From “Freedom Day” to “Hot Vax Summer”, was there ever a year with so much pressure to scrub up well?
Let’s enjoy a refresher of the stylish heights 2021 managed to scale in difficult circumstances, writes Harriet Walker thetimes.co.uk/article/best-d…
Adele
How to sum up 2021? Adele wearing a leather trouser suit and monogrammed Louis Vuitton coat to a... basketball game 🏀👠
This look had strong “putting Saturday night make-up on to go to the big Sainsbury’s” energy
Billie Eilish
Once famous for wearing genderless baggy T-shirts and dyed-green hair, Eilish chose this year to emerge in silver screen blonde-bombshell mode - which tells you everything about how young people feel about being cooped up
Zendaya
Fashion types thrill to see the film star dressing as though they are still in the film when they attend the premiere — witness Zendaya in this otherworldly sci-fi column dress by the apocalypse-couturier Rick Owens for the opening of the epic Dune
Timothée Chalamet
The strength of this holographic silver Tom Ford suit for his appearance at the Cannes Film Festival alone would guarantee the actor a spot on this list
Lady Gaga
From the meat dress of 2010 🥩 to the Quality Street dress of 2021 🍬
Sure, she still has her pants on show, but Lady Gaga’s purple Gucci gown at the House of Gucci premiere represented a maturing of the singer’s style
Emma Raducanu
Two days after winning the US Open, the tennis star, then 18, took to the Met Gala stairs wearing a printed Chanel two-piece and matching cape
Raducanu’s was a masterclass in how to emerge from one’s corona-crisis chrysalis
Helen Mirren
Mirren’s sea-foam shade of glitter at the Venice Film Festival set the standard for all 2021 occasionwear.
At 76, Mirren is a poster girl for those vaccinated early, who then really went for it on the party front 🎉
AOC
“Tax the Rich”, read the gown worn by every hipster’s favourite congresswoman.
Online debate raged on and on as to whether AOC was helping the cause or not by attending such an expensive and lavish event
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: A Liberal Democrat MP has been refused entry to Hong Kong to visit her newborn grandson
Wera Hobhouse, 65, flew to the Chinese region — a British territory until 1997 — on Thursday but was held at airport security, questioned and put on the first flight home five hours later
She had her passport confiscated, was asked about her job and purpose of her trip, had her luggage searched and swabbed, and was then escorted to the boarding gate by four immigration officers
Russia attacked Ukraine with 145 drones and six long-range missiles overnight, including attacks on energy infrastructure, despite President Putin claiming he had ordered an end to strikes on the Ukrainian power grid
Ukraine has an undeniable right to defend itself on its own and supported by partners, President Stubb of Finland said today after meeting with President Zelensky in Helsinki
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Zelensky said he will talk to Trump today, the first time they have spoken directly since the bust-up between the two in the Oval Office last month.
Zelensky said he expects to hear details from the US president regarding his two-hour phone call with Putin yesterday
Lucy Powell, the Leader of the Commons, said that an Elections Bill — which would include lowering the voting age — could come in the next parliamentary session
In its manifesto Labour committed to giving “16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all elections”, but the pledge was not included in the government’s first King’s speech, setting out its priorities for its first parliamentary session
On the eve of election day, the polls had predicted the closest race in modern times. Instead, it was a rout
With Donald Trump poised to sweep Kamala Harris in all seven swing states, the pollsters — despite spending an estimated half a billion dollars on surveying the nation — underestimated the president-elect’s support for the third election in a row
🔺EXCLUSIVE: King Charles and his eldest son make millions from feudal levies on schools, hospitals, homeowners and the very charities they represent, a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and @C4Dispatches reveals today thetimes.com/uk/royal-famil…
@C4Dispatches The ancient property empires that fund the King and the Prince of Wales have remained a closely guarded secret within the royal family and its small circle of advisers for centuries.
Even parliament has been denied access to the list of landholdings held by the royals
@C4Dispatches We used the royal addresses to uncover how the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall are making millions of pounds by charging government departments, councils, businesses and the general public via a series of rents and feudal levies on land largely seized by medieval monarchs