Billion Pound Bond Street

Billion Pound Bond Street

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Bond Street has been London's most exclusive shopping street for 300 years. The glamorous half mile between Oxford Street and Piccadilly boasts more luxury brands and more royal warrants than any other in Britain. The haunt of celebrity, it's the place to go if you want a 20,000 pound handbag, a 250,000 pound watch or a diamond for millions. But who buys a designer bag in a pandemic? Bond Street has turned down all past approaches from TV, but as it battled to survive the past year, it allowed director Michael Waldman's cameras in exclusively to film behind the scenes with everyone from Dior and jewellers Boodles to auction house Bonhams and royal chocolate maker Charbonnel et Walker. What are the Queen's favourite chocolates? And what have the super-rich been spending their money on in a pandemic which is said to have made them 25 percent super-richer.