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Vintage Black Glamour

The Glamorous Life from the beginning by Nichelle Gainer

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    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). 

    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). 

    — 3 weeks ago with 224 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Chaka Khan  #vintage  #1970s  #natural hair  #hair 
    Ashford & Simpson, the late great Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, on the back cover of their 1979 album, Stay Free. 

    Ashford & Simpson, the late great Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, on the back cover of their 1979 album, Stay Free

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    — 3 weeks ago with 140 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Ashford & Simpson  #Ashford and Simpson  #Nick Ashford  #Valerie Simpson  #music  #1970s 
    #NYFW Iman and Bethann Hardison at a fashion party in 1977. Photo by Dustin Pittman via The Wall Street Journal. 

    #NYFW Iman and Bethann Hardison at a fashion party in 1977. Photo by Dustin Pittman via The Wall Street Journal. 

    — 3 months ago with 102 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Iman  #Bethann Hardison  #nyfw  #fashion  #1970s 
    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.

    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.

    — 3 months ago with 91 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Pat Cleveland  #fashion  #NYFW  #Halston  #1970s 
    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.

    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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    — 3 months ago with 100 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Darnella Thomas  #models  #fashion  #black models  #beauty  #advertisements  #1970s 
    Tamara Dobson in a 1978 Tigress fragrance advertisement. She is best known for her role as “Cleopatra Jones.”

    Tamara Dobson in a 1978 Tigress fragrance advertisement. She is best known for her role as “Cleopatra Jones.”

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    — 3 months ago with 87 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Tamara Dobson  #1970s  #fashion  #beauty  #advertising 
    Naomi Sims at the “Harlem Homecoming” benefit show for the Dance Theater of Harlem in 1972. Image via Bettmann/Corbis

    Naomi Sims at the “Harlem Homecoming” benefit show for the Dance Theater of Harlem in 1972. Image via Bettmann/Corbis

    — 4 months ago with 79 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Naomi Sims  #fashion  #models  #1970s 
    Tamara Dobson in a 1978 Tigress fragrance advertisement. She is best known for her role as “Cleopatra Jones.”

    Tamara Dobson in a 1978 Tigress fragrance advertisement. She is best known for her role as “Cleopatra Jones.”

    — 9 months ago with 87 notes
    #1970s  #Black models  #Tamara Dobson  #Vintage Black Glamour  #advertisments  #black actresses  #fashion  #advertising 
    The Three Degrees: Fayette Pinkney, Valerie Holiday, Sheila Ferguson. 

    The Three Degrees: Fayette Pinkney, Valerie Holiday, Sheila Ferguson. 

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    — 9 months ago with 497 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #singers  #vbg  #fashion  #1970s  #The Three Degrees