It’s a late November Thursday bookmarked in diaries city-wide — the great reveal of Claridge’s Christmas tree.
Since 2009, when then Dior creative director John Galliano put a twisting tree replete with a stalking blue leopard on the checkerboard marble floors of the London institution, it has become tradition for the hotel to enlist the help of fashion brand to create a head-turning festive moment. Years since have seen memorable trees by the likes of Alber Elbaz for Lanvin, 2011, Karl Lagerfeld in 2017 and Diane von Furstenberg in 2018.
