June Ambrose has defined the images of many of the most groundbreaking A-list artists in R&B and hip-hop. Think of Missy Elliott's patent-leather blow-up suit from the 1998 video for “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly).” Or the shiny red outfits worn by Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and Mase in the Notorious B.I.G.'s “Mo Money Mo Problems.” Her fearlessness working with those artists, as well as Jay-Z, Mariah Carey, Busta Rhymes and others, would be the ignition behind an entire industry— the fire it needed to burst into the mainstream.
“I've always been quite precocious, quite confident,” says Ambrose. “As a young lady, I was really kind of just sure. And
