Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style

It is a rare event when a volume comes along that skews our understandings of fashion as effectively as “Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style”–Guy Trebay “New York Times”A magnificent piece of photographic social history - broken up into chapters about the Black Ivy look in literature, arts, music, film, politics, sports, advertising, civil rights demonstrations and marches and in urban environments. […] A revealing study of the role clothing played during a period of upheaval and social change.– “Independent”The black Ivy era showed how style could be deployed as an intrinsic part of a radical political, intellectual movement and could fortify a person’s identity when they needed it the most. And that noble idea’s moment has come again.–Justin Quirk “Mr Porter”The images throughout Black Ivy capture various clotheshorses playing with the codes of the day to create something a little off but beautiful. It doesn’t matter that the clothes are ordinary and pedestrian; what’s documented here is not a set of breathtaking garments but the flowering and proliferation of a mildly subversive spezzatura.–Melvin Backman “Bookforum”