The 2025 Met Gala dress code is "Tailored for You," a nod to the museum's "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" Costume Institute exhibit, which will be on public view from May 10 to Oct. 26. This ...

What is Black dandyism? What is a zoot suit? Met Gala 2025 theme, explained. ... Tailoring Black Style" Costume Institute exhibit, which will be on public view from May 10 to Oct. 26.

The zoot suit was vilified by L.A ... the late 1970s when Edward James Olmos donned a sleek black suit in Luis Valdez’s “Zoot Suit ... of costume and textiles at the Los ...

The zoot suit was a signature of black dandyism characterized by exaggerated proportions. This suit in particular had dramatically flared lapels, broad shoulders, long cuffs that went midway ...

Costume designer Ruth E. Carter’s new book details how she ... (Zoot suits, which featured a ... and the Black Panther suit in the first film had raised prints of what Carter called the ...

The suits were embraced by Malcolm X, jazz musicians and young Black and Latino people in cities; in 1943, the Zoot Suit riots broke out when U.S. service members attacked Mexican American and ...

On Instagram, he wrote, “This is my inspiration for the Met Gala, the ZOOT SUIT…a key factor in the development of the Dandy in the Black and brown communities. Dressing is always intentional ...

According to the exhibit, the striped zoot suit costumes were worn by Doris Ake, Nadine Coles, Cleo Herndon, E. Williams, Reeves and an unidentified dancer. Helen Rose was the film’s costume ...

All year long, hundreds of people pass through El Pachuco’s Deco-style doors, looking for an offbeat Halloween costume or a hipster’s answer to black-tie affairs. They are likely to find what ...

When the seductive character El Pachuco literally slices his way into the lights at the beginning of “Zoot Suit,” now at the Goodman Theatre, his costume nearly stops the show. Actor Marco ...

Teyana Taylor was bound to be a showstopper at the 2025 Met Gala. The actress was on hosting duties for Vogue on the red carpet for the event, which is celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black ...

Social crusader Alice (Whitney Holotick) falls for Henry (Chris Ramirez) in Cara Mía Theatre’s production of Zoot Suit. (Kirsten Kearse - Staff Photographer) It's been 35 years since Luis ...