Former Vogue editor ALEXANDRA SHULMAN offers a unique insight into Kate Moss

Alexandra Shulman and Kate Moss are pictured together in September 2016 My favourite memory of Kate Moss is from British Vogue’s 100th birthday after-party.  True to form, she had been the last to arrive at the gala dinner, giggling arm-in-arm with her great friends make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury and hair-stylist Sam McKnight, who had been … Read more

Now pull on those big-boy pants – and get that jab, writes ALEXANDRA SHULMAN 

Recently, I’ve felt my life measured out in emptying coffee grounds from the day before’s pot. What’s going on today? Ah yes, the coffee pot needs cleaning out. Again. It’s the dead hand of repetition that has floored me in Lockdown 2, the inability to shake things up and go out and find something new. And … Read more

Alexandra Shulman reveals she didn’t wear a bra for 20 years and still ‘resents’ them now

Alexandra Shulman CBE has revealed she didn’t wear a bra for 20 years – and still resents them now. The ex-British Vogue editor-in-chief, 62, also admitted she has no idea how often she’s meant to wash the undergarment. Appearing on Susannah Constantine’s My Wardrobe Malfunction podcast, the London-born journalist said her vehement dislike of bras is … Read more

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: Our children at college need care – not cages 

What a horrible time to be a university student. Fenced in at Manchester, banned from leaving the precincts at Cambridge, and all the others deprived, like the rest of us, of essential human connections under the draconian shadow of Covid. Although university years are often held up as golden and glorious – a time for … Read more

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: You know it’s bad when even the celebrities disappear 

During the first lockdown, you couldn’t avoid them popping up all over the place, spreading ‘inspirational’ phrases like butter and showing off their fashionable displays of houseplants. But this time around, where are the celebrities? Apart from Lily James – to whom huge thanks for providing delicious gossip fodder with that jaunt on a scooter in … Read more

Anne Hathaway reveals second date with husband Adam Shulman was at Drew Barrymore’s Halloween party

Anne Hathaway celebrated her eighth wedding anniversary last month with husband Adam Shulman. And the Academy Award winner recently gave a glimpse at their love story, during a chat with pal Drew Barrymore. She revealed her second date with the father of her children was at Barrymore’s Halloween party, as she made a remote appearance … Read more

Why we should all stop talking about the menopause writes ALEXANDRA SHULMAN 

Here’s an undeniable fact. Over recent years I have aged.  I have more obvious grey hairs, need to drag an inconvenient array of different spectacles around and have definitely gathered an unfortunate softness around the jowls. Oh… and I went through the menopause. Now bear with me on that last item because I wouldn’t normally … Read more

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: Meghan Markle won’t be kept awake by the bus like I was in first flat I bought!

So Harry and Meghan have forked out for their own home for the first time in either of their lives. It’s a major event, knowing that the place in Montecito, California – unlike poor neglected Frogmore – actually belongs to you and you can do with it exactly what you want. You don’t have to … Read more

After 212 days, my hair was going the full Mary Beard, says ALEXANDRA SHULMAN

Scoring the very first appointment with George Northwood since lockdown began was way more exciting for me than winning the Derby. No competition. I even beat Alexa Chung: her appointment at the reopened salon was four hours later. It’s probably the first and only time I’ve beaten her at anything. It had been 212 days … Read more

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: I went to the shop for make-up, but all I got was worry lines 

Last week I headed into Mayfair, a woman on a mission. My target was Selfridges’ Beauty Hall. It might seem perverse in these times when hardly anyone sees us, but I was craving a new concealer to help with the cavernous under-eye shadows that are Zoom’s speciality. I was also curious to see what it … Read more