Art and Fashion News

Photo by Harness Hamese, found at The Dandy Lion Project facebook page.

Germantown scholar Shantrelle P. Lewis, chief dream director for the national nonprofit the Future Project, is one of only two experts in the world on the study of black dandyism.  Her book, Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style, will be released by New York publishing house Aperture today.

Gucci Resort 2018 (left), Diane Dixon in Dapper Dan in the 1980s (right)

Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele gives credit where it's due.

Source:  New York Times website

The Museum of Modern Art’s $400 million expansion project will be officially unveiled on Thursday.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art website

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major retrospective of the photographs of Irving Penn to mark the centennial of the artist's birth. 

Source: David Stover Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

"Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style," the traveling exhibition of the designer's life work, opened May 6 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.