In this, the first-year anniversary of the well-heeled Chatroom column, we pay tribute to some of our friends in the market. We invited a sprinkling of them along to this year’s Publishers’ Ball.
An annual event of no mean heritage, the theme of this year’s ball was the 1920s Cotton Club.
As ever, the ladies led the way in dress sense. Two of the foremost belles of the ball were HSBC’s Anna Lenaghan – who sparkled in blue – and the charming Ines NoT of UBS Warburg.
The chaps were more of a mixed bunch. Top marks went to Alan Smith, the CSFB vice-chairman. He turned up in a white suit that cut a dash, and some remarkable two tone shoes. Meanwhile HSBC’s global head of debt, Mark ‘Bugsy’ Bucknall had a specially-tailored yellow suit made that left ladies swooning, and poets lost for rhymes.
Special mention should also go to FinanceAsia’s publisher, Foster Wright who turned up in a made-to-measure zoot-suit that was measured by the most sight-impaired tailor we have ever come across.
Citibank’s Richard Tesvich: So smooth
Mark Panday; Jackie Horne; Jonathan Moult; Ines NoT
HSBC’s Lawrence Webb and wife Vivien
Mark Panday: Bad hair day
FinanceAsia’s Cherie Marriott and HSBC’s Mark Bucknall
Salomon’s ECM big man, Scott Ferguson
