This weekend, Seattle’s Punk Rock Flea Market will debut with an eclectic mix of music, food, arts and crafts, sneakers, skateboards, bondage gear, tattoos, prosthetic limbs, crystals, taxidermy, graffiti supplies, and fashion in its new short-term home on Capitol Hill’s 15th Ave E.

The market will now share the block with another interesting Seattle fashion concern settling in for an indeterminate amount of time on this Capitol Hill commercial strip lined up for big changes.

Thursday night, stylist Colton Winger and the team of fashion consultants that make up Cuniform debuted a new 15th Ave E brick and mortar home for the “personal and interiors styling agency.”

The new storefront includes fashion selections from the “CUNIFORMrecycled” second-hand collection, new designer creations, a small collection of home goods and interior fashion, and a homebase for the company’s Seattle-based style consultants. The service boasts clients in Seattle, San Francisco, Napa/Calistoga, Austin, St Louis, NYC, Portland and Los Angeles.

The new Cuniform space arrives just in time to be part of the festivities on the block as the Punk Rock Flea Market opens for the first time in the old QFC the organization has been overhauling for weeks with a team of volunteers readying the space as the next short to mid to ???-term home for the roving flea market. This weekend’s debut market will run Saturday and Sunday and will feature more than 150 vendors, organizers say. It will cost you a buck to enter. More details and hours can be found here.

CHS reported here earlier this year on the plan for the PRFM on 15th Ave E to put the old grocery back into motion that has stood empty in the middle of the busy commercial strip since national grocery giant Kroger axed the location in a tiff with the Seattle City Council over COVID-19 hazard pay. Property owner and Capitol Hill developer Hunters Capital has plans for a six-story, 170-unit, mixed-use building with about 10,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space to eventually rise on the block. In the meantime, Hunters has been trying to keep the space activated.

Cuniform also has more neighbors interested in vintage fashion. The Creature consignment shop opened across the street on 15th Ave E in 2022.

The space the new Cuniform calls home next to the old QFC has a history of vintage fashion. 36-year-old Capitol Hill consignment shop Take 2 called the address home before shuttering during the pandemic. Hunters Capital has made the space available to an eclectic mix of ventures over recent years including a COVID testing clinic and a “plant-based cleaning” startup.

Now Cuniform will fill the space with its fashion and style until the demolition plans begin to move forward.

Cuniform is located at 430 15th Ave E. Learn more at wearecuniform.com.

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