2016 Fashion Trends on Steroids

By Tshepo Bareetseng

Fashion has always been big, from the United States, China, to South Africa itself. Seeing girls wearing boy’s clothes and boys also wearing girl’s clothes, a good example of this would be an American Hip–Hop Star named Jeffery aka Young Thug and also the famous Jaden Smith…

 A young “Hustler”, Local and Hip-Hop musician Loswidi Maswidi showing off his way dressing, his own sense of fashion with a touch bling.                                                         Picture by Tshepo Bareetseng

The word Fashion is a popular style, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, make-up, body and or furniture. The speed of change has accelerated considerately in the following century, and women and men’s fashion, especially in the dressing and hair styles has become equally complex.

Maswidi says that he find the new trends really amazing, especially the torn Jeans and the designer and torn T-Shirts. “yo look, the staff that our designers are doing these days, I don’t like them, but I love them, they make me feel amazing, they just put me in the spotlight where I belong”, said Maswidi.

Maswidi continued to say that fashion is one of the best ways to put yourself there, “your appearance matters, and with these new fashion trends, we can wear whatever we love and get them anywhere now, these days, it’s no longer about the price, we buy in the streets now, cheap staff are the best in terms or clothes, I mean in terms or the design,” Maswidi added. Fashion has a way of making people happy.

A study shows that fashion has always been there since the early 1780s, that Marie Antoinette, who was the wife of Luis XVI, was the leader of fashion. A good example would be a white muslin dress she wore in 1783 which was called Chemise a la Reine, eve since she wore it; it started being famous and people wearing it world-wide.

In the world there are four major current fashion capitals which are namely Paris, Mila, London and the city of lights New York City. These are widely known be the best places to get best and well-designed clothes, they are known for having the greatest Fashion companies and are also famous for their influence on global fashion.

The year 2016 has seen South African fashion growing in a huge way, having one of the best designers in Africa as a whole named David Tlale. David Tlale is one of the people in Africa who inspire ladies to always try something new and weird.

South African fashion has a lot of fashion styles like Skhanda, Umswenko, Retro also named Vintage wear not forgetting the world wide know Hip-hop Swag which is nowadays called being Fresh & having steeze. These styles have influenced the youth, they feel comfortable. The youth see these trends on social media, TV, magazines, newspaper and pamphlets.

Braamfontein is the fashion district; filled with college and varsity students and many boutiques all over it, it is easy to access a favourite dress, jean, or T-shirt. Sabelo Sithole who lives in Braamfischerville, only 25minutes away from Braamfontein, says that he is inspired by people like Tbo Touch who have their own brands, people like Somizi, who are not ashamed of wearing anything colourful and shiny. “I love fashion and people like Somizi, they inspire me, these are the people I look up to fashion wise, especially Tbo Touch and Drake, I travel to Braamfontein almost every month just to buy a new T-Shirt I saw on TV,” Sithole said.

Fashion has been there and will forever be, and 80% of the youth will continue being in love with it. “Simple but awesome clothing puts you out there,” unknown writer…