23 h. ago ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: The surprising details at Skye Gyngell's funeral that made it the most beautiful goodbye I've ever witnessed

Skye Gyngell, one of the country's most influential cooks and restaurateurs, died a few weeks ago, aged 63. She had been ill with a rare skin cancer for 18 months and her death was not unexpected.

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6 d. ago Mum catches scabies from fox who 'watched Netflix on her sofa' as cases rise

Alexandra Shulman developed an itchy rash after sitting on the same spot where a fox had lounged in her home, leading to the first diagnosis of fox scabies a top dermatologist had seen in 30 years

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6 d. ago ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: I don't blame the millionaire who put an electric fence around his mansion

I opened the kitchen door to scare the intruder away, but it stood still, eyeballing me, before taking another swaggering tour of the premises and leaping over the fence into a neighbour's garden.

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1 week ago Wine could spoil in weeks if you're making one common storage mistake

Wine is a popular drink during the festive season, but if you're storing it incorrectly, it can start to spoil in a matter of weeks, according to a storage expert

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2 w. ago Less politics, more makeup: the unraveling of Teen Vogue under Trump 2.0

The closure of the progressive youth-focused magazine comes at turbulent time for journalism and the crumbling of feminist mediaIn late 2016, just a few weeks after Donald Trump won his first presidential election, Teen Vogue published a story that set the internet ablaze: “Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America.”The story garnered more than 1.3m hits, making it the magazine’s most-read story of the year. Elaine Welteroth, then the editor-in-chief, told NPR that the day it published, Teen Vogue sold “in that month, more copies of the magazine than we had that entire year”. It was a transformative moment for the publication: proof that a magazine long associated with Disney child stars and headlines like “Prom Fever!” could shine light on the political dimensions of young people’s lives. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How my generation drank our way to the top, by former Vogue editor ALEXANDRA SHULMAN who remembers when bottles of wine were as common in the office as Tipp

The news that heavy drinking can give a boost to a young ­person's career path does not come as much of a surprise to many of my generation of 60-somethings.

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3 w. ago ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: Why I've had to go cold turkey with a Nokia phone

I am on a desperate mission to lock down my attention span. I regard myself as fairly disciplined but, according to my screen time notifications, I average seven hours a day.

Technology

3 w. ago I only realised what my phone was doing to me when my screen time crept up to seven hours a day

My phone habit has crept up on me. I once had about ten apps on it. Now I have 84.

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3 w. ago How Wintour’s talking point Vogue covers made a statement to the end

A look at the editor-in-chief’s Vogue covers from her first radical combination in 1988 to her final ‘weird’ shoot During her 37-year tenure as editor-in-chief of American Vogue, Anna Wintour has resided over more than 400 covers. December 2025’s, on newsstands this week, will prove her last before she steps away to focus on roles as Vogue’s global editorial director and chief content officer at Condé Nast.The cover is certainly memorable: an image of the actor Timothée Chalamet photographed by long-term collaborator Annie Leibovitz in a Celine white polo neck, long cream coat and embroidered jeans, standing on a “planet” with a backdrop of a star-filled nebula provided by NASA. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How Anna Wintour’s Vogue front covers made a statement to the end

A look at the editor-in-chief’s Vogue covers from her first radical combination in 1988 to her final ‘weird’ shoot During her 37-year tenure as editor-in-chief of American Vogue, Anna Wintour has presided over more than 400 covers. December 2025’s, on newsstands this week, will prove her last before she steps away to focus on roles as Vogue’s global editorial director and chief content officer at Condé Nast.The cover is certainly memorable: an image of the actor Timothée Chalamet photographed by Wintour’s long-term collaborator Annie Leibovitz in a Celine white polo neck, long cream coat and embroidered jeans, standing on a “planet” with a backdrop of a star-filled nebula provided by Nasa. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: Baffled by a maze of new messages on breast cancer

Every day a new piece of information pops up about the prevention, treatment and causes of breast cancer .

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