Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maluma and Chavarria came to the event together wearing custom suits from Chavarria with shoes from Portuguese designer Carlos ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Rachelle Baker / For The Times) A suit lands in the United States on the back of an exiled king. It is copied, amended and ...

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, ...

A resolution condemning the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, days of violence and attacks against Mexican American community during a ...

LAS CRUCES - What exactly is a zoot suit? Local kids tried mightily Saturday afternoon to explain. "It's a suit they wear at the zoo, but just for the main people working at the zoo," Luis Torres ...

Councilmember Curren Price poses for a portrait next a mural depicting Charlotta Bass, owner of the pioneering Black newspaper California Eagle, and victims of the Zoot Suit Riots, in the Central ...

All year long, hundreds of people pass through El Pachuco’s Deco-style doors, looking for an offbeat Halloween costume or a hipster’s answer to black-tie affairs. They are likely to find what they’re ...

In June 1943, Los Angeles erupted into the worst race riots in the city to date. For 10 straight nights, American sailors armed with make-shift weapons cruised Mexican American neighborhoods in search ...

DTLA—In 1978, Center Theater Group mounted Zoot Suit at the Mark Taper Forum. The play, written and directed by Luis Valdez, was nurtured by late CTG head Gordon Davidson as part of his effort to ...

Marco Finnegan talks about setting his new YA graphic novel during the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943. By Graeme McMillan A new YA graphic novel takes a moment in real world history and turns it into the ...

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 ...