Following the acid house and rave scenes of the late 1980s, dance music and the culture that formed around it split into myriad different genres. During the 1990s, a huge clubbing scene emerged in Islington, London, in the near derelict spaces of Kings Cross, Farringdon, Old Street and Holloway. Two of these clubs, Paradise Club and EC1 Club, represented a clear sonic and aesthetic split in the dance music scene. Paradise Clubs’ iconic AWOL, the epicentre of the London jungle scene, was attended by a multiracial audience from all over the city and beyond, while EC1 Club, which played a range of house styles, was served by a mainly local white working-class audience, with a large proportion of gang members, from Islington’s estates. Through a wide range of primary research that includes unpublished oral history interviews that I conducted with DJs, clubgoers and writers, contemporaneous reports in the style press, and theories around subcultures and cultural appropriation, this talk argues that these two tribes weren’t only separated by music, but by an identifiable sartorial style. While both audiences constructed their identity around luxury brands such as Valentino, Gucci, Moschino and Versace, the EC1 Club youths that identified with house music wore a style that was consciously more discreet and understated, while the youth that identified with AWOL wore a style that was, according to eyewitnesses, more ostentatious and garish. The paper argues that while both groups adopted these expensive brands, there was a link between fashion, forms of criminality such as drug dealing and armed robbery, and resistance between both groups. This is key because in taking a localised historical approach to this research, the paper is able to explore the complexity of these scenes. In so doing, it argues against the generalisations found in many historical accounts that paint 1990s club culture as essentially uniform. Also, it will foreground hitherto downplayed aspects of criminality and how this influenced a particular kind of resistant style. Fears around these youth tribes and their sartorial styles were one aspect that led to the closure of these clubs at the end of the 1990s.