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Fashion Culture Online Event: From Louis Armstrong to Dizzy Gillespie: Jazz and Black Glamour
March 25, 2021 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
In a conversation moderated by MFIT Assistant Curator Elizabeth Way, historian Alphonso McClendon and vintage performer Dandy Wellington will discuss the influence of jazz on 1920s menswear. McClendon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fashion and Design and 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 connection with the upcoming FIT School of Graduate Studies exhibition The Roaring Twenties and the Swinging Sixties, created in collaboration with The Museum at FIT.
About Fashion Culture Programs
The Museum at FIT’s fall Fashion Culture programs have moved online! All programs will premiere on the museum’s YouTube channel at 6 pm on the designated day. Please subscribe the the channel for information about future events.
This event is free and open to the public; register for the event here.