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Style Points is a column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.

When Tyler Watamanuk set out to write Bigger Than Fashion , his new history of streetwear, he knew he wanted to start from the genre’s origin point. Which was made more challenging, because there was no single one to choose from. “I was looking at all these strands of separate, fully disconnected subcultures: graffiti, surfing, skating, punk,” he says. “And then they all would start to swirl together.” Braiding together the stories of key figures like Supreme founder James Jebbia and Stüssy’s Shawn Stüssy, he narrates the story of the fashion genre that took over th

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