With the depressing demise of Matches you might well be pondering where to spend your hard earned cash on thrilling designer drops now. Fear not. Just in time, Shacklewell Lane institution LN-CC is reopening its actual doors (having closed in March 2020) having had a very cool, colour-drenched makeover by set designer Gary Card (who oversaw the store’s first incarnation in 2010). The concept store is being reborn, at least in E8, anyway.
It is an interesting bet on bricks and mortar at a time when London’s retail creativity is seriously under threat. Aside from Matches, there are industry murmurs about how long Browns can survive after its parent company FarFetch was saved at the last minute from insolvency at the end of last year.
