Black Power Dressing
In the ’60s and ’70s, Ebony magazine founder Eunice Johnson changed the color of fashion. A new exhibition pays tribute. Click here to read the full article.
Model Audrey Adams on the runway at the Ebony Fashion Fair, 1976.
Eunice Johnson with Christian Dior designer Marc Bohan, 1976.
With Karl Lagerfeld, 1975.
The 1973 Ebony Fashion Fair poster.
Johnson in her office at Johnson Publishing Company, 1970.
With Yves Saint Laurent, circa 2000.
Ebony Fashion Fair, 1975.
Johnson and her husband, John (third to her left), at the White House, celebrating the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, 1963.
With Pat Cleveland, 1972.
A reception area at the Johnson Publishing Company, 1972.
A 2007 look by Issey Miyake, part of the exhibit at the Chicago History Museum.
Jackie Robinson, Eunice Johnson, Jim Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., and John H. Johnson (from left) at Ebony’s 20th-anniversary luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 1965.
At the Pauline Trigère show, 1971.
The Johnsons’ Chicago apartment, designed by Arthur Elrod and William Raiser, featured in Architectural Digest, 1972.
Looks from Givenchy by Alexander McQueen Haute Couture, 1997.