The biggest stories from the weekend - and what to say about them.

You got the LOVE: can you believe it's been five whole years since stylist Katie Grand and Conde Nast joined forces to create bi-annual fashion bible, LOVE? In a celebration of the magazine in The Independent, Alex Fury, who worked alongside Grand editing the last two issues, talks shooting lions with Tim Walker (photographically of course) and the thinking behind that Beth Ditto cover.

So much more than Sylvia: iconic magazine Mademoiselle saw Sylvia Plath on its masthead after she won its legendary guest editor competition, an accolade also held by writer Meg Wolitzer, who in this Sunday's New York Times shares her experience at the title. Mademoiselle's final issue may have rolled off the press in 2001, but with scribes including Carson McCullers, Joan Didion and Albert Camus having contributed over the years, this is a magazine with a fair few stories to tell, and Wolitzer's account is a great place to start.

Sack off the scalpel: good news! Surgery is not the only answer to keeping yourself looking sprightly and youthful even if the weekend's wine intake makes you feel about 65. In this weekend's The Guardian, regular Never Underdressed contributor and beauty-sage extraordinaire Sali Hughes offers 25 anti-ageing alternatives to the knife, many of which you can pick up in your average chemists, including exfoliating socks and the cooling eye-pads actresses swear by.