My night gatecrashing King Karl's top table

Fashion and Features Writer

Thursday 6 December 2012

So, I ended up gate-crashing the top table at the Chanel after-show dinner.

Scottish model Stella Tennant with 'King' Karl Lagerfeld

Please understand that I'm not normally like this; that in the past I have always been considerate of seating plans and hierarchy.

But having spent the hour after the Chanel show frantically typing away in sub zero temperatures in order to file a show review in time for the Herald's first edition, I was cold and hungry and looking forward to sitting down to dinner.

View the two picture galleries from Chanel's big night at Linlithgow Palace By the time I arrived at the elaborate construct Chanel had created especially for the dinner, set on the loch just down from Linlithgow Palace, the lavish Medieval-themed feast was well under way. Unfortunately my seat at the appointed table had disappeared, and the models who were now occupying the table were not willing to budge up to admit another diner. My only option was to take up one of the few empty seats in the room. So I made a beeline for the first empty seat I saw and thankfully it was free and up for the taking. Hudson had earlier strutted his stuff on the catwalk alongside model dad Brad Kroenig, decked out like Little Lord Fauntleroy in a black velvet cap and jacket. Hudson, to be fair, being four, had better things to do than attend a dinner; like sleep. To my right were a bunch of editors from Elle and Vogue alongside socialites including Poppy Delevingne, Caroline Sieber and Derek Blasberg. Stella Tennant was holding court opposite me, wearing one of the roomy fair isle wool jumpers that she modelled in the show. The evening came to an end rather abruptly once the cheese course of Stinking Bishop arrived. Platters of the stuff were placed at the end of the long tables and the smell carried so quickly that fashionistas ran off in all directions. It seems that in food, if not in fashion, certain artisan creations are still an acquired taste for the international fashion community.

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