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Evening Standard
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Isobel Van Dyke

How the ‘Hackney highway’ became the unofficial fashion show that everyone’s invited to

It’s Sunday morning. You wake up to the sun streaking through your window because you came home drunk last night and forgot to close the curtains. You check the time, uh oh, you’re running out of it - and you’ve got some serious getting ready to do.

There’s no sympathy for looking hungover where you’re headed. There’ll be photographers, designers, artists looking for their next muse, TikTokers asking you about your online dating profile, graphic designers doing the heavy lifting for their influencer girlfriends… and you: possibly still inebriated, but blow-dried and dressed to the nines all the same. Columbia Road, we’re on our way.

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