Fairlady

FAIRLADY is a modern, glossy grown-up magazine that offers great stories and inspired solutions to the busy South African woman.

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what we're loving RIGHT NOW! • MY COLLEAGUES’ RECOMMENDATIONS NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE ME; THROUGH THEM I HAVE DISCOVERED NAIL-BITING SHOWS, MUST-LISTEN PODCASTS AND MANY A LOCALLY MADE GEM. AND THIS MONTH IS NO EXCEPTION. CHARIS IS EVEN BRANCHING OUT FROM MURDERS INTO MUSICALS. (BELIEVE ME, NONE OF US SAW THAT COMING. NOT EVEN HER.)

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Style icons • Whether you’re a fan of costume jewellery and faux-fur coats, wide-brimmed hats and sweats, or modest high/low dressing, we have a local fashionista to inspire you.

BEHIND THE wardrobe • Our style icons dished on their best style tips and where they get their most-loved pieces, and name-dropped some of their favourite local designers. We’re taking notes; how ‘bout you?

MINDFULNESS MASTERCLASS • We asked six experts in their fields to give us a three-step guide on how to meditate, manage time better, reduce anxiety, really listen, keep ourselves motivated and dispel negative thoughts.

STILL waters • Away from all the pomp and circumstance, Claire Foy is incredibly funny, unexpectedly honest and utterly charming. What can we say – she’s a queen!

Becoming the queen

I’LL BE there FOR YOU (but maybe not after 30) • Making friends as an adult is hard because chance meetings with strangers become less frequent, we’re less tolerant, and we lack the time to build shared experiences. Maintaining existing friendships is tricky too – and the pandemic doesn’t help. What’s a girl to do?

Kat Vellos’s friendship ritual

‘ My baby DIED ’ • Even though she was a foetus, our baby was terminally ill. She had 69 chromosomes – an overload no one can survive. After three long years of trying to conceive, what was meant to be a happy new beginning for our family came to a sudden end.

MORE THAN words • Book clubs may have a rep for gossip and wine quaffing (let’s not pretend that doesn’t happen!) – but could they also be part of a wider cultural phenomenon: modern women’s reclamation of sacred sisterhood that transcends time, age, place and culture?

A GENT (LESS) provocateur • The series I May Destroy You holds up a mirror to issues of sexual consent and recovery from trauma… and to its creator, writer and star Michaela Coel, who has brought a revitalising voice to the entertainment industry.

From SOMETHING old TO SOMETHING NEWISH • The second-hand clothing market is booming. Saving money is a factor, of course, but so is consumers’ desire to shop more ethically and create less waste.

Do YOU HAVE PATRIARCHY STRESS DISORDER? (Short answer: YES, you do) • Forget the glass ceiling; the final frontier of women’s liberation lies in our own biology, says Russian-American psychologist Dr Valerie Rein. She believes that ancestral trauma – specifically, thousands of years of patriarchal oppression – has led to trauma adaptations passed down through generations that still imprison us. She calls it patriarchy stress disorder, and this is how it works.

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why DOLLY PARTON IS A feminist icon • Dolly may be knocking on 76 but she’s busier than ever – recording, acting and even funding Covid-19 research.

HOW SERIOUSLY SHOULD WE TAKE expiry dates? • We’re meant to trust the dates on the packaging, but all of us have eaten food beyond those dates and survived. What’s the real deal? And, more importantly, what’s the margin for error?

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