# Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion - Hardcover

by **Mitchell S. Jackson** (Author)

**Equal parts photo-rich lookbook, and cultural commentary, _Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion_ is the story of the extraordinary intersection of high fashion and basketball, from the league's inception to today, and celebrates the iconic style of NBA athletes.**

Each chapter explores the style of an era and the cultural influences that shaped it: The league's inception in 1949, pre-Civil Rights Movement, when the NBA was mostly comprised of white players who wore suits and skinny ties. The years following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the birth of funk and R&B when basketball fashion got flashier (think Walt "Clyde" Frazier and Wilt Chamberlain wearing fur coats and big hats). The Michael Jordan era of the 1980s and 1990s, with its oversize suits. The epic Iverson/Hip-Hop years of the late 1990s and early 2000s. And now to today, a time defined not only by social media and high fashion's birthing of the tunnel walk (think LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Russell Westbrook), but one in which athletes are idealized as style icons and activists, figures who inspire conversations beyond how they play and what they wear.  

### Author Biography

**Mitchell S. Jackson** is the winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing and the 2021 National Magazine Award in Feature Writing. Jackson is the critically acclaimed author of _The Residue Years_, _Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family_, and _John of Watts_ (to be published soon). His other honors include fellowships, grants, and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, the Lannan Foundation, the Ford Foundation, PEN America, TED, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Center for Fiction. His writing has been featured on the cover of the _New York Times Book Review_, _Time_, _Esquire_, and _Marie Claire_, as well as in _The New Yorker_, _Harpers_, _The New York Times_, _The New York Times Magazine_, _The Paris Review_, _The Guardian_, _The Washington Post Magazine_, _Harper's Bazaar_, and elsewhere. Jackson's nonfiction book _Survival Math_ was published in 2019 and named a best book of the year by fifteen publications, including NPR, _Time_, _The Paris Review_, _The Root_, _Kirkus Reviews_, and Buzzfeed. His next novel _John of Watts_ will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Jackson is a contributing writer for the _New York Times Magazine_, covers race and culture as the first Black columnist in the history of _Esquire_, and serves as the John O. Whiteman Dean's Distinguished Professor in the English Department of Arizona State University.

**Number of Pages:** 224

**Dimensions:** 1.12 x 12.21 x 9.25 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** September 05, 2023

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