Michael Socha Quotes

Growing up in Oakland, we did things like white t-shirt, blue jeans and Nikes. That was my get down, how I was going to rock. And if you look at me right now, I'm pretty much black tee, blue jeans and some sneakers.

As a teenager, I would wear Clarks, corduroy pants and striped shirts, and I loved it.

Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.

I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.

For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.

I have this old worn-out, skintight T-shirt that I love. That's sexy.

Record covers still inspire me in terms of clothes, some bands just look sharp. But I still wear stuff I owned when I was 16.

The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.

I like vintage clothes, a lot of '80s band shirts. I wear a lot of my boyfriend's clothes, too.

I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.

Nowadays, everyone has a stylist - we were raw, wearing 8 ball jackets with kente hats and spandex. It's a quintessential look that everyone loved.

If you noticed, I wear high-water pants and white socks, which is inspired by the mod '60s, like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, what have you. That style of dress during that time is really, really dope to me.

My style changes constantly, but I always love a baggy, ripped-up vintage jean with combat boots and a button-up shirt.

I'm heavily influenced by the Nineties - I love juxtaposing a slip dress with trainers and a vintage leather jacket.

I love Ali MacGraw and her style - I'm into vintage '70s outfits at the moment.

When I met T-Boz and Left Eye, they were buying jeans that were a size 38. Three little cute girls dressed like boys was cool back then. Our style was cartoonish but fly at the same time.

A lot of people in my generation, we use hip-hop as a tool to compose.

I found my style in my aunt's attic. She hoarded all her '60s clothes there, along with the tiaras she'd won as a beauty queen, and I'd steal her wedding dress to wear around town.

I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.

My obsession with hip-hop has given me an addiction to trainers, which are very much a young person's game, and I am known to rock a full tracksuit, under the pretence that it's more comfortable to travel in.

I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.

In L.A., I did a lot of vintage flea market dresses and Doc Martens.

I like the Rockabilly look. My background is half Italian, half French. I wear cowboy boots and jeans.

My era was '90s Carhartt-and-Timberlands hip-hop. That's my rock n' roll.