Storm Thorgerson: Right but Wrong – new exhibition on the cutting edge album artist

From Led Zeppelin to Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath to Megadeath, Muse to the Mars Volta, the Idea Generation Gallery presents a retrospective of one of the greatest album artists of all time. The art of Storm Thorgerson is as famous as the music it accompanies. As a childhood friend of the founding members of Pink Floyd, he went on to become their designer-in-chief, creating a string of eye catching designs including Atom Heart Mother, Wish You Were Here and The Division Bell.
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Banish the L-plates: have a vintage-themed hen do

London-based vintage crockery hire and styling company A Most Curious Party has teamed up with some of the top vintage experts London has to offer to give hen parties glamorous, fun-packed afternoons and evenings – the vintage way.
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New London vintage desitination? 10 Gales in Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green is mostly known as a particularly dingy suburb of London, equally synonymous with creative types, and for being a cultural hive of activity. Just off the bustling high street, hidden away in a former swingers club is the base of 10 Gales – Bethnal Green’s latest arts space cum vintage boutique cum coffee shop cum drop in hairdressers! Phew! Rosemary Brodhurst-Brown reports.
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A wearable piece of art – silk scarfs inspired by Zika Ascher

Inspired by the work of Zika and Lida Ascher whose mid-century collaborations with some of the 20th century’s leading artists left a legacy of silk panels that are now rare and coveted collector’s pieces,  Miss Kiki Salon Presents- a London socialite and muse – will reproduce the designs of a number of carefully chosen British creatives in a series of 90cm x 90cm silk panels in a way that celebrates their work and creates a forum through which they can commune with individuals. Martha Hayes has met up with Miss Kiki to talk about her inaugural line of silk scarves – Six Easy Pieces.
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The Parlour: nostalgic fun and civilised merriment

Set on the site of an historic Clerkenwell shop in London, an eclectic old-world parlour is set to pop up next week where friends and family can gather to engage, think, express, play games, and – most importantly – relax and enjoy time the vintage way.

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Life drawing classes with a twist of pin-up: meet Dr Sketchy

If you are bored of your bog standard life drawing classes and fancy trying your hand at something different, get your paper and pens down to Dr Sketchy for an evening of art, burlesque and fun. Jenny Butler writes.

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Blonde Crazy Season: celebrate iconic blondes thoughout film history

From silent stars such as sassy-dame Phyllis Haver and cute comedienne Marion Davies to ice queen Kim Novak and sex-bomb Marilyn Monroe – iconic blondes have dominated Hollywood from the very beginning. The Birds Eye View Film Festival in London now celebrates film history’s outstanding fair-haired ladies with a  retrospective.
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Stop shopping – Make Do and Mend instead

Wardrobe full of clothes, but nothing to wear? Come and learn how to customise and transform tired items of clothing or new but not-quite-right vintage finds with stylist Hannah J at a Make Do and Mend Workshop in London next week.
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New exhibition: Feeding Britain in Wartime

Wartime rationing and British cooking in the Forties is the subject of a brilliant new exhibition, The Ministry of Food,  at the Imperial War Museum in London. The exhibition examines how the British public adapted to food shortages during the Second World War and learnt how to be both frugal and inventive on the ‘Kitchen Front’.
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Take a break from work with lunchtime burlesque

Bring out your inner temptress with Frivoli-tea lunchtime burlesque sessions at Twenties-style Proud Cabaret in London. If you are up for unleashing your sex kitten in your lunch break, then enter out competition to win tickets for a free burlesque class for you and three friends.
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