W Hotel has always fostered a strong relationship with fashion and the arts. It even cast David Gandy and Helena Christensen in Blow-Up homage short, Away We Stay to celebrate its launch. This year the enigmatic Mr W has teamed up with Vauxhall Fashion Scout and James Small to create a fashion film for the latter’s AW12 collection. Conductivity stars Richard Rawson aka British hip-hop artist Fazer and model/presenter Zara Martin alongside the new Vauxhall Ampera electric car. Director Jak FrSH was influenced by iconic sci-fi movies like Tron and Bladerunner, explaining, “I wanted to create a futuristic backdrop and fashionable environment where these characters could own the theme of electricity.” Oh yes, and there’s a rather important cameo from W itself where scenes from the short were filmed - the penthouse no less, complete with its own mirror ball, 62" telly in the bathroom and four-person shower.

James Small is showing his collection in a more traditional manner today at Freemason’s Hall but you can check out Vauxhall Fashion Scout’s Conductivity – A James Small AW2012 film at www.youtube.com/Vauxhall

If you thought hunting for Easter eggs was just for the kids you evidently haven’t been on a Fabergé egg hunt! Starting today and running for the 40 days and nights up until Easter, 200 Fabergé eggs created by artists, designers, architects and jewellers will go on display across the capital – you just need to find them. But we’ll give you a clue, two gorgeous eggs decorated by Sophie Conran and Rhea Thierstein were installed last night at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower and Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel. In fact, Rhea is our new style crush. The artist and set designer has worked for Mulberry, Bombay Sapphire and Vogue, created a window for Selfridges and art directed on the video for Jessie J’s Price Tag. She’s passionate about the Elephant Family and Action for Children charities supported by the Big Egg Hunt and her egg highlights the destruction of the environment and her desire to bring it back to health. So join the hunt and also show your support by filling up on special dishes such as Snow eggs with caramel sauce or Eggs Royal at the Rib Room and Lowndes Bar & Kitchen. Jumeirah is making a donation to the cause for each dish ordered from the specially created menus.

www.thebigegghunt.co.uk

www.jumeirah.com

It’s Pancake Day tomorrow and Tom and Ed Martin certainly aren’t letting it slip by unmarked and at both Chelsea’s The Botanist and Chiswell Street Dining Rooms in the City, it’s going to be a flipping fabulous occasion. Top pastry chef Boyne Kleynhans has devised a medley of variables taking us from breakfast (we’re starting the day with Blueberry pancakes with cured crispy bacon and lashings of maple syrup thank you very much) through to lunch and dinner. Hmmm will it be a Poppy seed crepe with foie gras and wild mushrooms or a blood orange Crêpe Suzette with caramelised apple, vanilla ice cream and Calvados syrup? Or both? There’s even a Champagne and Crêpe afternoon tea. So many pancakes so little time…

www.thebotanistsloanesquare.com

www.chiswellstreetdining.com

Brunch, brunch and more brunch. It's the London trend that will simply not die ....

But there's one particular one to be noting down around about now ... and that's the one at Bunga Bunga, the Battersea-based 'Englishman's Italian, Bar, Pizzeria and Karaoke'.

For soon, guests coming to enjoy the £35 brunch menu, (which includes such three-course menu choices as platters of cured meats, the characteristically-named pizzas or the Bunga’s Benedict, topped with Hollandaise Sauce and Silvio’s Sweet Seducer made with Chocolate Sauce, Banana and Strawberries, among others), will also be treated to a unique form of entertainment. This new date in your diaries should be called ..... The Saturday Matinee show.

Launching next week, 25th February, Saturday brunchers can expect to see and hear the comical Ukulele Eric (a Bunga regular) and various opera singers, trying out their vocal chords on THE Italian anthem, Nessun Dorma, while tucking into their mouthwatering meals.

Oh, and did we mention, that with the £35 menu, there's unlimited Prosecco and Bellinis?

Come and try it. You know you're hungry enough ....

Every Saturday 12pm - 6pm

www.bungabunga-london.com

Fashion Week makes us awfully thirsty but a girl can only drink so much Champagne right? While the LFW designers have been busy readying their A/W12 collections, the capital’s mixologists have been devising some rather stylish libations of their own so Celine Trapeze at the ready, grab a front row seat at the bar and prepare to be seduced by the season's most creative cocktails. We will be drinking the following three in copious measures...

Galliano Sour at Senkai

Grey Goose vodka muddled with white grapes, lime, mint, basil and a touch of  elderflower cordial.

Size Zero Hero at St Martin’s Lane

Jose Cuervo tequila shaken with muddled strawberries, Earl Grey Tea, a dash of agave syrup and a drop of orange bitter.

The Devil does Shots at Anise

Chilli, Cachaça, mint and lime – straight up.

For the record, we are also mighty tempted by Senkai's Louboutin Sling (pictured above) but fear we might take a tumble...

www.senkairestaurant.com, www.stmartinslane.com, www.cinnamon-kitchen.com

It's not long until we reach the day when scoffing pancakes is a justified and perfectly-normal pastime. 

So, where will you be eating your pancakes on Pancake Day?

If you're not too keen on making your own, you could always pop down to Canary Wharf, where D&D restaurant Plateau have something special waiting for you.

For pudding, their menu will be graced with the presence of the £7.50 pancakes with citrus sauce and lemon sorbet.

Just a tip! 21st February will roll around fast....

www.plateau-restaurant.co.uk/

Fancy a spot of Flashmobbing? Head to the City, then.

Tomorrow afternoon, Broadgate Circle will be descended upon by City workers of all varieties. Coming to pick up their sticks, balls and .... glasses of champagne, they'll be congregating for a bit of high-octane afternoon sport.

Of course, we're talking about .. Polo. For in honour of The Gaucho International Polo event, held on 21st March, at The O2 arena, Gaucho are inviting City workers (and anyone else who'd like to come along, too) to get involved with Argentina's best-loved sport. 

But whether you're interested in coming for the bubbly to watch others, or are eager to take part yourself, why not come and join the fun? It's a free event, all taking place betwen 4.30pm and 6pm.

www.gauchopolo.com

Hendrick’s Gin is well known for flouting the rules of convention so as 29 February is set to reverse the rules of normal courtship, Hendrick’s Unusual Month of Reverse Courtship is hosting a variety of events to celebrate. Both ladies plucking up the courage to pop the question and gentlemen searching for a fail-safe get-out clause should head over to The Lonsdale on Monday 20 Feb when the Ladies School of Nuptial Conquest and Hendrick’s School of Scoundrels will be running concurrently. But who are the best students? Find out at the end of the month when Hendrick’s Preposterous Proposal Throne will pop-up at a variety of London locations. Go to @HendricksGin to find out where.

www.thelonsdale.co.uk

You may perhaps be celebrating Valentine's Day with your beloved a little belatedly this year. Or, perhaps, the 14th never really ended for you?

Either way, this is something of which you ought to take note. (And you have two days left to enjoy it ....)

There is a gorgeous exhibition in London this week that ticks all the right boxes. Art For Heart's Sake, created by duo Si Elborne and Sophie Wharmby, in partnership with Hipstamatic, is a contemporary creative art exhibition and auction (think photographs, paintings, drawings, etc) which is raising money for charity Kids Company.

From 10th to 17th February, Art For Heart's Sake - which is showing at the European Design Centre in London - is open for your perusal ... and open, of course, to any auction bids. 

So, get online for a good cause and bid to your heart's content (geddit?). You'll be glad you did so: these pieces are delightful ... and they're all unique.

What more is there to say? Oh yes, it closes on 17th ....

www.artforheartssake.co.uk

You may have noticed the May Fair Hotel's new Fashion Week facade which was unveiled earlier this morning. This year, it's been created by Rihanna and Florence go-to designers FelderFelder. But trust us, there's a lot more going on inside so get ready to party like a fashionisha...

Step 1

Hot foot it to the May Fair Spa which has devised a series of express treatments to deal with LFW fatigue such as the Fashion Eco Chic Pedicure (50 minutes £65.00) or The Crystal Face of Fashion Massage (30 mins £55) to emerge fresh-faced as a supermodel and ready for action.

Step 2

Sip on limited edition LFW cocktail The Show Stopper while taking in live catwalk shows screened around the hotel and complimentary pink candyfloss handed out from 5-7pm every day. You can also dance your socks of at launch of Sunday Girl’s (aka Jade William’s) new Sunday night DJ residency Sunday Girl @ The May Fair kicking off on 19 Feb with old-school tracks and eclectic beats - she's even got Rolling Stones scion Jesse Wood as her support act!

Step 3

And if you fancy making a night of it you can also take advantage of the Hotel’s Eat, Sleep, Fashion package running through 26 Feb from £350 per room including £100 to spend at Silvia Rowe’s Ottoman inspired Quince Restaurant & Bar, full English breakfast, Champagne and chocolates delivered to your boudoir. After which you may want to repeat Step 1...
 

Sunday Girl @ The May Fair, Sunday nights, 8pm-9.30pm, support acts from 6.30pm
www.themayfairhotel.co.uk