In a world that often tried to limit Black women to the margins of history, Josephine Baker pirouetted to the centre stage ... at the Folies Bergère — especially the iconic banana skirt dance in La ...

Credit: The Picayune, March 5, 1922, p. 8. Uncredited for the New Orleans Picayune, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Iconic entertainer Josephine Baker gave the Lyric Theater high praise after she ...

Monday evening was both counterprogramming — as the Trump administration mounts an assault on the arts — and, in a delicious, ...

Zendaya attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the ... She pulled up the spirit of Josephine Baker in a shimmery velvet gold halter gown by Miu Miu that ...

Diana Ross wows crowds at the 2025 Met Gala (Matt Crossick/PA) The Met Gala, known as fashion’s biggest night, is held on the first Monday in May and celebrates the opening of the Costume Institute ..

While the 2025 Met Gala is celebrating the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new costume exhibit on Black ... honored a female Black fashion icon, Josephine Baker, a dancer and civil rights activist ...

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Josephine Baker and her handler, Jacques Abtey left Les Milandes by car for the train station early on November 25, 1940. Abtey was ...

“When you think of dandyism, you think of tailoring,” says FKA Twigs, now also sporting an ultra-short Eton crop for the occasion. “But I thought it would be an interesting challenge to subvert the ...

While the 2025 Met Gala is celebrating the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new costume exhibit on Black Dandyism—spotlighting men’s fashion—several stars on the red carpet honored a female Black fashion ...

One of them being Emily Wilkinson, the wife of Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield ... Whether it’s hyping up an outfit, congratulating a big life moment, or just leaving a kind ...

Mary Berry, the queen of British baking, has graced us with countless recipes over the years - from the classic Victoria Sponge to a comforting banana bread. While whipping up a banana loaf might ...