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Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Iconic Rocker, 60, Makes Bold Statement About Having a 'Friend With Benefits'
Iconic Rocker, 60, Makes Bold Statement About Having a 'Friend With Benefits' originally appeared on Parade. Courtney Love is doing 60 in style. The legendary rocker, who rose to stardom as the lead vocalist and guitarist for the rock band Hole, opened up about her romantic life in a new episode of Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud. Lying down on the couch like all of Freud's guests, Love discussed her casual sexual relationship by referring to "the person I do most of my romantic crap with." She said this person "is also a libertine, so we really are also more friends with benefits sometimes." Love, who was previously married to Nirvana icon Kurt Cobain until he died in 1994, declined to mention her love interest's name publicly. "I don't like talking about them," she noted, "because there's jealousy around that person." Honing in on her own feelings of jealousy, Love went on to say that she doesn't "really get it." 🎬 🎬 "I don't know if I'm being in denial here, but I have a friend, and I made friends with him when he was on the up in the art world, and he's done astonishingly well, and I could not be happier for him," she told Freud. "I have another friend who I met on her come up and now she's bigger than I'll ever, ever be and I'm really happy for her." Love has been living in London since 2019. She's even in the process of becoming a British citizen, PEOPLE reported. Back in March, she told Todd Almond at London's Geographical Society that she loves living across the pond. 'I'm really glad I'm here. It's so great to live here. I'm finally getting my British citizenship in six months. I get to be a citizen. I'm applying, man! Can't get rid of me,' she Rocker, 60, Makes Bold Statement About Having a 'Friend With Benefits' first appeared on Parade on Jun 12, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 12, 2025, where it first appeared.
Telegraph
10-06-2025
- Business
- Telegraph
M&S fashion is back online – these are the nine must-buy pieces
Lovers of Marks & Spencer fashion, rejoice – after six long weeks, we can finally shop its clothing, shoes and accessories online once more. The retailer has resumed service on its e-commerce site after it was forced to cease online trading due to a cyber attack in April. 'Select fashion ranges are now available to buy online' for customers in England, Scotland and Wales, according to a notice on the M&S website. The company says more of its fashion, home and beauty products will be added to its online shop each day, with deliveries in Northern Ireland to restart in the coming weeks. And if you can't order what you want? 'For products that are not available online, customers can add them to their 'wish list' and when they come back into stock we will let them know,' the retailer says. 'Our full range remains available in store.' Cotton one-shouldered dress, £49.90, Marks & Spencer For high street fashion fans, this news will be particularly welcome. While the M&S clothing department has always been popular for basics such as underwear and hosiery, its fashion offering, lead by head of womenswear design Lisa Illis, has improved significantly in recent years, delivering (until the cyber attack) sustained growth. It's not just the well-received collaborations with Sienna Miller and Bella Freud; before online shutdown, M&S revealed that it sells 10 pairs of jeans every minute, thanks to 'It' styles such as the barrel and palazzo, and prices starting at just £25. 'M&S finally seems confident about what it's doing and who its customer is, and is no longer patronising her with shapeless dresses and frumpy patterns,' The Telegraph 's head of fashion, Lisa Armstrong, wrote last year. Cotton embroidered blouse, £55, Marks & Spencer Certain trend-led fashion items have sold out rapidly, with lengthy waiting lists for the restock – among them a pair of brown suede loafers bearing a close resemblance to a pair by Saint Laurent, and a bow-front sequin top that was a viral hit last Christmas. Of course, there's been no issue with in-store sales in the intervening weeks, and new-in collections have been available to buy across the UK – but brick-and-mortar stores don't always carry the full offering. The cyber attack has served as an indicator of just how dependent the fashion consumer has become on the retailer's e-commerce site. So now that we can shop online again, which are the new-in pieces we should add to basket? Well, get excited, because the new drop is very strong indeed – but I feel I should preface this with the warning that we should always be prepared to receive something that looked great online but is disappointing in real life. A colleague who visited an M&S store this weekend complained of cheap, synthetic-looking knitwear (those viscose/polyamide blends) and 'insipid blouses' (beware items such as a lace tie-front blouse which does not boast enough fabric to pass muster as a grown-up evening look). My personal pet fashion hate is wishy-washy floral midi dresses – but, thankfully, I don't see any online today. As for the best buys, scroll on for The Telegraph fashion team's edit…
Daily Mail
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Artist who had multiple orgasms in public museum reveals the 'exhausting' effect it had on her
An artist who had multiple orgasms in public gallery revealed the 'terrible' effect it had on her in the following years. Marina Abramović, from Serbia, is a performance artist who spent over five decades pushing the limits of art through controversial performances, including switching places with a prostitute in the red light district in Amsterdam in the 70s. Among her controversial stunts is a performance in the 2005 series, Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, in which she masturbated for eight hours straight. The series, which comprised of several performances, took place across a number of days at the museum and was dedicated to the artist's late friend, Susan Sontag. But the performance that stood out was the second, in which she recreated another famous performance piece from 1972 by Vito Acconici, and masturbated underneath a stage for several hours. Reflecting on the controversial performance several years on, Abramovic told fashion designer Bella Freud it had been an 'exhausting' experience. Speaking on the Fashion Neurosis podcast, the artist said: 'I had to do this for seven hours, I think I had more than five orgasms. It was really difficult because the next day I had do another performance. I was exhausted.' Marina took inspiration from another artist named Vito Acconci, who developed a performance called 'Seedbed' where he hid underneath a ramp at the Sonnabend Gallery in NYC and masturbated while speakers played him talking about his fantasies of people walking above him. She said she wanted to recreate 'Seedbed' from the perspective of 'female energy', which prompted her to add the performance into the Seven Easy Pieces series. Her conversation with Bella Freud follows comments Abramovic made to New York Magazine in which she said she'd 'never concentrated so hard in my life'. 'The problem for me, with this piece, was the absence of public gaze: only the sound. But I heard that people had a great time; it was like a big party up there! I ended with nine orgasms,' she said. 'It was terrible for the next piece - I was so exhausted!' The Seven Easy Pieces series isn't the only work of Abramovic's to have made waves in the art industry - after her 1970s stunt shocked the world. However the 79-year-old is most famous for her 'Rhythm 0' piece, a now notorious six-hour performance which tested her will - and the self control of audience members. Carried out in 1974, Abramović lay prone on a table surrounded by 72 objects which included matches, saws, nails and a gun loaded with a single bullet. As audience members interacted with her, they were invited to use the objects in any way they desired. She'd been stripped of her clothes and had her skin slashed with blades, one person even held a loaded gun to her head and put her finger on the trigger. She later said she was 'ready to die' if that was the consequence of that performance. In the 1970s Marina swapped places with a prostitute in the red light district in Amsterdam for six hours for a performance called Role Exchange. She said: 'I asked her to go to the gallery at be me and I sit in the window and become her. 'It was pretty scary stuff to do, but this was in 1975, I did it for six hours, it was so fascinating. 'It was my first time in Amsterdam and my first time to do a performance there. 'This was logical for me to do because in that time my education was always that being a prostitute was the lowest thing to be and my mother would just die when found out I done this work, so all the reason to do it.' On her website, she spoke about the exchange, saying: 'She give me only the instruction that I should never go below her price because I will ruin her business. 'So I had the two customers; one asked about her, and the second one didn't want to pay the price. 'She said to me that I would starve if I will be prostitute because I don't have any talent for that role.' One of her most celebrated artistic performance, known as The Artist Is Present, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2010. The exhibition featured Marina's performance piece, where she sat at a table in the atrium gallery and invited visitors to sit opposite her for silent contemplation. The performance lasted for 736 hours, and over 1,500 people sat opposite her during the show. She said: 'Anything I do before I start I have enormous fear, I have cramps in my stomach, I got the bathroom, I just sit there, but if I don't have fear I will panic that I don't have fear. 'Fear is incredible, it is an indication that I am here 100 percent, but the moment that I am in front of the audience it disappears. 'Then I just there with them, I have to be with my mind and my body and the public, they feel the fear, they feel the insecurity, they feel everything so you really have to be present for them.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bella Freud, Damson Madder: the Mother's Day presents cool London mums actually want
We know Mother's Day is a commercial invention which should probably be ignored... and yet... do so at your peril. Whether you see it as a nonsense or not, a chic present which confirms your eternal gratitude and recognition at what she does for the family can only go well. Hopefully when it comes to Father's Day, the gesture will be returned. Here are the brands which should be on your gift list. There's a reason every Clapton Mum is bedecked in Damson Madder, from the cute shirts to the beautifully fitting denim from their new 'Worn' range. The just-cheesy-enough sentiment (add a bunch of flowers for bonus points), from Bella Freud. Perfect bright little bag for a colour pop from the Danish label The Glassette homewares site is a platform for stylish homeware, art and loungewear, This yolk-yellow vase will brighten up her (and your) shelves no end. There's a lovely green one for £65, too. The Saturday afternoon pub uniform for London's most chic mums, and for good reason. This cobalt version is very jollying for spring. Showstopper earrings from one of the coolest brands of the moment.
The Independent
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Save up to 50% with the best M&S fashion, home and gifting discounts
Marks and Spencer is one of our most loved brands here at The Independent, as it's a go-to destination for everything from delicious food and on-trend fashion to affordable (yet chic) homeware. Like many others, we find ourselves relying on the high street retailer to see us through changes in season, house moves and gifting holidays. Over the last few years, the nation's love for M&S has really blown up, thanks to sell-out fashion drops and viral Christmas gifts (think affordable denim and light up gins). In the last few months alone, we've fallen head over heels for the retailer's barrel jeans and bargain fragrances, and can't wait to see what M&S does next. We're expecting big things, following a year of collaborations with the likes of Sienna Miller and Bella Freud. If you love M&S as much as we do, you've come to the right place. We've got the latest news on the retail giant's discounts, deals and sales, so that you can shop already affordable pieces, for even less. Marks & Spencer's customer reward scheme has become increasingly popular in recent years. Sparks, as it's known, gives customers the chance to shop with tailored offers across all departments, and receive little treats from time to time. The high street giant will also make a donation to your chosen Sparks charity every time you shop, which is a lovely touch. Plus, if you're new to Sparks, you'll get a generous 10 per cent discount to use on your next shop. We'd use the discount to check out new and trending pieces from fashion, like this stunning, collarless blazer (was £69, now £62.10, which comes in a beautiful butter yellow, and will see you through next season. Another of our favourites are the animal print wide leg jeans (was £45, now £40.50, which are a tiger print twist on the viral leopard print jeans. If homeware is more your bag, you can use your 10 per cent savings on decor, furniture and more. Get ready for summer with this set of boho picnic dinner plates (was £15, now £13.50, or organise your hallway with the Monroe compact sideboard (was £249, now £224.10, Right now, you can also get up to 40 per cent off M&S's beautiful selection of bedding. Just in time for a spring refresh, the retailer is offering big savings on bestselling mattresses, duvets, pillowcases and more. Our eyes drew up straight to the M&S Collection touch of silk 13.5 tog all season duvet (was £69, now £41.40, which is available in single, double, king and super king sizes. For those who are in need of a better night's sleep, the Kally Sleep neck pain firm pillow adapts to the contours of your head and neck to keep your body in alignment, and has 20 per cent off in the sale event (was £49.99, now £39.99, Little ones are included in the deals, too, with 30 per cent off the Percy Pig coverless duvet set (was £65, now £45.50, Both fun and practical, you can pop the duvet straight into the washing machine and keep it stored in its handy duffle bag when it's not in use. If you're buying for someone else, take a look at M&S's exceptional gifting deals. With up to 50 per cent off, treat someone you love to beautiful gifts like this lime, bergamot and mandarin gift set (was £60, now £36, which contains a diffuser, room spray, candle, refresher oil, mini candles and a wax melt set, all in a reusable rope basket. How we find the best discount codes The Independent 's team of deal hunters dedicate themselves to curating the best offers on products that we know our readers will love. As well as testing and trying best-selling products, we work closely with the M&S team to secure the best deals and exclusive voucher codes to help you save. Why you can trust us Since 1986, The Independent has been a trusted consumer champion, reporting on behalf of our readers to find the best deals and discounts. Whether it's finding the latest deals on homeware and tech, or beauty and fashion, our team is always on the lookout for the very best. We only bring you news from trusted brands to make sure you get the best value when you shop.
