The New York Times bravely ventures as far downtown as, oh, 37th Street to spot the latest threads the kids are pimpin' and/or hustlin':

The newest companies are reinterpreting the hoodie, introducing variations with brashly vibrant and often menacing imagery: all-over prints with bullet-hole graphics, chain-link fences and basketball netting, guns and roses, cobwebs and flamboyantly irreverent reinterpretations of Vuitton, Chanel or Gucci logos, each a graphically subversive comment on those corporate fashion behemoths.