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Sep 18, 2023 · As HBO releases a new documentary about Donyale Luna’s incredible life, revisit her daughter Dream Cazzaniga’s personal essay about her mother’s legacy from the May 2019 issue of British Vogue. By Dream Cazzaniga. 18 September 2023. David Bailey.
- Dream Cazzaniga
Since her death, Donyale Luna's 1966 Vogue cover has been hailed as opening doors for Black models and normalising the inclusion of African-American and African-Europeans on magazines previously catering to majority white demographics.
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- Peggy Ann Freeman, August 31, 1945, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
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Sep 25, 2023 · Donyale was the first to cover any issue of Vogue, with British Vogue in 1966. Now, in a new HBO documentary, Donyale’s trailblazing legacy and tragic story of both self-determination...
- Devine Blacksher
Sep 20, 2023 · Updated 11:09 AM PDT, September 20, 2023. NEW YORK (AP) — As the first Black model to grace the cover of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, a muse to Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali and a film star, Donyale Luna’s life story was ready made for Hollywood.
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- Born. Peggy Ann Freeman, who later changed her name to Donyale Luna, was born in Detroit in 1945 to Nathaniel and Peggy Freeman. Her father worked in Ford Motors manufacturing, and her mother was a Young Women’s Christian Association secretary.
- Growing up. Luna grew up with two sisters and her sisters explained in the HBO documentary that Donyale always knew she would be famous.
- Changing her identity. Donyale was obsessed with theater and wanted to be a movie star. When she became a teenager she started to separate from her born identity, making up the name Donyale Luna, claiming to be of multiple races and ethnicities, and started speaking in a signature accent.
- Scouted. One day, Donyale stopped by a photoshoot near her Catholic school out of curiosity. Fashion photographer David McCabe saw the six-foot-tall Donyale and knew that she had to be a model.
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Jun 30, 2014 · A full eight years before Beverly Johnson made history in August 1974 by becoming the first black model to appear on the cover of the American version of Vogue, Donyale Luna, in March 1966, became the first African American model to grace the cover of the British edition of Vogue .
Feb 14, 2016 · But little more than a decade after her after her seductive eyes peered through her fingers on the iconic March 1966 Vogue cover, she was dead. In recent years, there has been renewed interest...
