Evening Standard - ES Magazine
AFTER DARK
To Annabel’s to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Diet Coke with its new creative director, Kate Moss. Madame arrived looking incredible, confirming that the old-school mega party is over by instead hosting an intimate gathering of 80 of her inner circle
— a who’s who of the past 20 years of popular culture. And what a busy little bunch they’d been… Jaime Winstone was just back from Sicily, where she’s planning her wedding next year. ‘Don’t worry babes, I said a prayer for you and spent a good hour in confessional,’ she told us. Thanks, gorge. Grimmy told us about the perils of the modern-day book tour, having just been on the road promoting his autobiography, Soft Lad. ‘I was in Manchester [his home city] doing a signing. There was this table that looked like a wallpapering table from B&Q and the publicist and my agent both kept telling me to sit on it. There was no way it was going to take my weight but they both kept insisting. So I did, it collapsed and I was spread-eagled on the floor.’ Ouch.
Another anniversary across town, where Mugler hosted a party with Selfridges and Seventy One Gin in the Welsh Chapel to celebrate 30 years of its fragrance Angel. There we bumped into London legend Princess Julia, who first stepped foot in the venue for legendary club Limelight in 1985. Still going strong 37 years later, atta girl.
OVERHEARD IN CONVERSATION ‘Babe, we’re a bit too male, and a bit too middle-aged for Mugler to be interested in us… Sorry to break it to you, but we best move along’