Back to the Future

Baby Phat Walked so That Modern-Day ‘Streetwear’ Could Fly

How the iconic Baby Phat cat walked right off the runway and into the closets of millions of Black women and girls

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8 min readOct 15, 2020

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Photo illustration; Image sources: KMazur/Scott Gries/ImageDirect/Getty Images

This story is a part of our Back to the Future series on how key moments in the year 2000 influenced similar events in…

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