The partnership between Charmskool’s Alexandra Houston and Torture Garden’s Charlotte TG that brought us ten years of Le Boutique Bazaar afternoons is about to unveil a new event for London that they’ve christened The Sunday Slick.

It will launch on Sunday May 10 at For Your Eyes Only, the Shoreditch club on City Road where LBB’s pop-up shopping/socialising Sundays moved after losing original Shoreditch home McQueen due to venue refurbishment.

Ironically, LBB was made homeless again, soon after celebrating its tenth birthday at FYEO on December 1 2024, when its new home also announced it was closing temporarily for refurbishment.

As the months of 2025 rolled by, hopes that LBB would return to FYEO after its refurbishment began to recede, amid rumours that the new venue layout had reduced the usable exhibitor space to below what was financially viable for LBB to continue there.

However, when we learnt that the capital’s new kink fest, Fetish Weekend London, would be staging a two-day fetish fair hosted by Charmskool at the refurbished FYEO this Easter, hopes of a return there by LBB were rekindled.

So, given the news announced last week that the LBB hosts were indeed returning to FYEO in May, the obvious question that needed asking was: why were they doing so under a new event name?

The answer, of course, is because The Sunday Slick is a new event. it’s not simply the return of Le Boutique Bazaar.

ALEXANDRA: People consistently said they really missed LBB’s social side (photo: Hyder Images)

Explains Alexandra: “I guess the main thing is that LBB was simply a giant market — there wasn’t really much else on offer.

“Towards the end [in December 2024] the attendance and spending on stalls was definitely dropping, as most people just aren’t in the same financial position as they once were, and people buy less and more intentionally these days.”

Added to this of course was the fact that in February 2025, Houston launched her Charmskool Showroom in Shadwell, London E1 — a project that was clearly going to make big demands on her time, especially during its most vulnerable early months.

“But what we’d heard consistently since LBB ended,” she continues, “was that people really missed the social side of it, and the opportunity to dress up to the nines during reasonable hours.”

Thus the duo decided the wanted to “evolve the concept into an entirely new kind of event”, retaining the same team, venue and