Andre Leon Talley with his then boss Eunice Johnson (Yves Saint Laurent is in the background) in 1981. Mrs. Johnson, who ran the Ebony Fashion Fair shows for decades, is featured in the Wall Street Journal’s Style section today: How a Couture Pioneer Changed Fashion.
A young Dorothy Dandridge with a group of beauty queens in the 1940s. Photo: Clyde Woods.
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Do you ever get enough of Josephine Baker? I don’t! Here, she is in Christian Dior in March 1951, singing into a mic which conceals her hand-held corsage onstage at the Strand theater in New York during her US tour. Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
Mary Lou Williams Trio, 1944. Mary Lou Williams, the groundbreaking jazz pianist and composer with bassist Al Hall and trumpeter Bill Coleman. Photo: JazzSign/Lebrecht Music & Arts/Corbis.
Modeling pioneer Ophelia DeVore (right) with clients and friends (l-r) Joan Murry, Trudy Haynes, the Philadelphia news legend, actress and writer Ellen Holly and the great model Helen Williams. Photo via opheliadevore.com.
Beverly Johnson @BeverlyJohnson1 in a 1970s Max Factor advertisement. She has a new show, “Beverly’s Full House,” coming up on Oprah’s OWN on March 31st.
A 1969 Revlon ‘Colorsilk’ advertisement.
Dance legend Carmen de Lavallade turns 81 today! Here she is in the October 1964 issue of Harper’s Bazaar in a beaded necklace by Coppola e Toppa.
Josephine Baker, just minding her own business, August 29, 1933.
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Melba Moore, seated in a nude pose, July 1971 by Jack Robinson. The photo, which appeared in the October 15, 1971 issue of Vogue, was taken as Ms. Moore was touring the country after appearing on Broadway in “Hair” and “Purlie.”
Eartha Kitt, snapped by Charles “Teenie” Harris in May 1966, leaping though a poster to launch a Citizens Committee on Hill District Renewal program on Vine and Colwell Streets in Pittsburgh, PA. Get thee to the Carnegie Museum of Art before April 7, 2012 people!
Stunning shot of Nina Simone by Pittsburgh photography icon Charles “Teenie” Harris, circa 1965.
