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Drop dives into the world of streetwear queue culture, with original photos of product launches from across the globe, including events in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and more, from brands including Supreme, A Bathing Ape, Patta, Yeezy, Anti Social Social Club, Vetements, Off-White, and others. The world of the hypebeast has led to a virtual destruction of the traditional delineation between street and ""high"" fashion. Limited edition pieces enjoy global cult status, draw thousands of hopeful purchasers, and can resell for up to 10-20x retail immediately after release on sites like Grailed. There is an entire culture surrounding these launches, or ""drops."" Streetwear aficionados travel intercontinentally to attend them, almost like concerts, and wear their rarest shoes and gear, flexing for each other while chatting, comparing, and hoping to cop one-time-only limited pieces. Kids rock grails and geek out, like an OG subreddit come to life. These lines comprise some of the most interesting fashion events in the world, and are fast becoming streetwear's equivalent of the fashion shows that haute ateliers host each year at fashion weeks in Paris, New York, Milan, and beyond.

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Included in The Stategist's Year's Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books (So Far) 4/19/18 10 coffee table books every fashion girl should own --Evening Standard This fashionphile found the book to be refreshingly honest with no sugar coating at all. --New York Journal of Books As Seen In Hypebeast, Fucking Young!, Merry Jane, Sidewalk Hustle, Flannels, GQ Austraiia

Included in The Stategist's Year's Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books (So Far) 4/19/18

Included in The Stategist's Year's Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books (So Far) 4/19/18 10 coffee table books every fashion girl should own --Evening Standard This fashionphile found the book to be refreshingly honest with no sugar coating at all. --New York Journal of Books As Seen In Hypebeast, Fucking Young!, Merry Jane, Sidewalk Hustle

As Seen In: Hypebeast, Fucking Young!, Merry Jane, Sidewalk Hustle, Flannels, GQ Australia, Le Monde This fashionphile found the book to be refreshingly honest with no sugar coating at all. * New York Journal of Books * Included in The Stategist's Year's Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books (So Far) 4/19/18 10 coffee table books every fashion girl should own -Evening Standard

Included in The Stategist's Year's Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books (So Far) 4/19/18 10 coffee table books every fashion girl should own --Evening Standard This fashionphile found the book to be refreshingly honest with no sugar coating at all. --New York Journal of Books As Seen In Hypebeast, Fucking Young!, Merry Jane, Sidewalk Hustle, Flannels, GQ Australia, Le Monde

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Byron Hawes is an NYC-based writer, designer, and curator. He is the founder and editor of the underground design magazine The Après Garde, and co-founder of I-V, a boutique architecture and design firm that has done projects including a recording studio and offices for OVO Sound, and Campari's Canadian HQ. He is a contributing editor at Fucking Young and SidewalkHustle and has served as a contributing editor for both Hypebeast and HighSnobiety. Additionally, he has authored the books Drop, Art on Deck: An Exploration of Supreme Skateboards from 1998-2018, Object Oriented: An Anthology of Supreme Accessories from 1994-2018, Façades, and others.

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