Josephine Baker, in her own words, amplifies her renown as provocateur
In Baker’s newly translated 1949 memoir, “Fearless and Free,” the boundary-breaking performer does not hold back on her ...
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Josephine Baker’s Memoir Is Now Being Published for the First Time in English
A rare, intimate picture of Baker emerges in her memoir, Fearless and Free, originally published in France in 1949 and now ...
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Josephine Baker - More Than Meets the Eye
The third episode of the new series, Makeup: A Glamourous History delves into how Josephine Baker ... are unfamiliar with Baker’s pin curls, café au lait skin, and banana skirt.
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How WWD Documented Black Fashion Over the Past 100 Years
Blazio-Licorish cites Josephine Baker as the "ultimate influencer," and not just for her famed fashion moments in the banana skirt ... conversation and have this dance with the zeitgeist, that ...
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Book Review: ‘Fearless and Free,’ by Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker was a living symbol from the very beginning of her career. In mid-1920s Paris, she redefined erotic fantasy as a “La Revue Nègre” dancer — yet even her banana belt gyrations ...