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It's fair to say that the late model Naomi Sims (1948-2009) had really arrived when she appeared on the cover of the October 17, 1969 edition of Life magazine for a cover story about a generation of black models taking center stage - a phenomenon of black women dominating the modeling profession, which would have been unthinkable a decade earlier.
When Ms. Sims posed for the cover of Life, she wore her hair pulled back and tied in an intricate ponytail that was wrapped in a curl and draped across her neck. This AI image undoes her hair and has it draped down either side of her face and on her bare shoulders.
Had she left her hair undone like this, Life would have sold twice as many copies of this issue.