The Politics of Black Style: Gender, Resistance, Black Dandyism & why the Met gala was kinda slavey

If you wear clothes this is a Black ass history conversation that you need. Let’s discuss. Fashion & style friend’s Channél Jordan & Diamond Stylz join us for history, theory & context.

While we use the Met Gala as a launching point for a larger conversation on Black style, YOU DO NOT NEED TO CARE ABOUT OR TO HAVE SEEN MET GALA COVERAGE to enjoy this episode.

3:05 Pop-culture & fashion in politically perilous times

7:37 Black Dandyism Definitions & Disappointment

15:33 Met Gala theme habits

18:00 Enslavement & Jim Crow vs. the last 100 years

26:44 The exhibit

29:30 Gender

40:28 Corporatism

42:53 Black contributors and the Pharrell of it all

52:05 Respectability & Class

56:47 Sapeurs

1:00:09 Who Understood the assignment

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