... limited focus has been given to how and what postwar Caribbean migrant men contributed to a diasporic understanding of black dandyism through the material culture and performativity of the saga bwoys and rude bwoys. Using Carol Tulloch’s “style-fashion-dress,” among other conceptual frameworks, this essay...

... of “Tightrope” featuring Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B that she made in Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic 2010. She raps: “Album just dropped and I’ve been on couple Identity was published by Duke University Press in covers / Black-and-white tux, ain’t no need for no other colors 2009...

...Shantrelle P. Lewis The first comprehensive exhibition of contemporary global black dandyism of its kind, The Dandy Lion Project was born in November 2010 with the exhibition titled Dandy Lion: Articulating a Re(de)fined Black Masculinity . This exhibition was a discussion about the refashioning...

... and contradictory medium of photography. To break the codes of this image 42 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 37 • November 2015 FASHION STUDIES from Duke University Press SLAVES TO FASHION Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black...

... of black dandyism more generally, I have coined the phrase crime of fashion to capture the dynamic in which these men were embroiled and of which they took advantage...

... write this with a heavy heart precisely because of Okwui was a dandy. He loved clothes; he was an the gravity of this loss, not only professionally but aesthete. I, too, loved clothes that is, the political personally. Some may remember what it was like aspect of dandyism, the aspect that challenges ex...

.... As significant as this Scholars Publishing, 2012). text has been, its attempts to “make space” for black figures in the 22 Monica L. Miller, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the canon of art history and its reading of race and aesthetics through Styling of Black Diasporic Identity (Durham, NC: Duke...

... indignity, extortion- of violence from the likes of white working-class ate rents. It was one such house that was depicted in “teddy boys”—countercultural hoodlums who were the press photograph of the axe-holding matriarch. distinguished by the dandyism of their dress, their By far the most fascinating...