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Great Aspirations: Hip Hop and Fashion Dress for Excess and Success by Emil Wilbekin. Fashion History and Culture Tuesday 6 November 2012. Keeping It Real….Hip Hop style and the fashion corporate-industrial-complex….
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Great Aspirations: Hip Hop and Fashion Dress for Excess and Successby Emil Wilbekin Fashion History and Culture Tuesday 6 November 2012
Keeping It Real….Hip Hop style and the fashion corporate-industrial-complex…. How did the nascent hip-hop movement of the 1980s interact with the corporate fashion industry of the 1990s? ***Norma Kamaliwardrobing Chaka Khan’s 1984 video I Feel for You was perhaps ahead of its time by fusing hip-hop music with designer fashion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XV5_WagxZg Tommy Hilfiger outfitting hip hop artists saw product placement reaching new levels of sophistication.
Hip Hop Geography How did the geography of hip-hop evolve in terms of East Coast vs. West Coast vs. ‘Dirty South’ vs. Miami…and how did Afro-centric fashion inform hip-hop style in the 1990s? A Tribe Called Quest
Branding hip hop…. How did Ralph Lauren & Calvin Klein appropriate hip hop style in different ways?