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...Michelle Branch’s “All You Wanted.” Impressively, she managed to project her clear, full voice throughout her large range. The real showstopper, however, came when William B. Bailey ’08 sang a medley of the choruses of different hip hop and mainstream hit songs, such as Sean Paul’s “Shake That Thing” and Eric Prydz’s “Call On Me.” The sequence so enthused the audience that they begin clapping to his singular beat. To conclude...
...black admissions officer at a private school told me it has got harder to recruit qualified black students, in part because of hip-hop culture...
...about hip-hop. The truth is, because of hip-hop, you can be all you can be, and we've created a culture [where you can go] from thousands of dollars to tens of millions of dollars. People think they can have everything now, so they don't have to work 40, 50 years. We've got to learn to work hard. It's now up to us. But it sounds like you're trying to say, instead of the Establishment embracing [African Americans], I can't go there unless I'm of a certain status. That is Big Brother...
...introduced Forth & Towne, aimed at mature women, its first new brand since Old Navy debuted in 1994. And in September Liz Claiborne Canada launched a new chain called Yzza for the same age group. Even the denim market is growing up, with brands like Vitamina and Sergio Valente targeting hip moms who want to look trendy but don't want to squeeze into jeans cut for 20-year-olds. (Sales of jeans to the 35-to-44 age bracket are up 8% this year already...
Take Dana Buchman, a Seventh Avenue-based designer who has spent 19 years supplying department stores like Bloomingdale's with career staples for women over 35. "I'm 53, and I want to be hip," says Buchman, the mother of two teenage girls, who wears tailored jeans and denim jackets to work. Now, Buchman says, her best-selling items are not beige pantsuits but trendy pieces like leopard-print calf-hair jackets...