Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Monkey

Setting a higher-class Standard?

Geordie Greig
Geordie Greig. Photograph: Dave M Benett/Getty

A sign perhaps that Geordie Greig's influence is coming to bear on the London Evening Standard? Where under the previous Associated Newspapers regime the front-page photo slot was more often than not reserved for crowd-pleasing stars of film and TV, today's pic has a distinctly more upmarket feel. Step forward "celebrity fashion designer" Amanda Wakeley who has "succeeded in her dream" to buy back the fashion label that bears her own name. That name may not be immediately recognisable to many, but the Evening Standard kindly reminds us that she has made outfits for "Dame Helen Mirren, Demi Moore and Scarlett Johansson". Could this be the start of the former Tatler editor taking the paper to a better class of reader? Heaven knows who will be on the cover tomorrow. The Duke of Argyll's favourite milliner, perhaps?

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.