Donyale Luna

Donyale Luna on British Vogue, March 1966 David Bailey photographed Luna for the March 1966 cover of British Vogue, the first time any edition of Vogue put a Black model on its cover. It came eight years before American Vogue did the same, which is why Beverly Johnson's later first is always qualified as American. A year earlier Harper's Bazaar had run a sketch of her on its cover rather than a photograph, so the Vogue image is the milestone that counts. Bailey's shot partly obscures her face, and her elongated, otherworldly look became one of the defining images of 1960s fashion.