Streetwear signaled status through logos and scarcity, not design

Evidence

Unlike previous clothing trends, streetwear wasn’t about avant-garde fashion design or unusual silhouettes. The core garments were just casual basics: T-shirts, sweatshirts, jeans, shorts, and sneakers. The selling point was the graphics and the logos, and the artificial exclusivity lent an aura of high fashion. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 94

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 94