I never miss a good sale - these 8 activewear finds, from skorts to leggings and bras, are too good to pass up (with up to 30% off)
If you're sick of dull, boring gym gear, let us introduce you to Gym+Coffee, the athleisure brand backed by Niall Horan.
We've all been there: you leave Pilates or yoga on a Saturday morning, excited to meet a friend for coffee, only to realise you're now stuck in your threadbare leggings and years-old sports bra.
Gym+Coffee was founded to bridge the gap between performance-ready activewear and everyday style, with clothing ranges specifically created for tennis, running, Pilates and even Hyrox, touted to be the next fitness craze.
In even better news, the brand currently has a generous sale, offering up 30 per cent off accessories you'll want to wear even when you leave the gym.
Ready to turn heads while working out? Shop our favourites from the sale below - though be quick, as these prices won't be around for long.
Gym+Coffee Base Skort in Black
Wimbledon is well and truly underway, and with it, the rise in popularity of 'tennis-core' outfits. If you're trying your hand at the sport yourself or just want to look bang on trend, we recommend this base skort in black.
With a midrise waist and breathable fabric, it's perfect on the courts or even on a hike, and pairs beautifully with an oversized sweatshirt while not exercising.
£32 (save £8) Shop
Gym+Coffee Lotus Chevron 7/8 Legging in Black
No gym wear collection is complete without the perfect pair of leggings, and this pair blends both style and comfort.
Dubbed the 'most comfortable leggings you'll ever own', the design is crafted from moisture-wicking fabric that helps you stay cool while working out, while the high rise design also offers 100 per cent coverage (meaning no awkward VPL's). Ideal for everything from yoga to jogging, these will soon become your go-to for casual days spent running errands or lounging around the house, too.
£52 (save £13) Shop
Gym+Coffee Snap Collar Sweatshirt in Rich Taupe
Gym+Coffee's sweatshirts have quickly gained viral status, and it's not hard to see why.
Both cute and exceedingly comfortable, this cosy design boasts an oversized fit, snapped collar and a ribbed hem and cuffs that make it ideal for running errands, grabbing coffee with friends or throwing on after a workout in the chillier months - we're totally obsessed.
£55.20 (save £13.80) Shop
Gym+Coffee Relentless 8" Bike Short in Petrol Blue
Ideal for spin class, these petrol blue biker shorts offer a form fitting design and a flattering high waist band.
Made from breathable fabric and boasting small pockets (can all biker shorts have pockets, please?), you can keep all of your essentials close by. When you're not working out, pair with an oversized sweater for the perfect transitional outfit come autumn.
£31.50 (save £13.50) Shop
Gym+Coffee Industry Fleece Jacket in Navy
Another favourite that will become your go-to this autumn, this industry fleece jacket is perfect for all of your outdoor adventures when the temperature drops.
Made from borg fabric, the unisex design (it's recommended to order a size down if you don't like an oversized fit), boasts convenient front pockets and a woven zip chest pocket, as well as a fleece-lined interior to keep you super cosy.
£62.30 (save £26.70) Shop
Gym+Coffee Lotus Lounge Bra in Black
Specifically created for low-key workouts or lounging (gone are the days of wearing an uncomfortable bra), this design puts comfort at its forefront.
With added stretch and made from breathable honeycomb fabric, the design also boasts removable pads and moisture-wicking technology to keep you comfortable while working out.
£32 (save £8) Shop
Gym+Coffee Ripstop Shorts in Black
Specifically made for training, these ripstop shorts blend performance and aesthetics, crafted from an ultra-lightweight ripstop fabric to ensure freedom of movement.
For the ideal workout outfit, pair with a simple tee or sports bra for your morning run or trip to the gym.
£31.50 (save £13.50) Shop
Gym_Coffee Serona Everyday Tee in Summer Green
A versatile addition to your active wear collection, this everyday tee in an on-trend sage colour is crafted from a super soft, breathable material for ultimate comfort.
Perfect paired with leggings for a workout outfit, or with shorts or under a sweatshirt for added warmth, it'll soon become your go-to.
£23.80 (save £10.20) Shop
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The great art master who vanished …
There's an Amédée Ozenfant-shaped hole in art history. Which is extraordinary given that the French painter and writer was supposedly as famous as Picasso in the 1920s. With Le Corbusier he founded a movement they called purism. He starred in the first television programme of art made live on air. He opened an art school that welcomed through its doors Leonora Carrington and Henry Moore, who taught there. So, why the disappearing act? That's the question ricocheting through Charles Darwent's new book, Monsieur Ozenfant's Academy, which according to the author is 'both a microhistory and a story with surprisingly broad reach'. Darwent doesn't have an easy time of it: there's a dearth of sources, and the few surviving accounts are peppered with inconsistencies. Still, he paints a portrait of Ozenfant the man, the artist, the cultural emissary that's quietly illuminating. The story begins in 1918 with a pair of plucky young men — Ozenfant and Le Corbusier laying claim to classicism. (Ozenfant suggested to Charles-Édouard Jeanneret that he take the family name Le Corbusier, which sounded stately and could therefore prove useful for their joint venture.) After the mayhem of the First World War, they were canvassing for a new sense of restraint — the opposite reaction to that of their 'Parisian coeval and nemesis', André Breton. While surrealism would deal with destructive energy by embracing it, purism was all about resurrecting 'the clean-limbed, Platonic world of Attic Greece'. Pictorially speaking, there would be an emphasis on line over colour, with objects reduced to simple, reproducible types. Ozenfant had his first experience of teaching — and of the British — at the Académie Moderne, a free art school founded by Fernand Léger (a fellow purist) in 1920 in Montparnasse. But it wasn't until spring 1936 that he opened the academy at the heart of Darwent's book. In 1934, encouraged by a group of affluent students he had taught in Paris — among them Ursula Blackwell, heiress to the Crosse & Blackwell food fortune — Ozenfant and his wife, Marthe, moved to London. There he established a modest school in a pair of adjoining mews houses on Warwick Road in West Kensington. Among the few sources at Darwent's fingertips are student testimonies, which bring a splash of colour. 'We used well-sharpened charcoal pencils, building slow compositions with small ticks and much thought, no dashing quick sketches allowed,' recalled Ozenfant's most loyal student, Stella Snead. The future actress Dulcie Gray, who enrolled after seeing an ad in The Times, described the technique the Frenchman imposed on them as 'rigid'; they had to work so methodically, she said, that the life model 'posed problems to painters in the winter by becoming scarlet on the side nearest the stove, and remaining blue with cold on the other'. The arrival of Carrington — the best-known name, unless the rumours are true that Francis Bacon attended anonymously — coincided with the opening in 1936 of the first International Surrealist Exhibition in Mayfair. (Her departure came about when she and Max Ernst — married and 26 years her senior — became lovers and fled from her enraged father to Cornwall with Roland Penrose and Lee Miller.) Like Carrington, most of Ozenfant's students would become surrealists, whether he liked it or not. But the painting to emerge from the academy would have a particular look: 'For all the Surrealist weirdness of its subjects, it tended to be well drawn, clearly composed; spontaneity with a Purist edge.' • The 10 best biographies and memoirs of the past year to read next The Ozenfant Academy of Fine Arts was unique: unlike the existing offerings in London, it offered atelier-style teaching, with a single tutor working alongside a small number of students. Within its walls was an unmistakable sense of camaraderie, and beyond them Ozenfant hoped to foster friendship on an international scale. Back in France, the Blum administration needed a representative in London whose cultural and political aims matched its own. 'Ozenfant, as a socialist and modernist, was to be the Front Populaire's man, flown back and forth to Paris at government expense and his school supported by an official grant,' writes Darwent. By spring 1939, the threat of war led Ozenfant to close Warwick Road and move with Marthe to New York, where he continued teaching. During the London academy's final months, the director of studies was its former instructor in clay sculpting, Moore. Ozenfant stayed in New York for 16 years, which partly explains his absence in art history: he was away from Paris at a crucial moment in French museology, when the Musée National d'Art Moderne was in the final stages of planning. 'Its collection would define for a generation what was canonical in modern French art and what was not,' writes Darwent. 'Ozenfant was left out of the equation.' The final quarter of the book comprises pages from the diary Ozenfant kept during the three and a half years he spent in London. Originally published in his Mémoires in 1968, it's deftly translated by Darwent, who describes it as 'a unique record, England and the English seen through French eyes at a moment when British history was becoming all too interesting'. Ozenfant is witty and droll as he muses on British culture, politics, society. 'The English, ah! How their way of life and good manners help one to live!' he marvels. 'It is, in England, aristocratic to yawn, this shows that you don't belong to the working classes, that you have nothing to do and are always bored. Are we less bored when we yawn all together?' he wonders. My favourite is a short entry from April 24, 1937: 'With a pitying air: The French hold their forks in their right hands.' As for the royals: 'Their kings don't seem intelligent; but can one expect a flag to be clever?' There's talk of the abdication ('Simpson is the only topic in town') and the coronation, which he gatecrashed with Marthe: 'All in all, hugely impressive, in spite, or because, of the great mound of hypocrisies involved, of ambitions, submissions, of interests, capitulations, conventions; and above all, it was lovely to see.' Lovely to see, and to read about here. But couldn't we have heard more from the man himself in the preceding pages? I'm not averse to saving the best for last, but the result is a book that feels oddly top — or rather bottom — heavy.
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The week that proved that Andrew and Fergie were made for each other
September 1982 and the Falklands war has been fought and decisively won. The aircraft carrier HMS Invincible docks at Portsmouth to be greeted with a thunderous welcome from cheering crowds, overhead aircraft and a cacophony of salutes from vessels nearby. On board, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II presents a red rose to each crew member – including a grinning, handsome Prince Andrew, once dismissed as a playboy, now a bona fide war hero after seeing active service. The 22-year-old promptly places the stem between his teeth and keeps it there as he saunters down the gangway, waving his white navy hat. And just like that, the nation falls head over heels in love. Gone – at least temporarily – is his pejorative 'Randy Andy' nickname. Second in line to the throne after his uptight elder brother Charles and widely acknowledged to be his mother's favourite, it is in carefree, charismatic Andrew, that the nation sees the future of the monarchy. Yes, really. Forty-three years on, this might read like ancient history to some. But to understand his shameful fall from grace, his descent from fairytale prince to pariah and his astonishing, ineradicable bond to Sarah Ferguson – a venal, vulgar woman without a scintilla of self-awareness – we must remember just how giddily high his stock once was. In truth, eyebrows were raised when Andrew and Sarah married in 1986. On his triumphant return from war, Andrew had become one of the most eligible bachelors in the world, able to indulge his appetite for beautiful women. Yet, he ended up with jolly, galumphing Sarah Ferguson, whom he had known since childhood. She was the daughter of royal polo manager Major Ronald Ferguson and wayward high society darling Susan, who bolted to Argentina when Sarah was just 12 and then remarried. What little girl wouldn't feel lost after that? Small wonder she sensed a saviour-cum-meal-ticket in Andrew. Nonetheless, it was hard to fathom what, precisely, drew them together; his bullishness, her Jilly Cooper-esque attitude to rumpy pumpy maybe? A shared sense of juvenile irreverence? At dinner parties, he would make 'ghastly' jokes about whether or not the woman seated next to him was wearing knickers. She found fake dog poo pranks hilarious. Certainly, the fact she openly adored him can't have done any harm; the one thing her pompous prince seemed to crave was deference, which ironically, has been the main casualty of his own appalling behaviour. For Sarah's part, her sense of worth was predicated on conspicuous consumption without heed of the consequences. For all the headlines garnered by Andrew Lownie's new biography Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, there is little about the couple's complex divorced-but-still-happily-cohabiting relationship we didn't know or at least suspect already. Is anyone really shocked that Andrew is, according to the book, prone to potty-mouthed scolding of staff or that Sarah imperiously insisted her butler clock on at 4.30am to ice the watercress? We already guessed they were quite hard work. But it is the operatic scale of her extravagance and the Mariana-Trench-depths of his sleaziness that has left the nation slack-jawed with horror. Andrew allegedly slept with over a dozen women in the first year of marriage. Sarah was no saint in that regard either, but far more notable is how she allegedly burned through cash to bolster her unhinged fantasy of royal grandeur; Lownie's book claims that she once spent £14,000 in a month at a London wine merchant and, on another occasion, £25,000 in an hour at Bloomingdales. This, while the monarch herself kept warm with a two bar electric heater, stored the breakfast cereal in a Tupperware container – and was eventually called upon to clear a number of her former daughter-in-law's eye-watering debts. Andrew and Sarah – who had two daughters, Beatrice, 37, and Eugenie, 35 – officially split in 1992 after paparazzi photographs revealed Sarah having her toes sucked by her 'financial advisor' John Bryant at a villa in the South of France. I very much get the impression that Andrew's hand was forced; they both entertained lovers and led parallel lives. It was only when Sarah was caught in flagrante on camera that infidelity became an issue. They divorced in 1996 but continued to share their home, Sunninghill Park and she joined him when he later moved to Royal Lodge. Despite the questionable optics, they refused to be parted. By 1995, according to Lownie, Sarah was more than £3.7m in debt. Desperately short of money, she exploited her royal connections to the nth degree – her frankly awful Budgie the Helicopter books were emblazoned with her Duchess of York title, she insisted on being paid for interviews, flogged hair straighteners on the QVC shopping channel and even became a spokesman for WeightWatchers. Her spending continued unabated, according to Lownie. At one point, her retinue reportedly included a cook, driver, maid, butler, dresser, nanny, three secretaries, a personal assistant, a lady-in-waiting, two gardeners, a flower arranger, and a dog walker. The press coined the soubriquet Her Royal Excess as she took five holidays in seven months and threw endless parties. Returning from New York after promoting her Budgie children's books, the Duchess had to pay thousands to bring back 51 extra pieces of baggage containing newly bought clothes and gifts. Attempts to make her confront her finances were met with fury. 'She would throw an absolute screaming fit if staff even tried to show her a letter from the bank,' one friend told the author. 'She just doesn't want to know.' She insisted on a groaning table of food, laid out like a medieval banquet, be prepared for herself and her daughters every night – and the leftovers thrown away in a display of theatrical wastefulness. Then in 2010, she was caught on film in a tabloid sting operation offering to introduce her ex-husband to a purported billionaire for £500,000. But this was overshadowed the next year when 'Airmiles Andy' was forced to stand down as a trade envoy for British business due to his predilection for private jets and helicopters rather than scheduled flights – and for his close links with unsavoury foreign dictators and businessmen. The clincher was that he had maintained contact with the American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who had been jailed for 18 months in 2008 for soliciting a minor for prostitution. In 2019, as Epstein was in jail awaiting trial on federal charges of sex trafficking of minors, Andrew agreed to a catastrophic BBC interview in which he proved to be too stupid or too entitled to express regret for his friendship with Epstein and failed to properly address accusations made by Virgina Giuffre that she was trafficked and forced to have sex with him on three occasions when she was 17. His wild claims that he had acquired a medical condition that prevented him from sweating and citing Pizza Express in Woking as an alibi have since entered popular culture as shorthand for risible excuses no one could possibly believe. Within days Andrew withdrew from all public duties, relinquishing 230 patronages and other positions. Giuffre went on to file a lawsuit and in 2022, Andrew settled for a sum of around £12m – some £2m of which is believed to have come from the late Queen – without admitting liability, whereupon he was stripped of all his military titles, royal patronages and use of HRH. Yet, despite the egregious sex scandals on his side and the seedy cash-for-access revelations on hers, something kept and continues to keep Andrew and Sarah together. Codependence? Deep affection? Or is it something darker? Entitled author Lownie has alluded to the fact that due to his position in the family, Andrew is party to a great many royal secrets but is unlikely to reveal them, lest it impact his daughters. Sarah, however, is portrayed as more of a wildcard when it comes to private and confidential matters. 'He's told them all to Fergie... which is why the family are keen to keep her on side.' In Entitled, Lownie exposes some of Sarah's absolutely delusional crushes post-divorce. They make for toe-curling reading: Kevin Costner, George Clooney, John F Kennedy Jr, whom she refers to as Number Nine to denote his place in her childish wishlist. 'It's incredibly real to her, like a schoolgirl crush… She spends hours talking about him,' a close confidante observes. 'The fact that she's never even met him doesn't seem to matter at all.' At one point, she even flies 1,500 miles to see the golfer Tiger Woods, with whom she is also smitten, vowing to 'follow him around the course for a bit and see how I get on'. Of course, they don't end up together – but, bizarrely a firm friendship emerges nonetheless. It would be easy but wrong to dismiss her mismanagement of money as a foible. It's one thing to run up a huge tab at Harrods – more fool them – or walk out of luxury hotels without settling the bill, but what about her refusal to pay the local newsagent, her loyal chauffeur, the artist who painted the portrait she commissioned for Andrew's birthday? Real people get hurt. But regardless of their behaviour, neither ex has ever had a bad word to say about the other. In an interview earlier this year, Sarah offered the anodyne explanation: 'Andrew and I call it divorced to each other, not from each other… Our bywords are communication, compromise and compassion. 'When I've gone through really bad times in the past, Andrew's always been there… He is exceptionally kind.' By any standards, that's quite the accolade and one that vanishing few former wives would ever give. The Andrew she sees – or wants to see – is evidently very different to the swaggering, self-important braggart the rest of the world encounters. In 2023, Sarah was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a single mastectomy. During reconstructive surgery, a mole was discovered to be malignant melanoma. During this time she recuperated at home with Andrew, whom she praised as an emotional bulwark. 'He supports me as much as I support him. He's supported me through thick and thin…' she told a newspaper. She also gushed on Good Morning America: 'We've been there for each other – when I've gone through really bad times… Andrew's always been there.' Whatever the dynamic between them, they are clearly inseparable. Whether it's down to mutual understanding or mutually assured destruction, their singular relationship has weathered every scandal. Those around may regard them as grotesque, but in the wake of almost every disaster they pointedly appear in public together in 'a show of unity'. And they are united because in one another's eyes, they can literally do no wrong. They probably see that as a virtue. In truth, it's the very opposite.
