Street Style
Ways of dressing that started with the wearers rather than the industry, with the market arriving afterward, and whose streets are in Tokyo, New York and Congo.
Dictionary entry
- Hip-Hop Fashion 1970s– / Style
Bronx youth culture turned sportswear and gold into a language of self-expression, and in fifty years it travelled from the street to the center of luxury.
- Lolita Fashion 1980s– / Style
A Japanese street style referencing Rococo and girls' culture, building a community that constructs cuteness for oneself, not for the gaze of others.
- Gyaru 1990s– / Style
Tans, bleached hair and heavy makeup inverted everything school called correct. Born in Shibuya, it was a communal fashion that magazines and the street updated together.
- Decora late 1990s– / Style
A Harajuku style that layers masses of hairclips and toy-like accessories until sheer quantity becomes the organizing principle. It is maximalism worked out on the body.
- La Sape 1920s– / Style
The Congolese Society of Ambience-Makers and Elegant People turns the flawless wearing of vivid suits into a practice of dignity. It is a peaceful dandyism whose weapon is dress.
- Streetwear 1980s / Style
Puts a large printed image or logo at the center, and shows the body as a broad face of heavy cloth rather than a silhouette.
- Gorpcore 2017– / Style
Gorpcore deliberately restyles technical hiking and camping clothes as urban dress, exposing the function of waterproof shells, fleece, cargo and trail footwear while layering earth tones with safety color into an always-ready-for-the-mountain silhouette.
- Mission School 1990s–early 2000s / Style
A 1990s San Francisco DIY art language that mixed storefront signs, skating, comics, folk art, urban scrap, small drawings, and handmade installations to record life and change around the Mission District.
- Hypebeast Style mid-2000s–2010s / Style
A streetwear display and consumption style in which limited drops, collaborations, sneaker collecting, and online information speed organize recognizable logos, rare items, packaging, and full-body styling into visible proof of access.