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If you mean the first in the New York fashion magazine world, including the Ford Agency, her name is Barbara Summers. This was in the late 1960s. Her books and her blog are on

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Black and Beautiful: How Women of Color Changed the Fashion Industry

Skin Deep: Inside the World of Black Fashion Models

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Zelda Wynn Valdes, although Kimora Lee Simmons of Baby Phat would probably be the first successful designer designing "affordable" line.

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well a lot of people say that Tyra Banks was the first African American model and i think that is correct so the first African American model is tyra banks

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Sean John FUBU

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Madam c.j. walker

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nyomme sims

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