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Screamingly stylish
stumbles across Screaming in Ximending An uninformed shopper whoand windbreakersconfused. Racks of acid( ) could be forgiven for feeling a bit washed jeans, vintage sweaters, with geometrical patterns
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in bright colors dominate one corner of the basement boutique. Across the room, George Cox's Seditionaries Anti-christ boots are arranged next to spiked leather wristbands. A line of 1950s-style tiered petticoats hang from the ceiling. "It's hard to describe the store in terms of one single style or genre … It's like a girl who wears a 1950s-style dress paired with a corset and fur neck wrap. She simply uses the items she can find, whether they're secondhand or designer brands, to create a feel, a style," says shop owner Li Sui-chun (李穗均), better known as Risk. An ultimate scenester himself, Risk wears a different but always cuttingedge outfit every time I visit the boutique. One that particularly stood out involved billowy, lavender trousers with black polka-dots, a retro black T-shirt with wolves printed on the front, a zebra-print wind jacket and spiky hair dyed yellow on one side and black on the other.
For Li Sui-chun, avant-garde hipster and owner of the Screaming clothing boutique in Ximending, there is no such thing as unfashionable
Like many avant-garde hipsters in the country, Risk grew up nourishing his fashion sense on Japanese magazines such as Street, Tune and Fruits, which pioneered the field of street photography in Japan. Now he also follows street fashion blogs and Web sites such as www.dropsnap.jp and streetpeeper.com. Adjectives like outrageous and extreme are often used to describe the looks caught on street snaps. But for people like Risk, clothing is a form of creativity and self-expression that is independent of mainstream conventions. "What matters is who you are and the idea and message you want to express through what you put on your body," the 28-year-old says, "[Indie-rock band] LTK Commune (浊水溪公社) wear very down-to-earth clothes. It's cool because it reflects who they are." At Screaming, individuality is everything. The interior is decked out with items from Risk's personal collection. Butterfly specimens and fake deer heads adorn one wall. A Sid Vicious action figure stands next to Johnny Rotten's autobiography and a Billy Idol vinyl record. Plastic ET dolls and figurines add a playful mood, while vintage televisions and boomboxes bring retro chic to the mix.

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