“As Monica L. Miller and Andrew Bolton have been busy preparing “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” the new show at The Met’s Costume Institute, Vogue made a parallel effort: a tribute to the exhibition and a celebration of its themes of menswear, identity and history, the Black dandy in fashion, and his many expressions and forms.

The Met Gala’s four co-chairs on covers this May: Pharrell Williams (painted by Henry Taylor), Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton and A$AP Rocky. Vogue also gathered a host of Black artists, actors, models, athletes, and more for a bravura shoot with Tyler Mitchell, one of many photographers, fashion editors, and writers of color who lent their creativity to the issue, along with an essay by the brilliant playwright Jeremy O. Harris, something of a dandy himself.”

For more information on the long-standing body of work on Black Dandyism, see Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity (2009) by Monica L. Miller; a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy and Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style (2017) by Shantrelle P. Lewis, a carefully curated selection of contemporary photographs surveying the brilliant style subculture of “dandyism” across the globe.