If the thought of cult garments from Comme des Garçons, archive pieces from Martin Margiela and rare selects from Katharine Hamnett and Hussein Chalayan sends your heart rate off-kilter – there is a pop-up shop for you coming to Soho.
Introducing La Nausée, the e-commerce site specialising in collectable items picked for their ability to represent the designers and their time of design. That means cut out, black mesh shirts from Helmut Lang’s AW97 collection, bullseye printed jeans from Junya Watanabe’s 2007 collaboration with Levi’s and football quilted leather jackets by Jean Paul Gaultier circa 1987 only scrape the surface of the offering.
Harry Tibble and Ross McLeish are the men behind the choice selections. Tibble founded the company in 2020’s lockdown, and borrowed the name from the 1938 novel by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. He was reading the book at the time, and it captures the thought that goes into each piece purchased well; a skill he honed working at destination boutiques Machine-A and Dover Street Market.
“Things started to pick up a lot quicker than expected. I brought on Ross [McLeish], my now partner in the business who has had similar experience to me in the field, and two years on we’ve recently moved into our first studio in Camberwell,” Tibble says.
During Paris Fashion Week in June, the pair tested their popular digital boutique on the ground with a two day pop-up in the city’s 3rd Arrondissement. “It was extremely successful,” he says. “We got to see the support from not only friends but the wider audience too, with individuals travelling far and wide to come to see our selection. This only pushed us on more.”
Next stop, London. 28 – 30 October will see La Nausée head to 9 Walkers Court, Soho, to host a mecca of over 300 vintage men’s and womenswear pieces from the star labels of 1980s through to the 2000s. “Ever since starting my job five years ago in Soho I’ve been intrigued by the idea of having my own space,” says Tibble. “Soho was the goal and now it’s so exciting it is really happening!”
You can expect more than just rails. The La Nausée team have been at work creating an installation inspired by the editorial shoot tear sheets from past decades, and pride themselves on the sense of community and expert advice you can experience inside.
Ultimately, go for the one off’s you might stumble across though. As their website tagline proudly reads, it’s “clothing so good it’ll make you nauseous.”
