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Beverly Ann Johnson [1] [3] (born October 13, 1952) [4] is an American model, actress, singer, and businesswoman. Johnson rose to fame when she became the first Black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in August 1974, after Donyale Luna was the first Black model to appear on the cover of British Vogue in 1966.
Beverly Johnson has a simple answer for why she decided to walk the runways of two buzzy designers showing at New York Fashion week: They asked. As a Black woman, she broke barriers and widened ...
Johnson participated in many adventurous activities, many of them firsts including being the first person to solo cross the Straits of Magellan in open kayak. She also skied across Greenland and windsurfed across Bering Straits. [3] Johnson flew fixed-winged planes and helicopters and was the first person to pilot an autogyro in Antarctica. [3]
Johnson, 69 and a grandmother, is one of the original supermodels. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Beverly Johnson reflects on the industry pressure and unhealthy lifestyle she once maintained to keep an extremely thin physique. Before […] The post Supermodel Beverly Johnson discusses the ...
True Vengeance is a 1997 American action film directed by David Worth, starring Daniel Bernhardt, Miles O'Keeffe, Beverly Johnson and George Cheung.Bernhardt stars as a former Navy SEAL and Yakuza henchman who must twice face his past when his old clan, looking to silence him, hires his former military squadmate (O'Keeffe), with whom he had a falling out, to take him down.
Due in part to the timing of the "Black is beautiful" movement only gaining traction towards the end of Luna's career as "Black models didn't truly enjoy their coming out until the seventies" and her New Age beliefs, models such as Beverly Johnson now feature more prominently on Black-firsts lists, even though Luna's cover in 1966 predates ...
Supermodel Beverly Johnson, the first Black model to cover Vogue, is calling on the fashion and media industries to do better when dealing with the pervasive problem of racism. "My debut was meant ...