This article is from WeChat official account:BIE other (ID: biede_) , author: BIE else, the original title: “broke into one called” human “rabbit hole”, the title figure comes from: the original author courtesy
Last winter was the first time I went to Xiamen. In my impression, this is a slightly warm city.
There is always a long line in front of the food stalls of Internet celebrities, but the chefs who cook are always in a hurry, and everyone also responds to this leisurely pace with the utmost patience. Some shacha noodle shops closed in the afternoon because “the shop faces west and it is too dry in the afternoon.”
There are roadside stalls, flower and bird markets, art markets, handmade leather goods, cat coffee, and bakeries that can be seen everywhere on the island. There are countless people living in Xiamen who are entering at their own pace.A kind of slow And a leisurely life. And these urban spaces composed of a large number of characteristic shops have created the most iconic atmosphere of humanistic life in Xiamen.
In Xiamen, the blue sky, white clouds, the sea and the undefeated flowers in all seasons can be seen everywhere, and even the overpasses are fresh mint colors. And most of the small shops I saw in Zengcuo’an and Shapowei are like this. The colors are nothing more than blue, green, green, pink, white and white, sometimes dotted with unintended rainbow elements.
As a tourist, when I was wandering around Shapowei, I accidentally saw a very different shop. The crowded colors were as if someone was playing a prank here and blowing up a palette.
This is a vintage store like a rabbit hole, its name is “Human Department Store”. The shop is full of various processed vintage and antique toys. The highly saturated colors are crowded together and it is very lively. It seems that the color is too crowded and there is noisy noise. Let it be in this quiet fishing port The trail is particularly conspicuous.
Please introduce yourself and the history of this store!
There are two founders of “Human Department Store”: Elephant and Jump.
None of us are natives of Xiamen. We are 95 years old and 93 years old. Our university is all majored in design. Although it is not fashion design, I am interested in it after being in contact for a long time, and I am studying hard~
Since I was fascinated by vintage clothes, I started to buy clothes myself, and then I kept collecting new things. I collected more and more things. I felt that they were a waste of lying in the closet, so I opened a shop and shared it with everyone. Thoughts.
In fact, we first met on the Internet because we had a mutual friend. Later, the elephant came back to Xiamen and officially met. It just so happens that we all like vintage, and we are also interested in making vintage, because we have the same hobbies, we opened the shop together. I started with a stall and a market, and later opened a Taobao store. The physical store only started in April 2017, and it has been almost four years now~
Left: Elephant/ Right: Jump
Why is it called “Human Department Store”?
The name of the store at the beginning was actually called “Human”. It took a down-to-earth word. I want everyone to come to the store to play in a comfortable and relaxed state.
17 years old store
19 new stores
Who are the two guys with headgear in the window at the door?
The headgear of the window model was bought by Taobao. There is nothing special, and no person or name was given to them. However, the red wall on the left is a male model, and the green wall on the right is a female model, corresponding to “red male and green female”.
What do you think is the biggest feature of this store?
The bits and pieces in the “world” are slowly arranged, although they have not yet been arranged in a satisfactory state.
We like colorful and weird things very much, so every corner is filled with colorful colors. Sometimes we can’t find a suitable display, so we can only remodel it ourselves. So the biggest feature should be that most of the decorations are Do it by hand.