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Peggy Ann Freeman (August 31, 1945 – May 17, 1979), known professionally as Donyale Luna, was an American model and actress who gained popularity in Western Europe during the late 1960s.
Mar 29, 2024 · Donyale Luna, the Black fashion pioneer who died at 33. The Moritz Feed Dog Festival’s winning documentary delves into the life of an African-American model carving a career in a climate riddled...
Sep 18, 2023 · Donyale Luna Changed The Face Of Fashion In The ’60s. Now, The Revolutionary Black Model Is Finally Getting Her Due. 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.
Sep 15, 2023 · In September 2023 as a conclusion to New York Fashion Week, HBO released a documentary about the life of a little-known pioneer in the fashion industry, Donyale Luna. Luna is known as the first...
Sep 13, 2023 · HBO’s Donyale Luna: Supermodel, now streaming, explores her life and influence via a trove of diary entries, archival footage, and interviews with those who knew Luna best.
Donyale Luna. Actress: Salome. The world's first black supermodel, Luna was born Peggy Ann Freeman was in Detroit and grew up there in the northeast side of the city.
Sep 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. So how did the statuesque beauty who broke down barriers go unknown for years?
Donyale Luna. This is the name I chose for my soul in a lifetime of dreams, visions and great cultural change. They say I revolutionized the fashion industry as the world’s first Black supermodel during the ‘60s and ‘70s, but I just followed the wind that came upon me and pushed me through a life of discoveries and incredible adventures ...
Aug 28, 2023 · Donyale Luna: Supermodel, an HBO Original doc about the first Black model to grace a Vogue cover, released its first trailer ahead of a Sept. 13 debut.
Feb 14, 2016 · Donyale Luna became the first black woman in the world to appear on the cover of a major fashion magazine. Her lithe body and mesmerizing features took her to first to New York...
