‘There were no black makeup artists and there were no black hair stylists and I was working for Vogue and Glamour and it was really interesting to see a hairdresser just fumbling around with my hair. I think that’s why I wore my hair pulled back for a lot of my career, just really slicked back, although it was really gorgeous, because they didn’t know how to work with my hair … because they never worked on anyone black before. ‘
Beverly Johnson, on being a black supermodel in the 1970’s

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