THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART hosts “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” through October 26, 2025. Inspired by Guest Curator Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, the exhibition will explore the importance of sartorial style to the formation of Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora. Historically, the term dandy was used to describe someone—often a man—who is extremely devoted to style and approaches it as a discipline. Dandyism was initially imposed on Black men in 18th-century Europe as the Atlantic slave trade and an emerging culture of consumerism created a trend of fashionably dressed, or dandified, servants, Dandyism offered Black people an opportunity to use clothing, gesture, irony, and wit to transform their given identities and imagine new ways of embodying political and social possibilities. Shown: Suit by Who Decides War, Fall 2024; “Aime” ensemble by Wales Bonner, Autumn/Winter 2015–16. Photographs courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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