Food and fashion are enemies, so congratulations to the Berkeley Hotel for attempting detente with something insane. It has invented a fashion ‘tea’ called Prêt-à–Portea which is, I am told by a press release, ‘designed to add a creative twist to the classic elements of the traditional English afternoon tea with cakes and pastries resembling the latest catwalk designs for the style conscious’. It gets worse, if there is anything worse than ‘style-conscious’ people eating in public. Prêt-à-Portea ‘has become a must-visit location on the London style map’, even if Londoners know there is no London style map and if there were it would be a hole in the Tottenham Court Road full of double-breasted cardigans and dead bodies.
Even so, this is the PR spiel — if you get bored of wearing shoes and carrying bags, or even love them so much that you need mad new ways to express your love, you can miniaturise and then digest them.
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