They need to market this for truckers.

OMFG. Artists need to reconfigure their ideas of "originality" and who inspired whom. Black rudeboys and sharps have been mixing prints and jewelry from the Motherland with brit/american punk gear for decades now. Hell, a large percentage of the original Brit rudeboys had African and Island-born parently. This is not new, this was not based off of some photographers' idea.

Punk was first, before it became just another fashion trend, WAS politically rooted and ancestral pride (all ancestries) has often been visibly incorporated in an individual punk's style. That's like saying Vivienne Westwood "invented" punk fashion because of her incorporation of streetstyles in her collections.

Afropunks everywhere would roll their eyes at the entire concept of someone thinking they invented this with a stylist, lights, and a camera.

Gnarls & Mouse aren't completely foreign from this style, they both spent time in the scene in their youths. If you went to a poetry slam in ATL anytime in the mid 90's you would have seen this style hashed and rehashed many times over. The photographer did a great job of focusing on just this style and the photographic series has been popular among online afropunks since it came out. But if someone sees a skirt in a magazine and inquires where its from because it fits their own style, that's not theft.

This has me all bleary-eyed and waxing nostalgic for my old dance recital days.

Amanda Lapore did a few noteworthy Jessica Rabbit shots.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa38/jrcrunker/08.jpg

Oh, it's for real alright.
She put on her best dress and got her hair did for the occasion.

Steckler!
"Wild Guitar" should be touted as THE pivital anti-RIAA/recording industry movie.

Increadibly Strange Creatures made me want to be a carnie when I was a kid. Yay for Steckler appreciation.

That's what happens when you watch "Mannequin" more than once as a young lad.

Is that Godspeed, You Black Emporer (the movie) on the cover?