As a nod to Fashion Month we have Fresh Dressed - a film we found fascinating and hugely fun to watch. It tells the history of urban fashion from its start on cotton plantations to its spread to corporate America.

With funky, fat-laced Adidas, Kangol hats and Cazal shades, a totally original look was born - Fresh - and it came from the black and brown side of town where another cultural force was revving up in the streets to take the world by storm.  Hip-hop and its aspirational relationship to fashion would become such a force on the market that Tommy Hilfiger, in an effort to associate their brand with the cultural swell, would drive through the streets and hand out free clothing to kids on the corner.  Fresh dressed is a fascinating chronicle of hip-hop, urban fashion, and the hustle that brought over-sized pants and graffiti-drenched jackets from Orchard Street to high fashion's catwalks and middle America shopping malls.

Reaching deep to Southern plantation culture, the Black church and Little Richard, director Sacha Jenkins' music-drenched history draws from a rich mix or archival  materials and in-depth interviews with rappers, designers and other industry  insiders, such as Pharrell Williams, Damon Dash, Karl Kani, Kanye West, Nasir Jones and André Leon Talley.  The result is a passionate telling of how the reach for freedom of expression and a better life by a culture that refused to be squashed, would, through sheer originality and swagger, take over the mainstream.

Run time 1 hour 25 minutes