. So much so that her nostalgic performances, music videos, and red carpet appearances still serve as a major inspiration for Y2K fashion, which has been steadily making its way back into our wardrobes — from little-top-big-pants silhouettes to blinged-out embellishments., who met Aaliyah while he was working for a magazine and got his first gig styling her for the music video "One in a Million" in 1996.
"I come from the Lower East Side in Manhattan," Lee tells NYLON. "The kind of girls that I saw walking around was how I'd dress her. Back in those times, the cutest girls were the ones that didn't have to flaunt it. They could dress in jeans and a T-shirt or a tank top and be hot, just from their vibe. We clicked because that's who she was, too."
Today, Lee sees Aaliyah's fashion influence all of the time. "It's 100 percent mainstream," he says. "The baggy pants, all this oversized stuff that's been out for a while, that was her all the way. I see it all over in fashion, and I see it in other artists, as well." Ahead, we looked back on some of Aaliyah's most fashionable music videos and Lee's creative process behind each one, which includes style inspiration from dancehall, off-the-runway designer pieces, and a Dapper Dan original."The sterling silver eye patch [that Aaliyah wore] was something that she had in the works already. That came from her. I bought the bra at a sex shop on Christopher Street in New York because it was one of the only places that was open until midnight back then.
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