OK, apologies for the David Bowie tribute headline, but Hiro – the Japanese/American photographer renowned for his idiosyncratic fashion shoots...
Read MoreMonth: January 2016
I am generally not a nervous passenger when it comes to flying, in part no doubt because other than some hefty turbulence, luckily not a lot unsettlin...
Read MoreFLYING: It’s not a good whirl without wings
I love big football tournaments. (No, this should not be a football blog.) Euro 2016 in France will soon be upon us and I can hardly wait for England...
Read MoreFOREIGN: Paris 1998 and all that
The address 432 Park Avenue sounds ordinary enough, notwithstanding that we’re talking about Park Avenue in Manhattan. But the property in quest...
Read MoreFANTASY: A very tall storey
Marc Bolland recently stepped down as chief executive of Marks & Spencer, mostly because of yet another bigger-than-expected decline in revenues f...
Read MoreFASHION: M&S and the search for the killer coat
King’s Cross used to be one of the grubbiest areas of London. If I’d had the money or the foresight, it would have been the ideal place ...
Read MoreFUN: No tripping but still a light fantastic
Chiltern Firehouse opened as a restaurant in 2013, just 124 years after it opened as the Marylebone Fire Station. Obviously, in its original form, it ...
Read MoreFOOD: Chiltern Firehouse – from emergency service to expensive service
It’s only love and marriage, I guess. As Nigel. M. Smith in The Guardian noted: “Only a star of Angelina Jolie Pitt’s immense clout ...
Read MoreFILM: The Angelina deal – water, water everywhere and Brad’s had a ton to drink
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