She's Gotta Have It
Fashion, beauty, shopping, social life and things that make you go hmmm; come scroll with us for the She's Gotta Have It guide to girlitude
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Graduate Fashion Week
Highlights from the shows of the country's cutting-edge young student designers. More catwalk pictures 
Good news Pandora jewellery is a rather fab new concept in self-adornment. Simply turn up at one of their UK-wide franchises, and design yourself a charm bracelet, necklace or stack of rings from their selection of silver, gold and oxidised chains and hundreds of beads in glass, precious metal and precious stones. Prices range from £10 to £3000.
Bad news According to Gwyneth Paltrow’s new fitness guru Tracy Anderson , the only way to a flat stomach is total commitment to at least 100 reps of her agonising abdominal exercises, plus 60 minutes of scary aerobic circuit training, daily. Tell me there’s a short cut...
The Big Issue: the perils of dressing for oneself
Londoners are famed for their edgy street fashion. Not for them the tasteful taupe of the Italians, or the immaculately cut navy of the French. Nowhere is the tremendous cultural difference between Britain and those countries more obvious than in the matter of one’s wardrobe and ‘la ligne’ within it. French and Italian women dress, quite unapologetically, for their men (and to show off to each other) and would probably rather be run over by a truck than get fat - as long, that is, as they were wearing a matching set of lingerie when said accident occurred. Tragically unfeminist, no? Except that we have the opposite problem and dress for ourselves. Take one Forties print dress, add a long
woolly scarf in muddy green, cheap flatties from down the high street, a nasty second-hand leather jacket and a comedy hat intended to say ‘Kooky? C’est moi’ and you have the classic London look, no less a uniform than the well-cut navy - and catastrophically unflattering and unsexy to boot. Add to the curse of tatty vintage the misplaced bravado that leads the Brits to ignore their own body shape when shopping (leggings, anyone?) and you have a recipe for sartorial disaster. The point of getting dressed is to end up looking better than you did in pyjamas, remember? So please, let’s not lose sight of the wood in our search for those ‘unique’, ‘original’ and, frankly, quite hideous trees.
Laura Tennant
Bonkers Health Those risk-averse folk at the British Medical Association are counselling pregnant women to abstain from even one small glass of wine a day. In the same breath they tell us that stress can affect your baby’s health. We say, a little of what you fancy does you and your foetus good...
June 7, 2007
Danielle Lloyd, Ivana Trump, Natasha Kaplinsky, Alex Best, Peter Jones, Eleanor Glynn and Paul Sampson are expected to attend the Walk With Cancer fundraiser ball at the Savoy, London.
Ready, Steady, Shop
Do the hippy chic
Street Seen
Leggings to the rescue
Going out? The Place
The Casino at the Empire
7 Leicester Street,
London WC2
Las Vegas-style gambling joined the British mainstream last week as London’s largest casino launched in a blaze of high-rolling glitz. Located on the site of the Empire Ballroom on Leicester Square, it’s billed as a sophisticated take on casino culture, with a grill room, noodle bar, bespoke ice creamery and nightclub alongside the gambling floor and private poker room. Think Casino Royale, sequinned showgirls and wannabe Bonds round every blackjack tables. Membership is instant and complimentary (financial ruin too, maybe).
Gabrielle Strachan
Recipe of the Day
Read Me
In an age of the city break the last thing you need is a ‘complete guide’ to wade through before you can leave your hotel room. No, what’s required is a slick, selective little pocket-sized list of the stylish, cool and, above all, untouristy shops, restaurants, bars and sites you’ll want to visit. Luxe City Guides are entertainingly written, collated by city insiders and updated every year. Take advantage of the guides to Rome, Paris, New York, Istanbul, plus cities in Asia, China and Australia (£4.99 each) to cut to the chase and hit the ground running. For more information, go to luxecityguides.com.
Three sets of Luxe European, composed of Rome, Paris, Madrid and Istanbul, are up for grabs for First Post readers in this week’s competition. Click here to enter.
Laura Tennant
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