Michaela Angela Davis, former fashion director of Vibe and Essence and current image activist, talks about style, race, New York and street fashion with Madison Moore (creative director) and Alex Tudela (managing director) to open the The Urban Catwalk conference at Yale.

The Urban Catwalk: A Fashion + Street Culture Symposium, was a two-day symposium at Yale University, aiming to investigate the relationships between street style and identity. It was organized by Madison Moore.

For more information, visit: theurbancatwalk.net.

The Urban Catwalk is generously sponsored by the following Yale University departments and programs: the American Studies Program, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Yale Graduate School, the World Performance Project, the Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity, the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, the Department of African American Studies, and the Department of French.