Where can I read some information about pioneering black model, Dorothea Church?
Dorothea Towles Church, the first successful black model in Paris, who discovered personal liberation on the runways of Christian Dior and Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1950’s, died on July 7 in Manhattan. She was 83. Her death was confirmed by Michael Henry Adams, a curator at the Museum of the City of New York, where she is among those to be featured in an exhibition called “Black Style Now,’’ opening on Sept. 7. Ms. Church’s success was a historic achievement in an industry that had been especially resistant to using any but white models to represent beauty on magazine covers, advertisements and runways. Ms. Church was responsible for breaking down some of those barriers and was revered in France during the five years she modeled there. Sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/nyregion/23church.
