I invite you to participate in an oral history project in conjunction with my and Denise Sutton’s forthcoming co-edited monograph, Brooklyn Style, which is slated to be published by Bloomsbury in 2028.

Brooklyn Style will tell the story of New York City’s most stylish borough. Working through the broad categories of place, people, and product – categories that often overlap – this work will be part historical record and part current events, delving into what makes Brooklyn so desirable and yet still so hard to pin down. The objective of Brooklyn Style is to center this New York City borough as a fashion “icon of cool” in a changing landscape of gentrification, immigration, and with a long history of Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurship. There is no academic book-length study on fashion and beauty in Brooklyn even though Brooklyn has a rich and diverse history of fashion business and fashion entrepreneurs from all over the world who have settled here. We hope that oral histories, hearing stories directly from the people who lived them, will add a real-world component to reading the book and give us first-hand insider information to include in it and to be featured online as part of the public record after the book’s publication.

To indicate your interest in participating, please complete the form: here

Questions? Use the contact form or reach out @ Wanett@sownbrooklyn.com