You go to London Fashion Week to see new ideas for how the 0.1 per cent might dress; you go to the VIP Frieze opening to see what they’ve actually bought.
And what a mixing pot it was at its 11am opening yesterday, as minor celebrities and avid collectors pooled into the country’s biggest art fair, in Regent’s Park, bashing their Birkins and poring over works to spruce very large walls. They were trigger happy; the Gagosian gallery corner was rumoured to have sold out within the hour.
