1) I still haven’t been to the Bauhaus exhibition at the Barbican (it’s on the list for my birthday weekend), but I’ve been eyeing up the events around it anyway. On Saturday 19 May there’s a guided walk by the Twentieth Century Society around the city showcasing some of the country’s best Bauhaus (and inspired) architecture. I’ve been on one of these walks before and it was utterly brill so I’d recommend you book this one if you can – it’s  £15 but that includes entry to the exhibition too.

2) The Dover Street Market sale is on this weekend. Say no more, see you there.

3) Art by Art Jacobs. Only Marc Jacobs could turn vandalism into a branding exercise. Except… is it really vandalism?

4) Have you seen Ask a Grown Man with Jon Hamm yet? Don Draper answering teenage girl’s questions for Rookie.

5) I’ve read a few blog posts about the Swedish Hasbeens performance at Selfridges, but I didn’t realise that one of my favourite bloggers was behind it. Some really cool behind-the-scenes pictures on Decida Style – which you should definitely subscribe to/bookmark now if you aren’t already a devotee.

1) Pug on a trampoline!

2) Fashion advice from Debo!

3) Madonna and Arianne Phillips talk W.E. costumes! Still not seen it – have you?

4) Berkeley campus in the 1970s!  Really digging these!

5) Andrew WK made a party mixtape! It’s as good as you’d imagine, although could do with being about three hours longer. (You can – and should – buy the clock here)

1) All of your favourite Prada Spring/Summer 2012 items, turned into magic gifs. The brains behind the brilliance is Armenian-born, Paris-based artist Vahram Muratyan. See the whole set on the Hint mag site.

2) The Great Gatsby at Wilton’s not good enough for you? Book now to see Gatz – an epic eight-hour reading of every word of the entire Fitzgerald novel which is coming to the capital as part of the London Literary Festival. I sincerely doubt I’d be able to listen to people reading for eight hours without falling asleep like the baby that I am, but it sure sounds like fun. At the Noel Coward Theatre from 8 June, but book your tickets now to avoid disappointment.  PS There’s a 90-minute break for dinner in the middle, if you were worried. [Pic via London Literary Festival]

3) This weekend you can join the London Architecture Walks group for an art deco-themed stroll around the city. It’s £15 and you need to make sure you book, but I’m sure it’ll be worth every penny. As well as seeing some of the capital’s best deco architecture, you’ll also learn the stories of some of the chaps behind the buildings – and they are predominantly chaps, let’s be honest. Fingers crossed my favourite building – the Express offices – are included. [Pic via Wikipedia]

4) Artist Will Broome – perhaps best known for creating the ‘Miss Marc’ character for Marc Jacobs – is taking up residency at Selfridges this weekend. Housed in the magnificent Shoe Galleries, Will is going to be ‘illustrating the store’ in what sounds like a jolly exciting pop-up studio scenario. London-based Will started collaborating with MJ in 2003 and his Miss Marc cartoon swiftly became one of the brand’s most recognised motifs. He’ll be in the Shoe Galleries on Level 2 on Saturday 28 April between 4 and 7pm and on Sunday 29 April between 3 and 6pm. What a lot of drawing! [Pic via Selfridges]

5) I feel like I’ve already mentioned this, but evidently not. Vanessa has constructed a Mad Men Spotify playlist with every (available) song in all five series. It cured my hangover the other week – medicinal properties as well as mood-enhancing ones. [Dream gif via Nobody Puts Baby in a Horner]

1. The beauty routines of two of my favourite women have been published – on separate blogs – over the course of this week. Find out where Chloe Sevigny gets here hair done here, and see what beauty products Leigh Lezark rates here.

2. I think this is old news, but Hamilton Richardson’s reviews of Mr Men books on Amazon are probably the funniest thing I’ve seen this week.

3. IT’S NATIONAL STILTON WEEK. How about you eat a pile of it to celebrate? Here, Stylist have even made a list of which beers you should have to accompany your feast.

4. The GRAMMY Museum in LA has just opened a new exhibition, in association with Revolver magazine. Golden Gods: the History of Heavy Metal sounds like it might just be the best exhibition of the year with interactive exhibits (including a ‘scream booth’) as well as enough metal artefacts to fill a billion branches of Hard Rock Cafe. I was delighted to hear that Andrew WK’s Party Hard outfit plays a starring role!

5. I’m always happy to hear about new local businesses, particularly when they involve food. The New Cross Dining Co  provides supper-club style dining in various pop-up locations in the neighbourhood – I haven’t had chance to visit yet, but they’re currently at The London Particular with a smashing-sounding menu which involves ham hock and herrings… in one dish. Yum. Find out more and book here!

6. PS I am so excited that Harriet has started another blog (as well as updating her old one) – you might be busy with work at the moment, HRH, but more of this please!

1) I’m sure it’s considered pretty démodé to link to Vice, but I enjoyed their piece on awful photo poses - How to Look Like a Wanker at a Party. Definitely guilty of the Party Burqua move, although it’s more through a paralysing fear of photos than anything else. I also enjoyed playing ‘spot the people you know in the Vice photos’ game. I only got two, but I’m sure you can do better.

2) Time Out reviewed the Black Plaque app – and it sounds awesome. Currently half price, the app shows interesting facts about wherever you are in London. Except the facts aren’t things about the Beatles or the Great Fire of London, they’re far more interesting – ‘what your dad might describe as a bit fruity,’ as the review says. Dead cat effigies, sheep intestine condoms in a Soho sex shop, a man with a taste for dead leopards… Imagine the fascinating facts you’ll be able to bring to your post-work drinks??

3) When we were in Iceland we some guys posing in front of Geysir with lol-taches on. Stick-on taches, eh? Comedy gold. Total legend behaviour, instant profile pic material. Anyway – nothing new, as this series of pics from 1941 on Teenage demonstrate.  I quote:  ”Sick of letting the boys have all the fun, the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford, Connecticut decided to have a ‘smoker’ of their own. On the evening of May 20th, 1941, the girls drank, smoked pipes, wrestled, and had their very own strip-tease. Life Magazine’s Nina Leen documented the debauchery.”

4) There’s nothing I like more than a historical tale! Evelyn Nesbit is a fascinating case in point – teenage model, murder, Joan Collins… all sorts. First read this feature in my favourite New York blog this week then went on to read about a billion articles and add some books to my mental reading list.

5) We missed Reykjavik Fashion Week by a week (classic Gibson timing) but this video gives a good round up – and shows some beautiful Icelandic architecture and countryside too. And Taylor Tomasi Hill jumping around a bit. Watch this and tell me you don’t have that bastard song stuck in your head for the rest of the week. Go Iceland, anyway, I love you!

1) Dogs in Pubs is my new favourite website and it should be yours too. You can also follow @dogsinpubs in Twitter and submit your own photos of hounds that you’ve found. As the site says, “The perfect pub doesn’t offer fancy meals, doesn’t have settees, big screens, assorted bric-a-brac bolted to the walls, row upon row of mass produced nitrokeg fonts. It simply needs great ale and a friendly dog.”

2) On the subject of dogs, Warby Barker’s dog glasses site is a thing of beauty.

3) According to the newly released Kate Moss: Making of an Icon, Kate has now done 300 Vogue covers. 300! Fashionista has rounded up some of her best – it’s brilliant looking at how her style has changed since her first cover in 1993. Still can’t decide on my favourite, but as it’s Jubilee year let’s go with her looking regal in December 2001.

4) I rounded up all of the exhibitions that I want to see earlier this year, but Stylist has compiled a fantastic list of exhibitions worth going on holiday for in this week’s issue. Nothing better than an art-based holiday… why did I sell three days back to the company again?

5) I’ve just finished Mary S. Lovell’s biography of Beryl Markham, Straight on Till Morning. I don’t usually talk about books on here [you can see my reading history on GoodReads] but I totally recommend this one – I really enjoy Lovell’s biographies anyway, but this one is a cracker. Beryl is a fascinating woman who seems to have had her finger in just about every pie going – it’s not a hagiograpy either, because she really isn’t perfect. She flies, she rides, she hunts, she dates, she wears amazing outfits, she philanders… Just a dead good, nice and quick read. Buy buy buy!

1) Now that the future of our famous local – The Montague Arms – is in doubt, I’ve been reading a lot of old features about the place to get a better of its (illustrious) history. Thanks to Robbo for digging out this awesome NME interview from 1989 in which Nick Cave (*Cave klaxon*), Shane McGowan and Mark E. Smith are interviewed in the old place. Sadface.

2) Susie Bubble has an awesome preview of the new ASOS Revive collection, as well as a first look at the campaign video directed by Zaiba Jabbar. Her behind-the-scenes photos are awesome! Mmm 90s.

3) There’s nothing I enjoy more than a practical beauty article and this week I found not one, but two such things. How to fix broken makeup (YES) and how to get nail polish out of just about everything (YESx2). Handy stuff, worthy of a bookmark.

4) Markus Lupfer has made a kind of bananas Japanese pop-inspired video to promote his Autumn/Winter 2012 collection. The gals in the video are apparently a girl group called Huge Tiny Zoo, who I know nothing about because I am 108 years old. Find out more about the video and doy, watch it, here!

5) Photographer Derek Ridgers has an exhibition on at Society Club Soho at the moment, featuring classic portraits of musicians including Nick Cave (*Cave klaxon*), Iggy Pop and The Cramps. The Un/Seen collection of images is on display until the end of the May and prints are also up for sale starting at a bargain £95.

1. Children’s pocket details from the eighties! It appealed to me, anyway…

2. The Guardian knows its target market well. This week they have been running the Top Cat competition with such cat-egories as most acrobatic cat, best look-a-like, best unusual talent (above) and many, many more. See all the slideshows and vote for a winner here.

3. There are few things better than meat and booze. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that they’re my two favourite things. My other favourite thing is art deco, as you know, so IMAGINE my joy at the three combining in one handy package. This week darling Harriet took me to the beautiful art deco restaurant, Balcon, to try their new Bubbles & Squeak offer – a charcuterie platter of French or British meats with fresh bread and a glass of champagne for £20. Amazing! They serve it all day, from breakfast (best breakfast evs) until post-theatre.

4. BBC4 did a great documentary about art nouveau this week, which is still on the iPlayer. Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau Paris was full of incredible design and lots of houses which I’d quite like to own. [Pic via Panoramio]

5. What better way to work our brains through the budget than with a new digitally remastered rendition of 1933′s hit musical. The Gold Diggers’ Song?

1) I’m sorry to hear that four people got hurt, but also a bit awestruck by the power of Kate. Is Giant Kate Moss Squashes Shoppers on Oxford Street the best headline of the year so far? I’d happily be squashed by Kate, frankly.

2) Love these pictures of the Miss Iran, 1978 candidates.

3) I choo-choo choose Louis Vuitton. What a show!

4) The bookshop at The Wapping Project is currently in-house at COS on Regent Street. They have a fantastic selection and are really lovely people, so you should definitely check it out before they head back south on 14 March. Thanks Disney Roller Girl for the heads up, although you should definitely go see the real thing too – I bloody love The Wapping Project. Amazing building, amazing restaurant, amazing cocktails and you’re a short stroll from the bloody Captain Kidd.

5) I bought this book for Andy from MOMA, but it’s sort of a present for me too. I know it might look like a bit of a lol novelty book but it really isn’t – the recipes are really good and broken down into chapters inspired by PG Wodehouse’s six different hangover variety. Booze and Wodehouse, doesn’t get much better than that, eh?

1) As I’m heading to New York… What New Yorkers think about Londoners, via the NY Times. I wouldn’t say it was entirely accurate, but it was a fun read.

2) Vanity Fair is getting excited in advance about the potential 1920s fashions in season three of Downton Abbey. I don’t blame them.

3) In 1928, The Savoy created a cocktail to celebrate the leap year. Created by the hotel’s legendary bartender, Harry Craddock, the Savoy Cocktail Book says the drink was: “responsible for more proposals than any other cocktail that has ever been mixed.” Ooer. Mishkin’s revived the drink this week and if you want one of your own and can’t read the scan above, here’s what you need;

a dash of lemon juice
2/3 gin
1/6 Grand Marnier
1/6 vermouth

Shake together with ice and serve in a champagne saucer, topped off with lemon peel.

4) Christine has relocated to France! My twin has always been up for an adventure and this is just the start of a year of exciting travels for her. Follow her adventures on her blog – where there may also be a word or two from me.

5) OH MY GOD! Kris’s Meadham Kirchhoff’s photos and illustrations are spectacular. Prove positive, as if any more were needed, that Kris is the best draw-er on the internet. See the whole glorious post here.