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Adrover cobbled together the funding to show a spring line last September. It was couture lite, a witty and wearable riff on the New York immigrant experience, melding Hasidic, Latin, hip-hop and corporate styles...
...evolution of hip-hop and urban music into a multibillion-dollar market is not an isolated phenomenon. The major players in the fashion industry should learn lessons from their corporate colleagues in music, who at first underestimated the profitability of the urban marketplace...
...Jennifer Lopez's flirty, teen-oriented clothing line rebounded last year, topping $65 million in sales. Now her perfume, GLOW by J. Lo, is the best-selling fragrance at Macy's. Lopez wasn't the first music star to lure her fans to retail--her ex-boyfriend, hip-hop artist and producer P. Diddy, is behind the high-end Sean John menswear line. But soon a horde of other entertainers will start angling for a spot on the racks...
...judicial activism, an activism that shaped the Court’s opinion in Roe v. Wade. A thorough understanding of urban and suburban housing patterns and education policy cannot be reached without considering the impact of race. Even American pop culture is influenced by Hip-Hop culture, which is in turn influenced by jazz, the blues and spirituals...
...songs have a typical Dutch sing-a-long rhythm with tinges of more exotic North African melodies thrown in. Raymzter usually writes the music first. Once he's got the rhythm right, he'll work out the lyrics and then call up Baudo - who's produced CDs for top hip-hop names on both sides of the Atlantic - to flesh things out. Most of Raymzter's friends and the people he works with are from ethnic minorities or of mixed race, but Raymzter says he feels as much Dutch as Moroccan: "Maybe it's just that most of the people...