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
Suddenly Single
The adventures of a divorcee-about-town 
Agony Sisters
Advice from the women who know
People
Window Shopping
London’s glitziest shop fronts
Wardrobe Mistress
Hot or Not?
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On Beauty Get in line
I’ve fallen head over heels for the fabulous, flicky eyeliner that’s everywhere this autumn. It’s a triumph of a trend: flattering, instantly achievable and a totally inexpensive way to update your look. With this in mind, I’ve swooped upon all manner of kohls, creams and liquids and have been putting in more pencil practice than most pre-schoolers. My fave look? A line of blackest kohl with a slick of Jemma Kidd’s stunning blue glitter gel on top. Amazing at night. Kim Parker
Lift the lid
Classic chunky pencil: Benefit Badgal Eye Pencil, £12.50 (benefitcosmetics.co.uk)Foolproof ‘felt-tip’ liner: 17 Soft Liner Pen, £3.49 (boots.com)
Seriously longwearing cream: Clinique Brush-On Cream Liner (doubles as a smoky eyeshadow), £12 (clinique.co.uk)
Perfect accessory: Jemma Kidd Crushed Jewel Gel Eye Liner, £9.50 (boots.com)
Instant karma
I used to be Snow White... but I drifted
Mae West (1892-1980)
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In Town Last Night
The glitziest events
Shot in Sicily, a sumptuous photographic collaboration between muse Amanda Harlech and photographer Michael Roberts, was launched last night at Hamiltons Gallery. More party pictures 
Good news After sustainably produced clothing and organic make-up comes ethical jewellery. The gold and gems in Fifi Bijoux’s beautiful pieces come from mines which meet fair trade standards and are produced in Scotland.
Bad news After that bloody awful summer, sufferers of SAD (seasonal affective disorder) are already feeling down in the dumps - and it’s five months ’til spring
The Big Issue: vice-free models? You must be kidding
London Fashion Week wouldn’t be complete without a ceremonial re-opening of the size zero debate. The Model Health Inquiry, set up to address the problem of eating disorders amongst models, has made 14 recommendations, the most important of which are that in order to step on to the catwalk, models must be over 16, and have passed a health check. So it’s rather ironic that this is also the week in which the News of the World claimed that model Jodie Kidd and her brother Jack scored coke for undercover reporters posing as investors. When asked if it was ‘good quality’, Jodie apparently replied “I’d do it. I’m not going to do shit.” And we’re not talking Kate Moss; this is Jodie the polo player, golfer and racing driver, a posh horsey girl with ostentatiously healthy good looks. On the one hand, there’s a sort of willed
hypocrisy about pretending shock at cocaine when a certain type of high-functioning London world of media, art and fashion is fuelled by recreational drug use. On the other, while I applaud efforts to clean up fashion, I suspect that you might as well try and clean up the film industry, or the music business, or indeed polo. Wherever young, beautiful people with money and fame are gathered together, many drugs will be taken, sex had, food thrown up, hearts broken, lives destroyed and every kind of fuckedupness let loose - mainly, I suppose, because the good bits are such immense fun. Just look at Elvis. You can’t legislate against it, but you can take Noel Coward’s advice when he sang ‘Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington’ - unless she’s a very tough cookie indeed.
Laura Tennant
Bonkers beauty Kate Moss’s post-break up ‘Vibrancy’ regime features nightly facial cleansing with boiled milk... it’ll be baths in asses’ milk next
Ready, Steady, Shop
In-between dressing
Veronica Lake curls, feline eyes, red lips; for autumn/winter 2007, hair and make-up goes super-glam.
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LONDON FASHION WEEK CATWALK PICTURES
Going out? The Place
Chez Bruce
2 Bellevue Road
London SE1
020 8672 0114
Chez Bruce is the perfect neighbourhood restaurant. Despite being more than a decade old, it shows no sign of age and last week topped Zagat’s London Restaurant Guide, stealing Gordon Ramsay’s crown at Royal Hospital Road. And the good news is that you don’t have to win the lottery to enjoy the winning combination of classical cuisine, unpretentious decor and pleasant views over Wandsworth Common - the set menu is an impressive £37.50 for three courses. Never a follower of fashion, chef Bruce Poole experiments with flavour in his own unfussy way. Don’t leave without sampling foie gras parfait with ham, figs and hazelnuts, and roast grouse with fondant potato, blackberries, Savoy cabbage, bread sauce and bacon. More than worth the trek to the South London wilderness.
Gabrielle Strachan
Read Me
The all-girls boarding school: depending on your perspective, it’s either a hellhole of eating disorders, suicide attempts and life-screwing exam results, or just like being locked up overnight in a pastry shop. Sara Lawrence, in High Jinx (Faber, £6.99), her reinvention of that much-neglected genre the school story, takes the latter view, magnificently disregarding the traditional chick lit tropes (ie your heroine must be depressed, worried about her weight and burdened with a crippling inferiority complex). At Stagmount, jolly japes in the Lower Sixth mean escaping to Brighton to drink WKD Blue, drop Ecstasy and go clubbing, and uniform for its posh pupils is Juicy Couture sweats and Ugg boots. Bullying is apparently ‘non-U’, as are, we must presume, PMT and spots. When the book opens with teenager Charity enthusiastically banging the handyman, you know headmistress Mrs Bennett is in for a bumpy ride; but how will heroine Jinx and her partner in crime, Liberty, cope with the arrival of stunning new girl Stella? All this utter escapism is rather entertaining, no doubt for the same obscure reasons that Malory Towers floated the female boat. For the 17-year-old in your life, or your soul; but be warned, High Jinx comes marked ‘Explicit Content’.
Laura Tennant
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