In 'Invisible Beauty,' the pioneering model and activist realizes the power of her story.
In the 1970s, you were a trailblazing Black fashion model. In the ’80s, you became a modeling agent and launched your own agency. All the while, you’ve been championing racial diversity in the fashion business. Now you’ve codirected, a documentary autobiography, with Frédéric Tcheng. How did you come up with the title?
You thought you had no story? This sounds like modesty, coming from someone who has received the Founder’s Award in honor of Eleanor Lambert from the Council of Fashion Designers of America for your advocacy work. At a certain age in life, I started to give the fashion industry much more credit about race. I would say things like, “I think that they’re more ignorant than anything.” But then I see the film and there’s an old close-up of me saying, “Racism is alive in fashion.” And that took me aback because I don’t remember having that attitude about it. It makes you realize how militant you might have been, and how much you had to call people out and have no shame about it.All the elders.
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