shoreditch twat
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under popcult
Man, am I grateful for Urban Dictionary. How else to navigate the world of hipsterdom? This website demystifies all that latest trends, in such an ironic way, exposing it as urban superficial as they are, at the same time being hipstery itself (no posers, no need for Urban Dictionary).
Last week, I went to an exhibition of a 90’s magazine called Shoreditch Twat in KK Outlet, gallery in Shoreditch itself, specializing in graphic design.
Two definitions:
1) Usually a new media, fashion student, photographer-type person with a privileged digital or old school arts background who lives/works/socialises in London’s East End area of Shoreditch.
2) The Shoreditch Twat fanzine was published and edited by club promoter Neil Boorman on behalf of 333 from 1999-2004. Starting life as a listings magazine for the club, it quickly grew to become an irreverent, satirical fanzine at the centre of the creative boom in East London.
The magazine itself is meant to poke fun at hipster phenomena, which you obviously can not do without being a hipster yourself. But today, who is not?
Serbian readers can explore the issue themselves in the White City magazine. For the twat and what it means, you will have to find it out yourself.
Tags: graphic design, london, shoreditch twat
