The guest curator of a new Met exhibition on Black style offers an annotated early look at a Dapper Dan jacket, André Leon Talley’s luggage and more.

The history-laden style movement will be front and center as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute spring exhibit, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” kicking off with the biggest night in fashion,

Dandyism, itself, is a literary and refined yet artistic self-presentation, but what does that mean for the Black Dandy and this idea of the "Black Intellect."