By Style10 windows
Curvaceous: ten companions, and the season each one dresses for
The windows on this street change four times a year, and so does the best way to spend an evening beside them. Ten companions carry a curvy build on their profiles. Figure is the fact that brought them into this window; the calendar is how the window is arranged, because each of the ten has a favourite evening that is at its best in one particular season.
All ten work the whole year round, naturally. Treat the season as a hint rather than a timetable, and a useful one when you are booking weeks ahead.
Curvaceous, lit
10 women in the windows fit this description, going by the facts on their profiles. Each pane leads to the full picture.
Bianka
Age 23Knightsbridge
Danielle
Age 29South Kensington
Luna
Age 22Mayfair
Michelle
Age 27Chelsea
Milena
Age 25South Kensington
Molly
Age 24Soho
Nancy
Age 30Covent Garden
Rosa
Age 25Marylebone
Roxi
Age 23Pimlico
Thea
Age 29South Kensington
Spring, when the evenings stretch
Michelle sails whenever the weather lets her, and spring brings her back to the water. In W1 she chooses a single gallery at the British Museum when it opens into the evening, then a drink beneath the Great Court roof, and she answers messages within minutes. Luna makes a spring evening of English sparkling wine at the Coral Room in The Bloomsbury, two glasses at a time, with a theatre afterwards if something good is on.
Summer, when the park stays light
Nancy swims in open water on summer mornings and saves the golden hour for a guest, walking west from Marble Arch into Hyde Park. Milena takes the courtyard at Chiltern Firehouse while it is warm, glossy black hair and a black suit, and gives the dinner the feel of a premiere.
Autumn, when the lights come on early
Thea eats the chef's selection at Sushi Atelier and then insists on walking north towards the park, because she cannot stay indoors for long even when the leaves are down. Roxi returns from the Cornish surf ready for Kingly Court and three plates in three kitchens. Bianka saves a corner at Norma on Charlotte Street for the first cold evening, when a plate of pasta she chose for you makes the most sense, and wears pearls found on a market stall.
Winter, when the Christmas lights are up
Molly claims the armchair by the fire at Seymour's Parlour from ten o'clock and does not give it up. Danielle books two seats for a late film on Regent Street on a cold night and wants one drink afterwards to argue about the ending. Rosa bakes at home all winter and, in W1, prefers a cheese counter, a glass of red and a supper that runs on in Marylebone.
Two notes from the calendar
From mid November, when the Christmas lights are switched on above the street, the pavements and the hotels stay at their busiest until the January sales are over, so a winter evening is worth asking for a few days ahead. High summer works the other way round: the light lasts so long that golden hour in Hyde Park arrives well after eight in June, and an outdoor plan can start later than you might expect.
Whatever the season
Figure changes nothing about the booking. Every companion here is described in plain words from her profile, and every one is booked on the same ladder, whether you want a single hour at £250 or four around a dinner table at £900. Milena, Molly and Michelle are often asked for a whole night, and overnights sets out how ten hours in W1 run, for £1,800. Some of the ten appear in the hair windows too: Nancy and Thea among the blondes, Danielle, Milena and Roxi in raven haired, and Luna in auburn.
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