Mad Men party

On Saturday night we went to our great friend Benedict Wong's Mad Men party to celebrate his 40th Birthday.
I was ready on time for a change.  The Actor was late as he had to eat, iron his shirt and polish his shoes.  I ended up having a sandwich and two glasses of chocolate milkshake (always good for stomach lining!).   I was going to get him to take some pictures of me but it was 10.45pm when

Giles SS11 and Giles/M.A.C after party

Photography by Alasdair McLellan
I may be biased as he's my best friend, but I thought the Giles show was AMAZING and contained touches of absolute genius.  After winning the ANDAM award two seasons ago one of the stipulations was that Giles had to move his catwalk show to Paris.  His extremely welcome return as top dog in London fashion went down a storm.

Giles' incredible eye astounds me

LOVE magazine and Joseph party

After that I went on to the LOVE magazine's party at the Joseph store on Westbourne Grove.  Every window was illuminated with giant LOVE cover from issue four.
The party was in the large basement and the cocktails and Champagne flowed.  It didn't run out all night.  It was a great party and I caught up with lots of friends.

Music was provided by Pulp's Steve Mackey who  was spinning tunes and

Festival weekend - Part one

The bar
I was late as usual.  Two hours late.  The words 'dog' and 'house' sprung to mind as The Actor was particularly disgruntled at having to listen to the Spain/Paraguay game on the car radio on the drive there.  He had envisaged all our friends at the party sitting on a river bank in the sun watching the game on a big screen.  The commentator unhelpfully kept banging on about what a