Rocksmith

Rocksmith was founded in 2003 in New York by skater-and-designer Bobby Yan as a streetwear brand specifically focused on what Yan described as 'a deliberately-NYC-skate-and-hip-hop-aesthetic streetwear vocabulary anchored to early-2000s NYC street culture.' The brand has been one of the defining post-2003 NYC-anchored streetwear brands. The Rocksmith vocabulary settled around several recurring elements: heavyweight cotton tees and hoodies with the brand's iconic Rocksmith typography logo and shifting seasonal graphic-design references, deconstructed denim and workwear-derived skate trousers, the brand's iconic Rocksmith × NYC-hip-hop-iconography graphic programme, the long-running Rocksmith × Nike SB, Rocksmith × New Era, Rocksmith × Casio G-Shock, and Rocksmith × Stussy collaboration capsules, and a colour palette anchored to washed-black, washed-navy, ecru, oxblood, plus the brand's recurring use of saturated red, electric-blue, butter-yellow, and the iconic 2000s-NYC-streetwear-aesthetic accent combinations. The brand is independent and held by Yan. Rocksmith operates a flagship retail concept in New York (Lower East Side — the brand's home neighbourhood) plus international wholesale through Dover Street Market, the broader US-and-European streetwear specialty distribution network, and a substantial Japanese streetwear-specialty distribution. The brand has been one of the defining post-2003 NYC-anchored '2000s-streetwear-foundational' brands.