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January 3, 2012

Article: Pushing the Boundaries of Black Style

Filed under: Article — V. Shayne Frederick, Editor @ 11:02 am

NYTimes (Caramanica)

The best posts on the style blog Street Etiquette find its principals, Travis Gumbs and Joshua Kissi, in motion. As opposed to the fascistically frozen street-style snaps of The Sartorialist and others, these pictures are styled and plotted fictions but also affecting ones, depicting a pair of young black men taking ownership not just of the body and what goes on it, but also of the environment it moves in. No one ever smiles on Street Etiquette: there’s business to attend to.

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