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Getty Images By Nia Shumake ·Updated November 28, 2023
It was a decade after Kwame Braithwaite rendered portraits of Black beauty, that a night in Paris secured not only American fashion’s dominance but a glistering era for the Black supermodel. The Palace of Versailles, a former residence of Louis XIV was in need of “restoration” and to fundraise, publicist Eleanor Lambert created a runway show which was coined
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