Final Project: Street Trend Analysis

Fashion has historically been about creating hierarchical relationships, and street trends, in particular, are a direct result of these innate relationships. In addition to stratifying classes or defining relationships, “street trends” are complex versions of informal activism “by proposing alternate options or choices of dress that become concrete collective demonstrations.” [1] So while traditionally, fashion has trickled down from the upper classes to be accepted among the masses, street trends begin with marginalized social groups who are often opposed to mainstream fashion and whose styles are eventually (and ironically) accepted by the very masses they opposed.

[1] http://discussion.academyart.edu/sectionContent/54-23431/27080/session_05.html

The following two posts discuss emerging street trends and the following 8 posts depict popular street trends from the last century: