London Overtakes NYC as Fashion Capital of the World

Thanks to four a royal wedding and a funeral, London's now the Fashion Capital of the World.

Ha, ha, New York. You can stick your New York Fashion Week, we've got royals, dead designers and, look, a Vertical Fashion Show to pimp us into first place.

(Vertical Fashion Show? Yes, see right, part of London's High Street Fashion Week last September, if I recall rightly...)

Ha, ha, Paris, Milan, LA, and Hong Kong too. Who were in third, fourth, fifth and sixth place behind our wonderful capital...

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Arts Ahead 26 April - 2 May

Yes, there's a Royal Wedding on, but there's other things going on around London too, y'know!

Here's a guide to what's on this week in terms of big theatre, art, dance and exhibitions in London.

And what am I up to? Well, my "culture" is restricted to phoning various people to sort *our* wedding plans for June. We've passed the two-months-to-go mark, and things are picking up pace!

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Sometimes My Job's Just Bizarre

Monday started with news about an Olympic swimmer opening the Canary Wharf ice rink. (Turns out she'd come about 8th in ITV's Dancing on Ice, so I guess it's not that strange she popped up to "cut the ice"...)

Yesterday was all about the Royal Wedding. I got to put my Heat hat on, and create a long-range flickrazzi photo-mashup.

Today, I've written about a hoard of Roman treasure unearthed when someone started building a new hotel for 2012. 

Then, I get sent this picture of McFly at Heathrow Airport, about to turn on their Christmas lights.

Isn't London wonderful?