Brick Lane feels less like one market and more like several moods stitched together. One doorway leads to records, the next to young makers, and outside the walls are already doing their own exhibition.
This is the place to buy with instinct rather than a shopping list. Follow the music, inspect the rails properly and leave space for something graphic, wearable or wonderfully impractical.
FIELD NOTE
Wear an outfit you can try jackets over. The best route zigzags between indoor halls and the side streets.
