Skateboarding Is Not A Fashion

Skateboarding s unique attitude and style have captured the imagination of millions over the decades and skateboarding is not a fashion vol 1.

Skateboarding is not a fashion. There s the influence of bmx culture on the vans iconic long. Skateboarding is not a fashion is exhaustive in its history lessons honing in on hyper specific trends and cultural influences. In order to try to find the answer we decided to take a closer look at skate fashion at a vip party for the launch of the skateboard museum berlin s new book skateboarding is not a fashion that took place on january 18th in downtown la. From its roots in the 1950s as an offshoot of surfing culture through the early 1980s when skateboarding found itself after a crucial underground period of soul searching and diy expressions of individuality.

Skateboarding is not a fashion is a full color coffee table book that chronicles the history of skateboard fashion told by prolific skateboard personalities. In skateboarding is not a fashion the authors have taken great effort to document all aspects of this aesthetic movement. Is the culture s magnum opus lookbook. The book gives a decade by decade.

Compiled by jürgen blümlein at the museum of skateboard history with photography by cap 10 and words by boardsport source skateboard editor dirk vogel the book packs several decades of skate style original apparel and iconic pro skaters into 636 fully illustrated pages.