You would think that the Zoot Suit is so embedded in the history and culture of Los Angeles that an authentic one would still exist, right? It took LACMA a decade to find such a garment, and they ...

A suit lands in the United States on the back of an exiled king. It is copied, amended and upgraded, embraced by Hollywood actors in search of the fashionable. As it travels the country in the late ...

During the first half of the 20th century, new fashion trends often permeated culture by starting at the top and trickling down to the masses over time. To some degree this is true of the zoot suit, ...

Troy Montes Michie is an El Paso native, artist and a bit of a clotheshorse. Specifically, he loves a zoot suit. His first solo exhibition, "Rock of Eye," at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston is an ...

“A killer-diller coat with a drape-shape, reat-pleats and shoulders padded like a lunatic’s cell”. Detroit Red aka Malcolm X “These youths refused to accept the racialized norms of segregated America.