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A fashion free for all

Although scoring that front-row seat may still be a pipe dream for most style-mad Londoners, there's no need to miss out on the London Fashion Week action...

Fashion Foodies
If lunching with the fashion frat is top of your agenda this weekend, we suggest heading straight to the Strand branch of Leon, where a steady stream of Louboutin-clad lovelies will pick up their falafel wrap en route to Somerset House. Not quite what you had in mind? Hotfoot it to the Cinnamon Kitchen's sister restaurant, Anise, where the chef has devised a special bite-size menu, Cocktails, Canapés and Couture. Canapés start from £4.50. (EC2, cinnamon-kitchen.com)

London Fashion Weekend
As soon as the last model steps off the Fashion Week catwalk, Somerset House will be transformed into a shopping mecca in which the collections of more than 100 designers will be available at a discounted price. At the four-day event, which will remain in situ until the 26th, visitors can watch the catwalk shows of the likes of Holly Fulton, and if they're in the mood for dancing, take in the sets of Fashion Week's resident DJs. (londonfashionweekend.co.uk)

Mary Queen of Parties
Mary Portas is throwing a party on Tuesday, and the best news? We're all invited. Customers attending the launch of Mary's latest collection for Clarks shoes - to be held in the flagship store on Oxford Street - are invited to sip a bespoke "Bloody Mary" cocktail while having a go at Mrs P's lucky dip. (From 6pm, 206 Oxford Street, W1)

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