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E17 Designers’ Market
Held in a former Victorian workhouse, this east London craft market sells handmade homewares, photography and artwork by local artisans. Showcasing different designers on two Saturdays, there will be a mixed array of delights from crochet cushions to bird printed crockery.
E17 Designers’ Market At The E17 Art Trail, Vestry House Museum, Vestry Rd, Walthamstow, E17 9NH (07904 546 294/www.e17arttrail.co.uk) Walthamstow Central tube. Open Sat 2pm-4.30pm and Sat 13th 2pm-4.30pm.


Designer Sale UK
One of the most popular designer sales returns to the Truman Brewery for their autumn sale to curb those end-of-summer blues. Dry those tears away with a catwalk-tested Biba dress that was originally priced at £295 but has now been slashed to £60. Coupled with over a 100 other designers, it’s in your wardrobes’ best interest to visit the website and register for invites for the preview day (which includes a short fashion show) and get a head start on the bargain hunting.
Designer Sale UK, Old Truman Brewery, 85 Brick Lane, Shoreditch, E1 (01273 858464/www.designersales.co.uk) Liverpool St tube. Open Thurs 12pm-10pm (invite only), Fri 11am-9pm, Sat 11am-8pm and Sun 11am-5pm. Adm £2.


Frock Me
All in the name of vintage, this sale is now in its fourth year and it has a strong following among retro collectors and thrifty fashion students. Notable additions to the sale include a 1950s polka dot bustier for only £30 and a rare 1960s wooden box purse for £40 (both by Lili May). There is also a range of diverse accessories including a pair of 1920s lace gloves by Nick Albrechtsen, just £10.
Frock Me, Chelsea Town Hall, Kings Rd, SW3 (020 7254 4054/www.frockmevintagefashion.com). South Kensington tube. Sun 11am-5.30pm. Adm £4, £2 for students with valid ID, free for accompanied children under 16
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Regent Street Festival: A Great British Experience
Regent Street’s traders are taking 10 per cent off anything you buy for one day only. Bose and Moss Bros are collaborating on a James Bond themed afternoon whilst on the beauty side, Molton Brown are offering complimentary hand and arm massages and mini facials seved with afternoon tea. Boots are holding a free prize draw to win a hamper of beauty products worth £200.
Regent Street Festival: A Great British Experience, Regent St, W1B (www.regentstreetonline.com) Oxford Circus tube. Open Sun 12pm-8pm.


Katherine Hamnett online sale
The ’80s style guru has applied her liberal way of life to her fashion label by having a big online sale. There are countless reductions in both ladies and menswear such as the infamous ‘Choose Life’ slogan hoodies which are now £48 (down from £78) and some quirky vest dresses which are going for £25 (down from £40). If it’s retro you’re after then there’s an abundance on offer here with a positive mantra to boot.
Offers available online at www.katharinehamnett.com


The Sunday Cycle Picnic
Brainchild of the Caz Nicklin, the blogger behind Cyclechic.co.uk, The Sunday Cycle Picnic will merge bike riding with fun and frolics. Banish any unglamorous pre-conceptions you have about the mode of transport, here elegance rules and the best dressed cyclist will win a free Bobbin bike.
Sunday Cycle Picnic, London Fields, Hackney, E8 (www.cyclechic.co.uk/07908 632 050) Bethnal Green tube. Sun 12pm-5pm.


Actresses’ Attic Sale
Here’s your chance to rummage through the attics of some of TVs most recognisable faces. The Actresses’ Attic Sale will give you the possibility to pick up a few prized pieces from TV stars as well as helping out the good cause of Lynn Faulds Wood’s Bowel Cancer Campaign. Money made from this sale will go towards more research to cure the disease and campaigns to raise awareness.
Actresses’ Attic Sale, The Old Sorting Office Arts Centre, Barnes Pond, Barnes, SW13 (www.bowelcancer.tv) Stamford Brook tube. Sun 11am – 4pm. Adm £1.


That’s Entertainment
Forget retail therapy, welcome ‘Retail Theatre’ – a new concept from Harrods aiming to bring entertainment to your shopping experience. Highlights include photographer Seamus Ryan bringing his ‘Sunday Shoots’ concept from his Columbia Road studio to the doors of Harrods. Six entertainment-themed photoshoots will take place on Sundays (from September 14 onwards) and anyone can turn up and have their portrait taken for free. There will also be performances by the English National Ballet and Cirque Du Soleil, plus scaled-down versions of smash-hit musicals, including ‘Chicago’, ‘Mamma Mia!’ and ‘Phantom of the Opera’. Kurt Geiger, meanwhile, will be presenting its best shoe designs on the feet of the London Contemporary Dance School.
That’s Entertainment, Harrods, 87-135 Brompton Rd, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7XL (020 7730 1234/www.harrods.com; www.thatsentertainment.com; www.sundayshoots.com). Knightsbridge tube. Check website from Sept 8 for full schedule.


Men Only at Liberty
Unfortunately for some, there are no hairy chests, deep voices or bouts of towel flicking here, but rather an excellent, albeit short, exhibition and auction of images donated by some of the art world’s most lauded male image-makers – no girls allowed. Sweaty locker rooms, barbershops, strip clubs and B&Q aside, this notion of a purely male domain is actually a nod to Men Only’s nominated charity, Everyman (everyman-campaign.org). Organiser Pat Scovell-Bowtell has rounded up works more than 40 works by manly artists like Damien Hirst, Terry Richardson, Sir Peter Blake, Patrick Hughes, Martin Parr and Rankin. Pat’s husband – the sculptor, film designer and model maker Allister Bowtell – died of prostate cancer, aged 66 and the auction will raise funds for Everyman’s research, but will also, she hopes, raise awareness. Considered a somewhat ‘hidden’ disease, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men affecting almost 35,000 every year in the UK. Still, the atmosphere around Men Only is unerringly upbeat, reflecting Allister’s notoriously adroit sense of humour. The man behind numerous landmark bronze statues (including the two children playing in Sloane Square), Allister also created the original cybermen for ‘Doctor Who’, Rod Hull’s emu and a whopping 3-metre high phallus for the Raymond Revue Bar for glamour girls to dance around. Dan Jones
Men Only, Liberty, Great Marlborough St, W1 (020 7734 1234/www.liberty.co.uk) Oxford Circus tube. Open Mon-Sat 10am-9pm, Sun 12noon-6pm. Exhibition from Sep 8-11 only, adm free. To purchase tickets for auction on Sep 11 at 7pm, go to menonlyart.co.uk.