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Is Fashion In Music Dead?
Is Fashion In Music Dead?
Writing for SoulBounce affords me the opportunity to sample many Soul and Hip Hop blogs on a daily basis. For those who know me personally, they know that both music and fashion share top billing as passions of mine. Perusing one of my absolute favorite fashion blogs, The Sartorialist , fashion ...
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“Yeah, That Tuxedo Mighta Been A Little Guido…”
The Smoking Section — ... – I agree with Kanye. Whether it’s conscious or trying to do it on the sly, I think we all (or at least I do) take notice of the clothing homosexual men wear. Gays are usually meticulous about their attire, “shitty sharp” © Daddy Gotty™. I’m not subscribing to wearing anything extra smedium or sequined shirts. But there’s style lacking in our culture when it comes to our haberdashery. In Black music, fashion has slackened over the years and no more is flair a part of what we or our artists do. Instead, they depend on jewelry, gaudy logos and ...

Common Declares Bling Is Dead, Advocates Personal Style
SOULBOUNCE.COM — Common, as we noted in an earlier post, is definitely a trailblazer when it comes to exuding a dapper and much more gentlemanly style than what typically personifies Hip Hop artists. Long before Jay-Z declared that men over 30 should invest in button-down shirts and lose the fitted caps, Common has been leading the way in understated fashion sense for quite some time. While sitting down recently with the Los Angeles Times, Common not only declared that bling is "gone," but that "good style is about having an eye for quality things and putting them together so they have a feel and integrity and flavor."  ...

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