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A Black American designer disrupts the French couture
Models wait backstage during the first Pyer Moss couture show at Villa Lewaro, the Madam C.J. Walker estate in Irvington, N.Y., July 10, 2021. Each look in the show corresponded to an everyday item by a Black inventor. Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times.
by Vanessa Friedman
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Villa Lewaro, the Palladian estate built in Irvington, New York, by Madam C.J. Walker, a child of slaves who became a beauty mogul and the first female self-made millionaire in the United States, is pretty far, geographically speaking, from Paris about 3,605 miles.
A Black American Designer Disrupts the French Couture
Kerby Jean-Raymond of Pyer Moss reinvents the oldest form of French fashion with politics, humor and a Black Panther.
Models wait backstage during the first Pyer Moss couture show at Villa Lewaro, the Madam C.J. Walker estate in Irvington, N.Y. Each look in the show corresponded to an everyday item by a Black inventor. Credit.Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times
July 11, 2021
Villa Lewaro, the Palladian estate built in Irvington, N.Y., by Madam C.J. Walker, a child of slaves who became a beauty mogul and the first female self-made millionaire in the United States, is pretty far, geographically speaking, from Paris about 3,605 miles.
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