Friday night time, the Common Hip Hop Museum and Video Music Field introduced collectively outstanding Hip Hop heads to rejoice 50 years of Hip Hop style.
Everybody from rapper Fats Joe, Vinnie of Naughty By Nature to Stylist Misa Hylton sat entrance row watching fashions from the designers that dressed our favourite rap stars.
The Common Hip Hop Museum–which opens in 2024–partnered up with the Video Music Field and the Mayor’s Workplace of the Metropolis of New York to kick-off the fiftieth Anniversary celebration of Hip Hop tradition with “The Drip: 50 Years of Hip Hop Vogue,” a stay runway present held at The Venue on the Onerous Rock Lodge Occasions Sq..
Nostagic movies performed on the gian display screen as style design legends Karl Kani, April Walker, FUBU and Dapper Dan revealed clothes from their latest collections.
The present additionally included rising designers Malik Dupri, Haus of Swag, Riche Threads and Pepper Jacques. Mayor Eric Adams was within the constructing and paid homage to the groundbreaking designers, The Shirt Kings, who began within the early 80s. The style present additionally launched I.C.Y. Encourage Artistic Youth and their mission to create elevation platforms for internal metropolis youth world wide.
DJ Ralph McDaniels, creator of Hip Hop’s longest operating broadcast selection present, Video Music Field and the Video Music Field Assortment has been documenting Hip Hop tradition for the previous 40 years. “The Drip” included footage from a decade of unique “Phat Vogue” runway exhibits for the viewers of the following technology of Hip Hop’s designer’s, influencers, and fashionistas.
Hip Hop musical visitor Particular Ed stunned the group with the Lo-Life’s and a particular efficiency of his classics.
“For the previous 50 years, Hip Hop style designers have carved their very own lane within the style trade as artistic entrepreneurs. At this time, you may acknowledge Hip Hop type regardless of the place you see it globally,” mentioned Common Hip Hop Museum Govt Director Rocky Bucano.
“The Drip” is impressed by the groundbreaking Phat Vogue Present produced by Ralph McDaniels and Video Music Field. “Hip Hop’s affect on style is simple. And younger Black and Brown designers and fashions made their very own lane when the normal style trade excluded them. So in the present day, we rejoice these unique trendsetters and the longer term leaders of Hip Hop style,” mentioned Govt Producer Ralph McDaniels.
Watch the recap under.
