'Shops like this give some people the shakes. You could always hang around outside of course, ogling one of Jessica Ogden's destroyed jackets'.

Or so I wrote about The Pineal Eye of Broadwick Street, Soho, London, back in February 1999 for PiL magazine. But if the grand, vaccuous flight of stairs leading into the basement store put you off going in ... or was it the imperious sales staff, or the ultra-mega-hard European fashion(?) ... it just got a helluva lot harder. 

This photo should go some way to proving many of the 'end-of-an-era' speculations currently circulating on the web.  Then again, it could just be the best anti-fashion shop window ever.   Fashion is delusory, beauty is in the pineal eye of the beholder (I think that's what Georges Bataille meant). 

Winking, mooning ... or plain dead to the world? -  I'll let you interpret the image yourself.  And talking of fashion (weren't we?) .... a bumper fashion auction on its way this September including academic titles, photo-books and knitting patterns.  Knitting patterns ... yes, the hardest fashion of all (for only a true knit bothers to spend hours and a fortune creating socks they could have bought at a fraction of the price - like I said, mega-hard these knitters).

To Let sign, Broadwick Street / Jap Pack article / PiL Magazine cover, February 1999