In the atelier : modistes and independent designers
Into the mainstream : Seventh Avenue and beyond
The star designer : national and international impact.
Introduction / Elizabeth Way
Section I. Anonymous histories. 1. The fabric of fast fashion: enslaved wearers and makers as designers in the American fashion system / Katie Knowles
2. Slavery's warp, liberty's weft: a look at the work of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century enslaved fashion makers and their legacies / Jonathan Michael Square
3. A matrilineal thread: nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Black New York dressmakers / Elizabeth Way
Section II. In the atelier: modistes and independent designers. 4. Dressing up: the rise of Fannie Criss / Kristen E. Stewart
5. Ruby Bailey: making for oneself, a regional fashion designer case study / Joy Davis
6. Arthur George "Art" Smith: an artist about form, a man about substance / Kristen J. Owens
Section III. Into the mainstream: Seventh Avenue and beyond.
7. Wesley Tann: the glamour and the guts / Nancy Deihl
8. Jay Jaxon: an unsung couturier / Darnell-Jamal Lisby
9. Dapper Dan: the original streetwear designer and influencer / Ariele Elia
Section IV. The star designer: national and international impact. 10. Color story: Stephen Burrows's impact on the world of fashion / Tanya Danielle Wilson Myers
11. Scott Barrie: designing 1970s New York / Elizabeth Way
12. Race WERK: WilliWear and Patrick Kelly Paris / Eric Darnell Pritchard
Postscript / Elizabeth Way
