Late Night Chameleon Cafe

No, they do not serve sandwich or coffee here, but they do feed you with the most amazing collections of menswear and womenswear by my favorite designers: Rick Owens, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten and Haider Ackermann, as well as emerging talents like Yang Li, Ava Catherside and Independent Sentiment (LN-CC introduced J.W Anderson way before people knew him through the Topshop collaboration, btw) and several underground Japanese street wear that are worth looking at, namely Sasquatchfabrix and Sunsea.

LN-CC AW12 002

LN-CC AW12 002

LN-CC AW12 002

LN-CC AW12 002

Wait no, I'm getting the focus wrong. I intend to share their music in this post (will blog about my awkward visit there later, maybe). So, LN-CC is not another ordinary luxury fashion boutique. It is a concept store that brings design, fashion and music together and merges them into what we see now as the core identity of LN-CC: progressive, creative, grunge and edgy. It carries some really interesting records (they call it organic music) of various genre, all by Japanese artists whose names I don't recognise (all of them exist before me). I did give it a try on the website and found some good ones.

But what i'm really into is their own in-house recording label which produces pretty sick remixes from the collaborations with great underground music. The tracks sound weird, but in a mind blowing way. I'm always in confusion if it's acoustic, techno, avant garde, psychedelic rock, prog, jazz or just a fusion of everything. The music gives a sense of disorientation yet there is an interestingly uniform vibe coming out from the tunes. Esotericism? A little. Do check out their latest work here.

These are on the top of my playlist at the moment.

I'm adding a vinyl player on my to-get-list.

Rollin' out,
Py


Photo credit: LN-CC