A fascinating recent history lesson, with rap superstars-turned-designers...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2024

The establishment has reasserted itself, but hip-hop's sense of style - always fluid - has never diminished.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2021

Yes, it's about consumerism ... but Jenkins throws in just enough to keep our attention the entire way through.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 15, 2020

From the film's opening moments until the final credits roll, Fresh Dressed authentically captures the spirit of hip-hop.

| Mar 30, 2020

I think it can give people a better understanding of youth culture as a whole and a lot on some of the fashion trends of the last 25 years easy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2020

Jenkins' film stitches together questions of individuality, self-expression, ethnicity, classicism and the ever-elusive American Dream to make the overall ensemble an engaging contemplation of African-American culture from an unusual angle.=

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2019

I had to admit that [the] manner of blending, mixing, and reappropriating high-end brands was indeed consistent with my hip-hop innovation criteria.

| Aug 28, 2018

Caught between two competing desires: wanting to celebrate hip-hop culture's early street style while also condemning the capitalization of that culture by brands

| May 14, 2018

If you want a graduate degree in the history of hip-hop fashion, look elsewhere; if you're looking for an entry level course, Fresh Dressed is a great primer.

| Apr 26, 2017

Excellent docu on hip-hop fashion's rise has profanity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2016

The film offers a scholarly commentary on aspiration, self-projection and the street-level appropriation of couture exclusivity ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2015

The fascination of Fresh Dressed lies in the inventive and revealing way it interweaves politics, music and sociology. This, it turns out, is much more than just a documentary about fashion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2015

Jenkins' film is never explicitly judgemental, but it does point us toward the ideological switcheroo that governs all fashion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2015

Hardly revelatory, though about more than just street fashion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2015

With a bright explosion of politics, Kangol caps, Air Jordans, gold chains and Ralph Lauren Polo shirts, Fresh Dressed charts the genesis of hip-hop fashion in American culture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2015

The film peers beneath the oversized pants and graffiti-sprayed jackets to examine the cultural psyche that spawned them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2015

Unlike the baggy fabrics, the material is stretched a little thin.

| Oct 22, 2015

Although primarily a nostalgia trip for fans of the subject, the film offers outsiders a unique perspective into the intersection of art and commerce.

| Jul 1, 2015

The story is little more than a visualized CliffsNotes of a Wikipedia article.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 1, 2015

As rhythmic and hypnotic as the old-school hip-hop-heavy soundtrack that supports it.

| Jun 29, 2015