Check out the gallery-like Hoxton Boutique (2 Hoxton Street), stocking MM6, Hussein Chalayan and its own Hobo label.

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Martin's is the best-known fashion academy in the world, with graduates including McQueen, the threads-in-shreds hit Hussein Chalayan, the lush stylist Antonio Berardi and McQueen's Gucci stablemate, Stella McCartney, the daughter of Paul, the former Beatle.

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Similar technology, in the service of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen's sintering hallucinatory cuirasses of solidified computer math, yields splendid contemporary examples of that Schlemmerian impulse, as do the animatronic garments of designer Hussein Chalayan, mediated wearable installations that they are.

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