{"id":159673,"date":"2018-01-17T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/fashion-space-gallery-to-stage-series-of-events-celebrating-90s-style-sound-and-rave-culture\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:51:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:51:56","slug":"fashion-space-gallery-to-stage-series-of-events-celebrating-90s-style-sound-and-rave-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/fashion-space-gallery-to-stage-series-of-events-celebrating-90s-style-sound-and-rave-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Space Gallery to stage series of events celebrating 90s style, sound and rave culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
Super Sharp<\/em>, the first in a series of events celebrating the style, sound and rave culture of the 1990s<\/strong>, will open at the Fashion Space Gallery at the London College of Fashion on 1 February.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The first instalment of the RTRN II JUNGLE series, Super Sharp<\/em> explores the\u00a0appropriation of luxury\u00a0Italian designer brands in the underground music scenes of Jungle and UK Garage<\/strong>.\u00a0Versace, Moschino, Iceberg and D&G are among the labels synonymous with the look of the era.<\/p>\n Curated by Tory Turk and jointly conceived with Saul Milton (DJ and producer and one half of Drum & Bass duo Chase & Status), Super Sharp<\/em> draws from an extensive Moschino archive amassed Milton<\/strong>, which also forms the core of RTRN II JUNGLE.<\/p>\n \"I\u2019ve been collecting and wearing Moschino since 1997\/8. Today, I look and dress like I did back then, pony tail, jewellery and tapered, tailored vintage Moschino and reebok classics<\/strong>. My collection is largely clothes that you would have seen in the raves and the clubs in the 90\u2019s and early 2000\u2019s. It\u2019s a collection of nostalgia, of times when we appropriated other cultures and twisted and turned them into our own style, our own look. Rudeboy culture was everything and fast forward to 2018, it\u2019s come full circle,\" Milton said.<\/span><\/p>\n The exhibition traces the emergence of the Jungle and UK Garage music scenes and the shift in club culture and style<\/strong>\u00a0they initiated. Jungle \u2013 a form of electronic dance music derived from old school hardcore and heavily influenced by American hip hop and Jamaican sound-system culture \u2013 was born out of the Bristol and London underground rave scenes in the early 1990s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n UK Garage emerged in the mid-90s in South London<\/strong>\u00a0(with its roots in the original Garage sound which began in New York in the 1980s) with hype around the genre reaching its height between 1998-2000.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>It brought with it stricter door policies, refusing entry to clubbers wearing caps and trainers. The sound attracted more females, which in turn changed the attitudes within the club. Dancing and posing became even more about flaunting affluence.<\/span><\/p>\n