Research Catalog

Title

Fresh fly fabulous : 50 years of hip hop style / edited by Elena Romero & Elizabeth Way.

Publication

• New York : Rizzoli Electa in association with The Museum at FIT, 2023.
• ©2023

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Way, Elizabeth (Writer on fashion)
• Romero, Elena, 1973-
• Slick Rick
• Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum, host institution, publisher.

Description

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

Summary

"Fresh Fly Fabulous is the definitive source for hip hop style, brought to life by the groundbreaking photographers who captured it firsthand, including Janette Beckman, Jamel Shabazz, and Ernie Paniccioli"--

Alternative Title

• 50 years of hip hop style
• Fifty years of hip hop style

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Hip-hop > Influence
• Hip-hop > Influence > Clothing
• Hip-hop
• Hip-hop > Social aspects
• Fashion > United States > 20th century
• Fashion > United States > 21st century
• Fashion > African American influences > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Fashion
• Fashion > African American influences
• Clothing and dress
• Social aspects
• United States

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Call Number

Sc+ F 23-193

ISBN

• 9780847899319
• 0847899314

OCLC

1368276023

Title

Fresh fly fabulous : 50 years of hip hop style / edited by Elena Romero & Elizabeth Way.

Publisher

New York : Rizzoli Electa in association with The Museum at FIT, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

Schomburg has author's autograph copy

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Way, Elizabeth (Writer on fashion), curator, editor.

Romero, Elena, 1973- editor.

Slick Rick, author of introduction, etc.

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum, host institution, publisher.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 23-193

*MGRS 23-3686