Hello VIP members, and welcome to the second Group Chat email, your unique chance to help choose the content we create, vote in advance on the covers you love and contribute your stories to our features.

As well as helping to shape the content you want to see from us, this email is also your behind-the-scenes passport to Stylist. A chance to hear what we’re talking about in the office (The White Lotus, restaurants with impossible reservation policies and the new Glossier perfume), our favourite beauty cupboard finds (Milk Makeup’s Gel Skin Tint, which is essentially glossy skin in a tube) and the weird and wonderful new products we’re testing (Muush cordial, which is made from mushrooms). I’ll also share what goes into making our Stylist covers, like last week’s Girls issue. Months in the making, our journalists travelled all over the country to ask girls all about their lives. Their answers totally floored me, and the issue had an incredible response from you, our audience. It landed the same week as Adolescence hit our screens and helped to prompt some incredibly important conversations about what we can do to protect our girls – and boys – today. We’ll be sharing our next steps soon.

I also wanted to say thank you to the hundreds of you that shared your thoughts on hybrid working – you’ll see your answers in next week’s cover feature. This week, there’s another chance to reveal all: our writer Holly Bullock is asking about your relationship behaviours. There’s also an invite to prescribe our features director with her next book choice and vote on who you think the villain is in The White Lotus. My money’s on Greg!

Alix Walker
Editor, Stylist

PS I’d love to hear what you think about this new email, so please do drop me a line at [email protected].

Helen Bownass, entertainment director: we’re deep into The White Lotus jungle now, and there’s so much pass-agg (and wilfully agg) drama that any of the luxury hotel residents could be the killer of the body we saw float past in episode one. We’ve delved into our case files to choose our top five suspects. But who do you think is the murderer?

Holly Bullock, features writer: are you your partner’s manager, organising everything from your shared social calendar to whose mum gets what on Mother’s Day? Or do you take on the role of a therapist, always there to help them navigate their emotions and relationships? We’re working on a feature that delves deeper into the roles we play in our relationships, and we’re keen to include your thoughts. Please take a few minutes to tell us about the role you think you play in your relationship and, if you’re up for having a follow-up chat with our features writer, tell us how best to get in touch. 

Hannah Keegan, features director: Torrey Peters made her name with her debut novel Detransition, Baby, which she called a “trans Fleabag”. It was a phenomenal read – funny and stark, it tackled gender politics and won her the PEN/Hemingway Award. Now, three years later, she’s back with Stag Dance, which is just as daring and imaginative – only this time it’s a collection of stories that explores trans life (from a lonely forest lodger to an obsessive boarding school romance). I absolutely loved it, and I’d love your thoughts on what I should dive into next, email me at [email protected]