Tag: crossover

Music and Youth Culture Report: The Ultimate Crossover Platform from Communication, Sports, Technology, and Fashion

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This week’s fresh report from Label Networks’ latest presentation is regarding youth culture and what’s changed in terms of major influences of music on today’s marketplace. There are many things going on in a variety of genres of music today that pertain to youth culture, from action sports to streetewear and fashion as a whole–from […]

Highlights from Label Networks Presentation “Music and Action Sports Crossover–Connecting with Youth Culture”

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Just back from the YPulse Mashup Conference on Youth Marketing in San Francisco, we present you with highlights from our presentation sponsored by GroupY, utilizing our data, images, analysis, and forecasts.

Rubber Duck’s Combine BAPE Colors with Sneaker-like Uggs for Original Footwear Style That’s Captured the Attention of Fashionistas Across Europe

Footwear break-throughs in style are not always easy to come by, but when we checked out Rubber Duck, the footwear brand created by Eik Braun Ottosen from Copenhagen, we knew we’d found something original, and at the same time, rather funny. Jim Shuben, formerly from WESC and now with Rubber Duck, explained that Eik was a young designer of footwear who had created a sensation in Europe with the launch of his latest styles: a combination of a sneaker, Ugg boot, in Bathing Ape-type patent-leather bright colors, including the uber-hip metallics of gold, silver and Star Wars storm-trooper white.

WeSC, the Street-Contemporary Fashion Brand from Sweden, Featured Top Activists’ Artists in an Well-Curated Art Show at Robert Bergman Gallery Attracting a Who’s-Who List of Street Artists, Action Sports Industry, and Press

We Are the Superlative Conspiracy (WeSC) is a fast-emerging street fashion apparel brand with collections ranging from denim, dresses, tops, button-downs, jackets, and unique accessories -including designer headphones -which may well be accounted for by their reputation for creative grassroots marketing and branding campaigns. On March 1st, following the opening day of the new street and contemporary fashion trade show Class (see next story for details), WeSC launched an exhibition of the artwork created by the artists from their flock of “We Activists” -someone that is extremely good at what they do (but not necessarily famous) and chosen by WeSC to represent the brand in their own way–in a well-curated art show at Bergamot Station at the Robert Bergman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA.

Youth Culture Fashion Redefines Itself with Adaptations to Street, Urban, Urban Superior, and Contemporary, Providing New Dangers to Brands Getting Profiled

Revealing discoveries from fresh research quantifies which former top brands are now tumbling and why, who’s the new kid on the block, and how economic shifts are influencing spending patterns, preferences, even fashion classifications.