ROMANCING THE STONE

Where A dinner at Maddox nightclub to celebrate the opening of the jeweller Stephen Webster’s Mayfair shop.

Who Pam Hogg, Nancy Dell’Olio, Rachel Stevens.

Look Rock-star girlfriend.

Supper Classic English. Steaks with sides of potatoes and broccoli; butternut squash for the veggies.

Talk Will Ricker’s new pop-up restaurant, Eight Over Eight, in Porto Cuervo, Sardinia; who was going to Glastonbury; Webster’s gothic objects, including a crocodile skull decorated with Swarovski crystals. A bejewelled skull? “Well, I’ve always done skulls,” said Webster. “Actually, Damien [Hirst] was in here earlier this week buying a gift for his wife.”

Overheard A couple discussing a white-gold pavé-set diamond necklace worth £61,000. “Darling..?” “Difficult times, darling.”

Surprise guest Er, Emma Bunton. “I came here for a girlie night out and stumbled on this...” She was later spotted bopping around to Prince’s Kiss, and other classics, late into the night.

RAISING THE POLITICAL BAR

Could it be the end of meaningless hedonism? Even Vince Power is getting political. The multimillionaire has just opened Liquidnation, a live music venue in Ladroke Grove, where all drinks are a friendly £2.50. Affixed to the windows: images of Fred the Shred and naughty Bernie Madoff, with lively political debate encouraged. “Green shoots! I call it greed shoots!” says Power, who’s hoping to catch that old flag-bearer of the left, Tony Benn, propping up the bar one day.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Trend: adding night-time edge to a daytime outfit

Fashion designer Michelle Jank at Alex Dellal’s 20 Hoxton Square art gallery in London: “I’m really into feather capes. Even if I'm travelling, I still take them with me, as well as at least two or three ball gowns. I love an everyday basic! To date, I probably have about seven, and they vary from a McQueen to a couple from the 1920s. This one I’m wearing with Acne jeans and a Zoe tee. I like the idea of contrast and mixing up the eras. The theme is: free as a bird.”

BOYS' TOYS

Heterosexual men are finally embracing male sex toys, according to Sam Roddick, with whom PLT had a gossip at a party at her erotica shop, Coco de Mer. “I’m selling as many sex toys for straight men as I am vibrators for women,” said Roddick. “Men are becoming easier about tools in the bedroom.” PLT was thrilled to hear this.

NEXT! Fedora, panama, boater or trilby — get ready for straw-hat mania

SO NOW YOU KNOW Peachy-skinned Yasmin le Bon has introduced her teenage girls to her facialist, Fere, at Neville in Chelsea. “She’s the only person I’d trust to do their waxings, too,” she said

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