Sloane Street - by Mandy C
The security on the door look wider than your average truck and meaner than your average hell hound, the sales assistants are part time models and the shop windows discreetly glow with desirable and coveted fabric within. If you are shopping around here, congratulations - you are one of the seriously wealthy. If you are just looking - try not to steam up the windows gawping, sweetie...
Have no illusions, this is definitely where the rich and famous come shopping (in fact I spied Trinny from What Not to Wear chatting on her mobile and entering Dolce & Gabbana - very chic in a black belted raincoat!). The shop windows shine with glamour and every store is a fashion icon and statement - Versace, Dior, Valentino (pictured above), Armani, La Perla, Escada... The list of impressive designers grows further with each step you take along this road. The very road purrs with the muted quiet of the very rich.
But do I step in these stores, that is the question. Would they turn me away for wearing last years coat, for having a soggy pastel pink umbrella or for simply not being a) rich, b) famous or c) carrying a poodle... I mention the latter as I must of counted three ladies swanning down the road, each with their very own small dog in tow wearing its very own small dog tartan coat. Its a whole new world out there you know...
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