From Cam'ron's iconic all-pink look at the Baby Phat NYFW show to Missy Elliott's fly trash bag look for her 'The Rain' video.
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Fashion and hip-hop are intrinsically linked, and participate in a feedback loop with one another—rappers influence fashion brands with their personal style often inspired by subcultures and underground movements; and labels count on hip-hop musicians to market their wears in songs. Of course, it wasn’t always this way—the fashion industry didn’t welcome rappers with open arms at first.
. In 1999, she cemented her status as a style rule-breaker with this iconic look at the MTV Video Music Awards, styled and designed by Misa Hylton.Who could forget TLC’s hip-hop take on coordinated girl-group looks? Shown here at the 10th Annual Soul Train Music Awards, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Chili, and T-Boz riffed on bikini tops and baggy pants to chic effect.
Never one to be outdone, Cam’ron showed up to Baby Phat’s fall 2003 New York Fashion Week show at Bryant Park wearing a fuzzy pink jacket with matching headband and Baby Phat flip phone. It was a look that would inspire Halloween costumes for decades to come.While his contemporaries were wearing throwback jerseys, Jay-Z entered his “grown man” era with the “Change Clothes” video, for which he staged a fake fashion show and wore multiple printed button-downs.
Nicki Minaj attended the 54th Grammy Awards in L.A. in 2012 wearing a fashionable version of a monk’s robes designed by Versace—and brought a faux Pope to walk the red carpet with her.Tyler, the Creator brought the fashion skaters wore on Fairfax Blvd. in L.A.—high socks, Vans, cut-off jeans, loose-fitting t-shirts—to the stage for the first half of his career.
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