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Of attic and shoebox studios: Young creatives take up residence in under-the-radar corners
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Rent woes and profit motivations vary among the ones who have set out to build them in the city’s overlooked and underused spots.
PHOTOS: MARK CHEONG, ATTIC____SPACE/INSTAGRAM
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SINGAPORE – Until recently, there was nothing to announce the shop’s presence. To hit upon the trove of archival Comme des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto and Issey Miyake designs that are the goods of Gen Z-run boutique Upstairs Garments, interested buyers would first have had to know it was there.
A sandwich board at the foot of its Tanjong Pagar shophouse front now takes care of that. But the uninitiated must still work to spy the narrow doorway between an ice cream parlour and a Korean barbecue joint, then take the stairs to the top, only to arrive, perplexed, at a spartan office space.
