From going out to galleries, eating out to entertainment, the in-crowd gives us their recommendations

Fred Butler is an east London-based designer who makes 'wearable sculpture', creating colourful and unusual accessories that are popular with pop stars like Beth Ditto and Lady Gaga (remember the telephone hat? That was Fred's). She is also a keen blogger.

There’s a pop-up restaurant called Zoe's Ghana Kitchen and she does supper clubs in different locations in London with Ghanian food and really nice decorations. The first one I went to was part of the Studio Africa project by Diesel and now she lets me know ever time she’s doing one.

I’ll be having a few drinks at Pelicans & Peacocks on Stoke Newington High Street. It’s a boutique but they’ve converted the downstairs into a proper little rum shack. It’s beautiful – they’re really good at transforming spaces. I really like the people who run it; it’s a second-hand shop and it’s kind of curated so it’s all within an aesthetic that they like, so it’s quite exotic and highly patterned.   

I love seeing degree shows because of my blog. I like profiling new, emerging artists. I like giving exposure to people that others might not have picked up on. This weekend, I’m going to the University of Salford’s fashion image making and styling degree show at the Neu Gallery and the Middlesex University fashion communication show at The Gallery in Redchurch Street. 

The milliners Piers Atkinson and Noel Stewart are hosting Hackney Milliners Present Summer Hat Shop at The Hackney Shop on 99 Morning Lane. I wear a lot of hats myself and I like going to these sample sales because you can pick up one-off pieces at a cheaper price. It’s nice for the public to meet the designers too; you wouldn’t get that if you went to a department store to get a fascinator for a wedding.

On Saturday night, I’ll be going to Work It at Concrete on Shoreditch High Street. Some very good friends of mine started this night five years ago playing 1990s hip-hop and R’n’B. Nowhere else was playing that kind of music then and they just started off in a tiny club in Dalston and it became a phenomenon. It’s quite a big deal now, it’s the best place to dance, there are nice relaxed people and it’s just good fun. My favourite 1990s tune is This Is How We Do It by Montell Jordan!     

I don’t cook at the weekends because I go to my aunt’s every Sunday for dinner. I’m terrible. You start off with a soup and a salad and then she does a roast and she used to be a cookery teacher so she always does some kind of pudding, chocolate or sponge pudding or something like that, and then you have chocolates and then she remembers that she’s made a fruitcake and brings that in. And you can’t leave without her giving you a load of food too.