Fashion in the Grime Industry
Grime music has trickled down and amplified the U.K as a premiere site for music & fashion culture. What artists are seen wearing in videos, at award ceremonies and what they show off on their insta is becoming ever so more influential to the Fashion scene in the UK and globally.
Skepta once rapped ‘yeah, I used to wear Gucci I put it all in the bin ’cause that’s not me’? Early grime wasn’t about what you wore and the uniform of grime artists was very much what you could get your hands on.Certified pieces were from brands like Nike, rather than high end as they are slowly becoming today.
Key Grime Staples
Air Max
Way back when grime was emerging, Nike Air Max ’95s were nicknamed ‘110s’ because of their high price-point of £110. Roll Deep member Trim even rapped “I wear Nike from the foot up, max no push-ups”. UK Grime star Chip featured the ‘Jungle’ Air Max 95’s on the cover for his ‘Grime vs Rap’ mixtape. Nike Air Max TNs (or the Air Max Plus as they’re properly called) are also a popular choice with grime artists, with Skepta even wearing a pair on the cover of Fader. These were nicknamed ‘125s’ due to their higher price-point of £125 and because of this if you wore a pair you tended to have a higher status on the streets.
Tracksuit
A tracksuit is the ultimate uniform of the Grime artist, its what they wore when the were a youth and they have stuck by their roots. Skepta has always rocked a tracksuit is one of the leading members of the ‘tracksuit mafia’ and even wore one to fashion week. In his track ‘Shutdown’ he spits ‘Fashion week and it’s shutdown, went to the show sitting in the front row, in the black tracksuit and it’s shutdown’. Skepta is praised as one of the leading figures in bringing the tracksuit to the foreground and taking it away from its roots of violence and council estates. For Spring/Summer 2015 he was even seen walking for Nasir Mazhar. The tracksuit was specifically created for Skepta during the London Fashion Week Men’s show, essentially cementing him as the father of the tracksuit. Skepta even accepted his MOBO in a Nike tracksuit in a celebration of grime’s early roots.
Skepta once rapped ‘yeah, I used to wear Gucci I put it all in the bin ’cause that’s not me’? Early grime wasn’t about what you wore and the uniform of grime artists was very much what you could get your hands on.Certified pieces were from brands like Nike, rather than high end as they are slowly becoming today.
Key Grime Staples
Air Max
Way back when grime was emerging, Nike Air Max ’95s were nicknamed ‘110s’ because of their high price-point of £110. Roll Deep member Trim even rapped “I wear Nike from the foot up, max no push-ups”. UK Grime star Chip featured the ‘Jungle’ Air Max 95’s on the cover for his ‘Grime vs Rap’ mixtape. Nike Air Max TNs (or the Air Max Plus as they’re properly called) are also a popular choice with grime artists, with Skepta even wearing a pair on the cover of Fader. These were nicknamed ‘125s’ due to their higher price-point of £125 and because of this if you wore a pair you tended to have a higher status on the streets.
Tracksuit
A tracksuit is the ultimate uniform of the Grime artist, its what they wore when the were a youth and they have stuck by their roots. Skepta has always rocked a tracksuit is one of the leading members of the ‘tracksuit mafia’ and even wore one to fashion week. In his track ‘Shutdown’ he spits ‘Fashion week and it’s shutdown, went to the show sitting in the front row, in the black tracksuit and it’s shutdown’. Skepta is praised as one of the leading figures in bringing the tracksuit to the foreground and taking it away from its roots of violence and council estates. For Spring/Summer 2015 he was even seen walking for Nasir Mazhar. The tracksuit was specifically created for Skepta during the London Fashion Week Men’s show, essentially cementing him as the father of the tracksuit. Skepta even accepted his MOBO in a Nike tracksuit in a celebration of grime’s early roots.
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