The exhibit is organized by themes - customization, film as a vehicle for Black culture, sportswear, the color pink, Afrocentricity, Black pride, and women’s fashion - rather than chronological order to highlight the variety of trends and motifs. “Also from designers like April Walker and 5001 Flavors.” “We have pieces from Ralph McDaniels’s personal archive,” Way says. The co-curators used connections from Romero’s decades of experience as a hip-hop fashion journalist to speak with industry veterans, such as Sal Abbatiello and Shara McHayle, and to choose pieces from the collections of lenders including Gucci Americas, designer Claudia Gold, and Romero herself. Over the course of the next four years, Romero and Way reached out to designers, archivists, and photographers to amass more than 150 pieces of clothing, shoes, and jewelry that have become symbols and staples of hip-hop culture from over 50 donors. “Ultimately, we wanted to find brands that could help tell a particular story within the themes that we thought and identified, that were really important in the evolution of hip-hop style.” And that vision board changed quite a bit in terms of all the different looks and categories that we wanted,” Romero says. “It starts off with a concept that we illustrated on a vision board. Exhibition design by Courtney Sloane Design. To the right, Adidas wedge sneakers and leather Christian Louboutin pumps sit in a case beside Adidas shell-toe sneakers and a pair of Nike Air Jordan 10’s. As purple and orange lights bounce off the white walls, the Migos brag about their jewelry and designer clothing: “Versace, Versace, Medusa head on me like I’m ’Luminati.” Then, amid the tall scaffolds bearing sports jerseys and leather jackets, Pop Smoke gloats, “Christian Dior, Dior, I’m up in all the stores.”įresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style, installation view. To the left, a monitor shows a 3-D video of natural-diamond-encrusted chains famously worn by Cardi B, A$AP Rocky, and Drake. The lyrics to Biggie Smalls’s “One More Chance” - “I stay Coogi down to the socks, rings and watch filled with rocks” - faintly fills the next, much larger room filled with hip-hop history artifacts. Down the steps, a black letterman jacket from New Jack City and a pair of graffitied jeans from Russel Simmons’s Def Jam University sit behind glowing glass cases. Inside the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Museum at FIT, Kool K and DJ Lee Rock pose in front of a busy store display wearing Lee Jeans.
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