jefferson john babasa asked:


In one of the many urban clothing brands today, Akademiks is considered as one of the best when it comes to trend setting hip-hop fashion and styles. But what makes it so popular with the hip-hop devotees aside from other hip-hop and urban clothing brands?

You may not know this but the founders of Akademiks, Donwan and Emmett Harrell, once have worked with big names of the fashion industry inlcuding Donna Karan, Ecko, Phat Farm, and Nike (Donwan being one of the former top 10 designers at Nike).

The brothers then met up with the owner of Dr. Jays (a top brand of urban and hip-hop clothing shops), Elliot Betesh, where they were asked to design a new brand of hip-hop clothing line. Betesh was the one that inspired the brothers Harrell to start a new brand of clothing lines in which they called Akademiks.

The name Akademiks is an intentional misspelling of the “academics”. The name Akademiks is spelled akdmks, or occasionally AKS, on many of the company’s garments. Some apparel also bears the Akademiks “A.S.A.P.” insignia, standing for “Akdmks Small Arms Patrol”.

Because of the huge popularity of Akademiks in the urban community, some personalities of the hip-hop industry started to take notice of the the brand’s unique trend of fashion and style. Akademiks has gained popularity in the clothing industry due to the number of celebrities who wear the brand’s PRPS jeans, such as rappers Dizzee Rascal and 50 Cent .

Akademiks was popularized in 2001 by Brooklyn rapper Fabolous whose lyrical content advertised the brand. He also wore an akademiks velour on the inside cover of his debut album Ghetto Fabolous.

But other than fame and popularity, Akademiks also gained notoriety when its advertisements on New York MTA buses, which included the tagline “Read Books, Get Brain”, were banned. Although MTA officials had not originally realised that there was any double meaning in this phrase, it was later pointed out that “get brain” was in fact a slang term. Akademiks then released another small group of ads for the MTA in early September, 2006. The ads are clean and without controversy.



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Evelin Jennings asked:


Do you remember when you were a baby and your mom used to dress you up in plain baby clothing that all of the other babies were wearing in the nursery? Of course you don’t but the fact is that somewhere deep in your psyche you do in fact have subliminal memories of those fashionably traumatic times.

Believe it or not, the fact is that clinical researchers have found that babies as young as six months old have a sense of self and even recognize and have preferences for colors shapes and design patterns. This means that young babies recognize when they have on threads that they like and possibly have a rudimentary “sense of style”.

The good news now is that personalized and unique baby clothing designs are now more easily obtained and affordable than ever before. One new look that is in is the hip-hop look that babies as young as six months are expressing a keen interest in. Just because they can speak doesn’t mean that they can’t flash a big toothless smile when they are heading out the door looking their finest.

Also monogrammed clothing and baby blankets help to make you babies wardrobe show more style during the day. For the first year of your babies life he or she is quite possibly going have more pictures taken of them then all the rest of their years combined.

This means that you will always want you little peanut to be dressed in his or her finest clothes. The good news is that unique and personalized bay clothing is so easy to find on the Internet, because more and more baby clothing boutiques are featuring it. Also custom monogrammed baby clothing is just as easy to have produced at many of these same online sources.



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