“It’s ‘in’ to use me and maybe some people do it when they don’t really like me. But even if they are prejudiced, they have to be tactful if they want a good picture.” Naomi Sims, The New York Times, 1969Black women are in fashion,” one editor casually said to me in Paris following a runway show.
The skin on my arms felt prickly and my stomach tight in the way it does when I feel a conversation taking a particular kind of turn.
I found it curious that someone would use the temporal language ascribed to clothing and fleeting fashions to frame an entire people.
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