Fashion
Look around. Check the media, go through the modern art and You will realize that for the last several years Tattoo culture had a big influence on the modern visual art.
Sinner 2010
This is not the first time when those two came so close together. Once upon a time it had already happened but the other around when in ancient Japan textile and paper art were transferred by Tattoo artists onto the human skin.
But this is another long story.
Drawing by Daria
In our days as You can see tattoo images and drawing techniques became so recognizable and popular that they eventually turned into patterns for decorating not only the skin. It happened thanks to Christian Audigier and Don Ed Hardy Himself who developed a separated line of “Tattoo Fashion” in clothing and accessories using so called Old School tattoos that Ed Hardy created. As it usually happens with any culture of our days Tattoo Fashion was fused with street fashion and other styles …
Just look around.