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"
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