Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As I was just saying to the shrewd Mrs Trefusis , what can one say about Hi Society - The Wonderful World of Nicky Haslam ? I think it's critic-proof really, a rare TV objet that defies any kind of serious or satiric response, rather like Karl Lagerfeld's collars or a song sung by ... Pia Zadora . Like Nicky's memoir, it was just there . Its most fascinating revelation was that...
The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
For two years I was Nicky Haslam's sidekick, confidant and canapé tester. Tonight BBC4 offers a glimpse into his world – so what should you expect? I met Nicky around about the time of his transformation from silver socialiser to sixtysomething Liam Gallagher, when he had just removed the bandages of his face lift and was going round town pronouncing stuff to be "common"...
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Nicky Haslam and Paris Hilton give each other a facial Don't miss Hi Society - The Wonderful World of Nicky Haslam (Nov 17, BBC4, 9pm). It bills itself as a "documentary about the socialite, bon viveur and wit Nicky Haslam, one of the world's most respected interior designers, whose clients include royalty, rock stars and Russians." And other r-ses....
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
... Newton told me, we should only pay the photographers we rejected. And he never asked again. And Nicky Haslam. He roamed party-land for you along with Frances Lynn ("Bitchiest gossip writer..."), Amanda Lear. What was Nicky like to work with? Did he come into the office? Are your memories fond? He's nice about Ritz in his memoir Redeeming Features ... Ms Haslam...
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Haslam with Cilla Black, friends again, though she's mentioned only in passing in his memoir. Bitches Do you imagine the spirit of Madame Arcati can be barred from a party she is determined to attend? How sad and deluded you must be. Of course I was at Nicky Haslam's Warhol -y parties to mark the publication (at last) of his memoir Redeeming Features . All three of me at the two...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
When I first call Nicky Haslam, the interior designer and fervent man-about-town, to arrange a meeting he says: "Shall we do dinner at The Wolseley?" "Yes, please," I say, "great." He then calls back and says: "I've booked, dinner at nine." "Great," I repeat, even though what I'm actually thinking is: nine? Nine? Heavens to Betsy, who...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... From that moment on all I ever wanted was a monkey." The moment is captured, and left at that. Nicky lives.
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Seasoned Arcatistes will know that I am not given to incontinent praise. So when I say that Nicky Haslam's memoir Redeeming Features is the most trivially brilliant book I have ever read (since the Andy Warhol Diaries ) you may need to pause and take a deep breath. Yes, you have my permission not to work for the rest of the day. By all means have sex. At least buy a good champagne. Redeeming...
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Artisan delivers shoes gift to Papa Benedetto XV1 rather than use the Vatican trademen's entrance Nicky Haslam is all over the place as he pushes his memoirs Redeeming Features . Nice to see Lynn Barber recycling some of her old Observer lines for her Sunday Times Nicky dicky licky. And while he distances himself from himself by denying his own claim (in his book) that he had...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
For the socialite and interior designer Nicky Haslam a surprising number of things turn out to be fun. Having a stalker, for instance: "So chic," he said brightly in Storyville: Hi Society – the Wonderful World of Nicky Haslam . "We should all have one." Or spending three years of his childhood paralysed with polio ("It was rather fun")....
Style.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
... glossy it is today. With the likes of Tory Burch and David Lauren joining David de Rothschild, Nicky Haslam , Jazzy de Lisser, and other familiar faces from across the pond, there were a few more Yanks at this party than there were at the London version a month ago. Still, expat Luke Parker Bowles was gratified—and a bit proud, even—to be in the same room as so many of...
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
... Robin Tamblyn and his preoccupation with Kevin Spacey. Fish and her exquisite fanaticism for Nicky Haslam. Now meet "Tatlersnob". Tatlersnob, 28, is the alias of a young man who has a fixation on ... Nicholas Coleridge, 52 (job title below), the man who presides over Vogue, Glamour, Tatler etc, in the UK. Recently, Tatlersnob began dropping comments on various Arcati posts...
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Patric Walker Further to my appreciation of Nicky Haslam's incomparable memoir Redeeming Features - the only thing that could make you want to have diarrhoea because it is the ultimate loo read (antiseptic Wet Ones at the ready, please) - I am distressed by two things on p108 on the subject of a very famous dead astrologer. The late Patric Walker was the master stargazer of the late...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
The UK premiere of An Education – based on the childhood memoirs of journalist Lynn Barber with a screenplay by Nick Hornby – was a highlight of the London Film Festival this week. Afterwards, Barber wearing a chunky red necklace turned up with Tracey Emin and interior designer Nicky Haslam to the film's cocktail party at Suka on the ground floor of London's Sanderson hotel.The British...
