Lotte Jeffs

Writer and Editor | Deputy Editor of ELLE UK

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Editor’s Letter: May 2017

April 14, 2017
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Celebrate change

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  • Standing in for @dollyalderton in Sunday Times Style Magazine this weekend. 📝
  • So proud to be part of a family of fabulous women. Celebrating our @romythexx 30th birthday tonight. Can’t believe it’s been ten years since that first album changed all our lives 🕺🏻💃
  • I’ve been on holiday for three weeks (and living in my @desmondanddempsey PJs). I think three weeks (and travelling to a couple of different places) is the optimum holiday time scale for me at least. Week one is decompressing, week two is readjusting to a new pace and week three is when I am at my peak, week four I’ve gone feral
  • ✍🏻article in @telegraphstella last weekend.The piece is about emotional labour in same sex relationships - when you start from a place of gendered equality, who does what and why, and what the hell happens when you have a baby?? ‘...keep trying to figure it out’ would be a more accurate headline!
  • 🍕 Four pizzas on my head. Two beers in my back pockets. This is what happiness looks like.🍕#howtobeagentlewoman
  • 📚COVER (actual one this time) REVEAL 📚 Learn to navigate the harshness of life with soft power: In my debut book, I weave powerful life experience with practical advice and a psychological deep–dive into what truly constitutes an emotionally rich and meaningful existence; I speak to everyone from agony aunts and archaelogists, to pop stars and novelists, to explore a diverse picture of what it is to truly live life well. How to be a Gentlewoman will teach you how to slow down, lean out, recognise good relationships and let go of the bad, create a space you love, find your people and construct a happy and ‘joined up’ sense of yourself. This is a gentle antidote to a brutal world. Preorder from Amazon now if so inclined (thank you 🍸!)
  • Happy Birthday Ettie! One today! This past year has gone as slow as forever and as fast as the blink of an eye. What did we do with all this love before you? 👩‍👩‍👧
  • 🍸Things that make you a Gentlewoman (imho). How many do you tick?✅🍸 #howtobeagentlewoman
  • Around this time two years ago my little cousin Romy was gearing up to play the biggest gig of her life - second from top billing on The Pyramid Stage at #glastonbury I cant imagine how terrifying that must have been for any artist let alone Romy and @thexx who have always been natural introverts. How the hell did she find the reserves of power and presence needed to step out on that stage and perform to almost 100,000 people? HOW THO 🤯? It’s one of the questions I ask @romythexx in my book so if you’re interested to know her answer you’ll have to buy #HowToBeAGentlewoman 📚Romy and I have been through A LOT together - some of which you can also learn about in my book. I’m so proud of her and the inspiring #Gentlewoman she has become 💫
  • It took us a good two years to begin to sort through Billie’s clothes after she died. Partly because there were a lot of them - she was a makeup artist and always looked fabulous - and partly because opening up her wardrobe would mean opening ourselves up to all that grief again. We did it as a family, making an occasion of it with wine and dinner and as we went through each item we’d share stories about the times we remembered her wearing it. I nuzzled my face into her leather jacket and inhaled the sense of her - Silk Cut and Jean Paul Gaultier Classique. Still so alive in the lining. We all took something of her’s to keep. I wear this, her Rolling Stones T-shirt, in bed every night. Read more about the idea that our sense of style is an extension of our selves and the stories we leave behind in my book How To Be A Gentlewoman: The Art of Soft Power in Hard Times. Out September 5. Pre-order link in bio☝️ #howtobeagentlewoman

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