ANDRE 3000

the hip hop industry there are two major artistic periods: pre-Outkast and post-Outkast. Whereas rappers previously only had socially acceptable access to bling, oversized monograms and oversized blingblinged monograms, Andre 3000 stepped forth from the mean streets of Atlanta with a revolutionary proposition: that one could don an ivory shawl-collared dinner jacket and still be a well-respected, Grammy Awardwinning hip hop giant. And while his style is as entertainingly eclectic as his music – he might be wearing a full patchwork madras suit one day, and a trilby-topped safari shirt with lemon yellow corduroy slacks the next

Italian neorealist cinema is memorable for the sheer magic of maestro Marcello Mastroianni roaming

Italy in his suit.

– few other artists have been able to translate their aesthetic vision from one medium to another with the playful touch that he possesses. The ripples created by his fearless fashion experimentation has paved the way in the rap landscape for such hip hop sartorial superstars as Pharrell, Tinie Tempah and – bizarre Twitter feuds or not – Kanye West.