Back on the grind to dissect and investigate the magical world of hip hop fashion, with all its myths and mistakes, or disasters, I have thought of an easy target for this time.<\/p>\n
If there has ever been an easy target for this column, this is putting on “shiny suits<\/strong>“, the dazzling suits of the Bad Boy golden period, the very same ones that your average My Little Pony would call “mega-sparkling<\/em>“. And this would be enough to close the discussion.<\/p>\n I mean, dissed <\/em>by a Minipony…’nough said.<\/p>\n And with good reason: the shiny suits represent everything that was wrong in that particular historical period, between 1996 and 2001, circa. Shitty music (word to Santino<\/a>), shitty imagery, shitty attitude.<\/p>\n The names won’t be changed to protect the people responsible for such a fashion disaster. We’re talking of course about Hype Williams<\/strong><\/a>, the most-requested video maker for Hip-Hop and R&B superstars in his own era, and, mostly, her associate and stylist June Ambrose<\/strong><\/a>, one of the key figures in the urban fashion industry for the Nineties and TwoThousands.<\/p>\n The early signs of this tremendous shiny disease came around 1996 when the fish-eyed aesthetics and colour corrections of Hype Williams met Busta Rhymes’<\/strong> flamboyant style, first.<\/p>\nThe origin of a bad (boy) era: the rising signs.<\/h3>\n