US EditionHighlights from Met Gala exhibit: A look at Black style gives prominent voice to emerging designers
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art launched the exhibit "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at the 2025 Met Gala, showcasing Black fashion across centuries.
- The exhibit arises from guest curator Monica L. Miller's scholarship, particularly her book on Black dandyism and diasporic identity, highlighting historical and current Black representation.
- The show includes artifacts like Frederick Douglass’s 19th-century tailcoat and contemporary works by emerging designers such as Brooklyn-based Jacques Agbobly, who integrates African heritage in his designs.
- Miller explains the exhibit’s 12 sections explore themes like ownership, disguise, and freedom, illustrating clothing’s dual role to dehumanize and empower, with dandyism defined as dressing elegantly to assert presence.
- The exhibit emphasizes how dressing above one’s station historically enabled Black individuals to claim space and transition from enslavement to liberation while confronting stereotyping and degradation.
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