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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Hayley Spencer

Top Boy’s style legacy — how it mastered London’s street uniform

Amid the foreboding scenes, all-out chaos and touching moments of community which cemented Netflix’s Top Boy as one of the UK’s greatest TV exports — a quieter element of the story arc deserved attention: the style.

After five series, the Hackney-set gangster drama has garnered a cult following. During this time, its protagonists, frenemies Sully (Kane ‘Kano’ Robinson) and Dushane (Ashley Walters), have been fighting it out to become the titular Top Boy by selling food (drugs). We’ve watched them and the other residents of the show’s fictional estate, Summerhouse, grow up. And everything about the show has too.

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