Chaka Khan circa 1970. Ms. Khan just lost a LOT of weight and looks fantastic (see A Black Girl’s Guide To Weight Loss where I found this picture).
Ashford & Simpson, the late great Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, on the back cover of their 1979 album, Stay Free.
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#NYFW Iman and Bethann Hardison at a fashion party in 1977. Photo by Dustin Pittman via The Wall Street Journal.
Pat Cleveland in an orange halter dress and pants ensemble from Halston’s Spring 1980 collection. New York Fashion Week is next week and I’ll be there again covering for my fashion/beauty blog 55 Secret Street. I hope I run into Pat again like I did last year! Photo by Dustin Pittman from the Conde Nast Archives.
Darnella Thomas in one of her groundbreaking ads from the legendary Charlie fragrance campaign in the 1970s.
From Black and Beautiful: How Women of Color Changed the Fashion Industry by former Ford model Barbara Summers
Although Darnella shot at least four ads for the Charlie campaign, she was not signed to a contract. “Every time I did a shoot for them I would get paid whatever the day rate was; it was never a contract. A contract would have entailed them giving me the television commercials, which is what I really wanted. I know for a for a fact that the reason I did the second, third, and fourth ads was because they got a lot of letters about me. I wouldn’t have continued to do them if they weren’t successful. It was interesting, too, that I didn’t see some of the ads. When you photographed, you shot two or three ads. I don’t know how many they used, or where. The ads ran in some parts of Africa and Latin America, but they didn’t tell me that. I wasn’t supposed to know obviously. Who thought that far? I was only looking for Essence, you know? But they used my ad in Vogue and Glamour also.
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Tamara Dobson in a 1978 Tigress fragrance advertisement. She is best known for her role as “Cleopatra Jones.”
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Naomi Sims at the “Harlem Homecoming” benefit show for the Dance Theater of Harlem in 1972. Image via Bettmann/Corbis
Model Carole La Brie in Vogue Italia, 1971.
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Tamara Dobson in a 1978 Tigress fragrance advertisement. She is best known for her role as “Cleopatra Jones.”
The Three Degrees: Fayette Pinkney, Valerie Holiday, Sheila Ferguson.
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