Shirt Kings - Pioneers of Hip Hop Fashion chronicles the art, the styles,
and the people who where loyal supporters of the Shirt Kings, and takes
us on a trip down memory lane to when customization and art reigned
supreme in New York City. Shirt Kings looks at the early days of urban
fashion through the lens of the pioneering group of artists known as the
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to shirts and airbrush they created a new look for a new generation.
Edwin PHADE Sacasa is a founding artist of the group and it is through
his archives that we are transported to the 1980s in NYC where the
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any cartoon imagery for the cartoons where urbanized. Mickey Mouse
with a Fila suit, Casper the Friendly Ghost with gold teeth and Pink
Panther with gold chains. People from across the city made their way to
Jamaica, Queens to a small shopping mall known as the Coliseum where
you could easily bump into the biggest names in Hip Hop of the day.
From DJ Red Alert to LL Cool J to Big Daddy Kane to Mike Tyson ¿ they
all had to have their Shirt Kings designs.