Child Phat CEO and artistic director Kimora Lee Simmons, designer Dapper Dan, FUBU CEO Daymond John and Karl Kani CEO Karl Kani are among the many pioneers and consultants who might be detailing hip-hop’s seismic affect within the vogue world on 50 Years Fly: The Rise, Fall and Revolution of Hip-Hop Vogue.
Coinciding with the double celebration of Black Music Month and hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, the upcoming digital documentary from NBC Information will premiere June 15.
Among the many further vogue trade executives, designers and consultants featured within the documentary are Walker Put on CEO April Walker, The Reduce editor-in-chief Lindsay Peoples, DTLR vp and divisional merchandise supervisor of attire Antonio Grey, creator Vikki Tobak (Contact Excessive: A Visible Historical past of Hip-Hop; Ice Chilly: A Hip-Hop Jewellery Historical past) and Tommy Hilfiger founder Tommy Hilfiger.
Right here’s an advance have a look at the trailer for 50 Years Fly: The Rise, Fall and Revolution of Hip-Hop Vogue:
Shalini Sharma, government editor of NBC Information Digital Productions, tells Billboard, “As hip-hop celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, the NBC Information Digital Docs crew and I wished to spotlight the modern designers who revolutionized vogue — impressed by hip-hop music and tradition — whereas additionally bringing to mild the struggles they surpassed.”
50 Years Fly: The Rise, Fall and Revolution of Hip-Hop Vogue debuts June 15 on NBC’s Peacock and can stream on NBC Information NOW at 10:30 p.m. ET. NBC Information Digital Docs, whose crew contains government producer Rachael Morehouse, has produced earlier documentaries equivalent to A Marriage on Trial: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and the Fact within the Age of Social Media, Expensive Noah: Pages from a Household Diary, #FillerNation and Boiling Level: A Metropolis’s Struggle for Clear Water.
