A COUPLE of events that are worth looking out for this week:

First up photographer Zoe Richards is giving a talk on fashion through the ages with special reference to paintings and sculpture in The Walker's collection. It's at 1pm. Places are free of charge but limited so book ahead on 0151 794 6900.

STEPHEN KING's amazing images of Lewis's hidden fifth floor, which were displayed at the National Conservation Centre in 2009, are going on display at the Orange Dot Gallery in Bloomsbury, London. They give a snapshot of a lost way of life - when shopping was an real experience rather than a push and shove contest.

He records the beautiful old-fashioned lifts, hair salons complete with those funny space-age bubble hairdryers and a room filled with pink Christmas trees. It's deliciously kitsch and leaves you nostalgic for an era beyond your own lifetime.

As the Liverpool department store is now closed, these photographs have become even more historically significant - a rare snapshot of a proud shopping emporium that kept its doors open for 150 years despite Luftwaffe bombings, radically changing lifestyles and tough trading conditions.

Lewis's Fifth Floor: A Department Story runs from March 18 to April 23, 2011.

THIS amazing image is part of an exhibition of rare photographs depicting the influence of Italian style on film opening at FACT today.

Co-curated by celebrated photographer Rankin and fashion commentator Anna Battista, the exhibition will explore the relationship between Italian fashion design and its continual influence on film making, image making and characterisation.

KEVIN CASEY'S Closing Time exhibition of photographs of defunct Liverpool pubs is launching at Milk and Sugar gallery, within RIBA, tonight - an interesting venue for a show about lost/crumbling architecture.

Here is my interview with him from yesterday's Daily Post with a few more pictures from the exhibition.