Style is about how you feel and what you're comfortable wearing and streetwear is for anyone who is active to spectator, young to old, poor to rich and basic to fancy
Streets wear's roots are in skateboarding and the "skatewear" of the 1980s. It was later adopted as an urban fashion in Japan before growing to an international business. An important element to the style is vintage or vintage-style sneakers.

Streetwear by nature is hard to define, but may best be explained by a streaming flow of words that help connote the category: rap, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, layered pieces, cropped tops, strong colors, military styles, baseball caps, sport logos, tennis shoes, sweats and denim.
Street wear is youth; it's a retro 80s look inspired by the sneaker culture and hipster on New York's
Lower East Side.But don't confuse street wear with urban fashion;
looking like the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is miles away from the
dark denim, baggy clothing and white sneakers that defined the inner-city's urban look. "American Apparel, H&M, Uniqlo" the whole (design concept) is based on street wear

(dixit: Devon Griffith, Head of Design at Massive Revolution).
Today, the street is a place with great influence on fashion. Streetwear is slowly edging out of its own niche category and into the mainstream. And the music that defines this industry is a bit Bruce Springsteen, a lot of JaRule and Eminem and a whole lot Nelly.

Streetwear is a market segment that is rapidly becoming larger.
Skateboarders largely embrace the category, but more and more women are
wearing the streetclothes, subtly, for fun, mixing it with basics, jeans, cottons and of course tennis shoes. WOMEN are open-minded when it comes to fashion inspirations. They try new brands when making apparel selections.

WE mix new styles in a sophisticated manner.
There are many styles today inspired by streetwear. Hooded sweatshirts and new "techno" fabrics in cotton and nylon blends,
in either prints or fashion-forward colours, are probaly the most obvious way that designers are imparting that touch of streetwear in traditional women's wear. WE just love Juicy bottoms, oversized tops, tennis sneakers and athletic bottoms.
this article made me a lot wiser about streetwear...great
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