Hatler Criss Audiobooks

Hype and Heritage: how streetwear grew from skate parks into a global business

1 audiobook reviewed

Who is Hatler Criss?

Trainers, limited drops and the economics of cool: Hype and Heritage takes streetwear seriously as cultural history rather than as a shopping list. Hatler Criss traces the line from skateboarding, hip hop and youth subculture to a global industry, which explains why our shelving cannot decide between arts, business and lifestyle.

The angle is the interesting part. Rather than treating hype as a marketing accident, the book reads scarcity, the drop model and the independent designer as the actual machinery of modern fashion, and treats the people queuing outside the shop as participants in a culture rather than as dupes of one.

Hatler Criss in audiobooks

This is a brief listen, an hour and a quarter, which puts it closer to a well made documentary than to a business tome. Gordon Webster narrates, and the compact running time suits the material: the argument is made and then it stops, without the padding that longer treatments of the same subject tend to acquire.

No ratings have gathered yet, so there is nothing to lean on but the premise, and the premise is strong if you have ever wondered why a pair of trainers can cost more second hand than new. Short enough for a single journey. It is queued up below.