Pachucos, young Mexican Americans with a penchant for flashy attire, embraced zoot suit fashion, jump blues, jazz and swing music and affirmed their self-empowerment by rejecting assimilation into ...
From Alice in Wonderland to Zoot Suit Daddy, La Casa de los Trucos offers an incredible selection of costumes from A to Z. The Calle Ocho costume shop has been a Miami staple for almost 50 years ...
Traditional Filipino fashion is bold. From the Filipiniana, an outfit for women marked by puffy "terno" butterfly sleeves and ...
While you may recall the 1956 classic song, “Pancho Claus” by Mexican-American “Father of Chicano Music” Lalo Guerrero, we’re ...
Within months of the convictions, Los Angeles erupted in the Zoot Suit Riot. For the better part of a week, servicemen from different armed forces dragged kids off streetcars, from restaurants ...
The shop launched with an epic zoot suit campaign, for which she gave nine L.A. designers full creative freedom to reimagine the suit. A native of Los Angeles, Marquez is also a costume designer ...
It will notably be The Met’s first costume exhibition in over two decades ... 1840 (courtesy Maryland Center for History and Culture); right: Zoot suit, American (1940s) (© The Metropolitan ...
Announced today, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” the upcoming Costume Institute show at the ... includes a pair of Zoot suits from the 1940s; while Cosmopolitanism features pieces designed ...
From North West's array of creative ensembles to Peta Murgatroyd and Maks Chmerkovskiy's Australian-inspired family costume, see this year's cutest kid costumes Alexandra Schonfeld is a features ...
In an historic turn to menswear that has not been seen at the Met Gala since 2003, the Costume Institute unveiled ... Taking up this theme could mean wearing a zoot suit from the 1940s, but ...
The Met Gala – held each year in New York City on the first Monday in May – is a star-studded fundraiser that supports the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. On Wednesday ...