Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style
by Jason Jules (Author, Editor), Graham Marsh
(Designer)
How Black culture reinvented and subverted the Ivy
Look
Bruce Boyer
Tribute To Charlie Davidson / ALL THAT JAZZ. MILES DAVIS, the Creation of
"COOL" and the introduction of the Waspy-Preppy look in Jazz
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From the most avant-garde jazz musicians, visual
artists and poets to architects, philosophers and writers, Black Ivy: A Revolt
in Style charts a period in American history when Black men across the country
adopted the clothing of a privileged elite and made it their own. It shows how
a generation of men took the classic Ivy Look and made it cool, edgy and
unpredictable in ways that continue to influence today's modern menswear.
Here you will see some famous, infamous and not so
famous figures in Black culture such as Amiri Baraka, Charles White, Malcolm X,
Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Sidney
Poitier, and how they reinvented Ivy and Prep fashion―the dominant looks of the
time. The real stars of the book―the Oxford cloth button-down shirt, the
hand-stitched loafer, the soft shoulder three-button jacket and the perennial
repp tie―are all here. What Black Ivy explores is how these clothes are
reframed and redefined by a stylish group of men from outside the mainstream, challenging
the status quo, struggling for racial equality and civil rights.
Boasting the work of some of America's finest
photographers and image-makers, this must-have tome is a celebration of how,
regardless of the odds, great style always wins.
BLACK IVY: A
Revolt in Style charges a period in American history when Black men across the
country adopted clothing seen by many as the presence of a privileged elite and
made it their own. From the Oxford
button-down shirt, the hand-stitched loafer, the soft should three-button
jacket, and the perennial military repp tie – these otherwise conventional
clothes are instilled with an approach so revolutionary that you’ll never be
able to see them in the same way again.
… From the most avant0garde jazz musicians, visual artists and poets to
the most influential architects, philosophers, political leaders, and writers,
BLACK IVY explores, for the first time ever, the major role this particular
style of clothing played during this period of aspiration and upheaval and what
these clothes said about the people who wore them.
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