Elizabeth Way serves as associate curator at The Museum at FIT and author of Black Designers in American Fashion. Elena Romero serves as assistant professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and is a correspondent for CUNY-TV's magazine show LATINAS. Slick Rick is an iconic rapper, producer, and trendsetter whose hip hop classic with Doug E. Fresh ""La Di Da Di"" (1986) helped establish hip hop’s love affair with fashion.
Slick Rick writes the foreword to this vibrant exploration of the birth, spread and evolution of hip-hop style - from rec rooms to red carpets - through images and analyses from stylists, designers and more. -NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Slick Rick writes the foreword to this vibrant exploration of the birth, spread and evolution of hip-hop style - from rec rooms to red carpets - through images and analyses from stylists, designers and more. -NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW To mark the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop, an exhibition at New York's Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology and an accompanying Rizzoli monograph unpack the stories of designers like Dapper Dan and behind iconic looks like Salt-N-Pepa's Push It jackets, created by rapper Christopher Play Martin, exploring the creative relationship between music and fashion. -HARPER'S BAZAAR