/fa/ - Fashion

>>12079051
Prove it.
Post this image to the account.

Western streetwear is about imitating rappers who are wealthy and like to use iconic brands or items to appear current and aware of whats 'cool'. The result of this is a massive circlejerk around a couple of specific brands and collections, like you describe, for example Supreme or Fear of God. Supreme is just an iconic thing from New York where a bunch of rappers seem to come from and is easy to recognize by its iconic logo. Fear of God copies rock-n-roll styles from the past century and ''''''''''''''''''''updates'''''''''''''''''' them into a hideous mess that, despite explicit branding, uses the type of distressing as a sort of implicit branding. An example of the collections would be the SS16 Gosha collection as it contained simple t-shirts or hoodies with a screen printed picture on them that were readily available from a wide range of online retailers and easy to match with other items, being devoid of particular 'difficult' design elements or colours. All in all, it's about imitation.

Asian (by which I mean Japanese, Hong Kong etc but I've seen Vietnamese too) streetwear is much quieter. Streetwear over there seems to mean clothes that you wear in casual environments - the original meaning - rather than clothing you wear to show up with trends you are and which black person you worship the most. Wtaps, Neighbourhood etc have a very simple image that doesn't modify itself excessively. I know more about Wtaps, so speaking about them, they seem to stick to the same military style and have done so throughout all their years. Their tshirts seem to follow the same formula which is simple and effective - in that regard, its much like wearing a supreme box logo tshirt, just without the association with american teenagers.

I don't think there's anything inherently bad about the brands I covered in my post (sans Fear of God), but when people mash them together without thought like the example in your OP pic, then you start to see some issues.

How's my fit? Big Vetements fan ever since I saw Kanye wearing it

Vetements longsleeve
Fear Of God Drawstring trousers
Yeezys