{"id":320,"date":"2025-05-09T11:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playstyles.co.uk\/?p=320"},"modified":"2025-05-27T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:30:21","slug":"messi-lebron-lionesses-blokecore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/playstyles\/2025\/05\/09\/messi-lebron-lionesses-blokecore\/","title":{"rendered":"How did Messi, LeBron, and the Lionesses fuel the \u2018blokecore\u2019 revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\"><em>Even if you don\u2019t know what it is, you\u2019ve probably seen \u2018blokecore\u2019 on the streets, on Pinterest and on Instagram recently. But why? Ollie Mitchell investigates.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trend of fashion influencers &#8211; no matter the gender &#8211; incorporating football &#8211; or football-inspired &#8211; items into \u2018cool\u2019 outfits has skyrocketed into the mainstream across the past year or so, marking a distinct change in how football is seen as an influence on fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly, it\u2019s a large part of the reason this website exists in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adidas Sambas and Gazelles are all over the place now, and that\u2019s just one small part of the \u2018blokecore\u2019 trend that\u2019s making teens in LA dress like blokes in a pub in Newcastle. Or Basingstoke. Or Colchester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Football shirts, scarves and bucket hats have also started to make their way away from the terraces and into the streets of New York, Paris and more &#8211; but why on Earth is this happening?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spoke to Kerry Sands, a fashion student at the University of East London, who explained where it seemed to have come from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: \u201cWe spend so much of our time analysing trends, predicting trends and trying to understand the point of them. For example, we predicted that burgundy would have a big year in 2024, and that ended up being the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHowever, we didn\u2019t really see \u2018blokecore\u2019 coming. I think what\u2019s interesting about it is that it started soon after [Lionel] Messi went to America, and it seemed to start from there because celebrities went to watch him play, and wore the shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, a huge number of celebrities have been seen at games &#8211; from Prince Harry to Kim Kardashian, to Liam Gallagher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But one name that\u2019s been seen at the DRV-PNK Stadium really seems to tipify the impact that Lionel Messi has had on the eventual rise of blokecore.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/lebron-james-among-celebs-in-attendance-for-lionel-messis-inter-miami-debut\">LeBron James<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Prestwick, an English sports fan living in Atlanta, said: \u201cSport is seen so differently over here compared to in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSports in the States are seen as glamorous and cool. If you play in your high school team, you\u2019re super cool. In Harrogate, where I\u2019m from, nobody cares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFootball is a game for the working class, it\u2019s imperfect. Fans are often up for a fight in UK stadiums. Here, it\u2019s the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basketball has been a sport seen as \u2018cool\u2019 for a long time, and the fashion collaboration between Nike and Michael Jordan helped basketball dip into fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve continued: \u201cFootball is fairly big here now. It\u2019s got a way to go, but now that it\u2019s out there, and it\u2019s got the pull of some superstars in the American league, it\u2019s different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou mentioned LeBron James. He\u2019s seen as cool. Wayne Rooney? Steven Gerrard? They aren\u2019t. That\u2019s the difference in perception between the sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere, it\u2019s always been seen as pretty middle-class, kind of a girls\u2019 sport, but now that it\u2019s more mainstream, the American sporting culture has finally got a proper grip on it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" data-src=\"https:\/\/playstyles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2025\/05\/AUFC_MLS_Cup_ceremony.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-341 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/playstyles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2025\/05\/AUFC_MLS_Cup_ceremony.jpg 960w, https:\/\/playstyles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2025\/05\/AUFC_MLS_Cup_ceremony-480x360.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 960px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 960px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 960\/720;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:AUFC_MLS_Cup_ceremony.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Image: Wdyork2<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The American-ified football has connotations of glitz and glamour where British football doesn\u2019t &#8211; yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PSG&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.soccerbible.com\/performance\/football-apparel\/2025\/01\/psg-x-jordan-brand-unveil-wings-collection-featuring-2425-fourth-kit\/\">have looked<\/a>&nbsp;to the Jordan brand in an attempt to go towards the fashion side of things, and now that more teams are going down that route, it\u2019s clear that football as a whole is becoming more like basketball in terms of its image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s how it made its way into fashion on the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kerry added: \u201cIt was always going to come from the States, I think, because of how football is seen in England, but I also think the success of the women\u2019s team helped it be seen as more of a gender-neutral thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s probably true. 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