Sweet and Dandy is an 8-week film series featuring an entertaining mix of documentaries, shorts and narratives complementing both exhibitions on view at Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) The Grace Jones Project and Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity. The films explore how fashion, music and performance are expressions of resistance and pleasure, defying confining interpretations of race and masculinity/femininity in global Black communities.

FRESH DRESSED (90 minutes, 2015, Sacha Jenkins). A fascinating chronicle of hip-hop, urban fashion, and the hustle that brought oversized pants and graffiti-drenched jackets from Orchard Street to high fashion's catwalks and Middle America shopping malls. A music-drenched history draws from a rich mix of archival materials and in-depth interviews with rappers designers, and other industry insiders among them Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Sean “Puffy” Combs, Swizz Beatz, Damon Dash, and André Leon Talley.

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