Purple is the old Gray

Mercier Gray managing director Rob Gray has a dress sense that is feared throughout the world of marketing, as his sojourn at Ascot (MW last week) demonstrated. Last year the Diary reported that Rob had started a clothing company with footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones (MW June 12, 2003). This week it was announced that said company had gone bust. Could it be that Vinnie left Rob to take care of the design side? Or perhaps the fashion world was just not ready for purple suits matched with salmon shirts. (That’s enough Rob Gray – ed.)