British Vogue October 2024 (Digital)

Floricultural footwear came up roses in the a/w’24 collections, thanks to the likes of Loro Piana, Loewe and Ulla Johnson, but it pays to take a closer look. On the runway, as in nature, the flowers that can still bloom in the deepest of winter are made of hardy stuff. Enter Armani’s second-skin boots, complete with surrealist ice-blue vines. Their glitchy, maximalist print nods to both the flattened geometry of Arts and Crafts pioneer William Morris, whose designs upended the true-to-nature trompe l’oeil effects that ruled interiors in the 19th century, and the work of veteran pop artist Alex Katz. Track down a copy of Andy Warhol’s Flowers, Flowers, Flowers and take a pair of secateurs to your hemline. Like a handsome bouquet positioned atop your desk, these boots deserve…

From down-tempo diamonds to relaxed emeralds, set pulses racing this autumn by pairing the rarest of precious stones with worn-time-and-again wardrobe heroes. Forget about saving haute heirlooms for one-off occasions: discoball dazzlers look the ice-coolest when layered with on-the-go hoodies, T-shirts and lived-in denim. This mood may appear low-key but it can prove sharper than any bejewelled eveningwear ensemble. Your bare necessities? An oversized blazer teamed with nothing but shimmering-in-the-moonlight skin. When it comes to jaw-dropping jewels, seemingly minor styling choices hit the major notes.…

Beyond the whole “country manor through the looking glass” vibe of Jonathan Anderson’s a/w ’24 Loewe show, one of the most striking things about the collection was the miscellany of trouser silhouettes: ballooning cargos and one style I can best describe as “überjodhpurs” – taut around the calves, explosive volume through the thigh and a nipped waist. Anderson wasn’t the only designer running the gamut from waist to ankle this season. It’s trouser chaos out there. You can’t trust trousers anymore – as in, you can no longer ascertain from a handful of dominant cuts how to build a wardrobe around this line, that proportion. At Bottega Veneta, there were tulip shapes, stovepipes and cropped flares. Chemena Kamali’s Chloé debut included fringed leather jeans that transformed, below the knee, into teardrops…

Stephen Jones’s first appearance in Vogue came in 1982, when he was trumpeted as a milliner “whose talent incorporates anything from show-hat splendour to pull-on simplicity”. He had arrived. Some 40 years on, Jones – hatmaker to the Blitz Club and Boy George, to Diana, Princess of Wales, to Mick Jagger, Kylie Minogue, David Bowie and Pet Shops Boys – will be given the honour of a monographic exhibition at the Palais Galliera. “For anyone in fashion,” says Jones, 67, from his Covent Garden studio, “Paris is the centre of the world. We do something different in Britain and we’re quite happy about that, aren’t we? However, when we’re looking over our shoulder, we know where it all happens.” It was in the City of Light, in 1983, that Jean Paul Gaultier,…

What is “a woman’s watch”? Well, if the old school of thought has its way, it probably isn’t an Omega Speedmaster 38. According to tradition, a woman’s watch is dainty. A woman’s watch is uncomplicated and petite, emphasising fanciful aesthetics as opposed to the technicalities of its design, function and craftsmanship. In her role as chair of Sotheby’s International Watch Division, Daryn Schnipper can, thankfully, attest to a shift from this narrow and somewhat reductive view – not to mention the idea that women don’t purchase watches for themselves. “For decades, discreet and pretty cocktail watches set with tiny diamonds were the norm. Now, women are making bolder statements with their wrists, opting for oversized, ‘masculine’ styles.” Rebecca Ross, vice president and head of sale for watches at Christie’s, agrees. “Modern…

Among the alleyways of the historic hilltop Graça district of Lisbon, in a secluded residential square, you’ll find Casa Noble: three buildings dating from between the 18th and 20th centuries that have been restored and reconfigured as a single elegant house. Come next year, guests will be invited to stay in the hotel-cum-salon’s 13 immaculately designed rooms (each with a bathroom bedecked in green marble) and encouraged to convene in the library, where intimate performances and discussions will take place around the open fireplace. Much of the produce in the restaurant will be sourced from Casa Noble’s rural sister property, the nearby Herdade de Meco: a 114-hectare biodynamic farm on the coast overlooking the Atlantic ocean, where, in the coming year, it will also be possible to partake in health-giving…

Sittings editor: HONEY SWEET ELIAS. Grooming: LOUISE LEREGO. Production: MATTHEW RILEY. With thanks to MOUNT ST RESTAURANT One presumes the late Queen’s permission was sought as to whether it was OK for Tom Parker Bowles to write a recipe book themed around the history of royal food. Though the man himself – author, cook, son, father, brother, stepbrother, godson, general family man, now at the heart of the family – can’t entirely recall how the process worked, but, yes, he definitely did ask, he says with a near-imperceptible eye roll. “Thanks for checking.” “It was about when the late Queen’s jubilee was,” he recalls, of “running it up the flagpole” with the royal household in early 2022, and getting the offcial go-ahead to detail the eating habits of monarchs from Queen Victoria…

If you were to ask Lauren Halsey what she does in life, she would reply: “I would say I make things.” This certainly befits her studio in Los Angeles, from where she is speaking to me today, a soaring, industrial space filled with seemingly random items, from a vintage Michael Hoban leather jacket to a test piece in shades of neon pink. “I keep everything – it’s a problem,” she deadpans, but her scope as an artist feels limitless: “I want to make festivals. I want to make parades. I want to make stages. I want to make a community centre. I want to make a girls youth basketball court…” She trails off, the list likely longer. Born and based in South Central LA, where her family has lived for generations,…

Slow Horses, which is based on a series of novels by Mick Herron and follows the goings-on at Slough House – a very specific section of MI5 where agents who have made any number of mistakes or misdemeanours can be deposed of without being dropped out of the organisation altogether – has returned for a fourth gloriously gritty series. The purgatory of Slough House makes a sublime setting for our protagonists, all given much more menial tasks than their training prepared them for, along with a removal of the respect their previous positions afforded them. A masterclass in casting, the stars of the show include a wonderfully unrefined Gary Oldman as Slough House’s head, Jackson Lamb, and the introduction of Hugo Weaving, whose character is set to provide the latest threat…

When I moved from London to the West Country in the ’80s with my late husband, Leo, and my children, Felix and Emily, I found sex as prolific outside of marriage as in. Everywhere I looked people seemed to be committing both adultery and fornication – even the animals in the fields seemed to be at it, and not just the rabbits. I was amazed to meet a glamorous peer who, when he got married for a fourth time, asked all of his three ex-wives to sleep with him as a wedding present. I remember a dinner where the hosts, bitterly rowing one moment, had sloped off upstairs for a shag between courses (giving a whole new meaning to the term inter-course). I also remember being very disappointed after an…

For life in HIGH CONTRAST, juxtapose seductive NIGHT-TIME transparencies with floor-sweeping SUITING and a sporty BASEBALL capDabble in a spot of DUAL denim with a jeans-inspired It bag – while a wear-forever bracelet-strap watch WILL add a glimmer of GREAT taste, time and TIME againInvest in PIECES that will make your WARDROBE stock soar. Leather trench, dark DENIM and a vest top? Ding, ding, DING!…

You’re blushing!” my sister cries with delight. We’re playing on the front steps of our London house and have just heard skateboard wheels approaching. I am 13 and in love with the skateboard’s owner, a boy who lives up the street whom I’ve never actually spoken to. He has long sandy hair and an American accent. Basically, he’s Kurt Cobain. It’s magical and mortifying and a secret – except it’s not, because it’s written all over my face. If the eyes are the window to the soul, then our cheeks are the back door. What other part of the body so readily reveals our hidden emotions? Embarrassment, exuberance, delight, desire, all instantly communicated with a rush of blood. It’s no wonder that blush has been a mainstay for decades: ancient Egyptians…

Please can you send an ambulance – my wife is in so much pain she’s been vomiting and has now passed out.” “Yes, right away. Does she have any underlying conditions?” “Endometriosis.” In my case, they cannot send anyone. “We would advise a hot-water bottle and a bath.” The phone line goes dead. It’s almost impossible to articulate the intensity of chronic pain when it’s been part of your life, day in, day out, with episodes like the above being the norm for more than 30 years. I was 11 when my period started, an age when the only thing you should be caring about is what homework you have to complete and who is hosting the sleepover that weekend. To have the arrival of any change at a young age is already daunting, but the…

There’s a first time for everything – and being told that the best way to shade-match your lipliner for the most natural effect possible is to match it to your nipple colour was most definitely a first for me. It was at the launch of Glossier’s anticipated new Lip Line, the first major make-up launch of the new season from the millennial pink brand that continues to deliver on the make-up we never knew we needed. The make-up artist in residence (and question), Celia Burton, was in full flow for her liner application demo when she dropped this anatomical-focused pearl of beauty wisdom. I was in a Mayfair art gallery, among fellow beauty editors and peers, so I was not going to attempt a live demonstration (and nor would I…

JAMB, the antiques experts Will Fisher and Charlotte Freemantle, the husband-and-wife design duo behind Jamb – which boasts an elegant showroom on London’s Pimlico Road and an Aladdin’s cave of 900 fireplaces, chimney pieces and prototype lamp fixtures in Mitcham – started from humble beginnings. Fisher cut his teeth in south London’s antiques markets, becoming a world-renowned authority dealing in historic fireplaces. “We found ourselves continually on planes, cars and trains looking for rarefied lighting, furniture and fireplaces,” he says of the decision to begin making their own designs, such as the Batsford dish light (right). “It struck us that we could also make these pieces as beautifully as they had been made in the 18th and 19th centuries.” Jamb.co.uk MIRANDA KEYES, the glass-maker I first laid eyes on the work of Bermondsey-based…

On a Monday in late July, in a subterranean screening room in Soho with four total strangers, I bawl my eyes out like a teething baby to Florence Pugh’s new film, We Live in Time. As a grown man with something of a stiff upper lip, I was expecting a wet eye, maybe, but not to cry. I was expecting another decently dramatic romance, something robust and feminine that made some people weep but not me people weep. I was expecting another tale of two people meeting and greeting and, after a few whimsical tribulations, finally getting together. Something sad would happen, of course: the stepmum would outlive the first mum, or we’d get to the final beach in Beaches, or Macaulay would find the bees. I was expecting, dare…

When I was 14, in 1978, having won a special mention in British Vogue’s annual talent contest for young writers, I was asked by Bea Miller, then the editor in chief, if she could do anything for me. Because I had nothing to lose, I said, “Well, in my dreams I’d like a ticket to the next Bill Gibb fashion show.” To my astonishment, a ticket was duly summoned, and there in a hotel ballroom my cup ran over as I saw models like Jerry Hall and Marie Helvin strutting their long-legged stuff in clothes that were a dream to me, all foxtails and jersey and shiny lace. Growing up in the diffcult Britain of the ’70s (three-day working weeks, IRA bombings, my parents’ divorce), I lost myself in the magic…

Chemena Kamali opens the door to her office at the Chloé headquarters on Avenue Percier in Paris, revealing a long, curved sofa, pink peonies in a vase and a silver tray laid with tea. On the wall is an orderly grid of images: swimsuits designed by Karl Lagerfeld during his time at the house; Mick Jagger; bra-strap tan lines; a cigarette balanced between pouting lips. Kamali, 42, dressed in high-waisted, wide-legged Chloé jeans and a latte-coloured blouse, welcomes me in. She grins, a warm, Cheshire Cat-like smile. Kamali’s appointment as Chloé’s creative director in October of 2023 – she took over from Gabriela Hearst – did not surprise those who knew her and the brand. This will be Kamali’s third time working at the house, having started in her early 20s…

All of a sudden, I couldn’t stop crying. For some reason, around the turn of the year, I was waking up in tears. Then, the rest of the day, any little thing would set me off: train delays; a dance remix of Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” playing at the gym; showering, weirdly. To say this was uncharacteristic would be an understatement. I am pathologically level – always quick to steady myself. What the hell was going on? “Maybe,” a friend offered, gently, as I wept to her over martinis, “this is perimenopause.” Well. I should have known. I guess living in a techno-capitalist surveillance society the algorithm is hip to your hormonal changes, perhaps even before you are. Since I’d entered my mid-40s, I’d been fed an increasing diet of…

We are walking over a miniature bridge that crosses a babbling brook in rural western Connecticut, and a little house straight out of a fairy tale – its architectural style is actually called storybook – beckons in the near distance. Its wood siding is painted a deep shade of chocolate brown, with its windows and single door a contrasting forest green. The house – six rooms and a porch – dates from 1937, Stuart Vevers tells me. “Wow,” I exclaim. “Isn’t that the year Snow White was released?” This conversation is not as odd as you might think: Vevers, who has been the creative director of Coach for more than a decade, is an avid Disney fan, and I am, I’ll admit modestly, quite the Disney scholar myself, with a home…

My daughters and I keep talking about threads – all the invisible strings that connect the tapestry of your life. That’s where the name of my upcoming memoir, A Thousand Threads, came from; while I was writing it, I could see my life as a multitude of different strands, all tied together. In 60 years, so much has happened that there’s probably another thousand that didn’t make it into the book: Lou Reed sending my brother and I in a limousine to pick up the mouthpiece to my dad’s trumpet (we made it back just in time for their show); dancing with Prince and feeling like a giant because he was so small and slick and I was in huge trainers trying to keep up; listening to the radio on a…

It’s a sultry afternoon in rural Essex and Carla Denyer, the co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, is hip-high in a field of wild grass. There’s the mellow hum of insects, the scold of a blue tit, the earthy balm of nearby woodland. We pause to admire the flowers – meadowsweet, cow parsley, yarrow. I ask what a tall purple flower is called. “Don’t know,” says the 39-year-old. Actually, she doesn’t know the names of any of them. “Except that one. That’s an oxeye daisy.” Just because she is a Green, she says, don’t assume she can name all the plants. Or the trees. Or the birds. Don’t assume that she was the sort of kid to make ant farms or raise money for rhinos, either. She…

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From the London Eye to the Shard, our capital’s skyline is rightly famous, with landmarks at every turn, both old and new. Highlights include the iconic dome of St Paul’s Cathedral; the imposing façade of the Houses of Parliament along the edge of the Thames; and the City’s soaring glass and steel towers that glitter in the sunlight. There’s a sense that the landscape is both permanent yet constantly evolving, as properties change hands, are rebuilt, or are reconfigured to meet the needs of a new generation. Nowhere is this feeling more apparent than with the latest crop of residential and mixed-use developments, which range from cuttingedge newbuilds to clever reworkings of existing buildings. Pictured above is a penthouse at the Whiteley, an ambitious reimagining of a former shopping centre, which…

How do you get ready in five minutes flat? By embracing the wet-hair look. Indie sleaze revival: yay or nay? Somebody asked me this recently and I just laughed out loud – what is “indie sleaze”? Yay if there’s a time machine, but nay if it’s me, this age, as I am now. What’s a trend you’ll never try? The crop top. You can only save one item of clothing in your wardrobe, what do you choose? I have this ’60s war protest dress – it’s an American flag. I have such fond memories of wearing it. Best tip for growing out a pixie cut? I’ve failed at this a few times. Recently I figured out that you have to cut a shape in as soon as it grows. It’s like trimming a bush, encouraging it to grow in…

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