Ergebnis für "Black Beauty" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

As fate would have it, George E. Johnson meets an accomplished barber, Orville, who is frustrated because he needs to smooth out the kinks in a product he’s created to straighten men’s hair, in the look of Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington. A couple of months later, Johnson finds the perfect ingredient and emulsification process to rectify the problem and goes into business with Orville. The relationship quickly dissolves when Orville deceives Johnson. At 27 years old, in 1954, George launches Johnson Products Company (JPC) with a higher quality formula for straightening hair.

Dressed in Dreams is a story of desire, access, conformity, and black innovation that explains things like the importance of knockoff culture; the role of “ghetto fabulous” full-length furs and colorful leather in the 1990s; how black girls make magic out of a dollar store t-shirt, rhinestones, and airbrushed paint; and black parents' emphasis on dressing nice. Ford talks about the pain of seeing black style appropriated by the mainstream fashion industry and fashion’s power, especially in middle America. 

Black women are the architects of style. We set trends and everyone else follows. Join me each week as I chat with stylish Black women about everything from their earliest style memory, to how their career affects their style, to their current favorite style trends, and much more!

As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendants of a highly accomplished, Virginia-descended family on his father, Bill’s, side, George felt called to live up to the family name. In contrast, his mother, Gerry’s, family were warm, down-to-earth country folk. Such contradictions underlay much of his life and upbringing - Black and White, country and city, outstanding and ordinary, high and low. George interrogates these dualities in Where Beauty Survived and shows us how they shaped him as a poet and thinker.