More than that, fashion is just the sort of thing Britain is supposed to be good at in this post-industrial age: creative, high-value-added, cluster-based.
Telliskivi complex, an old warehouse cluster that is now used as a creative community hub with artist studios, workshops, band rehearsal spaces and more.
East London's tech scene is led not by tech firms per se but by "digital creative" companies that combine computer technology with music, art and narrative and musicians, artists and writers cluster in cities.