Parties: Jade's gem of an ice breaker

Jade Jagger couldn't have chosen a better night to launch her Belvedere Jagger Dagger – a £5,000 silver ice pick studded with topaz and aquamarine – at London's Automat club last week. The heatwave had just begun, and the chance to party with ice, ice, baby, was welcomed by guests including Adele, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and his wife, the stylist Katy England. Oh, and Jade's dad, Michael.

Though the pricey daggers were kept away from the cocktail reception, delightfully retro plastic versions adorned Belvedere vodka cocktails including orange-blossom sodas and citrus mojitos, served in frozen tumblers brimming with chipped ice.

Less popular were the vodka, beetroot juice and crème fraîche shots, which went virtually untouched: Queen Sloane Henry Conway, resplendent in tight white jeans, presumably couldn't risk the stains, while the designer Julien Macdonald and the actor Davinia Taylor were too deep in conversation about fake tan and holidays.

After scarfing down canapés including blinis topped with smoked salmon and caviar, London luminaries including Alexa Chung and Daisy Lowe fell upon a dinner of oysters with asparagus wrapped in Parma ham, chicken and veg skewers, peppered beef fillets, lobster and, last but not least, hand-made macaroons.

Perhaps inspired by the appearance of ballet dancers hacking away at towers of ice with daggers throughout the meal, the knives soon came out for Adele, who was pilloried for eating with her fingers, until Sir Mick gallantly came to the damsel's defence.

Jodie Harsh, meanwhile, had her own moment of drama, nearly losing her wig in an altercation outside. Never let it be said, though, that the drag queen extraordinaire doesn't like to fit in, as true to the evening's glacial theme, she saw off her oppressor with an icy glare.