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Inspiring beauty : 50 years of Ebony Fashion Fair
- Title
- Inspiring beauty : 50 years of Ebony Fashion Fair / [authors, Joy L. Bivins, Maxine Leeds Craig, Virginia Haeaven ; edited by Joy L. Bivins and Rosemary K. Adams.
- Author
- Bivins, Joy L., 1976-
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Historical Society, 2013.
- ©2013
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- Description
- 52 pages and unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 30 cm
- Summary
- The Ebony Fashion Fair began in 1958, and over the next 50 years the traveling fashion show blossomed into an American institution that raised millions for charity and helped Johnson Publishing Company reach audiences. Show organizers overcame racial prejudice to bring the pinnacle of Europe's premier fashion to communities that were eager to see, in real time and space, a new vision of black America that was the hallmark of Ebony and Jet magazines. Eunice Johnson took over as producer and director in 1963, and under her direction, the traveling show took on new heights as she expanded her cachet and power within fashion circles. Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair recreates the experience of the Ebony Fashion Fair through the story of Mrs. Johnson and more than 60 garments from icons of the fashion industry such as Yves St. Laurent, Oscar de la Renta, Pierre Cardin, Emanuel Ungaro, Christian Lacroix, and Patrick Kelly among others.
- Subject
- Johnson, Eunice Walker, 1916-2010
- Johnson Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.)
- Chicago History Museum > Exhibitions
- Chicago History Museum
- Ebony (Chicago, Ill.)
- 1900-1999
- African Americans > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
- African Americans > Clothing
- Clothing and dress > United States > History > 20th century
- Fashion > United States > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Social life and customs
- Clothing and dress
- Fashion
- Clothing
- Gender expression
- African Americans
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition of the same name on view at the Chicago History Museum, Mar. 16, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 52).
- Call Number
- Sc F 23-29
- ISBN
- 9780913820377
- 0913820377
- OCLC
- 944529486
- Author
- Bivins, Joy L., 1976- author, editor.
- Title
- Inspiring beauty : 50 years of Ebony Fashion Fair / [authors, Joy L. Bivins, Maxine Leeds Craig, Virginia Haeaven ; edited by Joy L. Bivins and Rosemary K. Adams.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Historical Society, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Edition
- Second printing produced by International Arts & Artists.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 52).
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Craig, Maxine Leeds, author.Adams, Rosemary K., editor.Chicago History Museum.International Arts & Artists (Washington, D.C.)
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 23-29