When the team behind this MET gala and the topic of the exhibition began to plan “Superfine: Black style adaptation “It was just after the legendary fashion editor and Figure André Leon Talley had died at age 73, Dei was alive and well in the United States and the funds for museums were not under fire.
The Sartorial Style of Talley would also be a source of inspiration for the exhibition based on the 2009 book by Monica L. Miller “Slaves to Fashion”, which explores the cultural history of the Black Dandy, starting in the 18th century through its modern incarnations.
When the main curator of the Anna Wintour costume center and the Metropolitan Art Museum, Andrew Bolton, invited Miller to cure the exhibition along with him and his team, no one could have imagined how the current administration has tried to crush Dei and erase aspects of black history, such as Harriet Tubman, from a government website. Therefore, in addition to his fascinating, historical and overflowing with excellent style contents, this exhibition demonstrates that fashion is a better place thanks to diversity, equity and inclusion and nothing erases the lasting style. Fashionnetwork.com was present as Bolton, Miller, met with the Max Hollein CEO, and the actor and coanfrerion Colman Domingo presented the exhibition to the press and the special guests.
Hollein began opening comments, noting that the fund collection event has raised a $ 3 million record. He presented Domingo, who has become the best dressed in fashion, along with the creative director of male clothing of Louis Vuitton, Pharrell Williams; rapper to $ Ap Rocky; Formula 1 Sir Lewis Hamilton conductor; and Anna Wintour, who perform as hosts of the event. The moment of this particular issue was not lost in Hollein.
“The Met Mission is to connect more people with creativity, knowledge, ideas and, most importantly, with each other through art and academic activities. Today's exhibition is an important example of the undoubtedly powerful importance of this exhibition in today's world.
Domingo, dressed in a purple fuchsia suit with a pinch by Savile Row's tailor and designer Ozwald Boateng, gave the crowd with stories of the three men who inspired his own flare for dandyism: his stepfather Clarence Cole; his biological father Colman Domingo (Mr.); and his brother Derek Domingo. He commented on how Cole, a floor refinor, transformed from his paveled work clothes on Friday and became life, becoming another man who redefined with a shark leather suit, good flower shoes, a long coat and a pink sapphire ring. “
His brother introduced him to GQ magazine and would express the styles working with the mother and aunt of the children to sew the styles at home with butter patterns.
“My father was very great and striking, he drove a Cadillac, and when he came to visit me, my favorite outfit wore all the white and Italian Italian pants that hugged the crotch and legs, and with a Canarian yellow hat,” Domingo recalled.
“I am here representing many generations of black men who freed themselves through style. I stay here on André Leon Talley's shoulders, Ozwald Boateng, Sidney Poitier, Prince, Harry Belafonte, James Baldwin and many others. There is an appointment of the Great George CC Wolfe to highlight the creative spirit of the black people that forms people and fashion.
Then, Bolton took the stage to explain the genesis of the theme and the exhibition of the first MET gala dedicated to male clothes in 20 years.
“'Slave to Fashion' is a cultural history of Black from the 18th century until Locate the story in a multimedia context in fashion, cinema, photography, arts, “said Bolton, adding:” What transpires is a story of emancipation of liberation through soft experimentation.
Miller, pRofessor of African Studies, president of the Department of African Studies in Barnard College, summarized it so that the guests who saw the exhibition would understand their message and point of view. The teacher said that working with the Met was “a dream that I never knew.”
“What Superfine Explore is black through time and space in the United States and Europe as a mode of itself, self-possession and design, and is related to strategy and intentionality as by design and how it manifests itself in the environment through the design of fashion. Dandyism is an act of negative. Touchstone of the dandy closet and is the approach to which superfine is designed Miller
“Dandy's designated forms of being in the world were at the beginning of the 18th century, due to the slave trade, colonialism and imperialism, they combined the African and Western traditions. It addresses the enslaved Africans identified as servants who transformed into consumption objects. Dandy pushes the limits of Gender, class, sexuality and black breeding, exercising their global powers and self -deficiency, “he added.
The exhibition was divided into issues: property, presence, distinction, costume, freedom, champion, respectability, jook, heritage, beauty, great and cosmopolitanism.
All kinds of three -piece costumes, military costumes, tails and topcoat costumes, song costumes and even costumes used by women such as Grace Jones and Josephine Baker, in addition to a group of accessories such as shirts with flyers, bold desires, leather pants and more were highlighted from the exhibition.
The historical figures presented were the French writer Alexandre Dumas and his father Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, who, being birrales, enjoyed a certain social latitude; Abolitionist and African -American leader Frederick Douglass; Web du Bois, the sociologist and historian educated in Harvard who helped found the Naacp; Prince and Sylvester musicians; and André Leon Talley, among others, whose style Dandy helped promote his efforts.
The designers who appear in the totally black galleries with specially created black mannequins were Grace Wales Bonner; Maximillian Davis for Ferragamo; Willy Chavarria; Jerry Lorenzo of fear of God; Olivier Rousteing for Balmain; John Galliano for Dior; Tremaine Emory for denim tears; Ev bravado and tela d'Amoe for those who decide war; Ib Kamara for White; Bianca Saunders; Soull and Dynsty Ogun de l'encanteur; Laquan Smith; Kerby Jean-Raymond for Pyer Moss; Edvin Thompson for Theophilio; Jeffrey Banks; Raul López de Luar and Boateng, among others.
Representing the main sponsor Louis Vuitton were designs of the deceased virgil pop, who included the word Dandy in his infamous design dictionaries and the current creative director of men Pharrell Williams in the form of a pixelated suit, among other styles. LV monogrammed trunks of Talley were also displayed, as did Harlem's Dapper Dan Danr, which reinvented the printing of LV monogram.
The recent finalist of the LVMH Jacques Agbobly award, originally from the Togolase Republic, happily posed for images in front of two exhibition designs and marveled at the mannequin pocket pose. “We designed it in that way in the lookbook,” he said.
Miller pointed out that the twelve themes would not completely cover the exhibition; He was right, since pride and gratitude could also describe it.
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