Brit Stylist Sophia Hesketh Dishes On Where to Dine, Drink & Detox at London Fashion Week
Stylist, Sophia Hesketh
Here Sophia gives us her insider guide on where to drink, dine and detox during London Fashion Week. Photo: instagram@sophiahesketh
Chiltern Firehouse
“Yeah it’s obvious,” says Hesketh, but since Andre Balazs opened the hotel in 2013, it’s been the buzziest hangout for celebrities and their hanger ons— if mere normies can even book a table! Hesketh is clearly a regular. "It’s great for a late night cocktail and a bit of a boogy,“ she says. Photo: instagram@chilternfirehouse
Quo Vadis
This smart-looking British restaurant has long lured the fashion and media crowd. “Try to blag your way upstairs,” advises Hesketh where VIP’s gather for a serious happy hour. Photo: Courtesy
Bodega Negra
Located in a dark lair below a sleazy sex shop in trendy Soho, this Mexican joint is the place for after hours snacks and tequila shots. Photo: Courtesy
The Groucho Club
“Come here to party!” says Hesketh. This famous members only club is guaranteed to be the city’s best perch for celeb spotting (everyone from Bono to Kate Moss to Damien Hirst are rowdy regulars) and nocturnal shenanigans. Photo: instagram@thegrouchoclub
Bleach Hair Salon
This East End salon is where London’s club kids go for extreme dip dye looks— this is not the place for subtle honeyed highlights. Hesketh’s color guru her is Tasha. “She can pretty much do anything.” Photo: instagram@bleachlondon
Holland Park Cafe
There’s no better cure for a champagne hangover than a cup of tea at this elegant cafe in West London. “You feel like you’re far, far away from the fashion mayhem,” says Hesketh.
Core Collective
The pint-and-chips loving Brits are finally catching up with American’s curated fitness craze with this sleek boutique gym where you can burn it off spinning, TRXing and power yogaing. While it’s Hesketh’s latest obsession, she warns, “everyone there looks really good so you’ll get major body envy.” Photo: Courtesy
Josh Wood Colour
Though Wood is known for styling the manes of celebrities like January Jones and Kylie Minogue, Hesketh goes for the flawless eyebrow touchups. Photo: Getty Images
Debbie Von Bismarck
This place is a top secret treasure trove for designer vintage pieces according to Hesketh, whose mother used to own the legendary vintage shop Antiquarius in London. Von Bismarck is apparently Kate Moss’s style icon. Call ahead for an appointment. Tel:011-44-0207-590-9350 Photo: Getty images
Rellik
This shop stocks designer duds from the twenties onwards with homegrown talent like Ossie Clark and Vivienne Westwood. Items are in mint condition so it’s going to cost you. Photo: Courtesy
Portobello Road
The famed flea market is typically swarmed with selfie-shooting tourists but Hasketh advises going Friday morning when all the fashion designer trawl the booths.
British stylist Sophia Hesketh (formally known as the Honourable Sophia Christian Fermor-Hesketh) knows her way around London Fashion Week, having ditched classes at her boarding school in the English countryside to sneak into shows as a teen. Now she’s a bona fide fashion insider. Once enlisted by the late Isabella Blow to pose for a shoot with Daphne Guinness, she’s assisted power stylists like George Cortina and Charlotte Stockdale, contributes to Vogue Japan, and models on the side. Here the 29 year-old, who favors fellow Brits like Christopher Kane, Erdem and Mark Fast, gives us her insider guide on where to drink, dine and detox during London Fashion Week.
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