Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell on Vogue Paris, 1988 Campbell's fame can bury the specific door she opened. In 1988, at 18, she became the first Black model on the cover of Vogue Paris, now Vogue France, fourteen years after Beverly Johnson's American Vogue first and more than twenty after Donyale Luna's British one. She has credited the support of Yves Saint Laurent and the Black models who came before her. The cover belongs here because Paris was the last of those three editions to move, a clear sign of how unevenly these barriers fell from one country to the next.