WonderCon has descended on Anaheim, CA, at the Convention Center bringing with it tens of thousands of diehard comic fans and super-hero wannabes. Often considered the little brother of the bigger Comic-Con that sells out a year ahead of time, WonderCon has become a hot ticket in its own right as it enters its 26th […]
Invisible Children is a non-profit that’s become incredibly powerful and popular among youth culture within the last 5 years based on unique ways of engaging today’s technically savvy youth culture marketplace and increasing awareness about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony who continues to abduct and create children soldiers, among many other monstrosities across Central Africa. On […]
Story and Photos by Kathleen Gasperini and Tom Wallace The flurry of fashion trade shows in Las Vegas from February 12-15, 2012 bring with them a diverse angle of what’s taking shape in fashion from a wide spectrum of genres particularly in the United States. While we mostly concentrate on youth culture influences, including streetwear, […]
Story and Photos by Kathleen Gasperini and Tom Wallace Agenda trade show, once known as the bastion of underground that usurped ASR back in the day, has been a fully-fledged fashion trade show in its own right now for years, but if ever there was a time that announced this, it was January 5-6, 2012 […]
Happy Holidays, Venice Beach, CA graffiti-wall style! Happy Holidays! We’ll be posting again next week with an entirely new website featuring new insights, images, data, and analysis on global youth culture. 2012 will feature our Youth Culture Studies, historical access to our China, European, and Japan Youth Culture Studies, plus on-gong timely Profile Reports, and […]
TWLOHA, beloved youth culture non-profit, wins $1 million from Chase.To Write Love On Her Arms (TWOLA) is one of youth culture’s most popular non-profits as it deals with people dealing with depression, cutting, suicide, and addition—aspects that until TWLOHA came into being, were often overlooked within this demographic. On December 12, 2011, presented on a […]
There’s a bigger picture to having healthy boobs and KAB knows how to make a difference -this time with the launch of the Non-Toxic Revolution.
Fast-fashion giant H&M has some excellent goals that are pushing the boundaries and changing practices of sustainability in fashion.
While obviously the main draw here at Coachella is the music line-up, the eco arts portion, courtesy of Global Inheritance provides new ways of doing things.
TedPrize winner JR dives right into his street art project bringing awareness of art as influential as politics with Artocracy -covered by AlJazeera, as art challenges revolutionaries.