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One more place to see in London while you search for original fashion pieces is definitely The Laden Showroom. Situated in the heart of Shoreditch in east London, the store concept is to support and promote independent fashion designers and to showcase British fashion. Everything is in the details: bows, prints, versatile textiles, detachable collars… The shop is full of surprises like those fun and colored hangers or those polaroid pictures scattered here and there.

The Laden Showroom
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You probably already know the retro camera of choice: adorned with pyramids and palm trees, leopard and zebras, colored dots… It brings us back to this time when photography was embracing lucky accidents, weird photo moods and strange points of view. Though I had already started to play with Octomat and multi-lenses, spectrum of colors, and adore the polaroid-like photos and square formats, I was amazed by the Lomography shop In the Newburgh Quarter just off Carnaby Street in Soho.
 A wall covered with 14,000 Lomographs, designed cameras everywhere, plenty of books and crafted cardboard replicas.
I enjoyed the atypical shopping experience and the friendly atmosphere in the shop.

Lomography Website
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Textures, prints, extravagant colors, Japanese pendants, huge bows and plastic, Irregular Choice is definitely one creative brand of shoes. Though the associations of all those words with a shoe could sound synonymous to an un-wearable piece of fashion, This brand is here to make each shoe in their shop into a wearable and original statement piece for your wardrobe. It’s fresh and different and anti-conformist and it looks great every time.  
I fell in love with this British brand and once I got the authorization, I hysterically took hundreds of pictures in the shop. 
Take a look at Irregular Choice’s comics-like website! They have an online store with all the collection.

Irregular Choice Online
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A few weeks ago, I spotted @work shop in Brick Lane here. The owners Joanna and Adele kindly let me come back and share with you a bit more about their selected jewelries. 
The collections are chosen with a taste for the unusual and the shop is full of attractive statement pieces like those Flavie Michou dead heads rings with their movable jaw or like the white animals collection by Hao Shi.
If you search for conceptual and uncommon jewelry don’t hesitate to pop in.

At Work Website
Pictures by 1TwistedSquare

Just came back from a week in beautiful London! I think I arrived in England in the rainiest week possible. On the one hand it was grey and depressing, but on the other hand, it was hilarious seeing how the wind turned umbrellas inside out every 10 meters and bins full of them. I can’t wait to share with you all the cool stuff that I discovered! 
Until the next posts about it, here are some general shots including the picture of Emmali, a charming woman that I met near Oxford Circus and chased like a stalker to get a shot of her cool style.

Pictures by 1TwistedSquare

Just came back from Art Brussels, an annual contemporary art fair now at its 30th year, which brings together hundreds of art galleries from all over the world under one roof.
It’s the Martinaesbaek gallery from Copenhagen that caught my eyes with its digital photomontages by Martin Liebscher.
This Berlin-based artist creates infinite self portraits in different environments. Here he filled up an entire theater with thousands of different representations of himself.
We can debate for hours over the heavy subjects: vanity, loss of identity, diversity of the self. I personally enjoyed the playful “where’s Wally?” effect, It was amusing to search for all the different behaviors in the frame. Two Martins talking, another one adjusting the light… I leave you to discover the details for yourself.


Exhibition: Art Brussels
Gallery: Martinaesbaek Gallery
Artist: Martin Liebscher