SHOP
Fine Arts and Antiques Fairs - Olympia
— Each year June and November
Items include furniture, jewellery, ceramics, clocks, books, silver, objects d’art anywhere from £100 to £100,000
www.olympia-antiques.co.uk
Grosvenor House Antique Fair
— Dealers and buyers from around the globe gather in this elegant house for a weekend of ‘bartering’. After you’re ‘once in a lifetime’ take a break in the Champagne Bar or Collectors’ Cafe.
June 12-18
Tube: Marble Arch or Hyde Park, Green Park
www.grosvenor-antiquesfair.co.uk
Grosvenor House Park Lane t: 20 73 99 8100
Burberry Factory Outlet
— This great English brand reduced! I've not visited this one, but I'm informed around 40% reduced from the retail price. Men, women and children (there's also great outlet in Italy at 'The Mall' outside Florence which offers 60% reduction on most items, almost worth a plane ticket).
Open: Monday - Saturday 10am 6pm &
Sunday 11am - 5pm
www.burberry.com
29-53 Chatham Place, London E9 6LP t: (020) 8985 3344
Dover Street Markets
— Five floors of some of the world's best labels, YSL has recently opened a boutique as well as French label, Comme des Garçons, John Galliano and many more. Open 11am - 6pm Monday to Saturday.
www.doverstreetmarket.com
17-18 Dover Street, W1S 4LT
Fancy a Lily Allen cocktail dress? Beyond Retro
— Quality vintage pieces from celebrities and performers. Not far from Oxford Circus, you find jewellery, shoes and some great clothing items from the 1900s to 1990s. The prices are reasonable.
www.beyondretro.com
58-59 Marlborough Street, London
The British Antiques Dealers’ Association Fair
— Specialising in English and Georgian furniture as well as clocks, paintings, carpets and other treasures. Over 100 exhibitors.
2009 dates 25 March - 31 March
www.bada-antiques-fair.co.uk
Duke of York Square, Sloane Square
Perfect Ballerinas? French Sole perhaps
— If you can't find them here they may not exist. Hundreds no thousands of designs. Shop online if you can't get to the store.
www.frenchsole.com
61 Marylebone Lane t: 44 207 486 0021
Luella - Princess of Pop punk
— Truly British but often in Paris these days, this, her first London store has all her trademark design pieces, quirky Tshirts, jackets and short sexy cardigans.
Tube: Bond Street
www.luella.com
25 Brook Street,