out for...

- WILL SELF: Ah, the long-faced, deep-voiced, former heroin-abusing bastion of witty cynicism – an iconic London voice.

- ALAN HOLLINGHURST: His 2004 Man Booker winner, The Line of Beauty and more recent The Swimming Pool Library have both featured London’s gayer aspects.

- A S BYATT: Her 1990 Booker prize-winning Possession or 2009’s The Children’s Book, both feature the Victoria and Albert Museum.

In 2008 The Times named her ‘one of the greatest British writers since 1945’ and on this day, London is her subject.

ONE DAY IN THE CITY, University College, Gower Street, WC1, 15 June, ucl.ac.uk/onedayinthecity

DRESSED TO KILL

From regal frocks in the early 1900s, to Vivienne Westwood via Mary Quant, go on a journey through a century of costume. Women have fortunately evolved a great deal since the days of lace-up corsets.

100 YEARS OF FASHION, by Cally Blackman, £24.95, published by Laurence King, out June

PUBLISHER’S CHOICE KATHLEEN MACMAHON, THIS IS HOW IT ENDS Publisher bidding wars for first novels are rare these days, so Irish TV journalist and writer Kathleen MacMahon’s This Is How It Ends must be pretty special...

How did you find the transition from journalistic work to novel writing?

Working in news teaches you a lot about the importance of the story, and it nurtures very practical skills. And

because of my day job as a TV reporter, the election of Obama and the onset of the global recession form the backdrop of the story.

The book is a powerful love story. Did you find the writing process moving?

Grown men have told me that they cried as they were reading it. That really surprises me, because I didn’t feel the emotion as I was writing it. All I felt was the pull of the story.

What book do you reread constantly?

Silk, by Alessandro Baricco. A huge story, in a tiny slim volume.

Who do you particularly admire?

Anyone who gets on with it.. I like people who do their thing, whatever that may be.

THIS IS HOW IT ENDS is out now, Little Brown Books, £12.99

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STAGE PRESENCE

We caught up with Ms Dynamite, aka Niomi McLean-Daley, 31, the comeback lady of the year

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How did it feel being back in the limelight after a five-year break?

It has been humbling, overwhelming, exhilarating, challenging and fulfilling all at the same time.

As a born-and-bred Londoner, what do you like most about the city?

One of my favourite places to eat is Tibits, off Regent Street; it’s a vegetarian restaurant that does lovely food and amazing natural juices. I also love InSpiral in Camden too.

Where do you shop for clothes?

Honestly, I hate shopping with a passion and do all my shopping in bulk online just to get it over and done with. The minute I find a shirt or pair of jeans that I like the style or cut of, I buy one in every colour and that’s me done for the year.

Besides music, what makes you happiest?

My son… unconditionally! There are no words for that kind of happiness or love.

Ms Dynamite plays Lovebox 15 June, her single ‘Neva Soft’ is out now

BOX FRESH

HAUSS CALLS Julie Walters and Helen McCrory (Mrs Weasley and Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter films) cast aside their wizarding enmity for this National Theatre first. The debut stage play from up-and-coming writer, Stephen Beresford, The Last of the Haussmans portrays the spirited, ageing glamour of Judy Hausmann (Walters) who has fled London society for her crumbling Art Deco house in Cornwall. Her children, including Libby, played by McCrory, arrive and a sparkling, moving drama unfolds.

THE LAST OF THE HAUSSMANS, Lyttleton Theatre, National Theatre, Southbank, SE1 19 June - 9 September, nationaltheatre.org.uk

With live performances from Hot Chip (headliners), Lana Del Rey, Emeli Sandé and Patrick Wolf – as well as various DJs, fairground rides and a vintage fashion fair – Lovebox will be a blast. Among those working on the site’s look are Lady Gaga’s fashion and set designer Alex Noble, a veteran of many a Glastonbury: “We got a caravan instead of a tent last year. It was so muddy, and it was on a hill and the front spokes had broken so it was already on an angle. We tried to prop it up with some planks of wood, which turned into giant skis and the caravan slid down the hill.” Carry on camping, Alex.

LOVEBOX FESTIVAL, Victoria Park, E9, 15-17 June, lovebox.net

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA ‘Parklife’, ‘Girls and Boys’, ‘Song 2’ (the one with the chorus that goes ‘waahoo!’), Blur has provided something of a soundtrack for our lives over the past two decades. And now, mainman/Gorillaz dude Damon Albarn is cranking it all the way up to 11 with an operatic production based on the life of John Dee, medical and scientific advisor to Elizabeth I. Don’t miss the London premiere.

DR DEE, London Coliseum, St Martins Lane, WC2, 25 June - 7 July, eno.org

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the DIOR CUFF Occasionally, I see a picture of something in a magazine so gorgeous that I rip it out and stick it on a board above my desk.

Usually it’s a picture of George Clooney, but sometimes, rarely, it’s an item of jewellery. And so it is with Dior’s new My Dior cuff. Lord above, but it’s pretty. I love a cuff, because they’re cool and modern and a classy way to accessorise, but this is the cuff of cuffs. I haven’t wanted something so much, since, well, ever.

It’s in the classic Dior lattice-weave, so instantly recognisable, but also discreet as only a cuff can be. Necklaces shriek ‘look at me’. Cuffs go about their business quietly, even the one with diamonds, or the show-stopping version with the multi-coloured stones (launching for Christmas). Me, I’d like a matching pair in plain yellow gold, one for each arm. If you’d like to buy them for me, that would be just marvellous.

My Dior cuff in yellow gold with diamonds, £135,000, My Dior cuff in yellow gold, £18,000 by Dior Joaillerie dior.com

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‘I’m always late and always by 15 minutes whatever I’m doing’

The fast fashion fix:

POPPY DELEVINGNE

Q: Who do Marc Jacobs and

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Karl Lagerfeld turn to for serious sex appeal?

A: At 25, Poppy Delevingne is already a fashion veteran who was spotted by Storm’s Sarah Doukas while she was still at school. She has already lent her face to a slew of campaigns from Louis Vuitton and Burberry to Mango and Nails inc, worked with photographers from Terry Richardson to David Bailey and been tapped as an ambassador for Chanel, Cartier and the British Fashion Council.

Being photographed by David Bailey with my dad (pictured above)... was just one of those experiences I wish I could replay in my head over and over again. It was quite raucous with a lot of laughter and naughty conversations I’m always late and always by 15 minutes... whatever I’m doing, whether I’m

going to a business meeting, seeing a friend for lunch or going to a play. It’s something I’m trying to change, as I know how annoying it is. I nearly missed the Alice Temperley show during LFW in the spring. I only made it by a hair’s breadth and sat down just as the music started.

I used to be a bit of a tomboy... but now I’m more girly. I’m wearing blue nail varnish which I thought would be good with my canary-yellow dress.

Dancing like a mad raving lunatic around my house in my dressing gown... is how I relax.

When I go out clubbing I love... The Scotch in Mason’s Yard. I think it’s amazing and I love that it’s steeped in all that iconic Sixties’ history and was where everything really happened with Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones.

Stop smoking... is the advice I would give my teenage self.

The thing I’m really looking forward to at the moment is... creating my own fashion collection. I’m really interested in, and very passionate about, the whole idea of design and I would love to do that.

I find Lady Amanda Harlech inspiring...

She’s quintessentially English, very sophisticated and very beautiful. I love what she wears as I think she makes couture look easy. She could put on a pair of jodhpurs and a man’s blazer and look equally astonishing.

Who would play me in a film? My little sister Cara because she knows me the best.

She knows my mannerisms. She’d definitely get me right in every way.

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Family values

SADIE FROST

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remember being eleven and going on my first school trip to Featherstone castle in Northumberland. I remember it being wet and cold, and it being my first real encounter with nature. We walked for miles through fields, climbing over stiles and looking with interest at the huge cows scattered around mooing at us. On the trip were some very cheeky 11-year-old boys and I was even more intrigued by the amount of attention they were giving me. I was already dramatic then and I remember the boy that I fancied only had eyes for someone else, so I buried my head in a pillow and sobbed myself to sleep. My poor mother received a cry for help on a postcard: ‘Mummy the boy doesn’t love me!’

Iris is far more intelligent than me and a lot less dramatic. There were no maudlin postcards or stories of boys on her recent school trip with PGL, a company that organises Outward Bound courses and trips. Getting ready for her trip to Osmington Bay near the New Forest, Iris was practical and organised when packing, and ticking off everything on her essentials list made me feel all nostalgic. Cagoule, long johns, walking boots... in they all went. And I hid little snacks and games for her to discover later.

I remember missing my mother on my school trip and boy did I miss Iris this time. She is such a chatty presence in my house it felt so quiet with just the boys. She called me once while she was away. I could hear in her voice she was missing home, but she is a brave girl. When the four days, which seemed like an eternity, were up and I had to meet her off the coach, I could see in her eyes that this trip had been a valuable one. My little girl had grown up and attained a certain independence.

PHOTOGRAPH: CHRISTOPHER SIMS; ASSISTANT NICK THOMPSON

‘I was already dramatic then and I remember the boy I fancied only had eyes for someone else, so I cried myself to sleep’

IRIS L AW

P

GL stand for Parents Get Lost – and that is exactly what happens! Going on a school trip out of London and leaving my parents for more than a sleepover was new and odd to me.

Packing was very exciting – I had to make a few hard decisions over cool clothes versus comfy waterproof clothes. I stuffed in new clothes and old clothes, leaving stuff out and sitting on the suitcase quite a bit. The packing definitely made me more excited, but when the time came for me to say goodbye, my throat swelled up and my tummy felt funny. My friends who were all a little nervous too made me feel better right away and the coach trip went really quickly. Everybody was filled with adrenalin and the boys were bottling up tears and worry like a chemical factory, while the girls either weren’t worried at all and just passed magazines round and chatted, or admitted they missed home a bit.

When we arrived we were all dragged through mud in our comfy (new) shoes and clothes from the coach on a surprise walk. Our rooms were quite small. I was in a room with three of my friends and the bunk beds were squashed together. The feet of the person in one bed were in the face of the person in the other.

We went on great activities, like a giant swing where you were pulled up higher and higher until you were about 20 feet from the ground then let go to swing wildly down to the ground. There was one evening that I really started missing home. A teacher lent me his phone to call my mum and after hearing familiar voices I felt much better. I think after PGL I will find it easier to leave home. I also now know the difference between waterproof and drizzle-proof (having learnt the very hard way).

‘The bunk beds were squashed together – the feet of the person in one bed were in the face of the person in the other’

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VIKTOR VAUTHIER.

HOLLY SILIUS

28, PRODUCT DESIGNER AND MAKE-UP ARTIST Nominated by Sarah Owen, creative director of Lucy in Disguise: “Holly is incredibly creative. We're all completely addicted to her fake eyelashes and rarely go out without a pair!”

Holly started life as a make-up artist but is fast making a name for herself as a multi-disciplinary designer. Her eyelashes, Shimmer Twins (stocked on Asos, Urban Outfitters and Willa Keswick’s Village Bicycle), were spotted by jewellery designer Hannah Warner, and the pair have since gone into business together, creating body adornments such as metal nails. Their rose thorns and thistles were used by Marian Newman in Nicola Formichetti’s AW12 Thierry Mugler womenswear show in Paris. They are currently working on lizard-head and spider versions and branching out into bindis and metal prosthetics too. Holly has also worked with Florence Welch and created lashes for Kreayshawn (which the rapper sported on the cover of i-D magazine) as well as for Jaime Winstone. Expect a chain of Shimmer Twins lash bars to pop up in the not too distant future. hollysilius.com Nails from £40 for a single to £200 for a full set, from holly-hannah.com

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23, ACTRESS, MODEL AND FILMMAKER With Chanel muse Lady Amanda Harlech for a mother, a childhood spent hanging out with Naomi Campbell, André Leon Tally, Isabella Blow and Bruce Weber (he shot her for Italian Vogue when she was a child), Tallulah is a fashion blueblood.

She made her catwalk debut aged 12 taking a bow with Karl Lagerfeld at his SS00 couture show. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and landed a lead role in an off-Broadway production of Richard III. But Harlech isn’t one to sit back and wait for things to come to her. “I want to make things happen for myself,” she says, and she is currently working on a fashion-film collaboration with Vogue.com written by her mother.

“It’s about a woman and the different sides to her character, so I end up talking to different versions of myself wearing different looks.” We hear that the dark side will wear Julien Macdonald and the girly side, Chanel.

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TALLULAH HARLECH

PEONY LIM

24, BLOGGER AND DESIGNER Nominated by Vogue photographer Candice Lake:“She is always doing her own fabulous, uber-chic thing to the beat of her own drum... and that's why I absolutely adore her.”

While studying Art History at London’s Courtauld Institute Peony would be constantly shot by street-style photographers,. so it made sense to join them and start her own style diary blog.

Her unique sense of style has made her a favourite with bloggers Tommy Ton, Candice Lake and Scott Schuman. She’s since featured in US Vogue, New York Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Peony consults and hosts events for Shanghai Tang and Revlon and has recently released her first capsule collection of signature smocks, all hand-designed to a pattern that’s been in her family for generations; there are also plans afoot for a boutique. peonylim.com

NIK THAKKAR

27, BRAND STRATEGIST AND BLOGGER Nominated by Adri Murguia of VICE magazine in NY: “Nik is one of the most creative minds I’ve met. He's caught on to rising stars before they burst to fame.”’

Thakkar’s work in digital brand strategy (building relationships between audience and brand through digital media) includes award-winning campaigns such as Wonderbra by Dita Von Teese, Diet Coke partnerships with Karl Lagerfeld (2011) and Jean Paul Gaultier (2012) and projects with LVMH. He is also a super-blogger as the voice behind karlismyunkle. com with work published in The Huffington Post.

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GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

VIKTOR VAUTHIER.

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20, MODEL She’s got a Rimmel campaign, appeared on the cover of everything from Harper's Bazaar to i-D and generally turned heads on the fashion scene. Now Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall’s daughter is flexing her charitable muscles by fronting the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth.

FRANCESCA VERSACE

30, ACCESSORIES DESIGNER AND FASHION HEIRESS The daughter of Versace President, Santo, Francesca, who spent her youth hanging out backstage with Kate Moss and Eva Herzigova, graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2006.

However, instead of going straight into business, trading off her enviable pedigree and contacts book, she went off to learn about tailoring, working for Matthew Williamson in Milan, consulted for Issa, Giles Deacon and Biba and released a capsule collection with Tina Tan-Leo’s Singaporean label AllDressedUp. Six years later, it’s time for her debut accessory collection Sedici45 which will launch later this year. When it previewed last year at Florence’s Pitti fair, fans were so desperate to get hold of it they tried to pre-order at Versace stores. We’re already hooked. sedici45.it

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Stylist: Simone Konue, model: Anastasya, shots for a French model fanzine taken in Kate's garage

CRAIG LAWRENCE

KATE BELLM

24, PHOTOGRAPHER Nominated by Rupert Sanderson: “She’s got an energy and an eye and can just nail the feel and mood. Cavalier and quick, she captures the vitality of the moment brilliantly. I predict great things.”

Born in London, but raised in Berlin, Kate has been doing photo shoots from the age of 14 using friends as models. Her style blending high-end sophistication with raw Seventies edges, is proving a hit with British Vogue, Elle and Harrods.

27, THE NEW KING OF KNITS Nominated by Dazed And Confused’s William Oliver: “Lawrence has established himself as the go-to expressionist knitwear designer, known for a super-sexy experimental look with a classic understanding of form and shape.”

Knitwear but not as you know it… the Ipswich-born Central Saint Martins graduate began his career working for Gareth Pugh before branching out with his own label which he’s been showing now for the last eight seasons. He is already a favourite with stylesavvy celebrities from Florence Welch and Tilda Swinton to Bjork, Jesse J. and Lady Gaga. His SS12 collection (styled by Katie Shillingford) was all floor-skimming bodycons and outsized sweats executed in Swarovski crystal and Kyototex foil-wrapped yarns which looked like ethereal spiders’ webs. And the inspiration? Stolen innocence, BBC series Five Daughters and Vajazzles. Craig is stocked internationally by Milan’s Corso Como and RA Paris and was scooped up by Dover Street Market in 2011. He’s also created a diffusion line for Willa Keswick’s Notting Hill Village Bicycle. Look out for his AW 2012 collection.

Partly inspired by British budget travel, he manages to translate the pattern of a coach seat into something altogether more desirable. craiglawrence.co.uk

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CHARLIE LE MINDU

25, HAIR STYLIST, WIG MAKER AND MAD HATTER Nominated by Lady Gaga's stylist Anna Trevelyan: “Charlie is a unique visionary, pushing the boundaries of hair art like no-one else. He never holds back or conforms.”

From avant-garde pop-up hair salons in Berlin nightclubs, Le Mindu has graduated to become a master of haute coiffure – shooting with photographers from Ellen von Unwerth to Nick Knight and exhibiting headpiece-meets-wig fusions at London Fashion Week’s Headonism initiative. His new collection is inspired by his vision of 1930’s futurism and features Toile de Jouy fabrics and lilac-rinse tones. Which brings us to his forthcoming role as Avant-Garde Hair Director at Urban Retreat with his own dedicated section at the Harrods spa. Is Knightsbridge ready? "The little old ladies of Knightsbridge are very crazy with their purple hair, so I think we’ll fit very well together.” charlielemindu.com

Charlie Le Mindu SS12 and friends

29, MAVERICK TURNED SERIOUS DESIGNER Nominated by Laura Weir, Sunday Times Style Magazine: “Henry has grown his label from a t-shirt brand coveted by a few cool kids, to a fashion business known the world over.”

Vogue blogger, prodigious tweeter and lover of statement trouser suits, the former fashion editor of Smash Hits plotted his route to fashion stardom via a series of slogan tees bearing gems like 'I’ll Show You Who’s Boss, Kate Moss'. A poster boy for the adage that hard work pays off, (he loves going to Paris as you get a Blackberry signal on the Métro), his collections just get better every year with his SS12 making us actually covet a dress in giant pastel giraffe print. The upcoming AW season with its digital houndstooth and sporty Seventies vibe is his best yet. Then there are the Debenhams, Pretty Polly and Superga collaborations, two-season Fashion Forward sponsorship and a Sky Living show he’s working on with Rihanna. houseofholland.co.uk

© DAN BOWAN;

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Joe Turvey SS12

JOE TURVEY

23, MENSWEAR DESIGNER AND ILLUSTRATOR Nominated by Elgar Johnson of i-D magazine: “Joe is an extremely exciting emerging talent. His ability to reference and add his own personal touch could make him a potential class act.”

London College of Fashion 2012 graduate Joseph Turvey may have an MA in menswear (Henry Holland wears one of his black lace jackets), but the inspiration for his illustration-based collection is from Albert and David Maysles' 1975 film Grey Gardens. We hope he branches out into womenswear. “I might play around with that for next season,” he says. Following his MA show where he decorated jackets and suits with prints of his illustrations, Turvey was scooped up by Vauxhall Fashion Scout and will show at this month’s Menswear Week in London. showtime.arts.ac.uk/josephturvey

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DOUGLAS BOOTH

19, ACTOR AND MODEL Nominated by Burberry's Christopher Bailey: “He’s an exceptionally talented young guy who is going to be a huge star. He has a really modern British look and style... he's also down to earth and a pleasure to be around.”

With his brooding pout and chiselled chin, it’s hardly surprising that Booth has been cast as Romeo opposite Hailee Steinfeld in the new Julian Fellowes adaptation. The teenager from Kent has known since the age of 12 that he rather likes "being the centre of attention - this is where I want to be". And is. He's worked as a Burberry model alongside Emma Watson and played Pip in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations last year.

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DUFFY

28, JEWELLER Nominated by Dinos Chapman: “Duffy’s work has all my favourite subjects: skulls, teeth, bones, hearts. You can’t go wrong.”

Duffy hand-makes everything he sells in his studio in Shoreditch.

"I have no backer or funding behind me, I just reinvest what I earn and try to grow that way," he says. And his business is growing nicely, with Erin O’Connor and Daisy Lowe snapping up his biker-style chains, and projects with Nike and PPQ. duffyjewellery.com

Daisy Lowe for Margot Bowman

MARGOT BOWMAN

23, ILLUSTRATOR AND DESIGNER Nominated by the Sunday Times’ Jessie Brinton: “What will this girl not do? She makes extraordinarily pretty pictures but then there’s that sharp mind and her work ethic is untouchable.”

As Creative Director of the Estethica Review, an ethical fashion mag, and with a Kiehl’s collaboration for Trees for Cities under her belt, Margot is already changing views in fashion. The Central Saint Martins graduate’s new capsule collection is created from hand-painted vintage clothing. “I think the exciting thing about making fashion in this way is that it’s really questioning how people have been making clothes for the last 50 years,” she says. “This is what’s going to keep fashion truly fresh: new fabrics, new techniques, a new mentality.” Bowman puts a utopian slant on a dystopian fashion future.

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Pink Lotus shoe, £620

AURELIA DONALDSON

23, STYLIST AND FILMMAKER Daughter of fashion photographer Matthew Donaldson and sister of model Lily Donaldson, Aurelia has an enviable style pedigree so a career in fashion was inevitable. Her day job is as a stylist and writer for The Telegraph Magazine but her passion is film-making. She began collaborating with her father in 2008 when a friend brought round a Phantom Camera which works in super-slow motion.

“I’m a real tomboy when it comes to things like that,” she laughs, “so it was just the three of us geeking out.” The result, Flying Hair, which debuted on the nowness.com style website, starred her sister Lily. It was art-directed by one Sam McKnight. There followed a series for The Telegraph with Cara Delevingne and Alice Dellal and a film for Louis Vuitton’s 2012 cruise collection. aureliadonaldson.com

JOANNE STOKER

29, COBBLER Nominated by Matthew Williamson: “Her shoes are unique and I like her vision. She’s also really focused, organised and professional which is rare. She’ll go far! ” Having graduated from Cordwainers College with a Masters in Footwear Design and following a stint with Jimmy Choo, Stoker burst onto the footwear scene in 2009 when she established her own label. Known for her perspex heels – she even created a light-up LED version rechargeable via USB for an installation last September in Selfridges Shoe Gallery. Stoker loves Madonna and is inspired by “world travel and architecture,” and carries a sketchbook wherever she goes. With names like Diwali and Mosaic her SS12 collection takes its cue from the festivals of India and the Berber tribes of Morocco. Our favourite look is an Art Deco style with the lapis lazuli heels.

Joanne has just won a Vogue Italia talent contest and sponsorship from Swarovski for 2013. And you can spot her shoes on Nicki Minaj in her Starships video. joannestoker.com

TOMASZ DONOCIK

Venus Fly Trap rings in rose gold with black diamonds and tsavorite, £1400-£1885

30, JEWELLER Nominated by Stephen Webster: “Tomasz worked for me when he was at college so I’ve followed his career – we share a similar personal taste. He’s a very dynamic guy.”

He looks more like a dissolute Russian aristocrat than a fine jeweller but Tomasz Donocik is the real deal. The Royal College of Art graduate cut his teeth with Webster before launching his own fine jewellery line at Garrard. He won the 2011 UK Retail Jeweller of the Year award, and has been selected by the BFC and International Palladium Board as one of 10 young designers to kick off its new Rock Vault initiative which launched at February’s Fashion Week. His delectable Venus Fly Trap rings which twist together are the new stacking rings, and his Snowbell lariat chains with free-spinning bejewelled drops are perfected for twiddling while you wait to board a private jet. You can snap up his silver jewellery at Harvey Nichols. tomaszdonocik.com

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BURBERRY PRORSUM AW12

MAARTEN VAN DER HORST

19, MODEL Nominated by Sarah Doukas of Storm Model Management: “She is adorable and talented. She also has the ability to shake up the energy in a room and make people ask ‘who is that girl?'”

We don’t know what makes us more jealous – Cara’s appearance for Burberry in its new campaign, or the fact that she got to star in it alongside freckled boy wonder Eddie Redmayne. Either way, she’s rapidly generating a reputation as one of the country’s most sought-after models. She’s appeared on the runway for Oscar de la Renta, Jason Wu, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi and Chanel. She may be Poppy’s little sister but Cara is making it on her own terms.

MAARTEN VAN DER HORST FOR TOPSHOP

CARA DELEVINGNE

29, FASHION DESIGNER Nominated by Lulu Kennedy, mentor and fashion force: “Maarten is very original with a strong point of view and sense of humour. He’s a talented designer and has what it takes to go all the way. Expect big things from him.”

Dutch-born Maarten van der Horst interned with Chloé in Paris while doing his BA at the Artez Institute of Art and his graduate collection was a riot of hand-painted brights. At Central Saint Martins he developed his aesthetic juxtaposing intricately embroidered nylon petticoats with Hawaiian shirts, Capri trousers and Bermuda shorts.

He was soon snapped up by Lulu Kennedy’s Fashion East organisation that nurtures young fashion talent and his SS12 debut collection fused boxy tailoring with palm-tree chic. His work has also drawn inspiration from drag queens, tourists and transvestites. He featured as part of Selfridges Bright Young Things initiative earlier this year, creating a window display, and recently launched a sell-out diffusion collection with Topshop. maartenvanderhorst.com

VIVIAN YING

26, COBBLER Nominated by Zandra Rhodes, founder of the Fashion and Textile Museum: “The incredible layers of snakeskin and leather, and the combination of colours make her shapes sing.”

London College of Fashion graduate Vivian Ying launches her debut collection of luxury women’s footwear for Autumn/Winter 2012 inspired by Japanese traditions of court dress and kimonos. London-based, her colours range from nudes to turquoise and pastel blues and lots of snakeskin. They’re beautifully made and completely original. vivianying.co.uk

Left: with Zandra Rhodes. Above: Ying's debut collection

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ALEXA CHUNG

21, SHOE DESIGNER AND FASHION HEIRESS Has Sir Philip Green spawned an unlikely creative talent? Quite possibly, if the debut shoe collection from Chloe Jade Green is anything to go by. There are eight designs, each named after a close friend or family member. Her range combines pretty detailing with striking opulence. The attention to detail shows (antique lace and natural leathers with delicate floral appliqués and crystals) that Green is no air-headed daddy’s girl, despite the small matter of a multi-billion pound fashion fortune thanks to her parents’ ownership of the Arcadia Group. cjg.com

GEORGINA HARDINGE SS12

CHLOE GREEN

ALEXA CHUNG FOR SUPERGA

28, MODEL TURNED POLYMATH Nominated by Karl Lagerfeld: “I love Alexa! She does a lot of things at the same time; she is very talented and does it in a perfect way. She is beautiful and clever!”

The former teen model has packed an awful lot into the last decade.

In the last year alone she’s been tapped as a young style ambassador for the British Fashion Council and as spokesperson for Bicester Village’s Designers Collection. She's turned creative director for hip sneaker label Superga and has presented TV shows on both sides of the Atlantic – C4’s Frock Me and 24 Hour Catwalk for the US’s Lifetime channel. She’s even risked life and limb as a magician’s assistant lying on a bed of nails for an illusionist at Stella McCartney’s AW12 show earlier this year. And she's a Chanel ambassadress. Who knows, soon she may even usurp Lagerfeld himself as fashion’s greatest polymath. And we’ve also heard about a very exciting fashion collaboration for AW12.

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KITTY JOSEPH

20, CARTOON SUPERMODEL Victoria Meekings, press manager, Harvey Nichols: “We were ecstatic that the world’s first cartoon supermodel managed to slot a modelling stint for Harvey Nics into her jet-setting schedule. ” Cartoonist Neil Kerber’s dream girl has recently been catapulted from the pages of Private Eye where she debuted as a character in his Supermodels comic strip to Vogue.com.

But if you’re thinking she’s not a proper model we’d beg to differ: she’s signed to Carole White’s Premier Model Management’s Special Bookings department. She’s been interviewed by i-D and Grazia, collaborated with Burberry and Harvey Nichols and was even invited to attend the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Due to her Tw it ter f riendship w ith @DKNYprGirl with whom she also shares a dermatologist, she even scored a custom-made Donna Karan gown for the occasion… pollybean.com

ROSIE HUNTINGTONWHITELEY 25, MODEL AND ACTRESS Nominated by Rankin: “We’ve been looking at very, very skinny, almost masculine girls for a long time and Rosie’s the opposite. She is the model of the moment. She’s the actress of the moment. She’s definitely going to become something much, much bigger.”

Plymouth-born Rosie makes our eyes pop in Victoria’s Secret campaigns, smoulders in Burberry and then makes M&S look utterly desirable. Now she's widening her career scope with an acting role in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. And look out for the lingerie range she's designed for M&S - 'Rosie For Autograph' launching September.

ROSIE FOR AUTOGRAPH, M&S

POLLY BEAN

24, FASHION DESIGNER A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, Joseph has collaborated with Zandra Rhodes and Piers Atkinson and created bespoke pieces for Lady Gaga and Carine Roitfeld. Her AW12 collection features neoprene bombers. kittyjoseph.com

GEORGINA HARDINGE

27, FASHION DESIGNER The Parsons School of Fashion graduate only made her catwalk debut with Vauxhall Fashion Scout last year but she’d already been spotted by stylist Charlotte Stockdale at her AW10 Cage show at Somerset House. Stockdale commissioned three looks for the Victoria’s Secret show. Her latest collection, Cubed, is influenced by the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon with abstract geometric prints and sculptural peplum shapes across a palette of grey and burnt umber. While she’s stocked at fashionable secret Wolf & Badger in London’s Notting Hill and Dover Street, she’s still flying slightly under the radar but with high profile fans in Beyoncé and Nicole Scherzinger, it won’t be for long. georginahardinge.co.uk

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Erin O’Connor has inspired designers from Jean-Paul Gaultier to Giles Deacon, she towers 6ft 4in in her heels and says that people fear she’s going to come at them with a machete. So how did a chronically shy little girl from suburban Birmingham overcome her stage fright to conquer the fashion world, asks Natalie Silverton

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ve got massive stage fright,” confesses Erin O’Connor, as she enters the library at the Soho Hotel one bluster y spring morning. Dressed like a modernday flapper in black Vivienne Westwood harem pants, a Cos blouse and Helmut Lang blazer, she seems anything but nervous.

And for someone as experienced as she is, stage fright would indeed be surprising.

O’Connor has been modelling since she was discovered, aged 17, by a scout while rummaging in the bargain bins at The Clothes Show Live in Birmingham. “I had big fat braces and a mane of hair that covered my face. I was aware of someone watching me for a long time, and thought she was going to accuse me of stealing. Instead she took a Polaroid of me. I’m not saying I liked what I saw but there was an instantaneous gratification of seeing a developed picture of myself.” Shortly after, she arrived at Victoria Station prepared to make it as a model with a weekly allowance of £40 from her agency.

She was a shy child, but: “m o d e l l i n g i s t h e m o s t u n b e l ie v a ble s ol u t i o n t o combating shyness. It takes a lot of adrenalin to get up on stage.”

She points out that “it’s the unassuming ones that end up making a living”. Though Naomi Campbell might disagree.

The shyness worked for her.

Within a few months, O’Connor found herself working with Richard Avedon on the Versace campaign. At 20, she met JeanPaul Gaultier, and a unique friendship was born. He embraced her angular beauty and used her on the catwalk and in campaigns.

“She isn’t only a model. She is like art. She is like theatre,” Gaultier said of her. “She is an extraordinary inspiration.” Since then, she’s done covers for Vogue and campaigns for Chanel, Valentino, Giles Deacon and Dolce & Gabbana. Her work for Marks & Spencer was credited with changing the fortunes of the high-street retailer.

“Designers and photographers were redefining beauty,” O’Connor recalls of the late Nineties. “The aesthetic perfection of the Eighties supermodels began to die out and modelling became as much about

personality and character and the attitude you projected as a woman.” At the time, O’Connor “marked out the androgynous territory” and now aged 34, she is still in great demand. “I go for castings and they screen me to see if I’ve had extra work done. To be in your natural state is somehow exotic now.”

High fashion is worlds away from O’Connor’s childhood on the outskirts of Birmingham as part of an Irish family – she’s the middle of three sisters. Her grandparents and parents were all in public service. “My family were in the police, they worked as nurses, teachers – my mum and sister work in a school and my aunties were headmistresses,” she says.

O’Connor talks a lot about her parents and her sisters, and it’s clear they are very close. Perhaps even more so after the loss of her brother, Terry, when she was a child. He was knocked down and killed by a car. When I mention this, she pauses, and I can feel her inwardly check. “When you experience something like that there are some things that you preserve on behalf of other people. It brings your family closer together, you have a deeper understanding and you realise the value of having people around you that put up with you, annoy you and love you.”

As a child she would dream about what she might grow up to be: “It ranged from wanting to be a nun, ice-cream van owner or ballet dancer to being married to Boy George.” It was at the age of twelve she became styleconscious, inspired by her elder sister, and then, as a teen, went through several (rather dubious) fashion transformations ranging from stripey tights and Doc Martens, indie-style gypsy skirts to a period of granddad chic.

At 6ft 4in (in heels), it’s not O’Connor’s height that’s most striking when you meet her, but how animated she is. Very sharp, her answers are punctuated with grins, raised eyebrows and dramatic voices. It’s that same intensity that she brings to her photos. “At work I’m always quite extreme,” she admits. “People think I’m going to come at them with a machete.

It’s taken me at least a decade to know how to dress myself.”

With eyes smudged in Tom Ford Eye Colour, lips stained in creamy Mac nude, her alabaster skin above a swanlike neck and her shock of Louise Brooks hair, she’s undoubtedly a beauty, though somehow an odd one. A recent year-and-a-half hiatus away from her gruelling modelling schedule offered the respite she needed to

‘I go for castings and they screen me to see if I’ve had extra work done.

To be in your natural state is somehow exotic now.’

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Right: Erin on the catwalk in a Jasper Conran evening dress A/W 2007. Above: modelling Jean Paul Gaultier couture 2011/2012.

maintain her flawless complexion, as well as allowing her time to devote to other initiatives close to her heart, and to set up her eco fashion brand, She Died Of Beauty, with stylist and friend Kate Halfpenny. While a return to full-time modelling this year made sure she’s kept fit. “I go to the gym three times a week. It’s bloody hard work and I graft at it. I’ve always been elongated and skinny growing up but to keep that now is more difficult. To top that off, last year I was told I had high cholesterol.” Looking at her whippetthin frame this is hard to believe. “It is a hereditary condition that has thankfully levelled out without the need for medication or extreme life style changes.” Apart from some minor changes to her diet like butter substitutes, she explains “my cholesterol is happily under control through exercise and more self-awareness”.

Her weight was never a problem for O’Connor but other aspects of her body were. In the past she has been told she has big kneecaps and shouldn’t show her teeth. But, as she says, “I’m pretty much done with self-criticism. There are enough people who will have a go.” In 2007 she contributed to the Model Health Enquiry into the size-zero debate championed by The British Fashion Council.

And soon after that founded the country’s first Model Sanctuary, a non-profit drop-in centre for young models which gives them advice from nutritionists, life coaches and osteopaths. “My idea is to empower models to be informed individuals and to encourage them to invest in themselves,” she says. In 2009, O’Connor also co-founded All Walks Beyond the Catwalk, a charity project devoted to broadening the range of professional models used in fashion.

One reason for her renewed energy is a proposed move back to New York. “It’s liberating to work in a city with a strong reputation for emerging talent, sustaining that talent and being loyal to it. And New York is really where my career blossomed. I’ll miss London terribly – the culture, museums, EastEnders, our unguarded humour and cynicism.” But there is a boyfriend in the States. Long-term, I

ask? “Let’s hope so,” she laughs, adding: “Luckily we’re not having a height contest – he’s definitely much taller than me.” She’s reticent about revealing too much, but it’s obvious that she’s loved-up.

She may be heading for Manhattan but she won’t stop her nearconstant travelling: newly recruited as a Save the Children Ambassador, she recently visited Delhi as part of ‘A Life Free From Hunger’ campaign. “If it means using my public profile to highlight the crucial work they do out there, I’m prepared to take that chance.” Whether it’s modelling on the catwalk, or wearing a ‘campaign’ hat: “I always want to really mean what I’m doing and that’s where my focus is.” Today she’s focusing on her eyes as the spokesperson for Optrex ActiMist 2in1 Eye Spray for Tired & Uncomfortable Eyes: “As models – we all get tired, puffy eyes,” she explains. “This is fabulous, as it can be used over make-up, unlike drops that can make you look like Alice Cooper.”

Sounds like the perfect SOS handbag must-have for the slew of models heading to London Fashion Week this September. “And this time, I’ll be returning as a model on the runway,” O’Connor reveals. There’s a hint of trepidation in her voice, but in an instant, it’s gone. “Once I’m walking that catwalk I’ll be fine.” a ActiMist 2in1 Eye Spray for Tired & Uncomfortable Eyes, £15.31 ( available from pharmacies, supermarkets & grocery stores nationwide) AMUSEMAGAZINE.CO.UK |

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‘My life is an ongoing

fashion shoot’ Courted by Chanel for her British Museum chic, blogger, DJ and model Bip Ling still remains true to Shoreditch – at least when it comes to her favourite greasy spoon, she tells Stephanie Hirschmiller

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very morning Bip Ling’s mother, the artist and fashion illustrator Tanya Ling, would say to Bip and her younger sister Evangeline: “Every day is a styley day darlings.” It’s since become a mantra for Ling, now 22.

Three years ago, while working for a fashion PR company, Bip (short for Bipasha) started a blog – “because I like the idea of keeping a diary and documenting things.”

Growing by word of mouth – or mouse – among the style set, she’s well on track for a million views – and her readers can’t get enough of her quirky “bathroom looks of the day” set to cartoon backgrounds, her animations and the playlists that relate to her adventures on Planet Fashion.

Last year, she became the face of young American clothing export, Forever 21, when it launched in the UK. “They had ads on taxis, Tubes and buses so I’d have to ring friends and say, “I’ve just seen myself on a bus!”

These days, she’s shot by Patrick Demarchelier for American Vogue and is being assiduously courted by Chanel as one of their unofficial ambassadors.

Having grown up in Wimbledon, Bip now lives in Shoreditch and today we’re shooting at her favourite hangout – souped-up greasy spoon, The Breakfast Club – and the venue, in fact, of some of her first dates with her boyfriend, model Dylan Garner. “I love the

music, the food is great and I always try to get the little private room at the back,” she enthuses.

Today Bip is wearing red suede wedges, shorts from Religion (“it was raining so I thought ‘yeah, ‘I’ll wear shorts’”) a top from Borne and a little bow from Beyond Retro – a favourite vintage shop on Stoke Newington Church Street: “Whenever I go in there, I buy something.” She also loves a mix of high street and designer labels from Cos and American Apparel to Comme des Garçons, PPQ and Christian Louboutin, of whom she says proudly: “I’ve just bought my first pair, the Pigalle 120. They’re black and pointy and six inches high. I spent a fortune on them but I’ve been wanting them for two years.”

Describing her style as “British Museum chic” - one of her role models is the American socialite, Peggy Guggenheim who ran away to Paris in the 1920s to become the darling of the avantgarde - Bip still feels she’s developing her look. “I feel sometimes that I’ve created Bip Ling as a little character,” she muses and, indeed, her life is “ just an ongoing fashion shoot” – this year alone she’s been to Dubai, Athens and New York to launch CK1 cosmetics for which she’s a ‘Colour Insider’. But while she might slide from bed to desk for her first blog of the day in a tracksuit and slippers, when she’s on show, she wears skyscraper heels and her trademark ponytail. As for great fashion moments, there are quite a few – not least the Vogue shoot. “It was the first time I’d been to New York and I’ve got the whole trip tape-recorded in my head.” There was also a memorable session outside the Paris designer shop, Colette, with photographer Candice Lake – “it was a Ken/Barbie party and there’s a photo of me standing in the middle of the road with a massive inflatable Ken – cars were beeping everywhere!” And then of course there is Chanel: “The show is the best because it literally gives you goosebumps.”

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Kate Phelan has turned her back on the rarefied world of Vogue to bring her pareddown, grown-up style to the rough and tumble of the high-street superbrand. So how has the fashion director’s sleek style gone down with Sir Philip Green, asks Lauren Cochrane

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aking a seat in her first meeting at Topshop, Kate Phelan got quite a shock. “They plonked this big wallet of paper down in front of me, called a product review,” she recalls, big blue eyes widening.

“I couldn’t even see the numbers, they were so small.” Demonstrating her commitment to the new gig, she gave herself a crash course in the business side of things. “I had no comprehension of the size and the scale of Topshop,” she admits.

“Stepping through the door I had to work that out really quickly.”

Phelan’s brainstorm makes sense when you know where she came from. Previously Fashion Director at Vogue – and at the magazine for more than 18 years – she left to become Creative Director at Topshop in September last year. Fashion shoot locations, photographers’ schedules, cover stars and supermodels would have been more her stock in trade.

“Mathematical dyslexia took over my brain,” she laughs. “I was

like ‘it’s not a photograph, I can’t deal with this’.” Eight months on, Phelan may now be more familiar with the numbers but she has brought some of her glossy world with her if her office just off Oxford Street is anything to go by. Lined with photography books, it has fashion show invites pinned to the wall along with a photograph of a young Kate Moss brandishing a snake. There are also signs of the day-to-day running of a fashion superpower. A rail of samples is stashed in the corner, while promotional material, covered with Phelan’s scrawls, is strewn across the sleek white table that dominates the space. Phelan herself, with striking, cornflower eyes, an easy smile and auburn hair in a loose bun, is dressed simply in a blazer, pyjama-style blouse and skinny jeans. It’s the kind of outfit that looks ripe for replication, but would never quite work if you tried it yourself – in short, the 48-year-old is the epitome of effortless, grown-up chic.

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EMBELLISHED SANDAL, £50

STUDDED KHAKI JACKET, £65 JUBILEE HOME GUARDS DRESS, £50

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advocating this more understated look in the peacock world of the front row. She is at the opposite end of the spectrum from style blog favourite Anna Dello Russo who changes several times in a day and wears full catwalk looks top to toe. Fashion insiders hoped Phelan’s personal style would make an impression at Topshop and, in September, their expectations were realised when she unveiled her first show at London Fashion Week for Unique, (Topshop’s catwalk label). It was indeed pared down and sleek. A mix of military influence, loose shapes and natural beauty, it was greeted with universal coos of approval. Grazia Contributing Editor Melanie Rickey described the collection as “straight-up future-fashion staples everyone wanted on sight”.

Phelan, however, knows her role at Topshop is not as simple as just replicating her own look – the brand isn’t just for women like her, “it’s for everyone. I sometimes criticise the product in the sense of ‘where’s that gorgeous pair of black trousers and a nice silk blouse?’” she says.

“But I also find myself asking my daughter and her friends things about Topshop because although they’re only 14, they are the future of the brand. The world of Topshop has to incorporate all the years of the life of a growing young woman.”

With this statement, Phelan neatly sums up the brand’s DNA. A visit to Topshop, now nearly 50 years old, has become a rite of passage for teenagers to discover fashion and London girls have fond memories of hours spent in the changing rooms at the Oxford Circus store. Sponsoring young designers like Christopher Kane and Jonathan Saunders at London Fashion Week with NEWGEN for 10 years, too, it’s become symbolic of something more than just clothes. Always connecting with the new and the young, it’s managed to stay thrilling for each successive generation while keeping customers as they grow older. You can’t fault the business model – Arcadia posted profits of £133.1m in 2011.

Giving youth a place in fashion has long been important for Phelan. Born in Exeter in 1964 (the same year Topshop was founded) and growing up the daughter of a chartered surveyor father and an illustrator mother with an older sister and half-brother, her parents helped her feel anything was possible. “They made us work hard,” she says, “but they never made us feel like we were destined to do one thing. There was an opportunity, an open door, always.” Vogue was her first window into the fashion world. “My mum used to get it on subscription,” she says. “I remember being completely blown away by a Bruce Weber shoot that Grace Coddington had styled, based on Edward Weston’s photographs.

I literally went straight into town and had all my hair cut off. I think I always had this fascination to be the girl in the picture.”

Even better was to create the pictures in the first place – as she

found out when she made her way to London’s Central Saint Martins in 1985. “I realised very quickly that I wasn’t a designer,” she says. “I wanted to play with the clothes but I didn’t want to make them.”

After an ill-fated work placement “feeling like an alien dumped at a desk” at the Mail on Sunday, she then ended up at Vogue. “Within about a week, I thought ‘this is the most incredible thing,’” she says, voice going all dreamy. “Everything just fell into place.”

Dropping out of college to take up a permanent assistant job in 1987, she was a fashion editor at Vogue from 1993 and she flourished in the loosened-up Nineties. Working with models including Kate Moss, Karen Elson and Shalom Harlow and, later, Lily Donaldson and Lara Stone, often shooting on location, Phelan collaborated with photographers like Craig McDean, Tom Munro and Corinne Day on a fresh approach. “I was used to fashion making all the models look older than they were and suddenly there was this embracing of youth, and youth culture,” she remembers. “Once I realised there was a place for that in Vogue, I could do it.”

So if she was so at home at Vogue, why the change of direction now? “The fashion industry has been turned on its head in the last 10 years,” she says. “It used to be an exclusive few who got invited to shows.

Everybody knows about fashion now – we have access to it any time we want.” Enthusing about street-style blogs and the usergenerated parts of the Topshop website, she’s excited by “that girl who has an enormous appetite for fashion and wants to be of the moment, making trends of her own.”

Catering to said girl, Phelan, who is married to filmmaker Richard Carroll, and lives in South London, is busy working on new collaborations for Topshop – a Richard Nicoll bridal range is out this month, with a bigger, as-yet unannounced, project in September – on the back of the successful Mary Katrantzou range in February.

“I think before, the collaborations have always been seen as something quite small compared to the rest of the business,” says Phelan. “There’s so much potential in the relationship we have with the designers, we should maximise it.”

With that product review probably well-thumbed by now, she’s working between the inhouse design team and Topshop’s formidable owner Sir Philip Green to put more plans like this into action. “I think he’s really ambitious for the brand and I’m ambitious for the brand so therefore I really get him,” she says of her boss. “He could go and lie on a beach if he wanted but the fact that he doesn’t is really fantastic for us. Somebody is there, still dreaming up the vision and the next big thing.” He’s not the only one, of course. “I want to give our customer the store she can be creative within,” says Phelan. “And then you want to try and harness whatever new feeling or mood is next.” a

“I realised very quickly that I wasn’t a designer.

I knew I wanted to play with the clothes but I didn’t want to make them”

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LESSONS IN LIFE BY

ELIZABETH HURLEY Don’t bother with lunch, keep a pet, and dress for dinner on holiday. Elizabeth Hurley, model, businesswoman, actor, designer and all-round power-house shares her secrets for a successful life

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. DON’T DIET...

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I rarely diet, and find if I eat healthy food I can eat quite a lot of it. By healthy, I mean organic meat, fish, lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, homemade cakes, breads and puddings.

I almost never eat anything from a tin or a packet as I’m passionate about home-cooked food and am convinced that eating processed food encourages weight gain. If you think about it, a homemade cake only has four ingredients; butter, eggs, sugar and flour but if you look at the ingredient list of a shop-bought cake it can be quadruple that – and most of it is stuff you don’t want in your body. I like food in its simplest state. I have my own organic farm and only eat my own meat. I don’t eat dairy but buy it for the family from the farm next door. I grow most of my own vegetables and buy the rest from our local farmers’ market.

. BUT DO LEARN HOW TO COOK...

I put myself under pressure to remain slim because I still model my own bikinis. That said, my eating habits are pretty good, but there’s always room for improvement. I’d like to take some cooking lessons and get some more dishes into my repertoire. I go to bed reading recipe books – especially when I’m hungry. I get bored easily if I eat the same foods every day and like to mix it up. I’m more likely to snack on savoury treats, like popcorn, than sweet ones.

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. DITCH THE WINE - STICK TO VODKA...

I don’t drink much alcohol and gave up drinking wine and champagne nearly three years ago. If I have a drink, I prefer Grey Goose vodka in a tall glass with lots of ice, the juice of a whole lime and soda water. Totally delicious and not too fattening.

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. WEAR WHITE ON THE BEACH...

It’s a good problem to have, but packing for a vacation is mind-boggling for me as I have hundreds of pieces from my own collections from which to choose. I usually whittle it down to a few colour groups and then build up little piles on my bed around them. White is the great equalizer on the beach as it works with everything and always looks good with a tan. A white sarong can be worn over virtually every bikini you own. I throw in some neutral coloured flip flops and a straw bag and I also usually take a few light little dresses that fold up into nothing.

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. ...AND UGG BOOTS WHEN YOU FLY...

Flying is dehydrating so I drink as much water as I can, even though I dislike it, and use heaps of moisturiser. I also take a big shawl to snuggle in and my Ugg boots, if I can cram them into my hand luggage. I usually clean up my in-box on flights, read or stare out of the window and think. I never watch movies and try to sleep as much as possible.

‘I adore my son and we are very close.

I am more like an Italian mother than an English one '

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. ALWAYS GET UP EARLY...

I love the beach, as long as it’s empty.

I always get up early on vacation and go for a swim when everyone else is still snoozing. Later on, I’ll mostly lie still, read, chat and doze. I don’t listen to music on the beach as I love the sound of the waves and the gulls. I go on holiday to relax and catch up with my friends and family. Once the kids are in bed, I love long, delicious, lazy dinners. I like people dressing for dinner, as it’s sexier.

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. DIVERSIFY TO SURVIVE...

I adore bedrooms so am launching my own bedlinen collection (at House of Fraser stores). We spend a third of our lives in bed, so the beds should be beautiful. I'm also opening an Elizabeth Hurley Beach boutique later this month in Marbella.

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. LOOK YOUR AGE...

I love women looking fabulous and I don’t think growing older means looking less good. For me, it’s less about trying to look younger and more about making sure you look at your absolute best. Without doubt, once I hit 40 I had to make more effort.

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. BUT WEAR MAKE-UP EVERY DAY...

I always wear make-up as I don’t see the point in looking less than your best.

I’m in my eighteenth year of working for Estée Lauder and I’m perfect for the job because I’m a huge make-up fan. I can get fully made up in five minutes flat; light foundation, blush, eye pencil, eyelash curlers, mascara, a slick of lip gloss and I feel a million times better.

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. AND SPRITZ ON THE CREME DE LA MER...

Estée Lauder has an amazing product called Advanced Night Repair and I would hate to be without it. I‘ve used it religiously for years. I also use Resilience Lift moisturiser – both the day and night crème – which feels amazing on the skin.

Throughout the day I use Creme de la Mer’s Facial Spray – I squirt it on frequently and it’s really hydrating.

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PHOTOGRAPHER: ANTOINE VERGLAS; HAIR: FELIX FISCHER FROM FACTORY DOWNTOWN, NEW YORK; MAKE-UP: SANDY LINTER USING ESTEE LAUDER; STYLING: FREDDIE LEIBA; CLOTHING: ELIZABETH HURLEY BEACHELIZABETHHURLEY.COM,

. KEEP PETS...

I live full-time in the country and try to walk or run with the dogs every day. I have three labradors and a spaniel, all of whom are a lot fitter than me. I’m in love with them all and they all sleep with me. I also have a blue-fronted Amazonian parrot called Ping Pong. She is enchanting and can imitate the dogs, cackle, wolf whistle and talk like a human. She has her own Twitter account, @PingPongHurley, of which I don’t really approve, as she’s often incredibly rude about me.

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. DON’T FORGET TO TWEET...

I’m a Twitter fan and am always interested in what my followers have to say. I don’t take tweeting very seriously and most of my tweets are extremely silly. Press releases are virtually extinct; now, if I have anything to say, I’ll tweet it. I don’t generally comment on silly things written about me, but if it’s untrue and hurtful to my family then I may. I only do it for a few minutes a day but I enjoy it.

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. BE AN ITALIAN-STYLE MAMA...

I adore my son and we are very close. I am more like an Italian mother than an English one and think he’s the bee’s knees. I’m pretty strict and he’s very well-behaved. He has been very well socialised from a young age and I can take him anywhere. My son Damian, 10, spent a month or so with me in New York over the summer while I was filming Gossip Girl and he loved it. He made his own short movie and ran through my lines with me every night. He thought it was the most exciting thing that ever happened. He got to be in my trailer and hang out on a film set, which is what he has longed for his entire life.

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. A GOOD DAUGHTER...

I spend heaps of time with my family and my mother has a permanent bedroom in my country house. I love Shane’s parents coming to stay too. I think it’s great for kids to have the older generation around. I’ve always had lots of older friends and mentors and find their experiences fascinating.

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. AND A LOYAL FRIEND...

For me, friendship isn’t about punching a time card. It’s about shared experiences and going through good and bad times together. Many of my best friends live in different countries, if not continents, to me, but our bonds are as strong as ever. I’ve got lots of both male and female friends and I value them all – their gender is immaterial. I get on equally well with both sexes. I like female company or mixed company but hate being the only girl in all male company – unless it’s all gay, in which case I’m fine!

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. IF YOU WANT TO LOOK GLAMOROUS, DON’T BITE YOUR NAILS...

When Estée Lauder approached me out of the blue and asked me to work for them I was staggered, as I’d never modelled before in my life. They taught me to make an effort with my appearance and now, eighteen years on, it’s become a habit. I don’t look glamorous every day as I work and have my son to look after, but I watch my weight, don’t drink much alcohol, don’t go out much and try not to bite my nails.

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. ACCEPT THAT LIFE IS COMPLICATED...

My future plans are as chaotic as ever. We are now juggling school dates from Shane’s children in Australia alongside Damian’s here, while working all over the globe and trying to have fun too. It’s a good challenge to have.

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. SO KEEP THINGS SIMPLE WHEN YOU CAN...

I only go to a few London restaurants; Lucio, Le Caprice, Locanda Locatelli, China Tang, Riva, Zafferano and, if I’m in a silly mood, Cipriani. I very rarely go out for lunch, but if I do I’ll nip to San Lorenzo. a Elizabeth Hurley Beach, elizabethhurley.com; Elizabeth has also opened her first stand-alone Elizabeth Hurley Beach boutique in Marbella, Spain.

Elizabeth Hurley Home Collection is available at House of Fraser stores nationwide.

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Rule Britannia! If you’re too cool forbunting, fly the flag with Marni, Roksanda and Miu Miu instead Stylist: FRAN MULLIN Photographer: CHRISTOPHER SIMS

Miriam Haskell 1950’s pearl drop earrings, £320 Vendome 1960’s pearl ring, £280, Atelier Mayer (atelier-mayer.com) Top with structured sleeves and trousers, £780, Roksanda Ilincic (selfridges.com) 60 | AMUSE

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Embellished red dress, £2,219 Royal blue top, £629 Royal blue skirt, £705, Marni (marni.com) White rose head garland, Helen Glory (helen-glory.com) Kalika round-toe heels in white, £370, Sergio Rossi (020 7811 5950) Charlie shoes in red, £395, Terry de Havilland (tdhcouture.com)

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Blue cotton cape with velvet tie, £1,240 White cotton shirt dress, £405 Gingham and plexiglass crystal clip earrings, £150, Miu Miu (net-a-porter.com) Blue velvet bracelet, £250, Delphine-Charlotte Parmentier (dcp-corp.com)

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Layered white dress, £905, Emilio de la Morena (harveynichols.com) Silk and sheer dress, £620, Sportmax (020 7518 8010)

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Cobalt blue viscose top, £545 Cobalt blue viscose trousers, £648, Osman (Bluebird 020 7351 3873) Baroque Eyes sunglasses, £295, Moo Piyasombatkul (openingceremony.us) Charlie shoes in red, £395, Terry de Havilland (tdhcouture.com)

Make-up: LISA POTTER-DIXON, MAKE-UP & TREND ARTIST FOR BENEFIT COSMETICS Hair: NADIA AT FOSTER LONDON HAIR & BEAUTY Fashion Assistant: JENNY TZAKOVA Photo Assistant: NICK THOMPSON Make-up Assistant: GEORGINA LYALL Sudio & Post Production: 55 FACTORY Models: MONICA & BILLIE AT PREMIER MODEL MANAGEMENT AMUSEMAGAZINE.CO.UK |

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Fiorella shirred high-waist bikini, £140, Seventh Wonderland (seventhwonderland.com)

High-waisted bikini, £68, Red or Dead (redordead.com)

THE BRIGHTEST BIKINIS OF THE SEASON Bree bikini, £245, Agent Provocateur (agentprovocateur.com)

Fran Mullin takes her pick

Crochet bikini, £265, Claudia Schiffer (claudiaschiffer.com)

Annabel Lee orange bikini, £137, Paolita (020 3620 5806)

Bandeau bikini, £240, Missoni Mare (harrods.com)

Boogie halterneck bikini top, £34, Freya Swim D-FF cup; low-rise shorts XS-XL £25 (freyalingerie.com)

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Printed bikini, £250, Pret a Surf (brownsfashion.com)

Bikini, £32, cos (Cosstores.com)

Burnt orange Essaouira bikini, £180, Prism (avenue32.com)

IDA bikini, £100, Princesse Tam Tam (princessetamtam.com)

Molly Green bikini, £139,Pistol Panties (pistolpanties.com)

Jungle bikini, £140, Elizabeth Hurley (elizabethhurley.com)

Printed bikini, £75, Mungo Gurney (thecorner.com)

Printed triangle bikini, £200, Miu Miu (net-a-porter.com)

Rose bikini, £165, We Are Handsome (wearehandsome.com)

Striped bikini, £110, Paul Smith (paulsmith.co.uk)

Sunrise bandeau bikini, £47,Lepel (houseoffraser.co.uk)

Zebra print frill bikini, £173, Zimmermann (my-wardrobe.com) AMUSEMAGAZINE.CO.UK |

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1. Multi-stripe cotton and silk shorts, £475, Stella McCartney (liberty.co.uk); 2. Printed rucksack, £224, Diane von Furstenburg (020 7499 0886); 3. Saskia long burn-out yellow top, £110, Reiss (reissonline.com); 4. Crystal and leather suede sandals, £650, Miu Miu (020 7409 0900); 5. Textured-front skirt, £635, Balenciaga (matchesfashion.com); 6. Tweed crew-neck top, £950, Lanvin (harrods.com); 7. Feathered silk top, £1,825, Oscar de la Renta (net-a-porter.com); 8. Floral top, £1,079, Dolce & Gabbana (farfetch.com); 9. Red sunglasses, £265, Pollini (pollini.com); 10. Perforated phone pouch, £17, Cos (cosstores.com); 11. Women’s printed cap, £303, Givenchy (ln-cc.com); 12. Ivory perfect pleated date skirt, £329, Milly (stylebop.com) 13. Vibrant skater dress, £49.99, H&M Exclusive Conscious (hm.com-gb-) 14. Heart cardigan, £714, Meadham Kirchhoff (farfetch.com) 15. Orange jacket, £315, Duvetica (net-a-porter.com)

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1. White watch, £35, O’Clock (liberty.co.uk); 2. Chain-mail cardigan, £745, J.W.Anderson (feathersfashion.com); 3. Defile women’s folded vinyl clutch bag, £746, Maison Martin Margiela (ln-cc.com); 4. Pattern blazer, £1,159, Stella McCartney (farfetch.com); 5. Tri-colour leather cosmetic pouch, £325, Phillip Lim (liberty.co.uk); 6. Myan Campari earrings, £155, Cabinet (kabiri.co.uk); 7. Madison fitted dress, £480, Emilia Wickstead (matchesfashion.com); 8. Grenade luxe jacket, £1,158, Azzedine Alaia (matchesfashion.com); 9. White sandals, £45, Topshop (topshop.com); 10. Short dress, £430, RDM (thecorner.com); 11. Pleated silk crepe de chine midi skirt, £1,460, Chloe (net-a-porter.com); 12. White button front skirt with braided waist, £297, L’Agence (stylebop.com); 13. White patent pumps, £335, Jil Sander (net-a-porter.com); 14. White dress, £58, Topshop (topshop.com)

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1. Kashmir black diamond earrings, £20,790, Prive Jewellery (kabiri.co.uk); 2. High-heeled sandals, £530, 3.1 Phillip Lim (thecorner.com); 3. Diane lace-up shoes, £495, Maison Martin Margiela (selfridges.com); 4. Metallic pink oral brocade dress, £1,525, Christopher Kane (liberty.co.uk); 5. Daisy blouse in deep blue, £125, Raoul (theshopatbluebird.com); 6. Riley reverse-stitch zip-detail jumper in cream, £95, Reiss (reissonline.com); 7. Suit jacket, £375, Theory (020 7985 1188); 8. Capri cat slipper shoes, £375, Charlotte Olympia (matchesfashion.com); 9. Printed waistcoat, £509, Stella McCartney (farfetch.com); 10. Printed trousers, £1,445, Giambattista Valli (brownsfashion.com); 11. Green structured handbag, £1,802.24, Roger Vivier (luisaviaroma.com); 12. Coral multicolor printed jacket, £354, Vanessa Bruno (stylebop. com); 13. Sandshell multicolour finch ight top, £229, Marc by Marc Jacobs (stylebop.com); 14. White Andra shirt, £85, L.K.Bennett (lkbennett.com); 15. Georgia embroidered silk pants, £365, Diane von Furstenburg (net-a-porter.com)

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aMUSE READER COMPETITION YOUR SARTORIAL CITY MATCH

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Don’t drink your poison - wear it

or men whose parents swam in the European wine lake, or worse, chugged on alcopops, the cocktail hour comes as a blessed relief. A new-found respect for the restorative powers of alcohol should see us ignoring the queue at the local surgery and heading for the bar at the Dorchester instead.

Resident drink doctor Giuliano Morandin has spent over 30 years prescribing and dispensing and his team will mix according to customers “mood, appetite, time of day... even the weather”.

Across his bar, dark Kilgour suits with “firm structured lines and suppressed waists” stand shoulder to shoulder with velvet-collared dress jackets from Jaeger.

Mad Men are dressing for drinking and their lean Sixties’ silhouettes are elegance distilled.

In order to look rugged, not rough, lounge lizards are getting to grips with grooming and using a new raft of blokefriendly and booze-sodden creams and unguents. From bathroom cabinets that look like minibars, the bleary-eyed reach for Kyoku Sake Infused Shave Cream to soften the beard before de-fuzzing, or Absinthe Shave Cream from Korres for their irritated skin.

REEKING OF BOOZE And if that weren’t enough, reeking of BEFORE BREAKFAST booze before breakfast has never been HAS NEVER BEEN more acceptable since even the most responsible of drinkers are experimenting MORE ACCEPTABLE with alcohol-inspired fragrances.

SINCE MEN BEGAN TO Perfumer Roja Dove champions EXPERIMENT WITH masculine rum-based scents such as The ultimate lounge lizard: Mad Men’s Don Draper.

ALCOHOL-INSPIRED Malin and Goetz Rum Tonic for their “warmth of wood and the fruity richness FRAGRANCES 40 per cent increase in male visitors this of liquor” and Penhaligons has created a year. In Mayfair well-heeled men are gin-based scent called Juniper Sling. At the Savoy, Head Barman Eric crowding the Spa at Browns Hotel for Pale Ale Lorenz also blurs the lines between alcohol and fragrance. He experiments Pedicures. Tired trotters are massaged with hop flowers, with herbs and tinctures to “create drinks that embody liquid emotions” then exfoliated with Epsom Salts and soaked in amber and is currently collaborating with Cartier on a drink to partner the launch nectar for deep-level moisturisation. Apparently, it’s the of its new male fragrance. perfect way to slough off dead skin and eliminate toxins.

The old rituals of steaming and scrubbing are also back and the best spas Whatever your poison, it’s time to take a more are offering men a choice of menus featuring almost drinkable treatments. sophisticated approach to alcohol. Prepare to embrace The Spa at Chancery Court Hotel has put an invigorating spin on its man cocktail culture: buy a slim-fit suit, squirt a spirited massage with a Gin and Tonic treatment. A sea salt, tonic and juniper fragrance and hit the bars. berry body scrub is followed by a 55-minute full-body massage. It finishes Nick Cox is a style consultant and editor of with a chilled G&T in the relaxation room – no wonder they have seen a thegroomingguide.com.

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ast year I turned 40. It was also the year that all my prejudices and preconceptions about perfumery were turned on their head.

During the Noughties, I had become a fan of niche perfumes. When Serge Lutens, then Frederic Malle, and later Byredo and Maison Francis Kurkdjian launched, I was hooked. Big brand and celebrity perfumery has become so cynical, bland and mediated by the tastes of focus groups and these little names offered blends which were the undiluted visions of the artist perfumer. I was enraptured, for some years, by the cult and the recherché.

I think if the French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, had been around to analyse my tastes he would have decided that my ‘cultural capital’ was decidedly middle class. The rise of artisan perfumes in the Noughties coincided with the rise of artisan foods and farmers’ markets, also typically middle-class preoccupations.

And yet, and yet... by last year I was tiring of the niche.

Several reasons: by now there were too many of these brands, the market was flooded. Secondly many of these lines were badly edited. While I admired the minimalism of brands that launched with one, two or three blends, many now had tens of products and it had become confusing. Thirdly, in trying to be all things to all people, some had become as cynical ‘IN TRYING TO BE ALL and commercial and mediocre as the big celebrity brands they were founded in THINGS TO ALL opposition to. And certain ingredients, like PEOPLE, SOME oud (the dark, aromatic resin of evergreen ARTISAN BRANDS HAD trees), had become ubiquitous. These brands BECOME AS CYNICAL just didn’t seem that original any more.

What’s more, some of the big brands were AND MEDIOCRE AS putting out niche/artisan perfume collections THE BIG BRANDS’ and beating the niche labels at their own game. I’m thinking of Tom Ford’s Private Collection Blends (owned by Estée Lauder), Chanel’s Les Exclusifs, and quite liked certain celebrity perfumes: namely Sarah Jessica Hermès’ Hermessence in particular.

Parker’s Lovely, Tilda Swinton’s Like This and Rossy De So, prompted by all of this, I decided to explore all the genres and categories Palma. I loved the florientals, Gucci Guilty and Chanel Coco I hated. To see if fashion and celebrity perfumes – all the types of perfume Mademoiselle, two perfumes I had initially deemed too I deemed cynically commercial and creatively bankrupt – were really as bad commercial and too young for me. I have subsequently worn as I thought they were. Was I simply prejudiced? Worse: was I a snob? them to death.

What I found was that while I might not like all of them: there are always, I think the moral of this is: just as you write something always exceptions to the rule. Chanel, Hermès, Guerlain, Comme des Garçons off, it often has the temerity to creep up behind you and and Prada are all ‘blockbuster’ brands making some amazing scents. I even knock you for six. And so it is with perfume.

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Beauty ESCAPE FROM THE CITY

for: Ridding you of the physical and emotional

effects of the city

what: Chow facial followed by make-up

application where: Shu Uemura Lyashi Space, 24 Neal Street, WC2 who: Nozomi Maeda what happens: This thoroughly relaxing facial and make-over is the perfect end to a long week. First, a thorough cleanse using Shu Uemura cleansing oil, followed by an in-depth shiatsu head and shoulder massage. Thanks to the room spritzers (I chose rose) and chill-out music, I drifted far from the city. Once I was thoroughly cleansed and massaged, Nozomi made me up ready for a big night out.

Results: It felt a slight shame to wear makeup at all on such fresh skin but lovely to emerge from a beauty treatment without that telltale red, shiny skin. contact: 020 7240 7635 £65 for one hour

CHANEL LIP GLOSS IN PETILLANT, £20

The shimmer in this gloss creates the illusion of plumped lips, while the soft apricot shade is perfect for those who just want to dip their toe in the coral trend.

BOBBI BROWN POT ROUGE IN POWDER PINK, £18

My desert island product...rub into cheekbones for a youthful flush or dab on lips for a beach-ready stain.

TOM FORD CHEEK COLOR IN FLUSH, £45

This bright coral blush is super-flattering and velvety soft, needing only the lightest sweep across the cheekbones.

ESTEE LAUDER PURE COLOR LONG LASTING LIPSTICK IN BLAZING SUN, £18.50

A stay-put formula that delivers a chic matte finish. Use a lip brush to create a perfect pout, or pat into lips using your finger for a lip tint.

MAC NEO-ORANGE LOOSE PIGMENT, £16.50

Layer onto lipstick for an intense matte finish, or use with a wet brush for a bold slick of orange on the eyelids.

TANGERINE DREAM

Coral, apricot or peach on toes, cheeks or lips... pinky-orange is the most flattering colour for summer, says Arabella Preston Once the preserve of Margo Leadbetter and Seventies’ suburban housewives, coral is having a major make-up moment. And it’s about time; peach and coral tones are surprisingly flattering, and the perfect compliment to summer skin.

Seen at Jaeger, Preen and Louis Vuitton, it was backstage at Jason Wu that the trend really came to life. Make-up artist Diane Kendal sent the models down the runway with bare, flawless skin accentuated only with a bold orange lip.

She chose the colour and the matte texture to complement pop-art shades of pinks, blues and whites in the collection.

“It was an edgier choice and a fresher alternative than a classic red,” Kendal says.

To create the lip, Kendal used MAC

Scarlet Ibis lipstick with Neo Orange loose pigment pushed into the lips to create intensity and that crucial matte finish. To translate this look into real life, Kendal offers this advice: “Wear a bold orange or red mouth with minimal eye and cheek.

Flawless foundation is a must. I suggest making the skin dewy to keep the whole look modern (with a blotted t-zone of course). For a polished evening look, add mascara and liner.”

Coral make-up is fresh and modern, ideal for updating your summer look.

Whether you sweep a light apricot blush across your cheekbones, pop a sheer tangerine gloss onto your lips, or go for a hot coral polish on tanned toes, this really is the most versatile of trends.

TOM FORD LIPSTICK IN TRUE CORAL, £36

The ultimate bright coral with just enough luminosity to make it wearable. Tom Ford lipsticks are ultracreamy and velvety with intense pigment.

LAURA MERCIER LIPGLOSS IN ORANGE TULIP, £18.50

The lack of shimmer in this salmon-pink gloss makes it suitable for every day. Use it on top of lipstick for a more luxe effect.

NARS VELVET GLOSS LIP PENCIL IN HAPPY DAYS, £17.50

Jumbo pencils are so easy to use and this shade gives the sheerest tint to the lips, or can be built up for a more full-on effect.

DIOR NAIL VARNISH IN RIVIERA, £17

A bright coral perfect for summer toes and fingernails – preferably with a Riviera tan.

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Beauty SKINCEUTICALS BRIGHTENING UV DEFENSE SPF 30, £25.83

NEAL’S YARD WILD ROSE DAILY MOISTURE SPF 30, £35.35

Good for badly-behaved sun worshippers, this is an excellent defence. It’s also safe for children.

With non-whitening zinc oxide this moisturising sunscreen is ideal for dry, sun-damaged skin.

ESTEE LAUDER DAY WEAR SPF 25, £39

Perfect for those who prefer a matte finish, this cream is lightly moisturising and, crucially, oil-free.

SUNNY DELIGHTS

L’OCCITANE IMMORTELLE BRIGHTENING SHIELD SPF 40, £34

This lightweight lotion smells divine and leaves a subtle illuminated glow on the skin.

Nothing’ s more important than protecting your face from the sun’ s rays. So splash out on a hi-tech SPF cream, says Arabella Preston

HYDRAFACIAL

for: Major facial exfoliation and skin resurfacing what: Hydrafacial where: Waterhouse Young Clinic, 21 Devonshire

Street, W1

OLE HENRIKSEN PROTECT THE TRUTH SPF 50+, £25

Ideal for serious heat, this SPF 50+ will protect, while vitamins A and E work together as a powerful antioxidant.

THIS WORKS PERFECT SKIN DEFENSE SPF 30, £30

BOBBI BROWN EXTRA REPAIR MOISTURIZING BALM SPF 25, £62

A hard-working SPF containing powerful antioxidants – rosmarinic acid, rutin and barley to combat premature ageing.

Creates a gorgeous glow and sheen while clocking an impressive SPF 25.

who: Chantelle O’Leary what it’s like: The Waterhouse Young Clinic is a

cross between a salon and a surgery – you could stroll over for a lunchtime facial, or sneak in for a full facelift. Despite being told, thanks to the hideously accurate laser photo machine, that I have worse skin than 89 per cent of women my age I opted just to have a hydrafacial – quite medical enough. Chantelle started by cleansing my skin and then passed what is effectively a tiny hoover all over my face which infused antioxidant serums into my skin as it sucked out blackheads. Then she shone a red LED light on me to increase collagen production.

Results: My ego may have been shattered, but my face looked fresh and plumped.

Contact: 020 7486 3849 or info@waterhouseyoung.com, £200 for 1 hour. A course of 6 is recommended.

KIEHL’S ULTRA LIGHT DAILY MOISTURIZER SPF 50, £31

A really lightweight, oil-free formula that is genuinely translucent.

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Beauty THIS WORKS SKIN DEEP DRY LEG OIL, £38

This cult oil contains 100% highly concentrated natural oils, perfect for stubborn dry patches.

THE ORGANIC PHARMACY ROSE & JASMINE BODY OIL, £32.95

Sensual jasmine is combined with rosehip, high in vitamin A, which helps replenish and revitalise the skin.

TOM FORD NEROLI PORTOFINO BODY OIL, £45

A reinvention of the classic eau de cologne, rub into justshowered skin for a subtle all-over scent.

SHIFFA ENERGISING BODY OIL, £50

Perfect for after exercise or to enliven tired skin, this oil contains tingling ginger, peppermint oil, lemon and lime.

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OMOROVICZA FIRMING BODY OIL, £46

NUXE HUILE PRODIGIEUSE MULTIUSAGE DRY OIL, £28.50

They moisturise, they perfume, they smooth... body oils are the hardest workers in your beauty cabinets, says Arabella Preston

A unique blend of six precious oils with added vitamin E, this oil absorbs fast and can be used on hair.

A clever combination of plum almond oil and apricot kernel oil works together to restore skin’s elasticity and tone.

ILA KUNDALINI MASSAGE

for: Rebalacing your chakra what: ila Kundalini Massage where: Gielly Green, 42-44 George Street, W1 who: Holly Gumble what it’s like: Leave your inhibitions and

scepticism at the door. Holly is a unique and sought-after therapist and this is as close to spiritual healing as a beauty treatment can get.

She starts the session by sitting at your feet and bathing them with an ila scrub to release toxins. You then sink into the bed as she begins her flowing massage, focusing on releasing negative energy via the lymphatic system.

Results: My body and mind were in total surrender and I slept like a log that night.

Contact: 020 7034 3060 £140 for 1hr 30mins

CARITA FLUIDE DE BEAUTE 14 ULTRA-NOURISHING DRY OIL, £44

With a light, lemony fragrance this oil gives the skin a gorgeous sheen.

REN MOROCCAN ROSE OTTO ULTRA-MOISTURE BODY OIL, £34

A light but heady blend that makes the traditional rose oil smell modern and fresh.

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THE BEAUTY OF

BETHNAL GREEN

How does a miner’s daughter from Bolton become the darling of the glossy posse? By turning her salon into an art installation and offering painless fat loss, homemade aloe vera and jelly beans

By Stephanie Hirschmiller Photographs by Ben Broomfield and Alistair Guy

Teresa Tarmey by Alistair Guy

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One of Teresa’s quirky nail bar trolleys

Teresa’s Redchurch Street salon

W

e had Portia Freeman, Tali Lennox, Amber Atherton, Dudley O’Shaughnessy (the hot one in Rihanna’s We Found Love video), and all the models were there. Amy Winehouse’s band played and we were all outside on the roof terrace with everyone on Shoreditch’s Redchurch Street looking up to see what was going on.” The party was even covered by Tatler. What was this event? A film premiere? The launch of a ritzy new members’ club? No. It was Teresa Tarmey’s beauty salon-warming party.

Clearly, Tarmey isn’t your regular beauty therapist: “I always like to do things differently,” she says, “I like to open the door and welcome people in and make them a drink.” From the open-plan loft-style living room complete with comfy sofas and coffee table stacked with fashion tomes to the bedroom/treatment room with the most enormous spa bed you’ve ever seen, it does seem like a

home, albeit a cool one. Tarmey, 35, who is originally from Yorkshire, has buffed and polished the likes of Daisy Lowe, Tallulah Harlech, Pixie Lott, Suki Waterhouse, Jessica Ware, Portia Freeman and Rebecca Hall.

Looking way younger than her 35 years, Teresa has enormous bright eyes and a pretty, youthful glow which is thanks to her skincare regime (“keep out of the sun, drink lots of water and don’t smoke”) as opposed to the surgeon’s knife, and she definitely doesn’t have a painting hidden in the attic. Instead, the upper reaches of 73 Redchurch Street, feature a mezzanine nail lounge looking out onto the terrace. Polishes are stacked on an Art Deco cocktail trolley alongside old-fashioned spirits bottles filled with acetone.

The area is the perfect setting for the girly movie screenings she has planned featuring manis, pedis and martinis.

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test-tubes that decorate an exposed brick wall are soon to be filled with jelly beans. This is all part of Tarmey’s original, and collaborative approach.

The salon sits above shoe designer Tracey Neuls’ graffiti-clad boutique and Teresa lost no time getting acquainted by borrowing a selection of the designer’s SS12 shoe looks which now hang, installation style, in the mezzanine party space.

She’s also friends with Les Trois Garçons restaurant’s owners Hassan Abdullah, Michel Lasserre and Stefan Karlson from whose lifestyle boutique a few doors down she’s sourced most of her furniture. “It’s everything I’ve ever dreamed of,” she enthuses, “I’d been looking for this kind of space for two years. I saw it, loved it and put in an offer on the same day.”

Tarmey is the fourth of five children, her father was in the army and later worked as a miner: “My mum’s got alopecia so she could never have any kind of treatment and because of that, I guess, I’ve always been scared of losing my hair.” After school, she enrolled in beauty college and had her own salon in Bolton by the time she was 25. Four years ago, she upped sticks for London - first opening in Baker Street and then to Bond Street. In addition to Redchurch Street, she now has a second space in Old Park Lane’s Playboy Club – both opened within weeks of each other this spring.

“I’ve always been really determined,” she says, “working hideous hours, six days a week.” And the hard work paid off as she is now the darling of the fashion industry.

Tarmey’s salon isn’t all jelly beans and girly movie screenings though: she specialises in pain-free laser hair removal and has a new machine, a Strawberry Laser Lipo machine which is non-invasive and totally pain free and said to shave inches off stubborn areas of fat. She’s also got a galvanic machine that she uses with aloe vera from her own home-grown plants: “The current increases the penetration of the aloe vera and used in conjunction it helps to lift and tone the skin and accelerate the healing process.”

Suffering from acne herself for 10 years has made her more sympathetic to people’s feelings: “I understand when they have to take all their make-up off and be exposed. They feel better that I’m not Mrs Perfect and I think people trust me because I really do care.”

This is no empty rhetoric. Tarmey gives free treatments to people she knows can’t afford them: “they might come for a bikini wax but if they’ve got a skin problem I’ll take them under my wing.”

She also wants to set up a foundation for underprivileged teens, with free treatments to help them win back their lost self-esteem. a www.teresatarmey.com

Suffering from acne for 10 years has made her more sympathetic to people’s feelings – ‘I’m not Mrs Perfect’

Up to the salon’s mezzanine level

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TOP LONDON FACIALISTS ABIGAIL JAMES Abigail at Lomax Chelsea, 293 Fulham Road Favoured by glossy magazines and celebrities alike, Abigail’s ‘healing hands’, natural methods and emphasis on emotional and physical wellbeing have acquired an impressive reputation. abigailjames.com

SARAH CHAPMAN Skinesis, 106 Draycott Avenue, SW3 3AE From her elegant, discreet Chelsea clinic Sarah fights the likes of ageing and UV damage with the deftness of a skincare mastermind. And with a string of awards to her name, her approach seems to be working rather well… sarahchapman.net

JULIA HART Julia Hart at The Hale Clinic, 7 Park Crescent, London W1 In this Regents Park clinic, Julia deals in lovely Intraceuticals Oxygen facials and revitalising skin treatments.

She’s also a spokesperson for Nivea, and a dab hand at Japanese Shinso natural facelifts.

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UNA BRENNAN Una Brennan Facials Ltd, 41 Moorhouse Road, W2 5DH Fans of leading Skinceuticals facialist Una include Sienna Miller, Laura Bailey and Emilia Fox. Organic, soothing and tailored to whatever mood your skin happens to be in that day, Una will set you right. skinceuticals.co.uk

Above:The Tracey Neuls shoe installation This image:View of the mezzanine nail lounge from the roof terrace

JACKIE DENHOLM-MOORE Getting an exclusive appointment with Jackie will take some time, but boy will it be worth it…The A-list favourite delivers deep cleansing facials and beautifying treatments from her private mews house in Chelsea.

Call Jackie on 07775 715 476 for appointments

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THE FOOD

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Despite being a city high flyer, Nicola Horlick cooked her six children’s meals when she got home. So what better way of creating a memorial to her daughter, Georgina, who died aged 12, than opening a restaurant, she tells Lydia Slater

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icola Horlick, 51, has had many strings to her professional bow. In her twenties, she was one of the youngest ever female directors of an investment bank. She subsequently set up two fund management firms, then diversified into film development.

Along the way, she managed to have six children and to marry twice. And now, at a time when her City contemporaries are contemplating retirement and working on their golf swings, Horlick is busier than ever with an entirely new project: opening her own restaurant.

Food has always been important to Horlick. Her mother, who is of Polish descent, is a “fantastic cook”, she says. Horlick herself, as befits her nickname of ‘Superwoman’, brought up her own children to eat everything – “their favourite food is cabbage”, she says proudly. And the one domestic chore that she has never been prepared to delegate is cooking the evening meal. “I love it,” she says. “You get this great sense of achievement and nurturing.”

It is not love of food that has driven her to launch the restaurant, but a poignant promise she made to her eldest daughter, Georgina, who died of leukaemia in 1998, aged 12.

“Towards the end, she wasn’t allowed to eat,” Horlick explains.

“She had to be fed intravenously, and that isn’t very exciting, especially when you like food.

“I used to have terrible rows with her, because she would occasionally run away and steal things from the parents’ fridge in

hospital, or go downstairs when no-one was looking and buy a packet of peanuts. I’d be screaming, ‘Please don’t do this! They’ve told you not to!’ But it was so hard for her,” she goes on, her voice suddenly raw. “So I used to talk to her about our restaurant, because that’s where she was going to eat when she got out of there. It kept her going.”

Fourteen years later, Horlick is keeping her promise by opening Georgina’s in Barnes.

“I’ve kept to Georgie’s vision - fresh food, not over-complicated, lots of salads, cakes, a full service dinner in the evening.” There will also be a frozen yogurt station which wasn’t around in Georgie’s day, of which her mother thinks she would have approved. “Her sisters all love it,” she says.

Horlick gives me all sorts of hard-headed business reasons why now is the perfect time for her to launch a new restaurant chain.

“It’s something you should do in recessionary conditions because it’s much cheaper to get everything fitted out,” she says. “In five years’ time, I’d like to have 10 across south-west London.”

But talking to her, you get the overwhelming impression that she’s done it for emotional reasons, in an effort to keep the memory of her eldest daughter green.

“I will never get over losing Georgie,” she says, matter-of-factly.

“The passing of time increases the pain. It’s a bit like being on a beach and watching a little boat with her in it, just drifting away – there’s no rope and no oars and no means of getting that boat back. I feel the distance growing between us.”

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Above: Nicola Horlick with Georgina, aged three, on her shoulders and Alice, two. Right: with her current husband Martin Baker.

Georgina was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of two. “She had nine weeks of treatment and for the next couple of years she was fine. Then it started going really badly wrong, and from when she was eight through to 12, it was really horrific.”

Horlick sought comfort both in her work as one of the City’s highest-profi le fund managers, and in her family. “I very much doubt I would have had six children if she hadn’t been ill,” she says.

Her youngest son Benjie, 12, was born after Georgie’s death.

“You can’t replace a 12-year-old girl with a baby boy, but it made me feel an awful lot better to have him to cuddle.”

Further heartbreak hit the already devastated family in 2003, when Horlick’s marriage of 21 years imploded. “It wasn’t as though Tim and I didn’t get on with each other, but the statistics show that you are 90 per cent more likely to get divorced if you lose a child,” she says. “It was a double tragedy for the children – they lost their sister and then they had the break-up of the family unit. It wasn’t necessarily my choice and it’s been a terrible thing.

“You hear a lot of people saying that children are resilient and will bounce back from divorce, but I don’t think that’s true. I think children are very fragile and need to be nurtured. So much that goes wrong in adult life is connected with what happened in childhood.”

Horlick found new happiness with her marriage in 2005 to Martin Baker, a fi nancial journalist. And despite the divorce, her five remaining children all appear to be doing well. Alice, 23, is a fashion designer, Selena, 21, is training to be a doctor and Rupert, 18, is off to Cambridge to study computer science and mathematics.

Antonia, 15, and Benjie, 12, are still at school.

“And Georgie would be 25 now,” says Horlick for whom her eldest daughter is still very much part of the family. For this most hard-headed of women is now a firm believer in the afterlife and the existence of spirits.

“After Georgie died, strange things happened,” she explains.

“Maybe I was just deluded, but I got this very strong sense that she was still around.”

She tells me an astonishing story about how, a few months after Georgie’s death, she was driving with her then toddler daughter Antonia in the car when a deer leapt out from the side of the road in front of her car. She smashed straight into the animal at 70mph.

“There was a huge bang and the car went up in the air and came down over the carcass. Luckily, it was a big four-wheel drive,” she says. “Eventually, I came to a stop.” She opened her eyes, expecting to find her car a writeoff and her daughter injured, even dead. “But Antonia was asleep. I got out of the car and walked around it. There was no mark on it anywhere, and no dead deer in the road.”

Terrif ied and disbelieving, Horlick drove home. The following day, a friend took her to see a psychic. “Towards the end of the consultation, she said something about a deer I’d crashed into. I hadn’t told her anything about it. ‘Do you realise what happened?’ she said. ‘Georgie pulled you back in time, let the deer run across the road and then pushed you forward again.’ Martin says I mustn’t say these things because people will think I’m a mad crank, but you can see why I believe in life after death.”

Horlick also credits Georgie also with her survival when she was mugged by a gunman and refused to hand over her jewellery. “I’ve got a nice little guardian angel up there, keeping an eye on me.

She’s my little treasure, stuck in time as a 12 year old.

“After I was mugged, I said to Georgie: ‘Whenever I come home late at night on my own, please just always make sure there’s a parking space outside the house.’ And there always, always is. And I smile and think, ‘thanks, George’.” a

‘You can’t replace a 12-year-old girl with a baby boy, but it made me feel an awful lot better to have him to cuddle’

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YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE

The beauty of the Six Senses Con Dao Resort, is that you can really immerse yourself in the soothing, beautiful landscape of Vietnam. This is thanks to the private infinity pools, interiors blessed with white drapes and wood finishes and, most of all, the breathtaking views of the ocean, dramatic mountains and lush mangrove forests. Pop into the Holistic Six Senses Spa for a facial, dive into the wine cellar or just go for a swim in the sea.

Ocean View Deluxe Villa £372 per night, sixsenses.com

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LUXE TRAVEL READ

Tired of turning maps upsidedown, getting lost following hopeless directions and ending up in a toxic tourist dive?

Streamline your mini-breaks with Luxe city guides which are packed with chic, snappy and up-to-speed insights. Their new bespoke summer box set is out now – so you can select any five guides from their collection, online. £34.24, luxecityguides.com

PERUVIAN PALACES

Once a convent, Palacio Nazarenas in Cusco has happily turned its back on asceticism. With its contemporary Andean cuisine, espresso machines and iPads in every room and absolutely gorgeous Spanish colonial architecture, it is one of the most exciting new travel launches going.

Embark on your Peruvian adventure by heading across to arty district San Blas, for an authentic taste of the city.

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A BIT OF A BASTIDE

ANOUSKA’S DREAM BOAT

We speak for everyone when we say a trip on Anouska Hempel’s new yacht will be high on our summer holiday wishlist. The Beluga has an enormous deck covered in massive cushions, dramatic black sails, luxurious bathrooms, Frette linen and exquisite meals from an onboard chef... anchors away!

Beluga accommodates a maximum of seven guests and is available to charter from £24,764 per week on a full-board basis, dalmationdestinations.com

GET AWAY WITH THE RAT PACK

The beautiful Provence hotel La Bastide de Marie is opening the doors of La Roulotte – an utterly beguiling gypsy caravan that’s been beautifully kitted out. Stylish furnishings, including an pistacchio green wing chair, lavish burgundy walls and a dark wood dressing table – the best in woodland chic. Surrounded by the hotel’s sweeping vineyards, this place doesn’t scrimp on service and added extras. For the ultimate romantic trip, book a La Vie en Rose package, including a culinary masterclass from the hotel’s top chef. €465 per night for two people. Includes breakfast, afternoon tea, lunch or dinner

The One&Only Ocean Club in the Bahamas hasn’t changed much since the 1960s, so any self-respecting Mad Man would feel right at home during its 50th birthday celebrations. Enjoy Versailles-inspired gardens and white sand beaches for a real dose of class and style.

The anniversary celebrations feature two classic Sixties glamour-inspired menus; including favourites from the original menu such as stuffed Bahamian lobster. To drink, the bartenders recommend the Tom Collins with sugarcane syrup but you can make do with neat vodka if you prefer.

Carrier (carrier.co.uk / 0161 492 1354) is offering 7 nights at One&Only Ocean Club, in the Bahamas, from £1,980 per person (saving £1,140 per person). Includes return flights, private transfers and accommodation on a b&b basis based on two sharing. Book by 30 June for travel up to 20 November 2012.

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BAY WATCH

Bored with the beach? Well, there’s football, tennis and drama taught by the experts or, discovers Lydia Slater, you could go on a parrot hunt Buccament Bay Resort is famous for its glorious stretches of virgin white sand.

St Vincent is volcanic, so its other beaches are a darkish brown colour, but this surface has been imported from Guyana to fit in with the guests’ expectations of the perfect Caribbean beach.

Ironically, the attractions offered by the resort mean that despite the beach’s manifold attractions, you’re always tempted to be elsewhere. Excellent sporting facilities, including a Liverpool Football Club soccer school and the Pat Cash Tennis Academy, mean the resort draws an athletic crowd; we were there with several international cricket and football stars. Pat Cash coaches guests from time to time, and if you secretly dream of stardom, there is a performing arts academy where West End stars help you brush up your singing and dancing skills.

The hotel has several excellent restaurants, including one offering Indian cusine and another that dishes up beautiful sushi, and it is developing an outpost of Trader Vic’s.

And in the unlikely event that you run out of things to do within the resort, take a trip into the island’s rainforest and attempt to spot the rare St Vincent parrot. It lives on mangoes and never bothers to leave the island. And frankly, who could blame it?

Buccament Bay Resort, St Vincent, Grenadines, buccamentbay.com; www.discoversvg.com

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FIRE ISLAND

Whether you like flames to be shooting out of a volcano, or prefer them cooking your steak, Lanzarote is the place to come, discovers Sophie Gilbert

I had a lot of preconceptions about Lanzarote which were mostly centred round straw donkeys, sangria and peeling package holidaymakers. The last thing I expected was a wildly beautiful, barren desert dotted with craters. Like some strange corner of Mordor, the Timanfaya National Park is the least park-like place in which I’ve ever set dusty foot. Rather than some equatorial paradise (Lanzarote is only 125km from Africa), the park contains the Montanas del Fuego, or Fire Mountains, a collection of giant volcanoes apparently all set to erupt again some time soon.

They’ve certainly got form: thanks to a series of fiery volcanic explosions in the 1730s, great swathes of the interior of the island are nothing but solidified lava, black and crumbling like a badly maintained giant’s motorway. It’s not relaxing but it is immensely exciting. In the park, the underground temperature sets fire to brushwood fed into it by nervous-looking attendants, shoots boiling water sky high and even cooks the sardines and chickens which are stretched over a gigantic and perpetually hot barbecue in the Timanfaya restaurant.

Our own barbecue, back in our pristine white villa, was less of a triumph. Perhaps it was the heat, or all the local red wine that slipped down so well, but we missed the crucial moment, the fire faded and we had to take our large and smoky steaks indoors to finish cooking them. We were more successful at cooking ourselves on sun loungers by the side of our glamorous slate-surrounded pool. But our greatest sun-worshipping session was at Playa Papagayo, which is one of the most beautiful beaches imaginable – a perfect bay of turquoise water protected by two rocky headlands and with a charmingly scruffy cafe perched above. We even succumbed to the temptation of a sangria – but thankfully there were no straw donkeys in sight.

Natural retreats (www.naturalretreats.com; 0844 384 3166) offers 7 nights in a four bedroom villa (sleeps up to 8) from £800.

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HOW TO TURN

Add wardrobes, bin the carpets and get rid of the lodgers. That’s the advice of Stephanie Phair, the powerhouse behind Net-aPorter’s sister site, The Outnet, who has colonised her husband’s Knightsbridge apartment

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live in a mansion block apartment in Knightsbridge with my husband Fred and our one-month-old daughter Emilia. It’s on the top floor so there is a lot of light and a beautiful view from the bedroom across the leafy parts of Knightsbridge. What I love most about this area are the communal gardens, which make you forget you are near the heart of the city. The flat originally belonged to my husband but I moved in in 2009 just after the launch of The Outnet.

There wasn’t a lot in terms of decor when I arrived. My husband had been living there with his brother and then

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A BACHELOR PAD INTO A FAMILY HOME

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BRIAR DUVET, CALVIN KLEIN, £275, calvinkleininc.com

with roommates and had done the typical guy thing – what I call ‘perimeter decorating’ – where he’d put all the furniture around the edges of the room.

For me, everything starts with the space and how you can make the best possible use of it – 10 years of living in New York apartments taught me that. Back then I even used my oven for storage like Carrie Bradshaw. With this place, the first thing I added was a built-in wardrobe in the master bedroom as I wanted to capitalise on the high ceilings to accommodate more storage underneath. I also removed the carpets because wooden floors instantly make a room feel more spacious.

In every room there is a nod to where we’ve come from, like the New York cityscape in the dining room. My husband is Dutch/English and I am Canadian/ Argentinian, born in Mexico, and we take a lot of inspiration from our travels. We don’t buy obvious souvenirs though, as they tend to look great in situ, but when you get them home, they look wrong. So instead, we look for things that are more unusual. The piece in my home that means the most to me is a rice statue from Borneo, because it is from the first trip I took with my husband – we went looking for orangutans.

I wear a lot of Calvin Klein as everything is so beautifully constructed, and interiors-wise, I’m the same. I like to take modern, clean lines, and then add a beautiful antique or one-off piece into the mix.

I also like to shop for interiors online and two of my favourite sites are Dwell.co.uk and maisonsdumonde.com.

PAINTING FROM CULTURE LABEL, BRUSHING AGAINST STRANGE WEEDS (REFLECTIONS AND VIBRATIONS) (MARTIN BOYCE) £540, culturelabel.com

TOUCH BOBBLE BLACK LAMP, DWELL, £59, dwell.co.uk

CRACKED BOWL VASE, £14.90, maisonsdumonde.com

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BOUDOIR CHAIR IN BLACK VELVET, £119, maisonsdumonde.com DIAMANT DRESSING TABLE, £299, maisonsdumonde.com

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LEAVE IT TO THE PROS

They’ve converted country cottages in Kent, barns in the Cotswolds and apartments in Paris. Now, Harrods’ interior design team could help you realise your own fantasies. The store’s bespoke interior design service, The Studio, has just undergone a lavish re-vamp of its client suites – ready for a new generation of ambitious time-poor homemakers.

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LOFTY AMBITIONS

Harry Handelsman, property developer and interiors mastermind, may hail from New York, but he’s dedicated his career to pioneering loft living in London. His high-profile developments include the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel and apartments. The Germanborn CEO of the Manhattan Loft Company lives in London, overlooking Hyde Park, with his partner Elizabeth and daughter Allegra.

His next project – Manhattan Loft Gardens in Stratford – promises apartments and penthouses within a 42-storey, cantilevered tower with views over the Olympic Park.

A PERFECT HOME IS A BLEND OF...

Comfort, integrity and no compromise on design.

VELVET AND SILK CUSHIONS WITH HAND-CRAFTED GOLD PRINTING FROM ROBERTO CAVALLI’S NEW HOME RANGE

BRINGING FASHION HOME

Bottega Veneta, Versace, Moschino, Maison Martin Margiela... Home lines are where it’s at for fashion houses right now. If you love wearing these brands, why not decorate your house in them as well? At Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Roberto Cavalli premiered his new range of homeware.

Unsurprisingly, it’s opulent, luxurious stuff rich in velvet and silk cushions, hand-blown Murano glass spheres and a circular bed with bedside cabinets made of stitched leather and suede. robertocavalli.com

MY INSPIRATIONS ARE...

London and the architects and designers I work with here. I am working with the architect David Adjaye on a project in Hackney. He’s very talented.

THE LONDON VIBE IS UPLIFTING...

I love the architecture and the history, and all the art galleries and museums.

YOU SHOULD NEVER FEEL FEAR WHEN JAZZING UP AN INTERIOR...

Be bold and do what you like, not what other people tell you to like. www.manhattanloftgardens.co.uk

LIVING THE DREAM LUXURY HANDBLOWN MURANO GLASS ORNAMENTS, ROBERTO CAVALLI

Ladies, we now present you with the most lavish opportunity for sofa-travel we’ve come across in a while. World leader in high-end hotel design, Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA) has realised some of the most awe-inspiring, standard-defying hotels out there for the likes of Donald Trump. In this spectacular read, NY Times interiors writer Judith Nasatir leads you through the, frankly, awesome spread of exotic getaways HBA has produced over the last 50 odd years.

Defining Luxury: the Work and Life of HBA, by Judith Nasatir, £40, published by Assouline, out now

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SKY-HIGH STYLE This has to be the ultimate London foodie treat: a sublime meal on the London Eye. Tuck into roast partridge, tian of Cornish crab, or hot-smoked salmon with horseradish mousse, while sipping Pommery Brut Royal Champagne – all in a private capsule on the London Eye, 135 metres above the Thames. Perfect to celebrate that special birthday...anniversary...haircut...any excuse.

Dining at 135 with EDF Energy London Eye, minimum group size: 8, £5,000, County Hall, SE1, londoneye.com

NYC LEGEND BRINGS MEXICO TO LONDON You know you’re in for a heavy night when you hit a restaurant that has its own tequila and mezcal cellar.

From the unerring creative mind of New York nightlife legend Serge Becker, this is Mexican fodder at its trendiest. Sip a glass of tequila or a frozen margarita to prep your palate for culinary delights including BBQ octopus ‘el negro’ and slow-roasted lamb barbaboa with salsa borracha.

La Bodega Negra Restaurant and Bar, 9 Old Compton St, W1, tacos/tostaditas from £3.50, mains from £11, labodeganegra.com

WORDS: POLLY GLASS

AWe RIGHT ROYAL FEED like this a lot more than we probably should. There’s something

about the retro styling that we know Her Majesty favours, so you can store your sandwiches in this limited edition plastic container - complete with six Charbonnel et Walker dark chocolate cornflake cakes (though let’s face it, they won’t last...). The lid reads ‘God Save the Queen, Keep Her Cornflakes Pristine’. We haven’t stopped chortling since. Given that there must be enough Diamond Jubilee memorabilia out there to submerge the capital in a great red, white and blue tidal wave, it is worth fishing out the good ‘uns. Of which this is one.

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FORTNUM & MASON’S DIAMOND JUBILEE SALON

ASPREY JUBILEE TEA

The combination of finerthan-fine jewellery design and exquisite afternoon tea is highly appealing. The signature purple of royal jeweller Asprey adorns many of the striking dishes here. We highly recommend the blackcurrant and white chocolate mousse decorated with shimmering blackcurrant jellies on shortbread. They’re almost too precious to eat.

Almost.

Asprey Tea at the Langham Hotel, 1 Portland Place, W1, £49 per person, asprey.com, available until October

It almost feels like boarding a grand old ocean liner as you take your seat in the top-floor salon at Fortnum’s – all elegant white panelling and tinkling grand piano. The grandeur continues as you sip a glass of Champagne, followed by a spot of loose-leaf tea, eggs royale and a selection of cakes. We loved the Earl Grey macaroons with chocolate filling.

Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon, Fortnum & Mason, 181 Piccadilly, W1, from £38, booking recommended, fortnumandmason.com

TOP TEAS

Four of the best afternoon teas this month

MAD HATTERS TEA PARTY, GROSVENOR HOUSE Fancy an afternoon tea with a bit more activity?

Involving pretty hats? Award-winning milliner Katherine Elizabeth and her team are hosting ‘hatiquette’ afternoon teas and soirées, giving you the chance to create bespoke pieces of millinery while you tuck into a scone. Seriously, you’ll walk away with something pretty lovely that you can actually wear, in public, with pride.

Hatiquette for the Modern Girl, Grosvenor House, Park Lane, W1, from £85 per person, marriot.co.uk

CHOCOLATE HEAVEN AT THE WYNDHAM GRAND Try something a little bit sweeter, with this specialist afternoon tea. Chocolatier Damian Allsop (yes, he probably does have the best job in the world) has created a London-inspired feast of cocoa bliss. Lemongrass brownies celebrate Chinatown, a delicious Petit Pot au Chocolat nods to South Kensington with its heavy French population, Mango Lassi chocolates honour the Indian vibe of Brick Lane.

Eat London Afternoon Tea, Wyndham Grand Hotel, Chelsea Harbour, SW10, £28 per person, wyndhamgrandlondon.co.uk, available 1-30 June

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BOVEY CASTLE. YOU’VE ARRIVED.

Bovey Castle is history, excitement, glamour and adventure.

We offer our guests luxury and indulgence, but this is not a stuffy hotel where you can’t sit on the furniture or let your kids enjoy themselves.

Bovey Castle is where you can live out your dreams, then put your feet up.

www.boveycastle.com

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THE FIFTEEN MINUTE

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Two courses in quarter of an hour?

No problem for Florence Knight, who’s more accustomed to cooking her delicious, clever dishes at speed for Polpett o’s hungry customers VICTORIA MOORE’S TOP PICKS

, ROASTED SE A BASS, PA R SLEY TOM ATO PER S & C A s 4) ((serve

This is a modest dish but much like that “little black dress” it is all about elegant simplicity. The most important thing is to source the freshest, ripest and purest ingredients. Never over-complicate things as the ingredients will speak for themselves.

4 filleted & pin-boned sea bass • 1 punnet ripe baby plum tomatoes • 1 small bunch parsley • 2 unwaxed lemons • 1 dessertspoon lilliput capers • a glug of good quality olive oil • 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar • salt & pepper 1 Place the tomatoes onto a baking tray and put in a pre-heated oven at 200°C for 5 minutes or until the tomatoes start to blister.

2 Remove from the oven and place in a bowl. Add the capers, red wine vinegar, roughly chopped parsley, the zest of one lemon and glug of olive oil. Mix it loosely and set aside.

3 Oil and season the skin of the sea bass. Place the fillets skin-side down onto a hot griddle pan and grill (keep an eye on them) for 7 minutes.

4 Serve immediately with the tomato and capers scattered over the top and a wedge of lemon.

, A PR ICOTS GR ILLED URT & YOGH WA L NUTS (serves 4)

WITH THE SEA BASS AND TOMATO...

Italian whites are such good food wines. There’s a refreshing citrus and dried herb quality to A Passoni Vernaccia di San Gimignano 2011 (12.5%, £7.99 down from £9.99 when you buy two, Majestic) and an artichoke-like bitterness that plays well with the tomatoes and capers that accompany the sea bass.

WITH THE APRICOTS AND WALNUTS....

The glorious flowery scent of Torres Florealis Moscatel Oro NV Spain adds another dimension to the apricot and walnut dish. A very sweet, luscious wine. (£7.99 for 50cl, Morrisons)

Victoria Moore, wine columnist for The Telegraph, is the Louis Roederer International Wine Writer of the Year.

Hooray! The British apricot season starts in May. They are a real treat with their fragrant, soft, velvety skin. Chargrilling the apricots adds a smokiness that really brings out the best in their wonderful flavour. Although colour is not always the best guide to flavour, steer clear of the very pale varieties and always avoid wrinkly or blotched skins.

3 ripe apricots, halved & stoned • 1 teaspoon olive oil • 100 grams toasted walnuts • 3 tablespoons Greek yoghurt • 2 tablespoons honey • a pinch of salt 1 Heat a griddle pan until hot. Rub the cut side of the apricots with a little of the olive oil and cook in the hot pan for 5 minutes, or until the apricots have black charred lines on the bottom and start oozing.

2 Place the walnuts onto a baking tray.

Add a pinch of salt and a splash of olive oil and bake in the oven for 3 minutes until the natural oils from the walnuts release a nutty aroma.

3 To serve, place the apricots on a plate with a dollop of yoghurt. Trickle over the honey and crush the walnuts lightly in your hand before scattering over the apricots.

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Which woman most inspires you, and why?

I am a huge Margaret Thatcher fan and always will be. She was a big business influence on me. She changed the UK and my approach to ‘getting on with things’.

Where do you go to relax?

I would advise anyone to become a friend of the Chelsea Physic Garden to escape the city in this blissful ‘secret’ garden.

Where do you go to party?

One of my most memorable nights in London involved a boat, some nakedness and the police.

Where do you go to eat?

For something a little different I go to Rock & Sole Plaice in Covent Garden. It was established in 1871 and is still bustling.

Wrap up warm and eat outside under coloured lights strung from the trees.

Where do you go to drink?

Home for a kitchen supper with family, friends and lots of pink wine.

Where do you go to feast your eyes?

The Design Museum is a gem housing modern and contemporary industrial design, architecture, graphics and fashion.

Where do you go to feast your soul?

Abe Books in London is brilliant for rare and vintage books and I could spend hours here. I always leave feeling inspired and creative with something special tucked away in my bag.

Which three shops can’t you resist?

If my husband would allow it, I would spend every Saturday at Lassco in London.

It is an architectural salvage shop in Vauxhall and has the most incredible

Anya Hindmarch The doyenne of British handbag designers, her creations are carried by everyone from Angelina Jolie to Kylie Minogue, Keira Knightley to Samantha Cameron

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t Above: Mel Notting chocolate in Hill Design Below: the Museum

range of curiosities. I have bought all sorts here from reclaimed floorboards to taps for my bathroom. I love the V&A shop for children’s gifts, and adore the old men’s shops in St. James.

What was the last luxury you treated yourself to?

Chocolate from Melt.

What is your life philosophy?

Work hard and be determined even when facing a tough challenge.

What advice would you give to your 16-year-old self?

Never give up. If you have an idea develop it, and then just keep going and never look back.

Where do you go on holiday to escape from London?

You can’t beat the Southwest. Staying in England is less stressful than flying abroad and our trip to Cornwall is a relaxing, family escape I look forward to each summer. We rent the same coastguard’s cottage every year which overlooks two beautiful beaches.

What’s your favourite London hotel?

The Goring has been run by the same family for over 100 years and is traditional luxury at its best.

Who is your favourite Royal?

The Queen. She is a true icon.

What’s your favourite work of art in a London gallery?

The Chris Levine portrait of the Queen.

Who would you like to be stuck in a rush-hour Tube train with?

My children as I don’t get to see nearly enough of them.

LUKE HAYES; CHARLIE HOPKINSON; CHRIS LEVINE 2007; WWW.MARGARETTHATCHER.ORG

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Photographer: Beate Hansen; Š 2010. Model: Charlbi. Dress by Karma Highway

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Paper fresco by American artist Jo Lynn Alcorn for the House of Perrier-Jouët.

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