Superfine: Tailoring Black Style at the Met Museum in New York
Superfine, an exhibition on Black dandyism which opens this Saturday at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, presents a history of Black style through the lense of dandyism, emphasizing the importance of sartorial style to Black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora and the ways Black designers have interpreted and reimaged this history. The exhibition aims to highlight the various styles one could employ in order to be identified as a dandy: from austere minimalism to hyper-colorful tailoring, from deconstructed denim to high tech sportswear, dispelling the stereotype of flamboyance being the only indicator of dandyism.
