Beyoncé, Zendaya, Rihanna and more: How Josephine Baker Influenced Fashion
HOW JOSEPHINE BAKER INFLUENCED FASHION The first black superstar's legendary style has inspired Beyoncé, Rihanna, Zendaya, and more. Josephine Baker’s story is of course, primarily, the story of a fabulous destiny: a poor little black girl who becomes the queen of Paris, then enters the French Resistance and finally turns into a devoted mother of twelve children adopted from the four corners of the world. It is the story of fifty uninterrupted years of a “headline-grabbing career.” From her first appearance in La Revue Nègre in 1925 to her last show, which retraced the story of her life, Baker's control......