A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, which allows fashion designers or "houses" to display their latest collections in runway shows, and buyers to take a look at latest trends. And most importantly let the industry know, what's "in" and what's "out" for the season. The most prominent fashion weeks are held in the fashion capitals like Milan, Paris, London, and New York City.In the early and mid 2000s, fashion weeks sprang up around the globe to draw attention to designers elsewhere.

Was on the tube when I noticed these 2 guys decked out in trendy gear they were both carrying portfolio cases with official London Fashion Week seals on them. They looked nervous enough to be showing some of their kit. Something very cool about kids getting a break.

McCann Erickson is a global advertising agency network, with offices in over 130 countries and almost eight decades of multinational experience[citation needed]. McCann is a subsidiary of the Interpublic Group of Companies, one of the four holding corporations that make up the advertising industry.

McCann Erickson was named "Global Agency of the Year" by Adweek in 1998, 1999, and 2000.[citation needed]

McCann Erickson is part of McCann Worldgroup, which also includes planning and buying agency Universal McCann, direct/interactive web marketing agency MRM Worldwide, experiential marketing agency Momentum Worldwide, and healthcare marketing group McCann Healthcare Worldwide.

McCann Erickson was directly responsible for the success of The Hillside Singers' "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" in 1972. McCann Erickson was also the company that developed the "Army Strong" campaign for the United States Army. The company also developed the Mastercard commercial saying " "There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard."

Have you seen Charlie?
He wen't swimming!
Not with Damien.......
SHIT!!!!!

Came across this Zebra late at night in Clerkenwell. Found out there are many of them around London particularly near Sotheby's.

Turns out that these Zebras are looking for Charlie a Zebra missing his Snorkel set, that has apparently gone swimming with Damien Hirst.

Shell-Mex House 80 Strand
Shell Mex House is at 80, Strand, London, UK. Broadly speaking in an Art Deco style, it was designed by Ernest Joseph, a Jewish architect who was a leading designer of synagogues, including the Art Deco-style synagogue at Sheepcote Street, Birmingham, and the classical-style synagogue in St. John's Wood Road, London (of which only the facade remains).

The current building was completed in 1930–31 on the site of the Cecil Hotel (so called because it was built on the site of Cecil House), and stands between the Adelphi Terrace and the Savoy Hotel.

Standing 58 m (190 ft) tall, with 537,000 sq ft (49,900 m2) of floor space, Shell Mex House has 12 floors (plus basement and sub-basement) and is immediately recognizable from the River Thames and the South Bank by the clock tower positioned on the south side of the building (flanked by two large, hieratic figures at the south corners). In the words of architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, the building "is thoroughly unsubtle, but succeeds in holding its own in London's river front."

The Recognitions - A night of short films, all about the story
Venue: Candid Projection Room, Candid Arts Centre
Date: Thursday September 18, 2008 (8:00PM - 10:00PM)

An evening filled with the best new short films we know of! Mainly fiction, but with one or two documentaries thrown in for good measure - the emphasis is firmly on the story.

For more details and a trailer (to be updated with the line-up as we finalise it), go to http://www.theroom.org.uk/recognitions

Damon Albarn's Monkey: Journey To the West Monkey's World - Through Nov & Dec 2008

After a phenomenally successful run, wowing audiences around the world to exceptional acclaim– Monkey finds a new home in London.

First performed in the UK at the inaugural Manchester International Festival in 2007, following sold-out runs, Monkey: Journey to the West is a new opera for the 21st century, directed by the world renowned Chen Shi-Zheng, with music composed by Gorillaz award-winning mastermind Damon Albarn, and design and animation by Jamie Hewlett based on the ancient Chinese legend of spiritual enlightenment.

This reworked version is a dazzling spectacle involving nearly 40 circus acrobats, martial artists and singers from China with an orchestra of Western and traditional Chinese instruments.

Monkey, headstrong, self-important hero of the story, is hatched from a stone egg on the Mountain of Flower and Fruit. After crossing the all-powerful Buddha, Monkey is given the opportunity to redeem himself by travelling to India with the young monk Tripitaka to bring the Holy Scriptures back to China.

Damon Albarn's score deftly weaves Chinese and Western influences to provide a sparkling setting for the story as it moves between heaven and earth. Adaptor and director Chen Shi-Zheng, musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett have created this spectacular opera which is coming to the Royal Opera House this July.

Monkey: Journey to the West is a stage adaptation of the 16th Century Chinese novel Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en. It was conceived and created by the Chinese actor and director Chen Shi-zheng, together with the British musician Damon Albarn and British artist Jamie Hewlett. However, the original idea came from Jean-Luc Choplin, head of the Chatelet Theatre in Paris

Just heard that Bloc Party are going to be playing a secret intimate in store gig at Pure Groove on the 20th of October. The gig is to support the launch of their new album "Intimacy " - which is launced the week commencing the 20th October.

Bloc Party Intimacy
They're back. Mercury announced their return in booming fashion - all twisted horn samples and backwards looping drums and Kele's unique orations. And Intimacy is sounding just as intense and just as amazing from what we've heard. And it gets better - they're playing instore on October 20th! More info soon on this show...