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nicolaformichetti:

azealia banks / v magazine

photo inez & vinoodh

fashion nicola formichetti

http://www.nicolaformichetti.com/2012/02/11/azealia-banks-v-magazine/

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It was my “moment of truth”. I was introduced by José Feliciano, who said to a clearly stunned-by-Jacko audience, “And now, from London, England – Adam Ant!”. On I went for my first ever solo outing in front of the Hollywood elite. It was my intention to introduce them to a little English, cheeky sexuality, so I wanted to be almost over-the-top and melodramatic. It was the first show on my damaged knee, so I took care to use my hips and arms more than the knees as I moved. It went pretty well, I thought, and I “danced” through the instrumental middle eight, moving over to the left-hand stairway as I’d rehearsed.

Suddenly the crowd went crazy, clapping and cheering. “Christ! I’ve cracked it!” I thought. “I’m killing them”. So I got up off the stair to sing the last two verses and looked towards the centre of the stage, and there, in a tight, glittering pencil-dress, pulling her hair up over her head like a black Marilyn Monroe, was Diana Ross! My jaw hit the floor and I thought “Please, leg, don’t give up on me”. The crowd was going nuts and so was I. Somehow my shock turned to confidence, and I slinked over to the beautiful superstar, singing “I’ve got this burning, burning, yearning inside of me” into her big, brown eyes. She was really enjoying it. As I circled her, she said, “Oh yes”, and I felt like her slave. The song ended, and before I had a chance to say anything, she scooted off! I left the stage to much applause, though.
Adam Ant, Stand and Deliver [autobiography], the night he dirty danced with Diana Ross

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vintageblackglamour:

#NYFW Models, including Pat Cleveland and Norma Jean Darden, join designer Betsey Johnson after her Spring 1974 show in November, 1973. Photo by Pierre Schermann/Conde Nast.

kinda LOVING this….showed it to Bets and she almost died! 

vintageblackglamour:

#BlackHistory Lena Horne and Ricardo Montalban with civil rights heroine Daisy Bates and the “Little Rock Nine,” at New York’s Imperial Theater on June 13, 1958. Horne and Montalban were starring in the musical, Jamaica at the theater.

The “Little Rock Nine” were the nine brave students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas on September 25, 1957. The students are Melba Patillo Beals, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls Lanier, Terrance Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Minnijean Brown Trickey, and Thelma Mothershed Wair.

Yes…

vintagegal:

Lena Horne singing in Paris, December 1947. Photo by Yale Joel

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