Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity | Monica L. Miller clothing and face down death

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Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity | Monica L. Miller clothing and face down deathSlaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed slave who sometimes wore diamond buckled, red heeled shoes as he circulated through the social scene of eighteenth century London, and Yinka Shonibare, a prominent Afro British