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Urban Junkies London  
Tuesday, March 9 2004  
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Watch your weight. Scale chair from Atypyk's Please collection

No one - and I mean no one - would be caught eating sugar these days. The white stuff is pretty much the nutritional equivalent of granulated carbs.

So when a host of the best designers teamed up with artificial sweetener Canderel to create a new line of chic dispensers, fashionistas everywhere sighed a sigh of relief.

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Get to grips with your Status Anxiety with Alain de Botton tonite at the Prince Charles. 6:15pm. 7 Leicester Place, WC2. £10. 020 7494 3654
A concoction of smoky jazz & blues from multi-talented Abigail Hopkins at 12 Bar Club. 9pm. 22-23 Denmark Pl, WC2. £5. 020 7209 2248.
Camilla Rutherford leads the stellar cast in 3 Women, new French comedy at Riverside Studios. 8pm. Crisp Rd, W6. £14. 020 8237 1111.

Finally, a stylish way of sweetening espressos and (skinny soy) lattes, without the excess poundage.

Available exclusively at Paris's Colette, the line of five pocket cases feature original designs by the best catwalk designers.

Need something to go with your vintage, stripy Rykiel jumper? How about the slim, all-black Sonia Rykiel designed case with So Sweet scrawled across it in fuchsia lipstick. Making a sartorial gamble with those high-waisted shorts this season?Match your devil-may-care attitude with Christian Lacroix's Ace of Hearts playing card design.

But, the true must-have item this season has got to be Karl Lagerfeld's design. The head of Chanel and Fendi created the best motif - a silhouette of his newly svelte profile. The perfect inspiration for any wanna-be 'rexic, hoping to pull off the perfect (Sophie) Dahl.

Because, darling, you can never be too sweet or too thin.

Write us with ideas, feedback and comments, or if you have information about events

New wallpaper (yes, surface covering not lifestyle mags) show Flock'n'Roll at Geffrey Museum has prints by Eley Kishimoto et al. 10am-5pm. 136 Kingsland Rd, E2. Free.

Man With a Movie Camera at Blackheath Hall is not to be missed for both movie buffs and USSR nostalgics alike. 8pm. 23 Lee Road, SE3. £6. 020 8463 0100.

Meanwhile at ICA, spaghetti western masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West is showing. 7:15pm. The Mall, SW1. £6.50. 020 7930 3647.

Canderel Pocket Fashion available online at Colette
213 rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris
Collectors' set of five EUR 11 (~£7.40)

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The BBC Folk Award winners Show of Hands almost rock, really. Tonight at Borderline. 7pm. 16 Manette Street, W1. 020 7534 6970 or online.
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