Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style Symposium - Part 3 - “Hip Hop Fashion in Magazines” and Audience Q and A

Collection: Hip Hop Collection: Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum

Date: February 24, 2023; 2023-02-24 Material: Digital Video Dimension: Total running time: 0:53:01

Creator: Elena Romero with Kim Osorio, Emil Kraig Wilbekin, Martha Diaz, Syreeta Gates and Adeerya Johnson for Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology Identifier: aql:42281 HHC-COC-MFIT-Video-2023-02-24-003

Description: In the first part of this video Kim Osorio (former editor-in-chief of The Source) and Emil Kraig Wilbekin (former editor-in-chief of Vibe Magazine) speak with Elena Romero about fashion's role in hip hop magazines, illustrated using specific examples from their careers at their respective magazines. The Q and A discusses the goals of FIT's Fashion expo, how Romero and Way got into the field, issues of archiving and how panel participants got into archiving hip hop. They also discuss the current state of physical magazines and their ability to garner attention, the state of journalism in the social media era, and the difficulty of dressing certain artists being featured (such as their main example, Notorious B.I.G.) while working at magazines. Introductory remarks are given by the Museum at FIT's Curator of Education and Research Melissa Marra-Alvarez. View full video here

Title : Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style Symposium - Part 3 - “Hip Hop Fashion in Magazines” and Audience Q and A

Collection : aql:40637

Creator : Elena Romero with Kim Osorio, Emil Kraig Wilbekin, Martha Diaz, Syreeta Gates and Adeerya Johnson for Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology

Date : February 24, 2023; 2023-02-24

Summary/Description : In the first part of this video Kim Osorio (former editor-in-chief of The Source) and Emil Kraig Wilbekin (former editor-in-chief of Vibe Magazine) speak with Elena Romero about fashion's role in hip hop magazines, illustrated using specific examples from their careers at their respective magazines. The Q and A discusses the goals of FIT's Fashion expo, how Romero and Way got into the field, issues of archiving and how panel participants got into archiving hip hop. They also discuss the current state of physical magazines and their ability to garner attention, the state of journalism in the social media era, and the difficulty of dressing certain artists being featured (such as their main example, Notorious B.I.G.) while working at magazines. Introductory remarks are given by the Museum at FIT's Curator of Education and Research Melissa Marra-Alvarez. View full video here

Subject : Hip-hop; Beauty operators; Archives; Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum; VIBE Ventures; The Source (Magazine)

Relation : Hip Hop Collection: Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum

Rights : CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, Copyright held by Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology.

Coverage : Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Video recordings

Format : Digital Video; Total running time: 0:53:01

Identifier : aql:42281 HHC-COC-MFIT-Video-2023-02-24-003