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Chase Carter – Bahamian model of biracial heritage, she has been on the cover of Maxim. Dorothea Church – African-American pioneering model. She was the first successful black fashion model in Paris. Pat Cleveland – African-American model of the 1970s who was the muse of Halston, Yves Saint Laurent and Stephen Burrows.
5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Hair color. Dark brown. Eye color. Brown. Beverly Ann Johnson[ 1][ 3] (born October 13, 1952) [ 4] is an American model, actress, singer, and businesswoman. Johnson rose to fame when she became the first Black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in August 1974, after Donyale Luna was the first Black model to appear ...
The first African-American Playmate of the Month was Jennifer Jackson, who appeared in the March 1965 issue. The first African-American Playmate of the Year was Renee Tenison in 1990. Darine Stern was the first African-American model featured on the cover of Playboy magazine by herself (Oct. 1971), but she was never a playmate.
Helen Marie Williams was born in Burlington County, New Jersey on September 16, 1935. [ 5] Williams retired from modeling in 1970, but continued her career in fashion as a stylist. Helen also took up drawing and painting in her early model years which she continued long after her retirement. After a brief marriage to John Clayton Anderson some ...
Europe at the time was seen as more accepting of white-passing Black models, such as Ophelia Devore, who had modeled herself and had her own agency's models working in Paris, or Dorothea Church in the 1950s and unmistakably African-American models like Dolores Francine Rhiney , who was the first Black model to walk on the European catwalk.
Lyndsey Scott is an American model and iOS mobile app software developer. She was the first African American to sign an exclusive runway contract with Calvin Klein, [ 3] and has worked for Gucci, Prada, and Victoria's Secret. Besides modeling, Scott writes mobile apps for iOS devices, and mentors young women in computer programming.
1.77 m (5 ft 9. +. 1⁄2 in) [ 1] Tracey "Africa" Norman, aka Tracey Africa, is an American fashion model, and the first African-American trans woman model to achieve prominence in the fashion industry. [ 2][ 3] Originally from Newark, New Jersey, Norman has modeled and been photographed for such publications as Essence, Vogue Italia and Harper ...
Naomi Ruth Sims (March 30, 1948 – August 1, 2009) [ 2] was an American model, businesswoman and author. She is widely credited as being one of the first African-American supermodels. Sims was the first African-American model to appear on the covers of Ladies' Home Journal and Life. [ 3][ 4]