of How The Skinny Jean 3rd Generation birthed the hip hop culture (And what it all means to denim going forward) Tuesday, July 30, 13
Oct 19, 2014
of
How The Skinny Jean
3rd Generation
birthed the
hip hop culture(And what it all means to denim going forward)
Tuesday, July 30, 13
The 3 Generations of
hip hop culture
Tuesday, July 30, 13
Old SchoolTuesday, July 30, 13
RealityTuesday, July 30, 13
A Post-Reality World
You’re Jimmy Brooks, dawg!Tuesday, July 30, 13
Bob Johnson Sells BET to
Viacom and they White Wash it
Tuesday, July 30, 13
Firing of AJ & Free as hosts of 106 & Park
Symptoms of the Cultural Shift
Tuesday, July 30, 13
As much as people loved to make fun of
AJ & Free
Tuesday, July 30, 13
They were like your neighbors
Tuesday, July 30, 13
BLACK Entertainment Television Replaced Black hosts with
A NON-BLACK HOSTTuesday, July 30, 13
She BANNED Webbie from 106 & Park
Tuesday, July 30, 13
The Incarceration of Lil Boosie removed the heir to
the throne of truth
The Death of Pimp C marked the de-valuation of Trill
as a fundamental value
Tuesday, July 30, 13
Symptoms of the Cultural Shift
Canceling of BET UnCutTuesday, July 30, 13
Lil Wayne introduced
Aubrey Graham to the world as
“Drake” at
MTV Spring Break Tuesday, July 30, 13
Post Reality
The Flag of Street Culture is being flown by a rich
child actorTuesday, July 30, 13
as the exclusive arbiters of the culture
Blacks
no longer valuedTuesday, July 30, 13
Street Code was no longer
the official unwritten rules of the game
Symptoms of the Cultural shift
Tuesday, July 30, 13
The Rap Game is now all about STYLE
(You got a etch-a-sketch on your pants playa!)
Tuesday, July 30, 13
Bleached Jeans Faded Jeans
Black White
Men MenWomenWomen
Baggy Loose Tight
Pre - 2006 Millennial Generation Denim Landscape
Style
Race
Sex
Cut
Tuesday, July 30, 13
Solid Jeans Faded Jeans
Black White
Men MenWomenWomen
Loose Skinny
Post - 2006 Millennial Generation Denim Landscape
Style
Race
Sex
Cut
Tuesday, July 30, 13
But the game is coming full circle
Tuesday, July 30, 13
Old School 1979-1992 Tight
Reality 1993-2006 Loose
Post-Reality 2006-2013 Tight
The Savage Life 2014- Loose
Era Denim Style
Tuesday, July 30, 13
Why?Tuesday, July 30, 13
is shortening the cultural macro-cycle
The fast pace of technology
Tuesday, July 30, 13
The Old School & Reality Era’s were twice
as long as the Post-Reality
Tuesday, July 30, 13
long-term unemployment is a reality for many youths
Economic Hardship has affected a larger cross section
of the population
Tuesday, July 30, 13
The Suburban Savage Life is no longer a joke
Tuesday, July 30, 13
Tuesday, July 30, 13
Reality Era designers like Maurice Malone who abandoned the baggy
cut are re-introducing it
Tuesday, July 30, 13
The frivolous nature of the Post-Reality style was a result of misplaced escapism.
Tuesday, July 30, 13
The Truth is the World is Savage
Tuesday, July 30, 13