Dandy Lion: the Black Dandy and Street Style

A documentation of a movement that is more than just an articulation of style, Dandy Lion argues for a reading of dandyism as an interpretation of blackness that is subversive and joyful. The book is a collection of images from the 2010s that moves between London, Johannesburg, Lagos, Accra, and New York. Shantrelle P. Lewis locates various fashion and editorial movements, photographers, tailors, and fashionistas in their physical geographies and socio-political climates and ties them into a larger historical movement. There is a warmth and intimacy to the way Lewis collates this collection. It is one that is conversational, carefully weaving traces of sartorial connection across oceans.