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….
How did the nascent hip-hop movement
of the 1980s interact with the corporate
fashion industry of the 1990s?
***Norma Kamali wardrobing Chaka
Khan’s 1984 video I Feel for You was
perhaps ahead of its time by fusing hiphop music with designer fashion.
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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?
Hip Hop and Women’s Liberation
Hip Hop Apparel as Global Brands