Polhemus

Ted (1947). Lecturer in anthropology based in London but born in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He is considered the guru of street style and spontaneous fashion. He became known in Italy for his exhibition Street Style, held in 1994 in collaboration with Pitti Immagine. The metropolitan tribes (Polhemus calls them “global tribes”) of the 1970s had a great influence on world fashion, which seeks out and copies the styles of the people. He also maintains that London, the city he made his home in 1989, is the world center for inspiring contemporary Western taste.