I became vaguely aware of this… fashion trend? a few years ago on reddit. And it seems there is now at least one Lemmy community devoted to it.
So genuine question - is all streetwear just an elaborate joke, like when that guy put a urinal in an art museum to make a point about the nature of art? Because it seems like the unifying theme in streetwear is that it all looks like it is intentionally bad. Like the designer saw all the ways normal people dressed themselves poorly, and emphasized those traits. If I saw someone walking down the street in clothes I normally see posted on /c/streetwear, I would wonder what kind of bet they lost.
Do I just not “get” art? Am I now just one of the olds? What is going on here?
I used to think that. But then I realized that art is an appreciation of beauty both within and outside the realms of conventional tastes. I realized my own tastes had become aligned with the commercial zeitgeist and I was shutting out other creative expressions that, while unconventional, had merit by its own right - by simply existing. I had become the barrier to expression by my crass judgement, and by extension, the gatekeeper of what I professed to love - creativity.
Now., if your question was ‘are <insert the example that is rankling your bones> these street wear examples commercially viable’? Then the answer is ‘it depends on the buyer’.
This is a beautiful and thoughtful answer.
Wow, these are my thoughts, expressed in a way I woud never be able to express them.
No. Streetwear is a quite popular fashion trend. But there is a difference between fashion on a run and everyday fashion. The posts in the streetwear community are high fashion which obviously takes it to extreme.
I think you’ll have to provide some examples – ideally as photos – of streetwear fashion. Without any prior research, I only know the term to mean “comfy clothes” that would fall below the typical bar for “casual” dress code.
A quick web search shows examples ranging from perfectly reasonable outfits consisting of normally-proportioned shorts, jackets, pants, and shoes. To some outlandish outfits that are prominently displaying designer brands.
And perhaps that’s the crux of the matter: what shows up on the fashion runway or “haute couture” magazines is never descriptive but prescriptive: a designer brand has a vested interest in getting the masses to believe that something is fashion so that they can move product.
Taken to the logical extreme, there is an idea that designer clothes are intentionally outlandish, precisely so that said clothes would never be worn by “normies” in day-to-day activities, and thus can always (and persistently) be projected as high-end.
Commercialized fashion is not a democratic experiment to see what most people want to wear. It is to move product every “fashion season”. “Designer streetwear” is a poor approximation for what normal people wear when they just want to grab a sandwich from the bodega and then return to watch another episode from Season 2 of The Rehearsal. Maybe this should be called “real streetwear” to distinguish it from so-called designer goods.
This is a runway shot… those pieces are loud and the outfit is meant to be provocative. The sweater would be easy to style with jeans for example which would create a more reasonable everyday outfit
This looks like a pretty normal outfit… I would say streetwear is not a joke and is just a term for casual dressing
Like are you saying you would have to lose a bet to wear this outfit?
I guess it isn’t an “I lost a bet outfit”. But leopard print jacket + jorts is like combining two different kinds of trashy that clash synergistically. And this wasn’t an outfit that was just thrown together to buy milk. Guy intentionally put together the outfit, took a picture, posted it on the internet, and listed the articles of clothing he is wearing so others could replicate the look.
It’s not my style but it doesn’t stand out to me. Also, to each their own. So I’d say the answer to your question is the last one you suggested - you’re one of the olds now. Please, try to stay benevolent and empathetic to the younger or just different ones.
He listed the items because that’s the rules of the sub.
I don’t see anything wrong, or even odd about what he’s wearing. It’s just a jacket and some shorts. If I passed him in the street, I doubt I’d even register his clothes tbh.
What? Who cares?
That looks normal and stylish
That looks sick. Def not my thing but it’s definitely eye-catching.
Fashion is, when you buy things that are so ugly that you definitely want everything new after half a year :)
Fashion is transient but style is eternal
I love that thought.
