Black Designers in American Fashion: From Enslaved Makers to Streetwear

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Black Designers in American Fashion: From Enslaved Makers to Streetwear
Contributor Names
Way, Elizabeth (Writer on fashion)
Stewart, Kristen E.
Knowles, Katie
Lisby, Darnell-Jamal
Date
2021-09-30
Description
MFIT Assistant Curator Elizabeth Way, editor of the book "Black Designers in American Fashion" (Bloomsbury, 2021), and authors Kristen E. Stewart, Katie Knowles, and Darnell Jamal Lisby discuss the significance of Black American fashion makers from the nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Black designers have always impacted American fashion culture, and these scholars' works reveal their erased histories.
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Subject
Way, Elizabeth
African American fashion designers
Fashion designers
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FIT Repository ID: aod_000089

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Fashion Institute of Technology. (2021, September 30). Black Designers in American Fashion: From Enslaved Makers to Streetwear [Video]. Archive on Demand. https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/23040
Fashion Institute of Technology. "Black Designers in American Fashion: From Enslaved Makers to Streetwear." Archive on Demand, 30 Sep. 2021, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/23040
Fashion Institute of Technology, "Black Designers in American Fashion: From Enslaved Makers to Streetwear," Archive on Demand, September 30, 2021, video, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/23040