Blythe Quake
Donyale Waits...: 16" Madame Akexander Neo Cissy "Strut" from the Jason Wu series
Donyale (known in the modeling world as Strut) is getting a bit impatient as she waits for her sisters to go out to dinner:
"Why am I always the first one ready to go out? Why am I always waiting for them? I should tell them that Pres. Obama has invited us to dine with him at the restaurant but only if we can be there in 15 minutes! Girls, let's get this show on the road!"
*I don't think I had given Strut a name before. Her new name is an homage to model Donyale Luna (1945-1979), who in 1966 became the first Black model to appear on the cover of a Vogue magazine (March, British Vogue) and was featured in an article in Time magazine.
Though the great Namoi Sims (1948-2009) is acknowledged to have become the first Black supermodel, Naomi Campbell's name is a sufficient homage to her for our purposes, so this is a small tribute to Donyale.
Donyale Waits...: 16" Madame Akexander Neo Cissy "Strut" from the Jason Wu series
Donyale (known in the modeling world as Strut) is getting a bit impatient as she waits for her sisters to go out to dinner:
"Why am I always the first one ready to go out? Why am I always waiting for them? I should tell them that Pres. Obama has invited us to dine with him at the restaurant but only if we can be there in 15 minutes! Girls, let's get this show on the road!"
*I don't think I had given Strut a name before. Her new name is an homage to model Donyale Luna (1945-1979), who in 1966 became the first Black model to appear on the cover of a Vogue magazine (March, British Vogue) and was featured in an article in Time magazine.
Though the great Namoi Sims (1948-2009) is acknowledged to have become the first Black supermodel, Naomi Campbell's name is a sufficient homage to her for our purposes, so this is a small tribute to Donyale.