The Culture of Protest

More often street brands are becoming commercially-viable and sometimes develop into giants like Supreme, Off-White and others.
Pursuing commercial interests and trying to remain in trends, they continue to exploit street culture. One the one hand they reveal new painters and designers to the world, let them make money on this work and turn their names into brands. On the other hand this process faces a strong protest of true representatives of street culture. They oppose any commercialization of street art like graffiti, customization of clothes, installations. They destroy, get paint all over windows of fashion stores and damage someone else's artworks. Even if an artist has found his own style, may he make money on street culture, which is being formed by a collective mind? In fact, even in medieval times and renaissance the best artists as Limbourg brothers, Michelangelo, Raphael, worked on orders of church and rich people.

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