HeyJaredNotes by Alfred Tong
Weekly dispatches from inside fashion, luxury and media — on status anxiety, taste and why you want what you want. By Alfred Tong, contributing editor at Esquire UK and contributor to The Times and Sunday Times Style.
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Everything I Learnt About Fashion in My Dad’s Chinese Restaurant in Mayfair (opens the original)
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Guest-list shenanigans every week. Most weeks, anyway. If not, actual experts talking exclusively about insider-y things.All the tea I can spill without ruining my life.This week: originally published in The Sunday Times Style, the story of growing up in my father’s Chinese restaurant in Mayfair — and what it taught me about clothes, class, taste, ambition and the strange theatre of going out.Subscribe now<
Inside Marks & Spencer’s First-Ever Fashion Show (opens the original)
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Guest-list shenanigans every week. Most weeks, anyway. If not, actual experts talking exclusively about insider-y things.All the tea I can spill without ruining my life.This week: 100 Years of M&S Fashion — Marks & Spencer’s first-ever London Fashion Week catwalk show, celebrating a century of M&S clothing. Held at the Design Museum on Friday 18 September 2026, the “see now, buy now” show featured womenswear and menswear designed by M&S’s in-house teams, all available to shop immediately afterwa
Vogue House Is a Hole in the Ground and It’s Fashion Week (opens the original)
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Guest-list shenanigans every week. Most weeks, anyway. If not, actual experts talking exclusively about insider-y things.All the tea I can spill without ruining my life.This week: feelings. Oh, so many feelings about Condé Nast. Again.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qn9A!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72db7793-5b79-465c-90f4-105a407d23eb_5712x4284.jpeg" tar
How to Make a Fashion Party Pop Off (opens the original)
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Editor’s Note: This edition includes a private briefing on how fashion power works inside rooms like these — from one of the industry’s most trusted operators.It’s open to everyone for 48 hours.After that, it goes back behind the door.Notes by Alfred Tong is insider gossip from life on the guest list in London — every week. Subscribe nowAaaaand we’re back.There was
Everything Men Get Wrong About Underwear (opens the original)
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