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long time to learn that, though. When I started he first time I met Stoo, a postgraduate course at 28, I interpreted the a cartoonist and author, saying ‘friends are the family you choose’ literally. he was entertaining a group More than anything I wanted to make female of people at a cocktail party friends just like me. They’d be bookish and by drawing pictures of little gregarious and love to get drunk and discuss ideas men with huge erections. I was and relationships and whether or not I should get instantly besotted. The next time I saw him, six a fringe. I wasn’t so far gone that I thought we’d months later, he was hosting a gathering for our do this over expensive weekend brunches, but mutual friend Maria and when I walked through Sex A d The City was selling a romance of female the front door, his face lit up like a candle; friendship that was pretty hard to evade. For good we hugged hello as if we’d known each other reason: at a time when the traditional nuclear forever. Later that night he pulled me into his family was morphing into something more fluid, study to show me all the books and comic strips the show’s fantasy friend template, a tight quartet he’d published over the years. We were squished of BFFs, struck a collective chord so deep that into a pair of old leather movie-theatre seats, it endures today on Girls, Real balancing paper plates of crudités Housewives and teen shows on our knees, when he blurted Sex And The City like Pretty Little Liars. out, “Kate! I just adore you!” Soon my social life was I beamed. “I adore you!” was selling a romance a loose group of women, all fellow “But Kate,” he said, of female friendship aspiring writers, all roughly my absolutely deadpan, “I am age. We hosted wine-soaked 83 years old. And married.” that was pretty hard dinner parties, shared our secrets We laughed so hard to evade and wardrobes – until, invariably, I dropped my paper plate. Baby complications arose. One friend accused me carrots rolled across the floor. of ‘cock-blocking’ her on a job I didn’t even I thought of our meet-cute when I heard know she wanted. When another applied for recently that the thirtysomething actor Colin a fellowship I was desperate to win, I blew up Farrell had befriended a seventysomething in irrational outrage. As time went on, the Elizabeth Taylor in the years before she died. petty rivalries and betrayals thickened like It began with a chance meeting at the hospital: ice on a windshield, until it was impossible he was there for the birth of his second son; for us to see each other clearly. she was having a stent put in her heart. They My ‘aha’ moment about these relationships liked to talk on the phone into the wee hours. came courtesy of my old friend Michael from “I just adored her,” he told Ellen DeGeneres college, now an English professor, during on her show. “I wanted to be number eight, one of our marathon telephone conversations. but we ran out of road.” I was narrating some fresh indignity when There’s something particularly delightful he mused aloud, “You know, I’ve never about ‘unlikely’ friendships – those that pop understood this. It’s as if you’re so fixated on up when (and where) you least expect them and P your idea of these friendships, you don’t even thrive on dissimilarity. It took me an ungodly 117
The month in red-carpet beauty FROM THE OSCARS TO OUR VERY OWN GLAMOUR AWARDS – WE’VE GOT IT COVERED. HERE ARE THE WINNING LOOKS
3 Wow like Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley with big lashes and contoured cheekbones 1 Anne Hathaway’s low side parting is a great way to glam up short hair
2 Rock a power pout with a bright red lip, Paloma-style
5 How gorgeous are Amber Heard’s lids? Try a gold pigment to recreate this look
6 Copy Freida Pinto and work statement brows
7 Ooze glamour with a supersmoked eye and black nails, à la Chanel Iman
ate never fails to impress! We love this swept-over ’do from this year’s Oscars
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10 Long hair? Pull it back over your shoulders for cascading curls like Vanessa’s 11 Q10 Bronzing Mousse £24.95 sienna-x.co.uk
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4 Smoulder like Jen with wraparound black liner
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12 Bring back Hollywood glamour with Veronica Lake waves, like Toni Garn
16 Go Grecian like Hayley Atwell with a cool plaited crown
17 Margot Robbie shows us how it’s done with a vamped-up look
19 Filmstar Bronze & Glow £49 charlotte tilbury.com 14 GLAMOUR covergirl Alexa puts a twist on the classic nude pout with apricot lipstick
13 Supermodel Joan Smalls goes edgy with a fishtail plait and a purple lip
18 Contrast your lipstick with your dress, like Emma
20 Spray Ma Vie Pour Femme £49 for 50ml eau de parfum Boss 22 Pair undone hair with a red lip for Cara’s cool-girl vibe 21 Bette Franke keeps it simple with a soft, smoky eye
25 Tr endra Spears’ lowslung pony
23 What to do when you have flawless skin? Work it like Lupita
27 Channel Gisele with tousled waves and barely there make-up
24 Fake a short ’do by tucking ends under, like Dian ruger
29 Add colour with a rosy blush, like Emily VanCamp 28 Retro curls look great on short hair. Use a barrel tong to get Reese’s style
26 Throw it up like Rihanna for a messy, textured finish
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Julia Suszfalak wears: Wool jacket £1,320 michaelkors.com; cashmere skirt price on request Hugo Boss; leather loafers £430 tods.com; 9ct gold bracelet £942 stepheneinhorn.co.uk; silk socks £40.50 Maria La Rosa
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LOOK SHARP …and super-feminine with the new take on tailoring. Think cinched waists and sexy sophistication
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Wool jacket £995, wool roll-neck £535, wool trousers £440 and faux-leather patent shoes price on request all stellamccartney.com; silver ring £175 Rebus; silver bracelet £143 stepheneinhorn.co.uk
Ella Merryweather wears: Grey and red wool jacket £456 Marc by Marc Jacobs; grey wool roll-neck £190 pinko.com; black silk shorts price on request Jil Sander; black wool beret £21 americanapparel.co.uk; black leather belt £265 Marc by Marc Jacobs
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