Favourite Top African and Black Models

[Gypsy_Doll]

She probably figured that with Chanel you get two for the price of one.

But Ai Tominaga has.

 

[OMIFAN9]

Some recent scans I thought I'd post here,all are favs here's Katoucha,Beverly,Naomi & Grace(1988-92flower:for Vogue & Allure shoots. Photo Credits:Michal Comte,Steven Klein,Michael Thompson & Irving Penn.

 

[simplylovely]

Loves Grace & Naomi!

 

[simplylovely]

Carmelita Mendes
(Elite)
















Ugh, I hate the new update on this forum! How do I make them big? Because these are HQ photos!

 

[simplylovely]

^

 

[LANZO_358]

Terri-Lois from Jamaica

Here's another pic of leggy Jamaican Terri-Lois, an upcoming model from Jamaican sporting new shorn hair for a photoshoot for afflictedyard.com


Photo scanned by me...

Her myspace is http://www.myspace.com/tlois_model​

 

[simplylovely]

She looks so much like Tennille:

 

[LANZO_358]

^ Yes simplylovely I agree, In that pic she does.

 

[OMIFAN9]

Some favorite images of some past groundbreaking beauties,scanned by me. Photo Creditsavid Jackson,Essence magazine,Patrice Habans,Charles Tracey,Chris Von Wangenhiem & Owen Brown.
Dorothea Towles the 50s

Helen Williams the 60s

Donyale Luna the 60s

Naomi Sims the 60s

Pat Cleveland

Beverly Johnson the 70s

And a great 1973 group photo with Naomi and Pat Cleveland.

 

[OMIFAN9]

Loves Grace & Naomi!

Speaking of Grace...this photo is so great I had to enhance it from my original post! This time its without writing and its bigger,scanned by me! Photo Credit:Anthony Barboza
Young Grace(1971flower:!

 

[Gypsy_Doll]

And a great1973 group photo withNaomi and Pat Cleveland.

They remind me of the Supremes.

 

[simplylovely]

Naomi Sims & Beverly are true legends! Love to see Pat again, its been so long. More like Dorothea Dandridge. I hardly remember Donyale Luna, I remember seeing her in a few magazines but not thinking she really stood out. My my, Helen is a stunning beauty!

 

[jollyvixen]

I never said there was a problem with her calling herself black. It's just the "mixed race" comments I don't get. I just don't get the whole "mixed race" category being thrown around these days especially if one self-identifies as black, people still try to take that away from them. "No you're not black, your a mutt!". I just don't get it. Don't mean to sound afro-centric, argumentative, or anything.

I won't go further into that. I was just ranting a bit. Don't mind me.

A person can "identify" with whatever category they choose, but it does not change your genetics. I have a mixed niece and nephew, but they don't go around picking one of their backgrounds over the other because it's politically correct to do so.

I find it amusing that whites were the ones to implement the "one-drop rule" to lower the status of blacks and mixed raced individuals, but blacks have taken the rule over and now use it as a status of pride. Halle Berry is a good example of that. She rants about how "black" she is, even though her black dad was absent from her life and she was raised by her white mother. Many of the first "blacks" to accomplish in society are actually multi-racial, but it would be too much of a powder keg to admit it.

I don't understand why you have to pride out your "black" side over your other backgrounds just because that race was discriminated against in the past. Those days are over and there is absolutely nothing wrong with being multi-racial.

 

[electricladyland]

I don't understand why you have to pride out your "black" side over your other backgrounds just because that race was discriminated against in the past. Those days are over and there is absolutely nothing wrong with being multi-racial.

since when?

 

[VintageGlam]

growing up I witnessed a certain amount of discrimination towards multi-racial people from some in the black community as well as special treatment. I do think some bi-racial(half-white/black) people feel obligated to connect more with their black heritage because of the oppression of blacks in society and also the need to belong mainly to a racial group, which leads to some playing up their 'blackness' or 'whiteness' to feel accepted somewhere. I have no problem with someone choosing to connect with any side of their heritage just as long as it's for the right reasons.

 

[Gypsy_Doll]

since when?

Exactly. Let me not respond. This might be a wasted thread. Some of us are on different levels. Well, I speak for myself.

 

[inhirnamy137]

Naomi Campbell- great runway walker, and very exotic look.

Liyah-classic face

Alek Wek- underrepresented beauty

 

[MicheleIman]

Pat Cleveland was and is one of the most stunning women that has ever modeled. She has a regal attitude about her (in a good way of course) and now her daughter in in the business. She looks like see spit her out.

 

[OMIFAN9]

Naomi Sims & Beverly are true legends! Love to see Pat again, its been so long. More like Dorothea Dandridge. I hardly remember Donyale Luna, I remember seeing her in a few magazines but not thinking she really stood out. My my, Helen is a stunning beauty!

Pat has always been such a unique presence on the runway! Dorothea Dandridge! The thing with Donyale is she hit than totally just didn't live well so she didn't reach her full potential...and than there is that another thing,too! To touch on it lightly,her casting aside of those she embodied hurt her in the department of maximum long-term endurance after the 70s. Helen,oh yes she is one of those women that in her heyday I woudn't mind looking likeB)!

 

[xmodel citizen]

A person can "identify" with whatever category they choose, but it does not change your genetics. I have a mixed niece and nephew, but they don't go around picking one of their backgrounds over the other because it's politically correct to do so.

I find it amusing that whites were the ones to implement the "one-drop rule" to lower the status of blacks and mixed raced individuals, but blacks have taken the rule over and now use it as a status of pride. Halle Berry is a good example of that. She rants about how "black" she is, even though her black dad was absent from her life and she was raised by her white mother. Many of the first "blacks" to accomplish in society are actually multi-racial, but it would be too much of a powder keg to admit it.

I don't understand why you have to pride out your "black" side over your other backgrounds just because that race was discriminated against in the past. Those days are over and there is absolutely nothing wrong with being multi-racial.

Totally agree! People constantly tell me I'm not Hispanic because I'm "white". I'm 1/4 Hispanic but I identify more with that side of me because the only person in my entire family I was truly close to was my Hispanic grandfather (I don't know my father and my mom never got along with her mother). Saying someone has to "choose sides" is ridiculous. We all have different backgrounds and various circumstances that contribute to our individual identity. It's not a one-size-fits-all issue.

My sister is half black and her children's father was half-Black and half-Native American. Do they have to identify themselves as black solely based on skin color despite the fact that they are also Native American, Spanish and a variety of other ethnicities? I don't see the point in somehow choosing to be one ethnicity and one ethnicity only when the Native American, European, Asian, and Middle Eastern cultures are equally as rich, diverse and important.