What's got my attention this week #15

Things to read, watch and listen to this weekend

Do you see a magazine cover featuring four incredible women in their 50s? (Yay! Representation!) Or do you see four incredible women in their 50s looking strangely alien having been retouched to within an inch of their lives?

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• OK, so there are hardly enough trees for the column inches that have already been expended talking about the new cover of US Vogue, so I’m not going to add my voice to them, BUT here are a few pieces that I found interesting: Do Supermodels Age or Just Get Airbrushed? by Vanessa Friedman in the New York Times; Why The Original Supers Couldn’t Have Been Super Now by Farrah Storr on her Substack, Things Worth Knowing £; and fellow former magazine editor Kim France’s chat thread, Let’s Talk About The September Cover of Vogue on her Substack Girls Of A Certain Age.
• What happens to all the stuff we return?
• Why you no longer see your friends.
• I’ve been looking forward to Naomi Klein’s new book, Doppleganger, about being regularly mistaken for a conspiracy theorist: here’s a preview.
• The menopause income crunch.
• Turns out, the fashion industry never intended your clothes to fit you.
• Madonna turned 65 this week. Here’s to the mother of self-mythology.