Half-Century Expression
If there’s one way to illustrate the profound impact that Hip-Hop has had on the music industry, it was found Saturday on the runway as Bronx Fashion Week celebrated the free-styling genre of music at The Mall At Bay Plaza, where Bronx-based designers who celebrate the roots of their community where their customers are walked their seasonal collections that celebrated the profound impact Hip-Hop has on fashion.
Celebrated looks which includes the textured little black dress in mauve, green t-shirt and bunched up jeans in young girls, and classic black jeans with great sweatshirt, cap, and shiny peach duffel bag, it’s rugged at all levels from hard to soft, ranging from texture to color contrast to comprise looks that stress the struggles of our society, plus the celebrated moments of one-in-a-lifetime events, or going out on the weekends bring out a woman’s beauty through Hip-Hop.
You’re sure to find the last 50 years of Hip-Hop in pieces such as leggings, statement t-shirts, lined blazers and slacks that can be paired with a t-shirt of you’re not shirtless, and women’s graphic tees paired with jean shirts with biker shorts underneath, you always have a great pair of Nike sneakers that go with most causal looks, plus platform high heels for those weekend nights out at the club.
Hip-Hop Fashion also has an easy tone to it such as flower prints on mint canvas dress, beige button-down shirt and light-print shorts for a hot Summer day, or down to junior misses in checkered pantsuits made up of leafy green and light leafy green; the middle-class Bronx community has a deep appreciation for the fashion that’s created in their own backyard, it’s User-Generated-Content (UGC’s) practiced in real life outside social media, and it’s the hard-knock’s form of style where it’s not exclusive to adults, it’s inclusive not only to race, but inclusive to working adults, teenagers, and children.