These days, hippies are the thing of the past and urban wear is the the outbreak that revolutionize the world of fashion and became a lifestyle. Back in early 1970’ the word “hip-hop” is a new genre and cultural movement which developed in New York City primarily among African Americans and Latin Americans and then the word urban wear is born. Before urban wear was a type of fashion that displays the characteristics of a hip-hop genre. Years later it became known also as “street wear” because many young generations especially teens are drawn to hip-hop’s influence in music and fashion.



Today there are many new music genres aside from hip-hop and people became more divided when it comes to music genre. There are punk rock, emo, heavy metal, pop, goth, techno and many more, each type of genre has a distinctive type of fashion and somewhat similar but different from each other and all this kinds of fashion is today’s urban wear / street wear.



Although urban wear is associated to the words music and fashion, people became more involved in their own self expression when it comes to urban wear. It came to this point that it became more personal to many people, it affects peoples lives also, it blends fashion and music together, it revolutionize the fashion industry and it’s not just fashion anymore, it’s a lifestyle. It is a lifestyle where people can express them selves through fashion, through urban wear. So are you also into urban wear?