Naomi Sims (1948-2009) was a black American supermodel from the 1960s, one of the first. Before there was Naomi Campbell, there was Naomi Sims. In November 1968 she became the first black woman on the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal, the first to appear on a mainstream women’s magazine in America. She later went into [...]
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Naomi Sims
Posted in 1960s, 1968, America, black women, entrepreneurs, fashion models, models, supermodels on Tue 4 Aug 2009 | 11 Comments »
Fatou N’Diaye
Posted in 2000s, France, Senegal, actresses, black women, models on Tue 16 Jun 2009 | 7 Comments »
Fatou N’Diaye (1980- ) is a French actress and model who was born in Senegal. She is not the dancer of the same name. Since 2001 she has appeared in both French film and television. Her best film to date is probably “Nha fala” (2003) though “A Sunday in Kigali” (2006) seems to be better [...]
Alek Wek
Posted in 1990s, 2000s, Britain, London, Sudan, black women, models on Thu 11 Jun 2009 | 45 Comments »
Alek Wek (1977- ) is a supermodel from Sudan. She is known for being dark-skinned with very short hair. She was at her height from 1997 to 2004, though she models even now in her early 30s.
She is a Dinka from southern Sudan, near the middle of Africa. Her father was a schoolteacher; she was [...]
Halle Berry
Posted in 1990s, 2000s, America, Cleveland, Hollywood, Ohio, Oscar winners, actresses, beauty queens, biracial, black women, mixed race, models on Wed 1 Apr 2009 | 32 Comments »
Halle Berry (1966- ) is an American actress, the first black woman ever to win an Oscar for Best Actress. In America she is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful black women alive, even now in her 40s. She was Miss Ohio USA in 1986, a Bond girl in “Die Another Day” (2002) [...]
Yasmin Warsame
Posted in 2000s, black women, canada, fashion models, models, somalia, toronto on Fri 13 Mar 2009 | 17 Comments »
Yasmin Warsame (1976- ), also known as ياسمين ابشير ارسام, is one of the most successful Canadian fashion models of all time. She was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, the same place that Iman is from, but later she fled to Canada. She has grace, class and one of those beautiful, perfect faces. She now lives [...]
Donyale Luna
Posted in 1960s, 1965, 1966, America, beauties, black women, in the news, models on Fri 19 Dec 2008 | 3 Comments »
Donyale Luna (1945-1979) was an American fashion model from the 1960s. In March 1966 she became the first black woman ever to appear on the cover of British Vogue. She also appeared in a number of films by Warhol, Fellini and Otto Preminger.
She was beautiful and troubled, tall and strange. Like a shooting star she [...]
Jessica White
Posted in 2000s, America, beauties, black women, buffalo, models on Wed 10 Dec 2008 | 12 Comments »
Jessica White (1984- ) is an American fashion and print model. Tyra Banks has called her “the model of her generation”. Although best known as a swimsuit model in Sports Illustrated, where she has appeared for each of the past five years (2003-2008 – a record for a black model), she is also a serious [...]
Tara Shakti
Posted in 2000s, France, madagascar, models, paris on Thu 20 Nov 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tara Shakti (1980- ) is a print model and make-up artist in Paris who comes from Madagascar. Her name means “Shining Star” in Sanskrit and is also the name of a mantra in that language.
She has appeared in magazines, videos and on television in at least France, Madagascar and Egypt. Her face has helped to [...]
Beverly Peele
Posted in 1989, 1990s, 1993, America, beauties, black women, fashion models, los angeles, models, south central, supermodels on Sat 15 Nov 2008 | 1 Comment »
Beverly Peele (1975- ), an American supermodel, was one of the top fashion and print models of the early 1990s.
She started modelling on the runways of Paris at age 12. In 1989, by age 14, she had made her first million and became the first black woman to appear on the cover of Mademoiselle magazine. [...]
Neferteri Shepherd
Posted in 2000, 2000s, America, Playboy, black women, models, video vixens on Fri 17 Oct 2008 | 6 Comments »
Neferteri Shepherd (1980- ), also known as Neferteri Horn, is an American video vixen, best known as Miss July 2000 in Playboy magazine. She is the best black model to appear in Playboy that I know of.
Here is what we know about her from Playboy (which has not gone metric yet – I added the [...]
Garcelle Beauvais
Posted in 1990s, 2000s, America, IR, actresses, black women, creoles, models on Mon 13 Oct 2008 | 37 Comments »
Garcelle Beauvais (1966- ), also known as Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, is an American television actress and former model. She is best remembered for playing Fancy on “The Jamie Foxx Show” in the late 1990s. She was also assistant district attorney Valerie Heywood in “NYPD Blue”. In 2007 she appeared in Playboy magazine and had twins – [...]
Bre Scullark
Posted in 2000s, 2005, ANTM, America, Harlem, New York, beauties, black women, models on Wed 1 Oct 2008 | 2 Comments »
Brittany “Bre” Scullark (1985- ) is an American fashion model for the Ford modelling agency. In 2005 she came in third place on season five of Tyra Banks’s television show “America’s Next Top Model” (ANTM). In 2008 you sometimes see her on the “Tyra Banks Show”, as beautiful as ever. What eyes! And what amazing [...]
Rosina Ferrara
Posted in 1800s, 1870s, 1880s, Capri, Italy, beauties, models on Fri 19 Sep 2008 | 12 Comments »
Rosina Ferrara (1861-1934) was a beauty from the island of Capri off the coast of Italy. You see her picture in art museums all over the world because artists loved to paint and draw her, especially Frank Hyde and John Singer Sargent. For them she had an exotic beauty, one that reminded them of the [...]
Vanessa Simmons
Posted in 2000s, America, Run's House, Vanessa Simmons, actresses, black women, models on Wed 17 Sep 2008 | 11 Comments »
Vanessa Simmons (1983- ), an American model and actress, is the oldest daughter of Reverend Run of Run DMC. She has appeared on MTV’s “Run’s House” since 2005. She is a Girl Scout role model and yet one of the hottest women in the world according to Maxim magazine!
Angela Simmons is her younger sister; [...]
Ki Toy Johnson
Posted in 2000s, 2003, 2004, America, black women, hip hop models, models, video vixens on Tue 2 Sep 2008 | 10 Comments »
Ki Toy Johnson (1983- ) is an American video vixen, best known for being the leading woman in OutKast’s music video, “The Way You Move” (2003). She is the one in the black bikini at the beginning and the end dancing with Big Boi. She has been in King, XXL, Black Men, SSX and Smooth [...]
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