Is it a way to mess up the fashion rules or a lifestyle?
Street fashion is often considered as more than a way of dressing and it is refered as a lifestyle.
The most exciting about Street Fashion is its creation as it has emerged not from the studios but from the grassroots streetwear. What most people think to be a "strange" way of dressing, others think of it as a way to express themselves.
It may have been considered a taboo before but now is associated with the youth, the "fashion" revolution and the major urban centers. Many of the worlds most important fashion influencing magazines such as the Elle and the Vogue feature candid photographs of individuals wearing urban, stylish clothing. Japanese street fashion sustains multiple simultaneous highly diverse fashion movements at any given time with the industry be the larger influencer at the moment along with the Korean one. The influence of these stream is so powerful that even the mainstream and even the high end fasion considers it.
But even though the emerging popularity of it is recent it was first created back in the 1950s and even later it has benn tranformed. Most major youth subcultures have been associated with street fashion.
The main categories of it are 14 and are the following:
Hippies
Teddy Boys
Punk Fashion
Skinheads
Gothic Fashion
Preppy Fashion
Hip Hop Fashion
Hipster / Indie
Trendies
Rasta
Greaser
Urban
Feminine
Kawaii
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