Musician clothing collaborations

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Collaborations like these are rarely made on a whim. Artist management and brands likely weigh the size of a musician's fanbase, and the expected return for both sides, before agreeing to one. This report has no evidence on how these three deals were made. Clothing made in a musician's image is worth recording because it shows fashion arising from the marketing system many artists depend on, and not only from individual artistic expression. That system can produce a style of its own that stays popular for a while, depending on what the clothes look like. Musicians and other widely followed public figures have long influenced what people wear.