FIT professor explains the intersection of hip-hop and fashion

(Courtesy of Elena Romero)

Hip-hop has a dress code.

When “Closer Look” program host Rose Scott asked Elena Romero what she’d wear to a hip-hop fashion show, the veteran fashion journalist said that she’d rock her customized name belt and hoop earrings.

Romero is an assistant chair and assistant professor in the Marketing Communications department of the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology at the Fashion Institute of Technology.