Hide away your fashion faux pas and tidy up your room, because September is when the world’s fashionistas and trendy design crowds descend on London to tell us what to wear and how to decorate our houses.

This year’s 100% Norway exhibition at 100% Design, Earls Court, showcases the latest of Norwegian textiles, porcelain and glassware design. Around 20 designers have been invited to take part and there will be numerous exclusive world launches at the show.

If you haven’t already seen it, head down to the new Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, which is designed by Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen from Snøhetta.

Finally, Norwegian fashion designers Kristian Aadnevik and Hilde Rubecksen both return to London Fashion Week to show their new collections. And for film lovers, don’t miss the award-winning ‘Reprise’ which screens at two cinemas in London. Whatever you do, enjoy it!

Last year, visitors to 100% Norway were treated to a spectacular show of the best of Norwegian design from cutting edge architecture to citybike schemes. For 2007 the show goes from macro to micro, zooming in to take a closer look at the elements that make this country one of the world’s most exciting centres for design and creativity. [+] Read more

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, designed by the award-winning Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen, of the architectural practice Snøhetta, and the acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson, opened on 24 August. The timber-clad structure resembles a spinning top and brings a dramatic vertical dimension to the more usual single-level pavilion. [+] Read more

Award-winning Norwegian film 'Reprise', which was selected for last year's London Film Festival, will screen at two London cinemas for a week in September. 'Reprise' is a film about friendship, madness and creativity, about love and sorrow, great ambitions and the often unpleasant clash between youthful presumptions and reality. [+] Read more

Donatella Versace's new protégé, Norwegian fashion designer Kristian Aadnevik, is back with a new collection at the London Fashion Week. adnevik has already established himself as an up-and-coming designer and achieved enough attention in the fashion press to attract Versace’s attention. 
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Design duo rubecksen yamanaka, which consist of Norwegian womenswear designer Hilde Rubecksen and Japanese knitwear designer Tomoko Yamanaka, are presenting their new collection for spring/summer 2008 during London Fashion Week. The collection is inspired by Victorian bisque dolls and artists Louise Bourgeois and Hans Bellmer. [+] Read more

A Serbian stand-up comedian, a Kosovan human trafficking victim, a Bosnian actor, a Norwegian journalist and a Balkan Mafioso, all escaping, all pursuing fragile dreams in London, are the characters in the Cherub Company’s new theatre production ‘Fragile!’. The company has as its mission to nurture, develop and produce non-British dramatic works in the UK. [+] Read more

Kjetil Thorsen, the Norwegian architect behind this year’s Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens is one of the participants in an event which explores the architecture of the Pavilion. The event is part of the Serpentine Gallery’s Park Nights programme which runs throughout the autumn every Friday night.
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Norwegian pop five-piece, Popium, whose debut single 'Anchor Down' was selected as BBC Radio 2’s single of the week this summer, are back in the UK for several concerts. Their two album releases in Norway have brought sales over 100,000 copies, two Norwegian Grammy Nominations and songs on Hollywood films. [+] Read more

Based on the Oscar-nominated Norwegian cult film, Simon Bent’s hilarious adaptation of ‘Elling’ now moves to the Trafalgar Studios, Whitehall, following its sell-out success this spring at the Bush Theatre. Meet Elling and Kjell Bjarne, the odd couple of the dysfunctional world. Given a flat in the centre of Oslo by social services, their mission is to re-assimilate themselves back into society. [+] Read more

From the record 1,870 entries received for the prestigious BP Portrait Award, Ingolv Helland is one of only 60 artists chosen to take part in an exhibition showcasing the best works that were entered. The Portrait Award, now in its 28th year, is a highly successful annual event aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon, and develop, the theme of painted portraiture within their work. [+] Read more

Visit 100% Norway during the 100% Design exhibition at Stand K4 and you could be the lucky winner of the Polar lamp designed by Fido. The Polar lamp is an organically shaped mouth-blown glass lamp. The organic shape of the lamp is inspired by two poles which meet, and the expression is related to the meeting point and the dynamics between air and water, or water and ice.  [+] Read more

The Royal Norwegian Embassy produces a monthly online newsletter which lists new and exciting events involving Norwegian artists and professionals. This year, one lucky newsletter subscriber and a friend will be sent to Norway for a stylish weekend break in Oslo. Find out how you could be heading north...
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