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Please enjoy this episode from the Dressed Archive of over 500 plus shows. Dressed will be back

with all new content in March of 2025. Until then, consider

heading to Dressedhistory.com to explore our latest online fashion history classes and in-person

tours of Paris and New York City. Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion. Over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all get dressed.

Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who, what, when, of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan.

And Cassidy Zachary.

Welcome, Dress listeners, to part two of our two-part episode on the supermodel sensation Don Yel Luna. On Tuesday's episode, as you remember, we barely scratched the surface

of Danielle's career. We ended in 1966, the year that the 20-year-old enjoyed a seemingly

instant overnight rise to fame after becoming the first black

model and first model of color ever to appear on the cover of any edition of Vogue magazine with her

March British Vogue issue debut. In their 1966 article, The Luna Year, Time magazine credited

Danielle, was setting the standard for a completely new image of black women in the

fashion industry, writing that, quote, fashion finds itself in an instrumental position for changing

history, however slightly, for in the industry's promotion of Danielle Luna, it is about to bring

out into the open, the veneration, the adoration, and the idolation of the Negro woman, end quote.

And while Danielle's high profile was in no doubt instrumental in facilitating this change,

she was by no means the only black model making history during this period.

No, she was not.

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