WE ARE OPEN
Aro Archive French Place is back open, with a shop full of pre-owned designer pieces from #CommeDesGarçons, #JilSander, #RafSimons, #RickOwens, #SimoneRocha, Undercover and many more. Check our stories highlights for available products, and anyone new here…
We are Aro Archive.
We specialise in Japanese, Belgian, French and British designer clothing.
We sell Womens, Mens and Unisex pre-owned clothes.
We also sell books, objects, furniture and jewellery.
We offer consignment services and inclusive buying options.
Our Shoreditch shop is open every day.
MON-SAT 10-6
& SUN 11-5
Aro Archive
1-3 French Place
London E1 6JB
WE ARE OPEN!
To celebrate the end of a fantastic first year at French Place and the start of an exciting new one, introducing the Aro Archive staff yearbook!
Kicking off is Big Boss @ariana.waiata who steers the ship at Aro Archive; our ferocious leader still hand selects the pieces in the store and archive, welcomes your lovely faces in store each weekend and continues to be the beating heart of our company and its surrounding community.
Help us select Ariana’s yearbook “most likely to”…
Here Ariana wears vintage black polka-dot clown onesie and black leather Marc Jacobs Kiki boots 🤡
Photography @director.of.doom
Styling @iammattking
Make Up @martinaderosa_mua
Hair @erika_kmr
ARIANA IS MOST LIKELY TO…
WELCOME TO ARO ARCHIVE, FRENCH PLACE
We are a pre-owned fashion company specialising in avant-garde Japanese, Belgian, French, and British designers.
Our new Shoreditch store is located at 1-3 French Pl, E1 6JB .
We are open 7 days a week, Mon-Sat 10-6 and Sundays 11-5.
Come visit us to get your hands on some of the best archive Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake, Comme des Garçons, Margiela, Prada, Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Junya Watanabe, Raf Simons, Stone Island, and more.
Photos by John Munro.
@numero13paris x @esco.paris x @aroarchive , all together in London!
A week-long installation featuring rare archive pieces fresh from Paris and a curated selection with Aro Archive.
Join us for the Launch party on Thursday, May 21st from
6:30 to 9pm.
See you there!
POP-UP:
22.05.25 — 28.05.25
Monday to Saturday — 10am to 6pm
Sunday — 11am to 5pm
1-3 French Place
London E1 6JB
Appointment ready at Aro Archive!
The archive is a 12,000 piece collection of Japanese, French and Belgian designs. Used as a research and inspiration facility for design houses, museums and institutes. Based in Dalston, London.
To book your appointment email Joseph our archive manager on [email protected]
The most Beautiful flowers by @theogoffeflowers 🌱
It’s that time of year again… it’s a deal, it’s a steal, it’s the return of our annual SUPER SALE starting on Wednesday the 1st of April! (don’t be a fool) 💖💙💚
Here’s your chance to get your hands on some of the best archive designer pieces at up to 75% OFF, from Ann D to Yohji and everything in between 🛒🛒🛒
See you at 1-3 French Pl, E1 6JB
&
196 Upper St, N1 1RG
From 10am on Wednesday the 1st of April
✨RESTOCK EVERYDAY ✨
No preview ⚠️ be first in the queue 🎀🐬🧃
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED❣️‼️❣️
WE ARE HIRING!
1 x 6 Months Social Media Cover (with the possibility to come on board full time)
1 x Part Time or Full Time Sales Associate
Requirements
2+ Years Experience in a fast-pace environment
Start date - ASAP
As an indigenous, woman-owned company, Bipoc, women, queer and older people to the front!
Applications close on the 16th of March 2026
Send CV, Cover letter and an example of a favourite piece of work you’ve done to:
[email protected]
Aro Archive Angels and some stolen story memories!
It’s hard to remember all the sweet moments between the stress, but you guys make it worth it!
We love our beautiful customers 💕💕💕
FROM THE ARCHIVE : ORIGINAL PUNK T-SHIRTS
All available to purchase in store or by dm!
1. Mistress & Slave Bondage Comic Collage SLess Print T-Shirt £425.00
2. Screen Stars Clothes for Dissidents Sex is Fashion, Fashion is Sex Mirrored Print T-Shirt £645.00
3. Jimmy Always Carries A Knife Leather Daddy Print T-Shirt
£725.00
4. Oh! Up Yours Bondage Bound & Gagged Print T-Shirt
£445.00
5. Clothes for Dissidents Foot Worship Double Print T-Shirt
£745.00
6. Artistique et Sentimental BITCH Whip Mistress & Bound Sub Print T-Shirt £545.00
7. Mistress & Slave Bondage Print w/Chained Anatomical Heart T-Shirt £365
8. Artistique et Sentimental S&M SLAVE Print Cut Off T-Shirt
£1,125.00
9. Artistique et Sentimental Bauhaus Cut Off Print T-Shirt £1,225.00
10. Screen Stars “Fuck Art Lets Dance” Print T-Shirt £445.00
11. So You Want Some Rubba Luv Mistress Print T-Shirt £485.00
12. Haven’t listed yet lol but black multi print vest £445.00
13. Moral Sex Felating Priest Print T-Shirt £445.00
14. Charles Manson Mug Shot & Sharon Tate Autopsy Print T-Shirt £665.00
15. If It Aint Stiff It Aint Worth A Fuck Print T-Shirt £545.00
16. BDSM Lucy Comic Print T-Shirt £245.00
17. Clothes for Dissidents Masked & Bound Together Print T-Shirt £645.00
18. Vivienne Westwood Malcolm McLaren "Cambridge Rapist" print Seditionaries Repro T-Shirt £345.00
19. Screen Stars Clothes for Dissidents Sex is Fashion, Fashion is Sex Print T-Shirt £725.00
20. Frankie Says Relax BANNED Print T-Shirt £625.00