Naomi Campbell She first came into the limelight in her early teens as a dancer. She was soon noticed for her beauty and graced the cover of Elle magazine just before her 16th birthday. Her career exploded and she is still to this day thought of as one of the biggest and most successful supermodels to date.
Perhaps the most famous Black supermodel, Naomi Campbell was officially discovered at age 15 while shopping in London, though she had appeared in a Bob Marley music video as a child. After she was scouted, she became a top supermodel of the late '80s and '90s, and remains a major figure in the industry today.
Naomi Campbell to South Sudanese beauty Jourdan Dunn are just some of the trailblazing Black models who revolutionized fashion – we honor them here! Brandford Models was one of the first modeling agencies dedicated to representing Black models when it was established in 1946.
Lineisy Montero is known for her natural Afro hair in the fashion world. Montero was discovered at an amusement park in the Dominican Republic, and she was quickly signed to a modeling agency. She first walked in a Prada show, and her career took off from there.
Naomi Ruth Sims, [1948–2009], is widely credited as the first African-American supermodel. A businesswoman and author, Sims was the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Ladies' Home Journal, November 1968, and Life Magazine, October 1969.
Meet Nyakim Gatwech, the South Sudanese descent African American model who's teaching people not to be afraid of the dark. With her deeply pigmented skin and fierce determination, the dark skin model is breaking down the barriers of conventional beauty and encouraging others to do the same.
Celai West, a ten-year-old professional fashion model, whose talent is shown on and off the runway. West has already caught the attention of some of the industry's top insiders, like Miss J. Alexander. She amazed the crowd after closing for the opening show, David Tupaz Couture, during Style Fashion Week in New York.
Deng stands 6 feet 5 inches (1.95 m) tall. She remains the tallest documented (Black skinned) Beauty Queen ever to take part in any Grandslam and any beauty pageant for that matter, her feat has been submitted to the Guinness World Records for inclusion and certification as the Worlds Tallest Beauty Queen.
Chantelle Whitney Brown-Young (born July 27, 1994), known professionally as Winnie Harlow, is a Canadian fashion model and public spokesperson on the skin condition vitiligo.
Gucci Debuts Campaign Featuring All-Black Models and We're Here for It | Essence. Gucci did it for the culture.
Tyson Beckford - Tyson is the first Black male model to receive supermodel status, and the highest paid male supermodel of all time. He got his big break as the face of Ralph Lauren's Polo sportswear line.
Kendall Jenner, the current top model in the world, was born on November 3, 1995, in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. Kendall Jenner is a mannequin made in America. She is a gold medalist for the United States in the decathlon.
The most handsome man in the world in 2023 is the South Korean singer, songwriter, and actor V aka Kim Taehyung. As a vocalist with BTS, he represents the South Korean boy band. In Daegu, South Korea, he was born on 30th December 1995.
Natives of Buka and Bougainville at the northern Solomon Islands in Melanesia and the Chopi people of Mozambique in the southeast coast of Africa have darker skin than other surrounding populations. (The native people of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, have some of the darkest skin pigmentation in the world.)
Researches at Penn State University identified SLC24A5 as the gene responsible for skin pigmentation, and a specific mutation within it responsible for fair skin. The mutation, A111T, is found most commonly in Ireland and all who possess it share a common genetic code descended from the same ONE person.
They found the darkest skin in the Nilo-Saharan pastoralist populations of eastern Africa, such as the Mursi and Surma, and the lightest skin in the San of southern Africa, as well as many shades in between, as in the Agaw people of Ethiopia.