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In other words, expect a lot of great suits.“Everything from Savile Row to a track suit,” quipped guest curator Monica L. Miller, a Barnard College professor of Africana studies, considering the versatility of a suit. She sat recently in a conference room at the Met with photos and notes plastered on the walls. She was in the middle of writing descriptive labels for the more than 200 items in the show — an exhaustive (and exhausting) task.
The suit, Miller said, “represents so many things.” And tailoring, she added, is a very intimate process.“It’s not just about getting a suit that fits you physically,” Miller said, “but, what do you want to express that night?It was Miller’s 2009 book, “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity,” that inspired the show and led
of all the blockbuster Costume Institute shows, to bring her in as guest curator. The show uses dandyism as a lens through which to explore the formation of Black style over the years.“Dandyism was about pushing boundaries,” Miller said.
Monica L. Miller, guest curator of the upcoming Costume Institute exhibit “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” looks over designs in the installation room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jocelyn Noveck)
Monica L. Miller, guest curator of the upcoming Costume Institute exhibit “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” looks over designs in the installation room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jocelyn Noveck)For many, their devotion to ritual and tradition is as much a part of what it means to be a Greenlander as is their fierce deference to the homeland. The one so
Greenland is huge — about three times the size of Texas; most of it covered in ice. Still, its 17 parishes are located across many settlements in the icy land and people endure the frigid Arctic climate to fill up church pews on Sundays.Some even tune in to radio-transmitted services on their phones on a break from fishing and hunting for seals, whales and polar bears, as their ancestors have done for generations.
That rugged yet vulnerable lifestyle helps fuel people’s devotion, said Bishop Paneeraq Siegstad Munk, leader of Greenland’s Evangelical Lutheran Church.Religiosity levels vary in Greenland as it does elsewhere. Sometimes being a member of the Lutheran Church here doesn’t mean one believes fully — or at all — in the church’s teachings, or even the presence of God.