As Monica L. Miller and Andrew Bolton have been busy preparing “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” the new show at The Met’s Costume Institute, we at Vogue have been hard at work on a parallel effort: a tribute to the exhibition and a celebration of its themes of menswear, identity and history, the Black dandy in fashion, and his many expressions and forms.
As you’ll see below, we’ve featured the Met Gala’s four co-chairs on covers this May: Pharrell Williams (painted by Henry Taylor), A$AP Rocky, Colman Domingo, and Lewis Hamilton. We also gathered a host of Black artists, actors, models, athletes, and more for a bravura shoot with Tyler Mitchell, one of many photographers, fashion editors, and writers of color who lent their creativity to the issue. We’ll be launching that tomorrow, April 16, along with an essay by the brilliant playwright Jeremy O. Harris, something of a dandy himself. |
