What's got my attention this week
Things to read, watch & listen to this weekend
Mary Quant, the fashion designer behind the mini skirt, died this week, aged 93
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• This week we lost another history-making fashion designer, Mary Quant (Abre numa nova janela).
• Jennifer Coolidge's brilliant year continues apace, this time with the cover of the Time100 issue (Abre numa nova janela). She told Mia Farrow (yep, you read that right) why this sudden success at 61 leaves her completely baffled (Abre numa nova janela).
• Love this piece about the significance of the local bench (Abre numa nova janela).
• No7 has launched another miracle skincare product that's got waiting lists up the wazoo. But does it do even a fraction of what it claims? (Abre numa nova janela) £
• Older women in the nude (Abre numa nova janela): the opposite of invisibility? (These images give me life.)
• Why you should ditch the bucket list (Abre numa nova janela).
• What nobody tells you about what menopause can (NOT WILL) do to your sex life. (Abre numa nova janela)
• How Everything But The Girl got their groove back (Abre numa nova janela). And a new album.
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