Introduction It is asserted that youth represent both the promise and the failure of modern society. The youth culture has evolved over time. As a subculture it has spilled out from the youth to a wider popular culture acceptable by the main culture, who, while trying to take and accept the youth’s innovations, in design, music, in that what started as a resistance to what the world has resulted to acceptability and taken as the norm. This is especially so in the world of fashion, music, and design. A subculture is a distinguished culture from the main culture, and whose norms and values are different and are directly opposite of the main culture. The youth subculture has identified itself from the main culture through fashion in clothing, hairstyles, adornments, their choice of music, and even at times in their speech. The power of youth subcultures has been described by the sociologists as resistance and the social reaction to the youth culture phenomena has been explained as ‘moral panics’. Changes in youth culture There have been noticeable and key changes in the youth culture. The youth subculture now occupies a higher place than previously thought and not only ‘a folk devil’ position in society. The youth countered the ‘folk devil’ view not only through style and fan club magazines, they subscribed to but they were granted airtime on television channels that were committed to employing young people (Emerson, 2002). In the early studies of Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) there was a line drawn between the two classes of youth culture who were viewed as the symbols of the genuine and real and pop culture, viewed as the consumer culture, while in reality the two were merged. The recent studies are now more open and can now reflect to other meanings other than these classifications. In the 1980’s the Hippie culture interest in vegetarianism, environment, created a permanent place in the youth culture. With the hippie culture there was the emergence of the crusties who were seen as the underdogs. They rejected the clean consumer culture disenfranchising themselves from Thatcherist values that had ignored them. This group still exists in the urban areas, and blends with squatters, and the homeless, bringing in the social reality in the open, and their acceptability in the society. Traditional careers disappear as subcultures create more job opportunities. When sectors of the youth population were ignored they refused this subordination. The young niched jobs for themselves, in the industry that related to the youth, and that were relevant to their lifestyle. They started with small jobs, where they targeted their own counterparts as their customers. These jobs included deejaying or small retail clothes shops, most of them second hand clothes stores. They also resisted this subordination by going back to colleges and furthered their education where they found reinforcement. The attendance by male students to art and design colleges during the post war era, there established a link between what occupied the adolescent youth in leisure and the art education they learnt in colleges, in form of designs, graphics, music and fashion. There as a result was the integrating of fashion and sub-cultural style, present where fashion is now more popular. The designs that have been inspired