So many black designers have never worn. So much money has never been collected. A series of photos of the red carpet never showed different people. And never – or at least a very, for a very long time – the outfits were so impressive. In America, Trump this year Met Gala offered a quick look at another possible future. The tribute of the history of black fashion has long expired.
About 600 guests who passed along the red carpet in New York on Monday, including: Zendaya in a costume of white trousers with a Louis Vuitton hat as a tribute to Diana Ross in Mahagoni, Coleman Domingo in a proven costume under the blue plan, the memory of a fantastic André Leon Talley (both Valentine) and Cardi B. (surprisingly) Berberry.
Among them is also the American star R’N’B ASHER, which sprayed the international glamor at the Gucci Berlin Gallery Weekend on the weekend. Unlike the rest of the Berlin scene of art and fashion, this clearly did not have time for excited Sunday. Two days later, he stood in a black tuxedo with a stick and a white fringe on a red carpet.
The most important fashionable event of the year
“Adapted for you” – “Upting” was the motto of the deductions of this year, which has traditionally been held on the first Monday of corn since 1948, and, like the last, with the introduction of the motto under the command of Diana Vriland as the host in the 1970s, became the most important fashionable event of the year.
In the Center for the Fashion World this year: Black dendism, which used European aesthetics and was used, especially during the Harlem Renaissance, as a means of exposing, protesting and approving its own individuality.
A glimpse of hope in constantly paralyzed United States
Back in the 19th century, such personalities as Frederick Douglas and the Toussant Louverture Fashion were used as self -esteem and confrontation for the destruction of hierarchies and classes. But not only in later protest movements, such as a quiet protest parade of 1917 or black panthers of the 1960s, but also pop cultural trends, such as rap and hip-hop, are an integral part of black fashion, including devaluation, followed by the appropriation of white.
The world was different then
Gala always notes the annual opening of a new exhibition of the Institute of Costumes. This is called “Superon – the adaptation of the black style”, and when it was planned, the world was different. Kamala Harris was the first black woman who fought for the US presidency, the American state apparatus still seemed untouched and, despite the obstacles, became more fair and more different. The curator Andrew Bolton was prepared five years ago since the murder of George Floyd with the declared purpose of diversification of the collection of the institute.
The fact that, despite the new government of Trump and his open statement about the war against “awakening”, it is now open for equality and integration, especially in educational and cultural enterprises, is a glimpse of hope in the constantly subject to the United States. Unlike other houses that were inclined (and were supposed to bend) Trump’s instructions, the museum is largely funded on private financing and does not depend on state funds. Applications about the variety of web -site MET are still visible.
Too late
If you click on the current images of Met Gala (to which neither Donald Trump, nor Jeff Bezos, nor Elon Musk) were invited to the current images, then the affected respect for black skill, art and heritage can be almost emotionally correct, therefore, poetic and touching gesture appears today. And yet they come too late, it can not be a speech.
Langston Hughes, the great poet of the Harlem Renaissance, knew that we needed more when he wrote “I, too, sang America” until 1926: I am with a gloomy brother. / They send me to eat in the kitchen / when the company comes, but I laugh / and eat well / and grow. // Tomorrow, / I will be at the table / when the company arrives. / Nobody dares / tells me, / “Eat in the kitchen” / then. // In addition, they will see how beautiful / and will be ashamed – I, too, America. “
