Hip Hop Designers 2007
Jay-Z Rocawear
Mayor Jay-Z, one of the artists known American hip-hop album that launched the reasonable doubt album ranked by the magazine Rolling Stone as # 248 in the "500 Albums of All Time" and the critically acclaimed album, The Plan, was also known for his skill in business world. In addition to the record label Roc-A-Fella, Jay-Z is also the founder of the popular clothing line Rocawear.
Rocawear is a brand urban clothing created in 1995 by Jay-Z and Damon Dash.The name is derived from the Jay-Z record label Roc-A-Fella. Because of its huge popular in the urban community, reported Rocawear to receive an annual sales of $ 700 million.
Rocawear line main lines of clothing and accessories for men, women and children. But after his apparent success in the industry, the founders decided to expand its line Rocawear through licensing pacts to develop lines for children, youth, socks and sandals, suede leather jackets and leather bags and belts, lounge wear big and tall hats, jewelry and sunglasses and branded products together with Pro-Keds, State Property, and Team Roc.
After some time, Rocawear was led by Jay-Z in early 2006 after a fight with co-founder Damon Dash. But it was in March 2007, Jay-Z, sold the rights to the brand Rocawear to Iconix Brand Group, for $ 204 million.
Iconix Brand Group is a management company brand that licenses brands to retailers and manufacturers around the clothing, footwear, apparel and accessories industries. Their brands are available in stores like Kohl's, Kmart, Sears, Macy's, Mervyn's, Target and JC Penney.
The company began as Candie's, Inc., which makes the bought in 1993. Bongo brand was bought in 1998. Badgley Mischka brand was bought in 2004. Joe Boxer and Rampage brands were acquired on July 22, 2005 and September 15 2005, respectively. In 2006, the company acquired the Mudd, London Fog, Mossimo, Ocean Pacific marks the April 11, 1929 August, 1 November and 6 November respectively. The company continued with the acquisitions in 2007 with the purchase of Danskin and Rocawear brands.
Although management has changed Rocawear a hip-hop to a company's brand clothing, brand fans can still enjoy hip-hop fashion idea of Jay-Z still retains his position as chief designer Rocawear brand.
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