90s hip hop fashion adidas1/2/2024 Retro pervades pop culture, turning up in everything from Taylor Swift’s album 1989, to Instagram’s 1977 filter, the Tweed Run (a 1940s-style “metropolitan bicycle ride” in London where “tweed suits, plus fours, bowties, and jaunty flat caps are all encouraged”), the steampunk scene (Victoriana meets 1950s sci-fi), Mom jeans (late 1980s), Jack Wilshere’s haircut (1950s) and the Saint Laurent catwalk (1985, this season). Whenever old school was – 1979? 1988? 2000? – it fits into our obsession with the recent past, or, at least, our edited version of it. The opening track? Re-Rewind by the Artful Dodger, aptly enough. In mid-April, Throwback: Old Skool Anthems, a Ministry of Sound compilation of garage from the turn of the century, was No 1 in the dance chart, leapfrogging the Prodigy. Anyone who lives in a large British city will be familiar with the cardboard signs strapped to traffic lights advertising old-school warehouse parties “going back” to years including 1995, 19. The term is applied to everything from rave culture to drum’n’bass and garage, typically partnered with graphics utilising the kind of smiley face that predates the emoji keyboard. Vans’ Old Skool sneaker, the one with the squiggle down the side, is also back in vogue, along with the bucket hat – popularised by rapper LL Cool J in the 80s and currently modelled by Rihanna.Īway from hip-hop, dance music’s old school is also going strong. Adidas’s successful relaunch of the Stan Smith tennis shoe has paved the way for the return of the Superstar – the shell-toe trainer to which rappers Run DMC once paid homage. It’s this look, feeling and sound that’s currently enjoying a bit of a revival. Personally, my old school is hip-hop in New York in the early to mid 1980s kids photographed by Jamel Shabazz wearing Adidas tracksuits, Kangol hats, Cazal shades and Farrah Fawcett waves on subway trains covered in graffiti records like The Message by Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa’s Planet Rock and Run DMC’s My Adidas. Or, I’m told by a reliable authority, 1995’s Bombscare by rave outfit 2 Bad Mice. It could be Kanye West’s 2004 debut, The College Dropout. Your old school could be Debbie Harry circa Rapture in 1981.
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