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On Drop Culture

A page from the streetwear book

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Vincenzo Landino
Jun 22, 2022
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Drop culture isn’t something new. Not even remotely.

Streetwear brands have been leveraging drops since the 1980’s created by sneaker brands like Nike and Adidas to get sneaker-heads hyped about a release.

More recently, we see it with apps like SNKRS and MSCHF, brands like Yeezy and Apple and the very hyped NBA TopShot amongst many others.

Recently, I had…

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