On May 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts its annual Met Gala—an enormous world-renowned fundraiser that gathers luminaries from the spheres of art, business, politics, sports, and entertainment ...

IN recent years, the landscape of men’s fashion and grooming in Nigeria has seen a notable shift, with hair braiding emerging as a significant trend among young men.Once seen as a style reserved for ...

Enslaved Africans, writes Monica L Miller in Slaves to Fashion ... around 10,000 African Americans took part in the Silent Protest Parade down New York's Fifth Avenue, the men in black tailored ...

"Africa Fashion" also celebrates the diversity found within African culture. "The mannequins represent different skin tones of Black women and men, and you see hairstyles that are relevant to the ...

For the first time in history, this year’s Met Gala theme focused on Black men’s fashion and Black designers. Look back at which celebrities wore their most iconic looks for the 2025 gala.

Clothing as message. Fashion and style as tools, signifiers of culture and identity, whether intentional or assumed.

Here we highlight seven works of art discussed in papers in the special issue – from stories of childhood sexual experiences to bold fashion shows, musical films to maverick lesbian novels. They show ...

The Met Gala honored Black men in fashion on Monday. The truth is far more complicated. For the 2025 fête, Vogue magazine editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and organizers chose to honor oft overlooked ...

Fashion is one way to understand how Black ... men as the “Ethiopian Regiment,” but the group consisted of African American men who self-emancipated from colonial American plantations.

Fashion and style as tools, signifiers of culture and identity, whether intentional or assumed. There’s likely no group for whom that’s been more true than Black men. It’s not just what they ...