Clothing as message. Fashion and style as tools, signifiers of culture and identity, whether intentional or assumed. There's likely no group for whom that's been more true than Black men.

This year's Costume Institute spring exhibition and Met Gala are honouring black "dandy" style, and the tradition of bold tailoring worn by black men that has made a statement. Black dandyism, the ...

For the first time at the glamorous Met Gala in New York, Black men — their ... Dapper Dan, a fashion icon in Harlem who grew up underprivileged, said dressing up in clothes purchased from ...

Growing up on the south side of Chicago, the reverend Dr Howard-John Wesley was given the message early on: What one wore as a Black man mattered. Wesley’s pastor father, who migrated from ...

This spring, the Met Gala in New York, one of the bigger fashion events of ... sort of early idea of enslaved Black men who were often sort of dressed in fine clothing in order to reflect the ...

Clothing as message. Fashion and style as tools, signifiers of culture and identity, whether intentional or assumed. There’s likely no group for whom that’s been more true than Black men.

The story of black dandyism does not begin with clothing but with the absence of it. Enslaved Africans, writes Monica L Miller in Slaves to Fashion ... examines how men's style, and in particular ...