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
"Mary came at exactly the right time. She changed my perspective to a degree where I could look at what was happening with the Beatles and think, 'Does it really matter?'"
#EmilyInParis2 is no different from the first, packing in the same old “oh là là” French clichés and being almost gleefully bad. Well, you don’t tamper with a winning formula thetimes.co.uk/article/emily-…
If people like watching something with the emotional complexity of a hair bobble just so they can see thin people wearing high fashion, who is it harming? Apart from my knuckles as I chewed them to the bone, writes @CarolMidgley
Series one saw #EmilyinParis as Netflix’s most popular comedy of 2020. This wilfully shallow series was a stonking success watched by 58 million households within its first 28 days thetimes.co.uk/article/emily-…
Jackie Weaver is famous for controlling an unruly parish council Zoom meeting, but how would she deal with Christmas fall-outs at your house? thetimes.co.uk/article/festiv…
Weaver cites Elizabeth I and Cersei Lannister, the ruthless queen in Game of Thrones, as her role models 👑
Challengers to her authority at the Handforth meeting were met with either instant banishment (to the Zoom waiting room) or rendered mute
Phones have been banned for all but a small window shortly before bedtime on a week-long residential course in the Scottish Highlands with @OutwardBoundUK, leading to brief panic amongst the students
@OutwardBoundUK But Kyra, thinks for a moment and says: “I do feel like it has given us more time to have deep chats about each other’s lives.”
Teachers believe the trip is needed more than ever. After months apart from one another in lockdown, pupils have struggled to readjust
“Believe in yourself, believe in Britain, that would probably be her campaign slogan,” says a former adviser. She’ll mention freedom, she’ll mention liberty, she’ll mention free trade
Her ideology is late-era Thatcherism: low tax, work not welfare, slash red tape, shrink the public sector, reduce workers’ rights
Roughly 30 minutes into this extraordinary and inescapably violent film, Rousselle's character smashes her own nose deliberately against the corner of a Belfast sink
For many viewers of the movie, which won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and is France’s submission for next year’s Oscars, the scene is just too much.