Interview: Lupe Fiasco Talks Style, Japanese Designers, Vans OTW
& "The New Luxury"   Lupe Fiasco is clad in studded black scarf,
elongated flannel, and black trousers with a cinch closure. All
of these pieces are from Yohji Yamamto's Y-3 collection. He tops
it off with a smart-looking black blazer from Diet Butcher Slim
Skin. A pair of burgundy Vans Alomar hi-tops add another pop of
color to his outfit.  It is the middle of Berlin Fashion Week.
Outside it is rainy and frigid. The line to get inside the Vans
OTW launch party snakes around the block, where the 29 year-old
rapper is scheduled to perform with Yasiin Bey, the artist
formerly known as Mos Def. He is not focused on that. A newly-
named Vans OTW advocate, Fiasco is standing in a room full of
books and photographs he himself curated. His gaze is fixated on
a bookshelf of his favorite reads: George Orwell's 1984, Walter
Mosley's Five Steps Towards Political Revolution, and The Coming
Insurrection by The Invisible Committee, a tome Glenn Beck
claims pre