Title

Fashion Culture: From Louis Armstrong to Dizzy Gillespie: Jazz and Black Glamour

Contributor Names

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum

Way, Elizabeth (Writer on fashion)

McClendon, Alphonso D.

Wellington, Dandy

Date

2021-03-25

Description

In a conversation moderated by MFIT assistant curator Elizabeth Way, historian Alphonso McClendon and vintage performer Dandy Wellington discuss the influence of jazz on 1920s fashion. McClendon is associate program director of Design & Merchandising at Drexel University and the author of "Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation." Dandy Wellington is a jazz singer, bandleader, and vintage style activist based in Harlem in New York City.

"From Louis Armstrong to Dizzy Gillespie: Jazz and Black Glamour" is being held in conjunction with the upcoming FIT Graduate Studies exhibition "The Roaring Twenties and The Swinging Sixties," created in collaboration with The Museum at FIT.

Type

Moving Image

Subject

Jazz

Social aspects

Fashion design

Clothing and dress

Fashion

History

African American fashion designers

New York (State)

New York (State)--New York

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Nineteen twenties

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000457