How Does Fashion Affect The Culture Of Fashion

Wealth is generally considered as the major definer of one’s class, but there are other factors such as culture, prestige, identity and the system. One of the indicators of status is the style of clothing. Fashion has always been a way of distinguishing class since the price, brand, and style of one’s clothing reveal their economic standing and culture. Only people from the upper class are able to afford luxurious, fancy, and expensive-looking clothing used to be considered high-end fashion and was a status of symbol. This trend in fashion was very undemocratic because only rich people were able to afford what was accepted as fashionable. However, street style has become more trendy among Millenials with the rise in the popularity of hip-hop and rap. Famous models, musicians, and actors have started to adopt this style which used to be associated with the low-income class and therefore it started a trend. This shift in the fashion industry helps blur the lines between people of different socioeconomic statuses because these items are affordable to everyone. Streetwear has unisex items and therefore it unifies people of different genders because they have something in common: they can all wear hoodies. Moreover, baggy clothes -which compose the streetwear- hide the features of one’s body and

Why would people want to buy expensive streetwear when the whole point of streetwear is to not be fancy, to be for street culture? Bizarrely expensive Off-White hoodies have become a cult among affluent college students. Most of the time the quality of the hoodie does not even increase as the price increases. The objective of these brands is to offer their customers a status symbol attached to their brand name rather than good-quality clothing. It is only the brand name that draws up the price of an item as simple as a hoodie or