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On a recent Saturday, Iggy Azalea was hanging out in her room at the Mondrian in SoHo, barefoot in black sweatpants and a heavily embellished Fausto Puglisi bomber jacket, which she said she loved because “it’s so shiny and sparkly.”
Ms. Azalea is a peroxide-blond Australian rapper of 23 who mysteriously popped up front row at New York and Paris Fashion Weeks (notably at the Chloé show last fall, where she was demure in culottes and a buttoned-up blouse), attended the Vanity Fair Oscars party and seems to have captivated Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. The magazines both pronounced her a top-10 style star to watch this year, alongside Lupita Nyong’o and Suki Waterhouse. All this before her debut album, “The New Classic,” is even out (it is scheduled for release April 22).
Like Rita Ora and Lil’ Kim before her (yes, the cycle of an It Girl has considerably compressed), Ms. Azalea is offering a fresh, incongruous face and an out-of-nowhere story to an industry whose appetite for novelty seems bottomless.
And her ambition is palpable. “I know how to play the game and get what I want,” she said “Do you think what I wore to the Chloé show would really be something that I would wear? No. I picked the outfit out myself, because I know it’s appropriate and I know how to pander. I know what Chloé looks like, and being that I want to appease Chloé, because I would like some Chloé, I’m going to do my best job to be Chloé.”
Ms. Azalea wants designer clothes for her music videos, to “do wacky things to them,” she said. “But I know that if the designers can’t see me in a certain light, that fashion light, I will never get those clothes.”
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But prodded by Mr. Rembert, Emilio Pucci dressed Ms. Azalea in a black long-sleeved gown for the VH1 Divas event in 2012. “It is impossible not to take notice and be excited by Iggy’s look,” said Peter Dundas, Pucci’s creative director. “She is like the fab love child of a Vargas pinup and a gangsta rapper that makes great music.”
Ms. Azalea has steadily won over other designers since, like Roberto Cavalli and Elie Saab, whose conservative sleeveless white gown she chose for the Grammys this January. “That was a major aspiration of mine for a long time, to get an Elie Saab dress,” she said, dreamily describing the brand’s aesthetic as “Grace Kelly, elegant and beautiful.” When talking fashion, you get the sense that Ms. Azalea is still playing dress-up, a game she loved as a kid.
Born Amethyst Amelia Kelly in Sydney, Ms. Azalea grew up in Mullumbimby, a town of about 3,000 on the north coast of New South Wales. She said she rode her “first wave of fandom” with the Spice Girls. “In my videos and day-to-day life, I feel like I could be Ginger,” she said. But by the time she was a teenager, she had ditched the sugary pop cassettes for Tupac, Outkast and Missy Elliott.
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Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/fa...shion-rap.html
(this will be on the March 30 issue of The New York Times style mag)
 & get that high fashion cred Iggy 
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