Mimi Fukuyoshi is a sartorial psychoanalyst. She knows how men want to dress and what they’ll want next. She’s built an almost 30-year career on it. Fukuyoshi chalks up the skill to objectivity.

This year’s Met Gala is honoring Black fashion for the first time in its 77-year history. It’s an indirect celebration to be sure. Although the Costume Institute’s Spring 2025 exhibition ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. There has always been something deliberate and quietly ...

Mimi passed away on April 29, 2025 of complications stemming from more than 11 years of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Mimi was born in Natchez, Mississippi on April 13, 1953. Her earliest ...

This year’s Met Gala promises to be a Black-ass affair…and it’s about time. For decades, the event was stuffy and full of self-important people dressing ridiculously and drinking Dom ...

This year's theme, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," celebrates menswear and Black dandyism. The latter is a style and a movement of Black culture, once expressed by men like Langston Hughes.

Nowhere is this clearer than in the story of Black American tailoring and the legacy of the Black dandy. Inspired by scholar Monica L. Miller’s groundbreaking book Slaves to Fashion: Black ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the first time, direct evidence of a rogue supermassive black hole in action.

From tailored jackets and silk ties to playful fedoras and pocket squares, Black dandyism isn’t just a campy style—it has served as a powerful political act throughout history. Black dandyism ...

A panel of three federal judges says the Alabama Legislature intentionally drew its congressional district map to dilute Black voting strength, which is unconstitutional and violates the Voting ...