Fashion
Continuing a now common hip hop trend worldwide is the creation of fashion made for Kenyans who love hip hop by Kenyan hip hop fashion designers, the leading brands being Clad Nine and Nairobi Wear based in the USA, both brands were established by two childhood friends who grew up in Nairobi. Another one is Jamhuri wear which is now based in New York and worn by the likes of Jay-Z, and was founded by a Kenyan born and raised designer. Another is MAU MAU University Clothing Co. founded by hip hop entrepreneur Kevin Ombija. His t shirts have developed a cult following in Kenya and with Kenyans abroad. Set to be developed as a fully fledged clothing brand from 2007. Other notable Kenyan hip hop fashion brands include Fundi Frank, Stitch Styles and Ruff Wear. Another notable style that youth, especially those who are influenced by hip-hop, is the wearing of brand name clothing or clothing with brands labeled on them. One example would be Lacoste, which is now a world-wide status symbol. Another is Tusker, an east African liquor that has its brand now pasted on many shirts, making this style a Kenyan original.
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Famous quotes containing the word fashion:
“Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value.... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)
“Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from what he is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Men expect too much, do too little,
Put the contraption before the accomplishment,
Lack skill of the interior mind
To fashion dignity with shapes of air.
Luxury, yes but not elegance!”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)