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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Flapper invasion in Manchester: we went to the Charleston flashmob

It’s Saturday afternoon in Manchester and shopping area Piccadilly Gardens is teeming with shoppers and pedestrians going about their business. A man in a velvet frock coat casually sets down a stereo by a grassy verge and presses play. ‘Sing, Sing, Sing’ by big band legend Louis Prima is soon blaring from the speakers.

Two smartly dressed folks begin to spontaneously dance the Charleston and then, as if by magic, other couples appear from the crowd and start to join them. Before long a synchronised routine is being played out in full of view of the amused onlookers. Liz Kenny reports from Manchester’s Charleston flashmob.

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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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Vintage Oscar style – our favourite Academy Awards dresses

Preparations for the 82nd annual Academy Awards this weekend are well under way in Hollywood at the moment, and every actress nominated will have by now narrowed down her choice of dress. A vintage couture gown is the preferred choice for many - who could for example forget Julia Roberts’ vintage black and white Valentino dress. Here we take a look back at Oscar nominated ladies from the last few decades and their choice of dress. Who knows, we might be seeing similar gowns on the red carpet on Sunday!

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New annual festival – Vintage at Goodwood

Tickets are now on sale for Vintage at Goodwood, the  first festival to combine music, fashion, design and retail in a glamorous celebration of five decades of British cool. Running 13 - 15 August in the glorious surroundings of the Goodwood Estate, West Sussex, and featuring the first performance by Sandie Shaw in over 20 years and launch of Lily Allen’s new fashion label Lucy in Disguise, Vintage at Goodwood could be the festival to attend this summer.

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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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