Mischa Smith

1 day ago | marieclaire.co.uk | Mischa Smith

Dakota Johnson is the latest celebrity to endorse the enduring naked dress trend, which despite Cannes’ high-profile ban, shows no signs of fading. So, while it might be a stretch to call her latest look—a sheer black top and midi skirt co-ord by Nensi Dojaka—a deliberate sartorial statement, that hasn’t stopped the internet from speculating.

2 days ago | marieclaire.co.uk | Mischa Smith

Picture this: the sun is slipping behind the city’s famous mid-century bungalows, casting a heavenly glow across Heidi Montag’s face which is plastered on billboards and telephone poles, all blonde coiffed hair and beaming Hollywood smile. Everywhere you look, girls are wearing low-rise jeans that sit snugly over heeled flip-flop sandals, framing French pedicures.

4 days ago | marieclaire.co.uk | Mischa Smith

In the UK, it’s easy to assume abortion rights are safe — that the horrors unfolding in parts of the United States could never happen here. But that confidence is dangerously misplaced. As journalist Bel Trew revealed earlier this year in her investigation into Britain’s growing anti-abortion movement, six women have been prosecuted in the past two years for ending pregnancies outside legal limits — a sharp and worrying rise from just three convictions in the previous century.

1 week ago | marieclaire.co.uk | Mischa Smith

Men are increasingly turning to AI girlfriends to fulfil their emotional and sexual desires. What they’re getting, I’m told, is a “perfect” partner, but by “perfect” they mean someone who never pushes back, never changes, and never asks for anything in return. Experts worry the boom in AI girlfriends reinforces the notion that women should be endlessly empathetic and emotionally (and sexually) available.

2 weeks ago | marieclaire.co.uk | Mischa Smith

Once the preserve of couples on the rocks or the over 70s, sleeping in separate beds is having an online renaissance. Sleep divorces are trending again, pushed by everyone from Victoria Beckham to reality star Ferne McCann, and, of course, TikTok. But is there more to this than a trend?