The pink bear on a lit retail shelf, boxes stacked behind it.

The shop · by origin

Where it is from is the first thing about it.

The shop is arranged by country rather than by category, because a Taipei illustrator's acrylic and a Tokyo capsule charm are not the same object. Four origins, and the maker named on every card.

The four origins

Where it all comes from
Or the clothes →
The laced half-zip set worn in a studio, pink ribbon through black.

Designed in Britain

One of the four shelves is ours.

The wardrobe · drawn here, made here

Three of these shelves come from makers abroad. The fourth is drawn in Britain and made in Britain, because a shop that makes its own pieces should say which ones they are.

The wardrobe

In the shop

Finished, priced, photographed
The clothes →

Every price on this page includes UK delivery. There is nothing further to pay when the parcel arrives.

From Japan

日本から

The deepest part of the shop: capsule charms, sealed figures, flat goods and the snacks that never leave the prefecture that makes them.

The one everyone knows, done properly.

The pink bear on a lit shelf.
JP / 01
Blind-box figures

Sealed series figures, the category that built this whole market. Licensed, and with the maker named on the card.

The pink bear in a warm library interior.
JP / 02
Gachapon charms

Capsule charms and phone straps, the small things that come back from a Japanese arcade in a coat pocket.

03 Flat goods
JP / 03
Acrylic standees and can badges

Flat goods: standees that stand up on a desk, badges that go on a bag. Character goods at their most collectable and their least expensive.

04 Stationery
JP / 04
Washi tape and regional snacks

Stationery, and the prefecture-only sweets that never leave the country they are made in.

From Taiwan

台灣來的

The uncontested one. Taiwanese illustrators and design studios whose work has never had a British shop to sit in.

The one nobody else in Britain has.

Studio portrait in low light.
TW / 01
Illustrator acrylics

Work by Taiwanese illustrators, where the name on the card is the name on the art.

Portrait with twin tails against neon.
TW / 02
Beaded phone charms

Hand-strung charms out of the Taipei design shops off the main streets.

03 By weight
TW / 03
Sticker flakes

Loose die-cut flakes sold by weight, the way the stationery shops in Taipei actually sell them.

04 Studio-made
TW / 04
Design stationery

Notebooks, washi and desk objects out of the studios, not out of a licensing catalogue.

From Korea

한국에서

Photocards, albums, lightsticks and the small things that live around them.

The one that arrives with a fandom attached.

01 Collectable
KR / 01
Photocards and albums

Official pressings and the cards that come inside them. No signed items and no stories about who touched what.

02 Official
KR / 02
Lightsticks and small goods

Official merchandise - the kind built to survive being held over a crowd for three hours.

Designed in Britain

Our own

Our own pieces, drawn here and made here. The name is woven into the neck tape rather than printed across the chest.

Drawn here, made here.

Portrait on a stairwell.
UK / 01
The laced half-zip set

A cropped black half-zip laced through with pink satin ribbon, over a pinned wrap skirt. The outfit the whole brand was shot in.

02 In the wardrobe
UK / 02
The rest of the wardrobe

Outerwear, jersey and the pieces that come after this one - all of it drawn here and made here.

About these categories

Every card names the country a piece comes from and the maker or studio behind it, before it says anything else. If we cannot say where something came from, we do not carry it - which is why this shop is arranged by origin and not by price.

Not sure where to start?

Start with where a thing is from.

Four origins, and the maker named on every card. It is the fastest way to meet a maker you have not met before, and it is the only way this one is arranged.

The four origins

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