What We OfferExtended booking companionship
Long afternoons on the street, and stays that run to several days
This is the offer that belongs to Oxford Street more than anywhere else in London. Some guests come to W1 to shop: a suit to be fitted, a present that has to be right, a whole wardrobe for a new job. It is more fun, and usually quicker, with someone who has a good eye, honest opinions and the patience to wait outside a fitting room without once reaching for her phone.
Longer bookings start here and grow. A shopping afternoon is three hours at £700 or four at £900. An afternoon that carries on into dinner is simply a longer booking, agreed in the chat. A stay of two or three days together, the weekend in its proper sense, is priced in writing around your dates.
Windows for Shopping days and weekends
The companions the desk suggests first for this kind of evening. Any other window in the selection can be asked too.
An afternoon, the way she would plan it
Meet at the Marble Arch end around one. Start at Selfridges, where the fragrance hall and the menswear floor are worth an hour between them. Cross into St Christopher's Place for a late lunch in the courtyard. Walk down South Molton Street, then along to Liberty and its wooden galleries before the light goes. Finish with a glass of champagne near Oxford Circus and, if the day deserves it, dinner in Marylebone. Our note on sitting down inside Selfridges covers the break between floors.
What she brings to a shopping day
Everything bought is yours to choose and yours to pay for. Her fee covers her time and company; she expects no gifts, and the booking is never measured in carrier bags. Lunch and the cab home are yours too, agreed with the plan so nothing is awkward at the till.
Thursdays, the lights and the sales
Timing matters on this street. Thursday is late opening, and an afternoon that ends at eight with every display lit is a fine plan. From mid November the Christmas lights are up and the pavements are at their busiest, so a companion who knows the side streets is worth even more. The January sales reward an early start, a planned route and a long lunch. Weekdays in early autumn are the calmest of all. When the main street is simply too full, Chiltern Street and Marylebone High Street offer smaller shops, thinner crowds and good coffee on almost every corner.
Several days together
Some guests are in London for three or four nights and want the same companion across them: a shopping afternoon on the first day, dinner on the second, a walk to Regent's Park and lunch by the lake on the third. Set out the whole shape in one message: dates, the days you want, rough lengths. Clementine turns it into a single written plan, each day priced on the ladder, so no evening has to start from scratch. A full weekend, with her company across two or three days, is priced on request and quoted in writing before you agree.
Companions for a long day
Nora checks every hem and lining out of an old pattern cutting habit and would gladly spend a whole day in Liberty; she likes a day's notice. Tina judges tailoring at a glance, from the set of a sleeve to the line of a lapel, which makes her invaluable at a fitting. Lea will lead you to the lighting floor at Heal's and knows precisely which lamp would rescue a hotel room. Rosa prefers afternoons that roll on into supper, and Nancy is the one to ask about a weekend, provided the request reaches Clementine by Wednesday. Nora and Tina are both listed as toned and athletic.
Booking a long day
Write a day ahead for an afternoon and a week ahead for several days, if you can. Her fee for each day is handed to her in person when that day begins. Every rung of the ladder is set out on rates, and booking shows the one check that applies to a day as much as to an hour. Longer engagements follow exactly the same terms, just with more of the calendar.
Shopping days and weekends, explained
Three hours is comfortable for one department store and lunch. Four lets you cover the whole street, from the arch to the Circus, without hurrying.
Gladly. Tell her who it is for and roughly what you would like to spend, and she will steer you towards something they will actually use.
Yes, when her diary allows. Send your dates early and Clementine will set the whole plan out in writing.
Because the shape of every weekend is different. You receive the figure in writing, based on your dates and plans, before anything is confirmed.
Yes. The big stores open mid-morning, and an early start beats the crowds, especially on Saturdays and through December. Tell Clementine the time you have in mind.
Read before you go
- 5 min readBeyond the Foodhall: sitting down inside Selfridges between the shopsThe store's dining rooms are the civilised pause in a long shopping afternoon. Where to perch, where to linger, and how a day on Oxford Street is paced with a companion beside you.
- 5 min readThirty seconds from the crowds: supper in St Christopher's PlaceA slim passage on the north side of Oxford Street opens into a pedestrian court of outdoor tables and string lights. How to find it, when to go and how an evening there runs.
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When the stores close, this end of W1 changes shift. The pavements empty, the hotel bars fill, and the side streets north of Oxford Street light up one basement at a time. A night out booking...
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Describe the plan in a sentence or two. A name, a fee and an arrival time come straight back.