Versace

Versace is one of the top Fashion houses in Italy and all over the world today but has been inspired by the hip hop subculture to produce these long silky shirts , baroque tapestry style prints , Heavy Gold medallions, blacked shades. In the 90s Famous Artist Tupac Shakur became close friends with Gianni Versace and would have custom made pieces just from him only and would often get invited to exclusive fashion shows held by versace. In the spring/summer 1996 in milian fashion week this collection had hip hop music playing on the catwalk this was mostly likely to be inspired by the hip hop movement and Gianni's close friendship with tupac so by having hip hop music playing showed during the 90s versace was inspired by hip hop music movement at the time because many hip hop celebrities showered themeselves in versace and because of the inspiration of hip hop the popular music genre was played on their catwalk , In spring summer 1991 bright colours and graffiti prints was worn during the catwalk and the colours were so bright ranging from neon hot pink to neon yellow to dark blue , yellows and checkered prints with a hint of grafitti writing all in one dress or different pieces of garments when i saw the clothes i thought of fresh prince of bel air because the hip hop commedy sequel often had will smith the star of the show in brightly coloured bomber jackets and latex shorts , during the summer in the 90s is was all about a pop of colour with different prints and i could tell that versace was inspired during the 90s by hip hop because of the colour trend at the time and they also had reggae music playing in their spring summer 1991 catwalk you could also related reggae music to hip hop because hip hop spun off reggae from the change of beats , rhythm and sound. In 1996 Gianni had his one and only close friend tupac walk in one of his spring summer 1996 catwalk clothes tupac was dressed head to toe in a gold silky versace suit with a versace print and had his music play on the catwalk, tupac was escorted down the catwalk with two body guards and his girlfriend this was because of tupac's rap controversy , arguments and fights with other hiphop artist.