Londoner’s Diary
The Royal Albert Hall was filled with dozens of disco balls for the most stylish night of the year: the Fashion Awards. It’s an evening when politicians — not famed for their sartorial acuity — get to hobnob with the best dressed people in the land. Business Secretary Peter Kyle was flanked by Dame Anna Wintour and British Fashion Council chief executive Laura Weir, who hosted the evening, while French fashion designer Michèle Lamy traded up her usual partner in crime, Rick Owens, for Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. The Fashion Awards often has rather bad luck with the British weather and this year guests braved howling winds and lashings of rain. Not ideal conditions to be wearing an enormous, precariously balanced wig, but Gwendoline Christie managed to keep her hair on. Sienna Miller debuted her baby bump, as did Ellie Goulding, who is expecting a child with 28-year-old actor Beau Minniear. Sudanese-American star Anok Yai was crowned model of the year, Little Simz scooped the cultural innovator award and Dior’s Jonathan Anderson won designer of the year for the third year in a row. After the awards, guests decamped to the glitzy new Chancery Rosewood hotel for an afterparty hosted by Edward Enninful that roared on until the wee hours.
