Innehållsförteckning för September 29, 2021 från Stylist

feature The big office gamble Home? Office? Hybrid? Who knows? Eight experts help us navigate our new working world words: Hollie Richardson Trying to navigate the working landscape right now can feel like a game of luck. Perhaps your company has suggested hybrid working, but you’re not sure what days you should go into the office – or whether you want to at all. Maybe you’re stuck in a job that’s demanding you return full-time, an idea that leaves you cold after 18 months enjoying the perks of working from home, with dreaded commutes replaced by leisurely mornings and more time for yourself. You might be in an industry that’s never had the luxury of remote work, something you once took as a given but are now starting to rail…

Fashion Fashion Is Back And More Alive Than Ever The return of IRL shows at London Fashion Week was the burst of beauty and optimism  we all needed, says Billie Bhatia It feels like a lifetime ago that I was precariously perched, half butt cheek on, half butt cheek off, a Fashion Week bench. While the reality is something closer to 18 months and two full seasons of digital shows, the time and space that has elapsed since those first rumblings of Covid at Milan Fashion Week in February 2020 feels gargantuan. The world has changed, and us along with it. As the international shows made their long-awaited physical return this season, there was a feeling of collective excitement, but also whispers of trepidation. What kind of importance would fashion…

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feature “We are at crisis point” With rape prosecutions at a record low, we’re failing victims like never before, argues Laura Bates “85% of rape cases go unreported,” said an article on the Unilad website in 2012. “That seems to be fairly good odds.” The ‘joke’ was sickening then. But today it could be even more extreme. New data reveals that 98.6% of rapes that are reported to the police result in no charge or summons for the perpetrator, while prosecutions have plummeted a shocking 70% since 2016-17, a record low. We are now at a real crisis point. The statistics bear out the sentiment of those who joke, ‘banter’ and create ‘funny’ memes undermining the severity of rape. It has effectively been decriminalised. Yet, you risk being ridiculed for…

beauty The return of kohl liner If you haven’t wielded an eyeliner pencil since your teens, it might be time to reacquaint yourself Words: shannon peter There once was a time when I wouldn’t leave the house without a precursory smudge of my beloved Collection 2000 black eyeliner. I was besotted with it. Over the course of more years than is sanitary, I whipped that thing out of my Roxy backpack and dragged it along my poor waterline every single morning. Hell-bent on making the most of its dense, waxy, almost-black pigment, I sharpened it down to little more than a tiddly stub and clung to it like a comforter. This, of course, was back in my teenage years, when thick rings of black smudgy eyeliner were not only the…

feature “There was no way for me to play it cool with Louis Theroux” Presenter Alice Levine talks to Stylist about her new docu-series, Sex Actually, the impact of candid conversations, and what it’s like to work with your TV hero words: Hannah Keegan There was a moment while Alice Levine was filming Sex Actually, her new Channel 4 docu-series executively produced by Louis Theroux, which explores sex and pleasure, when she was struck by the sheer comedy of the situation she’d found herself in. She was with a couple named Hywell and Jocelyn at the time, in their “gorgeous little chocolate-box cottage”, which also happens to have a sex dungeon in the basement. “They’re into BDSM [bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism], and we had agreed I would watch a session,”…

fashion Last of the summer sun Don’t stow away your holiday wardrobe just yet – mix and match your favourite pieces with new-season styles to master late-summer dressing FASHION: ANAT DYCHTWALDPHOTOGRAPHY: DAN HACK Jumper, £79, Arket (arket.com); skirt, £145, Caroline Biss (carolinebiss.com) Top, £159 Baum und Pferdgarten (baumundpferdgarten.com); skirt, £160, Calvin Klein (calvinklein.co.uk) Blouse, £129, Baum und Pferdgarten (baumundpferdgarten.com); skirt, £930, Celine (celine.com) Jacket, £70, Adidas x Daniëlle Cathari (brownsfashion.com); jeans, £199, Kings of Indigo (kingsofindigo.com) Dress, £159.95, Scotch & Soda (scotch-soda.com); shoes, £170, Gant (gant.co.uk) Blazer, £275, and trousers, £260, both Aiayu (aiayu.com); sunglasses, £300, Prada (prada.com); boots, £280, Samsøe Samsøe (samsoe.com) Dress, £1,595, Zimmermann (zimmermannwear.com) Jumper, £395, Christian Wijnants (christianwijnants.com); scarf, £220, Acne (acnestudios.com) Dress, £220, Essential Antwerp (essential-antwerp.com); boots, £190, Arket (arket.com) MODEL: POLINA SOVA AT THE…