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Diary picture special: A nightmare on Chaffe Street

Posted 11/07/2007 by The Daily Diary

The Bar Standards Board last month decided it was okay for barristers to blag work off drunk solicitors in a ruling that also means law firms won’t have to return all those branded pens, umbrellas and BMWs given out by chambers in order to keep the proverbial Woolf from the door.

But solicitors have always done client hospitality better than their mates at the Bar. Brabners Chaffe Street recently raised the stakes by throwing a Kylie Minogue theme party and fashion show at the Manchester Art Gallery especially for clients, whom the firm will be hoping can’t get Brabners out of their head (they should be so lucky).

The event followed a four-month exhibition of iconic Kylie outfits at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, with a particular highlight being those gold hot-pants from the highly ‘artistic’ video to otherwise-lamentable chart smash Spinning Around. (The shorts are being modelled here – just out of shot, sadly – by Brabners’ Manchester corporate chief, Tony Harper.)

Tragically, it appears no Kylie look-alikes were available for the big day, forcing Brabners to settle instead for a double of Patsy Kensit, albeit an uncannily convincing one (perhaps even the real one now she’s not on Emmerdale anymore).

Attack of the clones: model Minogues strut their stuff while Patsy Kensit drops by for tea