Youth subcultures

When a chubby Marlon Brando roared into town on a motorbike in The Wild One he popularized the black leather jacket as a fashionable symbol of rebellion. Leather jackets may have been worn by bikers for protection, but they were quickly adopted by rock musicians (from Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, The Beatles to Elvis) as an endorsement of their outsider status. While fashions changed in the 1960s to soft denim and psychedelic colors, the black leather jacket never lost its iconic status as…

How to distinguish between today's youth subcultures…

Is there life after youth? I don’t think you die when you age into adulthood, but you have to hold on to your youth! I get to express my youth every day I’m a part of CVLT Nation. I also get to look back at how subcultures of all types shaped my youth and guided […]

Youth subcultures: what are they now? Mods, punks, soulboys, metallers, goths, hippies: there was a time when young people made it clear what tribe and music they were into by the way they dressed. Not any more. #youth #subcutltures #art #music

“Skinheads and Hippies, Piccadilly Circus, 1969.”

How did you spend your childhood? Were you constantly trying to get into the Hippodrome? Were you cyber-gothed up to the nines at Camden Market? Or were you the