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Designer Dressing On A Bargain Basement Budget

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Let’s face it—our taste in fashion often exceeds the flavor of our bank accounts. If you find yourself living on ramen noodles and pizza rolls just so that you can afford that Prada bag or the hottest new designer coat of the season, you may need to rethink your priorities. Instead of falling deep into […]

Dapper Dan: The Mastermind of Black Fashion

You see those baggy jeans and luxury outfits worn by rap artists? Yeah, they were all inspired by one man: Dapper Dan. Dapper Dan, whose actual birth name is Daniel Ray, is the Harlem Couturier known as the “king of knock-offs.” He became especially famous in the ’80s and ’90s for being the tailor who […]

How To Find the Perfect Vintage Style Dress

Finding the perfect vintage style dress for any season can be a bit of a pain. You need an outfit that stands out and has some spark but doesn’t scream over-decorated. However with vintage, you are guaranteed to be unique. Vintage Style Dresses have already lived. They have attended fabulous and glamorous and sensual cocktails […]

How The Bakongo Dandies Of Congo Have Redefined Fashion Trends

Style is everything! If you are familiar with fashion especially old school fashion, you might have heard of the fascinating style of the La Sape who imitated their Belgian and French colonizers in style and dress. This trend has continued to the modern era, where a group of Congolese Africans called the Bakongo Dandies adore […]

Remembering Nathaniel “Rollo” Taylor (Sanford & Son)

TPAF is extremely saddened to report the passing of actor Natheniel Taylor, also know as Rollo from the famed Sanford and Son Series. Taylor was cast as the role of Rollo, the smooth-talking, slightly criminal but always cool counterpart to Lamont’s uptight antics in 1972. Although friends on the show, Rallo and Lamont were anything […]

Charytín Goyco: Old School Dominican Flyness

Okay, so I’m going to take another stroll down my pockmarked and littered memory lane and reminisce about the days when Cable TV consisted of twisting the coat hanger that doubled as your TV’s antennae so you could get a fuzzy reception of Music Box TV, PBS and Univision. Obviously, it was Univison (Telemundo’s sluttier sister) that […]

Why Donald Trump Calling the NFL Players “S.O.B’s” was Really a Slam on Black Moms Everywhere

Let’s not even get started about the undertone of white supremacy at the very root of his tweets insinuating black NFL players should somehow feel beholden to their white team owners. No, what Donald Trump did this past month was far worse, far more insidious. He talked shit about the NFL players mamas. You just […]

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ThePeopleareFly is a celebration of sorts. A celebration of generations, of fashions, of the politics and passion that fueled these funky expressions. From the Zoot Suiters to the 30’s to the Hip-Hoppers from the early 80’s, the people are fly and will always be! Feel free to message us with submissions, either on our Facebook […]

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