♎️🕊#ArtIsAWeapon
🎨#Artist: Jerrell Gibbs @jerrellgibbs
#Artwork: Fly, Black boy, FLY, 2020
📸 #Photographer: Alice Springs
#Photo: André Leon Talley, 'La Villa Vigie', 1989 (Image 2)
When the @metcostumeinstitute announced recently that its Spring 2025 exhibition will be "...a cultural and historical examination of the Black dandy," I immediately thought that fashion icon André Leon Talley's trailblazing work should be centered and the annual benefit could be held to honor his legacy. You know, like they did for that racist, sexist Karl Lagerfeld in 2023.
🎥 & ✍️🏾 reposted from @metcostumeinstitute Coming May 2025, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” will examine the historical and cultural emergence of the Black dandy.
Inspired by curator Monica Miller’s 2009 book, “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity,” the exhibition will present a cultural and historical examination of the Black dandy, from the figure’s emergence in Enlightenment Europe during the 18th century to today’s incarnations in cities around the world.
Colman Domingo (@kingofbingo), @LewisHamilton, @ASAPRocky, @Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour will co-chair the next #CostumeInstitute Benefit on the First Monday in May. LeBron James (@kingjames) will serve as honorary chair.
The Benefit, also known as The Met Gala, celebrates the opening of the 2025 exhibition “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” and provides The Costume Institute with its primary source of annual funding for exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, operations, and capital improvements.
“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” opens to the public on May 10 and will be celebrated at the 2025 Met Gala on May 5.
#AndréLeonTalley #BlackDandy #BlackMenInFashion #VogueEditor #LibraSeason
#SuperfineStyle #MetGala2025
