Etiquette
What to say when someone asks how you two met
The question arrives within twenty minutes at every event. Decide the answer before you arrive, keep it short, and give it to your companion in writing.
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The journal
Notes from the concierge desk on the things that actually decide whether an evening works. Dress codes that explain nothing, reservations in languages you do not speak, the passport rule that cancels trips at the gate.
Style
Creative black tie, and other dress codes that explain nothing
Invitations use phrases with no fixed meaning and then enforce them at the door. Here is what each one usually turns out to want.
ReadDining
How to book a Ginza counter when you do not speak Japanese
The best small rooms in Tokyo take reservations by phone, in Japanese, from names they recognise. There are ways around each of those.
ReadTravel
The passport rule that cancels trips at the gate
A valid passport is not the same as an accepted one. Most trips that fall apart do so over a six month rule nobody checked.
ReadPrivacy
Discretion is a set of procedures, not a promise
Every agency in this industry says it is discreet. The question worth asking is what specifically they do, and what they hold on file.
ReadCity guides
London club nights: what the door actually checks
Private clubs in St James’s and Mayfair run on rules that are rarely written down in full. Four of them account for most of the awkwardness.
ReadTravel
Ten minutes on a video call before four days away
For any booking over four days we arrange a call first. It costs nothing and it is the single most useful thing in the process.
ReadEtiquette
Introducing your companion to a table of colleagues
The first two minutes set the tone for the whole evening. A name, a role, and one thing they can be asked about is all it takes.
ReadSomething you would like covered?
If a question comes up often enough we write it down. Send it to the concierge desk.
Or write to hello@naughtyescort.com. Concierge Monday to Sunday, 09:00 to 23:00 local time.