Final Reflection

My experiencre from this whole blog project was fare, rather than having to write a 8 to 12 research paper. In way I'm glad my teachers came up with this compromise for this graduation requirement. Some of the important infromation I learned while doing these blog was how to actually complete one. I learned how to set my personal site were any can visit and take a look a my work. I learned how to conduct much more in depth reseacrh, so that it sounds like really know what I'm talking about. And finally I understand just how long three hundred words is. Which happens to be shorter than the college essays we wrote in another class. Still I became more aware of just how much fashion has taken over on a global scale. Especially street wear, which has spread all over throughout South East Asia, the UK, South Africa, India, Canada, and many areas of asia like Japan and Hong Kong. When I think about it seems like it was invetiable to happen. In fact the impact has grown so much over the coarse of histroy that everyon has created there on original look base on where they are. Those styles have reached back to were it strated in the U.S.. I even learned of the what hapens when you catch the donw side of fashion. Which is that evenventaully everything to be replaced with the next best trend. Which is sad really I think about, because it's like from poeple who think clothes make you who you are as a person. Yet that's not even close to being true, which is the most important lesson I learned while researcehing my topic the history of street wear.

Economics

To bas emore on the economic side of street wear it definetly erupted into a high price high quality clothing industry inside fashion itself. For instace, it's even gotten to the point were companies like payless are starting to get high. Now would would of expected somrthimg like that to happen. I thought in a recession to cheaper stores stayed cheap and afortable. I guess that's why Steve & Berry and Gap are having such problems. For instacne, No one's minding the Gap anymoreThe Gap is one of the megabrands that shaped retailing and consumer culture in the 1990s. Throughout the decade, city corners, suburban main streets, and exurban strip malls were carpet-bombed with the emporia of reasonably priced denim and cotton. And along with those other megastores of the 1990s Starbucks, Staples, Barnes & Noble, Home Depot the Gap became so ubiquitous that consumers all over the country could share common retail experiences. "The Gap also imposed itself on the larger culture with its popular ads; the Saturday Night Live parody featuring David Spade, Chris Farley, and Adam Sandler as shop girls; and Monica Lewinsky's stained blue dress". You'd think with taht type of continuing publiscity nothing could have gone wrong. Maybe they just didn't have of enough top brand street wear." The Gap influenced the way people dressed remember the unfortunate jeans and light-blue work-shirt period when yuppies outfitted themselves like dock hands?-and surfed the business-casual wave". Parent company Gap Inc. expanded and extended the core brand, adding Baby Gap and Kids Gap. It segmented the market, too, rolling out Banana Republic for upscale shoppers and Old Navy for bargain-hunters. And the company could apparently do no wrong. "The charts from the 1999 annual report are stunning, particularly the one on Page 16. Sales rose more than sixfold, from $1.9 billion in 1990 to $11.6 billion in 1999". "In 1999, the company opened 299 Gap stores in the United States, bringing the total to 1,767". But since the millennium turned, it's all gone horribly wrong."For retailers, same-store sales growth is the key metric. And as this chart of same-store sales since 2000 shows, the numbers for Gap stores are ugly: down 12 percent in 2001, down 7 percent in 2002, and off 5 percent in 2005"."By my calculation, a hypothetical Gap store that did $1,000,000 sales in fiscal 1999 did only about $830,000 in fiscal 2005. And the trend is continuing". I read that in February, same-store sales for the Gap North America unit fell 7 percent, tklk about major upset. "Inthat smae month, traffic worsened versus fourth-quarter trends, which caused lower unit sales velocity". "This led to significantly lower merchandise margins," as executive Sabrina Simmons put it. This just goes to show people that they can't just expect people to buy to smae old stlye of clothing yaer after year. Which is why money dosen't seem to circulating the way it used to anymore. Because the the government wa and still is being so greedy you either spend so much money on clothes you dont need or start bargen shopping. Which could explain why no finds Gap high priced and dull clothing lines apealing anymore.

Current envents

In the fashion industry there has been a world wide spread of stlye acroos the gloge. In particular, the UK has emerged onto to the fashion scene once again. fashion event news There're already amired globally for its talent, creativity, fast pace and a strong mix of high-end and high-street success. But it is not immune to the major shockwaves battering the world’s economy this year. With all that has happened to the economy flow it has major corperations in wake. "The UK Fashion Report 2009 aims to make sense of developments in the global economy and fashion business alongside changes at a local level, providing an in-depth look at the UK fashion industry from a unique WGSN perspective"." It builds on the experiences and expectations of more than 600 UK fashion professional designers, buyers and marketers combined with industry expert interviews and the knowledge of WGSN's 200-strong team of design, sourcing and retail experts". If only the U.S. could learn to coordinate through recession so quickly. Still it just goes to show how united othere countries as to our own. Even with something like fashion which is used to produces so much economically it's no wonder they import so much street wear from other countries. This is why the fashion industry is so important to me becuase it plays such a huge role in the world today. That there is no getting around the fact that not just fashion but the art of design period has come so far economically stlye wise. Whic means it's going to be a long time before street wear let alone any other forms of fashion fade away.

creditable vs none-creditable soures

The difference between Credible vs Non- Credible Sources is, non-credible isn't a real sources it's something to make you think that you are getting the real thing but your only getting someone’s else point of view. If a site ends with a .com or it's likely that it can be edited by anyone. It doesn't have an author, which mean its wasn't made by the a government or university. When you look at all the different sites which most likely end in .com, there less likely to be Streetwear an advertisment. Someone just trying to produce there opinion, instead giving you real facts.

1. A non creditble has a ".com" web domain-meaning that anyone could have purchased it.

2. There is no clear author. On this site anyone can sign up and become an author.

3. This site has more than just info actually related to the related articles and sources.

1. A creditble site always has a .org or .net.... to indicate that it is from a organiztion or network.

2. That means that it is most likely real and not opinion.

3. Which makes it more a realiable site for researching information.

Personal Reflection

I chose to research street fashion design because I wanted to wear this style actually came from. I wanted to know when it started in history and what made it so popular. How it lasted for so long after it had begun to reach out to the world. I wonder what it was like to see your idea explode on the streets like that. Another big reason behind my researching this topic was that I understand pursuing a goal at that magnitude. With my passion for the arts I hope one day to publish my own work and watch everybody gaze upon my originality. It would be a great feeling to wake and know that you been installed into apart of history. Even at that point there is still no end to the possibilities of what I might accomplish. So researching this topic has really helped me with my vision of the future. The future were I have created the next big thing. When I look at history I look at all the major achievements of the fashion industry. In this vast industry that's forever changing I'm amazed that that it has expand to far reaching courtiers. The street wears well as other major styles have taken over the world. When you think about these styles are pretty much know to everyone around the globe. Why shouldn't they know about, it's what's now in society. I couldn't imagine being born an any other era but this one. Just have to look at the clothes people wore in back in the time of Shakespeare. So it's really comforting to know I wont be caught dead an anything like that. In fact I can't wait to see what the new style is going to be next. It's definitely coming, I can already see what about to erupt onto the streets dwi411.org.

What I know? What want to know.

From my understanding looking back at the history of street wear, it has been traced to the begining of the skater or surfer look. A man named Shawn Stussy, the atcual local surfboarder of Laguna Beach. His logo began of the surfboards that he shaped until 1980 when he translated it to T-shirts. These became instantly popular with all the local skaters and grew to world wide frame from there. Perhaps the most amazing thing that come of Stussy is what makes street wear what it is today. Which is even as the popularity grows is seems to remain as somthing underground. Many have atrributed this to how street wear has become a subculture, one that emphasizes that the independents rule this era.



The most popular street wear sites, stores, and brands have steered away from being bought out by million dollar corporations making it mainstream. Even numermous botiques are phasing out the large corprate brands, while keeping their support to the independent Urban Streetwear brands.



When I hear the term street wear I know now that it's a common name in the fashion industry today. It is used to describe high quality clothing that draws influence from its surroundings. These influences tend to be from "the street" taking in everything that surrounds them, such as graffiti and much like graffiti sometimes express political and social issues of the here and no started at the end of the 1970's and the early 1980's. It was an exciting time with the emergence of punk and what would become hip hop. It's pretty obvious that the music had a major role in the many styles that extist today. In those styles you can see how the next generation of society has adapted to it and has already begun create more of the street appeal.