There’s a basement in central London that’s currently filled with movie costumes from one of the original cyberpunk cult movies The film,

Hackers – a cyberpunk exhibition in a basement

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2021-05-27 22:30:06

There’s a basement in central London that’s currently filled with movie costumes from one of the original cyberpunk cult movies

The film, Hackers about a bunch of, well, computer hackers, is very much of its time, when the internet wasn’t that well known, and “hackers” were seen as nerds who weren’t popular at school. Then this film came along, and let’s be candid, it’s pretty bloody awful as plotlines and scripts go, but the visuals were astonishing, and the music pumping.

Away with nerds in basements, and hello to early cyberpunk outfits, great music, and yes, even a girl as a hacker — and a good one at that.

Made at the time that clubbing fashion outlet Cyberdog was getting started in Camden, it’s not a surprise that the design for the film seems to feel as if it’s stepped out of London’s club scene.

The costume designer, Roger K Burton reportedly didn’t set out to do that deliberately, trying to create a more timeless fusion of different styles, and yet it seems very mid-1990s in the end.

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