04.08.17 OOH LA LA!
Inside the Paris plot to lure London money
SERIAL BUZZKILLERS The holiday bores to avoid
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Green fingers: sam mcknight’s glorious garden The politics of WORKWEAR and ELIZABETH hurley’s My London
summer Fashion to set the mercury soaring
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5 Cara Delevingne reigns supreme in CAPITAL GAINS 7 Laura Craik on workwear woes in UPFRONT 9 Our MOST WANTED is Gucci’s jacquard Sylvie bag 11 Yana Peel’s a pretty big deal in FLASHBULB
DISCONTENTE CORDIALE: Paris vs the City 17 Get far from SUMMER’S MADDENING CROWD 21 The statuesque Liberty in MEN’S STYLE 22 DESERT STORM: summer’s billowing silhouettes 29 Pick your perfect floral scent in BEAUTY 33 GRACE & FLAVOUR eats sushi at Nobu Shoreditch 35 Chill out with TART’s cucumber gazpacho 37 See how SAM MCKNIGHT’s garden grows
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EDITOR Laura Weir
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ESCAPE to Majorca’s Deià 42 Elizabeth Hurley’s MY LONDON 41
The ES team pick their top five women’s summer holiday must-haves
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FINEST SEVEN ‘These flamboyant frames are my stand-out shades in the summer sunshine.’ Wendy Tee, acting art director
FINERY ‘When you’re short, you need height on all occasions. These silver tie detail sliders are perfect for wearing on holiday to add length to your pins.’ Sophie Paxton, merchandise editor
FINERY slides, £69 (finerylondon.com)
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TALITHA dress, £395, at matches fashion.com
TALITHA ‘I’m obsessed with the kaftans at Kim Hersov’s new label, Talitha. Handcrafted in India, they’re perfect for long hot sunny days on the beach.’ Anna van Praagh, deputy editor
FINEST SEVEN sunglasses, £230 (finest seven.com)
Cover photograph by Camilla Armbrust. Styled by Jenny Kennedy. ELLERY dress, £4,595 (ellery.com)
ANJUNA ‘Ruffles, mismatched florals, crocheted trim… my idea of poolside heaven.’ Lily Worcester, deputy beauty and lifestyle editor
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BOMBOM MOROCCO ‘I love BomBom Morocco’s personalised beach bags and hats. The oversized pom-poms are so much fun.’ Natalie Salmon, social media editor
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Editor Laura Weir Deputy editor Anna van Praagh Features director Alice-Azania Jarvis Acting art director Wendy Tee Fashion features director Katrina Israel Commissioning editor Dipal Acharya Associate features editor Hamish MacBain Features writer Frankie McCoy
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Contributing editors Lucy Carr-Ellison, Tony Chambers, James Corden, Hermione Eyre, Richard Godwin, Daisy Hoppen, Jemima Jones, Anthony Kendal, David Lane, Mandi Lennard, Annabel Rivkin, Teo van den Broeke, Hikari Yokoyama Group client strategy director Deborah Rosenegk Head of magazines Christina Irvine
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o c e t n e t n E Soirées at the embassy. New international schools. Talk of tax cuts. With Brexit on the horizon, Paris is rolling out the red, white and blue carpet to tempt business from the City of London. But will it work? Rosamund Urwin investigates the great Channel tussle
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t was an intimate dinner. The wine — a white Burgundy and a Bordeaux — flowed. The food was the ‘best of France’: three courses — ‘worthy of two Michelin stars’, a guest said — with turbot for the main and chocolate petit fours to finish. The setting was the French ambassador’s residence in Kensington 10 days ago — and the diners included the big guns of European finance. Before the meal, the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg spoke in the ballroom at a reception of College of Europe alumni. He heralded Emmanuel Macron’s optimism as ‘a true hallmark of European liberalism’ while the Tricolore and the flag of the European Union hung beside him. With Brexit approaching, Sylvie Bermann, France’s charismatic lady in London, isn’t alone in schmoozing the money men. At a meeting last month in Paris, the French Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, stayed for lunch after his speech to chat to banking CEOs. ‘He went all guns blazing trying to convince them that Paris is the place,’ says one attendee. ‘This government is blunt: they want Paris to become the No 1 European finance centre.’ President Macron — eyeing up the £71.4 billion in taxes that the UK financial services sector generates — is said to be out to maim London as a financial capital. A fear among financiers is that the City could lose its euro clearing role (where clearing houses such as the London Stock Exchange’s LCH play middleman to buyers and sellers of financial contracts). London dominates — the volume of business can be more than a notional €900 billion daily. ‘The French sniff blood in the water and they’re going for a land grab,’ says Manoj Ladwa, head of private clients at the TJM Partnership. In a leaked memo, Jeremy Browne, the former Liberal Democrat MP who is now the City’s envoy to the EU, wrote that the French objective is the ‘degradation of the City’. Not that French diplomats will put it like that. A
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source close to the ambassador instead spoke of improving France’s attractivité (appeal to businesses) and said it could be a ‘win, win’ situation in which companies might open French satellite offices but keep UK headquarters. Nonetheless, mere hours after the UK voted ‘leave’, ads appeared on The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times websites proclaiming ‘Welcome to the Paris region’. Now, with Article 50 triggered, the Square Mile rumour mill is in overdrive with tales of French sweeteners offered to firms to move. ‘The deal I’ve heard is that you only pay tax on half your revenues,’ says one hedge fund manager. This Parisian charm offensive is wide ranging. Macron plans financial measures to lower taxes and reduce red tape, including scrapping the highest bracket of payroll tax on financial sector staff and making it cheaper to sack employees. Three new international lyceés — teaching in French and English — will open in Paris by 2022. The French are also setting up a relocation service, offering
Above, Theresa May and Emmanuel Macron at a press conference in Paris in June
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help to buy a home and find schools, and high-profile officials — such as Christian Noyer, France’s Brexit envoy for finance, and Valérie Pécresse, the head of the Paris region — are hosting receptions in London to woo business leaders. French officials have met with Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. Paris’s appeal is obvious. It has a well-educated workforce, cheaper office space than London and a decent financial base to build on. Like London, it has the Michelin-starred restaurants and designer shops to appeal to the Jordan Belforts of banking, with a vibrant nightlife and food scene that, thanks to an influx of young chefs from around the world, has
become more adventurous than the clichéd bistro fare. Lately, Londoners have been causing a stir, with fashionable restaurants such as Le Grand Bain and Restaurant Albion offering English delicacies such as ‘le Sunday roast’. The art and design scene is similarly dynamic — and one in which British talent is prized, with Londoners such as Clare Waight Keller and Kim Jones heading up French fashion houses Givenchy and Louis Vuitton menswear, and David Hockney providing the summer’s must-see exhibition at the Pompidou. However, David Blanc, partner at wealthmanagement firm LGT Vestra and vice-president of Union des Français de l’Etranger, believes the French approach, in emphasising this, often has the wrong focus: ‘It’s too much “Paris is lovely” — it should be about business.’ Blanc says it will help that Macron is an ex-banker, winning the nickname ‘The Mozart of Finance’ for his M&A work, though a former colleague
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AV ROBERTSON top, made to order (avrobertson.com). VICTORIA BECKHAM bra, POA (victoria beckham.com)
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Supersized silhouettes in saturated shades offer a fierce take on high summer dressing. Go big, go bold — do not go home PhotographS BY Camilla Armbrust stylED BY JENNY KENNEDY
JOSEPH jacket, £595; skirt, £1,495 (joseph-fashion. com). UGG X preen sandals, £260 (ugg.com)
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my london
elizabeth hurley as told to lily worcester
Home is… I live in Herefordshire but have a house in west London on a very pretty street lined with cherry trees. The blossom in April is out of this world.
If you could buy any London building, which would it be? I would love to live at The In & Out club on Piccadilly. A lovely building that looks deserted now. Failing that, Clarence House (above) would do. What do you collect? Lonely hearts. I normally have a couple of friends sobbing around my kitchen table at any given moment.
Last play you saw? I saw the musical An American in Paris (above) last week. I was blown away by it — the dancing was spectacular.
What shop do you rely on? Luigi’s Delicatessen (right) on Fulham Road for when I’m too lazy to cook. Best meal you’ve had in the city? I was introduced to Riva, in Barnes, by the wonderful AA Gill. It is the best Italian food in London; suckling pig, pasta, vegetables to die for and superb crescentshaped gnocchi with honey. If you had to be locked in a building overnight, which would it be? Buckingham Palace. I would eat breakfast on the throne.
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Favourite club? 5 Hertford Street (above). Rifat Ozbek has made it into a sexy haven — all my friends go there.
The actress and swimwear designer loves the suckling pig at Riva, would live at The In & Out club and parties at 5 Hertford Street Favourite discoveries? Driving daily to the sound stage at 3 Mills Studios, where we shoot The Royals, has shown me a completely different part of London. We wind our way down the Embankment, past the Tower of London and all through the East End. It’s charming and I’m usually being driven at some ungodly hour, so it’s deserted. Best thing a cabbie has ever said to you? That I look like Liz Hurley, but am better looking.
Have you ever had a run-in with a policeman? Only good run-ins, as I’m very well behaved. I’m a huge fan of London policemen; they do a terrific job. It was actually down to me that they can now eat in public places in their uniforms. I suggested it and, having initially been blasted for stupidity by David Blunkett (the Home Secretary at the time), he then did a U-turn and changed the law. And publicly apologised. Tee hee.
Best advice you’ve been given? ‘A wise woman has two ears and one mouth, so she hears twice as much as she speaks.’ My great uncle taught me that and it’s stood me in very good stead my whole life. Who’s your hero? I’ve currently got a crush on Sam Heughan, who stars in my favourite TV series, Outlander. He’s a big, sexy Scot but, sadly, much too young for me. Who do you call when you want to have fun? My constant partner in crime is Patrick Cox (left, with Hurley). He comes round to me first and zips up my dress and chooses my shoes. (elizabethhurley.com)
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Most romantic thing anyone’s done for you? A long time ago, one of my exes taught me the song ‘Maybe it’s Because I’m a Londoner’, which we still warble to each other in mock cockney accents.