Without getting in the details of sales and margins, it seems the most successful celebrity fashion line is ran by one of the most successful hip hop singer: 50 cents.

His clothing company is G unit clothing which is making a killing since 2003.

And, no, that company doesn’t sell exclusively bullet proof vests!

What is the secret of the success of Fifty cents clothing line?

- First, it is worn by 50 cents himself, which means a lot of exposure given the success of the artist.

- Second, this company is now seven years old, which means it had enough time to invest any country in the world.

- Third, and not the least one of the partners of this company is Marc Ecko, famous owner of Ecko Unlimited.

You want to make over 100 million dollars from your streetwear clothing line? Learn to rap! Even if you are ugly like Jay Z, owner of Rocawear, you will get all the chicks.

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This streetwear magazine goes through all the established as well as new fashion trends, music trends, art and culture.

It is written by a team of German dudes who like what they do and you can instantly feel this when visiting their website.
Why not go there and subscribe to their free newsletter?

The subscription to this streetwear magazine is around usd 30 per year depending on where you stay.
That will get you four great issues containing information about streetstyles that you can rely on.

What I really liked about their website:
- The design and general feel.
- It features a wonderful list of streetwear brands contacts ranging from Asics footwear (60 y/o brand this year!) to DC shoes and skatewear.

What I liked less on their site:
- It’s all in flash which may not be very user friendly depending on the browser you’re using.
- There’s not much to read, at least not much to read for free.
- 75% of the cool brands contacts are located in Germany which isn’t great for an international magazine.

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I had forgotten about this brand until I stumbled upon an article by Nick Schonberger at www.highsnobiety.com titled Fila Heritage. I’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate Nick for the quality of his blog posts. I wish I was as hardworking as him,,, I’d probably be rich by now.

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Did you know that Eminem announced yesterday that he was starting a clothing line with Lady Gaga? … Only kidding, but you’ll have to admit that it would be fun to chat about it, and interesting from a business point of view to see how they would run their clothing line venture.

What about Usher?

Well it was announced a couple of years back (May 2005) that following the examples of Puff Daddy and other hip hop artists, the R&B superstar Usher had decided to launch his own fashion line.

He said at the time that he was inspired by the styles of Prada, Gucci and other top luxurious brands such as Roberto Cavalli.

Have you heard about Usher’s fashion products? Do you know about any Perfume holding his name?

I personally don’t know where to order Usher fashion line. My friends and family don’t either. What the heck?

Have your say, leave a comment to Bilal.

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Sean John Clothing Inc is a clothing and fragrance line owned by hip-hop mogul Sean John Combs and supermarket mogul Ron Burkle. The apparel company takes its name from Combs’ first and middle given names.

I really like Puff Daddy, you see. The only problem I have with this guy is his name… Or (plural) shall I say his nameS ?

That’s the tricky part when writing about Puff Daddy, you just don’t know the guy’s name anymore. Is it Diddy, P Diddy, Prince, Puff Daddy or Love symbol?

It’s monday morning, and I got it all mixed up. I understand the confusion is general and comes from various law suits about intellectual property related to another singer’s name.

He was originally known as Puff Daddy and then as P. Diddy (Puff and Puffy being often used as a nickname, but never as recording names). , he changed his stage name to “Diddy”. He continues to use the name P. Diddy in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the latter after a legal battle with another artist, Richard “Diddy” Dearlove.

Sean John urban clothing brand by P Diddy

Ok, most of the clothes designed by P Diddy’s team are great: The t-shirts, the baggy trousers, the shoes etc.. P Diddy is a successful business man who, in my opinion, has set new references in terms of urban wear.

The style is easy to wear, not too flashy, just cool classics.

Ok, Sean John clothes are expensive but someone needs to pay P diddy expensive cigars, right?

About P Diddy: Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969),[1] known by his stage name Diddy, is an American record producer, rapper, actor, men’s fashion designer, entrepreneur and dancer.

Did you know? P Diddy’s clothing line earned a Council of Fashion Designers of America award. Not sure what that means for Puff Daddy his clothing line will do great anyway.

You don’t like Diddy? You think he is ugly like Jay-Z and you are jealous of his success? Then share your feeling in the comments section. That will make you feel better.

Ecko is a clothing brand that I personally look up to.  They got great tee-shirt designs.
The ECKO hoodies and jeans are pretty good too. They also do great footwear.

Judge by yourself: Here is a classic T-shirt signed Ecko.

ECKO unlimited classic style

Now the question I was asking myself is:

How did Ecko move from classic Skatewear / hip hop wear styles into more rock orientated styles?

See the tee-shirt design below, can you tell me it does NOT Rock?

Most popular Ecko T-shirts look very rock n roll in terms of design.

I think both the classic style and the new -rock- style are great. Designers in this company rock!!!

It feels like we are back in the eighties when Run DMC came up with Walk this way.

It feels that the fashion trend nowadays doesn’t separate influences from hip hop and rock.

Instead, they blend into each other and create a new style that rocks like Run.

I am definitely the right guy to push this influence into the creation of more mixed designs for the REAL DEAL clothing line.

Watch me out! I know what’s good and I know what’s great. You will verify this by yourself in the REAL
DEAL wholesale street-wear catalog coming up soon.

While writing this article I found out that my favorite skateboard decks brand – Zoo York – belongs to the same guys who created Ecko.

Here is the information I collected about the company:

About Ecko Unlimited:

Ecko Unlimited is a registered clothing brand of Marc Ecko Enterprises (MEE).

MEE markets itself as a fashion and lifestyle company. The company reported sales of over $1.5B in global retail sales in 2007 and has 1,300 employees worldwide.

Over the past 15 years, the group of companies that comprise Marc Ecko Enterprises (MEE) has grown to include:

- Marc Ecko Cut & Sew, a contemporary menswear line;

- Zoo York, a line of action clothing (i.e. SKATEWEAR!!);

- Complex Magazine (circulation of 340,000);

- ecko red juniors apparel;

- Avirex, a mid-tier sportswear brand;

- Marc Ecko Entertainment, a videogame development and production company.

Did you know?

MEE licenses include Skechers footwear as well as  Callanen watches and jewels.

Note: <<REAL DEAL is the clothing brand of ECM>>

Trouble! The guy (real name Aliaune Thiam) is a sweet family man, a successful businessman and a great singer and producer. One of the best hip hop and RnB artists of our time.

Plus, he doesn’t come up with the usual and now boring: I am the king of… which is quite refreshing. On most pictures he is looking good and smiling just like on this picture of Akon with Lady Gaga.

Lady Gaga and Akon

Have you already noticed? Akon wears black or white clothing most of the time.

This is definitely in contrast with the Konvict clothing line which is high in colors. Check by yourself, visit Konvict apparel the flash animated website featuring Akon clothing brand: konvictapparel.com

I am honestly still looking for some cool clothes in that collection. Seriously,, how can you end up mixing light blue with that ugly brown color?

Or could this become, in a distant future, the new urban trend? Will Akon become a famous fashion designer? Leave your comments.

I m not even going to mention the mix of colors of the cardigan. To me, there’s a problem somewhere. Akon, Too many colors kills the style! I don’t know if your clothing line targets specifically the African consumers, but to me, purple, red, light blue, white and black all together on one cardigan is way too much.

It just doesn’t work. Sorry to say that.

Now this clothing brand exists since 2007. Can we now look back and say that AKON has been as successful in this clothing business as he’s been in the music business?

Today’s news:
At the Video Music Awards,Akon had his eyes set on one of the ladies. “Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga. That’s why I’m here,” Akon said.

Lady Gaga is reported to have arrived at the show with date Kermit the Frog!!! How crazy is that?

About Kon Live:

Kon Live is Akon distribution company. Lady Gaga recently signed with this label. It’s a safe bet to say we are going to see more of this extravagant and sexy woman.

About Konvict clothing line:

They make sweaters, hoodies, outerwear, baggy jeans and some linen products.

Not a great clothing styles if you ask me. I guess Akon now have a chance to make it up with a great line of sexy clothes signed Lady Gaga. Or is it on the way already? Let us know in the comments section.

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The MTV show made its return yesterday in the USA. The $ 100,000 competition is generating millions of comments about the performers, the judges and anything from their new hairstyles to their clothing style of course.

ABDC-Judges-wear-urban-style-clothing

I know what you’re all thinking.. Bilal is going to get started on Vogue Evolution the gay crew of the show and make comments on their outfits.

Well, no, they are gay and in America it is Ok. I just wouldn’t wear what they wear. No anti gay blogging here. Period.

What about the judges?  Just by the way they look, wearing urban style / hip hop gear, I have a feeling they would share my discreet opinion on the gay band and their outfits.

Or maybe it’s just a cliche that hip hop is anti gay? In that case wearing hip hop clothes means you are not gay.

One thing is for sure, pictures of last night show are high in colors and street-wear designers should definitely take a look at what is going on in there. People on the scene are doing everything they can to grab the attention, you can see that in the outfits.

Could the show be used as a laboratory for new urban trends and street-wear clothing designs?

Feel free to leave your comments here.

PS: Anybody knows something about the yellow t-shirt with the text Download This printed on the front worn by one of the contestants? This one is nice. Sorry, couldn’t dig a pic of it on the net yet.

The KING???? Wait a minute, what’s going on these days?

It looks like everybody is the king of something! TI would be the king of Hip Hop in the south, Tupac the king of hiphop etc..

Di it all start with the king of pop? Has this go something to do with his recent death?

(Couldn’t resist I was told to write about M Jackson death by another blogger – Recently dead people are supposed to attract curiosity)

It is possible that M Jackson will be forever remembered as such. That probably gives a lot of ideas to many hip hop artists.

How can there be more than one king? I understand nothing no more.

The fact that Jay-z earned more than usd 35 million in 2008 doesn’t make him the boss of other artists and to be the king you have to be the boss.

Sorry for all the fans, M Jackson is not the boss of the pop and neither is Jay z the king of hip hop. Hope that makes it clear for everyone out there in the medias.

Now, don’t get me wrong - people love to get me wrong : I’m a big fan of Jay-z… In fact, I was a big fan of Jay-z until the day he seduced my girlfriend and took her away from me (Beyonce).

Rocawear jacket by hip-hop mogul Jay z

Jay z is far from good looking, I still don’t get it how he could pull out such a trick.

I love Rocawear as a clothing brand, but what the hell with the model? I guess Jay-z fears choosing good looking models for his clothing brand will result in his precious Beyonce dumping him, just like she once left me… ;-(

What would you like to be the king of? Leave your comments here.

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Everybody wears the basketball style shirt.

The iconic basketball shirt as designed by the NBA team NETS

Honestly, I feel very bad joking about such an important item of my wardrobe. It is sold in shops and on the net at around usd39 and it is usually worn over a t-shirt. That’s what i do too. That’s because the police won’t allow me to show too much of my arms – you know how it goes: It starts with a few girls trying to touch my muscles, 5 minutes later there’s a big group of them running after me and the whole thing ends up in a riot.

The NBA shirt is definitely a trouble maker, follow the crowd, wear it over a t-shirt and we should all be all right.