Interview
Dressed to the nines..
Sarah Mower is the British Fashion Council’s Ambassador for Emerging Talent and is an MBE for Services to Fashion. She lives in London as American Vogue’s correspondent, while also working as a fashion journalist, an advocate for young designers and a professor at Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design. Who better to talk us through London’s designer shopping scene?
 
Who are your favourite better-known designers?

 
‘Ettinger is a family owned and run, luxury leather goods and accessories company whose products are still hand-made by its craftspeople at the Ettinger factory in Birmingham’
 

 
‘Twice voted the world’s best department store... more than 350,000 people visit the store every week and nearly 20 million every year’
 

 
‘Austin Reed boasts over a century of design excellence and an
international reputation that’s founded on personal service, remarkable tailoring and a passion for quality without compromise’
 
Austin Reed has a proud British heritage. Founded in 1900, Austin Reed boasts over a century of design excellence and an international reputation that’s founded on personal service, remarkable tailoring and a passion for quality without compromise.

 
‘Dege & Skinner is pure bespoke, everything they make is cut by hand on Savile Row and proudly ‘made in England’
Established in 1865, bespoke tailoring house Dege & Skinner has been dressing royalty, businessmen, professionals, the military and discerning individuals for almost a century and a half.
Proud holder of three Royal Warrants, the company is based at Number 10, Savile Row, which is recognised as the most prestigious location for men’s tailoring in the world.    

 
A wealth of cultural gems just waiting to be discovered..
 
“Nowhere else in the world will you find the strength, depth and breadth
in the arts and culture that you do in England.”
 
England is the birthplace of some of the finest playwrights, artists, poets, composers and actors the world has ever known. And we have always taken arts and culture very seriously indeed, not just in London but right across the country.

 
Interview
All The World’s A Stage…
Gregory Doran is the Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He’s also a lifelong Shakespeare fan. It’s no surprise, then, that he lives in Stratford-upon-Avon, the birth and death place of William Shakespeare, where he soaks up the sights and sounds of the rolling Warwickshire countryside just as Shakespeare did.
Where’s your favourite place to see a Shakespeare play?

 
 
The British Museum was founded in 1753, the first national public museum in the world with a simple mission statement “to preserve its collection for the use and benefit of the public who may have free access to view and peruse the same”.
In 1857 the new purpose built Museum opened with the Round Reading Room at its heart. Changes continued throughout the nineteenth century with the iconic development of the Great Court and the construction of the Norman Foster roof in 2000.

 
‘Each year, The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet give almost 400 performances of heritage works, classic operas and ballets, contemporary work and new commissions to more than 600,000 audience members’

 
Sports & Leisure
 
Polo, cricket, horse racing, golf, tennis, rowing... we’re a nation obsessed with sport.
 
Every year England hosts world-class sporting events, from tennis and golf to sailing and horse racing, just as it has for centuries. We’ve also hosted the summer Olympics no fewer than three times.
So it’s little wonder that much of our leisure time, as well as our social calendar, is dominated by sport. Strawberries and cream feature rather a lot too...