Named one of the best books of the year by Booklist A cinematic narrative of glamour, grit, luxury, and luck, Fashion Killa draws on exclusive interviews with the leaders of the fashion world to tell the story of the hip-hop artists, designers, stylists, and unsung heroes who fought the power and reinvented style around the world over the last fifty years. Set in the sartorial scenes of New York, Paris, and beyond, music journalist Sowmya Krishnamurthy's reporting on the intersecting histories of hip-hop and contemporary fashion focuses on the risk takers and rebels the artists, designers, stylists, models, and tastemakers who challenged a systemic power structure and historically reinvented the worlds of pret-a-porter and haute couture. Fashion Killa is a classic tale of a modern renaissance, of an exclusionary industry gate-crashed by innovators, of impresarios Sean, Diddy, Combs, Dapper Dan, Virgil Abloh hoisting hip-hop from the streets to the stratosphere, of supernovas Lil' Kim, Cardi B, and Kimora Lee Simmons allying with kingmakers Anna Wintour, Donatella Versace, Tommy Hilfiger, and Ralph Lauren, of traditionalist fashion houses Louis Vuitton, Fendi, and Saint Laurent transformed into temples of rap gods. Krishnamurthy explores the connections between the Diy hip-hop scene and the exclusive.