The Sunday Times Style - 3 July 2022

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3 JULY 2022
Goal!
Meet the
women
bringing
football
home this
summer
Plus
DO YOU HAVE
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ENERGY?
INSIDE THE
WEIRD WORLD
OF WELLNESS
FESTIVALS
THIS OLD THING
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DANIKA MAGDELENA

The Barometer
Edited by Priya Elan
Fashion! Beauty! People! Things! Welcome to your weekly guide
to the stuff everyone will be talking about. Do keep up
Keeping up with the
headphonistas
First it was AirPods. Back in 2016 you were no one if
you didn’t use the new, wireless way to listen to music.
But then the cool kids suddenly deemed that earphones
with wires were back. And now? Old-school overear
headphones are what everyone is using. No longer
considered clunky, inconvenient contraptions, the
Apple AirPods Max are the ones to aspire to: bigger
and arguably better, massive metal earmuffs are cuter
than the stringy little earphones once popular for
their understated look. They’ve been spotted on
everyone from Bella Hadid (below right) and Sarah
Jessica Parker to Timothée Chalamet and Evan Mock
(left), and they’ve also become part of the “weird girl”
aesthetic (below left, at New York fashion week), with
its mismatched vibe of knit accessories and knee-high
socks with microminis. Sage green is preferred among
the fashion set — the pretty, muted colour apparently
making up for the eye-watering price of £549.
The hot homeware shade?
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on Fair last month? Limoncello yellow. At its Objets Nomades show,
Arts, L Louis Vuitton unveiled a zesty yellow version of the Cocoon
my of suspended seat by Campana Brothers (above middle). Fornasetti
de launched yellow Capitellum garden furniture — stainless-steel
Aca seats and tables based on classical columns (left). Star of the Fendi
oyal Casa collection was the Welcome curvy chair (right) in the brand’s
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EDITOR LAURA ATKINSON DEPUTY EDITOR CHARLOTTE WILLIAMSON ART DIRECTOR ANDREW BARLOW FASHION DIRECTOR KAREN DACRE BEAUTY DIRECTOR SARAH JOSSEL FEATURES EDITOR PRIYA ELAN
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR SCARLETT RUSSELL JEWELLERY DIRECTOR JESSICA DIAMOND ASSOCIATE FASHION DIRECTOR VERITY PARKER FASHION AND MERCHANDISE EDITOR FLOSSIE SAUNDERS BOOKINGS DIRECTOR AND
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The Sunday Times Style • 3
Bestie bracelets are back
For many, the pinnacle of camaraderie at school
was swapping a Claire’s friendship bracelet
with your best friend. Now, the fashion world is
heralding the return of that nostalgic wrist
candy with high-end versions. Show how much
you appreciate your friends by designing your
own with Roxanne First’s Bead for Your Bestie
DIY cord and bead bracelet kit (£75, top). Make
the bracelets different or matching using the
hand-picked retro beads and swap them
with mates. For something even more
extravagant, try gifting Monica Vinader’s
Linear Friendship Bracelet (£125, middle),
with the option of engraving your friend’s Bracelets, £65
name, or Dior’s J’Adior bracelet set (£330 each, Lauren Rubinski;
for two, bottom). The only question is: who matchesfashion.com
are you going to give yours to?
Everyone’s talking
about... Glenn Kitson
“Well, this is surreal!” says Glenn Kitson (left) when we catch
up with him about how his cult Instagram account (@glenn_
kitson) has exploded. Kitson’s shtick is finding funny
lookie-likies, from comparing the members of Spinal Tap to
All Saints, Neil from The Young Ones to Alanis Morissette,
Dean Gaffney to Björk — and his 108,000 followers lap it up.
A director of commercials by trade, Kitson, originally from
Bolton, decided to move from sharing his official work to
devoting his Instagram to brilliant memes comparing
A-listers to, erm, D-Listers. So what was his inspiration?
“Everyone wants a laugh,” he says, explaining that he “loves
the high and low together” when asked where the ideas come
from. The feed has an acidity to it, skewering celebrity, beauty
ideals and trash versus posh culture; and feels extremely
British with a sardonic northern bite. It’s also very “fashion”.
No surprise: Kitson had a past life selling vintage sportswear
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The Barometer
Heating up
The must-read
▲ SLIPPERY WHEN WET
Jon Bon Jovi has just book of the
launched his own brand
summer
of pink wine — Hampton
Water. A bed of rosé, Anyone who has read the real-time
anyone? (One for all you Twitter analysis of Love Island by the
soft-rock fans out there) author Bolu Babalola (left) will know
she has a killer sense of humour and
▲ PROTINOL IS a deep understanding of love and
THE NEW RETINOL romance. All of which she has
channelled into her debut novel,
Said to restore collagen
Honey & Spice. Kiki Banjo, host of a
and ‘mimic baby skin’, in a
student radio dating show and
non-creepy way, of course
expert in relationship evasion, falls
for a handsome newcomer on
campus — exactly the type of man
she warns her listeners about. Think
▲ ‘THE POSH PIT’ “will they, won’t they” sexual
Overheard at the Harry tension, 1990s university nostalgia
Styles show: the mosh pit and a sharp-tongued but soft-hearted
has gone A-list black female lead. Published by
Headline on Thursday at £16.99
▲ WATERY FONTS
A trend is brewing on film
posters (Daisy Edgar-Jones’s
Fresh) and books (Hysterical
by Pragya Agarwal).
Hitchcock meets Gen Z
Cooling down
▼ BRO-LONDE
Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill
and Jack Grealish have all
gone platinum — but are
they having more fun? E
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Oh, the inebriated, She’s creepy and she’s
fighty, skin-baring madness
kooky, it’s ... Wednesday Luxe
that the sun brings!
Emos, rejoice: the unlikely gothic style icon (Peter Pan collar,
serious fringe) is making a return thanks to a new Tim Burton-
created series, Wednesday, featuring Scream’s Jenna Ortega in
▼ CUT-OUT
the lead role (right). From Simone Rocha to Gucci,
CONFUSION
the Victoriana goth aesthetic is a fashion perennial,
Not sure
but recently the Row, Burberry, Proenza Schouler
which is the
and Bora Aksu have all gone full Wednesday Luxe
head hole
too. And the look is spreading: with corporate emos
and the
▼ LEGO HAIR on TikTok (emos back in the day, workers in an
armhole
The new gen of male Love office now), The Sandman adaptation finally
now. Too
Island contestant has happening, The Munsters reboot and My
hard work
hedge-like hair with no Chemical Romance being back, there has
to be sexy,
beginning or end. Please never been a better time to slam your
tbh
remove stick-on hair bedroom door and scream, “I never asked to
immediately! be born!” at anyone who is listening.

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One more thing …
You’ve packed the perfect bikini and
invested in a raffia tote bag to take you to the
beach and beyond. Now it’s time to throw in
the towel. Quite literally. Towels are a new
style status symbol, with this tangerine
dream from Hermès at the top of wish lists.
A grown-up take on a holiday classic, this
tie-dyed style was made in France. Look out
for it poolside from Antibes to Antigua.
Yachting Dye beach towel,
£220; hermes.com
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The Sunday Times Style • 7
Hear us
From hanging out at fashion shows to fighting for maternity rights,
England’s Lionesses are changing the image of women’s football.
With the Euros kicking off this Wednesday, Deborah Linton meets the
squad who (whisper it) could be finally bringing the game home
Photographs Danika Magdelena Styling Flossie Saunders
“Getting dressed up like this feeds a different side of ‘To play for England
yourself,” says the defender Jess Carter with a wide smile
as she changes out of the training kit she arrived in was all I ever wanted’
and waves off her team-mate Millie Bright, who has been
kicking a ball in front of the camera. “This summer is LEAH WILLIAMSON, 25
going to be huge,” she continues. “There are no words for
the feeling of playing for your country.”
Women’s football has never been more popular, and Clothes have long been a way for Leah Williamson to
England’s Lionesses — who kick off the 2022 Women’s express herself. “At 16 I used fashion as my way of stepping
Euros on home turf against Austria this Wednesday — do so outside the status quo, announcing myself as a person.
as game-changers in the truest sense: women who have I had committed to this athlete lifestyle, totally different
driven their own professional evolution, inspired interna- from my friends,” she says. “The idea of trying to be one of
tional support and investment in their sport, and become the them didn’t fit.” Indeed, the Milton Keynes-born Arsenal
kind of role models they could not see growing up. defender and England midfielder was recently invited to
The game has come a long way. Women’s football only Gucci’s Cosmogonie catwalk show in Puglia, her first (other
went fully professional in 2018, and until recently has been A-list guests included Jodie Turner-Smith and Paul Mescal),
disproportionately underresourced (players had full-time while off the pitch she favours Issey Miyake men’s trousers,
jobs and were changing in their cars a mere decade ago). Prada loafers and shirts.
Meanwhile, team members are still underpaid compared The 25-year-old Williamson has been football-mad her
with the megamillions clubs pour out to their male counter- whole life. “I set myself a path to play for Arsenal, then
parts (top female earners reportedly take home in a year what England,” she says. “Maybe I didn’t know exactly who I was
Cristiano Ronaldo does in half a week). but I knew where I was going.” She entered the women’s
But the times are changing: 6.2 million people watched live game as it turned professional — a far cry from her mum,
Women’s Super League matches on TV last year without who loved football so much as a girl that she cut her hair
watching a men’s equivalent Premier League game, making short and registered as a boy until the opposition reported
it the UK’s most watched female sport. Then, in May, every her. Williamson herself is studying accountancy part-time
Manchester City and Chelsea player who features in Style’s in preparation for life after football. “If I do a little bit for my
shoot competed in the Women’s FA Cup final in front of future as I go along, I can stay in the moment more.”
a record-breaking 50,000-strong crowd at Wembley. As She was named England captain in April. “I’m very patri-
semi-finalists at the 2017 Euros and 2019 World Cup (which, otic but captaincy wasn’t part of the plan,” she admits. “If it
incidentally, 28.1 million people watched on the BBC), there was I don’t think I’d be the right person. If I’d ever let myself
are high hopes of bringing football home this month too; of fully dream I’d be playing for England in a home tourna-
stirring up the kind of living-room fever pitch that enveloped ment in this moment for women’s football — that’s all
the men’s Euros last year. Gulfs remain but there is a feeling I ever wanted, to be part of the game-changers.”
that women are finally garnering the respect — and sponsor- It brings duty too. “Players before us laid foundations, did
ship deals — that they deserve. the dirty work. Every time a woman footballer signs up to be
Here, six Lionesses celebrate the journeys that have led professional, she has a responsibility to carry that over.”
them to this moment, from playing in schoolboy (yes, boy) For Williamson, then, this tournament is about more
teams to fighting for maternity rights. With each kick of the than football. “The correlation between our journey in sport
ball, every trophy and every battle won on or off the pitch, and women’s in society matches up. In a male-dominated
they pave the way for the next generation of girls watching on industry we’re going out every single day, proving we’re
TV or in stadiums across England this summer. worth the time.”
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ROAR
Ballet top, £76,
and shorts, £70,
Live the Process.
Nylon coat, price
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trainers, £125; onitsukatiger.com
‘If I’d had a role model that looked like me,
it would have driven me even more’
JESS CARTER, 24
“I love any excuse to go out and get dressed up,” says Jess been setbacks but instead I made them into something
Carter. “I get a buzz out of being around people.” good.” Her mum left when she was young, and they have no
She draws whoops from her Chelsea team-mate Millie relationship. Instead she was raised by her dad and stepmum.
Bright as she steps in front of the camera in peach Isabel “I had a lot of regret and anger. I turned it into something that
Marant and green leather JW Anderson shorts. “I’m normally makes her see what she’s missed out on. If she was around
such a basic shopper,” she says with a laugh. “I feel much I wouldn’t have the big, amazing family I have now.”
happier when I’m dressed up. If there’s an event coming up, As a black, gay, female footballer, she knows — by omission
I’m planning my outfit ages before.” — the value of role models. “If I’d had a role model that
It’s the first time the defender has worn her hair down looked like me, from a background like mine, playing elite-
since cutting it short when her sister had breast cancer level football, it would have driven me even more,” she says.
during the pandemic. The Warwick-born Carter, 24, has “I never saw myself as a role model until a couple of years ago.
learnt how to squeeze lemonade out of life. “I like to make the I thought I was just here playing football. If you don’t see
best of a bad situation,” she says. “A lot of things could have them, you don’t know it’s possible.”
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