Whats in store for the future of denim? The skinny jean and bright colors era is OVER. Youth unemployment is still sky high. The world is sick of seeing The Kardashians and the Biebs rockin flat brims. The Post-Reality era is over. No more turquoise jeans. We're headed back to the Savage Life.

1. of
How The Skinny Jean
3rd
Generation
birthed
the
hip hop culture
(And what it all means to denim going forward)
Tuesday, July 30, 13

2. The 3 Generations
of
hip hop culture
Tuesday, July 30, 13

3. Old SchoolTuesday, July 30, 13

4. Reality
Tuesday, July 30, 13

5. A Post-Reality World
You’re Jimmy Brooks, dawg!
Tuesday, July 30, 13

6. Bob Johnson
Sells BET to
Viacom and they
White Wash itTuesday, July 30, 13

7. Firing of AJ & Free as hosts of 106 & Park
Symptoms of the Cultural Shift
Tuesday, July 30, 13

8. As much as people
loved to make fun of
AJ & Free
Tuesday, July 30, 13

9. They were like your
neighbors
Tuesday, July 30, 13

10. BLACK Entertainment Television
Replaced Black hosts with
A NON-BLACK HOST
Tuesday, July 30, 13

11. She BANNED Webbie
from 106 & Park
Tuesday, July 30, 13

12. The Incarceration of Lil
Boosie removed the heir to
the throne of truth
The Death of Pimp C
marked the de-valuation of Trill
as a fundamental value
Tuesday, July 30, 13

13. Symptoms of the Cultural Shift
Canceling of BET UnCut
Tuesday, July 30, 13

14. Lil Wayne
introduced
Aubrey Graham
to the world as
“Drake”
at
MTV Spring Break
Tuesday, July 30, 13

15. Post Reality
The Flag of Street Culture
is being flown by a rich
child actor
Tuesday, July 30, 13

16. as the exclusive arbiters of the culture
Blacks
no longer valued
Tuesday, July 30, 13

17. Street Code
was no longer
the official unwritten
rules of the game
Symptoms of the Cultural shift
Tuesday, July 30, 13

18. The Rap
Game is
now all
about
STYLE
(You got a etch-a-sketch
on your pants playa!)
Tuesday, July 30, 13

19. Bleached Jeans Faded Jeans
Black White
Men MenWomenWomen
Baggy Loose Tight
Pre - 2006
Millennial Generation Denim Landscape
Style
Race
Sex
Cut
Tuesday, July 30, 13

20. Solid Jeans Faded Jeans
Black White
Men MenWomenWomen
Loose Skinny
Post - 2006
Millennial Generation Denim Landscape
Style
Race
Sex
Cut
Tuesday, July 30, 13

21. But
the game
is coming
full circle
Tuesday, July 30, 13

22. Old School 1979-1992 Tight
Reality 1993-2006 Loose
Post-Reality 2006-2013 Tight
The Savage Life 2014- Loose
Era Denim Style
Tuesday, July 30, 13

23. Why?
Tuesday, July 30, 13

24. is shortening the cultural
macro-cycle
The fast pace of technology
Tuesday, July 30, 13

25. The Old School &
Reality Era’s were twice
as long as the Post-
Reality
Tuesday, July 30, 13

26. long-term unemployment is a reality
for many youths
Economic Hardship
has affected a larger cross section
of the population
Tuesday, July 30, 13

27. The Suburban Savage Life
is no longer a joke
Tuesday, July 30, 13

28. Tuesday, July 30, 13

29. Reality Era designers like Maurice
Malone who abandoned the baggy
cut are re-introducing it
Tuesday, July 30, 13

30. The frivolous nature of the Post-Reality style
was a result of misplaced escapism.
Tuesday, July 30, 13

31. The Truth is the World
is Savage
Tuesday, July 30, 13