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Summer Footwear Fashion Trends: Cool Highlights from Diverse Styles Already Making Their Way Out of the Closet Indicate an Exceptionally Fun Season to Come

This summer, the footwear styles are going to be eclectic, and in a good way. While flip-flips and sneaks will be prevalent, young people are going for it when it comes to fashionable feet in the heat in terms of colors, styles, and mash-ups.

Expansion Revamp of Young Men’s Retail Shibuya 109-2 for the Onii-Kei Guy Indicates Growing Market for Rocker Looks Importance of Street Fashion -Label Networks’ Japan Data Reveals Top Stores for Young Men

Often what takes place in major Japanese retailers is an indication of where things are changing and how U.S. retailers may need to react in the future. With the expansion and revamp now of the popular Shibuya-2 store for young men, two whole new floors have been revamped to offer up high-end street fashion styles for the growing marketplace of rock-inspired men’s styles.

Face-paint Completes New Rave-Hippy Looks Already Topping Upcoming Summer Styles in North America and Europe as the Mash-up of Make-up Paint Take on New Meaning

The revival of using face paint or arm paint to accentuate one’s look has reached new heights as we move into the summer festival and music tour season. Already seen at several different events, ranging from outdoor festivals to intimate theatres and music showcases in North America and Europe, the use of face paint as a form of expression has hit the street fashion scene big time.

%u201CWhich phone features are most important to you?” -Label Networks’ Fresh Data on Cell Phone Culture and Youth Markets Tells a New Story on What’s Hot and Why

When looking at cell phone culture as it pertains to young people, you can determine where technology communication patterns are headed to next, how much influence other “phone-intensive” cultures such as Japan, have on today’s youth marketplace.

Sunglasse-Who’s the Top Brand Now Why: Label Networks’ Fresh Data on Sunglasses Trends, Brands, Spending, Size of Market Indicate Who’s Leading the Pack Where New Opportunities Lie in this Crowded, Colorful Marketplace

The importance of the sunglasses marketplace is revealed in Label Networks’ fresh data from the Spring Study 2008 about who’s hot why now big-box retailers are getting into the shades industry; plus the styles leading the charge this summer.

X/Y Tribes in the House: How Entertainment Venues, Runway Shows, Retail Spaces Need to Address the Importance of Attracting Today’s Youth Culture Markets

Entertainment venues, like any other industry trying to be relevant by 2010, need to address the importance of attracting youth culture markets, namely 13-25-year-olds.

Music As a Catalyst for Creating Grassroots Branding, Advertising, Marketing Campaigns

By understanding the key subcultures and changes in preferences of music among youth culture, brands can more effectively target the demographic and capture long-term interest through lifestyle associations.

%u201CWhat is the best ONE thing a sponsor can do to grab your attention?” Revealing Results Indicate Important Market Changes

Fresh from the “Sponsorship, Advertising & Marketing Youth Culture Profile Report 2008” preferred types of sponsorship, advertising, and marketing by youth culture markets are revealed, which in this story, are important changes in the best ONE thing that can be done to grab their attention.

Children of the Revolution: Bohemian-Rave Chic among Youth Markets Redefine Expectations for Back-to-School and Street Styles for Spring/Summer %u201809

While recent fashion runway shows illustrate S/S09 fashion as moving classic, even pin-up, youth culture street styles are moving in the opposite direction with mash-ups of bohemian chic, rave, synth-pop rock influences, developing an altogether original style.

Footwear Photo Report Part 1: Trends Resulting from How Youth Culture is Wearing Shoes Indicate Which Brands Work Best for New Styles on Fashionable Feet

It’s not just the brands preferred but how the target demographic wears various styles that have made this footwear photo report uniquely special and indicative of what brands work best in the future.