Black Dandy: A Political Beauty

Tracing the Roots and Influence of Black Dandyism

Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, Lebron James... Nowadays, the most fashionable heroes of pop culture are black men. Their love of style is not only a status symbol or a vapid superficial trend, it is rooted in a deep American cultural history, as flamboyant as it is political, that of Black Dandyism.

This movement recalls more than a century of cultural adventures, at the crossroads of fashion, arts and major social issues.