Shoreditch shopping runs on a handful of streets: Redchurch Street for design and menswear, Brick Lane and Cheshire Street for vintage and records, and Columbia Road on a Sunday. This guide covers shops checked against their own websites in October 2026, with the closures that have changed the map since the last version.
The biggest recent loss is Beyond Retro’s Cheshire Street warehouse, which closed in 2024. Its UK shops are now in Dalston, Coal Drops Yard and Brighton. Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, the Ministry of Stories shop at 159 Hoxton Street, has also closed; the charity moved to Kingsland Road in September 2026.
Redchurch Street: design, homeware and menswear
Labour and Wait, 85 Redchurch Street, E2 7DJ. Hardware-shop basics made well: enamel, brushes, stationery, workwear.
Sunspel, 7 Redchurch Street, E2 7DJ. The British jersey maker’s Shoreditch shop sells the T-shirts and knitwear the brand is known for.
Redchurch Street is short, so walk it end to end. Mad Cats, the listening bar at number 107, opens from 5pm Tuesday to Saturday if the shopping runs late. Made in Shoreditch spoke to the team behind it in 2025: Mad Cats on vinyl and cocktails.
Brick Lane: records, books and vintage
Rough Trade East, Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL, entrance on Dray Walk. Open 10am to 7pm Monday to Saturday and 11am to 5pm on Sunday, with times changing on in-store gig nights.
Brick Lane Bookshop, 166 Brick Lane, E1 6RU. An independent bookshop near the top of Brick Lane.
Libreria, 65 Hanbury Street, E1 5JP. A small bookshop just off Brick Lane, closed on Mondays.
Brick Lane Vintage Market, 85 Brick Lane. The Truman Brewery describes it as the UK’s largest vintage market, with more than 100 traders. Open every day: 11am to 6.30pm on weekdays, 11am to 6pm on Saturday, 10am to 6pm on Sunday.
Atika, 55 to 59 Hanbury Street, E1 5JP, and the two Rokit shops on Brick Lane cover ready-to-wear vintage. The full list is in the Shoreditch vintage guide.
Cheshire Street
Vintage Basement, 7 Cheshire Street, sells vintage clothing a few minutes’ walk from the top of Brick Lane. The street is quieter than Brick Lane and worth the detour on a weekend.
Boxpark and the high street
Boxpark Shoreditch, 2 to 10 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6GY, is the shipping-container mall next to Shoreditch High Street station. Tenants rotate often, so check the Boxpark site before going for a specific shop.
Markets for shopping
Old Spitalfields Market is open seven days a week, with fashion, design and food stalls under one roof. On Saturdays and Sundays the Backyard Market and Rinse Showrooms at 146 Brick Lane add independent makers and young London designers. Columbia Road Flower Market trades on Sundays from 8am until about 3pm, and the Victorian shopfronts around it open with it. Day-by-day times are in the Shoreditch markets guide.
Shoreditch makers in their own words
Made in Shoreditch has interviewed the people behind several local labels. Michael Beckford built MICHAEL WHSKY after sleeping rough at 17; he told the site in 2025: “In London, opportunity is selective. Access is curated.” Read the Michael Beckford interview.
For resale, Austin Tasker explained how The Cirkel prices second-hand clothes, and Kate Grainger and Penelope Tucker talked about The Conscious Edit. The archive goes back to 2011, when the site profiled Sebastian Tarek, a bespoke shoemaker then working from Sunbury Workshops, and interviewed founders of Nicce and Drake’s.
Practical notes
Shoreditch High Street station (Overground) is the closest stop to Redchurch Street, Boxpark and the top of Brick Lane. Liverpool Street is a ten-minute walk from Spitalfields. Many independents open late morning, and Sunday is the busiest day because Columbia Road and the Brick Lane markets all trade.