Image Credit: Reginald Gray/WWD The iconic Josephine Baker performs onstage at the Battle of Versailles, Versailles, France, November 27, 1973
Inside WWD’s New Book “Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” Celebrating Black Creatives
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Lupita Nyongío in Versace at the Met Gala, 2019.
Inside WWD’s New Book “Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” Celebrating Black Creatives
Image Credit: Michel Maurou/WWD Mounia Orosemane, Iman, Dalma Callado, Amalia Vairelli, Sandy Bass, and other models on the runway at the Ungaro spring 1985 couture show, Paris.
Inside WWD’s New Book “Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” Celebrating Black Creatives
Image Credit: Yu Fujiwara/WWD Street style during the Spring 2024 London Fashion Week Ready To Wear Runway Shows on September 16, 2023 in London, England.
Inside WWD’s New Book “Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” Celebrating Black Creatives
Newly elected and first Black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm at her Washington D.C. offices.
Inside WWD’s New Book “Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” Celebrating Black Creatives
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Stephen Burrows fits a wrap dress from his fall 1971 collection on model and muse Pat Cleveland in his New York loft.
Inside WWD’s New Book “Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” Celebrating Black Creatives
Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD Portrait of Virgil Abloh, photographed for WWD in New York on Dec. 6, 2018.
Inside WWD’s New Book “Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” Celebrating Black Creatives
Image Credit: Dustin Pittman/WWD André Leon Talley poses in front of a luxury car in New York, 1979.
Inside WWD’s New Book “Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” Celebrating Black Creatives
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Olivier Rousteing with models on the runway at Balmain’s spring 2020 ready-to-wear show, Paris.
Inside WWD’s New Book “Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” Celebrating Black Creatives
Models in T-shirts and denim from Spike Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule collection, 1992.
Inside WWD’s New Book “Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” Celebrating Black Creatives
Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD Backstage at the LaQuan Smith Spring 2024 Ready To Wear Fashion Show at Skylight at Essex Crossing on September 11, 2023 in New York, New York.
Inside WWD’s New Book “Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” Celebrating Black Creatives
Model Veronica Webb in Gordon Henderson spring 1989 ready-to-wear.
Inside WWD’s New Book “Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” Celebrating Black Creatives
Image Credit: Nick Machalaba/WWD Grace Jones attends the opening night of Studio 54 in New York on April 28, 1977.