FASHION NEWS January 4, 2012 LIZ CLAIBORNE TO CHANGE NAME Liz Claiborne, which sold its namesake brand last year, is changing its name to Fifth & Pacific Companies in a nod to the fashion hubs of New York and California. Shares in the company, whose main remaining brands are Juicy Couture, Kate Spade and Lucky Brand, will begin trading as [...]
Tiguan shows 4x4s can be city cars January 3, 2012 It’s taken me years to come around to the 4×4. I wouldn’t say I was anti-SUV – it’s just that I’ve never understood the attraction. For a life in the countryside, fine, go right ahead, it makes a lot of sense. Off-road, in a Landie, I’m having as much fun as the next guy. I [...]
CAR TALK January 3, 2012 GIRLS ARE DEFINITELY ALLOWED IN CUSTOM RENAULT TWINGO As part of a marketing initiative to promote Renault’s new Twingo, Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud has created this Twingo with her own bespoke interior. A recording studio, coffee machine, clothes, hair dryer and a make-up counter have all been incorporated into the one-off city car. Thought-provoking [...]
To Bonaparte, with love from China January 2, 2012 THE rich and international do not tire of Paris. Though it was hardly lacking in ultra-luxe period hotels before, the city evidently needed more. And so last year saw the opening of two major hotels, The Mandarin Oriental and the Shangri-La, signifying not only Paris’s ever-ascendant position on the global luxury circuit, but an overt [...]
Mr Cool’s kinda Jew-ish turn January 2, 2012 Mishkin’s 25 Catherine Street, WC2B 5JS Tel: 020 7240 2078, mishkins.co.uk FOOD **** SERVICE *** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £30 HAVING entrenched himself as London’s hippest restaurateur with Polpo, Spuntino and co, Russell Norman has sallied into new and more dangerous territory: “a kind of Jewish deli with cocktails”. Sure, everyone – [...]
Here’s to good wine in 2012 January 2, 2012 QUAFFER’S CORNER A BELATED Happy New Year to you all. Most of you are probably focused on attempts to undo the booze and calorie damage of the festive season – and, of course, adjusting to coming back to work. But given the nature of this paper, it would be remiss for me to ignore the [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS January 2, 2012 SPICE UP JANUARY AT THE CINNAMON CLUB If you are one of the few people who hasn’t sworn never to drink again after the excesses of the festive period, then head over to the Cinnamon Club, where you can take a cocktail masterclass for just £35. While you are there you can also take advantage [...]
ISLINGTON December 22, 2011 MILDMAY PARK Price: £2.95m A 3,800 square feet, five bedroom period townhouse. Hollywood A-listers have frequented the house for photo shoots and it has provided the backdrop for shoots for high-end high street retailers and fashion magazines such as Vogue. Contact Cluttons Islington office: 020 7354 6666 or www.cluttons.com BASIRE STREET Price: £450,000 A two [...]
SELL December 22, 2011 Managing Director of Kay & Co, central London estate agency Q. I have signed an eight week sole agency but have had a big falling out with my agent to the point that I do not want them even coming to my house. Is there any way I can get out of this? A. The [...]
PROPERTY NEWS December 22, 2011 SAVILE ROW LEASE SOLD TO JOINT VENTURE Great Portland Estates has exchanged contracts to sell the long leasehold interest in 28/29 Savile Row to a joint venture between Aerium Finance and Allied London for £16.25m. The deal, which works out at £1,017 a square foot, is for a basement, ground and five upper floors. The [...]