The London Accessory sale is back this Autumn, this time at The Music Rooms, South Molton Street.

Stock up on shoes, bags and accessories for men and women.

Designers there include Chloe, Dior, Jimmy Choo, Prada and more all at up to 70% off RRP.

Date: 30th September

Time: 1.00pm-9.00pm

Address: The Music room, 26 South Molton Lane, W1K 5AB

Nearest Tube: Bond Street

Staged in Regent’s Park, it is without a doubt one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs.

This year they present some of the most forward-thinking galleries from around the globe with work by over 1,000 of the world’s most innovative artists

Exhibitor details can be found here.

Tickets are £15 in advance (booked via See Tickets) or £25 on the date

For more info visit the website here.

Full Details

Date: 14th-17th September

Time: 10am-6pm

Address: Regent’s Park, Chester Rd, NW1 4NR

Nearest Tube: Bond Street

Admission: Free

Park Nights are  the Serpentine’s acclaimed evening programme of public events.  They range from readings to film screenings to music. For example, coming up soon is a screening of the film Safe, directed by Todd Haynes, and starring Julianne Moore.

For the full programme, visit the Serpentine’s website here.

PS. The Pavillion is truly spectacular when you get there – defo worth the visit

Date: Until 16th October

Time: Usually from 7pm

Address: Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA1

Nearest Tube: Lancaster Gate / Knightsbridge

Admission: Free

Their online outlet with 70% off many items so well worth a visit.

Particularly check out their leather goods – some of their bags are just beautiful, especially with 70% off.

Go to the sale shop now

Creator Lucy Anne Aylen has created a handful of pieces that are loved by city girls and fashionistas alike, including the Ethan Nude Body (with pearly cuffs), the Jadles Nude Frock (available also in Navy, Coral and Black) and the new Adelaide Swing with an adorable pearly collar.

The designs are priced between £30-50, great value when you think of the life-time of use you can get out of them. Lucy is a great spokesperson for her brand (she wears her own pieces) having fostered a huge following to her stall in Spitalfields market, Portobello market,  her facebook group Never Fully Dressed (which has 1,817 members), her website NeverFullyDressed.com and to Body Basics, Liverpool Street station, which stocks her frocks.

The best place to buy her creations is at the market stalls but for browsing in your own time, check out NFL’s extensive photo collection on facebook. There is just something irresistable about these designs.. or else I wouldn’t have bought 4 pieces in one day!

Drop by and see them for yourself at Never Fully Dressed stall in Spitalfields Market

Visit their online site and pick up a bargain like this Silk Frill Jersey, reduced from £99 to £30. They also have all the brilliant tailoring and exquisite knitwear you could ever want.

They have items for both men and women.

Shop online or find your nearest store.

PS check out details of their outlet site here.

There are some things that every Londoner should experience, and the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park certainly fits the bill. This quintessential part of London life demonstrates all the admirable qualities of our society, from persevering whatever the weather, to the good manners practised by those wishing to be perceived as cultured. Well great news – it’s returning on the 24th of May!

If only we could screen the audience members

Nevertheless, our more long standing followers might well remember I gave a slightly more tempered review of the experience last year, having sat next to a belly-presenting, stella-loving, idiocy-embracing shell of a sentient man, and it’s true this does somewhat lessen the magic of the place.

You can take action to minimise the impact of the Mr sub-par intellectual man from Middle-England, such as opting for the more dumb downed plays during which they seem to be content to listen, follow, and laugh when they realise that others are laughing too.

The same can’t be said for some of our country’s finest classical plays, where such types tend to wear the face of a deer caught between the headlights for the first half-hour, followed by non-stop fidgeting for the rest of the play once they have finally deduced that they’ll simply never understand what’s going on. Which would be fine, were they not to occupy themselves by opening numerous cans of Stella, and making a sport out of their approach to each and every sip, by this I mean – BIG BREATH IN – SLUUUURP – BIG SIGH.

You can’t avoid them though – they get whisked almost directly to the entrance courtesy of an convoy of economy buses, a pity given most wouldn’t be able to survive/navigate the walk across the park.

So what is one to do?

If you can’t beat them, then joining them in a homage to dumbed down theatre seems to be the best option, if like me, you can only find their presence irksome.

“Into the Woods” is probably your safest bet, right at the end of the season – 5 August to 11 September.

Though we might well venture down early and hope the somewhat-inevitable Mr sub-par intellectual man from Middle-England doesn’t find “The Crucible” too great a challenge.

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