A street market is an outdoor market such as traditionally held in a market square or in a market town, and often held only on particular days of the week. Very similar markets, or bazaars, can also be found in large enclosed spaces, instead of on a street.

Some traders travel the length and breadth of a country to attend markets, often travelling during the night or early hours, turning market squares and streets in to vibrant colourful places. At many markets (gaffs) especially the smaller sites each trader arrives (pulls on) to the market at an allotted time and the build up is like clockwork. As one trader has set up and is ready to park another pulls on to build his stall up—all will be ready to open when the public arrive.

As the first real form of retailing, not a great deal has actually changed. Many people have tried their hand at Market trading and some have made vast fortunes, Marks and Spencers, Tesco, New Look all started from a barrow or stall. The life is tough and the hours can be very long but there are certain families who have been involved with the industry,for many generations and usually linked to the same trade or line. Halkets is one of these, based around Stoke on Trent,are famous for selling "pots" (china and pottery) at markets and fairs up and down the country. Benjamin is also another old family name connected with the markets and fairs,these seem to still operate around the London and Oxford areas and are involved with the selling of small leather goods,handbags and lugggage.

Hồ Chí Minh (Vietnamese pronunciation: [hô cǐ miɲ] (Vietnamese pronunciation: [hô̤ tɕǐmɪŋ] ( listen)); 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành and Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Stalinist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). He was a key figure in the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, as well as the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Việt Cộng (NLF or VC) during the Vietnam War.

He led the Việt Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Điện Biên Phủ. He officially stepped down from power in 1955 due to health problems, but remained a highly visible figurehead and inspiration for Vietnamese fighting for his cause – a united, independent Vietnam – until his death. After the war, Saigon, the capital of Republic of Vietnam, was renamed Hồ Chí Minh City in his honor.

Damir Doma is a fashion designer based in Paris. He was born in Virovitica, Croatia but grew up in southern Germany near the lake Chiemsee where his mother has a clothing atelier. He calls his mother an influential person in his own development.

Doma studied fashion in Munich and Berlin. He graduated in 2004 with magna cum laude from the l'Ecole Supérieure des Arts et techniques de la Mode fashion school in Munich and Berlin. After his graduation Damir Doma moved to Belgian Fashion Capital Antwerp where he gained experience within the group of designers Dirk Schönberger and later Raf Simons.

In 2006, after meeting Stephan Wembacher, the CEO of the international fashion group Paper Rain, Damir Doma joined the group and a label bearing his own name was launched in the same year. He debuted his Menswear collection for the Spring Summer 2008 season at the Paris Fashion Week in June 2007. Doma's style has been described as 'intellectual' and 'poetic'. Damir cites Issey Miyake as an important influence on his work. International celebrities such as Rosario Dawson, Lenny Kravitz, Bruce Springsteen, Jared Leto and Robert Pattinson are amongst the labels customers. According to the Berlin based high-fashion Magazine, Achtung-Mode, Damir Doma is 'considered as the most important German fashion designer of his generation'.