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Slam on the brakes and avoid a bubble

2009-11-13T07:48:47Z

Restricting the air supply: Aviva took �1bn of property off the market, including its half-share in Bentalls, to avoid an overheated market as property rises

The London businesses being run from a scooter

2009-11-02T10:12:56Z

They are cheap to run, breeze past queues and don't pay the congestion charge. Nick Curtis reports on the London businesses abandoning four wheels for two

Futurology: Tailoring at the click of a mouse

2009-10-12T14:07:14Z

A good suit is much like a fine wine - or at least, that's what the tailor chaps on Savile Row believe

Jsen Wintle: the Australian who's dressing London's smartest men

2009-10-08T16:01:44Z

How did Jsen Wintle go from Australian stilt-walker to luxury menswear designer and supplier of high fashion to M&S?

Savile Row becomes designer label

2009-10-06T08:36:54Z

Ken�s wedding day: he wears old suit and arrives on Tube

2009-09-28T08:03:26Z

Former mayor Ken Livingstone wore an old suit to his low-key wedding, took the Tube to the ceremony and didn't even have a honeymoon

Green�s Restaurant and Oyster Bar is posh and pukka

2009-09-16T23:00:00Z

Green�s Restaurant and Oyster Bar in St James�s, as more learned authorities than me have observed, is about comfort food for toffs

Bumper Savile Row deal signals West End revival

2009-09-11T09:46:03Z

The West End property market burst into life today with two of the biggest rental deals since the financial crisis kicked off two years ago.

We wear brown in town to avoid 'shame' of looking like a banker

2009-09-01T09:03:52Z

The financial crisis has radically altered City fashion, sounding the death knell for the pinstripe and finally making brown acceptable in town

Why art is the social lubricant of our great city

2009-07-10T07:08:43Z

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

London leads the world in selling dreams

2009-06-30T07:37:16Z

The starving victims of the ninth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno gnaw at each other's heads while their bodies are frozen in ice

Law student sues Abercrombie & Fitch over her fake arm 'bullying'

2009-06-24T11:44:43Z

Student with prosthetic arm tells how she 'questioned her worth as a human being' after being forced to work in stockroom of US clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch

Gary Kemp: Personal tragedy revived Spandau Ballet

2009-05-14T08:15:55Z

Now the band's acrimonious 18-year split is over Gary Kemp tells Simon Mills how losing both parents helped revive Spandau Ballet

Best London galleries and museums

2009-04-08T14:35:21Z

From rock 'n' roll and graffiti art to Henry VIII and the workings of the human body, London's galleries and museums have something for everyone.

Anxious times in Mayfair as hedge funds feel squeeze

2009-03-02T09:09:46Z

Hard to ignore Rogers� bearish view of Britain

2009-01-23T11:21:40Z

What to make of investment guru Jim Rogers� damning of Britain�s faltering economy?

�Ripple effect� hits cafes, bars and clothing shops in Canary Wharf

2008-11-19T09:35:16Z

Small businesses in the heart of the City have revealed how they are on the verge of collapse

Colin Powell joins hip-hop band at Africa Rising

2008-10-14T23:00:00Z

It started too early and finished too late, but Africa Rising was a four-hour spectacular worthy of any continent.

Fashion

2008-10-01T16:21:04Z

Whether it be in Savile Row, magazines, clubs or just accessible high street fashion, the capital leads the way. These are the names that make the fashion world spin.

Riches to rags at Hardy Amies

2008-10-01T13:07:09Z

Retail: Dressmaker to the Queen Hardy Amies was a step closer to going bust after talks to find a saviour failed

Hardy Amies faces threat of collapse

2008-09-26T08:15:41Z

Dressmaker to the Queen Hardy Amies was on the verge of collapse today after a major shareholder turned off the funding taps

I say! What a bounder... All dandy comic legend Terry-Thomas really liked was 'jolly eager girls'

2008-09-05T19:18:35Z

Diamond-encrusted cigarette holders. Tailor-made underpants. But all legendary comic and dandy Terry-Thomas was really interested in were the 'jolly eager girls'.

Still Rolling for EMI - but all in the past

2008-07-29T10:17:34Z

Crumbs of comfort for EMI, owned by private-equity firm Terra Firma.

'Role models' scheme to boost young black men

2008-07-15T08:13:28Z

Fashion designer Ozwald Boateng is to help choose 20 black male role models as part of a government drive to combat under-achievement among Afro-Caribbean boys

'Bespoke' suits can now be a cut below best

2008-06-18T09:03:17Z

Tailors on Savile Row have lost a legal battle over their right to use the word "bespoke" to refer exclusively to hand-made suits

McCartney�s delight at Linda exhibition

2008-04-22T09:42:55Z

An exhibition of Linda MacCartney's work showing intimate family pictures and landscapes is to run at the Hyman Gallery.

Networker who brings a touch of class to the catwalk

2008-02-13T08:37:01Z

It's London Fashion Week, and Jaeger boss Harold Tillman - the new man at the helm - is under fire but keeping his cool over size zero models

How ugly can the faces get?

2007-06-24T23:00:00Z

Once a forum for energetic and inspired young painters, the BP Portrait Award now fosters dull incompetence and a dependency on the camera, says Brian Sewell.

Bollywood comes to England

2007-03-22T00:00:00Z

Coming in at under three hours, Namaste, London's relatively short running time is not the only convention breaking feature of Vipul Amrutlal Shah's Bollywood film.

This week's restaurant news...

2006-09-06T15:44:52Z

London plays host to a curry festival, a new branch of steakhouse Black & Blue opens at Borough Market and there's a Fashion Week special to be had at Conran's Sartoria.