The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2019 – Going Out: Party People

Dave Benett

Iris Law

Model | NEW
Law, 18, daughter of Jude, has been the face of Burberry’s beauty line and just signed with IMG Models. Plus, she’s Kate Moss’s goddaughter: watch this face.

Sabrina Dhowre

Model | NEW
The Canadian model (and former Miss Vancouver) is the new Mrs Idris Elba. Dhowre and Elba (who was born in Hackney) recently made history as the first couple of African descent to appear on the cover of British Vogue.

Pixie Geldof

Model and DJ
Bob Geldof’s daughter is an in-demand DJ who has modelled for brands including House of Holland, Levi’s and Jeremy Scott. She’s also an activist for the ocean conservation charity, Project Zero.

Phoebe Collings-James

Artist and model | NEW
Onetime Burberry face and Goldsmith grad Collings-James, 30, rolls with a young art crowd, makes ceramics in her E10 studio and models on the side.

Maya Jama

Model and broadcaster
Jama, 24, has a weekend slot on Radio 1, and collaborations with Kurt Geiger and Pretty Little Thing. Oh, and she recently split up with Stormzy.

Sonny Hall

Poet and model | NEW
2019 has been a big year for the 21-year-old, who signed with Kate Moss’s modelling agency and released his first poetry collection, The Blues Comes.

Jack Guinness

Model and DJ
Guinness is one of the best connected men in London and it helps that he can fill a dancefloor in 30 seconds flat. He’s also modelled for Pringle, and is curating a book with Harper Collins, The Queer Bible, which will be released next summer.

Sabine Getty

Jewellery designer | NEW
By day, the elegant Swiss-French polyglot — who married a Getty heir in 2015 — is a jewellery designer whose pieces are worn by Rihanna, Cara Delevingne and Nicole Kidman. By night, she can be found at London’s chicest shindigs.

Greta Bellamacina

Model, poet and film-maker
Besides a proper knees-up, the ethereal mother of two has a lot on her plate: four poetry collections, a new film, Hurt By Paradise starring Jaime Winstone, and modelling for magazines including Vogue and Tatler.

Munroe Bergdorf​

Model and activist
The model and trans activist has been the face of make-up brand Illamasqua.

Brooklyn Beckham

Dave Benett

Model and photographer
The eldest of the Beckham brood spent time studying photography in New York, before returning home to start an internship with Rankin.

Cressida Bonas

Actor, model and journalist
Bonas is a rising star of stage and screen, regular contributor to The Spectator and a fixture on the London party scene.

Emma, Viscountess Weymouth

Model | NEW
When she’s not at her husband’s seat, Longleat, Viscountess Weymouth is modelling for brands including Harrods. She is also a budding chef, has an online cooking show, Emma’s Kitchen, and will soon be on our TVs in the latest Strictly Come Dancing line-up.

The Manners Sisters – Ladies Violet, Alice and Eliza

Socialites | NEW
Ladies Violet, 26, Alice, 24, and Eliza, 22 are the daughters of the Duke of Rutland and a fixture at every party – when they’re not holding their own at the family seat, Belvoir Castle.

Alice Naylor-Leyland

Socialite, brand collaborator and writer | NEW
Unfailingly well-dressed and good fun, Alice, 33, is the wife of Tom Naylor-Leyland. Her collaborations with French Sole, Fenwick and Aerin Lauder have made her a must-invite.

Luke Edward Hall

Designer | NEW
Artist, illustrator, and owner of the most covetable interiors on Instagram, Hall is the newest and best name to know in design. His first book, Greco Disco, is out now.

Flora Ogilvy

Arteviste, founder | NEW
The society beauty, 24, may be 53rd in line to the throne, but it’s her digital arts platform, Arteviste, that makes headlines. Catch her at all the best gallery openings.

Clym Evernden

Artist and art director | NEW
An award-winning artist and art director, Clym makes signature ink drawings that have captured the eye of brands including Louis Vuitton, Net-A-Porter and Moët Hennessy.

Charles Finch

Finch + Partners, CEO | NEW
Possibly one of the world’s most well-connected, Finch is like social glue – stars flock to him and his parties sing. This businessman, brand innovator and film producer is the former global chairman of Dean & DeLuca, and has represented brands from Armani to British Airways.

Hadi Ahmadzadeh and Billy Mackie

Founders of Tail & Twist
The young duo are behind the burgeoning disco party Tail & Twist, which strives for a more eco-friendly nightlife industry. They recently hosted London’s first ever club night to be completely free of single-use plastics at Oval Space.

The Progress 1000, in partnership with the global bank Citi, is the Evening Standard’s celebration of the people changing London’s future for the better. #Progress1000

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