Shirt Kings - Pioneers of Hip Hop Fashion (PB EDITION)
Shirt Kings - Pioneers Of Hip Hop Fashion looks at the early days of urban fashion through the lens of the pioneering group of artists known as the Shirt Kings. By adapting the graffiti skills from the trains and spray cans to shirts and airbrush they created a new look for a new generation.
Edwin PHADE Sacasa is a founding artist of the group and it is through his archives that we are transported to the 1980s in New York City where the fashion of the day was loud, colourful, and filled with cartoon imagery on clothes; but not just any cartoon imagery for the cartoons where urbanised. Mickey Mouse with a Fila suit, Casper the Friendly Ghost with gold teeth, Roger Rabbit with a flat top hair do and Pink Panther with gold chains and guns - it was the reinterpretation of American classics but with an urban and gangster lean.
144 pages // Paperback // 170mm x 225mm // 140 illustrations // 2013