The background Stroke's Striped Socks and it's fantastic range of stripy socks is as interesting as the socks themselves. J. Stroke has built a fantastic collection striped socks that will blow your mind!
Visual artist and audio composer, J. Stroke, believed socks were an often-overlooked accessory lacking in both style and quality. He traveled extensively at home and abroad and realized the world also lacked striped socks. Taking matters into his own hands, J. designed his own striped socks and unleashed two stripey sock designs in the winter of 1999. They sold out in two weeks. He added two new striped designs in 2000, which proved even more successful.
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, J. Stroke was first exposed to fashion while producing beats for the designer/rapper, Haute Couture Prophetic.
Their critically acclaimed underground EP matched bugged out beats with fashion metaphors.
Stroke continued his Couture explorations dee-jaying at fashion shows, art openings, warehouse happenings, and in the various cutting edge clubs of Atlanta. He's known and appreciated for soulful and eclectic musical excursions blending Dub Reggae, Hip-Hop, Rare Groove, Dancehall, African Jazz, Brazilian, and various other styles for dance floor aficionados.
J. Stroke's original productions are heard in various compositions for independent films, animation soundtracks, modern dance scores, electronic improv ensembles, and underground hip-hop.
J.'s art and music background is integral to understanding the development and concept behind Stroke's Striped Socks. In music, especially hip-hop and dance styles, there is the ever-present rhythm of looped samples.
In J.'s art, the use of odd colour juxtaposition and the linear repetition of images and objects prove to be a vital testing ground for the stripey sock combinations. Working within the limited framework of striped socks, J. Stroke is able to push his own and others concept of what a deceptively simple fashion accessory striped socks can be.
