ECLIPSE Magazine April 2015

The internet has revolutionized our world — democratizing media, restructuring economies and overthrowing governments. It has been equally revolutionary in the arts — musicians, artists and fashion designers can connect directly with their customers, reducing the power of of professional guardians of the gates. Thanks to fashion bloggers, pinners and instagrammers, designers no longer need the imprimatur of Vogue or Elle to find their audience. A powerful development of this democratized fashion is the elevation of urban fashion, the chic casual street fashion influenced by the style and aesthetics of urban youth.

The internet also gave us Second Life® where the greatest barrier to entry is fear of failure and which has freed the potential in anyone with the courage to try. If you weave these threads together, you get the work of Kaiden Trill, who in the language of the streets and the Oxford English Dictionary be the illest designer of all.

There is no single form of music or fashion or art that one can point to and say with certainty this is the art of now. But if there were, it would be among the newest forms - such as hip hop and perhaps it is there we find the best Page 94 | ECLIPSE April 2015