In honor of Women's History Month, ESSENCE celebrates 13 Black women who have forever-changed the beauty industry in the past 100 years.

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Peggy Ann Freeman (August 31, 1945 – May 17, 1979), known professionally as Donyale Luna, was an American model and actress who gained popularity in Western Europe during the late 1960s. Generally ...

If there is anything in the world of high fashion more vulnerable to whim than clothes, it is the models who wear them. They seem to emerge from nowhere, sparkle brilliantly, then plunge into Stygian ...

Before Naomi ever graced a catwalk with her slinky strut, before Iman ever dazzled photographers with her devastatingly elegant neck, supermodel Donyale Luna was the reigning Black cover girl of the ...

When people talk about the firsts for Black models in fashion, Beverly Johnson’s name had long been mentioned as the first Black model to grace the cover of Vogue. However, our November 2020 cover ...

TheGrio commemorates the first Black supermodel, Donyale Luna in ‘Keeping Black History Alive’. Donyale Luna was born Peggy Ann Freeman. At 19 she would leave home and move to New York where she ...

As we celebrate Black History Month, Local 4 Style Editor Jon Jordan turned back the pages of fashion magazines past to find the trailblazing Black models who paved the way for today’s fashion icons.

Though best known for poetic images of East Africa and glossy society portraits, Peter Beard photographed Donyale Luna, the first black model to appear in Vogue, in the summer of 1977 in Montauk, New ...

It's been 50 years since Beverly Johnson made history as the first Black model on the cover of Vogue, and she's still "proud" of the famous photo. The fashion icon recounted the joy she experienced ...