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...Kong? The unpretentious nature of the place is conducive to rambunctious behavior, attracting folks who prefer cheap drinks and bad hip-hop to sipping twelve-dollar chocolate martinis and strutting around in tight black pants. Throw in the possible town-gown tension, and you have yourself the ideal setting for some late-night, booze-bred donnybrooking...
...girl who grew up oogling dancers on MTV’s “The Grind”, the news that Eric Nies was hosting the 2003 Harvard Dance Marathon was nothing short of fantastic. Featured in “The Grind’s Hip-Hop Aerobics” videos, Eric taught millions of viewers the Creep—and how to wear a smug, self-satisfied expression while you slippedy-slide to Coolio’s “Fantastic Voyage.” I’m sure that I’m not the only Harvard...
Phat Fashions is penetrating the fashion business successfully not just because we're good at target marketing but also, more important, because we represent a transformed view of society and the world. We're not about the past. Hip-hop and urban culture are about speaking, singing, hearing, feeling and wearing a reality that transcends race, class and division. It is about the oneness of humanity...
Time was, a fashion-conscious body would dare don a sweat suit only while curled up in first class. No longer. Sweats are in for the fashion cognoscenti, from smart, casual moms to partying celebrities. And for boldface types, they're not just to own. There's hardly a hip-hop star without an eponymous line of hoodies and pants. So who's responsible for breathing new life into the long-reviled ensemble? The answer depends on how far back you want...
Like its cousin the sneaker, the tracksuit came into the fashion mainstream via the street, through hip-hop and rave culture. The sweat suit became a B-boy uniform partly because disco gear did not lend itself to the gymnastics of break dancing. Another influence: music legends like Bob Marley, who adopted sweats as a uniform (and may have been drawing on the much iconized image of tracksuit-clad John Carlos and Tommie Smith giving black-power salutes at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics...