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This year’s Met Gala is honoring Black fashion for the first time in its 77-year history. It’s an indirect celebration to be sure. Although the Costume Institute’s Spring 2025 exhibition ...
From tailored jackets and silk ties to playful fedoras and pocket squares, Black dandyism isn’t just ... Andre 3000’s suspenders and Big Boi’s fur coat. This is the first year in the museum ...
Nowhere is this clearer than in the story of Black American tailoring and the legacy of the Black dandy. Inspired by scholar Monica L. Miller’s groundbreaking book Slaves to Fashion: Black ...
The guest curator of a new Met exhibition on Black style offers an annotated early look at a Dapper Dan jacket, André Leon Talley’s luggage and more. The guest curator of a new Met exhibition ...
The 2025 Met Gala dress code is "Tailored for You," a nod to the museum's "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" Costume Institute exhibit, which will be on public view from May 10 to Oct. 26.
In a Black American context, we’ve seen with the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, and Jim Crow, it was a vehicle for political stance because of the confinement of Black people ...
But there’s a reason why Black folks, Catholic or not, should care about this: The new pope is Black.
The Met Gala returned for 2025 in New York City, with a spotlight on Black style and tailoring. Here's what to know about this year's theme explained. Much of the buzz around fashion's biggest ...
During part of her question, she references Wayans as a "Black man," asking, "And, you know, that warms my heart. Particularly as a Black man, um, you know, I wou-, would you care to share that ...
That is what’s going viral in a hilarious Instagram video of a dog who just cannot stop obsessing over his slightly fed-up furry sibling. The video, posted by Instagram user @scoobyxbutter ...
But his lineage has deeper ties to the intricate fabric of the Black American South. Born Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV represents a new wave of leadership. The pope not only made history ...
Black smoke indicates that votes have been cast, but no candidate has received the two-thirds majority required to be elected pope. White smoke means that a new pope has been selected. The color ...