We love: fashion fixes for the week ahead

The Design Museum’s spotlight on contemporary Black designers, vibrant Fair Isle knitwear, and tactile jewellery

✍️ @jojonesfashion
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Still haunted by syrupy 1990s chardonnay? It’s time to forgive

Forget the syrupy kitsch of 25 years ago: finely balanced, oak-aged chardonnays from Burgundy and beyond offer savoury substance and elegance

✍️ @Daveydaibach
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Red alert: are you ready for colour blocking?

Led by Celine’s creative director Michael Rider, a vibrant colour-block revival is bringing high-octane shades of red to your wardrobe this season

✍️ @helenseamons
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Nigel Slater’s recipe for rice pudding with mascarpone

Simmered on the hob and enriched with mascarpone, this creamy rice pudding is finished with an easy blueberry sauce

✍️ @NigelSlater
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Muscle memories: how to survive a personal trainer

With nothing but bananas and a looming deadline to fortify him, our sedentary hero sets off on the latest leg of his fitness journey

✍️ Yoel Noorali
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Ceramicist Perla Valtierra at large in Mexico City

The ceramicist and artist shares her favourite haunts, design spots and neighbourhood secrets around Mexico City

✍️ @aimee_farrell
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‘It’s an end-of-days place’: Beefbar at Dear Jackie, London

Inside his Broadwick Soho hotel, Noël Hayden has built a dream world staffed by sex leopards. Expect everything except finesse

✍️ @TanyaGold1
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The tradwives are revolting

As influencers turn away from submissive domesticity, one hopes there are lessons in the countermovement beyond how to churn butter

✍️ Eva Wiseman
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor is doing everything she can to call attention to the plight of Britain’s birds – what will it take for the government to listen?

✍️ @SimonParkin, El Hardwick
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All the beige: the pleasure of a plain-looking dinner

Sometimes you don’t want to eat the rainbow. While it may not look brilliant on Instagram I say dare to bring on the brown – that way comfort lies

✍️ Sophie Wyburd
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Nigel Slater’s recipe for leek and potato pie

As the cold days arrive, nothing warms and consoles like a slice of comforting leek, potato and cheese pie

✍️ @NigelSlater
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Hannah Crosbie’s life choices: ‘Surrealism… Trade-unionism… Vive la révolution’

From cinema to skincare and celebrity dining, Hannah Crosbie shares her latest cultural choices

✍️ Hannah Crosbie (@han67787)
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‘I was abused by my therapist’: how treatment turned to betrayal

When a vulnerable woman sought healing during lockdown, her therapist slowly and relentlessly groomed her. She found reporting him was not so simple…

✍️ Eva Wiseman
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We’re a bit quick to send Big Tech our blood

Blood testing and health tracking might be the way of the future, but perhaps there’s safety in blissful ignorance

✍️ @joelgolby
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Rachel Chinouriri: ‘I’d love to be adopted by Rihanna’

The singer-songwriter's debut album, What a Devastating Turn of Events, was nominated for two Brit awards in 2024. Her second, I Think I Spoke Too Soon, is out now

✍️ Kathryn Bromwich
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The Buzz of the Ballz

How neon-coloured RTD cocktail spheres conquered youth culture and challenged conventional alcohol industry marketing
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"Lahori Karahi in Hounslow is an anti-restaurant: nothing but the food, unless you seek paintings hung so the room doesn’t look too much like a hospital. It doesn’t even have a website"

Read @TanyaGold1's latest restaurant review
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How Cairo taught Salem Charabi to carry daylight into dusk

The Copenhagen-born architect and designer is unveiling a handcrafted lantern collection celebrating Egyptian craft, culture and resourcefulness
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"After the good news the three of us were a bit giggly and grabby as we left, and I wondered if it was bad manners to be happy in the hospital"

Read Eva Wiseman's latest column all about her sister's cancer all-clear.
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