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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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]
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.
model, entrepreneur, publisher. Known for. The Grace Del Marco Agency. Spouse (s) Harold Carter, Vernon Mitchell. Ophelia DeVore (August 12, 1921 – February 28, 2014) was an American businesswoman, publisher, and model. [ 1] She was the first model of African-American descent in the United States. In 1946, she helped establish the Grace Del ...
Stern was the first black woman to appear by herself on the cover of Playboy magazine in the October 1971 issue. Her appearance followed Jean Bell who was featured on the magazine's January 1970 cover, though with four other models. She began her career in the late 1960s as a bank teller and hostess for the Top of the Hancock Building ...
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.