Resources

The Battle of Versailles

National Public Radio: “How A 1970s Fashion Faceoff Put American Designers In The Spotlight

Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution (Official Trailer)

The Ebony Fashion Fair

Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair

National Public Radio: “The Ebony Fashion Fair: Changing History On The Catwalk

Other exhibitions and projects focusing on Black culture and fashion

Philadelphia Museum of Art Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love exhibition

Museum of the City of New York Stephen Burrows: When Fashion Danced exhibition

Vogue Italia’s website dedicated to designers, models, stars, artists and photographers that narrate and embody black culture in the fashion world

Black Dress is an illustrated platform of achievement of Blacks in the fashion industry

The New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

VH1 Tanning of America: One Nation Under Hip Hop