All posts tagged: Claire

This Lily James, Claire Foy and Helena Christensen-approved designer bag perfects SS26’s ‘fresh classics’ trend

This Lily James, Claire Foy and Helena Christensen-approved designer bag perfects SS26’s ‘fresh classics’ trend

Published by Daniella Wilson

It’s one thing for a stylish celebrity to wear a standout accessory that we can’t stop thinking about. But when multiple cool-girls wear the same one? That’s our cue to run, not walk, to get our hands on it. This season, it’s the T Timeless Top Handle from Tod’s that is dominating the A-listers’ accessories agenda. The clue is in the name- it’s completely timeless. It’s also effortlessly chic thanks to the strap on the upper trim, complete with gold hardware, including the brand’s signature ‘T Timeless’ accessory. A major trend on the SS26 runways was a fresh take on archival bags – the principles of the originals remained the same, but with an updated, contemporary edge. Tod’s first introduced the T Timeless symbol in the Spring/Summer 2004 collection, with a relaunch in 2019. This season’s Top Handle continues that evolution, refining the house’s signature codes into a more structured, elevated silhouette that feels both archival and relevant. And yes, the celebrity seal of approval is firmly in place. The bag has been spotted on …

10 Questions with Julie Graham and Claire Cooper

10 Questions with Julie Graham and Claire Cooper

Published by Daniella Wilson

Add The Hardacres to your watchlist Julie Graham’s breakthrough role was in Sally Wainwright’s At Home with the Braithwaites in 2000. Since then, she’s brought her grit, wit and humanity to, among others, Benidorm, Shetland and This City is Ours. Claire Cooper made her name as Jacqui McQueen in Hollyoaks and went to on play Anne Boleyn in Lucy Worsley’s Six Wives and starred in Kay Mellor’s In the Club. Now they’re back as mother and daughter, Ma and Mary, in series two of the rags-to-riches period drama The Hardacres… Ma and Mary’s relationship is tricky, tempestuous and tender. How does it develop in the new series? Julie Mother and daughter relationships are complicated. I never believe mother-daughter relationships where they’re all nice with each other and supportive. It’s just b***ocks. So I love the tensions between Ma and Mary. Claire This time around, we’re more agreeable but we haven’t lost that bite. We’re still spicy with each other. Julie Whenever we can, we find little moments where we can really get on each other’s …

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke review – the downfall of an all‑American tradwife | Fiction

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke review – the downfall of an all‑American tradwife | Fiction

Published by Sam Flores

Could Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear be the first great tradwife novel? This was my hope: finally, a literary response to the unhinged social trend of women cosplaying “traditional Christian values” – pronatalism and obeying one’s husband – to large social media followings. I am not immune to hype, and Yesteryear has been hyped to high heaven, prompting massive auctions for the rights, and landing a film deal with Anne Hathaway. You have to admit that the premise – Instagram tradwife wakes up in what appear to be the actual pioneer days, and finds that traditional wifedom is not as much of a hoot as her whitewashed social media re-enactment had implied – is genius. As one of the “Angry Women” our heroine Natalie so disparages, I was looking forward to some sweet schadenfreude. Natalie is a “good Christian woman” with a rageful core, or, as she describes herself, “the manic pixie American dream girl of this nation’s deepest, darkest fantasies”. She knows exactly what she’s doing, because “America hates women. What a comfort to remember.” Her biting and occasionally …

Claire Tabouret’s Stained-Glass Windows for Notre-Dame Divide French Society, with a Legal Threat Looming

Claire Tabouret’s Stained-Glass Windows for Notre-Dame Divide French Society, with a Legal Threat Looming

Published by José Betancourt

On a recent visit to the Notre-Dame de Paris, the 12th-century cathedral was bustling with a steady flow of visitors who had come inside the Gothic monument from a wintery afternoon. It seemed more packed than it had been before its closure in 2019, after the collapse of its iconic spire and roof in a horrific blaze. But the line to get in moved quickly, and once under its vaulted ceiling, the sheer size of the structure left room to linger. I had gone to see the stained-glass windows designed by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century, adorning six of the south-side chapels along the nave—before they are replaced. Related Articles Viollet-le-Duc’s windows, geometric and floral-patterned stained-glass grisailles, or light gray-scale panes accented with colorful sections, were installed as part of his major restoration of Notre-Dame between 1844 and 1864. Meanwhile, earlier that week, I had gone to the Grand Palais, equally bustling, to see life-size models of the proposed substitutes, a figurative retelling of the Pentecost, by contemporary artist Claire Tabouret.  These two sets …

Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy on rebooting Enid Blyton: ‘You can be responsible, or stay true to outdated ideas’

Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy on rebooting Enid Blyton: ‘You can be responsible, or stay true to outdated ideas’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It’s been a few months since filming wrapped on the buoyant family film The Magic Faraway Tree, and its two stars have the slight air of having spent time in some kind of wonderful spa. “It was nice,” says Claire Foy, serenely. “I felt quite relieved to be playing a version of a mother that didn’t have to come with a whole side of trauma and grief.” Andrew Garfield nods. “I think joy was the priority,” he says. “It felt very, very different to whatever hell I usually experience as the character I’m playing.” It’s true enough: Foy and Garfield – cast in Faraway Tree as a pair of benevolent parents who move their family to a ramshackle countryside fixer-upper – have been through the mill lately. Foy comes to this off the back of films like H is for Hawk …

Claire Tabouret Responds to Criticism of Notre-Dame Commission

Claire Tabouret Responds to Criticism of Notre-Dame Commission

Published by José Betancourt

Few contemporary public art projects have simultaneously stirred such artistic, theological, and political controversy as Notre-Dame Cathedral’s new stained glass windows. It’s no surprise, then, that the artist awarded the commission in 2024, the French figurative painter Claire Tabouret, has faced extraordinary scrutiny. In December, the public finally encountered the artist’s vision in “Claire Tabouret: In a Single Breath” at the Grand Palais, which featured life-sized maquettes of the six stained-glass windows slated to replace the 19th-century works of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Jean-Baptiste Lassus. Tabouret, known for her vividly colored, tautly emotional portraiture, has imagined a multiethnic, multigenerational array of worshipers prostrated during Pentecost. Related Articles The French President, Emmanuel Macron, and Paris’s archbishop, Laurent Ulrich, chose Tabouret from a pool of 110 candidates, following explicit instructions from the Catholic Church that the winner be a figurative artist. The French Ministry of Culture commissioned the replacements for the windows in six chapels on the structure’s southern aisle in the wake of the 2019 blaze that damaged the roof and spire of the Gothic landmark. The plan …

Coronation Street fans ‘gutted’ after shock exit of Claire Sweeney’s Cassie after just three years

Coronation Street fans ‘gutted’ after shock exit of Claire Sweeney’s Cassie after just three years

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Claire Sweeney is exiting Coronation Street after only three years, it has been confirmed. Sweeney plays Cassie Plummer, the erratic daughter of Maureen Lipman’s Evelyn Plummer and long-lost mum to Alan Halsall’s Tyrone Dobbs. Sweeney herself has not yet commented on her exit, but has been excitedly posting photographs on her Instagram of her new job: playing Miss Hannigan in a UK and Ireland tour of the musical Annie. ITV said: “Cassie will be on the cobbles until the summer during which time she will continue to make her presence felt in Weatherfield leading up to a great exit storyline.” Sweeney joined the Corrie cast in 2023, marking her return to soaps 20 years after the end of Brookside, the Channel 4 soap opera that turned her into a household name. In a statement at the time, Sweeney expressed her excitement …

Claire and Jamie’s Iconic Love Story Ends

Claire and Jamie’s Iconic Love Story Ends

Published by Daniella Wilson

Everything has led to this. The trailer for the highly anticipated eighth and final season of Outlander has dropped, teasing the conclusion of Claire and Jamie’s iconic love story after more than a decade. The time-traveling romance drama returns Friday, March 6, with new episodes streaming weekly Fridays on all Starz platforms. The final trailer (below) hints at heartwarming and heartbreaking moments for the Fraser family, with several familiar faces returning and reuniting. The series is inspired by Diana Gabaldon’s international best-selling books. Outlander stars Caitríona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser, along with Sophie Skelton as Brianna MacKenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger MacKenzie, John Bell as Young Ian Murray, David Berry as Lord John Grey, Charles Vandervaart as William Ransom and Izzy Meikle-Small as Rachel Murray.  Stars Balfe and Heughan spoke with The Hollywood Reporter after season seven about the cliffhanger finale, saying the big spoiler moment was “a shock for us as actors reading it and learning about it, as it was for the characters.” (Read that chat here.) Here’s the logline …

Zac Posen Made Claire Danes a Dress When They Were in High School. For the Golden Globes 2026, He Put Her in Gap

Zac Posen Made Claire Danes a Dress When They Were in High School. For the Golden Globes 2026, He Put Her in Gap

Published by Sam Flores

“He is so brilliant and so warm and imaginative and optimistic, everything seems possible when you’re talking to Zac,” she says, “and then he turns it into a reality.” “It’s really such a privilege to be in these longer conversations with designers and admire them and know them. We have a real intimacy,” she says. Of course, fittings with dear friends have more perks than just fashion: “It’s also an excuse to gossip.” With this particular look, which includes a functioning chest pocket, Danes says she toyed with putting a pen in the pocket as a nod to her character’s profession, or with bringing a piece of her seven-year-old son, Rowan, with her to the show. And I mean a literal piece. Evan Mulling. “It would have been fun to put Rowan’s tooth that he just lost in there,” she says. She decided against it in the end, not in the least because Rowan’s teeth are often not available, thanks to a habit of accidentally swallowing them or otherwise misplacing them before the Tooth Fairy …