Skateboarding Is Not A Fashion is the culture’s magnum opus look book. The gigantic first edition was an instant sellout, so the authors felt compelled to stuff even more content into this revised volume, now standing at almost 700 pages! As the culture moved on from its “novelty” stage as an offshoot of the surfing craze in the early days and developed its own distinct identity, brands core to the scene such as Vans, Santa Cruz, Powell-Peralta, Sims, Alva, Jimmy’Z brought their distinct visions to the table. Nearly every area of garment design was touched by skate wear’s aesthetic– influencing the design and fashion of innumerable media from printed T-shirts to board shorts and denim to track suits along the way. Telling the inside story of skate couture in the words of those who lived it, Skateboarding Is Not A Fashion features original
SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A FASHION – THESE DAYS
The way apparel has been worn and created by skateboarders over the past 50 years has had a tremendous impact on popular culture at large. In Skateboarding Is Not A Fashion, the authors have taken great effort to document all aspects of this aesthetic movement; from its roots in the 1950s as an offshoot of surfing culture, through the early 1980s when skateboarding found itself after a crucial underground period of soul searching and DIY expressions of individuality.
Skateboarding Is Not a Fashion: The Illustrated History of Skateboard Apparel [Book]
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The way apparel has been worn and created by skateboarders over the past 50 years has had a tremendous impact on popular culture at large. In Skateboarding Is Not A Fashion, the authors have taken great effort to document all aspects of this aesthetic movement; from its roots in the 1950s as an offshoot of surfing culture, through the early 1980s when skateboarding found itself after a crucial underground period of soul searching and DIY expressions of individuality.
Skateboarding Is Not a Fashion: The Illustrated History of Skateboard Apparel [Book]
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