As the decade of Cool Britannia began to swing, partying became serious business. When her mate’s girlfriend’s mum opened the Metropolitan hotel, Fran Cutler was given the task of making the Met Bar happen. Armed with a free-drinks tab and her boyfriend Craig Campbell on the decks, she got all her mates to come down. “Meg was seeing Noel, Kate was back and forth from New York,” she says, “and suddenly everyone started going there. Oasis were top of the tree, everywhere they went. We were with them, and Kate was with us. It was just all great. Bloody brilliant. We had so much fun every Thursday night. We were hanging out on Park Lane.” She and Mathews had been working together planning parties, but then her friend divorced Noel Gallagher and decided to concentrate on raising her daughter, so Cutler was on her own. Everyone from Vuitton to Vauxhall cars wanted her to magic up the sort of party sparkle that translates into loads of press coverage, and, 15 years on, she thinks she’s still the best in town. “I believe I’m the only one who does what I do in London,” she says. “No one has got my contacts. No one has got my personal relationships.”
—Queen of the night | For almost 30 years, Fran Cutler has organised the coolest London parties. Giles Hattersley finds that, at 50, her reign is far from over | The Times | May 26th 2013
