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It seems this week is another week of weeks! Wool week, bake week and oyster week, apparently. So we'll be wrapping up warm, baking cakes, eating oysters and drinking champagne obviously. We'll also be breakfasting at Quo Vadis, dancing in Brixton, sipping on late night gin and juice and pulling an all-nighter on Sunday. If you'd rather a relaxed one, then check out some Hollywood costumes or see an otherworldly film. |
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| This Weekend’s Picks |
| • FRI Quo Vadis Breakfast
• SAT Hollywood Costume
• SUN Beasts of the Southern Wild |
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| DISNEY POP UP BOUTIQUE AT HARRODS |
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| Disney's on the brain. The trend continues, with Harrods opening a Disney boutique on the fourth floor. Dress up and have your photo taken, shop an array of products (including accessories and limited collectables like Cinderella's glitter-embellished glass slipppers) or simply get into the festive mood. Stay tuned for their Xmas window displays which will showcase dresses by the likes of Oscar De La Renta, Elie Saab and Versace, which pay tribute to the Disney princesses themselves. |
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Disney Pop Up Boutique at Harrods, until January 2013
4th floor, 87-135 Brompton Road, SW1X 7XL |
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BREAKFAST:
Quo Vadis Dean Street |
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DANCE:
Absolut Blank Live |
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Another option for Friday breakfasts in Soho. Quo Vadis is now open early on weekdays, offering up a mix of classic morning favourites with the QV touch. Go for toast with ricotta, squash, bacon, sage and parmesan, or keep it simple with granola, fruit compote, yoghurt and a side of toast – all bread is baked overnight in the new QV bakery. Bypass OJ for freshly-squeezed pink grapefruit juice. |
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Have you danced in any of the Absolut booths recently (note: they were at Bestival and Adidas Underground)? If so, head to their closing event at Electric Brixton and you might see your vid' on the big screen. Little Dragon, Star Slinger and Felix B of Basement Jaxx will be performing live audio-visual sets with the best videos from the booths projected in the background. D.A.N.C.E! |
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Breakfast from 8am-11am
From £6
26-29 Dean Street, W1D 3LL
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9pm
£6.60
Electric Brixton, Town Hall Parade, SW2 1RJ
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| NSFW |
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NSFW is a sharp new comedy at the Royal Court Theatre, with Julian Barratt (of cult The Mighty Boosh). Money, sex and photo-shop: Carrie's getting them out for the lads; Charlotte's just grateful to have a job; Sam's being asked to sell more than his body and Aidan's trying to keep Doghouse from going under. Lucy Kirkwood's new comedy set in the publishing world reveals the privacy and power games lurking within the media and beyond.
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NSFW, October 25 – November 24, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
Tickets from £10, 020 7565 5000
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| RED COTTAGE |
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If you don't know you're Kalix Löjrom from your Toast Skagen, then get yourself to Red Cottage at The Old Truman Brewery. The three-day pop up will be holding lunches in a reconstruction of the traditional Swedish red and white cottages. Each day will offer cuisine from a different region – caviar and reindeer from Luleå in Lapland (Monday), West Swedish crayfish (Tuesday) and goose from Skåne (Wednesday).
The event is free and based on a first come first serve basis. Email rsvp@redcottagesweden.co.uk to reserve a place. |
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Red Cottage, October 22 – 24
The Old Truman Brewery, 1 Corbet Place, 15 Hanbury Street E1 6QR
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| DIVERSITY ROLE MODELS |
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Do your bit for charity. Diversity Role Models, which aims to tackle homophobic bullying in schools, is holding a Carnival-themed fundraiser and auction at Paramount next week. There will be some familiar faces – Boy George, Lily Allen and David Tennant will be working the stalls – as well as an auction. The lots include a ceramic dog by Grayson Perry, an original Matisse lithograph and a cocktail evening for 15 with Grey Goose. Get involved. |
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Diversity Role Models Carnival, October 25 from 7.30pm, £95
Paramount, Centre Point, Oxford Street, WC1A 1DD |
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| SATURDAY |
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EXHIBITION:
HOLLYWOOD COSTUME AT V&A |
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DRINK LATE:
BURLINGTON SOCIAL CLUB |
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An exhibition of our time. Hollywood Costume is what it says on the can – an exhibition showcasing over 100 iconic movie ensembles from the past century. Go diva and see Joan Crawford's The Bride Wore Red dress, 70s nostalgia with John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever garms, or femme fatale over the ages: Tippi Hedren in The Birds, Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast and Rose's boarding outfit from Titanic. And then there's the action men: Darth Vader, Indiana Jones and Captain Jack Sparrow. Oh, and that blood-strewn Die Hard vest. Yippie ki-yay. |
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It's all about the late night. If you haven't yet been to PRET A DINER's latest, the Burlington Social Club, do so now. Housed in the Royal Academy, there's Michelin starred Asian-inspired cuisine, the latest artwork from Royal Academicians and a brimming, decadent, scaffold bar. Now they're offering ten extra late night slots from 11pm on Thursdays to Saturdays – save one by calling 07950 837765. (And they'll soon be launching a lunch menu.)
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10am-5.45pm
£15.50
V&A, Cromwell Road,
SW7 2RL
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From 11pm
Cocktails from £9
Royal Academy, 6 Burlington Gardens,
W1J 0BD
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| PRODUCT PICK |
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| For HIM |
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North American fave Club Monaco has just launched a capsule collection in the UK. Made in the USA, a collaboration with Michael Williams of men's blog A Continuous Lean, is an assortment of everyday must-haves for the modern gentleman: flannel suits, camel coats, indigo denims, chinos and colourful shirts. |
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Made in the USA available at Anthem
10-12 Calvert Avenue, Shoreditch, E2 7JN
From £110 |
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| FOR HER |
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Parisian fashion's force of nature Carine Roitfeld can now add a collaboration with M.A.C to her CV. Create her signature "smoky" aesthetic with full face kits, kohl pencils, mineralise concealer and nail lacquers. |
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Carine Roitfeld x M.A.C
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| SUNDAY |
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FILM:
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD |
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PARTY:
FABRIC'S 13TH BIRTHDAY |
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Much-anticipated Beasts of the Southern Wild (it's won every prize from Sundance to Cannes) is the story of a tiny hero learning to survive a catastrophe of epic proportions. Six-year-old Hushpuppy, who lives in a struggling bayou of Louisiana, copes with the onset of Hurricane Katrina by slipping into a world of imagination that involves extinct beasts and melting ice caps. Cinematically stunning (it was filmed on a 16mm camera), this gritty film finds its counterpart in its dose of magical realism.
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Pull an all-nighter, not at a usual birthday party but a full-on 32-hour banger. Celebrate 13 years of partying at Clerkenwell's finest – formerly a meatpacking warehouse (they were so ahead of the curve). The line up is a mixture of UK and international house talent, with the likes of Cosmic Kids, DJ Sneak, Fred P, Seth Troxler and residents Craig Richards and Terry Francis (and many more). Unfortunately tickets have sold out for Saturday entry but there's still some available for Sunday. Tackle this like the closings and start in the morning – we wouldn't have lasted the 32 hours anyway.
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Times vary
£13.75
Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue,
W1D 5DY
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10am Sunday – 5am Monday
£20
77a Charterhouse St, Clerkenwell,
EC1M 3HN
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| LOVE BRUNCH HALLOWEEN |
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| FEAR AND LOATHING AT AYNHOE PARK |
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Yet to make Halloween plans? We say go big and book for Love Brunch's Halloween party: Fear and Loathing at Aynhoe Park. It's a suitable location: the grand English stately home will be transformed into a house of horrors, complete with scary performing acts, DJs and London's finest street food. Costumes = mandatory.
We say get a group together, hop a cab (£120 approximately each way), or book into a nearby B&B. |
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Love Brunch Halloween, October 27 4pm – 4am, £65, Aynhoe Park, Aynho, Oxfordshire, OX17 3BQ
Check their Facebook page (under info) for travel and accommodation options |
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WEEKEND GUIDE by JC |
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