Guinevere van Seenus and Coco Rocha are two dangerous women in ‘Paris, je t’aime’ photograhed by Steven Meisel for Vogue US September 2007
Model Donyale Luna wearing vintage Paco Rabanne while on vacation with her fiance in Australia, LIFE magazine, 1966
Though becoming the first black model ever to grace the cover of Vogue magazine in 1966, societal constraints caused Doyale Luna to view her heritage as a thorn in her side; known for wearing blonde wigs and painfully obvious green contacts.
The journalist Judy Stone wrote a profile for the New York Times in 1968, titled “Luna, Who Dreamed of Being Snow White,” and described her as “secretive, mysterious, contradictory, evasive, mercurial, and insistent upon her multiracial lineage — exotic, chameleon strands of Mexican, American Indian, Chinese, Irish, and, last but least escapable, Negro.”
