{"id":61441,"date":"2021-09-11T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61441"},"modified":"2021-09-11T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T17:30:10","slug":"the-first-black-supermodel-whom-history-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61441","title":{"rendered":"The First Black Supermodel, Whom History Forgot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The First Black Supermodel, Whom History Forgot<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Cut<\/a>
2013-07-10<\/p>\n

Keli Goff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Photo: Woodgate\/Associated Newspapers\/Rex USA<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Fashion has a notoriously complicated history when it comes to black models, but the past month felt particularly loaded with talking points: Prada hired their first black model<\/a> for a campaign in nineteen years; Kinee Diouf<\/a> became the first black model on the cover of Vogue Netherlands<\/em>, months after the magazine had painted a white model<\/a> in \u201cblackface<\/a>\u201d; and then Raf Simons<\/a> cast black runway models \u2013 six of them \u2013 in his Dior couture show<\/a> for the first time since he arrived at the house.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s slow progress since Donyale Luna<\/a> became the first black supermodel nearly 50 years ago. Especially since most inveterate fashion-watchers don\u2019t even know Luna\u2019s name…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It\u2019s slow progress since Donyale Luna became the first black supermodel nearly 50 years ago. Especially since most inveterate fashion-watchers don\u2019t even know Luna\u2019s name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,28,8,25],"tags":[12666,31857,31856,28999],"class_list":["post-61441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-keli-goff","tag-luigi-cazzaniga","tag-peggy-ann-freeman","tag-the-cut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61442,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61441\/revisions\/61442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}