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Walking past Selfridge's on Thursday I discovered that Yayoi Kusama is collaborating with Louis Vuitton on a clothing/accessories collection. Polka dots feature heavily, (unsurprisingly), and the Selfridge's window display is enjoyably bizarre and slightly creepy. It includes an army of tiny Kusamas and two photo-realistic mannequins.

Graffiti

Some shots from Leake Street.

I'm not sure if it's clear what's going on in these next pictures. There are headless plastic bodies with lightbulbs inside hanging from the roof of the railway arch. Obviously.

Snoooooood!

The last of the August knitting projects - a snood in a very fancy silk/mohair yarn with tiny gold beads. The yarn is Artyarns Beaded Rhapsody. It's a lovely yarn, really soft and lustrous, but it is prone to splitting at the slightest provocation. The pattern is a modified version of Persnickety Knitter's Zigzag Lace Scarf. Instead of knitting two sections and grafting them together to make a scarf, I knitted one long piece and grafted the ends together to make a snood. (There wasn't enough yarn for a satisfyingly long scarf.)