Jemima Lewis

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jemima Lewis

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Jemima Lewis

Pamela Anderson has reinvented herself as a “rebel” against the rules of conventional beauty. Which is great; I genuinely applaud it. Even if it does require a bit of cognitive reorganisation. Back in the 1990s, none of us would have pegged Pamela Anderson to become feminism’s last redoubt. She was one of the women who made other women feel bad about themselves. Not deliberately, I’m sure; just by comparison.

3 weeks ago | aol.co.uk | Jemima Lewis

Fashion, famously, is a reflection of the zeitgeist. And the cover of this month’s GQ magazine certainly captures the present mood. It features a grizzled, muscle-bound Brad Pitt leaning back against a wall, legs spread, glowering from under a fisherman’s beanie with a look of murderous intent. Inside, there’s plenty more of this real-man aesthetic.

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jemima Lewis

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jemima Lewis

When I was 18, doggedly indolent and on course to fail all my A-levels, my father staged an intervention. Lowering himself onto his knees before me like a supplicant monk, he knitted his hands together in prayer. “All you have to do,” he begged, “is enough revision to scrape through these exams. And then you can spend three years at university doing absolutely nothing.”It was a brilliantly effective pep talk at the time. But no part of it rings true today.