Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The theme for this year’s Met Gala was an homage to The Black Dandy. Titled “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” the annual ...

It was around 8:30 pm on Sunday, July 4, 1976, when Sammy Davis Jr. performed on Bob Hope’s Bicentennial Star-Spangled Banner Spectacular, an NBC comedy special celebrating America’s 200-year ...

Around the 18th and 19th century when fashion evolved toward dandyism. Something far greater than creative freedom took centrestage, but with the perfection came some wickedness of revolutionary minds ...

If this year’s Met Gala theme has suddenly inspired you to dig out your silk foulards and pay a visit to your local thrift store for a one-of-a-kind brooch, you’re not alone. “Superfine: Tailoring ...

The 2025 Met Gala would have been incomplete without the modern Black Dandy in attendance: Dapper Dan. A Harlem legend and style icon, the trailblazing tailor walked the blue carpet of the ...

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When you hear the word dandy, what do you think of? Maybe the song "Yankee Doodle Dandy," which dates all the way back to the Revolutionary War, and compares the colonists to foppish, effeminate ...

Lupita Nyong’o, Rihanna and Lauryn Hill attend the 2025 Met Gala on May 5 in New York. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue; Dia Dipasupil ...

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There couldn’t have been a more controversial Met Gala. Attended by the brightest stars of film, music, art, sports and fashion, the theme was “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” which is also the ...