🖤#ArtIsAWeapon

HAPPY B'EARTHDAY SHANTRELLE! 🎉

Y'all, buy HER book!

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@apshantology I am Shantrelle P. Lewis, the Founder and Curator of @thedandylionproject and the Author of Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style. I first curated Dandy Lion in 2010 as a pop up exhibition in Harlem by invitation of my friend Ngozi Odita from Society HAE. The exhibition traveled to museums and galleries around the world. In 2017, this renowned project was published into a book that has been highly acclaimed.

I founded #DandyLion as the first comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of the global #Blackdandy in all his/her/their splendor. I’ve defined the #BlackDandies as a trickster figure, a dapper agitator. A person, who dresses as a nod to their well-dressed grandfathers NOT Oscar Wilde. He/she/they — Black dandies mix vintage clothing with modern pieces; European suits with African prints, polka dots with plaid; most importantly flamboyant colors with classic lines. Black Dandyism is NOT about fashion or luxury but all about style.

Lastly, I founded this project to document the cis-het AND queer men, the masculine of center women AND transmen AND femmes, well-dressed trickster rebels who are bucking the system in their suits and ties. (🫶🏿dream for the nuance)

#TheDandyLionMovement has been here for a years. It won’t be erased because we’re here to stay.

In the words of the Black Masking Indians “Won’t bend, won’t bow, don’t know how.” Omar Victor Diop, the late great Daniele Tamagni, Arteh Odjija, L. Kasimu Harris, Abdul Aziz, Rog and Bee Walker, Harness Hamese, Kristin-Lee Moolman, Adrien Sauvage, Janet Beckman, Rose Callahan, Jody Ake, Prisca M. Monnier, Bo Li and Delores Oblitey, Tarik Zaidi, Hassan Hajjaj, John Midgley, Marc Abrahams, Aaron Smith, Eli Schmidt, Phil Knott, Sara Shamsavari, Kia Chenelle, Marc Baptiste, Aaron Smith, BOUBA DOLA, ANT RIVERA

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Want to support? Please repost. Amplify my story and this project and buy my book. (You can get an autographed copy on my site: thedandylionproject.com) #citeblackwomen

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Y'all, please learn about Shantrelle P. Lewis, support her, cite her and buy HER book!

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@apshantology I am Shantrelle P. Lewis, the Founder and Curator of @thedandylionproject and the Author of Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style. I first curated Dandy Lion in 2010 as a pop up exhibition in Harlem by invitation of my friend Ngozi Odita from Society HAE. The exhibition traveled to museums and galleries around the world. In 2017, this renowned project was published into a book that has been highly acclaimed.

I founded #DandyLion as the first comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of the global #Blackdandy in all his/her/their splendor. I’ve defined the #BlackDandies as a trickster figure, a dapper agitator. A person, who dresses as a nod to their well-dressed grandfathers NOT Oscar Wilde. He/she/they — Black dandies mix vintage clothing with modern pieces; European suits with African prints, polka dots with plaid; most importantly flamboyant colors with classic lines. Black Dandyism is NOT about fashion or luxury but all about style.

Lastly, I founded this project to document the cis-het AND queer men, the masculine of center women AND transmen AND femmes, well-dressed trickster rebels who are bucking the system in their suits and ties. (🫶🏿dream for the nuance)

#TheDandyLionMovement has been here for a years. It won’t be erased because we’re here to stay.

In the words of the Black Masking Indians “Won’t bend, won’t bow, don’t know how.” Omar Victor Diop, the late great Daniele Tamagni, Arteh Odjija, L. Kasimu Harris, Abdul Aziz, Rog and Bee Walker, Harness Hamese, Kristin-Lee Moolman, Adrien Sauvage, Janet Beckman, Rose Callahan, Jody Ake, Prisca M. Monnier, Bo Li and Delores Oblitey, Tarik Zaidi, Hassan Hajjaj, John Midgley, Marc Abrahams, Aaron Smith, Eli Schmidt, Phil Knott, Sara Shamsavari, Kia Chenelle, Marc Baptiste, Aaron Smith, BOUBA DOLA, ANT RIVERA

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Want to support? Please repost. Amplify my story and this project and buy my book. (You can get an autographed copy on my site: thedandylionproject.com) #citeblackwomen

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🔥🎥: @antmrivera My GodSun

🎨#Artist: Jerrell Gibbs @jerrellgibbs

#Artwork: Fly, Black boy, FLY, 2020

📸 #Photographer: Alice Springs

#Photo: André Leon Talley, 'La Villa Vigie', 1989 (Image 2)

When the @metcostumeinstitute announced recently that its Spring 2025 exhibition will be "...a cultural and historical examination of the Black dandy," I immediately thought that fashion icon André Leon Talley's trailblazing work should be centered and the annual benefit could be held to honor his legacy. You know, like they did for that racist, sexist Karl Lagerfeld in 2023.

🎥 & ✍️🏾 reposted from @metcostumeinstitute Coming May 2025, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” will examine the historical and cultural emergence of the Black dandy.

Inspired by curator Monica Miller’s 2009 book, “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity,” the exhibition will present a cultural and historical examination of the Black dandy, from the figure’s emergence in Enlightenment Europe during the 18th century to today’s incarnations in cities around the world.

Colman Domingo (@kingofbingo), @LewisHamilton, @ASAPRocky, @Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour will co-chair the next #CostumeInstitute Benefit on the First Monday in May. LeBron James (@kingjames) will serve as honorary chair.

The Benefit, also known as The Met Gala, celebrates the opening of the 2025 exhibition “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” and provides The Costume Institute with its primary source of annual funding for exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, operations, and capital improvements.

“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” opens to the public on May 10 and will be celebrated at the 2025 Met Gala on May 5.

#AndréLeonTalley #BlackDandy #BlackMenInFashion #VogueEditor #LibraSeason