The tragic tale of Donyale Luna

Long before Halle Berry, Jennifer Hudson, and Beyoncé were covergirls, and before Naomi, Tyra, or Iman first set foot on a runway, there was this black woman. They called her “the reincarnation of Nefertiti”, and “a girl of staggering beauty and magnetism”. She was Donyale Luna, one of the most famous, and tragic, women in model history, the startling, owl-like beauty who crashed through fashion’s apartheid system in the mid-1960s to become the world’s first black supermodel and arguably the first African-American supermodel, and was the first to grace a Vogue cover. She helped usher in the acceptance and celebration of black beauty in the world of fashion.

Read her incredible story on Chocolat Magazine: http://www.chocolatmag.us/voguish/