Urban Fashion and Street Fashion Trends and Influences

Street fashion is not specific to a single style of dressing but it covers various urban fashion styles that are unique in creation by young people who liked to dress that way. This fashion has its roots in the streets and has emerged from the youth rather than fashion designers and runways. 

This style has influenced the high fashion designers of the world, who now seem to favor designing tight-fitting jeans and loose flowing hippie like dresses, which were formerly worn by street fashion or punk. This style is being introduced as innocent and demure. This Hip hop fashion, which originated in street fashion, has now become a billion dollar industry.

This style is known as a statement of the music culture. Hip hop emerged from the African American urban movement and music industry. This street fashion style is worn by well-known athletes. Top designers like Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren have adopted this urban fashion style and included it in many of their designs. This influence by top designers has taken this popular style to a whole new level.  Street fashion in the United States is the main influence on Japanese street fashion. Fashion trends from abroad have the strongest influence on Japanese fashion, even though most clothing labels are produced in Japan. Hip hop culture is credited with influencing the fashion trends of Japanese fashion which is greatly dictated by the underground club scene of Japan.

Every culture in the world has youth that desire to make a statement even though most street fashion is influenced by what is worn by the youth of the United States. Every generation makes its own statement by the clothing they choose to wear. Urban fashion statements are renewed every decade by a new generation of youth, who have developed their own unique street fashion trends.