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Summary:

"Topics cover the range of hip hop's influential style over the past half century, tracing the evolution from early hip hop style, born of aspiration, individuality, and practicality to contemporary fashion steeped in luxury brands. Hip hop style is a local story, told through spotlights on Times Square as an early fashion space, as well as an international phenomenon, shown in the prominence of hip hop fashion leaders on red carpets. Inventiveness, the art of the remix, and a diverse set of influences are consistent themes in sections that examine hip hop style from hair and nails to shoes and sneakers"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. The evolution of hip hop style / Elizabeth Wellington. Here for it : graffiti and hip hop fashion / Claudia Gold ; The king of the fever : Sal Abbatiello
• 2. The stylist in the golden era of hip hop / Emil Wilbekin. Daniel Day : the original ; April Walker, fashion royalty ; West coast : Cross Colours & Karl Kani
• 3. Name droppin' : the storytelling of hip hop through fashion lyrics. Hip hop and the American dream : Polo Ralph Lauren / Rebecca Pietri
• 4. Change clothes & go / Kim Osorio. Ralph McDaniels : hip hop fashion's first runway ; Official : Tommy Boy Records and hip hop fashion / Monica Lynch
• 5. Showing out on the deuce / Vikki Tobak
• 6. Ratchetdemic : the ultimate collider / Christopher Emdin. Black by popular demand at HBCUs / Alphonso McClendon ; I had to be down : the making of a hip hop archivist / Syreeta Gates
• 7. Name game : the hip hop nameplate / Isabel Flower & Marcel Rosa-Salas. Hip hop hoops
• 8. Call us by our names : queer gender and hip hop fashion / Eric Darnell Pritchard. Hip hop hair ; Hip hop nails
• 8. Hip hop & pink / Monica L. Miller and Elena Romero
• 10. The shoe game : the almost forgotten footwear of hip hop / Warren Orange. Baltimore and the Nike Air Force 1 connection ; Strictly for the ladies : Reebok Freestyle 5411s.

Contributors:

Way, Elizabeth (Writer on fashion) , editor

Romero, Elena, 1973- , editor

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) > Museum , host institution, publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Hip-hop — Influence — Clothing

Hip-hop — Social aspects

Fashion — United States — 20th century

Fashion — United States — 21st century

Fashion — African American influences — Exhibitions

Fashion

Fashion — African American influences

Hip-hop

Hip-hop — Influence

United States

1900-2099

Clothing and dress

Social aspects

Genres:

Exhibition catalogs

History

General Notes:

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Fresh Fly Fabulous: 50 Year of Hip Hop Style organized by The Museum at FIT ... [at] The Museum at FIT, New York, February 8-April 23, 2023"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm

Physical Characteristics:

portrait; illustration

Call Numbers:

GT615 .F74 2023

ISBNs:

9780847899319 (hardback)
0847899314 (hardback)

OCLC Numbers:

1368276023