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Street
Graphics
Street Fashion
Cosac e Naify, 2002 Mari Stockler
PowerHouse Books , 2002 Jamel Shabazz http://www.powerhousebooks.com/backinthedays/backinthedays.html
Phaidon Press , 2002
Street
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do Brasil
The
photographer Mari Stockler, from Sao Paulo, author of essays published
in the magazines "Trace" and "Big", started this work
seven years ago. She was inspired by a song by Dorival Caymmi, about a
girl dressed with an unlikely combination of colors. When she noticed
that a lot of original things happened in the stores of Madureira, a Rio
district, the photographer began to register clothes styles, discovering
a colored parallel world in Brazilian streets, dances and malls.
Back
in the Days
Back
In The Days documents the emerging hip-hop scene from 1980-1989 - before
it became what is today's multi-million-dollar multinational industry.
Back in the days, gangs would battle not with guns, but by breakdancing.
Back in the days, the streets - not corporate planning - set the standards
for style. Back in the days, Jamel Shabazz was on the scene, photographing
everyday people hangin' in Harlem, kickin' it in Queens, and cold chillin'
in Brooklyn. Street styling with an attitude not seen in fashion for another
twenty years to come, Shabazz's subjects strike poses that put supermodels
to shame - showing off Kangol caps and Gazelle glasses, shell-top Adidas
and suede Pumas with fat laces, shearling coats and leather jackets, gold
rope chains, door-knocker earrings, name belts, boom boxes, and other
designer finery. For anyone who wants to know what "keepin' it real"
means, Back In the Days is the book of your dreams.
Fruits
Fruits
is a collection of Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier
street fanzine of the same name. 'Fruits' was established in 1994, by
photographer Shoichi Aoki, initially as a project to document the growing
explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. Over the last
five years, the magazine has grown to cult status and is now avidly followed
by thousands of Japanese teenagers who also use the magazine as an opportunity
to check out the latest styles and trends. The average age of the kids
featured in the magazine is between 12 and 18, and the clothes that they
wear are a mixture of high fashion – Vivienne Westwood is a keen
favourite – and home-made ensembles which when combined create a
novel, if not hysterical, effect. This extensive collection of portraits
represents a unique documentation of the changing face of street fashion
throughout the last decade. Colourful, fascinating and funny, this is
the first time these cult images have been published outside Japan.
