(Things we're doing and stuff we like)
Yesterday I went to Abercrombie & Fitch’s long-awaited first UK store on Burlington Gardens. Music jolts me out of Mayfair and I am hit by heat, dim lighting and crazed shoppers! Models with unreal tans wearing hot pants beam with dazzling smiles while piling shirts. Loud, pumping music jolts you out of Mayfair while the heat has been cranked up so shoppers can relate to the expensive beachwear on sale. Oil paintings, wood panelling and grand staircases are a backdrop to the bright teen merchandise. I enjoyed the experience and urge a visit to enter into A&F’s world where beautiful people and ‘cool’ clothes dictate an ideal world they insist can’t be found anywhere else.
The Cookbook Café opened at the newly refurbished InterContinental Hotel, Park Lane and Camron joined the launch party. With top chefs Giorgio Locatelli, Mark Edwards and Michel Gehrig serving up a taste of the menu, there was an array of mouth-watering dishes to savour. Nobu chef, Mark Edwards cooked Black Cod and Locatelli’s chefs patiently created the perfect risotto. We also met newly crowned BBC MasterChef winner, Steve Wallis who mingled with foodies and established chefs including Michel Roux and Anthony Worrall Thompson. After teasing our tastebuds, we’ll certainly be going back!
While in New York last week, I made my pilgrimage to Moss, the best design shop in the World, located on Greene Street in Soho. The shop never fails to impress did not disappoint on this occasion – the collection of Maarten Bass furniture on display was breathtaking
My wallet didn’t stretch to the purchase of one of Maarten’s gorgeous clay chairs but I happened upon a collection of plates by the Russian designer Constantin Boym.
Everyone is familiar with souvenir plates featuring stereotypical views of European capitals or other picturesque tourist attractions but Constantin Boym offers a set of plates devoted to unknown, completely non-descript areas of upstate New York.
Each plate is numbered from a limited edition of 300. I snapped up one immediately and will be ordering the rest online from <a href =“http://www.mossonline.com”>Link text
There is nothing like contemporary art. Danish artist Jeppe Hein takes the grand space in The Curve in the Barbican to create Distance, a unique and memorable interactive piece. As you walk into the gallery a large white ball is released onto the roller coaster-like steel structure that fills the room. Watch the balls go along the track, through spins, loops and corkscrews. As more visitors enter, more balls are released and the excitement grows. This is the kind of playful, innovative art that a description cannot give justice. You have to see it for yourself.
Written by Camron Intern Ryan Schreiber.
On Friday Sarah and I visited the Dover Street Market. DSM contains a funky array of inspired designs tangled together on an endless number of floors. The decoration is minimal, with hollowed out portable toilets and simple boxes serving as dressing rooms. Clothes hang and sit on every space; even inside a vending machine shoppers can find DSM-logo shirts for £25. The themed floors contain pricy one-of-a-kind items as well as work by designers such as John Galliano and Pierre Hardy. This is a trendy market for upscale shoppers, but it is just as fun to stroll around and gawk at outfits most of us certainly couldn’t pull off.
Written by Camron Intern Ryan Schreiber.
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