The exiting story about how the street wear pioneers Shirt Kings created a stylethat would define hip hop culture in the 1980s and beyond.Jamaica, Queens, New York in the mid 1980s. Rappers, celebrities and hip hopfans came from all over the city to get their own customized T-shirt by the ShirtKings. The style traveled all over the world through record covers and musicvideos, and the Shirt Kings designs soon became synonymous with hip hop andthe culture of making something out of nothing.Shirt Kings: Pioneers of Hip Hop Fashion looks at the early days of street wearthrough the lens of the pioneering group of artistic entrepreneurs known as theShirt Kings. By adapting the graffiti skills from the trains and spray cans to shirtsand airbrush they created a new look for a new generation.Edwin PHADE Sacasa is a founding artist of the group and it is through hisarchives that we are transported to the 1980s in New York City where the fashionwas loud, colorful, and filled with cartoon imagery.