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HOW TO LIVE FOREVER The super rich who will pay anything for immortality
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Plum Sykes Rocking out in Nashville and Bollinger’s secret stash
Diddy issues
Sean Combs on politics, therapy and America’s race problem
contents 5 Ferrell laughs and fabulous watches in CAPITAL GAINS 6 Summer city rules in UPFRONT 8 Our MOST WANTED is Michael Kors’ Mia crossbody bag 11 Yes ma’am, it’s Sam Cam in FLASHBULB COVER Puff Daddy photographed by Diego Uchitel. Styled by Derek Roche. Paul Smith blazer, £350 (paulsmith.com). DRIES VAN NOTEN shirt, £285, at brownsfashion.com. Sunglasses, Puff Daddy’s own, with vintage jewellery
12 He’s the PUFF DADDY of them all 21 Charming prints and wordy woollies in STYLE NOTES 22 The science of staying FOREVER YOUNG
FASHION GOES EAST: sultry summerwear you need 33 Scrubbing up well in BEAUTY 35 GRACE & FLAVOUR is underwhelmed by Dinings SW3 37 A platter of chicken and bulgar salad in TART 39 Pass the BOLLy, sweetie 41 ESCAPE to Nashville 42 Plum Sykes’ MY LONDON 26
With thanks to @JaguarUKPR and the Jaguar XJ for providing our transport during London Fashion Week Men’s
Here are the ES team’s top five moments from London Fashion Week Men’s
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ktz ‘The Lord of the Flies inspired show from KTZ — all in-yourface khaki attitude — was a razorsharp reflection of 2017’s combative zeitgeist.’ Nick Howells, deputy chief sub editor
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st james ‘I love an English gent… so this classic look from the St James show was a real winner for me.’ Natalie Salmon, social media editor
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craig green ‘Craig Green’s patchworked ponchos, collaged with tropical beach scenes and palm trees, will be sure to jump the gender divide when they land in store.’ Katrina Israel, fashion features director
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bobby abley ‘The Bobby Abley show was amazing. I’m still not over the fact that a Teletubby walked the catwalk – just a little reminder of my childhood.’ Eniola Dare, fashion assistant
topman ‘Topman’s Transition exhibition featured films projected on to linen drapes, live music and atmospheric lighting. It was a great way to round off a day at the shows.’ Sophie Paxton, merchandise editor
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GUCCI sunglasses, £250, at matches fashion.com. Necklace and scarf, Puff Daddy’s own
puff love He’s hip-hop royalty, a cultural icon and a legendary party boy, but Sean Combs is now more focused on his family and his activism than he is on anything else. Charlotte Edwardes meets a changed man with a big plan PhotographS BY Diego Uchitel stylED BY Derek Roche
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o the first thing I see as I sit down in Puff Daddy’s hotel suite is a massive spliff, the size of a carrot, in an ashtray on the coffee table in front of me. Puff ignores it. The waiter ignores it as he shows me a selection of tea in an open briefcase (only Puff’s tea could be offered like a deal going down). A spliff, I’m thinking. It’s not the most controversial thing to find in the hotel sitting room of Puff Daddy (or P Diddy, Diddy or Sean Combs, depending at what stage of his multi-million-dollar rapper-promoter-producer-recordcompany-exec-actor career you first encountered him). He has been arrested in the past for firearms offences. And anyway doesn’t the rapper who founded Bad Boy Records in 1993 have an image to maintain? I’m calling him Puff because although in his words he is ‘quad-polar’ (‘four different personalities’), it’s his favourite moniker right now — ‘and that’s the space I’m in’. For the uninitiated (there can’t be many, given he has more than 12 million followers on Twitter, including Barack Obama), Puff Daddy is the music mogul recognised for making hip-hop mainstream; his single ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ has been watched close to 100 million times on YouTube, he has three Grammys and earns as much as £100m a year from diversifying his brand into everything from vodka (Cîroc is 50 per cent him, 50 per cent Diageo) to clothes (Sean John) to fragrances (Unforgivable) and a television network (Revolt).
Style was always a big part of the Puff Daddy theatre. He and former girlfriend Jennifer Lopez were 1990s hiphop royalty. Standard Puff attire might include draped fur, diamonds, several layers of gold, round-the-clock shades and a Zino Platinum Scepter cigar. Also crucial was Cristal by the magnum, private jets, pool parties and posses of bikinied, arse-wagging women. His White Parties were legendary. But for all the Flash Harry lifestyle, the undercurrent of Nineties rap was dangerous as hell — distilled in the killing of his best friend, Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious BIG or Biggie, in an East Coast/West Coast dispute that also saw the murder of Tupac Shakur. Puff has now relived in Technicolor this and the story of his record company for the film Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story, about a commemorative gig he put on for Biggie last year, calling all the Nineties rap artists to put on one last collaboration. Today, in his London hotel room he is trying to acclimatise to his ‘heavy’ jet lag, and the ‘heat’. Marvin Gaye’s ‘Got To Give It Up’ is whooping and popping from a speaker. He sits down, he gets up, he paces (‘keep talking, I’m going to try and answer this from here’). He strips off his sweatshirt, asks for more AC, asks for a candle (Cire Trudon), asks for the windows to be closed then opened. ‘I’m just trying to get my vibe right,’ he says when he finally settles. My own vibe is important to him, too, so he kindly
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my london
PLUM SYKES as told to Niamh o’keeffe
Home is..? A 1930s block in Bayswater, with my husband, Toby, and daughters, Ursula, 10, and Tess, 6. We’re one block from Hyde Park and the Diana Memorial Playground (below), so it doesn’t get much better.
What do you collect? Do animals count? I have quite a few birds at my house in the Cotswolds — three peacocks (above) and 14 guinea fowl. The guinea fowl are divine; so well behaved and they make the most amazing noise. Who do you call when you want to have fun? My friend Julie Janklow — she’s very rock’n’roll and absolutely hilarious, with a voice sort of like Minnie Mouse. Last time we met, we went to Kitty Fisher’s (below), which was so divine.
Favourite club? 5 Hertford Street in Mayfair (right). The interiors are so chic and it’s the only club in London I’ve ever joined where I’ve actually renewed my membership. The atmosphere is very cosy and it’s so glamorous. I’m also completely intrigued by the new Annabel’s — I’m dying to go there. Biggest extravagance? Cashmere sweaters for my children from Marie-Chantal.
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The novelist shops in the Burlington Arcade, heads to Kitty Fisher’s for a good time and loves the passion fruit and apricot jam at Ottolenghi Best thing a cabbie has ever said to you? As soon as a cabbie finds out that I work in fashion, they ask me if I knew Alexander McQueen, as he was the son of an East End cabbie. Most romantic thing someone’s done for you? The first time my husband picked me up from my flat, he arrived in this little opentop Audi and took me out for supper.
Last play you saw? Hedda Gabler with Ruth Wilson. My husband and I went to see it with Dominic West and his wife, Catherine. As Dominic stars with Ruth in The Affair, we wanted to go see her afterwards, but were told she didn’t have time as she was going on a date. She had no time for Dominic, her date was too important!
First thing you do when you come back to London? Have a hot chocolate and a delicious croissant with home-made passion fruit and apricot jam at Ottolenghi on Ledbury Road. If you could buy any London building, which would it be? I love the little houses on the top of Portobello Road. They are so adorable, all painted pink. Last album you bought? Whatever my children are listening to, so it’s Ed Sheeran or Katy Perry (left) every time. ‘Party Girls Die in Pearls’ by Plum Sykes (Bloomsbury, £14.99) is out now
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Favourite shops? I love Eres on Motcomb Street — once every four years I’ll buy an Eres swimsuit because they last so long. I also love Geox on King’s Road, which sells really classy sneakers in beautiful white leather; they are comfy and good quality. And the vintage Rolex shop in Burlington Arcade is really quite special.