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Evening Standard column

Nick Foulkes

Shane Warne

Keep the look, Shane, you're a male icon in waiting

I never thought I would hear myself say it but I feel rather sorry for Shane Warne

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Ties are too young and trendy for Soho House

The news that a prominent London lobbyist has been suspended from Soho House for wearing a suit and tie could well mark a turning point in the current sartorial prejudice against what used to be regarded as correct urban apparel

Now China has a taste for the champagne lifestyle

Is the cost of a good suit about to soar even further? Wool prices have reached an all-time high, up 80 per cent in the past year

What I can tell Zeta-Jones of mental illness

My feelings were mixed on hearing that Catherine Zeta-Jones had sought treatment for mental ill-health

This drive for luxury gives hope for civilisation

Bernard Arnault is on a shopping spree. First his luxury conglomerate LVMH took a stake in the French leather goods firm Hermès and now it has been announced that it has acquired control of the Italian jeweller Bulgari. Apparently the Bulgari deal cost in the region of £3.2 billion

Russian bank opens markets in AIM shares

Renaissance Capital, the Russian investment bank, starts making markets in AIM shares

There are times when lederhosen just won’t do

It was the kind of news we need in these austere times: “GP ejected from Claridge’s Bar for wearing lederhosen”

Harrods’ sale shows who are the shopkeepers now

There are those who complain Harrods is not what it used to be. But then Harrods as it used to be probably would not have moved the Qatari royal family to part with £1.5 billion

Brace yourself for Gordon Gekko’s return in style

With impeccable timing, Michael Douglas is to revisit the role of Gordon Gekko in the new Wall Street movie, Money Never Sleeps

Pity MPs without a spouse around the House

I am beginning to feel a little sorry for our elected servants in Westminster. I know it sounds a little like suggesting that bankers work dreadfully hard and deserve every penny of their bonuses

Any advance on the peanuts paid to authors now?

Sometime in the next few days I will be writing one of the most beautiful four-letter words in the English language: ends

Why art is the social lubricant of our great city

At last night’s annual Serpentine Summer party, London shoulders its way to the front of the queue when it comes to sexing up the art world


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