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When Department Seventeen opened in a pocket-sized space on Pacific Street last November, San Francisco’s most stylish men took notice. Seven months later, the Russian Hill boutique ships smartly-designed shirts and hard-to-find accessories by brands such as Uniform Wares and Outlier to clients in the United States, Europe and Australia.

Last night I arrived at the Gorgeous Aman Resort in Monte Negro- what a an amazing place! To start off the festivities, I attended a welcome dinner at Olive restaurant on the water for Nat Rothchild’s birthday celebration. What a beautiful view! With fabulous food and even more fabulous people, surrounded by candles and lights, it was the perfect evening soiree!

“Wow I’ve never seen the Stewards Enclosure so buzzing,” said an old-hat Henley friend, who attends a corporate jolly at the five-day Regatta at Henley-on-Thames every July. The glorious sunshine certainly helped boost crowds at the ever-popular Fawley bar. This year queuing for a jug of Pimms meant ploughing through a three-person deep line-up (rowers’ arms being essential for carrying your booty back to your entourage).

Lange & Söhne is perhaps less a household name than some other top-shelf houses of fine watchmaking, but given its small annual production of gorgeously finished and precision engineered timepieces (it’s located not in Switzerland, but in the German town of Glashütte, just outside Dresden) collectors wouldn’t have it any other way. The company, which represents one of German watchmaking’s proudest traditions (Ferdinand Adolphe Lange set up his workshop in Glashütte in 1845) rocked the watchmaking world with its iconic Lange 1 wristwatch, which it launched when it resumed watch production in post-reunification Germany in 1994. Though the Lange 1 remains its most recognizable watch Lange & Söhne has since gone on to demonstrate its mastery of watchmaking at every level of complexity.

On my recent trip to New York, I had the pleasure of viewing the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the MET, and although it has been days since, I have to admit It is still on my mind!

The 2011 WGSN Global Fashion Awards, sponsored by SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS, launched in London on the 20th of June at St Martin’s Lane hotel. Amongst the select group of fashionable guests and fashion press attendees were chairman of the British Fashion Council, Harold Tillman; WGSN CEO, Susanna Kempe and 2010’s, Head of fashion TV UK Amanda Rudin ‘Most Influential Footwear Designer’, Nicholas Kirkwood, designers Christopher Beales, Magenta 8, Una Burke, David Longshaw and Nichola Woods designer of luxury ethical brand “Beautiful soul”, all there to find out who had been shortlisted as candidates for this year’s WGSN Global Fashion Awards.