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Aug. 23, 2023

The Most Iconic Trends Inspired By 50 Years Of Hip-Hop History

From Mary J. Blige to Run-D.M.C., artists have long used hip-hop to express themselves well beyond the music itself — particularly when it comes to style. And although hip-hop artists made waves on the music charts early on, the fashion industry was initially hesitant to fully embrace them.

Eventually, however, many did go on to gain recognition and respect from household names like Tommy Hilfiger, Adidas, and Gap — just a few of the many brands who launched collaborations with creators, introducing the burgeoning genre to a new and previously untapped audience.

As the music industry celebrates 50 years since the birth of hip-hop in The Bronx, take a look back at the genre’s most memorable fashion looks through the years, and see how they can inspire some iconic, modern-day twists of your own.

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Dua Lipa Served Mermaid Barbie In A Sheer Dress & Cheeky Bikini

The pool blue mesh mini dress showed off a monochromatic bikini underneath. She also rocked a pink tweed top-handle bag from Barbie-favorite label, Chanel. And she wore a pair of sky-high metallic silver platforms guaranteed to help her dance the night away.

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Halsey's Regencycore Updo Is Serving Big 'Bridgerton' Energy

Halsey is currently in her French girl bob era, styling her dark black hair with some textured micro bangs, of course. But now she’s traded Amélie in for Marie-Antoinette, and the resulting vibe is a truly modern and youthful spin on the rising regencycore aesthetic

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BOOKS

The 35 Best New Books Of Fall 2023

A handful of this season’s releases explore image-making, public perception, and the inevitable haziness of truth. Marisa Meltzer’s latest nonfiction book, Glossy, goes deep into Glossier’s creation and expansion by profiling its founder, the elusive cool girl Emily Weiss. This season also welcomes a reappearance of the modern Gothic aesthetic, with a good helping of dark surrealism. Take Mona Awad’s new book, Rogue, which explores the theme of eternal beauty through a spooky mother-daughter relationship. And for distinctly untrippy, but stunning realistic portrayals of family grief, both Susie Boyt’s Loved and Missed and Una Mannion’s Tell Me What I Am show the effect of loss across generations.

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J. Vanessa Lyon

Lush Lives

The second book from Roxane Gay’s new publishing imprint stars a striving, struggling visual artist in Los Angeles who’s inherited her aunt’s Harlem brownstone. When she meets an ambitious employee from the auction house, queer romance blooms.

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Kai Cheng Thom

Falling Back In Love With Being Human

A nonfiction book of love letters addressed to “lost souls.” In these letters, Kai Cheng Thom proposes a radical belief that all people (even the worst ones) are sacred. This is a book, a really beautiful one, about holding onto your ideals through a crisis of faith.

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Rebecca Yarros

In The Likely Event

This romance begins with some pros (a handsome stranger seatmate on a flight) and cons (a plane that crashes 90 seconds after takeoff). That’s the beginning for these two, whose lives spin into dramatically different directions, but who keep finding each other again.

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Lauren Beukes

Bridge

A novel about a daughter, named Bridge, who’s mourning her late mother, a brilliant, troubled neuroscientist. As Bridge skips into multiple worlds and selves, she faces her mother’s delusions, the dangers of time-travel, and revelations of grief.

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“Welcome my beautiful angel.”

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'Sex & The City' Is Still Failing Bisexual People

Even decades later, the show wants characters to “pick a side and stay there.”

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