![]() ![]() The FUBU owners liked it, but I was like, 'This sucks!' It was all so fun.ĭesign by Jenna Brillhart. I was surprised they didn't have camouflage so I just drew a weird shaped print in a camouflage color and it became the FUBU camo print. We can't get it from the army and navy store, we're doing our own cut and sew, so we sent the design to the factory and they asked for our print. I saw the birth of all that, so as FUBU grew, we incorporated camouflage into our collection. I learned what streetwear is and it's exactly what it sounds like, it's what people in the community are really wearing. We want camouflage, so we go to the army-navy shop, no one's making it for us, like the Carhartt suit is a real workman's suit. #Urban fashion art how toThen at Uptown, I'm learning where the style comes from because music videos are what we look to for what's dope and how to rock shit. It was dope because I'm learning the technical stuff in school but working with FUBU, I'm learning how to grow a business. Working with Sybil, I helped to style Total's first album cover. On learning the fashion business from all sides: (Pyer Moss designer Kerby Jean-Raymond, appearing as a judge, walked out rather than send Kiki home during a streetwear challenge - something he knew she'd been at the forefront of.) In 2020, she was featured on Netflix's Next In Fashion, an appearance that illuminated long-held racism and cultural appropriation in mainstream fashion. Now, she's begun a resortwear brand called K. ![]() Kitties and freelance design for nearly every urban label, from Rocawear to Heatherette to Nicki Minaj's K-Mart line and Beyoncé's House of Dereon. She soon became the creative director for FUBU Ladies, where she put superstars like Janet Jackson in the brand, before leaving to start her own brand called K.A. After sewing gowns and party dresses for friends and family in high school, Peterson attended New York City's FIT, where she was recruited as one of the first designers at FUBU and an assistant to Sybil Pennix at Uptown Records. Kianga "Kiki Kitty" MileleĮvery piece of contemporary streetwear draws on the designs Kiki scratched out as a burgeoning designer at FUBU and nearly every other urban wear brand from the early 1990s to today. Images by Kiki Peterson, Courtesy, Stephanie Angulo and Caleb & Gladys. Later she styled early Source and XXL magazine covers, dressing artists in a mix of luxury and round-the-way fashion with a special talent for bringing something "they'd never seen before."ĭesign by Jenna Brillhart. and later Total (the latter whom she managed), Sybil moonlighted there while remaining at Uptown, styling both rosters. Blige." Then, when Puffy began Bad Boy Records in 1993 touting Notorious B.I.G. "I mixed those looks and that's what I gave Mary J. "I grew up in the Midwest, and my inspiration came from Black people and poor white people," says Pennix. Uptown head Andre Harrell sent her to buy clothes for Blige like she was "shopping for your sister," and a role was born. Blige, Jodeci and more, before "in-house stylist" was really a thing. As Puffy's assistant while he was an A&R executive at the now-defunct Uptown Records, Pennix became the first in-house stylist for acts like Heavy D, Mary J. ![]() ![]() If you wore pleather outfits or Timberland boots that weren't wheat colored in the late 1990s, it was partly thanks to Sybil Pennix. IMAGES BY GETTY IMAGES, BAD BOY RECORDS, COURTESY. ![]()
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