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The best of Ljubljana Fashion Week

You might think you’ve had your finger on the pulse this fashion month, keeping up with the latest looks to emerge from Paris, London or New York. But before you can claim to be a fashion insider, there’s another event that must be added to your radar: Ljubljana Fashion Week (LJFW). 
Last week it returned for another season, running from October 7-12 in Slovenia’s capital city.  Now in its twelfth year, the event has established itself as the leading platform for Adrian fashion, spotlighting est...

Lennie James chooses to be unsettled

The morning after the BAFTAs is rarely graceful, and Lennie James is undeniably feeling the effects of an evening well spent. It’s forgivable. Only a matter of hours before the awards, he arrived home in London after spending a week in Pittsburgh filming for season five of the Mayor of Kingstown, reprising his role as Frank Moses, a quietly intimidating mobster. The actor, who won the BAFTA for Leading Actor in a Television Series last year for his role in Mr Loverman, wasn’t just there for a go...
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Where To Travel Now: 9 Crowd-Free Luxury Destinations, Curated By The Experts

Planning an escape? If you wince at the thought of crowded beaches and overtourism, we know how hard it can be to pin down your next destination of dreams. That’s why we lean on the leading travel experts to do the hard part for us; they’ve been almost everywhere, and come brimming with insight into the must-visit yet still crowd-free luxury destinations dotted across the globe. Below, we share their secrets.

As the founder of unique London bookshop Travellers’ Tales, Jayne Alexander also creat...
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A Sommelier’s Guide To Orange Wines

Orange wine may be enjoying a moment, but there is very little about it that’s new. Long before the rise of natural wine bars and Instagram-worthy bottle shops, winemakers in Georgia were fermenting white grapes with their skins over 8,000 years ago, producing the earliest version of what we now know as orange wine.
Its recent resurgence has seen orange wine move from niche curiosity to a restaurant staple, championed by sommeliers and natural wine advocates alike. But despite its popularity, it...
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Austin Powers’ Malibu Mansion Is On The Market For $90 Million

Few homes in Malibu can claim quite the same Hollywood pedigree as Venezia Pacifica. Rising dramatically above the coveted Point Dume cliffs, the sprawling oceanfront estate has served as the backdrop for some of the biggest films, television series, and music videos of the 1990s and early 2000s. Now, for the first time since it was built, the landmark residence has arrived on the market with a $90 million price tag.
Set in one of Malibu’s most exclusive enclaves, where neighbours include Jennif...
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In This Heatwave, What Can We Learn From Mediterranean Interiors?

We all want to stay cool this summer, but that needn’t look like bulky air conditioning units or permanently drawn curtains. Here, C&TH speaks to design experts about the Mediterranean principles that keep homes naturally cool while looking effortlessly beautiful.
With this summer on course to be one of the hottest the UK has ever experienced, knowing how to keep our homes comfortable is becoming more of a necessity. The Met Office has confirmed that 2026 is the first year on record to see tempe...
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8 Essential Memoirs To Escape Into This Summer

Summer is a time for escape. Whether that’s escaping the heat, escaping to the destination of your dreams, or sitting poolside escaping into the world of a good book. From true stories about friendships that forged a legacy and the search for education to witty explorations of the hellscapes of Hollywood, fame, chronic illness and cancan dancing, memoir may be just what you’re looking for. Delve into these true stories that show how life can be just as intoxicating as fiction....
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What Did Chefs Think Of Taylor Swift's Wedding Menu?

On 3 July, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wed with all the fanfare you would expect for two of the biggest names in the music and sporting worlds. Their venue choice of Madison Square Garden, a virtual fortress, has meant the details of the day remain closely guarded. Yet reported catering deliveries and sightings from outside the venue offer a glimpse into what may have been served. To interpret the food menu, we turned to Chef Sohan Bhandari of London’s Colonel Saab, who has cooked for everyone...
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A Surrey Apartment Featured In Four Weddings And A Funeral Is Now For Sale

As the whole world zeros in on the pop-culture wedding of the century between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, one guest in particular pulled focus. It was, naturally, Hugh Grant in all his tuxedoed glory – along with his wife, television producer Anna Eberstein. Famously, it is not the first wedding the star has attended. We know for certain that he’s attended at least four, or at least his character Charles did in Richard Curtis’s aptly titled 1994 box-office hit Four Weddings and a Funeral. 
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Why lesbian book clubs are having a moment 

On a cold evening in Queens, New York, three women walked into a book club hoping to find connection. Instead, they were met with silence. “We literally made eye contact and waved… nothing,” one of them recalls. Within hours, they were in a nearby lesbian bar, laughing about the experience, and deciding to start something of their own.


Across the Atlantic in London, a similar story was unfolding. What began as a handful of readers connecting through TikTok has since grown into a thriving comm...
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Darts star Noa-Lynn van Leuven speaks out against trans ban

Six-time winner of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) Women’s Series, Noa-Lynn van Leuvan, has condemned new regulations from the Darts Regulation Authority (DRA) barring trans players from competing in women’s tournaments. Van Leuven took to her Instagram on 10 April, citing the decision as a “huge hit for the trans community.” 


Last week, following a review of its Trans And Gender Diverse Policy, the DRA concluded that “to achieve fair competition in darts, only biological females sho...

Reda Elazouar is here to take risks

“Comfort is where dreams go to die.” Reda Elazouar says the words softly, but it lands like a declaration. Only minutes into our conversation, it’s clear — his vision for the future is razor sharp, his path as an actor less a stroke of luck than a deliberate act of creation. With all this intention, then, it’s hard to believe that acting wasn’t always the plan. In fact, the Sex Education star’s first penchant for performance came in the form of magic. He spent a lot of his childhood doing tricks...

Taz Skylar isn’t here to hit the beats

Taz Skylar’s path into the industry was by no means usual. There was no drama school pipeline, no stage parents. In fact, he never planned on being an actor at all. There was just an unfulfilling factory job, a suitcase and a gut feeling that the life he had wasn’t going to be enough. At twenty- nine, Skylar moves with intention. Actor, director, writer— every role is a decision. Every decision? Deliberate. He started in London’s Bernie Grant Arts Centre staging self- written plays and went on t...
BITE Mag •

How do you take your news? The reinvention of print in the digital age

Daisy Packwood


Print used to be all we had. Sleek magazines and newspapers graced coffee tables worldwide. We thumbed leisurely through copies of Hello! or Vogue while sitting idle at the hairdressers. Sunday mornings primarily saw us on a leisurely stroll down to the newsagents to fetch the morning paper. 


Now, like everything, that has been replaced by technology. Now, we tap from one tab to another. Within seconds I can check in on the latest celeb news, read The Financial Times or get...
STRAND Magazine •

‘A Chapel of Pop Art’: LUCIAN’s Latest Collection at The Artist Workspace Gallery

It’s a rainy Saturday in London’s Soho - an area brimming with creativity and integral to the art world. The Photographers Gallery, the first gallery in the UK to be devoted solely to photography, is close by on Ramillies Street. I’m here, amidst the mayhem of Frieze Week, to meet with London-based artist LUCIAN at The Artist Workspace Gallery. Trained at Camberwell College of Arts, his newest collection ‘Halfway Between An Atom And A Star’, is his second to be curated by Zoë Goetzmann. “It’s a...
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Iconic Looks From Music History

Where there was Bonnie, there was Clyde. Where there was Simon, there was Garfunkel. Where there was Bert, there was Ernie. And, undeniably, where there is music, there is fashion. Or vice versa.Whichever way it’s viewed, both have been the backdrop to cultural change, social movements, and era defining progress.Since the era of individualism and the rebirth of both fashion and music in the Renaissance, both have worked in tandem to carve into the framework of deeper artistic expressions and ref...
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STRAND Showcase Spotlight: In Conversation with Tally Spear

As one stop on her meteoric journey, she's set to perform alongside fellow musicians TASH and Bridget at FEMMESTIVAL's next showcase at Two Palms Hackney, centred around female performers, and supported by us here at the STRAND. In the final week before the show, Tally and I caught up to discuss all things music, the choices that have gotten her to this point in her career, and her hopes for the future. I first wanted to find out what drew her to a career in music to start with. "I think it was...
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Claudia Wang: London Fashion Week June 2024

From a family of creatives, it is only natural that Claudia Wang is able to harness the true power of print and colour. The designer uses her space to channel a delightful harmony of textiles and, in the past, has portrayed herself as a true fashion activist. In the brand’s Autumn/Winter 2023 display at Taipei Fashion Week, for example, her collection ‘Civilisation of Love’ garnered critical acclaim for its focus on positive body diversity and forward-thinking developments in the production of f...
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'The Lives of Six Wives' at the National Portrait Gallery

SIX, a West End musical phenomenon, is the story of Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Katheryn Parr—the six wives of Henry VIII. In the National Portrait Gallery’s latest exhibit, under the meticulous eye of head curator Charlotte Bolland, the musical has partnered with the gallery to present an encompassing display which aims to correct some of the misguided narratives surrounding these women. Urban myths, cautionary tales, and political smear...
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