Melinated Beauty

Emma Wiklund, Connie Fleming, and Dianne Brill backstage @ Thierry Mugler Spring/Summer 1992

Various Black models casted at Yves Saint Laurent’s final Haute Couture collection vs. A single Black model casted in Hedi Silmane’s first Saint Laurent  Haute Couture collection

Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Shalom Harlow, Nadja Auermann, Eva Herzigova and Stella Tennant backstage @ Christian Dior Fall/Winter 2005  Haute Couture

Naomi Campbell walks at Thierry Mugler Spring Summer 1991

Naomi Campbell walks at Thierry Mugler’s 20th anniversary Fall/Winter 1995 Haute couture collection

it’s so wild how Black women are hated to the point of literal mental, emotional, and physical antagonization by men in and outside of our race.

Debra Shaw, Kristen McMenamy, Naomi Campbell, Stella Tennant, Tan Mang Ling, Patricia Velásquez, Ayumi Tanabe, Carla Bruni Sarkozy, Kara Young, and Shirley Mallmann @ Christian Dior Spring/Summer 1997 Haute Couture

Naomi with Christy, Veronica and Kristen at Victoire de Castellane’s birthday party in Paris, 1992

Nykhor Paul & Adonis Bosso @ Skingraft SS/16

Nadia Araujo for Cushnie et Ochs Pre Fall 2016.

Yokohama Museum of Art