Superfine: Tailoring Black Style at the Met Museum in New York

Fashion

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.

StyleZeitgeist Podcast: On Karl Lagerfeld with Amy Odell

Culture, Fashion

We reconnect with the journalist Amy Odell to discuss the problematic legacy of Karl Lagerfeld, the late designer of Chanel, and the new exhibit devoted to his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. We try to answer one of the central questions of creativity – can you separate the art from the artist? – and dive into other aspects of Lagerfeld’s life and work.

Comme des Garçons at the Met

Events, Fashion

One of the several questions that came to me as I was leaving the press preview of the “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between” show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was, “Who is this exhibit for?” Or, to reframe it in broader context, what is the role of museums today?

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Manus X Machina at The Met

Culture, Fashion

This week the new fashion exhibition “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology” opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It aims to challenge the notion, usually found in the popular imagination, that handwork and machine work somehow exist in the state of opposition.