If you are one of the few who hasn’t fled London this August take the opportunity to visit Buckingham Palace. The Queen’s residence is open to the public until the 27th September.

For fashion lovers the Jeanne Lanvin exhibition at Palais Galleria is in it’s final few weeks now. Working closely with Alber Elbaz it’s one of the first Paris retrospectives celebrating this revered fashion house and exhibits hundreds of pieces from across the years.

Currently on at MOMA in New York is Yoko Ono’s One Woman Show looking at her artwork from 1960 through to 1971. Including art pieces, installations & performance work be sure to see this if you are in NY this summer.

This summer you can combine both culture and the outdoors by heading to Central Park to watch longstanding tradition Shakespeare in The Park by the Public Theatre. It’s a pretty hard to lay your hands on tickets but see here for the best way to get them.

Polly Vernon’s new book ‘Hot Feminist’ has become my ultimate summer read. Funny and interesting it explores the idea of feminism whilst embracing real life aspects, if ever you thought you are a ‘bad feminist’ this one is for you.