I'd like to see more like this, given how much we know about the recording/performing/recreational habits of musicians. I'm trying to guess the shop. Jones? Paul Smith? Was Les Deux Zebres still going in the mid 80s? Brother was a little short-lived.

I like the detail that DB's Amex was the green one, while Iggy's was platinum.

Sade was buying a suit for her boyfriend and they were in the downstairs suit department trying stuff on. Two Japanese tourists descended the stairs and seeing what was happening, whipped out cameras and ran forward burbling excitedly. 'Oh God,' roared the lovely Sade, 'Can't they just leave me alone?' and dived for cover in an empty changing room. The two camera wielding Japanese gents rushed passed her and begged to have their photos taken with the sales assistant whose photograph they had seen in a magazine article about the owner of the shop (Sir Paul Smith). Sir Paul had about 200 stores in Japan at that time and was regularly mobbed in the streets and generally treated as a rock star when he was in the country. Pics taken, hands shaken and bows exchanged, the two tourists left the shop very happy with what had happened. It took a while for Sade to come out of the changing room.

Stay tuned for more tales from the frontlines of fashion!

One year, our staff Christmas dinner was held in a nearby Covent Garden restaurant, Smith's I think it was called but I might be mistaken. Our table was next to one that contained all of Madness and their partners and a few friends. As the evening progressed, Mike Barson whipped the cover off a nearby upright piano and the whole place was treated to about an hours worth of the bands greatest hits in a knees up style. Priceless.