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allstarsentertainmentonline This fall in Chicago and New York, groups of leather jacket enthusiasts came together to celebrate “Pelle Pelle Day.” East Harlem native Miguel Rodriguez organized the events. He’s a collector who runs an Instagram account with just over 2,500 followers called  @PellePelleLeather —an archive page dedicated to documenting the history of the American leather jacket label Pelle Pelle by Marc Buchanan. At New York City’s Pelle Pelle Day in Times Square, nearly 20 collectors came from across all five boroughs to show off their rarest Pelle Pelles. One 24-year-old attendee from uptown Manhattan arrived in an all-black leather studded “Soda Club” jacket he inherited from his father. Another collector from Canarsie, Brooklyn proudly turned around to show off an intricate embroidery of three men playing Cee-lo on his back. And many of the younger enthusiasts in their 20s were awed by a 40-year-old man from South Jamaica, Queens who had on one of the ol...

If not Playboi Carti for  Givenchy , then it’s Tyler the Creator for Louis Vuitton,   or even Travis Scott for  Dior Homme   — the list could go on and on. But is there anything else you notice within these listed  rapper  meets brand collaborations, aside from the fact that the world’s biggest luxury fashion houses  are  aligning themselves with globally popular Black hip hop artists? If not, let me point it out quickly — all three of the aforementioned luxury houses are owned by the single largest fashion and luxury goods conglomerate in the world,  Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessey , known to many as  LVMH . This global corporation is owned and chaired by no other than Bernard Arnault — a business-savvy Frenchman who has managed to become a multi-billionaire through the fortune he has amassed with its establishment a few decades ago, in 1984. But the question beckons, how has Arnault managed to make LVMH the biggest fashio...

Everyone knows hip-hop fashion when they see it, but it is becoming increasingly more difficult to define. One can point to a specific rapper or era, but it never captures the entire picture. As hip-hop has moved into the mainstream, the lines are blurred between what is and is not considered hip-hop. Yet there is an underlying idea that explains the progression and evolution of hip-hop style. What is hip-hop fashion? Hip-hop is not only a genre of music, a form of dance, or a way of dressing. Hip-hop is a culture. Emerging from the Bronx in New York City, the hip-hop lifestyle – with its music, DJing, dancing and graffiti – provided an escape from a myriad of societal, economic, political, and cultural forces. The origins of hip-hop go back to the 1970s , and the fashion reflected streetwear that kids in the Bronx already had in their possession, like bomber jackets, tracksuits, and sneakers with oversized shoe laces. Puma, Chuck Taylors and Pro-Keds dominated the sneaker ...

French photographer Sophie Bramly spent 1982-4 in the clubs and streets of New York’s Bronx borough, documenting a fresh new subculture that would take over the world. Her book Yo! The Early Days of Hip Hop 1982-84 is published by Soul Jazz Books. Source : https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2022/feb/23/boogie-down-bronx-hip-hop-early-days-in-pictures