I have always been interested in fashion it has always been apart of my life, but I never found a style all my own. Then I found it when I saw my cousins’ sneakers the, Air Jordan Ones and wondered how to get those shoes and how to look “cool” compared to the everyday person. Then I found it, a style that is streetwear. Streetwear is a culture about sold out and sought-after clothing and sneakers and I am a part of that. Streetwear in definition is, a style of street fashion rooted in Californian surf and skate culture. It has grown to encompass elements of hip hop fashion, Japanese street fashion, modern haute couture fashion, and sneakers culture. The start of streetwear is unknown but the start of sneaker culture, which is a major part Many people in the streetwear culture are very interested on the art and design of many pieces and some people do not really care about that aspect of streetwear and rather care about how much money it can make them. Both types of people are important for the growth of streetwear and sneaker culture going and to show more people the world of cool clothing and sneakers and show the merits of streetwear. The streetwear community is huge, from people wearing $1000 fits to the average high school kid just getting into streetwear due to Jordan’s and sneakers to the guy waiting outside of the Undefeated store waiting for Yeezy’s to resale to the person online waiting for Supreme to release, the community is growing larger and larger everyday and with the advent of people opening more store selling hyped brands like Supreme and Palace to big conventions such as sneakers con being prevalent in the community the whole ecosystem of streetwear is looking to keep growing. Not just that but with more people and celebrities wear streetwear and street fashion brands and styles the more people are going to get interested in it which lead to bigger lines for clothing and sneakers the rising prices in the reselling market and more people to talk about and see the merits of streetwear in the “Normal”
Rocawear is a brand of apparel created by rapper Jay Z in 1999, who had tremendous influence in the hip hop industry from as far back as twenty years ago. It was a spin off Roc-A-Fella Records, based in New York, the home of hip hop music, and designs a range of clothing, shoes, and accessories replicative of hip hop fashion, “becoming the destination for fashionable and street savvy consumers” that “continues to focus of providing clever innovations in design, fabrication and application to its customer.” The style for both the men and women lines, include formal and informal design, with many of the pieces of clothing displaying the “Rocawear” label. “It may merely look like oversized jeans and hooded sweatshirts, but the $5 billion male urban-clothing niche is growing faster than any other apparel category,” contributing to the Rocawear success” (Wadlington, 2004, pg. 8).
Hip-Hop is in todays times is considered to be a cultural movement in todays generation. The five elements of Hip-Hop starting off with the beat boxer, Deejay, next is the Master of ceremonies also known as the MC or Rapper, break dancing, graffiti, and knowledge and style. Recognizing myself as an African American male growing up in the suburbs I was always a sight for sore eyes, not in a sense for being ugly or due to my pigment of skin it was do to the pigment of my skin but how I dressed compared to the other kids growing up. Noticing the brands that I wore were different in Style from the predominantly white school population, clearly showing that we shopped in different stores. Style Defined by Webster’s Dictionary is a particular way
Kendrick Lamar and Future, Nike- Frank Ocean etc.) to capture the sense of “contemporary street fashion”, instead of their usual pro-athlete
In the world we live in today, people have many interest that motivate them to be who they want to be in the future. In New York, being that it’s filled with different varieties of cultures, it has become a well known place full of different cultures and interesting interest. One well recognized culture of today is involving sneakers, and how big of an impact it has on New Yorkers. If looked upon in the past, you can really see how sneaker culture shaped New York today.
Have you ever found sneakers you want so badly but they’re too expensive? Sneakers these days are high in money and most people can not afford to spend money on shoes that will get minimal use. I think sneaker prices are getting too high and they need to get lower for the people who love them. “A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.” said by Christian Louboutin, who is a famous shoe designer from France.
It is necessary to identify fashion and explain the systems apparel industry uses before I start explore the essentiality of fast fashion. According to Dictionary.com, fashion is defined as the prevailing style or custom that is in a current mode and used to express oneself. It can be clothing, accessories, hair, etc. Why certain people like to frequently shop in malls and keep updating apparels in their closets every season? Form psychological perspective, people usually consider clothing as a symbol to show their values, personality and lifestyles to others. Critically, a rapid imaginative change and symbolic expression supports a sense people have about fashion. People believe that an ideal self-identity can be communicated to others through clothing, so figuring out how people make decision when they perceive clothing among different brands and understanding their needs and desires can help apparel industries expending and maintaining market s...
The Shoe Industry consists of a multitude of footwear categories, varying in utility, style and occasion. When overseeing the market for the shoe industry, we must look at the influence of all shoe trades universally to comprehensively understand how the disparities in sales relate to the needs of specific regions. The global retail market within the shoe industry currently represents $185 billion, driven primarily by Asian and Latin American economies and is expected to reach $211.5 billion by 2018. The growth rate globally was 6% between 2004 and 2008, contrasting to the 2% compound annual growth from 2008 to 2012. The United States holds over 24% of the overall industry size it projected over $48 billion in annual revenue in 2012. Domestically, the growth rate has been flat at 0.3%. On a unit volume basis, global footwear consumption for 2012 is approximately 11,421.3 million (in pairs), where the United States makes up roughly 2,741.1 million (in pairs). By 2018 the U.S. Census Bureau has forecasted a steady decline within demand domestically of 3% and an increase of 1% globally.
the shoe industry has are making shoes that all people wear such as setting a
Urban dictionary states that street culture is popular styles of urban centres. It also has to do with how people act in this environment due to their culture (and how their culture is being portrayed). Musical artists use street culture in a lot of their music videos but it is very offensive to most people if they can see how their culture is being appropriated.Today, cultural appropriation is the act of taking the very physical, mental, or social features of a minority group that is used to belittle, mischaracterise, and otherwise isolate them and personify those features for personal social entertainment or monetary gain.” (), this was on a website that I read and actually shows the intentions of cultural appropriation. It is used to belittle people and it also creates racism by showing an over exaggerated version of a certain
Fashion is an outlet people use to express themselves. People anxiously wait to see what the next trends are as seasons pass by. We buy anything that doesn’t break a bank, people buy a $10 shirt just because it’s cheap and they might not even wear it, but it’s all right, since it wasn’t expensive. As harmless and normal as that scenario sounds, the fashion industry has created the harmful concept that is “fast fashion”, in which stores sell an abundance of extremely cheap trendy clothing and “where deliveries are small and often, with stock delivered twice a week, for instant-access fashion.” (Cochrane)
For example, if people saw me wear Concords, they would categorize me as being into basketball or hip hop. It is also mostly guys who are wearing basketball shoes that notice my shoes. Therefore, it makes me feel masculine and makes me feel like I belong to the basketball or hip hop culture, but at the same time, I feel like I do not belong to a certain group. Thus, fashion is different in ethnics group, gender, and class because it serves to unite people or to establish a separation from other groups. It originated from women in order to make up for their disadvantage status, middle class in order to increase their social status and marginal social groups for their lack of social importance and cities for social density and wealth (Fashion, 310). Therefore, fashion play an important role in our lives back then and
ideas. The popularity of street art has been in a continous increase as young generations sticked by it and used it as a platform for expressing
Most sustainability development focus on sustainable fresh water, not cutting down more trees, production of carbon dioxide that can cause global warming but when I investigate further I learn that sustainability is not just being ‘green’; it means more than ‘green’. There can be many themes and ideas base on sustainability for example; sustainable healthcare, sustainable tourism, sustainable leadership, etc. The point I want to clear out is that ‘go green’ is just one part of the environmental sustainability. However, in this reflection paper, I shall focus on Sustainable Fashion. I thought that this topic can be interesting and fun to reflect on as it is
...earing the most ruffled, neon colored skirts in town. Your surroundings, financial background, religion, and daily habits make up not only your culture, but also your style. Factors such as music and the club scenes also influence a person’s fashion choices. With the amount of diversity, history and cultural references in the world, the possibilities in fashion are very complex. We can only look at reoccurring trends, and trends that have failed in order to understand what styles will survive in the future.
Following fashion styles in order to be trendy and to look different and stylish in front of others by wearing different types of clothes and accessories. Fashion can be viewed in people’s style of outlook personality with clothing and hairstyle, style of living and behaving, along with the area of personal interest. Today’s youths are totally influenced by new fashion trends. Fashion brings an interesting twist in our boring life which makes us with feeling of confidence and up to date according to this changing environment. Youth generation is totally affected by this glamorous world of fashion. Their dressing style, hair style, accessories, language and personality all shows that how much they are influenced by fashion.