fashion
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Conversation on Harlem Renaissance and Fashion Rescheduled
This event has gone virtual and will be held on Zoom on 06/16. You must register to attend.
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03/24 Convo on Harlem Renaissance Fashion Postponed
This event has been postponed in response to public health concerns but we hope to reschedule for a later date. Check back for updated information.
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Upcoming convo on fashion and the Harlem Renaissance
I will be having a conversation with Liz Way from the Museum at FIT about the Harlem Renaissance and fashion. Join us on March 24th at the Harlem School of the Arts! Harlem during the Jazz Age was renown for the style of its denizens. The twenties was a time of radical transformation for clothing,…
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The hard copy of my essay arrived!
The illustrations for my Brooklyn Rail essay, “The African Roots of Modern Fashion,” garnered me a beautiful two-page spread. Go Afrochic!
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New essay published on Afrochic
My piece, “The African Roots of Modern Fashion,” is a part of the lastest Brooklyn Rail Critics Page on art and fashion edited by Alexandra Schwartz. It provides some insight into my current research. Pleased to be in the company of Valerie Steele, Juliet Bellow, Rhonda Garelick, and Saya Woolfalk! I offer up another Afrochic…
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EXH REV: “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity” @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://chronoswatchmagazine.com/impressionism-fashion-modernity/
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Egyptomania…encore!
I didn’t have the chance to discuss this photograph of Anna May Wong wearing a hat referencing the one worn by Neferetiti in her famous portrait bust in my recent talk about Egyptomania and fashion — and I don’t even know why Wong was photographed wearing it — but it’s such a great image so…