A guide for all things Hipster in Berlin, from locations to clothing . Shoreditch in east London is so 00s, and you can forget the over-gentrified Brooklyn and Portland in the US. Berlin with its 400+ art galleries, independent DIY ethos and swarm of fixed-gear bikes, is the real hipster mecca.* There's nowhere else on the planet more suited to your tick-rimmed spectacles, a polled-up copy of vice magazine protruding from your Fjallraven kanken rucksack, and #nofilter Instagrammed pics of your friend's ironic beard.