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Pic: Ameena wears vintage dress by Vintage Secret, and knitted scarf by Bryan Flavin.

Stylist and RR blogger, Ameena Kara Callender took a peek at the London Fashion Week.

LFW celebrated 25 years of fashion this season! The champagne was flowing and all eyes were peeled and ready to soak in the new clothing trends from our beloved designers’ Autumn/Winter 2009 collections.

Twenty years since Madonna’s raunchy “Like A Prayer” video was unreservedly condemned by the Vatican, some of her most outrageous outfits are now making a grand reappearance. Paying tribute to her exotic and provocative sense of style, not to mention her reputation as a stellar fashion icon, a unique retrospective at London’s Old Truman Brewery is hosting an exhibition of Madonna’s costumes – those from “Material Girl”, “American Pie”, and “Evita” are amongst those on display.

MOOT have an exhibition running this week at the Contemporary Arts Society as part of the exhibition ‘Rotate’. Jareh Das caught up with Matt Jamieson from the arty collective to quiz him on what they’re all about.

Matthew Darbyshire's work often deals with/centres around ideologies of Architecture, Design and Urban Regeneration and this inherently touches on class differences on taste.

Image: Young Jean Lee’s 'The Shipment'

When I recently came across Sarah Doyle's work I wanted to know more. A UK based artist her style is witty, interdisciplinary and eclectic. Encompassing an array of film, illustration and portraiture her work has been shown internationally and recent solo shows include 'The Nexus Treatment' at Space Station Sixty-Five Gallery and 'Celebrated Sobriquets' at The Surgery London.

Private Views have been on the quiet side...
I haven't really seen anything in LDN worth reporting back
and Wysing Arts was a bit f a nightmare...
I will make a trip to Cambridge though in the next few weeks.
ARCO Madrid as well as Barcelona in a week will be rad.
I did however pop into Abigail Reynolds' first London solo show

Royal Art Lodge were an art collective
based in Winnipeg. Over the years they
have had a few different members and had
their last show as a collective at
The Liverpool Biennial but still continue to
create art, original member Neil Farber
and Michael Dumontier still work
collaboratively.
Royal Art Lodge's work are are small-scale