29 MAY 2022 Jennifer Connelly THE TOP GUN STAR UNLEASHES HER WILD SIDE SUMMER PARTY SPECIAL GO HEDONISTIC OR GO HOME MEET THE NEW NIGHT-TIME TRIBES DRESSED TO THRILL SEQUINS AND SUNGLASSES? YES PLEASE BOTTOMS UP! MAKE MINE A ONE SIP MARTINI The Barometer Edited by Priya Elan Fashion! Beauty! People! Things! Welcome to your weekly guide to the stuff everyone will be talking about. Do keep up Get on board with Swampy-core This picture The Fashion’s latest muse? The Nineties eco-warrior Swampy (bottom Lava Cave suite, left). His look: a bit distressed, “avant apocalypse” (the layering of Santorini. Below, minimalist basics to make you look like an extra from Dune) meets from left Es Banyer, techno squat rave circa 1988. Labels such as Collina Strada, Menorca, and Dsquared2 and Y/Project are channelling the old DayGlo look slash Bedrock Homestead “sustainable protest in a tunnel” mood. Meanwhile, the trademark West End, Utah Swampy (real name Daniel Marc Hooper) baby-braid barnet has been hairspo for none other than Bella Hadid (below centre), who has been sporting tiny Pippi Longstocking-like hair recently. All you need is some dirt from the construction site of a high-speed railway line lightly splashed on your face and you’ll be extremely on trend. The ultimate holiday brag? 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Printed by Prinovis UK Ltd, Liverpool. Not to be sold separately 4 • The Sunday Times Style Heating up ▲ THE SOOTHING SOUND OF … … putting the milk away. Fridge-restocking videos ▲ SNEAKERLESS are huge on TikTok SUMMER (1.4 billion views and Goodbye counting) and apparently box-freshness. calming anxious minds Hello penny loafers, huaraches and mules. Your toes will thank you Why we’re loco for Togo (sofas) ▲ PICASSO WITH YOUR That tube-of-toothpaste-shaped couch that’s all over social media PRADA, MADAM? is called Togo (above) — so far, #togosofa has clocked up more than Net-a-porter starts selling 18,000 posts on Instagram, while on TikTok #togocouch has more than art on June 6, with a drop 760,000 views. Designed in 1973 by Michel Ducaroy for the French from the French fashion furniture-maker Ligne Roset, its famous fans include Avril Lavigne, photographer Guy Bourdin ▲ MAYFAIR 2.0 Thierry Henry and Lenny Kravitz. Radical in its youth, to its new Zoomer fanbase it looks cosily retro. As TikTokkers often comment, The new unstuffy its only drawback is the price tag (a small one costs more than £2,000), members’ club is the so lookalikes abound. Best of the mimics is Urban Outfitters’ Twenty Two, playing recycled-leather Greta (£499; urbanoutfitters.com). Fauxgo, anyone? host to parties held by Burberry. Charlie Casely-Hayford has done the staff uniforms too Cooling down ▼ CRAMOSA Croissant x samosa = Additional words: Scarlett Russell and Katrina Burroughs. 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LV Volt diamond ring, £9,200, Louis Vuitton 8 • The Sunday Times Style Oscar-winner, fashion pin-up and now star of the big Top Gun sequel: at 51 Jennifer Connelly is at the peak of her powers. But forget Hollywood — she’s happiest dancing with her kids in the kitchen, she tells Gavanndra Hodge Photographs Carin Backoff Styling Jaime Kay Waxman Jennifer Connelly did not want to be an actress. When We are talking over Zoom, Connelly head to toe in she was ten a friend of her parents suggested she grey and black Louis Vuitton leisurewear, looking sleekly should model, kick-starting a career that quickly groomed and preternaturally gorgeous despite having expanded: she celebrated her 12th birthday in Rome on just got out of the shower. She is seated by a window of the set of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America. the Brooklyn townhouse she shares with her husband, “I wasn’t a cinephile, it wasn’t like I had aspiration to the English actor Paul Bettany, and their children, be a great actress — that was not even on my radar … Stellan, 18, and Agnes, 10. Her son from a previous I wanted to be a vet,” she says. relationship, Kai, 24, now lives in Los Angeles. Alpaca coat, rubber boots and necklace, POA, Bottega Veneta