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.
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