Ex-Gaucho MD’s new place M is pukka for Chuka November 12, 2014 Some of the City’s best known names trotted down to Threadneedle Walk last night for the opening of Gaucho’s former MD Martin Williams’ new restaurant complex, M. Metro Bank chief Craig Donaldson was there, rubbing shoulders with designer Amanda Wakeley, chef Angela Hartnett and shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, who was there with old uni [...]
Our awards are here – dig out those gladrags November 12, 2014 FROM top hats to Louboutins, the City is dusting off its finest this morning for tonight’s hugely anticipated City A.M. awards at Grange St Paul’s Hotel. With 14 awards to hand over, we’re looking forward to loading up the mantelpieces of the City’s most hard-working and successful names. In the running we’ve got well-known City [...]
Daisy Lowe and Clegg’s wife act as mentors November 12, 2014 HOST Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, partner at law firm Dechert LLP and wife of Nick Clegg, was joined by model Daisy Lowe and Vogue UK editor Alexandra Shulman yesterday for her Inspiring Women in Fashion event, which saw a long list of high achieving women in fashion network with 100 girls at St Saviour’s & St [...]
Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive had fun with Lily Allen and Daisy Lowe at Sushi Samba anniversary party November 11, 2014 Apple’s notoriously quiet design chief Sir Jony Ive may have only been back in the UK for a few days, but he took time to rub shoulders with the likes of Lily Allen and Daisy Lowe at Sushi Samba’s second anniversary party last night. Ive and PR guru Matthew Freud propped up the bar [...]
KPMG’s Matt Wood has the eye for ING’s art November 11, 2014 Director of operations for KPMG (Restaurant Associates), Matt Wood (right) enjoyed last night’s preview of the 2014 ING Discerning Eye exhibition – and thanks to City A.M.’s competition, he walked away with one of the pieces. Here he is with ING’s chief of commercial banking Gerald Walker and his new piece of art, Wet Morning [...]
VIP ecigarette advert: Sex sells but is vaping’s credibility up in smoke? November 10, 2014 Well, they do say sex sells, and VIP’s pioneering ecigarette advert – shown for the first time last night after the 9pm watershed – has sex in bucketloads. A minefield of innuendo, the ad features a dewy-lipped young woman in a little black dress. There are two versions, a long and short one. In [...]
CBI conference 2014: R2D2 upstages political heavies on big day November 10, 2014 Politicians have, in jest, been accused of being a ruling class of automatons, but yesterday’s CBI conference showed that robots can indeed go down well on politically charged stages, if they’re from Star Wars at least. Ivan Dunleavy, chief executive of Pinewood Studios, entered the stage with R2D2 and performed a little sketch [...]
Countdown star Rachel Riley helps Edwina Dunn launch Stem career push November 10, 2014 Putting her Tesco Clubcard days well and truly behind her, Edwina Dunn, co-founder of Dunnhumby, launched Your Life – a campaign to advocate for the importance of Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects for school children, in Google’s Holborn den yesterday. The tech giant’s trendy neon signage and cool “coffee-trike” doling out [...]
Mike Slade: Three things you didn’t know about Helical Bar CEO November 10, 2014 1 He proposed to his wife on April Fools’ Day. “Obviously nobody believed us, particularly the in-laws,” he laughed. 2 He was once suspended from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors for failing to complete Continuing Professional Development (CPD) returns. 3 Mike is an enthusiastic sportsman and is well known for his ocean racing yacht [...]
Lord Mayor’s Show 2014: Crowds line the City to see Alan Yarrow take over from Fiona Woolf November 10, 2014 Thousands of people lined the City’s streets on Saturday to enjoy the 799th Lord Mayor’s Show. The spectacle saw new Lord Mayor Alan Yarrow sworn in to take over from outgoing mayor Fiona Woolf. It also included marching bands, military formations and various carriages and walking performers. Read more: Lord Mayor's Show London 2015 [...]
