17 JANUARY 2021 YOUR PERFECT JEANS THE BEST FOR EVERY BUDGET HELP! I’M ADDICTED TO DENIM BY ALEXA CHUNG PLUS HOW TO SPOT A SPIRITUAL NARCISSIST The Barometer Edited by Louisa McGillicuddy Fashion! Beauty! People! Things! Welcome to your weekly guide to the stuff everyone will be talking about. Do keep up Add to cart: RODARTE RODARTE the raincoat GUCCI Don’t let the rain ruin your lockdown walk. Look to Stutterheim for the most stylish waterproofs in town. Raincoat, £133; stutterheim.com It’s a thing! Sexy vampire energy Breaking news: Gen Z has discovered Twilight. One of the TikTok trends of last year was teens posting videos making fun of the corny film saga — the lip biting, the intense stares, Will you Japandi your home? the awkward silences … ah, the memories. And where Gen Z That’s Japanese and Scandi. Interiors hypebeasts may have goes, pop culture follows. This season’s Rodarte show was all spotted the Japandi aesthetic creeping on to the ’gram of over the mood — but less fan fiction, more cool 1990s goth, late. According to Google Trends, image searches for the as make-up artist James Kaliardos described the term reached an all-time high in October. It makes sense looks as “Winona [Ryder] in Dracula”. Coming for a fraught year — the look is all soothing pale wood, to Netflix soon is First Kill, a YA vampire series symmetrical lines, earthy colours and minimal clutter. produced by Emma Roberts, and out in (Check out @japandi_design.) And now a temple devoted March is the Marvel film Morbius, an update to the concept has arrived: the Pantechnicon in London on the classic vampire tale starring Jared SW1 is a five-storey emporium of Japanese and Nordic Leto as a biochemist with a “rare blood restaurants, bars and shops. Peruse its dreamy offerings disease” he needs to cure. online now at pantechniconstore.com. IMAXTREE, ALAMY, ARIAKE/PROJECT DUO RESIDENCE, @JAPANDI_DESIGN ARIAKE/PROJECT ALAMY, IMAXTREE, ON THE COVER ANNA DE RIJK PHOTOGRAPH CLAUDIA KNOEPFEL STYLING VERITY PARKER. DENIM JACKET, £1,420, TOD’S. JEANS, £200, TOTÊME. HAT, £89, AND BAG, £1,200, JESSIE WESTERN EDITOR LAURA ATKINSON DEPUTY EDITOR CHARLOTTE WILLIAMSON ART DIRECTOR ANDREW BARLOW FASHION DIRECTOR JANE MCFARLAND BEAUTY DIRECTOR SARAH JOSSEL FEATURES EDITOR LOUISA MCGILLICUDDY ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR SCARLETT RUSSELL JEWELLERY DIRECTOR JESSICA DIAMOND ASSOCIATE FASHION DIRECTOR VERITY PARKER FASHION AND MERCHANDISE EDITOR FLOSSIE SAUNDERS BOOKINGS DIRECTOR AND CREATIVE PRODUCER LEILA HARTLEY PICTURE EDITOR CATHERINE PYKETT-COMBES JUNIOR FASHION EDITOR HENRIK LISCHKE ACTING FASHION AND BEAUTY EDITOR MOLLY HAYLOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT ROISIN KELLY CONTRIBUTING BEAUTY EDITOR LAURA KENNEDY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR ALICE KEMP-HABIB CHIEF SUB-EDITOR SOPHIE FAVELL SENIOR SUB-EDITOR JANE MCDONALD © Times Newspapers Ltd, 2021. Published and licensed by Times Newspapers Ltd, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF (020 7782 5000). Printed by Prinovis UK Ltd, Liverpool. Not to be sold separately The Sunday Times Style 3 Meet the class of 2021 Three names we’ll all be talking about this year The director: Karena Evans She acts, she directs, she designs, she wins awards and … she’s 25. The Toronto-born actress and film-maker Karena Evans made her mark as the director behind some of Drake’s most Instagrammable music videos, including the star-studded Nice for What (filmed in part around Battersea power station), which now has more than 365 million views on YouTube. Last year she directed the debut episode of the critically acclaimed strip-club drama P-Valley, which The New Yorker listed as one of its top shows of 2020. And in 2021 she’ll direct the first two episodes of the highly anticipated (by us) Gossip Girl reboot. Issa Rae, Tiffany Haddish, Tracee Ellis Ross and Lena Waithe all follow her on Instagram (@karenaevans), and you should too. The musician: Ashnikko After getting her big break on (where else?) TikTok in 2019 with her song Stupid, Ashnikko is set to hit the mainstream in 2021. The cool singer/songwriter/rapper’s tour with fellow cool singer/songwriter/ rapper Doja Cat last March was cancelled, but she didn’t let a pandemic stop her progress. In June she released the track Cry with her style doppelganger Grimes. Born in North Carolina, Ashnikko (real name Ashton Casey) lived in Latvia for four years as a teenager before settling in London, and describes her sound as “angry, punk, hip-hop, sad-girl-feminist, bubblegum, poo-poo music”. Don’t let that deter you — it really is good. Think Harajuku street girl mixed with Lil’ Kim and St Vincent. Listen to her debut mixtape, out February 19. The actress: Rose Matafeo The 28-year-old comedian/writer Rose Matafeo is here to provide much- needed laughter in 2021. The New Zealander won the Edinburgh Best Comedy Show award in 2018 for Horndog (her one-woman stand-up show about love and sex that later had a stint in the West End and was shown on HBO Max), and now she is turning her attention to film with Baby Done, available to stream on digital platforms from Friday. She stars as wannabe-adventurer Zoe, who freaks out when she becomes pregnant, while her boyfriend, Tim (played by Matthew Lewis, aka Neville Longbottom), embraces the prospect of fatherhood. Keep an eye out too for her BBC Three/HBO Max comedy series, Starstruck, due this year, which follows the aftermath of a one-night stand with a film star. 4 The Sunday Times Style The Barometer Heating up Be your own Mystic Meg Every clichéd millennial worth their salt has ▲ GEORGE FOREMAN GRILLS a soft spot for astrology. Whether you casually The QVC favourite suddenly developing a follow a horoscope meme account on bizarre online cult Instagram or make relationship decisions based following. Lean, mean on the Path app (look it up), this year it’s all TikTok grilling machine about learning to figure out the stars for yourself. One highlight of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Christmas gift guide — and there were many — was a gift membership to Soulstrology. com, an online “cosmic coaching” service that helps you read celestial events. Fans are going EMO ETHAN HAWKE ▲ beyond the western zodiac too: according to Our fave Nineties deep Pinterest, searches for Jyotisha — the ancient thinker releases his new PUFFER PUPS ▲ Hindu system of astrology — were up by novel, A Bright Ray of Moncler now has a line 200 per cent in 2020. And for the astro- Darkness, on February 2. of puffer jackets, gilets Patti Smith loves it and raincoats for your curious, next month sees the publication of dog. Mad but adorable The Power Wish by Keiko, Japan’s leading astrologer. The book became a million-copy bestseller in Japan when it was released in 2017 and is out in the UK on February 9. It’s all about how to harness lunar energy for your own happiness (don’t ask us). ▲ PAUL CHUCKLE FACEMASKS The PPE we never knew we needed. ‘To you, tier me’ @COurrÈGES CTION Cooling down ▼ GRAVY BATHS Exactly how it sounds: new trend for filling your tub with Bisto granules and drinking it. The internet is broken ▼ PRESTIGE PODCASTS Delete that Pulitzer- winning podcast, we want People mag’s new daily showbiz show, starting February 1. Delicious trash ▼ SUIT OF ARMOUR COUTURE Balenciaga show Courrèges makes a comeback … or court of Henry VIII? You decide and it’s really rather good The legendary French fashion house Courrèges — loved by the likes of Catherine Deneuve, Jackie Kennedy (above) and her sister, Lee Radziwill, in the 1960s — is getting a makeover. When its new artistic director, Nicolas Di Felice, was appointed in September, he wiped the BALENCIAGA Instagram account and started again from scratch. An alumnus of Balenciaga, Dior and Louis Vuitton, Di Felice has amassed his own ▼ RED CARPETS It should be the month internet fandom even before his debut show, which will be at Paris of the Grammys, fashion week in March (we hope). In the meantime check out the first Golden Globes, Baftas glimpse of the brand’s new direction in Di Felice’s reissue capsule … Oh how we long for collection, launched last month, of the most famous Courrèges archive BABY DONE COURTESY OF VERTIGO RELEASING, GETTY IMAGES, VASSO VU, @GEORGEFOREMANUK, COURTESY OF MONCLER POLDO DOG-COUTUR E COLLE OF MONCLER POLDO COURTESY VU, @GEORGEFOREMANUK, VASSO GETTY IMAGES, RELEASING, VERTIGO OF DONE COURTESY BABY a Björk swan dress pieces, modelled by an array of very good-looking real-life couples. The Sunday Times Style 5 The good guide Edit Molly Haylor With sales soaring, denim is an easy – and affordable – way to get dressed in lockdown January, says Style’s editor Laura Atkinson Has there ever been a time when we’ve needed a good pair of jeans more? It’s now almost a year since we entered these strange times and the way we dress has evolved and fluctuated along the way. Sure, sweatpants were a novelty at first, but we are mostly still working from home, staring at a laptop in a garden shed/in a bedroom/on an ironing board, and the thrill of wearing an elasticated waist every day has worn thin. So step forward, denim. It’s not an all-time classic for no reason: dress it up with a shirt and heels if you are in work mode, go casual with a jumper and trainers if not. The right pair of jeans will flatter while being comfortable, an instant go-to for these endless days when work and home blends into one. Indeed, sales are up: Matchesfashion.com reports a 50 per cent increase over the past 12 months.