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CONTENTS MARCH 2015

ON THE COVER
260 Exclusive: Kate Winslet fame,
family and the balancing act
354 Botox in a bottle? The creams that
really work
346 Modern beauty: its such a new look
292 Triumph and tragedy: the art
of McQueen
From 129 Spring fashion: the clothes to
wear right now

260
PAGE

Kate Winslet wears

Bally, La Perla and
David Morris in this
months cover story

FASHION
239 CARINE ON THE COLLECTIONS
Our global fashion director takes
a zodiac-inspired look at S/S 15
274 WILD COUNTRY Colorado
cowgirls pair silk with denim and
gingham with lace
292 A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES
OUT Ahead of the opening of
fashions biggest retrospective the
Savage Beauty show Bazaar pays
tribute to Alexander McQueen in the
galleries of his beloved V&A
318 EARTH, WIND AND FIRE
Bold jumpsuits and sweeping
maxi-dresses summon an updated
spring take on the Seventies
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FEATURES
260 A STAR IS REBORN Kate Winslet
on regained condence, rural idylls
and her return to the limelight after
the birth of her third child
314 FASHION FAIRY TALES
Karl Lagerfeld takes his Chanel
Mtiers dArt show to Austria,
the land that inspired Cocos
famous boucl jackets
330 ARMANI In a rare, revealing
interview, Justine Picardie steps
into the inner sanctum of
Giorgio Armani, the 80-year-old
Italian maestro celebrating four
decades of his empire
340 A CUT ABOVE Meet Clare Waight
Keller, the British designer dening
the carefree French label Chlo

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292
PAGE

Alexander McQueen S/S 15

modelled at the V&A beside
vintage McQueen looks that
will feature in the forthcoming
Savage Beauty show

SHOP BAZAAR
180 SPRING CLEAN Cotton and leather
in simple lines and fresh block colours
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211
212

214

216

218

AT WORK
SOFT POWER Feminine
accessories look the business
GRACE UNDER PRESSURE The
journalist Emily Maitlis on politics,
equality and the thrills of live TV
GENDER AGENDA Sasha Slater
examines the pitfalls and pleasures of
our working relationships with men
THE ORDER OF THINGS Inside
the Paris atelier of the Joseph creative
director, Louise Trotter
WORDS OF WISDOM Working
women reveal how to operate in
a mans world

TALKING POINTS
228 ODE TO ARTISTRY Patrick
Demarcheliers latest book shines the
spotlight on Diors couture creations
229 RENAISSANCE WOMAN
The many talents of Miranda July
230 SWIRLS AND STROKES The artist
Jens Wolf brings his swirling canvases
to Londons Ronchini Gallery
231 THE ART OF SISTERHOOD
Two books explore the unusual bond
between the sisters Virginia Woolf
and Vanessa Bell
232 CLINGING TO EMPIRE A new
TV series recalls the Disneyed Old
England of the last days of the Raj
233 NEVER TOO LATE Selfridges
looks to artists with experience
233 MY CULTURAL LIFE Christian
Louboutin on Dietrich and Deneuve
234 A PLAY ON WORDS Zo
Wanamaker brings the poet
Stevie Smith to life on stage
235 SUGAR COATED Pastel pieces to
add a sweet touch to your home
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ACCESSORIES
169 DJ NEW Bags, shoes and shades
look back to the Seventies

JEWELLERY
EYE CANDY Sparkling treats
that are good enough to eat
196 DIAMOND LIFE Hit the road
in platinum and white gold
203 WILD THINGS Jewels inspired by
nature, the Orient and the ocean
208 FREE REIN Herms equestrian
confection of white gold and sapphires
191

STYLE
129 10 THINGS WE LOVE Slouchy
shifts, retro satchels and a delicate
little white dress
140 MY MOODBOARD Guccis Frida
Giannini on how Jane Fonda, Ali
MacGraw and Jimi Hendrix inspired
her S/S 15 collection
147 EDITORS PICKS Bazaars fashion
experts choose the must-have looks
from their favourite new-season
trends, with essential advice on how
to make them work for you
161 MY LIFE, MY STYLE
The sophisticated glamour of the
accessories designer Dee Ocleppo
extends to her airy Miami Beach home

   

       

 
       
      

      
       

  

     



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BEAUTY BAZAAR
346 LIGHTLY DOES IT Make-up for
S/S 15 is all about a delicate touch
350 COMING UP ROSES Rosie
Huntington-Whiteley on the blooms
that inspire her new perfume
354 UPLIFTING IDEAS Hi-tech creams
and new techniques that really help
in the ght against ageing
356 SPRINGS PERFECT LIPS Newby
Hands reveals the tips and tricks for
creating the seasons biggest lip trend
ESCAPE
360 FASHION KINGDOM Stay in the
mediaeval Tuscan village restored to
glory by the stylish Ferragamo clan
362 TRAVEL NOTEBOOK Model
Jourdan Dunn on dolphins and Dubai
364 SHOW STOPPERS The editors
favourite Fashion Week hotels,
from New York to Paris
366 RACE TO LANDS END
Helena Lee motors down to deepest
Cornwall in a Bentley
FLASH!
369 THE SORORITY Bazaar celebrates
its heroines at the star-studded
annual Women of the Year Awards

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274
PAGE

Polo Ralph Lauren

in Wild country

REGULARS
EDITORS LETTER
CONTRIBUTORS
WORKBOOK
HOROSCOPES By Peter Watson
STOCKISTS
HOW BAZAAR Classic moments
from our archives revisited. This
month: Lauren Hutton embodies
the modern woman in 1971

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COVER LOOKS Above far left: Kate Winslet wears lace dress, 4,450, Dolce & Gabbana. White gold and diamond earrings, from a selection, David Morris. White gold and diamond ring,
12,900, De Beers. Above near left (subscribers cover): jersey dress, 3,060, Azzedine Alaa at Selfridges. Suede heels, 585, Giuseppe Zanotti Design. White gold and diamond cuff,
from a selection, David Morris. Styled by Miranda Almond. See Stockists for details. Hair by Nicola Clarke. Make-up by Lisa Eldridge at Premier Hair & Makeup, using Lancme: Teint
Miracle in 02; Hypnse Palette in Gris au Naturel; LAbsolu Rouge in Rose Nu; and Grandise mascara. Manicure by Sabrina Gayle at LMC Worldwide, using Lancme Vernis in Love.
Photographs by Alexi Lubomirski. Above centre (limited-edition cover available exclusively at the V&A): organza skirt; python-skin harness top, both to order, Alexander McQueen.
Suede heels, 440, Manolo Blahnik. Above near right (limited-edition cover available exclusively at the V&A): silk skirt, 2,380; silk top, from a selection, both Erdem. Suede heels, 625,
Charlotte Olympia. Styled by Leith Clark. See Stockists for details. Hair by Lyndell Manseld at CLM Hair & Make Up, using Unite. Make-up by Kay Montano at D+V Management, using
Chanel S 2015 and Body Excellence. Manicure by Michelle Humphrey at LMC Worldwide, using Maybelline New York. Model: Nastya Kusakina at Premier Model Management. Photographs
by Erik Madigan Heck. Above far right (limited-edition cover available exclusively at Selfridges): Rosie Huntington-Whiteley wears dress, 3,235; bra, 440, both Louis Vuitton. Styled
by Carine Roitfeld. See Stockists for details. Hair by Guillaume Brard. Make-up by Tom Pecheux. Manicure by Anatole Rainey. Photograph by Anthony Maule

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FRESH
PERSPECTIVES
Welcome to the March issue, which reects the latest season in
fashion, as well as fresh ideas and new ways of looking at our world.
Consider our cover star, Kate Winslet, one of Bazaars favourite
actresses, who we have featured several times over the past decade
at different stages of her life and career. On this occasion, Winslet
discusses her return to work after the birth of her third child a
balancing act that seems to be suiting her, as our interview and pictures reveal (page 260). That the shoot took place on a windswept
English beach near her farmhouse home, rather than in a Malibu
mansion on a golden Californian shore, tells you something about
where her heart lies.
As for Bazaars own heartfelt commitments: our
ongoing relationship with the V&A continues this
month with a shoot at the museum inspired by its
forthcoming exhibition, Alexander McQueen:
Savage Beauty (page 292). We also remain true
to our motto, Thinking Fashion, by giving a
thoughtful context and depth to the glossy surfaces
of the latest collections. Hence a wide-ranging
interview with the legendary designer Giorgio
Armani, on the 40th anniversary of his remarkable
brand, which explores his personal story, from a
childhood shaped by the hardships and traumas of
World War II to era-dening collaborations with
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HECK, OLIVER HOLMS, GRAHAM WALSER/STUDIO 33.
SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

Left: Kate Winslet

(page 260). Below: the
Alexander McQueen
tribute A light that
never goes out (page
292), shot at the V&A.
Bottom left: new-season
Armani (page 330)

1,465
Alexander
McQueen

From a
selection
Chanel

EDITORS
PICKS

2,800
Dior

If we are what we wear, then

Ill be in Alexander McQueen
to celebrate the launch of
Savage Beauty at the V&A,
and Erdem in honour of the
designers rst London
shop, which opens
this spring.

430
Dior
840
Erdem

675
Alexander
McQueen

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modern Hollywood (page 330). Elsewhere in the issue, we meet

Clare Waight Keller, the creative director of Chlo (page 340), and
report from the front row on the latest manifestation of the potent
Chanel myth (page 314); while a spirit of adventure is reected in
the glorious fashion story shot alongside the wild
horses of a Colorado range (page 274).
Our regular At Work section returns this month,
with a wealth of ideas and suggestions for busy professional women (page 211); and our expert fashion team
also provides a carefully curated edit of the most beautifully wearable investment pieces from the S/S 15
shows (page 147). Anyone exasperated by the wilder
excesses of make-up trends should nd solace in
Bazaars beauty pages; in this issue, youll nd a naturally attering guide to skincare and cosmetics, along
with trustworthy advice from Newby Hands (our
fabled beauty guru).
S/S 15 fashion, from
Finally, dont miss our coverage of travel and the
above: A light that
arts,
which we hope will provide inspiration in these
never goes out (page
last dreary days of winter, just before spring returns.
292). Spring clean
(page 180)
Bazaar wears its intelligence lightly, observed one
of our readers to me recently, and thats what makes
the magazine feel like such a good friend. This was immensely
cheering to hear; because truly, were not here to scold or lecture, but
to be by your side, encouraging your ambitions, celebrating your
successes, sharing your hopes and dreams

Justine Picardie
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Fashion in this issue

of Bazaar, from top:
Wild country (page
274). Earth, wind
and re (page 318)

CONTRIBUTORS

The journalist and Newsnight

presenter tells us about her
working life on page 212.
Born in Canada, Maitlis
grew up in England, worked
in Cambodia and China, and
is now based in London. She
will be covering the twists
and turns of the election for
the BBC. Maitlis is married
with two children and
speaks ve languages.
Your spring highlight

I hate spring; its a real tease.

It heralds the promise of
so many good things but
always fails to deliver.
What makes you skip for
joy? Warm sun, and my rst

dip in the Serpentine.

Extolling the joys of

Hampstead Theatre (page
234) comes naturally to the
writer, who is on the board
of directors there. She wrote
a collection of poems aged
nine, and has since written
six books; her latest, The
Small Hours (7.99, Virago),
is out now. Boyt has also
published a memoir,
My Judy Garland Life,
and writes a column for
the Financial Times.
Your shower song Lately
by Stevie Wonder.
What makes you skip with
joy? Strong coffee, apple

blossom and brilliant jokes.

What makes you feel
glamorous? Dresses lined

with silk; New York piano

bars; high praise; roses;
breakfast in bed in hotels.
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TRENT MCGINN, GETTY IMAGES, CAMERA PRESS, COURTESY OF AVRIL MAIR

As Bazaars fashion director,

Mair is a front-row xture
at the shows; she reports
on the Chanel Mtiers dArt
14/15 in Salzburg on page
314. Mair worked as a
consultant at Chanel and
edited i-D and Elle Collections
before joining Bazaar ; last
year she was named
Communicator
of the Year at the Scottish
Fashion Awards.
A former model, now
accessories designer,
Ocleppo shows us around
her Miami beach house on
page 161. Scouted as a model
while still in her mid-teens,
Ocleppo signed with Ford
and moved to Paris, where
she discovered her love
of travel. Married to
Tommy Hilger,
Ocleppo is not
only a muse to his
all-American brand
but also a successful
accessories
designer; Harrods
stocks her colourful
handbags. She also
campaigns for
autism awareness.
Favourite spring
ower Hyacinth.
What makes you
skip for joy? A

beautiful beach with

no one else on it.
Hell is a state
of mind.
Heaven is waking
up each morning
next to my husband.

What do you most look

forward to about spring?

New shoes, of course!

What makes you skip for
joy? The anticipation of two

weeks at our family house in

Puglia it keeps me going
through fashion month.
What makes you feel
glamorous? Diamonds

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In this issue, Bazaar

za r s dep
e utty
editor writes in the At Work
section about the pitfalls
of ofces full of men (page
214). After working at such
male bastions as The Times
and Christies auctioneers,
she realises she is much
happier among women
in the world of fashion.
Your spring highlight

The light, the warmth,

chicks and Easter eggs.

of the hairdresser when

Louise Galvin has just
done my colour.
Hell is difcult decisions.
Heaven is making the
right ones.

London and Paris are both

home for the creative
director of Joseph, who
explains her working life
on page 216. The Laing Art
Gallery bought Trotters
graduate clothes collection
in its entirety; she used the
money to travel around
Europe. Trotter worked in
New York for Calvin
Klein and Gap, and in
London for Jigsaw, then
joined Joseph in 2009.
The Newcastle-born
designer is widely
credited with
re-energising the
brand, which is now
among the key players
in international fashion.
Birthdays: my three
children were all born
in March and April.

Raised between England,

Greece and America,
Gilmour was discovered as
a model at the age of 16.
She soon realised that her
heart lay on the other side
of the camera, and took an
internship at Tank magazine.
Eight years later, her career
has come full circle: she
is now fashion editor of
Tank. The stylist selects her
sartorial hits for the season
in Spring clean (page 180).

Favourite spring
ower Cherry

Bluebells.

Your spring highlight

blossom. I have a tree

in my garden and it
brings long-awaited
colour after a cold
London winter.

For March Bazaar, the

Sudanese supermodel
showcases spring fashion on
page 180. Fleeing Sudan in
the 1990s after the death of
her father, Bol found herself
in Kansas City, Missouri,
where she was scouted. She
moved to New York and got
her big break walking for
Givenchy in 2009. Bol has
since sashayed down the
catwalk for Armani, Lanvin
and Tom Ford.
Your spring highlight

The return of grass, owers

and leaves on the trees.
Hell is when you let others
get you down.
Heaven is when you
are comfortable with who
you are.

Favourite spring ower

Spring-cleaning method

Avoid it at all costs.

Heaven is lying on the
roof of our home in Greece
with a glass of wine.
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of the sale, and friend of the late star,
Jon King. The evening will be fuelled
by champagne and popcorn.
Tickets cost 20 and include a 12-month
subscription to Bazaar and a goodie bag.

Champagne
and gift
bag

R U B E N S A N D H I S L E G ACY
Enjoy evening entry to see the
Flemish artist Rubens paintings
at the Royal Academy
on Friday 27 February,
Supper in
plus supper and a talk.
the Grand
Tickets cost 40 and
Caf
include a gift bag
and Bazaar subscription.

Premium
play tickets

MEET NEWBY HANDS

THE PLAY S THE THING

Head to Selfridges in London on 26 February

and in Manchester Exchange Square on 5 March
for champagne and canaps with Bazaars
beauty director-at-large Newby Hands,
as she unlocks the secrets of Este Lauders
original super-cream, Re-Nutriv. Tickets
cost 40, and include a Bazaar subscription
and an Este Lauder gift bag.

Join us on the night of 26 March to

launch the Hampstead Theatres Page
to Stage festival, with a performance of
Stevie, Hugh Whitemores play about
poet Stevie Smith, and a pre-show
conversation with Bazaar editor-in-chief
Justine Picardie. Tickets cost 45,
including a Bazaar subscription.

All ticket prices include a 12-month subscription to BAZAAR*

FO R MO R E INFO RMAT IO N AND TO B O O K , VIS IT

HARPERSBAZAAR.CO.UK/ VIPEVENTS

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Goodie bag
included







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Edited by AVRIL MAIR

THINGS
WE LOVE

The new seasons key lookss

Photographs by ROKAS DARUL

LIS
Styled by LINH LY

SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

THE
WAIST
Dont be scared of this
seasons erogenous zone
it doesnt need to involve
a crop top. A waist-dening
belt should top your
S/S 15 shopping list.
Nappa leather coat, 3,215; taffeta and
silk top, 715; brocade and silk skirt, 690;
tweed belt, 185, all Miu Miu

STYLE

OVERSIZE
TA I LO R I N G
Note the shift in proportion as classics
get a modern remix this season. Look
for masculine tailoring if not actually
man-sized, make it loose and slouchy.
Silk camisole, 218 La Perla.
Wool jacket, 2,500 Balmain

TR

S
P
AR

ENCY

Look at this as an arresting evening

option, even if you thought you couldnt
leave the house in anything sheer.
The key word here: layering.

www.harpersbazaar.co.uk

SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

Organza skirt, about 1,800 Fendi.

Platinum and diamond bracelet,
from a selection Chatila

STYLE

THE
1970s
S ATC H E L
If buying into the seasons
haute-hippie maximalism
doesnt appeal, a suede
1970s-inspired satchel
offers a knowing nod
to the trend.
Suede shoulder bag,
1,200 Gucci

SUMMER
L E AT H E R

SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

Pale leather or suede is the

seasons fast track to luxury.
A butter-soft skirt manages
to be both decadent and
utterly, convincingly chic.

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r ersbazaar.co.uk

Cotton mix top, 360; leather

skirt; 2,250, both Tods

 
  

 






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THE
PENCIL
SKIRT
Feminine elegance with an
unexpected jolt: the seasons
graphic monochrome prints
give edge to this style staple.
Cotton shirt, 350; lace skirt,
480, both Boss

THE
L ADYLIKE
BAG
Consider the seasons explosion of
tie-dye, patchwork, cheesecloth,
chiffon, fringe and feathers.
Now look at this. Feel better?

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SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

Crocodile-skin bag, from a

selection Prada. Diamond bezel
watch, 15,000 Breguet

STYLE

THE
TUNIC
TOP
Rejoice!
Fo
or the t uniic top is back,
worn to best effect over a
narrow trouser. Buy now,
breathe a sigh of relief, wearr
non-stop through to autumn
n.

www.harp
rppersbazaar.co.uk

SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

Silk top, about 1,300; silk

trouse
ers, abo
out 750
0,
both Cline

STYLE

DRE
SS

Sometim
mes, just
sometimess, it doesnt
have to be black
k. Fast-forward
your look in
nto spring by
swapping a trr usty LBD for
something cleean and serene.
Viscose dress, 362
Bellstaff
ff

THE
F L AT S
And for yet another season,
the high heel is a mere style
footno
ote. Be inspirred by
Valentino and pair everything
with gladiator sandals.
Leather sandals, 745
Valentino Garavani

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| March 20015

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AT LMC WORLDWIDE, USING CHANEL S 2015 AND BODY EXCELLENCE HAND CREAM. STYLISTS ASSISTANT: LUCY KEBBELL. MODEL: JOSEFIN GUSTAFSSON AT IMG LONDON

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MY
MOODBOARD
Frid
da Gianninis latest collection
for Gucci was a look back at
a mo
ore decadent era
It wass in the elegance and opulence of the
1970ss that Guccis creative director Frida
Giannini found her inspiration for S/S 15.
The designer looked to iconic actresses
of thee decade, from Jane Birkin to
Jaane Fonda, as her starting point. This
co
ollection is about a chic and stylish woman
with an ecccentric spirit, she says. I took
in
nspiration from style icons who brought
to
ogether sophistication and magnicent
exx travagance. Denim was key appearing on
military jackets, wide-leg trousers and
patchwork dresses while Ali MacGraws
timeless style was reected in knee-length
cottton tunic dresses. The glamour of the
decadee was echoed in the richness of a
scarlet suede dress and antique Japanese
silks, while Jimi Hendrixs inuence was
felt in jaackets adorned with gold bullion
buttonss. I looked at irreverent ways of
wearingg the military wardrobe, says
Giannini. It was important for there to be
a three-d
dimensional element, achieved in the
juxx tapositiion of fur, leather and embroidery.

Above: Gucci designer

Frida Gianninis
S/S 15 moodboard.
Right: looks from
the collection

MOODBOARD COURTESY OF GUCCI. PHOTOGRAPHS: IMAXTREE

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6,600
Mikimoto

EDITORS
PICK S

2,635
Bottega
Veneta

1,950, Dior

Bazaars fashion experts select

Bazaar
their favourite trends and pieces
from the S/S 15 shows

2,400
Giorgio
Armani

CARD

US

3,700
Dior

IE

TINE

PI

J
THE
INSPIRATION
E D I TO R IN-CHIEF

Grace Kelly (right)

remains the icon
for timeless style.
Always elegant,
never overstated.

The most versatile

e
ile
clothes
the ones I
l
truly
love that lastt
r
a lifetime,
rather
i i
t e
than a sseason
a o
tend not to make
a a
distinction
between
i t nc
t e n
day and evening,
or
v n , no
reect passing fads
a s.
As Chanel
n observed,
bev
Fashion passes;;
style
l remains.
e
n

ELEGANT
E
LEGANT
CL ASSICS
CLASSICS

375
Jimmy Choo

815
Giorgio
Armani

ILL
ACCESSORISE
WITH...

1,535
Chanel

pearls and
light-coloured
accessories, to put a
spring in my step.
2,115
Giorgio
Armani
465
Roger Vivier
www.harpersbazaar.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHS:
T
: CORBIS,, IMAXTREE,
X
, OL
OLIVER
V
H
HOLMS,
L
AC-COOPER.COM,
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AL
STUDIO 33.. SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

Clean
n lines, cool colo
ours
and a tiimeeless lookk

STYLISTS TIP
Try wearing
dove grey and
midnight blue,
rather than black.

From a
selection
Patek
Philippe

STYLE
1,100
Simone
Rocha
From a
selection
Chanel

430
Michael Kors
Ring, from
a selection
n
Ileana Makri

BL
L ACK
MAGIC
THE
INSPIRATION
The raw, powerful
beauty of
Peter Lindberghs
supermodels.

From a
selection
Dolce &
Gabbana

3,100
Saint Laurent
by Hedi
Slimane

Dark materials evoke

sophistication and drama

970
Edie Parker

ILL
ACCESSORISE
WITH...

AV R I

STYLISTS
TIP

MAIR

Theres a ne line
between elegant
and goth. Tone
down looks with
a crisp white shirt
or lace-up shoes.

a at shoe. Simone
Rocha has
convinced me that
an evening dress
and no heels is the
chicest thing.

FA S H I O N
D I R E C TO R

Black is always
in, as far as Im
concern
ned.
But th
his seeason,
luxe fab
briccs and
emb
belllish
hments
t urn nigght
into day.

554
Chanel

8,500
Chanel
From a
selection
Chanel

665
Louis Vuitton
About 1,810
Nina Ricci
685
Tabitha
Simmons

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From a
selection
Saint Laurent
by Hedi
Slimane

| March 2015

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From a
selection
Fendi

170
Paul Smith

540
Vanessa
Bruno

Wear ats with

wide-leg trousers or
a suede shirt-dress
that can work for
both day and night.

335
Milli Millu

SA
AVA
A NNAH
H
GLAM
MOUR

E
UG NI

HANM

Evoke the elegance of a de

desert
esertt
queen in sand and taupe

STYLISTS TIP

R
760
Michael Kors

E XECUTIVE
FA S H I O N
D I R EC TO R

This is a grown-up
approach to one of
summers favourite
trends: safari. Im
going to keep the
tones muted
which is a great
way to bring this
ok to
to the
the city.
cit y.
loo
look

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ONS, LE TOUQUET 1987 PETER LINDBERGH, WAYNE MASER/TRUN
NK
XTREE, OLIVER HOLMS,, AC-COOPER.COM,
.
, GRAHAM WALSE
L ER/
/STU
E STO
T
ARCHIVE, IMAXTREE,
UDIO
O 33.. SEE
OCKISTS FOR DETAILS
S

1,780
Akris

14,200
Tiffany & Co

THE
INSPIRATION
Sarajane Hoares
995
Paul Smith

safari-themed
1990s shoots
for US Bazaar.

1,475
Bottega
Veneta

ILL
ACCESSORISE
WITH...
Tiffany & Cos
simple gold chain
necklace and chic
sandals from Tods.

From a selection
Jaeger-LeCoultre
270
Tods
3,850
Ralph Lauren
Collection

STYLE

742
Maison Michel

Ring, 4,400
Robinson
Pelham
540
Sonia Rykiel

STYLISTS TIP

1,200, Mulberry
633
Dolce &
Gabbana

Dress up a lace
Hilger dress with
slick Stuart
Weitzman sandals
and black Dolce
& Gabbana
sunglasses.

FE
EMININE
WHITE
A laidback yet luxurious
look for summer

12,105
Diane Kordas

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S, IMAXTREE,
AC--COOPER.COM, GRAHA
AM WA
ALSER/STUD
D IO
33. SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

E-AN

159.20
Tommy
Hilger

O
E D R

LI

THE
INSPIRATION
E XECUTIVE
FA S H I O N A N D
J E WELLERY
D I R E C TO R

I love wearing
white in the
summer,, and
springs
i prairie
ra r
trend brings a
warm
r feminine
i i
touch to
an otherwise
minimal look.
o .

Jane Birkin (left) in

a classic T-shirt and
jeans in 1974. Its a
timeless look thats
still chic and modern.
219
Alexa Chung
for AG Jeans

1,470
Ermanno
Scervino

ILL
ACCESSORISE
WITH...

947
Just Cavalli
485
Herms

316
Stuart
Weitzman

smart sandals from

Herms; subtle
touches of luxury
keep the outt
grown-up.
www.harpersbazaar.co.uk

From a
selection
Audemars
Piguet

JU

1,795
Burberry
Prorsum

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205
Miu Miu at
David Clulow

1,550
Bally

TH C

L
AR

EI

Earrings,
3,675
Chanel

ILL
ACCESSORISE WITH...
a Chanel Fministe clutch;
theres nothing like wearing
your heart on your sleeve.
From a
selection
Chanel

STYLE
D I R E C TO R - AT- L A R G E

The sun
gets the glory in
the summertime,
but the starry
darkness is even
more beautiful;
dress to celebrate
its magic.

From a
selection
Rodarte

4,100
Marc Jacobs

THE
INSPIRATION
The night sky
and the moon-dewed
Stephanie Farrow on
the cover of Bazaar
in 1969 by Hiro.

Ring, 4,230
Messika

STYLISTS TIP
Try wearing
pastels and orals
in winter, and
navy and black
in summer.

2,795
Michael van
der Ham

Ligght up the night with a glamorous

com
mbination of sparkle and darkness

PHOTOGRAPHS: HIRO, IMAXTREE, COURTESY

OF LEITH CLARK, AC-COOPER.COM, GRAHAM
WALSER/STUDIO 33. SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

HAUTE
SHINE

455
Emporio
Armani

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2,540
Lanvin

| March 2015

375
Jimmy Choo

www.harpersbazaar.co.uk

From a
selection
Dolce &
Gabbana

 
 
 
   

STYLE
970
Louis Vuitton

NATUR A L
BEAUT
TY
Boyish charm inspired
by the great outdoors

2,480
Saint Laurent
by Hedi
Slimane

6,500
Tiffany & Co

ILL
ACCESSORISE
WITH...
a Rolex, Louis
Vuitton hiking
boots and a
Versace backpack.

239
Barbour

645
Coach

About
3,228
Versace

1,735
Saint Laurent
by Hedi
Slimane

COON

EY
THE
INSPIRATION

My shoot for Bazaar

on the Cornish
coast (above),
photographed
by Ben Weller.

ST YLIST

Im happiest
out in nature,
whether thats
on horseback,
swimming in the
ocean or hiking
the mountains at
home in Ireland.

695
Simone
Rocha

1,490
Ralph Lauren
Collection

215
AG Jeans

STYLISTS TIP

336
La Perla

The De Beers
diamond hoops are
tough and subtle
enough to be worn
with anything
on this page.

975
Simone
Rocha

120
Ugg

1,100
De Beers

www.harpersbazaar.co.uk

144
La Perla

PHOTOGRAPHS: BEN WELLER, IMAXTREE, COURTESY

OF CELESTINE COONEY
Y, AC-COOPER.COM, GRAHA
AM
WALSER/
/STUDIO 33. SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

S
LE TI N

From a
selection
Rolex

  
     






 


STYLE

3,225
Salvatore
Ferragamo

4,200
Boodles

ALMO

IR

Add contemporary
touches to avoid it
looking like fancy
dress, and stick to
mid-calf lengths if
youre over 30.

A N DA

STYLISTS TIP

3,035
Chlo

2,800
Annoushka

SENIOR
CONTRIBUTING
FA S H I O N E D I TO
OR

I love thee ideaa

of the life a woman
might lead in
these cloth
hes.
There is a sense
of wild abaand
don,
a free spirit, a
devil-may
y-care
attitud
de.
2,500
Alberta
Ferretti

600
Casadei

ILL
ACCESSORISE
WITH...

THE
INSPIRATION
All those great female
musicians of the 1970s
Stevie Nicks, Nico and
Joni Mitchell (right).

SEVE
V NTIES
SO
OUL

850
Bally

PHOTOG
GRAPHS: GETTY IMAGES, IMAXTREE, COURTESY OF MIRANDA ALMOND,
AC-COO
OPER.COM, GRAHAM WALSER/STUDIO 33. SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

Bracelet, from
a sele
ection
Van Cleef
& Arpels

something fringed,
such as a dress
from Alberta
Ferretti or boots
from Casadei.

Carefree, staarry-eyyed hippie ch

hic
makes a stylish comeback
Cuff, 515
Salvatore
Ferragamo
2,505
Emilio Pucci
295
Maison Michel at
Matchesfashion.com
1,060
Etro

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| March 2015

1,235
Saint Laurent
by Hedi
Slimane

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Dee Ocleppo on the
patio of the home that
she shares with her
husband, Tommy
Hilger, wearing her
own dress from New
York Vintage and shoes

MY
LIFE,
MY
STYLE
The accessories designer
Dee Ocleppo embodies the
breezy glamour of her
Miami Beach home
By SASHA SLATER
Photographs by TRENT McGINN

www.harpersbazaar.co.uk

hen I rst see Dee Ocleppo,

Tommy Hilgers wife of six
years, shes barefoot in a
Stella McCartney wolf-print
T-shirt and black leggings, puzzling with a
party organiser and a secretary over a table
plan for a dinner shes hosting that evening.
Our second meeting is at that same dinner
in her extraordinary all-white Miami beachside home. She is polished to perfection in an
Azzedine Alaa mini-dress, hostess to some
80 guests including Elle Macpherson, Peter
Blake, Karolina Kurkova and Marc Quinn.
I spot her the next day, strolling in faded
jeans through the lobby of the 1940s Raleigh
Hotel on South Beach, which her husband
owns, looking every inch the culture-loving
urbanite dropping in on the Art Basel fair.
But I have also seen pictures of her posing

goddess-like on the Mustique shore by their

holiday home in a full-length owing gown.
Then there are the images of her as the
Martha Stewart-trained mother, presiding
over her own and Hilgers brood of seven
children (six from previous marriages and
one, Sebastian, aged ve, who is their son
together) in their grand Hamptons pile.
And, lest we forget, she also inhabits the
role of Manhattan tycoons wife from their
magnicent duplex in the Plaza Hotel
overlooking Central Park. In every setting,
she looks exactly right.
All of which leads me to conclude not
only that shes something of a chameleon,
but also that she is blessed with enviable

A Warhol-Basquiat
collaboration in
the dining-room

STYLE
Left: Ocleppo in the
dining-room. Right:
the sitting-room,
with a Jeff Koons
puppy on the
table. Below: silk
dress, 1,240,
Tommy Hilger

Above and right:

artworks by
Jeff Koons and
Andy Warhol

energy. Few women could keep up with

Hilgers peripatetic, high-achieving life.
But Ocleppo does just that, while inspiring
his stylish American aesthetic. He has said:
Every time we do a collection, I think about
what would look good on Dee, what she
would wear and how she would wear it.
She also designs her own range of luxurious
handbags, expertly crafted in Italy. Plus, she
raises money on behalf of a charity, Autism
Speaks, because both she and Hilger have
children who are affected by the disorder.
You might think she would be intimidating to meet. But when we chat in her white
sitting-room, opposite a large painting
created jointly by Warhol and Basquiat,
its blacks, pinks and reds
picked up in the swirls of the
carpet and in the sofa cushions, she is sunny, friendly
and approachable. As is
Hilger, off-duty billionaire
designer, the man who sold
the preppie look to the
world, now padding barefoot around the kitchen.

It is rare for a Miami house to have direct

access to the sea: most of the precious oceanfront locations are taken up by apartment
buildings or hotels. When I saw a picture
of this house, I was like, Wow! This is
incredible, Ocleppo says as she sips a muchneeded coffee. Along with the peerless view,
the other big attraction was the huge white
walls, which gave the couple scope to
display their collection of modern and contemporary art Warhol to Koons via Hirst,
Emin and Quinn. But, as Ocleppo says: In
Miami, we celebrate art every year. Its a big
part of Miami. This is a fun, hot town, and
the house is beautiful and sexy and vibrant.
The living space, arranged over two
oors, was designed for them by Martyn
Lawrence Bullard, who entered into their
spirit of playfulness. Guest bathrooms are
hung with scratch-n-sniff fruit wallpapers
(the banana and cherry ones have faded
somewhat, but the orange is going strong).
A giant disco ball reects a Tracey Emin
neon. The beach house is decorated with
surf boards. The raised ground oor contains the bar and kitchen, a long dining space
and an orange cinema-room with an Austin
Powers-worthy shag-pile carpet and squashy
sofas. It looks unbelievably decadent, but
Hilger sighs and says they just use it for
watching sport and childrens lms.
Upstairs, the couples bedroom has a
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yoga instructor on the beach. She

and her boys, then 10 and eight,
were invited on to Hilgers yacht.
I dressed them in their smartest
white shirts, and we went on board
and they had chicken ngers. By
summers end, the couple had made
an unexpected connection over
their shared experience of autism.
I would like to gure out why it happens and what causes it, and raise
awareness and money to deal with
it, Ocleppo says today. Hence the bag she
has designed jointly with Marc Quinn for
Autism Speaks, to be launched that night as
a curtain-raiser for Art Basel Miami Beach.
Ocleppo grew up on Rhode Island
and appears all-American, though she is
in fact half English (her mother comes
from Birmingham) and half Turkish. Her
family expected her to become a doctor,
but she studied communications in Dallas
before going to Paris
to model full-time.
However, at 22, she
felt weird because a
lot of the girls were

Huge white walls

and a peerless
view sold the
beach house to
the Hilgers

Top: the beach patio,

with a sculpture by
Keith Haring. Above:
the couples bedroom,
lined with photographs
of Marilyn Monroe
by Bert Stern

Left: Ocleppo
in the bedroom.
Right: a Tracey
Emin neon above
the bar

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raised bed covered with uffy white pelts

and matching rugs on the oor, and is hung
with prints from Bert Sterns last photoshoot with Marilyn Monroe. In pride of place
is a huge telescope. I asked my husband for
one and I imagined just a little thing we
could lean in the corner, and this arrived. Its
so Tommy. Its like a Hubble, the best telescope you could possibly buy. And now it just
sits here. Ill probably have to put it in storage, says Ocleppo, laughing. Leading off the
bedroom is her dressing-room, adorned with
pink, orange and red Louboutin and Manolo
Blahnik heels and platforms, and hung with
vintage Paco Rabanne mini-dresses. From
this treasure-trove she pulls out samples of
the S/S 15 Dee Ocleppo handbag collection,
designed with her own lifestyle in mind, in
bright, bold colours with removable rafa,
fox-fur or leather outer layers. Some are big
enough to hold sun lotions and towels for the
beach in St Barths; some are tiny, jewel-like
pieces on long chains,
to t your phone and
credit card just right
for a night out on the
Cte dAzur.
Appropriately, the
couple met in SaintTropez 10 years ago
when Ocleppo, then
living in Monaco, got
chatting to Hilgers

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much younger. Although I had a young face,
I was the odd man out. But the travel was
really interesting and the money was nice.
With it, she bought beautiful Azzedine Alaa
bodysuits, and I was obsessed by Stephane
Klian slingbacks.
These days she nds it hard to pinpoint
her personal style, maybe because the lives
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minute, prey the next. There is a bit
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story Sometimes its quite hard to say, You know
of models to follow, thats probably not the closest one
what? I dont really care about Jonathan Ross and
to my heart. When a subject is weak, and the interview
Russell Brand leaving that phone message. I actually
becomes a matter of punching a rubber band, theres
didnt care about that at all. Shes referring to the badsimply no point. But she will be adversarial when she
joke-gone-wrong voicemail that the pair left for the actor
needs to be, and relishes the drama. Most important of
Andrew Sachs, for which they were both made to leave
all, she listens.
the BBC. Or MPs expenses. I dont think that buying a
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Maitlis began her career completely by chance in Hong Kong,

where she went after university. She wasnt especially political at the
time. Her third year at Cambridge, where she read English, was
spent immersed in Dante, and the outside world passed her by. Hong
Kong in the early 1990s a few years before the transfer from
British to Chinese control in 1997 was a revelation. She
began working for a local radio station, then became
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moment she fell in love with the politics: it was
so big, it was so all-consuming. We just talked
about it the whole time, we talked about China,
we talked about democracy.
When she returned to the UK, the ascent
began: Sky News, BBC London, until she nally
joined Newsnight in 2006, where she has remained
ever since. She never felt discriminated against, and
was lucky in that regard. There have always been a lot of
women on screen for obvious reasons, she says. I think it will be
radical when the system changes right through the top of the
industry and right through the most substantial jobs. And theres
still a way to go on that front.
Politics remains her true love. Not just the personalities, the
issues, the arguments, but the numbers: electoral statistics. This
sounds really spoddy, she says, and its certainly not what you
expect. But Maitlis laps up this stuff the marginal seats, the potential swings, the seats that might fall. If youre a psephological bore
and theres a Clacton by-election, its, Oh my God, Im not going to
sleep for weeks. Its a bit weird.
But then, we are in strange times: a
general election just months away whose
outcome no one can predict. There could
be a coalition of two parties, three or four.
Ukip might make signicant gains, the
Lib Dems suffer a total collapse. Its
unprecedentedly complicated, she says.
There are so many unknowns, there are
so many rumblings.
Maitlis herself will be on air for the
marathon, as she calls it: an all-night
BBC broadcast covering every seat, every
result, every forlorn losers speech and
st-pumping celebration. Her role, as it was last time round in 2010,
is to wrestle with the interactive map, spotting trends, analysing
results. Hence the statistical deep-dive. She has to be uent in the
minutiae and has been following demographic trends for months.
The presenting team are allowed into the studio to practise 10 days
before the night itself; at which point, she predicts, she will be both
wildly excited and absolutely terried. Its the ultimate live show: a
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like having this little voice in your ear

repeating on a loop, Dont fuck up, dont
fuck up, she says. Last time, she got
home the evening after the election to be
confronted by one of her two young sons
screaming. She was so exhausted that she
couldnt speak, so she picked him up, put
him in the garden and shut the door. I
then realised he hadnt got any shoes on,
so I opened the door, threw the trainers
out after him and shut the door again.
A combination of live television and young children is a tough
gig. Balance, she says, comes over the course of the year; you never
feel it day to day, especially when youre away on these trips and you
miss the football match. But unusual hours mean that she gets time
at home too. And her sons are now at the age when they are starting
to understand what she does, and they get a kick out of it. Recently,
Maitlis took them to the cinema to see the third instalment of the
Hunger Games movies. Her eldest turned round
when the lm nished and asked her if what she did
was similar to the deeds of Katniss, the erce
warrior heroine played by Jennifer Lawrence.
Maitlis, delighted, couldnt resist. More or less, she
replied. I dont always take the bow and arrow, but
yes, its pretty close.
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Italian while interning at Christies auctioneers. My boss was a
charming and debonair 28-year-old Parisian. I promptly fell wildly
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professional relationships with them.
in the building, that year certainly
I have no problem working with men
enthused me for a life of work, and I
as colleagues and equals, but theres
was anxious to nish university and
something about the balance of power
get back into the real world.
between me and a male superior that
Celebrating the differences between
But neither at Christies on King
I have, in the past, found uncomfortthe sexes is key to success
Street, nor at The Times, nor in any
able. No wonder Im happier working
of the predominantly male ofces I
By SASHA SLATER
at a fashion magazine where the staff
worked in subsequently, were there
is overwhelmingly made up of intelany handsome young Frenchmen to
ligent women. I know my way round
spark my interest. And I fear that my early, chaste
them; I know how they tick.
workplace romance left me confused about
This is, necessarily, limiting. Victoria Moore, who,
male bosses and how to build constructive,
as The Daily Telegraphs wine correspondent and
author of How to Drink, operates in the bonhomous
world of alcohol, suggests I rethink my attitude. I
have always found men incredibly straightforward,
295
she says. You can be very direct and very factual,
Alexander
McQueen
and you dont have to make as much effort to have
790
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women. So theres less room for it to go wrong. However, even she

nds the men trickier to deal with in the wine-growing regions of

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South Africa and Lebanon, where macho cultures make life
more complicated: If I were better at being
irty, we would have a
irty,
male-female relationship that they would
nd easier. At work I am
nd
gender-neutral and I think they nd that hard.
I dont operate in such red-blooded countries, so perhaps I can
afford to relax. Am I imagining subtexts and creating complications
where none exist? I ask Tamara Oppenheimer, a barrister who works
in the oak-panelled world of chambers and law courts, how she deals
with men literally sitting in judgement on her. I have two older
brothers, so I dont think Im intimidated intellectually by men, she
offers. I understand that teasing and banter arent hostile. A day in
court can be raw and you need a thick skin, so women in my profession have to be robust. Once I got upset at a judge who was furious
and shouting at me. I had that horrible reaction of becoming tearful
because that was how my anger
manifested itself. On that occa1,590
sion I denitely felt disadvantaged
Victoria
Beckham
by being female I just couldnt
deal with how the judge was
bullying me. But generally, as a
profession, its civilised.
In a world in which late hours
and weekend working are the
norm, she balances the demands
of her career and her family with
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later than my colleagues because
Ive taken my children to school,
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at your job, however you manage
your time, thats all that matters.
Tellingly, she too views her colleagues as gender-neutral and, as
she is self-employed, Im in a place
where I can choose to work with

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30 countries alongside her
husband Clive Humby.
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the trend-analysis business
Starcount and chair of Your
Life, a campaign that aims to
encourage children to study
maths and physics. Here are
her tips for working with men:
1 Look smart you have to
feel good in what you wear
but be comfortable so you
stop thinking about what
youre wearing. Looking
casual may put you at a
psychological disadvantage.
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saying by a third make
every word count.
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rst

rst and then, if necessary,

explain how you got there.
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and direct, and cut out the
frills that you might think are
fun and amusing. If you
dont enjoy the same things
as your audience, details can
be alienating, not bonding.
5 Know your objectives
and never lose sight of them.
6 Listen more than you talk.
Its a sign of respect and
intelligence to listen.

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nature of my job, and the
fact that life and work ow
(hopefully) seamlessly into
each other, overlapping and
merging. I would nd it hard to
view any colleague as neither
man nor woman. To me, what
makes an ofce interesting are
the talents and nuances of the
people you work with and
the quality of what you create
together. I dont want to be
indifferent to peoples sex. That
would be as alien to me as being
oblivious to any of their other
characteristics or quirks. Edwina Dunn, who,
as the co-founder of a data-analysis business
2,190
(which she and her husband subsequently sold
Tom Ford
to Tesco, netting 93 million), has worked with
large numbers of men in the worlds of science
and technology, agrees with me: You have to celebrate your differences and embrace them, she says. I cant ignore gender differences
for a start, I work with my husband. In fact, the real key to success
in a male world is to nd
nd out how men think and how that is different
from what youre thinking. Only then can you work out effective
communication. I dont think neutrality exists and nor should it.
Perhaps, then, theres no need for me to rethink my approach to
male bosses once Ive banished any thoughts of Rome.
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Louise Trotters
husband Yuske and
daughter Gaia

THE ORDER
OF THINGS

The creative director of Joseph, Louise Trotter,

on nding calm amid artistic chaos
By LUCY HALFHEAD
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Trotter in her
Paris apartment
wearing Joseph

I love the organic

design of this
Tom Dixon bowl
it holds all of my
pens and pencils.

MY

s a mother of three and creative director of Joseph the

British label known for its sophisticated wardrobe staples Louise
Trotter divides her time between her London ofce and the Joseph
atelier in Paris, where she meets with the design development team.
Located in the historic Institut Marc
Sangnier in the heart of Saint Germain,
and featuring a glass dome constructed
by Gustave Eiffel, Trotters open-plan
workspace reects her own pared-down
aesthetic. When Joseph Ettedgui
brought Joseph to this space, the entire
interior was designed by Christian
Liaigre, a leader in Parisian minimalism,
she explains. Im a neat person, but
invariably my desk gets very untidy
during collection periods. Despite the
disorder, I still know where everything is
I like to think of it as organised mess.
And after every season I purge. A clear
desk is a fresh beginning, which is the
way I see every collection too.

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Im surrrounded by
books. T
This season
we took iinspiration
from Sean Scully for
print and colour
our.

Desk essentials: An
Anglepoise lamp,
an old-school roller
le, a leather mouse
pad, scissors and a
stapler by Michael
Sodeau, and a Tom
Dixon candle.

After every
season I purge.
A clear desk is a
fresh beginning

Fabric swatches on

Above left and

right: the S/S 15
collection

the walls get cleared

every season, but
a few weave their
identity through
every collection.

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JULIA
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VICTORIA
SIDDALL

Co-director, Serpentine Gallery

Although much progress has been
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Its only a mans world if you choose
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in the world have been founded by
women, and women are putting
together extraordinary collections.
Some of the most interesting artists
are female, and this is starting to be
reected in the market a
painting by Georgia OKeeffe
sold for more than $44 million
recently, a record for a female
artist at auction. Its true, there
is some way to go towards
equality, and auctions are still
dominated by male artists
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were moving
in the right
direction.

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A chef s world isnt really a mans
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TA M A R A B O X
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board (www.cruk.com/woi)
Theres never been a better time
to be a woman in a mans world.
In my mothers generation,
a woman had to behave like a
man to succeed, but today we
know that diversity of thought
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business. By embracing not
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organisations, and improve
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Warmth, friendliness, commu
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skills and humour sit well alo
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commercial acumen, decisiveneess and
authoritative leadership skillls, but
those attributes can belong to both
women and men. Its the mix that
makes it interesting. Find or creaate
some common ground, respect
each other, work hard and havve
fun thats what makes a greaat
team and achieves great results.
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featured overleaf

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Could there be a more glamorous

subject for a photography book than
the haute couture of Christian Dior?
Shot by Patrick Demarchelier, the title
pays homage to the glorious dresses
made in the atelier since 1947. From
the era-dening gowns of Mr Dior
to the modernity of Raf Simons
current creations, New Couture brings
their beauty to life. AVRIL MAIR
Dior: New Couture by Patrick
Demarchelier (70, Rizzoli)
is out now.

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RENAISSANCE
WOMAN
She inspired Lena Dunham,
won a prize for her debut lm at Cannes
and now shes written her rst novel.
Who is Miranda July?
By AJESH PATALAY

he day before I meet Miranda July I get a text from a friend

with breaking news: the American rock band SleaterKinney, part of the feminist riot grrrl movement, have
re-formed after 10 years and released their rst video online. This is
a big deal, apparently, and it says a lot about the circles July moves in
that she was approached to make the bands comeback video.
July is quick to dispel any mystique. [They] only asked me last
Thursday, she says when we meet for brunch near
her home in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. These
eleventh-hour requests are not uncommon. Its
usually desperate friends thinking, Who can we
get for free? So I said Id do something with my
mask. July is referring to an old-man mask (a prop
from a forthcoming performance piece) that she
sports in the video while gyrating to punk rock.
Ive seen comments online, she warns. Most of
them are like, We waited 10 years for this?! This
is Julys stock-in-trade: bewilderment, bathos
and a veil of amateurishness.
The reason for our interview is her debut novel, The First Bad Man,
of which bewilderment and bathos are dening characteristics.
Given how prolic the 40-year-old is as a writer of short stories and
non-ction, a performance artist and lm-maker, whose feature debut
Me and You and Everyone We Know won the Camra DOr at Cannes
in 2005 it seems remarkable that this is her rst novel. But she was
daunted by the form. My short stories
were more or less there in the rst
draft, she says. There was a heartpumping feeling of urgency. You
cant write a novel in a brilliant
burst. It takes days of trudging.
I was like, I dont understand, Im a
bad writer now. Luckily, she adds,
I had an idea to see me through.
The book centres on two women,
Cheryl, a middle-aged loner, and

Miranda July.
Below: in the 2005
lm Me and You and
Everyone We Know

Clee, a teenage tearaway, who forge an unlikely

bond.Sex(sometimesweirdlygraphic),misogyny
and motherhood feature in a tale that makes a
number of odd turns. The parts I love are the more
far-fetched, July says. Its where I feel more honest.
The novel raises interesting questions. About
motherhood, for instance. I wrote the rst draft
while I was pregnant, says July, whose son,
Hopper, was born in February 2012. (Julys
husband is the lm-maker Mike Mills, known for
Beginners, starring Ewan McGregor.) Due to
complications in the nal stages of her pregnancy, July was told
to rest and had to turn in an incomplete rst draft. I wrote to my
editor saying, Im having a baby, so Ill esh out that stuff [about
mothering] afterwards. She nished the novel when Hopper was
two. I was in an altered state, which is very creative. Now Im like, I
dont plan to have another child, so how will I write another book?
Among her early readers was the actress and author Lena
Dunham, who sent thoughtful notes (is Cheryl masturbating to
these fantasies because you never say? being one). Dunham has also
become a sounding board as a fellow director. Watching Lena direct
her show healed some things for me, says July, whose last lm, The
Future, was fraught with difculty. You need to see other women in
the job. Its ironic because Julys rst lm spurred Dunham on in high
school; a case of mutual inspiration, or, as July puts it: Im going to
shine out this light. Someone reect it back so I can keep going.
The First Bad Man by Miranda July (14.99, Canongate) is published
on 19 February.

The parts I love

are the more
far-fetched. Its
where I feel
more honest

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Works by Jens
Wolf, left, from
top: 12.30.
11.09

ART

SW IRL S AND S T R O K E S
The Berlin-based artist Jens Wolf
takes his inspiration from
20th-century abstraction and the
works of Josef Albers and Frank
Stella. His rst UK solo exhibition
offers a chance to inspect his bold
geometric paintings on plywood.
Jens Wolf is at the Ronchini
Gallery (www.ronchinigallery.com)
from 13 March to 5 April.

Jens Wolf s
13.19
(above) and
10.13 (left)

ART

WOMEN AT WORK

Monique by
Bridget Davies

Three new exhibitions celebrate the singular talents of female artists. The Hepworth
Wakeeld plays host to a retrospective of the American feminist icon Lynda Benglis,
from 6 February until 5 July. A series of sombre portraits is on display in Alex Katz: Black
Paintings at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in Mayfair, London (4 March to 2 April). And an
exhibition of 30 contemporary female artists depicting the female form will be
showcased at the Mall Galleries in central London from 9 to 14 February; then at the
Downland Jerwood Gridshell in West Sussex from 25 April to 3 May. AJESH PATALAY
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Above: 09.58 by Jens

Wolf. Below, clockwise
from top: his 09.07.
11.72. 09.57

Left: Charleston,
shot by Harry Cory
Wright for Bazaar.
Below: Virginia
Woolf with John
Lehmann at the
house in 1931.
Background: a detail
from Charleston

hat is it about sisters that fascinates us? The intimacy,

the secrets, the rivalry? A century on, there are none
more intriguing than the Stephen sisters, who in later
life became Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. Renowned as much for
their tangled and intense love for each other as for their talents as a
painter and a writer, they are also famed as the founders and epicentre
of the great bohemian set of the
early 20th century, the Bloomsbury Group, which included John
Maynard Keynes, EM Forster and
BOOKS
Lytton Strachey.
It was in 1905 that the Bloomsbury Group rst began its series of
Thursday-night salons, in which
a group of Cambridge graduates
would meet at the sisters London
home to discuss art, literature and
poetry, initiating a conversation
and inspiring works that would
the set, the book portrays Virginia
Two contrasting tales chart the powerful,
dene their generation. This
as troubled from a young age,
enduring tale of the siblings and
difcult and unpredictable. At
turbulent bond between bohemian
their creative friends forms the
the heart of the novel is Virginias
siblings Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
basis for two new books: Vanessa
obsession with her sister; at all
and Her Sister by Priya Parmar and
times adoring, though sometimes
By SAM BAKER
Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf
callous and even occasionally
by Norah Vincent. Both writers
hinting at the sexual.
return to what Dorothy Parker
Adeline, however, is a very difffamously called the story of those who lived in squares, painted in erent representation of the Stephen women. The book introduces us
circles and loved in triangles. (A BBC drama called Life in Squares to a more mature, established pair. Virginias reliance on Vanessa is
will cover similar territory when it airs this spring.)
replaced by the loyalty of her husband, Leonard Woolf, although
Parmars work centres on the affairs and gossip that have come her obsession with her sister remains: Nessa is her blood, beautiful,
to characterise the group. Somewhere between Downton Abbey and adored and inextricably grafted to Virginias soul.
Keeping Up With the Kardashians, this provides enough scandal
The interior monologues of Virginia and Leonard lead the
and family drama to keep the pages turning. Employing a mix narrative, exploring the pain that Virginias increasingly fragile state
of Vanessas diary entries and correspondence between members of of mind inicts on them both, especially when Virginia starts talking
to a gment of her imagination called Adeline, a version of herself
as a girl. This is not the story of Londons scandalous creative elite,
but the painful torment of a troubled mind.
It is also worth noting that Adeline pays tribute to Woolf in its
writing style, echoing her signature prose and nodding to the stream
of consciousness that became Woolf s contribution to modernist
literature. For Woolf devotees, it is this legacy that is likely to outlive
any scandal associated with the novelists life.
Vanessa and Her Sister (12.99, Bloomsbury) is published on 12 February.
Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf (14.99, Virago) is published on
2 April.
Above: the lounge

THE ART OF
SISTERHOOD

at Charleston,
photographed by Harry
Cory Wright. Right:
Self Portrait circa 1915
by Vanessa Bell

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men, who hung on to their lives in the

hills as history moved against them.
Hill-stations shot up all over India
in Victorian times. With their country
lanes, their ower shows and mockTudor bungalows, towns such as
Darjeeling and Ooty were England in
a nutshell: the perfect retreat for
homesick Brits during the hot season.
But Simla, where my series is set
was considered the queen of hillstations. Between March and October,
the government of India made Simla
its summer capital. From this little
patch of Surrey, over a mile above
PAUL RUTMAN on the relics
the plains, a handful of men ruled an
of Old England in India that inspired
entire subcontinent.
The work of government ploughed
his new drama series
on amid a frantic calendar of sports,
dances, husband-hunting, amateur
here were three of them: faded empire men, hanging about dramatics and lashings of milk punch. But not everyone responded
in blazers and old school ties. They were born in the days to the towns Tudorbethan charms. Edwin Lutyens, the architect
of the British Raj, in the South Indian hill-station of of New Delhi, said of its centrepiece, Viceregal Lodge: If one were
told that monkeys had built it, one could only respond, What wonOotacamund, and here they were still.
They had made a living growing coffee, before retiring to breed derful monkeys; but they must be shot in case they do it again.
This was Old England Disneyed: summer residents gossiped
horses. They rarely went in to town nowadays. They didnt recogover tea and ices at Pelitis, shopped from the
nise Ooty any more, they said; it was no better
Army & Navy catalogue and were hauled up and
than a sewer. I was just out of university, and had
down the slopes from the Mall to the Club by
a job teaching drama at a school in the same
thousands of rickshaw wallahs, dirt-poor under
valley. The headmaster drafted me in to meet
their liveried coats. Local languages were disthe men, on the grounds we were all British.
couraged; Indian nationalism was swept from
As far as I was concerned, they might have
view. Nevertheless, it was here in 1947, in this
come from the moon. I doubt I said one
most British of follies, that the last Viceroy Lord
word. We may have shaken hands.
Mountbatten negotiated the end of empire.
That was more than 20 years ago. Those old
Since independence, Simlas population has
men were dinosaurs, the last of that breed
grown ve times over. Tourists ock there
of Brits who stayed on after Indian indepenfrom the cities, drawn
dence because, in the end,
by the same champagne
this was the only home
Aysha Kala and
air. We decided in the
they had.
Roshan Seth in
end to recreate 1930s
Indian Summers
When I sat down to
Simla on Penang Hill
write the new Channel 4
in Malaysia, another old
10-episode drama series
retreat for homesick
Indian Summers, I remimperial Brits. Yet even
embered that encounter.
my mother-in-law, the
The show is set in the
daughter of a Raj-era
Himalayan hill-station of
Indian civil servant, admits
Simla in the summer
that the atmosphere is
of 1932. Its a saga about
uncannily similar.
the dying days of the
empire; the story of
Indian Summers airs on
people like those three old
Channel 4 in mid-February.

CLINGING
TO
EMPIRE

PHOTOGRAPHS: GETTY IMAGES, JUSTIN CREEDY SMITH/CAMERA PRESS

Towns such
as Darjeeling
and Ooty were
England in
a nutshell

TALKING POINTS

Above: a painting
by Molly Parkin,
who features in the
Selfridges Bright
Old Things scheme

MY CULTURAL LIFE

EXHIBITION

Top: a painting by
Roger Miles.
Above: a proposed
window design by
Den Woods

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Their wares are on sale
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1 March (www.selfridges.
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Above: a proposal
for a window
display by Molly
Parkin. Clockwise
from below: three
of her paintings

CHR IST I A N
LOU BOU T I N
First record bought The soundtrack for
the musical lm Peau dAne, sung by Jean
Marais and Catherine Deneuve.
Book that changed your life A Lovers
Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes.
It helped me through a difficult time when
I was a teenager by making me realise
everyone suffers in love.
Most loved fairy tale Cinderella. But I also
love Pinocchio the wood-carver reminds
me of my father, a cabinet-maker.
Would sing with Marlene Dietrich on
my right and Marilyn Monroe on my left.
Favourite destination I love everything
about Cuba. I go every year.
Money or sex Sex, I guess.
Minimalist or maximalist Not
minimalist, please.
Style icon Queen Nefertiti.
Artwork you would appear in A
Caravaggio but Id be better in a Picasso.
Most proud of my integrity.
Fancy-dress theme Maharajas. Girls
want to be princesses; guys want
to be maharajas.
Would like to meet Ryszard Kapuscinski
when he was alive. He was a Polish
journalist and a fabulous storyteller.
People are surprised that I. y on a
trapeze. I practise once a week.
Style is not the most important thing
on the planet. But its very nice.
Genius is nothing without sharing.
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THEATRE

A PLAY ON WORDS

Stevie Smith and her poetry are brought to life at Hampstead Theatres new festival
By SUSIE BOYT Portrait by OLIVER HOLMS

mart writing people think

its not at all chic to live in
the suburbs with an aunt,
says Stevie Smith at the beginning of Hugh Whitemores play
Stevie, which opens in March at
the Hampstead Theatre with
Zo Wanamaker in the leading
role. If the Palmers Green of the
play where Smith lived from
the age of three seems excessively cosy, preoccupied with
Ginger Nuts and small talk, it is
soon revealed as a place of high
wit and searing sadness.
The play takes us through
Smiths childhood with its illnesses and glorious schooldays, her romantic skirmishes, her secretarial work for a magazine company and her success as a writer; it
closes with the last days of her life. Yet Stevie is also a thorough,
profound investigation of what constitutes a self . Whitemores play
is shot through with Smiths poetry, piercing works which have been
called small images of dispossession, and are rightly praised for
their surefootedness, even when they are about falling apart. We see
Smiths lifelong preoccupation with death and suicide, both of
which she came to regard as friends.
The way Hugh has woven her life and work together is quite
beautiful, says Wanamaker. [He
captures] her individuality, her
great isolation, her humour she
loved to laugh. And the play is often
very funny. Where are my glasses?
asks Stevies aunt. In the fruit bowl,
says her niece.
Wanamaker talks with wonder
about Smiths education, the sort
that scarcely exists any more: Latin,
Greek, German and French; a
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reciting poetry; and everything

underwritten by a great emphasis
on reading. We agree this instilled
a supreme condence in the poet.
She was so clever and brilliantly
articulate, Wanamaker says.
Smiths way of looking at the
world is always charming and
alarming. At Buckingham Palace
to receive a medal from the
Queen, Stevies valiant attempt to
get the conversation going falls
rather at: I dont know why, but
I seem to have written a lot about
murder lately. Her Majesty makes
no reply.
Built for friendship and not for
marriage, Smith lived with her aunt for most of her adult life until
her death from a brain tumour in 1971 at 68. During her lifetime she
published three works of ction including Novel on Yellow Paper
(1936) as well as nine collections of poetry, all of which helped her
reputation to peak in the 1950s. I just want her to be remembered
and heard, Wanamaker says.
Stevie will be running during Page to Stage Hampstead
Theatres drama and literary festival, which takes place on the last
weekend of March. This festival, the theatres rst, will feature a
variety of special events designed to communicate how playwrights,
novelists, actors, directors, choreographers and even ght designers
transform the written word into the performances we see. There will
be appearances from David Walliams, Christopher Green, William
Boyd, Tim Pigott-Smith, Meera Syal and others; and audiences will
be able to watch performances in spaces that are normally off
limits, such as the rehearsal-rooms and set-building workshop, as
well as on the main stage of a theatre that is enjoying unprecedented
success under the artistic directorship of Edward Hall.
Stevie is at Hampstead Theatre from 6 March. Join Bazaars editor-inchief Justine Picardie on 26 March for a pre-show conversation about the
poet and the play. Tickets for the event cost 45 and include premium seats
for that evenings performance, and a 12-month subscription to Bazaar.
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Below left: as
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Thefuturerevealed: youressentialguidetoMARCH By PETER WATSON

PISCES

VIRGO

20 February 20 March

24 August 23 September

Someones unusual attitude to work or money neednt keep

you awake at night. But once you start noticing whats going
on, youll wonder whether you should offer some advice.
Take care, because you wont want to be perceived as a
busybody. If youre going to help, it has to be done in the
most subtle way possible.
MOTTO OF THE MONTH Fire is a good servant but a poor master.

No matter how much youre enjoying everything that a close

partnership has to offer, you must also show interest in other,
rather different, relationships. They could benet you
professionally or nancially in the long term and prove to be an
investment. Just make sure youre not getting drawn into a moral
maze from which theres no clear escape.
MOTTO OF THE MONTH Better to turn back halfway than lose yourself.

ARIES

LIBRA

21 March 20 April

24 September 23 October

The approach that you take to your private or professional life

will leave others surprised. But youll feel you know exactly what
youre doing. The cosmos is reminding you that you sometimes
have a low boredom threshold and youll benet enormously
from the unexpected. Dont lose your nerve.
MOTTO OF THE MONTH Wisdom is scar tissue in disguise.

All the work coming your way during March should bring
recognition. But you must listen to loved ones or friends who
suggest that youre being underpaid or taken for granted. This
could be the time to check facts and give yourself peace of mind.
MOTTO OF THE MONTH To love and be loved is to feel the sun
from both sides.

TAURUS

SCORPIO

21 April 21 May

24 October 22 November

People may try to persuade you to steer clear of a particular

activity. But your sixth sense will keep telling you theres much
to be gained from being part of whatever is going on. It would
be a pity, however, if you were to jeopardise any relationships.
Make sure you know what youre doing.
MOTTO OF THE MONTH One lamp cant light two houses.

Initially, you might see an off-duty or romantic episode as rather

disappointing. But you should begin to recognise its long-term
benets by the time of the Solar Eclipse on 20 March. Take
no notice of those who continue to think youve lost a lot and
gained very little. They cant possibly know what you know.
MOTTO OF THE MONTH Fair plays a jewel.

GEMINI

SAGITTARIUS

22 May 21 June

23 November 21 December

Others struggle to understand how youve gathered so much

information about property or nances. Youre being inspired by
Plutos run-in with Uranus, which is forcing you to be more
resourceful and probing than ever. Put to the best possible use
the knowledge thats surfacing due to your intrepid approach.
MOTTO OF THE MONTH We often tend to regret our speech but rarely
our silence.

Let relief wash over you as a complicated plan or project nears

completion. You must refuse to become obsessed with odd little
details that arent quite right. And certainly dont point the nger
of blame at people whove tried everything possible to get things
done to a very high standard. Better to be grateful than grumpy.
MOTTO OF THE MONTH Those who have free seats to the play are
the rst to boo.

CANCER

CAPRICORN

22 June 23 July

22 December 20 January

Use the rst part of the month to tie up plans that have been
hanging around for too long. From around 20 March, your track
record will be scrutinised by inuential people and you wont
want to appear lazy or disorganised. Theres a lot to be said for
being seen as good at completing right now.
MOTTO OF THE MONTH A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

It must have been hard for you to see a tricky situation from the
point of view of the loved ones or friends involved. However,
by mid-March, when Pluto challenges Uranus, you will have
a much better grasp of everything going on. Youll also realise
how crucial it is to offer support. Youll never regret it.
MOTTO OF THE MONTH Hunger nds no fault with the cook.

LEO

AQUARIUS

24 July 23 August

21 January 19 February

Jupiters tie-up with Uranus early in March could establish travel

opportunities and intriguing encounters with unlikely people.
You might even be tempted to abandon more everyday aspects
of your life but that would be a mistake. You must handle
ongoing situations while integrating several exciting new
elements into your day-to-day existence.
MOTTO OF THE MONTH The real winner is the one who refuses to ght.

If a joint plan is to succeed, its essential that you trust the other
people involved. So ignore gossip thats designed to discredit
somebody you want on your team. Troublemakers need to see
that its a waste of time trying to inuence your decision-making.
When your mind is made up, a U-turn is out of the question.
MOTTO OF THE MONTH Your head never aches while youre
comforting another.

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all Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci

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Dior
LARA
Dress, 5,500, Dior

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Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane
LARA
Dress, 2,390; belt, 3,995, both
Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane

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Michael Kors
LARA
Swimsuit, 255, Michael Kors

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JW Anderson
LARA
Dress, 635; gloves, from a selection,
both JW Anderson. Boots, from
a selection, Maison Martin Margiela
See Stockists for details. Sittings editors:
Ben Perreira and Constance Fral.
Hair by Guillaume Brard. Make-up by
Tom Pecheux. Manicures by Anatole
Rainey. Set design by Bette Adams
for Mary Howard Studio. Production
by Evelien Joos. On-set production by
Dante Frongillo. Art direction by Jim
Kaemmerling. Retouching by Postmode

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Free spirits, from Kate Winslet to Colorado cowgirls;

creative genius in the form of Karl Lagerfeld and
Giorgio Armani; and the legacy of Alexander McQueen at the V&A
all embody the essence of the season

MARCH 2015

Kate Winslet wears jersey dress,

3,060, Azzedine Alaa at Selfridges.
Suede heels, 585, Giuseppe Zanotti
Design. White gold and diamond cuff,
from a selection, David Morris

S T A R
I S R E B O R N

Back in the spotlight after a break for the birth of her third child,
Kate Winslet is revitalised, refocused and ready for her close-up
BY CHLOE FOX

PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI

STYLED BY MIRANDA ALMOND

Cotton shirt, 410, Herms.

Silk body, 341, La Perla.
Viscose jacket (over
shoulder), 895, Temperley
London. White gold and
diamond double ring, from
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Kate Winslet is inches away from a mirror, examining the state of her
face. Hmm. Not too bad my forehead is denitely less concertinalike than it was before, and the pores around my nose they used
to be huge; its a family problem we have have denitely closed
up. On hearing this, my heart sinks. Please dont tell me that shes
had Botox, or llers, or both? Beautiful, ballsy Kate Winslet, agyer for real womanhood?
Oh fuck no! says the foul-mouthed, Oscar-winning Lancme
ambassadress, laughing. No! Its this incredible serum Lancmes
Visionnaire Cx. Youre going to think Im just saying this because Im
the face of the brand but honestly honestly you have to believe
me. This stuff is magic. I just bung it on every day under my moisturiser, or make-up, or whatever, and it really does make a difference.
And Im 39 next week, so I need all the
bloody help I can get.
In truth, the milky-skinned mother
of three who never goes in the sun
wearing any less than factor-30 protection barely looks her age. Dressed
today in a black jumper, cream A-line
skirt, black tights and boots and a
cream Alexander McQueen skull scarf
(I dont really do colour), with her
blonde hair tied back in a loose ponytail, theres actually something of the
sixth-former about her. She has come
to the Goring hotel in London, from
the Sussex home she shares with her
third husband, Ned RocknRoll, and
three children (14-year-old Mia, from
her rst marriage, to Jim Threapleton;
Joe, aged 11, from her second, to director Sam Mendes; and Bear, who is 15
months) to front a fundraiser for Mias
school. Theres an awful lot to do, she sighs between ordering tea,
making polite conversation with the general manager, taking deliveries of scripts and scanning a website for oor-tile samples that her
assistant can then go and pick up for her to take home tomorrow.
And, in among all this, Winslet who I have met only once before
is chatting to me like an old friend, apologising profusely for the
delay and proudly showing me pictures of her baby on her iPhone.
The last time Winslet and I met, on a windswept, wintry beach,
she was nine months pregnant and radiantly exhausted (God, my
brain really goes to mush when Im pregnant), but today she is, by
her own admission, well and truly back. Happy, relaxed, witty, mischievous, open, thoughtful, artful; two hours spent in the company
of arguably our greatest living actress is like being invited to a
screening of a movie for one. She laughs often and properly

but can turn on a sixpence to soulful contemplation. Watch her on

screen, and it is this that draws you in time and time again; stark
emotional truth wrapped up in tangible humanity.
Next week, the winner of no fewer than 66 awards in her 20-year
career ies to Australia to begin lming The Dressmaker, a black
comedy set in the 1950s (and also starring Judy Davis), which charts
the story of a couturires return to her rural home town to confront
her past. Winslet is nervous about the project, as she always is, but
excited too, especially as being in Australia for her birthday
will mean that she can celebrate with her friend and fellow actor
Guy Pearce, alongside whom she starred in Todd Haynes awardwinning 2011 HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce (for which she won a
Golden Globe and an Emmy).
Because its his birthday too, you see. And do you know how I
know that? Ill tell you how I know that. Ive always known that ever
since I was a teenager because when he played Mike in Neighbours
I was totally in love with him. I mean really, properly, in love with
him. And on the very rst read-through of Mildred Pierce, I went up
to him. And I said, So, your birthdays
October fth, and he said, How on
earth do you know that? And so I told
him about how I used to dream he
would ride up to my birthday party on
his white horse and carry me away. So
I texted him the other day and said, if he
wouldnt mind, it would be great if
he could arrive at our birthday dinner
on a white horse
Ageing isnt something that worries
Winslet. Quite the opposite, in fact.
What is so gorgeous, so really, truly,
bloody gorgeous about being the age I
am is that all the ridiculous angst that
I might once have felt about having a bit
of cellulite, or being a bit puffy in the
face, or whatever, has just evaporated.
I simply cant believe I ever spent any
time wasting my life on that nonsense.
Winslet, who started acting professionally as a child, has had to do all her growing up, growing out and
growing back in again in the public eye. Three marriages, three
pregnancies and a body that shock, horror has been known to go
up to a size 14 have made her easy pickings for a sensationalist press.
And yet Winslet remains refreshingly unapologetic for who she is,
what she does and what size her bottom happens to be.
Theres a big part of me now, more than ever before, actually
that feels a sense of responsibility for how other women view themselves, she says. Take having the baby, for instance. Have I actively
been on a diet to lose my baby weight? No, I havent. I genuinely

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Winsletremains
unapologetic
for who she is,
what she does
and what size
her bottom
happens to be

Wool and polyester

trench-coat, from a
selection, MaxMara. Silk
body, 341, La Perla. Suede
heels, 585, Giuseppe
Zanotti Design. Right hand,
from left: white gold and
diamond ring, 1,428, Dior.
White gold and diamond
ring, 4,150, Louis Vuitton.
Left hand: white gold and
diamond ring, 6,350,
Louis Vuitton

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bloody havent. I so didnt want to be one of those Oh wow, shes

back in shape after 12 weeks! women. When I read things like that,
I just think, Oh, for fucks sake, thats actually impossible. I was
nowhere near my pre-pregnancy shape when Bear was 12 weeks old
I was breastfeeding, apart from anything else, and hungry all the
time and nor would I have wanted to be. And, do you know what?
My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldnt expect it
to after three babies. To my mind, life is just too short to be spending
time focusing on things like that. I want to keep my health and my
sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun. And
thats the other thing about having children; it is so much fun.
And if you spend too much of your time
focusing on the wrong stuff, like how
much you weigh, then you forget to
enjoy the fun stuff, dont you?
Motherhood, for Kate, is a truly
blissful state. When she talks about her
children, she positively glows. Theirs,
by all accounts, is an idyllic country
life windsurng and picnics on the
beach in the summer and huge, noisy
Sunday lunches in the winter. She
herself is never far from her Aga. Mias
friends mum came to pick her up the
other day and said, Do you know,
Kate, whenever I come to this house
you are cooking something.
She hasnt got into gardening yet
I wish I could say, hand on heart, that
weve got the most fantastic vegetable
patch and are eating my homegrown
purple carrots as we speak, but Im
afraid I cant but it is top of her very long list of things to do.
Shes a list-maker. Obsessively so. The only problem is that her lists
usually end up beginning with blueberries, two tubs. Lettuce, broccoli, goats cheese, chicken breasts. The other day, I picked up my
work notebook to make some character notes and thought,
Manchego, soda bread what is this?
Working motherhood is always a juggling act, even if youre an
Oscar-winning lm star, and especially if you have a new baby.
Because of the age gaps, each of my children is at such a different
stage, she explains. Logistically, that is very complicated, because it
means different schools, different pick-up times, different after-school
clubs, and so on. And emotionally too, they all have very different
things they need from me. There are days when I think Mia doesnt
need me any more, because shes so independent, but then I realise
that, in many ways, she needs me now more than she ever did.

Fortunately, Winslet has the fortitude to deal with everything

that comes at her. Its in her nature to cope, but it also helps that
she feels so content. Im much, much calmer with Bear than I was
when I had the older two, she admits. I particularly notice it when
I spend time with other mums whose babies are their rst. Their
love for their babies is slightly peppered with anxiety and that constant trying, which I remember so well trying to be a great mum,
trying to have a happy baby. Trying, trying, trying. And I dont
feel that I have to try any more. I feel much more that I can just be.
And its such a relief, I cant tell you.
Even for Ned, who is a rst-time father, the experience has been
a relaxed one. Oh, hes in heaven, Winslet says happily. Hes
been such a key part of Mia and Joes lives since the very beginning,
plus he comes from a very big family himself, so it has all come very
naturally to him.
I love our life, says Winslet, smiling at the thought of their
wholesome Sussex existence. The
countryside, particularly, is very good
for my head. I love that I can go for a
walk, pick blackberries and feed them
to the baby as I go along. I love that, as
Im doing this, I get to notice that the
ones growing closer to the sea taste
slightly saltier than the ones on the
other side of the hedge. Thats a pretty
gorgeous thing to observe of an afternoon, wouldnt you say?
If somebody had told Winslet ve
years ago that this would be where she
would have ended up, she would never
have believed them. I denitely went
through a period in my life when I was
just on autopilot, she recalls of the end
of her seven-year marriage to Mendes.
I was living in New York, trying to
keep a lot of balls in the air. Too many,
probably As she talks, Winslet runs
her hands down her shins and stares deeply into her own past. I
reect on that a lot now that I feel so happy, and so settled I think
a lot about how its all panned out, and how there are so many things
about my life thus far that I never would have imagined
As a slightly plump 13-year-old growing up in Reading, Winslet
the daughter of acting parents who knew, rst hand, their industrys
hardships dreamt of becoming a star. By the time she was 17, she had
landed the part of Juliet Hulme in Peter Jacksons critically acclaimed
Heavenly Creatures. And she never looked back. She was full of commanding determination, says Winslets friend Emma Thompson of
the rst time she met the 18-year-old, at her audition for Thompsons

For Winslet,
her work is her
private place,
hersecretplace,
where she nds
refuge from the
nose of her
everyday life

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Viscose trench-coat, 1,795,

Bally. Silk and lace slip,
550, La Perla. White gold
and diamond cuff, from a
selection, David Morris

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THIS PAGE: wool jacket,

1,855, Saint Laurent by
Hedi Slimane. White gold
and diamond earrings;
white gold and diamond
bracelet ( just seen), both
from a selection, David
Morris. Smoky eyes
created with Lancmes
Hypnse Palette Drama
Eyes in DR2, 37.
OPPOSITE: grey wool
cardigan, 1,295, Bottega
Veneta. White gold and
diamond earrings, from
a selection; white gold
and diamond ring,
8,100, both De Beers

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Lace dress, 4,450, Dolce & Gabbana.

White gold and diamond earrings, from
a selection, David Morris. White gold and
diamond ring, 12,900, De Beers

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Oscar-winning adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. There was simply

no stopping her. We all knew that right from the start.
Titanic, Hideous Kinky, Holy Smoke, Enigma, Iris, Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind, The Reader, Revolutionary Road: almost everything
Winslet touches turns to cinematic gold. This is not a coincidence;
those who have worked with her attest to Winslets erce work
ethic (perhaps a by-product, one cant help but wonder, of feeling
she has to succeed where her parents and actress sisters Beth and
Anna havent). She doesnt like to get caught out, says her friend,
the Iris director Richard Eyre. Shes very, very thorough. When
she acts, it always feels spontaneous and artless, which is, of course,
the height of artfulness.
For Winslet, her work is her private place, her secret place, the
place where she nds refuge from the
noise of her everyday life. And now, as
she nears 40, she nds herself caring
more passionately about it than she
ever did before. I feel a bit like Im revisiting that period of my life after Titanic,
when a lot was expected of me and I
wanted to do everything but the things
that were expected of me.
Since giving birth to Bear in December 2013, Winslet has played two
baddies not something Ive ever done
before. First up is John Hillcoats heist
movie Triple Nine, in which she plays
a Russian-Israeli maa moll, a really
glamorous, nasty piece of work, alongside Woody Harrelson and Chiwetel
Ejiofor. Kate has had a challenging and
interesting life, and that shows, says
Hillcourt. Even when shes not talking,
you cant help watching her on the
screen. Theres something deep behind those eyes. From there,
Winslet went straight to resume the role of a world leader, Jeanine
Matthews, in Insurgent, the sequel to the hit dystopian thriller
Divergent. Last time she played the role, she was ve months pregnant with Bear and being squeezed into her black tailored suits. This
time, she felt, both physically and mentally, like a new person. After
the fug of last time, I felt so fantastically sharp and feisty and genuinely overjoyed to be back at work again. Im so aware how lucky
I am that I dont have to rush back to work, like so many mums do,
before they are ready, but I do love going back. After six months of
being with my baby, I denitely felt a strong need to experience the
creative side of myself for a few weeks.
The Dressmaker is a huge four-month job, her rst real big un
since Bear was born. For a self-confessed perfectionist like Winslet,

there are a lot of boxes to tick before she starts lming; not only
are there the logistics of family life to co-ordinate (I steer this ship
with all these little people on it me and only me), but there is also
a lot of work to do, such as honing her Australian accent and learning
to use an old Singer sewing machine convincingly. The lm is quite
unexpected, quite quirky and risky. Its a very different role to anything Ive ever played before, she says. Im not quite as nervous as
I was before I started lming Revolutionary Road with Sam [Mendes]
then, I literally couldnt swallow, I was so scared but Im not far
off. It doesnt matter how many years Ive been doing this for, or how
fortunate Ive been; I still shit myself every time.
Just lately, Winslet has started to notice a pattern in her work.
In The Dressmaker, as she does in A Little Chaos (directed by Alan
Rickman, and in which she stars as Sabine De Barra, a female
landscape gardener at Versailles who is running from personal
tragedy), she plays a woman whose past has shaped her present.
I was very drawn to Sabine because she had a great sadness in her
past, and yet she was very positive in her present. She didnt come
shrouded in baggage and guilt and
pain. She was a very full-blooded
person who had absolutely moved on
and made her life more than what it
would have been. She was who she was
in spite of everything, and there is
something, to my mind, that is inherently beautiful about that.
Her life may appear gilded on the
surface (movie star, mother, face of
Lancme) but Winslet is not now, and
never has been, afraid of suffering. She
is an expert at turning pain into a positive I think its very important to
teach your children to struggle on some
level. When I did interviews about
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
every journalist, because of the lms
theme, would say to me, If you could
go back and erase your life, what part of
it would you change? Winslet rolls
her eyes at the memory of it. And I would honestly say, hand on
heart, that I wouldnt change a thing. Even all the bad bits. Because
it doesnt matter how crap times have been; they all matter for something more than something, actually because those are the things
that shape who you are. And if you dont like who you are Well,
then youre buggered, really, arent you?
The Dressmaker will be released nationwide this year. A Little Chaos is
released on 17 April.

Ithinkits
very important
toteachyour
childrento
struggleon
somelevel

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THIS PAGE: cashmere silk mix jumper,

about 730, The Row. White gold,
diamond and pearl ring, from a selection,
David Morris. OPPOSITE: silk and satin
dress, from a selection, Balenciaga.
Platinum and diamond earrings, from a
selection, Tiffany & Co. White gold and
diamond cuff, from a selection, David
Morris. See Stockists for details. Hair by
Nicola Clarke. Make-up by Lisa Eldridge at
Premier Hair & Makeup, using Lancme.
Manicure by Sabrina Gayle at LMC
Worldwide, using Lancme Vernis in Love.
Stylists assistants: Emma Shaw and Tilly
Wheating. Set design: Matthew Duguid at
Patricia McMahon. Kate Winslet is the face
of Lancme Visionnaire Cx Serum

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Silk and khaki shirt, 165;

suede fringed shirt, 990;
leather trousers, 1,390, all
Polo Ralph Lauren. Boots,
belt and hat (all worn
throughout), stylists own

WILD
COUNTRY

Silk and denim; taffeta and suede

modern classics and timeless Americana come together down on the range
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BEN WELLER
STYLED BY CELESTINE COONEY

THIS PAGE: black check

taffeta and muslin shirt, 640;
black wool gabardine skirt,
520, both Michael Kors.
The cowboys wear their own
clothes throughout, except
where stated. OPPOSITE:
silk top, 430; wool coat,
2,800, both Prada
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THIS PAGE: Stephanie

wears pink and nude
embroidered organdie
dress, 2,260, Alberta
Ferretti. Chase wears blue
cotton shirt, from a
selection, Beyond Retro.
OPPOSITE: embroidered
silk blouse, 3,780,
Roberto Cavalli. Hat, jeans
and belt, all models own
BEN WELLER

THIS PAGE: taffeta silk

mix top, 900; brocade
skirt, 735, both Miu
Miu. OPPOSITE:
cotton shirt, about 470;
Swarovski-crystal-studded
jeans, from a selection,
both Dolce & Gabbana
BEN WELLER

THIS PAGE: cotton shirt,

375; jeans, 405, both
Bottega Veneta.
OPPOSITE: silk and
khaki shirt, 165; leather
trousers, 1,390, both
Polo Ralph Lauren
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Wool coat, about

2,370, Cline
BEN WELLER

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THIS PAGE: gi
gingham
i
dress, 6,600; matching
trench-coat, 1,740,
both Bottega Veneta.
OPPOSITE: cream silk
top, 770, Dior

THIS PAGE: organdie

blouse, 3,885; denim
shorts, 1,000, both
Chanel. OPPOSITE, from
left: Jessie wears white
cotton shirt, 810;
beige silk, python-skin,
crocodile-skin and
cotton cardigan, 11,340;
cream cotton and
canvas trousers, 950,
all Herms. Hat, her own.
Stephanie wears beige
jersey dress, 255;
beige suede trench-coat,
1,125, both MaxMara

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Cotton and wool top, 575;

jeans, 785, both Gucci.
See Stockists for details. Hair
by Mari Ohashi at LGA
Management, using Unite.
Make-up by Niamh Quinn
at LGA Management, using
Lancme. Stylists assistants:
Linh Ly and Poppie Clinch.
Casting by Ben Grimes and
Kate Matheson. Production
by Kate Matheson. Shot at
Zapata Ranch, a Nature
Conservancy Preserve
(www.zranch.org). Models:
Stephanie Joy Field at Next
Model Management; Jessie
Hallstrom; Brett Haas; Hudson
Haas; and Chase Huebinger
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A L IGH T
T H AT N E V E R
G OE S OU T
As the Al
Alexander
l
McQueen Savage Beauty
ty
y exh
xhibition
h
opens at the V&A,
Bazaar pays tribute to the irreplaceable man himself in the
gilded halls he loved so much

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STYLED BY LEITH CLARK

Lace top, 350;

cotton skirt, 1,300;
jacquard kitten heels,
about 495; gold,
sapphire and jade
earrings; matching
necklace, both
from a selection, all
Dolce & Gabbana

Chiffon dress, to order,

Alexander McQueen
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embellished organza
dress, from a selection,
Chanel. Satin and leather
heels, 415, Bionda
Castana. OPPOSITE:
voile dress, 3,800;
matching skirt (worn
on top), 2,065, both
Giorgio Armani
ERIK MADIGAN HECK

Organza skirt;
python-skin harness top,
both to order, Alexander
McQueen. Suede heels,
440, Manolo Blahnik
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Diamond embroidered
silk dress,
2,395, Balenciaga
ERIK MADIGAN HECK

Chiffon dress, to order,

Alexander McQueen,
alongside archive
McQueen pieces
at the V&A
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Suede dress, 8,530,

Valentino. Diamond
earrings; diamond ring,
both from a selection,
David Morris.
Suede heels, 440,
Manolo Blahnik
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THIS PAGE: tulle top,

295, Burberry Prorsum.
White and pink diamond
necklace, from a
selection, David Morris.
OPPOSITE: silk
georgette dress, 2,390,
Saint Laurent by Hedi
Slimane. White gold and
aquamarine ring, from a
selection, Chanel Fine
Jewellery at Harrods
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Embroidered organza
dress, about 5,100,
Oscar de la Renta
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Tulle dress, 8,500,

Ralph Lauren Collection.
Diamond ring, from a
selection, David Morris

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2006 show, Widows of Culloden, with its mysterious resurrection

of Kate Moss as a spectral apparition in a owing white dress; rising
before the audience as if conjured up at a sance. Often described as
a hologram, this was in fact the re-enactment of a 19th-century
technique known as Peppers Ghost (named after the Victorian
chemist John Pepper, and originally devised for a stage adaptation
of Charles Dickens The Haunted Man). But aside from his interest in
the macabre, McQueen also spoke of
his sense of death as being part of life,
and the Victorian approach to the dead
as celebrating someones life.
If a great fashion exhibition allows a
designers imagination to come to life
again for otherwise, clothes displayed
Justine Picardie recalls the genius of Alexander McQueen and
in glass vitrines can seem moribund
looks forward to the V&As forthcoming Savage Beauty exhibition then the McQueen retrospective at the
Met, staged a year after his death, was
supremely successful. It attracted over
660,000 visitors in three months, many
IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE V&A is an eerily atmospheric lm, queuing for hours to gain admission to what came close to being
dating back to 1999, of Alexander McQueens show at the museums a sacred site for the designers most ardent devotees. In life,
Fashion in Motion event that year. Just a couple of minutes long, it McQueen was an enigma, and in death he became an icon, observed
survives as a potent reminder not only of the power of McQueens Andrew Bolton, the shows curator at the Met, who rst encounlive shows, but also of how apt a setting the V&A is for his designs. tered McQueens work when he was a curatorial assistant at the
There, preserved for ever in movement, are the delicate balsa-wood V&A in the 1990s.
Bolton, like many others (myself included), was constantly
angel wings (from the designers brilliant spring/summer 1999 collection, No 13), uttering through McQueens favourite galleries in astonished by McQueens runway shows, in particular what he
the museum. And there, too, is an uncanny sense of mirroring describes as the raw, emotional intensity and sublime, transcendent
between his models (like marble statues come to life) and the silent beauty of the No 13 collection. This opened with Aimee Mullins,
artworks around them. Which is why the V&As exhibition of the an amputee and Paralympics champion, who walked the runway in
designers work, Savage Beauty (a restaging of the retrospective at a pair of hand-carved high-heeled wooden prosthetic legs; and
New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2011), represents, among closed with Shalom Harlow, rotating on a turntable in a white dress,
many other things, the rightful return home of Alexander McQueen. facing two robots spraying her with industrial paint guns. At the
time, it seemed a transgressive modern
Since his suicide at the age of 40 on
spectacle, as disturbing as it was compel11 February 2010, the life and death of
ling. But only now, 16 years later, am I
McQueen has already become the stuff
beginning to see links with the artistic
of legend. The East End boy, youngest
tradition of the V&A; for the prosthetic
son of a London cabbie, whose prodigious
legs were inspired by the 17th-century
talent and outrageous showmanship
woodcarver Grinling Gibbons (whose
took him to the heights of Paris couture
work features in the museum), while the
as the chief designer of Givenchy at only
collection as a whole was underpinned by
27; the subsequent return to London,
McQueens interest in the late-Victorian
where he was garlanded with praise,
arts & crafts movement, which is also
adulation, and awards including a CBE
integral to the V&A. (Indeed, the musefor services to fashion in 2003. And then
ums restaging of Savage Beauty is
the fall: hanging himself in a wardrobe at
accompanied by an intriguing commenhis Mayfair at a week after his mother
tary on all of McQueens catwalk shows,
Joyce had died of cancer.
Yet for all the nality of his decision
to kill himself, Alexander McQueen has
risen again, in an afterlife that he might
have appreciated, given his longstanding fascination with the
Gothic supernatural and the Romantic obsession with death.
Consider his rst show in 1992, an MA graduate collection at Central
Saint Martins (when he was still known as Lee McQueen; Alexander
was his second name) entitled Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims,
including several versions of Victorian mourning clothes, lined with
human hair. Then there was the ghostly nale of his autumn/winter

HEREAFTER

In life,
McQueen was
an enigma,
and in death
he became
an icon

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including the suggestion that his spraypainting sequence is a counterpoint to

William Morris anti-industrial ethic,
provoking comment on the interaction
between man and machine at the turn
of the 21st century.)
Claire Wilcox, the V&As senior
fashion curator, responsible for this new
incarnation of Savage Beauty and editor
of the exhibitions accompanying book,
shares a similar understanding and
passion for her subject with Andrew
Bolton. Interestingly, she also reveals
McQueens corresponding knowledge
and enthusiasm for the V&A: As a child,
he and his siblings had been taken to the
South Kensington Museum, as it was
then called, on Sundays, and as a designer he was a regular visitor to
the fashion archives. Her own encounters with McQueen at the
V&A, from Fashion in Motion onwards (an event that she launched),
make Wilcox an expert and thoughtful guide to the designers
favourite galleries. He loved the V&As William Morris room,
she explains, and had a profound respect for the arts & crafts movement, identifying with its idealism, and the way it placed value on
the joy of craftsmanship and the natural beauty of materials.
He was intrigued by the Victorian eccentricities of the museums
interiors, in particular the Cast Courts, saying, Its the sort of place
Id like to be shut in overnight.
Hence my request to the V&A a hallowed place that I have loved
since childhood to allow Bazaar to use its glories and eccentricities
as a setting for the fashion shoot on these pages, inspired by the relationship between the museum and the art of Alexander McQueen.
As it happens, McQueen himself always denied that his work
was art; his rst training had been in Savile Row tailoring, and he
presented himself as a craftsman, with a nely attuned sense of commerce. Certainly, anyone who has admired, desired or cherished his
beautifully cut clothes may be inclined to agree with the designer;
but the visceral impact of his catwalk shows nevertheless felt more
akin to performance art than a conventional presentation of fashion.
For how else to comprehend the models caged in glass, engulfed by
ames,bleedingfromadressofrazor-sharpshells,masked,shackled,
corseted, often in apparent danger or distress? These were shows
that could leave the audience feeling profoundly uneasy, almost as if
wed stumbled into someone elses nightmare landscape. True, there
was also dream-like beauty, but here was a designer who always
challenged his audience to look beyond or beneath the surface; a
message written on his own body, with the quote from A Midsummer
Nights Dream tattooed on to his right arm: Love looks not with the
eyes but with the mind. And while McQueen (an openly gay man)
rejected any charges of misogyny, declaring the women in his show

to be empowered and strong, there was also the sense that perhaps
what we saw was less about the outward appearance of the models
than the designers own inner turmoil.
Couture is not an obvious medium for self-revelation, wrote
Judith Thurman in her perceptive New Yorker review of Savage
Beauty at the Met, but in McQueens case it was. His work was a
form of confessional poetry. Thus the designers response to feminist critics who condemned his 1995
Highland Rape collection as eroticising
violation; they were missing the point, as
far as he was concerned, which was that
he had been inspired by his mothers
genealogical research into the familys
Scottish ancestry, and the legacy of
the Highland Clearances. McQueen saw
his show as a passionate denunciation
of what he deemed Englands rape of
Scotland; even if the sense of desecration
might have seemed more personal. Were
not talking about models feelings here,
he said. Were talking about mine.
It is tempting to trace a sinister thread
ofdarknesswheninterpretingMcQueen;
not only because of his suicide, but also
because of what led to it. For a designer
who was intrigued by the relationship between predators and
quarry, he was himself prey to drugs (too much cocaine, and two
previous attempted overdoses on prescription sleeping pills and
tranquillisers). There were also hints of abuse in his childhood,
ensuing depression, unhappy love affairs, the suicide of his rst muse
and mentor Isabella Blow, a fragile, broken bird-like creature as
odd and exotic as any of his catwalk creations. Seen in this context,
Thurmans analysis of the designer seems particularly meaningful
(not least when considering his spring/summer 1997 collection, La
Poupe, which paid tribute to the German artist Hans Bellmer, who
created a life-size mannequin with the gure of a pubescent girl).
Therapists who treat children often use dolls play as a tool for eliciting their stories and feelings, wrote Thurman, and one has the
sense that the dolls play of fashion was such a tool for McQueen.
But for all the claustrophobic horror and perversity, the obsession
with death and decay, a sense of freedom and escape also prevails.
Remember the balsa-wood angel wings too fragile to survive in
their original form, but remade for the singer Bjrk to wear at
McQueens memorial service at St Pauls Cathedral, when she sang
Gloomy Sunday, a song of lost love and suicide made famous
by Billie Holiday. With any luck, you will see those miraculous
wings come alive again at the V&A, where McQueen himself once
unleashed them in the last year of the 20th century; captured there
for a moment, yet free to oat for all time
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is at the V&A (www.vam.ac.uk )
from 14 March to 19 July; tickets cost from 17.50.

Here was a
designer who
challenged his
audience to
look beneath
the surface

Silk skirt, 2,380; silk top,

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625, Charlotte Olympia.
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Karl Lagerfeld and

Cara Delevingne in the
Chanel Mtiers dArt
14/15 Paris-Salzburg
show in Austria.
OPPOSITE: a look
backstage at
the presentation

PHOTOGRAPHS: OLIVIER SAILLANT AND BENOIT PEVERELLI/COURTESY OF CHANEL

F A S H I O N
F A I R Y
T A L E S
Chanels Tyrolean Mtiers dArt fantasia brings
storybook princesses to life in Salzburg
BY AVRIL MAIR

ets start with some mythology. Coco Chanel created

her iconic boucl jacket after spotting the lift-boys uniform while
holidaying at the Schloss Mittersill near Salzburg in the Tyrolean
Alps, a grand hotel owned by the aristocrat Baron von Pantz, with
whom she enjoyed a two-year romance in the 1930s. Or so the story
goes. As Karl Lagerfeld would have it: She took an element and made
it hers, and made something unique out of it that you can identify in a
second, without thinking for one second that it comes from Austria.
Karl Lagerfeld loves this kind of legend; likes to use it in order to
create an elaborate, romantic narrative that both inspires and
explains the collections he creates six times a year for Chanel.
Of these, none is more magical or mythic than the Mtiers dArt, a
collection presented somewhere farung each December to show off the
skills of the 11 specialist couture ateliers
that the house has acquired since 2002.
And thus, for 20142015, Lagerfeld
brought Chanel back to the tiny city of
Salzburg; a ridiculously picturesque
place with its own legends (birthplace of
Mozart, setting for The Sound of Music)
and a Baroque castle, Leopoldskron,
which offered the perfect location to
put on a show. There was a brief reminder
of history with the screening of Reincarnation, a short lm starring Pharrell
Williams as that lift-boy, and Cara
Delevingne as the Empress Elisabeth of
Austria (known as Sisi, pronounced
Cee Cee and sung by Pharrell as CC),

but as always with Chanel this was no exercise in nostalgia,

no matter how emotionally charged it might be.
Instead, there was a contemporary spin to the 86 fairy-tale looks
offered here: the feathered hats and dirndls, the frogged frock coats
and breeches, the suede shorts and laced bodices, the loden jackets
and buckled clogs of the Tyrol even
the lederhosen, unlikely though it seems
were transformed into desirable, wearable pieces by the petites mains, under
Lagerfelds masterful direction. Though
the Mtiers dArt is always deliciously
thematic, it somehow avoids kitsch:
from Lara Stone in an abbreviated black
suit, elaborately embellished and paired
with shiny lace-up boots, via Binx
Walton with silver edelweiss ear cuffs
and a gloriously rufed lace blouse,
jingling with trinkets and charms, to
Cara Delevingne in the tiered white
nale dress with its sheer black sleeves
and wide velvet bows, all was modern,
eclectic, uniquely Chanel. Simply put,
no other brand in the world could offer
quite such a show.
It would mean nothing unless it
translated to the world at large, however
but this collection does just that. Unlike haute couture, a deliberately rareed art form, everything from the show will eventually go
into production: up to 30 versions of each Mtiers dArt look will be
available in Chanel boutiques throughout the world this spring.
From then to now, from past to present: to quote the Von Trapps,
these are a few of our favourite things.

Simply put,
no other
brand in
the world
could offer
quite such
a show

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Even
lederhosen were
transformed
into desirable,
wearablepieces

This page:
catwalk and
backstage looks
from the
Chanel Mtiers
dArt 14/15
Paris-Salzburg
show at
Hotel Schloss
Leopoldskron.
Opposite: Cara
Delevingne and
Karl Lagerfeld
during the
presentations
nale

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AND FIRE
The best of this seasons Seventies-inspired
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Gucci. Oxidised silver
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Giorgio Armani
photographed at
home in Milan
FRANOIS DISCHINGER

G I O R G I O

Maestro of subtle elegance, the Italian designer

is the calm, immutable centre of the whirling fashion world
BY JUSTINE PICARDIE
PORTRAITS BY FRANOIS DISCHINGER
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERIK MADIGAN HECK

PHOTOGRAPHS: COURTESY OF GIORGIO ARMANI

he House of Armani, a vast Milanese palazzo

on Via Borgonuovo, is also the home of Giorgio Armani himself;
for, like Coco Chanel, whose private apartment was above her
Paris boutique, the world of Armani does not distinguish between
work and play. There are several other striking similarities
between Armani and Chanel; both the creators of empires that have
spanned decades; both possessed of a clear vision of style that transcends fashion; both rising from humble origins to become the
embodiment of their global brands.
And so it is that I have come to Milan on a wintry day to meet Mr
Armani (like Mademoiselle Chanel, one seldom hears anyone call
him by his rst name). He is 80 years old and, in an era of everexpanding conglomerates, still remains the sole owner of his
$3 billion business, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year,
and continues to show rising sales gures around the world, in
Europe as well as China. The interview has taken many months to
arrange; Mr Armani has a relentless work schedule, as he retains
control of all of his collections, the catwalk shows, the advertising
campaigns, the retail network and the factories that make his products. By the time I have been escorted to his top-oor penthouse,
I am feeling more than a little nervous; for what does one say
to a living legend with a reputation for guarded discretion?
Despite the wide expanse of windows overlooking a roof terrace,
and the ickering embers of an open
re, the rst impression is of darkness;
of sombre-toned furniture and an
air of hush. A black cat sits on the sofa,
and turns her head when her master
enters the room, purring at his arrival.
Wereitnotforhiswhitehairgleaming
as a silver fox Mr Armani himself
might disappear into the shadows, so
soft are his footsteps, so quiet his
voice, so self-effacing his clothes.
Above: Giorgio
He wears, as always, a midnight(left), with his sister
blue T-shirt and navy trousers;
Rosanna and
his face is tanned, his body
brother Sergio in
1942. Below: in his
toned from a daily exercise
Milan penthouse
regime in his personal gym.
The cats name, he tells me, is
Angel. Be careful stroking her,
he warns; she likes it, but only a
little. Cats are very independent
creatures. At the risk of being
overly literal, one might see this
as not altogether unlike her
master; for he is watchful, wary
and keeps his distance from the
hubbub of the fashion world.
But here within this room,
says Mr Armani, we are in the
place where he is most relaxed.
Downstairs I have a big

apartment where I receive guests more formally. Yet this is the part
I feel that represents me the best, and is closer to what I want.
Whenever I come home from work I spend half an hour here,
perhaps with the television on, or in front of the replace He
gestures to the eclectic collection of ornaments on the coffee table
and the shelves around us coral and shells from the Seychelles,
Oriental porcelain gures and puppets, a glass sphere that looks like
a fortune-tellers globe then continues: Ive seen some of the world,
but not in great depth. And so in this space, Ive set up a little bit of
Japan, a little bit of China, of Africa, of the exotic world, so that I can
forget about my European world for a while.
The overall effect is far more idiosyncratic than one might
expect from a man dubbed the King of Greige (not only for the muted
palette of taupe, grey and neutrals that tends to characterise his
fashion designs, but also his successful home line, Armani/Casa).
Most unexpected of all is the larger-than-life gorilla that stands in one
corner, brooding over the room. Hes called Uri, says Mr Armani,
fondly. I love all kinds of animals, but I cant have a real gorilla, so
I have this one, who came from Cinecitt [the Italian lm studio].
Despite the apparent incongruity, the gorillas presence in this
inner sanctum has a certain resonance, for the lm industry has
played a major part in establishing and dening the Armani brand.
Five years after he set up the business with his partner Sergio
Galeotti, the label reached a worldwide audience when Richard
Gere wore beautifully tailored Armani suits in Paul Schraders
American Gigolo. Gere looked effortlessly assured in his wardrobe;
but the clothes took on a more signicant emblematic quality in the
narrative, and in subsequent movies, including The Wolf of Wall
Street, where Leonardo DiCaprios Armani outts are the material
evidence of his riches and success. The brand also became a signicant presence on the red carpet Jodie Foster was famously
transformed from being voted worstdressed for the turquoise frilly dress that she
wore to the Oscars in 1987, to best-dressed
when Mr Armani later came to the rescue
by providing a sophisticated tuxedo suit.
Since then, everyone from Gwyneth Paltrow
to Cate Blanchett has relied on Armani to
supply supremely subtle elegance on awards
nights, and elsewhere. (Hence George

Looks from the Giorgio

Armani S/S 15 collection.
Left: sequin top, 4,230;
silk organza and tulle skirt,
1,790. Right: charmeuse
top, 850; silk skirt, 2,660
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Left: embroidered
organza dress, 10,845;
brass and Swarovski-crystal
earring (sold as pair),
555. Right: embroidered
sequin dress, 11,120;
organza trousers, 1,630;
laminate python-skin
and gold bag, 2,845, all
Giorgio Armani
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Clooneys choice of an Armani suit on his wedding day in Venice.)

Many commentators have attempted to capture the quintessence of Armani style over the years. Cathy Horyn came close in The
New York Times when she spoke of his radical, soft-shoulder silhouette, the monochromatic palette the antithesis of stify padded
Eighties power-suits or the absurdly elaborate ounces and furbelows worn by Tom Wolfes social X-rays. But what remains
intriguing to me, at least is that the understated perfection of
Armani style is also intrinsic to the clothes he designed for the gangsters in The Untouchables and Goodfellas. I like to throw them a touch
of elegance, Armani has previously observed of these anti-heroes,
some style and charisma, and play with the paradox of the fascination of the villain. The dark side is always the more interesting one.
How, then, does the dark side emerge in Armanis work; this
distinguished master of a light touch? If we are to take him at his
own word, then all remains calm in the Armani universe, after 40
years of what The New Yorker has described as his irreproachable
style. It has been a coherent path dictated by the ongoing pursuit of
harmonious lines, innovative materials, sophistication and quality, he says, when describing the
development of his distinctive aesthetic. I would
say that my idea of style and my taste are the same
as when I began: they express my deep appreciation of all that is simple and linear I always want
to keep up with the times but without altering
the essential characteristics of my philosophy.
To be consistent, he says, is essential; for his aim
is always to create something that is purely his
own, rather than being inuenced by anyone else,
or by the passing whims of fashion. Thus he admires Coco
Chanel, for her ability to stay true to her style; although he also
approves of Karl Lagerfelds irreverence, because Karl understood that we needed to betray Chanel somehow. But while
Armani remains in sole charge of his business, there can be no
betrayal of the founding vision. This is the problem with the
world today, he says, in response to a comment I make about
the importance of brand identity,
at a time when fashion can seem
overly homogenous; nobody
wants to take risks, to risk being
themselves Here then is the
paradox of Armani: in fashion, it
is a risky business to remain, at
heart, unchanged.
And given the turbulent politics, cultural upheavals and
seismic shifts of history that
he has lived through, this consistency seems all the more
remarkable; although perhaps, at the same time,
entirely understandable. For Armani was a child
of war-torn Europe, born in July 1934, and raised
under Mussolinis fascist dictatorship, in the
ancient northern Italian city of Piacenza, which
was bombed heavily by the Allies in World War II.
The middle child of three, Giorgio had an older
brother (Sergio, now dead) and a younger sister,
Rosanna (subsequently employed by Armani; she
has since retired, but Giorgios nieces are still
involved in the business). His father was employed
by a transport company; his mother was a

housewife, and did her best to keep the family fed during wartime
privations, and in the aftermath, when, as Armani remembers, there
was no money and nothing to eat. (This was also the time when his
father was arrested and imprisoned for several months, on charges
of having worked for the fascist state.)
Among the framed photographs scattered on side tables and
desks around Armanis apartment is a particularly striking
one of him as a young boy on a beach with his mother. She is darkhaired and chic in a bathing suit and long skirt; her timeless
appearance an apparent precursor to her sons vision of natural
beauty. My mother was elegant, he says, when I ask him about the
picture. When she passed by, people turned around. But she didnt
show off this sculptural quality of her face. (Is it too fanciful to
wonder whether his career as a designer was in part a means
to illuminate or understand that mysterious sculptural quality?
Mothers are so often enigmatic gures to their children;
unknowable, however binding the earliest bonds.)
When I ask him to say more about his mother, he is elusive;
although his elliptical answers nevertheless suggest the shadows of his
childhood. It was a difcult time, he
says, not only because of poverty, but
also the uncertainty of the era. Even
before the war, he remembers being
afraid. We went to this holiday camp
every year, where my mother was in
charge, he remarks, in response to a
question I ask about whether he
recalls any of her clothes, or his own,
as a boy. I remember that my mother
made me put a T-shirt on, to cover
up in the sun, and that I was afraid
of the pedal boat, made of strips of
white lacquered wood. Then the real
war came, and the bombs and the
fear (Thus his mother could
provide clothing that would protect
her son from the dangers of the sun;
but not from the bombs that were
to drop from the sky.)
Worst of all was his experience at
the age of nine, when he was walking past the local
cinema with his sister, who was four years old at
the time. They looked at the lm posters, for
Snow White, and then he crossed
From top: with
the road to see some friends, who
Linda Evangelista
had discovered an unexploded
in 1990. With his
shell. Suddenly the gunpowder
dogs in Broni,
caught re; Giorgio was covered
Italy. At work in
in ames, and burned all over.
1995. On the
beach in Riccione,
During his month in hospital,
Italy, with his
he was placed in a vat of pure
mother in 1939.
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Beetle in the
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alcohol to remove the dead skin. Over 70 years later, the cover of Time magazine, celebrated for his outstanding ability to
episode seems almost symbolic; a young boy with terrible burns, make both men and women feel assured, yet also at ease, in uid
who is blinded for a time, but survives the ames and arises, phoenix- clothes that removed the constrictions of traditional tailoring, while
like, as a man whose career is based on an understanding of retaining its ability to confer dignity on the wearer.
Tragically, as Armani the company went from strength to
how to look, and thereafter makes a fortune by designing soft
strength, Galeotti was battling with Aids, and died at the age of 40
second skins for people to wear.
Armani himself sounds calm in his recollection of the accident. in 1985. It was a terrible loss, and even now Armani looks visibly
I was not so conscious at the time, he says. I suddenly closed my moved when his former partners name is mentioned (although not
eyes and didnt open them again for 20 days. I could smell in such a way that might make the subject taboo). When Sergio
the linden-trees in the hospital gardens in bloom, but I couldnt died, I expressed great strength, because I wanted this work of ours
see them. It was hard for me because they werent sure if I would to continue to appear in the future, he says. I wanted people to
appreciate what Sergio had done. But neither Sergio nor I were preever be able to see again.
Astonishingly, he survived without visible scarring apart from pared for this, for the violence that life sometimes brings.
Perhaps, I say, it is the knowledge that life can be too short that
a small mark from where his shoe burned into his foot. And when
gives us the impetus to make our mark; and creaArmani did recover his sight, his ambition
tivity arises from an understanding of death and
was not to be a fashion designer, but a doctor,
suffering. Mr Armani nods, and says: To be
based on his reading of AJ Cronins The
creative, you need to be able to respond to pain.
Citadel (a bestselling English novel about an
If everything goes well, you get boring.
idealistic doctor who brings medicine to the
He inclines his head again, very slightly,
poor and oppressed). After school, he spent
when I quote Chanel, who declared that fashion
three years studying medicine at university,
is born to die, but style is eternal. I like that, he
which was then interrupted by two
replies. So could the search for a lasting style be
years of compulsory milia hymn to life, I ask. Yes, he says, a hymn to life,
tary service. However, he
From top: at home
but accompanied by the huge difculties of
did not return to his medical
with his family.
nding
your
way in a world that forces you to face reality.
studies, in part because he
In his beach
Six years ago, he continues, he was seriously ill (with
felt he had to start earning
house in Antigua.
Fine-tuning his
hepatitis), but at the time, I didnt want to admit it. Now, I
a living, to help his parents.
spring collection
nd people stopping me on the street, asking me how I am,
At this point, the family
in Milan in 1991
wanting to touch my hand. Armani says he always tells them
moved to Milan, where his
he is ne; and then he remarks
sister became a successful
that creative work gives you an
model and Giorgio was
almost indissoluble connection
hired at a department store,
with people. To which I add that
La Rinascente, initially as
dressing someone is one of the
a window-dresser, then as a
most intimate things you can do
menswear buyer.
for them; and when I pause, he
In 1961, Armani got his rst job as a designer, working
nishes my thought for me:
for the Italian textile magnate Nino Cerruti, and his
Because you take those clothes
exceptional talent was soon evident; but it was not until
with you, close to your body.
he met Sergio Galeotti that Armani felt sufciently conThen he moves to the edge of
dent to launch his own brand. Galeotti was a decade
the sofa, as if to indicate that the interview is
younger than Armani, a edgling architect and natural
over. Hurriedly, I appeal for one more quesoptimist; and the relationship between the two men was
tion. And its the question everyone asks, he
a powerful combination of the personal and the professays, resignedly. What are you going to do
sional. Even though Armani felt a deep sense of
next? But Id rather you didnt ask me that.
responsibility for his young partner, as well as his
I say: How can we understand the future
family it was Galeotti who gave him the condence to
if we dont understand the past? To which
leave a salaried job. The two men sold their Volkswagen
his unexpected response is as follows:
and used the money to set up a small company, which
Another question: do I believe in love? Ask
swiftly rose to the forefront of European fashion, and
me, do I believe in love?
thence to America. By 1982, Armani was on the front
So I ask him. Yes, I do, he says, looking
at me full on, so that I can see that his
unblinking blue eyes are lled with tears, visible
even in the early twilight of the winter afternoon.
There can be nothing without love. No money, no
Right: the Armani
power. Love is very important when you wake up
Priv couture
in the morning, you need to know that somebody
A/W 14 show.
else is waking up, thinking of you.
Above right:
Then Mr Armani stands up, shakes my hand, and
backstage
leaves the room just as quietly as he rst came in
in 1990

Satin jacket, 2,495;

linen blend shorts,
860; metal, fabric and
Swarovski-crystal brooch,
920, all Giorgio Armani
ERIK MADIGAN HECK

THIS PAGE: silk tulle

dress, 7,810; metal and
Swarovski-crystal brooch
(just seen), 920. OPPOSITE,
left: embroidered sequin
organza dress, 11,605;
silk organza trousers, 1,630.
Right: silk dress, 3,800; silk
organza shorts, 1,075; brass and
Swarovski-crystal earring (sold as
pair), 725, all Giorgio Armani.
See Stockists for details. Styled
by Michelle Cameron. Hair by
Jordan M for Bumble and
Bumble. Make-up by Deanna
Melluso for Chanel at the Wall
Group. Manicure by Geraldine
Holford for Chanel Le Vernis at
the Wall Group. Stylists
assistant: Marianne Dabir.
Models: Gabrielle Kagay and
Marinet Matthee at the Lions
ERIK MADIGAN HECK

The Chlo creative

director Clare Waight
Keller photographed
by Paola Kudacki.
Opposite: looks
backstage at the S/S
15 catwalk collection

C U T
A B O V E

As creative director of the French fashion house Chlo,

British designer Clare Waight Keller is the perfect modern heiress
to a tradition of free-spirited femininity
BY KATE FINNIGAN

342 |

H A R P E R S BA Z A A R

| March 2015

PHOTOGRAPHS: THESE PAGES: TOM ALLEN, REGAN CAMERON, IMAXTREE. PREVIOUS PAGES: PAOLA KUDACKI/COURTESY OF CHLOE, SCHOHAJA
S/S 13

and (below) a
S/S 15 silk top
and skirt, both
shot for Bazaar

S/S 12

t is teatime in Browns Hotel, Mayfair, and the darkening

room tinkles with the sounds of piano keys and ne china and the
contented baa of aprs-shopping. Clare Waight Keller, the British
creative director of the French house of Chlo, is on a brief business
stop in London, between longer working stints in Los Angeles and
Beijing, and is remembering the crafty, arty Midlands kid she was at
the age of 11, around the time she decided she wanted to be a fashion
designer more than three decades ago. As is the case with so many
fashion designers, it emerges that her mother was a dab hand with
a needle and thread. Yes, Mum made my clothes when I was little.
She had lots of fabric and dress patterns around the house. Id already
been doing knitting and craft I
loved the textiles side of making and
I wanted to get more into it. Mothers
are important in that role, she says,
smiling, now a mother herself of
three children: 11-year-old twins
AmeliaandCharlotte,andHarrison,
who is three. My Mum was the one
helping me through school if I
needed an extra hand with sewing.
She really helped build my style, and
its lovely to think that something we
did together inuenced my career.
In its own understated way, that
style has become a powerful force
in fashion. Waight Keller is one of
the worlds key inuencers on what
women wear today. The Chlo look
that spirit of adventurous femininity, passed on and reinvented
since the ready-to-wear label was
founded in 1952 is still instantly
recognisable and relevant more
than 60 years later. And, as Waight
Keller agrees, thats quite a feat.
Quietly spoken, gentlewomanly,
Waight Keller is dressed today in
oaty boho layers of luxurious black textures a goat-hair Chlo
jacket with a blouse and a long vintage skirt. She is make-up-free,
her hair loose; at 44, the slightly more serious big sister of the carefree girl of her houses catwalk shows and campaigns. She often
wears Chlo, but not exclusively. I like to mix it in with vintage.
I like to dress things up and down. And vintage Chlo? Denitely!
Thats one of the things thats lovely for me, discovering those
old pieces. Because they still seem right. Theres a sense of ease
in everything. Its never like, Oh, that waistline, forget it! The
blouses always have charm to them. A 1970s blouse can look fab
with a cool pair of contemporary jeans. That mix feels interesting.

A/W 12

Waight Keller looks relaxed, despite a schedule that sounds challenging, to say the least. She has just returned from a weekend in LA,
and after a couple of days with her family back in Paris, she will be
off to China. Her schedule is booked up six months in advance. How
does she cope with the demands on her, at work and home? Just by
being really organised, she says. Ive never wanted to compromise,
but at the same time I really make work work, and home life home.
I dont drag one into the other. I think it helps make it much more
focused, and in the end youre a much happier person because your
home life isnt interrupted by someone calling about this, that and
the other. I do enjoy that. So you have to be strict about what you
do? I work really hard in the week so that I can keep my weekends
free, she says. Thats part of the trade-off for me. I work late a few
nights a week, but the weekend is off-limits.
The LA trip was spent in Paradise Cove, California, whirling
about with dresses and bits on the shoot for Chlos S/S 15 advertising campaign (featuring the models Caroline Trentini and Eniko
Mihalik, photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh
Matadin). The importance of securing each season the girl, or girls,
with exactly the right look to capture the spirit the house wants to
project is, as she says, always the
crux of everything. Were not
about any other kind of branding,
like a logo. Theres nothing else
to use, no chain, no initials,
nothing. The brand has been
built upon that Chlo attitude,
which is partly the collection,
part styling, part spontaneity, part
a certain sense of beauty.
It shows the brands strength
that an attitude alone has spoken
to so many generations of women
and continues to do so with
Waight Kellers unshouty but
rather magical touch, which she
has now turned to jewellery
never a feature before she arrived
in 2011 and covetable accessories (dusky-pink scalloped-edge
A Chlo S/S 14
georgette dress
shoes? Yes, please!).

decade. Theres a famous picture of

Paloma Picasso wearing a dress with one
boob out thats a Chlo dress.
On 27 September 2014, the day
before the Chlo catwalk show, Gaby
Aghion, the houses founder, died aged 93.
A spirit that she particularly captured
It was hard, says Waight Keller. I woke
this season is one that everyone else
up on the morning of the show and got a
seems to have been in search of, too.
text to say she passed away yesterday. I
Chlo is at the forefront of at least three
was sad in one way because Id met her
of the biggest trends for spring the
many times and she was such a vibrant
Seventies, folky bohemia, and a new take
woman who always made as much effort
on denim. For Waight Keller, the season
as she could to come to every show. She
started last June when she was looking at
really was the soul of Chlo for so many
fabrics for le ou, the uid clothes that
years. But at the same time, we were celKarl Lagerfeld invented for Chlo in the
ebrating her and what she had created.
1970s (he was head designer at the house
In an era when fashionable women
for almost two decades from 1964) and
wore couture and bespoke, Aghion was
which have become its signature. She
one of the rst designers to offer readywas in search of something that felt
modern and graphic, but also a little bit more poetic than before, to-wear as a serious, luxurious proposition. She really challenged
with a bit more of a story behind it. She found South American what was considered the fashion of her day, says Waight Keller.
textiles, woven with motifs of animals, birds and owers, inspired by And the fact that she was a woman starting her own business
Does she get enough credit? No, I dont think so. Its a shame.
fables. From there it grew into an idea of bringing in owers and birds
and symbols and elements that can bring a sense of love or beauty, Everyone obviously knows so much about Gabrielle Chanel, but
fabrics that tell stories, she says. Denim came into play because what Gaby did was equally momentous. Chlo was very different
thats one of those fabrics that can tell you a life story. You can some- from Chanel, which was very much about the look and then became
times nd and I know myself people who have had jeans for a lot about the logo and the iconography. Chlo was never about
that, and its quite hard to maintain the allure over 60 years with no
20 years. And you know, hey, theyve seen a lot, these jeans.
And the Seventies? Waight Keller sips her ginger tea (with sugar). one particular thing to rest on.
Following Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo and Hannah
It wasnt purist Seventies, but I think Chlo has always hovered
around that era, she says. Its so much about the spirit and that sense MacGibbon, Waight Keller is the fourth British female designer to
of freedom that girls had then. They were quite adventurous, a bit take on the very Parisian challenge of the brand. How French can
cheeky, spontaneous in what they did. It was kind of a fab moment the Chlo woman still be? Waight Keller laughs. Oh, shes quite
for fashion and women, sexy but still beautiful, and there was some- French. Yes, quite French! I think that comes through for me in the
fabrics, she says. We use a lot of silks and incredible lace and to
thing there that I wanted to capture, sunny and golden.
It was the era that Waight Keller associated with Chlo, even keep a cleanness and effortlessness is also very French. You rarely
when she was young. I think Karl really captured that and its always see French women with tons of make-up on, their hair bouffed up
with huge rollers; thats just not the French spirit.
resonated with people. And it was caught so iconically with a
Until she was recruited from her creative-director
lot of incredible photography. So if you look back through
THE B E
job at Pringle of Scotland, Waight Keller hadnt
our image archive, you see Guy Bourdin and Helmut
ST
worked in Paris before. She trained at the Royal
Newton photographing the clothes through that
College of Art and at Central Saint Martins,
where she was discovered by Calvin Klein.
Having worked there for four years, she then
went to Ralph Lauren and later became a
senior designer with Tom Ford at Gucci. So
although she had a great deal of international
luxury-brand experience, when she rst
arrived in Paris, she still had to adjust. As an
outsider looking at France and always seeing it as
one thing, suddenly you work within it and it starts
to mean something else, she says. So my sense of
French style has been evolving a little bit. French
women are very precise in everything they do, but it
looks very effortless. Its underpinned when you work
there by the women that youre working with. Its subtle,
but there is a real polish and a nish to their look, which
you dont realise at rst. Its a very clever trick. Is it something a British girl can learn? She laughs. I think so, but
you need to live there for a long time.

French women
are very precise
in everything
theydo, but
it looks very
effortless

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C H LO

BEAUTY

Edited by SOPHIE BLOOMFIELD

PHOTOGRAPH: MATT LEVER

Jourdan Dunn
backstage at Burberry
Prorsum S/S 15

A GENTLE
TOUCH
Opt for a subtle take on make-up this spring.
Plus: the latest products to smooth the signs of age

LIGHTLY
DOES IT

19
Kevin
Aucoin

ISABEL MARANT

Springs luminous make-up trends call for

a delicate approach. By SOPHIE BLOOMFIELD

19
Kevin
Aucoin

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A slightly darker tone of tin

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H A R P E R S B A Z A A R

| March 2015

Skin that appears sun-touched in a

sportive (not over-baked) manner
is this seasons take on tanning, as
seen at Chlo, Ralph Lauren and
Isabel Marant. The make-up
artist Aaron de Mey says: Never
apply foundation to the cheeks
letting the natural colour come
through looks sophisticated. Nars
Soft Velvet Loose Powder in Heat,
Kevyn Aucoin the Creamy Glow
Duo in Nuelle/Bloodroses, and
Burberry Light Glow Earthy
Blush in No 07 all look
beautifully natural.

Sheer Vivid Tinted

Moisturiser
in Muriwai, 35
Ilia

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PHOTOGRAPHS:
PHO
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OGRAPHS: JASON
JASO
ON LLOYD-EVANS,
LLOYD-EVANS, IMAXTREE, ANDREEA
MACRI, GRAHAM WALSER/STUDIO
WA
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29
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BALMAIN

STELLA MCCARTNEY

26.50
Nars

BEAUTY BAZAAR

Repair Balm, 255

Erno Laszlo

Brow Pencil,
13.50
MAC

VERSACE

Eight Hour Cream Skin

Protectant, 26
Elizabeth Arden
Resilience Lift
Restorative
Radiance Oil, 50
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DOLCE & GABBANA

If you embrace one catwalk trend this

season, a dewy, lit-from
m-within sheen is
simultaneously the mostt attering and
directional make-up stattement. To
amplify radiance while lookiing poliished
rather than greasy, simply pow
wder your
nostrils, chin and between the brows,
before pressing a dab of emollient crream
or oil on to the cheekbones, temples and
lips. I never powder the cheeks, says
the make-up artist Kay Montano.
A
A highlight on the cheekbones look s
immediatelly freesh-facced and
d youthfull.

A SCATTERING OF FRECKLES

THE RETURN OF RED

BURBERRY

Rouge Coco
Shine Lipstick
in Coco, 25
Chanel

If you dont fancy S/S 15s nude lips, stick with

the enduring chic of red: there was ery
ery coral
at Missoni, scarlet at Burberry and rich berry at
Dolce & Gabbana. For a fresh take, wear it
alongside springs key directions for highlights
and natural skin (matte skin with red looks
retro). A slightly blurred edge, achieved by
blotting with a nger, appears appropriately
nonchalant and also makes lips look fuller.

Rouge Allure
Lipstick in
Insaisissable, 26
Chanel

Colour Balm
Lipstick
in Ruby, 16
Stila

The undeniable charm of

freckles was evidenced at Paul
Smith, Jean-Pierre Braganza,
Preen and Mary Katrantzou
this season. Gisele likes to add a
few freckles across her nose and
cheeks she says it makes her
look younger, observes the
make-up artist Val Garland,
while Kate Moss is also known to
rely on brow pencils to imitate
freckles. For the best effect, use
a lighter and a darker tone of
pencil, sharpening one to a
point while blunting the other
so that it creates larger dots.

Beyond Perfecting
Foundation +
Concealer, 27
Clinique

Over-corrected skin is so pass and

ageing, says the make-up artist
Terry Barber, but few of us are ready
to embrace the entirely
make-up-free skin revealed at Marc
Jacobs. For a kinder compromise,
the latest skin-nishing
skin-nishing products
blur imperfections and add radiance
without heavy coverage. YSLs
Touche Eclat Blur Primer and
Blur Perfector smooth the pores
and fade ne lines, leaving a
bare, but better nish.

atio
n for
con
cea
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Miracle Cushion in
Beige Rose, 29.50
Lancme

Touche Eclat
Blur Primer,
29.50
YSL

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Touche Eclat
Blur Perfector,
31.50
YSL

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dne
To erase re

Nail
Transformations
in Green Pearl,
10, MAC

Dior Vernis
in Majesty, 18.50
Dior

Nail Varnish
in Minimalistic,
7.99, Essie

THIERRY MUGLER

NATURAL NAILS

Enhanced minimalism is
the nail technician Keri Blairs
summary of S/S 15s big nail trend.
Nude nails look modern with a matte
nish (at Mary Katrantzou and Paul
Smith, the texture was called linen) or
pearl-effect topcoats (Just Cavalli).
Peachy-beige shades are the most
complementary, whatever your
colouring, says the manicurist
Anatole Rainey.
ALBERTA FERRETTI

True Match
Concealer,
6.99
LOral Paris

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NATURAL SKIN

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Medium, 35.50
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BLUMARINE

BEAUTY BAZ
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VERSACE

18.50
Nars

Eye Drama in
Transparent,
4.99
Maybelline

BIGGER, BRIGHTER EYES

From Bottega Veneta to Blumarine,

eyes gained an extra-glossy
dimension. MAC Eye Gloss in
Lightly Tauped was ubiquitous
backstage, while Nars Eye Paint in
Porto Venere and YSL Couture Eye
Primer in Medium gave gentle
radiance. A touch of concealer
blended under the browbone brings
out the eyes without looking
make-uppy, says Chanels new
global creative
make-up and colour
designer, Lucia Pica.
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Shaper, 16
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Chantecaille

SUBDUED DRAMA

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Dior

DONNA KARAN

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Khl Hypnse
Waterproof
in Gris Rivoli,
18.50
Lancme

Le Chrome Luxe
Eye Duo in Pigeon/Marble, 64
Chantecaille

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CC

Its a smoky eye created in nude

shades, said the make-up artist
Charlotte Tilbury of the hazy
grey-taupe shadow she devised for
Donna Karans show. A soft play of
matte against shine keeps the new
smoky eye light and attering: at
Donna Karan, velvety matte grey
contrasted with dewy skin; and
metallic neutrals at Giorgio Armani
and Tommy Hilger exemplied
the prettiness of reective shades.

Phyto 4 Ombres Palette

in Mystery, 57
Sisley

BEAUTY BAZ
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Pot Rouge in
Fresh Melon, 19
Bobbi Brown
Pot Rouge in
Calypso Coral, 19
Bobbi Brown

ts no surprise that Rosie Huntington-Whiteleys eponymous scent is based on the rose. Her name aside, like the
ower she is intrinsically English and naturally beautiful. I
have several perfumes on my dressing-table, as I like to switch my
fragrance depending on my mood, but I always come back to a rosebased scent, says the actress and model. I wanted to capture the
rosa centifolia bloom in the early morning, inspired by my
love of the English countryside. I grew up in Devon, so the whole
experience was very personal to me. Huntington-Whiteley combines the blooms with a feminine blend of magnolia and spicy
pepper for a modern freshness that mirrors her approach to life.

Sheer Foundation
Powder in Trench, 31
Burberry
Burb
18
ModelCo

ROSIES WORLD
SKINCARE: Im very diligent
with my skin and invest in
products that work for me. I
discovered iS Clinical a few years
ago, and I am very loyal to its
Active Serum, 68. I also love

Pot Rouge in
Powder Pink, 19
Bobbi Brown

38
By Terry

Rosie for Autograph

eau de parfum,
14 for 30ml
Marks & Spencer

Rosie Huntington-Whiteleys new

peerfume is inspired by her love of
the Engglish countryside
By VICTORIA HALL

Sensual Skin
Enhancer, 38
Kevyn Aucoin

Nude Powder in
Honey, 31
Burberry

Resurface Retinol Reform, about

60, from my facialist Shani
Darden. The Australian brand
ModelCo has just launched a
wonderful skincare line using natural ingredients, which Ive been
incorporating into my facial regime, too.
MAKE-UP: So much of my job is about becoming a character, so
on my days off I keep my look natural and easygoing. You will
always nd suncream, lipbalm, concealer and a blush in my make-up
bag. I use what I call my ve-minute face kit: it includes Kevyn
Aucoin Sensual Skin Enhancer; By Terry Baume de Rose; Bobbi
Browns Pot Rouge; Burberry Sheer Foundation Powder; and
Erborian CC Cream, 36.
WELLBEING: My workout ethos is to be strong and healthy. I feel
at my best when I exercise regularly; it gives my energy levels a boost
and I tend to sleep better. Plus, its important for me to stay in shape
for work. At the moment Im training with Simone De La Rue,
who teaches her own combination of dance, aerobics and fullbody workout called Body By Simone. Its really challenging but
strangely addictive. I try to eat simple, organic food at home so I can
indulge when I eat out.
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IDEAS

A new regiment of creams,

massage techniques and sculpting
tools can ght the signs of aggeing

By VICTORIA HALL

or years, weve been trying not to stare at the upper half of

friends faces, mentally measuring the frown lines across their forehead and crinkles around their eyes. While there is an abundance of
creams, serums and, of course, Botox to iron out wrinkles, the
absence of lines in this area doesnt always give you a fresh, youthful
glow. In fact, recent research carried out by YSL Skinscience shows
that the lower half is as important as the top part: for it is
where 50 per cent of ageing appears. Here, sagging is
one of the key components, alongside lines, wrinkles and dullness.
Conquering slackening skin is no mean
feat, as there are several factors that cause
jowls. As we age, a drop in hormone levels,
sun damage and general lifestyle damage
collagen, which gives skin elasticity and
bounce, says Dr Michael Prager. These
changes are compounded by inevitable
loss of volume, caused by the breakdown of
fat cells and the irresistible effects of gravity.
Fortunately, there are treatments to counterbalance these effects. Hollywood A-listers
use injections of human growth hormone (HGH),
which can turn back the clock by 15 years; but they can
only be prescribed by a doctor, and side-effects can include
joint and muscle pain and mental-health problems. Alternatively,
Thermage, a professional radio-frequency treatment, tightens skin
effectively after six sessions. For a more immediate difference, Dr
Prager likes to use llers to add volume in the cheeks and Botox to

49.95
Environ

85
LOccitane

80
Elemis

relax the downward-pulling muscles around the jawline. We need to

replace the volume in the cheeks in order to lift the lower face, but
this only works well if the muscles arent pulling down, he explains.
If you are not ready for the needle, vigorous massage can help
both to strengthen the facial muscles and to tighten and rm skin.
The celebrity facialist Su-Man, who counts Naomi Campbell as a
regular client, incorporates massage into all of her treatments as,
she explains, it improves blood circulation and keeps skin supple.
Unsurprisingly, several beauty brands and experts have developed
at-home facial massagers to help.
As with general ageing concerns, preventative measures, such as
always wearing SPF, not smoking and eating a healthy diet, will slow
the breakdown of collagen and keep skin taut. While regular face
creams can add moisture and temporarily plump up the skin, the
results are supercial, says the dermatologist Dr Nick Lowe. That
said, some creams make more of a difference than others. For
maximum hydration, LOccitanes new Immortelle 28 Day Divine
Renewal Program is a potent concentrate to reboot and rebalance
skin; while Elemis, which marks its 25th anniversary this year, has its
iconic Pro-Collagen Marine Cream, which can be used as both a day
cream and a mask to nourish and rm skin. Meanwhile, Environs
new launch, Revival Masque, boosts the skins natural growth factors.
www.harpersbazaar.co.uk

BEA
AUTY BAZAAR

Experts agree a
ll gr
eat
sk

JASON WU

THE OVERNIGHTER
Clinique Repairwear Sculpting Night Cream, 58
This cream is like an MOT for your skin, giving it
a real moisture boost. Apply a thick layer before bed
ngers, and come morning, skin
with the tips of your ngers,
will feeel rehyd
drated, reevived an
nd supplee.

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THE INSTANT LIFT

Liquilift Bio Active Face Lift,
90 at Cult Beauty
(www.cultbeauty.co.uk)
For those in search of an
immediate lift, this gel-cream is
worth the investment. Created
by a cosmetic scientist, it has
such a high content of active
ingredients that you can actually
feel it tightening the skin.

THE SERUM
YSL Forever Youth Liberator
Y-Shape Concentrate, 65
With a new complex of glycans, which
work to keep elastin and collagen in place,
this lightweight serum promises to
redene and sculpt your jawline.

THE NECK FIRMER

Elizabeth Arden Prevage Anti-Aging Neck and Dcollet
Firm and Repair Cream, 85
The neck muscles can exacerbate sagging around your
jowls. Packed with potent actives, this cream smooths,
tightens and hydrates the area within eight weeks.
www.harpersbazaar.co.uk

THE HYDRATO
OR
Vichy Liftactiv Supreme, 229.95
With a blend of powerfull
antioxidants to boost the sk
k ins
ab
bility to retain moistu
ure, and
rhamn
nose, a plant-d
derived sugar
that th
hickens the epidermis,
this cream
m gives you a healthy
glow from morning to night.

T H E S C U L P TO R
Crme de la Mer Serum
Massage Tool, 50
It looks more like a bottle opener
than a sculpting tool, but when
used properly it does help to
reedene the jawline. Use the
L-shap
ped end to trace your jaw,
workin
ng outwards, to boost
lymph
hatic drainage.
ALEXANDER WANG

PHOTOGRAPHS: GRAHAM WALSER/STUDIO 33, JASON LLOYD-EVANS, TRUNK ARCHIVE

CALVIN KLEIN

THE CHEEK LIFTER

Lancme Rnergie French Lift, 95
Inspired by French surgeons, this
buttery-soft cream (used with the
massage disc) promises plumper,
rmer skin. Impressive clinical
statistics back these claims: after
eight weeks, cheekbones appeared
up to 22.5 per cent lifted.

BEAUTY BAZAAR

Instant Light
Lip Balm

hose of us who spend

d an inord
dinate amount off time
Perfector
in 02, 18
searching for the per fec t lipstick, and to whom
Clarins
a bright lip is anathema, should enjoy S/S 15.
With barely a hint of lip colour anywhere bar the
occasional shot of orange for those who can take it
we can now luxuriate in every shade of beige, cream and
pink-blushed nude. Catwalk models have often worn no
more than foundation and lipbalm, but for real life the
easiest way to get that bare, but not
blanked-out lip is to use a natural
H OW TO D O
pencil all over, followed by a
lipbalm. The make-up artist Lisa
Eldridge recommends working
the pencil in tiny circles to stop
any hard lip-line while bufng
on a lasting colour.
Alternatively, apply a little of
Guerlains KissKiss Liplift before
dabbing on a soft-toned lipstick;
blending the two gives a creamy, natural
nish. For those who prefer a hint of colour
but still love a sheer texture, there is a huge
choice of chunky lipstick pencils available,
This month, NEWBY HANDS
including Cliniques Chubby Sticks, 17,
reveals the secrets of a
for a satin nish, or Sisleys Phyto-Lip
Twists for shine.
velvety sheen
Sheeny lip oil rather than a sticky
lipgloss looks pretty, and YSLs Volupt
Tint-in-Oil and Clarins Instant Light Lip Comfort Oil blend natural
oils and a hint of colour. Slightly addictive to use, these
Lip 20 Mask, 37
arre set to replace lipbalms as our reappliable lip treaat.
Kaplan MD,
exclusively at
But with little colour to divert the attention
n, our
Cultbeauty.co.uk
lip
ps need to be in great condition; creamy textures
an
nd nudes look cakey and ageing on dry lips. To gett
at, chapped lips looking plump and pillowy, use an
old toothbrush with a soft skin scrub or some lipbalm
m
over the lips. This polishes and plumps them up beautifully; Kaplan MDs Lip 20 Mask does the same job.
Its a difcult area to treat, advises the anti-ageing doctor Darren
McKeown. We can soften lines with Botox and ller, but you cant
really remove them completely, so its a key area for prevention.
To dene lips and smooth out the skin around them, Sensais Total
Lip Treatment has achieved cult status for those who use it, while I
feel the same about both Iomas Lip Lift, 44, for smoothing out skin
along the lip line, and La Prairies Perfection Porter for giving lips a
lovely nude sheen, while making them soft and even a little fuller.

SPRINGS
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Sisley

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Lip Pencil in
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Charlotte
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Instant Light Lip

Comfort Oil, 18
Clarins

KissKiss
Liplift,
23
Guerlain

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| March 2015

Lip Lover
in 400, 18
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PHOTOGRAPHS: ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI, COURTESY OF NEWBY HANDS, GRAHAM WALSER/STUDIO 33

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La Prairie

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GOLDEN VALLEY

PHOTOGRAPH: BILLAL TARIGHT

Inside a secluded Tuscan paradise.

Plus: where to stay in the worlds sty
tyle
y capitals;
a luxurious drivi
ving
i holiday in Cornwall;
and Jourdan Dunns Dubai

The mediaeval village

of Il Borro in Tuscany

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FASHION
KINGDOM
From left: the
village of Il Borro
seen from the main
house, Villa
Padronale. The
cypresses lining
the entrance
to the resort

Once ruled by the Medicis and the Savoys,

Il Borro in Tuscany has now been restored
by a new dyn
ynasty
n ty:
y the Ferragamos
By GIANLUCA LONGO
Photographs by BILLAL TARIGHT

estled in a ood plain between

the harsh Apennine Mountains
and the gentle hills of Chianti
is the village of Il Borro, one of
the last hidden treasures of mediaeval
Tuscany. For 1,000 years, it has been the
domain of some of Italys greatest families.
First the Medici rulers of Renaissance Florence and then
the House of Savoy, the Italian royal family of the 19th century,
lived and played here. And now a new clan, the Ferragamo dynasty,
is breathing life into the old buildings, restoring them to their
original beauty.
I arrived at sunset, driving down a long avenue anked by tall
cypresses casting dark shadows in that low, golden light and watched
only by some horses in a nearby eld. What was immediately
apparent in Il Borro was the silence. So still was it that I had the
illusion I was the only person there. Each village house has been
transformed into a hotel room and, their idiosyncrasies still in place,
they are all different. My pergola was hung with intensely perfumed
jasmine and faced the small church in which there hangs a rare fullsize photograph of the Shroud of Turin, which was once in the
keeping of the Savoy family.
Elsewhere, every house, almost every window, gives a breathtaking view over the valley, or down a narrow street paved in local
stone. Some old-fashioned artisan workshops have been reinstated,
with the help of the Ferragamos. One sells delicate jewellery, nextdoor is a shoemaker, and theres also a tiny museum dedicated to the
story of Pinocchio, in which the scenes are rendered in papier mch.
I decided to restore this village as an act of faith that will last
for years to come, says Ferruccio Ferragamo, the president of the
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| March 2015

fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo, when we meet. But his son Salvatore, named after his grandfather, the labels founder, is the one
who really looks after Il Borro and has added modern luxuries such as
a spacious spa and an innity pool from which you can gaze at the
village. The main house, a pink neo-classical gem with terraced
gardens brimming with roses and jasmine and a central fountain, is
connected to the rest of the property by a little stone bridge.
The restoration, presided over by the Ferragamos, has been as
meticulous as you would expect. Everything has been put back
exactly the way it was, says Salvatore. The same stones returned to
the same streets, the tiles back on their original roofs. We had
to respect our surroundings, and relied on the local artisans and
builders who know the history of the area. His biggest challenge
was to reopen the 450-year-old cellars and start producing wine
again. There are six different organic wines produced at Il Borro
nowadays, ranging from a big Super Tuscan to a dessert wine,
Occhio di Pernice; all made with grapes grown in the vineyards that
fan out in the 150 acres around Il Borro.
The next stage is to make Il Borro an eco-friendly estate,
Ferruccio adds, though the propertys electricity is already solarpowered. Its not just about preserving the past; its about realising Il
Borros potential for the future.
Il Borro (www.ilborro.it/en), from about 275 a room a night B&B.
www.harpersbazaar.co.uk

REST OF

TH

E BES
T
By LUCY HALFHEAD

BELMOND HOTEL
CIPRIANI, VENICE
George Clooneys home during his wedding
celebrations looks out to St Marks Square.
The Palladio Suite has panoramic views and
a living-room bedecked with blown glass.
Belmond Hotel Cipriani (www.belmond.com/
hotel-cipriani-venice), from 475 a night B&B
in a Double Garden View Room.
From above: the
indoor pool at Villa
Padronale. A horse
in the stables.
White roses in the
Italian Garden.
The interior of one
of the houses

MANDARIN ORIENTAL PARIS

Here youll nd Lesage-embroidered
bedheads in the suites and works by Man
Ray on the walls. Elegant furnishings
appear throughout, and Bar 8, encrusted
with Lalique crystal, is sleek and seductive.
Mandarin Oriental Paris
(www.mandarinoriental.com/paris),
from about 670 a room a night.

THE RITZ-CARLTON, VIENNA

This hotel is made up of four 19th-century
palaces, and still features the original
grand staircases, antique panelling and
frescoed ceilings. But venture down
to the spa and youll nd a modern
Swarovski-crystal-studded swimming pool.
The Ritz-Carlton, Vienna (www.ritzcarlton.
com/vienna), from about 240 a night
in a Deluxe Room.
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Travel
NOTEBOOK
Favourite hotel
Atlantis the Palm
in Dubai, because
it has everything
I could possibly want
under one roof.

40
Lancer

Holiday beauty
essentia
als
Lancer Sheerr Fluid
Sun Shield SPF
F 50;;
Show Beautty
Premiere Dry
y
Shampoo; and
d
Maybelline Rocke
et
VolumExpress
Mascara.

30
Show
Beauty

7.99
Maybelline

iPad case,
335
Louis
Vuitton
75
Hardware
London

Best holiday read

The Power Is
Within You by
Louise L Hay.

Three words that

describe Dubai:
Spectacular,
beeautiful and fun.

From a
selection
Gucci

Whats in your carry-on luggage?

My Gucci leather holdall is always
full of face wipes, my Hardware
London sunglasses and an iPad.

Best tip for

relaxation
Meditating.
I try to
take a few
minutes to
focus every
morning.

89
Triangl

Holiday soundtrack
Tinashe, Ed Sheeran
and Chris Brown,
all on repeat.

650
Burberry
Prorsum

400
Marie France
Van Damme

DO
DONT
ONT LEAVE HOME WITHOUT
on
ne of Desmond & Dempseys brushed-cotton pyjama sets. Made in the UK, they come
in a range of elegant handpainted prints and are available for monogramming too, if youre
fe
eeling particular. Pyjamas, 85, Desmond & Dempsey (www.desmondanddempsey.com).

PHOTOGRAPHS: ALAN GELATI, COURTESY OF

INSTAGRAM/OFFICIALJDUNN, GRAHAM WALSER/STUDIO 33.
SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

The mod
dell spllash
hes wit
wiith dollph
hins
and snaps sunsets in Du
ubai

Favourite
holiday memory
My son and I
spent a morning
playing with
the dolphins.
It was magical..





   

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SHOW
STOPPERS
Where the fashion pack really stays
during catwalk season

N E W YO R K
FA S H I O N D I R E C TO R
AV R I L M A I R O N T H E LOW E L L

MILAN
S E N I O R CO N T R I B U T I N G
FA S H I O N E D I TO R M I R A N DA
ALMOND ON THE GRAND
When in Milan for the shows, I love to stay
at the Grand on Via Manzoni. Its steeped in
history with strong links to La Scala opera house. The roll-call
of past guests includes Maria Callas, Richard Burton and the
Italian lm director Vittorio De Sica; Giuseppe Verdi spent
years living between there and the countryside, and died at
the Grand on 27 January 1901. Rooms are tastefully taupe
with dark-red cushioned chairs, parquet ooring and
extremely comfortable beds. Room-service breakfast
(a must during Fashion Week) comes on a silver tray with a
single white rose so chic. The exquisite Gerrys Bar offers
respite after a hard day of shows; here you can sip the best
negroni and tuck into a perfect spaghetti al pomodoro.
Grand Hotel et de Milan (www.grandhoteletdemilan.it),
from about 315 a room a night.
www.harpersbazaar.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHS: YELENA YEMCHUK, OLIVER HOLMS, COURTESY OF

MIRANDA ALMOND, LEITH CLARK, CELESTINE COONEY, GRAHAM
WALSER/STUDIO 33. SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

There are many things to love about the Lowell,

besides its location on the Upper East Side of
Manhattan and its rooms, with their working
replaces, marble bathrooms, piles of cashmere blankets and
terraces looking over to Central Park. It feels more like a private
townhouse than a hotel: this sense of discretion attracts a
clientele that includes Jennifer Aniston, Miranda Kerr and Eliane
Fischer, the mother of Chanel owners Grard and Alain
Wertheimer. Despite this fabulousness, what makes it my
favourite hotel is the staff. Champagne on arrival, owers by the
bedside, a bottle of red wine or a cheese plate to welcome you
back at night: they not only remember your name, but also the
things that make you feel at home. And with a new restaurant,
cocktail bar and guest lounge opening this year, its set to get
even better. My room for next NYFW is booked.
The Lowell Hotel (www.lowellhotel.com), from about 510
a room a night.

PA R I S
E D I TO R - I N - C H I E F J U S T I N E
P I C A R D I E O N T H E PA R K H YAT T
Now that the Ritz has closed for
refurbishment, the Park Hyatt Paris-Vendme
has become the citys central meeting point during Fashion
Week. The exotic ocks of editors, stylists and models swoop
into the verdant interior courtyard for vodka cocktails, or sip
green tea as they perch beside the replaces on chilly days.
But its not simply the great location on Rue de la Paix that
makes this my favourite place to stay during show season.
The bedrooms provide a calm retreat from the clamour of the
catwalks, and behind the hotels 19th-century faade,
the sleek conversion has excellent soundproong. With
welcoming staff, a warm atmosphere and a wonderful
spa, the Park Hyatt is the perfect Parisian haven.
Park Hyatt Paris-Vendme (www.paris.vendome.hyatt.com),
from about 470 a room a night.

LO N D O N
S T Y L E D I R E C TO R - AT- L A R G E
L E IT H C L A R K O N C L A R I D G E S

UR

V I VA

Stylist
y Celestine Cooney
y s Fashion Week essentials

SH

OW

Without a doubt, Claridges is my London

home-away-from-home my favourite
spot is the velvety Fumoir bar for a nightcap. The hotel
has strong ties to the fashion industry: the esteemed
illustrator David Downton has been the artist in residence
since 2011; Diane von Furstenberg redesigned 20 of the
guest-rooms; and Lanvin, Dior and Dolce & Gabbana have
created Christmas-trees for the lobby. Claridges comes
into its own during Fashion Week: its perfectly located in
the centre of the action, and even plays host to the
Mulberry show; but once you step inside as a guest its a
haven of elegance and calm,
with immaculate service. I
have spent Christmas there
with my family and poodles
in a two-bedroom suite, and
the rooms are some of the
most spacious in the capital.
Claridges (www.claridges.
co.uk), from 429 a room
a night.

285
Sunspel

About 480
Visvim

269.95
Bose
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R ACE TO LANDS END

The sea off Lands End,

photographed by
Harry Cory Wright

PHOTOGRAPHS: HARRY CORY WRIGHT, GETTY IMAGES

HELENA LEE slides into the seat of a Bentley

for a luxurious Cornwall roadtrip

From above: the actress

Gaby Morlay on her
Bentley in Paris in 1936.
Lands End. Woolf
Barnato (centre),
three-time winner of
Le Mans for Bentley
between 1928 and 1930.
The Bentley
Continental GT Speed

ou learn a lot about yourself in a fast car. When youre faced

with a racing track, who knows if the fear of unchecked speed
will fall away until your foot touches the throttle? I, for one,
learn that I enjoy danger, I dont much like corners and, at the risk of
pushing the metaphor, I prefer to be in the driving seat. For there,
youre at the mercy of your own competitiveness, seduced by the
full force of acceleration, as youre wildly ung from left to right.
I discover all this at a track day at Thruxton, which Im told is the
fastest circuit in the UK. It helps that Im at the wheel of a Bentley
Continental V8 S, the most beautiful of beasts: sleek, charismatic,
emphatic in yellow. Every inch has been given bespoke attention:
the leather is hand-stitched, the chassis hand-polished. The Bentley
is a couture car, created at its factory (or should I say
atelier?) in Crewe. The Queen had her crest sewn
onto the headrests of hers; another customer asked
that her motor be painted the exact shade of her
Dior nail polish. Climbing into the car is an event in
itself: the seat is like a throne upholstered in creamy
leather; the panels, in Californian walnut, have been
lathed to perfection; the nose of the bonnet dips
down serenely to the iconic Bentley wings.
It also helps that today I am being coached by the
racing driver Andy Meyrick, who is fresh from competing at the annual 24-hour Le Mans endurance
race. Youre brave, Meyrick says cheerfully after a couple of laps,
which is a heartening thing to hear. Youre maybe a little too brave
into the corners. He is referring to my failure to brake. But, freed from
speed limits and road markings, I am taken with the idea of unassailable acceleration. Down the long straights, I drift across the wide
expanse of road, enjoying the luxury of having the whole lane to
myself. Though I am relieved not to be racing anyone, it is tempting
to imagine myself at the Surrey circuit Brooklands in its 1920s
heyday, peopled with Bright Young Things to cheer me on. Back
then, you were either a Bugatti or a Bentley girl, like Diana Barnato
Walker the speed queen, aviatrix and original Bentley girl who was
given a Derby Saloon on her 21st birthday by her Le Mans-winning
father. By the fourth lap, my foot pressed down fully, the Continental
is hitting speeds of 120 miles per hour. My right arm throbs and my
knuckles whiten from gripping the wheel; I feel invincible and slightly giddy, channelling more Evelyn
Waughs Agatha Runcible, who veers off the track in
madness, than Barnato Walker, and am tempted to
take the car and escape to the country lanes.
But the real test is on the open road, so I am lent a
more stately Bentley Mulsanne to motor from London
to Cornwall for a summer weekend. Im condent in
my new skills: the straight track becomes the M3, and
chicanes metamorphose into hedged corners. The
six-hour journey is an exercise in unparalleled luxury;
pulling up to Somersets Babington House for lunch,
my husband and I stay in our seats an extra minute as the massage
function nishes. Later, when we leave the breezy Boskerris Hotel
in Cornwall, we easily negotiate the compact roads of nearby St Ives
(elementary after Thruxtons tight S-bends) despite the cars sevenfoot width, and take in the charms of Tate St Ives, the New Craftsman
Gallery and the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden. Once we
arrive at Trebethericks St Moritz hotel on the north coast of
Cornwall, we relax in its Cowshed Spa, although I am already looking
forward to slipping back into the driving seat for the journey home.
Boskerris Hotel, from 130 a room a night; St Moritz, from 120 a room a
night, both at Mr & Mrs Smith (0330 100 3180; www.mrandmrssmith.com).

Ifeelinvincible
andslightlygiddy,
channelling
EvelynWaughs
AgathaRuncible

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Edited by HELENA LEE

PHOTOGRAPH: OLIVER HOLMS

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
in Balmain

THE
SORORITY
IES

Inside the glamorous gathering

of inspirational icons that was
Bazaars annual Women of the Year Awards

FLASH!

Carey Mulligan
in Erdem

WONDER
WOMEN
The night was a celebration of sisterhood. Bazaars Women of the
Year Awards (sponsored by Este Lauder, Audemars Piguet and
Selfridges) returned to Claridges, where a roll-call of winners
arrived in a eet of Mercedes-Benz cars. During the ceremony,
Ellie Goulding presented the Audemars Piguet Musician of the
Year award to Jessie Ware, who revealed her appreciation for
the real sisterhood among female musicians, before Victoria
Beckham admitted that Bazaars Fashion Icon Diane von
Furstenberg was the woman she wanted to be. Tracey Emin
handed Julia Peyton-Jones the Art Icon award, declaring that Julia
has not only changed the art world immensely, but also the art
world for women. Acknowledging the contribution of husbands
and partners, Roksanda Ilincic dedicated her award to all the men
who support the women in their lives, as Marcus Mumford put a
reassuring hand on his wife Carey Mulligans back. By the end of
the night, the room was reduced to tears both by Gwendoline
Christie, who declared that perceptions of women are changing;
if someone like me wins awards like these, then I am happy and
I am proud; and Mulligan, who slipped off her shoes to come up
on stage, and said simply: Thanks to you all for being role models.
For more exclusive videos and interviews,
visit www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/WOTY2014.

PHOTOGRAPHS: OLIVER HOLMS, KENSINGTON LEVERNE, BENJAMIN MADGWICK

A brilliant array of stars were honoured for their

success at the Bazaar Women of the Year Awards

Arizona Muse in
Victoria Beckham

Joan Burstein
and Tracey Emin

Meribeth Parker
and Jose Torrens

Christopher Kane and

Victoria Beckham

Sandra Choi and

Miranda Almond

She is the woman I want to be

Victoria Beckham on Diane von Furstenberg

Anna Jones and

Justine Picardie

Simone
Rocha

Nicholas
Kirkwood and
Debbie Harry

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Roksanda
Ilincic in her
own label

FLASH!

Charles Dance,
and Gwendoline
Christie in Giles

Rob
Williams

Charles Dance on

GWENDOLINE
CHRISTIE

Margot
Robbie
in Rosie
Assoulin
Sarah Gavron

Philip Astor
and Ajesh
Patalay

A wonderful Joy our eyes to bless,

In her magnicent comeliness,
Is an English girl of eleven stone two,
And just over six foot in her dancing shoe!
Go search the world and search the sea,
Then come you home and sing with me
Theres no such gold and no such pearl
As a bright and beautiful English girl!
Charles Dances A Poem to Gwendoline,
after Gilbert and Sullivans A Wonderful
Joy Our Eyes to Bless.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
in Balmain

Chris
Good

Julia
Peyton-Jones
in Alexander
McQueen

PHOTOGRAPHS: OLIVER HOLMS, GETTY IMAGES,

KENSINGTON LEVERNE, BENJAMIN MADGWICK

Sarah Burton
and Diane von
Furstenberg

Thomas Kochs,
and Sydney
Ingle-Finch
in Dior
Judd
Crane

Tom Hooper, and

Suki Waterhouse
in Valentino

Guests were served

Veuve Clicquot
champagne
Edie and Olympia
Campbell in
Alexander
McQueen

60 seconds with

EDIECAMPBELL
What makes you laugh out loud? YouTube
video compilations of people falling over.
They get me every time.
The rst lm you fell in love with Nikita by
Luc Besson. Nikita is so fragile and yet tough
at the same time. Its beautifully shot.
Female icon of all time Kate Bush. I went
to her concert at the Hammersmith Apollo
and loved it. It was so weird, ridiculous and
deeply uncool.
Which woman has most inuenced you?
Marie Colvin.
Your denition of beauty Grayson Perrys
make-up.

Franois-Henry
Bennahmias

FLASH!

Marcus
Mumford

Elisa Sednaoui
Stephen Jones

60 seconds with

JESSIE WARE
Which woman has most inuenced
you? My mother. She made me feel
I could do anything I wanted. I had
a place on a law-conversion course,
but when the chance to be a
backing singer came up, she told
me to go for it and to enjoy it.
Who makes you laugh out loud? My
husband. When were about to go to
sleep, he will put me in ts of giggles.
Female icon of all time Sade. She
has such integrity and style, her
career has been so varied and
brilliant, yet shes stayed private.

Jessie Ware in
Miu Miu, and
Ellie Goulding in
Kaufman Franco

Tinie Tempah and

Olivier Rousteing

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Forest School

One of the very few diamond structure schools

in the country. Our school is located on the
edge of Epping Forest in north east London.

www.forest.org.uk
[email protected]
020 8520 1744

The Maynard School is an outstanding day school for girls in th

he
heart of Exeter. Providing education from 7-18 we are one of the higg hest
performing schools in the country and have been at the forefront of girls
education for over 350 years; our long history is testament to our abilityy to
bring out the best in each and every one of our students.
At The Maynard we believe that happiness is as important as outstandin
ng results,
and from the moment you walk through the door you can sense the warr m,
friendly atmosphere and witness the girls genuine enjoyment of and entt husiasm
for learning. Class and form sizes are deliberately kept small, enabling us to
provide bespoke guidance. Our outstanding pastoral care and our team of
dedicated, talented teachers mean that we can help each student to develop
in her own way. Enjoying school is paramount, as happy students achievve
great things both in and out of the classroom. Each individual is supportted in
whatever she wants to do, and in turn Maynard girls support each otherr and
develop great friendships which last a lifetime. As well as having impressive
exam results, students leave the school as condent, adaptable and indep
pendent
young women, with a spirit of adventure and a desire to succeed.
Located in central Exeter with excellent transport links, our school day runs
from 8.40am 3.55pm and we offer excellent wraparound care for all stt udents
from 8am to 5.30pm at no additional charge. We offer a wealth of extraacurricular activities which take place mainly during the extended lunch
h break,
enabbl i ng gii rll s to ourii sh
h i n every sense. Sch
holl arsh
h ips andd bursariies are avvailable
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Maddy Linnen-Jones, Registrar

The Maynard School, Denmark Road
Exeter, EX1 1SJ

01392 355998
[email protected]
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e: [email protected]

t: 0117 905 5271

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Westonbirt School

Top 5% of UK Schools
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First rate teaching

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Co-Ed Prep School & Nursery - Day Girls Senior School - Day, Boarding & Flexi-Boarding
T 01666 881301 E [email protected]
@WestonbirtSch www.westonbirt.org Tetbury Gloucestershire GL8 8QG

OPEN DAY
SINCLAIR HOUSE SCHOOL
Preparatory School for Boys and Girls aged 4-13

10.00AM 12.00 NOON

SATURDAY 7TH MARCH

59 Fulham High Street, London SW6 3JJ
TEL 020 7736 9182
EMAIL [email protected]
www.sinclairhouseschool.co.uk

More than just art history

A pre university course set in London, Venice, Florence and Rome
which opens eyes, ears and minds a life-changing and unforgettable
experience. The course covers arts, literature, music, world cinema, global
issues, cookery, life drawing and photography, as well as experiencing
Venice during carnival time. It is aimed at students from across the
academic spectrum both sciences and arts.
T. +44 (0)20 8871 4747

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Edgeborough School, Farnham - A caring,
friendly Reception Class and part of a fantastic
school

Edgeborough School
Frensham
Farnham
Surrey, GU10 3AH

Edgeborough is a traditional Prep school, just outside Farnham, for girls

and boys aged 2-13 years old.

Tel: 01252 792495

[email protected]
www.edgeborough.co.uk

Our children enjoy small classes with individual attention, specialist

academic and sports teachers and use of the schools outstanding facilities.
This care and attention has been recognised in our Excellent ISI report.
The school sits in 50 acres of beautiful grounds that pupils can enjoy and
explore, supported by an outdoor classroom, play area and woodlands to
enhance learning. Alongside this, we have a varied list of extra-curricular
activities, boarding for older pupils and flexible drop-off and pick-up
times.
Our pupils consistently receive exemplary scholarship awards from
prestigious senior schools.We are now accepting registrations for
September 2015 and we warmly invite you to come and visit.
To make an appointment please telephone Mrs Gill Dixon on
01252 792495 or email [email protected]

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Devonshire House School

Devonshire House School is for boys and girls from three to thirteen
years of age and the Schools nursery department, the Oak Tree Nursery,
takes children from two and a half.The academic subjects form the core
curriculum and the teaching of music, art, drama, computer studies, design
technology and games helps to give each child a chance to excel.
At the age of eleven for girls and thirteen for boys the children go on to
their next schools, particularly the main independent London day schools.
The school is located on the crest of the hill running into Hampstead
Village and has ne Victorian premises with charming grounds and walled
gardens. Devonshire House is accredited by the Independent Schools
Council and is a member of the I.A.P.S.

Dating back to 597AD, The Kings School is

reputedly the oldest school in the world.
It is also one of the countrys leading co-educational boarding schools
located in the idyllic surroundings of the Precincts of Canterbury
Cathedral, one hour from London.At the heart of a Kings education
is the dual pursuit of academic and extra-curricular excellence.The
self-discipline, intellect and wide-ranging interests that such a pursuit
engenders are highly prized in our modern global society.The quality
of teaching and the breadth of activities outside the classroom mean that
lessons learnt and skills acquired stay with the pupils for life.

Mayfield School
Mayfield is a Catholic independent boarding and day school for girls aged
11 to 18, set in 40 acres of beautiful Sussex countryside.With a proud
reputation for high academic achievement, exceptional pastoral care and a
plethora of high quality extra-curricular activities, Mayfield has nurtured
generations of confident, enterprising and multi-talented young women
who are well equipped and prepared for taking their place in the modern
world. Mayfield gives its girls the chance to discover and fulfil their full
potential - educating their minds, bodies, hearts and souls and endowing
them with a lifelong love of learning.

The Admissions Secretary

2 Arkwright Road
London NW3 6AE
Telephone: 020 7435 1916
Facsimile: 020 7431 4787
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
www.devonshirehouseschool.co.uk

The Kings School

25 The Precincts
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 2ES
01227 595501
[email protected]

Please contact:
Mrs Jennifer Gandy
Registrar
Mayfield School
The Old Palace
Mayfield
East Sussex TN20 6PH
[email protected]
01435 874642
www.mayfieldgirls.org

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York House
An outstanding Prep School for boys and girls from 3 to 13 years.With
excellent facilities throughout,York House sits in 47 acres of beautiful
Hertfordshire countryside. Jon Gray is in his third year at York House
School, and his ninth as a headmaster.When appointed to his first
headship he was the youngest prep school headmaster in the country.
With his wife Emma and two young sons, Mr Gray is delighted to be
living and working at York House School. As only the seventh headmaster
in the schools history there is great stability and strength in the legacy of
leadership at York House.

Tel: 01923 772395

Email: [email protected]
www.york-house.com

Everything we do aims to give your child the best possible preparation for
his or her future studies and adult life.We encourage our pupils to
develop a self-disciplined and hard-working approach.This will help them
achieve good academic results whilst, just as importantly, encouraging
three character traits which we believe to be vital;
- A positive outlook
- Self-reliance (for only when you are truly self-reliant are you in a
position to help others)
- The ability to leave people and places better than you find them.
2015 OPEN DAYS Saturday 14 March | Saturday 16 May
Saturday 10 October 2015 - 9.30am to 12pm

Papplewick is a day, weekly, and full boarding

preparatory school for around 200 boys between the ages of 6 and 13.
Situated in 15 acres of land opposite Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire,
Papplewick has an excellent record of academic achievement and feeds
many of the UKs top independent senior schools including Eton, Harrow,
Winchester,Wellington, Stowe and Bradfield. As well as academic, sporting
and cultural excellence, Papplewick aims to provide boys with the
confidence and security they need to fulfil their potential, and the school
strives to promote enthusiasm for life, contribution to the community and
kindness to others amongst all its pupils. Papplewick is also famous for its
very popular snake club.Two London daily transport runs operate to and
from Chiswick and Brook Green.

Contact: Sarah Tysoe,

Registrar 01344 621488
[email protected]
www.papplewick.org.uk
Registered Charity No. 309087

Redcliffe School
Founded in 1948, this outstanding prep-school (ISI report 2013) in
Chelsea takes girls (3yrs to 11yrs) and boys (3yrs to 8yrs). Each childs
individual talents are developed and valued, enabling them to ourish
in an environment which is academically challenging for all. Our
commitment to providing the best facilities, curriculum and teaching
show the schools dedication to growing excellence in all aspects of the
educational experience at Redcliffe. Our children are happy and motivated
learners who care for one another and have a lively interest in the many
opportunites Redcliffe School has to offer. Our leavers move on to some
of Londons leading boys prep schools and girls day and boarding schools.

Supporting academic excellence through

individualised teaching at Sinclair House School
Opened in Fulham in 1989, offering a warm and nurturing learning
environment to achieve academic excellence, the School emphasises
values-led teaching and is committed to providing a personalised learning
gradient from Early Years to Common Entrance stages. Children build on
their strengths in the Nursery using the Montessori Method, developing
condence and social skills ready for the Preparatory Years.
The curriculum is structured to be intellectually stimulating and balanced,
to develop each childs unique interests and abilities.
Open Days:Thursday 18th September for the Nursery Saturday 20th
September for the Preparatory School.

REDCLIFFE SCHOOL
47 Redcliffe Gardens
London SW10 9LH
Tel: 020 7352 9247
[email protected]
www.redcliffeschool.com
For more information or to arrange
a visit please call our registrar.

SINCLAIR HOUSE SCHOOL

Lower Montessori Nursery:
196 Munster Road, London SW6 6AU
Upper Montessori Nursery:
159 Munster Road, London SW6 6DA
Tel: 020 7736 9365
Preparatory School:
59 Fulham High Street, London SW6 3JJ
Tel: 020 7736 9182
[email protected]
www.sinclairhouseschool.co.uk

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EST. 1910

York House School

Sarratt Road, Rickmansworth,
Hertfordshire, WD3 4LW

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The May 1971
cover of Harpers
Bazaar featuring
Lauren Hutton

HOW BAZAAR
It was a snapshot of the modern 1970s
photographers to carry over from the
woman. By which I mean the modern
1960s, his early experimental work (he
1970s woman, Lauren Hutton, an exemwas known for his blurred lines and
By AJESH PATALAY
plary cover girl for the new decade. The
double exposures) giving way to a
May 1971 issue of Bazaar also foresaw
more commercial style of portraiture.
the way covers were heading, after the elegance of the 1950s and the
In Hutton he had found the ideal model, and role model too. She
swing of the 1960s. Here was a cover premised entirely on the per- looked the part: condent, jaunty, fun. She also stood for something,
sonality of the model; no concept, no gimmick, just her in a studio not least business acumen. By 1973 she had landed a beauty contract
in a poppy-red outt.
with Revlon worth $1 million a year, an unheard-of deal and amount
By the late 1970s, this emphasis on personality had evolved under of money at a time when models were booked by the hour.
the editorship of Anthony T Mazzola into a monthly formula: a
In the early years of her career it was unusual for Hutton to ash
recognisable face on every cover, a standard to which we still adhere. the gap-toothed grin that became her signature. But within two
The Japanese-born Hiro, who shot this portrait (and started out years of this cover she was forging new ground as a supermodel, and
as an assistant to Richard Avedon), was one of the few Bazaar had good reason to smile.
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| March 2015

www.harpersbazaar.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPH: HIRO

Iconic moments from our

archive revisited. This month:
the ideal 1970s model and
role model Lauren Hutton