CITY WHISPERS: Did Alexa Chung get too big for her designer boots?
Alexa Chung: Six million 信奉者s on Instagram
Fashion 信奉者s will remember that model and designer Alexa Chung shut 負かす／撃墜する her Alpha Charlie label two years ago after a string of big losses.
The news shocked many given her style and social マスコミ clout - she has 6 million 信奉者s on Instagram and played a part in turning around 示す & Spencer's fortunes after her suede skirt flew off the 棚上げにするs 支援する in 2016.
But a source の近くに to Chung now says the 推論する／理由 for her 会社／堅い's demise was her lofty ambitions 主要な to a 焦点（を合わせる） on pricy high-end design rather than affordable everyday wear.?
Her collection 攻撃する，衝突する the 蓄える／店s in 2017 with a pair of zip-前線 全体にわたるs for £340 and a floral summer dress for £590.
'Her 信奉者s are mostly young girls on Instagram. They 手配中の，お尋ね者 things like her M&S skirts, which were a 抱擁する success,' the source said. 'Instead Chung was obsessed with creating high-end 着せる／賦与するing that didn't sell.' Ouch.
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Arnault bemoans 減少（する） in シャンペン酒 drinking?
French 億万長者 Bernard Arnault spent the week berating his fellow countrymen 同様に as the Chinese and Americans for not drinking enough シャンペン酒.
His 会社／堅い LVMH 公式文書，認めるd a 16 per cent 減少（する） in sales for fizz for the first ４半期/4分の1 this year, with high インフレーション, dwindling pandemic 貯金 and war in the Middle East and Europe 申し込む／申し出d as excuses.
But a walk around London's Square Mile on Tuesday evening 明らかにする／漏らすd no 調印する of 需要・要求する slowing for Moet & Chandon, Krug and Veuve Clicquot.
銀行業者 特別手当s have started to filter through and, as ever, the young, 高度に ambitious and sleep 奪うd were out splashing the cash.
Peter Mandelson has lounge 接近 at Heathrow
Peter Mandelson has been in chipper form after his PR 会社／堅い 全世界の Counsel was valued at £30million last week.?
The dashing architect of New 労働 certainly gets in the 空気／公表する miles as part of the 職業, 明らかにする／漏らすing to The Mail on Sunday at a news 会議／協議会 that he has lounge 接近 at Heathrow airport.?
'It is my natural habitat. I'm a Ter minal 5 man. I like to 飛行機で行く the 旗. I go in on the gold card,' he said. Nothing いっそう少なく for the Prince of 不明瞭.
全国的な 直面するs （民事の）告訴s over 合併 非，不，無-投票（する）?
全国的な is under 圧力 to give its 16million members a say over its planned £2.9billion 引き継ぎ／買収 of 競争相手 貸す人 Virgin Money.
So when an email dropped last week 勧めるing them to 投票（する） at the 年次の 会合 in June it seemed the building society had 洞穴d in to 選挙運動者s.
Member enfranchisement is 'one of the ways we are different from the banks' 全国的な crowed. But, no, the AGM 投票（する）s are on other 事柄s.
Or, as one disgruntled 顧客 put it: 'One of the ways we are different from the banks is we do not 協議する our 株主s on transformative 取得／買収s.'
