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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Clara Strunck

Flashbulb! The best parties around town

The Serpentine Summer Party was more festival than soirée this year as food trucks wheeled into Hyde Park much to the delight of couture-clad guests, who shovelled in so many baos that they ran out of the buns! The high point of the evening? A live performance from Olly Alexander of Years & Years.

Art's desire, Kensington

Cindy city, Charing Cross

Kate Moss, Kristen McMenamy and Demi Moore were among the top-notch crowd at the private view of the National Portrait Gallery’s Cindy Sherman retrospective. The star of the night, however, was the artist herself — and her incredible photographs.

Fancy dress, Oxfordshire

LoveShackFancy launched its new nightwear collection with the ultimate summer feast in Amanda Brooks’ garden, where Hayley Bloomingdale and Martina Mondadori (both wearing dresses by the brand, natch) sat down to a lunch of pea soup and elderflower jelly.

…And a pre-party pit-stop, Notting Hill

Pre-Serpentine pit stop in West London

Alice Temperley, Sarah Harris and Arizona Muse popped round to Brigitta Spinocchia Freund’s west London pad for a cocktail and a spruce-up before the Serpentine.

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