Flashbulb! Frieze Art Fair parties and a BFI bonanza...

Party pictures from around town
Frankie McCoy18 October 2017

Sweater soirée

Mayfair

As the autumn chill set in, Laura Bailey, Isabel Spearman and a host of other dyed-in-the-wool fans of Alex Gore Browne’s knitwear cosied up in oh-so-chic restaurant Isabel for an epic Italian feast (shout out to the short-rib ravioli). What could be sweater?

Alex Gore Browne

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Light up

Guildhall

Hollywood must have been empty as everyone from Baz Luhrmann to Tom Hiddleston brightened up the BFI Luminous fundraising gala in partnership with IWC Schaffhausen, where auction prizes of a private screening with Mel Brooks and Martin Scorsese’s director’s chair raised nearly £500,000. A golden night indeed.

BFI Fundraising Gala

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We go to the gallery

Around town

The post-Frieze shindigs kicked off in style with Simon and Michaela de Pury’s bash at Maison Assouline, where Vanessa Kirby, Peter Dundas and Meredith Ostrom sipped vodka and stared at Austin Lee’s new exhibition while Hugo Nathan, Lauren Santo Domingo and Wentworth Beaumont kept everyone well fed at their espresso Martini-fuelled supper.

Michaela de Pury

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Bed Bugs

The Berkeley Hotel

The launch of Rotten Roach's collaboration with The Berkley hotel saw atendees recieving cryo facials, manicures, a "pret -a-portea" and of course T-shirts galore, with a few of the girls including Marissa Montgomery, Sabrina Percy & Frankie Herbert jumping into bed for an impromptu sleepover.

Rotten Roach x The Berkeley

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Fit for a king

Mayfair

To the suitably regal surrounds of Ralph Lauren for the launch of Charles Spencer’s new book, To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape, where chicken liver parfait and port cocktails provided history buffs Dame Joan Collins, Daisy Dunn and Edward St Aubyn with ample restoration.

Charles Spencer x Ralph Lauren

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Baby Love

Ace Hotel, Shoreditch

Artist Dominic Myatt lit up the dance floor at #COMMUNEPRESENT's post frieze fiesta at the Hoi Polloi, where guests including Charles Jeffrey, Sara Blonstein & Richard Mortimer were entertained by many a model in artistically applied body paint (and not much else.)

CommunePresents

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Yes Way, K-Way

Covent Garden

Pac Macs a plenty at the launch of K-Way’s new store in Covent Garden, where Toby Huntington-Whiteley and Mary Charteris hung out amongst the coats and Jamie Jewitt chatted about his upcoming TED talk.

K-Way

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