Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity | Monica L. Miller clothing Prizes include:

Prizes include:

An inspiration to authors who continue to give voice to the multidimensionality of Black women’s stories

Through affecting portraits of her great-grandfather

and face down death

" --PW (starred review)

Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity | Monica L. Miller clothing Prizes include:Slaves 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