Bayley picks up feud with Mandelson

Style guru Stephen Bayley (pictured), former chief executive of the Design Museum, has reopened his feud with Business Secretary Lord Mandelson by naming him as one of 'The Worst Dressed Men of 2009' in Esquire magazine.
 
Bayley, now the Observer's architecture and design correspondent, claimed in the men's style magazine that "only Italians can wear V-neck woollies with coats," referring to one of the habits Mandy must have picked up in his EU days, hobnobbing with Euro-trash in southern Mediterranean resorts.
 
The rift between the two men goes back more than a decade to when Bayley quit as creative director of the Millennium Dome warning that it could turn out to be "crap", and describing Mandelson, then the Minister in charge of the great white elephant, as a "dictator". The New Labour man responded by claiming that the project had been "suffering from drift".
 
When Bayley appeared on Have I Got News for You he revealed that he had taken an instant dislike to Mandelson. "It saves time," he quipped.
 
"I was hugely gratified when it failed," Bayley said later of the Dome. "I had the biggest I-told-you-so hard-on on the planet." ·