Accessory shopping in London
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Monocle Shop
Run by the people behind the design and international current affairs magazine Monocle, this shop is pure understated heaven. True, most things cost more than many spend in a year, but if you’re a fan of minimalist, quality design across the board (there are bicycles, clothes, bags and so on), you won’t regret dropping in. Beautifully bound first editions are on sale here, as well as stunning photography.
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Tatty Devine
Duo Harriet Vine and Rosie Wolfenden make hip and witty jewellery that’s become the favourite of many young Londoners. Their original designs feature record earrings and plectrum bracelets (that high-street stores have ripped off since), pea necklaces, knitted stilettos, and key rings that look like crinkle-cut crisps. Perspex name necklaces (made to order; £25) are also a treat.
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Tatty Devine
Duo Harriet Vine and Rosie Wolfenden make hip and witty jewellery that’s become the favourite of many young Londoners. Their original designs feature record earrings and plectrum bracelets (that high-street stores have ripped off since), pea necklaces, knitted stilettos, and key rings that look like crinkle-cut crisps. Perspex name necklaces (made to order; £25) are also a treat.
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Oxo Tower
The Oxo Tower was originally built as a power station and then later used as a cold store for the beef that was boiled up to make Oxo stock cubes. Today it contains an upscale shopping arcade, with two floors of bijou craft and fashion shops and an exclusive restaurant looking out from the 8th floor (predictably, you pay a premium for the view).
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James Smith & Sons
James Smith & Sons ‘Outside every silver lining is a big black cloud’, claim the cheerful owners of this quintessential English shop. Nobody makes and stocks such elegant umbrellas, walking sticks and canes as this traditional place, and thanks to bad English weather, they’ll hopefully do great business for years to come.
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Lesley Craze Gallery
Considered one of Europe’s leading centres for arty, contemporary jewellery, this gallery has exquisitely understated, and sometimes pricey, metal designs. There’s also a smaller selection of mixed-media bangles, brooches, rings and the like (to the right of the main door), where prices start from about £20.
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Wright & Teague
The Wright & Teague gold charm bracelets are absolutely ravishing, as are its elegant silver and gold bangles, long necklaces and rings for men and women. What’s more, many are very affordable. The couple met while studying at St Martins School of Art more than 20 years ago and have been together ever since.
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Prowler
Prowler’s flagship Soho store is a gay shopping mecca selling books, magazines, clothes and ‘lifestyle accessories’. There’s also a discreet ‘adult’ section with the usual array of DVDs and magazines, but the overall feel is of a respectable gay department store.
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Butler & Wilson
There’s a sybaritic 1920s Shanghai vibe to Butler & Wilson’s central branch, where costume jewellery, handbags, T-shirts and knick-knacks are sold beneath red Chinese lanterns, watched by Chinese shop dummies. The Chelsea store has a large collection of retro dresses, too.
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Butler & Wilson Chelsea
There’s a sybaritic 1920s Shanghai vibe to Butler & Wilson’s central branch, where costume jewellery, handbags, T-shirts and knick-knacks are sold beneath red Chinese lanterns, watched by Chinese shop dummies.
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Bang Bang Exchange
Got some designer pieces you’re tired of? Bang Bang exchanges, buys and sells vintage pieces, proving the saying ‘One girl’s faded Prada dress is another girl’s top new wardrobe piece’.
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