Tuesday 15th November 2011, 1:30am
HE SURVIVED the Great War and Spanish flu and yesterday Lord Grantham – aka the actor Hugh Bonneville – made his first public appearance since the end of series two of Downton Abbey to present the Walpole awards for excellence.
No austerity measures at the luxury body’s annual gathering, held in association with Coutts – just champagne and medals for the expensive end of the stock market: British Luxury Overseas for Mulberry, International Luxury Brand for Hermès and Best British Craftsmanship for Church’s shoes, as judged by sharp-suited property tycoon Nick Candy.
So there weren’t too many long faces among the leaders of the Western brands lifted out of the Eurozone gloom by spendthrift Asia-Pacific shoppers: Hermès managing director Thierry Outin, Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet and Jaguar Land Rover’s design director Gerry McGovern, to name but a well-heeled few.
Boosting the British economy, meanwhile, was McLaren Automotive’s chairman Ron Dennis, poised to issue a “call to arms” to UK manufacturers on Thursday, when he creates 300 new jobs by opening a £50m sports car factory in glamorous Woking.
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No austerity measures at the luxury body’s annual gathering, held in association with Coutts – just champagne and medals for the expensive end of the stock market: British Luxury Overseas for Mulberry, International Luxury Brand for Hermès and Best British Craftsmanship for Church’s shoes, as judged by sharp-suited property tycoon Nick Candy.
So there weren’t too many long faces among the leaders of the Western brands lifted out of the Eurozone gloom by spendthrift Asia-Pacific shoppers: Hermès managing director Thierry Outin, Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet and Jaguar Land Rover’s design director Gerry McGovern, to name but a well-heeled few.
Boosting the British economy, meanwhile, was McLaren Automotive’s chairman Ron Dennis, poised to issue a “call to arms” to UK manufacturers on Thursday, when he creates 300 new jobs by opening a £50m sports car factory in glamorous Woking.
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Harriet Dennys joined City A.M. in March 2011 to write the daily City diary column The Capitalist. Prior to joining City A.M., Harriet was editor of media industry trade magazine Media Week, where she started as deputy features editor in March 2007. She has also worked at The Bookseller and at Wardour Publishing & Design.
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