HEDI AND JERKIN

While French movement Tecktonik never really hit the States (thank you.), LA kids have helped spreading the Jerkin Generation, which is slowly making its way across the country and hitting the East Coast.

Jerkin is all in the legs, moving them in and out on Hip-Hop tunes, and battling on the streets. The dance emerged in Southern California as the youth's rejection of gang culture. Baggy pants were traded off for skinny jeans, and the brighter the color, the better. In an entrepreneurship demeanor, Jerkin is about creating and promoting one's own vintage identity that meets somewhere between the 80s and the 90s decades.

In his newest Rock Diary entry, Hedi Slimane introduces us to the Skinny Jeanz Movement in a street and studio shoot. I couldn't resist, the shoot looks so much fun, just makes you want to join them and dance.








All pictures by Hedi Slimane

The New Boyz highly contributed to the spread of Jerkin, launching their debut single 'You're a Jerk' during the Summer 2009.