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Music and Fashion: Iconic Styles That Influence Culture

Musicians often use fashion to set themselves apart with a signature look. Music and fashion influence each other, and they reflect and impact the culture at large.

  • Pat Evans and Isaac Hayes
  • Cher
  • Photograph of Queen Latifah during the filming of "Fly Girl" video
  • Photograph of Run, DMC, and Jam Master Jay
  • Public Enemy
  • Untitled
  • Bob Dylan
  • Hank Snow
  • Photograph of Big Daddy Kane getting a shape up
  • Photograph of Big Boi of Outkast at a Spin magazine photo shoot
  • Diana Dew
  • KRS-1 & Ms. Melodie, Bronx 1988
  • Mick and Keith "Riff" a.k.a. "Tuning"
  • The Two Kings, Elvis Presley with B.B. King at WDIA Goodwill Review, Memphis, TN
  • Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin
  • Untitled
  • Photograph of Gladys Bentley
  • Untitled
  • Photographic print of Salt-N-Pepa outside Bayside Studios
  • Bob Dylan, The Castle
  • Photograph of Billie Holiday
  • Photograph of LL Cool J and Russell Simmons at a fashion shoot for Rolling Stone
  • Chromogenic print of Run-DMC in neon tracksuits

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