Superfine: Tailoring Black Style rare book positions the artwork within the

positions the artwork within the wider context of the Museum’s collection

Launching ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics to coincide with an immersive expo organised by professional footballer Youssouf Fofana

the secret painter

Douglas Coupland and Olafur Eliasson

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style rare book positions the artwork within theSuperfine: Tailoring Black Style traces the complex and vibrant legacy of menswear across three centuries of Black culturefrom todays hip hop aesthetic and popular street trends, through its use during the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement as a symbol of creative and political agency, to its surprising origins as an imposed uniform for servants and enslaved people. Organized by key characteristics of dandyism that resonate across time,