Issue April 2016 - Tatler UK (2024)

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EVERYTHING ELSETHIS MONTH IN TATLER WORLDHAVING A PARTY?Need a ready-made guest list? Let Tatler be your goodtimes concierge – for full profiles of everyone on our 100 Most Invited (plus all the info on who’s gone up and who’s gone down), go to tatler.comBibliophile blissPolly Samson is clever, gorgeous and has written lyrics for her husband, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour. She has also written four novels, most recently The Kindness. Hear her talk about it at The Books That Built Me at the Café Royal on 8 March, at 6.30pm. Tickets are £30 and include a copy of the book, a glass of Bollinger, a box of Prestat chocolates and a six-month subscription to Tatler. thebooksthatbuiltpolly.eventbrite.co.ukAnd we’re off......to the Cheltenham Festival. Our full and frank online guide will tell you everything you need to know…2 min

EVERYTHING ELSECONTRIBUTORSMARCUS SEDGWICKMarcus on how to survive Venice in the summer (page 177)What’s your favourite joke?Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: ‘Does this taste funny to you?’What’s your worst habit?My daughter says I always have to be right. But I know she’s wrong...What’s your go-to fancy-dress costume?Victorian vampire-killer.What’s the best chat-up line you’ve ever heard?No such thing. There are only ones that don’t get you arrested.SUZANNE DUCKETTTatler ’s Spa Guide editor tirelessly visits all the world’s best spasWhat would be your death-row meal?Venison puffs from Yauatcha.What’s the phrase or word you overuse the most?‘Really.’What’s your go-to fancy-dress costume?Fay Wray in Kong’s grasp – I just pull a giant gorilla hand on over a frock and remove it when I get bored of being dressed up.What never…2 min

ON THE COVERKIMYE HIT SOMERSETKim and Kanye are surrounded by removal boxes in their new Somerset mansion.‘They’re here,’ Kanye says, opening a package and pulling out a pair of gumboots with ‘Yeezy’ written on the side.‘That’s so exciting,’ Kim says without looking up. She scrolls through her phone.‘Dope,’ he says quietly, walking around in them, admiring himself in an enormous hall mirror.Kim smiles at him lovingly. ‘Are they... space boots?’She takes a selfie by the window. ‘English light is so cool, I wanna, like, take it with me everywhere.’‘Can someone look into that?’ Kanye says to a passing butler in full livery.‘So everyone is saying we should get one of those... was it a lab-or-a-dor ?’ Kim asks. ‘Whatever it is, it’s, like, totally English.’‘I think that’s a kind of... car,’ Kanye says, frowning.‘Well,…2 min

FASHIONHERE’S LOOKING AT... STEFAN SIEGELDo not confuse this man with Steven Seagal – they are two very different people. Although Stefan, 37, is just as kickass, in his own way. He is the founder of Not Just A Label, an online platform set up in 2008 to showcase independent designers from countries that wouldn’t normally be on the fashion radar. So, through NJAL you can, say, order a bespoke dress from a designer in Lebanon, or buy a glorious piece of jewellery from Serbia. ‘I just wanted to create a level playing field,’ says Stefan. Every order arrives with a handwritten note and a little present from the designer, and 70 per cent of the price tag goes straight into the designer’s pocket – a big step up from the usual net profit, which…1 min

FASHIONDON’T YOU WISH YOU’D WORN THAT? DENIM JACKETSUp you go, up to the attic. Or in you go, into the freezing dining room that never gets used. Or out you go, out to the garage. Off you go, off to wherever you keep those plastic tubs of clothes from your university days. Or gap-year escapades. Or here-comes-trouble moments. Or just the bits and pieces that never made it from your old life into your new one. And yet something stopped you from throwing them awayOf course, if you did send that denim jacket to the charity shop, then now is the time to thoroughly kick yourself. Because this spring’s insurgency of den-jacks is a bona fide blast from the past. Throwbacks. They are almost exotically unreconstructed. And they represent this season’s no-brainer. Just chuck one over anything…1 min

FASHIONOrange suedeSo here we are in orange suede. Why the bloody hell not? Kind of safari. Less snazzy school-run mum than regular taupe suede. Not car-seaty like grey. Not terrifyingly intense like black. Not dodgy, jewel-coloured fashion peril. And white would just be insane. Red suede is rather too jolly. And chocolate suede? Well, you have to take yourself quite seriously for that. Unless you are Jeremy Clarkson, in which case, have we told you lately that we love you? So orange suede it is, then. Glad we got that cleared up.…1 min

Issue April 2016 - Tatler UK (2024)

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