Skateboarding Is Not A Fashion!

Skateboard star Christian Hosoi, right, with his dad Pops Hosoi. Christian founded Hosoi Skateboards and also rides for Vans, RVCA and other brands. He also serves as an outreach minister for The Sanctuary church in Costa Mesa, Calif.

By Andrew Asch | Monday, January 22, 2018

Talk about mixed messages.

Vans celebrated the release of the Versa Hoodie DX on Jan. 18. It also celebrated the new book Skateboarding is not a Fashion by SkateboardMuseum Berlin. It all took place at the Avenue Des Arts gallery space in downtown Los Angeles.

Exhibit at Avenue Des Arts gallery for Skateboarding is not a Fashion.

OG skateboarders, party people and those intimately involved with the skateboard fashion game checked out the gallery show. Take a look.

Jason X Osorio, left, and Luis Arroyo.

Cris Dawson, left, Micah Tompkins.

Shepard Fairey of Obey, left. Zannah Hackett, center, and David Hackett. David is an OG skateboarder. In the mid-1980s he was an Apparel News coverboy. A picture of him skateboarding was featured in an Apparel News story on a new thing called skateboard fashion.

Skateboard Museum curator Jurgen Blümlein, left. Harry Blitzstein, center, and Harry's daughter Andrea Blitzstein. Harry runs the Blitzstein Museum of Art in Los Angeles' Fairfax District. His neighbors are some of the major streetwear boutiques on Fairfax.