TAKE A LEAF OUT OF EDWARD’S BOOK

Hello, and welcome back to After Dark… How were your holidays? The Azores? Whale watching? Oh, how lovely. Still, enough small talk and back to the important business of parties… First stop: Claridge’s for a soirée thrown to celebrate the release of Vogue editor Edward Enninful’s memoir, A Visible Man. ‘Edward and I have been travelling for the past few days,’ chief business officer of Condé Nast Britain and host Vanessa Kingori told us, ‘and I’ve been thinking about why his visibility is so important to me. Edward changed my life and never have I worked with someone so celebratory of women’s strength.’ Salma Hayek delivered a speech next, telling the room: ‘Edward and I have shared so much laughter for so many decades. We started out together in an era when the fashion industry was very icy. If you were a person of colour or had curves then you didn’t necessarily feel like you fitted in. But when you saw that ray of sunshine [Edward] walk in, you felt safe.’ It was a sentiment the crowd seemed to agree with and judging by the names that came out to celebrate, it was a room packed full of love. Congratulations, Edward.

Idris Elba takes to the mic with wife, Sabrina, as Francois-Henri Pinault, left, looks on

Michaela Coel, Edward Enninful and Salma Hayek

Damson Idris, Jourdan Dunn and Maya Jama

Kate Moss and Kristen McMenamy