Superfine: Tailoring Black Style : the new Exhibit at Met Museum’s Costume institute
Whilst all the celebrities de jour (and some de hier) vied with each other clamouring for attention at ths year’s Met Gala, we were inside the Costume Institute seeing the ‘real thing’. The Exhibition this summer is a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism. In the 18th-century Atlantic world, a new culture of consumption, fueled by the slave trade, colonialism, and imperialism, enabled access to clothing and goods that indicated wealth, distinction, and taste. Black dandyism sprung from the intersection of African and European style traditions.
Curated by Andrew Bolton (ex British Museum who is also Thom Browne’s Husbnad) who made this an unofficial tribite to Vogue’s large-than-lfe editor-at-large of Vogue the late André Leon Talley the biggest dandy the all. Superfine: Tailoring Black Style explores the importance of style to the formation of Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora, particularly in the United States and Europe. Through a presentation of garments and accessories, paintings, photographs, decorative arts, and more, from the 18th century to today, the exhibition interprets the concept of dandyism as both an aesthetic and a strategy that 
allowed for new social and political possibilities.
Bolton has organized Superfine into 12 sections, each representing a characteristic that defines the style, such as Champion, Respectability, Heritage, Beauty, and Cosmopolitanism. Together, these characteristics demonstrate how one’s self-presentation is a mode of distinction and resistance—within a society impacted by race, gender, class, and sexuality.
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
May 10–October 26, 2025 at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 999′
Free with Museum admission
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