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Formerly the UK/Ivy Style menswear concept store of Los Angeles called The Bloke, Brilliant Corners emerges from the fog of global box stores, Ai dominated e-comm and faceless imitation to reconsider retail - one email at a time. The War On Monoculture.
This Substack newsletter is an unfolding composite of the tastes, observations and authority of its writers. Our interests are found not only in these pages, but also in our initial online vintage and NOS store with occasional pop-ups & products.
“A genius is the one most like himself” - Thelonius Monk
Here’s a bird’s-eye view of the subjects you can expect >