putthison: Here’s something of interest to folks in Baltimore: the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture (they should look into lengthening that name) has a pair of exhibits on the black dandy. Dandy Lion: Articulating a Re(de)fined Black Masculine Identity looks at African-American dandies both contemporary and historical through photography. Global Dandy: Selected Photographs From the Global Africa Project looks at dandies throughout the African diaspora. In both cases, the goal is an an interesting an admirable one: to challenge the notion that black male culture (and particularly aesthetic culture) is monolithic, and to present the ways that it has represented a reinterpreted the dandy tradition. Urbanite Baltimore has more. (Photo, from the exhibition, by Hanif Abdur-Rahim) thanks, Lindsey! I wrote a paper on Dandies based on the photo book called “The Gentlemen of Bakongo”. I’m still obsessed with the movement in the Republic of Congo. One thing that I love about fashion is it’s ability to reinvent oneself. Click for high-res image

putthison:

Here’s something of interest to folks in Baltimore: the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture (they should look into lengthening that name) has a pair of exhibits on the black dandy. Dandy Lion: Articulating a Re(de)fined Black Masculine Identity looks at African-American dandies both contemporary and historical through photography. Global Dandy: Selected Photographs From the Global Africa Project looks at dandies throughout the African diaspora.

In both cases, the goal is an an interesting an admirable one: to challenge the notion that black male culture (and particularly aesthetic culture) is monolithic, and to present the ways that it has represented a reinterpreted the dandy tradition.

Urbanite Baltimore has more.

(Photo, from the exhibition, by Hanif Abdur-Rahim)

thanks, Lindsey!

I wrote a paper on Dandies based on the photo book called “The Gentlemen of Bakongo”. I’m still obsessed with the movement in the Republic of Congo. One thing that I love about fashion is it’s ability to reinvent oneself.

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