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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Instant karma “From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be ‘Beware of men bearing flowers’.” From Curriculum Vitae (1992) by Muriel Spark (1918-2006)
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The opening of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition was a glamorous affair. More party pictures 
Good news Women now make up 46 per cent of the 370,000 millionaires in Britain - and the majority earned their wealth independently through businesses, earnings or investment. Bad news Jennifer Aniston has a special place in our hearts, so we’re gutted she’s taken up with low-rent male model Paul Sculfor, a former Essex roofer who’s spent time in the Priory for his drugs problem... When oh when will Jen find a similar wattage star to give her babies?
The Big Issue: to be blunt, you just don’t do it for me
Observers at Cannes were bemused to see singer James Blunt masterfully punching above his weight (and quite often his height too) with a collection of stunning bikini-clad blondes. Then there’s pretty-boy C-lister Calum Best, whose hook-up with Lindsay Lohan was only the latest in a long line of impressive conquests, not to mention Pete Doherty’s mysterious allure. What on earth is their secret? Maybe it boils down to the vulnerability of beautiful women to what fabulously successful ‘pick-up artist’ Neil Strauss calls ‘Neg’, which means ‘to actively demonstrate a lack of
interest in a beautiful woman by making an ambiguous statement, insulting her in a way that appears accidental, or offering constructive criticism’. Treat ‘em mean, in other words, to keep ‘em keen. Tragic, no? Then again, the interest of only averagely attractive women is much less likely to be piqued by this sort of treatment. Constructively criticise a freshly blow-dried Ms 7-out-of-10 and you’ll likely be told to bugger off. Yes, if being ordinary gives immunity to the charms of a James Blunt, there’s a lot to be said for it.
Laura Tennant
Bonkers health The US Food and Drug Administration have just approved Lybrel, a birth-control pill that also does away with monthly bleeding. How, um, liberating. As a female gender-studies major sold on the concept told ABC News, “Maybe men would respect women more if they didn‘t have periods”...
June 16, 2007
Gary Barlow is expected to perform at the wedding of Steven Gerrard and Alex Curren at Clivedon House, before fellow guests Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen
Wardrobe Mistress
Summer party-wear
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Smock it to me
Going out? The Place
Chloe
3 Cromwell Road,
London SW7
Another glitzy members’ club? You might think London needs one like Kate Moss needs another pair of skinny jeans. But with a society beauty namesake (that’s Chloe Delevigne, the executive director’s fiancee), funked up Victorian decor and a glamorous restaurant, Chloe has all the right credentials to pull in the punters in its chosen mileu, Eurotrash heartland South Kensington. There’s even a Chloe butler, so those Continental princelings can feel right at home.
Gabrielle Strachan
Recipe of the Day
Read Me
Victoria Beckham only had to glance at a copy of Skinny Bitch (Running Press, £4.79) in an LA bookshop to send it hurtling close to the top of the UK Amazon chart. The book’s guiding philosophy is that of abstinence: refrain from meat, caffeine, alcohol, sugar, diet Coke, junk food, cold and flu remedies, white pasta, white rice and white flour and you will become thin. Well, obviously. You’d have to be bonkers to eat that way if it WASN’T going to 
make you thin. It amounts to saying a giant ‘No’ to life, when, according to the mystics, we should all be saying a resounding Yes! Compare and contrast with the No Diet Diet (Orion, £9.99). Its authors propose that by ‘doing something different’, embracing change and being flexible you will break the habits that keep you fat. Apparently, the approach is remarkably successful but, fat or thin, its instruction to carpe diem with both hands is both easier and so much more challenging than simply offering the universe a mulish refusal.
Laura Tennant
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