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3 of the most… fashionable joints

Ah, September. Season of guestlists and front-row snarking, and malnourished eastern bloc teenagers tottering round with balloons appended to their knees. That’s right, Europe’s fashion weeks are almost upon us, which means it’s time for InOut to dust down its fave Gareth Pugh gimp suit and trail the fash pack…

Text Tabitha Lasley

Rochelle Canteen

LONDON
School House, Arnold Circus, tel.

Eat Devilled kidneys on toast.
Drink So cool they don’t even need to supply the drinks so bring your own.
Rubberneck at Designers Katie Hillier and Luella Bartley, who both have studios here. And ex-girl-about-town Alexa Chung, when she’s back in the country.

Hotel Principe Di Savoia

MILAN
17 Piazza della Repubblica,

Eat Entrecote bruschetta – slivers of steak on sliced grilled bread.
Drink Negronis topped up with prosecco.
Rubberneck at All of fashion during Fashion Week, plus front-row regulars George Clooney, Elton John and Beyoncé Knowles.

Verso

ANTWERP
11 Lange Gasthuisstraat, tel.

Eat Caesar salad (reportedly the best in town).
Drink A classic martini – gin, vermouth and a solitary olive.
Rubberneck at Antwerp Six alumni Dirk Bikkembergs and Dries van Noten; model Tanja Dexters.

Cocktail corner

Blueberry champagne

“Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.” So said Francis Bacon. And if there’s a bon mot better suited to the air-kissing, jawclanking, back-stabbing hive of bitchery that is Fashion Week, we’ve yet to hear it. Knock it back straight when you’re in London (show sponsor Moët & Chandon, for preference), and mix with absinthe in Milan.

Or try it in a blueberry champagne cocktail:

Mix one part white blueberry liqueur with one part cranberry juice, two parts vodka and three parts champagne.

Serve cold, while slagging off friends and colleagues.