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New York City-based freelance journalist. Bylines in The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Times, Elle & Grazia. Former Fashion Editor, The Guardian.
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why Dirty Dancing is my feelgood movie
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‘Still feel a jolt of joy’: why Dirty Dancing is my feelgood movie
There is probably a Swedish word for the emotional state engendered in me by Dirty Dancing. A kind of turbo-nostalgia which blends solace, joy and a sense of continuity with a yearning so acute I can feel it in my ribs.
Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?'
When Emily St John Mandel was a child she had a dream that would stay with her for decades. It was a nightmare in which “I was trying to find my dad in a crowd, and there were other people who looked like him but weren't him”, she says. “It just kind of struck my imagination.” Forty-ish years later, Mandel's seventh novel, Exit Party, opens with a gathering in Los Angeles, 2031, where bizarre things happen. Doubles of some guests appear. Someone else disappears altogether.
Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?’
Emily St John Mantel.Photograph: Laura Barisonzi/The Guardian When Emily St John Mandel was a child she had a dream that would stay with her for decades. It was a nightmare in which "I was trying to find my dad in a crowd, and there were other people who looked like him but weren't him", she says. "It just kind of struck my imagination." Forty-ish years later, Mandel's seventh novel, Exit Party, opens with a gathering in Los Angeles, 2031, where bizarre things happen. Doubles of some guests appear.
Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?’
Emily St John Mantel. Photograph: Laura Barisonzi/The Guardian When Emily St John Mandel was a child she had a dream that would stay with her for decades. It was a nightmare in which “I was trying to find my dad in a crowd, and there were other people who looked like him but weren’t him”, she says. “It just kind of struck my imagination.” Forty-ish years later, Mandel’s seventh novel, Exit Party, opens with a gathering in Los Angeles, 2031, where bizarre things happen. Doubles of some guests appear.
Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?’
When Emily St John Mandel was a child she had a dream that would stay with her for decades. It was a nightmare in which "I was trying to find my dad in a crowd, and there were other people who looked like him but weren't him", she says. "It just kind of struck my imagination." Forty-ish years later, Mandel's seventh novel, Exit Party, opens with a gathering in Los Angeles, 2031, where bizarre things happen. Doubles of some guests appear. Someone else disappears altogether.
Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?’
When Emily St John Mandel was a child she had a dream that would stay with her for decades. It was a nightmare in which “I was trying to find my dad in a crowd, and there were other people who looked like him but weren’t him”, she says. “It just kind of struck my imagination.” Forty-ish years later, Mandel’s seventh novel, Exit Party, opens with a gathering in Los Angeles, 2031, where bizarre things happen. Doubles of some guests appear. Someone else disappears altogether.
Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?’
When Emily St John Mandel was a child she had a dream that would stay with her for decades. It was a nightmare in which "I was trying to find my dad in a crowd, and there were other people who looked like him but weren't him", she says. "It just kind of struck my imagination." Forty-ish years later, Mandel's seventh novel, Exit Party, opens with a gathering in Los Angeles, 2031, where bizarre things happen. Doubles of some guests appear. Someone else disappears altogether.
'It gives Shein': how did polyester become the world's most-hated material?
In 2015, Kate Moss called an easyJet pilot a “basic bitch” and a catchy new insult meaning obvious and uncool hit the mainstream . Had it happened in 2026, Moss might have used the word “polyester”, reportedly gen Z's new favorite diss, levied at cheap-looking videos on TikTok, and sometimes at other users' taste. But its use as a figurative insult also echoes a literal backlash against polyester, now the most-produced synthetic fibre on the planet.
Dolly Parton's flamboyant, fun style: ‘I'm not a fashion icon; I'm an eyesore'
Dolly Parton 's voluminous hair and rhinestone-festooned outfits were so essential to her fame that her quips about her appearance have become almost as well-known as her lyrics. “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” is perhaps her most memorable quotation, and is typical of the self-depreciating wit she employed to talk about her appearance.
Dolly Parton’s flamboyant, fun style: ‘I’m not a fashion icon; I’m an eyesore’
Dolly Parton's voluminous hair and rhinestone-festooned outfits were so essential to her fame that her quips about her appearance have become almost as well-known as her lyrics. "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap" is perhaps her most memorable quotation, and is typical of the self-depreciating wit she employed to talk about her appearance.
Where did all the XXL clothes go? Fashion brands are scrapping plus sizes in the GLP-1 era
‘It just boils down to the fact that plus-size people are seen as less than,’ influencer Tess Holliday says of the shrinking plus-size ranges at mainstream retailers.Illustration: Guardian Design / Getty Images In March 2023, the model, activist and writer Tess Holliday announced that she had been working as a size and inclusivity consultant for H&M. The fruits of their partnership felt like “one of the most meaningful things that I’ve done in my career”, she told US Vogue at the time.
Where did all the XXL clothes go? Fashion brands are scrapping plus sizes in the GLP-1 era
default In March 2023, the model, activist and writer Tess Holliday announced that she had been working as a size and inclusivity consultant for H&M. The fruits of their partnership felt like "one of the most meaningful things that I've done in my career", she told US Vogue at the time. The fashion juggernaut had committed to an expansion of its sizes, from XL to 4XL, and to increased body diversity of its models. This bucked a trend, coming at an otherwise gloomy time for plus-sized fashion.
AI-generated fashion models: innovation, illusion or a step too far?
Fashion has always sold aspiration. Long before artificial intelligence (AI), it relied on carefully constructed images of beauty through styling, lighting, makeup and, more recently, digital retouching. While consumers may have understood that these images do not reflect everyday reality, they continued to engage with them. They followed fashion trends and they bought the products being advertised. The industry is now moving beyond enhancing images of real people, however.
AI‑generated fashion models: innovation, illusion or a step too far? Original
Fashion has always sold aspiration. Long before artificial intelligence (AI), it relied on carefully constructed images of beauty through styling, lighting, makeup and, more recently, digital retouching. While consumers may have understood that these images do not reflect everyday reality, they continued to engage with them. They followed fashion trends and they bought the products being advertised. The industry is now moving beyond enhancing images of real people, however.
‘It’s become a nepo baby sport’: how secondhand fashion got so expensive
A fashion consultant shops at a Goodwill in Los Angeles. Goodwill, North America's largest thrift chain with 3,400 stores, announced a record $7bn in revenue last year.Photograph: MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News/Getty Images Vintage boutique owner Janelle Best has been rummaging in thrift shop bins since the 90s. When she started, she says, there was a stigma about it.
Feeling Vulnerable With My AI Companion: Examining Well-Being in Human-AI Relationships
1 Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) companion applications (apps), such as Replika and Character.ai, are quickly becoming a part of everyday life for millions of consumers worldwide. To date, over 1 billion people have downloaded AI companions for relationship-like interactions, with major apps such as Xiaoice and Replika recruiting about 660 million and over 30 million active users, respectively (Bernardi 2025).
‘Please don’t lose another pound!’: Ozempic is upending the wedding dress industry
In bridal stores across the world, solicitous sales assistants are being trained to ask a new, blunt question: "Are you planning on losing a drastic amount of weight?" Wedding season's new disruptor is semaglutide, now used by 10% of engaged couples, according to a survey by the wedding planning platform Zola. In the same survey, 42% of couples said the ubiquity of GLP-1s has made them feel they should "look a certain way" for their wedding.
NoLo drinks and pregnancy: women’s harm perceptions, labeling ambiguity, and guidance needs
Abstract Background No- and low-alcohol (NoLo) products are promoted as harm-reduction alternatives to standard alcohol, but their role in pregnancy is unclear. We examined pregnant and recently pregnant women’s perceptions of NoLo-related harm, how perceptions relate to drinking, and women’s information preferences. Methods A cross-sectional mixed-methods online survey, completed by 515 UK women, who were currently/recently pregnant.
The devil owns Amazon: big tech has infiltrated the fashion world — will we see a revolt?
By Hannah Marriott / The Guardian The press conference for the Met Costume Institute’s spring exhibition is always a stately affair, but this year it was giving “feudal lady addresses her serfs” or perhaps “Marie Antoinette during the last days of Versailles.” Here, among the spectacular marble sculptures of the art museum’s American wing, was a beaming Lauren Sanchez Bezos, who Anna Wintour introduced as a “force for joy,” before adding that “she and her husband, Jeff, have shown with this...
The devil owns Amazon: Big Tech has infiltrated the fashion world
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The devil owns Amazon: big tech has infiltrated the fashion world - will we see a revolt?
Anna Wintour and Lauren Sánchez Bezos attend the press conference for the 2026 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4 May 2026 in New York City. Photograph: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images The press conference for the Met Costume Institute’s spring exhibition is always a stately affair, but this year it was giving “feudal lady addresses her serfs” or perhaps “Marie Antoinette during the last days of Versailles”.
Met Museum show at new Costume Institute puts fashion in same spotlight as Egyptian artefacts
The institute’s new home is a 12,000 sq ft gallery space off the museum’s Great Hall. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images Speaking at the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute spring exhibition in New York, Anna Wintour described the first Monday in May as her “favourite day of the year, and also my most terrifying one”.
Vladimir author Julia May Jonas: 'We're imprisoned by our obsessions'
Hannah Marriott When we meet in a cafe near her Brooklyn apartment, three weeks before the TV adaptation of her debut novel Vladimir hits Netflix, Julia May Jonas is feeling an anticipatory “mix of terror, excitement and dread”. The series stars Rachel Weisz as a professor in her 50s obsessed with a younger colleague, Vladimir, played by Leo Woodall, with Sharon Horgan executive producing.
The one change that worked: sharing ‘accountability’ notes has made life better for both of us
‘There’s a manifesting element, too’ … Hannah Marriott, right, with her friend Rosamund Dean.Photograph: Courtesy of Hannah Marriott When my friend Rosamund suggested we try a productivity technique of leaving each other a voice note every day, I immediately said yes – even if I suspected, deep down, that we might not keep it up for long. I was circumspect because we both lead busy lives, 3,500 miles apart. She lives in London and I’m based in Brooklyn. It is hard to keep in touch sometimes.
Creators & Collectors: Jen Rubio
O ne of the first artworks that Jen Rubio acquired was an Ed Ruscha lithograph depicting a marmalade-hued, snow-capped mountain amid an intense, televisual sunset. In front of that landscape, its sky fading from deep plum to tangerine, are the words JET BABY—an appropriate phrase, given Rubio’s career.
‘What is life without love?’
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Lily King: ‘What is life without love?’
Lily King.Photograph: Eloise King-Clements The cover of Lily King’s new novel, Heart the Lover, features an abstracted face sobbing white tears on a tangerine background. It is an appropriate image, given that so many early readers – from BookTokkers to fellow authors – have reported weeping uncontrollably during the book’s final third. For King, the reaction was unexpected. “I certainly felt a lot of emotion while I was writing. Not sobbing, more a deeper grief,” she says.
‘She looked 10 years old and her skin was burning’
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Sephora workers on the rise of chaotic child shoppers: ‘She looked 10 years old and her skin was burning’
Hannah Marriott Wed, September 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM UTC 11 min read Jessica, 25, was working a shift at Sephora when a little girl who looked about 10 ran up to one of her colleagues, crying. “Her skin was burning,” Jessica said, “it was tomato red. She had been running around, putting every acid you can think of on the palm of her hand, then all over her face. One of our estheticians had to tend to her skin.
Bunny author Mona Awad: ‘I’m a dark-minded soul’
Expanding the Bunnyverse … Mona Awad.Photograph: Jake Belcher/The Telegraph Mona Awad was trying on a forest-green, deer-patterned dress when she realised that the psychotically twee characters from her 2019 novel, Bunny, had burrowed back into her psyche. “I looked in the mirror and thought: This isn’t a dress for me, this is a dress for Cupcake,” she says, referencing one of the antagonists from her breakout book.
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Francesco Murano Italian creator of body-conscious womenswear designs When Italian designer Francesco Murano, 27, received an email in...
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Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel
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‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel
‘When that first royalty cheque came in, I thought: ‘I could do something significant with this’ … Barbara Kingsolver, photographed in Pennington Gap, Virginia. Photograph: Shawn Poynter In the spotless kitchen of a white clapboard house in the Appalachian mountains, a retired deacon, a regional jail counsellor and I form an impromptu book club.
'Sex And The City Was Always A Feminist Show'
Home| Celebrity| News Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon is a rare celebrity – willing to speak out and up. She talks politics, power and the cult of Miranda by Hannah Marriott | Published on26th May 2025 at 1.01pm Cynthia Nixon (who, it must be said, is such a Miranda) does not sugar coat it when I ask her how the mood is among liberals in New York right now, living under Trump 2.0. ‘It’s terrible.
in a booth in a SoHo restaurant, Diane Kruger is trying to convince me that she, too, sometimes has bad hair days when New York City gets humid. ‘I look like, you know, like someone put your fingers in a plug?’ says the actor. It’s a kind thing to say as my own barnet turns to candyfloss in front of her, yet such dishevelment is difficult to imagine.
Kemo Sabe, the cowboy hat that lassoed a fashion fan base
On a grey Friday morning in a restaurant in New York City’s Meatpacking District, I arrive to meet Wendy Kunkle, owner of luxury...
Calvin Klein’s first female creative director finds succour in a fictional New York
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Calvin Klein’s first female creative director finds succour in a fictional New York
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Hannah Marriott 7 February 2025 at 4:26 pm·3-min read Calvin Klein’s first female creative director, Veronica Leoni, presented her debut collection on Friday lunchtime, with Kate Moss – the brand’s most famous face during the 1990s, when its billboard advertisements ruled the zeitgeist – Calvin Klein himself, now 82, and Christy Turlington in the audience.
The best vintage and retro shopping in New York
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How to win New York’s festive season
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Lights fantastic: chasing New York’s vanishing neon dream
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Brooklyn Beckham On Food, Family And Finding His Forté
Home| Celebrity| News Launching a new culinary venture, he’s determined to prove his critics wrong... by Hannah Marriott | Published3 minutes ago Brooklyn’s most famous namesake is crossing six lanes of traffic at one of the New York borough’s busiest intersections, smouldering for the camera.
Emily in Paris’s Lucas Bravo: ‘Being sexy isn’t just on the surface’
In a Manhattan hotel room, Lucas Bravo – the French actor who sparked a global swooning pandemic when he shot to stardom as ‘hot chef’ Gabriel in Netflix’s Emily in Paris – is telling me how freaked out he was by that hormonal response. ‘It was scary,’ he says. ‘Because when it happened, I was like, what is the root of this reaction? And how do I maintain this?
Dressing pretty is over: this is fashion’s ugly decade
“I’m a messy eater,” admits Isaiah Lat, a 20-year-old student, DJ and stylist from Chicago, “I used to wipe away stains but now I don’t mind a little oil or a little spaghetti on my shorts. I think it’s chic.” He does not believe that a term has yet been coined for the way he likes to dress. “It’s probably this dystopian, Mad Max, pirate, Steam Punk, mythological vibe,” he says, big on thrift and DIY; he likes skinny jeans, Capri pants and visor-like sunglasses.
Dachshunds, debutantes and Donald Trump: capturing the glitzy, bizarre world of 80s high society
Her face is covered, but you can tell it’s Ivana Trump from her beehive. The picture was taken in 1990, at a fashion show in the gilded environs of New York hotel the Plaza. She sits alone, surrounded by empty chairs, as rapacious photographers press in from behind, while hotel security guards loom from one side. A trio of well-dressed guests appear to laugh in her direction. The photograph is one of the highlights from a new book by Dafydd Jones.
The Met exhibition’s unexpected new feature: smell
In a dimly lit gallery in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, smell artist and scientist Sissel Tolaas invites me to sniff the wall.
The Met Gala — too-tight corsets, sustainable fabrics and a spotlight on Galliano
The Met Gala can usually be relied on to provide the weirdest red-carpet looks of the year.
How $500 became the norm for highlights
The last time I went to the hairdresser in Brooklyn, I left with a beautifully blow-dried head of shimmering highlights and a sinking,...
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