Wholesale hip hop wear from major designers and clothing manufacturers has become a hot item.
Some recent trends in hip hop clothing have seen a move away from in-your-face rapper influenced designs to more mass-market friendly styles from major clothing manufacturers. In other words, the clothing designs have lightened up quite a bit - acknowledging that hip hop clothing - and the attitude projected by the entire hip hop crowd - is just like most other trends: more imagined than real. Designer jeans and other designer urban wear are no exception.
Because the urban clothing market changes very rapidly a large market for wholesale urban clothing exists. Since urban wear designs get changed and updated quickly and marketers have to stay ahead of the curve, they are quite prepared to move large lots of designs from the last cycle at cut rate prices. Because of changes in the fashion market enterprising clothing merchants can purchase decent sized lots of slightly outdated items and sell them in bulk at wholesale prices - often on the internet. These items usually go for much lower prices than you can find in most trendy stores that stock designer clothing.