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Beverly Johnson on her “magical” runway back at 69

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When Beverly Johnson She made her triumphant return to the New York Fashion Week catwalk On Sunday, it was as if the 69-year-old supermodel never left. “Do you know when you first get to New York and you look at the buildings and everything looks magical and exciting?” Johnson tells Page Six Style. “That’s how I feel this week.” The Buffalo-born beauty—who made history as the first black woman to appear on the August 1974 cover of Vogue—brought to both Sergio Hudson and Bebo Mohapatra, joking that she was “flying…

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Model Beverly Johnson returns to the runway at NYFW

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Beverly Johnson has a simple answer for why she decided to walk the runways for active designers at New York Fashion Week: They asked. Johnson, a 69-year-old grandmother, is one of the original supermodels. As a black woman, she broke barriers and expanded the traditional model of beauty at the time Appeared on the cover of American Vogue in 1974. Her career skyrocketed and she became a sought-after face for decades, appearing on the covers of hundreds of magazines. This week Johnson, who is also a writer and businesswoman, returned…

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New York Fashion Week sees a large number of elegant events

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Fashion week might be a little quieter this season—but don’t worry, it’s still a star-studded thing. Susan Sarandon, Drew Barrymore and Danielle Brooks sat front row at Christian Siriano’s show in the Empire State Building before guests headed to the upscale West Village restaurant in Angie Mare, Les Trois-Chivaux. We hear Alicia Silverstone, “Ted Lasso” star Hannah Waddingham, and models Karen Elson and Coco Rocha—who walked the runway—dining on pigeon soles and roast pheasants at the famous restaurant where Siriano designed the uniform. Then the guests headed to Blond to…

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