Fox was one among many, from Chicago to Harlem to Memphis, who took credit for inventing the zoot suit—the term came out of African-American slang—but it was actually unbranded and illicit ...

T he Mexican Zoot suit, or Pachuco, was brought into the 21st century last night. The Met Gala 2025's theme of Superfine: Tailoring Black History evoked a range of inspiration fro ...

The Cannes Film Festival is known not only as a celebration of world cinema but also as a platform to showcase all kinds of ...

The Harlem-bred fashion designer and Gucci collaborator stepped out in a custom-made zoot suit emblazoned with the Sankofa ...

The zoot suit was one part of the jazz world that ... Part of the mob headed south for the predominately African American section of Watts and another group headed east for Mexican American ...

The Colombian musician and Mexican-American designer discuss the power of the pachuco era dandy, and bringing Latino culture ...

Vogue adds that Black dandy fashion also tends to mix European tailoring with African textiles ... for Black dandyism. The zoot suit was later adopted by Mexican American and Filipino American ...

From the Caribbean to the African continent ... Dapper Dan celebrated Black American history with the Zoot Suit while paying tribute to Ghanaian heritage with a large Sankofa bird on his back.

The suits were embraced by Malcolm X, jazz musicians and young Black and Latino people in cities; in 1943, the Zoot Suit riots broke out when U.S. service members attacked Mexican American and ...