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Fresh Dressed traces hip-hop style from streets to runway

Filmmaker Sacha Jenkins on his new documentary on the evolving look and culture of hip-hop fashion, and the costs and rewards of staying fresh.
Filmmaker Sacha Jenkins on his new documentary on the evolving look and culture of hip hop fashion, and the costs and rewards of staying fresh. (Sascha Jenkins/Sundance)

Sacha Jenkins joins Shad to discuss Fresh Dressed, his new documentary about hip-hop fashion, style as identity and how trend travels from neighbourhoods like the Bronx to high-end fashion boutiques, and back. 

The filmmaker also reflects on the price of keeping up appearances in a world where the rich dress like they don't have money and the poor dress like they do. 

WEB EXTRA | As Jenkins joined Shad to discuss his film and larger questions of identity and self-presentation, the two spent a few minutes discussing the Rachel Dolezal story

Dolezal, who resigned as head of a NAACP chapter after her parents revealed she is white, maintains that she "identifies as black" and has since childhood. 

Sacha Jenkins joined Shad to discuss his new documentary, Fresh Dressed, but the two also spent a few minutes discussing the Rachel Dolezal story.