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Luxury streetwear

Luxury fashion absorbed street and club ideas through collaborations, styling and graphic language. The selected clothes show several distinct ways of negotiating that exchange.

Streetwear formsGraphic logosFashion and sports-brand collaborations

About Luxury streetwear

Luxury streetwear brought casual forms, graphic language and street or club references into the designer wardrobe. The examples here show several routes. Louis Vuitton’s 2017 Supreme collaboration joined two established brand identities. Public School’s layered sportswear and Nicopanda’s mix of punk, ballet and outerwear made personal and subcultural styling part of designer collections. Virgil Abloh’s Off-White ensemble from pre-fall 2018 takes a different approach: “LITTLE BLACK DRESS” printed on a knitted dress turns labeling itself into a challenge to fashion’s hierarchy of value. These relationships extend beyond a shared preference for conspicuous logos.

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FIT Fashion History Timeline: 2010–2019Vogue: Louis Vuitton fall 2017 menswearThe Met: Virgil Abloh, pre-fall 2018 ensembleVogue: Public School fall 2015Vogue: Nicopanda spring 2016
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