Beverly Johnson was a top supermodel in the 1970s and ’80s, one of the few Black supermodels of her era and the first African-American woman to ever appear on the cover of Vogue.
Despite blazing all those trails back in the day, Johnson, now 67, shares her thoughts in a new op-ed for The Washington Post to point out that racism in the fashion industry isn’t a thing of the past. “I was the first black model on the cover of Vogue in August 1974,” Johnson writes. “I was told before it could never happen.
Ruth Whitney, the then-editor in chief of Glamour Magazine, the venerable publication that gave me my first break in the 1970s, proclaimed that I had broken all colour barriers.” RELATED: Anna Wintour Admits To ‘Mistakes’ And ‘Images Or
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