Go Inside April Vogue
FROM Nigella's cover appearance - pared back and naturally beautiful - to the accompanying interview and beyond, April's Vogue shines the spotlight on real women. True to themselves and comfortable in their own skin, the new issue's heroines are a feminine force to be reckoned with, and absolutely stunning to boot. After a year of scrutiny and innuendo, the world's best-known domestic goddess is barefaced and bold in her first exclusive interview since divorcing last year. One of her oldest friends and Vogue's editor-at-large, Fiona Golfar finds Lawson newly confident, with an appetite for fresh challenges and at her happiest in years. Photographer, musician, activist and mother Linda McCartney also inspires the April issue. Fashion designer Stella McCartney writes about her late mother's inimitable dress sense - a look as real and natural as it was stylish - and allowsVogueto borrow vintage pieces from Linda's archive to be mixed with new-season pieces for the Linda-inspired shoot by Glen Luchford. Also in the issue, photographer Nigel Shafran brings his unique creative perspective to the world's most exclusive shopping street: Paris's Avenue Montaigne. Whether worshipping at the windows of Chanel, soul-searching in Celine or getting lost in Louis Vuitton, his images encapsulate the irresistible allure of the new. Go inside the new issue, here. Download #AprilVogue on the iPad for £2.99 here.
Nathaniel Goldberg1/14Nigella Lawson wears embellished lace dress, £1,795, Burberry Prorsum.Hair: Luke Hersheson for Daniel Hersheson. Make-up: Sally Branka. Fashion editor: Kate Phelan. Photographer: Nathaniel Goldberg.
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Photographer Nigel Shafran takes us inside one of the world’s most famous shopping streets: Paris’s Avenue Montaigne, for a fashion shoot that explores our lust for the new.
PA3/14Emma Watson wore an outfit from the Dior Couture collection – a red backless dress with slim black trousers – to the Golden Globe Awards.
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Model Suvi Koponen wears archive pieces from Linda McCartney’s wardrobe, mixed with new-season styles, as Stella writes about the lasting influence of her mother’s inimitable style.
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What to do if your favourite designer takes a surprising new direction? Designers with loyal followings and reliable aesthetics took a new turn for spring/summer 2014 – Erdem eschewing florals for monochrome, and Phoebe Philo swapping minimal for maximal – so do you stick or twist?
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Do you really need surgery? As traditional measures lose out to new non-invasive treatments, Kathleen Baird-Murray asks: do you need a little something done? And, if so, do the new measures really work?
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Thanks to her new book, Mrs Hemingway, writer Naomi Wood is currently preoccupied by the concept of the other woman. She writes for us about the allure and mystique of the mistress – and our enduring fascination with that most maligned of female figures.
