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Amy Winehouse 2022

Lauryn Hill

Inspiration: Lauryn Hill's 1998 cover of Rolling Stone Magazine.

Rosie Perez

Rosie Perez is an American actress, choreographer, dancer, and activist. Rosie started her career in the early 1980s as a dancer on Soul Train. Perez later choreographed music videos by Janet Jackson, Bobby Brown, Diana Ross and LL Cool J and was the choreographer for the dancing group the Fly Girls who were featured on the Fox television comedy program In Living Color.

Paul McCartney

Madonna

Inspiration: Madonna's "Like a Prayer" video from 1989.

Ice T

Ice-T is an American rapper, singer, and actor who co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count.

Boy George

Inspiration: The album cover art of The Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon" released in 1983.

April Walker

April Walker of Walker Wear is a female hip hop pioneer, trailblazer, and first woman of color to simultaneously open a clothing boutique and start a streetwear brand during hip hop’s golden era in Brooklyn, NY.

Erykah Badu

Erykah Badu inspired by the 2015 Soul Train Awards.

Bob Marley

Inspired by Chris Walter’s 1979 photo of Bob Marley at Tower Records, Hollywood wearing iconic Tam by @dinaknappart.

Mick Jagger

Amy Winehouse 2011

Inspiration: Amy's life, style and beauty.

Molly Ringwald

Inspiration: Molly Ringwald's character Andie Walsh from "Pretty in Pink" released in 1986.

Questlove FTP

Questlove, Drummer for The Roots inspired by his appearance in the Public Enemy “Fight The Power” Remix Performance on BET Awards.

David Bowie as Aladdin Sane

Inspiration: David's Bowie Aladdin Sane album cover released APril of 1973.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the 1980s, his neo-expressionist paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992.

Prince

Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, actor, and filmmaker.

Fab 5 Freddy

Fred Brathwaite (born August 31, 1959), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American visual artist, filmmaker, and hip hop pioneer. He emerged in New York's downtown underground creative scene in the late 1970s as a camera operator and a regular guest on Glenn O'Brien's public access cable show TV Party.

Salvador Dali

Frida Kahlo

Collabo with Cheyenne Randall.

Jackie O

George Harrison MBE

George Harrison inspired by the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album art from 1967.

Natalie Portman

Inspiration: Natalie Portman's role as Mathilda in The Professional from 1994.

Black Thought

Tariq Luqmaan Trotter (born October 3, 1971), better known as Black Thought, is an American rapper and the lead MC of the Philadelphia-based hip hopgroup The Roots, as well as an occasional actor. Black Thought, who co-founded The Roots with drummer Questlove (Ahmir Thompson), is widely lauded for his live performance skills, continuous multisyllabic rhyme schemes, complex lyricism, double entendres, and politically aware lyrics.

Steve Zissou

Steve Zissou ©2017

Inspiration: Bill Murray's portrayal of Steve Zissou in the The Life Aquatic by Wes Anderson in 2004.

Jim Morrison

James Douglas "Jim" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter, and poet, best remembered as the lead singer of The Doors.

Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney inspired by song Blackbird by The Beatles on the White Album, 1968.

Diane Arbus

American Photographer (1923-1971).

Jimmy Fallon

Inspiration: Bob Gruen's iconic photo of John Lennon in the same shirt from 1974.

Yoko Ono

Inspiration: The iconic photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono at Heathrow Airport May 23, 1969.

Josephine Baker

Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks from the band Fleetwood Mac.

Courtney Love

Inspiration: Courtney's iconic Baby Doll dress worn on her 1994 Spin Magazine cover.

Raleigh St. Clair

Inspiration: Bill Murray's portrayal of Raleigh St. Clair in the The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson in 2001.

Blondie

Inspiration: Blondie's "Dreaming" video from 1979.

Audrey Hepburn

Inspiration: Audrey Hepburn's character Holly Golightly Breakfast at Tiffanys, released in 1961.

David Bowie

Inspiration: David's performance of "Rebel Rebel" in 1974 on the Dutch TV Music Show, ToPPoP.

Gene Simmons

Freddie Mercury

Inspiration: Queen's show at Wembley Stadium in England, July of 1986.

Nancy Spungen

Infamous girlfriend to Sid Vicious from The Sex Pistols (1958-1978).

Marilyn Monroe

Inspiration: Marilyn's iconic photoshoot with Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1953 for Life Magazine.

Jerry Garcia

Brigitte Bardot

Inspired by iconic photograph.

Lenny Kravitz