TINIE TIME: “We love you Tinie, and we love your house.” That was the consensus among guests at an intimate dinner hosted by musician and designer Tinie Tempah at his private residence in London, to mark the launch of Clos19.com, a new online retail platform for wines, spirits and Champagnes by Moët Hennessy.
“You should all just move in,” said the musician, who entertained guests with rap music by the DJ duo Audio Coming Soon and tapped his friend and Michelin star chef Tom Sellers to cook a meal that would accompany the vintage Dom Perignon served by Clos19.
“For me, this was just about being a good host. I love doing that within my own family, so I wanted to let you into my world to see how we do things,” he said. “It’s also about the idea of luxury. For a lot of my friends and I, luxury was something we aspired to, and it acted as a motivator, so sitting here after years of hard work, it sums up what life is about for me.”
Tempah also saw his work pay off earlier in the day, when his new label What We Wear sold out within 24 hours of its
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