Exhibition

Culture

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

Photo Getty Images by Larry Busacca: Captured André Leon Talley at the Met Gala in 2011

This exhibition is a mammoth, audacious, complex and important visual centering of black history in sartorial form. It is an examination of how black men from the 18th century to present day have leveraged clothing as a vehicle of self-expression and agency.

The exhibition was inspired by the 2009 book, "Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity", by Monica L. Miller, a professor of Africana studies at Barnard College who serves as guest curator of the exhibition.

The show presents more than 200 items – clothing as well as accessories, paintings, photographs and other ephemera spread across 12 thematic sections which include Respectability, Disguise, Cool, Beauty, Heritage and more.

Go and see it as it is an incredibly significant moment.

Guest curator Monica Miller with head curator Andrew Bolton introducing the The Met Exhibition for 2025

10 May - 26 October 2025

Metropolitan Museum of Art

5th Avenue, New York

10028