The tennis may be over for another year, but Wimbledon’s fashion legacy is longer lasting. Seen as a barometer of summer style, Wimbledon provides lots of ideas and trends that we should all take note of. Here are our favourite three.
Summer brights
Following in the footsteps of her new sister in law, Meghan Markle, who wore a similar colour last week, Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge arrived at Wimbledon wearing a vivid yellow dress by Dolce & Gabbana. And if it's good enough for royalty... You know we'll all be wearing this eye popping shade in the weeks to come.
Masculine influences
Proving that sharp suits aren’t just for the boys, Emma Watson turned up to Wimbledon wearing a cream three-piece linen suit by Ralph Lauren. High-waisted trousers, a waistcoat and a well-cut jacket ensured she looked cool, calm and collected.
Meanwhile Stella McCartney opted for utility-chic in a masculine jumpsuit by her own label, complete with double zipped front, and Meghan Markle - also in Ralph Lauren - teamed her wide legged trousers with an oversized man’s shirt.
Bold patterning
Anna Wintour certainly knows a thing or two about fashion, so it pays to pay close attention to what she is wearing. Famously a huge fan of Roger Federer - she attends most of his matches - Wintour arrived wearing a bold graphic-print mid-calf dress, which she teamed with a statement necklace and her favourite Manolo heels. With a strong pattern and a no-nonsense shape, this is power dressing in its most stylish form.
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Sinopharm vaccine explained
The Sinopharm vaccine was created using techniques that have been around for decades.
“This is an inactivated vaccine. Simply what it means is that the virus is taken, cultured and inactivated," said Dr Nawal Al Kaabi, chair of the UAE's National Covid-19 Clinical Management Committee.
"What is left is a skeleton of the virus so it looks like a virus, but it is not live."
This is then injected into the body.
"The body will recognise it and form antibodies but because it is inactive, we will need more than one dose. The body will not develop immunity with one dose," she said.
"You have to be exposed more than one time to what we call the antigen."
The vaccine should offer protection for at least months, but no one knows how long beyond that.
Dr Al Kaabi said early vaccine volunteers in China were given shots last spring and still have antibodies today.
“Since it is inactivated, it will not last forever," she said.
Pharaoh's curse
British aristocrat Lord Carnarvon, who funded the expedition to find the Tutankhamun tomb, died in a Cairo hotel four months after the crypt was opened.
He had been in poor health for many years after a car crash, and a mosquito bite made worse by a shaving cut led to blood poisoning and pneumonia.
Reports at the time said Lord Carnarvon suffered from “pain as the inflammation affected the nasal passages and eyes”.
Decades later, scientists contended he had died of aspergillosis after inhaling spores of the fungus aspergillus in the tomb, which can lie dormant for months. The fact several others who entered were also found dead withiin a short time led to the myth of the curse.
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
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