Life Style

The sight of the art set as they descended on Mayfair over Frieze last week was a something spectacular to behold — a guffawing, Birkin-bumping crowd, shuffling into the Old Masters tent after champagne on Berkeley Square. En masse, they were a vision of black Issey Miyake pleats and neon On trainers. However, it was in a corner of the Richard Green gallery space at Frieze Masters where the true winter style inspiration could be found. L.S Lowry’s (1887 – 1976) matchstick men, working in wintery, industrial towns and wearing perfect, dark overcoats, flat caps and bulky, black leather boots. As far as 2024 winter pin ups go, the Stretford-born artist was not on the bingo card. The new Lowry look: Private White V.C.’s capsule campaign shot Private White V.C.But it’s not just the gallerists w...

To a degree, gay culture has always been elitist. Wit and erudition have always been held in disproportionately high esteem, as have near-impossible beauty standards. Moreover, snobbery will appear within any culture that has become dominant: where there is structure, there are echelons. Today, gay culture is no longer on the fringes: it’s slap bang in the middle of things. From technology and politics – Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Wes Streeting – to media and the arts – Elton John, Andy Cohen, Alan Hollinghurst and the younger crop: Jeremy O’Harris, Ncuti Gatwa, Troye Sivan – gay men are running the show. And those beneath them, whether gay or not, seek to ape their glamorous ways. Source link

I live in Richmond with my wife and three kids — we’ve lived there for about two and a half years and were in the Cotswolds for seven years before that. It’s a big change. Richmond’s not cool but that’s what I like about it. I lived in Ladbroke Grove for years and it’s quicker for me to get to Soho from Richmond than it is from Ladbroke Grove. Where do you stay in London?If I need to stay in town and someone else is paying, I’ll go for Claridge’s — I love the food there. It’s so decadent and over the top to have breakfast in bed there and I love it. It’s old school but they’re not stuffy. Plus the staff are pretty sound. The breakfast at Claridge’sClaridge's/Maybourne GroupWhere was your first flat in the capital?I lived in a bedsit about the size of a table on Hackney Road, which had a c...

When Bella Freud thinks of a moment that helped consolidate her style, a photograph of her father, the artist Lucian Freud, aged 15, standing alongside her great-grandfather,  the “father of psychoanalysis” Sigmund Freud, comes to mind. Both are a strict sartorial vision in their constrictive tailoring. “They’re not dressed for a special occasion, just in this stuff — and it looks so good,” she says, grinning from her study, dressed herself in a punkish, loose-knit black jumper and fully buttoned white shirt. Source link

Inspired by a combination of the DIY spirit of pirate and American college radio, Adeyemi aired the station’s first broadcast in April 2011 – an unpolished but intoxicating mix of beats, basslines, and voices from the underground. Within its first few months, NTS got picked up by indie magazines like Dazed, and word soon began to spread about NTS’ no-rules approach to music curation, and artists and listeners from across the globe tuned in, seeking out a platform that celebrated sounds from the fringes. The station’s roster expanded rapidly, attracting a diverse array of resident hosts, from rising underground stars to established legends like Andrew Weatherall, Gilles Peterson, and Four Tet. Source link

In March, Prince Harry was named in a lawsuit worth $30 million brought against Combs. The lawsuit, by producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, said that Diddy used his associations with “international dignitaries like British Royal, Prince Harry” to draw guests to his freak-off parties. Although there is no suggestion of wrongdoing on Prince Harry’s behalf, images of Harry, Prince William, Diddy and Kanye West backstage at the 2007 Concert for Diana have emerged online. When asked by Graham Norton in 2011 if he wanted to invite the princes to his parties, the rapper replied: “Not any more, they’re off the list. But before, when they were young bucks they were getting up to trouble themselves. So I was like, ‘Hey, why don’t you come out and hang with me’.”  Source link

“It feels like a response to the over engineered, overly laboured looks of the 2010s,” reckons the Standard’s beauty editor, Madeleine Spencer. “Perfume in particular has become toweringly expensive and at times quite complex to navigate, whereas there is something joyously easy to understand about 90s classics, and they come at good price points.  Source link

Great British Bake Off champion Nadiya Hussain revealed this week that she has been secretly suffering from two autoimmune diseases, having spent two years in and out of hospital.Sharing the news via a video on Instagram, the 39-year-old mum of three said: “[...] Over the course of two years, I've been quite unwell. I've just been getting quite sick.“And over the course of the two years, I've been diagnosed with two autoimmune diseases, which I'm not going to go into now.”While the Bake Off winner didn’t share the details of the diagnoses, she urged fans to prioritise “taking care of yourself,” saying: “I am the kind of person who burns the candle at both ends, takes care of everyone else's needs but my own.”But what constitutes an autoimmune disease, and who else has one?What are autoimmu...

My fixation with blonde began with my mum. She had Targaryen sheets of icy white hair which would drape over her shoulders and she’d pair it with the very of-the-moment frosted blue eyeshadow. The finished look was very striking and I remember my young mind thinking my own brown lengths would never be quite as arresting, quite as much of a statement. This sense of blonde being something to be coveted was only compounded by my harbouring a fascination with Brigitte Bardot, Grace Kelly and Debbie Harry.I know this might read as insane. What about Audrey Hepburn’s beauty, complete with dark head of hair, I hear you cry. Or Ava Gardner? She was astonishing to behold. Liz Taylor, etc. But, no, I just wanted to be blonde, and so as soon as I was allowed to colour my hair, I embarked on a mission...

If you’re worried about your carbon footprint, check out some of the tour operators offering a range of rail travel options. Inghams has launched new train packages to 22 resorts across France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland – and they’re competitively priced against air travel. Or try French company Travelski, which offers packages to Val Thorens, La Plagne, Les Arcs, La Rosière, Tignes, Val d’Isère, Courchevel, Les Menuires, Méribel and Les Deux Alpes that include rail travel, transfers, accommodation and ski passes. You are required to change trains at Lille, but it’s a relatively painless way to start off your ski holiday. Source link