Clearly Superstyle Hair Studio was not closed down in order to be filled with gastronomic porn (the original Model Market closed sometime in the 2000s) but this scene is reminiscent of wider changes going on across south-east London (and across much of the city). In a supermarket queue in Peckham, a friend overheard a conversation between two women talking about how they now have to make hairdressing appointments further and further in advance because, as a result of salons in the area having closed down to be replaced by more fashionable (gentrified? gentrifying?) shops and cafés, there is more demand for the remaining salons. A perhaps innocuous effect of the regeneration/gentrification that is taking place in the area, but an effect, nonetheless, that is having an impact.
