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Fashion History
Fashion History
Black History: Our fashion. Our history: Black Fashion Icons
Written by Melissa Approved!
It all started when the black pearl herself, Josephine Baker strutted across the stages of Paris and into the hearts of Parisians. People all over the world held their breath at the new and unprecedented idea of a black woman as a symbol of beauty, sensuality, and inspiration. Josephine was known for her risqué burlesque performances and turned the fashion scene upside down when she performed the famous banana dance wearing little more than a skirt fashioned from the fruit. The young gamine from Missouri with the sultry smile changed the fashion world forever and paved the way for colored girls across the globe to take their rightful places in the industry of glamour.
(2000 MTV Music Award) (Photographer: Taj Washington)
At the turn of the century urban fashion was a market of baggy clothes and baggier attitudes. Late 80’s and early 90’s movies and music perpetuated these styles and eventually they were adopted as mainstream streetwear.
For about 15 years the media was draped in bandanas, du rags, sagging jeans, jersey dresses, excessive bling bling and tilted fitted caps. Celebrities like J.Lo and Puff Daddy, now known better as Jennifer Lopez and Diddy, even underwent name changes to match their newly adopted styles.
Brands like Sean John, Rocawear, Pelle Pelle, FUBU, Baby Phat, and Karl Kani were the most popular manufactures of these styles.
At the tail end of the last decade, the media again introduced us to a new trend. All of a sudden baggy pants became fitted jeans, fur snorkel jackets zipped up into
