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East London Design Show
All those who like to stay perched on the cutting edge of design should get down to the Creative Links Expo: 06 where ELDS, an organisation set up to promote the nascent design talents of east London, has handpicked 25 up-and-coming artists to form a group show. Their work covers a wide range of media including ceramics, photography and lighting as well as men’s and women’s fashion. This is just one of the stands at the Expo, a support network and showcase for the creative industries.
Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, E1 (020 7247 4710 / www.creativelinks.co.uk) Aldgate East tube or Liverpool St tube/rail. Exhibition Thur 22, Fri 23 10am-5pm. Adm free but go to the website for more information or email CIDA (events@cida.co.uk).
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Strip Tease exhibition
If the plethora of comic-strip remakes hitting the cinema screens (including July’s ‘Superman Returns’) isn’t enough, check out the ‘Strip Tease’ exhibition at the Hope Gallery. Its founder, conceptual artist Georgina Hope, graduated from Leeds with an MA in fine art and has since exhibited and curated internationally. This exhibition consists of a series of comic strips by Hope which deal not, as you might expect, with Dita Von Teese-style women taking their clothes off but with issues of love and romance in an age when biology is merging with technological innovation. Unlike the box-office hits, this has no happy Hollywood ending, we fear. Comic strips are available to buy from £35 for a single print.
Hope Gallery, 162 Blackstock Rd, N5 (020 7690 0058 / www.hopegallery.co.uk / www.georginahope.co.uk) Arsenal tube or Finsbury Park tube/rail. Exhibition Tue June 27-Sat July 1. Open 12noon-5pm and by appointment.

Anita’s Vintage Fashion Fair
Vintage Fashion Fairs, now adopting the prefix of its founder Anita Bott, is still London’s foremost vintage extravaganza. There are hundreds of bargains to be had, sourced from around the world, ranging from vintage buttons and trimmings to eighteenth-century costume, and high fashion from the 1920s to the ’60s. Get there early to find real treasures including vintage Biba and Vivienne Westwood. Prices range from £5 to £500.
Anita’s Vintage Fashion Fair, Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, Battersea, SW11 (020 8325 5789) Clapham Common or Stockwell tube. Fair Sun 25 9.30am-4.30pm. Adm £4, students (with ID) £2.50.