There have always been styles, trends, fashions, things that become popular - but cool is more akin to what you're saying. Making the difficult look easy, so easy you can splurge on the next man.

But that having been said, white folks take an idea, remove it from its context, and then reinvent the shit on their own terms.
{but We do the same - let's not bullshit ourselves.}

But white cool = Friends, but also Woody Allen or Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, Weezer, et cetera.