No other fashion trend serves as a strong statement than the punk trend and skate fashion does, without a doubt, a punk statement. Punk has been a strong merge of an anti-materialistic fashion that was strongly popularized with mainstream glam rock and the hippie movement. The hip hop community is the guiltiest in popularizing materialism concepts and the importance of brands in fashion. Punk fashion as it started back in the 1970’s was to contradict this focus on expensive brands and materialism and also stood as a statement to symbolize the punk movement’s anarchist ideology. As the years went by though, this idea faded into the background until the only thing remaining of the original punk fashion was the image while the heart of it had died with commercialism. Skate fashion is one of the last punk fashion trends that stays true to the original concept.
