Donyale Luna: Myth, Model, Muse, Part I
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Dressed Media
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🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Dress the history of fashion is a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 0:23.0 | Another seven billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:27.0 | Every day we all get dressed. |
| 0:29.2 | Welcome to Dress the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who |
| 0:33.5 | went when of why we wear. |
| 0:35.5 | We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan. |
| 0:38.8 | And Cassidy Zachary. |
| 0:41.3 | Well dress listeners, I am dying to know if you are a fan of 1960s fashion. |
| 0:46.4 | So did you actually wear it and experience it in the 1960s or do you just appreciate it today |
| 0:52.8 | like April and myself? |
| 0:54.8 | So if you are a fan regardless, you've no doubt seen or remember seeing countless images |
| 1:00.1 | of today's subject and that is Danielle Luna. |
| 1:03.2 | The linky but giling Detroit, Michigan, they've took the international fashion world by storm |
| 1:08.2 | in the 1960s after becoming the first black model and actually first model of color in general |
| 1:14.2 | to ever grace the cover of both Harper's Bazaar and Vogue magazines in 1965 and 1966 respectively. |
| 1:22.6 | So famous had Danielle become after her trailblazing covers that time magazine declared 1966 |
| 1:29.3 | the Luna year. So she basically skyrocketed to super start him becoming one of the highest |
| 1:35.5 | paid and sought after models of the decade. |
| 1:38.3 | She modeled for the era's great fashion designers like Paka Raban and Rudy Gernreich |
| 1:43.4 | or Gernrick depending on who you ask these days. |
| 1:47.9 | And she became amused to taste makers of the artistic avant-garde like Federico Fellini, |
| 1:54.0 | Andy Warhol and Salvador Dolly and yet until the last decade or so her life and legacy had |
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