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Heads Up: Royal Opera House Costume Sale

Pick up a fancy hat, some period footwear or a bona fide piece of ballet or opera history

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STYLEist: The Rising Designer Interviews – Andrew Majtenyi

Andrew Majtenyi is an award winning fashion designer with a strong creative instinct and edgy sense of style that sets him apart from the conventional. He has a shop on St John’s Street, EC1.

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STYLEist: The Rising Designer Interviews – Gabriella Gambetta @ 4.2morrow

London’s taste for the eclectic and avant-garde keeps it firmly at the frontiers of fashion creating a fertile environment from which an abundance of new designers can emerge. The energy and diversity of the city has been a constant source of inspiration for generations of …

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STYLEist: The Rising Designer Interviews – Amy Winters

London’s taste for the eclectic and avant-garde keeps it firmly at the frontiers of fashion – creating the perfect, fertile environment from which an abundance of new designers can emerge. The energy and diversity of the city has been a constant source of inspiration for …

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Preview: Worn To Be Wild

Kate Plumtree has tailored costumes for numerous West End theatrical productions including Wicked and The Lion King and her new exhibition, Worn to be Wild is currently at Artsdepot in Finchley as part of a national tour. Entry is free, and there’s a Meet The …

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STYLEist: Santa Skate

]Hundreds of skaters dressed up in Santa suits gathered at Wellington Arch on Sunday afternoon to prepare for the annual London Santa Skate. The skate was led by the scantily dressed Rudolph and his sexy (and cold!) reindeers who led the Santas through a 10 …

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Credit Crunch Crimps Carnival

Amidst the costumes and curried goat, the floats and feathers, the ubiquitous bobbie boogieing awkwardly against a spry Bacchanalian beauty, visitors to this year’s Notting Hill Carnival may spot a new attraction: the begging bowl. Global credit woes may have crunched the ambition of this …