Front Row: What's hot and happening this week
Perdita Weeks
Amber Le Bon
Bip Ling
Anyone for Boodles?
The Boodles is a tennis tournament where the players flirt with the crowd, strip to their six-pack at 40-love and scream advice to their opponents mid tie-break. This, the most friendly of Wimbledon warm-ups (Front Row took a shine to winner Robin Haase, though at the time of going to press there is no accounting for his progress in SW19), is also where the West London party contingent descended to celebrate the summer solstice. Music at the Stoke Park venue was provided by model/DJ Amber Le Bon, sunnies by Taylor Morris and champagne by Veuve Clicquot. The event was co-hosted by dress label Beulah – its pretty print (as seen here on Amber) was adorning at least ten girls on the dancefloor.
WE LOVE: Suitcase, £275, Ted Baker, tedbaker.com
Back of the Net!
With up-styled gym leggings now acceptable in the office, the ever clever Net-a-Porter has launched Net-a-Sporter – a new hub for the most high-end and hardworking sportswear brands around. We love this UV-filter dress, £250, by Monreal; leotard, £150, and sweatpants, £145, both by Live The Process and, because we are hooked on the benefits of barre class, these workout slippers, £140, Ballet Beautiful. All available now from net-a-porter.com.
Workout slippers, £140
V-filter dress, £250
Leotard, £150
Your summer reading sorted
YOU’s books editor Kate Figes chooses her five most gripping beach reads.
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti (Vintage, £8.99). Amusing and original memoir/novel on sex, love and friendship. The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer (The Borough Press, £7.99). Sad, funny and profound insight into mental health. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Picador, £7.99). A gripping mystery set in Iceland in 1829. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Abacus, £8.99). If you haven’t read this yet, make it your airport buy – mesmerising storytelling. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (Bloomsbury, £7.99). The Kite Runner’s author delivers another epic on the unbreakable bonds of human love.
Wear where... Shangri-La Hotel - at The Shard, London SE1; shangri-la.com
Shirt, £55, Cos, cosstores.com
Bag, £280, Gerard Darel, gerarddarel.com
Shoes, £505, Proenza Schouler, from net-a-porter.com
Bracelet, £180, Maria Francesca Pepe, mariafrancescapepe.com.
