Shoreditch Man

It was an edgy part of London, a hipster heaven for artists and clubbers. Now big money is moving in and taking over. The home of hipsterism, the birthplace of a thousand bushy beards, but has Shoreditch outgrown its cool? Has it become an urban victim of its commercial success? It’s a familiar cycle: a neglected inner city neighbourhood is colonised by artists, a cafe culture flourishes, new businesses move in then rents go up, and the original inhabitants who gave the place its character are priced out of the area.

Shorditch is a portrait of sterotypical type man parading the streets of Shorditch. Yet on closer inspection the person could be a character straight out of Victorian and Edwardian London.