From Birmingham to St. Louis, Black tailors have been keeping dandyism alive for decades. Ahead of The Metropolitan Museum of ...

Clothing as message. Fashion and style as tools, signifiers of culture and identity, whether intentional or assumed. There’s ...

What is the Met Gala's theme of Black dandyism? Art history offers up plenty of examples of this expressive form of menswear.

The diverse, personal, and deep themes students presented through their ... it’s easier for people to digest stuff that’s funny than serious.” While hosting a fashion show may be a lot ...

Wesley’s pastor father, who migrated from Louisiana after World War II in search of more opportunities than those readily available to Black people ... agency.” Through the decades, that ...

"Through the years, through the decade ... to fashion." And now, we wait to see which identities walk the steps. "There is a lot of weight on the Met to really show what the people in this ...

The diverse, personal, and deep themes students presented through their work made the show compelling, said Rey Pador, an associate professor of fashion ... yourself as a Black person in white ...