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Every day we all get dressed. Welcome to dress the history of fashion. A podcast where we explore

that who went when of why we were. 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 Dawn Yell 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 and 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 so before we move forward with

her story we would very remiss not to contextualize her achievements as part of a much larger radical

shift in the global fashion industry that increasingly embraced black models in the latter half

of the 1960s and while black fashion models were certainly not new to the 60s it was there rapidly

increasing presence in once predominantly white fashion spaces so magazines designer runways

that really represented a drastic shift from year's prior. And it should be noted that the

increase of black models in mainstream fashion publications cannot be divorced from the heightened

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