Jody Watley Instagram – Welcome February 🙏🏽
Happy Black History Month though history is for all to learn year round! This is a part of my history as a solo artist.
VOGUE Italia, 2008 – very proud to be a part of this piece of international fashion/publishing history.
This was a first – featuring 4 covers with photography by the legendary Steven Meisel with portraits of Naomi Campbell, Liya Kebede @liyakebede , Jourdan Dunn, Sessilee Lopez. All of the feature topics were related to black women in arts and entertainment and lack of representation in fashion via runways, ad campaigns, makeup artists, and beyond.
The history making “Black Issue” caused a global stir in the fashion world selling out in less than 72 hours. 60,000 more copies ordered for reprint. It’s said that collectors copies have sold for up to 2500.00 on eBay since this time.
It was an honor to be in the issue in the “Outstanding Ladies”feature which included other influential women in music and film included award winning actress Angela Bassett.
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