Dior presents its Fall 2021 show live from Shanghai Fashion Week, in one of the first physical fashion shows since the start of the pandemic. Shanghai’s Long Museum has been transformed into an immersive pop-inspired disco space, playing host to 1,000 lucky guests. The collection, inspired by the legendary Dior muse Mitzah Bricard and designer Elio Fiorucci, fuses classic Dior silhouettes with 80s glamour, with Fiorucci’s infamous leopard print taking centre stage.

Join John Waters, the filmmaker behind the 1988 film Hairspray and a raft of cult classics, as he sits down for a conversation via Zoom with Viktor Wynd. The interview, brought to us by The Last Tuesday Society’s Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, will delve into the life and work of the legendary director, exploring his eclectic interests and unique artistic sensibilities.

The Lisson Gallery is soon to play host to a hotly anticipated multimedia exhibition by the artist, filmmaker and writer John Akomfrah. The exhibition will feature a series of new photo-texts, alongside a three-screen centrepiece video installation. The work will offer a reflection on our collective consciousness, exploring ideas of race, ecological crisis, and the ideology of monuments.

This summer, Frieze founders Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, are set to launch their first restaurant, Toklas. The restaurant, which takes its name from the American avant-garde cookbook writer and partner of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, will be situated at 180 The Strand, adjacent to Frieze’s London HQ. Toklas will specialise in fresh and unpretentious fare, and will be accompanied by an in-house bakery and deli.

Learn how to create like Henri Matisse with the London Drawing Group. By mimicking some of the art world’s most renowned abstracts, this class will show you how to combine experimental painting techniques with simple cut out work, just like Matisse. Whether you’re aged 2 or ninety-two, this online tutorial is an easy-going lockdown pastime.

With retail due to reopen this April, the historical Burlington Arcade has partnered with the Saatchi Yates Gallery for a three month pop-up exhibition. The first to exhibit, Allez La France!, shares the works of four emerging artists Jin Angdoo, Hams Klemen, Kevin Pinsembert and Mathieu Julien, who explore French painting traditions whilst reflecting on shared experiences as young artists in Paris and Marseilles.

Browns introduces its first restaurant in collaboration with ethical dining pioneers, Native. This award-winning and zero-waste menu by Native will be available to dine al fresco this summer at Browns’s secret Courtyard garden in Mayfair. To sample a taste of these highly anticipated dishes ahead of the opening, order from Native At Home – a finish-at-home set menu for two, and remember to save space for Native’s specialty dessert, Marrowmel.

Episode two of Dior’s podcast series, Dior Untold, transports listeners to Christian Dior’s childhood home in Granville to meet some of the women that influenced Dior’s future aesthetic. It was during Christian Dior’s childhood that his fascination of elegance and femininity grew, with female figures like his mother Madeleine and muse Mitzah playing a formative role in driving his creative vision.

The Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA) is a free online art space curated by museum director Lee Cavaliere and artist Stuart Semple. Currently showing in Gallery One is Breaking into Colour – a celebration of colour and abstraction in modern and contemporary art, featuring works by Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, Piet Mondrian and more.

To mark World Refugee Day in June 2020, Gucci partnered with Artolution to create a series of Art Walls across Milan, New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Now the Florentine fashion house has unveiled a new #GucciArtWall in Milan’s Largo La Foppa. Inspired by the stylings of recent Gucci collaborator and ‘fashion gardener’, Ken Scott, the Art Wall is adorned with oversized botanical patterns and clashing colours. And best of all, it’s free for all to see.