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| | Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Where have all the cool people gone? |
 | | Hoxton, on the other hand, became the first great art installation of the Young British Artists: an urban playground tailor-made to annoy middle England, where everyone had scruffy clothes and daft haircuts and stayed up late, and no one had a proper job. |
 | | By the end of the 90s, Hoxton had spawned an entire lifestyle: the skinhead had been replaced by the fashionable Hoxton fin as the area's signature haircut, the derelict warehouses turned into million-pound lofts. |
 | | Overexposure has destroyed the sense of Hoxton as an exclusive club for the ultra- fashionable: on a Saturday night, the Hoxton-Shoreditch thoroughfare of Curtain Road has lost any sense of an alternative identity, and the Bacardi Breezer-drinking hordes are indistinguishable from those in the West End. |
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