Naked Events
My Claire & The City blog delves into the modern world in order to inspire debate about our culture. Here’s a round-up of seasonal events in our calendar.
Belgravia in Bloom 2023: Belgravia’s Magnificent Floral Into The Wild Displays
Welcome to Belgravia in Bloom 2023, which runs alongside the Chelsea Flower Show each year and is a hop, skip and a jump away from Chelsea in Bloom 2023 which is around the corner. Running through...
Chelsea in Bloom 2023 – best floral displays for Instagram
Chelsea in Bloom is spectacular every year and I love rounding up the best displays for Instagram. There's beautiful and fragrant real blooms as well as realistic fake flowers which make spectacular...
Best floral shop displays at Chelsea in Bloom 2019
Every May the highly anticipated Chelsea Flower Show rolls into London and with it, we celebrate Chelsea in Bloom as the shop fronts get a floral makeover for the week from 20 - 25 May. This year...
100 Years – First World War Centenary Events
It has been 100 years since the end of the First World War and it is important that we take time out to reflect and remember all of the fallen. It is often a difficult task to market a historical...
Halloween Marketing Ideas – PR, Retail, Digital and Social Media Tips
Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cash tills bubble. When did Halloween become such a marketing winner? All Hallows’ Eve has transformed from a celebration of a Western Christian feast...
Guide to Royal Ascot – Royal Enclosure
I would be very happy if it was Royal Ascot every single day. I love the elegance, I like the rush of excitement when I see the races, I love the outfits, I love the names of the horses, the colours...
Event tips – How to throw a spooky Halloween Party
When I was growing up, Halloween was one night a year, you’d carve a pumpkin or a turnip and wear a makeshift witches outfit and off you trotted trick or treating. Now we’ve gone ALL American about...
Guide to The Chelsea Flower Show by a First Timer
What's a flipping silver gilt when it's at home? Why does a show garden differ from a artisan garden? Do I have to wear white linen trousers to get in? Will they know the only flower I've...
Chelsea Flower Show 2016 – Top Retail Shop Fronts
RHS Chelsea Flower Show is a huge event in London with thousands of people descending on the capital each May to see the fabulous blooms on display. This year is no exception and the surrounding...
Events – Zouk Restaurant Celebrates 7th Birthday
Zouk restaurant in Manchester reached their 7th year in business last week so they threw a party to end all parties! Zouk was started up by two entrepreneurial brothers, Tayub and Mudassar Amjad...
LCM Duchamp AW16 Code London
Isn't the Rosewood Hotel a marvelous setting for Duchamp? This swishy London hotel was the backdrop for Duchamp's AW16 collection. This happened way back in January for London Collection's Men,...
LCM – Chester Barrie AW16 Awards Show
As a relative novice in menswear, this was my first visit to Chester Barrie's LCM show, but boy they knocked my socks off. The venue was a sublime room at the Waldorf Hilton which was so grand,...
LCM – AW16 Turnbull & Asser The Artist & The Architect
Turnbull and Asser are the classiest of menswear brands; established 1885, received their first Royal Warrant from Edward VII, make a lot of bespoke pieces, made in England, tally ho chaps!...
LCM – Belstaff AW16 Heading North
For last LCM, Belstaff took their SS16 range off to the dessert. Well to be factually accurate, they moved sand dunes into the Old Billingsgate where models stood under hot lights...
Costume Designer Sandy Powell Interview by Kinvara Balfour
I am a believer in the power of costume. Clothes can create an image that quite often signals social, economic and political status. In film, characters can be good, bad, rich, poor, from a...
Marketing A Charity – Shine Night Walk Marathon Magic
Why oh WHY would you do a marathon? That's what you must be thinking. This is what I was thinking at mile 21 in the dark streets of London. Walking a marathon has never been a lifelong dream...
In Vogue – Kinvara Balfour Interviews Alexandra Shulman
As preconceptions go, Alexandra Shulman has a lot to live up to, after all she is the editor of Vogue, the most formidable and revered of fashion magazines – even Carrie Bradshaw struggled to be...
That’s Shoe Biz – Patrick Cox Talks Lathbridge
On Tuesday this week the fash pack (including one Liz Hurley in an incredible Amanda Wakeley black dress) descended on the V&A to see legendary shoe maker Patrick Cox being interviewed by...
Panache Lingerie My Role Model Launch
The lingerie market is one that interests me, as I discussed in my post 'Who Sells You Your Pants' - I'm always intrigued by the marketing ploys we use when simply trying to flog the essentials....
Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty Review
Alexander McQueen was a creative genius and joined together beauty, art, sculpture, history and culture all into one beautiful vision of fashion. His clothes were crafted, almost sculpted and he...
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