Olivia Marks

1 month ago | vogue.co.uk | Olivia Marks

The British summer is a cruel thing: the promise so great, the reality all too often crushingly disappointing. Last year, you might recall, was particularly pathetic. The coldest, in fact, since 2015. Grey, chilly, sad. Me? I only felt relief. Bad weather meant long sleeves and loose trousers, ankle-grazing denim skirts and oversized shirts.

2 months ago | vogue.co.uk | Olivia Marks

“The fear is that motherhood will completely annihilate everything else about you,” says author Saba Sams, 28, as we meet ahead of the publication of her debut novel, Gunk, and just eight weeks after the birth of her baby son, her third child in seven years.

2 months ago | vogue.co.uk | Olivia Marks

“I’m outside Jaguar Shoes,” read the message from my friend. I’d not received the like since 2008, back when the long-standing bar was a focal point of Shoreditch nightlife and I worked at nearby Catch serving indie-sleazesters poorly mixed G&Ts. Catch is no longer with us but Jaguar Shoes survives and, next to it, the reason my millennial friend and I were back: Bar Valette, the new restaurant from Isaac McHale, whose Clove Club brought Michelin-starred cuisine to the postcode in 2013.

2 months ago | vogue.co.uk | Olivia Marks

Love isn’t so much in the air this spring, as a cynical – and bitterly funny – disdain for it. Take Mariam Rahmani’s stylishly arch literary debut, Liquid (Doubleday, out on 15 May), in which her LA-dwelling 30-something protagonist decides to ditch romance in favour of marrying rich.

Jan 2, 2025 | vogue.com | Olivia Marks

“You know people talk about ‘chemistry’? I think it’s bollocks,” says Indira Varma. Next to her, Rami Malek nods in agreement. “I’m the same way,” he drawls, his voice all American base, thick with vocal fry. “People say, ‘We have to have a chemistry read.’ And I’ll say, ‘Listen,’”—here the actor leans in intently, as is his habit—“‘I’ll make chemistry with anyone.’ It doesn’t require you to decipher that, that’s for us to figure out.”The pair lock eyes. They may well be right.