How very inspiring street trends might be, i found this the hardest assignment to ''grasp''..., especially with Fashion turning into a conceptual era, the interpretation of trends in the street have become very diverse....Still i decided to focus on the interpretation of historical trends in the contemporary fashion scene, that is collections of 2009/2010....
Differences in suits as seen on the runway are very subtle....and styling have become an important issue to express the inspiration from historical street-trends.... as following images hopefully will express...
Zoot-suit image above, expressing political dimension of wearing these suits, leading to riots, and social-commotion in big cities like LA.
Underneath,interpretation by Lanvin ss 2010 men's collection: taking the 'activist' connotation as inspiring...
And totally becoming Mainstream, losing its political, activist dimension, in a beautifully interpretation by Chloe 2009, Fall collection:
Suits have played a literally ''power-full'' role in the history of fashion...like i described in a previuos post. Another suit-style that set a trend coming from the streets, was the Teddy-boy look, underneath image shows Teddy-boys in a London-street scene. This look originated in the UK, where it still plays an major influence in the fashion-scene....,
Underneath, again Lanvin 2010-collection....
An de Meulenmeester RTW 2009, revealing its sober-aesthetic value
In a chronological order, the next street trend making it up to the runway was Beatnik, associated with existentialism, a philosophy-stream that originated in France, more specifically with thinkers/writers Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir (underneath the image). This style stressed the intellectual dimension of dress.
Interpretation of the intellectual dimension of dress, by Comme des Garcons 2009
And a beautiful, mainstream version by Marc Jacobs, ready to wear 2009 collection
With the intellectual dimension openly adressed in Fashion, Music became an influence felt in Fashion trends caused by groupies got its counterpart on the runway.Music being considered the most ''intellectual'' form of art (Suzanne Langer, Philosophy in a new key) at that time....mere imagination.... The first street-trend assiociated with the music-scene making it upto runway was Mods-trend
Comme des Garcons, 2009,
Diane von Furstenberg
The mods where an introduction to its follower in street-style: the hippie trend. Within the music scene Janis Joplin can be considered as one of its trendsetters..... It was a critic on the values society was promoting...and a return to nature and humanity....On the Runway left image: Anna Sui, 2009. And a revival of the hippie- values in the new Levis add below....
After the hippie-period in which it was all about make peace not war...came the provoking Punk influence in the musicscene....Sex Pistols where a notoriuos group within this scene, and still today its influence is felt....
On the Runway: Miss Sixty 2009, showing punk trend being mainstream fashionable....
And on the mens runway:Dirk Bikkembergs 2009 showing provoking power of this streetrend, in ''firing'' colours, and cutting-edge shapes....mainstream in a non-mainstream way....
By end 70's the disco trend had arrived...also expressed in other cultural sphere's as musicals and films ( ''flashdance'' and ''saturday nightfever'')...and ABBA whining the Eurovisie Songfestival...
On the Runway: Louis Vuitton Resort 2010: influence on the shoe-designs....
And a print by Anna Sui on her series of ''printed t-shirts''....
To conclude with the Hip Hop trend, introduced by hip-hop bands....
On the runway: Dutch designer Daryl van wauw , known to incorporate all kind of street styles in his intriguing designs...
Men 2010 Bernard Wilhelm, in this collection he used reinterpreted ''ethnic-style'', hiphop can be considered as ethnic from a western point of view...
As far as new street trends, as a result of globalisation i believe the skirt, dress is losing its position of being a gender specific-garment....On the streets at Amsterdam Fashion Week 2009:
And on the Runway JP Gaultier:
And also on the runway...but as trendsetter...: Marc Jacobs...:
While his boyfriend is chasing streettrends with Courtney Love on another spot....: printed t-shirts...
On the runway, again designers as trendsetters themselves Gareth Pugh:
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