For five years, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been working on an exhibition about the history of men’s fashion from the 18th century to the present. And for more than five years, its ...

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 ...

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 ...

For LACMA's new exhibition on men's fashion through the years, the curators really wanted to get hold of a real zoot suit from the World War II era. Zoot suits were such a strong fashion statement ...

The grave of Jose Diaz, a 22-year-old man whose murder in 1942 led to the Zoot Suit riots but who has essentially been forgotten today, at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles. (Mel Melcon / Los ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago this month, the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles led to brief unrest in San Diego. The so-called “riots” were a series of ethnically motivated attacks by military personnel and others ...

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 ...

Thirty-five years after its incendiary debut, Luis Valdez’s “Zoot Suit” can still spark powerful emotions in a lively new production at San Diego Repertory Theatre. The historically based drama with ...

Latinx cartoonist Marco Finnegan has re-imagined the Zoot Suit riots for an unconventional YA graphic novel that is published this coming week. And it remember another time, that seems suddenly rather ...