As cultural norms evolve, men are increasingly reclaiming fashion as a valid and powerful form of self-expression. This shift reflects a broader understanding that confidence is not only built internally, but also shaped by how individuals present themselves to the world. Clothing has become a tool for men to communicate identity, creativity, and self-respect without compromising their masculinity.

There’s a particular kind of violence in being asked to save the world when you’re still trying to save yourself. Westside Boogie understands this intimately. His 2024 album No More Black Superheroes functions as both confession and manifesto, a 12-track meditation on what happens when Black men, particularly Black fathers, refuse the cape society insists they wear.

Black youth is joy. It is imagination.

It is softness, curiosity, brilliance, and becoming.

Philoche grants permission: to revisit childhood, to reclaim what was rushed, to protect what remains, and to heal what was taken. Innocence was always ours. The world refused to see it. Now, we are taking it back.