Every creator has its own signature. They include Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe, Campbell’s Soup Cans, and Nam June Paik’s TV Media art.
Fashion creators also have their own signature items. Through the history of symbolic items, you can look into the thoughts, experiences, and values of creators.
Sagging Pants
What do Justin Bieber and Miu Miu have in common? It’s Sagging Pants.
When it comes to Justin Bieber, you can’t leave out sagging pants.
Justin Bieber has been the talk of the town since a decade ago wearing sagging pants. To the extent that the world’s communities were full of articles about Justin Bieber’s pants.
Then, he was recently photographed wearing sagging pants again, making headlines. Miu Miu has created a huge boom with pants and skirt items that reveal underwear announced at the 22 RTW collection.
All celebrities posted Miu Miu OOTD Instagram, and each fashion brand lookbook was able to find items and styling inspired by Miu Miu.
So what is the exact meaning of sagging?
Sagging is a style in which the upper part of the pants is worn drooping below the waist, revealing the wearer’s underwear. A person wearing such sagging pants is called a sagger, and some call this behavior low-riding.
The sagging style has an interesting history.
In the past, U.S. prisons distributed clothes without considering the size of prisoners, forcing most prisoners to wear large prison uniforms, which banned wearing belts for safety reasons.
This forced inmates to wear large pants over their hips, some of which remained this style after release to reveal they were from prison, and many rappers in the 90s took inspiration from it and used sagging as a means of conveying rebellious messages. Since then, famous rappers such as 2Pac have joined the sagging style, making it a trend.
Until now, fashion cannot be mentioned except for sagging in the hip-hop scene. Wearing your pants down so that you can see your underwear is like a kind of uniform for rappers. Some people don’t treat rappers who don’t sag as real.
As such, sagging, which seemed to remain a singularity of the hip-hop scene, has been reinterpreted in a modern way and is gaining popularity again. MOWALOLA’s 23F/W is the most popular sagging pants these days. MOWALOLA’s collection was unconventional.
Timberland, which symbolizes eastern hip-hop, and models wearing slanted hats in sagging pants that cannot be worn down, reminded them of rap stars at the time and made them reminisce about those days at once. JACQUEMUS introduced a casual sagging style by mixing swim pants instead of underwear with a pattern that reminds of a resort.
REIKTUNE’s Saggy Baggy Denim Trousers
REIKTUNE is a brand led by creator REIKWON and is a hip-hop culture-based high-end men’s clothing brand. While working with artists in the music scene, creator REIKWON fell into the hip-hop genre and she is getting from hip-hop from work songs to design inspiration.
Even before launching the brand, she had confidence in using the black culture signature sagging pants as her main item. The affection is so different that it has been modified several times by hand from the pattern.
The Saggy Baggy Denim Trousers, which can be said to be her life and taste itself, is a carpenter jeans with an attractive baggy fit with brushed washing, featuring a double panel on the back and seamline details. In particular, the details on the back of the double overlapping waist belts can be said to be a tribute to black hip-hop culture.
Creators’ lives and values are deeply involved in the brand as a whole.
Like Anish Kapoor’s The Bean and Ando Tadao’s Church of the Light, the fashion brand’s main items are like a piece of work created through the intention of the creator in all parts, including type, design, pattern, and color.
From this point of view, why don’t you try on REIKTUNE’s sagging Pants?
