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  • THE GOOD TIMES

    Style May 2022

    THE GOOD TIMES

    She was a pioneer among supermodels and one half of an eighties It couple. But it took Yasmin Le Bon a while longer to find true fulfilment. ‘I’m so glad I hung on for dear life in this profession,’ she says.

     

  • Together Again, Kid

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    Together Again, Kid

    She reduced him to tears; he called her his ‘last love’. When Lauren Bacall died aged 89, the tributes and obituaries shone a new light on her show-stopping marriage to Humphrey Bogart, and with it came the realisation that not every celebrity match has to end in a conscious uncoupling.

  • The Heart Grows Fonda

    Icons February 2022

    The Heart Grows Fonda

    She is a libertine, a political and social activist and at the age of 84, Jane Fonda remains her gauntlet-hurling, shit-stirring, couldn’t give a damn self.

  • FADE TO BLACK

    Style January 2022

    FADE TO BLACK

    ‘Movies are my life and my life is a movie,’ said Marisa Mell, the Austrian actress whose beauty channelled Brigitte Bardot as a brunette. If that were so, Mell was denied a happy ending.

  • REAR ADMIRABLE

    Style November 2021

    REAR ADMIRABLE

    Vikki Dougan has been described as a midcentury Emily Ratajkowski or Kim Kardashian, a celebrity who ‘brazenly claimed attention for her figure, exercising her agency as a woman to do so’. Dougan’s fame burned brightly and briefly..

  • DESIGN FOR LIFE

    Style September 2021

    DESIGN FOR LIFE

    From modelling and motherhood to commerce and philanthropy, it feels as though India Hicks has already packed several existences into her 53 years.

  • Cathy Moriarty: The Bronx Knockout

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    Cathy Moriarty: The Bronx Knockout

    Cathy Moriarty was perfectly cast as the doe-eyed wife whose cheekbones were no defence against Jake LaMotta’s temper. Originally published in Issue 53 of The Rake, David Smiedt writes that Raging Bull, the 1980 classic, made Moriarty an overnight success, but Hollywood has not been kind to her since.

  • BARING HER SOUL

    Style July 2021

    BARING HER SOUL

    The former model and counterculture figure Nena von Schlebrügge turned her back on the vapidities of fame to pursue a more spiritual calling.

  • MYTHBUSTER

    Style April 2021

    MYTHBUSTER

    Fifty years after her theatrical debut (as a drama student at Yale), Sigourney Weaver remains a torchbearer for an enlightened Hollywood

  • FLIRTING WITH LIFE

    Style March 2021

    FLIRTING WITH LIFE

    Originally published in Issue 42 of The Rake, David Smiedt writes that before Lauren Hutton came along, gap-toothed models were about as welcome at a photoshoot as a case of chickenpox. But the all-American cover girl with a boundless lust for life made pretty much anything look cool.

  • THE CONQUERING HEROINE: Bebe Buell

    Style December 2020

    THE CONQUERING HEROINE: Bebe Buell

    Her first four dates on moving to New York were Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Todd Rundgren. It was the early 1970s: free love reigned, and the singer, muse and model Bebe Buell was queen.

  • Lynda Carter: The original superheroine

    Icons November 2020

    Lynda Carter: The original superheroine

    Lynda Carter’s classic seventies take on Wonder Woman is the only version worthy of the name. Though not for the reasons we might assume.

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