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City feature: London - Camden
Camden is one of the key alternative areas in London, long associated for it's various markets, alternative clothing shops & clubs. Each weekend you can find up to 100,000 visitors descending on the markets & shops making it one of the largest market areas in the UK.
From the stables market to the electric ballroom market, you can find a huge variety of alternative styled items whatever your personal tastes. Alt fashion took to the streets of Camden to see the latest additives to the area & to capture the shops & markets on a weekend.
First stop would be the electric ballroom market
you can't miss it as soon you leave the tube station you can see the posters leading you into the purple building. Only open on weekends you can find a mixture of clothing, cd's & records over the saturday with a clothing & accessory market over the sunday. There is a vast mixture of clothing mostly vintage, gothic & punk.
Next stop is the camden market, despite it's name this is not the main market. It is an area of small outdoor market stalls selling a variety of items from clothing, cd's, footwear & jewellery.

You can find the market open throughout the week but with more stalls open during the weekend.
As you walk back along the high street you'll find a huge mixture of shops providing you don't get distracted by the huge motifs outside the buildings!
Some of the first shops along the high street are:
Darkside

Providing a variety of branded gothic clothing from the likes of sdl, raven, xs punk & underground shoes.
Criminal damage, A recently opened store stocking their current ranges from baggy jeans, electro-punk designed dresse's, spiderwebbed shirts & tees.
Scorpion shoes & boots, One of the many shoe shops you'll find along the high street stocking alternative branded footwear from new rocks,

underground shoes, dr martens & tuk.
But before you can even glance at the other shops you'll find the canal market which is one of the smallest markets with the entrance tucked inbetween the canal bridge & shops.
Here you can find some select stalls selling band merch & incense alongside a few shops including one of the few punkyfish stalls in camden this being the largest with 2 floors & eye candy a plenty throughout the store.
Leaving the canal market you can find some more shops including:
Punk glamour

A newly opened store selling some fantastic vivienne westwood-esque designs from tee's to jumpers & skirts.
Punkyfish
A smaller store concentrating on their more mainstream styled items from legwarmers, short skirts & jeans.
After dark fashions

Stocking a mixture of gothic & cyber-esque wear from corsets, tees, elegant skirts & cyber trousers.
Shortly after you'll find the entrance to the camden lock market & the market building. This is the market that started it all in 1972 with a range of bohemian stalls, nowadays you can find a range of arts & crafts stalls, jewellery, incense, clothing & some food & drink stalls further down the lock.
You can also find hidden away in one corner of the market Fairy goth mother

Selling some of the range of corsets on their site from polka dot to chinese silk corsets alongside jewellery & clothing.
Walking back you can find the stables market which you'll notice by the huge row of food stalls on the entrance. A converted victorian horse hospital you can find lots of winding rows full of market stalls & shops. Some of the shops in the stables include:
Underworld clothing, Stocking some more branded gothic & alternative clothing from corsets to hoodies to bags & short skirts.
Hexagon, A cyber clothing shop with added uv lighting, you can find some more individual designed t-shirts here.
Pink fluffy, A huge corset filled shop you can find deadlygirlz & freyagushi corsets in here.
Cyberdog, The huge camden branch is an alcove of clothing, when you first walk in you can find their manic panic counter & couch jewellery with the dj in what was the chill-out area. In each alcove is men's & women's clothing alongside uv jewellery & bags.