Midnight jog in heels at Alexandra Palace.

When you find yourself in north London and see most of it at once you are probably at Alexandra Palace place beautiful during the day but intriguing during the night. 

The Little Black Jacket - Saatchi Gallery

"Chanel's The Little Black Jacket" exhibition - Saatchi Gallery Styled by Carine Roitfeld and photographed by Karl Lagerfeld

On October 12, 2012 ‘The Little Black Jacket’ exhibition opened in Saatchi Gallery. Incredible homage to a fashion classic that is a Chanel jacket supported by 109 celebrities actors artists singers and models.

As Coco Chanel once revolutionalised female fashion, now the fashion house Chanel under supervision of Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld, revised this timeless classic.Coco Chanel, in her time, has taken pieces of male fashion and incorporated them into female attire. Now Lagerfeld and Roitfeld have reversed the phenomenon by dressing men in this timeless jacket.

The exhibition will last until October 28 therefore be quick to visit Saatchi Gallery near Slone Square and do not forget to take a look at ‘Yoko Ono: The Story Of My Long Life’.

Uma Thurman

Carine Roitfeld

Freja Beha Erichsen

Anja Rubik

Yoko Ono: The Story of my long life

Lloyd's Building - Open House 2012

If you happened to see massive queues around the City of London during the weekend on 22^nd and 23^rd they were not for the iPhone 5 release but for the Open House London 2012. Many buildings, institutions and places that are usually closed to the public opened up for this event, hence the queues. From many structures old and new, big and small, tall and short, we have chosen the Lloyd’s Building. Structure which is the most modern 1^st grade listed building in UK.

It is self explanatory that the building is resided by Lloyd’s, an insurance market set up in 1700s which originally insured ships (most famous was Titanic, which brought one of the biggest losses to the company) but branched out in 20^th century insuring various matters, from damages caused by earthquakes to other insurance companies to Betty Grable’s legs and Bruce Springsteen’s voice.

But, the true genius of this building lies in the way Lord Richard Rogers exposed all the services of the building. What other architects always try to cover he showcased. Drain, water, air conditioning, pipes are all on the open, structural aspects like concrete floor frames and columns of the building are also on the show and finally I’m getting to the LIFTS. I have written this in capital letters for a reason. First of their kind in the UK. They provide magnificent views across London and once you enter one its difficult to get off. You just want to go up and down, up and down. The photographs made by Ewa describe the feeling perfectly. 

Lloyd's building model

View from the lift

The Adam Room - designed by Robert Adam in 1763 as part of Bowood House. Lloyd's originally just wanted fireplace but after the auction of the contents of the estate, came back with the whole room"