August 8, 2025
Athens, GR 14 C
Expand search form
Blog

Ruth Leon recommends… Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

Ruth Leon recommends… Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

Join Monica L. Miller, Guest Curator, on a tour of the exhibition Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, with an introduction from Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute.

The Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of ‘dandyism’.

Here are garments and accessories, paintings, photographs, decorative arts, and more, from the 18th century to today, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style interprets this sartorial practice as both an aesthetic and a strategy that allowed for new social and political possibilities.

This tour contains a certain amount of unavoidable academic gobbledegook from the presenter who is, after all, an academic, Professor and Chair of African Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University, but what she has to say is worth hearing.

This Exhibition was the theme of this year’s Met Gala, an annual extravaganza of bizarre outfits which is the social occasion of the New York season. The Exhibition continues at the Met until the end of October.
Read more

The post Ruth Leon recommends… Superfine: Tailoring Black Style appeared first on Slippedisc.

Previous Article

Swedish flute, RIP

Next Article

Someone’s pretending to be DG

You might be interested in …

When ENO went to the USSR

When ENO went to the USSR

In a exclusive extract from his new memoir, out on February 25, former English National Opera chorus singer Ian Bloomfield remembers an unpredicted opening night in Moscow in 1990.   We performed Verdi’s Macbeth at […]

EU court overturns libel award against opera critic

EU court overturns libel award against opera critic

In 2017 https://slippedisc.com/2017/06/exclusive-opera-critic-is-hit-with10000-euro-libel-fine/ that the Romanian critic Alexandru Patrascu, a contributor to the London-based Opera magazine, lost a libel case brought against him by the conductor Tiberiu-Ionuț Soare, ex-head of Bucharest National Opera, and the […]