Build Your Own Architectural Models Of London Landmarks
Tiny metal buildings make ideal gifts for the Londonophile in your life.
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London Fashion Week S/S12: Umbrellas And Cigarettes
Forget the catwalks, check out the punters, fashionistas and models for real life style and beauty.
London Fashion Week A/W11: Behind The Scenes @ Fashion Mode
Forget what you’ve seen on Top Model…here’s what really goes on behind the catwalk scenes.
Cutty Sark Made From LEGO
The famous clipper, currently under restoration in Greenwich, has been recreated in LEGO.
Handmade Models Of London Tube Stations
John Howe is a model enthusiast who builds realistic card models of Tube stations, bus depots, art deco shops and other London locations. He’s accrued a mighty collection of miniature transport sites, which can be viewed on Flickr. The kits are available for purchase through …
In Pictures: A Miniature Hackney @ Museum Of London
The £20 million refurbished Galleries of Modern London at the Museum of London are coming on apace. When we last visited, a couple of months ago, the three-year refurbishment work to the basement levels was nearing completion, and preparations were underway to start shifting exhibits …
St Pancras…The LEGO Version
It contains over 60,000 bricks and four working clocks. It took eight weeks to build. This LEGO version of St Pancras was created by Warren Elsmore, Chairman of the Brickish Association (a society for adult enthusiasts of the plastic blocks). “I chose St Pancras Station …
Review: Exquisite Bodies @ Wellcome Collection
‘Come and see a cabinet filled with hairy, infected groins, each one disfigured with its own strain of oozing canker,’ begins the press release. Not the official press release, of course, but the one we’re mentally composing as we tour the Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition. …
Hornby To Produce 2012 Olympics Toys
Here’s a toy Boris we knitted earlier. Hornby, creator of nerds’ playthings (and we mean that in a fond way), are to market a series of action figures and toy vehicles themed around the 2012 Olympics. The first products will be available later this year …
Zero Response From Fashion World
A recommendation from a British Fashion Council (BFC)-commissioned inquiry to ban ‘size zero’ models has failed, after other fashion capitals failed to support the idea. Fashion representatives in New York, Paris and Milan did not respond positively to the initiative, that involved catwalk models providing …
Extra, Extra
Pollution pulverised—well, not exactly, but Ken announces hefty £25 C-Charge for heaviest polluting vehicles. Fresh criticism of the “angular mass”—no, not the razor-sharp hip bones on London Fashion Week models. Rather, English Heritage have some sharp words for Doon Street Tower plan. We’re absurdly wealthy. …
