...Joy L. Bivins Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair was a costume exhibition that debuted at the Chicago History Museum in March 2013. The project explored and examined the history and impact of Ebony Fashion Fair, a traveling fashion show produced by Chicago’s Johnson Publishing Company...

...; Barbara Jackson was 98 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 37 • November 2015 a former Ebony Fashion Fair model and wife of a French star slated to participate in the French part record executive; Charlene Dash had already graced of the show—from ZiZi Jean-Marie, to Rudolph the pages...

.... The company is the publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines and the accumulation of space, the creation of a depo- owner of Fashion Fair Cosmetics, an internationally marketed liticized, destated space. In this case, it had to be cosmetics brand for people of color. privately owned space so that people...

... from across the African continent.4 The stylistically and materially varying works in distinct hangs and displays suggest the contemporary look of today s globalizing art fairs or the cultural logic behind national pavilions of the Venice Biennale rather than any particular curatorial vision, or lack...

... Benga as “a Europeanized sexual allure” and “sense of amazing seduction.”12 I African [whose] position in Paris was rather like contend that, on stage and in the modernist imagi- that of the fashionable divorcée in the nineteenth nary, Benga’s “authentic” African body, in contrast to century...

... a multicolored mix of skin tones and white subjects. Then anhood stands for everything Picasso was not (his disregard for again, black people come in all shades, from blonde and fair skin women and machismo persona is well known). The objectifica- to black and ebony skin...