Signing up with the app Nextdoor was very unlike me. I don’t remember why I did it in the first place but no doubt it had something to do with my permanent search for an electrician or that elusive but transformative handyman. It certainly wasn’t because I was particularly gripped by what my neighbours were up … Read more
Before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex married, a professional creative, well used to the intricacies and diplomacy involved in working with Royal households, was interviewed for a role by Meghan. A mutual friend ran into the candidate immediately after the interview and asked excitedly how the experience had been. The reply did not sound … Read more
My new best lockdown pal is Alison Roman the carefree cook from Los Angeles, writes ALEXANDRA SHULMAN (pictured) My new lockdown friend is an American chef and social-media star called Alison Roman. If our sultry, curvaceous Nigella is the Elizabeth Taylor of the culinary scene, Los Angeles-born Alison, 35, is the Taylor Swift. With her jaunty … Read more
Alexandra Shulman CBE has revealed she didn’t wear a bra for 20 years – and still resents them now. The ex-British Vogue editor-in-chief, 62, also admitted she has no idea how often she’s meant to wash the undergarment. Appearing on Susannah Constantine’s My Wardrobe Malfunction podcast, the London-born journalist said her vehement dislike of bras is … Read more
What a horrible time to be a university student. Fenced in at Manchester, banned from leaving the precincts at Cambridge, and all the others deprived, like the rest of us, of essential human connections under the draconian shadow of Covid. Although university years are often held up as golden and glorious – a time for … Read more
Anne Hathaway celebrated her eighth wedding anniversary last month with husband Adam Shulman. And the Academy Award winner recently gave a glimpse at their love story, during a chat with pal Drew Barrymore. She revealed her second date with the father of her children was at Barrymore’s Halloween party, as she made a remote appearance … Read more
Here’s an undeniable fact. Over recent years I have aged. I have more obvious grey hairs, need to drag an inconvenient array of different spectacles around and have definitely gathered an unfortunate softness around the jowls. Oh… and I went through the menopause. Now bear with me on that last item because I wouldn’t normally … Read more
So Harry and Meghan have forked out for their own home for the first time in either of their lives. It’s a major event, knowing that the place in Montecito, California – unlike poor neglected Frogmore – actually belongs to you and you can do with it exactly what you want. You don’t have to … Read more
Scoring the very first appointment with George Northwood since lockdown began was way more exciting for me than winning the Derby. No competition. I even beat Alexa Chung: her appointment at the reopened salon was four hours later. It’s probably the first and only time I’ve beaten her at anything. It had been 212 days … Read more
Last week I headed into Mayfair, a woman on a mission. My target was Selfridges’ Beauty Hall. It might seem perverse in these times when hardly anyone sees us, but I was craving a new concealer to help with the cavernous under-eye shadows that are Zoom’s speciality. I was also curious to see what it … Read more